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University College. scienceforpeace.

TYler duncan Canadian baritone sings art songs at the Glenn Gould Studio. 8 pm. $29.50-$49.50. 416-872-4255.

day fair showcasing 109 galleries from 13 countries, plus special projects and talks, starts today at the Metro Convention Centre. $14-$18. tiafair.com. +liza Minnelli The showbiz icon sings her favourite American classics at Roy Thomson Hall. 8 pm. $59.50-$199.50.

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416-872-1212. pedeSTrian SundaYS Celebrate Halloween on the carfree streets. Noon-7 pm. Free.

Kensington Market. pskensington.ca.

MiriaM ToeWS Toews joins Marina Endicott, Riel Nason and Nicole Lundrigan on an Authors Fest panel hosted by NOW’s Susan G. Cole. Brigantine Room. $18, stu free. readings.org.

cHaGall and THe ruSSian avanT-Garde AGO’s major ex-

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Fela! The smash Broadway hit about legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti continues at the Canon until Nov 6. 8 pm. $35-$130. 416-872-1212.

Canada stack up against other wealthy nations, a talk by health policy prof Dennis Raphael. 4 pm. Free. University College. scienceforpeace.ca.

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SiSTerS & broTHerS Carl Bessai’s film kicks off the nine-day Rendezvous With Madness Film Fest. 5:15 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox. $30 (incl reception). rendezvouswithmadness.com.

david HockneY The Brit artist’s exhilarating iPhone/ iPad art is at the ROM until Jan 1. $21-$24. 416-586-8000.

SHelbY lYnne The alt-country star plays an intimate gig at Hugh’s Room. $40-$45. hughsroom.com.

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and peace activist updates the struggle of war resisters. 6 pm. $20. Steelworkers Hall. resisters@sympatio.ca. noel GallaGHer The Oasis bro brings his High Flying Birds to Massey Hall. 8 pm. $39.50$99.50. And November 8. RTH, TM.

U.S. writer closes the Authors Festival with an onstage interview at Harbourfront’s Brigantine Room. 7 pm. $18, stu free. readings.org.

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MaTcHbox MacbeTH Spend Halloween weekend at this spooky version of the Shakespeare play. At a secret location. To Oct 30 at 7 and 9 pm. $15. litmustheatre.com.

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regarding the occupation of Toronto, by Ellie Kirzner (NOW, October 20-26). It’s hard not to be cynical about the occupation-movement franchise, Occupy Toronto being the latest of them. It reminds me of revolutions that get a colour branding: green, cedar, orange, etc. It all seems so contrived and media-savvy and not very serious. Let’s call the Toronto occupation “Scotiabank Occupy Toronto,” since it seems to sponsor everything these days.

Andrew van Velzen Toronto

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it’s nice to see torontonians expressing their discontent, but it would be much more practical if Occupy Toronto protesters contacted their representatives in both parliaments and city council.

Or the 99 per cent could do the most rational thing and vote. It’s a pretty fucking easy thing to do, and countries with high voter turnouts are more equitable.

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Occupy a new headspace

i feel compelled to write after seeing many citizens in the media complaining or mocking the Occupy Toronto movement. As a G20 arrestee currently awaiting trial, I am sensitive to the plight of other activists who work for a better world.

The criticism that irks me most goes, “How many Occupy Toronto ac­ tivists actually vote?”

The answer is it makes no differ­ ence. All we do is elect figureheads.

The real power structures, corpora­ tions, lobbyists and entrenched inter­ ests stay the same election after elec­ tion. Why should we honour these people with our vote?

Byron Sonne Brampton

Free enterprise dare

there is a difference between capitalism and free enterprise. Capi­ talism doesn’t have the decency to stop speculating on oil or gas in war­ time.

Free enterprise rewards good work. Capitalism is the misuse of shareholder proxies by executives who work for exorbitant pay and benefits. Free enterprise asks only for a level playing field.

Free enterprise is creative and dar­ ing. Capitalism is slothful and glut­ tonous.

Bob Murphy Toronto

Number crunching

re who are the 99%, compiled

by Enzo DiMatteo (NOW, October 20­ 26). One challenge to the left’s being taken more seriously on economic is­ sues is its shaky command of the numbers. DiMatteo’s article is a prime case in point.

He tells us that the median family income was $45,800 in 1976 and $48,300 in 2009 and suggests that once inflation is factored in, median family incomes have been declining.

So far, so good. The trouble is that the numbers are inflation­adjusted.

Then there’s the missing reality check. The $45,800 figure was a very large amount of money in 1976. Very few families were bringing in $45,800 back then. The language of economics shouldn’t be the exclusive preserve of the right, and it behooves those on the left to not throw numbers about.

Karl Littler Toronto

Shark bite

thanks for writing about shark fin products (NOW, October 20­26). It will do a great deal to raise awareness on the shark conservation issue.

The NDP’s bill (still being drafted) does not include banning the sale, possession or consumption of shark fin. As stated in their press release, Fin Donnelly is “launching consultations with stakeholders to develop legisla­ tion to stop the importation of these illegal fins into Canada.”

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like on the eve of a potential ban of sale and possession of fins in Toronto, it is imperative that the message be precise so as to prevent misinforma­ tion.

Furthermore, please be aware that the petition at change.org does not directly impact federal legislation.

There are stringent guidelines for fed­ eral petitions, which must be provid­ ed in original, hard­copy formats only and, most importantly, must directly relate to a specific bill that has been introduced into the House of Com­ mons.

Jennifer Zabawa United Conservationists Toronto

Keriwa Café connection

making any kind of connection between Keriwa Café and some vio­ lent incident at a “long­gone resto”

webtalk

because both serve(d) aboriginal food is utterly wrong­headed and offensive (NOW, October 20­26).

What was Steven Davey thinking?

Furthermore, WTF was the editorial staff thinking, letting that slip past?

Cassidy Phillips Toronto

What readers are saying at nowtoronto.com

Trumpeting Half-Blood

i was a little dismayed by the review for Edugyan’s Half­Blood Blues (NOW, October 20­26). The reviewer failed to mention that half the book takes place in Germany, where the band actually formed, not Paris.

Plus, the character of Hiero, the focal point of the novel, is a trumpet­ er not a saxophonist as described. It seems the only thing the reviewer got right was the 5N rating.

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Foodstock for farmland

regarding fighting the megaQuarry At Foodstock (NOW Daily, October 17). Twenty­eight thou­ sand gathered in a wood, wander­ ing with plastic plates in hand, chowing down at every tent, navi­ gating muddy paths for their next treat. Chefs were preparing food without electricity, carving up warm bison prosciutto or prepar­ ing elk sausages over a fire. Yum, yum. All to raise money to save farmland from being turned into a mega­quarry. It was incredible. If you missed the donation table, please go to ndact.com. jennfranklin

Field of Dreams scene

foodstock was an awesome and well­organized event! So ex­ cited to see so many come out re­ gardless of the weather. Cars were coming from all directions as far as the eye could see. Looked like a scene from Field Of Dreams. Thank you to all the chefs, musicians and farmers who donated their time and produce. Awesome!!!

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Drug testing, bring it on

on random idea, 10 reasons why drug and alcohol testing for TTC employees is a bad idea (NOW Daily, October 20). Reason number 3 reads, “The Canadian Human Rights Act requires employees who’ve tested positive to be ac­ commodated to the point of undue hardship.” Which means they will still be paid, just not allowed to drive buses/trains. Fine by me.

I like your argument that if bus/ train drivers get tested, so should police and paramedics. Bring it on. tomwest

Occupiers missing big pic

regarding the tiny nation of occupy Toronto (NOW Daily, Octo­ ber 24). Unfortunately, times and politicians and the game have changed since the 60s and 70s.

What people really should be against (if they choose to be against everything) should be the new world order. Do any of these protesters even know about the SPP? Time to move on and look at the bigger picture. strongvoice1122

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Northbound Leather’s 15th annual leather fetish ball, Rapture, takes a bite out of the sexual paranormal at Sound Academy, Saturday, October 22.

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Unrest in the forest

Those old-growth forests we thought were being protected by the largest forest certification system on the planet, the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification Schemes, or PEFC, are being chopped down instead. A new report by a coalition of enviro groups details widespread timber company transgressions on the ground, including in Ontario’s largest boreal forest, the Kenogami, east of Lake Nipigon. There, three-quarters of trees 100 years old and older are being cut as part of a draft management plan for the ancient area.

Spotted

The annual parade of the undead took over Queen West, starting with the nuptials of Thea Munster and Adam Invader at Trinity Bellwoods Park on Saturday (October 22). We have all the horrifying photographic evidence at nowtoronto.com.

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R. JEANETTE MARTIN

What Greenpeace activists in shark costumes When 10 am Wednesday (October 26), at the Canadian headquarters of tuna giant Clover Leaf in Markham Why To deliver a platter of marine-life remains – and protest the fact that Clover Leaf’s fishing practices “kill more than just tuna.”

[Frontlines] Glenn Sumi: why can’t the mayor take a joke?

Obviously, Mayor Rob Ford can’t take a joke. Monday morning, when Marg Delahunty and the This Hour Has 22 Minutes crew staked out his Etobicoke home for an interview, Ford fled inside and called 911.

The mayor claimed afterwards he didn’t know who she was. Ouch. That must really piss off the folks at the CBC. In the past, Mary Walsh’s alter ego and her wise-ass roving reporter colleagues have ambushed politicians from all levels of government, who generally go along with the gag.

It’s part of, you know, being a Canadian, being a good sport.

And surely any Canadian would recognize the bizarrely made-up Delahunty, who was wearing her blood-red “Marg Princess Warrior” outfit when she tried to shove her mic in the mayor’s face.

Or maybe not. Maybe she’s the comedy equivalent of another Marg – Margaret Atwood. And we know how recognizable she is, right?

Likely the mayor just didn’t think it was in his job description to play along, the same way that, last week, he didn’t think he had to show up at the Mayor’s Arts Awards Luncheon.

I was at that event, along with many others involved in all aspects of the arts: creating them, writing about them, ad-

ministering them, protecting them. And when we were told Ford wouldn’t be attending because of “urgent business,” you could hear groans throughout the room.

Was this a big fuck-you? An ominous sign that an axe was going to cut off future arts funding? Or were we just being paranoid?

“I am so sad Mayor Ford is not here to see all the amazing people we have in the Toronto arts community,” said Deborah Lundmark of the Canadian Children’s

Surely any Canadian would recognize Marg Princess Warrior.

Dance Theatre, winners of the Arts for Youth Award.

That got a big round of applause.

And what was that “urgent business,” anyway? Turns out he was coaching his football team – something that’s obviously not in his job description.

Surely, he could have shown up for 15 minutes to shake a few hands, meet some of tomorrow’s artists and say a few words.

I guess the joke was on us.

By the way, his football team clobbered the opposition. glenns@nowtoronto.com

Then make it better

The federal Conservatives join the It Gets Better campaign against homophobia. Do they realize the irony?

Read the story at nowtoronto.com.

Barometer

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Amount donations to Canadian charities have declined in the last three years, according to Stats Canada. Blame the recession, or are Canucks becoming more deficient in the charity department?

Discuss.

Worth seeing The Fourth Wall: Transforming City Hall, a visual exhibit exploring ways to create a culture of local citizen engagement, occupies UrbanSpace Gallery (401 Richmond West) beginning this week. urbanspacegallery.ca.

Swimming with sharks Council does the unthinkable – votes its conscience and passes a bylaw to ban the sale and possession of shark fins. Full story at nowtoronto.com.

Political backstabbing Dalton McGuinty finds his turncoat (maybe) who’ll tip the onevote balance in the leg in the Grits’ favour: the PCs’ Frank Klees announces his intention to run for House speaker.

Female quotient

Parkdale-High Park MP Peggy Nash gives notice that she’ll be entering the race for the federal NDP leadership. Finally, a woman contender. An announcement is expected at the Gladstone Friday (October 28).

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The work was the second in Highway’s Rez Cycle.

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n the eve of the anniversary of his first year in office, it’s all come full circle for Rob Ford.

The mayor spent Monday (October 24) basking in the glow of another major victory: council’s decision to privatize garbage collection from Yonge to the Humber River. Another election promise delivered, another great day for the taxpayers of Toronto. Where have we heard that one before?

So moved by the moment was the mayor that he took the photo opportunity to mention he’d be seeking a second term in office, in case anybody had any doubts that he’s in this for the long haul. “I’ve already started campaigning,” he said. Well, at least now we know how the mayor’s been spending his ample time away from City Hall.

If not for a little episode earlier that morning, by which I mean Ford’s calling the cops on the comedy TV crew of CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes, it might have been accurate to say all was well in Rob Ford’s world.

When asked about the incident Monday, the mayor said he was “ambushed” and stammered something about its being dark. He raised, again, the death threats he’s received. And mentioned that his daughter was frightened.

The video evidence suggests that the mayor’s version of events doesn’t quite mesh with reality. Crossing the privacy line?

Whatever happened to the self-proclaimed 300 pounds of fun?

Should we believe anything Ford says?

Not that it matters. The game he’s playing is politics, after all. And on the garbage front, the slipping and sliding has already begun.

The mayor tried to allay fears about winning bidder Green for Life Environmental’s quote for the job being too good to be true and about concerns, even among those who voted for private pickup, that the city would end up holding the bag.

Ford lauded the great job Turtle Island is doing of private garbage pickup in his backyard in Etobicoke. Interesting that he should mention Turtle Island. In fact, that company wasn’t even among the final five contenders for the $186 million contract.

Indeed, a few of the bigger players in the garbage biz were conspicuous by their absence from the short list. The fact that major players in refuse weren’t in the running should tell us something about how out of whack the winning bid may be. (More on those particulars at Garbage Revenge at nowtoronto.com.)

But as long as no one’s calling the mayor out, he can keep reprising his role as the candy maker in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, offering us not-so-sweet nothings in that soothing baritone of his.

Easy to blame Ford. And certainly he de-

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serves a large share of the blame for the current state of affairs at City Hall. But he’s only part of the problem, arguably just a symptom of these challenging times.

Many taking in the action on the council floor during garbage deliberations Monday would have come away disheartened. The usual suspects in the mushy middle shattered our illusions again and voted right along with Ford and Co., while the mayor strutted his stuff in a Tiger-Cats football jersey, the upshot of a lost bet with the mayor of Hamilton, a city that is coincidentally looking at bringing its recycling operations back in-house after a dalliance with private garbage pickup.

But back to the mushy-middlers. It seems clear that apart from some symbolic matters, they’re throwing in their lot with the mayor for the long haul.

If they were going to chart a different course,

it was on private garbage pickup that they would have announced their coming-out party. Three of Ford allies, in fact, weren’t in attendance. Still, the mayor won. It wasn’t even close, passing easily by a vote of 26-16. The die was cast on this one, of course, back in May, in a nifty bit of procedural fuckupedness when council decided to ask for a Request for Quotation as opposed to a more evaluative Request for Proposal on the garbage contract. Lots of questions about that slippery bit of business.

The chamber was reminded that it was precisely an RFQ process as opposed to an RFP that got the city into that computer leasing scandal a few years back. You remember – the one that saw costs for a software contract balloon to the tune of tens of millions.

But the mushies and Fordists weren’t hearing any of that. They were eager to get on with the business of getting on with business, kill-

Garbage sniff test $186 million Total value of the nine-year con-

tract to pick up garbage from 160,000 households in District 2, the area from Yonge to the Humber River

$11 million Amount the city claims it will save annually by privatizing pickup

$12 million Amount by which a forensic audit by

Rosen & Associates says the city has overestimated annual savings

30 Fewer trucks that will be used by the winning bidder to pick up garbage in District 2

$12 million Amount the city is covered in the

event the contractor cannot fulfill the terms of the contract – $5 million less than the annual amount of the contract.

7 Number of staff the winning bidder has told the city will be tasked with handling customer complaints 1,100 Number of complaints received daily by the city from residents in District 2

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ing a motion put forward by Ana Bailão to defer the garbage decision so councillors left out of briefings with staff (and there were a lot) could have their questions on the particulars of the deal answered.

Where most people come from, that would be called due diligence. In Ford’s Toronto it’s an inconvenience, even if the garbage deal in question has enough holes in it to drive the proverbial truck through.

The wish of those in council’s middle to stay above the polarizing debate between left and right is understandable. But as Councillor Raymond Cho pointed out as only he can, something quite different is happening: members are putting their own political interests ahead of those of Torontonians. Then he turned right around and voted for private pickup.

Maybe we shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s still a shame. In case you’re counting, 18 of the 26 who voted for private garbage pickup don’t represent the wards involved in the scheme. In whose interest were those councillors voting?

The mayor’s or the affected residents’?

I won’t name the culprits, because you’ve read about them here before. Maybe they didn’t notice the garbage worker sitting a few rows up in the chamber, but it was hard to miss him. He was wearing an orange jumpsuit and feeding his daughter a banana. His other kid was in a Spider-Man suit. With great power comes great responsibility? (Spidey fans will understand.)

I know – we shouldn’t be sentimental about such matters. Let’s not start factoring in the human costs of the Ford agenda. That’s too messy.

After all, there are a few pennies to save for the other 2.5 million taxpayers out there, David Shiner reminds us. I’m glad he won’t be losing any sleep over the fact that some more unemployed people won’t know where their next mortgage payment is coming from. Or that those lucky enough to cop a job with the new private contractor will have to make due with 30 per cent less. Not sure how it helps the economy that those folks no longer have disposable income to spend at the local grocer’s or to take the family out for dinner. You know, the kinds of things that keep life livable.

In a nifty bit of doublespeak, Public Works and Infrastructure Committee chair Denzil MinnanWong called the deal a winwin for all involved. But what it’s really about is revenge: punishing the union for daring to exercise its right to strike back in 2009 – the “tipping point,” the mayor called it.

Seems this council can get its act together to take a principled position to save sharks from ending up as shark fin soup, another item on this week’s agenda; to keep cats and dogs out of questionable storefront operations; and even to find sanctuary for zoo elephants in their forlorn final days.

But city workers? Not so lucky.

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Occupation hazard Self-rule has its challenges as activists struggle to weave consensus to save the camp By ELLIE KIRZNER

self-government is heady stuff.

As Occupy Toronto approaches its two-week anniversary, St. James Park is awash in a kind of thrilled confidence amazing to behold.

But the alignment of forces being what it is, I have to ask whether this tiny democracy of hundreds will be allowed to make it to the first snowfall and beyond. All the more so now that I’m watching an ongoing effort by the wiser souls on site to convince the not so far-seeing that occupation

is a discipline and that what feels satisfying in the moment doesn’t always serve the cause.

Certainly, participants are high on the model of self-rule they have dreamed into active reality and are taking their stand with remarkable grace and goodwill. Occupier John Fox (Little Bear) told the assembly Saturday, to a rousing fluttering of fingers, that he had a “message from the spirits” that they were on the right track. “Each day we will con-

tinue despite what’s said out there, because we have been given the blessing,” he said.

In a more secular mode, facilitator Misha declared this “the most incredible experience” of his life. “We are doing the heavy lifting of bringing something new to the world,” he said.

And Michael – no humbleness here – opined that “maybe what we’re doing here isn’t about the 1% theory; maybe it’s about solving the world’s problems for real this time.”

The fortitude – and even chutzpah – of this congenial rebellion is revising the radical rule book. I watched with fascination Saturday night as a participant hooked up the solar panel now firing computers in the media tent.

And while it’s hard to grasp the concept, the Winter’s Coming Committee is hatching plans to freeze-proof the camp. Facilitator Daniel Roth tells me expert opinion is being tapped, and possibilities like giant tarps and strawbale construction floated.

But along with the elation, there’s a slow simmer of tension between those pledged to the group process – with its police liaison, marshalling system and cooperation with authorities as trade-offs for the right to hold their ground – and those who aren’t.

No question it’s astounding that people who had no knowledge of one another before October 15 are now living intimately in the densest of conditions with the most complex of civil arrangements. (Most observers haven’t noticed that the tent-in is a rotational society; occupiers come

and go for work shifts and school assignments, sometimes for days at a stretch, so counting bodies at any given moment is meaningless.)

All week, many at general assembly have been warning that the camp is “lucky’’ not to have been evicted at this point, and to keep the sanitation quotient high and respect the neighbours. To this end, booze and drugs have effectively been outlawed. “This territory is a sacred site; no alcohol and drugs because that is spiritual warfare on [native] elders,” one participant said, summarizing the consensus after a week of group flipflopping over whether it was cool or not to use inside tents.

Nonetheless, there was a blowout Sunday night in the GA over the matter of late-night drummers who refused to chill when warned they were disturbing condo neighbours. I don’t want to make too much of these stresses in this wild-ride social experiment, but they warn that not everyone is learning the tactical ABCs at the same rate.

In a tone, out of keeping with the usual amiability of the proceedings here, Brian, one of the early organizers, charged that some present were “disrespecting those who are trying to keep the peace. A lot of us have invested a great deal of time and emotion and don’t want to see this fail because of a number of people who think this is a party. If you don’t respect the process, why are you at an Occupy event?”

He was followed by others similar-

ly upset, among them Taylor, a facilitator who, after urging a “softer tone with more inclusionary we’s,” pointed out that the night drumming was causing a rift with police, that there had been raid rumours and that now it was necessary to “atone” through early music curfews or lose officer cooperation.

“If a small group wants to disregard our relations with police, please consider that [the Police Liaison Committee] has been working hard to protect your safety,” she said with subtle understatement.

The question of trade-offs with authority keeps arising as an irritant. I was a little antsy Monday night when some speakers wanted to ignore the Parks Department’s request to remove the straw now covering the ground to keep the mud down. “If we allow ourselves to live with bureaucratic bullshit and this petty tin-pot dictatorship,” the demands will keep on coming, was one comment in a line of similar others.

Examples like these make me think some don’t get the idea that it’s possible to obey all the small rules so one can break the big ones, and that this is a resistance strategy with a noble history.

Eventually, the forces of order will no doubt dismantle the camp on exactly such technicalities. Isn’t the whole point to hold this patch of fading grass and all the possibilism contained here just as long as humanly possible?

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By WAYNE ROBERTS there are no hogs in hogtown’s future, but there doesn’t appear to be any squealing about that fact.

Toronto’s pre-eminence as a food processing centre took a hit last week when Maple Leaf Foods announced that its plant here will shut down in the next few years, shedding 300 of 1,550 jobs being lost across the country as the company centralizes operations in five supersized slaughterhouses, bakeries and distribution centres.

Michael H. McCain, president and CEO of Maple Leaf, said in a statement that it is creating “through one of the largest single investments in the Canadian food industry, a highly efficient, world-class prepared meats

production and distribution network that will markedly increase our competitiveness.”

Say what you will about rising interest in food, but these corporate moves – bearing all the earmarks of a typical decision by “the 1 per cent” – were met by almost dead silence from the usual commentators.

City officials, opposition critics, union leaders, environmentalists, public health advocates and food enthusiasts, to name just the most obvious – don’t seem to get all the meaty issues.

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Though the NDP is led by a Hamiltonian who might be loath to denounce a corporate restructuring

that adds 670 new jobs to her region (a new state-of-the-art facility), an alert opposition would question the role of the Ontario Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Rural Affairs in this affair.

OMAFRA staff functioned basically as real estate brokers for Maple Leaf Foods as it started its search for alternate sites in January 2011. Without advising city officials or the general public, ministry staff provided liaisons with economic development teams from 24 local governments bidding for the new plant and jobs, according to reports.

Yet all’s quiet on the opposition front: not a peep about the irony of newly appointed OMAFRA minister Ted McMeekin hailing from the Hamilton area, which has never before been seen as a stronghold of agriculture or rural affairs.

Silence, too, from public health officials despite the supersized corporation’s association with a 2008 listeria outbreak linked to the death of 23 people. You wouldn’t think a corporation whose product line is based on animal fat and empty carbs (Maple Leaf is a leading producer of hot dogs, bacon, bread and baked goods) would get the kid-glove treatment.

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Farm leaders have been silent despite the fact that meat-packing centralization inevitably makes sales more difficult for smaller farmers and ranchers, who need nearby slaughterhouses and some alternative to the corporate behemoths dictating livestock prices.

Ready access to nearby processors is a priority for animal welfare crusaders, since it’s the trip from farm to slaughterhouse that is most stressful for animals – the longer, the more painful. Yet it’s quiet here, too.

Those with stereotyped ideas of unions might expect a blast denouncing the human costs of centralization and the loss of decentpaying jobs in the midst of a recession, but silence again reigns supreme.

Teachers, not usually bothered by shyness, have steered clear of their pension fund’s role in financing Maple Leaf’s rise to national corporate dominance during the 1990s or the recent sale of Teachers fund Maple Leaf shares that created space for U.S. hedge fund West Face Capital to press Maple Leaf management for increased company profits and com-

petitiveness (aka layoffs).

Environmentalists might ask about corporate rights to centralize distribution without regard for increases to the amount of transportation required in the food system – a significant portion of global warming emissions in the food sector.

And from the food movement – if I may throw a tough question my way, – is there a better time to demand that the feds apply long-standing laws against monopoly power, or to present an alternative vision of a viable meat industry?

The day after Maple Leaf’s jobbutcheringannouncement, Carolyn Steel, author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives, came to speak in Toronto.

Arguably the most imaginative mind in the field, Steel notes that public officials were always held responsible for food sufficiency until the late 1800s, when railways made accessible food from many parts of a country and the world.

At that point, the invisible hand of an unregulated marketplace met citified societies lacking mindfulness of their absolute dependence on food. The invisibility of food issues followed, she says.

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Andrea Garcia of the Toronto Cyclists Union says the results of the probe could be used as leverage to push the city for better cycling infrastructure.

“This is one of the most positive steps in recent years to address the real issues that face motorists and cyclists on our streets,” Garcia says.

