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i am shocked at your scurrilous depiction of Mayor Ford in your current edition. (NOW, September 15-21).

You forgot the little Nazi moustache.

John Smith East York

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or Robbie and his stunt double, Dougie. I totally agree with you about these two right-wing blustering and very dangerous persons.

As a now retired city of Toronto employee of 25 years, I can tell you that these so-called “buyout packages” the Ford administration is offering employees are pure garbage.

What he needs to do is get rid of middle managers. The city is so top-heavy with them, it’s a wonder we don’t topple over.

Christine McGill Whitby

i really enjoyed the cover of the latest issue, with Mayor Rob Ford in a military helmet. Well done! May I suggest for the cover of a future issue a certain Emperor Nero wearing a toga and playing the fiddle, atop a tall tower perhaps, while Toronto burns?

Just a thought. By the way, great cover-

age of the Ford administration to date.

James Thompson Toronto

Blame Miller for this mess

like so many writers, michael Hollett rails about the potential budget cuts we are facing without proposing anything in the way of an alternative solution (NOW, September 15-21).

Hollett seems to suggest that the projected deficit is somehow illusory.

There are only three alternatives to deal with the deficit: raise taxes significantly, cut programs or reduce staffing. What is his suggestion?

It is dishonest to complain without

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proposing an alternative.

Maybe Hollett should focus on our public sector unions, which have aggressively pursued their own interests at the expense of working people earning $10 to $20 per hour, who will be the main group suffering from these resulting cuts.

Personally, I will hate to see all these programs cut back or eliminated, just like everyone else. But to blame Ford is just not fair. It would be much more honest to point the finger at David Miller.

Craig Robinson Toronto

Mushy middle is managers

i want to congratulate michael Hollett on an excellent piece on May-

one of city manager joe pennachetti’s recommendations for cost-cutting is selling the Toronto Zoo (NOW Daily, September 12). I couldn’t agree more.

Since when do we allow animals to be immune from ending the war on the taxpayer? We provide food, shelter, material goods, medical and even mating services.

Let’s kill two freeloading birds with one stone: camel rides (to and from work only) instead of the TTC; and city-subsidized daycare provided by the zoo’s overabundant apes. Garbage collection? I believe mountain goats will eat just about anything.

Nicholas Rolle Toronto

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re adria vasil’s comparison of the provincial party platforms on the environment (NOW, September 15-21). It’s easy to throw around promises to shut down coal-fired plants and nuclear and make up the difference through conservation. But get a reality check from power engineers first. I would love to see more explicit conservation programs in the platforms, the ones that don’t only address peak electric usage. As to purchasing hydro power from Quebec, all of it is already spoken for. The electricity system is complex, and glib answers aren’t enough.

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what a joke. now magazine would rather choke to death on fumes from smog than give the Liberals credit for anything. Despite the fact that Andrea Horwath has abandoned the environment, the Tories are regressive dinosaurs and the Greens won’t elect a single member, NOW pretends that the parties have similar policies.

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thanks, now, for an excellent summary of the life of late Greenpeace icon Dave Martin (NOW Daily, September 14). Dave was a tireless advocate for a safer, greener world. He was brilliant and shared his vast knowledge freely.

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ings, as Adam Giambrone wondered (NOW, September 15-21), but he was definitely at the opening night of Cirque du Soleil’s Totem. I know. I was there trying not to foam at the mouth.

The mayor has admitted he’s not an arts patron; he’s told this city’s artisans to do fundraisers if they want to fund their creativity.

Julian Bynoe Toronto

Paul Ainslie angst

regarding d-day for council’s Mushy Middle (NOW, September 1521). A question to ask is when Scarborough East Councillor Paul Ainslie is going to remove his lips from Mayor Ford’s ass.

Ainslie was supposed to be a temporary councillor on condition that he not run, but he ran anyway.

Miller made Ainslie the vice-chair of the budget committee. Now Ainslie is voting 100 per cent against all Miller’s ideas. Ainslie is a hypocrite.

Jeriko Krasavic Toronto

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regarding alice klein’s dividend Power (NOW, September 15-21). Let’s hope our next provincial government sees the value of keeping the green economic incentives going that fuel community movements.

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Heavyweights’ punch

i would like to thank now for reviewing the Heavyweights’ CD release at Harbourfront (NOW, September 8-14).

It takes guts to step out of your coverage of things indie into something that actually represents the diversity of music and culture in this city. A big thank you for starting to take steps in the right direction.

As your reviewer mentioned, when singer Saidah Baba Talibah joined us, it certainly did take the energy to another level.

It’s just embarrassing that there is no reference to our other guests, any

i’m an avid long-time cyclist, and it’s about time e-bikes were banned from city trails (NOW, September 8-14). It’s always been no motorized vehicles on trails.

An e-bike is a motorized vehicle. It is powered by a battery, but it is motorized. Please, if you want people to think green and think e-bikes, ride on the road. Obey the rules.

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Poles and World War II

letter writer anna passakas cannot be so naive that she wants Susan G. Cole to provide her with a history lesson on the abominable behaviour of Poles during World War II (NOW, September 15-21).

Clearly, Passakas did not see the play Our Class presented last season in Toronto. Written by Polish playwright Tadeusz Slobodzianek, it’s a shattering indictment of the killing of Jews in Jedwabne by their Polish neighbours. Is there more evidence Passakas would like?

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Cityscape Election watch Winners of the 2011 Toronto Urban Design Awards were announced Monday night, September 19, at Palais Royale.

Twenty-three awards were handed out in 10 categories.

Our fave: Feed Toronto: Growing The Hydrofields, which won the Award of Excellence in the student projects category. The plan envisions turning 3,273 hectares of mowed landscape in Toronto’s hydro corridors into an urban garden “to feed a hungry metropolis.”

Polling firm Ipsos issued an open letter to the Ontario media last week questioning the results of what it described as second-rate polls conducted by “hucksters selling methodological snake oil.” The Ipsos letter didn’t name firms, but some of its venom was aimed at Ottawa-based pollster Abacus Data, which released a survey showing Hudak’s Tories with a nine point lead over the Libs. All other polls have put the two parties neck and neck or the Libs slightly ahead, with the NDP not far behind in third place. Turns out there was a methodological gap in the Abacus poll. It didn’t ask the all-important “If an election were held tomorrow, who would you vote for?” question. The Marketing Research and Intelligence Association has weighed in, asking journalists “to take greater care when choosing which polls to publish.” More election coverage on page 20.

The annual Polaris Music Prize has a history of upsets, with lesser-known and sometimes difficult artists often beating out much bigger names. That tradition continued this year in one sense. The upset this time was that Arcade Fire (the obvious critical and commercial favourite) took home the prize Monday night, September 19, instead of one of the underdogs.

A colleague at another publication told me they’d prepared two Polaris pieces about Arcade Fire– one if they won, another if they lost – because no matter what happened, they were going to be the story. Ever since the Montreal indie rock superstars won album of the year back in February at the Grammy

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Awards for their Suburbs (and then continued to clean up at the Junos and Brit Awards), it’s been agreed that the 2011 Polaris would essentially be a critics’ referendum on the band.

You almost felt sorry for the 11 members of the grand jury who had to make the final call. If they snubbed The Suburbs, they’d be playing into the “out-of-touch music snobs” myth, and if they gave Arcade Fire the prize, they’d be seen as predictable and conservative. By choosing the band, though, it feels like they’ve put one more nail in the coffin of what was once known as alternative music.

Not that we’ll be mourning the death of that record label marketing strategy any time soon.

That simplistic underground-vs-mainstream nar-

One more nail in the coffin of what was once known as alternative music. rative seems increasingly dated these days, and for good reason. Check out the average music fan’s collection and you’ll see obscure indie acts right next to commercially successful ones. As Arcade Fire’s Win Butler said to the audience earlier in the evening, “It doesn’t matter if you haven’t heard of a band before – it can still be the best thing in the world. And also, if you have heard of a band before, it doesn’t mean it sucks.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com

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September 20, 1990 When filmmaker Whit Stillman released his debut feature Metropolitan, we were all over it. According to writer Cameron Bailey – now co-director of the Toronto International Film festival – Stillman’s movie showed an eye for detail and an ear for authentic dialogue coming out of the mouths of his rich-kid characters.

Stillman’s made only four films since, but his newest entry, Damsels In Distress, about college women trying to shake up their grunge-obsessed campus, was a big hit at this year’s TIFF. NOW’s always known how to uncover new talent. (Page 24 of the issue) Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives with searchable viewer online at nowtoronto.com/archive

The funky King West public space celebrates its 30th anniversary with Gold, Silver & Lead, a monumental stack of modified first-generation Honda Civics by Canadian artist Jed Lind.

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The wheels fall off big brother Doug’s secret port lands plans, a second poll shows the mayor’s support plummeting, and the executive commitee backtracks on a raft of cuts proposed as part of the mayor’s austerity agenda. Read our story on page 14.

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NOT ONE FOR THE INTRICACIES OF COMPROMISE, MAYOR MAY HAVE TO LEARN HOW IN THE BACKLASH OVER CUTS By ENZO DiMATTEO

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The decision to defer some cuts will give the mayor more time to arm-twist, while his camp banks on a PC win in the Ontario election to buy future political leverage.

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monday’s meeting of the mayor’s executive, the day the committee was supposed to rubber-stamp his austerity program, started out with the Fordists talking tough in the face of growing public and political opposition.

But by lunchtime, when Ford’s coterie of council supporters were herded into the big guy’s office for a photo opportunity meant to give the appearance of a united front and offer more brave words about staying the course, it was clear that it wouldn’t be business as usual at 100 Queen West.

After another all-nighter to hear from the city’s citizens on a raft of proposed cuts, the mayor’s henchmen blinked on Tuesday, taking some off the table and punting a whole bunch of others to staff for further consideration during upcoming budget deliberations. (See Ben Spurr’s Sideshow At City Hall at nowtoronto.com for details).

The decision to defer will buy Ford a little more time to do some arm-twisting and horse-trading on the cuts front.

The Ford camp is banking, too, on having a PC premier in the Pink Palace come October 6, which would give the mayor more political leverage to muscle his cuts through. He could use his campaign promise to reduce council by half, to 22 councillors, as a stick if Hudak wins.

A word of caution, though, for those tempted to see deferring cuts for the time being as a rebuke to the mayor’s agenda. The broad strokes are still very much in play. Some exec committee members, Michelle Berardinetti in particular, argue that it was always their intention to find a compromise.

She says we shouldn’t read too much into their distancing themselves from the mayor on some cuts now. “We’re all independent councillors,” says Berardinetti.

“We listened to residents. We arrived at a consensus. It’s a great day for Toronto.”

She blames “hyperbole” in some media for creating the impression that somehow the executive is at odds with the mayor. Well, bite my head off.

Berardinetti says council can still come up with funds to fill the $774 million deficit (a number manufactured or real depending on who you talk to) through increased user fees (yikes), other efficiencies and “monetizing” city

assets like Toronto Hydro.

But the not-so-subtle signs are that even right-wing hardliners on the mayor’s exec are getting cold feet on this cuts business. The usually uncompromising David Shiner, for example, recommend merely receiving a number of proposed cuts for the committee’s information.

And Paul Ainslie spoke out against a move to removing fluoride from the city’s drinking water.

City Hall history shows that political momentum can turn very quickly against whoever’s in the mayor’s chair, and that once a few councillors start heading for the door, more usually follow. The backtrack by the mayor on his brother Doug’s port lands dreaming is evidence of that.

For many on city council, just a couple of dozen calls from angry residents can shift the tide. They’re one well-organized ratepayer’s group away from political defeat in the next election. And make no mistake, the cuts proposed would be felt city-wide.

It didn’t have to be this way, of course.

Though it’s customary for new governments to, as the mayor’s press secretary told me, “get the hard stuff out of the way first,” the mayor painted himself into a corner right from the get-go. He deliberately spent the surplus and created a budget crisis to justify hiring consultants to sell council and citizens on the need for widespread cuts.

That exercise seems to have backfired.

If anything, it’s clarified for people just how much bang for the tax buck the city delivers.

The mayor could have chosen another course. He didn’t have to give cops a $30 million pay raise to sink us further into the hole. He could have considered other revenue tools to cover the budget shortfall, like taxing billboards or increasing parking fees, as one speaker suggested.

Instead, he wants to reduce enforcement of illegal signs and sell off city-owned garages. Dumb.

Some residents at Monday’s meeting told the mayor they’d gladly pay a little more in property taxes if it meant keeping affordable housing and dental services for the poor and drop-ins for the disabled and those struggling with mental continued on page 23 œ

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remember when we used to talk about how to improve the city?

Today all we seem to discuss is how to dismantle what we’ve built together over the last couple of decades. Sadly, the conversation around the TTC is no different.

One gets the sense that the current administration is intent on taking us back to the time when transit was run as a business, and improving service wasn’t a consideration because locals had no other options.

Last Friday, the TTC met to consider how to deal with a budget shortfall created by the regular rising costs of fuel prices and electricity as well as parts, and the inevitable arbitrated wage increases.

But to make matters worse, the city has proposed cutting its subsidy to the TTC by $46 million, from $429 to $383, although ridership continues to grow by upwards of 2 to 3 per cent. In total, this leaves an $85 million hole.

The Commission, in turn, voted to cut $20.9 million from service by changing the loading standard from 48 riders a bus (32 seated, 16 standing) to over 60, meaning more crowding on already jam-packed routes.

The catch here is that service cuts may actually yield only $13.7 million, because bad service means some riders (the TTC estimates about 3.8 million of them) will avoid transit altogether, resulting in a $7.2 mil loss in fares.

As demoralizing as all this seems, there are smart ways to prevent the gutting of the system, and even increasing service. One simple solution would be to have the province go back to funding 50 per cent of the operating deficit, as was done until the mid-1990s. In other words, riders

would fund 68 to 70 per cent of the total operating budget of $1.507 billion from their fares (as they do today), and the city and province would split the remaining 30 to 32 per cent.

The province currently pays zero dollars toward operations, though it has announced cash for capital budget items like a Spadina subway extension and the Eglinton Cross-Town. Whether or not stable provincial money is a possibility has a lot to do with the outcome of the election October 6.

But even without that, the Commission’s own figures knock that $85 million gap down to $20 million if you add up the savings, evident in the ledger, from lower diesel prices, a legal settlement that didn’t come to pass, the delay in filling vacancies, plus boosts from higher ad revenue, reduced benefits costs and absenteeism, and staff cuts.

To close the remaining shortfall, TTC staff (the Commission put off this decision) are recommending a 10¢ fare increase, a roughly 4 per cent rise, which, while above normal inflation, is in line with inflation in the transportation industry. This would suffice to make service cuts unnecessary.

No one wants fare increases, but many are willing to swallow them, studies show, to ensure predictability and comfort. An absolute guarantee that service wouldn’t suffer would require a 15¢ hike, netting about $42 million, $12 million more than a 10¢ increase. This, along with $5 to $6 mil in additional savings, would be enough to actually expand service, cutting wait times and lessening crowding.

Where would this $5 to $6 mil come from? First, the TTC could raise parking charges at some of its lots. A mod-

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Operating budget $1.507 billion 2011 shortfall $85 million, including $46 mil in cuts proposed by the city Amount already accounted for in savings $65 million Difference $20 million If fares are raised 15 cents TTC gets another $42 million Plus Creative savings of $5 to $6 million Equals Expanded services, not cuts est increase would bring in $500,00 to $750,000. The TTC should also improve route management through the use of technology (now available with GPS systems) and a few more route supervisors to aggressively manage delays and bunching. Buses cost around $370,000 a year to operate, and if bunching is reduced, fewer vehicles can carry more people.

If 10 buses’ worth of service (out of around 1,700 in the system) were “saved” through better management, that would be the equivalent of $3.7 million. Likewise, over the coming years the TTC should invest in energy efficiency programs; a lot of these changes pay for themselves in only a few years. According to previous estimates, this could save $5-mil-plus a year.

Other ways to pare costs include converting systems to the cloud computing used at other transit agencies, which, based on experience, could result in an estimated $1 to $2 million a year in savings. As well, the contracting in of engineering, legal and IT functions has already netted in excess of $15 million over the last five years, by hiring staffers to replace outside consultants costing three times as much.

The TTC will need these and other ideas in the years ahead when it faces increasing pension, salary and fuel costs, not to mention the millions needed annually to run Presto and the $50 to $60 million lost to yearly inflation. The financial challenges are great, but the current cuts are more about a philosophy hostile to public transit than a necessary budget exercise.

3 Adam Giambrone is the former chair of the TTC. news@nowtoronto.com

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David Miller has not criticized Rob Ford since he left the mayor’s office last year.

Well, not in so many words.

On Friday (September 23), Miller is speaking at the Toronto version of the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference about redefining the role of cities.

His view, not surprisingly, is that Toronto deserves an expanded role in the country and the world. Ford, meanwhile, is at the other end of the spectrum in every imaginable way.

Here, in his own words, is Miller’s pitch.

“TransiT ciTy isn’T ‘dead.’

Language is imporTanT. The firsT Line is being buiLT. yes, They’ve canceLLed scarborough and finch, buT The neTwork is proceeding, aLbeiT more sLowLy Than envisioned.”

Watch TEDxToronto live on Friday, September 23, at tedxtoronto.com.

Follow @nowtoronto.com for live updates from the TEDxToronto floor.

By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT How does city government fit into technology, entertainment or design?

Cities have been redefined by economic and technological forces, including design. I hope I’ll be entertaining.

So cities have already been redefined?

For the first time in history, about two years ago, more people lived in cities in the world than in rural areas. To address those changes, you have to redefine the role of cities. They’re not an afterthought. Historically, we talk about “levels of government,” as if a city were less important than a province, and a provincial government less important than a federal one. You’re automatically saying all the city has to do is provide basic services and not lead. That language really matters.

But the province delivers health care, the country deals with the economy.

Aren’t those more important?

I would argue strongly that what cities do is more important than what national governments do. Sure, the national government decides when Canada goes to war and works on general economic conditions. But cities deal with direct economic conditions. They deal with social and physical infrastructure like transit that helps determine whether people are going to be able to participate in the economy.

Speaking of public transit, Transit City has been declared dead. How does that affect your vision of the role of this city government?

“Dead” – that’s an example of how important language is. But the fact is, they’re building Transit City. They’re building the first line, the Eglinton LRT. Yes, they’ve cancelled Scarborough and Finch, which is outrageous, but Transit City is being built, albeit more slowly than originally envisioned.

Transit City was a network. A transit line is a good thing, but you need a network for people to choose to get out of cars. You can’t build a modern city around the car. That’s why we have gridlock. The inner suburbs and 905 were built for cars, not for transit.

Suburbs versus downtown: I’ve heard that language recently, too.

I understand when certain things are said by certain elected officials. I understand people see matters as a downtown-suburban split. I’ve always thought things were more complicated. Everybody, whether you live downtown or in the suburbs, wants excellent transit, excellent libraries, childcare – those are what can pull people together. It’s a deliberate choice in the language public officials use. continued on page 23 œ

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By PAUL WEINBERG what a difference having a mayoral race under your belt makes for a hitherto unknown politico trying to knock off a two-decade incumbent.

One might say Liberal Sarah Thomson’s provincial bid in demographically shifting Trinity-Spadina against NDPer Rosario Marchese is the stuff of pure good luck. The publisher of a magazine of negligible import, with no activist base to speak of, Thomson was able to attract a few notables to her mayoralty cause last fall – and a surprising amount of press attention.

With Marchese’s lead eroded in the past two elections from 47 per cent in 2003 to 41 in 2007 (and with the Libs at about 31 per cent), Thomson is banking on her media profile, the condo invasion and the fact that

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older ethnic communities are giving way to gentrification.

“Rosario has been here for 21 years.

That’s enough,” the articulate Thomson tells me, sitting in the Madison Pub and flashing her photogenic smile. Her pitch is more about the riding getting a fresh face than it is about any specific issue.

She is, after all, a Liberal newbie, and in public debates tends to rely on printed party material to answer questions. That doesn’t stop her from going a bit rogue from time to time.

Last week, she told a community paper that Dalton McGuinty had cut a deal for more daycare with Rob Ford, a suggestion the premier took pains to deny. And at a meeting at Trinity-St. Paul’s Church on September 14, she showed a little too much positive interest in a questioner’s call for a single publicly supported school

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system, a nightmare issue for McGuintyists, to be sure.

Thomson told the audience that night that she would use her “loud voice” to push her fellow Liberal MPPs for more action on issues like police accountability. “I am going to be pleading for that,” she said.

But truth to tell, while Thomson’s arguments are always reasoned, her judgment isn’t always sound. During the mayoral race, she presented herself as a fiscal conservative, opposed to property tax increases as well as the land transfer tax, a key revenue source pushed by progressives.

Pumping her experience as a businesswoman, she advocated cutting city staff and taking private sector bids on services like garbage, and using road tolls to build a pricey $6.6 billion subway system. Then there’s the matter of pasting her own mug on the cover of her Women’s Post.

At the church meeting, it was clear that the Grit and NDP reps share similar concerns about the necessity for more bike lanes, better public transit, condo regulation and opposition to Rob Ford’s service cuts. But in our Madison conversation, Thomson goes for a knockout, telling me that Marchese voted against Liberal budget legislation that included spending more for seniors’ programs and full-day kindergarten.

“His record,” she said, “is actually very similar to the Conservatives’. If more people knew about the record, they might question voting for him.”

Marchese, for his part, seems unfazed by the Thomson onslaught. Still a teacher at heart after 21 years at the legislature, he puts his arms and elbows through a small workout explaining his points. Sitting in Dooney’s, his brother’s café in the Annex, he says his party couldn’t vote for the bills mentioned by Thomson because the legislation was bundled with unrelated items opposed by New Democrats. “Sadly, new candidates who don’t

peal. “There’s been a mythology that condo owners are more upwardly mobile, more affluent people who tend not to vote NDP.” But he points out that “in terms of the housing market, this is the last avenue for middle­income people for some kind of home ownership.’’

While Tory contender Mike Yen will likely be a non­factor, the pres­ ence of Green party candidate Tim Grant raises other issues. Grant is promoting solar energy, tree plant­ ing and energy­efficient condos and is targeting soft NDP voters who may consider HST fuel exemptions a cli­ mate­change comedown.

“I think the NDP provincially is more conservative than the federal NDP,” says Grant, whose party took 11 per cent of the riding votes in 2007.

No question that environmental­ ism ranks in Trinity­Spadina. Local resident Abraham Blank, a former exec assistant to NDP politician Dan Heap, predicts the soft NDP vote will likely shift to Grant – if Marchese maintains a reasonable lead over the Libs. But if Thomson starts to come on strong, he says, those same voters will return to reinforce the NDP. Among political observers, says Evans, “Rosario’s holding on is the fa­ voured projection. On the other hand, I would definitely not rule out Thomson taking it.”

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have a clue about how the legislature functions will just repeat [these statements], hoping they have reso­ nance,” he says.

As education critic, Marchese has not had a particularly strong pres­ ence in the media. He has neverthe­ less been busy pushing for a tuition freeze and a legislated ban on junk food ads, and advocating for gay­ straight alliances in separate schools.

He’s also taken a strong position on a G20 public inquiry and pushed legis­ lation to widen the ombudsman’s ability to investigate hospitals, schools and the Children’s Aid. “I think for the first time in a long time we are trying to talk to the ma­ jority in Ontario,” he says, referring to NDP policy on cutting the HST on gas and home heating, and funding conservation, including home retro­ fits, by ditching the nuke expansion.

Marchese believes that despite the slow disappearance of his traditional southern European and Chinese im­ migrant base in the area, he is in a strong position. Certainly, the condo invasion hasn’t been a problem for Olivia Chow in the federal riding, and Marchese has been energetic in introducing a condo owners’ bill of rights – three times actually – only to be thwarted by the Liberals.

According to Ryerson politics prof Bryan Evans, it’s not a given that con­ dofication depresses the NDP’s ap­

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Where does the waterfront fit into your vision for the city?

Historically, Toronto turned its back on the water. As the economy changed and the waterfront de-industrialized, it became our front door. In my ideal waterfront, you can paddle a canoe in Toronto harbour, drink the water and eat the fish. Why shouldn’t we be able to do that?

How would that affect waterfront development?

It’s about creating an economy there,

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health issues. The words “people are going to die” were heard more than once from deputants.

The mayor also didn’t have to pick a fight on daycare and threaten to pull city funding from 2,000 subsidized spaces. There’s still money in the childcare reserve fund to cover costs until the second quarter of 2013, according to Councillor Janet Davis.

The options were there. The mayor could have used his supposed influence with the PM, his fishing buddy, and the province to do right by the city – you know, make good on that promise to earn the trust of those who didn’t vote for him.

Instead, Ford has recklessly pursued his own ideological agenda.

But rumours of his imminent demise may be exaggerated. Noticeably missing from Monday’s executive meeting, as observers, were members of council’s mushy middle, the same folk who’ve been supporting the mayor.

I’m hearing that many of them will be willing to vote with the mayor on his omni-cuts package in ex-

not just development opportunities. It’s getting better, with the boardwalk and H20 Park, but there are lots of missed opportunities. When you have people working and living, being there all day and all night, smaller businesses like restaurants can thrive. The goal of a modern economy is a place where people can work and live, not either/or.The waterfront can be a spark in Toronto’s renaissance.

“Renaissance.” Is that an overstatement?

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change for saving pet projects in their own wards. A rebuke of the mayor “is just not there,” says Josh Colle. Sobering words from someone widely viewed as a linchpin of the mushy middle.

The jig may not be up for Ford, but the city’s unions and his opponents on council managed to score a few PR points this week. We’ll find out more September 26, when council convenes to vote on the exec’s recommendations.

The political machinations around the cuts suggest an evolving dynamic, says Shelley Carroll. Building a consensus the mayor can sell to council, she suggests, may mean having committees with more balanced membership from council’s left, right and centre.

The mayor hasn’t shown a grasp of the intricacies of compromise in his first year as mayor, or before that as a councillor. But as the political winds at City Hall change, he may have no choice – if, that is, he doesn’t want to be consumed by his own scorchedearth policies.

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Looking for a cheap ’n’ easy DIY solution? Try rubbing a little crushed garlic on your pimples at night, and let it sit for five minutes before washing.

Straight witch hazel is a great breakout-controlling toner. If you buy Thayer’s-brand blended witch hazel, though, make sure you get the alcohol-free kind. You can even add a couple of dozen drops of lavender oil to the bottle. Hydrosols (aka floral waters made from steam distillates) like rosewater are great, too, especially on mature skin.

Don’t be afraid of moisturizing with straight oils. For real. Try dabbing a little super-healing antioxidant-rich tamanu oil (from the tamanu nut) or sea buckthorn oil, both of which are fantastic for acne-prone, acne-scarred and all sorts of problem skin.

And don’t just stop at lotions and potions. Diet plays a huge role in flare-ups (as does stress). Several studies (including one with 47,000 participants) found that the natural growth hormones in milk actually stimulate pimples. Skim milk was, for some reason, the worst.

A 2010 study published in Clinics In Dermatology added that foods high in sugar, including foods high on the glycemic index, boost production of the androgen hormones responsible for acne, so cut those out, too.

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Benefits

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Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo and Michael Ignatieff discuss the writings of Isaiah Berlin and the political future of North Africa and the Middle East. 7 pm. $20. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. uofttix.ca. there’s no plACe like home (Hospice Toronto) Music by Amy Sky and the Gene Pool Boys. 7 pm. $125, adv $100. National Ballet School, 400 Jarvis. 416-364-1666 ext 248.

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(Second Harvest) Fundraising concert. 9 pm.

Donation. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. 416516-2531.

pre-eleCtion diAlogue on heAlth & soCiAl issues Dialogue with the Green Party’s Mike

Schreiner, Conservative Elizabeth Witmer and others tba. 6:30 pm. Free. St Michael Hospital, 30 Bond. creatingvibrantcommunities.ca/getinvolved/toronto. privAtizing publiC eduCAtion Monopolystyle game and discussion on the impact of campus corporatization. 2 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Bldg outdoor patio, 100 St George. disorientation2011.org. sAy Cheese! sAy Cheers! Beer- and cheesetasting event and brewery tour. 7 pm. $30.

Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross.

416-667-6284.

shAping Cities And Communities With dynAmiC lAndsCApes New York City horticultur-

alist Patrick Cullina talks about the High Line park. 7:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. toronto Centre All-CAndidAtes debAte The 519 and Xtra! host a provincial all-candidates meeting to discuss local issues. 7 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. the510.org. the truth About WhAt We’re eAting Student-Worker Solidarity discussion on food quality and working conditions in corporate cafeterias. 6 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. utga.org.

WArd 8 CAndidAtes meeting Candidates for the York West provincial riding discuss the issues. 6 pm. Free. Jane-Finch Mall, Jane S of Finch. 416-663-2978.

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author Stephen Beaumont. 6:30 pm. $80.

Against the Grain Urban Tavern, 25 Dockside.

647-344-1562. dAyCAre Crisis Averted Join kids, parents and supporters and create an outdoor daycare to protest Ford’s proposed cuts to subsidized daycare spaces. 9:30 am. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. facebook.com/event. php?eid=257926317572417.

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The French-based architects talk about digital technology. 6:30 pm. Free. OCAD, 100 McCaul. smulholland@ocad.ca. eyeWitness to WAr Toronto Coalition to Stop the War panel discussion with researcher Mike Skinner and others. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. workersassembly.ca.

FAll home shoW Speakers including celebrity designers Ramsin Khachi and Glen Peloso, renovation tips, panel discussions and more.

To Sep 25. $9-$14, under 12 free. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. fallhomeshow.com.

intrinsiC logiC – globAl times: neW globAl Cities Panel discussion. 6 pm. Free. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond W. goethe.de/ toronto. is A rAW Food diet reAlly heAlthy? Lecture on the pros and cons of raw food. 7 pm. Free.

Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. loCAl & sustAinAble Food Learn how your food choices can make a difference. 7 pm.

Free. Bloor Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

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Dress up as your favourite pop artist for an evening of entertainment. 9 pm. $95. Maison, 15 Mercer. artbound.ca/theparty.

FAll equinox CelebrAtion (Somalia famine relief) Songs, food, words, candles, a raffle and more. 6-9 pm. Free. Rebas, 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372.

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Young for a guided tour of beers paired with cheeses. 6 pm. Free. Against the Grain Urban Tavern, 25 Dockside. 647-344-1562.

City building Outdoor panel discussion. 7 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org. the Clothing shoW Runway shows, vintage, designer clothing, jewellery and more. Today 5-9 pm; tomorrow 11 am-9 pm; Sep 25, 11 am-6 pm. $10, adv $8, stu $7, srs $5. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. theclothingshow.com. europeAn dAy oF lAnguAges Language lessons, a flamenco performance, film songs karaoke and more. 4:30-8 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802.

For the next 7 generAtions The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers tour presents a film screening and Q&A with grandmother Tsering Dolma Gyaltong. 7:30 pm. $21, adv $16. Unity Church Toronto, 173 Eglinton W. brownpapertickets.com.

Festivals this week

rAllende Arts FestivAl Latin American cultural festival with music, art, puppet theatre, dance, poetry and more. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie), Lula Lounge (1585 Dundas W). allendefestival.com.

Sep 23 to Oct 1 CommFFest Film FestivAl Screenings of more than 50 new indie films of all genres from communities around the world.

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Sep 22 to 25 smAll World musC FestivAl Performances

by Hilario Durán, Sidi Touré, Dunkelbunt, Lemon Bucket Orkestra and others. Various prices, some free events. Lula Lounge, Yonge-Dundas Square and other venues. smallworldmusic.com.

Sep 22 to Oct 2 Words And imAges Theatre, films, music, book launches and art promote Latin American culture. Most events free. Various venues. wordsandimagesfestival.com.

Sep 27 to Nov 19

continuing mAniFesto Festival of community and culture, with performances by Rakim & Kid Cathe FoundAtions oF A suCCessFul sCreenplAy Toronto Screenwriters Meetup Group

Hear​Hilario​Durán​ perform​at​the​​ Small​World​​ Music​Festival.

bill mAher The stand-up comic and political

commentator performs. 8 pm. $39.50-$69.50.

Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 1-855-985-5000.

ChAllenges For interFAith solidArity For A Just peACe in pAlestine isrAel Talk by activist/

pri, Andreena Mill and others, an indigenous hip-hop showcase, movies, a street dance and more. Various venues. themanifesto.ca.

To Sep 25 subversive teChnologies Digital event investigating how artists respond to communication technology, with installations, performances, video, artist talks, workshops and more. Toronto Free Gallery (1277 Bloor W) and other venues. e-fagia.org.

To Oct 2 toronto beer Week Celebration of craft brewing with pub crawls, tastings, live bands, a cask ale showcase and more.

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workshope. $40, stu $30. NFB, 150 John. Preregister meetup.com/screenwriters-240. hArlAn house The ceramic artist talks about his work in the exhibition China: Made In Canada. 6:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. lAnd oF destiny Ontrio Coalition Against Poverty screening of the Brett Story film followed by a social. 6:30 pm. $5-$10 sliding scale. Cinecycle, 129 Spadina (rear). ocap.ca.

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mAtthiAs sAuerbruCh: the prACtiCe oF sustAinAbility Lecture by the Berlin architect. 11 am. Free. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’. goethe.de/toronto.

sovereignty And solidArity on turtle islAnd: indigenous rights 101 Workshop on

colonial settlement in Canada with Barriere Lake Solidarity. Noon-2 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2281, 252 Bloor W. disorientation2011.org.

rtoopy & binoo And the mArshmAlloW

moon The characters from the kids’ books and TV series perform live. Today 6:30 pm; to-

Region) Celebration of the International Year for People of African Descent with speaker Sheldon Taylor, singer Liberty Silver and more.

5:30 pm. $70. Hilton Toronto Hotel, 5875 Airport (Mississauga). unitedwaypeel.org.

WAlk For smiles (Starlight Children’s Fdn) Fundraising walk. 9 am. $25. G Ross Lord Park, 4777 Dufferin. walkforsmilestoronto.org.

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morrow 1 pm. $20-$43. Sony Centre, 1 Front E. toopyandbinooontour.com.

WAter liFe Rebel Films screening and discussion with Science for Peace’s Jim Deutsch. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

WeArAble Art shoW Canadian textile artists, artisans and jewellers present their newest wearable art works. Today 1:30 & 6:30 pm; tomorrow 11:30 am & 1:30 pm. Free. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). justforusoriginals.com.

Support Campaign and others address issues of war and peace from the vantage point of those struggling against militarism. Today 7 pm; tomorrow 9 am-5 pm. $2-$10 or pwyc.

