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I agree with Klein that at least from an environmental standpoint, the Liberals should get the nod. The Green Energy Act is the boldest policy on the environment we’ve seen in years. This is not only good for the planet, but it will also create jobs in Ontario.

I also agree with Klein’s point that taxes like the HST, although not very pleasant, pay for services we need.

The NDP actually wants to cut taxes on gasoline. This is a shame, because the NDP actually used to believe in strong environmental policy and in taxes. Now they are pandering to the low-tax crowd at the expense of the planet.

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Household heating, electricity and passenger car traffic together account for over one-third of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). Exempting power, heat and gasoline from the provincial portion of the Harmonized Sales Tax (HST), as the Ontario NDP proposes, would encourage Ontarians to use more of these high-GHG items. True, the NDP would freeze public transit fares. But, driving decisions are influenced more by gas prices than transit fares. The net effect of the NDP package for commuters would raise GHGs. The NDP is the “greenest party” only through orange-coloured glasses.

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Correcting the record

there’s a lot i could subjectively take issue with in Alice Klein’s piece, but one error of fact is significant and

should be corrected. New Democrats are not calling for a repeal of the Endangered Species Act. The caucus supported the bill when it was passed (one member dissented).

I’d also note that it’s misleading to argue that the cost of HST exemptions on fuel “would remove hundreds of millions of dollars that could be spent on green retrofits for those with low incomes or targeted to those many who really need assistance.”

The New Democrats’ plan would actually generate an additional $3 billion in annual revenue that will be invested in social housing, social assistance increases, tuition relief, transit, etc, by increasing corporate taxes ($2 billion in annual revenue) and cancelling the McGuinty/Harper agreement to give Ontario’s largest corporations a sales tax exemption when they entertain clients or buy gasoline.

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Lottery to choose who stays

reader tony di stasi thinks that Rob Ford is taking the right tack in focusing on spending (NOW, September 29-October 5). After all, Di Stasi says, “There is not enough revenue to cover all the people who come to Toronto, so maybe some will be discouraged and go elsewhere. You can leave if you don’t like the mayor.” Seems simple enough.

But perhaps a fairer idea would be a Toronto lottery: if you are lucky, you get to stay. If you aren’t, you take a powder. Proceeds from the lottery would be used to support services for those lucky winners allowed to stay in the lifeboat. I think I can hear Giorgio Mammoliti cheering already.

Geoff Rytell Toronto

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after reading what now magazine has to say about Rob Ford’s War On Toronto (NOW, September 15-21), I wonder if my neighbours ever read anything like this.

For me to obtain a NOW Magazine requires a bus ride, and I’m not exag-

gerating. That would be the same for the Globe and Mail. The Star, if I were to read it, would be a long walk away, whereas the Metro and the Fordfriendly Sun are available everywhere you turn. I often appreciate your editorials but would feel more encouraged to know that they were available to a wider demographic. Maybe you need more newspaper boxes.

Colin Anthony Toronto

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on adam giambrone’s suggestion that TTC users would be okay with a fare increase if it meant better service (NOW, September 22-28). Yeah, well, if the TTC doesn’t do something about the horrible lack of manners displayed by passengers, public transit may have even fewer riders. I’m surprised more fights don’t break out.

Nick Bird Toronto

Swatow no dining treat

yesterday i decided to treat myself to a birthday Chinese meal at Swatow. Sadly, it was anything but a treat. It was one of the worst Chinese meals I can remember. I chose to go to Swatow because it has been consistently rated highly by NOW. I left without finishing. Perhaps Swatow is due for some re-reviewing.

Nigel Ader Toronto

The first casualty of war

no one knows how they would behave when faced with the realities of war. Acts of cruelty and cowardice as well as charity, bravery and selfsacrifice show us the breadth of the human soul.

As World War II came to an end, Poland lay in ruin, its borders shifted, a fifth of the population dead, its cities flattened and its social fabric in tatters. Tragic stories like that of Jedwabne don’t sum up the efforts of the resilient and brave Poles.

Susan G. Cole calling Polish behaviour during World War II abominable (NOW, September 15-21) is incendiary and racist. Letter-writer Brian Stein’s defense of Cole’s sweeping generalization (NOW, September 22-28) smacks of the same dangerous ignorance.

Shamez Amlani Toronto

People power on Wall St.

i read most of our city’s newspapers, and there is a disturbing lack of coverage of the protests taking place on Wall Street. This protest is exactly the response that needs to happen. So many of our socio-political complaints are directed at systems at large, i.e., the nation state, the G8, the Man. But down on Wall Street, protesters point fingers at a specific culprit, and despite the accusations, despite the spectacle, there is little media attention while a security force violently constrains a populist movement.

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Talking Bach

great interview by carla gillis with Sebastian Bach (NOW Daily, September 28). Loved the way you included some video clips. Made the reader feel so close that we could actually hear the written words spoken. Thank you so much!

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i grew up with skid row. i was almost 16 when I went to see them in concert, wearing a Skid Row Tshirt and black miniskirt. I still remember Sebastian Bach coming out of the tour bus and my friend and I being the first to run over to him. He put his arms around us, so tall, so blond and beautiful, and talked to us about the concert, admired my T-shirt and smiled a lot.

I was struck by how genuine, kind and funny he was. It was amazing.

He still seems to be very much the same guy, so down-to-earth, so fun, and that fierce voice!

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A dialogue around the language of painting and the nature of the human psyche playfully unfolds in this installation of large-scale painted objects by Suzanne Nacha.

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Bach essentials: less wine

is sebastian bach still drinking heavily over past issues with his father? I’ve seen him here in Las Vegas. Just hoping he will let his hair grow longer, and no more freakin’ wine!

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Down with Ryan Adams

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joshua errett’s review of ryan Adams is disgraceful (NOW, September 29-October 5). Please tell me exactly what “bad” songs there are on Heartbreaker? Errett is alone in his weird opinion about this. Wouldn’t it be formulaic for Adams to just kept singing about the same messy breakups?

J. Adam Carter

Basics over sex ed

regarding tim hudak’s attack On Gay-positive Education (NOW Daily, October 3). Teaching kids that same-sex relationships are a normal part of life isn’t problematic at all, so long as it begins at an appropriate stage in their lives.

Sex ed probably shouldn’t begin until kids are in Grade 7 or 8.

Schools should focus on the basics first. Younger kids can’t even begin to grasp the complexities of relationships or sex.

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Media check What is it about Tim Hudak that makes him so unlikeable? The fact that he’s been parading his daughter, Miller, around as a political prop? His xenophobic remarks about “foreign workers”?

Or is it just that he’s living in the Dark Ages when it comes to gay rights? The mask on the socalled moderate conservative has fallen off. Not even the PCrabid Sun could bring itself to endorse Hudak. The highbrows at the National Post showed no such qualms, invoking the Libs’ decision to avoid a conflict with natives during the occupation in Caledonia as the rationale. Yeah, Timmy would have ordered in the cops, like the Tory government he was part of did in Ipperwash back in 95, and we all know how that ended.

Barometer Harm reduction

The Supreme Court of Canada dismisses the HarperCons’ court appeal to shut down Vancouver safe injection site Insite. Score one for human health over hysteria.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 12:30–1:30PM Lunchtime with Hank Williams, feat. J.D. & The Montgomery Chapter Talking turkey

More than 300 million turkeys are killed in the U.S. and Canada every year, 40 million for Thanksgiving dinners alone. You can celebrate with faux fowl instead. Try Tofurky this Thanksgiving.

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Barbie retires her pink chainsaw: toy maker Mattel announces it will stop buying paper products linked to rainforest destruction in Indonesia, thanks to Greenpeace.

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Set to release his family memoir, Running In The Family, Michael Ondaatje talked with NOW about why he was writing about the people in his past and at the same time evading his own history. In 2011, he’s changed his tune, releasing The Cat’s Table, just shortlisted for this year’s Giller Prize. In the novel, a boy travels in the 50s from Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) to London – something Ondaatje himself did. And the protagonist’s name?

Michael. (Page 7 of the issue.)

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Garbage privatization Toronto moves one step closer to privatizing waste pickup west of Yonge, receiving bids from five companies of $17 to $25 million, casting some doubt on the $8 million savings projections.

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Early days still, but talk of a big box, or possibly a condo, on the edge of Kensington Market at Bathurst south of College equals nervous times for local biz and avant garde sensibilities.

Road tolls

Suburban councillors, a few progressives among them, join the Fordists to kill a motion to study road tolls for 905ers on the DVP and Gardiner.

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Mighty wind Talk of green jobs has put wind in the Liberals’ sails, but in some parts of rural Ontario the arrival of jumbo-jet-sized turbines has kicked up major blowback this election. Enviros say a small, vocal group of anti-wind activists backed by nuke interests (and PC ones, too) are stirring up myths about health impacts.

Do criticisms of wind pass the sniff test? By ENZO DiMATTEO

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Is wind viable? The short answer is it’s the fastest-growing source of energy worldwide (See numbers on this page). The long answer is that we have little choice if we’re going to wean ourselves off nukes and coal.

Tech to store wind energy on a huge scale is still a few years away. But that doesn’t mean wind can’t be used it when it’s available.

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“Insubstantial” is the word used by enviros to describe the impacts of wind turbines on bats and birds. Buildings, power lines and cats, they point out, kill far more. There have been mistakes with siting in the past (Wolfe Island), but modern wind farms take wildlife impacts into account.

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Anti-wind activists say the arrival of wind turbines in Ontario communities is forcing people from their homes. The reality: often, those being “forced” from their homes are selling to the companies pushing wind projects. Studies suggest property values around wind farms go up for the majority of homeowners and that annoyance over turbines is linked to whether or not a person stands to gain financially from them.

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On the health front, the arguments come down to perception versus reality. The reality: the Ontario Medical Officer of Health and World Health Organization say there’s no scientific data showing impacts on human health from lowfrequency sound or electromagnetic fields generated by turbines. The perception: anecdotal evidence suggests that shadow flicker from turbines may affect those who are light-sensitive and people with epilepsy.

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X-raying the budget We need a budget officer to give us numbers we can trust By ADAM GIAMBRONE

with the core services review taking up so much space, it feels like the city budget process is just one continuous happening these days.

But budget season is just beginning, and what a flawed project it is.

The biggest problem is the cynicism and lack of trust it generates in a city we like to think of as high on the participatory scale.

First we start with city staff floating a large negative number: a $500 million to $700 million shortfall. Besides the fact that the current mayor’s office prefers the large negative because it prompts a false crisis only solved by dismantling city functions, it’s also true that city bureaucrats generally prefer to offer worst-case scenarios.

It’s not that staff can’t count. It’s that they know the figures are going to be made public and that they will have a much harder time adjusting numbers upwards if the situation changes than reducing them downwards. So they take the safer route.

The figures are also unreliable because revenue projections – from development charges, user fees, etc – are intentionally underestimated and efficiency measures enacted in previous budgets not counted, despite the fact that they continue to generate savings. One way of countering the

skepticism that arises when no one is confident the numbers are real is to start the whole process with last year’s revised numbers as the base.

But there are other ways to get rid of the accounting drama. We could look to what other large governments do to insure financial transparency.

Both the Canadian and U.S. federal governments have independent structures that evaluate budget figures and provide unbiased ledgers.

In Canada, this function is performed by the parliamentary budget officer (currently Kevin Page), an office established as part of the Accountability Act and reporting to Parliament as a whole, not to the government or any party. In the U.S., the congressional budget office provides non-partisan evaluation of numbers, and despite the country’s divisive politics, the CBO’s numbers are rarely criticized.

Toronto already has three accountability officers – the integrity commissioner, the auditor general (who reviews spending after the fact) and the lobbyist registrar – who are all fully independent and report to council. It seems that now is the time to consider adding a budget officer to ensure that council and the public get numbers free of political intervention or manipulation. It’s hard to

ask people to give their views on managing the budget if no one believes in the figures.

One thing that would be interesting to explore is giving more powers to community councils to make limited decisions on tailoring spending priorities in their areas, instead of the one-size-fits-all approach that frustrates many across the city.

But if inflated numbers have an authenticity problem, so does the way the opportunity for citizen feedback is organized. The current process allows only two minutes (five in theory) for presenters to offer their ideas, not enough to lay out any complex idea, and while the consultations are open to everyone, they exclude people who can’t take a day off work or stay up all night. If you watched the deputations two weeks ago, you could tell they didn’t represent Toronto’s dynamic mix.

The current attempt to rush resident participation just isn’t an honest check-in system. In today’s busy world, a municipal government should also be proactive about soliciting opinions by way of information and feedback sessions at community events and drop-in zones, with feedback opportunities at subway stations, even in malls.

In 2008 and 09, when the TTC went to retail centres across the city to consult around the Transit City expansion program, it received a very different perspective. Instead of engaging people who self-select to attend public meetings, this effort reached a much wider demographic.

If a similar process were conducted months ahead of a budget deadline and included an extensive program of online consultation – and perhaps limited city-wide polling – we would have a more informed citizenry in addition to hearing from voices often missed.

In the end, council has to commit to the philosophy of open and transparent decision-making, more citizen input and better numbers. It’s the only way services will accurately reflect what Torontonians value. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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Kablooey, it’s all over The city’s electoral map is about to get more complicated for Ford & Co mark today, thursday, october 6, on your calendar. It’s the day everything will change for Rob Ford.

Whatever the outcome of today’s provincial election, it won’t be the one Robo was banking on.

I don’t think I’m going out on a limb here by saying there’s no hattrick in the offing, no PC win for Tim Hudak’s hordes in Election 2011, and therefore no big stick for Ford to beat council over the head with. So that plan of his to cut council in half may have to wait.

The double dose of bad news for Ford: another Liberal majority doesn’t seem to be completely out of the question either, with EKOS and Ipsos polls released Tuesday saying the Grits have widened their lead over the PCs by some nine points. We may still see a last-minute shift to the PCs keeping things close, but however the vote splits, locally it’s between the Libs and the NDP, and it’s not going to favour Ford.

After the foothold won by lefties in pockets of the inner burbs and parts of Scarborough during the spring federal election, the city’s electoral map is only going to get more complicated for Ford & Co. The hoped-for breakthrough for Hudak’s PCs ain’t going to happen in T.O. as it did for their counterparts federally.

No amount of fear-mongering over a Lib-NDP coalition will change that.

Indeed, the horrifying prospect for some of the mayor’s most trusted allies is that they’ll wake up Friday (October 7) to find themselves politically isolated, representing ridings in which both the provincial and federal government reps are NDPers. Egad.

The most intriguing of these is council speaker Frances Nunziata in York South-Weston, where one-time NDP incumbent Paul Ferreira is looking to follow Mike Sullivan’s win for the NDP federally.

There’s double Dipper trouble for the Fordists in Davenport, too, where

Councillor Cesar Palacio, the chair of the licensing committee and the cat who has been playing a mean Esqueleto to the mayor’s Nacho Libre, is seeing orange these days over the NDP’s rising fortunes. There, Jonah Schein seems a sure thing after Andrew Cash’s big win federally.

This isn’t to suggest that Nunziata and Palacio will all of a sudden start balking at Ford’s austerity agenda. They’re two of the mayor’s staunchest supporters.

But it would be wise for them to start re-evaluating their blindly-going-where-Ford-leads routine if they don’t want to find themselves at the wrong end of the NDP party machine in the next municipal election.

Nunziata is already feeling the heat.

Ford service cuts have been a big issue at the door in her have-not riding, the second-poorest in the province. The Good Jobs For All Coalition recently papered the area with flyers over the city’s plans to privatize 43 cleaning jobs at police stations. Nunziata got an earful from residents about that.

By ENZO DiMATTEO The pressure of the shifting political tides is making an impression on the one-time Liberal. Don’t want to read too much into the fact that Nunziata lost a number of challenges to her rulings at council’s special meeting to debate the service cuts September 26.

But it is noteworthy that her riding mate, Councillor Josh Colle, who represents the other half of York South-Weston, has taken to being on the opposite side of Nunziata on a host of votes lately.

That was indeed an F-bomb launched Colle’s way by Nunziata during an aside on the council floor recently.

Mushy-middler Colle, who’s been out on the hustings with his pops, Grit MPP Mike Colle, has been hearing the blowback over the Ford cuts firsthand, and it seems from his voting record in recent weeks that he’s begun the delicate task of distancing himself from the Ford camp.

Similar political dynamics are at work in Scarborough Southwest and Scarborough-Rouge River, two other seats taken by the NDP federally and currently represented on council by Ford allies Michelle Berardinetti and Chin Lee respectively.

Both have been solid supporters of the mayor. But any scenario involving a Lib or NDP win in their ridings will have a major bearing on where they stand from next week on.

That’s especially true for Berardinetti if husband Lorenzo, the Grit MPP for Scarborough Southwest, is returned to power. That axe the mayor has been holding over her head, aka Ford Nation, all of a sudden disappears. Berardinetti may be willing to continue to play ball with Ford’s crew, to keep her finger on the pulse of power, as it were, but I hear the

deal she struck with Ford in return for seats on the exec and budget committee has an expiry date.

Arguably, the recent desertion of Ford by a host of (so-called) Liberal councillors over proposed service cuts began when successive polls started showing there’d be no Hudak government in the Pink Palace.

Some of the same Tories who helped Beaches-East York councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon get elected, for example, are now bumphing for the Liberal candidate in her riding.

Say what you will about there being no party politics at the local level, the reality is that there’s no escaping it.

Toronto is the creature of the province, which may in part explain why the mayor has remained uncharacteristically quiet during this election, being careful not to side with any party but simply saying he’ll support whoever’s prepared to do most for the city.

On that front, interestingly, Ford has been voting with the majority on council, asking the province, for example, for a more equitable costsharing arrangement on public transit, not to mention daycare.

That’s a startling reversal for the guy who keeps talking about Toronto having a spending problem, not a revenue problem.

Maybe it’s a sign of normalcy setting in? Hard to know for sure. Doubtless, everyone on council is anxious to put this, the third election in a year, behind them and get on with the business of governing. Whatever government occupies Queen’s Park, there’s no assurance, facing a $15 bil deficit, that they’ll be in a position to do much for Toronto.

The real pushing and shoving may just be getting started at City Hall.

After all, that non-existent “gravy” the mayor insists can be found may turn out to be not just service cuts, but thousands of layoffs as well. We’ll see how well that flies in the new political reality.

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Crashing Wall St new york city – everybody has a piece of advice for the protesters at Occupy Wall Street. They should put their clothes on. They should stop raising their fists. They should factcheck their handwritten signs. They should appoint leaders who can give pithy quotes to reporters. They should get with an electoral program.

Indeed, their failure to present demands is the most frequently heard criticism of the OWS protesters, not just in the mainstream press but from veteran leftists as well. What do these wan, angry young people want anyway?

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suggested by OWS’s policy advisers in the blogosphere are not worthy ideas. At a time when we desperately need to rein in financial speculation and change the incentives on Wall Street, a financial transactions tax is a terrific policy proposal.

The thing is, we don’t have a scarcity of policy ideas. We are positively bursting with them. Create a housing trust fund! A national infrastructure bank! And, yes, sure, eliminate the carried interest loophole so fat cats don’t get a bigger tax break than working people. (Some even have more radical ideas, which are quite sensible, too.)

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Brilliant but leaderless anti-bank action could succeed where organized demos failed By BETSY REED

Occupy Wall Street protest may not have central demands, but it’s the perfect response to the economic mess created by the financial sector.

for these ideas, which then fade away or are hopelessly watered down. We simply lack the power to put them into practice.

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turned out thousands of protesters on the appointed day, presented the administration of Mayor Bloomberg with a proposal that exhibited great thoughtfulness in its rigour, asking banks to take a 20 per cent cut in their contracts to handle functions like child support disbursements or income tax remittances for the city.

This would have saved $120 million, part of $1.5 billion that could have been extracted from the banking sector to prevent the city from having to slash education and social services, according to the coalition.

The May 12 marchers were many things the OWS protesters are not.

They were orderly; they were concrete: they had a plan. But needless to say, the Bloomberg administration did not immediately recognize their plan’s superior logic. It was such a non-starter that the city didn’t even bother to respond to it.

Or consider another very wellthought-out mass action in the age of Obama: the One Nation Working Together for Jobs, Justice and Education mobilization, which brought 175,000 thousand to Washington, DC, on October 2, 2010. They also came brandishing a plethora of proposals. Shortly thereafter, of course, would come the devastating midterm elections and President Obama’s cave on the Bush tax cut extension.

One Nation was almost entirely eclipsed by both Glenn Beck’s ragefest a month prior and Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s jokey Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear later the same month.

Of course, we need policy ideas.

But sometimes, you also need a spark. Occupy Wall Street is a stroke of brilliance. It’s not poll-tested or focus-grouped, but it expresses perfectly the outrage that is the appropriate response to the maddening political situation we find ourselves in today. It succeeds as symbolic politics: taking back the square is just what we need to do.

Maybe this will go nowhere, too.

The odds are against it, after all. But what do we have to lose?

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Leafy letdown City’s tree canopy goal falls to Ford’s axe By BEN SPURR when rob ford took office, the nightmare scenario was that he would leave four years later having done so much damage that the city would take years to recover.

Only 10 months into his rule, suddenly our leafy canopy is in the balance. Lost in the budget debates that saved libraries and late-night buses was a significant council decision to stall the urban forest plan so passionately promoted by the former regime. And now the self-styled “city within a park” may become a bit more city and a lot less park.

On recommendations from KPMG, the ambitious goal to double Toronto’s tree cover by 2050 has been put off. While the Urban Forestry department

is expected to present a revised timetable before the end of the year, the inevitable result of council’s decision is not only that fewer trees will be planted in parks and on streets, but the cash for maintenance will also dwindle, meaning fewer trees will survive.

Couple that with the invasion of the emerald ash borer – LEAF estimates that the city will lose nearly all of its 860,000 ash trees, 8.4 per cent of the entire canopy, by 2017 – and we may not see significant growth in the urban forest for at least a decade.

“Toronto was seen as a leader because of that

target,” says LEAF’s Janet McKay. “It’s very discouraging for council to be making a decision like this when we are facing the emerald ash borer. Now more than ever, we need to protect what we have.”

Councillor Mary-Margaret McMahon is equally dismayed. “We have a serious air quality issue, with 1,800 people dying prematurely yearly. We’re going to suffocate ourselves if we don’t stick to our goal.”

Indeed, it was the benefits of carbon and pollution capture that motivated council to set a target increasing tree cover from 17 per cent in 2005 to 30 to 40 per cent by 2050.

Expansion of the Urban Forestry Ser vices budget was approved in 2009, ramping up funding from $31 million to $43 million.

The results were immediate. In 2010 the department planted 14,000 large-caliper trees, up significantly from only 6,000 a year earlier. They also planted some 100,000 smaller trees and shrubs,

and enhanced proactive maintenance programs.

The manager of forest renewal, Beth McEwen, is currently seeking $80 to $90 million in emergency funding to deal with the ash borer, but whether she’ll get it is unclear. Even if the city coughs up the money, the official plan is to replace only 344,000 of the 860,000 ash trees that will die as the insect works its way across Toronto over the next 10 years. The rest are smaller plants in untended forests that will be left to rot.

“The growth of the canopy is probably going to flatline or even drop” until the ash borer plague plays itself out, predicts McEwen.

For her part, Councillor McMahon is trying to organize community stewardship programs, but ultimately she’s hoping council will reconsider scrapping the timeline before the final budget decision. “In my mind it’s not over,” she says. “It can’t be over.”

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The package may say “grain-fed,” but some eggs come from hens fed slaughterhouse by-products.

By ADRIA VASIL

Are eggs vegetarian?

Ever come across an image that changed the course of your life? For me, as a tender teen, all it took was a filmed scene in a chicken factory to turn me off eating land-roamers forever.

I know, I know – vegans will grimace at those of us still consuming eggs over easy, scrambled or baked into muffins, and, in turn, vegetarians will argue that no animal died to give us those yolks.

And they’re right – eggs aren’t aborted chickens, but remarkably tasty chicken periods. But what vegetarians might not know is that a lot of hens are being fed slaughterhouse byproducts when we’re not looking.

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Yep. So while those raising ruminants like cows are now banned from feeding them other cows, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it’s okay to feed approved chicken bits to chickens. And just so you know, the CFIA says a producer can claim “vegetable-grain fed’’ on the product label as long as the feed is just 85 per cent grain. The other 15 per cent can be animal by-products.

FYI, industry groups concede that animal protein can be contaminated with heavy metals, cancer-linked dioxins and pesticides, though the CFIA says feed is inspected for such contaminants.

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Thursday, October 6

Benefits

CourageouS living (Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness) Conference for women with a talk by FedEx president Lisa Lisson. 7 pm. $49-$69. Capitol Theatre, 2492 Yonge. allwomen.biz.

Events

the arnold party Celebrate young profes-

sionals who volunteer in the arts with live music, burlesque dancing and more. 8:30 pm. $125, artists/arts workers $80. Carlu, 444 Yonge. businessforthearts.org. burmeSe theravada buddhiSm Introductory talk. 7 pm. Free. Art Square Gallery, 334 Dundas. theeastgallery.com.

a ConCiSe hiStory oF Canadian painting

Writer Dennis Reid discusses the new edition of his book on Canadian art. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register torontopubliclibrary.ca.

CritiCal perSpeCtiveS on 9/11: reFleCtionS on the September 2011 toronto hearingS

Science for Peace lecture by anthropology professor Richard B Lee. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca.

day oF the viCtimS oF State terroriSm

Screening of The Trial, a documentary about the Cuban Five, with speakers including Zafar Bangash. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. torontoforumoncuba.weebly.com.

greenbuild international ConFerenCe & expo Speakers, educational sessions, green

building tours, seminars, networking and more. To Oct 7. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. greenbuildexpo.org.

HhalloWeen haunt Monsters, live shows, mazes, chilling rides and more. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays (and Halloween). To Oct 31, 7 pm-midnight. $30-$36. Canada’s Wonderland, 9580 Jane (Vaughan). 905-832-7486, haunt.canadaswonderland.com.

imago urbiS: rome and kyoto betWeen myth and hiStory Illustrated lecture by Francesco Lizzani and Laura Ricca. 6:30 pm. Free.

Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-9213802.

it’S about time: a journey through time in phySiCS Astronomy talk by Sergei Ossokine and telescope observing. 8:10 pm. Free. Mc-

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Festivals this week

Canada SalSa CongreSS Performances

by more than 30 international dance companies, workshops, competitions, live music and more. $15-$345. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. 416-656-7837, canadasalsacongress.com.

Oct 6 to 10 Canadian FeStival oF Spoken Word Performances by d’bi.young, Robert Priest, Evalyn Parry and others plus slam competitions and workshops. $5-$20, pass $40.

Various venues. torontopoetryslam.com.

Oct 11 to 15 de ColoreS FeStival New works by LatinCanadian playwrights including Ari Belathar and Martha Chaves. $12-$15, pass $28. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie.

416-652-5442, alamedatheatre.com.

Oct 6 and 7

indigenouS reSiStanCe doCumentary FeStival Films of relevance to First Na-

tions in Latin America produced by native communities and the organizations that work with them. Pwyc. Various venues. info@barrio-nuevo.org.

Oct 12 to 17 rmonSter Monster-themed activities for kids five to 12 include puppetry, storytelling, art and making a monster movie.

Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Oct 8 to 10

Revenge​Of​​ The​Electric​Car​​ screens​at​​ Planet​In​Focus.

rplanet in FoCuS International environ-

mental film and video festival with screenings, industry panels, workshops and a youth program. $5-$12, passes $40-$130.

TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W), Miles Nadal JCC (750 Spadina), Royal Ontario Museum (100 Queen’s Park). planetinfocus.org.

Oct 12 to 16

continuing abilitieS artS FeStival Celebration of dis-

ability arts and culture with dancer Peggy Baker, photographer Vincenzo Pietropaolo, filmmaker Lawrence Jackman and much more. Various venues and prices, some events free. abilitiesartsfestival.org.