“We know that cycling in our city is increasing so it’s time to make investments in safe infrastructure.”

Dr. Dan Cass, regional supervising coroner for Toronto West, will lead the review, and he says it’s too early to say whether the report will recommend building more bike lanes or other bike infrastructure as a strategy to keep cyclists safe.

“In our view, all cycling deaths are preventable deaths,” he says. “Everything is on the table. We’re not going in with any preconceived agenda.

What we want to do is look at what the data shows us.”

That data appears to indicate that while the number of cyclists is increasing in Ontario, the number of fatalities is holding steady at about 15 or 16 a year. An average year in Toronto sees two or three cycling deaths.

This isn’t the first time the Ontario coroner has investigated such deaths.

Following the highly publicized deaths of two female cyclists in Toronto in 1996, the coroner launched a city-wide review that ultimately became a major factor in the creation of the Toronto bike plan in 2001.

That plan called for the installation of 1,000 kilometres of bike lanes and paths by 2011, but as of last November less than half that, some 430 kilometres, had been built.

Unlike the review provoked by the deaths in 1996, the investigation announced Monday will be provincewide. Garcia hopes Queen’s Park will take action where the city has stalled.

“There are certainly things the province could do to nudge the city in the direction of better cycling, such as funding for cycling programs or creating a comprehensive provincial cycling plan,” she says. “There isn’t much of that going on at the moment.”

Other steps the province could take to improve cycling safety include enacting a “1-metre rule” that would compel drivers to give cyclists a wider berth when passing. Nova Scotia passed a law to that effect last year, and the idea was floated earlier this year by provincial NDP leader Andrea Horwath.

No matter what the results of the review, getting the current city administration to commit to more biking infrastructure could be a hard sell.

A staunch supporter of a cars-first approach to the roads in his days as city councillor, Mayor Ford has since been met with mixed reviews when it comes to cycling policy.

There are ambitious plans to build a downtown network of separated bike lanes, but the priority so far has been the removal of lanes on Birchmount and Pharmacy, and on Jarvis next year.

And while Ford and his circle have built a reputation among their critics for shutting out empirical evidence that contradicts their own ideas, Garcia is optimistic that they’ll pay attention to data from the coroner’s review.

“I would hope that hard, indisputable evidence has some effect on their decision-making,” she says.

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those who say they can improve transit service and cut the budget at the same time are either ignorant of reality or not being honest.

Which isn’t to say the TTC’s announcement that it will create a customer service liaison panel and host town hall meetings – as recommended in the Customer Service Panel of last fall – aren’t moves in a decent direction.

It’s just that what we discovered at the commission is that complaint letters (16,000 between 2006 and 2010 to the chair’s office alone) are more often about the inadequacy of the transit experience than they are about customer service.

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Considering that 90 per cent of Torontonians use the system every month and about 25 per cent every day, almost every family has at least one rider and, therefore, a direct stake in the TTC’s performance.

But with budget cuts and Transit City on hold, passengers will continue to receive service that does not live up to expectations for years, and possibly decades, to come.

What’s frustrating is that it’s not like the TTC doesn’t know how to improve. In 2010, the commission adopted the Transit City Bus Plan, which called for less-crowded vehicles, a maximum of 20 minutes between buses, seven-day service, 6 am to 2 am, and more express vehicles.

It also proposed better monitoring of buses to keep them on schedule, while a similar plan suggested having station managers trained in customer service and able to supervise cleaners and collectors. At the same time, the commission also started to hire more cleaners and tradespeople to repair stations and vehicles. Much of this is now being rolled back.

A lot of current rider unhappiness could be resolved if there were a willingness on the city’s or province’s part to fund the $40 million a year needed to add service, improve sche-

duling and hire more cleaners – this is apart from Transit City. This could easily be achieved through a onetime fare increase of 15 to 20 cents or a government subsidy.

The TTC needs to do more than the bare minimum. Station modernization has to go forward, and elevator and escalator repairs be made more quickly. Studies have shown that the condition of vehicles, the state of the facilities and comforts like air conditioning and heat have an impact on both rider and employee behaviour.

As well, riders respond positively to online trip planners and automatic fare payment, as well as nextvehicle arrival systems. While some of these technologies have been rolled out, the TTC needs to resist cuts that will slow down further advancements, and ensure that information is available in an open-data format to allow passengers to develop new apps. Automation will speed up service, improve the quality of information and allowed dedicated customer info staff to focus on good service instead of volume.

All this alone won’t solve the service challenges. Over 60 Customer Ser vice Panel recommendations are still not implemented. One point made in the report was that good service comes from employees who are well trained and feel ownership in their job. Disciplinary measures alone can never create these conditions; they can only arise from an organizational culture where employees feel valued.

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On the heels of Waste Reduction Week, let’s divide all our unused items into three categories, shall we?

The stuff other people could use, the stuff other people could recycle and the stuff you could upcycle into cool new usables.

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Anonymous threats

Hacker group to attack Toronto Stock Exchange By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT “Toronto Stock Exchange, expect us,” says a nondescript computerized voice over a YouTube video.

The voice is level and non-threatening, but this is certainly a threat.

Legendary hacker group Anonymous is planning to take down the website of the Toronto Stock Exchange on November 7, it announced this week.

It’s the group’s first major operation in Canada since Occupy Toronto started on October 15, and mimics the online offensive against the New York Stock Exchange during the Occupy Wall Street protests.

“The 1 per cent have been putting their wealth in the Toronto Stock Exchange. This is why we choose to declare war against it,” says the literally anonymous Anonymous voice. “On November 7, 2011, TSX shall be erased from the internet. And this is just the beginning.”

The plan is to take down the web operations of TMX, which owns and operates the TSX, using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. By publicizing the attack on YouTube, Anonymous is recruiting hackers to participate. A DDoS relies on overwhelming a site with requests to its server, so the more requests sent, the more effective the attack.

On October 10, Anonymous launched Invade Wall Street, and very briefly – for almost two minutes – hacked NYSE.com, the website of the New York Stock Exchange. No trading or other business was disrupted.

The Toronto project is Operation #TMX. Confusingly, though, the YouTube video announcing it is titled Operation #TMX HAS BEEN COMPROMISED. “TMX Group doesn’t comment on security matters,” a spokesperson form the company says.

The announcement marks a turnaround since the beginning of the Occupy movement in Canada. Anonymous originally promised not to launch attacks on Canadian sites unless the police roughed up Occupy protesters at St. James Park – which hasn’t happened.

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“If we see any violence against the peaceful protesters or any unlawful acts like [at] the G20 summit protests or any sort of interruption, we will get involved!” it promised.

This is also like the New York City Anonymous. It waffled on attacking NYSE. com, first saying it wouldn’t, then promising it would, then announcing it would, but not on Columbus Day (?).

The American Anonymous offered hackers a still-available kit to hit the NYSE.com with, urging them to “spread the fucking word.” So far, Anonymous Canada has conducted no such outreach.

Anonymous has rumoured oper-

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Festivals

Daily events appear by date, then alphabetically by the name of the event. r indicates kid-friendly events

Brazil Film Festival Films about AfroBrazilian culture from Bahia. $10, stu/srs $8, pass $65. Royal Cinema (608 College), TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W). 1-888222-6608, brazilfilmfest.net.

Oct 27 to 30

All listings are free. Send to: listings@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​ 1166 or mail to Daily​Events,​NOW​Magazine,​189​Church,​Toronto​M5B​1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, including participants, time, price, venue, address and contact phone number (or e-mail or Web address if no phone available). Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

neither/nor collective, Kyma X and many others. $7. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick.

416festival.com.

Nov 2 to 5 GloBal CaBaret Festival New musical and theatrical offerings by more than 150 Canadian artists, including songstress Molly Johnson and the National Theatre of the World. $15-$25. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-8668666, globalcabaret.ca.

Oct 28 to 30

Thursday, October 27

Benefits

art toronto openinG previeW (Art Gallery

of Ontario) View and purchase works from the fair before it opens and meet the artists.

6:30-10 pm. $200. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. arttoronto.ca.

CaBaret oF sonGs (Factory Theatre) Performance by Tomson Highway and Patricia Cano.

6:30 pm. $150. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. factorytheatre.ca. a CeltiC niGht – BriGht liGhts Gala (Yonge Street Mission) Performances by Celtic Blaze, a gourmet dinner, silent auction and more. 6 pm. $150. Carlu, 444 Yonge. 416-929-9614.

DanCe For JustiCe (Amnesty Int’l) Performances for human rights. 6:45. $30. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

international Diaspora Film Festival

Films and videos made by cineastes living and working outside their countries of origin. $10, stu $8, pass $80. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. diasporafilmfest.com.

Nov 1 to 6 reGent park Film Festival Multicultural programming for youth and emerging filmmakers. Free. Lord Dufferin School, 350 Parliament. 416-599-7733, regentparkfilmfestival.com.

Nov 2 to 5

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aBilities arts Festival Celebration of disability arts and culture. $10, stu/srs/persons with disabilities $8. Carlton Cinema (20 Carlton). abilitiesartsfestival.org.

To Oct 30 international Festival oF authors Read-

FireBall 2011: throuGh the lookinG Glass

cure for diabetes. 5 pm. Free. Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. cafescientifique.ca.

Creatures oF the niGht Forest walk to learn about the creatures that roam from dusk to dawn. 7 pm. $8. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College. 416-675-5009. enGaGinG our urBan environments Presentation on art as public intervention by artist Sean Martindale. 7 pm. Free. Hart House

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(Sheena’s Place) Gala with cocktails, dancing, a silent auction and raffle. 8 pm. $140, adv $120. Hoxton, 69 Bathurst. sheenasplace.org/ fireball/2011.

FoG & FrienDs (Plan Canada) Fundraising concert and silent auction. 6 pm (concert 8:30 pm). $100. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

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Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca.

FrequenCy matters more noW than ever

Lecture on how dirty electricity and cellphone frequencies affect our health. 7 pm.

Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129. international home shoW Renovation and decoration tips from experts. Today 11 am-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-8 pm; Oct 30, 10 am-6 pm. $15, stu/srs $10, under 12 free.

International Centre, 6900 Airport. internationalhomeshow.ca. ipaD DraWinG Class Learn how David Hockney created his works in the Fresh

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WilDliFe Talk on what to do if you find injured wildlife. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Humane Soc, 11 River. torontohumanesociety.com.

Friday, October 28

Benefits

open to the WorlD: a musiCal Journey

(Turtle House Art/Play Centre) Concert and silent auction with Waleed & Sharbat and others. 6:30 pm. $35 adv, under 12 free. Trinity St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. turtlehouse@ sympatico.ca.

Events

ings, panels, interviews and more with Russell Banks, Miriam Toews, Michael Ondaatje, Ian Rankin and many others. $18, stu free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

To Oct 29 reBels With a Cause Film Festival Features films that are artistically, politically and socially critical plus artist talks, panel discussions and Q&As. Free. York University, 4700 Keele. opirgyork.ca/node/161.

To Oct 28 rhythms oF the earth Latino contemporary arts festival with music, dance, visual arts and video. Gallery 1313 (1313 Queen W), Lambadina Lounge (875 Bloor W). lccatoronto.com.

To Oct 30 sounDplay Festival of experimentation in sound art and new media, with performances, installations, workshops and more. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca/soundplay.

To Nov 26

toronto aFter Dark Film Festival Horror, sci-fi, action and cult films. $13, galas $15. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. torontoafterdark.com.

To Oct 27 toronto DiGiFest Festival celebrating innovation and creativity in the digital media field, with speakers, a videogame show and more. Various venues. torontodigifest.ca.

To Oct 30 toronto israel Film Festival Screening of recent features and docs plus guest speakers. $13. Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge. 416-622-2442 israelfilmfestival.ca.

To Oct 27 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

Flowers exhibition. 7 pm. $25. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca.

seum director Shauna McCabe and sociology professor Lorne Tepperman. 7:30 pm. $5. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre.

416-599-5321. sCienCe & philosophy Book CluB Discussion on Norman Doidge’s book The Brain That Changes Itself. 7 pm. $4. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cficanada.ca/ontario/ events.

laBour on the marCh: 150 years oF laBour paraDes in toronto Talk by his-

tory prof Craig Heron. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. makinG musiC For animation Get Animated! master class with animator/musician Luigi Allemano. 6:30 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register 416-9733012. on soCial FaBriC Presentations by Lettuce Knit founder Megan Ingman, Textile Mu-

the sustainaBility nexus: enerGy, teChnol-

oGy anD population Science for Peace lecture by physics professor Helmut Burkhardt. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca.

antiquarian Book Fair Books, maps, prints, manuscripts and more. Today 5-9 pm; tomorrow 11 am-6:30 pm; Oct 30 noon-5 pm. $15.

Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. torontoantiquarianbookfair.com. art toronto Fair showcasing 109 galleries from 13 countries, plus panels and presentations. To Oct 31. $18 ($16 online), stu/srs $14, pass $44. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. tiafair.com. eleCtroshoCk: the struGGles to Ban eCt

Seminar with psychiatric survivor Don Weitz.

7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2214, 252 Bloor W. 416535-8779. inJustiCe speaks Assoc in Defence of the Wrongly Accused panel on the death penalty, with Mike Farrell, Tracy Lamourie and others.

5:30 pm. $100, stu $35. OBA Conference Centre, 20 Toronto. 416-504-7500 ext 221. is your minD malnourisheD? Talk on the link between nutrition and depression by psychiatrist James M Greenblatt. 7 pm. $20. U of T Medical Sciences Auditorium, 1 KIng’s College Circle. Pre-register 416-733-2117. lanD oF Destiny Rebel Films screening and discussion with Keith McMillan of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers’ Union. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com. linGerie FootBall Toronto Triumph plays Baltimore Charm. 10 pm. $11.50-$90.50. Ricoh Coliseum, 100 Princes’ Blvd. ticketmaster.ca. loCative meDia innovation Day Film, game and new media conference with talks by Bill Buxton, Spacing’s Shawn Micaleff and others plus workshops. 1-7 pm. $99. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net/nexux.

peaCe Be With you: islam & its heritaGe oF

non-violenCe Discussion with philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo and others. 7 pm. Free.

Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. returns to native lanD? Talk on indigeneity in the Caribbean by professor Melanie Newton. Noon. Free. Wilson Hall, rm 524, 40 Willcocks. scienceforpeace.ca. roCk star Flash moB Dress up as your fa-

vourite pop star and convene for a pilgrimage along Queen. 7 pm. Free. St George subway. facebook.com/event. php?eid=236745919707655.

ROM COnneCting SingleS Mix-and-mingle with a talk on wage slavery, bullshit and the bad infinite by U of T prof Mark Kingwell. 7 pm. $50, adv $45. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca.

StRipping And lAp dAnCing With COnfidenCe Women-only workshop. 7-9 pm. $33.

Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416588-0900.

Saturday, October 29

Benefits

J’ACCuSe (Justice for Hassan Diab) Dramatic

readings from Zola to the present. 7 pm.

Donation. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. justiceforhassandiab.org. lAugh fOR the enviROnMent (Toronto Green Community) Comedy fundraiser. 3 pm. $20.

Second City, 416-343-0033.

Events

AbOut pRAying MAntidS Entomology lecture

by the ROM’s Julio Rivera. 1:15 pm. Free. U of T Victoria College, rm 206, 73 Queen’s Park Cres. ontarioinsects.org.

ACtiOn SCOuting WORkShOp Tools for Change workshop on how to check out locations that are safe and effective for marches, sit-downs and blockades. 1-6 pm. Free. toolsforchange.net.

CelebRAtiOn Of JupiteR’S OppOSitiOn Seminar with amateur astronomer Les Bluestein and solar observing demo. 10:45 am. Free. EfstonScience, 3350 Dufferin. escience.ca.

COnveRting yOuR pASSiOn intO ACtiOn

Leadership skills symposium for young people 16 to 35. 9 am-6 pm. $70. Nothrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park. Pre-register thedeparturegate.ca. get AniMAted! Hands-on animation workshop. 1 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John.

Pre-register 416-973-3012. getting yOuR MeSSAge Out Workshop to help progressive communities and organizations better communicate their message using the media. 1 pm. $15. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. rgReen hOMe fAiR Workshops, celebrity guests including author Vanessa Farquharson, displays, vendors, kids’ activities and more.

1-4 pm. Free. Calvary Baptist Church, 72 Main. toronto.ca/livegreen. heAlth fOOd, CReAtivity Workshops by health practitioners, healers and artists. Today and tomorrow 10 am-7 pm. $12, stu/srs $8, under 12 free. LucSculpture Studio, 663 Greenwood. 416-466-5773.

hOW tO phOtOgRAph yOuR ARtWORk... the Right WAy Class with photographer Michael van Leur. 11 am-4 pm. $50. Toronto Image Works, 80 Spadina. Pre-register savac.net.

rtOROntO inteRnAtiOnAl OWARe tOuRnAMent Tourney, entertainment, storytelling,

kids’ activities and an African marketplace. 10 am-6 pm. Free (players $10-$25). Africentric Alternative School, 1430 Sheppard W. owarecanada.com.

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At last week’s launch of her book Writing The Revolution (Second Story), journalist Michele Landsberg sat down with son Avi Lewis for a scintillating onstage interview. On November 3, she takes it up a notch (if that’s possible), this time talking with husband Stephen Lewis, Michele Landsberg and Stephen Lewis talk November 3. strations. Noon-4:30 pm. $5, under 12 free.

Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416-444-3702.

guide tO kARl MARx’S CApitAl, vOluMe One Fdn for Social Economics eight-week workshop. 7 pm. $160. Of Swallows, their Deeds & the Winter Below, 283 College. Pre-register thefse@thefse.org.

iSRAel fROM Within: the dReAM RebORn

New Israel Fund of Canada event with speakers including professor Naomi Chazan. 12:45-5 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Preregister nifcsymposium.eventbrite.com.

MiSS lAndMine Documentary screening, vegetarian dinner and discussion on the issues surrounding land mines and cluster munitions. 5 pm. Free. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. miss-landmine.org/camb.

99 MRkt Local food, craft and art. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury.ca/99-mrkt. rpedeStRiAn SundAyS in kenSingtOn Celebrate Halloween on the car-free streets of the Market. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, College and Augusta. pskensington.ca.

Monday, October 31

Events

ARt, SCienCe And the bRAin: neW MOdelS Of

leARning fOR the 21St CentuRy Panels, workshops, lectures and more with author Daniel Levitin and others. Today 8 am-5 pm; tomorrow 8 am-9:30 pm. $100-$395. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. 21c-learning.ca.

Step dAnCing leSSOnS Learn Cape Breton step dancing. 6:30 beginners, 7:15 all others. $10.

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

former leader of the provincial NDP and now head of his own foundation to fight AIDS in Africa, at a fundraising event for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. November 3, Trinity-St. Paul’s Centre (427 Bloor West) at 7 pm. $20-$40. 416-525-4927.

lOWdOWn On highRiSeS

With condo towers sprouting in the city landscape, it’s high time to ask questions about height and livability. Too Tall? checks out the state of vertical design and features architects Bruce Kuwabara, design partner for the Lightbox, Richard Witt, creator of Stage East in Leslieville and Peter Clewes, of

the big give (Look Good Feel Better) Circus-

tures on the collapse of history’s great vanished societies including the Lowland Maya and Easter Island. 7 pm. $29. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

Events

ASpiRing AuthORS Class on character de-

velopment, plot and structure with author Bran Francis. Tuesdays to Dec 6. 6:30 pm. $200. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093.

being theRe: On expeditiOn With nAtiOnAl geOgRAphiC Photographer/filmmaker Mat-

tias Klum uses pictures and film to showcase his global journeys. 8 pm. $39.50-$59.50. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com. dAniel levitin The professor talks about his latest book, The World In Six Songs..., plus music by Eve Egoyan and a sound/video by David Rokeby. 6 pm. $100. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. 21c-learning.ca.

the eiChMAnn tRiAl: A peRSpeCtive AfteR 50 yeARS Holocaust Education Week opens with a talk by historian Deborah E Lipstadt. 7:30 pm. Free. Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst. holocausteducationweek.com. glObAl heAlth & glObAl ethiCS Symposium. 8:30 am-4:45 pm. $75, stu $25.

University of Toronto Schools, 371 Bloor W.

the thRee bS: bACh, beethOven And bRAhMS

Three-part series about music with Rick Phillips, starting with JS Bach. 6:30 pm. Free.

Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. tOO tAll? Panel discussion on issues relating to vertical architecture, with NYC-based urban critic Roberta Brandes Gratz, participants in the Too Tall? exhibition and others. 7 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

While Robert Redford joins the opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline from the tar sands to Texas, U of T’s ecology and evolutionary biology department hosts The Oil Sands: Saviour Or Environmental Disaster? U of Alberta professor of ecology David Schindler has the ready answer; his research has already discovered that the tar sands are contaminating the Athabasca River watershed. Tuesday (November 1) at 4:30 pm. Free. University College, rm 140, 15 King’s College Circle.

416-978-3160.

Pre-register 416-978-8849.

themed entertainment, food and more supports women stricken by the effects of cancer treatment. 7 pm. $40. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. dothebiggive.com. glen dAviS RAvine benefit COnCeRt (Friend of Glen Davis Ravine) Concert and open stage with Brian Gladstone. 7:30 pm. $10 min. Monarchs Pub, 33 Gerrard St W. 416-585-4319.

leARning AbOut e. COli fROM WAlkeRtOn

Talk by author Joy Par. 2 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. 416393-7610, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

OldeR leSbiAn bOOk Club Discussion of John Berendt’s Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil. 1 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. 416-392-6874 ext 6787.

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Tuesday, November 1

Benefits

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

the Distillery condos. Roberta Brandes Gratz, a New York urban consultant, offers her take, too. Wednesday (November 2) at 7 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West. 416-973-4000.

upcoming

Thursday, November 3

Benefits

ChARleS SAuRiOl enviROnMentAl dinneR

fOR the living City (Conservation Fdn of Greater Toronto) Learn about sustainable food choices and meet local chefs. 6 pm. $200.

Pearson Convention Centre, 2638 Steeles E, Brampton. charlessauriol.ca. line ARt AuCtiOn (LGBT Youth Line) Auction of art by Robyn Cummings, April Hickox, Suzy Lake and others. 7 pm. Free. Burroughes Bldg, 639 Queen W. youthline.ca/lineart.

RedeSign 2011 (Textile Museum) Gala evening and silent auction of Louis XVI-style armchairs redesigned by local artists. 6:30 pm. $100.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-5995321 ext 2246.

JARed diAMOnd – COllApSe: hOW SOCietieS ChOOSe tO fAil OR SuCCeed The scientist lec-

MiChAel pARenti: iMpeRiAliSM tOdAy And

the 99% SOlutiOn Talk by the American Marxist scholar. 7 pm. $10. McLeod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. 416-469-2446.

Stephen leWiS And MiChelle lAndSbeRg

the Oil SAndS: eCOnOMiC SAviOuR OR enviROnMentAl diSASteR? Talk by ecology profes-

(Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) Talking about their lives, passions and the future of the country. 7 pm. $20-$40. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. 416-525-4927.

sor David Schindler. 4:30 pm. Free. University College, rm 140, 15 King’s College Circle. 416978-3160.

StORytelleRS – exhibitiOn deSign Panel with art curator David Liss, designer Jacqueline Tang and others. 6:30 pm. $10. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. Pre-register noa@dx.org.

ARt With inSight Tour of the exhibition Angela Grauerholz: The Inexhaustible Image... épuiser l’image led by curator Martha Hanna.

7 pm. Free. University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

Wednesday, November 2

eCOnOMiC And SOCiAl SeCuRity in the 21St CentuRy: hOW dOeS CAnAdA StACk up? Sci-

Benefits

WhAt’S On the tAble (Stop Community Food Centre) Foodie fundraiser with creations by chefs including Scott Vivian and Jamie Kennedy, plus auctions. 6 pm. $225. Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. wott.thestop.org.

Events

ence for Peace lecture by health policy professor Dennis Raphael. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca.

SOuth ASiAnS in the ARtS: diASpORA, AlliAnCeS And COllAbORAtiOnS ACROSS COMMunitieS Talks by artists Mesma Belsare, Syl-

Events

AdvAnCeS in the SCienCeS – life: fROntieRS in undeRStAnding hOW huMAnS tiCk Talk by scientist Linda Tu. 6:30 pm. Free. Mimico Central Library, 47 Station. 416-394-5330.

AStRObiOlOgy Crash course on life beyond planet Earth. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. indOChinA Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adven-

vat Aziz and others. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Leigha Brown Theatre, U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military. pampatterson@wiaprojects.com.

WAteR & the City: MObilizing leAdeRS The Waterlution Toronto Hub launches with a talk by water infrastructure manager Michael D’Andrea and performances. 6 pm. Free. The Richmond, 477 Richmond W. Pre-register waterlutiontorontohub.eventbrite.com. 3

WhAt hAppened tO deMOCRACy in the ndp?

Forum with Diana Andrews, Tristan Ridley and Barry Weisleder. 3 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1230, 40 St George. ndpsocialists.ca.

Sunday, October 30

Benefits

rWAlk ROll Run And fun fAll fAiR (Variety Village) Fundraising walk, run, rollerblade or wheel, a haunted house and kids’ activities. 9 am-2 pm. $40, fair only $5. Variety Village, 3701 Danforth. walkrollrun.ca.

Events

rbAtS And CRAftS: Oh My! Family fun day.

11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

CAn CheMiStRy be gReen? Science lecture. 3 pm. Free. Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College. 416-977-2983.

CASk dAyS 2011 Cask-conditioned beer festival featuring ales from more than 50 microbreweries, seminars, live music and more. Noon-5 pm and 6-11 pm. $30-$35. Hart House Quadrangle, 7 Hart House Circle. caskdays.com. dOn MillS: uppeR tOROntO Public consultation with councillor Shelley Carrol on issues of interest to ward 33 residents. 1:30 pm. Free.