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. resisters.ca. mAgiC, perFume, Art OCAD professor Jim Drobnick lectures on smell in contemporary art. 6:30 pm. $15, stu free. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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dAvenport live (Canadian Diabetes Assoc) Concert with Peter Katz. 7:30 pm. $36. 255 Davenport (6th fl). 416-820-5996. the Jump bACk bAll (Central Neighbourhood House) 100th-anniversary party with entertainment, dancing, food and more. 7 pm. $110. Four Seasons, 1165 Leslie. cnh.on.ca. roAsis zoo run (Toronto Zoo) A 10K run or 5K run/walk. 8:15 am. $20-$50. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929, canadarunningseries.com/zoorun. run/WAlk/Wheel For Winter renos (Camp Sis) 5K charity walk, run or wheel. 10 am. Min $100 in pledges. High Park subway (Quebec exit). camp_sis@yahoo.com. stems oF hope gAlA-robotiCA (Three to Be) Performances by Barenaked Ladies and others, video art and more. $150. Kool Haus, 1 Jarvis. threetobe.org.

professor Farid Esack. 7:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Community ACtion Center Screening of a video about the erotics of queer sexuality and a talk with the filmmakers. 8 pm. $8, stu $5. St Anne’s Parish Hall, 651 Dufferin. pdome.org.

Cyborg CAmp Gathering of transhumanists and futurists to discuss intelligence amplification, robots, prosthetics and more. 10 am-5 pm. $20, stu $10. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. cyborgcampto.eventbrite.com. reCopArent sCAvenger hunt Families race around the city and learn about green businesses. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Pre-register 647995-4561, ecoparent.ca.

edWArds gArdens And toronto botAniCAl gArdens Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am.

Free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. heritagetoronto.org.

From greeCe to rob Ford: globAl Cuts, globAl Fight bACk Discussion on how work-

ers are fighting austerity. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2211, 252 Bloor W. marxist.ca. go globAl expo Info on working, volunteering and studying abroad. Today and tomorrow. Free. Westin Harbour Castle, 1 Harbour Square. letsgoglobal.ca.

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The International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers tour presents a workshop on the role of women and motherhood, with Beatrice Long-Visitor Holy Dance. 10 am-3 pm. $110. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. brownpapertickets.com. rhArvest dAy Garden tours, talks, demos, music and more. Noon. Free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340. humber historiCAl WAlk Walk recreating John Graves Simcoe’s 1793 journey up the Toronto Carrying Place. 9:30 am. Free. Parking area S of 8 South Kingsway. 416-767-7633.

it’s not All in your heAd: hoW meditAtion heAls mind, body & spirit Talk by a naturo-

pathic doctor. 6 pm. $10. Octopus Garden, 967 College. 416-515-8885. loCAtion3: CAnAdiAn Art gAllery hop Tours and talks at galleries, with Canadian Art editor Richard Rhodes and others. 11 am-7:30 pm.

Free. canadianart.ca/galleryhopschedule. milne holloW FAll plAnting Help plant trees and shrubs. Free. Parking lot S side of Lawrence E of DVP. Pre-register yourleaf.org.

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North York Visual art tour Meet local art-

ists and see their works. Today and tomorrow 11 am-6 pm. Free. Edithvale Community Centre (131 Finch W) and Mitchell Field Community Centre (89 Church Ave). nyva.ca.

Pathologies of global CaPitalism: eCoNomiC Crisis & NeoColoNial Wars Discus-

sion of the global economic crisis and recent wars from a Marxist perspective. 7 pm. Free.

OISE, rm 2-295, 252 Bloor W. bolshevik.org.

QueeN West WalkiNg tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. shiftiNg the frame Discussion with Connexions’ Ulli Diemer on how community organizations and activists can make an effective case for social justice. 1 pm. $15. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. sWimmiNg With sharks Shark-themed bike ride to Rob Ford’s house on Edenbridge Drive to protest his policies. 2-5 pm. Free. Statue at north end of Queen’s Park. facebook.com/ event.php?eid=201104326610816.

rtake a ride, ChaNge a miNd... 350.org

Moving Planet ride to bring awareness to the power each of us holds, with speakers, entertainment, info and more. Noon. Free. Queen’s Park. moving-planet.org. take baCk the Night 2011 March, rally and community fair for women and trans-identified people highlighting the struggle for justice for survivors of violence. Fair 4 pm, rally 6 pm, march 8 pm. Free. Anne Johnston Health Station, 2398 Yonge. 416-597-1171 ext 230. toroNto fetish ball Performances by DJ Paul Savage and Cinched Tight & Ego Assassin, seminars, lectures, demos, vendors and more. 10 pm-3 am. $10. Great Hall,

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trotskYist league/sPartaCus Youth Club daY sChool Sessions on the world economic crisis and South Africa. 1 pm. Free. OISE, rm 8180, 252 Bloor W. 416-593-4138.

Sunday, September 25

Benefits

aids Walk for life (AIDS Comm of Toronto)

5K walk, fair and entertainment by Jully Black, DJ Sumation and others. 11 am. Pledges.

Church and Carlton. aidswalktoronto.ca. buNfest (Rabbit Rescue) Bunny glamour shots, a bunny spa, tips from a vet and more.

11 am-4 pm. $6. Bob Rumball Centre, 2395 Bayview. bunfest.ca. ride for real food bike-a-thoN (West End Food Co-op) Ride from Etienne Brulé Park to the Living City Farm in Vaughan to raise funds for WEFC’s non-profit local food store. 10 am.

Pledges. Etienne Brulé Park, Bloor W at Old Mill. Register westendfood.coop/bike-a-thon.

WiNe & art (Dorothy Ley Hospice) A silent art auction, hors d’ouevres and more. 1 pm. $100.

Westmount Gallery, 88 Advance. 416-6260116 ext 234.

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aNCieNt Nubia: NeW disCoVeries iN the middle Nile ValleY Presentation on the history of

ancient Nubia and the latest archaeological finds. 9:30 am-4:30 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. artbus Exhibition tours to Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Blackwood Gallery and Oakville Galleries. Noon-5:30 pm. $10. Bus departs Justine M Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle. Preregister artbus@oakvillegalleries.com. historiC Cooks The Fort’s volunteer cooks hold an open house. 11 am-2 pm. Free. Historic Fort York, Garrison between Strachan and Bathurst. 416-392-6907.

NoW talks: Jim CuddY The musician talks about his life and work with NOW publisher Michael Hollett. 6 pm. $20. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-364-1300, nowtoronto.com/ nowtalks. oN the other side Audio visual experience with Gary James Joynes/Clinker and performance of Frequency Paintings. 7:30 pm. $12.

Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. kofflerarts.org. rPedestriaN suNdaYs iN keNsiNgtoN Celebrate the theme of earth and global harvests on car-free streets. Noon-7 pm. Free. College and Augusta. pskensington.ca. rPorCh VieW daNCes Kajea d’Dance holds an info session for Seaton Village residents on the 2012 community dance festival. 2:30 pm.

Free. St Alban’s Boys’ and Girls’ Club, 843 Palmerston. kaeja.org. sCieNCe for PeaCe birthdaY The organization celebrates its 30th birthday with a dinner.

6:30 pm. $35. Hot House Cafe, 35 Church. Preregister rsvp.spf.anniversary@gmail.com. seed ColleCtiNg aNd feNCe rePair Join High Park Stewards to collect seeds and fix fences in naturalized areas. 10:30 am. Free. Grenadier Cafe, High Park. highparknature.org. rtoroNto garliC festiVal Cooking demos, talks on the health benefits of garlic, heirloom varieties and more. 9 am-4 pm. $5, children free. Evergreen Brickworks, 550 Bayview (free shuttle bus from Broadview subway station parkette). torontogarlicfestival.ca.

Village of humber baY Heritage Toronto guided walk. 1:30 pm. Free. W end of Humber River Pedestrian Bridge, S of Lake Shore Blvd W and Palace Pier Court. heritagetoronto.org.

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James “the amaziNg” raNdi Talk by the skeptic. 7 pm. $25. Courtyard Mariott Hotel, 475 Yonge. cficanada.ca.

NatioNal Job fair & traiNiNg exPo Exhibits on education and recruitment. Today and tomorrow 10 am-7 pm. $4. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. thenationaljobfair.com.

Nuit talks: the Protest PaNel Explore the revolutionary potential in contemporary art.

6:30 pm. Free. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/NuitTalks.shtml. our heritage foods East York Historical Soc talk with Dorothy Duncan. 7:30 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. eastyork.org/eyhs.html. star talks: briaN deNNehY The actor talks with Richard Ouzounian. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-5577. stoP the Cuts! Community breakfast (7 am) and rally and action to stop cuts to city services (8 am). Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. torontostopthecuts.com.

We daY Event celebrating the youth movement for global change, with speakers including Nelly Furtado and Kardinal Offishall. Free for students and educators. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. weday.com.

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The final days of the potentially catastrophic cutting exercise plays out at City Hall as councillors start the final Core Services Review deliberations, Monday (September 26) at 9:30 am.

Come check out the heroes and the city-wreckers, and at 5:30 pm join the Rally For Toronto, hosted by labour and community groups, and help save the programs that make T.O. a special place to live. Free.

City Council, 100 Queen West. facebook.com/RespectToronto.

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We’re on the way to a cleaner ecoenergy future, but how fast can we get there? Help push things along on Saturday (September 24) with 350. org and a number of local enviro groups hosting Take A Ride, Change A Mind in solidarity with Moving Planet events all over the world. An all-wheels procession begins at noon at Queen’s Park and heads along ColPeoPle Theatrical tour of the CAMH patientbuilt wall. 1 pm. Free. SW Corner, Queen W at Shaw. friendlyspike@primus.ca.

WhiskY, Wharf & WiNdmill Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. King and Trinity. rom.on.ca. rWord oN the street Authors, magazine and literacy exhibits, comic arts, readings, a kids tent, workshops, panels, entertainment and books for sale. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Queen’s Park, S of Bloor. thewordonthestreet.ca.

lege to Dufferin and then back. The afternoon program in the park features solarpowered live music, speakers, including former mayor David Miller, and info booths. Noon to 6 pm.

Free. moving-planet.org.

PeN eVeNt talks arab sPriNg

The spectacular rebellions in the Middle East have sparked the imaginations of Toronto activists. Now we get the chance to talk about what’s going on at Liberty And The Arab Spring, a special event moderated by Mark Kingwell, and featuring Ramin Jahanbegloo, an Iranian professor of political science at the University of Toronto, and Michael Ignatieff, now resuming his duties as a public intellectual. Proceeds go to PEN Canada, which works on behalf of writers silenced by their governments because of their political views. Today (Thursday, September 22), 7 pm, at George Ignatieff Theatre (15 Devonshire). $20. uofttix.ca.

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toroNto eCoVillage ProJeCt Meeting. 7 pm.

Free. First Unitarian Congregation, 175 St Clair W. ecovillage@theregenesisproject.com.

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Monday, September 26

tamPoN tuesdaY (Toronto Food Bank/ women’s shelters) Party to raise awareness of the need for feminine hygiene products for abused and disadvantaged women. 5 pm.

Donation of hygiene product. Jack Astor’s, 133 John. tampontuesday.com.

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novelist Tom Taylor discuss the world of early Toronto. 7:30 pm. $10, stu free. Fort York, Garrison between Strachan and Bathurst. ext 221.

Spoke awards are given to groups helping make Toronto a bike-friendly city. 9 pm. $10 or pwyc. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. toronto.ca/ cycling/bfba/index.htm.

CaNada’s got taleNt Auditions for acrobats, magicians, dancers, singers and musicians. To Sep 30. Free. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. Pre-register canadasgottalent.com.

ChileaN WiNe aNd food festiVal Walk-about tasting and cultural event. 7 pm. $70. Royal Ontario Museum, Peter F Bronfman Hall, 100 Queen’s Park. winesofchile.ca.

mCluhaN 100: toroNto’s future iN mCluhaN’s global Village Interactive seminar

with CBC columnist Jesse Hirsh. 7 pm. Free.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-5577.

Nuit talks: the teCh talk A look at the role of technology in contemporary art. 6:30 pm.

Free. Ryerson U, 80 Gould, Eaton Lecture Hall. scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/NuitTalks.shtml. rallY for toroNto Rally to save city services, defend good jobs and stop cuts, privatization, closures and user fees (5:30 pm) followed by a camp-out to take over Nathan Phillips Square (7:30 pm). Free. City Hall, 100 Queen W, at Bay. torontostopthecuts.com. steP daNCiNg lessoNs Learn Cape Breton step dancing. 6:30 beginners, 7:15 all others. $10.

Farmer Memorial Baptist Church, 293 S Kingsway. Pre-register 416-231-8717.

ford, hudak/mCguiNtY, harPer: hoW do We stoP the austeritY steamroller? Inter-

national Socialists discussion. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St George. socialist.ca. gil alkabetz Toronto Animated Image Soc workshop and retrospective. 7 pm. $15. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. goethe.de/toronto.

the imagiNed CitY: streetCar suburb to multiCutural CommuNitY Author Amy Lav-

emotioNal literaCY Seminar on understanding and using the language of emotions to communicate more effectively. 7 pm. Free.

Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511. eNglish statelY homes Art historian Francis Broun lectures on Houghton Hall and Blenheim Palace. 6:30 pm. $30. Campbell House, 160 Queen W. Pre-register 416-597-0227. the PeoPle Who greeted the freNCh Lecture on the Iroquoians of southern Ontario in the 14th to 17th centuries. 5:15 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St George. memorden@gmail.com. toroNto’s ChiNatoWNs: 1850-2011 Talk by Harvey Low. 7:30 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-393-7610. traVel iNdoChiNa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free.

Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Pre-register atcadventure.com.

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Benefits

the bushmeat Crisis iN foCus: fiNdiNg hoPe for great aPes (Jane Goodall Institute) Clos-

ing night reception for the photography exhibition with author Andrew Westoll. 6 pm. $75, adv $60. Gladstone Gallery, 1214 Queen W. jgi/blackbaudondemand.com/exhibition. free the ChildreN (Free the Children) Guest speakers Marc and Craig Kielburger, music by the Kenyan Boys Choir, and live and silent auctions. 7 pm. $250. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. inspirededucation.ca.

Walk a mile iN her shoes (White Ribbon Campaign) Men walk in high heels to raise awareness and funds to end violence against women. Noon-2 pm. Pledges. Yonge-Dundas Square. Pre-register walkamiletoronto.org.

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three mile islaNd to bhoPal: life & Work of eNViroNmeNtal aCtiVist rosalie bertell

History Matters lecture. 7 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. 416-393-7686.

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1220 Yonge, 416-961-2929, dekla.ca A Scavolini kitchen is instantly recognizable by its back-painted glass doors and integrated appliances. The Italian line is Rosedale kitchen showroom Dekla’s specialty, and its in-house designers work with clients to custom- create a contemporary but approachable look. If your taste is more traditional, Scavolini has a classic line, too, featuring raised-panel doors, luxe mouldings and au courant brass details. The studio can also help you source appliances from lines like Liebherr, Bosch, Thermador and Bertazzoni.

360 Spadina, 416-977-6364 It’s a good thing restaurant supply staple Tap Phong keeps its prices so reasonable. Give home chefs or dining table decorators half an hour in the joint and they’re guaranteed to come out with bags of food prep and presentation finds they never knew they needed. There are aisles of pristine white tableware, every imaginable size of pots and pans, and boxes of wine glasses, sake cups and coffee mugs. It’s a great source for entertaining, too, since it’s often cheaper to buy from Tap Phong than to borrow from the usual party rental suspects.

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Just in time for stew season, coveted cookware brand Le Creuset opens its first Toronto store at Sherway Gardens. But even though we think quality cast iron is worth the splurge, we’ve stirred up colourful Dutch ovens at every price point. By ANDREW SARDONE

Senior casserole in blue ($39.99, Ikea, 15 Provost, 1-866-8664532, and other, ikea.com).

KitchenAid 3.5 quart round cast iron pot in red ($99.99, Canadian Tire, 65 Dundas West, 416-979-9056, and others, canadiantire.ca).

Le Creuset 3.3 litre round oven in fennel ($255, Sherway Gardens, 25 the West Mall, 416-622-9668, lecreuset.ca).

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Fall fashion’s favourite pattern is classic blackand-white polka dots.

Banana Republic blouse ($95, 80 Bloor West, 416-515-0018, and others, bananarepublic.com).

Vintage Christian Dior dress ($695, Magwood, 1418 Dundas West, 416-818-3975, magwood.ca).

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H&M scarf ($7.99). ($12.99, 1 Dundas West, 416-593-0064, and others, hm.com).

Joe Fresh sequin Tshirt ($24, 10 Lower Jarvis, 416-703-4865, and others, joe.ca).

store of the week A’bout 1042 Bathurst, 416-548-8881, aboutdesigncorp.com

Dean Hutchinson and Yunchieh Chang’s shop, A’bout, looks best when you’re wandering up Bathurst at night, its windows and racks of monochromatic clothing framed by glowing fluorescent lights. The storefront installation is a clever billboard for the otherwise under-the-radar boutique where fabric, form and craftsmanship trump the usual brand hoopla driving the fashion industry today.

The clothing itself is deceptively simple and features a mix of angular and soft elements. A sharp leather jacket, for example, is twisted with a gentle swag on its back and knit panels on its sleeves. Pairing skin-baring cuts with comfort is key, too, as in a jersey dress that shows lots of leg but has extra-long arms gathering cozily at the wrists.

As you might guess, A’bout’s price points reach well up into investment level, but you’re paying for quality, scarcity and style instead of buzz.

A’bout picks: A grey viscose wool T-shirt is anything but basic with its single sleeve silhouette, $425; zipper details stand out on pieces like a little black matte jersey dress, $985; the draped leather jacket is $1,895.

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Dino Caracciolo grew up in the barber biz and has a soft spot for the traditions of the haircutting craft, but the alcohol, artificial dyes and faux fragrances in so many salon products always irked him. So he created Crown Shaving Co., a natural line of grooming products. There’s a Supreme Glide Pre Shave Formula, a Soothing After Shave Lotion, a Peppermint Tea Tree Hair and Body Wash and this eucalyptus and spearmint Shave Cream that protects and perks up your skin. $26, crownshavingco.com.

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Thirty-four years into its existence, The Clothing Show is still one of fall’s best shopping ops thanks to its mix of local designer buys and up to 90 per cent discounts on big-name merch. This season’s Toronto label roster includes Debbie Cham and Jennifer Fukushima, while the sample sale lineup features Ben Sherman, Fred Perry, 7 for All Mankind and more. Find them all at the Queen Elizabeth Building on the Exhibition grounds Friday through Sunday (September 23-25). Admission is $8 online at theclothingshow.com or $10 at the door.

Throughout the fall, 99 Sudbury is spotlighting the local fashion, art and food scenes with its 99 MRKT. Open every Sunday between 11 am and 5 pm, the free events feature style vendors like Jode jewellery, Wildthing Vintage, Ella Peru Clothing and Wes Misener men’s underwear. For weekly updates on participants, check out 99sudbury.ca/99MRKT.

Trunk shopping Popping up at SMASH (2880 Dundas West, 416-762-3113, smash.to) in the Junction this week, through September 25, is designer (and, if you’re fully disclosing me, boyfriend) Philip Sparks’s (philipsparks. com) first Trunk Shop. Sparks and SMASH’s owner, Paul Mercer, have collaborated on a temporary retail space that mixes menswear, womenswear and accessories with the store’s industrial antiques. It’s open Thursday to Saturday 10 am to 6 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm. Cash and credit cards accepted.

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Another plus? Prices for industry passes for the week have dropped to $75 until October 1. They’re available online now at lgfashionweek.ca.

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Less food for long life Cutting calories might just give you more years By elizaBeth Bromstein want to live longer? stop eating so much. Even if you’re not overweight.

So say proponents of caloric restriction, a lifestyle choice where you take in fewer calories than the average per-

son while making sure to get sufficient nutrients.

The relationship between food-curtailing and longevity has been studied for a while, and there is some compelling evidence in animals, including

mice and rhesus monkeys.

Other researchers are more skeptical.

How much is “less”?

Well, that depends on where you start.

What the experts say “The idea is to reduce calorie content in order to alter certain genes so energy is used more efficiently and gets directed toward repair and mainte­ nance, not growth and reproduction.

In practice it means eating a healthfood diet and eating less than one normally would. The original idea was that this was about altering glucose metabolism. That’s a big part of it. But now researchers are focusing on particular genes; we don’t fully know what they do. How much you should consume is hard to answer. Research suggests that even a little CR can make a difference.”

BRIAN M. DELANEY, president, CR Society, co-author, The Longevity Diet, Stockholm “If you calorically restrict mice [of a strain not normally weight gainers],

their lifespan is not extended. The point is, caloric restriction is a benefit only where there is excessive weight gain. If somebody has normal weight, could decreasing it be deleterious? It used to be thought that all mice, all people, would benefit from caloric restriction. But we find that it does not extend the lifespan of all strains of mice. Caloric restriction does not affect the aging process; it extends life by preventing the toxic effects of lipid deposition. Fat is not a benign tissue. It releases a variety of toxic substances.”

RAJINDAR SOHAL, Timothy M. Chan professor of pharmacology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles “If you calorically restrict a fruit fly and infect it with different pathogens, you get different results for every patho-

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “I have a simple

philosophy,” said Alice Roosevelt Longworth, a self-described hedonist who lived till the age of 96. “Fill what’s empty.

Empty what’s full. Scratch where it itches.” That’s not an approach I recommend you pursue all the time, Aries, but I think it could be both wise and fun for you to do so in the coming weeks. Given the upcoming astrological omens, you have a mandate to find out where the most interesting action is and dive in with the intent to generate even more action. The catalysts need another catalyst like you.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 A guy on

Reddit.com posted a photo that made me think of you. He had been out walking in the wilds of Ontario and found a single ripe peach growing on a scraggly, skinny tree in the middle of an abandoned quarry. There were no other peach trees in sight, let alone peaches. I suspect that when you find beauty and sustenance in the coming days, Taurus, they will be in similar situations: unexpected and unlikely. That doesn’t mean they’ll be any less sweet. (See the peach: http:// bit.ly/lonelypeach)

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 If you’ve ever been to a flavour-tripping party, you’ve eaten “miracle fruit” – berries with the scientific name Synsepalum dulcificum.

They coat your tongue with a substance that makes all subsequent foods taste sweet. The effect lasts no more than an hour, but while it does, lemons, radishes and pickles may as well be desserts. Be

alert for a metaphorical version of the miracle fruit, Gemini. There’s an influence coming your way that could temporarily make everything else seem extra-delectable. As long as you’re aware of what’s happening, it will be a quirky blessing.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Born in Austria,

Susanne Wenger became a high priestess of the Yoruba religion in Nigeria.

When she died in 2009 at the age of 93, she had devoted the last 50-plus years of her life to protecting and beautifying a sacred forest in the Osogbo area. It’s hard for most of us to imagine loving a place as much as she did, but that’s what I’m encouraging you to do. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will accrue unforeseen benefits by becoming more deeply connected to a special patch of earth. To do so will awaken a dormant part of your soul, for one thing. It could also advance one of your lifelong quests, which is to feel ever more at home in the world.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “Personally I’m always ready to learn,” said Winston Churchill, “although I do not always like being taught.” You may soon find yourself sharing that paradoxical state of mind, Leo. It’s time for you to receive the new teachings you have been unconsciously preparing yourself to absorb. But at least in the early stages, these useful lessons may get on your nerves or make you squirm. Stick with them. Keep the faith. Sooner or later, your crash course will become enjoyable.

gen. Sometimes you infect a fly and the fly tolerates the infection better than it otherwise would, and that’s great; it means caloric restriction is a good thing. But sometimes you caloric­ ally restrict the fly and infect it and it drops dead. Even when you look at a simple system like the fly’s, you get complicated results.”

DAVID SCHNEIDER, professor, microbiology and immunology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California “The old idea was that CR slowed metabolism, but that’s been proven wrong. Metabolic rate goes up with caloric restriction. There are genetic pathways that respond to adversity and protect the body when times are tough. When you exercise or calorie­ restrict, your body turns to these

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VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “Our job is to be-

come more and more of what we are,” says poet Marvin Bell. “The growth of a poet seems to be related to his or her becoming less and less embarrassed about more and more.” Whether or not you’re a poet, Virgo, I would like to apply this gauge to your own growth. The way I see it, your power to claim your birthright and fulfill your destiny will ultimately hinge to a significant degree on your ability to shed all residual shame about your true nature. And guess what: there has never been a better time to work on that noble project than right now.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 Your theme for the

week comes from travel writer Stephen Graham in his book The Gentle Art Of Tramping: “As you sit on the hillside or lie prone under the trees of the forest or sprawl wet-legged on the shingly beach of a mountain stream, the great door that does not look like a door opens.” I can’t wait to see the expression on your face when a portal like that appears for you sometime in the near future, Libra. I expect your mood will be a mix of surprise, humility, vindication, joy and a pleasant kind of shock. By the way, you won’t necessarily have to be out in nature in order to become aware of the opening door. But it will probably be crucial for you to simulate the state that nature evokes in you. That’s why I suggest you rev up your aptitude for innocence and make sure your sense of wonder is turned on full blast.

pathways for defence. These mechanisms generate more energy and protect the telomeres, whose erosion is thought to be a cause of aging.

They also keep neurons from dying. If you start caloric restriction in midlife on a mouse, you can extend life.

We’re working on molecules that will mimic the benefit without hav­ ing to diet. There are clinical trials right now on people.”

DAVID SINCLAIR, professor of genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston “In a first-phase study of caloric restriction in non-obese people, we found that cardiovascular risk factors and in­ sulin sensitivity improved. The meta­

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 More than a

100 years ago, a team of British adventurers led by Ernest Shackleton trekked across Antarctica, attempting to reach the South Pole. They ran out of supplies and had to turn back before reaching their goal. In 2006, modern-day explorers discovered a cache of stuff Shackleton had been forced to leave behind, stashed in the ice. It included two cases of whiskey. Some of the century-old liquor found its way back to England, where it was quaffed by a few daring souls eager for an exotic taste. I suspect you may soon stumble upon a metaphorically similar curiosity, Scorpio: something like old spirits preserved in ice. My advice: try a small sample and wait a while to see what effect it has before imbibing the whole thing.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Punk

musician Wesley Willis was fond of greeting friends and audience members alike with a headbutt. So often did he employ this ritual that he developed a permanent callus on his forehead. Now would be an excellent time for you to make this tradition your own, Sagittarius. Just think of all the affection you’ll generate and all the great conversations you’ll stimulate by ramming people!

JUST KIDDING! I was exaggerating a bit.

It’s true that now is an excellent time to ramp up your friendliness and expand your social reach. But you probably shouldn’t engage in full-tilt headbutting unless you’re extroverted, gregarious and so extravagantly charming that you can get away with it.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 In Japan you can buy Vaam, a sports energy drink that contains hornet saliva. It acquired a legendary reputation after Japanese marathon runner Naoko Takahashi said

bolism becomes more efficient. This was associated with a lower core temperature and a decrease in DNA dam­ age. A lot of cancers are caused by mutations of DNA. In each individual we measured how many calories were required not to lose or gain weight.

Then we decreased intake by 25 percent. Those of normal weight on restricted calories will, on average, live longer, but not everybody is going to live to 90. You still have genes and biology. Some people are more prone to cancer or cardiovascular disease.”

ERIC RAVUSSIN, Douglas L. Gordon Chair in Diabetes and Metabolism, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge

she used it to propel herself to a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics. Vaam’s creator, biochemist Takashi Abe, claims there is scientific evidence that it works as well for humans as it does for wasps, which fly as far as 70 miles a day. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the cosmos will be infusing you with a metaphorical version of hornet saliva in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

You’ll have the power to go further and be stronger for longer periods of time.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I gathered

together a panel of renegade astrologers to investigate your imminent future. By a unanimous vote, they designated you, out of all the signs of the zodiac, as the one “Most Likely to Exceed the Boring Limitations of Good Taste,” as well as “Best Candidate to Slap the Conventional Wisdom Upside the Head.” That sounds fun. I hope you make good use of the freedom that those roles entail. By the way, the general consensus also suggested that you are primed to find valuable stuff in out-of-the-way borderlands or in off-limits haunts where no one else even wants to look.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 You’re on course for a warm, wet, soft collision with the enigmas of the libido. I urge you to give yourself fully to the exploration, even if it stirs up feelings you have no names for. In my opinion, the best way to use your intelligence right now is to undertake a rigorous investigation into the heights and depths of your passion... to experiment with new guidelines for your instinctual nature... to make yourself extra-receptive to the spiritual teachings available through erotic communion.

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Hardy’s owner/chef John Hardy flaunts his Slider Trio Platter, while Laura Precup serves chicken fresh from the smoker.

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One Hogtown eatery is consumed by meat, and the other isn’t By STEVEN DAVEY aimed at the carnivore crowd, the other unapologetically vegan. And while their food philosophies may seem polar opposites (to meat or not to meat), they have more in common than either would think.

Subtitled “A Hogtown Brasserie,” month-old Hardy’s makes no bones about its allegiance to barbecued pig, going so far as to label its inaugural Southern U.S. card an “homage to pork.” It begins with greasy-good beer-battered onion rings nipped with fresh tarragon ($6) – shame there are five of them and three of us – and a wedge of jalapeño cornbread ($3) that’s as fiery as a damp squib. More peppers, please.

A sizable plate of smoked freerange chicken ($11 quarter/$15 half, all mains with side) comes slathered with a sticky whiskey glaze, while tonight’s sweet, meaty side ribs ($12 quarter-rack/$18 half-rack) have been marinated overnight in Coca-Cola.

Smoked grass-fed burgers ($10) get stacked with spinach, ripe Roma tomato and red onion caramelized in

HARDY’S( 992 St. Clair West, at Oakwood, 416-901-4100, hardyshogtown.com) Complete dinners for $30 (lunches $15/brunches $22), including tax, tip and a domestic beer. Average main $15/$10. Open for lunch Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 3 pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 to 10 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 9 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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both balsamic vinegar and maple syrup as well as optional applewoodsmoked cheddar ($2) and lean cured pork tenderloin ($3). At weekday lunch, they throw in a free half-pint of local beer with your naturally raised quarter-pounder.

Perhaps the easiest way to get the complete picture, Hardy’s slider trio platter ($17) finds three mini-buns piled with great chunks of smoked boneless chicken breast in a tangy sweet ’n’ sour sauce, alarmingly yellow pulled pork in honey Dijon mustard, and relatively fat-free brisket.

Creamy purple cabbage coleslaw laced with cumin seed adds considerable crunchy contrast.

Sides are more problematic. Twicecooked shoestring russet fries ($4 à la carte) are sadly soggy, and a so-called “addictive” smoked macaroni and cheese ($6) appears to have been hastily assembled to order instead of baked like a proper gratin. Best to stick with old-school smashed potato salad and sautéed collard greens laced with honey (both $4).

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Service up till now has been quick and remarkably smooth for a restaurant this new. But a glacial 30-minute wait for bourbon-laced butterscotch bread pudding ($7) – summer slips into fall, continents drift – is never explained, the evening’s only glaring misstep.

Is Hardy’s the best ’cue on St. Clair? Not if it’s Tuesday, Friday or Sunday, the only nights Stockyards does barbecued chicken and ribs.

The rest of the week, except Mondays when it’s closed, Hardy’s win hands down.

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Pig out vegan-style HOGTOWN VEGAN (834 Bloor West, at Shaw, 416-901-9779) Open Monday to Thursday noon to 9 pm, Friday noon to 10 pm, Saturday 11:30 am to 10 pm, Sunday 11:30 am to 9 pm. Unlicensed.

Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

Though there’s a prominent picture of a pig over the door, the only animal bi-products served at Hogtown Vegan are of the mock variety.

And so we get very good soy burgers dressed with chopped lettuce, pickle, house-made mayo and a whack of dairy-free Daiya “cheese” on the proverbial sesame seed bun sided with skinny salted

fries, like some Big Mac from a parallel universe.

The ersatz Reuben (both $11) on toasted pumpernickel comes tiered with more phony fromage, a heap of sauerkraut and surprisingly meaty “pastrami” fashioned from shaved ’n’ deep-fried seitan, its side of wilted collard greens not that dissimilar from those served at Hardy’s.

Up at Hardy’s, they might offer loin of pork on the Caesar salad, but here the similar greens ($7 starter/$9 main) arrive riddled with rubbery tempeh baco-bits. Best to wash away their memory with a glass of house-made lemonade ($2.50) and a slice of extraordinarily rich flourless – and gluten-free, like much on the SD card – chocolate torte ($7).

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Known as “the one on the south side on the third floor of that weird mall,” this recently relaunched all-day dim sum joint offers one of the best meal deals in town – weekdays till 3 pm, all medium and large-sized plates go for the price of a small ($2.20). Better yet, come back Friday night for free ballroom dancing! Best: from the ever-circling carts, al dente shrimp har gow and pork siu mai dumplings; crunchy fried waterchesnut cake; deep-fried baby octopus in five-spice powder; sticky rice with Chinese sausage and ground pork in lotus leaves; pan-fried shrimp dumplings with wilted greens; sweet ‘n’ sour pork buns in puff pastry. Complete dim sum meals weekdays 9 am to 3 pm $10 per person (weekdays after 3 pm and all-day weekends $15) including tax, tip and a pot of green tea.

Average dim sum $2/$3. Open for dim sum daily 9 am to 11 pm. No reservations. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnn

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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 garlicky chopped tomato on grilled baguette; skewers of grilled lamb speducci; pressed muffuletta panini with tapenade, capicola, mortadella, sweet and hot soppressata and giardiniere pickles; veal sandwiches in Decina-family tomato ragu with Provolone and grilled hot banana peppers; veal ’n’ ricotta ravioli finished with butter, shaved parmigiano and fried sage leaves; grilled New Zealand lamb chops in balsamic reduction sided with baked mashed potatoes with mozzarell’ and rapini; to finish, textbook tiramisu and pistachio cannoli. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a glass of Chianti.

Average main $25/$13. Open for dinner Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnnn

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problem getting people to sing along, crouch on the floor or squeeze together inside the parachute. According to some fans, this TIFF show was an off night by Aucoin’s standards, partly due to a broken wireless mic that prevented him from bouncing around in the middle of the audience as much as usual. But when he’s so much more entertaining on a bad night than most bands ever are, just imagine what he can pull off when he’s firing on all BENJAMIN BOLES cylinders.