To Oct 30

Lennan Physical Labs, rm MP 202, 60 St George. astro.utoronto.ca. mental health day roundtable Discussion on meeting Latin America and the Caribbean’s growing mental health challenges with MD Jorge Rodriguez. 3 pm. Free. Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, rm 801, 250 College.

Pre-register katherine_lo@camh.net.

sauga). fiona.ryder@mississauga.ca. yiddiSh vinkl Moish Kanatkin reads his story Mi Ken Nisht Essen Kanada in Yiddish and English. Noon. $16 (includes lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. Pre-register yiddishvinkl@ yahoo.ca.

nunavut devolution: Why Won’t ottaWa negotiate? Presentation by mediator/negoti-

Danforth. 416-466-2129.

ator Tony Penikett. 1 pm. Free. Munk School, 1 Devonshire. arcticsecurityprogram-eorg. eventbrite.com. rhythmS oF reSiStanCe toronto Orientation session for people interested in being part of Toronto’s social change soundtrack. 6 pm.

Free. Details at rortoronto@gmail.com. rriCk riordan Evening of activities, costumes and treats celebrating Riordan’s new book, The Heroes Of Olympus, Book Two: The Son Of Neptune. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Yorkdale, Dufferin and hwy 401. chapters.indigo.ca. theatre oF the oppreSSed Participatory workshop on using theatre as a tool for personal and social change. 6-9 pm. $40, stu $30 (sliding scale); full series $110, stu $75. Venue tba. Register branchouttheatre@gmail.com.

the War oF 1812: Why Canada iS not a u.S. State Talk by professor Ken Weber. 7 pm. Free.

Maja Prentice Theatre, 3650 Dixie (Missis-

you don’t have to Stand alone againSt gmoS Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348

Friday, October 7

toronto ChoColate FeStival A chocolate

show, the Chocolate Ball Gala, a high tea and more. torontochocolatefestival.com.

To Oct 23 toronto paleStine Film FeStival Features, shorts and documentaries plus panel discussions with Palestinian directors and actors. $7-$10. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W), Art Gallery Of Ontario (317 Dundas W), Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Beit Zatoun (612 Markham). tpff.ca.

To Oct 7 WordS and imageS Theatre, films, music, book launches and art promote Latin American culture in the city. Most events free. Various venues. wordsandimagesfestival.com.

To Nov 19 ate greed. 5 pm. Berczy Park, Front and Yonge. occupyto.ca. older lgbt SoCial Gathering for LGBT people 55 and over living in North Toronto. 2 pm.

Free. Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto, 140 Merton. 416-481-0669 ext 332. ryom kippur Secular Jewish New Year celebration with musicians Marilyn Lerner and David Wall. 7:30 pm. $50, child $20. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-789-5502.

Saturday, October 8

Benefits

an evening With Suzie vinniCk (Self-Help Resource Centre) Vinnick performs with openers the Lost Boys, plus food and a silent auction. Doors 7 pm. $40. 519 Church Community Centre. etickets.to/buy/?e=7262.

Events

debtoCraCy Rebel Films screening and talk

with CAW economist Jim Stanford. 7 pm. $4.

OISE, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada. blogspot.com. diStillery art market Outdoor market of artists, craftspeople and food artisans plus Artscape studio tours. Fri to Sun and holiday Mondays to Oct 16. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. torontoartscape.on.ca. oCCupy toronto Planning meeting for the Oct 15 financial district demo against corpor-

Benefits

City lightS (Youth in Time) Entertainment by Tanika Charles & the Wonderfuls, Ian Kamau and others supports young adults facing cancer. Doors 7 pm. $30, adv $25. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. 647-866-0245.

Events

bootblaCk 101 Workshop with McG. 3-7 pm.

Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Contra danCe Beginners class and dancing to live music by Dire Ducks. 7 pm. $10. St Barnabas Anglican Church Hall, 175 Hampton. tcdance.org. drop-in diy bike repair Bring your bike and they’ll provide the space and tools. Pwyc plus parts (sugg $7/hr). Evergreen at the Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca.

rFall ColourS Celebration Guided walks, a farmers’ market, photography workshop, kids’ activities and more. To Oct 10, 10 am-4 pm. $9, stu/srs $6.50, kids under 5 free. Kortright Centre, 9550 Pine Valley Dr (Woodbridge).

905-832-2289. rhaWk WatCh Family nature Walk Walk to witness fall raptor migration. 10:30 am. $2.

High Park Forest School, S of main entrance off Bloor. highparknaturecentre.com.

Wet-moulded leather maSk-making Workshop with leather worker/costumer Adam Smith. 11 am-4 pm. $50. Site 3, 718R Ossington. Pre-register site3.ca. rWooFjoCkS agility team See demos of today’s most popular canine sports. Today noon-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-3 pm. Free.

PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca. yoga at the threShold oF aCtiviSm Talk on how we can turn yoga and meditation into a force for social and political hope. 6 pm. $10.

Octopus Garden, 967 College. 416-515-8885.

Sunday, October 9

Events

an enChanted evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. Free w/ donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. high park Seed ColleCting/nurSery Cleanup High Park Stewards session. 10:30 am. Free. Grenadier Café, High Park. highparknature.org.

mary piCkFord’S bike pathS in old toron-

to Urban ecology walk. 6:15 pm. Free (bikes welcome). Osgoode subway. 416-593-2656. media Strategy 101 Tools for Change workshop for activists on getting your message across. 11 am-5 pm. Pwyc ($10-$20 sugg). U of T St George campus. Pre-register toolsforchange.net/2011/08/14/mediastrategy-101.

Monday, October 10

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jeSSie montana’S trail oF the WhippoorWill: FeminiSt and naturaliSt equeStrian hike Urban ecology walk. 2 pm. Free.

College and Dovercourt. 416-593-2656. thankSgiving CruiSe Dinner cruise with a Thanksgiving menu. 6:30 pm. $73. Oriole, Pier 6, foot of York. mariposacruises.com.

Tuesday, October 11

Benefits

Stand up! For Women in Film (Octavia

Films) Comedy benefit to promote women in independent film with Rhiannon Archer, Desiree Lavoy, Ward Anderson, Allison Dore and Eric Andrews. 7:30 pm. $20. Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. octaviafilms.com.

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Hall (60 Simcoe). $39.50-$149.50. 416872-4255.

Former U.S. VP Al Gore, who kickstarted the anti-climate-change SuPPort PEaCE thEatrE movement with a pointer and a If you want peace, the best screen, hits Toronto with anstrategy is to get the kids other sure-to-be mind-alonside – early. That’s pretering multimedia presentacisely the mandate of Chiltion, Our Choice: A Plan To dren’s Peace Theatre, to Solve The Climate Crisis. create a culture of peace by And not a moment too engaging children and soon, as global warming youth through the practice fades from the political of the stage arts, mining the agenda. Gore offers his concerns of young planet-saving advice people in collaboraOctober 13, 8 tions with theatre Al Gore speaks pm, at Roy at Roy Thomson professionals. The Hall October 13.

Thomson group holds a sion on caring for ailing and elderly parents with authors Lisa Genova and Evelyn Jack. 7 pm. Free. Weston Prince, 900 York Mills.

416-444-2511.

CyCling in india Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free.

Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Pre-register 416-345-9726.

ElizabEth MEyEr: SuStaining bEautiES 2.0

The landscape architect lectures on aesthetics as an ecosystem service. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T, rm 103, 230 College. 416-978-5038.

Fall/WintEr gardEning Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc lecture. 7:30 pm.

Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org.

Finding an audiEnCE For your Work Playwright David S Young offers tips for getting books published. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

MothEr MEEra’S SilEnt blESSing (dar-

Shan) The Indian spiritual healer offers blessings. 10 am, 2 or 6 pm. Free. Radisson Admiral Toronto Harbourfront, 249 Queens Quay W. meremeeradarshancanada.com/en.

Planning For thE FuturE With aging

Workshop on personal finance. 7 pm. Free.

North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416395-5535. ronCESvallES grEEn drinkS Networking group for green-minded folks. 5:30 pm. Free.

Fat Cat Wine Bar, 331 Roncesvalles. greendrinks@gmail.com.

Star talkS: karEn kain The dancer and National Ballet artistic director talks with journalist Michael Crabb. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. toronto babEl Practice a new language and meet people from around the globe.

7:30 pm. Free. Rivoli (upstairs), 332 Queen W. meetup.com/torontobabel.

fundraiser Wednesday (October 12), 8 pm, at the El Mocambo (464 Spadina) featuring music by the great jazz trumpeter Brownman Ali, guitarist Tim Bovaconti, DJ Danny Dwyer and more. $20, advance $15.

416-752-1550.

tElling oFF bay StrEEt

As the worldwide recession deepens and U.S. activists continue their occupation of Wall Street, the grassroots here are planning their own Occupy Toronto. Head to a general assembly planning meeting Friday (October 7), 5 pm, at Berczy Park near Front and Yonge. The idea is to coordinate action and develop logistics for an October 15-16 nonviolent protest in the financial district against corporate greed and governments that give it free rein.

Free. occupyto.ca.

Wednesday, October 12

Benefits

MEn oF diStinCtion lunChEon (Israel Cancer

Research Fund) Luncheon honouring Peter Freed, Geoffrey Matus and Robert Kerbel for their contributions to business, philanthropy and science. 11:30 am. $250. Sheraton Centre, 123 Queen W. mod.icrf.ca. roCk out! (Children’s Peace Theatre) Performances by Brownman Ali, Tim Bovaconti, DJ Danny Dwyer and others. 8 pm. $20, adv $15.

El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. 416-752-1550.

SalSa Extravaganza (Pueblito) Salsa dancing and lessons, live music, a raffle and more.

8 pm. $25, adv $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Events

dEtErMining thE viability oF a buSinESS

director Steven A Gedeon. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7131.

Early ExPoSurE to hazardouS ChEMiCalS/ Pollution and aSSoCiation With ChroniC diSEaSE Seminar with Canadian Environment-

al Law Assoc researcher Kathleen Cooper. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1190, 40 St George. 416-978-3475.

EngliSh StatEly hoMES Art historian Francis Broun lectures on Wilton House and Stourhead House. 6:30 pm. $30. Campbell House, 160 Queen W. Pre-register 416-597-0227. hoW’S your SlEEP? Fibromyalgia Support Group discussion. 7 pm. Free. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416-760-2227.

iMaginEd FuturES For thE loWEr don: a hiStory oF big idEaS For a SMall rivEr Lec-

ture by Jennifer Bonnell. 7 pm. Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416-393-7720. liFE and dEath oF SoCratES Talk by professor Jonathan Salem-Wiseman. 6:30 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710.

PEtS and CoMMon toxiCitiES Talk on household items that can be toxic to pets. 7 pm.

Free. Toronto Humane Soc, 11 River. torontohumanesociety.com. thE SoPhiStiCarEd handjob Women-only workshop. 7-9:30 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900. thE WalruS toronto ProjECt dEbatE Debate on the future of Toronto politics, arts and architecture. 7 pm. $22.50, stu $17. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Why WE Should bE invESting MorE, not lESS, in our FuturE Glendon School of Public

and International Affairs director Alex Himelfarb talks about taxes. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rsvp@reviewcanada.ca.

WrittEn, SPokEn, told Sex-positive journalism workshop with Sexlife Canada managing editor Jon Pressick. 6 pm. $20. Lucky You!, 2920 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-556-2451.

upcoming Thursday, October 13

Benefits

SalSa and talEnt night FundraiSEr (United Way) Salsaholics Anonymous evening of les-

sons and dance performances. 7 pm. $10. Trinity St Paul’s, 427 Bloor W. info@salsaholics.ca.

Events

al gorE The former American vice president

talks about making the choice to solve the climate crisis. 8 pm. $39.50-$149.50. Massey Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. thE bEautiFul & thE daMnEd A tribute to late actress Jackie Burroughs with performances

by Sandy Day, Rex Baunsit, Duncan Armstrong and others. 7 pm. Pwyc. Zelda’s, 692 Yonge (upstairs). thebeautifulandthedamned13@ gmail.com.

Canada: a CliMatE CriMinal? Science for Peace lecture by sociology professor Margrit Eichler. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca. haiti bEyond thE hEadlinES Eyewitness reports on post-earthquake reconstruction and the current political situation, with Roger Annis. 7 pm. Free. Sidney Smith Hall, rm 2135, 100 St George. torontohaitiaction.com. intErnational aid Talk on the issues around the extraction of natural resources in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America by professor Anna Zalik. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register torontopubliclibrary.ca. iSlington ratEPayErS & rESidEntS Community meeting with presentations by councillors Doug Holyday, Gloria Lindsay Luby and Peter Milczyn. 7 pm. Free. Rosethorn Jr School, 2 Remington. 416-233-7468. rMonStEr MakErS Interactive performance exploring the perils of success and freedom of failure with Mammalian Diving Reflex. Today and tomorrow 7 pm; Oct 15 to 16, 2 & 7 pm. $15, child $10. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. originS oF thE gEorgian thEatrE A look at the roots of Georgian theatre from medieval mystery plays to Restoration comedy. 2 pm.

Free. Locke Library, 3083 Yonge. 416-393-7730.

SnoWboard & travEl ShoW Demos, an indoor snowpark, entertainment and more. Today 3-10 pm; tomorrow noon-10 pm; Oct 15, 10 am-9 pm; Oct 16, 10 am-6 pm. $18, stu/srs $13, under 6 free. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. torontoskishow.com. toronto book aWardS Announcement of the winners, hosted by CBCs Matt Galloway. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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The week’s news, views and sales TOILET PAPER TOGS

On September 28 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Cashmere presented its eighth White Cashmere Collection benefiting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Every year the toilet-paper purveyors ask Canadian designers to fashion frocks using bathroom tissue, and this year’s lineup from names like Brose, Carrie Hayes and Lovas featured everything from poufy cocktail pieces to flower-covered wedding gowns. See the looks for yourself at The Bay’s flagship (176 Yonge), where they are on display throughout October.

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Red all over

From classic cherry to deep burgundy, accessories, look right in rouge this fall.

Danier leather gloves ($55, Eaton Centre, 218 Yonge, 416-598-1159, and others, danier.com)

Have a hankering for some pampering?

Your timing couldn’t be better because Spa Week hits the city starting Monday (October 10). Treatment spots across the continent participate in this annual promo where select services are discounted to $50 a pop. Score a 50-minute hot stone massage at Samsara Day Spa (216 Heath West, 416487-8282) or a 45-minute oatmealand-pumpkin body polish at the Spa at the Windsor Arms (18 St. Thomas, 416934-6031). Check out spaweek.com for more deals.

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Joe Fresh tote ($19, 10 Lower Jarvis, 416-703-4865, and others, joefresh.com)

Last Toronto Fashion Week, show producer Paola Fullerton presented a pair of offsite runway events featuring comeback kid Arthur Mendonça, detailed designer Mikhael Kale and knitwear phenom Mark Fast. This year, she’s upping the ante by bringing a foursome of UK-based Canadian talents to town.

Todd Lynn, Thomas Tait, Calla Haynes and JeanPierre Braganza show their stuff at the Ritz-Carlton (181 Wellington West) on October 13 and 14.

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WEDDING SHOP New to the Yorkville wedding retail scene is Mrs. Bridal Boutique (164 Davenport, 416925-1674, mrsbridalboutique. com), a swanky salon stocked with nuptial necessities and treats. Owners Michelle Gunn and Kelly Power’s designer lineup includes Elizabeth Dye, Elizabeth Fillmore, Delphine Manivet, Caroline DeVillo, Junko Yoshioka and more. Also look for accessories from Lockett Jewels and Ela Handbags.

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Toywatch Velvety watch ($260, The Bay, 176 Yonge, 416-861-9111, toywatchcanada.com)

Michael Kors leopard-print scarf benefiting the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation ($50, Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor West, 416-922-2333, and others, holtrenfrew.com)

A full solar charge of the new Sunny bike light allows for two hours of perfectly lit night riding. That’s a good thing, considering our dwindling daylight and increasing police pestering over safe pedalling gear. The light also features three beam settings and a hand crank just in case you run out of juice before the sun rises again. $24.99, Curbside Cycle Cycle, 412 Bloor West, 416920-4933, getconsciousproducts.com.

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789 Dundas West, 647-349-5050, susanaerazo.com

Susana Erazo’s leather accessories are instantly recognizable by the vegetable tanned leathers in a rainbow of bright colours that she uses to make her bags and belts. The rigid material lets her create strong shapes and geometric cutouts on extra-wide waist cinchers, cute wrist cuffs and purses that fasten with oversized buttons.

The entire product lineup is on display at Hide, the new shop and design studio she’s opened on Dundas at Markham with her sister Sandra. The gallery-style boutique features a wall of reclaimed wooden boxes displaying her col-

lection and one-of-a-kind pieces available by special order.

They plan to stock other designer buys, too, starting with handwoven silk scarves from Lao and teensy toppers by Le Petit Beret.

Hide picks: Double belts twist together two tones of leather, like a yellow and orange combo, $120; a sample of a kelly green courier bag has been getting lots of shopper attention, $450, by special order; stock up on colourful cuffs for $45.

Look for: A collection of petal necklaces made out of leather off-cuts.

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Psych out your skin

Some dermal problems are triggered by mental conflicts By elizaBeth Bromstein got a skin problem? psoriasis or eczema, maybe?

Ever consider you might have a mind issue rather than a dermal one?

A friend recently experienced a trauma and, a few weeks later, devel­

oped backne, which, as I’m sure you know, is acne on her back – something she’d never had before in her more than 30 years on earth.

“Like I need this on top of every­ thing else,” she moaned.

I took an interest and soon discov­

ered psychodermatology, which uses psychological and psychiatric treat­ ments as well as more typical medical ones to treat acne, psoriasis, rosacea and eczema.

Can chillin’ really improve your skin?

What the experts say “Until 10 years ago, the American Academy of Dermatology listed among the acne ‘myths’ the notion that stress was a factor. Since then, controlled studies have documented that link.

We’re talking triggering as opposed to cause. Assuming you’ve got the hereditary and hormonal underpinnings, when stress gets turned up, so will the acne. The triggering comes from avoidance of the feelings stress stirs up. If you tune into whatever is going on emotionally, your skin will likely go back to just being skin. I use relaxation, imaging, focus psychotherapy, hypnosis and self-hypnosis.”

TED GROSSBART, clinical professor, Harvard Medical School, Boston

animals, you disrupt the cutaneous permeability barrier, particularly the ability to repair defects in the barrier.

We studied students when they came back from vacation and again right before their final exam, and found that the cutaneous permeability barrier function was altered under stress.

There’s anecdotal information that when patients are stressed, it leads to exacerbations of or onset of clinical skin diseases. We know that psoriasis and atopic dermatitis [eczema] involve defects in the permeability barrier, so its possible that this is all integrated.”

KENNETH FEINGOLD, professor in residence, School of Medicine, U of California, San Francisco

“Our study showed that if you stress

“Stress compromises the digestive sys-

astrology freewill

by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Do unto others as

they wish,” advised French artist Marcel Duchamp, “but with imagination.” I recommend that approach to you, Aries.

You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when you can create good fortune for yourself by tuning in to the needs and cravings of others, and then satisfying those needs and cravings in your own inimitable and unpredictable ways. Don’t just give the people you care about the mirror image of what they ask for; give them a funhouse mirror image that reflects your playful tinkering.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Winner of the American Book Award in 1963, William Stafford wrote thousands of poems. The raw materials for his often-beautiful creations were the fragments and debris of his daily rhythm. “I have woven a parachute out of everything broken,” he said in describing his life’s work. You are now in a phase when you could achieve a comparable feat, Taurus. You have the power to turn dross into sweetness, refuse into treasure, loss into gain.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Is there some-

thing you’ve always wanted to create but haven’t gotten around to creating? Now would be an excellent time to finally get that project off the ground. Is there any role you have fantasized about taking on but have never actually sought out? Now would be a perfect moment to initiate an attempt. Is there any big mysterious deal you’ve thought about connecting with but never have? Any profound question you’ve longed to pose but didn’t? Any

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heart-expanding message you’ve wanted to deliver but couldn’t bring yourself to?

You know what to do.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 The experiences

you’re flirting with seem to be revivals of long-forgotten themes. You’re trying to recover and reinvigorate stuff that was abandoned or neglected way back when. You’re dipping into the past to salvage defunct resources, hoping to find new applications for them. To illustrate the spirit of what you’re doing, I’ve resurrected some obsolete words I found in an 18th-centry dictionary. Try sprinkling them into your conversations; make them come alive again. “Euneirophrenia” means “peace of mind after a sweet dream.” The definition of “neanimorphic” is “looking younger than one’s true age.” “Gloze” is when you speak soothing or flattering words in order to persuade. “Illapse” means the gradual or gentle entrance of one thing into another.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 An old Egyptian say-

ing declares that “the difference between a truth and a lie weighs no more than a feather.” I suspect that your upcoming experiences will vividly demonstrate the accuracy of that statement.

There will be a very fine line between delusional nonsense and helpful wisdom... between colourful but misleading BS and articulate, provocative analysis... between interesting but irrelevant fantasies and cogent, evidence-based prognostications. Which side will you be on, Leo? To increase your chances of

tem and the liver. And the health of the gut is directly linked to the skin.

Compromised liver health can be a contributing factor in psoriasis, for instance. Food allergies can cause eczema. One has to treat the condition as well as the precipitating cause, which is frequently stress. There are different herbs, nutritional supplements and techniques, depending on whether people have acute or chronic stress.”

ZORANA ROSE, naturopath, Toronto “My laboratory has done work suggesting a mechanism by which stress might exacerbate inflammatory skin disease. This was done entirely in test tubes, so we don’t know for sure whether it happens in animals. I think I believe it, but I wouldn’t say the evi-

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getting it right, be a stickler for telling yourself the heart-strong truth.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 What’s the most

practical method of acquiring wealth?

One out of every five Americans believes it’s by playing the lottery. While it is true, Virgo, that you now have a slightly elevated chance of guessing the winning numbers in games of chance – the odds are only 90 million to one instead of 100 million to one – I don’t recommend that you spend any time seeking greater financial security in this particular way. A much better use of your current cosmic advantage would be to revitalize and reorganize your approach to making, spending, saving and investing money.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 The Jet Propulsion Laboratory landed two robotic vehicles on Mars in 2004. They were expected to explore the planet and send back information for 90 days. But the rover named Spirit kept working for over six years, and its companion, Opportunity, is still operational. The astrological omens suggest that any carefully prepared project you launch in the coming weeks could achieve that kind of staying power, Libra. So take maximum advantage of the vast potential you have available. Don’t scrimp on the love and intelligence you put into your labour of love. sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 “I don’t want to play the part of the mythical phoenix again,” my Scorpio friend Kelly has been moaning as she prepares for her latest trial by fire. “I’ve burned myself to the

dence is incontrovertible. There are studies suggesting that psoriasis patients improve more quickly with a combination of conventional treatment and relaxation techniques, compared to conventional alone, but the data is relatively soft.”

RICHARD GRANSTEIN, department of dermatology, Weill Medical College, Cornell University, New York City “There is solid data that many skin conditions can be made much worse by stress. Guided imagery, progressive muscle relaxation, yoga, tai chi, hypnosis, anti-anxiety medicine and ground and risen reborn out of the ashes two times this year already. Why can’t someone else take a turn for a change?”

While I empathized, I thought it was my duty to tell her what I consider to be the truth: More than any other sign of the zodiac, you Scorpios have supreme skills in the art of metaphorical self-immolation and regeneration. You’re better able to endure the ordeal, too. Besides, part of you actually enjoys the heroic drama and the baby-fresh feelings that come over you as you reanimate yourself from the soot and cinders. Ready for another go?

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 When she

was seven years old, my daughter Zoe created a cartoon panel with coloured pens.

It showed an orange-haired girl bending down to tend to three orange flowers.

High overhead was an orange five-pointed star. The girl was saying, “I think it would be fun being a star,” while the star mused, “I think it would be great to be a girl.” I urge you to create your own version of this cartoon, Sagittarius. Put a picture of yourself where the girl was in Zoe’s rendering. Getting your imagination to work in this way will put you in the right frame of mind to notice and take advantage of the opportunities that life will bring you. Here’s your mantra, an ancient formula the mystics espouse: “As above, so below.”

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Years ago, I discovered I was eligible to join MENSA, an organization for people with high IQs. Since I’d never gotten any awards, plaques, or badges, I thought I’d indulge in this little sin of pride. Not too long after I signed up, however, I felt like an idiot for doing it. Whenever I told someone I belonged to MENSA, I felt sheepish about seeming to imply that I was extra-smart.

Eventually I resigned from the so-called genius club. But then I descended into

antidepressants can make skin do better. There are molecules in the skin called neuropeptides that can make the skin redder and more sensitive. Stress management techniques decrease the release of neuropeptides. Neuropeptides are the first line of defence of the immune system. In life-or-death situations, the release of neuropeptides makes sense. Where it doesn’t make sense is when you’re stressed about a relationship or finances.”

RICHARD G. FRIED, dermatologist, clinical psychologist, Yardley Dermatology Associates, Yardley, Pennsylvania deeper egomania – I started bragging about how I had quit MENSA because I didn’t want to come off like an egotist.

How egotistical was that? Please avoid this type of unseemly behaviour in the coming week, Capricorn. Be authentically humble, not fake like me. It’ll be important for your success.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Right now you

have licence to make pretty much everything bigger and funnier and wickeder.

Good fortune is likely to flow your way as you seek out experiences that are extra interesting and colourful and thoughtprovoking. This is no time for you to be shy about asking for what you want or timid about stirring up adventure. Be louder and prouder than usual. Be bolder and brighter, nosier and cozier, weirder and more whimsical. The world needs your very best idiosyncrasies and eccentricities!

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 There is a slight

chance the following scenario will soon come to pass: a psychic will reveal that you have a mutant liver that can actually thrive on alcohol, and you will then get drunk on absinthe every day for two weeks, and by the end of this grace period you will have been freed of 55 per cent of the lingering guilt you’ve carried around for years, plus you will care 40 per cent less about what people think of you. Extra bonus: you’ll feel like a wise rookie who’s ready to learn all about intimacy as if you were just diving into it for the first time.

But get this, Pisces: there’s an even greater chance that these same developments will unfold very naturally – without the psychic, without the prediction about a mutant liver and without the nonstop drunkenness.

Homework: Provide proof of the following hypothesis: “You know what to do and you know when to do it.”

Freewillastrology.com.

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Three Speed chef Jane Ferriss (left) serves up Miso Baked Eggs and preps in the kitchen; eggs Benedict includes brisket.

Ferriss fires up brunch Ex-Swan chef gets attention at Bloordale eatery Three Speed By STEVEN DAVEY

THREE SPEED (1163 Bloor West, at Pauline, 647-430-3834) Complete brunches for $22 per person, including tax, tip and a pint of Three Speed lager. Average main $11. Open for brunch Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 3 pm, dinner nightly from 5 pm. Bar till close. Licensed. Access: barrier free, washrooms in basement.

Rating: NNN ✺ though it’s better known as the Communist’s Daughter’s bigger sis-

ter, Bloordale’s Three Speed is so much more than just another hipster watering hole.

For starters, there’s the two-yearold saloon’s terrific all-weather backyard patio complete with ivydripping trellises, rustic cedar decking and a massive wood-burning oven.

Factor in ex-Swan chef Jane Ferriss’s retro brunch card of comfort food classics and it’s little wonder

the gorgeous hideaway is packed to the gills this sunny Sunday afternoon.

We’re soon draining Bodums of French-pressed I Deal Coffee beans ($7/$3.50 half) and decimating a pair of freshly baked muffins, one savoury corn spiked with depth-charges of jalapeño and chipotle pepper, the other sweet with caramelized banana and chocolate chips (both $2).