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CHIZZY’S ROCK ‘N HALLOWEEN 9 pm. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina, 416-777-1777.

DEATH TO T.O. Rockers Teenanger, Leslie Spits and others perform covers of the Misfits, Ramones, Sioxsie & the Banshees and more. 9 pm. $5 w/ costume, $8 without. Silver Dollar, 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139.

THE DEVIL’S BORDELLO DJ Undercover spins.

Cheval, 606 King W. uniqlifestyle.com/ kingstreetmassacre.

DIABLO BALL DJ Couture spins top 40, house and mashups. 9 pm. Suite 106, 106 Peter. 416599-2224.

DRAG YOU TO HELL DJ Flare . Doors 10 pm, $10.

Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. 416-760-6514. rFORT YORK AFTER DARK Stories about the haunted lighthouse and the Battle of York, for ages eight and up. Today and tomorrow 7:30 pm. $12.50. Fort York, 250 Fort York. Pre-register 416-392-6907.

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Thursday, October 27 Walk a maze filled with monsters and zombies.

To Oct 30. $16, yth $12. Power House Recreation Centre, 65 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. charityhaunt.ca.

Tight Outta Sight, Levitivcus the Strongman and others. 9 pm. $20-$25. Revival, 783 College. eventbrite.com/event/2118700089. rHAUNTED HIGH PARK Hear ghostly tales and legends about the park, for ages eight and up.

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SHOW Eldritch Theatre presents Eric Woolfe’s Victorian-Gothic show about a travelling exorcist and his ghoulish puppets. Runs to Nov 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$35. Secret venue, location revealed with ticket purchase. eldritchtheatre.ca.

haunted. Today, Oct 30 and 31, 6:30 pm. $25, srs/stu $18, child $15. Red pole w/ black cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

L’ARCANTO INCANTATORE Screening of the 1996 film with an introduction by filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro. 9:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net.

MATCHBOX MACBETH Music, shadow play and

trickery are used to tell Shakespeare’s classic tale of witchcraft and murder. Runs to Oct 30, Thu-Sun 7 and 9 pm. $15. Secret Location, revealed w/ ticket purchase. litmustheatre.com. rPUMPKIN CARVING Carve pumpkins for prizes. To Oct 31, 3-6 pm. $5/pumpkin. Creatures Creating, 627 Queen W. 647-709-8337.

THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW Performance of Richard O’Brien’s classic rock musical about a couple who stumble upon a freaky castle. Runs to Oct 31, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 and 11 pm, Mon 8 pm. $28.50-$38.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

SCREEMERS Indoor scream park with haunted attractions, the Midway of Madness, a vampire lounge and more. To Oct 31. $23.50.

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TORONTO AFTER DARK FILM FESTIVAL Screening of The Woman (7 pm), and The Innkeepers (9:45 pm). $13. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. torontoafterdark.com.

Friday, October 28 NIGHTMARE ON LIBERTY STREET (Project Connect) Go door to door for food, drinks, freaky fun and a costume contest. 6 pm. $20. Liberty Village neighbourhood. facebook.com/event. php?eid=272023272817926

Events

BLACK SABBATH Screening of the Mario Bava

film. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net.

CARN EVIL Halloween party. Today and tomor-

Guided walk of lost hanging squares, jails and more with food tastings. 6:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $18, child $15. St Lawrence Market, Front and Jarvis. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

GRINDERHOUSE Screening of thrillers Straight To Hell Returns and Bong Of The Dead and a party. 6:30 pm. Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard E. 416-466-3636, projectionbooth.ca.

HALLOWEEN DEBAUCHERY Doors 10 pm. Sound Academy Solarium, 11 Polson. 416-461-3625.

HALLOWEEN HAUNT Mazes, monsters, chilling rides, live shows and more. Today, tomorrow and Oct 31, 7 pm-midnight. $30-$36. Canada’s Wonderland, 9580 Jane. 905-832-7486, haunt. canadaswonderland.com.

HAUNT OF THE CITY DJs J-Class, Kariz. Doors 10:30 pm, $10-$15. Woo’s Lounge, 10 Dundas E, 4th flr. 416- 977-9986.

HAUNTED HIGH PARK Hear ghostly tales and legends. Today and Oct 30, 8 pm; Oct 27, 7 pm. $17.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916.

LEE’S PALACE HALLOWEEN PARTY Sheezer, the Elwins, Donlands & Mortimer play. $10-$12.

529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

LIBERTY HALLOWEEN Rouge, G-13, Gabe Gallucci, Richard Silas and others spin. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia. 416-642-3789.

LOST SOULS M Kutz spins. Cobra Lounge, 510 King W. uniqlifestyle.com/kingstreetmassacre.

LUV THIS CITY HALLOWEEN EDITION Addy Vs Dekoze. Doors 10 pm. Footwork, 425 Adelaide W. Cobra Lounge, 510 King W. 416-913-3488.

A MOCKIN’ HALLOWEEN Stand-up, sketch and improv comedy. 8:30 pm. $10. Shoxs, 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight.com.

MURDER AT TWILIGHT Modern-day vampires, monsters and humans try to coexist in this murder-mystery dinner theatre show. Opens today and runs to Dec 23, Fri-Sat 6:30 pm (see website for more dates). $79-$85. Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre, 2026 Yonge. mysteriouslyyours.com.

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THE RATS IN THE WALLS Four Winds Collective presents a stage adaptation of HP Lovecraft’s story. 7 and 9 pm. $10. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Pkwy. fourwindscollective.com.

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW Simulcast screenings today (11:50 pm), tomorrow 9:30 pm and Oct 31, 7 & 9:30 pm. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina, basement. 647992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com.

ROOFTOP AFFAIR DJs Lissa Monet, What da Dilly, and James Redi. $10-$15. Palms Rooftop Patioclub, 291 Richmond W. 647-222-7178.

SCORPIO MORPHIO: HIP-HOP HALLOWEEN Diego Bros DJs. 10 pm. $5-$10. Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

SFM BASH Nitemare, F.A.F, Warlock Moonand others play thrash metal and black metal.

Doors 8:30 pm. Bar 460, 460 Spadina.

TWISTED CIRCUS Stilt walkers, a fire breather, magician, prizes, contests, samples, games and carnival foods. 8 pm. $10. Loose Moose, 146 Front W. 416-977-8840.

ZOMBIE PARTY Shindig spins Motown, Stax and soul. 10 pm. The Piston, 937 Bloor W. 416-5323989.

Saturday, October 29

Benefits

rSPOOKFEST (More than Child’s Play) Pumpkins, a costume parade, clowns, games and more. 1 pm. Free. St John’s Polish National Catholic Church, 186 Cowan. 416-516-3917. rSPOOKY OPEN HOUSE (Toronto Humane Soc) A stilt walker, live music and more. Today and tomorrow 10 am-9 pm. Free. Toronto Humane Society, 11 River. 416-392-2273.

Events

ALL HALLOWS EVE Tour the historic village and

hear its ghostly tales. 7-10:30 pm. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. Pre-register 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca.

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Bootleg Glory, Fuss, Labour Day, Jon Berrie and DJ Suspekt. Blue Moon, 725 Queen E. 416-4638868.

BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Huckleberry Funn: Spooky Improv Tales w/ Colin Sharpe, Maddox Campbell, Ban Ball and others. 8 pm.

Pwyc. 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. rBOO AT THE ZOO A pumpkin trail walk, Arctic wolves, singing, costumes and more. Today and tomorrow. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

BOO-LESQUE BALL Costume party with performances by Jackie Downard, Esther De Ville and others. 9 pm. $5-$15. Tota Lounge, 592 Queen W. 416-670-9141.

THE CENTRAL’S HALLOWEEN PARTY The Alterkakers. 9:30 pm. 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

COSTUME CONTEST Music by Matt Morgan & the Emerson Street Rhythm Band, the Dead Twenty Seven, alongside DJ Neuge. 9 pm, $15.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416- 596-1908.

DANCE OF THE DEAD Jon Rundell spins. Doors 10 pm. Footwork, 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488.

DEATH BY DISCO DJ Aadil. Cobra Lounge, 510 King W. 416-361-9004.

DEATH TO T.O. Live Coverz show w/ Little Girls, Party Wallet and others perfroming songs by the Smashing Pumpkins, Joy Division and more. 9 pm, $5 w/ costume, $8 without. Silver Dollar, 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

DIGIFEST SPOOKTACULAR Heroes Vs Villains w/ DJ Jeff Hayward. 8 pm. $20. St Lawrence Market North, 92 Front E. torontodigifest.ca.

DJ BONAFIDE Retro 80s/disco/party beats. 10

pm. De Sotos, 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109.

DRAKE HOUSE PARTY DJ Your Boy Brian. Doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

FOOTPRINTS PARTY 10 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

FREAKOUT! DJs Ed Rush & Optical, MT Eden, TC, J Rabbit, Teebee, Calyx. $35-$80. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. halloweenfreakout.com.

FREAK THE FUNK God Made Me Funky, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, DJs Farbsie Funk and ?uesquecest. 9 pm. $12-$15. El Mocambo Downstairs, 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.

FREAKY FLAVOURS: HALLOWEEN DJ THROWDOWN DJs Jenny Treehorn, the Brass Mous-

tache, DJ ARP 2600 and others. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. 416-516-2531.

FRIGHT NIGHT DJ Mike R, DJ Louie Temps, DJ Couture spin top 40, house and mashups. 9 pm. $20. LIVE Toronto, 332 Richmond W. 416599-5332.

FRIGHT NIGHT 2011 DJ Rick Toxic. 10 pm, $7-$10.

Annex Wreckroom, 794 Bathurst. 416-5360346.

GET YOUR FREAK ON DJ Ted Dancin’ plays house, hip-hop and top 40. $10-$15. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. rGHOST TOUR Tour of the historic Elgin and Winter Garden Theatre with stories about its ghosts and spirits. 1 pm. $12, stu/srs $10 (ages 7 and up). 189 Yonge. 416-314-2871.

GOIN’ STEADY MONSTER MASH 9 pm. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

HOLLAWAYNE PARTY DJs Manilla Ice & Turfmayne. 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

HALLOWEEN @ FLY DJS Shawn Riker, Sumation, Dwayne Minard and Mike Vieira. Fly, 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426.

HALLOWEEN HOWL Presentation on wolves

Doggies do Howl-O-Ween High Tea on October 30.

and how they communicate. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416392-5929. rHALLOWEEN SLEEPOVER Dr Frank & Mr Stein’s Odd-itorium Show, a putrid pumpkin science patch, chemistry cauldron and more for kids of all ages. $59. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. Pre-register 416-696-1000.

HALLOWEEN SPECTACULAR Music by The Balconies and the Birthday Boys. 9 pm. Horseshoe, 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. rHAUNTED HALLOWEEN Scary storytelling, creepy crafts, games and an outdoor escpade for kids five to 10. 6 pm. $8. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College. 416-675-5009.

HAUNTED HAREM BURLESQUE Raymi the Minx, DJ Candy-O, DJ Ian Blurton at this event. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

HALLOWEEN HAVOC Dance to top 40, hip-hop and house. Luna Lounge, 352 Melrose. 647352-5862. rHAUNTED HIGH PARK FOR FAMILIES Hear ghostly tales and legends, for kids eight and up.

6:30 & 8 pm pm. $12.50, child $7.50. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916.

HAUNTED MANSION Rob Friday, Feddy Haze, Mikky Eriksen and others. Burroughes Building, 639 Queen W. 416-203-1334.

HAUNTED MANSION Daft Punk Tribute Band w/ DJ Diggy (Down With Webster) and others. 10 pm. $30. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. hauntedmansion2011.eventbrite.com.

HAUNTED NAKED DANCE DJ Justin. Doors 8 pm. $8. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. 416-7606514.

HELL ON EARTH The Tantrums perform.

Doors 8 pm. $15-$20. Earth Bloor West, 2448 Bloor W. 416-763-2222.

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Halloween events guide Scott Waring & Mark Pesci spinning new wave and britpop.punk. 10 pm. $10. Parts & Labour, 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. rspirit walk Walk through alleys and laneways to see haunted buildings, for ages seven and up. 7 or 7:30 pm. $12.50, child $10.50.

Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. spooked! Alex Smoke, Adam Marshall, Nature of Music and others. $20-$30. Tickets at Play de Record and Shanti Baba. Polish Combatants Hall, 206 Beverley. rspooky forest walk Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $9, stu/srs $6.50, under 5 free.

Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley Dr (Woodbridge). 905-832-2289. rstar party A creepy constellations telescope tour, costume parade, demos, music and more. 7:30 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

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ting. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. garrisontoronto.com. rHowling Hootennany Haunted maze, pumpkin carving and trick or treating. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. tHe innocents Screening of the Jack Clayton film. 8 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net. love Handle Halloween edition Dance to boogie and funk. The Ossington, 61 Ossington 416-850-0161.

Mitzi’s Halloween party Mitzi’s Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. rnigHt of dread Parade and celebration to banish our darkest fears, with stilt walkers, musicians, dancers and more. 4 pm. $10 or pwyc. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org. tHe paranorMal Talk by psychic author Betsy Balega. 7 pm. Free. Alternative-Thinking Books, 758 Bathurst. 416-485-2494.

pHantoMs, players and pundits walk

Ghostly tour and tales of Financial and Entertainment district bldgs. 6:30 pm. $25, srs/stu

$18, child $15. Old City Hall (front steps), 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. pHunk’d BasH Dance to R&B, hip-hop, house and old skool. 10 pm. $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. tHe piston dance party John & Dylan spin. 10 pm. 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. reposado Halloween party Station Twang play folk and country. Reposado, 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. satan’s nigHt Dead Red Velvet, Peter Turns Pirate, and Techstasy. Doors 9 pm. $10. Devil’s Cellar, 2872 Dundas W. devilscellar.com. scary sH**t DJ Dave. Naco Gallery Cafe, 1665 Dundas W. 647-347-6499.

sHake, rattle & roll’s Halloween Hop

Dance to sixties soul and rock & roll. $5. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. sHriek a tail 60s pop, rock and soul. 11 pm. $5.

Sneaky Dee’s, 431 College. 416-603-3090.

tHe skeletons in MontgoMery’s pantry

Ghastly storytelling with Nan Brien. 7:30 pm. $20. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. Preregister 416-394-8113. slaugHter House 457 Halloween bash hosted

by Joe “the Butcher.” 10 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219. sMitHfits Halloween party DJs Scott Wade,

strange tHings done: a nigHtMare in six

acts Six short plays with themes of fear and horror run in a continuous cycle. 6-11 pm. $10.

Hub 14, 14 Markham. empty-room.com. rstreetsville spooktacular Scary tales and loot bag decorating. 10 am-1 pm. Free. Vic Johnston Community Centre, 335 Church villageofstreetsville.com. surrender to tHe passion Screening of the Malcolm Fraser documentary on electro-rock sensation Corpusse and DJ dance party. 10 pm. $15. Cinecycle, 129 Spadina. Tickets at rotate. com and soundscapesmusic.com. swaMp o ween dance party Swamperella plays scary cajun and zydeco music. 7:30 pm. $10. Silver Dollar, 486 Spadina. silverdollarroom.com. swing Ball Lesson and dance with Ragweed Swing Band. 7 pm. $15-$18. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. swingtoronto.com. tHriller Chus + Ceballos, Ferry Corsten, Simon Patterson and others plus a costume contest.

Guvernment/Kool Haus, 132 Queens Quay E. Tickets at theguvernment.com. trasH Halloween special DJ Sigourney Beaver, Joe Blow and DJ Winnie 10 pm. No cover.

Henhouse, 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. true Blüd v3: king street Massacre DJ Undercover. Maro, 135 Liberty. uniqlifestyle. com/kingstreetmassacre.

twisted circus Doors 9 pm. Phoenix Concert Theatre, 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251.

uk-underground DJ MRK, Tigerblood and

Opopo spinning indie, electro, dubstep and rock. 9 pm. $15-$20. Tickets at Clubzone.com or Soundscapes. Mod Club, 722 College. velvet Halloween party DJ Joe plays alt rock.

10 pm. $5. Velvet Underground, 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688. wavelengtH Corpusse and Invisible City Sound System play spooky disco, horror boogie and haunted house music. 10 pm. $15. Cinecycle, 129 Spadina. 416-71-4273. tHe wizard of oz Screening of the Victor Fleming film.2 pm. Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330, foxtheatre.ca. rtHe wizard of oz concert Screening of the film with live accompaniment by Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Costumes welcome. Today 8 pm, tomorrow 3 pm. $20-$105. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. 416-593-4828.

Sunday, October 30

Benefits

rdog-toBerfest (Toronto Cat Rescue) A pet

costume contest, pet fur colouring, ghoulish goodies and more. Noon-4 pm. Donation.

Cosmopawlitan Pet Boutique, 478 Queens Quay W. 416-598-4700.

Howl-o-ween HigH tea (World Soc for the Protection of Animals) Trick out your pooch for a howling good time. 2-4 pm. $10. Le Meridien King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. winterwoofstock.com.

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rBats and crafts Family fun day. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. caBaret encHante Burlesque troupe Les Coquettes presents a carnival theme with a twisted take on fairy tales. $15-$30. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com. cat and tHe canary Screening of the 1927 horror comedy w/ live piano accompaniment.

4 pm. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. 416531-9959, revuecinema.ca.

rcreate your own spooky Halloween Mystery Workshop for kids eight to 12 with

author Evan Munday. 10 am-noon. $20.

Mable’s Fables, 662 Mt Pleasant. Pre-register smallprinttoronto.org. cronos Screening of the film by Guillermo Del Toro. 7:15 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net. rday of tHe dead Aztec dance, Chicano theatre, son jarocho music, mariachis, altars and food. 2-7 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. jesusmoraart.com. day of tHe dead Music sHow Cafe Con Pan perform. 9 pm. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. tHe devil’s BackBone Screening of the Guillermo Del Toro film. 9:45 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. tiff.net. devil’s nigHt DJ 4Korners. Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488. devil’s nigHt party Redman & Madchild play.

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The Shining, with Shelley Duvall, screens October 31 at the Fox.

Spadina, basement. 647-992-4335. rhalloween at the rom Spooky arts and crafts, ghoulish activities, live bats and creepy crawlers. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park. rom.on.ca

hands together ConCert: rainbow songs benefit 12:30 pm. $25. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

rhistoriC halloween fun Spooky crafts,

reptiles, music by Jake, puppetry, costume prizes and more. Noon-4 pm. $14/family. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). museumsofmississauga.com.

Keystone’s halloween extravaganza

Doors 7 pm. $45. Rockpile, 5555 Dundas W. tickets @ticketweb.ca. evil dead 2 Sam Raimi’s 1987 film screens at 8 pm.Toronto Underground Cinema, 186

Doors 7 pm. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-5359541. masquerade danCe The York Regency dancers perform a spooky 19th-century masked ball. 2 & 3:30 pm. $20. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-394-8113. murder at twilight: Casa loma edition A self-guided tour of the castle, dinner and a play are part of an interactive murder mystery night. Oct 30 at 6 pm. $129-$149. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-489-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. rPawsway halloween Party Dress up your dog or cat and join in games for prizes. Noon-6 pm. Free. 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.

Pedestrian sunday sPooKathon Victoria Dobbs, Mark Martyre, Strange Specimens, Star-

ship Experience, Joel Dalton and the John Holmes Book Club play acoustic, rock, indie and country. 1 to 8 pm. Pwyc. Aspetta Caffe, 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. rPedestrian sundays in Kensington Celebrate Halloween on the car-free streets of the Market. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, College and Augusta. pskensington.ca. rabies Erev Challoween (night before Halloween) premiere of the film by Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales. Hebrew w/ s-t. 8 pm. $10. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 416-324-9121.

sunday aCoustiC family halloween brunCh 10 am to 2 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. 416- 531-4635. thriller worKshoP Learn Michael Jackson’s Thriller choreography with PushPULL Dance.

6:30 pm. $10. Dovercourt House, 805 Dovercourt. pushpulldance.com.

Monday, October 31

Events

alien and the shining Screening of the director’s cut of Alien (7 pm) and the screamer flick with Jack Nicholson (9:30 pm). Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. rChoColate faCtory haunted house Trickor-treat experience in a haunted house. 6 pm.

Free. Cadbury Gladstone Chocolate Factory, 277 Gladstone. 416-303-7951.

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scream. 7 & 9:30 pm. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959, revuecinema.ca. fatKid halloween darKshow Comics who used to be fat kids perform, w/ Monty Scott, Keelan Miller, Mike Rita, host Adrian Sawyer and others. 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

the ghosts of the university of toronto

Guided walking tour. 10 pm. $10. S side of Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Pk. Pre-register muddyyorktours.com.

the haunted streets of downtown toronto Guided walking tour. 7 pm. $10. S side of Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Pk. Preregister muddyyorktours.com. hell on halloween Dyneomight and Take Drugs. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. 416504-4239.

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edition Comedy by Avery Edison, Kathleen Phillips, Mark Little, John Hastings, Stephanie Tolev, host Nick Flanagan and others. 9 pm.

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New Roncie shop Scout is a textbook example of a perfectly edited boutique.

There’s no denying owner Leah Eyles’s penchant for all things Canadian-made, screen-printed or nature-inspired when you scan its shelves of cards, handbags and other giftable goodies.

A lot of the pieces are exclusive to the store, including Sugar Soul Studio hats from Halifax, The Beautiful Project hand-printed cards from Vancouver and Markhed Design sterling silver jewellery from Montreal. “I wanted the feel of my store to be warm and inviting,” she says. Charming vintage furniture makes Eyles’s shop feel like it’s been part of the neighbourhood for years.

And though Halloween is the holiday du jour, Eyles is already looking forward to December and the cache of holiday greetings ready to go up on her racks.

Scout picks: A stag cameo necklace by Spruce jewellery is made from wood recycled from old furniture, $60; crack open a cold one using FluffyCo’s wallmounted bottle opener, $36.95; bags by Cokluch range from $148 to $182.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Life is not just a

diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates,” poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice Of The Wild. “It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark.” I call this to your attention, Aries, because according to my astrological reckoning, you’d be wise to honour all the life that is cooking away in the warm dark. It’s the sun-at-midnight time of your long-term cycle; the phase when your luminescent soul throbs with more vitality than your shiny ego. Celebrate the unseen powers that sustain the world. Pay reverence to what’s underneath, elusive and uncanny. Halloween costume tips: Draw inspiration from the shadow, the dream, the moon, the depths.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Speaking on

behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I hereby give you permission to make your love bigger and braver. Raise it to the next level, Taurus! Help it find a higher expression. Wherever your love has felt pinched or claustrophobic, treat it to a liberation. If it has been hemmed in by a lack of imagination, saturate it with breezy fantasies and flamboyant dreams. Cut it free from petty emotions that have wounded it, and from sour memories that have weighed it down.

What else could you do to give love the poetic license it needs to thrive? Halloween costume suggestion: the consummate lover.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 You’ve heard the

old platitude, “If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” The owner of a pizzeria in Mildura, Australia, updated that sentiment in 2010 when the area was invaded by swarms of locusts. “They’re crunchy and tasty,” he said of the bugs, which is why he used them as a topping for his main dish. It so happens that his inventive approach would make good sense for you right now, Gemini. So if life gives you a mini-plague of locusts, make pizza garnished with the delectable creatures. Halloween costume suggestion: pizza delivery person carrying this novel delicacy.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Some doors are almost always locked. On those infrequent occasions when they are ajar, they remain so for only a brief period before being closed and bolted again. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I urge you to be alert for the rare opening of such a door. Through luck or skill or a blend of both, you may finally be able to gain entrance through – or perhaps exit from – a door or portal that has been shut tight for as long as you remember. Halloween costume suggestion: the seeker who has found the magic key.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Microbiologist Raul

Cano managed to obtain a 45-millionyear-old strain of yeast from an ancient chunk of amber. It was still alive! Collaborating with a master brewer, he used it to make a brand of beer. One critic praised Fossil Fuel pale ale for its sweetness and clove aroma, while another said it has a “complex and well-developed taste profile.” I regard their successful

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project as a good metaphor for the task you have ahead of you in the coming weeks, Leo: extracting the vital essence from an old source, and putting it to work in the creation of a valuable addition to your life. Halloween costume suggestions: a friendly ghost, a polite and helpful mummy, a cloned version of Buddha, the person you were as a child.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “When I read a

book on Einstein’s physics of which I understood nothing, it doesn’t matter,” testified Pablo Picasso, “because it will make me understand something else.”

You might want to adopt that approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Virgo. It’s almost irrelevant what subjects you study and investigate and rack your brains trying to understand; the exercise will help you stretch your ability to master ideas that have been beyond your reach – and maybe even stimulate the eruption of insights that have been sealed away in your subconscious mind.

Halloween costume suggestion: an eager student, a white-coated lab researcher, Curious George.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “Sit, walk or run, but don’t wobble,” says the Zen proverb.

Now I’m passing it on to you as advice worthy of your consideration. Maintaining clarity of purpose will be crucial in the coming weeks. Achieving crispness of delivery will be thoroughly enjoyable.

Cultivating unity among all your different inner voices will be a high art you should aspire to master. Whatever you do, Libra, do it with relaxed single-mind-

edness. Make a sign that says “No wobbling,” and tape it to your mirror. Halloween costume suggestion: Be the superhero known as No Wobbling.

that stuff; don’t waste it on trivia or on triumphs that are beneath you. Halloween costume suggestions: Einstein, Marie Curie, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Dickinson.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 You could pre-

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 You’re ready

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pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 I know a woman who claims on her Facebook page that she speaks four languages: English, Elvish, Mermish and Parseltongue. (For those of you who don’t read Tolkien or Harry Potter, Elvish is the language of the elves, Mermish of the mermaids and mermen, and Parseltongue of the serpents.) My Facebook friend probably also knows Pig Latin, baby talk and glossolalia, although she doesn’t mention them. I’d love for you to expand your mastery of foreign tongues, Pisces, even if it’s just one of the above – and the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to begin. You will have a greater capacity for learning new ways to talk than you have since childhood.

Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual bisexual ambidextrous expert in reciting tongue twisters.

side over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the levels of gratification possible could exceed your normal quota by a substantial margin.

You may want to Google the Chinese character that means “double happiness” and use it as your ruling symbol. And it might be time to explore and experiment with the concepts of “super bliss,” “sublime delight” and “brilliant ecstasy.” Halloween costume suggestions: a saintly hedonist from paradise; a superhero whose superpower is the ability to experience extreme amounts of pleasure; the luckiest person who ever lived.

hundred years, an English woman named Lena Thouless celebrated her birthday on November 23. When she was 106, her daughter found her birth certificate and realized that mom had actually been born on November 22. I’m guessing that a comparable correction is due in your own life, Sagittarius. Something you’ve believed about yourself for a long time is about to be revealed as slightly off. Halloween costume suggestion: a version of yourself from a parallel reality or another dimension.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “Everyone is a genius at least once a year,” said scientist Georg Lichtenberg. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Capricorn, the coming weeks will be your time to confirm the truth of that aphorism.

Your idiosyncratic brilliance is rising to a fever pitch, and may start spilling over into crackling virtuosity any minute now.

Be discriminating about where you use

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255 Bremner, 416- 642- 0630, leons.ca At 40,000 square feet, Leon’s downtown outlet is not a small space itself, but the lofty store does focus more attention on down-scaled buys than its suburban locations. In addition to furniture, its condofriendly options include compact appliances and wall mountable electronics. And, of course, there are those nomoney-down deals that may come in handy when you realize your small unit may not come with a small price tag.

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232 King East, 416-203- 6813, roomyinteriors.com While Roomy carries lots of furniture and accessory options for DIY designers, the furniture district boutique also offers design consultation surfaces for shoppers stumped about how a whole life is supposed to fit in such a petite pad. Check out the shop’s online portfolio to see what they can do with 500 to 1,600 square feet. If the only solution is a custom one, Roomy will also create everything from upholstered headboards to shelving units that are a guaranteed good fit.

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628 Queen West, 416-368- 6328, neatspace.ca Smart organization is the key to living comfortably in a small space, and no Toronto store stocks more stuff to keep everything in order than Neat.

From stackable shoe racks that let you build up storage for that ever-growing footwear collection to office trays and other desk accessories to keep your work area tidy, the Queen West shop has every cluttered base covered. To help overloaded kitchens, Neat also carries stemware holders, spice stands and drawer organizers.

And for square-footagestarved powder rooms, there are toothbrush holders, cotton swab canisters and divided acrylic trays for makeup and other toiletries.

MORE CONDO-FRIENDLY RETAILERS CB2 cb2.com DESIGN REPUBLIC 639 Queen West, 416-603-0007, mydesignrepublic.com DESIGN WITHIN REACH 435 King West, 416-977-4003, dwr.com

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DAVID LAURENCE

At Swish by Han, chef/owners Leemo and Leeto Han (left) change the Korean game; pork neck tacos are lavish; sous chef Shigenori Arai preps the stone bowl bi bim bap; bi bim bap awaits its next step on the stove.

High on Han’s Korean Swish by Han updates Korea’s culinary canon in beautiful ways By STEVEN DAVEY SWISH BY HAN (38 Wellington East,

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taking its name from the noise made by thinly sliced sirloin as it cooks in a bubbling hot pot of shabu-shabu, Swish by Han is having a hard time convincing Hogtown that there’s more to Seoul food than cheap bi bim bap.

“Our hardest obstacle has been convincing people to pay more than they’re used to paying at Bloor and Christie,” says Leeto Han, who owns the two-year- old Korean resto with his brother chef Leemo. “We’re on a totally different wavelength.”

Sure, they keep the lunchtime horde happy with the interactive likes of barbecued pork wrapped in lettuce leaves ($15/$18 dinner) and the requisite namesake noodle dish ($15/$25), but the romantic chandelier-lit room really comes into its own after dark.

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citrus soy sauce tossed with slivered Thai chilies alongside house-made ban chan – roasted corn with kale and almonds, sweet red slaw, fried fish cake – and three types of familyrecipe kimchee (both $5), our favourite garlicky chive buds.

Beretta Farms’ naturally raised beef shank gets braised sous vide for 48 hours, chilled, then sliced and torched to order, a mix of mesclun and seared scallion in a soy and rice wine vinaigrette completing the sizable wooden platter (Soo Yook, $12).

Side them with terrific red onion rings ($7) in perfect tempura batter with kimchee aioli dip and watch them disappear.

No Koreatown cantina is ever going to pair a sweetly pickled Asian pear with organic greens in garlicginger dressing and crumbled blue cheese ($8). Shame that. And while the carte does include bi bim bap, the upscale Swish take comes topped

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with lobster tail and a quail egg ($15).

Wash them down with tall glasses of tart yuzu soda and gingery iced tea laced with enough mint to make a mojito (both $4).

Any chef attempting to update the Korean culinary canon risks comparison with David Chang of New York City’s Momofuku. While Chang will likely be stuffing his signature slow-roasted pork belly into steamed Chinese buns at one of his two restos in the new Shangri-la Hotel here next year, the Hans layer grilled ’n’ buttered Ace Bakery onion

buns with spectacularly spicy pork neck, processed American cheese and sesame-onion relish before cutting them into four slider-sized pieces ($7).

Nor does Chang add that same super-tender neck to tacos piled with raw red cabbage and dribbled chipotle mayo, sour cream queso fresco and a last-minute squirt of lime ($10).

Who could have guessed that the next big thing has been in our own backyard all along?

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STREETSIDE SEOUL KIM’S A LA CART (707 Dundas West, at Bathurst, 647-213-2279) Complete meals for $10 per person, including, tax and tip. Average main $5. Open Monday to Saturday 11 am to 7 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, minimal outdoor seating. Rating: NNN

“That’s not Korean food,” snorts Dong Kim as she pan-fries an order of two-for-a-dollar kimchee dumplings at her curbside Scadding Court food stall. “That’s fusion!”

Kim has invoked the dreaded Fword in response to my description of the previous evening’s dinner at

Swish by Han, in particular the pickled pears in stinky Stilton cheese.

No one’s going to confuse her skewers of fatty pork belly smeared with both teriyaki and home-made gochujang pepper sauce ($2) or crisp mung bean pancakes stuffed with cabbage ($1.75) with fine dining.

Good eatin’, no prob.

Better yet, pick up a 16-ounce tub of Kim’s ready-to-cook sweet beef or spicy pork bulgogi ($5 and MSG-free to boot), another of crunchy cucumber kimchee ($4, all tax-inclusive) and a 99-cent head of broccoli in nearby Chinatown and create a DIY Korean spread for two for under 10 bucks that rivals the best of Bloor Street. SD

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936 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-531-4447, thecountygeneral.ca. Little wonder they’re already calling this spinoff from Splendido the new Hoof Café. Could be the similar all-day/late-night diner set-up, snout-totail brunchy carte and no-reservations policy. Show up early or mid-afternoon if you hope to get one of only 27 seats without the inevitable wait and kitchen delays.

Best: smoky ham and navy bean soup with coriander, scallion and croutons; sandwiches like ripe heirloom tomato with lemony avocado chutney and aged cheddar on toasted Thuet sourdough; house-smoked brisket and house-made sauerkraut with Gruyère with 1,000 Island dressing on rye à la Reuben, both sided with triple-blanched frites; at brunch, English breakfasts of two peppery eggs, boudin noir sausage, smoked peameal, sautéed ‘shrooms and baked beans ‘n’ pork parts. Complete meals for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a pint. Average main $14. Open Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to midnight, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 3 am.

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1690 Queen W, at Roncesvalles, 416533-2552, keriwacafe.ca. It might not be the flashiest room on the strip, but owner/ chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe’s 44-seat Parkdale bistro sends out some of the most dazzling plates in town. Too bad about the acoustics, the dim lighting and the smoke from the wood-burning grill in the openkitchen. Fabulous spot otherwise. Best: house-baked Red Fife bread spread with unsalted butter, whipped pork fat and smoked Gray sea salt; lean confit of pork belly with apple butter and sautéed savoy cabbage; jerky-like bison pemmican with fry bread and pickled veggie salad; grassfed braised bison short ribs with celeriac salsa and pickled peaches over pommes purée laced with Thunder Oak gouda; pumpkin pie dolloped with whipped cream and crumbled brittle. Complete meals for $65 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $25. Open Tuesday to Thursday 5:30 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free,

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834 Bloor W, at Shaw, 416-901-9779. An offshoot of Kensington’s Hot Beans café, this dairy-free diner sticks to comfort food classics with a meatless twist. Best: to start, battered ‘n’ deep-fried tofu wedges disguised as Buffalo “chicken” wings dunked into faux blue cheese dressing; hefty Reuben sandwiches on toasted pumpernickel piled with shaved seitan “pastrami,” sauerkraut and vegan “cheese;” Big Mac-style soy burgers dressed with more fake cheese, tomato relish and chopped lettuce on the proverbial sesame seed bun; fairly convincing macaroni “gratin” topped with herbed breadcrumbs; to finish, extraordinarily rich flourless – and gluten-free like much of the card – chocolate torte.

Complete dinners for $25 per person (lunches/brunches $18), including tax, tip and an iced tea. Average main $12/$10. Open Monday to Thursday noon to 9 pm, Friday noon to 10 pm, Saturday 11:30 am to 1 pm, Sunday 11:30 am to 9 pm. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week TITUS ANDRONICUS at Halifax’s

Tribeca as part of the Halifax Pop ñ Explosion, Friday, October 21.

Rating: NNNN Now in its 19th year, the Halifax Pop Explosion has built up a reputation that rivals similar Canadian street-level venue-hopping music festivals like NXNE and Pop Montreal. That’s largely due to its adept mix of high-profile touring acts and quality East Coast acts, often sharing the same stage.

In the narrow cave-like Tribeca, New Jersey’s Titus Andronicus played an intimate “secret” set. Like many of their Jersey peers, they aim for fist-pumping chant-along choruses and aren’t afraid to ham it up Springsteen-style. Patrick Stickles was quickly drenched in sweat,

while guitarist Amy Klein, in what turned out to be her last Titus show, spent the set smiling and bouncing.

The band expended a lot more energy than the fans, though at least one tried to get something started in the front row, a move Stickles categorized as “the most one-sided mosh pit ever.”

Still, there was a smattering of boos when the set was cut short for “a DJ night or whatever,” a common festival impediment in a bar trying to make a buck. Go to nowtoronto.com for more RICHARD TRAPUNSKI festival coverage.

HERBIE HANCOCK AND THE MAS-

SEY HALL ORCHESTRA at Massey ñ Hall, Saturday, October 22.

Rating: NNNN Herbie Hancock has long been known as one of the most futuristic players in

jazz. His current solo tour sees him moving between acoustic piano and laptop-assisted synthesis in a format pianists decades younger would be afraid to try. For the Toronto stop of the tour, he threw another curveball: a one-off collaboration with the Massey Hall Orchestra, featuring no electronics at all (including no microphones on any of the instruments).

Going completely acoustic in a venue that size is a ballsy move, but the show was an unqualified success.

Likewise, combining jazz improvisation with a stage full of classically trained musicians could fall flat, but the playful 71-year-old made the most of the unique opportunity, balancing the complex structures of Gershwin clas-

sics with a light, mischievous touch.

His ability to reinvent well-worn standards in such a setting reaffirms why he’ll always be known as a true innovator, even when he leaves the synths at BENJAMIN BOLES home.

DAM-FUNK + MASTER BLAZTER at Wrongbar, Wednesday, October 19.

Rating: NNN West Coast weirdo Dam-Funk, an expert at deconstructing funk into bizarre shapes and moods, makes some of the most intriguingly off-kilter bassheavy music coming from that side of the continent. But his current live tour as the Master Blazter trio is confounding in the opposite way; the synth-and-drums trio sounds more like classic Parliament-Funkadelic jams

than anything he’s done on his own.

Dam-Funk’s recorded work is already distant from the chainsaw-bassline dubstep the Wednesday night Bassmentality crowd at Wrongbar come out for each week, and this new incarnation is even more so. Understandably, the club was only half full, but those who made it out crowded tightly around the stage watching intently.

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Peter & Paul (of Peter, Paul & Mary) Sat., Nov. 5, 2011 8pm Koerner Hall Hear Peter & Paul perform songs like Where Have All the Flowers Gone, Puff the Magic Dragon, Blowin’ in the Wind, If I Had a Hammer, Leaving on a Jet Plane, and other favourites.

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Will the real Josh Reichmann please stand up?

Originally known for his work with Toronto post-punks Tangiers, he’s since performed as Jewish Legend, the Josh Reichmann Oracle Band, as part of electronic duo Bad Tits with DFA1979’s Sebastien Grainger (who may or may not have been renamed Hot Yogurt) and most recently under his own name on his excellent new album After Live (Hand Drawn Dracula). Already tired of that moniker, he’s now using Dopes.

It’s tempting to see his musical shifts as a symptom of indecision, but

he’s actually pretty consistent. Though Tangiers’ hyperactive guitar pop seems miles away from the psychedelic electronic glam-pop of After Live, if you were lucky enough to hear that band’s original raw CD-R demos you know that much of their early material was just as tripped-out and experimental.

“I read an interview recently from 2003 where we were talking about how we don’t do that ‘outsider underground shit,’” Reichmann says, chuckling at his younger self’s proclamations. “I think we’d just seen A Hard Day’s Night and wanted to be a pop band and not indulge. But it starts to feel just as contrived writing ‘song’ songs once the romance dies.”

What makes After Live work so well is that Reichmann’s no longer trying to hide the aspects of his identity that don’t fit smoothly into a narrative. As

much as the music sounds heavily indebted to Eno-era Bowie, elements of 90s hip-hop and dance music are just as much a part of the mix.

“I call it ‘nostep.’ I’m dubbing it that today and predicting that we’ll be the first of at least four other bands from Toronto that will be known as this.”

He’s not being serious, of course, but his contradictory blend of selfdeprecating humour and over-the-top bravado doesn’t always translate in interviews. After all, he’s only half-joking when he says he thinks he would be famous if he were a better singer and had a girl in his band.

“I want to be the guy who comes across in print as humble and spiritual, but when you’re putting yourself out there on the line, music is like boxing, and you need to believe you’re among the best.”

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BLITZEN TRAPPER Is it strange to be nostalgic about your homeless days?

By jason keller BLITZEN TRAPPER with DAWES and BELLE BRIGADE at the Opera House (735 Queen East), Sunday (October 30), 7 pm. $18.50.

HS, RT, SS, TM. BLITZEN TRAPPER also play an in-store earlier at Sonic Boom (782 Bathurst), 2:30 pm. Free.

When he’s not racking up kilometres on the road playing Blitzen Trapper’s winning hybrid of classic rock, folk and alt-country, frontman Eric Earley is home in Portland living a relatively normal existence with all the amenities of regular life.

But it wasn’t always this way. Prior to BT’s breakthrough Wild Mountain Nation in 2007, Earley was literally living on the streets. He carried a weapon for protection and occasionally slept by a river. And he recalls this era not with a shudder but with a hint of fondness.

“There’s a certain freedom in getting rid of everything and living on your wits,” he says from Kentucky, two weeks into a seven-week tour. “There’s a certain energy to that lifestyle.

“I have an apartment now and a motorcycle and car. I have sort of a regular life. It’s good. It’s different. I’m a different person now, maybe, but I can still be nostalgic about the different lives I’ve led.”

The theme of living nomadically creeps up repeatedly during Blitzen’s switched-on new album, American Goldwing (Sub Pop), whose title refers to a Honda cruising motorcycle.

Earley writes lyrics about wandering characters constantly on the move, as in the Stonesy title track or Stranger In A Strange Land, with its early Dylan leanings. He also explores the pain of a string of losing relationships and the death of someone near to him, which he declines to discuss. The album is so personal, in fact, that he initially considered it a solo outing before bringing in the band.

It also buzzes with screeching guitar riffs and the occasional falsetto rock vocal that would make Tom Scholz proud. For this, Earley’s often been called “70s-rock-obsessed.”

“I like classic rock because it has a certain masculinity and blue-collar authenticity. Those bands don’t care about shit. They just like to play and shred.” 3

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Russian ciRcles, Deafhaven Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 12.

The DaRcys Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $8.

RT, SS. November 18.

aRT of Time ensemble, sTeven Page The Songbook 6 Enwave

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The WaileRs Sound Academy doors 8 pm, all ages, $29.50. RT, SS, TW. November 19. ganglians, fRienDs Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $13.50. RT, SS. November 25. kaThRyn calDeR Horseshoe. November 29.

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CB – CirCuS BookS And MuSiC 866 danforth. 416-925-6116, circusbooksandmusic.com. ef – eArth & fire 489 Queen W. 416-203-4138. hS – horSeShoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com. ln – live nAtion livenation.com.

Pdr – PlAy de reCord 357 yonge. 416-586-0380, playderecord.com. rCM – royAl ConServAtory of MuSiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208,

Edge 102.1 Jingle Bell Rock Daily Bread Food Bank benefit Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15. RT, SS, TM. December 10.

anDy kim Andy Kim Christmas Show Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TW. December 14. the skyDiggeRs Holiday Show Horseshoe doors 11:30 pm, $22.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 16 and 17.

The elecTRic six Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. December 30.

TheoRy of a DeaDman

Sound Academy 8 pm, all ages, $29.50. RT, SS, TM. February 4.

The Jim cuDDy banD, Doug Paisley Massey Hall 8 pm, $32.50-$59.50.

RTH, TM. February 14.

TheoPhilus lonDon Wrongbar 10 pm, $17. TW. February 17.

TeiTuR The Great Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $15. RT, SS, TW. March 6.

The saW DocToRs Canadian Music Fest Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TM. canadianmusicfest.com. March 20. rcmusic.ca. rt – rotAte thiS 801 Queen W. 416-504-8447, rotate.com. rth – roy thoMSon hAll/glenn gould/MASSey hAll 60 Simcoe/250 Front W. 416-872-4255, roythomson.com.

SBA – ShAnti BABA 546 Queen W. 416-504-5034.

SS – SoundSCAPeS 572 college. 416-537-1620, soundscapesmusic.com. tM – tiCketMASter 416-870-8000, ticketmaster.ca. tW – tiCketWeB ticketweb.ca. ue – union eventS unionevents.com.

Jesse James Laderoute, DJ Aubrey Beardsley 9 pm. drAke hotel underground Kevin Divine doors 8 pm. drAke hotel lounge Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) 11 pm. el MoCAMBo Stormalongs, Paint, Lazybones 9 pm. grAffiti’S Peter Eastmure 5 to 7 pm. the greAt hAll Shout Out Out Out Out, Freedom or Death, Shvrs doors 7 pm. holy oAk CAfe GlumGlum Ryan Driver, Thom Gill & Bram Gielen (pop) 10 pm. horSeShoe The Rising Tide, Stone Sparrows, Stone River, the Matthews Brothers 9 pm. kool hAuS Never Shout Never, the Plain White T’s, a Rocket to the Moon, Fake Problems, Carter Hulsey doors 5:30 pm, all ages. lee’S PAlACe Bruce Peninsula, Bahamas, Fred Squire doors 8:30 pm.

Mitzi’S SiSter Ethel & the Mermen, Tres Bien Ensemble.

Mod CluB Ko & Redlight King doors 8 pm, all ages.

PArtS & lABour Troubadour, the Get Nuns, the Strangers, Mother Theresa & the Miracles (rock & roll) 10 pm.

Phoenix ConCert theAtre Yellowcard, Every Avenue, Go Radio doors 7 pm, all ages. the PiSton Idioteque (Radiohead tribute) 9 pm. the Poor Alex Trapped Under Ice, Hundredth, Backtrack, Betrayal, Take Offense, Rage Brigade doors 7 pm, all ages.

Queen elizABeth theAtre Amos Lee, Pieta Brown doors 7 pm, all ages. rivoli Hearts & Mines, Silvergun & Speen, Down in Ashes 9 pm.

Silver dollAr Hot Young Writers, Nature Move Faster, Shbti, Native Smokes doors 8:45 pm.

SneAky dee’S Chixdiggit!, Kepi Electric doors 10 pm.

Sound ACAdeMy Death from Above 1979, Bishop Morocco, Dopes (Josh Reichmann) doors 8 pm, all ages. See Dopes preview, page 50. velvet underground Arson, the Lost Babies 9 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

ASPettA CAffe Open Mic Nite El Faron 7 pm.

CAMeron houSe Jason Bajada 6 pm.

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 Trio Del Plata w/ Gabriel Palatchi 9:30 pm.

glAdStone hotel Melody BAr The Distillery (blues) 9 pm.

grAffiti’S Fraser Melvin Blues Band 8 pm. hABitS gAStroPuB Jazz Duos 7 to 10 pm. hugh’S rooM Plan Canada Fundraiser Fog doors and silent auction 6 pm.

the loCAl Jake Chisholm (blues).

MArkhAM theAtre for the PerforMing ArtS Ashley MacIsaac (Celtic pop) 8 pm. trAnzAC Southern CroSS The Kitgut String-

band 10 pm, Houndstooth Bluegrass Band 7:30 pm, Songs By Bert 6 pm.

White SWAn Jam Section 8 7 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

the CentrAl Adrian Glynn 7 pm.

Cherry Street reStAurAnt Thursday Night Jazz Tara Davidson Quartet 7:30 pm.

de SotoS Open Mic/Jazz Jam Double A Jazz 8 pm. glenn gould Studio Canadian Voices Tyler

Duncan, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (baritone) 8 pm.

MélAnge Norman Marshall Villeneuve Jazz Message Trio 8 to 11 pm.

MetroPolitAn united ChurCh Noon At Met Richard Hansen (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. old Mill inn hoMe SMith BAr John Sherwood (solo piano). rePoSAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). reServoir lounge Alex Pangman and the Alleycats (jazz) 7 pm. rex Gelcer/Hoffert Trio 6:30 pm, Ari Hoenig Quartet 9:30 pm.

SMASh furniture Super Villains Concert Ambur Braid, Gene Wu, Stephen Hegedus, Vilma Vitols 8 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

AliCe fAzooli’S SQuAre one DJ Other Brother Darryl (rocksteady/rock & roll/hip-hop/funk) 7 pm.

BlondieS No Rule!! (underground rock & roll

past and present) 10 pm.

CAMP 4 Switched On DJs Jaime Sin and Pammm (indie rock) 10 pm.

CoBrA lounge Emergency Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Manzone & Strong, Jed Harper. goodhAndy’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 grotto lounge Bar Fly DJ Spence Diamonds, DJ Corey Dawkins 8 pm. lee’S PAlACe dAnCe CAve Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance).

MArgret Rag: Once A Month (grrl rock). noW lounge Shake Yer Tail Thursdays DJ Geoff Manchester (house/top 40/electro/retro). the oSSington E-Z Now DJ Lite Favourites At Work (super hits/smooth easy).

ShAlloW groove New Country Thursdays DJ Jonathan Demers 8 pm. velvet underground DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:15 pm.

WrongBAr Jane Coles doors 10 pm. ñMaya

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PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleyCAtz Graffitti Park. hBAr 460 SFM Halloween Bash Nitemare,

F.A.F, Warlock Moon, Fuck the Government, Korrupt (thrash metal/black metal) doors 8 pm.

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

Bovine Sex CluB Big John Bates, Saigon Hookers, the Organ Thieves, DJ Vania. hdevil’S CellAr The Silver Screems, the Calrizians, Swords of Texas, Dowdy Days doors 9 pm, all ages. dorA keogh Lucas Stagg Band (roots). drAke hotel underground Little Red, Dreamers of the Ghetto doors 8:30 pm. hel MoCAMBo Chizzy’s Rock’n Halloween 9 pm. grAffiti’S Rocking For Sick Kids Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. grAffiti’S The Cornered Horses 7 pm. hArleM Reece (R&B) 7 pm. highWAy 61 Southern BArBeQue Jack & the Little Naturals 8 pm.

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same thing twice, and trust your audience.

“I don’t think of the business as brutal, actually,” she says over the phone from her home in New York City, sounding so excited she can barely catch her breath. “I always think, ‘Oh, that might be interesting.

Ooh, no I’ve already done that – let’s do it another way.’”

That’s the approach she takes to Confessions (Universal), her disc of standards, the kind of project that’s not so easy to pull off. It works because Minnelli’s voice is unique, riveting and smoky, still with that signature quaver but absolutely pitch perfect.

She makes each tune her own, she says, by rethinking the lyrics. A song like At Last, which Beyoncé seized on for her performance at President Obama’s inaugural ball, is completely transformed in Minnelli’s hands.

“Sometimes that song is sung in desperation,” she says. “At last,” she sings to me with an edge. “But I’ve never heard it sung, like, ‘Whew, this is great.’ She lets out a big sigh. “At last – with a calmness and a coolness and relief.”

The show she brings to Toronto Friday, which she says changes every time (she’s already made it to over 30

cities) will be an intimate one.

“When I put a show together, I’m looking at every single person in that audience,” she says, her tone eager and urgent. “There are wonderful stories for each song. Sometimes I tell them, sometimes I don’t. You can tell what an audience wants to hear.

But you have to listen – you have to pay attention. It’s like a tennis game – back and forth.”

Minnelli’s always been acutely aware of how she’s perceived. She joined the cast of Arrested Development in 2004 as a woman struggling with balance, a self-parody, perhaps, since she’s always been seen as psychically frail. She says it was just plain funny.