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Hired gun axe slinger Bruno Fevery did a decent enough Homme impression, but the signature bone-crushingly heavy, fuzzed-out tone (created by feeding down-tuned guitar through bass amps) was muted by the Sound Academy’s predictably thin sound mix.

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Chris Owens is getting looks while eat­ ing breakfast at his hotel. The effemin­ ate, skeletal frontman for the melan­ choly indie rock clan Girls is three days into a tour and taking advantage of the complimentary meal at an overnight stop between Atlanta and North Caro­ lina.

Suddenly, the red nail polish he ap­ plied at home in San Francisco before leaving seems like a bad choice.

“I’ve noticed a dramatic difference [in public reaction] to, say, green, blue or orange nail polish compared to red,” says Owens over the phone. “Red changes the game. Maybe people think orange means ‘skater’ or ‘alternative,’ but red is clearly ‘he’s a sex freak, per­ vert or prostitute.’

“I lived in Amarillo, Texas, for nine years. I’m very familiar with all of this. I used to do it for fun.”

If you’re aware of Owens’s incred­ ible backstory, you know where Ama­ rillo fits into the legend. Raised in a

now­defunct cult called the Children of God, he was shuffled around the world before escaping as a teenager. He joined his refugee sister in Texas and was later taken in by an eccentric, wealthy artist named Stanley Marsh III. Owens left for San Francisco and fell into the local music scene, where he met bassist Chet “JR” White and formed Girls in 2008. It took the duo almost a year to write and record their debut, Album, but it was time well spent. The lead single and NSFW video for Lust For Life set critical websites ablaze.

And while their just­released Father, Son, Holy Ghost (True Panther) is more of a slow burn, it’s already garnering similar adoration. As opposed to their self­produced and long­gestated debut, Father was cut in three weeks with veteran producer Doug Boehm.

“To me, the experience was fine, but it was radically different for JR because he had somebody to share ideas,” ex­ plains Owens. “[Working with Boehm] was his idea, and I think he walked away having learned a lot. It was a way for him to see how much he knew.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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tUnE-​yArDs Future Folk

Will newfound fame and resources change her DIY spirit? By Benjamin Boles Tune-​Yards​with​PaT​Jordache​at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor), Monday (September 26), 8 pm. $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.

You can’t truly appreciate tUnE-yArDs until you see Merrill Garbus building her off-kilter, outsider-pop grooves live with her looping pedal, ukulele, drums and formidable voice. Not that her lo-fi homemade debut, BiRd-BrAiNs, or her studio-recorded follow-up, w h o k i l l (both on 4AD), are letdowns. But they only tell a small part of the story.

“I don’t often listen to my own albums, but I did yesterday,” admits Garbus from a tour stop in London, England.

“Recording BiRd-BrAiNs was such an important experience for me, and I still love the sound of it, even though many might not or don’t really get it until seeing the show.

That’s okay with me. I don’t ever want the records to just be emulations of the live experience. I think

they’re very different art forms.”

While she’s comfortable with that separation, her end goal is actually to bring the two closer together. That was her mindset when recording w h o k i l l, but in the process of trying to capture that energy, she ended up arranging songs in ways that require an insane amount of fancy footwork. She uses her looping pedals to create hiphop-inspired rhythms and African-influenced melodies, and there’s huge potential for it all to fall apart if she screws up any layers.

“It was weird to create an album that was supposedly more influenced by the live show but then have to relearn the songs with heavy foot choreography to actually perform them again.”

Once a solo act, tUnE-yArDs now involves a bass player, horns and other guests if the situation permits. Given that Garbus’s newfound fame allows her to include additional musicians onstage, you have to wonder how long it’ll

be before she ditches the looping pedal altogether in favour of a more traditional backing band.

“It would be a hell of a lot easier on me. We’ve performed with some drummers before, which I loved in a lot of ways. But at the same time, a big part of tUnE-yArDs is the sense of live creation with the looping pedals. It’s about me making this world of sound in front of people’s eyes. Seeing it unfolding through the looping pedal somehow makes it different.”

Garbus is less conflicted about how she makes music than about who’s paying her for it. She consulted her fans before licensing the song Fiya to a BlackBerry ad and donated much of the profits to charity. Still, she struggles with the issue.

“I’ve said no to several things since then and I’m not sure what I will do in the future. It depends on the scenario and the product. Since doing the BlackBerry ad, I’ve been talking to people working in the Congo about stopping cellphone companies from using minerals that are being fought over and fuelling violence against women.

“If I’d had an awareness about that connection [before licensing Fiya], I might have made a different decision.

Then again, I feel a particular attachment to the issue now because I took a bunch of money from BlackBerry. So that becomes part of the conversation.”

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human league at

Guvernment, Sunday, September 18. Rating: NNN

Phil Oakey is a futuristic-looking man playing music from electronic pop’s past. The Human League frontman came onstage hooded like a boxer, wearing an anklelength leather trench coat and miniature sunglasses. The look was somewhere between Blade Runner and Mad Max, and if we were in a post-apocalyptic hellscape, I would beg him for protection.

But his music is much more uplifting. After two early favourites, Open Your Heart and The Sound Of The Crowd from their hugely influential 1981 album, Dare, Oakey stripped off some attire, the crowd loosened up and pulsating synthesizers filled the cavernous room.

Original members Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley flanked Oakey, delivering Robert Palmer video dance moves and backup vocals that added an element of garish 80s glamour to the proceedings. But ultimately it’s Oakey’s show, and he expended enough energy and enthusiasm, especially during (Keep Feeling) Fascination and closer Don’t You Want Me Baby, to convince us he wasn’t just there to pick up a payJason​KeLLer​3 cheque.

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Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), tonight (Thursday, September 22) Quirky New Zealand pop music.

LAURA MARLING

The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday (September 23) Two-time Mercury prize winner.

MARNIE STERN, NO JOY, GRASS WIDOW, THE RAINCOATS

Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (September 23) Indie rock guitar goddess.

THE DEEP DARK WOODS, THE BEAUTIES, HARLAN PEPPER

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (September 24) See preview, page 52.

HOODED FANG, ODONIS ODONIS, WIO-K

Academy of Lions (1245 Dundas West), Saturday (September 24) Outdoor courtyard Wavelength show.

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PETER HOOK & THE LIGHTS, DIRTY BEACHES, FRANKIE ROSE & THE OUTS Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (September 24) Joy Division survivor plays the hits.

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Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (September 24) Chicago hipster electro rapper.

KIM ANN FOXMAN, PRINCE LANGUAGE, CHARLES DAMGA The Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), Saturday (September 24) Hercules and Love Affair vocalist DJ set.

TUNE-YARDS, PAT JORDACHE

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WIZ KHALIFA, REEMA MAJOR

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THE HORRORS, THE STEPKIDS

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GIRLS, NOBUNNY, PAPA

Mod Club (722 College), Tuesday (September 27) See preview, page 42.

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MUMFORD & SONS Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $34.50-$49.50. LN, RT, SS, TM. October 25.

TEDESCHI TRUCKS BAND Music Hall doors 7 pm, $45-$70. RT, SS, TM. October 25.

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Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, all ages, $20. RT, SS, TM. November 17.

ZEUS Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 24. all ages, $29.50. RT, SS, TM. November 25.

THE READY SET Opera House. November 29.

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, ALL THAT REMAINS, HATEBREED Sound Academy

doors 6:30 pm. December 6.

TOKYO POLICE CLUB, BORN RUFFIANS, SAID THE WHALE Holiday Show

Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TM. December 8.

THE NATIONAL, NEKO CASE, WYE OAK Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $43.50-$59.50. TM. December 8.

ZEDS DEAD Kool Haus $tba. December 17.

LUKE DOUCET & THE WHITE FALCON Sleepwalk Guitar Festival The Great

Hall 10:30 pm, $25, weekend pass $75. sleepwalkguitar.com, sixshooterrecords.com. November 4.

TICKET INDEX

EF – EARTH & FIRE 489 Queen W. 416-203-4138.

HS – HORSESHOE 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com.

PDR – PLAY DE RECORD 357 Yonge. 416-586-0380, playderecord.com.

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RCM – ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208, rcmusic.ca.

RR – RIVER RUN 35 Woolwich, Guelph. 1-877-520-2408, riverrun.ca.

RT – ROTATE THIS 801 Queen W. 416-504-8447, rotate.com.

RTH – ROY THOMSON HALL/GLENN GOULD/MASSEY HALL 60 Simcoe/ 250 Front W. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com.

SC – SONY CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

SS – SOUNDSCAPES 572 College. 416-537-1620, soundscapesmusic.com.

TM – TICKETMASTER 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca.

TP – TICKET PICKET 416-400-1003, ticketpicket.com.

TW – TICKETWEB ticketweb.ca.

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this week in the clubs How to find a listing

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, page 59, for addresses and phone numbers. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website.

Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listings once a month.

Thursday, September 22 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk).

AquilA upstAirs Alain Richer (acoustic rock).

Bovine sex cluB CD release The Creekwater

Junkies, Left Turn City, a Faster Now, DJ Cactus. cAdillAc lounge Scott McCord & the Bonafide Truth 9 pm. cAdillAc lounge BAck room Songwriters Expo Monique Barry, We Are French 7 pm. chAteAu sports BAr Morrison Hotel (rock). dAkotA tAvern CD release party The DoneFors, Fraser 10 pm. douBle douBle lAnd Drainolith, Bee Mask, Man Made Hill 9 pm, all ages. drAke hotel lounge Lamont James doors 10 pm. grAffiti’s The Turnarounds (rockabilly/country) 5 to 7 pm. grAffiti’s Stalking Irony, Nathan Bishop 9 pm.

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guvernment Slaughterhouse, PharoalulA lounge Small World Music Festival: he Monch, Bishop Brigante, Angerville 10th Year Birthday & Festival Kick Off ñ ñ (hip-hop).

Party Prince Enoki’s Insect Orchestra, the Lemon Bucket Orkestra (world music fusion) horseshoe Tahiti 80, Brent Jackson 8 pm. pop) doors 8:30 pm. ñ(French mitzi’s sister Samantha Martin & the lee’s pAlAce Liam Finn, Marques Toliver Haggard. doors 8:30 pm. ñ smiling BuddhA Second Harvest Benefit The the locAl Fraser/Daley.

Throbbin’ Hoods, Beyond the Cage 9 pm. molson AmphitheAtre Manifesto: Culsony centre for the performing Arts ture Clash Afrika Bambaataa & Zulu Nañ Yo Gabba Gabba! (children’s performers) tion, LuckyMe Crew, Just Blaze, Mad Decent ñ 3 & 6 pm.

Crew, Toronto All-Stars (4-stage DJ soundclash) doors 6 pm. operA house Evergrey, Sabaton, Powerglove, the Absence doors 7 pm, all ages. the pAinted lAdy Nicol Robertson & His Honky Tonk Boogaloo Boys (indie) 8:30 pm. pArts & lABour TV Freaks, the Eeries (garage punk) 10 pm. phoenix concert theAtre The Shins (sub pop) doors 8 pm. the piston Nice Friends Label Showcase Box Tiger 9 pm. rAncho relAxo The Indie Machine Deleted Scenes, Bastard Sunshine, Groovesmith doors 9 pm. rivoli A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Dark Dark Dark, Pillars & Tonge doors 8:30 pm. siestA nouveAux studio Blr Whiskeyface. sneAky dee’s Japandroids, Bass Drum of Death doors 9 pm. southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer 9:30 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

AspettA cAffe Open Mic Nite 7 to 11 pm. cAmeron house Corin Raymond 6 pm. cAmeron house Fedora Upside Down 10 pm. cAmeron house BAck room Shotgun Wed-

ding Band.

cAstro’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

cloAk & dAgger puB Dan Gagnon (folk/pop) 10 pm.

the dAnny Open Stage Sebastian Agnello

(eclectic) 9:30 pm.

dAve’s... on st clAir Open Mic Uncle Herb Dale & Fran McCann 9:30 pm.

emmet rAy BAr Echo and Twang (blues/country) 9 pm.

four seAsons centre for the performing Arts richArd BrAdshAw AmphitheAtre

Mediterranean Journey Pavlo noon to 1 pm. free times cAfe 5.5 Tour Tom Glenne. glAdstone hotel BAllroom Robin Banks, Teddy Leonard (blues) 9 pm. grossmAn’s Summer Open Jam Cowboy Buddha 9 pm. hugh’s room CD release Roofhoppers, the Boxcar Boys 8:30 pm.

trAnzAc southern cross Songs By Bert 6

pm.

trAnzAc southern cross Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross The Badly Bent Bluegrass Band 10 pm. trAnzAc mAin hAll CD release Consumer Goods, Chang-A-Lang, the Folk (indie pop) 7:30 pm. white swAn Jam Section 8 7 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

BAtA shoe museum Roaring Twenties The Kira Callahan Quartet (music from the 1920s and 30s) 5:30 pm. de sotos Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz 8 pm. gAte 403 Jacky Bouchard Jazz Trio 5 pm. gAte 403 Christopher Simmons Jazz Trio 9 pm. hArlem underground Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm. metropolitAn united church Noon At Met Bruce Kirkpatrick (organ) 12:15-12:45 pm. nAtionAl BAllet school There’s No Place Like Home fundraiser for Hospice Toronto Amy Sky, the Gene Pool Boys 7 pm. old mill inn home smith BAr John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. reservoir lounge Alex Pangman and the Alleycats (jazz) 7 pm. rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. rex Tribute to John Coltrane Pat LaBarbera & Kirk MacDonald Quintet 9:45 pm. roy thomson hAll Walton’s Henry V with Christopher Plummer Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Children’s Chorus 7:30 pm. somewhere there studio Architects Josh Doerksen, Matt Fong, Taylor Moran, Steve Sladkowski and others 8 pm. trinity st. pAul’s church Music Fit For A King Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir 8 pm.

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drAke hotel underground Bok Bok, XI, Kevin McPhee doors 10 pm. ñ goodhAndy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5

cheap thrill$ SMall World in the Square The 10th annual Small World Music Festival hosts a giant free show at Yonge-Dundas Square Saturday (September 24), featuring a ton of pan-global talent. Highlights include UK globe-trotting DJ Quantic, Brazilian crooner Luísa Maita and Montreal urban Latin group Boogat. smallworldmusic.com.

allende artS FeStival The Latin multidisciplinary cultural festival kicks off with a free concert Friday (September 23) at Artscape Wychwood Barns featuring Juan Dino Toledo’s flamenco, Aline Morales’s Brazilian fusion and Rakkatak’s Indian tabla cross-cultural collisions. allendefestival.com. insomniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lee’s pAlAce dAnce cAve Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance).

the ossington Tight Up Skirt DJs J Lee, Matt Bilewizc, Ramon Charles, Jay Ebanks (dancehall party) 10 pm. rivoli pool lounge DJs Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (electrobeats/disco/vinyl). velvet underground DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 10 pm.

Friday, September 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk).

BAr itAliA upstAirs Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/ top 40) 9:30 pm.

CURREN$Y

cAdillAc lounge BAck pAtio Ancient Chinese

FRIDAY OCT 21

Eddie Hawrysch (Black Crowes), the BC Boys, Flight to Eden 10:30 pm. the dAnny The Tone Devils 10 pm. drAke hotel underground CD release Eastborough, Snake & Crane, the Murder Plans (indie dance/pop) doors 7 pm. el mocAmBo The Ludes, G Mark Weston, Cowgirl Choir, House Monsters doors 9 pm. the gArrison Les Breastfeeders, Action Makes, the Bon 9 pm. grAffiti’s Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. grAffiti’s Too Many Sisters 9 pm. the greAt hAll Laura Marling, Alessi’s Ark doors 8 pm, all ages. horseshoe Michou, Fast Romantics, Lindi Ortega, Craig Strickland (indie folk rock) 9 pm. hugh’s room CD release Madison Violet 8:30 pm. lee’s pAlAce Recovery Child, Mother Leads, Secret Cinema 9:30 pm. mod cluB Marc Broussard, Stars on 45, Chic Gamine doors 7 pm. molson AmphitheAtre The Moody Blues doors 7 pm. music gAllery Peter Katz (singer/songwriter). now mAgAzine lounge Re-Opening Party The Outbred Inlaws, Unbelievers, Richard Fairthorne, Hibou, Sima, DJCG doors 9 pm. operA house C.O.R.E. Launch Showcase Rise for Order, the Nightmares, AetherBorn, Caym doors 8 pm. pArts & lABour The Spits, the Soupcans, Strange Attractor, School Damage (punk rock) 10 pm.

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cAdillAc lounge BAck pAtio Jeremy Fisher 10 pm. ñ cAdillAc lounge Inside Owen Sound w/

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Taya Marquis • Carleton Stone • Shawn Hlookoff Carl Dixon • Elisapie Isaac • Hello Beautiful Ashley MacIsaac • Trooper • Grandtheft Movie Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery

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Lizz Melody • Liz Coyles • Stacey Bulmer Lindi Ortega • The Heartbroken • Suzie McNeil Jully Black • Serena Ryder Movie The Proposal

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fRee timeS cafe Stephanie Martin Quintet (jazzy soul) 8:30 pm.

gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 pm. gate 403 Patrick Tevlin’s New Orleans

Rivoli Pop With Brains: CAMH Benefit Pkew Pkew Pkew, Most People, Secrettes, Young Doctors in Love, Meanwood, the FranDiscos doors 9 pm.

Rockpile Sandman (Metallica tribute).

SilveR DollaR Naam, Quest For Fire, Elks A, NLP doors 9 pm.

Sneaky Dee’S Dayglo Abortions, Black Lungs.

SouthSiDe Johnny’S The Homeless (rock/ R&B) 10 pm. tRanzac The World Provider, Tomboyfriend, the Canadian Romantic doors 8:30 pm.

WRongbaR Marnie Stern, No Joy, Grass Widow, the Raincoats 10 pm.

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aquila upStaiRS Bang Howdy (blues/R&B). aRmenian youth centRe Small World Music

Festival Dang Show (Persian jazz) doors 7 pm.

aRtScape WychWooD baRnS Allende Arts

Festival Juan Dino Toledo, Rakkatak, Aline Morales 7:30 pm. aSpetta caffe Ciaran O’Shea, Illuminati Steele, Nicole Coward 7 to 11 pm. cameRon houSe David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. cameRon houSe Bradley Boy 10 pm.

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cameRon houSe back Room Zoo Story. galleRy 345 CD release Aaron Keele 8 pm. glaDStone hotel meloDy baR World Concert

Series Donné Roberts, DJ Apollo 9 to 11 pm, all ages. glaDStone hotel ballRoom Uma Nota, Pedro D-Lita, Batucada Carioca 10 pm. highWay 61 SoutheRn baRbeque Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm. lula lounge Small World Music Festival: Funkété El Hijo de la Cumbia, Dos Mundos DJs doors 9:30 pm. mitzi’S SiSteR Red Revue w/ Leah Flanagan. pogue mahone David Leask (Celtic soul) 8 to 11 pm.

Royal canaDian legion – bRanch 11 Country Circle Jam (country/old-time/bluegrass/folk) 7:30 pm. tRanzac The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm. tRanzac SoutheRn cRoSS Pat LePoidevin (folk) 10 pm.

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The Horrors Essex five-piece combat sonic boredom by inventing their own gear By JOANNE HUFFA

Singer Faris Badwan might be the face of the Horrors, but guitarist Joshua Hayward is their secret weapon. Prior to recording their third record, the Essex five-piece constructed their own studio in London’s East End. With more ideas than cash to fund them, Hayward built much of the equipment that brought the album to life.

Speaking from an alley behind a San Diego studio while on tour, the physics major speaks proudly of his abilities with a soldering iron.

“I’ve been interested in [building things] since before the band started, actually,” he says. “I went to university hoping to learn about electronics.

When I got there, they told me electronics was an inferior science and that I had to learn about particle theory.

“It got to the stage where I couldn’t find [the gear] I wanted to buy anyway,” he continues, “so I had to build it.

That means we have tools at our disposal that no one else has, which is quite handy.”

Skying, released on XL in July, is worlds away from the band’s garage rock roots, thanks to layers of phased guitars and the danceable beats merely hinted at on 2009’s Primary Colours.

“I’m always trying to make things sound out of focus, so I’ve been building lots of weird things. I go about it a bit skewed but end up at a better place because I’ve tried so many things.”

At Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (September 27), 9 pm. $20-$23. HS, RT, SS, TM. 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Rhythm (blues) 9 pm. haRlem ZimZum (jazz/funk) 7:30 pm. haRlem unDeRgRounD Chris Weatherstone Trio (jazz) 8 pm. heliconian hall Emily, The Way You Were Ramona Carmelly, Joseph Ferretti, Victoria Hathaway, John Brownell, Rita Greer and others (opera about artist Emily Carr) 8 pm. lula lounge Jazz Series Jerusa Leao 8 pm. olD mill inn Fridays To Sing About! Carol McCartney Quartet 7:30 pm. peRfoRming aRtS loDge Swingin’ It Howard Willett, Elliott Baraclough, Glen Hornblast (tin pan alley/jazz classics) 8:30 pm.

Rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Rex Tribute to John Coltrane Pat LaBarbera & Kirk MacDonald Quintet 9:45 pm.

Rex Melissa Boyce 6:30 pm. tRane StuDio A Coltrane Weekend Part One Michael Arthurs Quartet 8 pm. tRinity St. paul’S chuRch Music Fit For A King Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir 8 pm.

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annex WReckRoom Is Anyone Up? Hunter Moore (DJ set) 10 pm.

buDDieS in baD timeS theatRe Fuck U Fridays

DJs Triple-X, Poster Boy 10:30 pm.5 bunDa lounge DJ Dwayne Minard (house). caStRo’S lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. clinton’S Love Handles DJs Craig & Alistair (indie/britpop/electro) 10 pm.

DRake hotel unDeRgRounD Evening Standard, Membersonly doors 11 pm.

DRake hotel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. emmet Ray baR Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm. eton houSe DJ Phil (top 40) 9 pm. fly Ax-A-Gogo DJ Alex 10 pm.5 footWoRk Luv This City doors 10 pm. gooDhanDy’S Leather & Laughs DJ Sexy Pants doors 8 pm.5 inSomnia Funk’n Fresh Fridays Marty McFly, Mary Jane Baker, Maddi Qwikstepp (house/ breaks). lee’S palace Dance cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop).

li’ly Thoughtless: California Dreamin’ [a]pendics.shuffle, Vincent Lemieux, ñ Arthur Oskan, Zaid Edghaim. moD club Arcade Toddla T, Roska 10 pm. ñ moRoco chocolat Coco Beats DJ Kenneth Porter (deep soulful house) 8 pm.

naco galleRy cafe SheRoes (remix tribute) 10 pm.5

99 galleRy Manifesto: Floor Awards And Solid Ground DJ Dopey, Dirty Dale and ñ others doors 8 pm. the oSSington Sweat Pants DJ Coolin Cregg (soul/R&B/hip-hop/reggae).

the painteD laDy DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ John-

son (old-school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. the piSton Soulskank (soul/funk/dancehall/ skasoul) 10 pm.

Revival The Original Roxy Reunion DJs Blueprint & Moreno, DJs Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull, DJs Jason Palma, Nav & John Kong, DJs Felix & Gani doors 10 pm.

Rivoli pool lounge This Is It DJ Stu (rock/old school/Brit/electro/classics/retro). the Savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm.

ScReen lounge Soul In The City DJ Michael Williams (Motown classics/smooth jazz/ northern soul/Canrock) 10 pm.

SupeRmaRket Course Of Time Mr Charlton, DJ Cal, Kyle Marshall 10 pm. the vue Virgo & Libra Fahward Party DJ Starting from Scratch. xS nightclub Carnival Circus DJ Mike, DJ Couture (top 40/house/mashups) 10 pm.

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Saturday, September 24 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

acaDemy of lionS CD release/Outdoor Courtyard Party Hooded Fang, Odonis ñ Odonis, Wio-K doors 7 pm. alleycatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk). annex WReckRoom Bayside, Transit, Bathurst doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

aSpetta caffe Natalie Lynne, Mandy Sham,

Jen Kunlire, Melannie Lilla, Chris Strei and others 2 pm to midnight. baR 460 Cromlech, Into Oblivion, Sylvus (black doom metal) doors 8 pm. caDillac lounge Robert Gordon, Danny Bartly, KC & the Moonshine Band, Heads Up Lincoln.

Dakota taveRn Christian D & the Hangovers (rock) 10 pm. the Danny The Tone Devils (rockin blues) 10 pm.

Dominion on queen Downtown Funk Connection 9 pm.

El MocaMbo Take the Bench-90s, After the

Empire, Slow Motion Victory, Aspire, Xephyr, Dani Jean doors 9 pm.

Eton HousE Alley Beat Grind 9 pm.

Graffiti’s Dodge Fiasco (rock) 4 to 7 pm.

Graffiti’s Russell Leons’ SSW Night 8 pm.

Hilton toronto airport United Way Peel Region’s Black Community Advisory Council’s Fundraising Gala Liberty Silver 5:30 pm.

HorsEsHoE The Watchmen, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald doors 9 pm.

Kool Haus Stems Of Hope Gala: ROBOTICA – fundraiser for Three To Be Barenaked Ladies, Rob James 8 pm.

Mod club After the Burial, Veil of Maya, Misery Signals, Within the Ruins, Structures doors 5 pm, all ages. parts & labour The Spits, the Sphinxs, Act Casual 10 pm. pHoEnix concErt tHEatrE Peter Hook & the Light, Dirty Beaches, Frankie Rose & the Outs doors 9 pm. prEss club Tanya Philipovich, Normal for Once. rEx Danny Marks noon, Justin Bacchus (funk/ soul/R&B) 7 pm. roc n doc’s Jerome Godboo Band, Shawn Kellerman, Alec Fraser, Al Webster 10 pm. silvEr dollar CD release Mad Ones, the Mercy Now, the Archives 10:15 pm. sportstEr’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 10 pm.

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aquila upstairs The New Mynah Birds, Jay

Pennell (rock).

caMEron HousE Lil Jimmy’s Chicken Pickers 6 pm.

caMEron HousE The Stormalongs 10 pm. cHinGuacousY parK Tigerfest: Charity Wrest-

ling Exhibition & Concert for the Tiger Jeet Singh Foundation & other charities RDB, Nindy Kaur, Prita Chhabra from 2 pm. cooKsvillE unitEd cHurcH Esperanza Music Project Concert 8 pm.

Eton HousE Box Full of Cash (country) 4 to 7 pm. frEE tiMEs cafE D’Arcy Wickham.

GladstonE HotEl MElodY bar Country Saturdays Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 9 pm.

HarlEM Quique Escamilla (bolero/cumbia/ rock/reggae/jazz) 7:30 pm.

HiGHWaY 61 soutHErn barbEquE Terry Blersh (blues) 8 pm.

HuGH’s rooM Ramblin’ Jack Elliott 8:30 pm. lEE’s palacE The Beauties, the Deep Dark Woods, Harlan Pepper (folk) doors 9 pm. See preview, page 52. tHE local John Showman. lula lounGE Salsa Saturday Cafe Cabano, DJ Suave.

Mitzi’s sistEr EP release Garage Baby, the Sweet Mack. not MY doG Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm. quEEnsWaY catHEdral Revival Mia Fieldes,

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Amy Savin, Fresh I.E, Jacob Moon, Hearts in Stereo and others doors 5 pm. rEbas café Open Mic David Crighton 1 to 4 pm. rEx Jerome Godboo 3:30 pm. ricoH colisEuM Amr Diab, Arash 7:30 pm. silvEr dollar The 24th Street Wailers w/ Al Lerman 7 pm. soutHsidE JoHnnY’s Robin Banks (blues/ R&B) 10 pm. tranzac soutHErn cross Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. tranzac soutHErn cross Joe Hall 6:30 pm. tranzac Mark Godfrey 10 pm. trinitY prEsbYtErian cHurcH Lost Pilgrims (bluegrass/folk/pop/light rock) 7:30 pm.

YonGE-dundas squarE Small World Music Festival: Small World In The Square Quantic, Boogat, Luisa Maita, A Moving Sound, Sonia Aimiuwu, Autorickshaw, Vox Sambou, Eccodek, Drumhand 1 to 11 pm.

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c’Est WHat Del Dako (jazz) 3 to 6 pm. cHalKErs pub Lorne Lofsky Trio, Kieran

Overs, Barry Romberg 6 to 9 pm.

cHurcH of st MarY MaGdalEnE Virgo

Splendens: Medieval Music For Women’s Voices CD release Schola Magdalena 7:30 pm.

EdWard JoHnson buildinG WaltEr Hall

John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 8 pm.

GallErY 345 Cabaret fundraiser for Heart & Stroke Foundation Lynn Loftus Glazer (jazz) 8 pm.

GatE 403 Bill Heffernan 5 pm.

GatE 403 Toronto Jazz Chorus noon.

GatE 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm.

HarlEM undErGround Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm.

HopE unitEd cHurcH Cantemus Singers 7:30

tHE duKE livE.coM Dr Spin 9 pm.

El MocaMbo upstairs Solid Garage

old Mill inn Jazz Masters Mark Eisenman

EMbassY bar Pressure Drop DJ Anousheh, Chuck Boom, Guv’nor General, Morningside 116 (ska/rocksteady/reggae/dub/dancehall).

EMMEt raY bar DJ Blancon (80s/soul/hiphop) 10 pm.

EMpirE lounGE Riddims. flY DJ Leomeo, DJ Shawn Riker 10 pm.5 footWorK Derrick Carter, the Loopity Goofs, Mike Gleeson, Baby Joel (electro/ house/jazz). tHE Garrison Turning Point 9 pm.

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Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. rEx Tribute to John Coltrane Pat LaBarbera & Kirk MacDonald Quintet 9:45 pm. rEx Rich Brown’s Rinse the Algorithm 12:45 am. roY tHoMson Hall Walton’s Henry V with Christopher Plummer Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Toronto Children’s Chorus 7:30 pm. tranE studio A Coltrane Weekend Part Two Scott Marshall Quartet 8 pm. trinitY st. paul’s cHurcH Music Fit For A King Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir 8 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

annEx WrEcKrooM See You Saturdays Rick

Toxic (club hits/party anthems) 10 pm. annEx WrEcKrooM Lexx Decibel (club hits/ party anthems) doors 10 pm. bovinE sEx club DJ Ian Blurton. clinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). draKE HotEl undErGround Kim Ann Foxman, Prince Language, Charles Damga (Hercules & Love Affair) doors 11 pm. draKE HotEl lounGE DJ DB Cooper doors 10 pm.

ñ

Afro Soul Party Vick Lavender, DJs ñ Groove Institute, Gadjet doors 10 pm.

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GladstonE HotEl ballrooM Goin’ Steady Endless Summer (50s & 60s dance party).

GoodHandY’s TNT Naked Dance DJ Sexy

Pants doors 8 pm.5

tHE GrEat Hall loWEr tHEatrE Mad Professor, Twilight Dub Circus, House of ñ David Gang, DJ Chocolate & Patricks Roots & Zum One (dub) doors 9 pm.

tHE GrEat Hall Toronto Fetish Ball 10 pm. tHE Hoxton Alex Metric. tHE Hoxton DJ Duo Kissette 10 pm. insoMnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep

house).

Kool Haus ROBOTICA – Three To Be Stems of Hope After Party DJ Alexandra Richards (daughter of Keith Richards) 11 pm.

continued on page 52 œ

SNEAK PEAK TOUR THURSDAY OCTOBER 20th with Danielle Duval and

FRIDAY OCTOBER 21st with Megan Bonnell

@ THE RIVOLI JOIN ROYAL FOR A VERY INTIMATE PERFORMANCE AND HELP HIM CHOOSE SONGS FOR HIS NEXT ALBUM. GET THE COVER SESSIONS EP FREE WITH THE PRE-PURCHASE OF ROYAL'S NEW ALBUM ONLY AVAILABLE AT THE SHOW.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS GO TO ROYALWOOD.CA OR MAPLEMUSIC.COM NOW september 22-28 2011

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Sunday, September 25 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

ASPETTA cAffE Pedestrian Sunday Festival Starship Experience noon to 7 pm.

LEE’S PALAcE DANcE cAvE Full On Alternative

DJ Mr Pete (alternative).

MOD cLUB UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, Tigerblood (indie/electro/dubstep).

NAcO GALLERy cAfE Tapette DJ Phil V 10:30 pm.5 NEU+RAL Fixion Saturdays DJ Dwight (alt/ electronic/indie/retro/remix).

THE OSSINGTON Love Handle DJs Catalyst, Famous Lee, Janina Marie (boogie/funk).

PAcHA LOUNGE CD release DJ Dafunky Situation, DJ Combo doors 10 pm.

THE PAINTED LADy DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/rnr) 10 pm.

THE PISTON Greazy (dirty disco party) 10 pm.

RIvOLI Footprints DJs General Eclectic, Jason Palma, Stuart (soul/jazz/Afro/Latin/funk/ska) doors 9 pm.

RIvOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk).

SNEAKy DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm.

SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. SUTRA The Bridge DJ Triplet (ol’ skool hip-hop).

UNLOvABLE Sundown DJ Shit La Merde (indie/ rock/pop) 10 pm.

cADILLAc LOUNGE Tia Brazda & her Madmen 9 pm.

cLINTON’S Rent Party: Rock n’ Comedy. cROSSROADS BAR & GRILL Soulchamp! Duo 2 to 8 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Historic Brew Tour &

Brunch The Cosmotones Band 11 am.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND NOW Talks Jim Cuddy In conversation with NOW editor/publisher Michael Hollett and performing songs from his new CD, doors 5:30 pm.

GRAffITI’S Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm.

HORSESHOE Yuck, the Rival Boys doors 8 pm.

ORBIT ROOM Horshack (rock & roll) 10:30 pm.

THE PAINTED LADy Girls, Girls, Girls! (punk/ new wave) 8:30 pm.

THE PISTON Chris Brown 9 pm. yONGE-DUNDAS SQUARE Manifesto Main Event: Live At The Square Rakim & Kid Capri, Blu & Exile, 9th Wonder & Phonte, Zaki Ibrahim, Andreena Mill, Michie Mee, Freedom Writers and others noon-11 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Roots Rock

the Deep Dark Woods Saskatoon band aims for the hip WWII veteran demographic By SARAH GREENE

THE DEEP DARK WOODS with the BEAUTIES and HARLAN PEPPER at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (September 24), 9 pm. $12-$15. HS, RT, SS, TM.

Ryan Boldt, singer/songwriter for rootsy Saskatoon band the Deep Dark Woods, loves it when older listeners like his music. Recently, he received a phone call from a member of the Regina Rifles, who fought in World War II, about his song The Banks Of The Leopold Canal.