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Sunday 10 am to 4 pm. Coffee weekdays from 9 am, bar nightly till close. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNN✺

queer music venue offers one of the best brunches on the west side. Better not be in a hurry, since chef Nathan Gawalko – formerly of Atlantic and La Palette – cooks everything on a two-burner hot plate. Best: the house torta, a gargantuan breakfast sandwich stacked with slow-roasted pork belly, crackling, avocado, coleslaw and a runny egg; grilled asparagus in mole sauce over fresh tortillas dressed with vegan refried beans, oyster mushrooms, pickled red onion, raw radish, jalapeño and yogurt drizzle; beef brisket enchiladas stuffed with chipotle-braised beef brisket in smoky grilled tomato and guajillo pepper sauce.

Complete brunches for $18 per person, including tax, tip and a coffee. Average main $10. Open for brunch Saturday and

notorious bicycle thief Igor Kenk’s former headquarters, ex-Torito chef Carlos Hernandez forgoes tapas for Portuguesestyle churrasqueira roast chicken. No days-old rubbery rotisserie birds these!

Instead, find plump free-range, naturally raised, grain-fed birds paired with gourmet low-sodium sides. Best: remarkably moist whole, halved or quartered chickens ready to take home or eat in; beef cheeks and seasonal root veggie stew; mains like venison meat loaf finished with apples and currants; sweet Moroccan lamb shank with chickpeas and dried apricots; vegan ratatouille with grilled Japanese eggplant, roasted tomato and zucchini over buttery brown basmati rice; sides of eggy Spanish tortillas; lightly dressed salads of squash with Puy lentils;

Brunch NACO GALLERY CAFE 1665 Dundas W, at Margueretta, ñ Chicken 647-347-6499, nacogallery.com. Though INIGO it doesn’t serve food the rest of the week, 927 Queen W, at Strachan, 416come Saturday and Sunday this Latinñ 645-6707, inigofood.ca. Operating out of accented coffeehouse slash alterna-

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al dente green beans and mini-potatoes à la niçoise. Complete dinners for $15 per person (lunches $10), including tax and tip. Average main $7. Open Tuesday to Saturday noon to 8:30 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays.

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

French LE CANARD MORT

896 Queen E, at Logan, 416-625-2653, lecanardmort.ca. Sister to Le Rossignol, this Leslieville gastropub plays it safe – a mostly rustic French card, well-trained service, and prices that make dinner out Tuesday the sensible thing to do. Microbrews and cocktails galore, kid-friendly and weekend brunch, too? Take that, Joy Bistro and Lady Marmalade! Best: crisply deep-fried sweetbreads splashed with hot sauce and dipped in blue cheese aioli à la Buffalo chicken wings; retro escargots vol-au-vents; Perth County pork chops with caramelized shallots, al dente green beans and Dijon mashed potatoes; lobster pot pie thick with baby veg in béchamel; mac & cheese finished with

I volunteer for the inevitable Benny and find a pair of free-range poached eggs from nearby Gasparro’s – guess they wandered over here on their own – in textbook hollandaise over beer-braised brisket and cornbread from the Portuguese baker across the street.

The Sammy du jour sees toasted slices of multi-grain with chili mayo significantly stacked with peameal bacon, oven-roasted tomatoes, a fried egg and a veritable forest of leafy green arugula.

The eggs-pert in our group declares the over-easies on top of his corned beef hash – a spicy dice of Chicago 58 pastrami, spuds, onion

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’n’ cabbage (all $11 with sides of dandelion greens in balsamic vinaigrette and buttery Yukon Gold home fries) – exactly to his liking.

We’re not sure quite what to make of what the chalkboard list of specials describes as Baked Eggs ($11 with toast) when it arrives at table.

More like fab poached eggs in miso mushroom soup thick with meaty portobellos and cremini, we think.

Pump it up with a side of sweetly smoked steelhead trout ($3).

As the sound system appropriately shuffles into the Velvet Underground’s Sweet Jane, we raise our pints of Three Speed lager ($5.25) to toast the imminent end of patio season and an al fresco brunch well done.

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Despite its recommendation, lavender and honey crème brûlée ($9) proves so subtle, it tastes of neither.

Back in the kitchen for lunch, Dupoire sends out a straightforward steak tartare topped with a hardboiled quail egg ($12) and a perfectly executed wing of skate ($20) in buttery sauce meunière. Too bad the unsustainable fish comes partnered with a potato salad that hasn’t finished cooking. And the dish listed enticingly as “pork belly and eggs with rosti ($15)” turns out to be an unappetizingly flabby slab of braised pig stomach over a pair of sunny-side-ups and a soggy wedge of potato pie.

If a bistro’s lemon tart is its benchmark of success, Le Kensington’s take on the classic closer is a catastrophe, a cold rubbery rectangle of anemic custard in a swirl of home ec chocolate sauce ($9).

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Chef Dupoire, who’s nowhere to be seen this evening, manages to turn seared sweetbreads into chicken nuggets, their bed of baby bok choy and pea pods ($21) unnecessarily drizzled with a diabolical sauce Diable. And $32 for a rotisserie chicken desperately in need of some Simon and Garfunkel – parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme – sided with yucky succotash ($16 half) is a joke, especially when a far superior bird goes for $12 at Inigo

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IcelandIc pop genIus turns the concept of the album on Its head wIth her mIndblowIng multI-pronged bIophIlIa project

By KEVIN RITCHIE

what do you do when you’re working on something so huge and all-encompassing that your closest friends can’t wrap their heads around it and, as a result, you completely lose sight of yourself?

If you’re Björk, you put a wig on it.

A giant, frizzy orange wig.

Three years ago, the Icelandic pop auteur began working on Biophilia, a multi-faceted project that includes her eighth studio album, accompanying iPad apps for each of its 10 tracks, a documentary film, a range of homemade instruments and a series of live residencies that will tour science museums over the next three years.

“I’ve never worked as much on a project thinking as little about myself,” she explains over the phone from New York, where she lives parttime. “All the way until one month before everything was ready I couldn’t even picture myself in it.”

At its core, Biophilia is about teaching kids musicology by making it physical. Through touchscreen technology, she connects scales, chords and time signatures with elements in nature like lightning, tides and dark matter. She copiously researched scientific concepts for each song, a process that involved attending 100 lectures at a National Geographic conference and having her DNA sequenced to learn about her deep ancestry.

Using bespoke software, Björk began songwriting in 2008 with Lemur touchscreens and game controllers, composing beats, bass lines and rhythms analogous to patterns in nature. When Apple released the iPad last year, she had a eureka moment and convened some of the world’s best app developers in Iceland. Biophilia soon morphed into a suite of apps.

“The apps are about visualizing the songs. So you close your eyes to listen and then you can see what you hear,” she continues. “It’s almost like

those clichéd acid trips in movies where you can see sound drops vibrate. It didn’t really fit to have human-scale things in that world.”

Enter the otherworldly orange wig Björk is wearing on the Biophilia album sleeve. Partly inspired by British surrealist Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet, the coppery mane was also a cheeky way for Björk to embody her experience as the frustrated music teacher who elicited mystified reactions when explaining Biophilia’s lofty concepts to collaborators.

“This project was slowly turning me into an airhead – a character that I’m usually not that into, someone who’s got her head in the clouds,” she says with a laugh. “It wasn’t until they saw the apps that they went, ‘Okay, now I get it! You fly three circles around the galaxy and then you play with the lightning? Okaaaaay.”

The app for lead single Crystalline, for example, is about song structure.

Users steer a hovering crystal through a series of coloured tunnels that represent verse, chorus, middle eight and instrumental break, rearranging the sections as they see fit. In the Moon app, you can spin pearls to write a melody in the song’s unusual 17/8 time signature, which is based on lunar phases.

The more time you spend with Biophilia’s music and apps, the more you realize what a natural step the project is for an artist whose visceral lyrics and meandering melodies often chart a kind of emotional cartography inextricably bound to nature. Though her rhythms are increasingly irregular compared to the 4/4 thump of Debut, the 1993 solo album that turned Björk into an unlikely international pop star, her songs remain fixated on Icelandic landscapes.

That artistic concern became statistical fact last year when, for tax purposes, she had to write down

where she wrote every song she’s ever written. “Funnily enough, I remembered most of it,” she says. “It was really shocking to see that 80 per cent were written in Iceland.”

Biophilia goes from dark, burbling atonal atmospherics to blistering noise and processional majesty through a combination of choral, brass and pipe-organ arrangements.

Its more unique instruments are receiving a lot of attention, but she insists they were mostly practical. For example, she couldn’t afford a gamelan orchestra, so she gutted her old celeste and had a cymbal maker affix brass notes.

“You can just put it in a flight case and travel the world with it,” she says.

She admits, though, that the pendulum that makes a plucked harp sound based on gravitational counterpoints was harder to pull off.

Top musical minds at MIT toiled for months to build it before the first Biophilia concerts. And the Tesla coil? “It’s really theatrical, and you know, the kids love it.”

After her first residency at the Manchester International Festival in June, she was inundated with offers from museums around the world.

Aside from concerts, the residencies include educational workshops for kids that vary depending on an institution’s mandate. For example, she hopes to set up in a natural history museum in New York and at a technology museum in Tokyo.

She can’t afford to run the workshops on her own, and so prospective partners must come up with the bud-

get if they want Biophilia. She’s received attractive offers from Montreal, but no Canadian dates have been confirmed.

Björk’s educational zeal of late was born of boredom with traditional musicology’s historical bent. When composer Karlheinz Stockhausen died in 2007, she published a tribute in The Guardian lauding the German provocateur as an optimist who forged ahead by blending electronics and acoustics in a way that “celebrated the sound of sound.” The same could be said of Biophilia’s technophile spirit.

“He was the most hopeful of figures: the 21st century was going to be great,” she wrote. “The classical teachers in my school, meanwhile, kept moaning about the good old days of music, changing the masses of music pupils into slave performers and putting to sleep any creative thought or the will to make new things.”

As a teenager, Björk devoured Stockhausen’s “spicy” lectures in print and admits that on some level his ideas probably informed this project. When she interviewed Stockhausen for Dazed & Confused in 1996, she confessed that she was easily distracted. She feared she wouldn’t have time to do it all and asked if he felt the same. At 45, does she still feel this way?

“I’m at a different place now than I was then,” she recalls. “My best music moments were experienced at 5:30 am on a dance floor in some cellar when some DJ would put two wrong things together that aren’t meant to belong.”

Today, laptops and iPads have channeled her attention, and her “best music moments” are more lowkey but no less tipsy: at home cooking with friends or at bars DJing her own iPod parties.

“It’s really rare now that I would find a DJ I wouldn’t get bored with in an hour,” she says. “Maybe it’s also the fact that I don’t as often stay up till 6.”

She also sings differently. After her 2007 tour, she lost her voice and a candida nodule in her 10/10 discovered throat. Through a combination of dietary changes and vocal exercises, BJÖRK Biophilia (Nonesuch/ she stretched it out so she can sing as One Little Indian) Rating: NNNNN she does now for 10 to 20 more years if Björk’s eighth studio album is the climax she keeps up the routine. of two decades spent searching for the spontaneous, emotional sounds hidden “I was really punk, anti-technique within electronic noisemakers. She fore– always,” she says. “When you’re 20 told “modern things” living hidden in you can do those piercing high notes. nature on her 1995 album, Post, and since I can’t do them now, but maybe I also then the Icelandic star has successfully don’t like them that much any more. paired classical influences with technological innovation to underscore the stark, I prefer [to sing] darker sometimes.” primordial urges of her unique voice.

Coincidentally, a big killer of canBiophilia is one of Björk’s best and most dida is copper, Biophilia’s defining challenging records; it’s in a galaxy all its element. If her 2001 Vespertine alown, one that’s not for the faint of heart.

At times it channels the evil atonal drone bum sounded clean, celestial and silof late-period Nico. It shifts into rounded, very, she calls Biophilia its dirty, stately processionals and dreamy celestial frustrated and coppery sibling. moods before descending into mysterious Of course, copper also figures big farty wheezing and amorphous chaos. Its in the wig. “When I read what kills accompanying iPad suite will give diehard nerds a world within a world to explore, candida is copper, I thought, ‘Wow! but it isn’t required to enjoy the album, Okay, there is a whole thread through which has a satisfyingly messy and unthe project. So let’s make a copper hinged quality, much like the natural cloud!’”

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drummer Weiss worked on several years after Sleater stunned fans by pulling the plug. The band had just released what some consider their best work, 2005’s The Woods. (Former co-guitarist/singer Corin Tucker now has her own project.)

For Brownstein, the breakup was a shock. All she’d known since her youth was how to be in a band and tour.

“It took a couple years before I actually felt interested in playing or picking up a guitar again,” says Brownstein.

“But after a while I did miss the immediate, participatory aspects of music. I needed to come full circle with it. I needed to abandon it in order to rediscover it. “[S/K had existed for] over a decade of my life and was elating and fulfilling. We had so many wonderful experiences. It was hard to think there could be more beyond that.”

Considering the groundswell of hype and interest that’s greeted Wild Flag since their unveiling a year ago, Brownstein should now believe there is indeed life after Sleater-Kinney.

Their self-titled debut (Merge) has a Pacific Northwest sound, with touches of garage rock howl, grrrl energy and bits of psychedelia filtered through Brownstein’s unmistakable guitar prowess.

While writing the record with Weiss,

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Carrie Brownstein is not interested in warm Sleater-Kinney reminiscences.

The guitarist and singer, of course, welcomes all interest in Wild Flag, the raucous four-piece she formed with her former bandmate Janet Weiss after Sleater-Kinney broke up in 2006.

She just hopes we don’t come to them via memory lane.

“We wanted people not to approach Wild Flag from a sentimental or nostalgic perspective,” explains a raspy-voiced Brownstein from her home in Portland.

“One reason we toured before we recorded was to develop our own style and sound and not assume people would like us because they liked our old band. We wanted to learn to be our own band first.”

It’s not just the ghost of SleaterKinney hovering around Wild Flag.

Second guitarist and singer Mary Timony played in 90s post-rockers Helium, and keyboardist Rebecca Cole was a long-standing member of the Minders.

Wild Flag began to fly during a soundtrack project Brownstein and

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Brownstein says she tried not to let the inevitable Sleater-Kinney expectations distract her from forging a new direction.

“It’s a very self-defeating mindset to consider other people’s opinions about anything you make, especially music.

You just have to go forth and trust that what you’re doing is good. If there’s anyone who cares and wants to follow along, you certainly can’t be catering or over-accommodating” That kind of fearlessness has served Brownstein well. After busying herself as a music writer for NPR, Brownstein now has an IFC comedy series with SNLer and friend of the indie rock community Fred Armisen. Portlandia hilariously skewers, among other topics, the sometimes ridiculous lengths progressives go to maintain an idealistic lifestyle.

In one particularly effective sketch, Brownstein grills a waiter about the menu’s food sources to a point where locavorism reaches psychotic levels.

“That does happen here, and I’ve even asked those questions and heard those words coming out of my mouth.

“Portlandia is right where your belief system becomes absurd. You know those are good questions to ask, but the more rational part of you says, ‘Who cares?’ On Portlandia, people never filter themselves – they just dive in head first.”

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Drizzy spent much of the summer hunkered down in producer Noah “40” Shebib’s Toronto studio crafting the follow-up to last year’s debut, Thank Me Later.

Fans and critics received that record’s big, expensive sound with decidedly mixed reviews, and the young MC has since said he intends to bring listeners back down to earth with more introspective narratives and ever-broodier beats on Take Care (Universal). “I think I got caught up in making it seem big and first-albumish,” he recently told Rolling Stone. “I was a bit numb, a bit disconnected from myself. I wasn’t able to slow down and realize what 10/25 was going on around me.”

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LINDSTRØM at Mod Club (722 College), Friday (October 7), 10 pm. $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW. Norwegian space disco kingpin Lindstrøm’s hardcore fans have been waiting forever to hear his esoteric and eclectic sounds in person. But you have to wonder if the rest of the weekend crowd at Mod Club for his first T.O. gig on Friday will be ready for his sloweddown smoked-out beats and quirky sensibility.

“I’m used to that,” he says, chuckling. “Sometimes I get the feeling that the promoters don’t really know what they’re doing when they book me. They may be happy to have me there, but the audience may not always agree with them.”

Not the usual bravado of a globe-trotting DJ/producer, but Lindstrøm isn’t your average beatsmith.

Since 2003, he’s helped put Norway’s electronic scene on the map, and his collaborations with people like Prins Thomas and vocalist Christabelle have pushed the boundaries of what can work on the dance floor.

Who else would have thought to put out a 43-minute ambient electronic version of Little Drummer Boy? His idiosyncratic sound blends everything from disco to prog rock to techno, giving the impression that he’s an diehard record collector who’s been DJing since the 70s. The truth is closer to the opposite: he actually spent his younger years singing in a symphony choir, playing washboard in a country band and fronting an Elvis Presley gospel cover act. It wasn’t until the late 90s that he started to pay attention to dance music at all.

“I didn’t really understand anything about house music until I bought a sampler and figured out how to use it. I thought I should listen to some music made with that kind of equipment, so I spent a while trying to copy the stuff I heard on an old Ninja Tune compilation.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com

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Kathryn Calder’s 2010 debut solo album, Are You My Mother?, written while the Vancouver musician cared for her dying mom, established her apart from her work as a member of the New Pornographers and the now defunct Immaculate Machine.

Bright And Vivid, Calder’s immersive follow-up, set for release on October 25 by File: Under Music, is an exuberant but sophisticated synth pop affair, replete with fierce layers, her clear, true voice, and melodies and structures that go in unexpected places. She tours it in Europe throughout the fall followed by still-to-come Canadian dates that CARLA GILLIS we’re so there for.

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The Darcys

For a band whose one and only album came out four years ago, the Darcys have an impressive local following.

That should only expand when their self-titled sophomore album comes out October 25 on titanic Canadian mega-indie label Arts & Crafts, which will also handle distribution and publicity. It’s a reinvention of sorts for the Darcys, who had to regroup after the departure of their former lead singer. But they haven’t missed a step, expertly arranging their lush, effects-laden soft-rock compositions as a four-piece. If history is any indication, expect their record release show November 18 at the RichaRd TRapunski Horseshoe to be a crowded one.

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French electro house kingpins Justice’s 2007 debut album, ✝ , defined and popularized the blueprint for the hyper-compressed buzz-saw bass line club sound that dominated the first decade of the 10/25 21st century. Their heavy-metal-robotdisco vibe was everywhere for a while, but a lot can change on the dance music scene in four years.

Still, anticipation is running absurdly high for Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger), and several lacklustre hoax versions of the album have popped up online, presumably created by overzealous fans. Judging from the two songs that have been officially released, though, their attempt to go even more classic rock is paying off and shows that, despite the legions of imitators, there is only benjamin boles one Justice.

DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979

SHAWN SCALLEN

When Toronto dance-punk duo Death from Above 1979 bring their clamorous reunion 10/27 10/28 show to Sound Academy on October 27 and 28, it’s sure to be a night of high-energy head-banging, crowd-surfing intensity.

Neither bassist Jesse Keeler, who’s also in electronic duo MSTRKRFT, or drummer Sebastien Grainger, who’s in yet another duo, Bad Tits, ever hold back when performing DFA’s all-too-brief catalogue, and after months of doing the festival circuit (their SXSW shows resulted in mini riots) they’re bound to deliver big to their hometown crowd. Earplugs recCARLA GILLIS ommended.

LOU REED AND METALLICA

CHAD VANGAALEN

You never know what to expect from a Chad VanGaalen show, which makes each an event to look forward to. Sometimes the falsetto-voiced Calgary producer/multi10/28 instrumentalist is reserved and tender, like at the El Mocambo a few years back when touring in support of his weird and willowy Soft Airplane album. But when VanGaalen brought his frantic new effort, Diaper Island, to the Great Hall during this year’s NXNE, it was epic, sloppy, exuberant, meandering good times, full of between-song banter that left us laughing and scratching our heads.

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ZACH SLOOTSKY

First we hear about Lou Reed and Metallica hitting a recording studio together. Then we learn that the resulting 10-song album, Lulu (Warner/Universal), centres on the story of the young, abused ballet dancer, the protagonist of German expressionist writer Frank Wedekind’s plays Earth Spirit and Pandora’s Box. Then we get a preview track, The View, on which speed metallers Metallica go ultrasludgy to match Reed’s laconic vocal delivery. It’s repetitive and awful, and James Hetfield takes a vocal turn near the end, hollering, “I am the table!” Is it a joke or just a pretentious wrong turn for both iconic acts? Either way, fascination’s got us eager for its release on CARLA GILLIS October 31.

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Expect more epic and invigorating stadiumfillers on florid British siren Florence Welch’s sophomore LP, Ceremonials (Universal). If lead single Shake It Out and buzz track What The Water Gave Me offer an accurate reading of the 25-year-old’s fluttering musical pulse, she and producer Paul “Rolling In The Deep” Epworth are aiming very big, save for a few purported detours into dubstep on one song (uhoh) and woozy R&B territory of the Drake variety – perhaps the result of her reported studio sessions with Toronto’s hip-hop heartKevin Ritchie throb? – on another.

Noel GallaGher

Brother Liam beat him to the postOasis punch when he released the Beady Eye album earlier this year, but Noel Gallagher’s first solo album, High Flying Birds (to be released October 17) has music fans atwitter. As the primary songwriter for his former band, Noel is credited for their numerous chart-toppers. However, songs he performed were relegated to B-sides.

First single The Death Of You And Me is a charming pop song that eschews Oasis’s stadium-sized sound for a varied arrangement that includes flutes and trombones. Will it make an impact? Toronto fans find out when Noel plays two nights at Massey Hall, Joanne Huffa November 7 and 8.

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Taking over the Great Hall from November 4 to 6, the festival uses workshops, clinics, interviews and performances to prove the old sixstringer still has plenty to add to the contemporary music sphere. For its first year, Sleepwalk organizers hand curator duties to renowned Canadian axe-slinger Luke Doucet, and he’s delivered an impressive list of guitar heroes young and old, including Television legend Richard Lloyd, Dinosaur Jr volume-abuser J Mascis and local rockabilly lifers the Sadies. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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Without question, Kanye West and Jay-Z’s upcoming Watch The Throne tour isn’t a show – it’s a spectacle.

Come on, we’re talking about two of the most megalomaniacal rappers in hip-hop, with extensive hit-studded back catalogues, both operating at the top of their respective games, who just released one of the highest-selling albums of the year. If you caught Yeezy’s Glow In The Dark tour, you know he spares no expense for a memorable experience – so much so, rumour has it, that the more business-oriented Jay-Z had to tell his “little brother” to rein it in. Find out who won that argument when the tour hits the ACC on NovemJASON RICHARDS ber 23 and 24.

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Kate Bush surprised fans last spring with Director’s Cut, an LP of reworked tracks from earlier albums, including classics like This Woman’s Work.

In interviews, the reclusive British singer said allnew material was coming soon, part of a creative spurt inspired by a bag of bone meal she’d placed on her piano. It turns out snow is her muse: 50 Words For Snow (Fish People/EMI), her 10th studio album, features seven songs “set against a backdrop of falling snow” and includes vocal contributions by actor Stephen Fry and choral singer Stefan Roberts. It’s also in contention for the year’s KEVIN RITCHIE creepiest album cover.

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FALL MUSIC PREVIEW DECEMBER FEIST At Feist’s December 1 show at Massey Hall, don’t expect the gorgeously understated shadow puppetry and projections that Clea Minaker provided for the Reminder tour (lovingly documented in the film Look At What The Light Did Now).

But she’s well aware of how important it will be to come up with something equally impressive to complement her new, critically acclaimed album, Metals (Arts & Crafts).

“I’m still zeroing in on what I think it should be,” Feist cautiously explains. “As soon as I started playing soft-seat theatres, I realized I needed to be a little more aware of what was happening on a visual level. We’re building something that we’re going to have to live in for the next year. While I don’t exactly know what it’s going to be, it’s not something I can ignore any more.”

What she can pin down is that she’d like the visuals to reflect the album’s themes of technology and nature, and convey a sense of nostalgia, but those are pretty wide parameters. No matter what she comes up with, though, she’s one of the few musicians who can make big rooms feel cozy and intimate, and the new material seems especially suited to live performance and BENJAMIN BOLES reinterpretation.

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If you’re looking for something similarly sunny and cheerful, Metals could initially strike you as a downer, but it’s an album that lends itself to an immersive listening experience.

Metals sounds more live than any of Feist’s previous releases, and you get a strong sense of musicians playing off of each other even when the orchestration gets dense and layered.

She’s also rocking out more than before, though still with that wispy voice. Metals doesn’t drastically redefine her identity, so long-time fans shouldn’t be put off too much by the lack of obvious singles. And the album’s more visceral quality may win over those who’ve been on the fence.

Top track: How Come You Never Go There Feist plays Massey Hall December 1.

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joan Baez Roy Thomson Hall 9 pm, $49.50-$79.50. RTH. November 2. sBTrkT, araaBMuzIk The Hoxton 10 pm, $15. TW. November 3. deadMau5 Rogers Centre doors 8 pm, $50. LN, TM. November 5.

The MagIcIan Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TW. November 5. sea & cake Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 5. coeur de PIraTe Mod Club doors 7 pm, $21. RT, SS, TW. November 11.

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PorTugaL. The Man, aLBerTa cross Opera House doors 8 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 18. noMeansno The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $20. RT, SS, TM. October 18.

Luke douceT, MeLIssa MccLeLLand Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Cafe Living Arts Centre 7 pm, $46.50-$51.50.

livingartscentre.ca. October 19.

The Wooden skY Dakota Tavern doors 10 pm, $15. RT, SS. October 19. roYaL Wood Rivoli. October 20 and 21. shonen knIFe Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 20. zIggY MarLeY, Leon MoBLeY Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $30.50. RT, SS, TM. October 20. john PrIne Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50-$62.50. RTH. October 21.

MeThod Man, curren$Y, sMoke dza, FIend, The PrIcks, corner BoY P The Smokers Club Tour Kool Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $29.50. PDR, RT, SS, TM. Thee oh sees Horseshoe $16 adv. RT, SS, TW. October 21.

Buke & gass, ManTra X Avant New Music Festival: Tales Of Two Cities Music Gallery 8 pm, $25-$30. RT, SS, TW. October 22. herBIe hancock Massey Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$149.50. RTH. October 22.

BuFFY saInTe-MarIe ImagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival: The Beat Phoenix Concert Theatre 7 pm, $15-$20. imagineNATIVE.org. October 23.

BLack angeLs, dead MeadoW Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 24. gWar, ghouL, everY TIMe I dIe Phoenix Concert Theatre all ages, $30. RT. October 25. oBITs Rivoli doors 8 pm, $13. RT, SS. October 25.

MuMFord & sons Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $29.50-$49.50. LN, RT, SS, TM. October 25.

MIsFITs, juIcehead Phoenix Concert Theatre 7 pm, $32.50. TW. October 26. duran duran, neon Trees Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $42.50-$119.50. TM. October 27. shouT ouT ouT ouT ouT The Great Hall doors 7 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TW. October 27. dan Mangan Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7:15 pm, all ages, $27.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 28.

LIza MInneLLI Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $59.50-$199.50. RTH. October 28. doug PaIsLeY Canadian Songbook Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. October 29.

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Iron & WIne W/ MarkeTa IrgLova Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $27-$37. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 15.

The Pack a.d., hoLLerado Opera House doors 8 pm, all ages, $15. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 15. duM duM gIrLs, crocodILes Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. October 16. oFWgkTa (odd FuTure WoLF gang kILL TheM aLL) goLF Wang Tour Sound Academy 8 pm, $29.50-$39.50.

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MIsTer heavenLY The Great Hall doors 8 pm, $14. RT, SS, TW. November 16. ruraL aLBerTa advanTage Phoenix Concert Theatre, doors 8 pm, all ages, $20. RT, SS, TM. November 17. eLLIoTT Brood, one hundred doLLars Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, $12. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 18. judas PrIesT, BLack LaBeL socIeTY, ThIn LIzzY Air Canada Centre doors 5:30 pm, $49.50-$69.50. TM. November 22.

PeTer MurPhY Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $20.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 23. heY roseTTa! Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 23 and 24.

The Throne (kanYe WesT & jaY-z) Watch The Throne Tour Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $59.50-$347.50. TM. November 23 and 24.