“I knew it the minute I met the man who invented it (Mitchell Hurwitz) and we got along so well. The idea of her having such awful things happen to her, getting so dizzy and falling off camera. We came up with the idea together.”

Then there was her appearance in Sex And The City 2, in which she sings at Carrie and Big’s wedding, a hilarious punchline to a guest’s question, “Can it get any gayer than this?”

Minnelli appreciates her queer audience but claims she doesn’t understand the term “gay icon.”

“I don’t get it, honestly. I guess it’s that they understand anyone who’s struggled in any kind of way. They’ve kind of gone through the same thing I have – trying to be heard on our own.”

She starred in the original version of the film Arthur with Dudley Moore, and didn’t bother seeing this year’s remake.

“People don’t seem to like the new version, so what’s the point of putting myself through that? I dismissed it because of my love for Dudley. I think it’s a mistake to try to recreate anything he’s done.”

And, no, she wasn’t too impressed with Rufus Wainwright’s idea of recreating her mother, Judy Garland’s, famous concert at Carnegie Hall.

“Why is a guy getting up there to recreate something that was so wonderful, so perfect? Is that really a tribute? I just thought, ‘That’s weird.’”

She’s always embraced her extraordinary pedigree, which also includes her dad, film director Vincente Minnelli (Gigi). Her voice, now that she’s in her 60s, sounds more like Garland’s than ever. And, like a filmmaker, she supervises everything about her show: the set, the costumes, the lights.

“I got my drive from my mom and my dreams from my dad.”

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DAN MANGAN POP/ROCK

Oh Fortune isn’t the dark album it appears to be By JASON KELLER

DAN MANGAN with the CRACKLING and DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre (190 Princes’ Boulevard), Friday (October 28), 7:15 pm. $27.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.

Dan Mangan has a message for all those people referring to his new album, Oh Fortune (Arts & Crafts), as “dark”: you need to listen harder.

Although it features songs with names like Regarding Death And

Dying, If I Am Dead and Post-War Blues, and despite the fact that Mangan’s vocal timbre leans heavily toward poignancy, he insists the celebratory elation he felt while making Oh Fortune is indeed pervasive.

“When I hear the record, it sounds full of movement, and I hope people hear the joy in it, too,” he says. “If people aren’t hearing the playfulness underneath it all and if they’re not aware of the intent of joy in there, then

they haven’t heard it enough times – because it is there.”

Perhaps Mangan’s past is working against him. His last record, 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice, which propelled him from Vancouver’s singer/songwriter folk fringes to Canadian mainstream success, did not have an ironic album title. It featured a breakthrough song about the emotional complication of robots.

On Oh Fortune, the 28-year-old is shedding skins in more ways than one.

While his previous albums neatly placed him into the aforementioned singer/ songwriter category, Mangan’s now writing expansive, orchestral rock songs.

“I never want to feel too comfortable,” he explains. “The singer/songwriter genre has the potential to suck you into a box you can get stuck in. I really wanted to express that I have more in me than just folk. This record is an initial example of that.”

It’s hard to disagree, especially considering the band he assembled for recording and touring. You’d expect a crack combo of folk, country and rock players, but instead Mangan’s crew hail from Vancouver’s noise, experimental and free jazz scenes.

Guitarist Gord Grdina, drummer Kenton Loewen and bassist John Walsh have pushed the sound to a bigger, more textured place.

“I’ve written the melodies and lyrics, but the arrangements have come from a very bandy place. The members are very good about it and so far are excited to be involved.”

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fri october 28 @ queen elizabeth theatre 27.50 advance • ALL-AGES • 7:15pm Doors • foLk rock brItISh coLumbIA / ArtS & crAftS / PoLArIS PrIzE nomInEE $

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the slackers $ 22.50 advance • 8:30pm Doors • ALL-AGES

20th anniversary ska celebration

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tues november 1 @ the phoenix

frIDAy november 4 @ thE PhoEnIx $ 20.50

ADVAncE • 8:30pm DoorS • SouLfuL InDIE rock

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hey ocean moD cLub • $ 15.00 advance

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wednesday november 23 @ sound academy

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thurs nov 24 @ opera house $ 18.50

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crooked fingers

Wed november 16 $ 16.50

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The Rising Tide sTone spaRRows stone river the mattheWs Brothers Sat october 29

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thurS november 17 horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

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advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

legendary ’77 crash & burn punk

she Wants revenge tandoori knights

thurS november 24

Wed november 30

thurS december 1

monday november 28 @ lee’S palace / $12.00 advance bloodshot bill & king khan are: fri nov 25 & Sat nov 26 horSeShoe • $14.00 advance

horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

zeus bruce Sheezer lee’S palace • $15.00 advance

tHurS october 27 • $ 10.00

horSeShoe • $13.50 advance

cRysTal peninSula white duke cuff The cd releaSe Weekend

RabbiTs sTilTs

friday december 16 + Sat december 17 horSeShoe tavern • $ 22.50 advance • 8:30pm

with The elwins + donlands & moRTimeR

Sat october 29 • $ 10.00

tueS november 1 • $ 10.00

goin’ street sTeady dogs monster mash december 8

SKydiggerS

off with their heads

tHurS

lee’S palace • $ 15.00 advance

anna calvi danny

a night of weezer locals

bahamas + fRed squiRe

december 6 tHurS december 8 @ HorSeSHoe • $ 13.50 adv tueSday horSeShoe • $13.50 advance

woods

Fri october 28 • $ 10.00

ska & reggae

40 oz To

fReedom Sublime tribute

Sunday october 30 • $ 16.00 advance • 7pm doors

stephen kellog & the sixers Jon mclaughlin Wed november 2 • $ 10.00 tHurS november 3 • $ 15 adv

sign me to

rockStar Supernova Winner

lukas white cowbell oklahoma michel hotel royale rossi • annual holiday shows! •

Saturday december 17 @ lee’S palace • $15.50 advance

friday

december 30

friday december 16 lee’S palace • $18.00 adv

The elecTRic six

roadrunner

Fri november 4 • $ 7.00

elos arma hello kelly counselors

Piggott brothers die by remote

Sat november 5 • $16.50 adv

the sea Trampled by TurTleS kevin little dub TRio & cake blind devine the horSeShoe

thurSday november 10 • $15.00 advance

$ 18.50

advance

thurSday october 27 drake underground • $13.50 advance

Minneapolis Bluegrass Folk!

WitH

Friday october 28

Fri november 4 @ garriSon • $10.50 adv

drake underground • $10.50 advance

portland indie folk rock

Jonny corndawg

friday november 11 • $18.50 advance

fu manchu With honky + the shrine

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

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

tHurSday november 10

red loney dear SainThood repS maria taylor youth lagoon The Schomberg Fair high places devon williamS Sat november 5 @ drake • $13.50 adv

with

kat Burns

Wed november 9 @ garriSon • $10.50 adv

sun novembeR 13 @ drake • $13.50 adv

sat novembeR 19 @ garrison • $10.50 adv

MeMBers oF Brand new

tHurSday november 10 @ Sneaky dee’S

• cd release •

$10.00 @ door

mon novembeR 14 @ garrison • $11.50 adv

wed novembeR 30 @ garrison • $10.50 adv

W/

brokeback

Pilot scratch acid

Fri november 11 • $ 25 adv

$ 15.50

advance

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

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt

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HorsesHoe Library Voices, Graham Wright & the Good Times Band doors 9 pm. ñ Kool Haus The Dirty Heads, Gym Class

Heroes, Outasight doors 7 pm, all ages.

Hlee’s Palace Halloween Party Sheezer, the Elwins, Donlands & Mortimer.

Mitzi’s sister The Cynics, Pow Wows, Dany Laj & the Look.

Mod club Chad VanGaalen, Jennifer Castle 7 pm. oPera House 20th Anniversary Ska Celebration The Slackers, Deal’s Gone Bad, Prince Perry doors 8:30 pm, all ages.

PHoenix concert tHeatre Frank Turner & the Sleeping Souls, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Into It/Over It doors 8 pm, all ages.

Hrivoli Halloween Costume Contest Matt Morgan & the Emerson Street Rhythm Band, the Dead Twenty Seven, DJ Neuge 9 pm. royal canadian legion 1/42 Rock & Roll Dance Playback 8 pm. rozz entertainMent coMPlex Come Mek We Party Chan Dizzy, Teflon, Russian, Firekid Steenie, Journey, Nitro and others.

Hsilver dollar Halloween Death To T.O. Live Coverz Show Teenanger, Ell V Gore, Mausoleum, Leslie Spits, the Soupcans, Children in Heat, DJ Mark Pesci (glam covers of the Misfits, Ramones, the Cramps, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Black Flag) doors 9 pm. sound acadeMy Death From Above 1979, Trust, Nightbox doors 8 pm. See Nightbox preview, nowtoronto.com.

Hsound acadeMy solariuM Halloween Debauchery doors 10 pm. velvet underground The Crypt Club, Cadillacs & Cadavers, Patron Saints of Plague, the Blind Cats 7:30 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush Patricia O’Callaghan, John Millard, Alejandra Ribera, Retrocity 7 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Carole King’s Tapestry Gregory Oh, Jackie Richardson, Don Francks, Alejandra Ribera 8:30 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: Paul Simon’s Graceland Waleed Abdulhamid, Miranda Mulholland, Denzal Sinclaire, Retrocity, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 10:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

asPetta caffe Ami Marie Massarella, Victoria Dobbs, Michelle Bellerose (acoustic) 7 pm. cadillac lounge Cheryl Thibideau (country). tHe central Mike Butler 7 pm. tHe central Tyler Johnson 9:30 pm.

tHe flying beaver Pubaret Robin Banks (blues/R&B) 8 pm. free tiMes cafe Stephanie Martin Quintet Band 8:30 pm. gladstone Hotel Melody bar Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm.

HugH’s rooM Mike Ford & the Cocksure Lads 8:30 pm. living arts centre The Good Lovelies 8 pm. lula lounge DJ Gio, DJ Travo (salsa) 9 pm.

Queen elizabetH tHeatre Dan Mangan, Daredevil Christopher Wright, Crackling (folk rock) doors 7:15 pm, all ages. See preview, page 57. tranzac soutHern cross Pure Joy and the Folk 10 pm, the Phonograde 7:30 pm. trinity st. Paul’s cHurcH Open To The World: A Musical Journey Concert & Silent Auction Fundraiser for Turtle House Aleed & Sharbat, Ruth Mathiang, Luanda Jones, Amai Kuda, Ali Mazandaranian 6:30 pm. village vaPor lounge Kim Jarrett 9 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: K dub Khartoum John Millard, Waleed Abdulhamid 8:30 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

dave’s... on st clair Happy Hour Jazz Chicken Scratch 5 8 pm.

fuzion Fridays At Fuzion Melissa Lauren & Ken Lindsay 6 to 9 pm.

gallery 345 The Art Of The Piano Vlada Mars 8 pm.

glenn gould studio Jesse Peters Trio 8 pm.

Hart House arbor rooM Jazz At Oscar’s Lara Solnicki, Rob Piltch, George Koller 9 pm.

HMetroPolitan united cHurcH Phantoms Of The Organ! 10 pm.

old Mill inn HoMe sMitH bar Fridays To Sing

About June Garber Trio 7:30 pm.

Quotes Fridays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet, John MacLeod (trumpet) 5 to 8 pm. rePosado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm, Artie Roth Trio 6:30 pm, Tim Ries, Olah Kalman 9:45 pm. roy tHoMson Hall Liza Minnelli 8 pm.

See preview, page 56.

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Hall Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Johan-

nes Debus 8 pm.

trane studio Duonita plus Drums (Berlin

jazz duo) 8 pm.

tranzac soutHern cross The Foolish Things

(jazz) 5 pm.

Waterfalls Jim Heineman Trio 6:30 pm. young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: The National Theatre Of The World’s Carnegie Hall Show Naomi Snieckus, Matt Baram, Ron Pederson, Chris Gibbs, Scott Christian, Waylen Miki 10:15 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: (re)Birth – E.E. Cummings In Song Ins Choi, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Tatjana Cornij, Mike Ross, Abena Malika, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Jason Patrick Rothery, Brendan Wall 10 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival Heather Bambrick 10:15 pm. Molly Johnson 8:45 pm. Judith Lander 6:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

Hannex WrecKrooM 90s Halloween Friday

DJ Johnny Batts (90s R&B/house/rock/pop/ reggae/hip-hop) 10 pm.

Hbrant House Carn-Evil. castro’s lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

HcHeval The Devil’s Bordello V2 DJ Undercover. clinton’s Music For Winners Dance Armstrong.

Hcobra lounge Lost Souls V2 MKutz. draKe Hotel underground Itzsoweezee DJs Tom Wreck, Demiggs doors 11 pm. draKe Hotel lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. eMMet ray bar DJ Funky Flavours (funk/soul) 10 pm.

Hfly Halloween Of Horrors DJ Mark Falco, DJ Rolls Royce.5 HfootWorK Luv This City Halloween Addy vs Dekoze doors 10 pm. fuzion Head: Sex Music With Soul DJ Denise Benson (house/tech/future grooves) 10 pm.

HgoodHandy’s Drag You To Hell DJ Flare doors 10 pm.5 Hot box cafe Big Spliff Joda C, Mike S (roots/ reggae/rocksteady/dub/early dancehall) 7 pm. insoMnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Ghaleon, James St Bass (house/breaks). lee’s Palace dance cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop).

Hliberty grand Halloween Rouge, Mkutz, PG-13, Gabe Gallucci, Richard Silas, Bobby K, Geoff Brown.

Mod club Arcade LA Riots doors 10 pm. ñ Moroco cHocolat Coco Beats DJ Kenneth Porter (deep soulful house) 8 pm.

noW lounge B-Sides/Obscure Retro Night DJ

HtHe Piston Halloween Zombie Party Shindig (Motown/Stax/soul) 10 pm. rasPutin vodKa bar La Belle Epoque: 19thCentury Parisian Party DJ Ms Melony J 8 pm. tHe savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. screen lounge Soul In The City DJ Michael Williams (Motown classics/smooth jazz/ northern soul/Canrock) 10 pm. sHalloW groove House & Old School.

Hsuite 106 Diablo Halloween Ball DJ Couture (top 40/house/mashups) 9 pm. suPerMarKet Course Of Time Mr Charlton, DJ Cal, Kyle Marshall 10 pm. velvet underground DJ Bingo Bob (new rock/alternative/retro/electro) 11:15 pm.

HWoo’s lounge Haunt Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz doors 10:30 pm.

Saturday, October 29

Hel MocaMbo doWnstairs Halloween

Party: Freak The Funk God Made Me Funky, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, DJs Farbsie Funk & ?uesquecest 9 pm. graffiti’s Dodge Fiasco (rock) 4 to 7 pm, Russell Leon’s SSW Night eve.

HigHWay 61 soutHern barbeQue Chris Antonik 8 pm.

HHorsesHoe Halloween Spectacular The Balconies, Birthday Boys 9 pm.

Hot box cafe Saturday Slam: Pot Smokers Dub Science Open Mic Red Gorilla Sound Brigade (reggae/jungle/dubstep/dnb/electro) 7 pm. tHe Hoxton Madeon doors 10 pm.

HMitzi’s sister Halloween Party.

HMod club Halloween UK-Underground DJ MRK, Tigerblood, Opopo (indie/electro/dubstep/rock) 9 pm.

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rancHo relaxo Honheehonhee. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. silver dollar New World Distortion, Drop Dead Pin Ups Los Boneros 10:30 pm.

HsneaKy dee’s Shriek A Tail Halloween Bash (60s pop/rock/soul) 11 pm. sPortster’s Nicola Vaughan 10 pm. tranzac Chris Bartos (indie) 8 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Prince’s Purple Rain Jackie Richardson, Denzal Sinclaire, Waleed Abdulhamid, Andrea Nann, Retrocity 9:30 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival Alana Bridgewater 10 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: Carole King’s Tapestry Gregory Oh, Jackie Richardson, Don Francks, Alejandra Ribera 6:30 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: The Beatles’ Abbey Road Aline Morales, Miranda Mulholland, Patricia O’Callaghan, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 8:15 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: Patricia O’Callaghan Sings Leonard Cohen Patricia O’Callaghan, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 10 pm.

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: Neil Young’s After The Gold Rush Patricia O’Callaghan, John Millard, Alejandra Ribera, Retrocity 3:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

caMeron House front rooM Sue & Dwight (folk) 3:30 pm.

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

tHe central Enlightened Interdependence 6 to 9 pm.

Hannex WrecKrooM Fright Night! Rick

HtHe central Halloween Bash Alter-

Toxic (party tunes) 10 pm.

Hblue Moon Angry Scottish Van’s Halloween Slosh Bootleg Glory, Fuss, Labour Day, Jon Berrie, DJ Suspekt.

Hcinecycle Wavelength Corpusse, Invisible City Sound System (spooky disco/horror boogie/haunted house) 10 pm.

HcoMfort zone Halloween Death To T.O.: Live Coverz Show Little Girls, Young Mother, Party Wallet, Makeout Videotape, Grasshopper, DJ John M (covers of Joy Division, Smashing Pumpkins, Guided by Voices, Jonathan Richman) 9 pm.

Hdevil’s cellar Satan’s Night Dead Red Velvet, Peter Turns Pirate, Techstasy doors 9 pm, all ages. dora KeogH Whitney Rose & Bazil Donovan (roots). draKe Hotel underground Ben Wilkins doors 8 pm.

HeartH bloor West Hell On Earth Halloween Bash The Tantrums doors 8 pm.

kakers 9:30 pm.

free tiMes cafe When You’re Good To

Mama Johnny McGillis & Juanita Pancetta.

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gladstone Hotel Melody bar

Country Saturdays Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit 9 pm. glenn gould studio Canadian Songbook Doug Paisley 8 pm. See preview, page 62.

HHabits gastroPub Halloween 10 pm.

HugH’s rooM Cowboy Junkies, Josh Finlayson & Andy Maize, Cootes Leland & Ivy Mairi 8:30 pm. tHe local Ken McLeod and the Windsor Salt Band. lula lounge Cafe Cubano, DJ Suave (salsa) 10 pm. rebas café Open Mic The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm.

HrePosado Halloween Party Station Twang (folk/country). silver dollar Swamperella (cajun/zydeco) 7 pm.

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Shannon vs DJ Squidbot. tHe ossington Get Buck DJ Nino Brown (hiphop/soul/dancehall).

HPalMs rooftoP Patioclub Halloween Rooftop Affair DJs Lissa Monet, What da Dilly, James Redi.

HParts & labour Scorpio Morphio: Hip-Hop Halloween Diego Bros DJs 10 pm.

tranzac soutHern cross Jamzac 3 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Kira Sheppard

(harp, singer/songwriter) 10 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: K dub Khartoum John Millard, Waleed Abdulhamid 8:15 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

young centre for tHe PerforMing arts

Global Cabaret Festival: (re)Birth – E.E. Cummings In Song Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Abena Malika, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Jason Patrick Rothery, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall 7:45 & 9:30 pm.

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c’est WHat Hot Five Jazzmakers 3 pm. cHalKers Pub Nancy Walker Quartet (jazz) 6

Global Cabaret Festival: The National Theatre Of The World’s Carnegie Hall Show Naomi Snieckus, Matt Baram, Ron Pederson, Chris Gibbs, Scott Christian, Waylen Miki 10 pm.

Hdovercourt House Halloween Swing Ball

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

to 9 pm.

Ragweed Jazz Band 7 pm. fuMee furlane RESPIRO: Toronto General Hospital Lung Transplant Unit Gala Benefit Alex Pangman & her Alleycats (jazz). gallery 345 EP release Tova Kardonne Octet (Balkan jazz fusion) 8 pm.

Heliconian Hall When Winter Follows Moira Nelson & Elena Jubinville (harp/cello, piano) 8 pm. old Mill inn Jazz Masters Frank Wright Trio 7:30 pm. rex The T.J.O. Big Band 3:30 pm, Sara Dell 7 pm, Tim Ries, Olah Kalman 9:45 pm.

Hroy tHoMson Hall The Wizard Of Oz Family Concert The Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm.

royal conservatory of Music Koerner Hall A Year Of Great Sax Joe Lovano Us Five 8 pm. royal conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Soundstreams: Massbrass Stockholm

Chamber Brass, Simón Bolivar Brass Quintet, True North Brass 3 pm. trane studio Five Weeks For Miles, Week 5: Doo-bop Brownman, Mad Dukes, DJ Cutler, Ben Miller, Colin Kingsmore 6:30 pm. trinity st. Paul’s cHurcH CD release Sultans of String doors 7 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Albert Schultz’s Young At Heart Albert Schultz, Jackie Richardson, Don Francks 2:15 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival Sharron Matthews 6:30 pm. Jackie Richardson 4 pm. Daniel Taylor 4 pm. Heather Bambrick 4 pm, Denzel Sinclaire 2:15 & 6:30 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Stan Rogers Songbook John Millard, Miranda Mulholland, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall, Young Centre City Choir 5:15 pm.

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Global Cabaret Festival: Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Jef & Don Breithaupt 7:45 pm.

Halleycatz Halloween Bash DJ Mike (R&B/ soul/funk). tHe barn Mad House DJ ViVi Diamond (top 40/remixes/electro) 10 pm.5 Hbovine sex club Haunted Harem Burlesque Raymi the Minx, DJ Candy-O, DJ Ian Blurton.

Hbrant House Carn-Evil.

HburrougHes building Haunted Mansion Rob Friday, Feddy Haze, Mikky Eriksen, Richy Time, Rouge.

HcHeval It’s Halloween Andy Alias.

Hclinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll’s Halloween Hop (sixties soul/rock & roll dance).

Hcobra lounge Death By Disco DJ Aadil.

Hde sotos DJ Bonafide (retro 80s/disco/ party beats) 10 pm.

HdraKe Hotel underground Halloween House party DJ Your Boy Brian doors 11 pm. draKe Hotel lounge DJs Famou$ Players doors 10 pm. eMbassy bar Pressure Drop Brendan Canning & Pressure Drop Crew (reggae/rocksteady/ dub/soul/funk). eMMet ray bar DJ Blancon (funk/soul/ ol’skool) 10 pm.

Hfly Halloween DJS Shawn Riker, Sumation, Dwayne Minard, Mike Vieira.5 HfootWorK Dance Of The Dead Jon Rundell doors 10 pm.

HtHe garrison Halloween House Of Horrors DJs Shit la Merde, Scott Cudmore, Jilly Botting.

Hgladstone Hotel Phunk’d Halloween Bash Double AA, DJ RA, RKS (R&B/hip-hop/house/ old skool) 10 pm.

HgoodHandy’s Haunted Naked Dance DJ Justin doors 8 pm.5 HtHe great Hall Haunted Mansion Daft Punk Tribute Band, DJ Diggy (Down With Webster), DJ Vaneska, DJ Fedja 10 pm.

HguvernMent/Kool Haus Thriller Chus + Ceballos, Ferry Corsten, Marcov, Simon Patterson, Sunnery James, Ryan Marciano.

HHenHouse Trash Halloween Special DJ Sigourney Beaver, Joe Blow, DJ Winnie 10 pm.5

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HHoly oaK cafe Hollawayne Party DJs Manilla Ice & Turfmayne 10 pm.

tHe Hoxton DJ Duo Kissette 10 pm. lee’s Palace dance cave Full On Alternative

DJ Mr Pete (alternative).

Hlee’s Palace Goin’ Steady Monster Mash 9 pm.

Hlive toronto Fright Night DJ Mike R, DJ Louie Temps, DJ Couture (top 40/house/ mashups) 9 pm.

Hluna lounge Halloween Havoc (top 40/ hip-hop/house).

HMaro True Blüd V3: King Street Massacre DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

Mod club UK Underground DJ MRK, Milhouse Brown, Tigerblood (indie/electro/dubstep).

Hnaco gallery cafe Scary Sh*t DJ Dave.

HtHe ossington Love Handle Halloween Edition (boogie/funk).

PacHa lounge The Masquerade Ball: Bare As You Dare DJ Lissa Monet, Unruly Twin doors 10 pm.

HParts & labour Smithfits Halloween Party DJs Scott Wade, Scott Waring & Mark Pesci (new wave/britpop/punk) 10 pm.

HPHoenix concert tHeatre Twisted Circus doors 9 pm.

HtHe Piston Halloween Party John & Dylan 10 pm.

HPolisH coMbatants Hall Spooked!

Alex Smoke, Adam Marshall, Nature of Music, Martin Fazekas, Mike Lambert Vs LeeLee Mishi, Komodo, Spyne, Jonak K and others.

Hrivoli Footprints Halloween Party 10 pm. sHalloW groove DJs Carl Allen & Jay Dunaway (top 40/hip-hop/R&B/retro).

HsMiling buddHa Freaky Flavours: Halloween DJ Throwdown DJs Jenny Treehorn, the Brass Moustache, DJ ARP 2600, Piege, Heights, Klymlove. sneaKy dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm.

Hsound acadeMy Halloween Freakout! Ed Rush & Optical, MT Eden, TC, J Rabbit, Teebee, Calyx.

Hst laWrence MarKet nortH Digifest Halloween Spooktacular: Heroes Vs Villains DJ Jeff Hayward 8 pm. suPerMarKet Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. HsuPerMarKet Get Your Freak On DJ Ted Dancin’ (house/hip-hop/old school/top 40). sutra The Bridge DJ Triplet (ol’ skool hip-hop).

Hvelvet underground Velvet Halloween Party DJ Joe (alt rock) 10 pm.

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HasPetta caffe Pedestrian Sunday Hallow-

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LEE’S PALACE Stephen Kellogg & the SixJohn McLaughlin doors 7 pm. ñ clubs&concerts ORBITers,ROOM Horshack (rock) doors 9 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR Lioness, Spookey Ruben, the Wizard of Rock, Tim McCready ñ (rock) 9 pm. œcontinued from page 61

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Cosmotones 4 pm.

CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA The Digs (funk)

9:30 pm.

COLLEGE AND AUGUSTA Pedestrian Sundays Kensington Rocks One Punch, Terminals, the G-Men, Poppy Seed & the Love Explosion 1 to 6 pm.

CROSSROADS BAR & GRILL Soulchamp! Duo 2 to 8 pm.

DAVE’S... ON ST CLAIR John Campbell 6 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Miyavi (samurai

guitarist) doors 8 pm, all ages.

THE PISTON Kevin Hearn w/ Thinbuckle Trio 8 pm.

HREVIVAL Les Coquettes Halloween Spooktacular Zirco Circus 7 & 9:30 pm.

HROCKPILE Devil’s Night Redman & Madchild.

SONIC BOOM In-store performance Blitzen Trapper 2:30 pm. See preview, page 53.

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YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: The Beatles’ Abbey Road Aline Morales, Miranda Mulholland, Patricia O’Callaghan, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 9:15 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Prince’s Purple Rain Jackie Richardson, Denzal Sinclaire, Waleed Abdulhamid, Andrea Nann, Retrocity 8 pm.

COUNTRY

DOUG PAISLEY Garth Hudson was worth the rush

By SARAH GREENE

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival Alana Bridgewater 8 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Patricia O’Callaghan Sings Leonard Cohen Patricia O’Callaghan, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 6:45 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Paul Simon’s Graceland Waleed Abdulhamid, Miranda Mulholland, Denzal Sinclaire, Retrocity, Maryem Tollar, Young Centre City Choir 6:15 pm.

HYOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Retrocity’s 80s Halloween Suba Sankaran, Ross Lynde, Jenn Hadfield, Aaron Jensen, Lanie Treen, Art Mullin, Dylan Bell, Daniel Galessiere 3:15 & 5 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

THE CENTRAL Faraway Neighbors 6 to 8 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND CD release Terra Lightfoot, Rebekah Higgs, These ñ Hands, Thomas doors 8 pm.

EPIC LOUNGE Iya Ire (Afro-Cuban drum & dance) 5 to 8 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Jewish Brunch Buffet Touch Of Klez.

HGLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Sunday

Acoustic Family Halloween Brunch (bluegrass) 10 am to 2 pm.

HGLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Hands Together Halloween Concert: Rainbow Songs Foundation Benefit 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.

HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Brunch Sean Pinchin (folk) 1 pm.

HHOLY OAK CAFE Day Of The Dead Music Show Cafe Con Pan (son jarocho) 9 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Halloween Costume Bash Betty & the Bobs.

THE LOCAL Hannah Naiman 5 pm.

THE LOCAL Gord Zubrecki (folk/alt indie) 10 pm, Deer River 5 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Luis Mario Ochoa (Cuban son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm.

OPERA HOUSE Dawes, Blitzen Trapper, Belle Brigade (indie folk) doors 7 pm.

See preview, page 53.

POGUE MAHONE Celtic Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition 4 to 8 pm.

REBAS CAFÉ David Crighton 1 to 4 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm.

SPIRITS Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm.

SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Billie Hollies 3 pm.

THE WILSON 96 Sunday Supper Dave Picco (singer/songwriter) 6 pm.

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Toronto alt-country musician Doug Paisley and his small American label, No Quarter, want to downplay the contributions of Garth Hudson and Leslie Feist on Paisley’s acclaimed sophomore album, Constant Companion. This is because, as Paisley says, their involvement “was a creative process, not an opportunistic thing.”

But Hudson’s impromptu arrival in Toronto had a profound effect on the record, pushing the date ahead a number of months and leaving Paisley with just two days to coordinate recording.

“It was hell,” he says. “I had to get a studio. I literally had to sit down in the morning and finish some of the songs.”

Of course, it was worth it.

“It’s as if we turned on a filter in the studio that made everything sound better. Just his presence – aside from everything he did – had an influence on the bass player, the engineer and the drummer.”

Constant Companion has received love from Mojo, Rolling Stone and the New Yorker and made the Polaris Prize long list, praised for its philosophical and comfortingly lonesome songs. Now Paisley’s nurturing material for his next album.

“Tiny ideas are so fragile,” he says. “When you’ve got finished songs that people have responded to, it’s really important to find a way not to pit those things against each other.”

Doug Paisley plays in the Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front West), Saturday SARAH GREENE (October 29), 8 pm. $29.50. RTH.

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YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival Sharron Matthews 9:15 pm. Judith Lander 8:30 pm. Daniel Taylor 5 pm. Jackie Richardson 5 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Stan Rogers Songbook John Millard, Miranda Mulholland, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall, Young Centre City Choir 3:45 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: Breithaupt Brothers Songbook Jef & Don Breithaupt 2 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Global Cabaret Festival: (re)Birth – E.E. Cummings In Song Ins Choi, Tatjana Cornij, Raquel Duffy, Ken MacKenzie, Abena Malika, Gregory Prest, Karen Rae, Jason Patrick Rothery, Mike Ross, Brendan Wall 5 & 8 pm. continued on page 64 œ

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Young Centre for the Performing Arts

Global Cabaret Festival: Albert Schultz’s Young At Heart Albert Schultz, Jackie Richardson, Don Francks 3:15 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

drAke hotel lounge Ride the Tiger (funk/ R&B) doors 10 pm. horseshoe Rodrigo Wilde, Faint Reflection, Kirk Reed Effect 9 pm.

Hthe Piston Halloween Show Planet Creature, B17, Beliefs, DJs Tweed & Jeeks 10 pm. roCkPile Swollen Members. the Wilson 96 Esteban Puchalski (roots rock).

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Bovine sex CluB Big Shiny Sunday DJ Candy-

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

CAstro’s lounge Watch This Sound DJ Greg

El Faron 7 pm.

O (90s alt rock).

(old school soul/reggae/dub/ska/rock-steady) 9 pm.

HChevAl The Devil Wears Leather Jedi.

HClinton’s Keystone’s Halloween Extravaganza doors 7 pm. grAffiti’s Blackmetalbrunch 11 am. insomniA Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. the ossington Unlimited Sunday DJs Hajah Bug and Mantis (deep grooves).

HtAttoo roCk PArlour Devils Night DJ 4korners (house/hip-hop/rock). velvet underground DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

Monday, October 31 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

dAkotA tAvern Mariachi Mondays Mariachi

Fuego 7 pm.

dorA keogh JT’s House Party Open Mic. the fountAin Bluegrass Mondays Badly

Bent (bluegrass/old time) 9 pm.

Hfree times CAfe Halloween Open Stage Dave Plank. grAffiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. highWAY 61 southern BArBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm. hugh’s room Shelby Lynne 8:30 pm. not mY dog Tim Bradford (country) 10 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Open Mic 10 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

CAstro’s lounge Leon Knight in the Neon Lights (rockabilly) 9 pm.

HAsPettA CAffe Halloween Jam Open Mic

edWArd Johnson Building WAlter hAll

rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm, John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross This Is Awesome (jazz) 7 pm.

orBit room The Clayton Doley Organ Experi-

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

toronto Centre for the Arts george Weston reCitAl hAll Forever Motown The Spin-

HBovine sex CluB Hell On Halloween Dyneomight, Take Drugs.

HC lounge Pirates Of The Scare-Ibbean DJ

Joe Ghost, DJ Tilt doors 10 pm.

HCenturY room Nightmare Monday DJ Mike R, DJ Louie Temps, DJ Couture (top 40/ house/mashups) 10 pm.

HCoBrA lounge Massacre Mike Toast, LRS, Armo Kidd, Pauly Gee. HglAdstone hotel BAllroom Public Displays of Affection’s Halloween Art Fundraiser DJs The Filthy Nannies 8 pm. insomniA DJs Topher, Oranj (rock). lee’s PAlACe dAnCe CAve Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro 70s/80s).

Hthe ossington Ice & Yo (spooky styles). rePosAdo Mezcal Mondays DJ Elis Dean.

Tuesday, November 1 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

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Chamber Music Series The Canadian Brass 7:30 pm.

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horseshoe Star Slinger, Sholomo, Mux Mool & Shigeto doors 8:30 pm. mAsseY hAll Back To Bass Tour Sting 8 pm.

PAntAges hotel Chris Ritchie (pop/rock piano) 6 pm. the Piston Danielle Duval 9 pm. rivoli Malcolm Holcombe, John Borra, Sam Ferrara 9:30 pm. roCkPile L.A. Guns. sound ACAdemY Chromeo, Mayer Hawthorne, breakbot doors 8 pm, all ages. suPermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Amy Cunningham, Julia Dales, Use as Directed 9:45 pm.

gAte 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrel-

AlleYCAtz The Graceful Daddies (swingin’

ence w/ Davide DiRenzo & James Robertson (blues/jazz/soul) 7 to 10 pm. the Piston Dead Tuesdays 9 pm.

ners and the Temptation Revue, with Dennis Edwards 7:30 pm. trAnzAC southern Cross Collette Savard 7:30 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

Annex WreCkroom Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

CAstro’s lounge Quiet Revolutions Acoustic Jam blueVenus 11 pm.

grass) 10 pm.

house) 9 pm. grAffiti’s Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm, Tumultuous Tuesdays SSW Night 7 to 10 pm. holY oAk CAfe Cailean Lewis & Co 9 pm. hot Box CAfe Hot Box Unplugged: Acoustic Open Mic 7 pm. hugh’s room The Sisters Euclid w/ Kevin Breit 8:30 pm. monArChs PuB Friends of Glen Davis Ravine benefit & open stage Brian Gladstone 7:30 pm.

Phoenix ConCert theAtre The Civil Wars, Milo Greene (folk/alt-country) doors 8 pm. rex Blues Jam Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 9:30 pm. trAnzAC mAin hAll CD release Laura Repo (country) 8 pm.

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Kornel Wolak, Chris Donnelly (clarinet, piano) noon to 1 pm. gAte 403 Kelsey McNulty Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. old mill inn home smith BAr John Sherwood (solo piano). rex Richard Whiteman 6:30 pm.

roYAl ConservAtorY of musiC koerner hAll Apollo’s Fire Philippe Jaroussky (counter tenor) 8 pm.

trAnzAC southern Cross John Russon Quar-

tet (jazz) 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

goodhAndY’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 the hoxton Holy Ghost!, Jessica 6, Eli Escobar doors 9 pm. insomniA Soulful Tuesday D-Jay. the ossington Deadliest Snatch. rePosAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

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CAstro’s lounge Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm.

C’est WhAt Hinindar (dark folk) 9 pm.

CloAk & dAgger PuB Henry Taylor (folk/pop) 10 pm.

grAffiti’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. grossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.

highWAY 61 southern BArBeque Sean Pinchin (folk) 7 pm.

hugh’s room CD release Bill Bourne & the Free Radio Band, Madagascar Slim, Selina Martin Triage 8:30 pm.

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four seAsons Centre for the Performing Arts Noir Adi Braun Quartet 5:30 to 6:30 pm. gAte 403 The Roper Show 5 to 8 pm, Kurt

Nielsen & Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm. glAdstone hotel melodY BAr ViVa Cabaret Yura 9 pm. nAWlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm. rex Miles Johnson 6:30 pm, Hendrik Meurkens & Jeremy Price 9:30 pm. roY thomson hAll Dvorák & Mendelssohn Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Jackiw (violin) 6:30 pm. trAne studio GAYA Gayatri Kashyap (voice/ sitar) 8 pm. trAnzAC 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival: Soundings MiMo, Allison Cameron, Stephen Parkinson, Ghost Eye 9:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BeAver Mighty Real Dance Floor Workout DJ John Caffery & the Robotic Kid 10 pm. hot Box CAfe Hump Day Uncut The Man (50s & 60s R&B/hip-hop/dance/pop) 7 pm. insomniA Parro (house). rePosAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. 3

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Morning Comes (Paper Bag) Rating: NNNN Cuff the Duke lead singer Wayne Petti has said that the Toronto four-piece’s fifth album deals with the loss of a loved one and the change that brings, and that it’s the first of two, this being the low and the eventual follow-up the high.

But while a bitter loneliness is evident in the lyrics, the music is anything but bummed out. You could argue that it’s one of the band’s more accessible and feel-good efforts, actually, with a surging, sweater-

Pop/Rock

COLDPLAY Mylo Xyloto (EMI) Rating: NNN

Coldplay probably don’t get enough credit for their consistency. They’re an easy target because of Chris Martin’s incessant need to always be The Uplifter and for grating lyrics that attempt to convert the personal to the universal (not to mention their questionable authenticity). But through it all, they’ve delivered a steady stream of well-written pop rock like that found on fifth album Mylo Xyloto.

It’s wrapped in a confused concept – future lovers (the album title’s characters) under siege by some kind of dystopian oppression – but several tunes will surely ignite stadium masses. Charlie Brown has an earworm opening riff. The almostdanceable Hurts Like Heaven has swirling synths and U2 guitars.

Then there’s the Rihanna-assisted Princes Of China, a surefire hit simply because 90 per cent of current top 40 has a hook by the R&B singer. But when it comes to making the charts, Coldplay certainly don’t need the help of a commissioned hook.

Top track: Hurts Like Heaven JASON KELLER

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We’re All Dying To Live (Public Publication EP/Over The Top! LP) (Sonic) Rating: NNNN Halifax’s Rich Aucoin is best known for his over-the-top live shows, which involve so much audience participation and we’reall-in-this-together emotion that it would be impossible to capture it on disc. So instead of trying to approximate the sound

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cozy production style courtesy of Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor. Multi-part harmonies crackle behind Petti’s nasal croon, while bits of mournful pedal steel, warm organ and hot guitar leads hit the mark.

The eight-minute Bound To Your Own Vices sees them get impressively ambitious, while lead single Count On Me evokes hazy 60s psych-folk, albeit countrified. Standing On The Edge, meanwhile, already sounds like a classic.

Top track: Count On Me Cuff the Duke play the Horseshoe November 25 and 26.

CARLA GILLIS of the live show, he’s brought on board 500 guests (literally) and augmented his charmingly raw synth-pop songs with so much ornamentation that he succeeds in conveying the intensely communal feeling of his performances with sonics alone.

Occasionally, Aucoin’s voice is lost in the crowd of guests, but that actually simulates what happens when he jumps into the crowd and prods them into screaming along to his uplifting anthems.

One aspect of the disc that you’ll never experience live is the underlying sadness behind his joyful pop tunes, which is exactly what makes this more than just a good-times party record.

Top track: Brian Wilson Is A.L.i.V.E. (All Living Instantly Vanquish Everything) Rich Aucoin opens for Lights November 25 at Sound Academy.

BENJAMIN BOLES

THE BALCONIES Kill Count (independent) Rating: NNN The Balconies are making all the right moves toward commercial success. Since relocating from Ottawa to Toronto, the young three-piece have been hitting the festival circuit (NXNE, Pop Montreal, Halifax Pop Explosion), playing constantly around town and making important connections that have led to tours with Bedouin Soundclash and recording with Jon Drew (Tokyo Police Club, Stars, Arkells).

You can hear that striving in their new Drew-produced EP, Kill Count, five songs of energetic pop rock with an almost too glossy sheen. Jacquie Neville’s voice is loud and confident, making her sound older than her 24 years. The band is supertight, the melodies strong, the rhythms danceable and the songwriting smart.

None of the material is brand new: three songs appeared on their debut LP, while the other two were on a recent 7-inch. But all have been re-recorded to sound mightier. They’re clearly saving the new stuff for their in-progress full-length, which will no doubt land on a solid label.

Top track: Serious Bedtime The Balconies play the Halloween Indie Spectacular at the Horseshoe on Saturday (October 29).

CG

JANE’S ADDICTION The Great Escape Artist (Capitol) Rating: NN Good on Eric Avery for getting out of Jane’s Addiction when he did. The former bassist and founding member who reluctantly rejoined only to re-quit soon after might have saved this mistake of an album had he stayed. Then again, maybe not; Jane’s are barely a real band any more. They still tour, but when it comes to songwriting they email each other tracks rather than get into a room together, despite the fact that they all live in L.A. Then there’s the bass issue, which isn’t going away. The remaining members haven’t successfully replaced Avery’s distinct sonic direction, which largely made this band what it is – or was. Duff McKagan joined briefly and co-wrote three of the new album’s tracks. TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek also contributes bass parts, though nothing of note creatively. Meanwhile, session man Chris Chaney is invisible.

A few times they get it right, like on Irresistible Force and Broken People. Sadly, Jane’s Addiction lost the fire ages ago and are now sleepwalking through the ashes.

Top track: Broken People JK

and washing over you like sonic wallpaper.

Top track: C’est La Mort The Civil Wars play the Phoenix Tuesday (November 1).

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Electronic

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Audio, Video, Disco (Ed Banger) Rating: NNNN A lot of critics are listening to this album with their knives sharpened. “The Justice sound” has become shorthand for everything that’s wrong with the testosterone-

fuelled chainsaw-bass-line electro-house of the 00s, mainly because the band was the biggest and best of that scene. Justice made it easy to slam them when they described Audio, Video, Disco as “a progressive rock record played by guys who don’t know how to play” and claimed that their technical limitations forced them to take a long time to finish it.

Sure enough, this record brings to mind airbrushed vans flying through Day-Glo galaxies firing lasers at dragons, with no interest in any notions of good taste. Having said that, it fucking rocks.

The biggest problem with most prog rock is that the hooks are buried under unnecessary displays of technical proficiency. Take away the noodling, add some funk from disco and a touch of the futurism of techno and you end up with a pretty decent formula. If arena rock techno always sounded this good, we’d like Moby a lot more.

Top track: New Lands BB

Blues

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To Drink The Rain (Music Road) Rating: NNNN North Carolina country-blues songwriter Malcolm Holcombe’s gritty voice carries hard-earned wisdom on his eighth album, produced by long-time collaborator Jared Tyler. His sometimes slurred delivery is an acquired taste, but all his songs bear repeated listens. The arrangements, which feature upright bass, dobro and fiddle, are inspired, organic and unfussy.

Holcombe sings of both earthly and spiritual matters, and channels his faith without getting preachy. Like Tom Waits, he’ll surprise you with a sudden evocative, hummable melody (The Mighty City), and like late Dylan, he can sing-talk or wail over intense violin (Behind The Number One, Where I Don’t Belong).

Stripped-down closer One Man Singin’ offers a moving description of what it’s like to connect with live music despite being in a loud crowd.

Top track: The Mighty City Malcolm Holcombe plays the Rivoli Wednesday (November 2).

SARAH GREENE

Folk/Pop

THE CIVIL WARS Barton Hollow (Sensibility) Rating: NNN If you watch Grey’s Anatomy, you may have heard the Civil Wars’ dramatic Poison & Wine in its entirety. It’s a strong duet capturing the conflict often inherent in a long relationship.

After meeting at a writing workshop in 2008, Christian pop survivor Joy Williams and lesser-known Alabaman John Paul White decided pretty quickly that they clicked musically. (They’re not actually a couple.) Their close vocal blend is their best asset, with a natural ebb and flow between their parts.

Their folk-pop songs are stripped down and quietly melodramatic, supported by acoustic guitar, piano and subtle contributions from unnamed Nashville pros. Sustained by romantic tension, they walk a strange line between being mesmerizing

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks

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MUST-SEE SHOWS

H indicates Halloween related event HART TORONTO 1,000+ artists, 100+ gal-

Joyce Wieland’s Entrance To Nature (left) and Janet Morton’s She’s Come Undone installation are part of Crossing Natures.

PAINTING/TEXTILES

Quality quartet Women probe nature four ways By FRAN SCHECHTER CROSSING NATURES at Paul Petro

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Contemporary Art (980 Queen West), to November 12. 416-979-7874.

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four women from different generations engage in a conversation about the natural word in this elegant show. Variations on themes of windows onto the outdoors from interior spaces, the act of sewing, piecing and cutting, a quirky, feminine love of chaos and a joy in colour and floral ornament play through the work of painters Yvonne Housser, Joyce Wieland (who both died in the 90s) and Melanie Rocan and multidisciplinary artist Janet Morton.

Housser, a Toronto artist who should be better known, paints more delicate, domesticated landscapes than her mentors in the Group of Seven. Her 1948 Spring In The Studio depicts a jug of forced forsythias on a window sill looking out on a bare orchard of stylized, twisted trees that carry echoes of Emily Carr.

The show’s centrepiece, Wieland’s 1988 Entrance To Nature, is sliced and collaged together from pieces of painted canvas into a large expressionist rectangle. Full of colourful ab-

stract energy, it’s also layered with recognizable elements of a nude figure, a bird and Canadiana like a canoe and a fringed buckskin jacket.

As Wieland channels the spirit of the wilderness with paint, cloth and scissors, Morton does the same with yarn in She’s Come Undone. A white knitted nerve-like branch with coloured tips hangs over a tangled pile of bright-coloured wool. This charming work suggests that coming undone can be a beautiful and exciting part of natural cycles.

Rocan, the youngest member of the quartet, has the most work in the show. Her large swirling landscapes depict vibrant woodlands littered with tiny, fairy-tale-like cottages, bits of furniture and laundry. In smaller paintings, young women’s heads emerge from piles of flowers. Rocan skilfully manipulates a palette highlighted by rich reds and pinks to give a magical quality to these loosely painted, windblown images.

Petro’s put together a perfect show for this time of changing weather and fall colours. And don’t forget to go upstairs for Morton’s Canadian Monument #2, which I won’t spoil by describing.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Fireworks

2011: FUSION Ontario Clay and Glass Association; The Urban/Rural Divide, to Nov 6.

300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Paul Butler, to Nov 13 (free). The Grange Prize, to Dec 10. Robert Motherwell, to Dec 11. General Idea, to Jan 1.

Chagall And The Russian Avant-Garde, to Jan 15 ($25, stu $16.50). Constructing Utopia: Books And Posters From Revolutionary Russia, to Jan 15. From Renaissance To Rodin: Celebrating The Tanenbaum Gift; Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1. Songs Of The Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, to Apr 29. $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.

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

DESIGN EXCHANGE Capacity, to Nov 3 (free).

Kissing Mooses pop-up shop, to Nov 13. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

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

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Creamware, to Dec 4. The Tsar’s Cabinet: 200 Years Of Russian Decorative Arts, to Jan 8. $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. 7 Hart House.

416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Inuit Traditions, to Nov 27. In Focus: Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier; photos: Lomen Brothers, to Jan 8. Painting: Jack Chambers, to Jan 15. Painting: Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 3. $15, stu/srs $12, free Oct 1-2. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg).

905-893-1121.

MOCCA ¡Patria O Libertad! On Patriotism, Immigration And Populism; Artur Zmijewsk; BMO 1st Art! Invitational Student Art Competition, to Oct 30. 952 Queen W. 416-3950067.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Denyse Thomasos (Centennial Square, 120 Navy); Marla Hlady( Gair-

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leries, plus Vidéothèque, Storylines, Place, Collage Party, RBC Painting Competition, AGYU’s Holiday Arts Mail Order School, preview 6:30 pm (benefit for AGO, $200), collectors’ preview 4:30 pm ($300) Oct 27, Oct 28-31. $18, stu/srs $14, pass $44.

Metro Convention Ctr N, 225 Front. arttoronto.ca.

BIRCH LIBRALATO Micah Lexier, to Nov 19.

129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003.

GALLERY 44 Photos: David Faltenhine, Nov 1-12 (Members Gallery). Photos/video: Shelley Niro and Susan Blight, to Nov 12.

Photos: Barbara Staulus, to Oct 29 (Members Gallery). 401 Richmond W #120. 416979-3941.

HGLADSTONE HOTEL Public Displays of Affection Halloween auction, 8 pm-2 am Oct 31 (by donation). UpArt Contemporary Art Fair, Oct 27-30, reception 7-10 pm Oct 27 ($5). Post-Graffiti group show, to Nov 20, reception 7-10 pm Oct 27. Textiles: Kerry Croghan, to Nov 1. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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

KOFFLER OFFSITE Spin Off: Contemporary Art Circling The Mandala group show, to Dec 4. 80 Spadina, 5th fl. 416-636-1880.

MKG127 Sculpture/installation: K Nicol, to Nov 12. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682.

NARWHAL ART PROJECTS Painting: Lauchie Reid, to Nov 7. 680 Queen W. 647-3465317.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Ed Ou, to Nov 5. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555.

OCADU Looking Inside open house, 11 am2; TOJam Arcade (Digifest), 10 am-7 pm Oct 29 (torontodigifest.ca). 100 McCaul.

416-977-6000.

PAUL PETRO Crossing Natures group show, to Nov 12. 980 Queen W. 416979-7874.

PREFIX Film: Susan Hiller, to Nov 26.

401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

PROPELLER Painting/drawing: Heather Gentleman, Maihyet Burton and Steven McCabe, to Nov 6, reception 7-10 pm Oct 27. 984 Queen W. 416-504-7142.

SHOW & TELL GALLERY Sculpture: Jannick Deslauriers, to Nov 20. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316.

SUSAN HOBBS Installation: Didier Courbot, Oct 27-Dec 3, reception 7-9 pm Oct 27.

137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Decisive Moments, Somewhere Else, Oct 27-Dec 9, reception 5-7 pm Oct 27, Lorna Bauer artist’s talk 2 pm Oct 29. 401 Richmond W #376. 416593-1332.

WARC Film: Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Oct 29-Dec 3, reception 2-5 pm Oct 29. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

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loch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E) to Nov 13.

(Oakville). 905-844-4402.

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.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ICC: David Hockney, to Jan 1. Judith Snow, to Jan 20. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 3. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $24, stu/srs $21; half-price Fri 4:30-8:30 pm; free Wed 3:30-5:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa, to Nov 20. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, to Feb 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.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Scott Conarroe, to Nov 6. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905477-9511.