“When younger people like your music, that’s great,” Boldt says over the phone. “But when somebody who’s actually lived a little likes you,

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Open Mic The McDales

(country) 8:30 pm.

then you know you’re doing something pretty good.”

Boldt, who splits his time between Saskatoon and tiny Mortlach, Saskatchewan, can easily rant about how young people aren’t aware enough of the roots of their music. He’s hoping to win over some with Deep Dark Woods’ fourth album, The Place I Left Behind, out on Six Shooter.

The award-winning group expertly combines classic songwriting with a rich, contemporary folk-rock sound that also draws from the blues. The melancholy title track was inspired by an old folk song called The Girl I Left Behind, and over time it’s taken on more significance for Boldt.

“When you’re writing, sometimes it doesn’t feel like you have anything to do with [the song],” he says. “But as time passes, that can change. When I wrote The Place I Left Behind, I hadn’t yet left the town where I’m from. Now that I have, I relate to it more.”

Boldt’s affinity for old music has led him to start work on a more traditional solo album, though he’s proud of what the Deep Dark Woods have accomplished on their newest.

“Usually after a year I’m sick of a record and thinking about how we could make something better. But I’m really happy about this one. I’m excited.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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A Concert with Japanese Traditional Instruments

KOTO + SHAKUHACHI bamboo flute + TAIKO drums TsuguKaji-KOTO Akihito Obama Makoto Yamamoto Admission: $26.79 incl. handling charges & tax.

Jane Mallett Theatre in St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts at 8:00 p.m. on

Tuesday, October 4th

Tickets available at St. Lawrence Centre box office, 27 Front Street East By phone: 416.366.7723 Online: boxoffice.stlc.com/public/

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Official reopening party!

Friday, September 23, 2011 Music

the Outbred inlawS unbelieverS richard FairthOrne +Guests hibOu Sima dJcG Comedy

chriS brazeau Burlesque

lOretta Jean mOre tba Art

Stu playdead Gareth FOwler al GOGuen raShelle SquidwOrX

nO cOver

Friday September 23 189 church St Doors open at 9 pm Arrive early limited capacity ttC tO DunDas Or Queen statiOns street/lOt parkinG available

Win GIft Cea $100 and d rtificate from Siscounts qu Tattooid Inx s!

AIR CANADA CENTRE THEATRE

DECEmbER 8, 2011 w i t h

wyE oAk

tickets $ 43.50 - $ 59.50 Adv + FF @ ticketmAster.cA • 1-855-985-5000 & Air cAnAdA centre

NOW september 22-28 2011

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tues october 18 opera house $ 16.50 advance •

8:00pm Doors

thursday

september 29 the mod club

Friday september 30 the phoenix • $ 27.50 advance

james

thursDay

october 6

wednesday

september 28 @ the phoenix

portugal wild blake naked & mates of the man beasts $18.50

advance • 7:00pm early show

jesus

state famous

sunday october 16

tues october 4 @ the phoenix • $18.50 advance

with chairlift

Friday october 14 @ the moD club

$14.00

w/ alberta cross

saturday october 15 @ Sound academy $ 27.00

advance Ga •

$ 37

advance VIP • 8pm doors • all-ages

@ the phoenix

advance • early show 7:00pm

zola

lee’s palace / $ 17.50 adv • 8:00pm

$ 20.00

advance • 8:00pm doors

suckers + yawn

$ 15.00 advance • 8pm doors • san Francisco

san Francisco sub pop / Fat possum indie

w/ Marketa Irglova of tHE sWELL sEasON monday october 17 @ lee’s palace • $ 20.00 advance

dum dum girls with

it’s a shame about ray

sat october 15 @ opera house • $15.00 adv • all-ages

wildlife the Pack ad

Friday november 4 @ the phoenix • $ 20.50 advance

sunday october 23 lee’s palace • $ 18.00 advance

$

20.00 advance • 8:00pm doors • all-ages

weD october 19

w/

fri october 28 @ opera house $ 22.50

advance • 8:30pm Doors • all-ages

sounD acaDemy

$23.50 aDvance • all-ages

avenue flag ex-sleater kinney

thurs nov 24 @ opera house

sunday october 30

adv • all-ages • 6pm doors

the aggrolites @ opera house

bless the fall dawes $ 18.50 adv • inDie folk Double heaDer

advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

peter murphy she wants revenge friDay november 25 sat november 26 horseshoe tavern cD release weekenD

the word alive

motionless in white Friday december 2 $ @ the phoenix • 28.50 adv

queen elizabeth theatre advance • all-ages

timber between the duke timbre buried and me cuff the

$14.00

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advance • 9:00pm Doors

september 22-28 2011 NOW

monday october 24 @ lee’s palace

$ 23.50 advance •

the

8:00pm Doors austin texas psych rock & roll

black blitzen trapper

angels

with DeaD meaDow

wednesday november 23

Friday november 26 $ 25.00

aDvance • Doors 8:00pm

slackers $ 18.50

$ 29.50

$ 20.00

saturday october 15 / lee’s palace • $16.50 advance ska & soul

Deals Gone baD + Prince Perry

weD november 23 @ lee’s palace

tuesday october 11 lee’s palace

boris boyce wild 20th anniversary ska celebration

thurs november 17 @ the phoenix

walls

crocodiles

lemonheads hollerado asobi seksu colD war kiDs the perForm

with

wednesday december 7 the phoenix • $ 24.50 adv + FF • all-ages

animals as leaders + tesseract

@ sound

academy

$ 25.00 adv ga • $35.00 adv vip

all-ages • 8:00pm Doors

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS Friday september 30 / lee’S palace • $13.50 advance

tHurSday september 22

Fri september 23 / $10.00

trans am gift

TAhITI michou fast romantics flatliners

pariS • FrencH pop • $13.50 advance

Buzzing up & coming indie Folk rock!

Wed october 12 lee’S Palace • $10.00 adv • Portugal

the

with

Playing FutureWorld W/ majeure

80

WitH brent Jackson

thurS october 13 @ mod club / $15.50 advance • all-ages

LINDI ORTEGA craig strickland

Saturday september 24 / $25.00 adv sold out!

with

living with lions + broaDway calls

Friday october 14 tueS october 18 lee’S Palace / $11.50 advance

lee’S Palace / $15.00 advance

yukon neon

Friday october 14

bane Sneaky dee’S / $16.00 adv • all-ages • 6pm doors

deFeater + miles away dead end path

wednesday tueSday

october 19

ThE wATchmEN blonDe inDian wooden shonen library sky IN my cOmA liam recovery child yuck jIm wARD kniFe Voices mother leads star finn secret cinema PerForming “Silent radar” in it’S entirety With michael bernard Fitzgerald @10:15

Sun september 25 / $13.50 adv

mon september 26 / $9.00 adv

tHurS october 20 $ HorSeSHoe / 14.50 advance

Friday october 28 HorSeSHoe / $ 12.00 advance

london uk • Fat PoSSum recordS

tHe dakota • $15.00 advance

with

northcote

tHurS september 22 Fri september 23 / $7.00 $15.00

advance • new Zealand

Wed noVember 2

the rival boys

With

ben sollee

Wed september 28 / $4.00

pete Van Dyk & the seconDhanD banD Jacqueline loVely tueS september 27 Willing to oppose artful VanDelays

ANDREw hUNTER & ThE GAThERERS TRAcKING NIcELy Disco Doom

HorSeSHoe • $ 12.00 advance

(at tHe drive-in & Sleepercar)

tHurSday september 29

gooD PEtEr old war Elkas PhiladelPhia • $11.50 advance

Saturday october 1 / $10.00

30th anniverSary tour

thurS november 3 horSeShoe / $10.50 advance

monday noVember 7 horSeShoe tavern

slinger

slim cessna’s wooden auto club shJips blind crooked fingers pilot $ 13.50

advance • San FranciSco

tHurS noVember 10 lee’S palace / $ 15.50 advance

tueSday november 8 @ drake underground / $15.50 advance

november 24 Sat november 12 thurS lee’S Palace / $15.00 advance

wu lyf zEUS horSeShoe /

$ 12.00

advance

Fri noVember 4 @ garriSon / $10.50 adv

dub trio

marques toliVer

Sat september 24 mon september 26

the

$16.50

with Deep

beauties $12.00

advance

Dark WooDs & harlan pepper

advance

With pat jordache

tueSday september 27 / $20.00 advance • london uk

the horrors sainthood reps stone iris gentlemen husbands throbbin hooD breakaway hAwK & A new villager monserrat ThE hAcKSAw astronautalis bob logg iii TOASTERS satelites drag the river hA hA TONKA roadrunner records ShOwcASE ra ra cANADA

brett casWell & W/ Danielle DuVall the marquee rose Friday september 30 / $10.50 advance

organ thieves + Poor Young things + the north

Sunday october 2 / $12.00 adv

Wed october 12 / $12.50 adv

Fat poSSum BooBScotcH BlueS!!!

WitH

thurS september 22 the rivoli / $13.50 advance

Wed noVember 9 @ garriSon / $10.50 adv

with thE

MeMbers of brand new

mon september 26 @ the drake / $12.50 advance

mon september 26 @ PartS & labour / $10.00 advance

DARK DARK DARK + PILLARS & TONGUES

Sat october 1 @ Hard luck / $13.50 adv

Sunday october 2

suuns

Sun october 2 @ drake / $9.00 adv

the garriSon / $10.00 advance

Friday october 7 / $12.50 adv • vancouver Punk legendS

WitH

Sat october 1 / $10.00

tHurS september 29 / $7.00

frankie foo + the afterbeat

mR. FREE & ThE SATTELITE FREAKOUTS

stEP kids

Wed september 28 / $6.00

With lenny lashley

threat signal Endast drEamErs Final trigger tHurSday october 6 $17.50

advance

tueSday october 4 / $10.00 hotboxx PreSentS

With eamon mcgrath

riot besnard braids nurses dog day lakes brandt obits skullians & take Drugs

Friday october 14 / $12.00 adv • montreal • FlemiSh eye

With pepper rabbit & born gold

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

horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen Street WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

tHurS october 6 @ tHe drake / $11.50 adv

Wed october 12

wakey wakey the barr rEvolvEr brothers Sunday OctOber october16 6 @ the horSeShoe / $10.50 advance

Wed october 19 @ drake / $11.50 adv

with dominant

WedneSday october 26 drake underground / $15.00 adv

tueS october 25 @ rivoli / $13.00 adv

cant brauer frick chris taylor oF grizzly bear

$ 20.00

tHurS october 27 @ tHe drake / $13.50 adv

KEvIN DEvINE

advance

Dinosaur bones

Friday october 7 / $ 10.00

sPorts, the band

ryan masters + Fabulous yawn

legs

Fri october 21 @ garriSon / $14 adv

tHurSday october 13

drake underground / $12.50 adv

malajube

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

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt

NOW september 22-28 2011

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AquilA Blues Brunch Ken Yoshioka (blues) 11

am to 2 pm, Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds & Elana Harte 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

CAmeron House Karyn Ellis 6 pm.

CAmeron House Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm.

CloAk & DAgger Pub Henry Taylor 9 pm.

Duffy’s TAvern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 9:30 pm.

HigHwAy 61 souTHern bArbeque Sean Pinchin (blues) 1 pm.

THE OSSINGTON Thurs 22 TighT Up SkirT

Dancehall party w/ DJs J Lee, Matt Bilewizc, Ramon Charles, Jason Ebanks...

Fri 23 SweaT panTS

w/ DJ Coolin Cregg- Soul, RnB, hip hop, reggae... sweaty good times...

saT 24 Love handLe

w/ DJs Catalyst, Famous Lee, Janina Marie... all boogie, all funk, all vinyl...

sun 25 BraSS FacTS Trivia

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

TATToo roCk PArlour Trash Palace Sundays

6:30 pm.

ulTrA PATio Ultra Chill Sundays DJs Mike Tull

AmADeus Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats

Hilario Durán (jazz/Afro-Cuban) doors 6 pm.

Pogue mAHone Celtic Ceilidh Sandy Mac­ Intyre & Steeped in Tradition 4 to 8 pm. rebAs CAfé Peter Janes (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. silver DollAr Reversing Falls, HiFi Phantom, You Left Saving the Planet. souTHsiDe JoHnny’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. sPiriTs Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. suPermArkeT Freefall Sundays Open Mic 7 pm.

TrAne sTuDio Sharbat, Ravi Naimpally, Waleed Abdulhamid, Samidha Jodlekar 8 pm.

TrAnzAC souTHern Cross Michael Laderoute 3 pm.

TrAnzAC mAin HAll Kieran Halpin (folk) 7 pm.

TrAnzAC souTHern Cross The Lake Vernon Drowning, Peter Kauffman 7:30 pm. wAnDA’s Pie in THe sky Mr Rick & the Biscuits (country) 2 pm.

CHAlkers Pub Maureen Kennedy Trio, Nancy Walker & Kieran Overs 7 to 10 pm.

De soTos Sunday Brunch Double A Jazz, Abbey Sholzberg 11 am.

DrAke HoTel lounge The Elusive Casual doors 9 pm. eDwArD JoHnson builDing wAlTer HAll

legend continues - vid screening, live performance and bitchin’ vinyl throughout...

61 OSSINGTON AVE | 416•850•0161 | theossington.com

Monday, September 26 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

CADillAC lounge The Spin Tones (surfabilly).

DrAke HoTel unDergrounD New Villager,

Fuego 7 pm.

Candy­O.

pm.

CAsTro’s lounge Watch This Sound DJ Greg

Wed 28 hUmBLemania 27

10 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

UnLimiTed SUndayS Magazine launch party...

& Paul E Lopes 3 to 9 pm.

velveT unDergrounD DJ Hanna (retro 80s)

9 pm.

bovine sex Club School For Band Aids DJ

Tues 27 inkTank

DJ 4Korners (house/hip-hop/rock).

Mooredale Concerts: Music & Truffles children’s concert Ofra Harnoy and Anton Kuerti (cello and piano) 3:15 pm. emmeT rAy bAr Tom Richards (jazz) 9 pm. gAllery 345 Father And Son: Dueling Pianos Eddie and Quincy Bullen 3 pm. gATe 403 Olga: the Gimlets noon. gATe 403 Brownman Akoustic Jazz Trio 5 pm. gATe 403 McGyle Madness 9 pm. glADsTone HoTel bAllroom Too Darn Hot: A Night With Cole Porter 8 to 11 pm. glenn goulD sTuDio Secret Of The Seven Stars: Tribute To Ann Southam New Music Concerts Ensemble, Joseph Macerollo & Ina Henning, Gregory Oh, Ryan Scott, Xin Wang 8 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon, Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm. rex Tom Reynolds 7 pm. rex Blue Note Series Jake Wilkinson (trumpet) 9:30 pm. sT mArTin-in-THe-fielDs CHurCH Cantemus Singers 3 pm.

TriniTy sT. PAul’s CHurCH Music Fit For A King Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra & Chamber Choir 8 pm.

Get quizzed by Marty & Kirk, followed by: Manjah music to get you through...

23 Marc Broussard 23 Arcade Fridays 24 Veil of Maya 24 UK Underground 27 The Girls 29 Wild Beasts

HugH’s room Paul Brady 8:30 pm.

THe loCAl Gord Zubrecki (folk/indie) 10 pm.

THe loCAl Hannah Naiman 5 pm. lulA lounge Small World Music Festival

(old school soul/reggae/dub/ska/rock-steady) 10 pm. grAffiTi’s blackmetalbrunch 11 am. insomniA Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. lulA lounge Small World Music Festival: B•Mundo Discos Pedro D­Lita (dancefloor electro/funk/samba/jungle) doors 9:30 pm.

THe ossingTon Unlimited Sunday (deep grooves).

Foxes in Fiction doors 8:30 pm.

DrAke HoTel unDergrounD Elvis Monday (rock) doors 9 pm.

DrAke HoTel lounge Boot Knives (rock)

doors 10 pm.

HArlem Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/ jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. lee’s PAlACe Tune­Yards, Pat Jordache doors 8 pm. See preview, page 45.

PArTs & lAbour Astronautalis, Dream Jefferson (indie alt hip-hop) doors 8:30 pm. sounD ACADemy Wiz Khalifa, Reema Major (rap) doors 8 pm, all ages.

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Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

CAmeron House fronT room Betty Stew 6

pm.

CAmeron House Luke Nicholson (blues singer/songwriter) 10 pm.

CAmeron House bACk room Big Rude Jake.

CAsTro’s lounge Smoky Folk (bluegrass) 9

pm.

CloAk & DAgger Pub These Boots (folk/pop) DAkoTA TAvern Mariachi Mondays Mariachi THe founTAin Badly Bent Bluegrass Nights 9 free Times CAfe Open Stage Jeff Kahl. grAffiTi’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Saloon 5

to 8 pm.

HigHwAy 61 souTHern bArbeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

HorsesHoe Sleeper Car, Ben Sollee (alt-coun-

try) doors 8:30 pm.

HugH’s room CD release Murray Porter, Pura Fe 8:30 pm. continued on page 58 œ

the BEAT of the GLOBE in the HEART of TORONTO

featuring:

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Visit smallworldmusic.com for tickets & info!

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september 22-28 2011 NOW

693 Bloor St. W 416-535-9541 WWW.CLINTONS.CA W of Bathurst FRI 23 ◆

SAT 24 ◆

LOVE HANDLES INDIE/BRIT POP/ELECTRA DJs CRAIG & ALISTAIR

SHAKE, RATTLE SOUL & & ROLL: ROCK N’ ROLL

DRINK, DANCE, GET MESSY W/ THE GIRLS OF BANGS&BLUSH

RENT PARTY: ROCK N' COMEDY MON 26 ◆ QUIZ NIGHT w/ Terrance Balazo TUES 27 ◆ NEW MUSIC NIGHT SUN 25 ◆

w/Nowhere Pacific, Tea & Coffee The Rough Notes PSYCHIC BRUNCH & FREE WIFI! Contact Fletch To Play at Clinton's

New Music Night!

bookclintons@hotmail.com or 416.503.2921

Twitter: @ClintonsTavern • facebook.com/ClintonsToronto

$3.25 BREAKFAST • MON - FRI 11AM- 4PM

eVery saturday

steve GoldBy BoN voyaGe w/monSTer TruCk & DeaD & DiVine sat sept 24 w/DJ ian Blurton maCheTTe reCorDS preSenTS w/reVolVerS & The CiTy STreeT thu Sept 29 w/DJ Steve rock

amaNita Bloom

slayer Party

w/DeuTSChe BankS & SlaVe agenT w/DJ Vania

fri Sept 30

asleeP BehiNd the Flame w/on CorinThianS & aFTerall Sat oct 1

Curated by Darko

Nuit BlaNche "ties that BiNd" Party w/CJ Sleez, Fallon Bowman, The leSlie SpiTS 542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com

Toronto’s home of Roots, Country and Rockabilly

STReeT WeST -1296 Queen Thu SEPt monique barry’s showcase 7pm 9pm scott

22

mccord

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

fri SEPt 7:30pm ancient chinese secret

23

10pm Jeremy Fisher 10:30pm owen sound w. eddie hawrysch of the black crowes w. Guests the bc boys & FliGht to eden

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

sat SEPt From nyc rockabilly artist 24 robert Gordon w/special Guest danny bartly & kc & the moonshine band midnight heads up lincoln HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sun SEPt

25

9pm

tia brazda & the madmen

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

the spin tones 26 HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH mon SEPt

the louisiana snow blowers 27 wed SEPt the neil younG’uns 28 416-536-7717 cadillaclounge.com tue SEPt

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

@

10pm

KELLY’S A-Z SHOW

SAMANTHA MARTIN & THE HAGGARD

Sat Sept 24 7-10pm PAUL KELLY’S A-Z SHOW

CHRISTIAN D

486 spadina ave. @ college www.silverdollarroom.com

60’s pop & soul

Saturday Supper Club Blues!

sunday september 25

sep 24 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 7 pm

Sun Sept 25 11-3pm BLUEGRASS BRUNCH

7pm

Mon Sept 26 MARIACHI MONDAYS

THE ClOSE ENCOUNTERS BOBBY BENS BOOgIE BRIgRADE FUN FACT HEAVYWEIgHT BRASS BAND eVery monday

Legends oF karaoke

friday september 30

fri Sept 23 Jaegermeister presents w/DJ Vania

7-10pm PAUL

SHAKE A TAIL

ROB DYER DANCE PARTY

(CD release) w/leFT Turn CiTy, a FaSTer now

TORONTO BEER WEEK

Fri Sept 23

JAPANDROIDS BASS DRUM OF DEATH

90’s hip hop party

the creekwater JuNkies

FRI & SAT - EXTENDED HOURS FOR

thursday september 22

what’s poppin’

w/DJ Cactus

TWO SHOWS 7-9 & 10-2am CD RELEASE Thu Sept 22 10pm THE DONEFORS

TwiTTer.com/Thesneakydees booking@sneaky-dees.com

eVery Wednesday

thu sept 22

THE DAKOTA TAVERN

upcoming

OCT 5 - STRIKE ANYWHERE OCT 6, 13, 20 - BIRTHDAY BOYS RESIDENCY OCT 8 - gET SCARED OCT 14 - BANE OCT 15 - THE ARTIST lIFE

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DAN MANGAN Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts)

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Metal Meets (Last Gang) Rating: In a review of Ohbijou’s last album, I lamented the fact that Casey Mecija seemed to hold back when delivering her delicate vocals and yearning lyrics. But that’s not a problem on the Toronto orchestral-pop band’s third album, a sonically bold effort that sees their dynamism shoot through the roof while keeping intact their trademark hushed ambience.

Opening track Niagara sets the tone.

The rhythm section is lean and thunderous, perfectly arranged strings and piano

add clouds of suspense, while Mecija’s voice soars above it all like a sparrow taking flight. It’s a wonderful balance of loud and quiet, dark and light, dense and clear that continues through the 11th track.

Balikbayan has a gorgeous chorus and sweeping strings, Iron And Ore’s lush, experimental backdrop evokes the Verve, while Sligo is positively cathartic. Hats off to Montreal’s Jace Lasek, who produced this ambitious, powerful collection.

Top track: Iron And Ore Ohbijou play Trinity St. Paul’s Church on September 30.

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Era Extraña (Dine Alone) Rating: It’s got to be strange being called a chillwave artist in 2011. Granted, the term was only invented two years ago, but considering that it came from a joke on the satirical blog Hipster Runoff, it’s no surprise that every band initially saddled with the tag has been running from it ever since. Who’d want their music associated TWIN SISTER In Heaven (Domino) with a sarcastic comment about our Rating: NNN bizarre compulsive need to categorize Like many young indie pop groups, Twin everything?

Sister are still defining their sound. The Strangely, it’s the acts that seem least Long Island five-piece, led by ethereal concerned about the association, like singer Andrea Estella, has released a few Neon Indian, that are proving most adept EPs and several tracks online, all with a at avoiding the sophomore curse. While lazy, ambling afternoon vibe that they Era Extraña won’t stop anyone from conexplore further on their debut LP. tinuing to put Alan Palomo’s studio proOn In Heaven, the group moves slightly ject into that silly little box, it’s a more away from a live band sound to flesh out solid album than the critically acclaimed their effete, gently rhythmic pop and R&B debut that put him there in the first place. with loftier studio flourishes like amorYou’ve got all the icy synths, shoegazer phous analog synths, strings and vibraatmospherics, fuzzy nostalgia for 80s phone. Estella and guitarist/singer Eric futurism and lots of reverb that you’d Cardona trade quirky elocution and harexpect, but this time around everything monies with twinkling, twangy arrangesounds tighter, bigger and much more ments that toe the fine line between coherent. And to think we were about to charming and cutesy. write off the whole “movement” as a The more dissonant, spacier tracks like flash in the pan.

Luna’s Theme and Kimmi In A Rice Field Top track: Suns Irrupt create an7:31 enjoyably Neon IndianAd_Now_1-5 perform at Lee’s Palace on1 9/16/11 160911.ai PM escapist mood, occasionally disrupted by songs that feel too October 18.

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Rating: NNN Something’s happened to Dan Mangan.

With his new album, the young Vancouver musician has leapt ahead not one or two steps, but three or four. At times, it’s hard to believe you’re listening to the same guy who wrote 2009’s light, bright awardwinning Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

Oh Fortune is dark, rich and finds Mangan leaving behind his earnest-boymadly-strumming-an-acoustic-guitar approach for expansive, epic orchestral indie rock. Each tune is carefully layered and structured and takes Mangan’s impassioned alto to cathartic highs and quiet lows (that often bring Gambler-era Kenny Rogers to mind, swear to god).

While it’s dense with mood, gloomy lyrics and studio texture, almost to a fault, it’s thin on memorable melodies. It lacks a Robots-type single, but you sense that was intentional. (Post-War Blues is an exception; its zippy riffs add welcome drive.)

Oh Fortune instead seems meant to be taken in slowly and revisited often.

Top track: Starts With Them, Ends With Us Dan Mangan plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre October 28.

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FALLS NNNN ñVERONICA

(Slumberland) Rating: Slumberland Records has been experiencing a renaissance spearheaded by the Pains of Being Pure at Heart and continuing with Veronica Falls. Opening with early single Found Love In A Graveyard, the London quartet waste no time setting up the parameters of their sound: boy-girl vocals, floor-tom-heavy drums and jangly guitar that hearken back to the late-80s indie pop scene known as C86.

While the songs sound effortlessly crafted, there’s a complexity to the melodies and structures that surprises on repeat listens. And while lyrics about love gone wrong abound, VF also infuse them with wry humour and unusual perspectives. Credit also goes to singer Roxanne Clifford, who can sound winsome, mysterious and badass, often in the same song.

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On her third album, Brit Award-winning UK singer/songwriter Laura Marling sings with enough confidence and force to belie her 21 years and bring to mind North American greats like Joni Mitchell and Michelle Shocked.

A Creature I Don’t Know, produced by Ethan Johns, who also worked on 2010’s I Speak Because I Can, is a well-orchestrated pop album made with acoustic instruments (guitars, strings, pianos). It’s heavy at times, but always thoughtful and interesting.

Marling sings of relationships and muses, creatures and beasts, and the songs are wildly melodic but delivered in a natural, unaffected way. She’s charming when singing softly in the lower part of her range, as on Don’t Ask Me Why, which transitions fluidly into Salinas. The lush choralfolk of Sophia, with its country bridge, is a nice surprise.

Top track: Sophia Laura Marling plays the Great Hall Friday (September 23).

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JIM CUDDY Skyscraper Soul (Warner)

Rating: NNN Listening to Jim Cuddy’s new solo disc, I daydreamed that the Ford brothers had learned the error of their ways, made friends with Margaret Atwood, partied it up at Pride and were now sitting down with us and laughing at their previous follies. That vision could’ve been inspired by Cuddy’s two major themes: how the city can wear you down, and the classic happy ending of the boy-meets-girl tale.

Cuddy has said his solo career is about the songs that aren’t cool enough for rest of the Blue Rodeo crew. That’s not the best way to head off criticism, but it does give you a good idea of what to expect: romantic ballads, country soul (which he should really do more often) and the occasional goofily earnest lyrical turn.

Sheepishly admitting to being moved by the royal wedding might give him a borderline-novelty single, but it’s not great songwriting fodder. Cuddy fans will love this, though.

Top track: Watch Yourself Go Down Cuddy is interviewed by NOW’s Michael Hollett in a NOW Talks event Sunday (September 25) at the Drake.

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MADISON VIOLET The Good In Goodbye

(True North) Rating: NNN Too much honey in your voice can be a liability when you’re trying to convey sad, or at least bittersweet, themes. This is evident on Brenley MacEachern and Lisa MacIsaac’s, aka Madison Violet’s, fourth album.

But some folks like sweetness. The Toronto roots duo’s harmonies and simple songs have earned them a CFMA and a Juno nomination for 2009’s No Fool For Trying. Les Cooper returns to production duties, steering the album dangerously close to adult contemporary folk-pop (and

leaving us curious about what an all-out pop album from them would sound like).

The more traditional material near the end is stronger, notably Emily and bluegrass-infused loving-and-drinking song Cindy Cindy, where they let some roughness creep into their sound.

Top track: Cindy Cindy Madison Violet play Hugh’s Room on Friday (September 23).

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BIG HARP White Hat (Saddle Creek) Rating: NNN Big Harp is the L.A.-based husband-andwife team of Christopher Senseney (vocals/guitar/keys) and Stefanie DrootinSenseney (bass/backing vocals). She’s worked with Bright Eyes, She and Him and Azure Ray, and met Christopher while on tour with her band the Good Life. Drummer Chris Phillips rounds out the trio.

Despite their band name, there’s no harp here, just unfussy, smooth tunes about debt, retribution and crazy city life, punctuated by bluesy breakdowns and rock detours. Mostly they tell stories (lover’s revenge song Nadine and its nostalgic epilogue, Oh Nadine, for example), though straight-up love songs like Let Me Lend My Shoulder also appear.

Senseney shines when he lets his rumbly baritone break on the soulful mantra that is Everybody Pays.

Top track: Everybody Pays SG

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DAS RACIST Relax (Greedhead) Rating: NNN Das Racist’s Heems (Himanshu Suri) and Kool A.D. (Victor Vazquez) were never not good at rapping. Sure, 2010 mixtapes Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man were cast in a pungent pot haze, but that’s what made their incisive, absurdist observations better than try-hard joke rap like the Lonely Island’s. This studio debut, however, doesn’t sound like it was recorded during the kind of heinously hedonistic week when you subsist entirely on HBO’s Cathouse programming and rations from Rabba.

Heems and Kool A.D. rap harder, louder and smarter. The lyrics are bizarre (“I’m DJ Khaled / I’m a daikon radish”) and confrontational (“RapGenius.com is white devil sophistry / Urban Dictionary is for demons with college degrees”) but also cohesive and purposeful. Heems recruits fellow brown men Anand Wilder (Yeasayer) and Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) alongside big-name producers like Diplo, El-P and Blood Diamonds. And if you skip Punjabi Song, featuring bhangra artist Bikram Singh, you’re racist.

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csi-​s tyle​ forensic​ snapshots, grainy surveillance video, newspaper crime story illustrations: these are sources for Emmanuelle Léonard’s A Judicial Perspective, a provocative show of selections from recent projects in her ongoing investigation of the intersection of the justice system and photographic representation.

The Quebec-based photographer uses a variety of strategies to achieve an artless, deadpan aesthetic. Reminiscent of recent work exhibited at

Contact documenting apparently healed-over sites of violent events, the series Une Sale Affaire looks obliquely at crime scenes that Léonard accessed by following reporters: the bland exterior of a suburban house (a shooting scene) or a cop car parked under a bridge (a drowning).

For Homicide: détenu vs détenu, she takes an archival approach, exhibiting a grid of small black-andwhites, actual police evidence photos now in the public domain that she obtained from the Palais de Justice in Quebec City.

A few images of the dorm-like cell where a prisoner killed his cellmate have the lurid blood spatter familiar from TV, while others focus on strange

must-see shows anGEll Digital prints: Alex McLeod, to

Sep 24. Luke Painter and Meera Marñ garet Singh performance 6-9 pm Sep 24. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

art squarE GallEry Eye On Burma group

show, Sep 26-Oct 10, reception 6-10 pm Sep 28 (theeastgallery.com). Musical Muse group show, to Sep 25. 334 Dundas W. 416595-5222.

BarBara Edwards contEmporary Sculpture: Robert Murray, Sep 23-Nov 5, reception 6-9 pm (RSVP) Sep 23. 1069 Bathurst.

647-348-5110. canadian art GallEry hop Talks/tours 1-5:30 pm (King W, 401 Richmond W,

Queen W, Ossington, Dundas W, Bloor W, Distillery District and others); panel w/ Sarah Anne Johnson, Jed Lind and An Te Liu 11 am12:30 pm (TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W), Sep 24. galleryhop.canadianart.ca. christophEr cutts Sculpture: Gerald Baer, to Oct 8. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566. diaz contEmporary Painting/light sculpture: Pierre Dorion and Robert Youds, to Oct 15.

100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

Esp/Erin stump projEcts Drawing: Winnie Truong, to Oct 2. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005.

GallEry 44 Photos: Emmanuelle Léonard and Jamie Campbell, to Oct 8.

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Project, to Oct 1. Fireworks 2011: FUSION Ontario Clay and Glass Association; The Urban/ Rural Divide, to Nov 6. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. art GallEry of ontario Abel Boulineau, to Sep 25. Inuit Modern, to Oct 16.

Paul Butler, Sep 24-Nov 13, reception 3-5 pm Sep 24 (free, Yonge Gallery). The Grange Prize, to Dec 10. Robert Motherwell, to Dec 11.

General Idea, to Jan 1, 2012. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1, 2012. Songs Of The Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, to Apr 29, 2012. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. art GallEry of york univErsity Raqs Media Collective, Sep 22-Dec 4, reception 6-9 pm Sep 22 (Performance Bus w/ Oliver Husain from OCAD, 6 pm). 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169.

Bata shoE musEum Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art; The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799.

Blackwood GallEry Viva Voce, to Oct 23, ARTbus tour noon-5:30 pm Sep 25 ($10, see Oakville Galleries). U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789.

BurlinGton art cEntrE Judith Graham and Chandler Swain, to Oct 16. Alexandra McCurdy, to Oct 30. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington).

905-632-7796. campBEll housE musEum Josh Thorpe, to Oct 15. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. dEsiGn ExchanGE Play > Nation, to Oct 10.

Emmanuelle Léonard’s series A Dirty Business is part of a show examining how crime is depicted.

details like the cute penguin-print blanket on the bunk bed.

Léonard also turns her camera on the law enforcers in novel ways. In the ironically titled Les Citoyens, instead of capturing dramatic events at a 2009 protest, she makes big head shots of Montreal officers, young actors for the state standing alert and expressionless in riot helmets.

Using a hat-mounted camera, she watches the watchers to create Guardia, a kind of surveillance video in re-

verse, a three-channel projection of short slow-mo black-and-white snippets in which she surreptitiously approaches security guards at street markets and police in public plazas in Mexico.

Curated by Ryerson’s Gaëlle Morel, this thoughtful show asks us to question conventional depictions of crime and our voyeuristic taste for the consumption of violence as news and entertainment.

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GallEry tpw Film: Ben Rivers, to Oct 1. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066.

GEorGia schErman projEcts Hyang Cho, to Oct 15. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112.

GladstonE hotEl Photos: The Bushmeat Crisis In Focus: Finding Hope For Great Apes, Sep 22-29 (416-978-3711, JaneGoodall.ca).