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Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50.

RT, SS, TM. November 25. raY davIes Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, $49.50-$69.50. RT, SS, TM. November 25.

ausTra, TasseoMancY Phoenix Concert Theatre, doors 9 pm, all ages, $18. PDR, RT, SS, TW. December 1.

Leon redBone, PauL asaro Hugh’s Room doors 6 pm, $47.50-$55. HR. December 2. jane BIrkIn Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $34.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. December 7.

TorI aMos Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $59.50$89.50. RTH, TM. December 8.

The naTIonaL, neko case, WYe oak Air Canada Centre doors 6:30 pm, $43.50$59.50. TM. December 8. rYan adaMs, jessIca Lea MaYFIeLd Winter Garden Theatre doors 6:30 pm, $45. TM. December 10.

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Rating: NNNN Malian singer Sidi Touré has been cited as a worthy successor of crossover African music legend Ali Farka Touré, but it took a well-received 2011 release on American indie label Thrill Jockey to finally bring him to this continent. Evidently, it was even harder getting him into Canada; the organizers of the Small World Music festival had to wait until 11:30 the morning of the show to learn if Touré and his band would be allowed entry.

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suited to Toronto. Dressed in colourful robes and wielding traditional instruments, they blended Songhai music and regional folk that had a lot in common with American blues. Touré’s acoustic-guitar-picking is quietly skilful and affecting despite its droning, hypnotic repetition, while his voice has a moving expressiveness that crosses cultural barriers. It helped that many audience members understood his between-song banter, which he delivered RICHARD TRAPUNSKI in French.

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That his provocations failed to muster any significant response – positive or negative – from the soldout Drake suggests he’s more a curiosity than a cause célèbre. KEVIN RITCHIE

THE DRUMS at the Mod Club, Saturday, October 1. Rating: NNN Since their last appearance at the Mod Club a year ago, the Drums have switched instruments, dropped a member and filled their hooky guitar pop with more drama and emotion.

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A three-piece in the studio and a five-piece onstage, the Drums are a wallflowerish lot save for the angsty, energetic, crush-worthy Pierce. He didn’t quite pull off all the boyish harmonies so distinct on their recordings, but he carried the show. You can tell he’s feeling it, and the band brings a fun, loose, dancey vibe despite the misery he sings about. KR 3

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Downtempo English experimentalists Portishead recently dazzled at the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival in New Jersey’s Asbury Park, an event they curated and their first performance in North America in way over a decade. When the electronic trio hits Sound Academy for two consecutive nights, expect a set list heavy on spacey, shapeshifting tunes from their most recent but no longer new album, Third, from 2008.

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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 Music Club Index, page 60, for venue address and phone number. = 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 listing once a month.

Thursday, October 6 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Local Music Is Sexy Showcase.

Bovine Sex cluB Psycho Mad Sally, Halter Stone, Binge Ninja, DJ Boom Boom.

c’eSt WhAt CD release Oscar Tango (power

pop/rock) 9 pm. clinton’S Jennifer Courvoisier, Among Millions, Dress Rehearsal in Sweater Season II. DrAke hotel unDergrounD Wakey! Wakey!, Casey Shea doors 8 pm. el MocAMBo Tricky Ones, Daniel Mager Band, Rockyard 9 pm. el MocAMBo upStAirS EP release party New Love Army, Modified, Battle Plan, A Self doors 8 pm. glenn goulD StuDio Song Of The Earth/Red Sea Sarah Slean, Kimberly Barber, Adam Luther & the Penderecki String Quartet 8 pm. horSeShoe Gramercy Riffs, Janes Party, Fast Romantics, Entire Cities 9 pm. lee’S pAlAce Ra Ra Riot, Dinosaur Bones (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm.

MASSey hAll Dream Theater, Trivium doors 7 pm.

Mitzi’S SiSter Alyson McNamara & the Nomads.

MoD cluB Michael Monroe, Diemonds, Tiger Star (glam metal) doors 7:30 pm. operA houSe Matt Nathanson, Vanessa Carlton (pop/rock) doors 7 pm, all ages.

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pArtS & lABour Bronzed Chorus, Caiiro Fos-

ter, Sleep For The Nightlife (post-hardcore) 10 pm. phoenix concert theAtre Naked & Famous, White Arrows doors 8 pm. the piSton Morning Thieves, Danger Bees, Kai 9 pm. rAncho relAxo Little Foot Long Foot, Erik Jorgensen, Christian D & the Hangovers 9 pm. revivAl Jonathan Richman w/ Tommy Larkins doors 8:30 pm. rivoli Sara Kamin, the Pigott Brothers, Likewater, Linda M 8:30 pm. rockpile John Corabi.

SieStA nouveAux StuDio Blr Whiskeyface.

Silver DollAr Last Year’s Men, the Thieves, Drunk Woman, This Is Me as a Woman doors 8:30 pm.

SMiling BuDDhA Where Did The Punk Rock Go? Gammage, Voidfolk, the Skadoos 8:30 pm.

SneAky Dee’S Birthday Boys.

SounD AcADeMy Awolnation, San Sebastian, Teenage Kicks doors 7 pm, all ages.

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trAnzAc MAin hAll CD release Metal Kites, the Gabe Levine Trio, I Am Robot ñ & Proud 7:30 pm. velvet unDergrounD I.H.A.D. 9 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

ASpettA cAffe Open Mic Nite 7 pm. cAMeron houSe Corin Raymond 6 pm. cAMeron houSe Fedora Upsidedown 10 pm. cAMeron houSe BAck rooM Lullaby North. cAStro’S lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

the DAnny Acoustic Open Stage Sebastian Agnello (eclectic) 9:30 pm.

free tiMeS cAfe Fool. glADStone hotel MeloDy BAr Jimmy Bow-

skill (blues) 9 pm.

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Graffiti’s Pete Eastmure (country/soul) 5 to 7 pm.

Graffiti’s Michael O’Grady 8 pm.

Grossman’s Summer Open Jam Cowboy Buddha 9 pm.

Habits Gastropub Dave Borins (alt country) 8:30 pm.

tHe LocaL Brian MacMillan. reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). sHaLLoW GrooVe New Country Thursdays 8 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Songs By Bert 6 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Bluegrass Thurs-

days Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time), Deer River Bluegrass Band 7:30 pm.

WHite sWan Jam Section 8 7 pm.

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“a perfectly turned collection of measured, poetic, introspective, funny, philosophical and deeply romantic songs” - NEIL MCCORMICK, THE DAILY TELEGRAPH

“Like A Man packs elegant poem-songs, nylon-string guitar, and the kind of serene, half-spoken rumination that has long been his father’s métier. “ - JAMES MCNAIR, MOJO

cHaLkers pub CD launch Ros Kindler 7 to 10 pm. de sotos Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz

8 pm.

edWard JoHnson buiLdinG macmiLLan tHeatre The Romantics U of T Symphony Orches-

tra 7:30 pm.

edWard JoHnson buiLdinG WaLter HaLL

Thursdays At Noon: Music & Poetry Monica Whicher, Che Anne Loewen (soprano/piano) 12:10 pm.

four seasons centre for tHe performinG arts ricHard bradsHaW ampHitHeatre

French Mélodies Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio noon to 1 pm.

HoLy oak cafe Wavelength #527: Closed Loop FireLionDragon, Sandro Perri & Ayal Senior, Crazy Angry & Bored (loop pedalinspired improvisation) 10 pm.

HuGH’s room Gia & the Unpredictable Update 8:30pm. metropoLitan united cHurcH Noon At Met Elisa Mangina (organ recital) 12:15-12:45 pm. reserVoir LounGe Alex Pangman and the Alleycats (jazz) 7 pm. rex Gelcer/Hoffert Trio 6:30 pm. rex William Carn (jazz trombone) 9:30 pm. someWHere tHere studio Rob Clutton, Matt Fong (solo contrabass) 8 pm. trane studio Trouble w/ Ernest Dawkins 8 pm.

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bLondies No Rule!! (underground rock & roll past and present) 10 pm.

GoodHandy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 Lee’s paLace dance caVe Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance). tHe ossinGton Sweat Pants DJ Coolin Cregg (soul/R&B/hip-hop/reggae). riVoLi pooL LounGe DJs Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (electrobeats/disco/vinyl).

VeLVet underGround DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:15 pm.

Friday, October 7 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

aLLeycatz Lady Kane. annex Wreckroom Napalm Death,

Murder Squad, Sepulchre, Redeemer ñ (metal) 7:30 pm.

bar itaLia upstairs Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/ top 40) 9:30 pm.

boVine sex cLub Poor Young Things, the Sweet Mack, Attagirl, DJ Vania.

dominion on Queen The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues).

eL mocambo doWnstairs Peter Tosh Tribute

House of David Gang, High Plains Drifter doors 9 pm. eL mocambo The Johnson Report, Alphabot, the Lad Classic, Fleece Elves 9 pm.

Graffiti’s Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm.

Graffiti’s Amarok, the Stone Sparrows 8 pm.

HoLy oak cafe Little Red Umbrella Variety Show (pop) 10 pm.

HorsesHoe D.O.A., Skullians, Take Drugs (punk) doors 9 pm.

Lee’s paLace Dog Day, Sports, Ryan Masters, the Fabulous Yawn 9 pm. mitzi’s sister Jordan Faye, Tanya Philipovich. opera House The Aristocrats (Bryan Beller, Guthrie Govan, Marco Minnemann) doors 8 pm. parts & Labour Acid Baby Jesus, HellShovel, the Pow Wows (garage rock) 10 pm. riVoLi Marla Zinger, Left Turn City, Rollercoaster Jupiter 9 pm. rockpiLe Racecar Bed. sound academy Explosions in the Sky, Wye Oak (instrumental indie rock) doors 8 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s Cameltoe (rock/top 40) 10 pm. tranzac main HaLL CD release and fundraiser for indigenous land rights and cultural reclamation in Turtle Island and Africa Amai Kuda, LAL, Victoria Mata, Sonny B, Izzy Mackenzie, Sedina Fiati 9 pm.

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519 cHurcH street community centre SelfHelp Resource Centre Benefit Concert Suzie Vinnick, the Lost Boys doors 7 pm. aspetta caffe Nicole Coward, Jeff Bus 7 pm. cameron House Tarantuela 11 pm. free times cafe Peter Han, Patricia & Michelle.

HuGH’s room Two Fiddles, Two Pianos Natalie MacMaster & Donnell Leahy 8:30 pm.

LuLa LounGe Ladies Salsa Night Alithea Cameron, DJ Eviloution 8 pm. royaL canadian LeGion – brancH 11 Country Circle Jam (country/old-time/bluegrass/folk) 7:30 pm. siLVer doLLar Record Release Deloro, Andre Ethier, B 17 doors 9 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Folk Songs Of Canada Archive Release Party Henry Adam Svec, Folk 10 pm.

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footWork Saeed Younan, Addy, Chris Ink,

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GLadstone HoteL baLLroom Pop Kult! #002 DJs Nancy Whang (LCD Soundñ system/Juan MacLean DJ set), Hal Kilmer,

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Hart House arbor room Jazz At Oscar’s Terra Hazelton 9 pm.

oLd miLL inn Fridays To Sing About Sundar Viswanathan Trio 7:30 pm.

Quotes Fridays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, Russ Little (trombone) 5 to 8 pm.

rex Tenth Anniversary David Braid Sextet

9:45 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rex Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm. someWHere tHere studio Leftover Daylight Series James Bailey, Matt Miller, Michael Seta, Ken Alcroft and more 8 pm. trane studio Jules Estrin Sextet (jazz) 9 pm. tranzac The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

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Elect Blake (alt rock/pop/hip-hop) 10 pm.

GoodHandy’s All Out DJ Queer Boy doors 10 pm.5 tHe Great HaLL The Big Cheese! DJ Neil Armstrong. insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Skank Honto (house/breaks).

Lee’s paLace dance caVe Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop). marGret First Fridays DJ Cozmic Cat, DJ PHO 10 pm. mod cLub Arcade Lindstrom, My Favorite Robot doors 10 pm. See preview, page 37. moroco cHocoLat Coco Beats DJ Kenneth Porter (deep soulful house) 8 pm. naco GaLLery cafe Night Crawlers Murr, DJ Nik Red 10 pm.5 noW maGazine LounGe DJCG (electro pop) 10 pm. tHe painted Lady DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson (old-school hip-hop/reggae/80s) 10 pm. tHe piston Ryan Gavel (soul/funk/rare groove/reggae) 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. continued on page 52 œ

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Screen Lounge Soul In The City DJ Michael

Williams (Motown classics/smooth jazz/ northern soul/Canrock) 10 pm.

Supermarket Rollin’ & Scratchin’: The Makeover Polaris Mixtape Release Party The Makeover, R&S DJ crew.

VeLVet underground DJ Bingo Bob 10 pm.

XS nightcLub Carnival Circus DJ Mike, DJ Couture (top 40/house/mashups) 10 pm.

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aLLeycatz Lady Kane. anneX Wreckroom Polar Bear Club, Fire-

works, Balance & Composure, Such Gold doors 5:30 pm, all ages. boVine SeX cLub CJ Ramone, Teenage X, Unbelievers, the Nasties, DJ Ian Blurton. doubLe doubLe Land Josephine Foster, Victor Herraro 9 pm, all ages. eL mocambo CD release Olaroks, the Damaged Goods, Lickpenny Loafer, Cousin Rufu 9 pm. graffiti’S The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm. graffiti’S The Flava Quartet.

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hard Luck bar Cobra Skulls, Nothington,

lucky Ones (punk rock) doors 8:30 pm, all ages. horSeShoe CD release Mad Anthony, Bella Clava, the Ruby Spirit, the Cheap Speakers 9 pm.

Lee’S paLace We Are the City, the Paint Movement, Modern Boys Modern Girls 10 pm. mitzi’S SiSter The High Tides, Miracle Whip, Blue Demons. mod cLub Dead and Divine. opera houSe Racecar Bed. the poor aLeX Templars, Hammerboiz, Budda Bulldozer, N.F.G, Jenny Woo & the Birds of Prey. reX Danny Marks (pop) noon. riVoLi Double CD release Dub Trinity, Eccodek, DJ Medicineman (dub/ska) 9 pm. rockpiLe Sven Gali.

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Anika 8 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

aSpetta caffe Luke Vajsar, Kate Sloan, Pierce

Chester, Nicole Coward, the Troll Blazers 4 pm to midnight. aXiS gaLLery & griLL Poppa K’s Saturday Night Richard Keelan (folk/rock). cameron houSe Big Tobacco & the Pickers w/ Steve Piticco (outlaw country) 6 to 8 pm. cameron houSe front room Sue & Dwight (folk) 3:30 pm. cameron houSe back room Modern Field Recordings, Lowlands, Jason Poisson. drake hoteL underground Paul Dempsey doors 8 pm. eVergreen brick WorkS Farmer’s Market Rachel Melas (klezmer) 8 am to 1 pm. gLadStone hoteL meLody bar Tim Bradford & the Bandits (country) 9 pm. habitS gaStropub Matt Morgan 9 pm. hugh’S room Dylan Murray & Dane Hartsell 8:30 pm. the LocaL Combo Royale with Kristine Schmitt.

LuLa Lounge Salsa Saturday Cafe Cubano & DJ Suave.

SiLVer doLLar Saturday Supper Blues Club Bill Durst Band 7 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Jamzac (folk) 3 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Allison Cameron 10 pm.

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cameron houSe Rambunctious (horn band party music) 10 pm.

c’eSt What Del Dako (jazz) 3 to 6 pm. dimitra’S biStro Vincent Wolfe Trio, Michael Danso 8 pm.

gaLLery 345 Trikonasana Nancy Walker,

Bruce Cassidy, Lowell Whitty 8 pm. heLiconian haLL Apt For Voices, Viols Or Violins The Musicians in Ordinary, Hallie Fishel, John Edwards, Christopher Verrette 8 pm. oLd miLL inn Jazz Masters Tom Szczesniak Trio 7:30 pm. reX Tenth Anniversary David Braid Sextet 9:45 pm. reX The Cookers (jazz) 3:30 pm. reX Jamie Reynolds 7 pm. trane Studio Five Weeks For Miles, Week 2: Birth Of The Cool & Kind Of Blue

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anneX Wreckroom See You Saturdays Rick Toxic (club hits/party anthems) 10 pm.

cLinton’S Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush

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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 Sugar Bush DJ Home Rekha 10 pm.5 neu+raL Fixion Saturdays DJ Dwight (alt/ electronic/indie/retro/remix). the oSSington Lucky Bitches (glam dance party). the painted Lady DJ Salazar (funk/soul/hiphop/R&R) 10 pm. partS & Labour Parkdale Soul Review DJs Mark Pesci & Kristal Kent (classic soul) 10 pm. the piSton Neat Neat Neat (pop/rock) 10 pm. reViVaL Twilight Zone Tribute Party DJs Robert Owens, Albert Asoon, Dave Campbell, Mitch Winthrop, Groove Institute 10 pm. riVoLi upStairS Bump N’ Hustle Paul E Lopes & Tull (soul/funk/house/disco/reggae/hiphop) 10 pm.

SLack’S DJ Cozmic Cat 10 pm.

Smith Soft Serve DJ Mary Hell, leatherDATA, Alex M (house) 10 pm.

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 (old skool hip-hop).

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friday october 7 @ sound academy

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saturday october 15 @ Sound academy $ 27.00

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w/ Marketa Irglova of tHE sWELL sEasON

saturday october 15 @ opera house $ 15.00

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advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS thurSday

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flatliners living with lions + broadway calls + the arteries

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november 3 Wed november 2 thurS horSeShoe • $10.50 advance

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tHurS november 10 lee’S palace • $ 15.50 advance

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drake underground

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mon october 10 • no cover

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Sat october 15 • $10.00

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24 november 17 thurS november Sat november 12 thurS $ horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

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ryan masters FaBulous yaWn

Sat october 8 • $ 10.00

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mon november 14 @ garrison • $11.50 adv

friday november 25 @ the drake / $13.50 advance

high places ganglians friends youth lagoon touche amore devon williams sat november 19 @ garrison • $10.50 adv

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wed november 30 @ garrison • $10.50 adv

perform it’s a shame about ray

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

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BRYAN BELLER

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MARCO MINNEMANN

lUla loUnge Jarmo Jalava and NAFTE, Café

VelVet UndergroUnd Hope & Glory Britrock Party DJ Davy Love 10 pm.

Intyre & Steeped in Tradition 4 to 8 pm. ñ rex Conor Gains (blues) 3:30 pm.

Sunday, October 9 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

LIVE in Concert at COSMO MUSIC with Meet & Greet

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Cherry Cola’s roCk n’ rolla The Digs (funk)

9:30 pm.

Crossroads Bar & grill Soulchamp! Duo 2 to 8 pm.

Thu, Oct 6 at 7:00 pm LIVE in Concert at The OPERA HOUSE Toronto

daVe’s... on st Clair John Campbell (soul/ pop/rock) 6 pm.

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Higgs, Folly & the Hunter, JJ Ibson doors ñ 8 pm.

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Con Pan 8 pm.

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Two: Benefit for Sickle Cell Association & Red Cross For Africa Relief Korexion, Sonia Collymore, Eyesus, Carlos Morgan, DJ Tasha Rozez, Jemini, King Fabuloso, DJ Suppa Natty, DJ Bigga Boss, DJ King Sharpe and others 9 pm. graffiti’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm.

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teen rock) noon & 2:30 pm. holy oak Cafe Muskox (progressive/ acoustic/experimental) 9 pm. laMBadina Don’t Forget The Lyrics: UnKnown Audition-Only Open Mic Series Spek Won, Jay Ohshawn, North English, J Jones, Jae Ari, Khandi doors 7 pm. orBit rooM Horshack (rock & roll) 10:30 pm. soUnd aCadeMy Portishead, Thought Forms doors 7 pm, all ages. trane stUdio Autumn Neo-Soul Revue SoJay, Catherine He, DJ Len X 8 pm.

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& Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. spirits Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. sUperMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic 7 pm. tranzaC soUthern Cross Jesjit’s FunFun PartyParty Chrissy Reichert 2 pm. tranzaC soUthern Cross Sarah Jane Scouten 7:30 pm. the Wilson 96 Sunday Supper Dave Picco (singer/songwriter) 6 pm.

drake hotel UndergroUnd My Favorite Robot w/ Jori Hulkkonen 11 pm. ñ footWork Gary Beck, the Junkies & Nathan

Barato doors 10 pm. graffiti’s blackmetalbrunch 11 am. gUVernMent Fifteen Steve Angello, Armin Van Buuren, Max Vangeli, AN21, Matteo DiMarr, Manzone & Strong, Jochen Miller, Mark Oliver. haBits gastropUB Chef Ron. insoMnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. the ossington Unlimited Sunday DJs Hajah Bug and Mantis (deep grooves).

VelVet UndergroUnd DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

WrongBar What It Is! Kwame Younge & DJ Dave Campbell (house/soca/soul/ reggae/hip-hop/Afrobeat) 10 pm.

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Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

6:30 pm.

doors 9 pm.

aMadeUs Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats

drake hotel UndergroUnd Elvis Monday

gate 403 Jazz Brunch Joel Hartt noon to 3 pm. rex Snarky Puppy 9:30 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rex Parker/Abbott Trio 7 pm. soMeWhere there stUdio Tova Kardonne’s

drake hotel loUnge Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 10 pm.

Parker Warp (experimental be-bop) 5 pm. tranzaC soUthern Cross Camp Combo w/ Fred Spek (alt jazz) 5 pm. tranzaC soUthern Cross The Brodie West Trio (jazz) 10:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

BoVine sex ClUB School For Band Aids DJ Candy-O.

Castro’s loUnge Watch This Sound DJ Greg (old school soul/reggae/dub/ska/rock-steady) 10 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

harBoUrfront Centre redpath sUgar stage HarbourKIDS: Monster Volume (pre-

teen rock) noon & 2:30 pm. soUnd aCadeMy Portishead, Thought Forms doors 7 pm, all ages. tranzaC soUthern Cross This is Awesome! (indie) 7 pm. the Wilson 96 Esteban Puchalski (roots rock).

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CaMeron hoUse Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

CaMeron hoUse

Big Rude Jake 8 pm. ñ Castro’s loUnge Smoky Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm.

dakota taVern Mariachi Mondays Mariachi

Fuego 7 pm.

the foUntain Bluegrass Mondays Badly Bent (bluegrass/old time) 9 pm.

aqUila Upstairs Open Mic The McDales

free tiMes Cafe Open Stage JP Saxe. graffiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6

(country) 8:30 pm. aspetta Caffe Jessica Lajner, Jessica Chase 4 to 7 pm.

BlUe goose taVern Jerome Godboo, the Pie Guys 5 pm.

CaMeron hoUse Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm. epiC loUnge Iya Ire (Afro-Cuban drum & dance) 5 to 8 pm. gladstone hotel Melody Bar Sunday Family Acoustic Brunch 10 am. gladstone hotel art Bar Old Time Jam 2 to 5:30 pm. grossMan’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.

to 9 pm.

horseshoe Shoeless Monday The Futureless,

We Were Lovers, the Sweetfields Band 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental rex Snarky Puppy 9:30 pm. rex Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

alleyCatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

BoVine sex ClUB Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

insoMnia DJs Topher, Oranj (rock). lee’s palaCe danCe CaVe Manic Mondays DJ

Shannon (retro 70s/80s). the piston Junk Shop DJs Tweed & Jeeks (preto post-punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Elis Dean.

Tuesday, October 11 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

air Canada Centre Kings of Leon, the Sheepdogs doors 6:30 pm. ñ gladstone hotel Melody Bar CD Launch

Harrison Kennedy 9 pm. graffiti’s Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm. holy oak Cafe David Simard, Loom & Jenny Berkel (pop) 9 pm. horseshoe Boats, 5th Projekt, the Parlor Mob, Silver Creek, Shawn Hook 8:30 pm. lee’s palaCe Wild Flag doors 8 pm. See preview, page 34.

Mod ClUB Fucked Up doors 8 pm, all ages. phoenix ConCert theatre Saxon, Borealis (metal) 7:30 pm. the piston Dead Tuesdays 9 pm. sUperMarket Daryl Hall 65th Birthday Tribute 8 pm.

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CAmeron houSe Run with the Kittens,

Friendly Rich 10 pm.

CAStro’S lounGe Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation (covers) 8:30 pm, Quiet Revolutions (acoustic jam) 11 pm.

C’eSt WhAt Alysha Brillinger (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. dAkotA tAvern East End Open Stage (fingerstyle guitar) 8 pm. free timeS CAfe Best Of The Open Stage Orly Tracy. the loCAl Ruth Cassie. monArChS puB Acoustic Open Stage Noah Zacharin (folk) 7 pm. orBit room The Clayton Doley Organ Experience (blues/jazz/soul) 7 to 10 pm. ten feet tAll East End Open Stage 8 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMEnTAL

AlleyCAtz Swing Tuesdays Double A Jazz Swing Band, Carlo Berardinucci 8 pm.

Belmont houSe Bill McBirnie & Louis Simao 7 pm.

ChAlkerS puB Grand Tuesdays Robi Botos Trio 7:30 pm.

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Russian Romances Ekaterina Sadovnikova, Christopher Mokrzewski (soprano, piano) noon to 1 pm. huGh’S room Kronenbourg 1664 Cabaret Series Ann Hampton Callaway 8:30 pm.

mArkhAm theAtre for the performinG ArtS Nikki Yanofsky 8 pm. rex Ben Monder, Theo Bleckmann 9:30 pm. rex June Harris Trio 6:30 pm.

SomeWhere there Studio David Sait,

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Michael Lynn, William Davison 8 pm. trAnzAC Southern CroSS Cris Derksen & Christa Couture (jazz) 7 pm. trAnzAC Southern CroSS Jeff Hewer

Quartet (jazz) 10 pm.

DAnCE MuSiC/DJ/LOunGE

GoodhAndy’S Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 inSomniA DJ Shannon (rock/dance). the oSSinGton E-Z Now DJ Lite Favourites at Work. repoSAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

GrAffiti’S Frank Nevada 5 to 7 pm.

GrAffiti’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm.

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

Wednesday, October 12

huGh’S room CD release The Once (Nfld folk). the loCAl Loraina Fox & the Old Fashion. lulA lounGe Pueblito Salsa Extravaganza

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

Silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesday:

Blue moon Freakout.

Bovine Sex CluB Indie Week Kick-Off Party. drAke hotel underGround The Barr

Brothers doors 8 pm. el moCAmBo Children’s Peace Theatre Benefit Concert Tim Bovaconti, Brownman Electryc Trio, Robert Morgan and others 8 pm. the hideout Indie Week Launch Party Sherman Downey & the Ambiguous Case, Arrows in the Air, Super Geek League, Fox Jaw Bounty Hunters, the Beat Poets, These Electric Lives, the Suburbians, Peter Katz, Sarah Wallis, I Saw The Deep, Jarrod Dickenson. horSeShoe The Toasters, Frankie Foo, the Afterbeat doors 8:30 pm. the hoxton Little Dragon (electronic band) doors 10 pm. lee’S pAlACe The Gift doors 8 pm. pAntAGeS hotel Chris Ritchie (pop/rock piano) 6 pm. the piSton Elk, Huddle, Cousin 9 pm. queen elizABeth theAtre John Hiatt & the Combo 7:30 pm. rivoli Eros, Thanatos & the Avant-Garde: The Cabaret Series Briga 9 pm.

SupermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Adaline, Chloe Charles, Rekha Patel 9 pm.

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AlleyCAtz The Graceful Daddies (swingin’

blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm.

CAmeron houSe Kristen Scholte 6 pm.

CAmeron houSe The Cameron Brothers, Janes Party 10 pm.

Venue Index 519 ChurCh Street Community Centre 519 Church. 416-392-6874.

Air CAnAdA Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

AlleyCAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

AmAdeuS 184 Augusta. 416-591-1245.

Annex WreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346.

AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474.

ASpettA CAffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

AxiS GAllery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-6043333.