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books

READINGS THIS WEEK

I = International Festival Of Authors event

stu free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

Thursday, October 27

OYEYEMI/RACHEL SIMON/ TIMOTHY TAYLOR/GUY VANDERHAEGHE ñ Reading. 8 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront

RANDY BOYAGODA Meet the Beggar’s Feast author. 7 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham Rd. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

IRUSSELL BANKS/ANNE ENRIGHT/ERIN MORGENSTERN/OLIVE SENIOR Reading. 8 pm. $18,

stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

ANNE DAY Reading from Day By Day. 7 pm.

Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744.

IFLECK, A VERSE COMEDY Reading with Linwood Barclay, Marina Endicott and others. 8 pm. $18, stu free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings. org.

ILINDA GRANT/LEV GROSSMAN/WAYNE JOHNSTON/GAYLA REID Reading. 8 pm. $18,

IHELEN

Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

VIVA! COMMUNITY ARTS AND POPULAR EDUCATION IN THE AMERICAS Launch. 6:30 pm.

Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-535-9914.

Saturday, October 29 IKEN BABSTOCK/PETER BEHRENS/FRANCES ITANI/NICOLE LUNDRIGAN Reading. Noon.

$18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IKATE BEATON/PATRICIA MARX Reading and interviewed by Siri Agrell. 4 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

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stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

SANDRA BEA HARRIES Reading from Eerie And Eccentric Tales. 7 pm. Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416-393-7720.

IALAN BISSETT/MARINA ENDICOTT/SOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA Reading. 4 pm. $18,

IELIZABETH HAY/TOM PERROTTA/THOMAS PLETZINGER/DANIEL WOODRELL Reading. 8

ILYNN COADY/MARIEKE VAN DER POL/ZACHARIAH WELLS/MEG WOLITZER Reading. 4 pm.

pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings. org.

Friday, October 28 IANITA RAU BADAMI/MADELEINE THIEN/ CLARK BLAISE/DW WILSON Discussing the de-

velopment of literary characters. 8 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IRUSSELL BANKS/TOM PERROTTA/MARIEKE VAN DER POL Discussing adapting novels for

the screen. 8 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

ICHARLES TAYLOR PRIZE FOR LITERARY NONFICTION Awards ceremony and discussion

with Stevie Cameron, Charles Foran, Richard Gwyn and Margaret MacMillan. 8 pm. $18,

NON-FICTION SAMPLER

Fun flashback CANADIAN PIE by Will Ferguson (Penguin), 386 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNN

fair warning: will ferguson’s Canadian Pie has nothing to do with dessert.

Sampling stories from the author’s 15-year writing career, Canadian Pie is, as he describes it, a slice of this, a slice of that. Really it’s several books compiled into one big volume: a book about famous Canadians, a book about being a writer, a book about being a dad, a book about Ferguson’s experiences working for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, and so on.

A vivid and engaging storyteller, Ferguson comes off as the ultimate dinner party guest, the man with a million quirky stories. His writing has a conversational edge to it and a whimsy that skirts sentimentality.

You get the sense that he really enjoys retelling his stories, even when they’re about something he doesn’t

stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

$18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IESI EDUGYAN/PATRICK DEWITT/STEPHEN KELMAN/ALISON PICK Discussing what it

means to be nominated for the Man Booker Prize. 4 pm. $18, stu free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

INURUDDIN FARAH/CHAD HARBACH/ WAYNE JOHNSTON Reading. 2 pm. $18, stu

free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings. org.

IWILL FERGUSON/NIELS FRANK/GARY GEDDES/CONOR GRENNAN Reading. Noon. $18,

stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

IGILLER PRIZE FINALISTS Readings by David Bezmozgis, Lynn Coady, Patrick deWitt, Zsuzsi

particularly enjoy, like hanging out in green rooms while on book tours.

Some pieces have a little more substance than others. He’s at his best when he writes about history. It’s hard not to feel patriotic when he writes about his favourite Canadians, including Agnes Macphail, Stephen Leacock and Pierre Burton.

Canadian Pie includes a cross-section of landscapes and landmarks, from the Ghost Train of St. Louis, Saskatchewan, to the CN Tower.

Olympic buffs, skip ahead to the essays on Ferguson’s experiences as the head writer of the Vancouver Olympics closing ceremonies – especially if you want to know why they featured a giant slot machine.

Ferguson suggests in his introduction that his diverse pieces reflect a Canadian ethos of inclusion, a “big tent” philosophy. But the range of articles makes for a bit of a scattered read. Then again, maybe Canadian Pie is best consumed in several servings.

MARIKO TAMAKI Ferguson reads with Niels Frank, Gary Geddes and Conor Grennan on October 29 at the Authors Festival. See Readings, this page.

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= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = This could change your life NNNN = Brain candy NNN = Solid, sometimes inspirational NN = Not quite there N = Are we at the mall?

IN PERSON Gartner, Esi Edugyan and Michael Ondaatje. 8 pm. $25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IDAVID GILMOUR/CC HUMPHREYS/BRUCE MEYER/H MASUD TAJ/SIMON TOYNE Reading. 2 pm.

$18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

ILINDA GRANT/TESSA MCWATT/GAYLA REID

Discussing women and the personal and political choices their characters make for love and marriage. Noon. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IELIZABETH HAY/PRUE LEITH/OLIVE SENIOR

Discussing what happens when a journalist devotes a life to writing fiction. 2 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IHELEN HUMPHREYS/RIEL NASON/RUTH ROACH PIERSON/MIRIAM TOEWS Reading.

Noon. $18, stu free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

IMICHAEL ONDAATJE Reading and interviewed by CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel. 2 pm. $18, stu free. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

Alan Hollingshurst pursues the gay-tinged themes of his Booker winner The Line Of Beauty in The Stranger’s Child ($32, Knopf). A mediocre writer visits a country estate, seduces his hosts, both male and female, and later writes a poem that in the following years takes on mythic proportions. The novel, featuring Hollingshurst’s famous musical cadence and uncanny attention to detail, was long-listed for this year’s Booker prize. He discusses it with Seamus O’Regan Tuesday (November 1) at the Toronto Reference Library. See Readings, this page.

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@ Gallery 1313 • Nov. 2-13 • Panel Discussion: Nov. 9, 7pm w/artists Daniel Borins & Jennifer Marman, Zeesy Powers, Myfanwy Ashmore, Nicholas Stedman, Matthew Williamson, Robert Lendrum, Jenn E . Norton. Sponsored By Highland Park Single Malt Scotch Whiskey

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1313 Queen St. W. www.g1313.org

MADISON SHADWELL/BRANDON PITTS/NOR-

MAL CRISTOFOLI Reading and open mic. 7 pm.

Free. Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

Sunday, October 30 IKEN BABSTOCK/KATE BEATON/RODGE GLASS/JOSHUA KNELMAN Reading. 4 pm. $18,

stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IRANA DASGUPTA/ESI EDUGYAN/PRUE

LEITH/ZOE STRACHAN Reading. 2 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings.org.

ENDICOTT/NICOLE LUNDRIGAN/RIEL NASON/MIRIAM TOEWS Disñ cussing characters’ secrets and sins. Noon.

IMARINA

$18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

INURUDDIN FARAH/GARY GEDDES/EMMA RUBY-SACHS Discussing creativity, diversity

and struggle on the African continent. 2 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm. readings.org.

INIELS FRANK/ROGER GREENWALD/THOMAS PIETZINGE Discussing translation. Noon. $18,

stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

ICONOR GRENNAN/RACHEL SIMON/ANDREW WESTOLL Discussing the process of giving voice through non-fiction writing. 4 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

ICHAD HARBACH/HELEN OYEYEMI/TIMOTHY TAYLOR Discussing setting environment,

atmosphere and ambience. 2 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IPATRICIA MARX/TESSA MCWATT/ZACHARIAH WELLS/DW WILSON Reading. Noon.

$18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

IGUY VANDERHAEGHE Reading and interviewed by Justin Rutledge. 4 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, readings. org.

Tuesday, November 1 ERICK FABRIS The Tranquil Prisons author/disability studies lecturer talks about his book.

7:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Gallery, 1214 Queen W. uoftpublishing.com.

ALAN HOLLINGHURST Talking about The Stranger’s Child. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, November 2 JEAN RAE BAXTER/KRISTEN DEN HARTOG/ MARIATU KAMARA/JUDY FONG BATES Read-

ing. 7 pm. Pwyc. St Anne’s Church, 270 Gladstone. farzanadoctor@rogers.com.

MARK MILLER Launching his book about singer/guitarist Lonnie Johnson, Way Down That Lonesome Road, in conversation with Marc Glassman. 7:30 pm. $5, free w/ book purchase. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

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harbourfront centre

Tickets/Info:416-973-4000 235 Queens Quay West Toronto

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stage

more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interviews with THE TEST’S GORD RAND and ORPHEUS & EURYDICE’S MARIE CHOUINARD • Scenes on LIKE THE FIRST TIME, SOULPEPPER’S NEW SEASON • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

theatre Q&A Gord Rand likes audiences to feel complicit in what’s happening onstage.

RICHARD GREENBLATT AND TED DYKSTRA Writer/performers, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands

THEATRE PREVIEW

Getting Testy Gord Rand takes on role about dark truths By JON KAPLAN THE TEST by Lukas Bärfuss, translated by Birgit Schreyer Duarte, directed by Jason Byrne, with Eric Peterson, Sonja Smits, Gord Rand, Liisa Repo-Martell and Philip Riccio. Presented by the Company Theatre and Canadian Stage at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Previews begin Monday (October 31), opens November 3 and runs to November 26, Monday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Wednesday 1:30 pm and Saturday 2 pm. $22-$49.

416-368-3110.

“who’s your daddy?” asks country singer Toby Keith in his decadeold song.

That question worries the characters in Lukas Bärfuss’s The Test, the latest from always intriguing troupe the Company Theatre.

Tinged with dark humour, The Test looks at Peter, who starts to doubt that his infant son is really his offspring. His politician father’s scheming assistant, Franzeck, plants the seeds of doubt and the possibility of infidelity by Peter’s wife, Agnes.

If the triangle of husband/wife/ conniving friend sounds familiar, think back to Shakespeare’s Othello.

“Yes, there are parallels of contrived, irrational jealousy here,” admits Gord Rand, who plays Peter in the Company/Canadian Stage copro. “We wonder why Iago does what

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he does and why Othello reacts as he does. There are no clear-cut answers in either play.”

But here the roots of doubt go deeper, dragging in Peter’s parents, Simon and Helle, as well as the other three characters.

“Ironically, at times Peter seems more concerned about his relationship with his parents than about his relationship with Agnes and the baby,” says Rand, a playwright as well as an actor.

In rehearsal, what’s central in the play has been changing every day as the company works with director Jason Byrne.

“What I focus on keeps mutating,” says Rand. “The dynamics and relationships are in turmoil, constantly boiling up in different directions.”

What doesn’t change is the importance of the paternity test suggested by the title; it becomes Peter’s chance to know the truth.

“I see it as a way in which he explores the primitive need to be certain of his lineage. Is there a difference between loving a son who’s biologically your offspring and loving a son who’s not? That topic arouses feelings that you’re somewhat ashamed to dig around in, but that’s what makes it the stuff of drama.”

The Test is just the sort of difficult, dark show in which Rand’s often cast.

As the troubled title character in

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Necessary Angel’s unusual take on Hamlet, a character searching for answers about genocide and individual responsibility in Goodness and even the semi-comic Christy Mahon in The Playboy Of The Western World, Rand creates figures who twitch with the tension of searching for their proper place in an uncertain world.

“I appreciate that directors like Jason, Graham McLaren and the late Gina Wilkinson have pushed me toward theatre that feels alive, that’s happening in the moment. That rejuvenates me as an actor and a writer.”

He previously worked with Byrne in the Shaw production of The Cherry Orchard, but also admired the director’s productions of A Whistle In The Dark and Festen.

“I love works that blur the distinction between reality and fiction, that trick me about where one ends and the other begins. Jason allows the audience to spy on the play’s action they’re watching, as if through a keyhole.

“I think that’s why people go to the theatre instead of the movies: there’s a constant game going on, a quality of being complicit in what’s happening onstage.”

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Among Canadian theatre classics, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands is, hands down, the most fun. Richard Greenblatt and Ted Dykstra’s hilarious and moving ode to growing up wanting to be concert pianists first premiered at the Tarragon in 1996, but since then the two performers have tickled the ivories, and audiences’ funny bones, thousands of times around the world, including off-Broadway and in the West End. If you haven’t seen the Dora Award-winning show, this production might be your last chance – at least with the creators. Performances begin Saturday (October 29) at the Panasonic. See Opening, page 70.

Word is, this is going to be the “last encore” performance. We’ve heard that before from rock bands who then tour again. Why should we believe you?

Richard Greenblatt: Who said you should believe us?

Ted Dykstra: Do you know how old Richard is?

Someone asks you to play at a party: what’s your go-to piece?

Greenblatt: A Case Of You, by Joni Mitchell.

Dykstra: Bennie And The Jets.

The other Canadian classic with music is Billy Bishop Goes To War. Ever thought of switching places with John Gray and Eric Peterson?

Dykstra: Having just directed it, it occurred to me daily, but John’s a better piano player, and only a fool would want to be compared with Eric.

Greenblatt: Would I get to be on Corner Gas and wear a cool hat like Eric?

Lang Lang or Yundi Li? Greenblatt: Can I take maki maki?

Dykstra: Horowitz.

There have been many productions of 2P4H, including some without you.

What’s it like seeing others perform the show?

Greenblatt: Financially gratifying.

Dykstra: Getting paid for not working is a marvellous feeling.

Did your kids take piano, too?

Dykstra: Sins of the father, yes.

Greenblatt: Yes, but they still talk to me.

Message to Occupy Toronto protesters?

Greenblatt: Right on! If I weren’t doing this show, I’d be with you right now freezing my tuchus off. Well, maybe not, but I’m full of admiration anyway.

Dykstra: Lots of soup, guys, lots of soup.

Favourite piano-themed movie?

Greenblatt: Any movie where a grand piano is being hoisted up to a window and falls crashing onto the sidewalk. It seems deliciously sacrilegious.

Dykstra: The Geoffrey Rush one, for the cracking up in the middle of the Rachmaninoff part. If I could play that I’d crack up, too.

It’s 10 minutes before the show. What are you thinking?

Dykstra: Don’t fuck up the Bach.

Greenblatt: Breathe. … and 10 minutes after?

Dykstra: Fucked up the Bach.

GLENN SUMI Greenblatt: Eat.

Ted Dykstra (left) and Richard Greenblatt get keyed up.

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Opening don giovanni by WA Mozart (Opera Atelier). Stefano Montanari conducts ñ the Tafelmusik Orchestra in the comic opera

October 28 to 29 & November 2 to 5, 2011, 8 pm October 30, 2 pm PWYC winchester street theatre box office 416-967-1365 or at TDT.ORG

about the incorrigible playboy. Opens Oct 29 and runs to Nov 5, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $35-$175. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-622-2787, operaatelier.com.

FesTivaL oF oraL LiTeraTures (FOOL Festival).

Spoken word and storytelling are blended with dance, theatre, music and more, featuring Dan Yashinsky, Peggy Baker, Erika Batdorf and others. Oct 27-30, Thu-Sun 4 and 8 pm (see website for details and additional off-site events). Pwyc-$10. Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor W. foolfestival.ca.

Fireraisers by Max Frisch (the red light district). Frisch’s play about fear and mistrust during a city’s arson epidemic is given a modern update. Opens Nov 2 and runs to Nov 19, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $15. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. theredlightdistrict.ca. gLobaL CabareT FesTivaL (Young Centre for the Performing Arts). This arts fest features music, dance, comedy and more with Sharron Matthews, Jackie Richardson, the National Theatre of the World, Albert Schultz, Don Francks and others. Oct 28-30, Fri from 7 pm, Sat-Sun from 2 pm. $20-$25 per show, stu $15. 55 Mill. globalcabaret.ca.

The green door (Lower Ossington Theatre).

The cabaret series presents songs by Gary Krawford (Fri), and cabaret artist Ray Jessel (Sat). Oct 28-29 at 8 pm. $20. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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Love and oTher sTresses... The muLTimedia musiCaL by Merle Garbe (Encore Entertain-

ment). This musical comedy looks at the quest for love through social networking sites, texting and blogging. Opens Oct 27 and runs to Nov 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28-$29.50.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge.

1-855-985-2787, encoreshows.com.

Hmurder aT TwiLighT by Brian Caws and Barb Scheffler (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Modern-day vampires, monsters and humans try to coexist in this murder mystery. Opens Oct 28 and runs to Dec 23, Fri-Sat 6:30 pm (see website for other dates). $79$85. 2026 Yonge. mysteriouslyyours.com. our Town by Thornton Wilder (Victoria College Drama Society). A stage manager paints a portrait of life in a small American town around 1900. Oct 27-29, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 2 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

2 Pianos 4 hands by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt (Mirvish). Two boys struggle with lessons, parents and stage fright while dreaming of becoming concert piano stars (see Q&A, page 68). Previews Oct 29. Opens Oct 30 and runs to Nov 20, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $39-$74.

Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. warsaw gheTTo uPrising (Radio City Players). This historical radio drama looks at the uprising of January 1943. Opens Nov 1 and runs to Nov 6, Tue 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $32, stu $20. City Playhouse Theatre, 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. 905-882-7469.

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The LiFe and Times oF maCkenzie king: The hisTory oF The viLLage oF The ñ smaLL huTs, 1918-1939 by Michael Hollings-

worth (VideoCabaret). This history play looks at the Roaring Twenties and Dirty Thirties in Canada. Previews Nov 2-9. Opens Nov 10 and continues for a limited run, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$40. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-1725, videocab.com.

The sankoFa TriLogy by d’bi.young anitafrika (Tarragon Theatre). The stories of three generations of Jamaican women are told in the plays blood.claat, benu and word! sound! powah!, presented in repertory. Previews to Nov 3. Opens Nov 4 and runs to Dec 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm (no show Oct 28), some TueWed nights and Sat-Sun mats (call/see website for details). $20-$45. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

The TesT by Lukas Bärfuss (The Company Theatre). A man seeks scientific proof of his son’s paternity in this dark comedy (see story, page 68). Previews Oct 31-Nov 2. Opens Nov 3 and runs to Nov 26, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, companytheatre.ca.

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One-Nighters CabareT oF songs (Factory Theatre). Play-

wright/pianist Tomson Highway and vocalist Patricia Cano give an intimate cabaret show to benefit the theatre company. Oct 27 at 8 pm. $150. 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

Hgrindhouse ghouLies: haLLoween sPookTaCuLar (Skin Tight Outta Sight/Great

Canadian Burlesque). The troupe pays tribute to sleazy films of the 60s and 70s with Mysterion the Mind Reader and other guests. Oct 27 at 9 pm. $20-$25. Revival, 783 College. skintightouttasight.com. imPromPTu sPLendor (National Theatre of the World). The cast performs an improvised play based on audience suggestions. Oct 30 at 9 pm. $12. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

LeTTer From wingFieLd Farm by Dan Needles (Living Arts Centre). A businessman-turnedfarmer tells stories about his new small-town

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Eric Woolfe and his puppets pack a punch.

Shock Doc doC wuThergLoom’s haunTed mediCine show by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre). At a secret location (revealed when you book tickets). To November 6. $20-$35.

See Continuing, page 74. Rating: nnn

In Doc Wuthergloom’s Haunted Medicine Show, Eric Woolfe’s eponymous alter ego makes a suitably creepy companion during Halloween season, even if this mix of gruesome tales and smallscale magic lacks the weight of his larger-scale shows like last season’s multiDora-nominated Madhouse Variations.

Made up like a zombified carnival performer and sporting a faint British accent, the Doc recounts his eventful life, which includes being locked up by an evil apothecary, plotting with the man’s daughter to commit patricide and then moving to Canada and getting involved in more murderous mayhem.

Between autobiographical sections, he regales us with other dark tales and – most fun of all – brings audience members onstage for some magic tricks, which all lead to his hawking his $3 Home Exorcism Almanac so viewers can ward off curses and spells.

Woolfe relishes his script’s antiquated vocabulary, and he’s very good on his feet in the intimate, playful

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Johnny CanuCk by Jovanka Bach (John Stark Productions). A wandering troubadour returns home to find his wife has left him in this solo musical show. Oct 28-30, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

Like The FirsT Time by Adam Seelig (One Little Goat Theatre Company). A woman is torn between her new single life and her past as a wife and mom. Opens Oct 28 and runs to Nov 13, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$23, stu/srs $15-$18, Sun pwyc. Walmer Centre Theatre, 188 Lowther. 416-915-0201, onelittlegoat.org.

ition must confront their mortality after their ship is trapped in ice. Previews Nov 2. Opens Nov 3 and runs to Nov 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $10-$20, Sun pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, sometimesytheatre.com.

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space designed by Melanie McNeill and lit by Gareth Crew. He’s almost upstaged by his puppets and props, which range from an oversized ghoul of a woman to a festering hand.

Under Christine Brubaker’s direction, however, the show’s pace often slackens, and some storylines – an intriguing potato that contains the soul of a woman, for instance – aren’t sufficiently developed. It’s never really established why the Doc’s putting on the show in the first place or why it’s being mounted in a secret location, which we enter after delivering a specific knock and reciting a password.

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She giggles mischievously. In fact, Marie Chouinard. Presented by Canadian it was only a few weeks before the Stage at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). work’s premiere that she came up Opens Tuesday (November 1) and runs to with the myth-based title.

November 5, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm. $24“I was looking and looking for a $99. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. story,” she says, “and then I realized that all the elements of the Orpheus there’s a slight delay reaching myth were in the choreography. That Marie Chouinard, but she’s all smiles gave me shivers.” when I finally get her on the line.

She’d even choreographed a se“I had so much to do, so it was no quence in which a dancer breaks the problem,” says the Montreal choreofourth wall and plunges into – and grapher, who takes the prize for the onto – the audience. most enthusiastic artist I’ve ever “It was similar to Orpheus stepping interviewed. neaRly 2,000 into the underworld – a place he’s not RestauRants!

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HMuRDeR aT TwilighT (Mysteriously Yours...

Dinner Theatre). A self-guided tour of the castle, dinner and a play are part of this interactive murder mystery night. Oct 30 at 6 pm. $129-$149. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416489-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

HnighT oF DReaD (Clay & Paper Theatre). Puppets, stilt dancers and others perform and parade in an exploration of fear.

Oct 29, parade assembles at 4 pm, departs at 6 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. clayandpapertheatre.org.

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HSTRange ThingS Done: a nighTMaRe in Six acTS (The Empty Room). Drawn from new

stories and classic literature, six short plays with themes of fear and horror run in a continuous cycle. Oct 29, from sunset (6-11 pm). $10. Hub 14, 14 Markham. empty-room.com.

SupeR VillainS (Against the Grain Theatre).

This concert features arias and ensembles that pay homage to despicable characters in opera and musical theatre. Oct 27 at 8 pm. $25. SMASH Furniture, 2880 Dundas W. againstthegraintheatre.com.

TRue SToRieS, MaDe up playS (Sage Tyrtle).

Improv troupes act out plays based on true stories. Oct 27 at 8 pm. Free. No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. 416-928-6777.

ViVa cabaReT (YURA). This tribute show features divas from stage and screen. Nov 2 at 8:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, Melody Bar. 416-531-4635, rushow.ru.

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all My SonS by Arthur Miller (Amicus Produc-

tions). After returning from duty during WWII, a man falls in love with his late brother’s fiancée, but family secrets and tensions intervene.

Runs to Oct 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $18.

Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall.

416-860-6176. angelina balleRina The MuSical by Susan Di Lallo and Ben Morss (Vital Theatre). Angelina

and her friends try out for the lead role in this all-ages show. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 11 am. $20.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

416-642-8973, lowerossingtontheatre.com. bhaRaTi (David Mirvish). Dancers, actors, musicians and acrobats present a story of love and homecoming, plus an opening-night Diwali festival and marketplace. Runs to Nov 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $39-$109.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

HcabaReT enchanTé (Les Coquettes). The burlesque troupe presents a carnival theme with a twisted take on fairy tales. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 7 and 9:30 pm. $15-$30. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com. cheSS The MuSical by Tim Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson (Mirvish). This remount of the musical about a love triangle involving rival chess players – one American, one Soviet – and the woman they love gets a dazzling production, including a chess-inspired set and costumes. But the performances are uneven and, apart from the One Night In Bangkok sequence, the show is nearly impossible to follow for those who don’t know the 1984 concept album or one of the previous productions. Runs to Oct 30, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun 2 pm. $35-$175. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nn (Joshua Errett) ciRcuMciSe Me! by Yisrael Campbell (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Campbell performs his solo comedy about growing up Roman Catholic and his three conversions to Judaism.

Runs to Nov 6, Tue-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mats Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35.50-$65.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com.

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Dance along The Silk RoaD Nawranj Iranian Association and Kahrizak Foundation of Canada present traditional dances from regions along China’s ancient Silk Road by Khorshid Khanoom Dance Group. Oct 29 at 8 pm. $40$50. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905-787-8811, nawrani. com.

Dance FoR JuSTice Amnesty International presents a fundraiser with professional dancers performing French Can-Can, ballet, tap, salsa, hip-hop and more. Oct 27 at 7:30 pm. $30. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, aito.ca/justice.

FouR MaD huMouRS pounds per square inch and the New Alt Performance Group present four solo works about the nature of madness, two performed live on site by Linnea Swan and Gerry Trentham, and two performed by James Morrow and Amy Taravella virtually via live feed from Buffalo, NY. Opens Nov 2

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and runs to Nov 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $28, stu/ srs $20. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. oRpheuS anD euRyDice Compagnie Marie Chouinard and Canadian Stage present the ancient Greek myth interpreted through dance (see story, page 72).