Being Scene group show, to Oct 2. Textiles: Kerry Croghan, to Nov 1. Photos: Haidee Malkin, to Sep 26. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. intEraccEss Installation: Philippe Blanchard, to Oct 15, performance Sep 23. 9 Ossington.

416-532-0597. jEssica BradlEy art + projEcts Painting: Ben Reeves, to Nov 5, artist’s talk 3:30 pm, reception 4-6 pm Sep 24. 1450 Dundas W. 416-5373125.

katharinE mulhErin Mixed media: Robert Hengeveld, to Oct 2. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510. kofflEr offsitE Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling The Mandala group show, Sep 22-Dec 4, reception 6-9 pm Sep 22. 80 Spadina, 5th fl.

416-636-1880. loop GallEry Flutura and Besnik Haxhilari, Sep 28-Oct 9. Mixed media: Rochelle Rubinstein and Lanny Shereck, to Sep 25. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. mErcEr union Changing Stakes: Contemporary Art Dialogues With Dubai group show, to Oct 29. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519. prEfix Film: Susan Hiller, Sep 22-Nov 26, reception 7-10 pm Sep 22. 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

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show, Sep 28-Oct 1. Sculpture: Sam Mogelonsky, to Sep 24. 401 Richmond W #115. 416-504-5654. show & tEll GallEry This Place In Time group show, to Oct 8. 1161 Dundas W. 647347-3316. stEphEn BulGEr Photos: Fausta Facciponte, Sep 22-Oct 29, reception 2-5 pm Sep 24.

1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. tElEphonE Booth GallEry Prints/glass: Laura Peturson and Kasia Czarnota, to Oct 8. 3148 Dundas W. 647-270-7903. warc Installation: Anne-Marie Bouchard, Lise Bonenfant and Catherine Lachance, to Oct 15. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-9770097.

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Capacity, to Oct 16 (free). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Blue Republic, to Nov 2. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Award nominees, to Oct 3. Creamware, to Dec 4. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE How Near Is Far: Models For Taking Part, to Dec 11, ARTbus tour noon5:30 pm Sep 25 (see Oakville Galleries) . 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Inuit Traditions, to Nov 27. In Focus: Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier; photos: Lomen Brothers, to Jan 8, 2012. Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 31, 2012. $15, stu/ srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-8931121.

MOCCA ¡Patria O Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration And Populism; video: Artur Zmijewski, to Oct 30. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Denyse Thomasos (Centennial, 120 Navy) and Marla Hlady (Gairloch,

1306 Lakeshore E), Sep 24-Nov 13; ARTbus from Justine Barnicke Gallery noon-5:30 pm Sep 25 (reserve, $10). 905-844-4402.

POWER PLANT Keren Cytter, Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys, Isabelle Pauwels, Sep 23Nov 6. Simon Fujiwara, Sep 23-Nov 11, reception 8-11 pm Sep 23. Derek Sullivan, Sep 24Nov 20. Reception for all shows 8-11 pm Sep 23. $6, stu/srs $3, Wed 5-8 pm free. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Bollywood Cinema Showcards; Embellished Reality: Indian Painted Photographs, to Oct 2. Riotous Colour, Daring Patterns: Fashions + Textiles 18th To 21st Centuries, to Oct 16. Judith Snow, to Jan 20, 2012. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31, 2012. $24, stu/srs $21; half-price Fri 4:30-8:30 pm; free Wed 3:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa In Contemporary Culture, to Nov 20. Silk Oasis On The Silk Road: Bukhara, to Sep 25. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Angela Grauerholz, to Nov 26. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Max Streicher, to Oct 10.

Scott Conarroe, to Nov 6. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511.

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Hockey hell THE LOST DREAM: THE STORY OF MIKE DANTON, DAVID FROST, AND A BROKEN CANADIAN FAMILY by Steve Simmons (Penguin), 257 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNN

as the national hockey league wrestles with its demons – rioting fans, the death of three ex-NHLers in the off-season, star Sidney Crosby still not ready to play – there lingers the whiff of corruption and neglect at the centre of Mike Danton’s story.

Danton is the guy arrested – two days after his team, the St. Louis Blues, was eliminated from the 2004 Stanley Cup – and then convicted for trying to secure a hit man to kill his agent, David Frost.

The facts remain murky, mainly because Danton eventually claimed it was his father he wanted dead. Now out of prison, he maintains a relationship with Frost and will talk to no one about the case.

That includes Toronto Sun sports columnist Steve Simmons, whose book The Lost Dream doesn’t have

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, September 22 DENNIS E BOLEN/ANDREW J BORKOWSKI/ CAROLYN BLACK Fiction reading. 6 pm. Free.

Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973.

RON CHARACH/JIM NASON/ROSEMARY GRIEBEL/KIRK RAMDATH Poetry launch. 7 pm.

Free. Revival, 783 College. lyn@rapidbooks.ca.

BARRY DEMPSTER/DAVID GROULX/AYELET TSABARI/SUSAN GLICKMAN Launch and read-

ing. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

KEN SPARLING Discussing his new novel, Book, with Derek McCormack. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

CRAIG THOMPSON Talking about his graphic novel Habibi. 7 pm. $10. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. beguling.com.

HAROLD TROPER Talking about his book None Is Too Many. 1:30 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 155.

Friday, September 23 NICHOLAS KRALEV Talking about his book Decoding Air Travel: A Guide To Saving On Airfare And Flying In Luxury. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

Saturday, September 24 MISHA GLOUBERMAN Reading from The

Chairs Are Where The People Go. 7 pm. Free.

Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

BRUCE HUNTER/MADISON SHADWELL/KAILE GLICK Reading plus an open mic and slam. 7

pm. Free. Central 63 Markham. 416-913-4586.

100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE Readings by Priscila Uppal, Darren O’Donnell and many others. 10:30 am-11 pm. Free. Various venues. facebook.com/.../100000-poets-for-changetoronto/266366096710586.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition. 7 pm. $5. Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W. 416-312-3865.

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Danton’s voice but does paint a picture of a hockey world that cannot, or will not, protect its vulnerable players, and a legal system that failed them miserably.

According to Simmons, Frost controlled a cadre of players from the time they were in their early teens, alienating them from their families, initiating them into sex play – sometimes three-ways in which he participated – and making sure their allegiance was to him and him only.

Coaches and officials in junior, minor and major leagues knew he was a problem but were unable to loosen his grip on the players, especially Danton, who was plainly desperate when he asked a woman he barely knew to help him find a hit man.

Frost had twice come in contact with the justice system, first when Danton’s younger brother Jeff claimed Frost abused him on a summer trip with the coach’s boys. No charges were laid. After Danton’s conviction, Frost went on trial for sexually interfering with his boys, but the prosecution failed to make the case.

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NOW books editor Susan G. Cole hosts the Great Books Marquee from 2:15 to 5:30 pm. See Readings, this page. tire book. The Lost Dream won’t light up any literary juries, but it’s a cautionary tale for parents obsessed with making their boys hockey stars, and a serious indictment of hockey SUSAN G. COLE culture in general.

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LEANNE PRAIN Launching Hoopla: The Art Of Unexpected Embroidery. 6 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973.

RAY ROBERTSON Launching Why Not? Fifteen Reasons To Live with a reading. 7 pm. Free.

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KEVIN O’LEARY Talking about Cold Hard Truth.

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ORAL: ADVENTURES IN EROTICA Open mic reading. 7 pm. $5. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. meetup.com/toronto-eroticawriters-group.

ROADSWORTH The street artist discusses his self-titled book with critic RM Vaughan. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

IRSHAD MANJI Discussing Allah, Liberty & ROBERT ROTENBERG Reading from The Guilty Love. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. Plea. 7 pm. 5:35 Free. S Walter 170 chapters.indigo.ca.

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ANOTHER AFRICA by Binyavanga Wai­ naina, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Deb­ orah Asiimwe, directed by Ross Manson, Liesl Tommy and Weyni Mengesha, with Milton Barnes, Tom Barnett, Maev Beaty, Araya Mengesha, Tony Nappo, Muoi Nene, Lucky Onyekachi Ejim, Ordena Ste­ phens­Thompson, Kristen Thomson and Dienye Waboso. Presented by Canadian Stage and Volcano Theatre at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Previews from Mon­ day (September 26), opens September 29 and runs to October 22, Monday­Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm, Sat­ urday 2 pm. $22­$99. 416­368­3110.

there’s a moment in another affrica when Kristen Thomson’s charac­ ter engages in a slapfest with co­star Maev Beaty. It’s a climactic scene, with the two women shouting and tearing into each other.

So, will this be done via a theatri­ cal trick? Or will it be real, juicy palm­ on­face action?

“I hope you’re not left wondering,” says Thomson, smiling, without missing a beat. “I hope by the end of the play you have your answer.”

That’s the kind of clever response I’d expect from one of Canada’s best ac­ tors. If there’s anyone who can lay bare her emotions onstage, it’s Thomson.

Consider some of her best­known roles: Problem Child’s distraught young mom who’ll do anything to get her child back from social ser­ vices; the sympathetic and practical nurse who helps Gordon Pinsent’s philanderer reach his Alzheimer’s­ suffering wife (Julie Christie) in Away From Her; and especially, in her first script and the project she’s most as­

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OMSON sociated with, the preteen title character in I, Claudia, who’s coping with her parents’ separation.

These are such psychologically rich portraits, you believe them all the way. So even if her hand doesn’t connect with Beaty’s face, you’ll think it does.

In Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Peggy Pickit Sees The Face Of God, one-half of Another Africa, a remount (with a new prologue) of two scripts that debuted in 2010 at Luminato, Thomson plays Liz, a wife and mother in an unnamed Western city who, with her husband, reunites with their old friends, a couple who’ve just come back from Africa.

“There are a few plays that feel kind of like holy missions, and this is one of them,” says Thomson, nursing a tea upstairs at Balzac’s in the Distillery District, after a long day at the Canadian Stage rehearsal hall a few minutes away.

All four characters are physicians, and their dinner party soon turns into a metaphoric minefield as the four step around issues of first-world privilege, humanitarian aid and the idea of living a meaningful life.

“In North America there’s a tendency to believe that every problem has a solution,” says Thomson, choosing her words carefully. “That’s actually not true. There are some problems that, when you engage with them, become more complicated.

Every time I start to talk about the play and try to say what I think it’s about, the conversation keeps turning over.”

As if on cue, Judy Collins wafts from the café speakers singing Both Sides Now, the part about not knowing life at all.

One reason Thomson wanted to take on the role (played during Luminato by Jane Spidell in a Dora-nominated performance) was to work with Ross Manson. He spearheaded the work, which has evolved over four years on three continents, and di-

rects the program’s other half, Binyavanga Wainaina’s Shine Your Eyes.

“Ross has a particular kind of vision and ambition that takes him outside of Toronto,” she says. “He’s really hungry to meet international artists and to bring different theatrical languages to what he’s doing.

There’s a lack of political theatre [here], and Ross and Volcano have a mandate to do political theatre.”

Thomson doesn’t take on just any acting role these days, mostly because she’s a busy wife (her husband, Hussein Amarshi, founded the film company Mongrel Media) and mother to their six-year-old twin boys and four-year-old girl.

She’s also developing a new script as writer-in-residence at Crow’s Theatre, tentatively called Someone Else, about a middle-aged couple.

“They’ve been together for 18 years.

He’s a doctor in a clinic and she’s a stand-up comedian in a creative slump,” she explains. Thinking about getting older inspired the piece.

“None of us is completely on schedule, right? You think, ‘How did I end up here and not there?’ And ‘What do I make of this?’ I think middle age is another kind of adolescence, a time when a lot of stuff is changing.”

One thing she’s enjoying about aging is changing along with her community. She’s known her Another Africa co-stars Tony Nappo and Tom Barnett for a long time, and Beaty for a number of years.

“So when we talk in the play about how we’ve changed over the years, I have a point of reference for what that means. I love having these relationships that kind of become part of the working environment.”

Thomson almost didn’t get into theatre at all. She studied English and politics at U of T. Then her best friend died in a car accident, an event that shook her and eventually made her pursue something she really wanted to do. She switched to the drama program, graduated, then enrolled at the National Theatre School.

When I ask about other key moments in her career, she singles out three people, in no particular order: George F. Walker, who wrote Problem Child and the other Suburban Motel plays; the late Urjo Kareda, who convinced her to write I, Claudia at the

Tarragon; and Chris Abraham, who’s helping her develop her new play at Crow’s and directed the award-winning stage and film versions of I, Claudia as well as its tour last year to the Edinburgh Festival.

She also says Soulpepper has given her constant support, especially through the years of raising children.

“Theatre’s always a collective undertaking, so it’s nice to know there are people who are willing to stick with you through the years,” she says. “Not just piece to piece, but [for a while]. To have a place in that community is amazing.”

It’s one of several times in our conversation she mentions support and community – so I have to ask how she feels about the current conservative attitude (federally, municipally) to the arts.

“I want the city, the province and the country I live in to be a place where there’s some recognition that we’re not just managing an economy but also trying to make a place that’s habitable for people to live together peacefully,” she says.

“The arts are very much a part of that. There’s this feeling that the arts are a frill, something expendable and elitist. But really, the arts are inside everyone’s home, and professional artists add to the mix of the kinds of stories that are being told and the way they’re told. Isn’t that what we do when we talk to each other? We tell stories.”

Learning about life through storytelling – it’s part of Another Africa, and it’s also part of I, Claudia, which Thomson calls not literal autobiography but emotional autobiography.

Her parents divorced when she was seven.

“Somebody once said to me, ‘You should thank your parents for getting divorced! That’s why you could write this play!’” she says with her distinctive husky laugh. “I think there’s something affirming in it.

Taking something that happened and turning it into a story that communicates something to whoever sees it. That’s great.”

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ACTOR

JIM MEZON RED

A Shaw Festival actor and director, Mezon brings brains and sensitivity to his work, most recently as a fearsome Big Daddy in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. In John Logan’s award-winning Red, Mezon makes a rare Toronto appearance playing opinionated abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko, tackling the biggest commission of his career. Look for fireworks when he confronts his young assistant and protegé, played by talented newcomer David Coomber. The Canadian Stage production runs at the Bluma Appel November 19 to December 17.

416-368-3110.

CHOREOGRAPHER/DIRECTOR

MARIE CHOUINARD

ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE

Interpretations of the Orpheus myth have dominated local stages recently: strong productions of Gluck’s opera, a postmodern take by Edouard Locke’s La La La Human Steps and two very different (but excellent) SummerWorks shows. But count on Montreal’s Chouinard to put a distinct spin on the story with her sensual movement, intriguing designs and unusual score by Louis Dufort. November 1 to 5 at the Bluma Appel. 416-368-3110.

DIRECTOR

DAVID FERRY THE GENTLEMAN CALLER

A powerful actor and director whose striking ideas and performances have galvanized dozens of productions, Ferry returns to the director’s chair for James Cunningham and Martin Hunter’s play, in which a handsome burglar breaks into Tennessee Williams’s apartment and stirs the playwright’s memories. Great cast, too, including Nigel Bennett and Allegra Fulton. Coincidentally, it’s the second biographical play about Williams this season (see His Greatness, page 70). October 19 to 22 at Hart House Theatre. 416978-8849. continued on page 66 œ

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Anyone who’s seen poet/theatre artist young onstage understands her magnetism as performer and writer; she can evoke laughter and tears in the space of a few seconds. She makes her first Tarragon appearance in the sankofa trilogy, her collection of plays (previously done separately) examining three generations of Jamaican women. Expect politics, poetry and passion. October 22 to December 4.

416-531-1827.

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GUILLaUme CÔtÉ fraCtaLs

National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Côté’s also a composer, musician and choreographer – and he’s married to talented dancer Heather Ogden. If he weren’t such a nice guy, it’d be easy to hate him. Besides dancing the lead in the world premiere of the National’s new Romeo And Juliet (see page 68), he’s debuting a new work for Roberto Campanella’s hotticket ProArteDanza series, which brings the best of modern and classical dance together. Also on the program are new works by Robert Glumbek, Kevin O’Day and Campanella himself.

October 5 to 8 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. 416-973-4000.

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WILLIam YONG eIGHt WaYs frOm mara

Fresh from his layered, sinister performance as the wolf in Theatre Rusticle’s Peter And The Wolf, dancer/choreographer Yong debuts his latest dance ensemble work, a Buddhistinspired look at coping with distractions and life’s miseries to gain insight and enlightenment. Since founding his company, Zata Omm, in 2005, Yong, a standout in his five years with Toronto Dance Theatre, has emerged as a choreographer to watch, winning two Dora Award nominations for his 2009 show Frames. October 20 to 22 at the Enwave. 416-973-4000.

Sometimes singers become so identified with a role, they’re said to own it. Think of Placido Domingo’s Otello, Leontyne Price’s Aïda or, these days, Susan Graham’s Iphigenia. The mezzo has earned raves everywhere from the Met to the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden for her interpretation of Gluck’s tragic heroine. In the Canadian Opera Company’s season opener tonight (Thurday, September 22), the dramatic powerhouse joins a star-studded cast in a production by Canada’s own Robert Carsen, who wowed audiences last season with Gluck’s Orfeo Ed Euridice. See Openings, page 74.

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For two decades, Modern Times Stage’s Parsa has introduced Toronto audiences to Persian theatre and stories, combining arresting staging with little-known texts and characters. Hallaj, by Peter Farbridge and Parsa, follows the life of the legendary Sufi poet and teacher (Farbridge) adored by the public and feared by those in power.

Look for a production filled with ideas and physicality. At Buddies in Bad Times November 18 to December 4.

416-975-8555.

Second City alum, Dora Award-winning actor (for The Lion King) and fine playwright (Kilt, My Own Private Oshawa), Wilson’s one of the most versatile artists around. In Studio 180’s new production of Larry Kramer’s groundbreaking play about the politics and personal costs of the early AIDS crisis in 1980s New York City, the openly gay actor gets a big challenge playing the semi-autobiographical Ned Weeks, an impassioned writer whose principles and confrontational style get him in trouble with his activist organization.

Joel Greenberg directs a fine cast. October 14 to November 6 at Buddies in Bad Times 416-975-8555.

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CLINtON WaLKer

Alas, the burly stand-up comic didn’t win an acting Emmy Award last Sunday for his excellent (and still unavailable in Canada) sitcom Louie. But you’ve got two chances to see him tear a strip off modern society’s foibles and follies as he takes the mic for two sets at the Sony Centre. If you’re one of the few who hasn’t seen him, rent his most recent concert film, Louis C.K.: Hilarious. More than lives up to that title. October 15 at 8 and 10:30 pm. $35.50-$45.50. 1-855-872-7669.

Adept at both comic and serious material, Walker isn’t on local stages nearly enough. After his Dora Award-winning performance in The Turn Of The Screw, he tackles Geoff Kavanagh’s play about two sailors on the 1845 Franklin expedition to the Arctic, destined to end in tragedy.

Look for Walker and fellow performer Robert Tsonos to mine the work’s dark humour imaginatively. The Sometimes Y production hits the Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace November 2 to 20.

Jon Kaplan/Glenn Sumi 416-504-7529.

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JAMES BLAKE

LOUIs C.K. LOUIs C.K.: LIve

SuSan Graham mezzo-soprano, Iphigenia In Tauris

The COC has never staged Gluck’s Iphigenia In Tauris before. In 15 words or less, can you sum it up?

Death, betrayal, forgiveness and un­ certainty, with the most dysfunctional family ever.

Iphigenia is one of your signature roles. Many critics say you own it.

What do you like about it?

It has enormous emotional range as well as enormous vocal range. A great opportunity to express very deep feel­ ings.

Anything you don’t like about the part?

It’s very high.

You’ve performed in this production

by Robert Carsen before. What should audiences expect?

Deep psychological drama. The ef­ fects of familial damage. And symbol­ ism: the water represents blood.

Gluck’s popularity has soared over the past few years. Any theories why?

People are hungry for an opera that has classical and timeless themes with which we can all relate, and amazingly compelling music they may not al­ ready know.

It’s 10 minutes before a big opening night. What’s going through your mind?

Gotta test the high notes and do a few high kicks, to loosen up, and stretches (physical and vocal ones), and go over any tricky parts in my head.

It’s 10 minutes after the performance. Now what are you thinking?

“Well, that went well, mostly.”

If you, Marilyn Horne, Cecilia Bartoli and Dolora Zajick got into a mezzo wrestling ring, who would win – and why?

Oh, Dolora in a heartbeat. She’s one tough chick, not that we’re all not tough, but she would kick anybody’s butt in a wrestling ring – and probably has.

You’re close to 6 feet tall. Has that ever proved embarrassing for your male co-stars?

Growing up as a tall girl in Texas, I learned to stand short when neces­ sary. Certain tenors have demanded that I sing barefoot.

Speaking of gender, what’s your favourite trousers part – and why?

Octavian in Strauss’s Der Rosen­ kavalier. He’s funny, touching, young, wise (at times), has some of the most beautiful music ever written and per­ haps the best entrance of any opera: the second­act Presentation Of The Rose.

You’ve done many contemporary operas, like The Great Gatsby and Dead Man Walking. How do these compare to the classics?

Creating a new opera involves enor­ mous freedom. There are no stan­ dards to live up to or judge it by. It’s a pleasure to have a composer who’s still living and breathing, and it’s a true collaboration. Plus, you get to bring something new before the public.

You want to relax. What music do you put on?

Antonio Jobim. I love Brazilian jazz.

GLENN SUMI

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Playwright Hannah Moscovitch knows how to attract audiences with her sharp writing in works like The Russian Play, East Of Berlin and, most recently, Little One. Her new play looks at Janusz Korczak (Peter Hutt), a champion of children’s rights, who’s inspired by one of his young charges to stand up to the Nazis. Alisa Palmer directs the Tarragon/Harold Green Jewish Theatre co-pro, November 8 to December 18 at the Tarragon. 416-531-1827.

Every season the buzz on a handful of shows becomes so loud, tickets are almost all gone before the runs begin. We’ll be reviewing them all at nowtoronto.com/stage, but you might want to buy your tickets beforehand.

ROMEO AND JULIET For years, the John Cranko version of the Prokofiev ballet has been one of the jewels in the National Ballet of Canada’s crown. Now the company launches its 60th season with what’s sure to be a new gem, a world premiere production choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky. Dancing the title roles on opening night are Guillaume Côté and Elena Lobsanova, and you can expect the international press to be covering the event, since the New York Times calls Ratmansky the “most in-demand ballet choreographer in the world.” November 16 to 27 at the Four Seasons Centre. 416-345-9595.

THE REZ SISTERS A quarter-century ago, native playwright Tomson Highway struck gold with this humorous yet gritty play about the hopes of seven women on the Wasaychigan Hill reserve and their dream of attending the world’s biggest bingo game. Director Ken Gass gives his production a striking twist by using a diverse cast: Cara Gee, Kyra Harper, Djennie Laguerre, Jani Lauzon, Billy Merasty, Pamela Sinha, Michaela Washburn and Jean Yoon. At Factory Theatre from November 5 to December 11. 416-504-9971.

SEX, RELIGION & OTHER HANG-UPS One of the biggest surprises at last summer’s Fringe was noted improv artist James Gangl, who literally reinvented himself as a writer and actor in his funny yet heartfelt solo show, an autobiographical piece about making a lifechanging Coors Light commercial, dating (sort of) an underwear model and losing his cherry.

The show, which earned the Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship, returns to the same space where it enjoyed a sold-out run. And ladies, word is Gangl’s still single, with fewer hang-ups now. Theatre Passe Muraille Backspace. October 4 to 22. 416-504-7529.

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The hit of Luminato 2010! Two sharp-witted one-act plays in a high-tech staging about modern Africa and its emerging relationship with the West.

MARY POPPINS Since this stage musical version of the Disney movie about the friendly nanny opened in London’s West End in 2004, more than six and a half million people have seen it in some production. And no wonder. The supercalifragilisticexpialidocious creative team includes legendary director Richard Eyre, Oscarwinning writer Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and choreographer Matthew Bourne (Swan Lake). November 10 to January 8 at the Princess of JK/GS Wales. 416-872-1212.

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GREG GALE

THEATRE

The Theatre is my Church. Art is my God.

TRAVELLING TO TENNESSEE HIS GREATNESS by Daniel MacIvor, directed by Ed Roy (Independent Artists Repertory Theatre). At Factory Studio (125 Bathurst). Opens tonight (Thursday, September 22) and runs to October 23, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday 2 pm, Sunday 3 pm. $40-$60, some Sunday pwyc. 416-504-9971.

Last week Greg Gale auditioned for a summer gig using Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie.

This week he’s in rehearsals for Daniel MacIvor’s His Greatness, playing a hustler bought to service a fictionalized version of the gay Williams.

Covering two days in the life of the Playwright, as Williams is called in the play, it’s billed as a potentially true story about Williams in 1980, when the Vancouver Playhouse produced his rewritten The Red Devil Battery Sign.

“My character is simply called Young Man, and like me, he’s an ex-East Coaster,” explains Gale, who appeared in Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show last year. “He’s made his way across Canada and eventually plans to find fame and fortune in the States.

“But he meets hurdles along the way and hustles to live, trapping himself in a cycle of making money and then losing it, along with his stability.”

Power games played by the Playwright, the Young Man and a third character, the Playwright’s Assistant, drive the action. It’s also fuelled by various addictions, including drugs, booze, sex and, in the case of the wellknown writer, a need for adulation.

“At first the Young Man doesn’t know what to make of the Playwright.

He’s a kind of father figure, but as a client he’s totally strange,” says Gale.

“My character has to figure out how to play him, how to keep the upper hand.

In fact, I’m not sure he ever has it, though he thinks he does.

“But as the play evolves, he realizes that the older man is magic, embodying the element of fame, so attractive and elusive for the Young Man.” It’s been a thrill for Gale to work with two other East Coast performers, veteran Richard Donat (who, coincidentally, performed in Vancouver’s The Red Devil Battery Sign) and MacIvor himself, who plays the Assistant.

Gale admits he was initially shy about working with MacIvor, whose writing he’s studied and used for auditions, but he now feels a real bond with the playwright.

Is the Playwright Williams?

“Daniel’s left it intentionally ambiguous, but he conjures a sense of Williams in the writing’s sensuality and JON KAPLAN imagery.”

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MOVING INTO ACTING FROM THINE EYES choreographed and directed by Michael Greyeyes (DanceWorks/Signal/Native Earth). At the Enwave (231 Queens Quay West). Opens tonight (Thursday, September 22) and runs to September 24, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm. $15-$33. 416-973-4000.

Strong. Sensual. Fluid. Those are words you could use to describe dancer Sean Ling, who spent nine years with Toronto Dance Theatre before beginning an exciting freelance career. Now he’s using a different set of muscles in From Thine Eyes, Michael Greyeyes’s new dance/theatre piece. For the first time onstage, Ling gets to act as well as move.

“Acting is a hard thing for a dancer to do well, since we’re used to communicating in a completely different

THEATRE

FEELING GOOD VIBRATIONS IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY by Sarah Ruhl, directed by Richard Rose (Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Runs to October 23, TuesdaySaturday 8 pm, matinees SaturdaySunday 2:30 pm (except October 15 & 22). $20-$47. 416-531-1827.

It’s shocking how much actor Trish Lindström gets to explore in Sarah Ruhl’s In The Next Room Or The Vibrator Play, the Tarragon season opener.

Set in the 1880s at the start of the electrical age, it deals with Givings, a doctor who uses the newly invented Chattanooga Vibrator to deal with hysteria in his female patients. His own unhappy wife, Catherine (Lindström), wonders if the device might help their marriage.

“The role of women at that time was not unlike that of children: to be seen and not heard,” says the performer, who spent most of the past year at Soulpepper and recently played a bighearted royal servant in Exit The King.

“Unfortunately, Catherine, a new mother, can’t breastfeed her own child, and sees herself as impotent and redundant. All she can do is pour tea.”

Things change when her husband gets a new patient, Sabrina Daldry, and Catherine gets wind of the new electrical

device he uses to induce sexual paroxysms in the “sick” Sabrina.

“What Catherine hears through the door of her husband’s treatment room are strange cries that suggest either pleasure or pain. Her imagination goes to work when Sabrina has an orgasm and Catherine doesn’t know what it is; it becomes the unseen monster behind the door.

“The sound, primal and instinctual, is so strange in this world of buttonedup, restrained women and uptight, patronizing men,” says Lindström.

The play is a dark comedy, a look not only at Victorian sexuality but also at universal urges.

“It had the feeling of porn when I first read the play,” admits Lindström, a talented photographer as well as actor. “But though it deals with raw sex, the topic is stripped down so it becomes technical and demystified.

“Still, that doesn’t satisfy Catherine’s insatiable curiosity. It’s struck me how much this play is about hunger: her baby’s for food, Catherine’s for attention and love from her husband.”

Director Richard Rose has pointed out to the cast that the play’s most interesting material is that which the characters do their best to hide.

“The other side of that, of course, is what we choose to show. This is a world of propriety, especially for the women, and everything changes when they decide not to be bound by corsets JON KAPLAN and social mores.”

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way,” says Ling. “But Michael, who’s got a background in dance, theatre and film, has been coaching us, and Katherine Duncanson has been helping us with the voice work.”

The ambitious piece tells the stories of several people who, approaching death, return to scenes in their lives that affected them strongly. Ling plays a middle-aged drug addict who once beat a priest to death.

“Not my normal dance role at all,” he says, laughing.

Ling describes the choreography as a mixture of “small, internal and quite visceral moves with some much more expansive and broad gestures.”

When Greyeyes approached him about the part, he didn’t hesitate, even though it would take him out of his comfort zone.

“Michael’s so calm and confident in what he wants to do that it’s impossible to say no,” says Ling. “He’s really a great human being. And how can you say no to that?”

He says the same about choreographer Peggy Baker, who cast him in 2010 in the evocative Coalesce and a new work that goes up in January.

Now that he’s done some acting, are there other speaking roles ahead?

“I’d be happy to do this again, but it’d have to be in a setting where I felt supported and safe. If Michael asked GLENN SUMI me, I’d say yes for sure.”

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Miss that sold-out show? Two indie hits return with a bang.

RIDE THE CYCLONE by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell, directed by Britt Small and Richmond (Atomic Vaudeville/ Acting Up Stage/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). Previews November 10, opens November 14 and runs to December 3. Pwyc-$35. 416-504-7529.

MATCHBOX MACBETH by Shakespeare and the company, directed by Matthew Thomas Walker (Litmus). At a secret location. Opens October 13 and runs to October 30, Thursday-Sunday 7 and 9 pm. $15. litmustheatre.com.

remounting hot shows isn’t just about turning a tidy profit – certainly not in the case of indie theatre.

It’s more about turning audiences on to entertaining, powerful works and, in the process, tweaking and improving the first version.

The revival of two sellout productions, Atomic Vaudeville’s Ride The Cyclone and Litmus Theatre’s Matchbox Macbeth, is sure to wow audiences with their cleverness, passion and outright theatricality.

Presented by Theatre Passe Muraille in collaboration with Acting Up Stage Company, Ride The Cyclone

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brings the Victoria-based Atomic Vaudeville back to Passe Muraille, where it won a series of awards in SummerWorks 2010 with a musical tale of a teenage chamber choir who, all killed on a roller coaster ride, get to sing their last solos before dying.

Think of Glee with sharper edges.

“We had such a short run in SummerWorks,” says Britt Small, who directs with Jacob Richmond, “and there’s still an audience that wants to see the show. We’ve done it three times in Victoria, and it sold out last time.”

Filled with tunes (by Richmond and Brooke Maxwell) that run the gamut from soul to pop and from show tunes to hymns, the production tours to Vancouver and Whitehorse before arriving in Toronto.

“We’ve changed a few things,” offers Small. “For one, we’ve had to recast one role, and Jacob, who writes for specific performers, has shifted the character to accommodate the new actor’s ballet background. We’ve also added new songs and choreography.”

How does she keep the show fresh?

“Because we spend so much time on choreography and music – the tunes are tricky four-part harmonies – I feel that every time we do the show, we’re revealing new layers.

There’s so much life in these teens that we can tease out.”

In comparison, Matchbox Macbeth – as its name implies – is a tiny production. In fact, it’s just big enough to fit into its backyard shed venue. With only 15 seats per show, it’s the smallest version of Shakespeare’s tragedy you’re likely to see.

And, for my money, one of the best.

Devised by director Matthew Thomas Walker and performers Claire Wynveen, Adriano Sobretodo Jr., Jamie Maczko and Rob Renda – all of whom come from the theatre program at York – the show grew from Walker,

Play it again Several other revivals are sure to spark the fall theatre season, two from the past few seasons and a third that dates back 15 years.

They’re all worth catching for the first time, or even the second.

2 PIANOS, 4 HANDS When it premiered at the Tarragon in 1996, everyone raved about writer/performers Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s memory play about the hours and hours they spent practising the piano and playing in competitions. Since then, the award-winning show has been done internationally by others pairs of actors, both male and female.

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Wynveen and Sobretodo’s thoughts about what kind of show to mount in the latter’s backyard building.

“We joked about doing Macbeth, but then the idea became serious,” recalls Walker. “Most shows begin with a script and then other things are built on it; here, we started stripping away what was stored in the shed, what wasn’t appropriate for Macbeth, until we found the show we wanted to do.”

The production is partly a walkabout: the audience meets at a street corner and is guided to the venue, the performance starting on the way.

Maczko plays the title character, with the other three as everyone else, including the witches.

“The creation was like no other process we’ve ever done,” offers the director. “Until the audience was around us” – the actors work within touching distance of viewers – “we didn’t know what we had.

“Now, coming back to it, we can evaluate it differently. Last year we were intuitive, going with our gut.

Now we can be more articulate about what we’ve done, realizing why something works or rejecting something that didn’t feel right earlier. We can narrow in and clarify the material.

“It’s an ideal collective-creation process. We have the raw material to play with, have given it a year’s breather and now can shape it a little JON KAPLAN more.”

Mirvish Productions brings back the original cast for a final encore of this funny, entertaining show that includes lots of piano music and just as much heart. October 29 to November 20 at the Panasonic. 416-872-1212.

layered glow to this staging. To November 19. 416-866-8666.

THE ODD COUPLE Neil Simon’s bestknown play is a gift for the actors in the central roles, the uptight, anal Felix and the slobbish, grouchy Oscar.