BAr itAliA 582 College. 416-535-3621.

Belmont houSe 55 Belmont. 416-964-9231.

BlondieS 1378 Queen W. Blue moon 725 Queen E. 416-463-8868.

Bovine Sex CluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

CAmeron houSe 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

CAStro’S lounGe 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272.

C’eSt WhAt 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

ChAlkerS puB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

Cherry ColA’S roCk n’ rollA 200 Bathurst.

Clinton’S 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

CroSSroAdS BAr & Grill 395 Keele. 416-767-5224.

CroWn & tiGer 414 College. 416-920-3115. dAkotA tAvern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. the dAnny 2183 Danforth. 416-686-1705. dAve’S... on St ClAir 730 St Clair W. 416-657-3283. de SotoS 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109. dimitrA’S BiStro 782 St Clair W. diSGrACelAnd 965 Bloor W. 647-868-5263. dominion on queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. douBle douBle lAnd 209 Augusta. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. edWArd JohnSon BuildinG 80 Queen’s Park.

416-978-3744. el moCAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.

C’eSt WhAt The Key Frames (country/ rock/bluegrass) 9 pm. ñ free timeS CAfe Chris Blachford.

Yani Borrell & the Clave Kings.

Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm.

terri o’S SportS BAr Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Mena Hardy 9 pm.

trAnzAC tiki room Comhaltas Irish Fiddle Jam 7:30 pm.

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A classically trained opera singer, Zola Jesus wields her voice strategically. She fills yawning spaces with delicately layered swatches of siren calls, and burrows into all that sound with her plaintive timbre. Propulsive, stabbing drums build a tension that’s diffused by luminous vocals and fleeting seconds of fluttery bass.

Organic instrumentation cuts through the synth-manufactured haze, a visceral effect mirrored in song titles like Avalanche and Skin. Like her prior work, the songs are thematically dark and diffuse, but the dancey impulses on Vessel and Seekir signal headier paths ahead. Could Zola Jesus be the inverse Lady Gaga?

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That’s a lot of country/folk talent for one band, even if none of them are marquee names on their own. They try to spread it around equally, alternating vocal and songwriting duties. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, but unified by a general atmosphere of exhausted dejection – a latenight the-party’s-gone-on-too-long vibe summoned by distortion and reverb.

At their best, as on Castle’s Watertower, they recall an updated Crazy Horse.

At their worst, they sound like a sloppier, less rehearsed version of their respective main outfits. Thankfully, it’s more the former than the latter.

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Believers (Fat Possum) Rating: Though not the type of artist to stop you dead in your tracks, A.A. Bondy does have the power to slow you to a standstill. His barely awake tempos, haunting Twin Peaks guitar notes and languid vocals make everything feel like a lucid dream state somewhere on a lonesome highway.

In our era of immediacy, this quality feels invaluable.

Bondy’s third record isn’t drastically different from its two predecessors, 2007’s American Hearts and 2009’s grossly overlooked When The Devil’s Loose. He throws out a red herring with first track The Heart Is Willing, a marching rock song bathed in reverb. But then he quickly settles into his familiar territory of slow, austere, gut-wrenching tunes about nothing obviously apparent. But that doesn’t matter; the mood is so strong that picking out words and themes would just interfere with the semi-conscious reverie.

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The quartet claim that by laying aside some of their trademark progressiveness they had more fun making this album than any other. Songs are shorter (Pink Floydish final tune The Sparrow is the longest at five and a half minutes), vocals are cleaner and the band seems unafraid to ride out the many heavy guitar riffs for a groove-inducing, hair-whipping length of time. Drummer Brann Dailor’s dizzying double kick drum work and jazzy snare cracks deserve their own shout-out.

Top track: Bedazzled Fingernails Mastodon play Kool Haus November 25.

CARLA GILLIS ture for the Toronto trio, who’ve moved to Paper Bag Records and ditched their raucous, stomping, death-country shtick in favour of a fuller Canrock sound complete with drums, piano, backup vocals and lots of electric guitar.

The new textures suit singer Mark Sasso’s gravelly voice and Days Into Years’ historical themes, inspired in part by a visit to a World War I cemetery in France. A nuanced rocker, the album moves between big distorted jams, soundscapey interludes and quieter banjo songs. Nostalgic opener Lindsay is about emptying a house, while If I Get Old imagines retiring to the country in old age.

An interesting turn for the well-loved rabble-rousers.

Top track: Northern Air Elliott Brood play the Phoenix November 18.

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Conatus (Sacred Bones) Rating: On Conatus, Zola Jesus (Nika Danilova) reveals herself as an avant-gardist with pop ambition. The Wisconsin-reared musician’s third album is not as bleak – but no less cinematic – than her previous work.

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S.C.U.M. Again Into Eyes (Mute) Rating: NNN Sounding like a long-lost artifact from the 80s, the debut album from three-year-old London band S.C.U.M. is icy, detached and perfectly suited to autumn’s overcast days.

Singer Thomas Cohen sounds a bit like Peter Murphy’s kid brother. He keeps the lyrics spare and obtuse, delivering them with a sharpness that’s antithetical to the airy synths swirling through the songs.

The airtight rhythm section – drummer Melissa Rigby and bassist Huw Webb, brother of Horrors bassist Rhys – provides unshakeable structure, even when the band is at its most atmospheric.

And when S.C.U.M. get atmospheric, as on the ballad Paris, they pull out all the stops: tortured lyrics, twinkling piano, windstorm-evoking keyboards. It might be too overwrought for many, but for those of us who like drama, this is a fine introduction.

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dent) Rating: NNN Though she made a name for herself with ukulele renditions of her songs on YouTube, Toronto-based singer/songwriter Shelley O’Brien is actually more of a multiinstrumentalist. The former cruise liner pianist plays Casio, Rhodes, harpsichord, accordion and glockenspiel on her sophomore disc, while producer Matthew Rogers handles most of the rest.

The result is a collection of electro-folkpop songs about love, nature and found objects. It works best when O’Brien shows off her theatrical side, like on the briskly shuffling Turn To Spring and the uplifting Swiftly, We Go, and is less effective on slower tunes like Valse A La Pluie. Layering, samples, delays and loops are cool, but sometimes the background static and hushed vocals covered with overdubs grow tiring. It’d be good to hear a more assertive O’Brien backed by a live band.

Top track: Swiftly, We Go Shelley O’Brien plays the Drake October 13.

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Discovery (EMI) Rating: Kicking off the season of giving is Discovery, a 14-disc collection that includes all of Pink Floyd’s studio albums packaged in a tidy purple chest. Each CD comes in a slim cardboard case complete with original liner notes. It would’ve been a fine opportunity for the surviving band members to comment on these influential records, but there’s no such bonus material.

The hefty package does feature commentary from Storm Thorgerson, who created the iconic artwork on every Floyd album except The Wall. Although the text is minimal in the 60-page booklet, Thorgerson talks about the decision to put a cow on the cover of Atom Heart Mother and about the difficulty of photographing an inflatable pig for Animals. He could probably write a book about his experiences with the band.

Top track: Lucifer Sam (or your favourite Pink Floyd song) JH

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DELORO (Idée Fixe) Rating: NNN

You may not be familiar with the name Deloro, but if you spend any time around Toronto’s music scene there’s a good chance you’ll recognize the members’ faces. Jennifer Castle has her own psychblues project, Dave Clarke and Paul Morti-

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Rating: NNN It’s been four years since Evidence from Cali-rap crew Dilated Peoples released his solo debut. That length of time usually spells a death sentence in hip-hop’s churn’em-out economy, especially for an “underground” rapper. But Evidence’s new effort rewards our patience.

Mostly, Ev raps over very pleasant Alchemist beats. If you can’t get with his trademark slow flow, there’s no faulting his preference in production. DJ Premier’s crispy contribution, You, invokes old Dilated records and sets up Ev’s straight-shooter style of rapping. Strong cameos by Slug, Raekwon, Ras Kass and Roc Marciano keep Cats & Dogs from buckling under the weight of a 20-deep track list, though track 13 is just four seconds of intentional silence.

Essentially, Evidence harkens back to 00s rap nostalgia without resorting to preachy tirades or regressive concepts, a respite during a time of sing-rap and hyper-aggressive flows.

Top track: The Red Carpet, featuring Raekwon and Ras Kass AM3

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James Gangl has a real cross to bear in Sex, Religion & Other Hang-Ups.

SEX, RELIGION & OTHER HANG-UPS written and performed by James Gangl, directed by Chris Gibbs. Presented by Gangland Productions at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace (16 Ryerson). Opens tonight (Thursday, October 6) and runs to October 22, Tuesday-Thursday 8 pm, Friday-Saturday 7 and 9 pm. $20-$25, $15 (single women). 416-504-7529.

james gangl’s sex, religion & Other Hang-Ups was one of the breakout hits of Fringe 2011, selling out performances with its funny and honest revelations about his personal life and instantly making him a sort of pin-up boy for single straight women.

But Gangl’s favourite moment came from his mom after one show.

“She’s always said she doesn’t get my humour,” says Gangl, who’s ironically one of the city’s best-known improvisers. “But it was really cute. She said, ‘I think you swore too much. And all the things you said about sex’” – he mouths the word, mimicking her refusal to say it out loud – “‘your father and I felt, too. Of course, we didn’t do anything before we were married.’”

Gangl laughs and opens his eyes wide in a too-much-information gesture.

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“‘Thanks, Mom. I’m sorry to hear that.’ But she connected to it. And for me, that was huge.”

The audience response – the show won the inaugural Ed Mirvish Award for Entrepreneurship for the highest percentage of tickets sold during the festival – prompted him to finance a remount at Theatre Passe Muraille Mainspace.

Free of the time constraints of a Fringe slot, he’s gone back to his material with director and dramaturge Chris Gibbs.

“At first I didn’t want to tinker with the recipe, but I’ve added a bunch of stuff and we’ve honed it down to something that feels tight. Basically, the energy and pace will still be high, only I won’t be scared that the lights will come on after 60 minutes.”

The show was inspired by his first official acting job, a part in a 2005 Coors Light commercial. Gangl became obsessed with a woman on the shoot, whom he refers to as “Bunny #3.” After a series of unfortunate dates, he began chronicling his emotional turmoil in a journal, which includes a lot of poetry.

“Ninety per cent of [the journal] is garbage,” he says, “but I thought 10 per cent of it was good. When I read it

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I still feel moved by it.”

In developing the script, he insisted on staying honest.

“I think most people are really good bullshit detectors, they know when someone’s lying to them,” he says.

“When I began working with Chris, I told him that if there was material that was so humiliating people would turn away as if it were a train wreck, we could cut it.

“And Chris said, ‘Oh no, James, I think we can make this way more humiliating.’”

Gangl’s current relationship status, he says, is “dating.” But he did get a few people coming up to him after the Fringe show expressing interest.

“The scariest thing is that people come up to you after and think they know you so well. There’s some truth to that, but what you know is what I put into a 60-minute show about me six years ago.”

Besides, he says, mounting a solo show isn’t the best way to find a girlfriend.

“It’s a really one-way conversation.”

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Volcano Theatre’s Another Africa offers audiences two of the myriad, complex lenses through which the West and Africa view each other.

Presented as Canadian Stage’s season opener, the scripts (culled from a 2010 Luminato production and here presented with Deborah Asiimwe’s brief introduction) are Kenyan playwright Binyavanga Wainaina’s Shine Your Eye and German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Peggy Pickit Sees The Face Of God. Taken together, they’re sharp exposés of how people manipulate others to gain money and power; attitudes of self-righteousness and smugness underlie both tales.

Shine Your Eye is set in the office of an internet scam operation in Nigeria.

Beka (Dienye Waboso), daughter of a murdered revolutionary leader, has fled her home and settled in Lagos, where she helps her boss, Tambari (Lucky Onyekachi Ejim), “harvest American dollars” through email schemes.

Caught between Tambari’s desire to use her family name to get government money and a black Canadian lesbian’s (Ordena Stephens-Thompson) interest in bringing her to Toronto, Beka flees again, this time into a world where she has control.

Director Ross Manson gets fine work from his cast and makes great use of projection (fettFilm), animation (Marcus Moore and Wangechi Mutu’s design) and choreography (Teddy Masuku and Heidi Strauss) to help tell the story.

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Kristen Thomson and Tony Nappo explore Another Africa.

a cutting comedy about four medical practitioners, friends whose lives have taken different paths. Martin and Carol (Tom Barnett and Maev Beaty) spent six years working in a troubled African nation while Frank and Liz (Tony Nappo and Kristen Thomson) remained in the West, building a family and a large income.

We meet them at a dinner party following Martin and Carol’s return home; liquor helps release long-buried tensions and unspoken criticisms.

Schimmelpfennig’s script relies on asides, repeated scenes and leaps forward in time to create the text’s emotional levels; there’s plenty of darkness underlying the false bonhomie.

As in Shine Your Eye, the production makes clever use of technology. An African doll that Martin and Carol bring back offers, through a camera in the doll’s head, an intentionally skewed view of the action.

Filled with anger and fear, the foursome strip layer after layer from each other in director Liesl Tommy’s razorsharp production; the repetition of scenes, words and movement is finely choreographed, the frozen asides and rerun scenes never undercutting the work’s emotional intensity. JON KAPLAN

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DE COLORES FESTIVAL (Alameda Theatre Company). The festival of new creations by LatinCanadian playwrights includes works in development by Martha Chaves, Ari Belathar, Gilda Monreal and Aracely Reyes. Oct 6-7 at 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $12, pass $28. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. 416-652-5442, alamedatheatre.com.

HARBOURKIDS: MONSTER (Harbourfront Centre). This festival of family programming features puppet shows, film, music, storytelling, workshops and more. Oct 8-10 from 11 am to 5 pm. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Ekaterina Sadovnikova and Quinn Kelsey play daughter and father in highconcept Rigoletto.

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Waking dream rIGoLETTo music by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave (Canadian Opera Company). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Queen West). To October 22. 416-363-8231. See Continuing, page 66. Rating: NNN

Verdi’s Rigoletto deals with rape, vengeance and the tender relationship between a father and daughter. Christopher Alden’s bold Canadian Opera Company production stresses the savagery of the first two while neglecting the last, so watching it is a curiously unbalanced experience.

Alden presents the opera as a dream or psychological flashback in the mind of the eponymous acid-tongued, hunchbacked jester (Quinn Kelsey, alternating with Lester Lynch), whose sequestered daughter Gilda (Ekaterina Sadovnikova) becomes the victim of

his promiscuous employer, the Duke of Mantua (Dmitri Pittas).

There’s thought behind Alden’s concept; notice how often Piave’s libretto has Rigoletto saying the word “dream.”

And certainly Alden gets help from designer Michael Levine’s handsome set, which resembles a wood-panelled men’s club, complete with working fireplace. The seemingly civilized world of Rigoletto’s workplace becomes a nightmarish setting for abductions, murders and an execution.

Alden and Levine’s effective choices include drawing links between Rigoletto and the wronged Count Monterone (Robert Pomakov), whose own daughter (in a costume that echoes GIlda’s) has been raped by the Duke and whose curse haunts the jester.

Good use is made, too, of the Duke’s courtiers, archetypal company men hiding behind walls of newspapers or helping their boss cover up an indiscretion. In one of the production’s most chilling sequences, they voice a gather-

ing storm (an effect usually heard from offstage) to spine-tingling effect.

Another novel idea is making Gilda’s maid, Giovanna (Megan Latham), a lascivious witch, in love with the Duke herself, in Rigoletto’s fevered dream.

The flip side of this high-concept production, however, is lack of emotional involvement. The series of father-daughters duets that form the heart of the opera don’t resonate, because we’re not sure if the events are only happening in Rigoletto’s mind.

It doesn’t help that the physically imposing and rich-voiced Kelsey and the thin-sounding Sadovnikova lack chemistry in their scenes together.

Kelsey’s much better in his dramatic musical monologues, or with hired assassin Sparafucile, played with sinister gravity by Phillip Ens. And mezzo Kendall Gladen creates a full character in her brief scenes as the latter’s sexy sister, Maddalena.

Pittas pulls off the Duke’s famous arias with ease, only occasionally showing strain in his high notes. He’s equally comfortable with the staging, which includes a quasi-masturbatory session with a pillow.

Johannes Debus conducts an unhurried reading of the score, the dark harmonies matching the sinister goings-on above.

Debus alternates with conductor Derek Bate, and the lead roles are shared by others in the alternate cast; not that that matters, since direction and design are the real stars, albeit controversial ones, in this production.

GLENN SUMI

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John Berger are the basis of this dance-theatre piece. Opens Oct 10 and runs to Oct 22, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

My MoThEr’S ITaLIaN, My FaThEr’S JEwISh & I’M IN ThEraPy by Steve Solomon (Philip

Roger Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin).

Solomon performs his solo show about growing up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family.

Opens Oct 12 and runs to Jan 1, 2012, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5:30 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $51.50-$56. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 1-855-9852787, italianjewish.ca.

SEx, rELIGIoN & oThEr haNG-UPS by James Gangl (Gangland Productions).

See story, page 63. Opens Oct 6 and runs to Oct 22, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7 and 9 pm. $15-$25. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, sexhangup.com.

ThoSE who CaN’T Do... by Erin Fleck (Theatre Passe Muraille). A sex scandal at a high school forces a teacher to confront her own perceptions of sexuality and shame. Previews Oct 6-8. Opens Oct 11 and runs to Oct 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$30, previews $15, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

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Theatre). This drama interweaves the lives of author Jean Rhys and a character from Jane Eyre. Runs to Oct 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. aNoThEr aFrICa by Deborah Asiimwe, Binyavanga Wainaina and Roland Schimmelpfennig (Canadian Stage/Volcano Theatre). See review, page 63. 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. NNNN (JK) bIGGEr ThaN JESUS by Rick Miller and Daniel Brooks (WYRD/Necessary Angel).

Live performance, sound and projections are used in this comedy about the mysteries of life and views on Christianity. Runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$55. Factory

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ChESS ThE MUSICaL by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Mirvish). See review, page 67. Runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$175. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (Joshua Errett) a FooL’S LIFE by Dan Watson (Ahuri Theatre/Why Not Theatre). See review, page 69. Runs to Oct 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, ahuritheatre.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna)

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by David Nehls and Betsly Kelso (Hart House Theatre). Colourful characters from mobile homes deal with daily travails in this musical comedy. Runs to Oct 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca. hIS GrEaTNESS by Daniel MacIvor (Independent Artists Repertory Theatre).

MacIvor’s play is based on an actual visit by the way-past-his-prime Tennessee Williams to Vancouver in 1980, where he was overseeing the production of a reworked play. It’s a brilliant work, equal parts homage, queer history play and meditation on the power of theatre itself. Richard Donat’s writer, bloated and full of bravado, will haunt you, as will MacIvor as the writer’s faithful assistant and Greg Gale as a rent boy, all playing out their power struggles on Kimberly Purtell’s evocative set.

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. NNNNN (GS) IN ThE NExT rooM or ThE VIbraTor PLay by Sarah Ruhl (Tarragon Theatre/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre). Ruhl’s play about a Victorianera doctor who applies an electric vibrator to women’s genitals to relieve them of “hysteria” delivers a single joke and keeps thrusting it at you. The set is handsome, and the actors go through their motions with skill, but director Richard Rose can’t balance the farce with the thin social commentary. It’ll leave you cold.

Runs to Oct 23, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and Oct 8) 2:30 pm. $20-$47. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NN (GS)

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Oct 8 from 6:30 pm (show at 8 pm). $15-$20 (includes dinner). Pia Bouman School for Ballet, 6 Noble. ijovududance.com.

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IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS by Christoph Willibald Gluck (Canadian Opera Company).

Director Robert Carsen’s simple but dramatically charged production finds the heart in this tale of a woman forced to kill a man she doesn’t realize is her brother. Equal measures of anguish, pain and love drive the show, with superb work by Susan Graham in the title role, Russell Braun as her brother Orestes and Joseph Kaiser as Orestes’ loyal friend Pylades.

Great opera. Runs to Oct 15: Oct 7, 12 and 15 at 7:30 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-3638231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) THE JONES BOY by Tom Walmsley (surface/ underground theatre). Heroin addicts and hookers struggle to survive in this drama.

Runs to Oct 15, Tue-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 and 10 pm, Sun 2 pm (no show Oct 14). $20, Sun pwyc.

Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. thejonesboy2011@gmail.com.

THE MAIDS by Jean Genet (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Brendan Healy extracts spectacular performances from his three actors in this story of two servants planning the murder of their mistress. Diane D’Aquila stalks the stage as Solange, full of fury and repression. Too bad casting a male (Ron Kennell) as Claire doesn’t add much to the playwright’s ideas about power and weakness. Genet just loved messing with audi-

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ences’ minds, so don’t worry too much about what’s actually going on. He never wanted you to know. Runs to Oct 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$33, Sun pwyc at the door. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes. com. NNNN (Susan G Cole) THE ODD COUPLE by Neil Simon (Soulpepper).

Simon’s classic 60s comedy about mismatched roommates – the slobbish Oscar and the fastidious Felix – still has some laughs, despite a predictable plot. But the fun is amplified in this Soulpepper production by a sharp cast, especially Albert Schultz and Diego Matamoros in the central roles, whose chemistry and affection for each other is clear. 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. NNN (JK) 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. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

NN (GS) PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward (Mirvish).

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sion of one of Coward’s best plays. Former spouses Elyot and Amanda go full-out, both in love and anger. Paul Gross and Kim Cattrall show us a couple who can’t stand to be apart but fight incessantly when they’re together.

As their new mates, Anna Madeley and Simon Paisley Day are equally well-drawn characters. Runs to Oct 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35-$175. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish. com. NNNN (JK) RIGOLETTO by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). See review, page 64. Runs to Oct 22: Oct 13, 14, 17, 18, 20 and 22 at 7:30 pm, Oct 16 at 2 pm, Oct 8 at 4:30 pm. $12-$318.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNN (GS) SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM (Sonus Stage Productions). This musical revue features wellknown and obscure works by Stephen Sondheim. Runs to Oct 23, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. sonusstageproductions.ca.

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, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

THE TALE OF A TOWN – QUEEN WEST by Lisa Marie DiLiberto (Fixt Point). Ambitious, passionate and touched with sadness, this sitespecific exploration of 30 years in the history of Queen West blends music, video and live performance in a look at what gentrification has done to the neighbourhood. Writer/performer Lisa Marie DiLiberto and her team bring great energy to the show, but some of the episodes are too long and not as effective as they might be. To Oct 9, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm. $20-$25. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson.

416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (JK) TOTEM by Robert Lepage (Cirque du Soleil). Cirque’s 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 also the sexiest Cirque show in recent memory; routines could very well raise your own totem pole. Runs 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 UGLY ONE by Marius von Mayenburg (Theatre Smash). A man enjoys his new beauty until his plastic surgeon offers his face to others in this black comedy. Runs to Oct 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $18-$34. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com.

WHITE BITING DOG by Judith Thompson (Soulpepper). As he’s about to jump, a suicidal young man (Mike Ross) believes he hears a white dog instructing 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. To Oct 21, see website for schedule. $28-$65, rush $5-$22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) 3

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What did you miss most about Toronto?

The community. Mannheim is a small town and, even though they have a great theatre with a whole bunch of artists, there isn’t much of a dance community outside of it, and no festivals. On a personal level, I missed my husband [dancer Michael Caldwell], who was in Toronto the whole time.

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The company works six days a week, and sometimes we’d perform on Sunday. It’s a long season: 10 and a half months. But the great thing is that those remaining six weeks were fully paid. I didn’t get to travel Europe as much as I’d have liked. When I had a day off I wanted to stay home and take care of myself.

Can you describe Pearline, which Kevin O’Day created for you and Mannheim’s Mami Hata?

It’s a pretty light little duet that has the sense of a hot summer night, probably somewhere in the American South. It’s less a romantic duet than a playful, childlike one. I’m like Pierrot de la Lune.

Guillaume’s piece seems ambitious.

How has it been working with him?

It’s a big group piece that’s very fastpaced, sharp and precise. He was inspired by the scientific idea of fractals: by changing one small detail in a pattern the whole thing can change.

The choreography was challenging because we tried a whole bunch of stuff. Every day we learned so much material – we probably learned a whole other piece. But Guillaume’s choices all made sense in the end.

Are you and Keiko Ninomiya ever going to remount your hilarious crosscultural dance Futari en trois couleurs?

We tried, but it never worked, and we’ve gone our own ways. But Michael [Caldwell] and I have a cool project we’d like to do, an evening of modern dance comedy. And that would work well in that.

Why do you think choreographers like working with you so much?

Maybe because I don’t let go when I don’t understand something. I keep working on it, and choreographers see that. I’m curious and hardworking, and insecure enough that I’m willing to kill myself onstage to get GLENN SUMI what they want.

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CHESS THE MUSICAL music by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, lyrics and book by Tim Rice (Mirvish). At the Princess of Wales (300 King West). To October 30. $35-$175. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 64. Rating: NN Midway through Chess The Musical, American chess player Freddie Trumper takes a nighttime stroll through the streets of Bangkok, turning away prostitutes, drag queens and invitations to massage parlours to return to a chess championship.

It’s a detour in more ways than one, but a welcome one. One Night In Bangkok, the soundtrack to this interlude and a big pop hit in its day, is one of the few moments of straightahead enjoyment in this Mirvish remount.

It’s also the easiest scene to understand in a show that, especially for those new to it, is near-impossible to follow.

Chess tells the story of a love triangle between chess players – one American, one Soviet – during the Cold War. The woman whose affections they share is from Hungary – making for an elaborate political subtext. The affair takes place across two years, two continents and two world championship chess matches.

Craig Revel Horwood’s production races through intricate plot points, and some of lyricist/book writer Tim Rice’s most crucial dialogue is so muffled as to be inaudible.

The show benefits from the dazzling chess-inspired set, with white and black game pieces battling in over-the-top Gaga-esque costumes and gold-lamé-clad dancers playing real instruments recreating the seedy streets for One Night In Bangkok.

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Elsewhere, though, Tam Mutu is magnetic as Soviet champion Anatoly Sergievsky, and the women he’s attached to, Rebecca Lock and Shona White, turn in a stunning rendition of Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus’s I Know Him So Well.

When Chess was first released as a concept album in 1984, its elaborate, intertwining plot was its strength, making repeat listens a pleasure.

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Thursday, October 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Andy Hendrick-

son, Sam Demaris and host Tony Deyo. To Oct 9, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 and 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647-

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dave Hemstad. To Oct 9, Wed-Sat 8 pm (& Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Aaron Berg. To Oct 8, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $13-$22. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Fred Proia. To Oct 8, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $13-$22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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 tech-challenged 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. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNN (GS) GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents players from the longform program. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

THE TASTY SHOW presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746.

THE WIN-JESTER BUCKET OF COMEDY Winchester Kitchen & Bar presents a weekly open mic w/ host Michael McLean. 9 pm. Free. 51A Winchester. 416-323-0051.

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NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm.

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THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents interactive,

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sents headliner Martin w/ Colleen Taffe, Small Fire, Torvil Martin and host Kenny Blake. 7 pm. $25. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-874-2800, comedyclash.com.

OCTO OCHO Black Swan presents improv w/ Kyle Betts, Dan Hershfield, Ralph MacLeod, Gord Oxley and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Fraser Young, Nicholas Reynoldson, Pat MacDonald and host Ben Miner. 9:30 pm. $10.

945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, baddogtheatre.com.

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STUDENTS ROCK THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents improv by Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416340-7270.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Damonde Tschritter. To Oct 16, Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Bebenek, Pardis Parker, Rachelle Elie and host Mark Forward. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W, Toronto. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

FAT KAT$ COMEDY NITE Nola Belle presents weekly comedy. 9 pm. Free. KOS Restaurant, 61 Bellevue. 416-200-0319.

HARD TIMES AT THE HARD LUCK Impulsive Entertainment presents a comedy mashup w/ 2 Man No Show!, Hannah Hogan, Jess B and others. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Mike Rita, Chris Locke, Tim Nasiopoulos, Sam Feldman, Robert Dayton, Mikey Kolberg, 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.