They’re forced to share Oscar’s bachelor apartment when Felix’s wife throws him out. The Soulpepper production, first presented in 2008, again stars Diego Matamoros and Albert Schultz as the most opposite of friends, and the long-time relationship between the two actors gives a multi-

PARFUMERIE You might not know the name, but you probably know the story: two employees in a shop hate each other but unknowingly correspond via anonymous love letters. This Miklós László play, the source of the film The Shop Around The Corner and the musical She Loves Me, was a charming Soulpepper production for Christmas 2009, thanks to Adam Pettle and Brenda Robins’s adaptation, Morris Panych’s direction, the ensemble cast headed by Oliver Dennis and Patricia Fagan, and Ken MacDonald’s art nouveau design. It returns December 8 JK to 31. 416-866-8666.

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Q&A DEBRA FRIEDMAN

BRENDAN HEALY

Leslie Seiler

Q. What will you do with that extra daylight savings hour?

A. I want to say “work out!” or “get outside!” but the truth is I’ll probably be baking and cooking shortbread. Some Star Trek Voyager will probably be playing in the background, because I’m watching the series (again) and I don’t care who knows it!

Seiler joins female Second City alumni Linda Kash, Melody Johnson, Aurora Browne, Teresa Pavlinek and others in The Broad-way, a fundraiser for women and children’s shelter the Redwood. September 30, 11 pm, Second City. laughstub.com/secondcity.

Mark DeBonis

Q. What do you like most about the fall?

A. I like “sweater weather,” cuz I’m a guy who likes sweaters and jackets, and you can’t really look cool in the summer with a jacket on and sweat pouring down your head.

Q. Early Halloween costume ideas?

A. Very simple: a guy in a suit with a water cooler under his arm so I can talk to people and have “water cooler conversations.”

I’ve always wanted an office job.

DeBonis performs at Just For Laughs’ Comedy Night In Canada as part of the Canada’s Walk Of Fame Festival, October 2, 8 pm, at Massey Hall. He also does a monthly show, Mark DeBonis Back Burner Rambles, at the Underground Comedy Club (next show October 25). iamnotmarkdebonis.com.

THE MAIDS TO ORDER THE MAIDS by Jean Genet, translated by Martin Crimp, directed by Brendan Healy (Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander).

Opens tonight (Thursday, September 22) and runs to October 9, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. Pwyc$33. 416-975-8555.

Buddies artistic director Brendan Healy is worried about our future. That’s why he’s dusting off Jean Genet’s subversive, absurdist classic The Maids to open the new season.

“I wanted to put together a season that reflected on queer history and offered a reconsideration of how we got to this moment – with the election of our mayor and this large shift to the right,” says Healy. “Genet seemed like the right place to start.”

Genet gained notoriety in postwar European literary circles for his dark, symbolic critiques of authority and his outsider status as an incarcerated thief, sexual “deviant” and subversive radical.

“I think Genet can offer a powerful perspective on what it is to really rebel and rise from an oppressed position.”

While The Maids is notoriously complex, the set-up is simple: two maids living in a sort of folie à deux plot to kill their employer, Madame. The complexity lies in the symbolic meaning of the constant play-acting two title characters engage in while their boss is away.

“What’s great about The Maids is that it operates within a structure that we see as legit: the classic upstairs/ downstairs play. But the political ideas behind it call for the eradication of so-

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Simeon headlines two shows at the Rivoli on Saturday (September 24) at 8 and 10:30 pm. brownpapertickets.com.

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Q. What do you like most about the fall?

A. I’m looking forward to the new season of Gossip Girl. The plot twist at the end of last season has kept me up all summer.

Q. Provincial election predictions?

A. I predict that no one cares enough to vote, unless they can do it at a Tim Hortons drive-thru. I hope Ontario wins, though.

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ciety [as we know it] and our concept of identity.”

So what’s it like being an authority figure in a production hostile to the very idea of authority?

“It’s funny – we speak about this a lot in rehearsals, about how I’m performing the role of ‘director’ and [the cast members] are performing the role of ‘actors’ and how this can be problematic and frustrating. Sometimes the discourses that our roles get us into can really limit the conversation.

“However, I never think of myself as a figure of authority. I see myself as someone who has the power of witnessing and communicating back.”

Originally, Genet stipulated that the play’s three female characters should be performed by adolescent boys.

Healy’s choice of Stratford vets Ron Kennell and Diane D’Aquila as the maids doesn’t go quite that far but still achieves Genet’s goal of blurring identities.

“I was interested in the tension between a biological female and [a character] who isn’t biologically female but identifies as female, and I just fell in love with their dynamic.”

For set, lighting and sound design, Healy uses the Dora Award-winning team from last season’s production of Blasted (Julie Fox, Kimberly Purtell and Richard Feren). He promises the result will be “David Lynch meets Walt Disney.”

As for the Dora he received for directing that play, it hasn’t fazed him.

“There’s a great sense of accomplishment, but I’m trying not to get wrapped up in that. I’m focused on continuing my artistic exploration of my lifelong obsessions with questions about power and making our existence JORDAN BIMM more tolerable.”

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Opening After Mrs. rochester by Polly Teale (Alum-

nae Theatre). This drama interweaves the lives of author Jean Rhys and the character from Jane Eyre with whom she identified. Opens Sep 23 and runs to Oct 7, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Wed 2-for-1, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley.

416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

ArouNd the World IN eIghty MINutes

(Studio 60 Theatre). This musical revue features songs, dance and sketches from various cultures. Opens Sep 23 and runs to Oct 2, FriSat 8 pm, mat Sep 28 and Oct 2 at 2 pm. $20.

60 Six Point. studio60theatreboxoffice.com. chess the MusIcAl by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Mirvish). Two great

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created and performed by Lisa Marie DiLiberto, directed by Varrick Grimes (FIXT POINT/Theatre Passe Muraille). Meet at Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). To October 9. $20-$25. 416-504-7529. See Continuing, page 75. Rating: NNN

the greAt AMerIcAN trAIler PArk MusIcAl

by David Nehls and Betsly Kelso (Hart House Theatre). Colourful characters from mobile homes, trailers and caravans deal with daily travails in this musical comedy. Opens Sep 23 and runs to Oct 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 8 at 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca. the greeN door (Lower Ossington Theatre).

The cabaret series gala launch features Jeff Madden and Joe Sealy (Fri), and Jennifer Walls in Lizza Live: A Tribute To Liza Minnelli (Sat).

Sep 23-24 at 8 pm. $20. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. hIs greAtNess by Daniel MacIvor (Independent Artists Repertory Theatre).

This play is based on two days in 1980 when Tennessee Williams was in Vancouver for the opening of one of his plays (see story, page 70). Opens Sep 22 and runs to Oct 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 2 pm, Sun 3 pm. $40-$60, limited pwyc Sun. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

IPhIgeNIA IN tAurIs by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Canadian Opera Company).

This tragic opera is based on the Greek myth

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chess masters vie for a championship and the love of one woman. Previews Sep 24-27.

Opens Sep 28 and runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$175.

Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. chI of shAolIN – tAle of the drAgoN (Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts). This show features Chinese aerial arts, martial arts, dance and music. Sep 22-24, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $59, stu $39. 171 Town Centre. 905-305-7469, markhamtheatre.ca. froM thINe eyes by Yvette Nolan and Michael Greyeyes (DanceWorks/Signal Theatre/Native Earth Performing Arts). Six characters look for meaning at the end of their lives in this dancetheatre work about memory and forgiveness (see story, page 71). Sep 22-24 at 8 pm. $28$33, stu/srs $15-$18. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Energetic​Lisa​Marie​DiLiberto​presents​ Queen​West,​past​and​present. (see story, page 66). Opens Sep 22 and runs to Oct 15: Sep 22, 28, Oct 4, 7, 12, 15 at 7:30 pm, Sep 25 at 2 pm, Oct 1 at 4:30 pm. $12-$318.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. the MAIds by Jean Genet (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Two maids are investigated when their mistress and her daughter are found dead in this psychosexual thriller (see story, page 73). Opens Sep 22 and runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $23$33, Sun pwyc at the door. 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. the odd couPle by Neil Simon (Soulpepper).

A meticulous man and his sloppy roommate try to coexist in a small apartment in this comedy. Previews Sep 22, opens Sep 23 and runs to Nov 19, see website for schedule. $45$65, stu $28. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. oPerA BrIefs (Tapestry New Opera). Preview of five-minute creations by librettists Sheldon Rosen, Sharon Bajer, Nick Carpenter, Anusree Roy and Norman Yeung. Sep 23-24 at 7:30 pm. $25, stu $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, tapestrynewopera.com.

PrIvAte lIves by Noël Coward (Mirvish). Exes meet at the same hotel while honeymooning with new spouses. Previews to Sep 24. Opens Sep 25 and runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$175. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212. the rocky horror shoW by Richard O’Brien (Theatre Alive). This interactive rock musical is based on the 70s film. Sep 23-24, Fri-Sat 8 pm,

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Ambitious, site-specific and multimedia, The Tale Of A Town – Queen West takes a historic look at the changes on the Queen West strip over the past three decades.

The demographic shift from the indie artists who defined the area to the well-off condo owners who simply inhabit a place of memory and legend is the thrust of the story, much of it told with gusto by writer/performer Lisa Marie DiLiberto and her company. Still, some editing and tightening would make the show even better.

The evening starts outside Theatre and Fri at midnight. $25, srs $20, stu $18. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-8742800, theatrealive.ca. the studIo by Hélène Langevin (Bouge de là).

Four dancers use their bodies, objects and lighting to bring visual art to life. Previews Sep 26. Opens Sep 27 and runs to Oct 6, call/ see website for schedule. $15-$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222. suddeNly MoMMy! by Anne Marie Scheffler (Red Sandcastle Theatre). Scheffler performs her solo comedy about motherhood. Opens Sep 26 and runs to Oct 9, Sep 26-28, Oct 1 and 4-8 at 8 pm, mats Sep 29-30, Oct 2 and 9 at 2 pm. $20-$25. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411.

tooPy ANd BINoo ANd the MArshMAlloW MooN by Patti Caplette (Koba Entertainment).

The Treehouse TV characters perform live in an all-ages show. Sep 23-24, Fri 6:30 pm, Sat 1 pm. $23-$43. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca.

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ANother AfrIcA by Deborah Asiimwe, Roland Schimmelpfennig and Binyavanga Wainaina (Canadian Stage/Volcano Theatre). This play trilogy examines the relationship between Africa and the West (see story, page 64). Previews Sep 26-28. Opens Sep 29 and runs to Oct 22, 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.

Much Ado ABout NothINg by William Shakespeare (Single Thread Theatre Company). The

Passe Muraille, where we become wise investors in a new condo filled with suggestively nostalgic rooms. After a trip through nearby streets and alleys, we arrive at the condo itself and meet Jane (DiLiberto again), who owned a vintage clothing store until evicted by her greedy landlord.

Jane guides us through the years, recalling how musicians, artists and writers in the 80s gave way to big box stores and gentrification, accompanied by videos, audio clips of residents and local bands. It’s a vivid trip down memory lane.

DiLiberto’s energy never flags. She gives an attractively anarchic edge to the real-estate agent, and a big heart to Jane. Even so, despite its cleverness and passion, some of the episodes are overdone, and others confusing.

Still, this is a colourful, vibrant history of an important Toronto neighbourhood, a carnival of images and memories compiled with affection and JoN kAPlAN a touch of sadness. romantic comedy gets a site-specific staging at the historic house and gardens. Previews Sep 28-29. Opens Sep 30 and runs to Oct 16, Wed-Sat 8 pm (no show Oct 1). $20. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. singlethread.ca.

One-nighters dANNy, kINg of the BAseMeNt by David S

Craig (Roseneath Theatre). An underprivileged boy uses imagination to help his better-off friends with their problems. Sep 24 at 11 am and 3 pm. Free. 651 Dufferin. roseneath.ca. eMIly, the WAy you Are by Jana Skarecky and Di Brandt (Jana Skarecky). This solo opera celebrates the life and work of artist Emily Carr.

Sep 23 at 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Heliconian Hall, 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618.

A fool’s lIfe by Dan Watson (Ahuri Theatre/ Why Not Theatre). Movement, drumming, shadow puppetry and projections are used in this multilingual piece inspired by the life and short stories of Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Sep 23 at 8 pm. $15. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416-441-2345, jccc.on.ca.

IMProMPtu sPleNdor (National Theatre of the World). The cast performs an improvised play based on audience suggestions. Sep 25 at 9 pm. $12. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. oPerA 101: rIgoletto (Canadian Opera Company). Brent Bambury and members of the COC discuss the upcoming production of the Verdi opera. Sep 27 at 6 pm. Free. Duke of

The GreaT american Trailer Park musical ToronTo Premiere!

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Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca.

THE WALLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MAD PEOPLE (Friendly Spike Theatre Band).

The company presents a theatrical walking tour about the CAMH patient-built wall. Sep 25 at 1 pm. Free. SW Corner, Queen W at Shaw Street. friendlyspike@primus.ca.

YO GABBA GABBA! LIVE!: IT’S TIME TO DANCE!

The children’s TV series comes to life in an interactive musical production. Sep 22 at 3 and 6 pm. $20-$42. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. ticketmaster.ca.

Continuing ANGELINA BALLERINA THE MUSICAL by Susan Di

Lallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre). Angelina and her friends try out for the lead role in this all-ages show. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 11 am. $20.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

416-642-8973, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

CAROUSEL by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Civic Light Opera Company). Love blooms at a carousel ride in this classic musical. Runs to Sep 24, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-7551717, civiclightoperacompany.com.

IN THE NEXT ROOM OR THE VIBRATOR PLAY by Sarah Ruhl (Royal Manitoba The-

ñ atre Centre). A doctor’s use of a newfangled

medical device draws curiosity from his wife (see story, page 71). Runs to Oct 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (no mats Oct 15 & 22). $20-$47. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

MACHOMER by Rick Miller (WYRD). Miller voices several characters from TV’s The Simpson’s in this solo comedic adaptation of Macbeth. Runs to Sep 25, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$55. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

MANIFESTO FESTIVAL OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE (Manifesto Community Projects). This urban arts festival features music, art, dance, poetry, film, spoken word and much more.

Runs to Sep 25. Various prices, some free events. Various venues, see website for addresses and schedule. themanifesto.ca.

PEOPLE4CHANGE (lemonTree creations/TheThem). Three people are moved to create positive change after witnessing a death on the subway tracks. Runs to Sep 24, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, mat

pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson.

416-504-7529, lemontreecreations.ca.

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 show. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 1:30 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.

THE PRICE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). Two brothers meet in their dead father’s attic to sell his possessions and hash over events that have kept them estranged for years. Diana Leblanc’s production of this lesser-known Miller play does it no favours. The first act plods along, and the fireworks in the second seem forced and full of psychobabble. The lead performances are uneven, with Jane Spidell and David Fox enlivening their supporting roles.

Runs to Oct 22, see website for schedule. $45$65, stu $28. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. soulpepper.ca. NN (GS) SPRING AWAKENING by Frank Wedekind, with music by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (Lower Ossington Theatre). Teens journey from youth to adulthood in 19th-century Germany in this musical. Runs to Oct 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

THE TALE OF A TOWN – QUEEN WEST by Lisa Marie DiLiberto (Fixt Point). This theatrical promenade starts at TPM and goes through the neighbourhood, exploring the history of the area using music and stories (see review, page 74). Runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. $20$25. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (JK) TOTEM by Robert Lepage (Cirque du Soleil). Cirque du Soleil’s touring show attempts to tell the story of human evolution, and if anyone could make stage magic from this ambitious premise, it’s writer/director Lepage. Helped by a superb design team, Lepage revitalizes circus routines, adding visual surprises and character bits to raise the dramatic stakes. This is the sexiest Cirque show in recent memory; routines involving a trio of scantily clad acrobats and an aboriginal inspired roller skating sequence could very well raise your totem pole. To Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun 1 & 5 pm, Fri-Sat 4 pm. $74-$249, stu/srs $67-$235, kids under 12 $54-$208.

Grand Chapiteau, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com. NNNN (GS) THE UNDERPANTS by Carl Sternheim, adapted

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by Steve Martin (Coffeehouse Theatre). Various men pursue a woman after a wardrobe malfunction at a parade in this comedy. Runs to Sep 24, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Fri-Sat 2 pm. $18, stu $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com.

WHITE BITING DOG by Judith Thompson (Soulpepper). As he’s about to jump, a suicidal man (Mike Ross) believes he hears a dog telling him how to turn his life around. Joseph Ziegler and Fiona Reid bring great humanity to their roles as his estranged parents, with Michaela Washburn injecting some ethical balance as Pony and Gregory Prest taking a humorous turn as a young punk boy toy. Runs to Oct 21, see website for schedule. $28-$65. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) THE ZOO STORY by Edward Albee (Two Wolves Theatre). Conflict arises when two strangers in a park strike up a conversation. Runs to Sep 24, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10. Cameron House, 408 Queen W, Back Room. twowolvestheatre.com.

Out of Town THE ADMIRABLE CRICHTON by JM Barrie (Shaw Festival). Barrie’s thoughtful and ñ sometimes romantic play looks at the con-

trasting social hierarchies in the worlds of civilized London and a deserted tropical island.

The Shaw ensemble, headed by Steven Sutcliffe as the conservative, subservient butler who becomes the leader on the island, captures the script’s comedy and irony, under Morris Panych’s direction. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429. NNNN (JK) CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). Williams’s tense, emotion-fraught script set on a Southern plantation gets a strong production under Eda Holmes’s direction. Moya O’Connell’s Maggie isn’t as sensual or seductive as she might be in the first act, but the combination of Gray Powell as Brick and Jim Mezon as Big Daddy light up the second act with theatrical fireworks. Runs in rep to Oct 23. $24-$106.

Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival).

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ing family travels to California to seek a new life. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

HEARTBREAK HOUSE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Debates and deceptions play out at a British dinner party on the eve of World War I. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.

THE HOMECOMING by Harold Pinter (Stratford Festival). A man and his American wife return to his all-male family in London for a tense reunion. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca.

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford Festival). The crucifixion – sound like something you’d make a musical out of? In director Des McAnuff’s hands, the radical and risky rock musical becomes a thrilling show. Paul Nolan finds the inner core of Jesus, hitting all the high notes in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice score as the man not quite ready to do God’s bidding. Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene is superb; great support from Brent Carver as Pilate and Bruce Dow as Herod. Runs in rep to Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66.

Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) THE LITTLE YEARS by John Mighton (Stratford Festival). Mighton’s nuanced script focuses on Kate, a young woman unable to follow her dream of a science career, a loss that has a subtle impact on her family over four decades. Director Chris Abraham’s excellent production highlights the play’s emotions and fascinating ideas, with standout performances by Bethany Jillard and Irene Poole as Kate at different points in her life. Runs in rep to Sep 24. $50-$80.50. Studio Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. NNNNN (JK) THE MISANTHROPE by Molière (Stratford Festival). A man scorns social conventions but falls for a superficial socialite in this manners comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

RICHARD III by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Seana McKenna takes on the role of Richard III in one of Shakespeare’s most theatrical history plays – and why not? She’s one of Canada’s best actors. Capturing the role’s dark comedy, devious manipulation and the final

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provisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Sep 24 at 8 pm. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. coexisdance.wordpress.com.

DANCE ON THE ESPLANADE CORPUS and Jamii present a community arts event with live music, a performance of the dance-theatre piece Machina Nuptialis and social salsa dancing. Sep 22-25, Thu-Sun 6 pm. Pwyc. David Crombie Park, the Esplanade at Lower Sherbourne. corpus.ca.

A FALL GALA Kemi Contemporary Dance Projects presents excerpts from Jennifer Dallas’s current works, an art auction and more. Sep 27, doors 6:30 pm. $10. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. kemiprojects.ca.

FROM THINE EYES Signal Theatre, Native Earth Performing Arts, Harbourfront NextSteps and DanceWorks present a dancetheatre piece by Michael Greyeyes about six characters looking for meaning at the end of their lives (see story, page 71). Sep 22-24 at 8 pm. $28-$34, stu/srs $19-$23. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

SERIES 8:08 presents a choreographic performance workshop featuring Nicola Pantin, Lua Shayenne, Liisa Smith and Aaron Water. Sep 24 at 8:08 pm. $10, stu $8. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. series808.ca.

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Thursday, September 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Mark

Scalia, Matt Carter and host Jason Harper. To Sep 25, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly show w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. starvingartistbar.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) Second City SC ñ presents its latest revue, a high-ener-

gy, tons-of-laughs show that gets a big jolt of energy from four new writer/performers, a bold set and an amplified sound system. The writing is solid, but the performers sharpen each scene with their physicality, especially newcomer Alastair Forbes, a tall, lanky clown who’s unafraid of looking silly. A couple of political sketches hit their targets, and some very long sequences pay off nicely.

But the funniest scenes involve a techchallenged mom bribing her son and a surreal baseball sketch that defies time and place. Wed-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. NNNN (Glenn Sumi)

GIGGLES FETE @ THE GROOVE BAR

hodgepodge productions ñ presents a comedy show to honour

Makesi Arthur. Funds raised will go toward the family’s funeral expenses.

9 pm. Pwyc. The Groove Bar, 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917.

GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents stand-up w/ Andrew Ryan Fox, Dom Pare, Joel Buxton, Zabrina Chevannes, DJ Demers, Ali Hassan and host Jamie O’Connor. 9 pm. Pwyc. Hot Wings Grill & Rib House, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860.

IMPROVO DIABLO presents improv w/ host Sean Browning and guests. 8 pm.

Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. improvodiablo.com.

WEST END GIRLS Poor John’s Café presents all-girl stand-up w/ JoAnna Downey, Martha Chaves, Daniela Saioni, Dave Merheje (token boy) and others. 8 pm. $5. 1610 Queen W. 647-435-2688.

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Winchester Kitchen & Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Michael McLean. 9 pm. Free. 51A Winchester. winchesterkitchen.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Bryan Hatt. To Sep 24, Wed-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks. com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Dave Lawrence and Dave Martin.

8 pm. $12. 70 Interchange Way. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Ian Peet and Jeff Elliott. 8 pm. $12. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

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Saturday, September 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 22.

THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City

presents interactive, all-ages improv and sketch. 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

ARTHUR SIMEON LIVE Rivoli presents the stand-up comic in a live show. 8 & 10:30 pm. $15. 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908, brownpapertickets.com.

BILL MAHER Live Nation presents the political satirist in a live show. 8 pm. $39.50-$69.50. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com.

BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents an Improv Drop-In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. 8-Bit Improv. 8 pm.

Pwyc. The Ladder, competitive entertainment. 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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Second City presents stories and stand-up by the comedy writer/performer. 4 pm. $25. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com.

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SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of

Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 22.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Fri 23.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Fri 23.

Sunday, September 25 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 22.

CABBAGETOWN COMEDY SHOWCASE

The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Julia Bruce, Arthur Simeon, Kathleen McGee, Ted Morris and host Johnny Hastings. 7 pm. $10. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 22.

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sents the comic/TV personality in a live show. 8 pm. $39-$69. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca.

LAUGH SABBATH presents Hour Of Power w/ Nick Flanagan, Tom Henry, Kathleen Phillips, Chris Locke, Avery Edison, host Sara Hennessey and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

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Friday, September 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 22.

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Hodgkinson presents atheist-friendly comedy. 8:30 pm. $10. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cfiontario.org.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 22.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Chris Quigley w/ Andrew Johnston and Derek Seguin. To Sep 24, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Terry Clement w/ Bryan Hatt and Darrin Rose. To Sep 24, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Chevannes, Keith Pedro, Jon Caesar, Cedric Newman, Matt Henry, Mark Debonis, host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

SILVER CITY STANDUP presents comedy w/ host Kirk Hicks. 9 pm. Pwyc. Silver City, 780 Danforth. 416-461-1504.

World News Café presents improv w/ Dan’s Mix ‘95. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. comedyonthedanforth.com.

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ALT.COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Eddie Della Siepe, Mark ñ Bennett, Eytan Crouton, Anna Suzuki,

cente, Ian Lynch, MC Ryan Belleville and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12.

51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK Impulsive Entertainment presents a comedy mashup w/ Smells Like the 80s, Colin & Anders, host Hunter Collins and more. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

LAUGH YOUR NADS OFF Blair Streeter presents weekly open-mic stand-up. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Mark Forward, Gilson Lubin, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Joel Buxton, Pat Maguire, Marco Bernardi, Steph Tolev and host Nick Flanagan. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

MONDAY NIGHT IMPROV JAM Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod and the Infamous Water Cannons. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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Tuesday, September 27 THE PANEL SHOW MegaShark Productions presents a comedy ñ quiz show w/ Ron Sparks, Eric Toth,

Craig Brown, Even Tapper, Ned Petrie and others. 8 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALLSTARS Second City presents a ñ fast-paced, completely improvised

weekly show. To Sep 27, 8 pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Cheap Smokes, Vest of Friends, Chris Locke and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Nile Seguin, ñ Hunter Collins, Candice Gregoris, Jeff Elliott, Sarah Carver, Joel Buxton, Phil Heron, Marilla Wex and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth.

416-466-6161.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy (7:30 pm), and stand-up amateurs (9:30 pm). $4.

224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, September 28 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am

Night w/ Sam Demaris, James Kersley, Dave Kemp, Lenny Corrado, Natalie Norman, JP Hodgkinson, Peter Fulton and host Nile Seguin. 8:30 pm. $6.

2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show. 8 pm. $5. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. djdemers.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 22.

PHIL MOORHEAD’S COMEDY WARHEAD

The Wilson 96 presents stand-up w/ Sara Hennessey, Julia Hladkowicz, Tim Gilbert, Jordan Foisy, Deb Robinson, Garrett Jamieson and host Moorhead.

9 pm. Free. 615 College. 416-516-3237.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents an open-mic w/ Nigel Grinstead and host Steve Patrick Adams. 8:30 pm.

Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Ron Sparks, Candice Gregoris, Dan Ramos, Eric Clifford, Eli Jackman, Lori Pearlstein, Geoff Hendry, Douglas Helikier, Jon Hyatt and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Michael Harrison. To Oct 2, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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Chuck star Vik Sahay considers the moral implications of his ambitious war journalist in Afghan Luke By NORMAN WILNER

AFGHAN LUKE directed by Mike Clattenburg, written by Douglas Bell, Barrie Dunn and Patrick Graham, with Nick Stahl, Nicolas Wright, Stephen Lobo and Vik Sahay. An Alliance release. 97 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. vik sahay is not the star of afghan Luke. The movie sees his character, Imran Sahar, as an antagonistic, one-note rival for Nick Stahl’s hard-bitten journalist; he’s the jerk who’s competing with Stahl’s Luke for a war-crimes story about a Canadian sniper who’s taking trophies from his kills.

But as I watched Mike Clattenburg’s movie (which I didn’t like, as you’ll see if you read the review), I noticed that Sahay was playing the character not as the aggressive ass the film wants him to be, but as a decent human being whose conduct is morally and ethically respectable throughout. His only mistake is that he puts his trust in the wrong people.

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movie that doesn’t know what to do with it.

“It was never my intention to be a smarmy villain,” he says when we sit down in the lobby of the downtown Intercontinental Hotel early in this year’s Toronto Film Festival. “I wanted to play a guy who was ambition personified, and I wanted him to be simply driven. That was my goal; that’s what I wanted to put out there.

I wanted to be a guy who goes, ‘Good luck. I’m going after the same story, let’s see what happens.’”

To figure out the character, Sahay talked to war journalists and got a sense of the personality type that’s drawn to combat situations.

“Generally, these guys are a kind of narcissistic, ambitious, self-serving, myopic group [who] just want what they want,” he says. “There were a couple of brown-skinned reporters, and they said, ‘We grow our hair long, we learn the language better, we pretend to be more religious than we are.’ Is that goal noble, or is there something really dirty about that?

REVIEW AFGHAN LUKE (Mike Clattenburg) Rating: N The clusterfuck of Canada’s Afghan mission claims another victim in Trailer Park Boys co-creator Mike Clattenburg, whose attempt to mine the material for black comedy is full of war-is-hell clichés, flat jokes and ragged storytelling.

Two Canadian journalists (Nick Stahl and Nicolas Wright) travel to Afghanistan to investigate rumours of a sniper who claims the fingers of his kills, and find tangled alliances, a well-meaning but inept military effort, a warlord who wants to be a music producer, and comedian Lewis Black playing himself in a three-minute cameo.

None of it matters much, because Clattenburg has no idea how to shoot or cut it into a workable story. But if you enjoy watching actors yell at each other for what seems like an entire day, has he got a movie for you. NW

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Vik Sahay interviewed war journalists to get a sense of his character’s personality type: “narcissistic, self-serving, myopic.”

They would speak about it very clearly: ‘Our goal is to get that story.’ And that’s [how] I wanted my guy to be.”

A veteran character actor, the Ottawa-born Sahay is probably best known for his role as the obnoxious Lester Patel on the NBC series Chuck.

He’s also appeared in Richie Mehta’s Amal and the Roxy Hunter movie series, and he’ll be seen next year in American Reunion.

Once Chuck’s final season wraps, Sahay is keen to pursue more film work.

“I’m most comfortable as an actor being kind of immersed,” he says.

“Get as subjective as possible, stay there for the two or three months we’re shooting, and then emerge. [In] TV, there’s a social aspect, a collaborative aspect. You know, you gotta love humans. There are so many humans around, all the time.”

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Weak brew STARbucK (Ken Scott). 109 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81.

Rating: NN

If Audrey Tautou’s Amélie had had 533 children, she’d be a lot like the title character in Starbuck, a movie that incidentally has nothing to do with coffee except for how over-caffeinated it sometimes feels.

Bon Cop, Bad Cop’s Patrick Huard stars as David, a lovable middle-aged fuck-up who discovers that he fathered hundreds of kids when he repeatedly donated sperm in his youth under the alias Starbuck. Those grown children are taking legal avenues to find their father, while David, in a life-changing pursuit, secretly plays guardian angel

Beane counter baseball pic

moneyball is a movie about a baseball club that reinvents itself through an ingenious application of statistics. But it’s also a movie about a manager who believes in his ragtag assemblage of players; it’s Major League, with math.

Screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin (Oscar winners for Schindler’s List and The Social Network respectively) have done a decent job of turning Michael Lewis’s 2003 book – about Oakland As GM Billy Beane’s revolutionary redesign of the 2002 team – into a conventional baseball picture. The trick is that they structure it as an underdog tale

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Daring debut HIGHER GROuND (Vera Farmiga).

114 minutes. Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating: NNNN

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A powerful performance by first-time director Vera Farmiga (Up In The Air) and a subtle approach to an intriguing subject make Higher Ground a winner.

The director/star plays aspiring writer Corinne, who in the 70s (played as a teenager by Farmiga’s daughter Taissa Farmiga) survives a car accident with her musician husband, Ethan (Boyd Holbrook), and their infant daughter.

The incident inspires them to embrace Jesus with a passion and to settle into a community of what were then

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Brad Pitt (left) and Jonah Hill don’t quite hit a home run in Moneyball.

moneyball tells how oakland as Gm billy beane used stats to change the game By NORMAN WILNER MONEYbALL directed by Bennett Miller, written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin based on the book by Michael Lewis, with Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Chris Pratt. A Sony Pictures release. 126 minutes. Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating: NNN

in their lives.

The movie gets off on this giddy concept, and surely many in the audience will, too – it was a runner-up for TIFF’s People’s Choice Award. There are so many warm, cute moments, you’ll probably feel like you’re hugging a highly fertile teddy bear. Just know that Starbuck, like that teddy, is stuffed with nothing but fluff.

The film is completely out of touch with logic and honest consideration for what its scenario might actually involve. Also, there’s no need to worry about David’s other issues – a pregnant girlfriend, mobsters after money – because all of his extravagant dilemmas will sort themselves out in the easiest ways possible.

Preposterous, manipulative and saccharine, Starbuck has all the ingredients of a sure-fire crowd-pleaser.

about a manager who believes in his players, even though he really believes in their stats.

The idea behind Beane’s strategy, devised with a team of statisticians here represented by the composite character Peter Brand, was to stock the As with inexpensive but reliable players with a high probability of winning. Beane couldn’t compete with the likes of the New York Yankees, who were offering free agents million-dollar contracts on a regular basis, so he went for unknowns who were good at getting on base – and wound up upending the star system that dominated the sport.

The story is told in entertaining if undistinguished sports-movie style

by Capote director Bennett Miller, who alternates between the new Oakland players’ awkward efforts to become a team and Beane’s personal issues. Having been a fairly undistinguished player himself, he’s now seized on this strategy as a way to give hope to a new

generation of underperformers.

Brad Pitt brings his movie-star charm to Beane. It isn’t a complex performance, but it’s an appealing one, and Pitt has fun when he’s teasing Jonah Hill’s bookish, ill-at-ease Brand or grating on skeptical coach Art Howe (Philip Seymour Hoffman, appropriately surly). Miller should have taken his cue and given the movie some of the same risky energy; as it is, it feels calculated and safe, as though someone had built a sportsmovie version of Beane’s stats-modelling software and let it run.

Pitt’s grace under fire carries things along nicely, and there’s a fine supporting performance by Parks And Recreation’s Chris Pratt as uncertain first baseman Scott Hatteberg. Keep your eye on him in the corners of the frame; he’s always doing something interesting, and his ability to radiate pure joy comes in handy at the climax.

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called Jesus freaks.

Women in the group are not allowed to preach and must dress modestly, but you can’t really call this a creepy cult. It’s a loving environment, surprisingly open about sexuality (within marriage anyway), committed to all kinds of alt perspectives – vegetarianism, for example – and accepting of the free-spirited energy of Corinne’s best friend, Annika (Dagmara Domin­ czyk in a lovely turn).

Corinne’s not in prison. She just, in her later life, has doubts – major doubts – especially when Jesus stops smiling down on Annika and Corinne starts losing sexual interest in Ethan (Joshua Leonard as the adult).

Farmiga expertly captures the internal conflict between the lover of poetry and creativity and the quasi-believer

who desperately wants to fit in and stay connected to her children. Her closing sermon to her former congregation is a spectacular mix of confusion and conviction.

Fascinating.

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It’s hard to take the “based on a true story” claim seriously when a movie features a man who, while strapped to a chair, kicks the shit out of two armed men before jumping (“Look, Ma, no hands!”) out a window. The biggest problem with Killer Elite is that it takes itself seriously despite hokum like this.

Loosely based on Ranulph Fiennes’s book The Feather Men, which itself was only loosely based on facts, this espionage thriller stars Jason Statham as Danny, the aforementioned nimble

man with a symbiotic relationship to furniture. Danny’s a contract killer who comes out of retirement to rescue his mentor (a gruff Robert De Niro), who’s being held hostage by a vengeful sheikh.