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w/ host Kirk Hicks. 9 pm. Pwyc. Silver City, 780 Danforth. 416-461-1504.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

stu $15. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE presents The Headliner Series w/ Shoeless, Troupe of Seven, Garrett Jamieson, Queer Comedy Collective and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STAND UP! FOR WOMEN IN FILM Octavia Films presents a comedy funder to promote women in independent film w/ Desiree Lavoy, Rhiannon Archer, Ward Anderson, Eric Andrews and Allison Dore. 7:30 pm. $20. The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. 416-554-3639.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Julie Kim, Peter White, Cleve Jones, Alex De Witt, Keesha Brownie, Camille Cote, Diana Love, Cal Post and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Jesse Aaron Dwyre David Jansen Hardee T. Lineham Naomi Wright

Frank Gerstein Charitable Foundation

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 6.

SILVER CITY STANDUP presents weekly comedy

THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fast-paced, comñ pletely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20,

Translation by Maja Zade

Call the Harbourfront Centre box office at 416-973-4000 or visit www.proartedanza.com to purchase tickets online.

upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

COMEDY AND KARAOKE Impulsive Entertainment presents Fratwurst’s Birthday Surprise show. 8 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 812 Dundas W. hardluckbar.com.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff.

9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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ProArteDanza delivers the next installment of exuberant contemporary dance with the highly-anticipated Season 2011. Four award-winning choreographers, Artistic Director Roberto Campanella, Artistic Associate Robert Glumbek, along with guest choreographers, Kevin O’Day (Mannheim Ballet) and Guillaume Côté, launch three Toronto premieres and one world premiere for an evening of high octane dance you won’t soon forget.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 6.

THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents

Tuesday, October 11

Ugly One

8:00 pm Fleck Dance Theatre Toronto

Sunday, October 9

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Richard Lee (left), Derek Kwan, Julian DeZotti, Haruna Kondo and Claire Calnan bring stories to life.

A rich Life A FOOL’S LIFE by Dan Watson

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(Ahuri/Why Not Theatre). At the Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West). To October 8. 416-538-0988. See Continuing, page 64. Rating: NNNN

In A Fool’s Life, Ahuri Theatre brings Japanese writer Akutagawa Ryunosuke’s stories to the stage with great physical and linguistic whimsy, offering a sympathetic but subtle portrait of a writer who, plagued by schizophrenia, killed himself at the age of 35.

Under playwright Dan Watson’s agile direction, the physically and aurally dynamic ensemble (Derek Kwan, Claire Calnan, Richard Lee and Haruna Kondo) tells the stories of a man for whom suffering was also fuel for creativity. From Akutagawa’s troubled mind came his lucid, occasionally monstrous tales: The Nose, a comical story of an insecure monk and his considerable proboscis; Horse Legs, about an ordinary man who receives the titular appendages; and finally, Hell Screen, featuring a painter who commits to his

work with caustic consequences.

Akutagawa (Julian DeZotti) serves as unwitting MC, weaving the stories together with a description of the mythical Kappa, an eerie creature that offers its unborn the right to refuse birth. Stories flow from DeZotti’s childlike Akutagawa as fluently as the smoke from his cigarette smouldering before the luminous paper set, each new tale overtaking him whether he wants it to or not.

Designers Sean Frey and Sonja Rainey add texture to the stories, projecting blossoms, leaves, shadows and paint onto their versatile backdrop to conjure both innocence and dread.

Gaishi Ishizaka’s sensitive percussion intensifies the drama and humour of the highly physical performances, perfectly responding to the tension in the scenes.

Body and mind, treachery and salvation – the Ahuri company marry these dichotomies with wit and grace, celebrating Akutagawa’s art with a little bit of magic while showing compassion for a man who, while obsessed with myth and magic, proves undeniNAOMI SKWARNA ably human.

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THIS WEEK IN

Nick and Sheila Pye play cinematic tricks at Birch Libralato.

THE MUSEUMS AGO Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. Paul Butler, to

FILM INSTALLATION

Dissonant duo Art pair’s film can’t disguise a schism By DAVID JAGER NICK AND SHEILA PYE at Birch

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nick and sheila pye are internationally renowned for their cinematically rich and viscerally existential explorations of relationship dynamics. Viewers can follow their journey into tangled togetherness through elaborate sets, symbolism and staged actions.

Now divorced, they continue their artistic relationship in a new triptych of videos entitled Stiff As A Board, Light As A Feather. Though they insist their separation in no way affects their artistic output, you can’t help

but feel a distinct chill in their current show.

In the central piece, The Flower Eaters, Nick pulls rose petals from his mouth and magically reattaches them to a barren stem, while Sheila, opposite him, pulls petals from a rose and places them in her mouth. Then the process reverses: Nick eats his just completed rose and Sheila restores hers. It’s the result of two separate films that have been digitally attached, allowing one to run in reverse on half the screen while the other runs forward, creating a perpetual Möbius strip of hunger, desire and remorse. Yet the use of separate screens makes it subtly clear that, though they’re facing each other, the two fig-

MUST-SEE SHOWS ANGELL Painting/mixed media: Bradley

Harms and Jeanie Riddle, to Oct 29. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444.

ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY Painting/textiles: Jacqueline Treloar, to Oct 30, reception 2-6 pm Oct 8. 38 Abell.

BEZPALA BROWN GALLERY Days Of SakhaYakutia Culture In Toronto, Part 1 group show, to Oct 9. 17 Church. 416-907-6875.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Film: Nicholas and Sheila Pye, to Oct 15. 129 Tecumseth. 416-3653003.

A SPACE GALLERY S-O-S3 (Signals Of Survival) group show (ImagineNATIVE), to Oct 29. 401 Richmond W #110. 416-979-9633.

CARLTON CINEMA Photos (Abilities Arts Festival): Vincenzo Pietropaolo, to Oct 30. 20 Carlton. 416-598-2197.

EDWARD DAY GALLERY Interactive video (Im-

agineNative): Jason Edward Lewis, Oct 6-23, reception 6-9 pm Oct 6. 952 Queen W. 416921-6540.

ERIC ARTHUR GALLERY Here Be Monsters grad student show, to Nov 26. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, U of T, 230 College. 416-9785038.

GALERIE PIERRE LÉON Photos: Peggy Lampotang, to Oct 31. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-9222014.

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

Photos: Larry Glazer, to Oct 8 (Members Gallery). 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Twenty + Change 03: emerging designers, to Oct 16. Moon Circle Void; Likeness; Material Explorations group

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books MARITIME FICTION

Dam good THE TOWN THAT DROWNED by Riel Nason (Goose Lane), 263 pages, $19.95 paper.

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if her debut novel, the town That Drowned, is any indication, Riel Nason is a writer to watch.

This tender tale about a New Brunswick village threatened by the provincial government’s plan to build a dam has a ton of soul.

The story is told from the point of view of 14-year-old brainiac and budding artist Ruby, who’s consistently targeted by the high school mean girls. When she falls into the river and recounts her hallucination of an underwater town – before the official dam announcement – she is not, unfortunately, deemed a visionary, but becomes even more of an outcast.

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It doesn’t help that her 10-year-old brother, Percy, is a very unusual boy.

Though plainly gifted – he’s hyper-articulate, obsessed with scientific research – he also cries with almost no provocation and can go completely off the rails when any of his routines is disrupted. Protecting him has always been Ruby’s priority.

She’s also a good friend and helper to Ellis Cole, the old man whose house is about to be expropriated so a new town can be built on his multi-acre property. When Cole’s no-good son Tommy appears on the scene, Nason ratchets up the tension effectively.

Exactly how will Tommy exploit his dad? And isn’t he a little too much in Ruby’s face?

Too bad Nason’s narrative solutions are a little too pat. And a budding romance between Ruby and the son of an antiques dealer who parachutes into town to buy up stuff from resi-

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ures are not communicating.

This disconnect continues in The Dreamer, in which Sheila lies suspended over a bed that is slowly being stripped of its sheet by a fan. The drama lies in the invisible barrier between her impassive body and the restless bed sheet.

In Bird Watcher, Nick sits before a table while a tiny bird tethered to a rock on the tabletop by a piece of rope struggles vainly to fly away. The Bride

is easily the eeriest piece: Sheila in a wedding gown floats ghostlike and spinning in mid-air, her face concealed by her tangled hair.

Their intention is to use visual trickery to evoke the early magic of silent film and the relationship of photography to the cinematic image.

This they accomplish beautifully, but it’s hard to ignore the rupture haunting every image.

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shows; painting/photos/prints: Suzanne Nacha, Clare Samuel and Astrid Ho and others, to Dec 31. Too Tall? group show, to Dec 31. Architecture Gallery, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

HUNTER AND COOK Painting/video: Kirsten Stoltman, Oct 6-31, reception/magazine launch 7-10 pm Oct 6. 1082 1/2 Queen W. 416-875-6434.

JAPAN FOUNDATION Miyabi (Satomi) Tsumuraya, to Oct 31. Architecture: Struggling Cities: From Japanese Urban Projects In The 1960s, to Dec 9 (Mon-Fri and some Sats). 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600.

JULIE M. GALLERY Painting: Miriam Cabessa, to Oct 30. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626.

LOOP GALLERY Performance: Flutura and Besnik Haxhillari, to Oct 9, performance 9 am-3 pm (Nathan Phillips Sq), 3:30-5 pm (Loop) Oct 8. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581.

NOLOGY Video: Mark Boulos, to Dec 11.

McLUHAN PROGRAM IN CULTURE AND TECH-

dents forced to relocate is a bit too sweet. Besides, wouldn’t the townspeople be put off by a father-and-son team so obviously cashing in on their sorrowful situation?

But Nason has a strong sense of place and a knack for getting us involved with her characters.

SUSAN G. COLE Recommended.

Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com

art@nowtoronto.com

39A Queen’s Park E (offsite project of Justina Barnicke Gallery). 416-978-8398.

MILES NADAL JCC Photos (Planet In Focus): Roman Elinson, to Oct 31. 750 Spadina.

416-924-6211.

NAISA SPACE SOUNDplay Festival, Oct 7-Nov 26, Shawn Pinchbeck installation, Fri-Sat (pwyc) Oct 7-29. 601 Christie, studio 252. 416-652-5115.

OLGA KORPER Painting: Robert Fones, to Nov 2. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220.

P|M GALLERY Sculpture: Edith Dakovic, Oct 6-29, reception 6-9 pm Oct 6. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Osheen Harruthoonyan, Oct 6-29, reception 5-7 pm Oct 6. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.

VTAPE Film: Mani Mazinani, to Oct 14. 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317.

MICHELLE BERRY Meet the This Book Will Not

Save Your Life author. 2 pm (Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington), 7 pm (Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham). Free.torontopubliclibrary.ca.

DAVID BROCK/SPENCER GORDON/LIZ HOWARD

Brock launches Black Metal Melody, Gordon launches Feel Good! Look Great! Have A Blast!, Howard launches Skullambient. 8 pm. Free.

Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

AVA HOMA Reading from Stories Of Modern Women In Iran. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

Friday, October 7 JOE KEITHLEY The D.O.A. singer talks about his

book, Talk-Action=0: An Illustrated History Of D.O.A., and plays an acoustic set. 7 pm. Free.

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Complete art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings

ON STAGE Spoken word – that hybrid of poetry, politics and performance – is a fast-growing literary genre, and there’s a good reason for that. Writers present their work with a passion that’s always inspiring, and Toronto’s considered the country’s essential breeding ground for spoken word talent. See what I mean when the Canadian Festival Of Spoken Word hits town from Tuesday (October 11) to October 15. Some of our best, d’bi.young including Krystle Mullin and Brendan McLeod, as well as crossover stars d’bi.young, Evalyn Parry and others hit the stage in team SGC and individual performances and competition. See Readings, this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK Thursday, October 6

Nov 13 (free). The Grange Prize, to Dec 10.

General Idea, to Jan 1. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Raqs Media Collective, to Dec 4. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg.

416-736-5169.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Viva Voce, to Oct 23. U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789.

CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Josh Thorpe, to Oct 15. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Play > Nation, to Oct 10.

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 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, curator’s tour 6-7:30 pm Oct 11, panel 6-8 pm Oct 12. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN Lomen Brothers, to Jan 8. Jack Chambers, to Jan 15. Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 31. $15, stu/srs $12.

10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

MOCCA ¡Patria O Libertad!; BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition to Oct 30.

952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Denyse Thomasos (Centennial Square, 120 Navy); Marla Hlady (Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E, Oakville), to Nov 13. 905-844-4402.

THE POWER PLANT The Plot, to Nov 6. Simon Fujiwara, to Nov 11. Derek Sullivan, to Nov 20. $6, stu/srs $3, free Wed 5-8 pm. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROM ICC: David Hockney, Oct 8-Jan 1. Judith Snow, to Jan 20. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31. $24, stu/srs $21; halfprice 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, to Nov 20. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, Oct 12Feb 12. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Angela Grauerholz, to Nov 26. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

Sonic Boom, 782 Bathurst. 416-532-0334.

Saturday, October 8 WHEN BROTHERS SPEAK 14 Spoken word concert with Scruffmouth, Dan Vaughn, Open Secret, Jive Poetic and others. 8 pm. $31-$59.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. ticketmaster.ca.

Sunday, October 9 LINDA STITT Poetry reading. 2 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ulyssean.on.ca.

Tuesday, October 11 CANADIAN FESTIVAL OF SPOKEN WORD Per-

formances by d’bi young, Robert Priest, Evalyn Parry and others. To Oct 15. Various venues. info@torontopoetryslam.com.

MARY DI MICHELE/GLEN DOWNIE Poetry read-

ing. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

ROCCO DISPIRITO Signing copies of Now Eat This! 100 Quick Calorie Cuts. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 1950 the Queensway. chapters.indigo.ca.

SHANNON MORONEY Launching Through The Glass with a reading. 6:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Wednesday, October 12 DANI COUTURE Discussing his debut novel, Algoma, with book blogger Jen Knoch. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

JONATHAN ESKEDJIAN/SACHIKO MURAKAMI/ AMELA MARIN/JIM CHRISTY Reading and

launch. 7:30 pm. Free. Dooneys Cafe, 296 Brunswick. quattrobooks.ca.

RAY ROBERTSON Meet the author of Why Not? Fifteen Reasons To Live. 12:30 pm.

Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Audio clips from interviews with HUGH JACKMAN and MARYAM KESHAVARZ • Friday column on LATE NIGHT PYTHON IN EXCELSIS

Hugh Jackman (left), Dakota Goyo and a bot named Atom don’t pull their punches.

REVIEW

Jackman’s the Real deal Versatile actor calls his theatre training the original green-screen acting By NORMAN WILNER

ten by John Gatins based on a story by Richard Matheson, with Hugh Jackman, Dakota Goyo, Evangeline Lilly and Kevin Durand. A DreamWorks release. 127 minutes. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75.

having met hugh jackman, i’m convinced he can do pretty much anything.

He’s made movies; he’s headlined on Broadway; he’s hosted the freaking Oscars. He charmed Torontonians earlier this year when he brought his solo show, Hugh Jackman In Concert, to the Princess of Wales.

This week he’s back on the screen in Shawn Levy’s Real Steel, a fatherson story set in a near-future America where robots have supplanted humans in the boxing ring. As a two-bit promoter who bonds with his estranged son over the restoration of a battle-bot, Jackman spends a lot of time interacting with CG robots that were added in post-production – and doing it in a totally convincing way.

His physical confidence does more to sell the movie’s sci-fi trappings than the effects themselves.

“Theatre training,” he says, dropping into a chair in our interview suite. “Oh, my god… we would have classes on temperature: heat, cold.

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‘Make me believe.’ I mean, if you think about it, 80 per cent of the time you’re on stage [you’re] just looking at black. It’s the original greenscreen.”

He’s being modest. There’s a quality in Jackman’s performance – and in his young co-star Dakota Goyo’s – that lets us believe what we’re seeing is real. He knows what I mean; we care about the robots because his character does.

“Our heroes in the movie are robots,” he says. “We constantly keep saying, ‘They’re just metal and wires, okay? You know you’re talking to a robot.’ We’re constantly reinforcing that and yet we’re asking the audience to invest in them, believe in them and cheer for them – and believe in the underdog. And that’s totally down to our ability to believe in them as well, as actors.”

The job came with a couple of perks, like having Sugar Ray Leonard come in as Jackman’s boxing coach for a key shadow-boxing sequence.

“We really worked hard on that,” Jackman says. “The lucky thing for me was that all the fights were actually choreographed [and] converted into robots before we shot a frame of film. So I could study that fight; I worked on that every day for three or four months to make sure we got it.

And then Sugar Ray Leonard came on

to make sure I looked like a boxer, ing to do something; which was unbelievable.”

I’m going to go out Jackman’s filmography speaks to there and to make a his versatility. In an era when studios living at it. If after five are all too happy to typecast an actor years I’m not making a – especially one who broke out the living, I’m out.’ So I kind way he did in the first X-Men movie of put that on myself, – he’s refused to go the action hero and continue to put that route. Sure, he’s played Wolverine in on myself as a reminder. I five pictures – and a sixth is on the always had that feeling: ‘I’m way with James Mangold, who made gonna work harder than Jackman’s period romantic comedy everyone else.’” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com Kate & Leopold – but he’s also worked with directors like Christopher Nomore online lan, Darren Aronofsky and Baz LuhrInterview clips at nowtoronto.com mann on films as diverse as The Prestige, The Fountain and Australia.

How does he keep changing things up?

ACTOR INTERVIEW “Fear of unemployment,” he says. “I’m not actually joking about that. I was 26 when I graduated from drama school, and I’d probably worked 15 different jobs. Mainly at small businesses – restaurants, gas stations.

And the ones that worked were people who put 24/7 into their business for about five years. After five years, once you’ve established your business, a lot of your work is done for you; you’ve just got to maintain it. So that was my goal with myself. I said, ‘For five years I’m not going to wait for one phone call. Every day I’m go-

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REAL STEEL (Shawn Levy) Rating: NNN Given that it’s a story about a father and son who bond over outsized games of Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots and is directed by the guy who made the Night At The Museum movies, Real Steel has surprising heart and intelligence.

Some of it comes from the script, which applies the usual boxing-movie arcs of underdogs and aging heroes to a near-future America where robots have replaced human fighters as champions of carnage, but the bulk of the movie’s soul is supplied by Hugh Jackman as a boxer-turned-robotpromoter who grudgingly takes charge of the son he barely knows (Dakota Goyo) after the boy’s mother dies.

Stuck together for a summer, the two find a junked robot and rebuild it into a contender, bonding along the way. It’s utterly predictable, but director Shawn Levy hits his marks with warmth and energy, letting Jackman sell us on the emotions and the effects.

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POLITICAL DRAMA

Winning ticket THE IDES OF MARCH (George

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Nikohl Boosheri (left) and Sarah Kazemy search for sexual freedom in fundamentalist Iran in the Sundance Audience Choice winner Circumstance.

Clooney). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NNNN

Without anyone noticing, George Clooney has become one of the best directors of actors. He gets them to relax and in so doing brings out their strongest performances.

Seriously. Think of David Strathairn’s spellbinding righteousness in Good Night, And Good Luck contrasted with Ray Wise’s glad-handing desperation.

Or Sam Rockwell’s weaselly confidence in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind.

And then there’s just about everyone in The Ides Of March – including Clooney himself.

The Ides Of March is a nimble adaptation of Beau Willimon’s stage play Farragut North, about the ideological deflowering of a campaign strategist (Ryan Gosling) ushering a hopeychangey Democratic governor (Clooney) through the Ohio presidential primary.

Don’t go expecting revelatory commentary on the way we vote; Willimon’s plot is a Mamety mixture of betrayal, disillusionment and high-stakes brinksmanship that never quite shakes off its stage origins.

But it’s performed by a cast at peak power. Clooney, Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Philip Seymour Hoffman are so good, and so good together, that I didn’t even mind being a step ahead of their characters for the entire running time.

It’s a pleasure to watch them go through their paces.

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Sexual tension in Iran Director insists her Sundance winner probes repression in Iran, not its queer underground By SUSAN G. COLE CIRCUMSTANCE written and

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105 minutes. Subtitled. A Mongrel release. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75.

when maryam keshavarz tells me she just gave birth to a baby girl two weeks ago, I tell her she’s set off on an incredible journey.

How’s it going so far? I want to know.

“The response to the film has been amazing,” she says on the phone from a mall in Los Angeles, not realizing I’m asking about her newmother status. The Iranian-American director is so focused on her other labour of love – her movie Circumstance – that she imagines I’m asking about it instead.

Her first feature, Circumstance focuses on two teen girls whose relationship has taken a sexual turn inside an increasingly repressive Iran.

But Keshavarz doesn’t think of it as a story about queers.

“The centrepiece is actually the family,” she says. “The film doesn’t explore the underground queer move-

George Clooney campaigns hard for a second Oscar.

ment as much as it explores young between the U.S. and Iran. You have women and freedom of expression conservative areas that support Iran and sexuality. These women truly – you can see Iranian flags in South love each other and are free with Beirut – and then you go to the Chriseach other. tian area, which is ultra-modern, “But people are not able to express [where] you feel like you’re in Los Anwho they really are because of the re- geles. I’d identify myself as Iranian or pression. They have to live a double American depending on where I life,” says the director, who previouswas.” ly made two shorts and a documenThe movie has a strong Canadian tary. connection. Toronto is the home of “What I love is the way the film one of the largest Iranian immigrant resonates with people anywhere who communities in North America, feel like they can’t be who they really which is why Keshavarz auditioned are. My Jewish publicist in Philadelactors here. And, artistically speakphia could totally relate.” ing, Atom Egoyan was a mentor for Music is a very important part of her at Sundance and hooked her up personal expression in Circumwith T.O. stage stalwart Soheil Parsa, stance, and Keshavarz plans to re- who appears in his first film role in lease the film soundtrack – which Circumstance. uses underground Iranian hip-hop “Small world, isn’t it?” Keshavarz and classical music, depending on laughs.

3 susanc@nowtoronto.com the setting – in November.

“Some people have said Circummore online stance is a musical. It’s filled with Interview clips at nowtoronto.com music until the brother, Mehran, creates a repressive environment, and then the film starts to go silent. People DIRECTOR INTERVIEW keep wishing they could know what the lyrics mean, but I don’t think you have to know. You can feel it.”

Keshavarz realized early on that she wouldn’t be able to shoot her film in Iran, and chose Lebanon as a location instead.

“I always wanted to shoot in the Middle East. I needed to have the feel of that world. I could have raised a lot more money had I shot in the States, but for me Lebanon added a layer of tension that the project requires.”

Not that Lebanon didn’t present its own problems, even if it is considered the gay mecca of the Middle East.

“Lebanon is the battleground

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ñ(Maryam Keshavarz) Rating: NNNN In Circumstance, winner of the Audience Choice award at Sundance, teenage girls Atafeh and Shireen (Nikohl Boosheri and Sarah Kazemy) struggle with Iran’s social strictures while embarking on a sexual relationship. Soon, Atafeh’s fundamentalist brother (Reza Sixo Safai, who avoids stereotype) becomes a threat.

Director Maryam Keshavarz effectively evokes Tehran’s dance club underground, where the young women and their friends find fleeting freedom. And a funny sequence in which an Iranian American helps them dub the film Milk into Farsi savvily conveys Keshavarz’s pro-sex themes, though sex scenes are more sensual than explicit.

Expertly shot by Brian Rigney Hubbard, the movie begins with scenes shot in open, airy spaces but grows increasingly claustrophobic toward the end.

Look for Toronto theatre director Soheil Parsa as Atafeh’s father in a very effective turn as a man desperately trying to keep his family from crumbling.

Great Iranian dance club music, too.

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Matt Damon’s teacher gets a bit too close to Anna Paquin’s out-of-control student in Margaret.

Failing grade FreNCh immersioN (Kevin Tierney).

Some subtitles. 100 minutes. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: N French Immersion, Kevin Tierney’s directorial debut, amateurishly revives the subject that made Bon Cop, Bad Cop (which he produced and co-wrote) such a hit. The clash between anglophones and francophones is territory ripe for comedy, but this laboured attempt at humour doesn’t bear fruit.

A northern Quebec town has as its primary industry a linguistic institute

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Kenneth Lonergan, with Anna Paquin and Jeannie Berlin. 149 minutes. A Fox SearchLight release. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NNNN

wondering where kenneth lon- rgan’s been since his 2000 release e You Can Count On Me? Mystery solved. He’s been working on his huge ly ambitious follow-up, Margaret.

This emotionally intense drama could have been a mess. Lonergan takes on mother-daughter relationships, post-9/11 angst (there are lots of shots of planes and the New York City skyline), moral accountability and a whack of other stuff.

But thanks to a spectacular anchor ing performance by Anna Paquin and Lonergan’s trademark acute observational skill, Margaret is intelligent, absorbing and fully worthy of

documentary

Ganging up The iNTerrupTers (Steve James). 125 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (October 7) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox; director will attend the 7 pm openingnight screening. See Times, page 80.

Rating: NNN

its lengthy running time.

Paquin plays private school student Lisa, a reactive bundle of emotions whose alienation deepens when she’s involved in – in fact, may have caused – a bus accident, and the victim, Monica, dies in her arms. Then she lies to the police about it.

Lonergan’s narrative centres on Lisa’s attempts to take responsibility for her actions after the traumatic event. She contacts Monica’s best friend, Emily (the superb Jeannie Berlin), tries to make good with Monica’s only family contact and attempts to make the driver (Mark Ruffalo) pay for his carelessness.

But in Lonergan’s universe, you always get more than you bargained for.

That goes for the hapless teachers at Lisa’s private school – Matt Damon as the good-guy math teacher who gets in too deep with Lisa, and Matthew Broderick as an English teacher

intellectually bested by the kids. In Margaret, the classroom is the metaphor for class conflict and Middle East tensions, a place where authority is impotent.

The film, named after the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem Broderick’s character reads in class, is alive with hyper-naturalism. The scene where Lisa loses her virginity to the school stoner (Kieran Culkin in a familiar role) is so real it’s scary. And sequences in which she outrages her mother (J. Smith-Cameron) seem to have been culled from somebody’s reallife kitchen.

But Lonergan’s brainy script wouldn’t work without Paquin (shot in 2005, when she could still play a teenager), who makes Lisa a force of nature. As a walking paradox – both controlling and completely out of control – she’s rivet ing.

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same thing over and over: stemming violence when they can, working with teens who are willing to listen and attending the funerals of victims they weren’t able to save.

But James never really digs into the social and cultural factors that have created the environment CeaseFire is trying to change – the hopelessness, the lack of decent employment, the posturing machismo that demands bloody reprisal for the slightest hint of disrespect.

A longer version that played the festival circuit reportedly addressed some of that, but this cut doesn’t, and that’s a problem that becomes increasingly hard to ignore as the movie goes on.

Hoop Dreams (1994), Stevie (2002) and Reel Paradise (2005) also screen this week at the Lightbox in the Steve James: Documenting Dreams series.

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Chan’s change 1911 (Jackie Chan, Zhang Li). 118 minutes.

Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75.

Rating: NNN This historical drama fires so much information at you so quickly that if you don’t already know the story of the Chinese Revolution of 1911 and must rely on subtitles, you’re left with a string of scenes that only occasionally work.

NormaN WilNer

In The Interrupters, documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) chronicles a year in the neighbourhoods of south Chicago, where an organization called CeaseFire does its best to defuse street hostilities by literally interrupting confrontations before they escalate into violence.

Most of CeaseFire is made up of reformed gang members who know what it’s like to go off in someone’s face. It’s noble work that comes with considerable risk, and there are moments when The Interrupters feels like a real-life version of The Wire, with weary heroes trudging forever uphill to make their ugly world a slightly better place.

The problem is that it’s a very repetitive film. For a full year, Ameena Matthews and others try to the CeaseFire members are stop urban violence in south Chicago. shown doing exactly the

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Karine Vanasse has a French connection with Fred Ewanuick.