In order to free his friend, Danny accepts a final job: knock off key British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers and make the killings look like accidents. Meanwhile, Clive Owen’s former SAS operative (the only threedimensional character here) does anything and everything to thwart Danny.

The assassination attempts and getaways provide worthwhile B movie distractions. But though the film tries to achieve Bourne-style grit and depth, it lacks the intelligence and flair that made the Matt Damon franchise so RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI compelling.

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Tired Tiles

ReSURReCt DeAD: the mYSteRY OF the tOYNBee tiLeS (Jon Foy). 85 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating:

NN Mysterious tiles have been popping up in U.S. city streets since the mid-80s, each with the following cryptic message: “Toynbee Idea. In Kubrick’s 2001.

Resurrect Dead. On Planet Jupiter.”

Who’s the street artist behind these tiles? More importantly, who cares?

DIY director Jon Foy is certainly aware that generating curiosity about street art that most people just ignore is a challenge. That’s why he styles his

documentary investigation as a detective movie that follows Toynbee Tile enthusiast Justin Duerr, lead sleuth trying to uncover the identity of an artist who doesn’t want to be found.

As Justin and his collaborators knock on doors, hand out flyers, crash shortwave radio conventions (yes, there’s a connection) and make half-assed conjectures about what the tiles mean, they end up becoming the real subjects of the doc.

Unfortunately, Justin and company are not very engaging. Their obsessive investigation certainly has intriguing moments, in a David Fincher’s Zodiac sort of way, but these don’t last long.

In fact, during talking-head interviews, Justin often has to remind us how interesting this all is, because we’re likely to have forgotten. RADheYAN SimONpiLLAi

Andy Lau plays an Asian version of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes.

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(Tsui Hark). 123 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating: NNNN

Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame is a thriller, an action movie, an effects-heavy mythical adventure and even a little bit of a love story. In short, it’s every sort of film director Tsui Hark has made in the past all rolled into one.

Set in a slightly fantastic seventhcentury China where talking animals and gender transmogrification are taken in stride by the population, it feels at times like an Asian version of Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes. The eponymous sleuth (Andy Lau) is a hyper-competent martial arts master as well as a brilliant strategist and forensic investigator.

When the construction of a monastery is threatened by a series of mysterious deaths – people are bursting into flames with no apparent cause – Dee finds himself working with an enigmatic female warrior (Li Bingbing) Nathan Gamble meets his aquatic friend in the cloying Dolphin Tale.

and a hotheaded albino detective (Chao Deng) to solve the case before the coronation of China’s first empress (Carina Lau). Obviously, it’s not going to be easy.

As with most of Tsui’s films, any shortcomings in pacing and tone are made up for in enthusiasm and style.

There’s enough plot for three features, and Lau is his usual dynamic self as the resourceful Dee. Tsui is finally learning to integrate digital effects into his movies rather than stopping the show to goggle at them; the scale of the extended climax is pretty amazing.

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Club king LimeLight (Billy Corben). 101 minutes.

Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating:

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113 minutes. Opens Friday (September 23). For venues and times, see Movies, page 81. Rating: NN Overstuffed with every cliché from the inspirational movie playbook, Dolphin Tale never amounts to more than a series of scenes designed to pluck moviegoers’ heartstrings.

Eleven-year-old Floridian Sawyer (Nathan Gamble) helps to rescue a dolphin whose tail has been irreparably damaged by being caught in a crab trap. Working alongside a team of

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marine veterinarians (led by Harry Connick Jr.) and a prosthetics expert (Morgan Freeman), Sawyer tries to find a way to rehabilitate and release her back into the ocean.

Connick delivers a nuanced and genial performance, and the rest of the kids and adults are fine, but one wishes veterans Ashley Judd (as Sawyer’s mother) and Kris Kristofferson (as Connick’s father) had more to do than just react to what happens on screen.

Ultimately, sloppy pacing and illogical plotting undermine the film. Kids will get a kick out of the underwater 3-D camerawork, the dolphin and a surprisingly funny running gag involving a rambunctious pelican, but for adults it will be a long sit. ANDReW pARKeR

Caught somewhere between a time capsule of Manhattan club-scene wackiness and a legal procedural, Billy Corben’s Limelight follows the ups and downs of Ontario-born club impresario Peter Gatien, who ruled the nightlife in the 80s and early 90s before getting sidelined by charges that he was using his clubs – specifically Limelight and the Tunnel – to sell ecstasy and cocaine, among other things.

Justin Duerr can’t get us interested in cryptic tile messages.

Director Corben, best known for his Cocaine Cowboys docs, is clearly sympathetic to Gatien, who comes off as a canny self-promoter who got blindsided by an even cannier self-promoter, moral crusader Rudy Giuliani. But Corben also tarts up the footage with cheesy disco-era visual gimmicks and wall-to-wall techno beats, turning Limelight into a stylistic mess.

That said, it’s a mess that offers an intriguing look at 1990s New York City from an unlikely perspective. And if you get the feeling that the whole thing was produced in service of Gatien’s image rehabilitation, well, you also get the feeling the guy might deserve a chance to clear his name.

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also opening Abduction (D: John Singleton, 106 min) Pretty boy Taylor Lautner cashes in on his Twilight fame by taking the lead in this Bourne-like actioner. He plays a young man who discovers his baby photo on a missing persons website.

Who, then, is he? Expect lots of teenage girls to find out this weekend. John Singleton, who hasn’t made a movie since 2005’s Four Brothers, directs a cast that includes Maria Bello, Sigourney Weaver and Alfred Molina. But expect attention to be solely on Lautner.

Opens Friday (September 23). Screened after press time – see review September 23 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

Taylor Lautner won’t turn into a werewolf in Abduction.

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92 min. NNN (NW) Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway

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AFGHAN LUKE (Mike Clattenburg) 97 min.

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APOLLO 18 (Gonzalo López-Gallego) marks a boring new low for the “found footage” horror film genre. Purportedly comprised

of film of an abandoned secret space mission that NASA undertook in late 1974, it follows two astronauts (Warren Christie and Lloyd Owen) who land on the moon and eventually discover something or someone else is doing the moonwalk with them. The grainy, staticky footage is the only thing about the film that seems authentic. Director López-Gallego relies on visual and aural “Boo!” moments to amp up tension, and the actors are doubly penned in – by bulky suits and cramped quarters and by a script that doesn’t allow them to create any kind of character or motivation. 86 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre

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farce starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose emotional equilibrium is in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph). Even as the situations grow increasingly cartoonish, Bridesmaids paints a credible portrait of a woman in crisis, with Wiig giving a nicely considered performance in her first leading role. 124 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (Tom Brady) might be the most toxic comedy ever made. This story of an Iowa rube (cowriter Nick Swardson) who travels to Los Angeles to follow in the footsteps of his former porn star parents deals in reprehensible stereotypes and (for a raunchy comedy) shockingly tame jokes. Director Brady wastes competent actors like Christina Ricci as Bucky’s love interest, Stephen Dorff as an actor and Don Johnson as a director. The blame here falls squarely at the feet of co-writer and producer Adam Sandler, who needs to stop putting out trash like this to keep his cronies working.

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(Joe Cornish) is Cornish’s tremendously assured debut, taking place over one night in a low-rent South London housing district under siege from an invasion of extraterrestrial beasties, with a bunch of local thugs, an off-duty nurse (Venus’s Jodie Whittaker) and a pot dealer (Nick Frost) banding together to fend off the threat. It may not have Johnny Depp or EXPANDED REVIEWS CAPTAIN AMERgiant robots, but it’s got ICA: THE FIRST nowtoronto.com everything a summer AVENGER (Joe Johnmovie needs. Trust. 88 ston) starts out as a ripmin. NNNN (NW) roaring adventure yarn and an entertainYonge & Dundas 24 ing origin story for Marvel’s all-American

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BAD TEACHER (Jake Kasdan) stars Cameron Diaz as a high-functioning sociopath teaching seventh grade at a dinky Illinois school and chasing the new substitute teacher (Justin Timberlake). Jason Segel walks off with the picture as an affable, unassuming gym teacher who’s hip to

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A big hit at TIFF, Nicolas Winding Refn’s stylish pic stars Ryan Gosling as a stunt driver who gets caught up with some bad types, including a gimlet-eyed heavy (Albert Brooks).

Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard and other A-listers star in this epidemiological procedural about the worldwide spread of a deadly virus. Probably not good viewing for hypochondriacs.

Avengers movie. At least the 3-D is decent this time out. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Werner Herzog) is a hypnotic 3-D documentary that presents the 33,000-yearold paintings discovered in the Chauvet Pont d’Arc cave as though we were standing 4 feet away from them. Experts explain the historical value of the cave, but director Herzog’s contemplative narration is all we really need. That, and some closing footage of mutant albino crocodiles.

Some subtitles. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE CHANGE-UP (David Dobkin) is a stupid

body-swapping comedy with a great performance by Ryan Reynolds, who succeeds in sending up his frat-boy image and chan-

Brendan Gleeson and Don Cheadle play an unlikely cop duo on the trail of a drugsmuggling ring in rural Ireland.

Directed by John Michael McDonagh, it’s showy, smart and hysterically funny.

One of late summer’s breakout hits, this drama about a group of black maids who reveal their stories in 1960s Jackson, Mississippi, continues to draw in crowds. Great ensemble work.

nelling Jason Bateman’s fussy-prissy persona so well that he completely unbalances the movie. Reynolds single-handedly gives The Change-Up its live-wire energy and a couple of really big laughs. 112 min.

NN (NW) Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

CHASING MADOFF (Jeff Prosserman) is a

plodding documentary about Harry Markopolos, a financial analyst who uncovered Bernie Madoff’s devastating Ponzi scheme nearly a decade before Madoff turned himself in, only to be ignored by U.S. financial regulators. Prosserman lets Markopolos tells his story in exhausting, outraged detail, backed up by colleagues and other experts who agree that Markopolos did indeed have Madoff’s number, but the Bush-era overseers of the financial sector just didn’t care. It’s great continued on page 82 œ

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that Markopolos’s righteous efforts are finally being acknowledged, but it quickly becomes clear that Prosserman isn’t going to address anything else. He just tracks Markopolos’s repeated attempts to expose Madoff’s scam in what feels like real time. 91 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

COLOMBIANA (Olivier Megaton) rises

above its overworked action story to become enjoyable light entertainment thanks to smart directing and a clever hero (Zoe Saldana). Nine-year-old Cataleya sees her parents gunned down in Bogotá; 15 years later she’s an assassin for hire in Chicago, with the mobster who orphaned her and the FBI closing in fast. All but the first of five big set pieces are built around her stealth, speed and trickery.

Director Megaton keeps the action lively and lucid. 107 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñCONAN THE BARBARIAN

(Marcus Nispel) offers almost everything you could want in a pure trash sword-andsorcery flick: non-stop action, hardcore violence, epic sweep, gaudy villains, a grim sense of humour, some nudity and a little sex. Star Jason Momoa has the aggression and brutal attitude to play Conan, a barbarian seeking vengeance on the nascent world dominator who killed his father. But he looks too much like a pretty boy. Along with the familiar sword fights and punch-

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ups, director Nispel pulls off a very good horse-and-carriage chase and underground battle with a tentacled horror. The 3-D enhances the highlights but otherwise adds little. 112 min. NNNN (AD) Colossus, Courtney Park 16

CONTAGION (Steven Soderbergh) is a

disease procedural about the Center for Disease Control’s response to the outbreak of an unknown virus with the potential to kill millions. Matt Damon stands in as an Everyman who loses his wife and son early on and struggles through social breakdown. Laurence Fishburne plays the CDC chief, pilloried in the media, represented by Jude Law as an influential blogger with a private agenda. Soderbergh keeps the action zipping along like a thriller with short, sharp scenes, purely visual storytelling and liberal use of pounding music. 105 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, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

COWBOYS & ALIENS (Jon Favreau) has explosions and horse-riding and fighting and monsters aplenty, but it’s utterly insubstantial. A couple of early moments suggest the confident, clever genre pastiche that might have been, but mostly this is a mess – though Daniel Craig single-handedly gives the movie something like a heart as its amnesiac hero. 112 min. NN (NW)

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(Glenn Ficarra, John Requa) does for the rom-com genre what directors Ficarra and Requa’s I Love You Phillip Morris did for the caper picture, revitalizing a well-worn formula with intelligence, charm and clever storytelling. Steve Carell fleshes out his 40-Year-Old Virgin haplessness nicely, but it’s Ryan Gosling’s blossoming romance with savvy young lawyer Emma Stone that gives the movie its best moments.

118 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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CREATURE (Fred Andrews) follows a crop of indistinguishable characters vacationing in Louisiana who are just annoying enough for audiences to anxiously anticipate their bloody demise. Unfortunately, they die at the hands of a half-man/halfcrocodile portrayed by an actor in an embarrassingly fake rubber suit with an immobile mouth. The script is a collection of clichés and gore, suitable only those desperate to see anything even remotely resembling a horror movie, regardless of quality. (Oh, they’re out there.) If this were a parody of horror cheese it might be worth recommending, but all the laughs are unintentional. It’s a throwback to 80s horror sleaze without the charm. 93 min.

N (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE DEBT (John Madden) has plot holes all

over the place – no one notices spies smuggling a body into an apartment, for example – but it’s an effective nail-biter.

Three Mossad agents return to Israel as heroes after they’ve tracked down and killed a Nazi war criminal. Or have they?

The Debt features a fascinating moral dilemma, but that doesn’t surface till way late, so the film isn’t nearly as weighty as it wants to be. It’s really just a thriller with superb performances, especially by Helen Mirren as the agent whose daughter has written a book about the case, and Tom Wilkinson as the spymaster who fears for his reputation. Watch for the scene where one of the spies gets a gynecological exam. Totally terrifying. 112 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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123 min. See review, page 80. NNNN (NW) Opens Sep 23 at Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre.

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min. See review, page 80. NN (Andrew Parker) Opens Sep 23 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.

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (Troy Nixey) is writer/producer Guillermo del Toro’s long-in-the-works remake of a 1974 TV movie that freaked out his nine-year-old self, and it’s certainly possible that this version will similarly give youngsters a serious case of the willies. But everyone else will find it more silly than suspenseful (it’s yet another horror movie where characters stay in a Bad Place beyond any credible point), and director Nixey just isn’t as skilled at sliding between delicate fantasy and chilling horror as del Toro himself. 99 min. NN (NW) Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Nicolas Winding Refn) is a FINAL DESTINATION 5 (Steven Quale) is a solid riff on stylish 80s brooders like return to goofball form for the franchise Michael Mann’s Thief and William Friedafter the underwhelming third and fourth kin’s To Live And Die In L.A. Ryan Gosling films, with ridiculous Rube Goldbergian stars as a stunt driver who moonlights as mechanisms involving loose screws, leaky a wheelman for hire; when he tries to help air conditioners, unsupervised factory a neighbour (Carey Mulligan), he finds equipment and an over-amped surgical himself on the wrong side of some very laser. Director Quale invests things with a bad people. Blood and retribution follow. little more wit than usual. 92 min. NNN Winding Refn shakes off the theatricality (NW) of Bronson for a more intimate approach, Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30 and his actors are right there with him: FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (Will Gluck) casts Gosling finds the middle ground between Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake as pals Steve McQueen and a Terminator, Mulwho figure out that their ligan is appropriately complementary “emowinsome and Bryan tional damage” allows Cranston brings tragic EXPANDED REVIEWS them to get naked withgravity to the role of out getting emotional – nowtoronto.com Gosling’s shady emat least in theory. It’s not ployer, but Albert laugh-out-loud funny, but Brooks walks off with the picture as a it does have some clever dialogue and mogimlet-eyed heavy with a fondness for ments of perceptive observation. In other edged weapons. 100 min. NNNN (NW) words, it’s a lot better than No Strings At401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, tached, and really, that’s all you can ask of Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town a movie like this. 104 min. NNN (NW) Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Colossus, Interchange 30, Scotiabank TheGrande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Kennedy atre Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, ScotiaFRIGHT NIGHT (Craig Gillespie) only runs bank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity into trouble when it tries to reinvent Tom Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Holland’s 1985 horror comedy as a blockYorkdale, Varsity buster. At its heart, it’s a small-scale

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creeper about a suburban teenager (a weedy Anton Yelchin) who can’t get anyone to believe him when a vampire (Colin Farrell) moves into his neighbourhood and starts devouring call girls. The remake makes a few tactical errors, like throwing out the slow build of Holland’s original for more action beats, including an entirely unnecessary set piece cribbed from Children Of Men set inside a moving vehicle.

But once David Tennant gets involved as the disreputable Vegas illusionist to whom Yelchin turns for assistance, director Gillespie finds the groove he’s been chasing, and Farrell gets an adversary with the appropriate stature – and terrific comic timing. 106 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

GAINSBOURG (Joann Sfar) recounts the life of French cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg, whose ennui-laced musical stylings defined European cool for a generation raised on jazz and Godard. Graphic novelist Sfar adopts an ambitious, surrealistic style that turns incidents from his subject’s life into visual metaphors, presenting Gainsbourg’s life as Sfar imagines he experienced it. The resulting film plays like Olivier Dahan’s exasperating Edith Piaf biopic La Vie En Rose on mushrooms, rushing the artist (played as a lad by Kacey continued on page 84 œ

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THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (Lee Tamahori) turns the true story of Latif Yahia, an Iraqi soldier forced to become the public double of Uday Hussein during the first Gulf War, into an ungainly parable about the trappings of power. Director Tamahori seems to get off on Uday’s debauchery, but Dominic Cooper’s dual performance keeps us firmly on Latif’s side. 108 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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– that the effect is exhausting. The movie never really digs into its subject, but that may be because it see him in two dimensions. Subtitled. 130 min. NN (NW) Cumberland 4

trons exploiting the help play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. 137 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(John Michael McDonagh) is showy, smart and hysterically funny, which is no mean feat for a movie about a small-town Garda sergeant (Brendan Gleeson) and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) on the trail of a drug-smuggling ring in rural Ireland. It’s a delight to watch Gleeson exchange flinty insults with Cheadle, another master of the underplayed reaction; better still to watch the two actors slowly sync up as events draw their characters closer together and writer/director McDonagh (brother of In Bruges writer/director Martin) shifts his easygoing movie into something approaching fourth gear. The Guard is the finest, oddest buddy-cop picture I’ve seen since Hot Fuzz, but it plays out in a very different, very specifically Irish way.

Damned if it isn’t one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga

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(David Yates) serves not just as the second half of the Deathly Hallows story, but as the climax to the entire Harry Potter saga – and it delivers, with Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) working their way back to Hogwarts for a final battle with the forces of the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). See it in 2-D if you can. 130 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

THE HELP (Tate Taylor) is a successful

adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s megaselling novel thanks to another powerful performance by Viola Davis (Doubt) as a maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who agrees to share her story with an upstart journalist. Too bad the junior league ma-

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(Seth Gordon) casts Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as put-upon wage slaves who decide to murder their repugnant employers (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston), only to see their clockwork plan go sideways almost immediately. It’s a devilishly smart farce disguised as a really, really dumb one, with Sudeikis and Day turning their Going The Distance buddy act into a perpetual joke machine.

97 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (Doug-

las McGrath) is a harmless trifle that must have been written in someone’s sleep. It stars Sarah Jessica Parker as investment adviser Kate, who has two children and a yummy hubby (Greg Kinnear) and can’t give them even five minutes of her time a day. Soon she has the chance of a lifetime to develop a new fund alongside a financial heavyweight (Pierce Brosnan) and has to spend even more time travelling. This is the point where things should get intense, but except for a mammogram reference and a scene-stealing performance by Olivia Munn as Kate’s emotionally challenged assistant, this movie takes no risks and refuses to raise the stakes. Unbelievably bland. 95 min. NN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

KILLER ELITE (Gary McKendry) 105 min.

See review, page 78. NN (RS) Opens Sep 23 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24.

LIMELIGHT (Billy Corben) 101 min. See review, page 80. NNN (NW) Opens Sep 23 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

time to meet the great artists of the 20s.

It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care.

94 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller) 126 min. See review, page 78. NNN (NW) Opens Sep 23 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity.

MY KINGDOM (Goa Xiaosong) is an epic story about love, family honour and revenge set in 1920s Shanghai. 108 min.

Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 ONE DAY (Lone Scherfig) is an uneven

adaptation of David Nicholls’s clever gimmick of a romantic bestseller about two decades in the lives of two friends (Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway). The screenplay’s not very subtle and the characters feel awfully thin, but the actors have charm as they suffer stoically through a series of bad haircuts and wardrobe choices. 107 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (Jesse Peretz)

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tracks the trail of destruction left by 30-something hippie Ned (Paul Rudd) as he bounces between the homes of his three adult sisters (Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Banks and Zooey Deschanel). It’s subtle, different and really funny, with the cutting social satire of a Nicole Holofcener movie and also Steve Coogan’s balls. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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erine Deneuve as a woman who, in the late 70s, comes into her own when her reactionary, philandering husband falls ill and she takes over the family factory. One big gobsmacking pleasure. Subtitled. 103 min. NNNN (SGC) Regent Theatre

RESURRECT DEAD: THE MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES (Jon Foy) 85 min. See re-

view, page 80. NN (RS) Opens Sep 23 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 89).

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Rupert

Wyatt) follows a genius Alzheimer’s researcher (James Franco) who raises a superintelligent chimp (performed though the magic of motion capture by Andy Serkis), who’ll grow up to lead a rebellion of similarly enhanced primates. Stuff happens, but none of it is anchored to anything that makes any kind of sense.

105 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE LION KING 3D (Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff) is a re-release in 3-D of the iconic animated film about a death, love and courage on the African veldt. 87 min.

401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, EXPANDED REVIEWS SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge nowtoronto.com & Dundas 24

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Tony Chan) is a Chinese romantic comedy about a mother, her three daughters and their attempts to find romance. 103 min.

Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen) casts

Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in

SARAH’S KEY (Gilles Paquet-Brenner) is a Holocaust drama for the same audience that bought into the painfully discreet depiction of war crimes in The Reader; anything that might convey some genuine horror is delicately avoided.

Kristin Scott Thomas is largely wasted as a contemporary journalist; her framing story means absolutely nothing. Some subtitles. 102 min. NN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Asif Kapadia) tracks the Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton from his first Grand Prix to his final, fatal race in San Marino. It never lags, thanks to a refreshing absence of standard talking-head interviews. Each race depicted comes with its own set of challenges, whether a title is on the line or some heated personal drama raises the stakes. A focused nutsand-bolts tribute that’s engineered to thrill. 104 min. nnnn (RS) Canada Square

Shark night 3D (David Ellis) is a really

dumb horror movie that at least delivers on the promise of a night of sharks – in 3-D and everything! – endured by a handful of Louisiana college students who make the mistake of spending a weekend at a saltwater lake infested with man-eaters. The screenwriters deserve points for coming up with a plot that defies horrormovie logic by (mostly) letting characters react to their situation with some intelligence, but director Ellis (Final Destination 2) is really just in it for the bloody effects, which he executes with gusto. If you do see it, make sure you stay all the way through the end credits for the cast’s weirdly compelling music video. 85 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

the SmurfS in 3D (Raja Gosnell) is a

bland and largely unfunny attempt to capture the joy of Peyo’s comics and the 1980s animated series. The Smurfs themselves are dull and uninspired, as is the human cast, with the exception of Hank Azaria as the evil Gargamel. 103 min. nn (Andrew Parker) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reprising the slightly exaggerated versions of themselves they played in director Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story, with the insecure, statuschasing Coogan inviting oblivious git Brydon on a weeklong tour of restaurants in the north of England. It’s practically transcendent, the comedy of the year. 107 min. nnnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre

like a hybrid: actors and visuals by Penthouse, acting and story by the Shaw Brothers. That is, attractive nudes, handsomely lit, performing old-school kung fu movie oratory in a lunatic plot, with the bonus of effective 3-D. 129 min. nnn (AD) Coliseum Scarborough

tranSformerS: Dark of the moon

(Michael Bay) delivers a giant-robot punch-up that’s visually inventive, spatially coherent and occasionally even funny, even if it is way too long and the plot is kind of ridiculous. Action sequences are impressively assembled. 157 min. nnn (NW) Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20

Warrior (Gavin O’Connor) starts as a

drama about a broken family and devolves into blatant cheerleading for mixed martial arts when two estranged brothers (Joel Edgerton and Tom Hardy) enter the same high-stakes tournament. Happily married physics teacher Brendan returns to parking-lot cage fighting to stave off foreclosure on his home. His brother, Tommy the embittered loner, drifts into town to train with their father (Nick Nolte), a recovering alcoholic whom both

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(Terrence Malick) perfects the intuitive approach to cinema Malick has been developing for nearly four decades, and it affected me more profoundly than any of his earlier films. It’s beautiful in its inelegance and confusion, embracing the awe of adoles-

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brothers despise. Family conflicts wither to bonehead simplicity once the big punch-ups start. The action is well-staged for thrills, surprises and showcases the fighters’ courage and technique, but the movie self-destructs on the utter falsity of its single-line climactic speech. 139 min. nn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Larysa Kondracki) is a movie that despite some storytelling flaws needs to be seen because of its subject matter: sex trafficking. Rachel Weisz turns in a fierce performance as Kathryn Bolkovac, a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia who discovers a horrific sex trade involving UN officials.

It’s a solid thriller that, like Bolkovac, never loses sight of what’s most important: the victims. 100 min. nnnn (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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family show starring Jeff, Anthony, Murray, Sam and their Wiggly friends.

Sep 24, 1 pm, and Sep 25, 4 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga

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Vaughn) is a proper origin story for the mutant characters that strikes the same balance of gravitas and knowing camp that powered Bryan Singer’s first two X-films. Having toyed with costumed heroes in last year’s Kick-Ass, director Vaughn gets to play on a much larger scale here, and he’s pretty good at it. Some subtitles. nnnn (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

Zookeeper (Frank Coraci) stars Kevin

James as a Boston zookeeper who discovers that his animals not only talk, but keep a watchful eye on his love life. Rosario Dawson turns up as a comely veterinarian who becomes part of his plan to win back his ex (Leslie Bibb). Dawson and James have one lovely scene that made me wish I were watching them in a proper movie.

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(Robert Rodriguez) doesn’t live up to its scratch-and-sniff card gimmick, but it still manages to be entertaining and inventive.

Kids will have fun watching a new trio of child secret agents try to save the world’s time. Adults will appreciate enjoyable performances by the likes of Jeremy Piven and Joel McHale. 89 min. nnn (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

30 minuteS or leSS (Ruben Fleischer) may be the shabbiest, shruggiest heist movie ever made, but it’s enjoyable enough on its own very modest terms.

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pense movie that drags out its buildup to no good purpose, neglects to provide its leads with much character and gets a big laugh from what is meant to be its climactic shock. Mild-mannered screenwriter David Sumner (James Marsden) and actor wife Amy (Kate Bosworth) move to her backwater Mississippi hometown. A quartet of local good ole boys, headed by Amy’s ex-boyfriend Charlie (Alexander Skarsgård) terrorize the couple until matters escalate to a pitched battle. Writer/ director Lurie tries to use football games to explain redneck violence. It’s not convincing. 110 min. nn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

cence and the loss of innocence in the purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhapsody on the mystery of simply being alive. 138 min. nnnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Regent Theatre

guy (Jesse Eisenberg) with a vest bomb and order him to rob a bank. This plays out precisely as far as it will go. 82 min. nnn (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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APOLLO 18 (PG) Thu 9:10 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) 9:30 Thu 1:25, 4:00 mat, 6:55 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:50, 9:20 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (G) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:25, 9:20 CHASING MADOFF Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Sat, MonWed 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 4:35, 9:40 THE DEVIL’S DOUBLE (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00 Fri-Wed 9:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 6:45, 9:00 FriWed 3:50, 9:00 MANHATTAN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL Sun 2:00, 7:00 ONE DAY (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:05 OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Thu 1:55, 3:50, 7:25, 9:45 FriWed 1:50, 3:55, 7:15 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:35, 6:40 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:35 THE TRIP Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15 WARRIOR Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:25 THE WHISTLEBLOWER 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Wed no 1:45, 6:55

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CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 DRIVE (18A) Thu 12:35 3:15 6:05 8:35 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:15, 6:25, 9:05 I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:35, 9:05 KILLER ELITE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 MONEYBALL (PG) Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:55, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Sat 12:55, 7:15, 10:05 Tue 12:55, 4:15, 10:05 WARRIOR Thu 12:55, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05

BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:25 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 4:05, 7:00 Fri 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat, 9:40 THE DEBT (14A) 4:25, 7:10 Fri 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15 Fri 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 7:05, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:05 OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) 4:20, 7:20 Fri 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 9:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45 SENNA Thu 4:25, 6:50 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50 THE SMURFS (G) Thu 4:15 STRAW DOGS (14A) 4:35, 7:25 Fri 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 9:55 WARRIOR 3:50, 6:55 Fri 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat, 10:00 THE WHISTLEBLOWER Thu 7:10

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC)

MT PLEASANT (I)

10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

ABDUCTION 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:15, 12:15 mat AFGHAN LUKE 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat ATTACK THE BLOCK (14A) Thu 2:20, 6:20 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, MonWed 4:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 10:55, 4:35, 10:20 BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (18A) Thu 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (G) 2:25, 4:50, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat THE CHANGE-UP (18A) Thu 1:55 Fri-Wed 1:55, 6:55 COLOMBIANA (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:15, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 CONTAGION (PG) 2:00, 2:45, 3:30, 4:30, 5:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:15, 10:45 Thu 8:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 12:45 mat CONTAGION: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat COWBOYS & ALIENS 4:20, 9:25 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 2:30, 3:10, 5:05, 6:15, 7:45, 9:15, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 CREATURE Thu 9:35 THE DEBT (14A) 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Thu 3:15 mat, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat THE HELP (PG) 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:35 mat

BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu, Sun, Tue 7:00 Fri-Sat 9:20 ONE DAY (PG) Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

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

POTICHE (14A) Sat 9:25 Sun 4:30 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Sun, Tue 7:00 Fri 6:50, 9:25 Sat 6:50

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

ABDUCTION Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:45 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 MonWed 12:50, 3:30, 6:35, 9:20 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55 THE HELP (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Mon 2:35, 6:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 2:30, 6:30, 9:40 I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 4:10, 7:20, 9:45

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMA (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-232-1939

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 7:00 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 3:00 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 9:15 THE WHISTLEBLOWER Thu 1:00, 5:00

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

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) 8:45 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (G) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 1:15 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 7:00 ONE DAY (PG) Thu 1:00 THE TRIP Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 THE WHISTLEBLOWER Fri-Wed 5:00

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABDUCTION Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 APOLLO 18 (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:10 BAD TEACHER (14A) Thu 9:25 BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (18A) Thu 9:30 CITIZEN KANE Sun 1:00 COLOMBIANA (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Sun 7:25, 10:05 CONTAGION (PG) Thu, Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 FriSun, Tue 2:00, 5:00, 8:05, 10:40 Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 FriSun, Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 Mon, Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 THE DEBT (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:20, 9:10 FriSun, Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:25 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:35 Wed 3:35 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 DRIVE (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 THE GUARD (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 1:10 Thu 4:00 mat, 6:55, 9:55 THE HELP (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00 KILLER ELITE (14A) Fri-Sat, Tue 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 12:55, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 THE LION KING 3D Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 Mon, Wed 1:35, 3:50, 6:45, 9:05 THE LION KING Thu 1:35 MONEYBALL (PG) Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 6:40, 7:20, 9:35, 10:45 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:10, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00 Tue 12:50, 4:00, 6:10, 7:20, 9:15, 10:45 OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:15, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:05, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 9:55 Mon, Wed 9:30 SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A) Thu 8:50 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:05, 6:35 FriSun, Tue 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:25, 7:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:40 STRAW DOGS (14A) Thu 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 WARRIOR Thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:10 Mon, Wed 8:50 THE WIGGLES: GREATEST HITS, IN THE ROUND Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 ABDUCTION Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 9:30 APOLLO 18 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10 BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (18A) Thu 7:10, 9:40 COLOMBIANA (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:20 CONTAGION (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:25 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A) Thu 9:10 KILLER ELITE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 MONEYBALL (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:20 SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 THE SMURFS (G) 1:25, 4:20 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45 STRAW DOGS (14A) Thu 1:20 3:50 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:35 WARRIOR 6:45, 9:30 Thu 12:55, 3:55 mat

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

ABDUCTION 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat, 4:20 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:50 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 SatSun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:15 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) 6:50, 9:40 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:10 THE LION KING 3D Thu 7:00, 9:20 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 SatSun 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:30 MONEYBALL (PG) 7:00, 10:10 Fri 3:50 mat Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50 mat OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:10 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:00 WARRIOR Thu 6:40, 9:45

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

ABDUCTION 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:00 mat BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS 3D (G) Thu 4:40 THE CHANGE-UP (18A) Thu 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 CONTAGION (PG) 4:20, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 FriSun 1:20, 2:10 mat DRIVE (18A) 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sun 3:00 mat HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) 7:20, 10:10 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A) 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 2:20 mat SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) 5:20 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:15 mat STRAW DOGS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 WARRIOR Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

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

COLOMBIANA (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 3:45 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:10 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:20 mat THE GUARD (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 9:25 THE HELP (PG) Thu 3:15 6:30 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:10 mat I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 4:30 7:20 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat KILLER ELITE (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 THE LION KING 3D Thu 4:20 6:45 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat MONEYBALL (PG) Fri 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 ONE DAY (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 SARAH’S KEY (PG) Thu 4:00 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat SECTOR 7 3D (14A) Thu 4:50 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat continued on page 88 œ

350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433 Please check tiff.net

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

APOLLO 18 (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 6:10, 8:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 12:50 3:40 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 CITIZEN KANE Sun 1:00 DETECTIVE DEE AND THE MYSTERY OF THE PHANTOM FLAME Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:20, 9:00 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10 Mon 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10

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SilverCity Fairview (Ce)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 Abduction Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 9:00 citizen kAne Sun 1:00 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:30 contAgion (PG) thu 1:30 4:00 6:40 9:25 Fri-wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 drive (18A) thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-wed 1:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 kiLLer eLite (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 the Lion king 3d thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-wed 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 the Lion king thu 1:40 moneybALL (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Mon-tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 9:40 Mon-wed 9:20 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (3d) (PG) thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:20 Fri, Mon-wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 Sat 3:55, 6:30 Sun 7:15 strAW dogs (14A) thu 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 the WiggLes: greAtest hits, in the round Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

SilverCity yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin St, 416-787-4432