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that teaches ignorant anglophones to speak French. The whole community gets in on the act, whether by boarding students in their homes or flagging them on the street for speaking English.

The students in this overpopulated affair range from a Jewish NYC chef (the director’s son Jacob Tierney) to an openly gay New Brunswick MP (Gavin Crawford) planning to run for prime minister.

All have as much nuance as Rob Ford’s rhetoric, with the exception of Karine Vanasse as a lovesick school teacher who exudes character in a movie that has very little of its own.

Revolutionaries Dr. Sun Yat-Sen (Winston Chao) and Huang Xing (Jackie Chan) rise up because the corrupt and incompetent Qing government and the half-dozen foreign powers looting the land are destroying China.

The former goes abroad to raise funds while the latter leads the volunteer army. Meanwhile, the Qing, under Empress Longyu (Joan Chen), try to negotiate a big loan from Western bankers.

Action star Chan turns in a solid, if broad, dramatic performance (he’s also got a brief and pointless but good fight scene), but the movie really belongs to Chao, who delivers Dr. Sun’s highminded speeches like he’s saying them for the first time. He also has the best scene in the movie, when he crashes a bankers’ and diplomats’ garden party to explain to them exactly what they’re doing to his country.

The sometimes obvious CG does little to mar the conventionally handsome visuals, and Chan and Zhang Li’s direction makes the combat scenes visceral. aNDreW DoWler

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BELLFLOWER (Evan Glodell) works well in its first half but takes a few wild, implausible turns that come up short in the end.

Writer/director Glodell and Tyler Dawson play two directionless hipster friends living in suburban L.A. and obsessed with building a flame-thrower. After one drunken night, they pair up with two women (Rebekah Brandes and the magnetic Jessie Wiseman), until things go wrong with one of the couples. This is when the picture swerves into a Mad Max universe of violence, full of grunting dialogue and, yeah, lots of flamethrowing. Glodell, who trained as an engineer, doesn’t pull off this tonal switch, but his DIY approach and clever manipulation of digital film make the sun-baked landscape and his characters’ actions at least look really cool. 105 min. NNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

Nicole Kidman and Nicolas Cage (front) suffer through Trespass.

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TRESPASS (Joel Schumacher). 85 minutes. Opens Friday (October 7) at Yonge & Dundas 24. See Times, page 80. Rating: NN

An overheated home-invasion thriller about a couple held hostage in their monster home by a quartet of masked robbers, Trespass is director Joel Schumacher’s reunion with Nicolas Cage, whom he directed in 8mm, and Nicole Kidman, whom he directed in Batman Forever.

Those movies weren’t very good, and neither Cage nor Kidman was particularly good in them, but that clearly didn’t matter to Schumacher’s producers. These are movie stars, so of course people will fork over money to see them terrified and brutalized!

And if Trespass were smarter or dumber, that might have been enough.

Schumacher directs like he’s on amyl nitrite, flinging the camera around the rooms of his gargantuan set to establish a tone of frantic tension. People start screaming at each other about 10 minutes in and never really stop, because Karl Gajdusek’s screenplay upends the balance of power every six minutes, giving Cage and Kidman moments to look gritty and determined instead of sweaty and panicked before the advantage switches to someone else.

It’s just meaningless table-turning, though; who cares if one of the bad guys isn’t as bad as the other three?

And what does Schumacher’s costume designer have against poor Jordana Spiro, such a winning comic presence on the sitcom My Boys and so awfully abused here?

Trespass isn’t the worst movie ever to land a gala slot at the Toronto Film Festival – not after Cleaner – but that’s hardly an endorsement.

NORMAN WILNER

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Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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ABDUCTION (John Singleton) proves werewolf boy Taylor Lautner won’t have much of a career after the sun sets on Twilight. He plays Nathan, a reckless teen who finds his own picture on a missing persons website.

Suffering from a Bourne-like identity crisis, he has to find out the truth by beating it out of the CIA and some black ops coverts. The plot is preposterous and the screenplay could induce an earache (with the exception of a killer line about Facebook). The veteran cast of faded stars (Maria Bello, Sigourney Weaver, Alfred Molina) camp it up and dial down their performances so as not to make Lautner look bad. All Abduction needs is a couple of Wayans brothers and it could be a parody of itself. 106 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

BREAKAWAY (Robert Lieberman) is one of the most environmentally friendly movies you’ll see this year: all it does is recycle material from Bend It Like Beckham, Score: A Hockey Musical and Russell Peters’s decadeold comedy routines. Writer Vinay Virmani stars as Rajveer, a young Sikh who, despite his father’s annoyance, forms his own hockey team of guys who sport turbans instead of helmets. He makes a charming lead opposite Camilla Belle as his fetching love interest. However, the pandering film seems more intent on stuffing itself with clichés and unnecessary cameos (seriously, what are Drake and Ludacris doing here?) than creating something genuine. 100 min. NN (RS) Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñBRIDESMAIDS

(Paul Feig) is a broad farce starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose emotional equilibrium is in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend (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, Mt Pleasant

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (Joe Johnston) starts out as a rip-

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roaring adventure yarn and an entertaining origin story for Marvel’s all-American hero, with appealing lead Chris Evans, inventive Second World War action sequences and genuine spectacle. But in the last act, the screenwriters compress what feels like months of story into a couple of reels in order to get Cap into the 21st century – just in time for next summer’s Avengers movie. At least the 3-D is decent this time out. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

ñCAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS

(Werner Herzog) is a hypnotic 3-D documentary that presents the 33,000year-old 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, Interchange 30, 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 channelling 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) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30

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Joseph GordonLevitt plays a young man diagnosed with cancer and Seth Rogen his best friend coping with it with humour and honesty. Indie filmmaking at its best.

Andy Lau plays a hyper-competent martial arts master who’s also a sleuth in 7thcentury China. It’s inventive and full of style.

Ryan Gosling, Carey Mulligan and a sure-to-beOscar-nominated Albert Brooks star in this beautifully directed crime drama about a stunt driver who gets involved with some dangerous baddies.

Anna Faris finally finds a worthy vehicle that lets her keep her rough, weird edges. She plays a single woman who visits her exes, thinking one of them might be “the one.”

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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) Colossus, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Courageous (Alex Kendrick) is a Chris-

tian-themed film about police officers dealing with faith and fatherhood. 130 min.

Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñCrazy, stupid, love.

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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)

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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, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 deteCtive dee aNd the Mystery of phaNtoM flaMe ñthe

(Tsui Hark) 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 has made in the past, all rolled together into one. Set in a slightly fantastic seventh century 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, where the eponymous sleuth (Andy Lau) is a hyper-competent martial arts master as well as a brilliant strategist and forensic investigator. 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 Andy Lau is his usual dynamic self as the resourceful Dee. And Tsui is finally learning how 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. Subtitled. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

dolphiN tale (Charles Martin Smith) is a clichéd and overstuffed inspirational film about an 11-year-old boy (Nathan Gamble) who befriends an injured dolphin that needs a new tail and rehabilitation before being released back into the wild. Marred by sloppy pacing and illogical plotting

though based on a true story, the film gets an assist from a talented cast of veterans led by a great Harry Connick Jr. as a marine veterinarian. Kids may get a kick out of the animal antics, but this is a long sit for adults. 113 min. NN (Andrew Parker) 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. 99 min.

NN (NW) Interchange 30 dreaM house (Jim Sheridan) is a big ol’ mess of movie. Sheridan’s skill with character dramas doesn’t translate to semi-supernatural thrillers, and endless production troubles that delayed the release for months should’ve been a sign that the film wasn’t meant to be seen. The almost incoherent plot centres on a father of an idyllic family (Daniel Craig) who’s also the prime suspect in their murder. In the set-up he returns to their dilapidated house/crime scene and beings hallucinating nostalgic memories, and it all goes bad from there.

For cinematic masochists only. 100 min. N (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Nicolas Winding Refn) is a solid riff on stylish 80s brooders like Michael Mann’s Thief and William Friedkin’s To Live And Die In L.A. Ryan Gosling stars as a stunt driver who moonlights as a wheelman for hire; when he tries to help a neighbour (Carey Mulligan), he finds himself on the wrong side of some very bad people.

Blood and retribution follow. Winding Refn shakes off the theatricality of Bronson for a more intimate approach, and his actors are right there with him: Gosling finds the middle ground between Steve McQueen and a Terminator, Mulligan is appropriately winsome and Bryan Cranston brings tragic gravity to the role of Gosling’s shady employer, but Albert Brooks walks off with the picture as a gimlet-eyed heavy with a fondness for edged weapons. 100 min. NNNN (NW)

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ESMERALDA – BOLSHOI BALLET is a broadcast from Russia’s renowned company of the ballet about the Hunchback of Notre Dame’s beloved, based on the Victor Hugo novel.

Oct 9, 1 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

FAST FIVE (Justin Lin) is an okay actioner

that picks up where previous series entry, Fast And Furious, left off, sending career criminals Dominic, Brian and Mia to beautifully shot Rio de Janeiro for a train robbery and a big-money heist from Rio’s top crime lord. Two big set pieces are fun, and in between there’s lots of running and gunning.

They almost distract you from noticing how bland Vin Diesel has become. 130 min. NNN (AD) Courtney Park 16, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE HELP (Tate Taylor) is a successful adap-

tation of Kathryn Stockett’s mega-selling 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 matrons exploiting the help play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. 137 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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.

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stars director Farmiga as aspiring writer Corinne, who in the 70s survives a car accident with her husband and their infant daughter, leading them to embrace Jesus with a passion in a community of what were then called Jesus freaks. You can’t really call it a creepy cult; it’s a loving environment, open about sexuality (within marriage anyway), committed to alternative perspectives – vegetarianism, for example – and accepting of the free-spirited energy of Corinne’s friend Annika (Dagmara

I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (Douglas McGrath) is a harmless trifle that must have been written in someone’s sleep. Sarah Jessica Parker plays an investment adviser who can’t spend five minutes a day with her two children and yummy hubby (Greg Kinnear).

The movie takes no risks and refuses to raise the stakes. 95 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton

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(Christopher Nolan) is a complex thriller/heist flick with Leonardo DiCaprio as the leader of an industrial-espionage team who extract valuable information by inserting themselves into dreams. Tremendous, full-throttle filmmaking. 146 min. NNNNN (NW) Courtney Park 16, Yonge & Dundas 24

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See review, page 74. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 7 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

KILLER ELITE (Gary McKendry) is a B-movie that tries to take itself seriously. Jason Statham plays Danny, a contract killer who comes out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro), held hostage by a vengeful Sheikh. In order to free his friend, Danny must accept a final job: knock off key British Special Air Service soldiers, making the killings look like accidents. Meanwhile Clive Owen’s former SAS operative (the only interesting character) does anything and everything to thwart Danny. The assassination attempts and getaways provide some worthwhile distractions.

Unfortunately Killer Elite aims for some Bourne-style grit but lacks the intelligence

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(Jonathan Levine) is a shaggy and entertaining buddy movie that just happens to have life-or-death stakes, based as it is on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own experiences. Diagnosed with a rare spinal tumour, a journalist in his late 20s (Joseph Gordon-Levitt, playing a version of Reiser) copes with chemo and counselling while his best friend (Seth Rogen, essentially playing himself) provides some very inappropriate moral support. Gordon-Levitt is terrific, and Anna Kendrick is great as his novice therapist. (Bryce Dallas Howard goes a bit broad as Gordon-Levitt’s shallow girlfriend, though.) Director Levine forgoes the slickness of All The Boys Love Mandy Lane and The Wackness for a grungy immediacy that serves the story well. 99 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, 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

Dominczyk in a lovely turn). Corinne’s not in prison. She just begins to have doubts – major doubts. Farmiga expertly captures the internal conflict between the lover of poetry and the quasi-believer who desperately wants to stay connected to her children.

Her closing sermon to her congregation is a spectacular mix of confusion and conviction. Fascinating. 114 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4

Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). See it in 2-D if you can. 130 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

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FINAL DESTINATION 5 (Steven Quale) is a return to goofball form for the franchise after the underwhelming third and fourth films, with ridiculous Rube Goldbergian mechanisms involving loose screws, leaky air conditioners, unsupervised factory equipment and an overamped surgical laser. Director Quale invests things with a little more wit than usual. 92 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough

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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 tries to cram so much into 130 minutes that the effect is exhausting. Subtitled. 130 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4

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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. Damned if it isn’t one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

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and flair that made the earlier franchise so thrilling. 105 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, 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

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the ending goes on about three beats longer than it should. 126 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Minkoff) is a re-release in 3-D of the iconic NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE KITCHEN is a animated film about a broadcast of the spectacle death, love and courage from London’s National on the African veldt. 87 Theatre that’s set in a min. kitchen and uses real EXPANDED REVIEWS 401 & Morningside, food, with actors cooking nowtoronto.com Beach Cinemas, Coliand preparing food onseum Mississauga, Colistage. 180 min. seum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park Oct 6, 7 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coli16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, seum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, QueenGrande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity sway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity 1911 (Jackie Chan, Zhang Li) 118 min. See Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas review, page 74. NNN (AD) 24 Opens Oct 7 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

MACHINE GUN PREACHER (Marc Forster) is OUR IDIOT BROTHER (Jesse Peretz) an overwrought docudrama about Sam tracks the trail of destruction left by Childers (Gerard Butler), a Pennsylvania 30-something hippie Ned (Paul Rudd) as he biker who found God, cleaned up and debounces between the homes of his three voted himself to building an orphanage in adult sisters (Emily Mortimer, Elizabeth Sudan. It’s a noble story, but director Banks and Zooey Deschanel). It’s subtle, Forster’s (Quantum Of Solace) clumsy, different and really funny, with the cutting broad-strokes approach reduces everything social satire of a Nicole Holofcener movie to a Hollywood cliché – and yet another and also Steve Coogan’s balls. 90 min. movie where African suffering is used as a NNNN (NW) backdrop for a white man’s redemption. As Yonge & Dundas 24 Childers’s best friend, Revolutionary Road’s Michael Shannon steals the picture by rePEARL JAM TWENTY (Cameron Crowe) pays fusing to buy into Forster’s melodramatic loving tribute to Crowe’s old friends Pearl mindset. Just playing the part straight Jam in this mix of historical footage, intermakes him the most interesting thing onview and performance. The two-hour runscreen. 123 min. NN (NW) ning time allows him to dig deep into the Varsity band’s history, from their days in the 90s Seattle scene through the dark times folMARGARET (Kenneth Lonergan) 149 lowing nine fans’ deaths at the 2000 Rosmin. See review, page 74. NNNN (SGC) kilde Festival to the present. While the Opens Oct 7 at Cumberland 4. second half packs less of an emotional punch than the first, Pearl Jam Twenty is an A MATTER OF TASTE (Sally Rowe) is a foodinformative, entertaining look at the inner ies’ dream, following chef Paul Liebrandt as workings of a long-lived band. 119 min. he struggles to open his own restaurant and conquer New York City’s food scene.

NNN (Joanne Huffa) The fare at Liebrandt’s resto, Corton, is gorOpens Oct 7 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep geous, the prep meticulous and director Film, page 83).

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she’s guilty of the worst kind of Food Network cliché. And if he’s a nice guy, as Liebrandt appears to be, we’re not that powerfully engaged. 68 min. NNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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 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.

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MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller) makes an entertaining if undistinguished sports movie out of Michael Lewis’s book about Billy Beane’s revolutionary statistics-based redesign of the 2002 Oakland As. Screenwriters Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin ingeniously structure the story as an underdog tale of a coach who believes in his players (even though he really believes in their stats). Brad Pitt plays Beane, a former ballplayer whose unorthodox decisions rub the stodgy management – including Philip Seymour Hoffman at his most sullen – the wrong way. Jonah Hill is convincingly ill at ease as a bookish composite of the statisticians on whom Beane relied. It’s charming enough, though the midsection sags and

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(Lee Chang-dong) finds transcendence in the strangest places. A Korean grandmother (Yun Jeong-hie) takes a poetry class to sharpen her mind and finds herself searching for grace – and, in some cases, delivering it – in an increasingly cold and alienating world. Following his exceptional 2007 drama Secret Sunshine, writer/director Lee crafts another understated, delicate film that delves deeply into one woman’s inner life and also manages to capture a greater sense of the community in which she exists. It’s a film of rich, subtle pleasures. Subtitled. 139 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(François Ozon) stars Catherine 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.

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REAL STEEL (Shawn Levy) 127 min. See

interview and review, page 72. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 7 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.

RESTLESS (Gus Van Sant) finds Van Sant swerving back into indieland with this Portland-set tale of a young funeral crasher (Henry Hopper, look-alike son of Dennis) and the dying girl (Mia Wasikowska) who steals his heart and teaches him to love again. Also, his only friend is the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze (Ryo Kase) who likes to play Battleship. (Yes, really. Battleship.)

Captivated by the affectations and contrivances of Jason Lew’s script, which applies the Manic Pixie Dream Girl template to both leads, Van Sant has made his most unconvincing drama since Finding Forrester.

It’s basically Elizabethtown with tumours.

95 min. NN (NW) Varsity 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) Coliseum Mississauga, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Scotiabank Theatre

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) Carlton Cinema, 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 nuts-and-bolts tribute that’s engineered to thrill. 104 min.

NNNN (RS) Canada Square, Regent Theatre

SHARK NIGHT 3D (David Ellis) is a 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 spend a weekend at a saltwater lake infested with maneaters. Make sure you stay through the end credits for the cast’s weirdly compelling music video. 85 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga 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) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga

STARBUCK (Ken Scott) has nothing to do with coffee except for how over-caffeinated it often feels. Bon Cop, Bad Cop’s Patrick Huard stars as David, a lovable middle-aged fuck-up who discovers that he fathered 533 kids after donating 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 in their lives. The movie gets off on this giddy concept, and surely many in the audience will,

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STRAW DOGS (Rod Lurie) stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth as a couple who move to her backwater Mississippi hometown, where a quartet of local good ole boys, headed by the wife’s ex-boyfriend, terrorize them The clumsy suspenser drags out its buildup to no good purpose and fails to provide its leads with much character.

110 min. NN (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre 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. Two Grand Rapids thugs (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) rig a pizza delivery 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, Interchange 30

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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 adolescence 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.

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TRESPASS (Joel Schumacher) 87 min. See review, page 75. NN (NW) Opens Oct 7 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

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(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 week-long tour of restaurants in the north of England. It’s practically transcendent, the comedy of the year. 107 min.

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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. 139 min. NN (AD) Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

WE WERE HERE (David Weissman) is a

straightforward and informative doc about the rise of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco. Director Weissman centres on five subjects whose lives were radically changed during that time. They range from a female nurse and a male volunteer working on the front lines of treatment to a politician dealing with mobilizing the city around issues like safe sex, quarantine and access to experimental drugs. The heart of the film, however, belongs to Daniel Goldstein, an HIV positive artist who watched most of his friends and two long-term partners lose

their struggle with AIDS. Rich archival material and many inspiring tales of courage and compassion make this a worthy document of a difficult era. 90 min. NNN (GS) Carlton Cinema

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(Mark Mylod) is a romantic-comedy showcase for Anna Faris that doesn’t try to sand down her rough, weird edges. As a newly single, newly jobless Bostonian who enlists the help of the cad across the hall (Chris Evans) to look up her ex-boyfriends, Faris employs the curveball timing she displayed in Smiley Face and The House Bunny in a film that allows her to play an actual human being. The script provides a steady supply of off-centre observations and oneliners and nicely subverts most of the romcom clichés, and director Mylod fills the supporting cast with engaging comic performers, including Ari Graynor, Joel McHale and Faris’s real-life husband, Chris Pratt.

What’s Your Number? occasionally sags when it hews too closely to the genre it’s mocking, but Faris pulls it back from the edge with a well-timed blurt. She’s just that good. 106 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant 3

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THE INTERRUPTERS (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 A MATTER OF TASTE (14A) Thu 1:45, 3:45, 5:30, 7:30, 9:15 Fri 1:45, 3:45, 9:45 Sat-Wed 1:45, 3:45, 5:30, 9:45 1911 (14A) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 6:15, 8:45 POETRY (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:00, 6:00, 9:00

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 CONTAGION (PG) 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 9:05 Fri-Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Tue 12:45, 3:20 DRIVE (18A) 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 THE HELP (PG) 1:30, 5:00, 8:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:10 4:00 7:10 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 MACHINE GUN PREACHER (14A) Thu 12:40 3:50 7:00 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:30 3:30 6:40 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 10:10 RESTLESS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30

VIP SCREENINGS

DRIVE (18A) 12:35, 3:15, 6:25, 9:05 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25

MACHINE GUN PREACHER (14A) 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 MONEYBALL (PG) 12:55, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05

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

ABDUCTION (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Mon 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 ARROW, THE ULTIMATE WEAPON 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:20 Sat-Mon 10:55 mat BELLFLOWER (18A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 BREAKAWAY Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 9:45, 10:45 Fri 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 11:00 Mon 10:45, 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (G) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:35 COLOMBIANA (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Fri, Wed 4:20, 9:30 Sat-Mon 11:15, 4:20, 9:30 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:00, 12:45, 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:15 CONTAGION: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Mon 10:45, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 COWBOYS & ALIENS Thu 5:00, 10:15 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 SatMon 11:50 mat THE DEBT (14A) 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:00, 12:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 10:50 Mon 11:00, 12:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 10:40 FAST FIVE (PG) Thu 9:45 FORCE Thu-Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:10 Sat-Mon 11:30, 3:00, 6:30, 10:10 Tue 3:00 FRENCH IMMERSION 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat THE HELP (PG) Thu 4:00 7:15 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:35 mat I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:10 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Mon 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Mon 10:45, 11:30, 12:15, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 6:45 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:50, 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 11:00 Mon 10:50, 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45 THE LION KING 3D 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat-Mon 11:15 mat MAUSAM (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:25 OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Thu 2:50, 4:55, 7:05 Fri-Mon, Wed 2:00, 7:05 Tue 2:00 RASCALS 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Sat-Mon 12:35 mat SARAH’S KEY (PG) Thu 2:35, 7:30 THE SMURFS 3D (G) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:15, 4:45 Sat-Mon 11:35, 2:15, 4:45 STAR TREK: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:00 TRESPASS 2:35, 4:40, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Mon 12:20 mat

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

ABDUCTION (PG) Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:50 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00 Fri 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:15 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:10 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 SatMon 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:05 DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:20 Fri 4:25, 7:25, 9:35 Sat-Mon 1:35, 4:25, 7:25, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:20 GAINSBOURG Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:00

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Fri-Sat 9:25 Mon 7:00 THE WHISTLEBLOWER (14A) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:15, 7:00 Mon 4:15

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884 POTICHE (14A) Sat 9:05 Sun 4:30 SENNA 7:00 Fri 9:05 Mon 4:30 THE TREE OF LIFE (PG) Thu 7:00

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

ABDUCTION (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 10:30 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Sun 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 ESMERALDA - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 1:00 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 9:40 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 THE LION KING 3D Thu 1:30 4:10 6:45 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE KITCHEN Thu 7:00 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30

Metro

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

THE DEBT (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 THE GUARD (14A) Thu 7:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 12:45 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 8:45 Fri-Wed 9:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 5:00 THE SMURFS (G) Fri-Wed 11:45 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) FriWed 1:25 THE WHISTLEBLOWER (14A) 3:00

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ABDUCTION (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 BREAKAWAY Thu, Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 10:00 COURAGEOUS Thu 1:00 4:10 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 MonWed 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Thu 1:15, 3:50 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20 MonWed 1:10, 3:45 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:35, 6:35, 9:20 DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:35, 6:50, 9:05 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40 DRIVE (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:45, 6:15, 8:40 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 ESMERALDA - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 1:00

50/50 (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:35, 6:25, 8:50 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:25, 9:55 FRENCH IMMERSION Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 THE HELP (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Sun 7:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 6:20, 9:35 I DON’T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:20, 6:55, 9:15 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Tue 1:55, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 1:35, 4:25, 9:45 THE LION KING 3D Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 7:00, 9:35, 10:10 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE KITCHEN Thu 7:00 PETER GABRIEL: NEW BLOOD ORCHESTRA IN 3D Wed 7:00 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:50, 1:30, 3:40, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:25 STRAW DOGS (18A) Thu 9:10 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:55, 4:40, 7:35, 10:05 Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:05

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 ABDUCTION (PG) 1:00, 4:00 Thu 7:10, 9:30 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:20 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 DREAM HOUSE (14A) 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 50/50 (14A) 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:25 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 7:00, 9:20 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:30 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:45 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:45 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:15 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 9:45

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

BREAKAWAY Thu 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 SatMon 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 7:30, 10:15 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:15 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 6:40, 9:30 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 50/50 (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:10, 9:45 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:20, 10:00 THE LION KING 3D Thu 6:50, 9:10 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00, 10:10 Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Tue-Wed 6:50, 9:50

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

ABDUCTION (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:45, 6:50, 9:20 THE CHANGE-UP (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 CIRCUMSTANCE Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:20, 8:40 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:10, 8:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:10, 8:40 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:10, 8:50 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, MonWed 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 6:30, 9:15 DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:15, 8:30 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:15, 8:30 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:10, 6:15, 8:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 4:00, 6:45, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Thu 4:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:10 STRAW DOGS (18A) Thu 9:50 WARRIOR Thu 6:40, 9:40 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:00, 8:45 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 6:00, 8:45

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

BREAKAWAY Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Mon 12:50, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Mon 12:45 mat ESMERALDA - BOLSHOI BALLET Sun 1:00 50/50 (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 4:40, 7:40,

80

OCTOBER 6-12 2011 NOW

10:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Mon 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 The help (PG) 5:20, 8:40 Sat-Mon 2:10 mat I Don’T Know how She DoeS IT (PG) Thu 3:45 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 TueWed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 4:15, 7:25, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:15 Mon 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 TueWed 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 The lIon KIng 3D 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Mon 1:30 mat Moneyball (PG) Thu 3:40 6:55 9:55 Fri-Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Mon 12:40 mat naTIonal TheaTre lIve: The KITchen Thu 7:00 Sarah’S Key (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Sat, Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 6:50, 9:30

SilverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 abDucTIon (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 conTagIon (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 1:05, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Tue 2:20, 4:35, 6:55, 9:20 Wed 2:10, 5:00, 6:55, 9:35 DrIve (18A) Thu 2:00 4:40 7:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 1:30, 4:15, 9:40 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 9:20 Moneyball (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 peTer gabrIel: new blooD orcheSTra In 3D Wed 7:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Tue 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 10:10

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

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40 conTagIon (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:40 DolphIn Tale (G) Thu 12:50 Fri-Wed 12:45 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 3:45 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 DrIve (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:40 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:20, 6:15, 9:20 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 4:00 6:45 9:15 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 The lIon KIng Thu 1:15 Fri-Wed 1:30 Moneyball (PG) 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45

Scarborough

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

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:50 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:15, 8:50 conTagIon (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:15, 8:50 DolphIn Tale (G) Fri-Mon 1:35 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 4:20 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Mon 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 DrIve (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 4:50, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 The help (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:25, 9:20 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:40, 10:05 Mon 1:45, 4:20, 7:35, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:35, 10:00 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:30, 6:25, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:15 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 3:40 6:45 9:00 Fri-Wed 3:20, 6:45, 9:00 The lIon KIng Fri-Mon 12:55 Moneyball (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 real STeel (PG) Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The SMurfS (G) Fri-Mon 2:20 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:10 FriMon 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:55

Moneyball (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:10, 4:00, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 naTIonal TheaTre lIve: The KITchen Thu 7:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

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

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:55 conTagIon (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:15, 3:55, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:15, 3:55, 7:25, 9:30 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:10, 9:30 courageouS Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 crazy, STupID, love. (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:15 Fri-Tue 3:25, 6:25, 9:10 Wed 3:25, 9:10 DolphIn Tale (G) Thu 4:35 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 DrIve (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:25, 7:35, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:35, 10:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:20 The help (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 I Don’T Know how She DoeS IT (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:05 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:40, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:40, 10:15 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:15 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Mon 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 Moneyball (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 peTer gabrIel: new blooD orcheSTra In 3D Wed 7:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The SMurfS (G) Fri-Mon 12:55 STraw DogS (18A) Thu 7:25, 10:15 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 FriMon 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:45

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

boDyguarD (PG) Thu 4:00, 10:05 bol (14A) Thu 2:05, 5:35, 9:30 coloMbIana (14A) Thu 5:05, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 The DebT (14A) 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:30 mat DolphIn Tale (G) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 8:55 Tue 3:30, 6:15, 8:55 Wed 3:30, 6:15 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, TueWed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Mon 11:20, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 DrIve (18A) 1:40, 4:15, 7:25, 10:00 Sat-Mon 11:10 mat 50/50 (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri 12:25, 1:55, 2:55, 4:25, 5:25, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25 Sat-Mon 11:25, 12:25, 1:55, 2:55, 4:25, 5:25, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25 Tue-Wed 1:55, 2:55, 4:25, 5:25, 6:55, 7:55, 9:25, 10:25 force 2:30, 5:45, 9:15 Sat-Mon 11:05 mat The guarD (14A) 1:45, 4:25, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Mon 11:20 mat harry poTTer anD The DeaThly hallowS: parT 2: 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:05 The help (PG) Thu 2:25, 3:25, 5:40, 6:40, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:20, 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 horrIble boSSeS (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 FriMon 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:50, 10:15 Tue 3:10, 5:35, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 3:10, 5:35, 7:50 I Don’T Know how She DoeS IT (PG) Thu 2:45, 7:45 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:05, 7:45, 10:05 Sat-Mon 11:55, 2:45, 5:05, 7:45, 10:05 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Mon 11:15, 12:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30 MauSaM (PG) Thu 2:30 6:15 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:10, 9:35 Sat-Mon 11:00 mat MIDnIghT In parIS (PG) 2:00, 4:20, 7:10, 9:25 Sat-Mon 11:45 mat raScalS 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 Sat-Mon 11:15 mat Sarah’S Key (PG) 2:15, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Mon 11:40 mat The SMurfS 3D (G) Thu 4:35, 9:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:45, 10:20 Sat-Mon 11:25, 4:45, 10:20 Spy KIDS: all The TIMe In The worlD In 4D (3D) (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:55 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:25, 4:30, 6:45 Sat-Mon 11:50, 2:25, 4:30, 6:45 STraw DogS (18A) Thu 1:25, 7:15 vanThaan venDraan Thu 1:30, 5:00, 8:15

GTA Regions

eSMeralDa - bolShoI balleT Sun 1:00 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly hallowS: parT 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 1:45 4:10 6:45 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 naTIonal TheaTre lIve: The KITchen Thu 7:00 peTer gabrIel: new blooD orcheSTra In 3D Wed 7:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 real STeel: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 rISe of The planeT of The apeS (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:35, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 SharK nIghT 3D (14A) Thu 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Sun 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Tue 7:50, 10:10 Wed 9:10 The SMurfS 3D (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00 Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:45 Wed 3:30 STraw DogS (18A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat, MonWed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 4:55, 7:35, 10:30 30 MInuTeS or leSS (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:25, 6:50 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 10:00 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 10:00

CourTney park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTney park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 abDucTIon (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:05, 7:50 conTagIon (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:05, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Mon 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 crazy, STupID, love. (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Wed 8:15, 10:35 The DebT (14A) Thu 5:20, 10:10 DolphIn Tale (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:30, 9:50 Fri-Mon 11:00, 4:30, 9:50 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) 1:50, 7:15 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Mon 11:40, 2:15, 5:15, 8:05, 10:40 Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:05, 10:40 DrIve (18A) 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon 11:50 mat faST fIve (PG) Thu 9:15 50/50 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Mon 11:45, 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 The help (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Mon 10:50, 4:40, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:40, 10:20 I Don’T Know how She DoeS IT (PG) Thu 3:05, 7:50 The IDeS of March (14A) 10:30, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:30, 11:10 Tue-Wed no 10:30, 11:10 IncepTIon (PG) Thu 6:15 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Mon 11:55, 2:45, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:00, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Moneyball (PG) Thu 1:15, 2:05, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 11:00, 1:15, 2:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 8:00, 10:30, 11:00 Tue-Wed 1:15, 2:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:15, 8:00, 10:30 real STeel (PG) 11:45, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45, 11:30 Tue-Wed no 11:45, 11:30 real STeel: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) 11:15, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed no 11:15, 11:00 The SMurfS (G) Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:00, 3:25, 5:50 Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:25, 5:50 STar TreK: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) Thu 3:30 STraw DogS (18A) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Mon 11:20, 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 yaar annMulle Fri-Mon 10:50, 2:20, 5:45, 9:15 TueWed 2:20, 5:45, 9:15

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

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 7:40, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:30, 10:00 crazy, STupID, love. (PG) Thu 6:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 6:20, 9:55 The DebT (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:20 DolphIn Tale (G) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:20 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:20 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 DrIve (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 The help (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 3:40 6:50 9:10 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 The lIon KIng Fri-Mon 12:50 Spy KIDS: all The TIMe In The worlD In 4D (3D) (PG) Thu 4:00 whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 FriMon 1:00, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:45

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce)

Mississauga

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 breaKaway Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 conTagIon (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat, MonWed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 4:45, 7:20, 10:20 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 eSMeralDa - bolShoI balleT Sun 1:00 fInal DeSTInaTIon 5 Thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 KIller elITe (14A) 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 The lIon KIng 3D 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15

Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

ColoSSuS (Ce)

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 12:55, 1:40, 3:35, 4:20, 6:25, 7:10, 9:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 conTagIon (PG) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:20 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 conTagIon: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 1:50 4:40 7:30 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 DrIve (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05

abDucTIon (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:05, 7:00, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:25 breaKaway Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 10:10 coloMbIana (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 conTagIon (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 conTagIon: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

SCarborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce)

north

hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

courageouS Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 DolphIn Tale (G) Thu 3:35, 6:10, 8:50 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 Tue 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 Wed 3:35, 9:15 DolphIn Tale 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 DrIve (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:05 eSMeralDa - bolShoI balleT Sun 1:00 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:25, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:30 harry poTTer anD The DeaThly hallowS: parT 2 (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 horrIble boSSeS (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:35 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:35 The IDeS of March (14A) Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:25 KIller elITe (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 The lIon KIng 3D Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 Moneyball (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Mon 12:40, 1:20, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40 Tue-Wed 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 peTer gabrIel: new blooD orcheSTra In 3D Wed 7:00 real STeel (PG) Fri-Mon 1:15, 1:45, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:15, 10:30 real STeel: The IMaX eXperIence (PG) Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Spy KIDS: all The TIMe In The worlD In 4D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:15 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:25 Tue-Wed 3:50 STraw DogS (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Mon 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 warrIor Thu 9:00

inTerChange 30 (aMC)

30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 capTaIn aMerIca: The fIrST avenger (PG) Thu 7:05 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:25, 9:35 Sat-Mon 11:45, 4:25, 9:35 cave of forgoTTen DreaMS (G) Thu 6:50 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:45 Sat-Mon 11:30, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45 The change-up (18A) Thu 4:15 coloMbIana (14A) 4:45, 7:25, 9:55 Sat-Mon 11:40, 2:10 mat cowboyS & alIenS Thu 4:30, 10:00 crazy, STupID, love. (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Mon 1:15 mat The DebT (14A) 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:45 mat Don’T be afraID of The DarK (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:00 DreaM houSe (14A) Thu 4:30 5:15 7:00 7:45 9:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:30, 5:15, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00 Sat, Mon 11:30, 12:15, 2:00, 2:45 mat Sun 11:30, 2:00, 2:45 mat frIenDS wITh benefITS (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:30, 9:50 Sat-Mon 11:35, 4:30, 9:50 The help (PG) 6:15, 9:30 Sat-Mon 11:50, 3:10 mat I Don’T Know how She DoeS IT (PG) 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Mon 11:40, 2:20 mat one Day (PG) Thu 7:35

Sarah’S Key (PG) 4:35, 7:20, 9:40 Sat-Mon 11:35, 2:05 mat The SMurfS (G) Thu 5:00 Fri, Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Mon 11:55, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 30 MInuTeS or leSS (14A) Thu 5:15, 10:05 Fri, Tue-Wed 7:15 Sat-Mon 2:25, 7:15 The warrIor’S way 7:05 Sat-Mon 2:00 mat whaT’S your nuMber? (14A) 4:45, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45 SatMon 11:45, 2:15 mat

rainboW proMenade (i)

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Friday The 13th: The Ulti­ mate Collection, Limited ñ Edition

(Paramount, 1980-89) D: Sean S. Cunningham, w/ Betsy Palmer, Kane Hodder. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNNNN

Adrienne King is about to meet Jason in the first Friday The 13th.

Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (Paramount,

2011) D: Michael Bay, w/ Shia LaBeouf, Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: none Like its predecessors, Transformers:

Dark Of The Moon turns to visual garbage on my too-small home screen when the giant robots do their shapeshifting shtick. That spoils some of the fun, but this third entry relies more on comedy, human peril and a slightly more devious plot that stretches all the way back to the Kennedy-era space race and has evil robots scheming to enslave humanity.

Shia LaBeouf is back as Sam Witwicky, the good robots’ buddy, but now

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What makes this a limited edition is a sticker on the box telling you which of 50,000 copies you’re holding. Otherwise, this is same set released in 2009, and the two key things you need to know about it are that the hockey mask won’t fit anyone over the age of six and the 3-D on Friday The 13th, Part 3 is badly marred by ghosting. (The disc also has a 2-D version.)

What you get is the first eight F13 movies and a ton of extras, including deleted scenes with only a little more gore. These movies aren’t nearly as frozen out of their secret government work and toiling in a cube farm. This brings in new characters in the persons of John Malkovich as Sam’s boss, Ken Jeong, a co-worker, and Frances McDormand, head of the government black ops division. They all know how to get laughs by being too serious.

Director Michael Bay does himself proud with the destruction of Chicago and our heroes scrambling in a toppling building during the big action finale.

Too bad he didn’t do a commentary.

EXTRAS Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles.

Fast Five (Universal, 2011) D: Justin Lin, w/ Vin Diesel, Paul Walker.

Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

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There isn’t much left of the road racing and car fetishism that defined the Fast And The Furious franchise, but the high-octane train robbery and wildly imaginative vault job that bookend the movie are more

gruesome as their reputation or today’s standards.

All the movies follow the same pattern: a bunch of teens hang out, smoke dope and have sex while a crazed killer offs them and anyone who happens by.

The first three are the least competent and therefore the best of a mediocre lot. Their skeletal stories and low-calibre writing, acting and production give them an edge that gets sharper the farther they get from conventional Hollywood moviemaking. By the fourth film,

ordinary notions of plot, character, humour and production values start creeping in. They only tone down the shudders and point up what a monotonous bore the killer is.

All the commentaries are fun, but the first features the extra joy of listening to the creators vilify the critics and defend their movie.

EXTRAS Eight commentaries, three making-of docs, short films, true crime mocumentary, deleted scenes, 3-D glasses, hockey mask, more. Widescreen.

English, French, Spanish audio. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese subtitles.

than worth the price of a rental. In between, there are lots of chases, punchups and things going boom.

Sadly, there’s too much of career criminal Dom (Vin Diesel), his best buddy Brian (Paul Walker) and Brian’s girl (Jordana Brewster), who also happens to be Dom’s sister, affirming their family solidarity. They’re all on the run in South America and pursued by a hard-assed federal agent (Dwayne Johnson, who provides the movie’s most ridiculous emotional moment).

The extended version is one minute longer than the theatrical cut and consists of a dialogue scene and some CG blood. Director Justin Lin’s enthusiastic commentary covers both, but he’s convinced that the family bonding stuff is what makes the franchise a hit, so he talks a lot about character and getting the quiet moments right.

EXTRAS Commentary; bloopers; Dom, Brian and Hobbs character docs. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

romanticism. Director and star Takeshi Kitano is more interested in unsettling the viewer than in providing the cozy comforts of exhilarating rise and pseudo-tragic fall.

Pay close attention to who’s in which gang or you’ll have no idea who’s betraying, beating, humiliating and killing whom.

Yakuza big boss Sekiuchi, of the Sannokai gang, is angry that subsidiary mob Ikemoto is dealing dope with the unaffiliated Murase crew. The Ikemoto head orders his crew, helmed by Otomo (Kitano), to arrange a pretend dispute between Ikemoto and Murase.

But pretend turns real, and violence and betrayal spread.

As director, Kitano places his cast in sterile environments and makes the violence fast and casual. As an actor, he gives Otomo an inward gaze that suggests indifference more than stoicism.

EXTRAS Widescreen. Japanese audio.

English, French subtitles.

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festivals planet in focus environmental film festival tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w (tiff); miles nadal jewish community centre, 750 spadina (jcc); royal ontario museum, 100 queens pk (rom). 416-531-1769, planetinfocus.org

WED 12-oct 16 – International environmental film and video festival. $12, stu/srs $10; 5 pm weekday and first screening on weekend $5; opening and closing night galas $22; sixticket pack $60, festival pass $100.

WED 12 – Opening night gala: Presentation of the Kevin McMahon 2011 Canadian Eco Hero short film National Parks Project: Standing Wave, and Revenge Of The Electric Car (2011) D: Chris Paine. 7 pm (TIFF).

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toronto palestine film festival

ago jackman hall, 317 dundas w (jh); tiff bell lightbox, 350 king w (tiff). 416-599-8433, tpff.ca

thu 6-fRi 7 – Celebration of film as an art

form and means of expression of the vibrant heritage, resilience and narratives of the Palestinian people. $10, stu/srs $7; 10-card pass (10 tickets) $75. thu 6 – (No) Laughing Matter (2010) D: Vanessa Rousselot, Yellow Mums (2010) D Firas Khoury, and short film The Incredible Juicer.

7 pm. Occupation Has No Future: Militarism & Resistance In Israel/Palestine (2010) D: David Zlutnick, and Into The Belly Of The Whale (2010) D: Hazim Bitar. 9 pm. All screenings at JH. fRi 7 – Hip Hop Is Bigger Than The Occupation (2010) D: Existence Is Resistance, Nana Dankwa, and short film Keffiyeh: Made In Palestine. 7 pm. Both screenings at TIFF.

cinemas bloor cinema

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

thu 6-WED 12 – Closed for renovations.

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

sAt 8 – Whale Music (1994) D: Richard J Lewis. 3 pm. Free.

ontario place cinesphere

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

fRi 7-suN 9 – Transformers! Dark Of The

thu 6 – The Last Circus (2010) D: Alex de la Iglesia. 7 & 9:15 pm. fRi 7-sAt 8 – Pearl Jam Twenty (2011) D: Cameron Crowe. 7 & 9:30 pm. suN 9 – Pearl Jam Twenty. 4:30 & 7 pm. moN 10 – Closed for Thanksgiving. tuE 11-WED 12 – Pearl Jam Twenty. 7 & 9:15 pm.

Moon (2011) D: Michael Bay. 7 pm.

ontario science centre

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

Ponderous pictures OVER YOUR CITIES GRASS WILL GROW (Sophie Fiennes) Rating: NN Lovers of large-scale installation art will probably enjoy this film more than regular documentary fans.

Director Sophie Fiennes has crafted a pretty but leadenly paced vérité look at German artist Anselm Kiefer’s multi-year transformation of a derelict silk factory in southern France into a self-contained sculptural “city.”

Following a wordless opening with some remarkably fluid camerawork that allows viewers to gaze lovingly at the specific architectural and archaeological delights of Kiefer’s work, Fiennes shifts her focus to examine the artist’s thought process and how he suN 9 – Bigger Than Life (1956) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. Stevie (2002) D: Steve James. Director in attendance. 8 pm. tuE 11 – Bigger Than Life. 6:30 pm.

WED 12 – Packaged Goods: Breaking Convention. 7 pm.

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

thu 6 – Closed. fRi 7 – The Whistleblower (2010) D:

Larysa Kondracki. 7 pm. Crazy, Stupid, ñ Love (2011) D: Glenn Ficarra and John

Requa. 9:15 pm. sAt 8 – Cars 2 (2011) D: John Lasseter and Brad Lewis. 2 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. The Whistleblower. 7 pm. suN 9-moN 10 – Cars 2 3-D. 2 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. The Whistleblower. 7 pm. tuE 11 – The Whistleblower. 7 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love. 9:15 pm.

WED 12 – The Whistleblower. 1 pm.

Horrible Bosses (2011) D: Seth Gordon.

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Scenes involving Kiefer interacting with his crew range from fascinating to banal, since Fiennes doesn’t know when to cut away. She attempts to create an immersive experience, but we don’t need to watch people using blowtorches and sweeping up broken glass for minutes on end.

Wordless journeys through the cityscape, when Fiennes often doubles back to needlessly fixate on certain aspects of the art, are similarly ponderous. The film leaves us wishing we could experience the beauty of the former factory at our own pace rather than the director’s exhaustive one.

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7 pm. The Trip (2010) D: Michael Winterbottom. 9 pm.

graham spry theatre

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

thu 6-WED 12 – Continuous screenings Mon-

day to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 6-fRi 7 – 50 Years Of The Nature Of Things. moN 10-WED 12 – A Year In The Life Of JK Rowling.

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

thu 6-WED 12 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. thu 6 – Ciné-Jeudi presents On Me Prend Pour Une Chinoise! (They Think I’m Chinese). 7:30 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

WED 12 – Baseball Girls (1995) D: Lois Siegel.

4 pm. Free.

the royal

955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com

thu 6-fRi 7 – Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. sAt 8 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1, 3 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon, 4 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 2 pm. suN 9 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. moN 10-WED 12 – Rocky Mountain Express.

11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon.

Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

the projection booth

1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, projectionbooth.ca.

thu 6 – Ghost Bird (2009) D: Scott Crocker. 7

pm. Kenneyville (2010) D: Brooks Hunter. 9 pm. fRi 7 – Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2010) D: Sophie Fiennes. 7 pm. Seizure (2010) D: Lars Tae-Zun Kempel. 9 pm. sAt 8-suN 9 – Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow. 5 pm. Dark Side Of The Sun (1988) D: Bozidar ‘Bota’ Nikolic. 7 pm. Seizure. 9 pm. tuE 11 – Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow. 7 pm. Dark Side Of The Sun. 9 pm.

WED 12 – Teddy Bear (2008) D: Yuval Daniel.

Film 101 series w/ director and cast in attendance. 8 pm.

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

thu 6 – Stereoscopic Cinema. 7 pm. sAt 8 – The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1945) D:

Albert Lewin. 7 pm. suN 9 – Who Censored Bugs Bunny? 7 pm. moN 10 – Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 7 pm. The Vampire Film. 9 pm.

WED 12 – Sex & The Movies Part 1: Mae West. 7 pm.

revue cinema

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

toronto underground cinema

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

fRi 7 – The Upsetter: The Life And Music Of Lee Scratch Perry (2008) D: Ethan Higbee and Adam Bhala Lough. 8 pm. sAt 8 – Stiffs On The Green (2011) D: Paul Marrin. 7 pm. suN 9 – Hama Films & Seejay Ink present The Skin (2011) D: Howard Allen. Filmmakers in attendance. 8 pm. 416-709-5648.

other films thu 6-WED 12 –

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416-868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 6-WED 12 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. thu 6-oct 14 – Vtape presents new video works by Mani Mazinani: Screen Scene And Oracle. Tue-Fri 11 am to 5 pm, Sat noon to 4 pm. Free. 401 Richmond, #452. vtape.org. thu 6 – York University’s Taiwanese Student Association presents Kung Fu Dunk (2008) D: Chu Yen-ping as part of a Taiwanese Film Festival. 3:30 pm. Free. Nat Taylor Cinema, York U Ross Bldg N, 4700 Keele. 647-3899996.

Toronto Forum On Cuba presents Day Of The Victims Of State Terrorism, including a screening of The Trial, a documentary about the Cuban Five. 7 pm. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. torontoforumoncuba.weebly. com. fRi 7 – Robert Bruce presents his original score to the silent film Faust (1926) D: FW Murnau. 7:30 pm. $15, stu/srs $12. Trinity-St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. 905-777-9196.

Toronto Socialist Action presents Rebel Films: Debtocracy (2011) D: Aris Hatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi, about Greek workers and the austerity agenda. 7 pm. $4 donation. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

WED 12 – The Indigenous Resistance Film Series presents Ajabo El Colonlalismo... Pachamama Libre!, about public actions leading to the destruction of the Christopher Columbus statue in Caracas on Oct 12, 2004, and the ensuing anti-colonial consciousness. 6 pm. Pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-920-6446, info@barrio-nuevo.org.

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thu 6 – Our Idiot Brother (2011) D: Jesse ñ Peretz. 7 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) ñ D: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. 9 pm. fRi 7 – Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (2010) D: Werner Herzog. 7 pm. The ñ Debt (2010) D: John Madden. 9:15 pm. sAt 8– Cars 2 (2011) D: John Lasseter and

Brad Lewis. 2 pm. The Debt. 4:15 & 7 pm.

Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen.

9:15 pm. suN 9 – Cars 2. 2 pm. The Debt. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 7 pm. moN 10 – Cars 2. 2 pm. The Debt. 4:15 & 7 pm. Midnight In Paris. 9:15 pm. tuE 11 – The Debt. 7 pm. Cave Of Forgotten Dreams. 9:15 pm.

WED 12 – The Debt. 1 & 9:15 pm. Epicure’s Revue: Colony (2009) D: Carter Gunn and Ross McDonnell. 6:30 pm.

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

thu 6 – Hoop Dreams (1994) D: Steve James. 6:30 pm. ñ fRi 7 – Don’t You Forget About Me (2008) D:

Matt Austin. 6:45pm. Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) D: John Hughes. 9 pm. sAt 8 – An American Tail (1986) D: Don Bluth. 2 pm. Reel Paradise (2005) D: Steve James. 5 pm. Steve James’ Carte Blanche: Slap Shot (1977) D: George Roy Hill. 8 pm.

Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) D: Terry Gilliam. 11 pm.

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By Dan Savage

I am an 18-year-old straIght male. I

have a hodgepodge of birth defects that affect my genitalia: severe hypospadias (my urethra – my piss slit – is at the base of my penis), micropenis (less than 2 i nches) and anorchia (I was born without testes). I have never been naked around anyone else. I don’t really like being naked by myself, to be honest.

Lately, my sex drive has skyrocketed.

It’s driving me up the wall. Couple this with the fact that women see me as attractive and I’m not doing well. It’s frustrating that sexual situations are presenting themselves to me and there’s nothing I can do. I’ve recently started college, and it’s endlessly frustrating to see my friends having relationships and being sexually active. I know that casual sex/flings will never be an option for me, but I am dying over here!

Messed Up Junk “His story is one that is very familiar to us,” says Tiger Howard Devore, vice president of the Hypospadias and Epispadias Association (HEA). “He should know that he is not rare, and many with his kind of genital difference have learned how to communicate about their difference to potential intimate partners.”

You’re right, MUJ: Casual sex/flings – shucking off your clothes and jumping into bed with a girl you’ve just met – may never be an option for you. But you know what? Drunken college hookups last an hour or two, while the communication skills you’re going to have to develop to

navigate your sex life will last a lifetime.

You will have a sex life, MUJ, and there is a lot you can do. There are women out there who prefer tongues, toys and touch to vaginal penetration. On the Savage Lovecast, I took a call from a woman who was worried she would never find a partner because, although she enjoys other kinds of sex, she’s physically incapable of vaginal intercourse; there’s a new dating website for straight men and women “who cannot engage in sexual intercourse” (www.2date4love.com); and if you fall in love with a woman who enjoys vaginal intercourse, sex shops sell strapon dildos to men, too.

In short, MUJ, you have options. You also have role models.

“One of the most validating and reassuring experiences someone with genital difference can have,” says Devore, “is to meet with others who share their birth history and have dealt with the same issues of self-acceptance, shame and isolation, and the challenge of intimate relationships.”

HEA hosts an annual conference, and it’s coming up, MUJ. If you can get your ass to Chicago over the weekend of October 21 to 23, I strongly encourage you to attend HEA 2011.

“Connecting with others who share his difference is the best way to end his isolation and begin his healing,” says Devore. “At the conference, he’ll get expert information from doctors and psychologists and meet men who have grown up just like him and have faced the same

fears and overcome them.”

HEA offers financial aid to men who otherwise wouldn’t be able to attend – an experience that is life changing and, in some cases, life saving – and I’ve made a donation so more men with hypospadias can attend this year. I’m encouraging my readers to do the same: heainfo.org.

I’m a 26-year-old gIrl from austrIa

currently seeing a guy who likes to tie me up and gag me. It’s just cuffs and ball gags so far, and I’m enjoying it!

Recently he sent this text message: “mummification sounds fun.” In his case, “sounds fun” means “I wish to try it.” I looked it up online. Holy! I was scared after watching this video of a guy wrapping a woman first in cling film and then in duct tape! Face and everything! It seemed like out of a horror movie! I texted him back: “I realize this could be a lot of fun for you, but I don’t think I can do that.” He’s never mentioned it again.

I feel awful for denying him. I tell myself it’s about trusting the other person – yes, we have safe words! – but I just can’t shake off the feeling of creepiness! Is there anything I can do to get over being terrified? Was it fair to say “Not gonna happen”?

Because I Am Scared “BIAS should know that it was absolutely okay for her to say, ‘Not gonna happen,’” says Tynan Fox, kinkster, activist and blogger (tynanfox.com). Fox, just

27, has been into mummification for more than a decade – he’s been on both sides of the duct tape – but says he can appreciate why even some bondage fans aren’t into it.

“Many people are claustrophobic,” says Fox, “and they can’t stomach the idea of being wrapped up, and who can blame them? Mummification is extreme play.

But her boyfriend is being completely appropriate – she said she wasn’t interested, he hasn’t mentioned it again – and they should both be commended for their open and honest communication.”

The only way to get over your feelings of terror, if you want to explore this, is to try it while taking things very, very slowly.

“She doesn’t have to go directly to the full-out body-and-head-covering Saran Wrap/duct tape combo,” says Fox. “Pace yourselves! Begin with Saran Wrap only, just from the shoulders to the ankles. If she freaks, the boyfriend cuts her loose and it’s over. If the scene goes well, they can add a little more next time. Eventually, she may find the restriction and sensory deprivation provides a heightened sense of sexual awareness and makes her extremely horny.”

I moved In wIth a frIend of a frIend

when I was desperate to find housing in a new city. The guy I live with would be an ideal roommate except he sometimes makes homophobic comments.

I’ve never told him I’m gay – I didn’t feel the need up front and now I don’t feel comfortable – but homophobia is not the reason I’m writing you. The situation goes deeper.

In the midst of my online exploits, I found an Xtube channel for a guy who is most certainly my roommate. He wears a mask in the videos, but the voice and build are the same, same tattoos, and his bedroom is unmistakable.

In the videos, he fucks himself silly with massive dildos – massive – while begging for cock. Part of me wants to pull one of the videos up the next time he makes a comment. Part of me loves the idea of giving this homophobe a good fucking. What would you do?

Roommate’s Anal Movies Your living situation sounds like a set-up for a great porn parody, RAM. (When A Stranger Comes: “The ass-stretching amateur porn is coming from inside the apartment!”) It also sounds like an opportunity. If you’re into this guy – and, having watched his videos (thanks for the link), it looks like you could literally walk right into this guy – why not seize that great, big, gaping opening created by your little discovery?

The next time your roommate makes a homophobic remark, RAM, tell him you’re gay, tell him you don’t appreciate his comments and tell him you’re somewhat mystified by his remarks in light of his body of work. Then roll the tape.

There’s a chance – a slim chance – that he’s not gay and just enjoys anal play, sexual transgression and the attention he gets from men online. Here’s hoping you wind up fucking some sense into your roommate and an apology out of him.

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger. com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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