Abduction Fri-wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 4:10 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 1:30, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 contAgion (PG) thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 doLphin tALe (G) Fri-wed 1:00 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri-wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 drive (18A) thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 the heLp (PG) thu 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 kiLLer eLite (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Monwed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 the Lion king 3d thu 4:00 6:45 9:20 Fri-wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 the Lion king thu 1:00 Fri-wed 1:40 moneybALL (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Monwed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 strAW dogs (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00

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

Abduction Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 ApoLLo 18 (PG) thu 9:35 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 8:50 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 3:50, 6:15 contAgion (PG) thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 doLphin tALe (G) Fri-Sun 1:20 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri-Sat 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 drive (18A) thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 the heLp (PG) thu, Mon-wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Sun 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:40, 3:50, 6:15, 8:45 Mon-wed 3:50, 6:15, 8:45

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kiLLer eLite (14A) Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 the Lion king 3d thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sat 3:40, 6:45, 9:15 Sun-wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:10 the Lion king Fri-Sun 1:30 moneybALL (PG) Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) 9:00 thu 3:45 mat, 6:20 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 5:00, 7:50, 9:55 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (PG) thu 4:10, 7:10 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 6:20 Mon-wed 3:35, 6:20 strAW dogs (14A) thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce) SCarborough town Centre, 416-290-5217

Abduction Fri-wed 12:50, 1:20, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 ApoLLo 18 (PG) thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 10:10 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 10:05 contAgion (PG) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 crAzy, stupid, Love. (PG) thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 finAL destinAtion 5 thu 1:00 4:00 7:00 10:00 Fri-wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 kiLLer eLite (14A) Fri-wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 the Lion king 3d thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 the Lion king thu 12:45 moneybALL (PG) Fri-wed 12:40, 1:00, 3:40, 4:10, 6:50, 7:20, 10:00, 10:30 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri, Mon-wed 1:10, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 7:30, 10:20 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 the smurfs (G) 1:05 thu 4:05, 7:05 3d sex And zen (R) thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 WArrior thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 the WiggLes: greAtest hits, in the round Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

eglinton town Centre (Ce) 1901 eglinton ave e, 416-752-4494

Abduction 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45 mat bAd teAcher (14A) thu 10:15 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 9:05 cAptAin AmericA: the first Avenger (PG) thu 4:25, 7:20 citizen kAne Sun 1:00 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-wed 6:25, 9:20 contAgion (PG) thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 crAzy, stupid, Love. (PG) thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:05 the debt (14A) thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 detective dee And the mystery of the phAntom fLAme 4:00, 6:35, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:10 mat doLphin tALe (G) 3:45 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat doLphin tALe 3d (G) 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat drive (18A) thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:05, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-wed 4:05, 6:30, 9:10 hArry potter And the deAthLy hALLoWs: pArt 2 (PG) thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:40 the heLp (PG) 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25 Mon-wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:25 kiLLer eLite (14A) 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:40 mat the Lion king 3d thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Mon-wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 moneybALL (PG) 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:35 mat rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 1:00, 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 Sat, Mon-wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 6:55, 9:55 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 7:15, 9:30 the smurfs 3d (G) thu 4:35 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (PG) thu 4:05, 6:25 Fri-Sun 1:25, 3:55 Mon-wed 3:55 strAW dogs (14A) thu 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-wed 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 the WiggLes: greAtest hits, in the round Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

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

ApoLLo 18 (PG) 4:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:45 mat bAd teAcher (14A) thu 9:25 bodyguArd (PG) thu 2:15, 5:35, 9:00 Fri-wed 6:55, 9:55 boL (14A) 2:05, 5:45, 9:30

coLombiAnA (14A) 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat coWboys & ALiens thu 4:30 10:05 Fri-wed 4:30, 9:55 creAture thu 10:25 the debt (14A) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:25, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 doLphin tALe (G) 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 10:30 mat doLphin tALe 3d (G) 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat don’t be AfrAid of the dArk (14A) thu 10:00 drive (18A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-wed 1:40, 4:15, 7:25, 10:00 fright night 3d thu 9:20 the guArd (14A) 1:45, 4:25, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat hArry potter And the deAthLy hALLoWs: pArt 2: 3d (PG) thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:55, 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 the heLp (PG) thu 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:15 FriSun 11:15, 12:30, 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:05 Monwed 2:30, 3:45, 5:45, 7:00, 9:00, 10:05 horribLe bosses (14A) 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45 mat Love in spAce 1:55, 7:05 thu 4:30, 9:40 mAusAm (PG) 2:30, 6:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat midnight in pAris (PG) thu 2:00, 4:20, 7:10 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:25 Mon-wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:25 my kingdom thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:10, 4:30, 9:40 Mon-wed 4:30, 9:40 operA AustrALiA: der rosenkAvALier Sat 2:00 our idiot brother (14A) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 sArAh’s key (PG) thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-wed 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (3d) (PG) thu 2:20, 4:35, 7:05 Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:35 Mon-wed 2:20, 4:35 strAW dogs (14A) thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun 11:35, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:35, 7:40, 10:30 Monwed 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 trAnsformers: dArk of the moon (PG) thu 3:35, 7:00 vAnthAAn vendrAAn thu 1:50, 5:25, 9:35 Fri-wed 1:30, 5:00, 8:15 WArrior Fri-wed 1:15, 6:55 the WhistLebLoWer thu 1:45, 7:20 Fri-Sun 11:05, 1:45, 7:15 Mon-wed 1:45, 7:15

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce) Square one, 309 rathburn rd w, 905-275-3456

Abduction Fri-Sun 12:40, 1:35, 3:20, 4:25, 6:30, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 Mon-tue 1:00, 1:35, 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 wed 1:35, 3:45, 4:25, 6:30, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 ApoLLo 18 (PG) thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-wed 9:00 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 9:00 cAptAin AmericA: the first Avenger 3d (PG) thu 9:10 citizen kAne Sun 1:00 contAgion (PG) thu, Mon-tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 contAgion: the imAx experience (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 drive (18A) thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 hArry potter And the deAthLy hALLoWs: pArt 2 (PG) thu 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 the Lion king 3d thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 the Lion king thu 1:45 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 1:40 4:20 7:15 10:05 Fri-wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 shArk night 3d (14A) thu, Mon-wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 the smurfs 3d (G) thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:20 Mon-wed 1:15, 3:40, 6:20 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (PG) thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:15 Fri-wed 1:10, 3:50 strAW dogs (14A) thu 1:20 4:30 7:20 10:10 Fri-wed 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 30 minutes or Less (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Monwed 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-wed 6:25, 9:35

Courtney park 16 (aMC)

110 Courtney park e at hurontario, 888-262-4386 Abduction 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:05 mat ApoLLo 18 (PG) thu 5:30, 10:25 bAd teAcher (14A) thu 10:20

bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00 the chAnge-up (18A) thu 2:55, 7:45 coLombiAnA (14A) thu-Fri, Mon-wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 11:15, 7:15, 9:50 Sun 11:15, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 conAn the bArbAriAn (18A) thu 5:10, 10:10 contAgion (PG) thu 2:00, 2:40, 4:30, 5:10, 7:00, 7:40, 9:30, 10:10 Fri, Mon-wed 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:20, 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 contAgion: the imAx experience (PG) 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat crAzy, stupid, Love. (PG) 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat the debt (14A) 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat doLphin tALe (G) Sat-Sun 11:30 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri-wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 drive (18A) 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 11:50 mat the heLp (PG) 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:10 mat kiLLer eLite (14A) 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat the Lion king 3d 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 the Lion king Sat-Sun 11:00 moneybALL (PG) 1:15, 2:05, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 8:00, 10:15 Fri 11:00 late Sat 11:00 mat, 11:00 late Sun 11:00 mat operA AustrALiA: der rosenkAvALier Sat 2:00 our idiot brother (14A) thu 3:45, 8:15 restLess (PG) thu 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:30 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-wed 2:40, 8:05 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 2:50, 7:55 strAW dogs (14A) thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 30 minutes or Less (14A) thu 1:40, 6:00, 10:30 WArrior thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:45, 5:05, 10:35 Mon-wed 5:05, 10:35

SilverCity MiSSiSSauga (Ce) hwy 5, eaSt oF hwy 403, 905-569-3373

Abduction Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 4:30 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 7:15, 9:50 crAzy, stupid, Love. (PG) thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-wed 6:40, 9:40 the debt (14A) thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 4:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 doLphin tALe (G) 3:50 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat doLphin tALe 3d (G) 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat drive (18A) thu 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 the guArd (14A) thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 the heLp (PG) 3:40, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat horribLe bosses (14A) 10:00 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 the Lion king 3d thu 3:30 7:10 9:30 Fri-wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:20 the Lion king Fri-Sun 1:00 the smurfs 3d (G) thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 the smurfs (G) 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:40 mat spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (3d) (PG) thu 3:50, 6:30 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:30 Mon-wed 4:00, 6:30 the WiggLes: greAtest hits, in the round Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

Abduction Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 cAptAin AmericA: the first Avenger (PG) thu 3:45, 6:25, 9:20 Fri 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:35 coLombiAnA (14A) thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri 1:25, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Sun 1:25, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:00 conAn the bArbAriAn (18A) thu 9:40 contAgion (PG) thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 contAgion: the imAx experience (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat doLphin tALe (G) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:00, 8:50 Monwed 3:30, 6:00, 8:50 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 don’t be AfrAid of the dArk (14A) thu 7:10, 9:45 drive (18A) thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Monwed 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 friends With benefits (14A) thu 3:55, 6:30, 9:10

hArry potter And the deAthLy hALLoWs: pArt 2: 3d (PG) thu 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:45 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 Mon-wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 horribLe bosses (14A) thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:25, 9:25 Mon-wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:25 kiLLer eLite (14A) 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat the Lion king 3d thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 moneybALL (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:20, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-wed 3:40, 4:10, 6:40, 7:15, 9:40, 10:20 our idiot brother (14A) thu 4:35, 6:55, 9:25 rise of the pLAnet of the Apes (PG) thu 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-wed 9:00 the smurfs (G) thu 3:30 spy kids: ALL the time in the WorLd in 4d (3d) (PG) thu 3:30, 6:20 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:50 Mon-wed 3:45, 6:10 strAW dogs (14A) thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 30 minutes or Less (14A) thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:35 trAnsformers: dArk of the moon (PG) thu 5:30, 9:00 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:05, 10:10 the WiggLes: greAtest hits, in the round Sat 1:00 Sun 4:00

interChange 30 (aMC)

30 interChange way, hwy 400 & hwy 7, 416-335-5323 ApoLLo 18 (PG) thu 5:00 10:00 Fri-wed 4:55, 10:00 SatSun 11:35 mat bAd teAcher (14A) thu 9:40 bridesmAids (14A) thu 7:10 bucky LArson: born to be A stAr (18A) thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 cAve of forgotten dreAms (G) 4:25, 7:05, 9:35 SatSun 11:40, 2:00 mat the chAnge-up (18A) thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Monwed 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 7:10, 9:55 Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 coWboys & ALiens thu 7:30 Fri, Mon-wed 7:15 Sat-Sun 2:10, 7:15 crAzy, stupid, Love. (PG) thu 4:20 7:00 9:45 Fri-wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat the debt (14A) thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Mon-wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 don’t be AfrAid of the dArk (14A) 4:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat finAL destinAtion 5 thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Fri, Mon-wed 7:30 Sat-Sun 2:15, 7:30 friends With benefits (14A) Fri-wed 7:15, 9:55 fright night 3d 4:45, 10:00 thu 7:20 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat the heLp (PG) thu 6:30 9:30 Fri-wed 6:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 3:10 mat i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 Fri, Mon-wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 midnight in pAris (PG) thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri, Mon-wed 7:20 Sat-Sun 2:05, 7:20 one dAy (PG) thu 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Mon-wed 4:20, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:35, 4:20, 9:45 operA AustrALiA: der rosenkAvALier Sat 2:00 our idiot brother (14A) 7:25 Sat-Sun 2:25 mat sArAh’s key (PG) thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 the smurfs (G) 4:35 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00 mat 30 minutes or Less (14A) Fri-wed 7:25, 9:40 zookeeper (G) thu 4:50, 9:55 Fri, Mon-wed 4:35 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:55, 4:35

rainbow proMenade (i)

proMenade Mall, hwy 7 & bathurSt, 905-764-3247 Abduction Fri-wed 1:00, 3:50, 7:05, 9:30 contAgion (PG) thu 1:20 4:00 7:10 9:30 Fri-wed 1:20, 3:45, 7:10, 9:20 the debt (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri-wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 drive (18A) thu 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:35 Fri-wed 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:05 the heLp (PG) thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 i don’t knoW hoW she does it (PG) 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 9:25 midnight in pAris (PG) thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:05, 9:10 moneybALL (PG) Fri-Sun, tue-wed 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35 Mon 4:00, 6:50, 9:35

west grande - SteeleS (Ce) hwy 410 & SteeleS, 905-455-1590

Abduction 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat coLombiAnA (14A) thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-wed 4:20, 7:25, 10:00 contAgion (PG) thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Mon-wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 9:30 doLphin tALe 3d (G) Fri 3:35, 6:15, 9:05 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 9:05 Mon 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 tue-wed 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 drive (18A) thu 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 SatSun 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 the heLp (PG) thu, Mon-wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 kiLLer eLite (14A) Fri 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 the Lion king 3d thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 Mon 4:00, 6:45, 9:05 tue-wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:15 the Lion king Sat-Sun 1:10 moneybALL (PG) Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 shArk night 3d (14A) thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:00 strAW dogs (14A) thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 WArrior thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 3

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scarborough malvern public library, 30 sewells (smpl); st lawrence north market, 92-95 front e (stln); st lawrence great hall, 157 king e (stgh); rainbow cinema, 80 front e (rc); tiff bell lightbox, 350 king w (tbl). commffest.com

thu 22-suN 25 – Commffest Global Community Film Festival program of more than 50 new films from communities around the world. $5-$15 per screening; $45 festival pass (excludes Oscar Micheau & closing night), Sat day pass $25. Some free screenings. thu 22 – Opening night: T O In 24 D: Dale Hildebrand. 6 pm (STLN). fri 23 – Children’s Film Festival: short animations. Noon. Wheels Of Change, Protect The Nation and Renascence. 1:10 pm. $5. Our Seniors shorts program and Brooks – The City Of 100 Hellos D: Brandy Yanchyk. 2:45 pm.

These Are Our Children D: Joanne Hershfield, Raising Our Voice D: Erin Wolfson and short films Mystic Dance and Diaspora. 5:30 pm.

Three Women D: Adriana Monti plus short films Viva Fitzrovia, Without Wings and Tanko Bole Chhe (The Stitches Speak). 7:30 pm.

TORA D: Wendy Ord and Glen Samuel, Land Lost, Culture Lost D: Daniel Lanctot, Red Dust D: Karin Mak, The Stars Know Our Home and Ubuntu. 9:15 pm. All screenings at RC. sat 24 – Oscar Micheaux: The Life Of America’s First Great Black Filmmaker, including Body And Soul (1925) and Within Our Gates (1919). $15 per film or $25 for both. Noon (RC). Words That Echo D: Alana McVerry, Grace D: Meagan Kelly and short film Farm To Fridge. Free. Noon (SMPL). Odd Number D: Marius van Straaten.

Free. 1:30 pm (SMPL). Dilli D: Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas, The Encounter D: Angela Matemotja and short film After The Shearing.

Free. 3 pm (SMPL). Here Comes The Wolf: The Pandemic Hoax D: Juan Jose Rendon, and short films One Breath, Fire Of The Final Days, What’s Up and Coalition Of The Willing. 4 pm (RC). Shed No Tears D: Kaitlyn Summerill, Determined D: Scott Scheirich and Spirit Of The Bluebird. 5:45 pm (RC). Hauling D: Sean Walsh and Leap D: Mark Hanson. 8 pm (RC). Student Shorts: The Big Smoke D: Kalen Artinian, Hitomi D: Manu De Smet, and others. 9:55 pm (RC). suN 25 – When The Middle Class Becomes Homeless D: Ron Craven, Cape Town – Mother City? D: Tresor Ilunga Mukuna. 11 am. Chasing Che D: Alireza Rofougaran. 1:25 pm. Rebirth Of The Hip Hop Nation D: Phala Herron Nazarine. 3:25 pm. All above at TBL. Closing night: Kanata: An Irish Story D: Eleanor McGrath. 6 pm (STGH).

cinemas camera bar 1028 Queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 24 – The Icicle Thief (1990) D: Maurizio Nichetti. 3 pm. Free.

cinematheQue tiff bell lightbox reitman sQuare, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

thu 22 -Wed 28 – See website for schedule.

fox theatre

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

thu 22 – Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) D: Ficarra and John Requa. 7 pm. ñGlenn

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

A Reel Asian repeat WHITE ON RICE (Dave Boyle) Rating: NNN If you missed White On Rice when it played the Reel Asian International Film Festival in 2009, this is your lucky week: it’s getting a free screening Saturday (September 24) at the Toronto Underground Cinema to mark Reel Asian’s 15th anniversary.

Dave Boyle’s dramedy charts the misadventures of a goofy divorcé who’s trying to put his life back together and courting a family friend who wants nothing to do with him.

At 40, man-child Jimmy (Hiroshi Watanabe) is sweet, socially inept and generally hapless. His advances to Ramona (Lynn Chen) come from a good place – he wants to start living again, and she seems to be the only woman he knows – but he can’t read her signals, and their non-relation-

ship drifts into increasingly uncomfortable territory.

Director and co-writer Boyle walks an awfully fine line between smiling indulgently at the antics of a fool and holding that fool up to outright mockery. But he’s cast his movie smartly. Watanabe remains appealing even when his actions are frustrating to watch, and in two key supporting roles, James Kyson-Lee and Joy Osmanski clearly relish the chance to do something a little different from the bit parts they usually wind up playing on shows like Heroes and Gray’s Anatomy.

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Forks Over Knives (2011) D: Lee Fulkerson.

9:15 pm. fri 23 – Crazy Stupid Love. 7 pm. Tree Of Life (2011) D: Terrence Malick. 9:15 pm. sat 24 – Cars 2 (2011) D: John Lasseter and Brad Lewis. 2 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 4:15 & 7 pm. Tree Of Life. 9:15 pm. suN 25 – Cars 2. 2 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 4:15 & 7 pm. Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times (2011) D: Andrew Rossi. 9:15 pm. moN 26 – Page One: A Year Inside The New York Times. 7 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 9 pm. tue 27-Wed 28 – Closed.

(2011) D: Michael Bay. 7 pm. sat 24-suN 25 – Bugs! 11 am, 1:30 & 4 pm.

Hubble 3D. 12:15 pm, 2:45 & 5:30 pm. Transformers! Dark Of The Moon. 7 pm.

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cbc building, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 22-Wed 28 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 22-fri 23 – Life Is A Highway, Part One. moN 26-Wed 28 – Life Is A Highway, Part Two.

national film board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheQue

thu 22-Wed 28 – More than 5,000 NFB films at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. sat 24 – Wildsound presents the Short Film Festival. 7 pm. Free. RSVP at wildsound.ca. tue 27 – Toronto Animated Image Society presents a retrospective of work by German animator Gil Alkabetz. 7 pm.

Wed 28 – Finding Farley (2009) D: Leanne Allison. 4 pm. Free. Nordic Nights and the Consulate of Iceland presents Jar City (2006) D: Baltasar Kormákur. 7 pm. $10.

ontario place cinesphere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com

fri 23 – Transformers! Dark Of The Moon

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

fri 23 – Batman Returns (1992) D: Tim Burton.

9:30 pm.

sat 24 – Reel Asian presents White On Rice

(2009) D: Dave Boyle. 7 pm. Free. Batman Returns. 9:30 pm. suN 25 – Koffler Gallery Off-Site presents On The Other Side..., live cinema with artist Gary James Joynes/Clinker. 7:30 pm. $12.

suN 25 – The 3D Film Festival. 4 pm. Great Car-

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ontario science centre

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

thu 22-fri 23 – Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 & 2 pm. sat 24 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1, 3, 4 & 8 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon, 2 & 7 pm. suN 25 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1, 3 & 4 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon & 2 pm. moN 26-Wed 28 – Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 & 2 pm.

the proJection booth

1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, proJectionbooth.ca.

thu 22 – No Heart Feelings (2010) D: Sarah Lazarovic, Geoff Morrison and Ryan J Noth. 7 pm. Most Fertile Man In Ireland (2000) D: Dudi Appleton. 9:30 pm. fri 23 – The Woodmans (2010) D: Scott Willis.

7 pm. sat 24 – Most Fertile Man In Ireland. 5 pm.

The Woodmans. 7 pm. Sinner (2007) D: Marc Benardout. 9 pm. suN 25 – Sinner. 5 pm. The Woodmans. 7 pm.

Most Fertile Man In Ireland. 9 pm. moN 26 – The Woodmans. 9:30 pm. tue 27 – The Woodmans. 7 pm. Sinner. 9 pm.

Wed 28 – Working Class Rock Star (2008) D: Justin McConnell. 8 pm.

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

thu 22 – Zecharia Sitchin: Will The Anunnaki Return (2008) video lecture. 7 pm.

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thu 22 – Attack The Block (2011) D: Joe Cornish. 7 pm. Chris Alexander’s Film ñ School Confidential: Prom Night (1980) D:

Nelson McCormack. 9 pm. fri 23 – Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 2 & 9 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010) D: Werner Herzog. 4 & 7 pm. sat 24– Cars 2 (2011) D: John Lasseter. 2 pm.

Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 4:15 pm. With Glowing Hearts: The #van2010 Social Media Story D: Jon Ornoy and Andrew Lavigne. 7 pm. $10. Midnight In Paris. 9:30 pm. suN 25 – Cars 2. 2 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 4:15 & 7 pm. The Tree Of Life (2011) D: Terrence Malick. 9 pm. moN 26 – Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 7 pm. The Tree Of Life. 9 pm. tue 27 – The Book Revue: Persepolis (2007) D: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi. 6:45 pm. $10-$12. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 9:30 pm.

Wed 28 – Page One: Inside The New York Times (2011) D: Andrew Rossi. 7 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 9 pm.

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

thu 22 – Page One: Inside The New York Times

(2011) D: Andrew Rossi. 7 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010) D: Werner Herzog. 9 pm. fri 23 – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles (2011) D: Jon Foy. 7 pm. Page One: Inside The New York Times. 9 pm. sat 24 – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. 7 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 9 pm. suN 25 – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. 4:30 & 9 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 7 pm. moN 26-tue 27 – Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 7 pm. Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. 9 pm.

Wed 28 – Resurrect Dead: The Mystery Of The Toynbee Tiles. 7 & 9 pm.

other films thu 22 –

Toronto Palestine Film Festival presents a tribute to Juliano Mer Khamis and the Jenin Freedom Theatre including screening of Honour, I Am Black As Well, Small Father and Majd. 4 to 6 pm. Free. OCADU, 100 McCaul, rm 327. tpff.ca/tpffs-campus-program. fri 23 – Toronto Socialist Action presents Rebel Films: Water Life (2009) D: Kevin McMahon. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, rm 2-212, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

Ontario Coalition Against Poverty presents Land Of Destiny (2010) D: Brett Story, about a cancer epidemic in a petrochemical town.

Q&A and social to follow. 6:30 pm. $5-$10 sliding scale. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. ocap.ca.

The International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers Timeless Message Tour presents For The Next 7 Generations, a film about the formation of the Grandmothers Council. Tsering Dolma Gyaltong and Beatrice Long Visitor Holy Dance in attendance. 7:30 pm. $16-$21. Unity Church, 173 Eglinton W. brownpapertickets.com/event/196498. sat 24 – Pleasure Dome presents Community Action Center (2010) D: AK Burns and AL Steiner, a video that explores the erotics of queer sexuality. Filmmakers in attendance. 8:30 pm. $8. St Anne’s Parish Hall, 651 Dufferin. 416656-5577, pdome.org. suN 25 – Toronto Film Society presents The Mouse That Roared (1953) D: Jack Arnold, and Make Mine Mink (1960) D: Robert Asher. 2 pm. $80 full season membership, $15 trial membership. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. torontofilmsociety.com.

Toronto Jewish Film Society presents Big Eyes (Einayim G’Dolot) (1974) D: Uri Zohar, plus a discussion with critic Shlomo Schwartzberg. 4 & 7:30 pm. $10-$15. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 70 Spadina. mnjcc.org. moN 26 – Short & Sweet presents short films, animation and music videos from around the world by Jazz Virk, Max Hattler, Charlie Graley and others. 8 pm. Free. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. shortandsweet.tv. tue 27 – Human Rights Watch and Friends of the ICC present Sounds Of Mumbai (2010) D: Sarah McCarthy. 7 pm. $12. Signy and Cléophée Eaton Theatre, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-5524.

Wed 28 – Gio Rana’s Really Really Nice Restaurant presents Opera Night at Gio’s, screening Verdi’s Rigoletto. 7:30 pm. $55 (includes dinner). 1220 Queen E. Reserve 416-469-5225, giorana@bellnet.ca.

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1971) D: Sam Peckinpah, w/ Dustin Hoffman, Susan George. Rating: NNNNN; Blu-ray package: none Don’t be taken in by the inferior remake currently in theatres. Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 original Straw Dogs, back out on Blu-ray, is the real deal, a complete shocker in its day and still a disturbing examination of the link between violence and masculinity.

David, an American mathematician (Dustin Hoffman), and his English wife, Amy (Susan George), rent a farmhouse near the remote village she left years ago. The local lads, led by her ex, Charlie (Del Henney), have

their eyes on her and don’t like him.

Tensions mount until a plot turn leads to an all-out attack on the farmhouse.

But it’s David and Amy’s marital discord that drives the movie. He’s busy with his research, she’s a bit bored and still drawn to Charlie, a rugged type. Peckinpah doesn’t paint a pleasant portrait of either one.

Hoffman and George turn in strong performances. He’s especially effective as he gradually works himself into survival mode.

This is a bare-bones edition, but there’s one on Criterion that has a commentary, a Peckinpah biography on the second disc and lots more good stuff.

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Wrecked (Alliance, 2011) D: Michael Greenspan, w/ Adrien Brody, Caroline Dhavernas. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN Wrecked boasts such pure visual storytelling that you could watch it with the sound off.

The sole survivor (Adrien Brody) of a terrible crash wakes up trapped in a car in the deep woods. He doesn’t remember who he is or how he got there.

Things get worse when he finally drags himself out of the car. Some of the things he encounters are hallucinations, but not all.

Brody spends most of the movie with his leg in a splint, crawling on his belly over rocky ground and revealing every nuance of the man’s inner life as he gradually dies of exposure. It’s an astonishing performance.

Director Michael Greenspan helps it along with crisp pacing and hugely inventive camera angles that keep things visually interesting but never sacrifice the emotional tone.

The extras offer interesting details about getting a car far into the woods, and Brody shares his thoughts on working with a cougar, eating bugs and doing dangerous stunts.

EXTRAS Four making-of docs. Widescreen. English, French audio. English subtitles.

Wars: The Complete Saga ñStar

(Fox) Creator: George Lucas, w/ Mark Hamill, Ewan McGregor. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNNNN In the unlikely event you’ve never seen them, the Star Wars movies consist of one good space opera for 10-to- 12-year-olds (Star Wars, 1977), two worthy sequels (The Empire Strikes Back, 1980; Return Of The Jedi, 1983), then three bloated and needless prequels (The Phantom Menace, 1999; Attack Of The Clones, 2002; Revenge Of The Sith, 2005). They’re all intergalactic adventures with mystic knights battling for and against an evil empire.

The extras mount up to 40 hours.

Each movie has two commentaries, one featuring creator George Lucas, the other various cast and crew members, plus plenty of interviews and making-of docs. New material

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(eOne, 2010) D: Jon Jones, w/ Richard Coyle, Claire Foy. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNNN

Lipwig (Richard Coyle) is sentenced to revitalizing a completely moribund postal system overflowing with millions of undelivered letters. The entire population is now using the Clacks, a sort of internet without electricity owned by the villainous Reacher Gilt (David Suchet). Setting up his escape, Moist encounters Adora Belle Dearheart (Claire Foy) and is smitten, despite her icy manner and sharp tongue.

The cast has great fun in high seriousness and arched-eyebrow mode,

You’ll find lots of deadpan silliness in this three-hour British miniseries based on one of Terry Pratchett’s novels about Discworld, a place that looks like rundown Victorian England where vampires, banshees, golems and the like live alongside regular humans.

Busted for fraud, con man Moist Von

shows up on discs seven, eight and nine. Seven and eight have deleted and extended scenes, concept art, props and costumes and more interviews dug up from the Lucasfilm archives.

Disc nine offers, among other things, over 90 minutes of Star Wars spoofs, including a hilarious Kevin Spacey impersonation of Christopher Walken auditioning for the role of Han Solo. Best of the disc is Star Warriors, a feature-length doc on members of the 501st Legion, a 4,000-strong association of fans who like to dress as Imperial Storm Troopers and apply their enthusiasm to charity work. Lucasfilm hand-picked 200 of them to march five and a half miles in the 2007 Rose Bowl parade in full armour.

EXTRAS Commentaries, making-of docs, more. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles. especially Suchet and Foy, who get to be nasty, and director Jon Jones creates some brilliant silent-movie-style dreams, with Moist awash in a heaving sea of letters.

Over an hour of extras and Jones’s amiable commentary provide a good look at the production.

EXTRAS Commentary, cast and crew interviews, bloopers, gallery, deleted and extended scenes. Widescreen.

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I am a 22-year-old college grad

who has been living at home for the last year. My parents are divorced, so I’ve gone back and forth from one place to the other. The other day, I was using my father’s computer, and the history came up on the search engine. It turns out that while I’m in the house, my father views pornography that involves incest fantasies. I felt quite disturbed by what I saw – it made me physically sick – and I’m wondering if I should continue to have a relationship with my father.

In a week, I start a new job in another country–so I can get away from him for a while and think about my options.

What should I do? Should I tell him that I know about it and I’m not interested in having a relationship with him any more? Do I tell my friends or family?

Should I trust what my gut is telling me and pack up, jump in a cab, and never talk to him again?

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There are people who are turned on by incest scenarios – hypothetical dads seducing hypothetical daughters, f ictional moms seducing f ictional sons – who are nevertheless revolted by the idea of actual incest, i.e., non-hypothetical fuck sessions with their own non-fictional family members. Many of these incest fetishists have sent me letters over the years, DAD, wondering what’s wrong with them. Or wondering what’s right with what’s wrong with them, I should say, as they’re turned on by incest fantasies but not, as they’re invariably re-

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lieved to add, by incest realities. So what gives?

It’s the thrill of violating a taboo, not a child; it’s the power dynamics that have been eroticized, not the parental dynamics – but that’s for another column.

You wrote, DAD, because you don’t know what to do about your dad.

Unless your father has given you reason to suspect that he actually wants to fuck you – unless f inding your dad’s porn helped you to identify a pattern of inappropriate behaviours on your father’s part with but one possible interpretation (he actually wants to fuck you) – let’s give your father the benefit of the doubt, shall we? Let’s assume that one of the many letters I’ve received from incest fetishists was written by your dad.

I’m operating under an assumption: again, that your father has never done anything that made you feel unsafe. If your discovery had led you to connect a bunch of deeply creepy dots, DAD, that’s surely something you would’ve mentioned in your letter. Which is why I’m not just urging you to give your father the benefit of the doubt, however revolting his taste in porn might be, but also to take what you found out about him and stuff it down the memory hole.

Don’t say anything to your father, DAD, or to anyone else. You no longer have to live with your father – or use his computer – and I see no need to terminate your relationship with him, or to go nu-

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was briefly dating someone until he was a huge asshole to me. I have since not had any contact with him. However, I have been Facebook stalking him and obsessing over pictures of the guys I assume he’s dating now. Why am I having such a hard time getting over him? Our relationship was so brief! He’s a major asshole!

2. It may help you to know that I lost

my virginity by being raped when I was 19. I started dating only last year, because I thought sex was scary and never wanted to feel like that again and/or make anyone else feel like that. (The guy who raped me went on to become a born-again Christian!) This guy is only the second person I’ve ever dated. Do you think that’s relevant?

3. I used to have stretched-out ear-

lobes. When I took my plugs out, I did get “earlabia,” but only for a few days, and then they closed up and no one really noticed.

Normal Earlobes Now 1. I can’t know for sure, but it sounds like you might still have feelings for this guy! Just a hunch!

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indeed it strikes me as relevant. You were violated and powerless during your very f irst sexual experience and now, 10 years later, your relationship ended in a way that left you feeling violated and powerless. Stalking your ex on Facebook gives you a feeling of power over him, NEN, but that power is bogus, stalking him is making you miserable, and it’s pushing back the date that you’re f inally over this guy. Knock it off.

3. You’ve given me hope for all the otherwise cute boys I see wandering around with stretched- out earlabia.

hIpsTer boys! Keep sTreTchIng your

earlobes! I’m a hipster girl and stroking the silky texture of a nice stretched-out set of earlobes gets me insanely wet.

And tongue-fucking a stretched piercing is enough to bring me most of the way to orgasm. If there are chicks with a kink for something, then surely there must be dudes who have a kink for it, too.

I stretched my own earlobes 20 years ago for mostly sexual reasons. I like the way it looks, but I did it primarily because I get off on having my ears fondled and licked. I figured that if someone licking the outside of my earlobe felt so good, imagine if someone could lick the inside of my earlobe! Now they can–and it’s bliss!

I’m not saying you have to change your mind, Dan, because YKIOBINMK – your kink is okay but it’s not my kink – but I was disappointed that you would come out so strongly against stretched- out earlobes. You’re always defending lesser kinks. Could it be that you were unaware of mine?

Yes, Ears Are Hot I know enough about sex – and enough about kink – to know that if something exists, someone out there somewhere is perving on it. And if a particular something is made of human f lesh and has a hole in the middle of it, someone out there somewhere is sticking f ingers, tongues, dicks or gerbils in it, making sex tapes while they do it and then posting the video on the World Wide Interwebs for all to enjoy.

Somehow it didn’t occur to me that there were earlabia fetishists out there, so I appreciate – kindasorta – you taking the time to clue me in. While I may disapprove of silky, stretched- out sets of earlabia, YEAH, I will defend to the death your right to tongue them.

you’re goIng To caTch hell for your

earlobe observation, but I have to add this: I worked with a young man who decided that gauging his earlobes to the max was a sexy thing to do. When the look got old, he took the plugs out.

Because of the size of the plugs, the holes in his ears would not close. He had to have them surgically cut and stitched, which made his ears look somewhat deformed.

The cost was $800, and it wasn’t covered by insurance.

Just Saying You’ve f illed me with despair for all the otherwise cute boys I see wandering around with stretched- out earlabia.

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