Opens Nov 1 and runs to Nov 5, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $24-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. pTeRoS TacTicS Toronto Dance Theatre presents a new version of the work by Christopher House about the instant of desire. Opens Oct 28 and runs to Nov 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $26, stu/ srs $20, Sun pwyc. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-967-1365, tdt.org.

SeRieS 8:08 presents a choreographic performance workshop featuring Leslie Glen, Diana Groenendijk, Jamee Vallin, Jennifer Lynn Dick/Michelle Silagy and Lucy Rupert.

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Director/adaptor Morris Panych’s production of Ibsen’s play of secrets and lies is a hypnotic, ultimately draining experience. The cast understands that horror can be quiet and unrelenting, especially Nancy Palk and Gregory Prest as mother and son cursed by family silence and societal hypocrisy. Runs to Nov 18, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28.

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projections are part of this play about Toronto teens and high school life. Runs to Oct 28, see website for dates and times. $10-$30, stu mats $8. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley, Studio Theatre. theoriginalnorwegian.com. in the Pines by Akutagawa Ryunosuke, adapted by the company (Red One Theatre Collective/Yabu no Naka Co-op). Adapted from Japanese Roshomon tales, this story of love, honour and betrayal takes the audience back in time through the historic house. Runs to Oct 31, Thu-Mon 7 & 9 pm. $20. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. redonetheatre.com.

Hmatchbox macbeth by William Shakespeare and the company (Litmus Theatre). Performed in an hour by four actors in a west end shed, this compressed version of the Scottish play is full of haunting, imaginative details. Director Matthew Thomas Walker uses every inch of the space and lets us glimpse outdoors to witness snatches of concurrent scenes. The actors give nuanced performances, but the real star is the emerging company, Litmus Theatre, who find a way to produce maximum effects from a minimal budget. Runs to Oct 30, Thu-Sun 7 and 9 pm. $15. Secret Location, revealed with ticket purchase. litmustheatre.com. nnnn (GS) murDer on ossington by Tom Arthur Davis and Alex Rubin (Pandemic Theatre). Inspired by true events, this psychological drama explores themes of violence from different perspectives. Runs to Oct 30, Fri-Sun 8 pm. Pwyc (must reserve). Secret Location, revealed with ticket purchase. tix@pandemictheatre.ca.

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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

Gilmour brings the wiry, cartoonish energy of his Theatre Smith-Gilmour work to the subdued happenings.

Still, watching them tend their crop is like watching a theatrical screensaver, and it communicates about as much.

Alexis, an eloquent novelist and essayist, has given himself the unenviable task of writing a play with only two hallowed words. In the program notes, he explains that this is as much about the elements of theatre as it is about the Decalogue. While it’s an intriguing experiment to construct theatre within such limits, the tension that builds as the scenes progress stifles rather than grips.

Kimberly Purtell’s set design only half-successfully converts an upstairs rehearsal hall into a convincing theatrical space. The long, glaringly white alley has a kind of ascetic clarity, but it too feels like a restriction the actors must work around. Alternatively, John Gzowski’s lively sound design offers some respite from the silence – sometimes jarringly so.

It’s not the absence of words that obscures this production; it’s the insufficiency of the action. More often than not, Name In Vain (Decalogue Two) feels like a game of charades, the contenders stuck performing the same gestures over and over – everything, not just the name, done in vain. naomi sKWarna

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up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family. Runs to Jan 1, 2012, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51.50-$56.

Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 1-855985-2787, italianjewish.ca.

Name IN VaIN (Decalogue Two) by André Alexis (Tarragon Theatre). A monk breaks his vow of silence and the second commandment, sending the brotherhood into upheaval (see review, page 74). Runs to Oct 30, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $15-$22. 30 Bridgman, ExtraExtra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NN (Naomi Skwarna) NIcholas NIckleby ParT 1 by Charles Dickens, adapted by David Edgar (Theatre Erindale). A young man struggles to support his family after his father dies and his uncle turns on him. Runs to Oct 30, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905-569-4369, theatreerindale.com.

The Normal hearT by Larry Kramer (Studio 180 Theatre). Kramer’s blistering account of the early years of the AIDS crisis in New York City gets a powerful production that’s still relevant, infuriating and moving three decades after it debuted. Director Joel Greenberg stages the show in the round, making the autobiographical show fiercely intimate. The cast is superb, led by Jonathan Wilson’s writer/activist, who anchors the work with his passion and humanity. One of the best of the year. Runs to Nov 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$35. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, studio180theatre. com. NNNNN (GS) 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) PINkalIcIous, The musIcal by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre).

A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 1:30 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.

PrIVaTe lIVes by Noël Coward (Mirvish).

Don’t look for an elegant drawing-room battle of wits in director Richard Eyre’s version of one of Coward’s best plays. Former spouses Elyot and Amanda battle 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, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$175. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNNN (JK) HThe raTs IN The walls by HP Lovecraft (Four Winds Collective). A man reclaims his ancestral home and tries to find out why it was abandoned long ago. Runs to Oct 28, Fri 7 and 9 pm. $10. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Pkwy. fourwindscollective. com.

HThe rocky horror show by Richard O’Brien (Lower Ossington Theatre). A newly engaged couple stumble upon a freaky castle in this classic rock musical. Runs to Oct 31, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 and 11 pm, Mon 8 pm. $28.50$38.50. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Those who caN’T Do... by Erin Fleck (Theatre Passe Muraille). In her important solo show probing the perils of – and necessity for – sex education, Erin Fleck plays a teacher who’s unprepared to teach sex ed, the principal who makes bad decisions, the deluded parent who wants to deny his kids condoms, the student who’s having responsible sex but keeping it secret, the so-called school slut Taylor and more. Too bad Fleck’s performance chops aren’t as good as her writing. Runs to Oct 29, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$30, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) war of The worlDs by Howard Koch (Radio City Players). This drama looks at how the 30s radio drama based on the HG Wells novel created a panic. Runs to Oct 30, Sun 7:30 pm, mat Oct 30 at 2 pm. $32, stu $20. City Playhouse Theatre, 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. 905-882-7469.

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more. Runs to Oct 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10, pass $30. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, nativeearth.ca. wheN The reaPer calls by Peter Colley (City Playhouse Theatre). A prank between old college buddies goes murderously wrong. Runs to Nov 6, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat (and Nov 2) 2 pm. $32, stu $20. 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. 905-882-7469.

Out of Town aDmIrable crIchToN by JM Barrie (Shaw Festival). Barrie’s thoughtful and ñThe sometimes romantic play looks at the con-

trasting social hierarchies in the worlds of civilized London and a deserted tropical island.

The Shaw ensemble, headed by Steven Sutcliffe as the conservative, subservient butler who becomes the leader on the island, captures the script’s comedy and irony, while director Morris Panych gives the story a musical vaudeville frame. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $24$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) The graPes of wraTh by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

The homecomINg by Harold Pinter (Stratford Festival). A man and his American wife return to his all-male family in Lon-

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don for a tense reunion. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca.

Jesus chrIsT suPersTar by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford). In director Des McAnuff’s hands, the radical and risky religious rock musical becomes a thrilling show. Paul Nolan finds the inner core of Jesus, hitting all the high notes in the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice score as the man not quite ready to do God’s bidding. As Judas, Josh Young, also an exceptional singer, manages to gain our sympathies. Chilina Kennedy as Mary Magdalene is superb, and great support from Brent Carver as Pontius Pilate and Bruce Dow as Herod. To Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66.

Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) The mIsaNThroPe by Molière (Stratford Festival). A man scorns social conventions but falls for a superficial socialite in this manners comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. my faIr laDy by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Shaw Festival). This musical is based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

TwelfTh NIghT by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The classic comedy about love and mistaken identity gets a staging.

Runs in rep to Oct 28. $50-$106, stu/srs $25$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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Thursday, October 27 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Harry Doupe,

Matt Falk and host Perry Perlmutar. To Oct 30, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 41 Supermarket presents John Hastings, Adam McFawn, Jeff Elliott and the Boom. 9 pm. $10.

268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com.

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The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the actor/comic in a live show.

To Oct 28, Thu 8 pm, Fri 10 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. brownpapertickets.com.

REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) ñDREAMS

Second City presents its latest revue, a high-energy, tons-of-laughs show that gets a big jolt of energy from four new writer/performers, a bold set and an amplified sound system. The writing is solid, but the performers sharpen each scene with their physicality, especially newcomer Alastair Forbes, a tall, lanky clown who’s unafraid of looking silly. A couple of political sketches hit their targets, and some very long sequences pay off nicely. But the funniest scenes involve a 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) THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW Centre for Inquiry and JP Hodgkinson present atheistfriendly comedy. 8 pm. $10. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. cfiontario.org.

QUEER COMEDY COLLECTIVE Buddies in Bad Times Theatre presents the queer sketch troupe in an encore performance of its hit

show. To Oct 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, glam-glam.com.

RED NOSE DISTRICT Black Swan Comedy presents a clown comedy show w/ host Jean-Paul Mullet and others. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Lee Camp. To Oct 29, Thu-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Peter Anthony.

To Oct 29, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $13-$22. 70 Interchange Way. yukyuks.com.

YUK YUK’S WEST presents Jo-Anna Downey. To Oct 29, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $13-$22. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks. com.

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Friday, October 28 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 27.

CARLA COLLINS See Thu 27.

COMEDY AT THE SWAN Black Swan Comedy

presents Marcel St Pierre, Carmine Lucarelli, Janet Davidson, host Ralph MacLeod and others. 8 & 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ Dan’s Mix ‘95.

9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 27.

MAKING AMENDS: THE BROAST OF BLAIR STREETER Naughty Nadz presents a roast in

honour of Streeter’s 40th birthday w/ Poetik

2011/12 Season

Tribal Crackling Wind (Toronto) Fluency DW192 Nov 3 – 5, 2011, 8pm

Enwave Theatre, Harbourfront Centre, 231 Queens Quay W

Choreographer: Peter Chin Videography: Jeremy Mimnagh, Music: Garnet Willis Performers: Peter Chin, Alison Denham, Billy Marchenski, María Constanza Guzmán, Jeremy Mimnagh Lighting and set design: David Duclos

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Justiz, emcee Dom Paré and others. 9 pm. Free.

1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577. hA MOCKIN’ HALLOWEEN MockeryNight.com presents stand-up, sketch and improv. 8:30 pm. $10. Shoxs, 2827 Dundas W. mockerynight.com.

QUEER COMEDY COLLECTIVE See Thu 27.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 27.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 27.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 27.

Saturday, October 29 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 27.

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

family-friendly improv and sketch. 1 pm. $12.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. hBLACK SWAN COMEDY presents an Improv Drop-In workshop. 6 pm. $5. Huckleberry Funn: Spooky Improv Tales w/ Colin Sharpe, Maddox Campbell, Ban Ball and others. 8 pm.

The Ladder, competitive entertainment. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 27.

LAUGH FOR THE ENVIRONMENT Second City

presents an improv comedy benefit for the Toronto Green Committee. 3 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

QUEER COMEDY COLLECTIVE See Thu 27.

RAY JESSEL The Green Door Cabaret presents the musical ‘sit-down comedian’ in a live show. 8 pm. $30. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747.

SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents an improv musical. 8 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

SPILLIN’ THE BEANS COMEDY Full of Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. fullofbeans.ca.

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

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 27.

YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 27.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 27.

Sunday, October 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 27.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 27.

THE FIRST EVER MCCOMEDY SHOW The Flying

Beaver Pubaret presents stand-up and sketch w/ Daniela Saioni, Marco Bernardi, hosts Michael McLean and Shannon McDonough and others. 7 pm. $10. 488 Parliament. 647347-6567, brownpapertickets.com.

LAUGH SABBATH PRESENTS: 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SPECTACULAR Laugh

ñ Sabbath presents a mashup of its shows Pure Gold, Talent Show, Evening Jim Jam and Hour Of Power, featuring Brian Barlow, Tom Henry, Sara Hennessey, Michael Balazo, Aaron Eves, Kathleen Phillips, Katie Crown, host Chris Locke and many others. Doors 8 pm. $10.

Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

NUBIAN DISCIPLES ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ Ernie Vicente, Jazz Mann, Trixx, Jean Paul, Keith Pedro, Brian Francis, host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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

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Monday, October 31 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE presents Ron Sparks, Rob Pue, Shelley Marshall, Terry ñ Clement, Rhiannon Archer, Casey Corbin, Sara

Hennessey, Matt O’Brien, Ian Lynch, MC Debra DiGiovanni and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com.

BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Monday Improv Jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. The Improv Gong Show. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

THE COMEDY CABARET Chris MacLean & Robin Crossman present stand-up w/ Jon Schabl, Tim Nasiopoulos, Keven Soldo, Ernie Vicente, Georgea Brooks Hancock, Jeff Clark, Danish Anwar and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com.

FAT KAT$ COMEDY NITE Nola Belle presents weekly comedy. 9 pm. Free. KOS Restaurant, 61 Bellevue. 416-200-0319. hFATKID HALLOWEEN DARKSHOW Comedy Bar presents comics who used to be fat kids w/ Monty Scott, Keelan Miller, Scott Dell, Josh Infald, Jeff Danson, Danny Polishchuk, Mike Rita and host Adrian Sawyer. 9:30 pm. $10.

945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

AT UNLOVABLE HALLOWEEN HELL EDITION presents Avery Edison, ñ Kathleen Phillips, Mark Little, John Hastings, hLAUGHABLE

Stephanie Tolev, host Nick Flanagan and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

Tuesday, November 1 GEOFF HENDRY AND ASSOCIATES Supermarket

presents comedy and music w/ Mark Bennett, Martha O’Neill, Shoeless and the Uphill Farmers. 7:30 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

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Second City presents a fast-paced, improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE presents The Headliner Series w/ the Sketchersons, Picnicface, Jet Fighter Pilots, MC Debra DiGiovanni and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

SH’LONG Black Swan presents short and long form improv w/ Laura Bailey, Kyle Betts, Janet Davidson, Jane Luk, Ralph MacLeod, Gord Oxley and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Lincoln Trudeau, Martha O’Neill, Will Norris, Cal Post, Alex Nussbaum and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

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Wednesday, November 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Steve Levine, Adrienne Fish, Elaine Dandy, Evan Desmarais, Joel Buxton, Mike Samuels and host Nick Carter. 8:30 pm. $6.

2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 27.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Nile

Seguin, Debra DiGiovanni, Cleve Jones, ñ Jeff Elliott, Hoodo Hershi, Darryl Orr, Karen

O’Keefe, Jake Leland, Tom Mes and host JoAnna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Mark Forward. To Nov 6, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Audio clips from cover interview with AMBER HEARD • Review of IN TIME • Friday column on HALLOWEEN SCREENINGS • and more Antonio Banderas (with Elena Anaya): “Only Almodóvar could do something as crazy as this.”

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Banderas goes Skin deep

Actor reunites with Almodóvar, the director who launched his career By RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

THE SKIN I LIVE IN directed by Pedro Almodóvar, written by Almodóvar with the collaboration of Agustín Almodóvar, with Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya and Marisa Paredes. A Mongrel Media release.

117 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (October 28). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84.

antonio banderas has just turned 51, with quite a few grey hairs to show for it, but once you see the old Desperado leaping and growling in a Toronto Film Festival hotel hallway, you know he’s not about to slow down.

“I look back now and see a lot of work, people, faces and souls,” says Banderas. “And I feel like I’m in the middle of the game. The match is not over, and I may score some goals.”

He’s at TIFF waving the flag for the new Pedro Almodóvar film, The Skin I Live In, a diabolical thriller about a plastic surgeon and the mysterious girl he keeps locked in his house.

Banderas’s career has spanned three decades, many continents and movies ranging from Almodóvar’s Matador to Shrek spinoff Puss In Boots, also out this weekend. He fancies himself the kind of actor who might work in a travelling troupe, performing in a light comedy in the afternoon and Shakespeare in the evening.

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“I think movies serve many different purposes,” he says. “If they are legitimate and made with dignity, they are all open for business.”

The actor gets to serve all those purposes in Almodóvar’s films, which Banderas says are a genre of their own.

“At the centre of that genre is eclecticism,” he says, in that an Almodóvar film cites different movies, filmmakers, eras and genres.

“He takes you to the altitudes of Shakespeare and then two sequences later you are in a Mexican soap opera,” he says of the director’s whiplash twists. “Only he could do some-

thing as crazy as this.”

The Skin I Live In is Banderas’s sixth collaboration with Almodóvar but the first in over 20 years. He recognizes a change in himself when approaching the director’s work.

“I am less anxious than I used to be,” he says, remarking on the sense of unease he once had when making films such as Law Of Desire. He feared being “crucified” for kissing a man onscreen in that film, despite the fact that the same character murders someone much earlier.

“Why do people easily accept the fact that you take a life on the screen and they cannot take the fact that

REVIEW THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar) Rating: NNN The Frankensteinish plot may be a departure for him, but The Skin I Live In has all of Pedro Almodóvar trademark kitsch, over-the-top melodrama and recurring questions about sexual identity and voyeurism. Antonio Banderas, the director’s early muse, plays suave plastic surgeon Robert Ledgard, a mad scientist of sorts who experiments with engineered skin on Vera (Elena Anaya), a fetching lab rat he keeps locked in his home.

To reveal anything more about the plot would only ruin the fun of all the jaw-dropping revelations and startling shifts from tragedy to dark comedy. Let’s just say that at one point a guy shows up in a tiger costume ready to rape and commit murder. In any other filmmaker’s hands, this would be impossible to swallow, RS but Almodóvar makes it into a weird and delectable dish.

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you’re kissing somebody of the same sex?” he laments. Since Law Of Desire, he notes, Almodóvar’s sexual antics and narrative tricks have gone from controversial to classic, with a growing audience that’s willing to accept what the director dishes out.

“The best ally for Pedro Almodóvar is time, because you have to digest those things.”

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ANIMATED PREQUEL

Cat’s meow PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller). 90 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 28). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84.

Rating: NNN Following two lacklustre Shrek sequels, the animated prequel for Antonio Banderas’s Puss In Boots character wisely eschews any form of pop-culture referencing in favour of a simple but effective heist tale.

Disgraced following a botched bank robbery, the feline outlaw is enlisted by his former best friend, Humpty Dumpty (voiced by Zach Galifianakis), and his assistant, Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek), to steal magic beans from Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris) and reach the top of the beanstalk to retrieve the goose that lays the golden eggs.

The 3-D animation lives up to the usually high standard DreamWorks has set in recent years, with exciting chase sequences and fight scenes that rival those in most live action films.

Banderas steps back into Puss’s boots with ease, and the other actors are well cast, but Galifianakis deserves special recognition for abandoning his usual crazy-guy shtick to present Humpty as an interestingly flawed and rounded character.

The story develops some plot holes due to an unnecessary twist halfway through, but the actors and animators work together to hit the sweet spot that will keep kids and adults equally entertained.

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Family drama

Sophie sags SOPHIE (Leif Bristow). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (October 28). For venues and times see Movies, page 84. Rating: NN

Another great cast, another crappy script – another Canadian dud. Sophie maintains a distressing pattern.

When her zookeepers parents sell best friend Sheba the elephant to the circus to pay her tuition to a dance academy, aspiring ballet performer Sophie (Brittany Bristow) goes to work at the circus in order to get the elephant back.

There she meets the usual suspects – the big-top owner with the heart of gold (John Rhys-Davies, chowing down on the scenery), a messed-up

Big top flop: Brittany Bristow shares the spotlight with Sheba the elephant.

Rocker Joe Strummer plays it Straight.

Cult western

Hell week StRAIgHt tO HEll REtuRNS (Alex Cox).

90 minutes. Opens Friday (October 28) at the Projection Booth. See Indie & Rep Film, page 91. Rating: NNN

Alex Cox made this wacko spaghetti western homage in 1987, after Repo Man and Sid And Nancy, but it proved too bizarre to gain a cult following. So this director’s cut is definitely worth a look. It’s about a handful of sharply dressed criminals (including Joe Strummer and Courtney Love) who hide out in a violent community where the resident coffee addicts have no purpose beyond threatening or killing whoever visits.

More a deadpan comic riff on west-

ern and crime movie conventions than a conventional narrative film, Straight To Hell was scripted by Cox in three days for a cast of musician buddies including the Pogues and Elvis Costello when their planned tour of Nicaragua fell through. The rushed production and massive cast give the film a ramshackle, episodic quality. It doesn’t make much sense, but Cox’s twisted combination of B movie homage, surrealist humour and unpredictable stunt casting often reaches hysterical dark-comedy heights. The film is unique if nothing else.

This edition features an extra five minutes of stop-motion skeletons, minor deleted scenes and CGIenhanced violence. The new material adds little, but here’s hoping the rerelease attracts new fans to this underPHIl BROWN rated oddity.

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Bard stiff

minutes. Opens Friday (October 28). For venues and times see Movies, page 84.

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Needs tune up INNI (Vincent Morisset). 75 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 28) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 88. Rating: NNN INNI exists simply as a concert film documenting a two-night stand of performances by Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós at London’s Alexandra Palace. Director Vincent Morisset (known more recently for his work on Arcade Fire’s Miroir Noir) aims this no-frills musical experience – an apt follow-up to Sigur Rós’s 2007 cinematic outing, Heima – squarely at the band’s loyal fan base.

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Shooting mainly in grainy, bleachedout 16mm in an artful fashion best described as “early Jarmusch meets Murnau,” Morisset forgoes giving the audience much background into the band’s inner workings in an effort to let the music speak for itself. The only archival footage on display is fleeting and distorted in a way to make it almost inscrutable.

Sigur Rós fans will be thrilled that the best-known tracks are prominently heard and accompanied by a lush and clean sound mix, but casual observers might balk at the film’s lack of insight.

The film’s lean 75-minute running time feels like just enough.

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Cult appeal

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(Sean Durkin). 103 minutes. Opens Friday (October 28). For venues and times, see Movies, page 84. Rating: NNNN

Sundance went wild for Sean Durkin’s intense, actorly study of a young woman named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen, better known as the younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley), who flees a cult and crashes with her sister (Sarah Paulson) and her new husband (Hugh Dancy), who haven’t the slightest idea how to help her through her decompression.

The narrative shifts fluidly between Martha’s shaky recovery and flashbacks to her time away, dominated by a pitch-perfect John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), whose power is intriguingly at odds with his scraggly, skinny carriage.

That’s part of the character’s appeal; he doesn’t appear the least bit threatening, until he turns on you.

Durkin confidently escalates the psychological tension, easing visual elements into the frame to trigger Martha’s tangled memories. The timeshifting reminds me of Atom Egoyan’s jumbled narratives, but Martha Marcy May Marlene has a cleaner, clearer and more chronologically ordered take on where it’s going, anchored by Olsen’s wide-open performance as a lost young woman trying to figure out who she’s supposed to be.

The ending will piss off a lot of people, but I think it’s perfect.

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animal tamer (Thure Riefenstein) and a surly acrobat (Augustus Prew) who’s lost his nerve.

A television reporter (Deborah Kara Unger, wasted) gives the story a bit of complexity, first supporting Sophie, then wondering why the girl doesn’t try to return Sheba to her real home in Africa. But the script fails to develop tension or give Sophie much believable internal conflict.

And every 10 minutes, the movie stops dead in its tracks so that cutesy tunes by unknowns can play over filler – a dance sequence, a trapeze display, Sophie riding her motorbike to the circus site.

A soundtrack is supposed to add something to a movie, not be a vehicle for middling songs by the filmmakers’ SuSAN g. cOlE best friends.

Last week Sony Pictures announced it was scaling back the initial release of the literary thriller Anonymous from thousands of screens to 250. Smart move. It’s a terrible movie, and they’re cutting their losses. But it also makes me want to quote Regan in King Lear and ask, “What need one?”

Roland Emmerich’s silly picture would have you believe that that line, and all those in Hamlet, Macbeth, etc, weren’t written by Shakespeare but by Edward de Vere, the Earl of Oxford (Rhys Ifans), who felt he couldn’t be identified as the author because of his

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social position. But he could pay the vain, idiotic actor Shakespeare (Rafe Spall) to accept the applause.

That’s not even the stupidest thing about Anonymous, which involves burned manuscripts, incest and an affair with Elizabeth I (played at different ages with let’s-get-this-overwith gumption by real-life mother/daughter team Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson) that results in a child.

It all makes The Da Vinci Code seem like a masterpiece. Emmerich directed disaster pics like The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla, so of course the CGI-created Elizabethan England, mob scenes and rain and fire effects come off best.

But the tone is wildly uneven, and Ifans whispers his way through the role, resulting in a different kind of glENN SuMI disaster movie.

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rum Diary star refuses to be just another pretty face

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Amber HeArd glam, queer

THE RUM DIARY written and directed by Bruce Robinson, based on the novel by Hunter S. Thompson, with Johnny Depp, Michael Rispoli, Aaron Eckhart and Amber Heard. An eOne Films release. 119 minutes.

Opens Friday (October 28).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 84.

amber heard just wasn’t made for these times.

Sure, she can play contemporary roles: she kicked ass in Drive Angry, turned up as Seth Rogen’s high-school-age girlfriend in Pineapple Express and tried to eat Jesse Eisenberg’s face in Zombieland.

But there’s something about her that reaches back to an earlier era. Her style is straight out of the early 1960s; her attitude and poise recall the young Grace Kelly.

And she makes it work.

“I have a certain quality to me,” says Heard on a crackly cellphone connection from Los Angeles. “I wear all vintage clothing. I drive a vintage car. I still listen to music on vinyl. I don’t know why, but in my personal life I tend to exist very much in the 60s. And life imitates art; I’ve found myself living in the 60s professionally for about three years now. It’s kinda nice.”

Heard’s latest film, The Rum Diary, makes the most of her retro vibe by casting her as Chenault, a self-aware temptress for whom Johnny Depp’s booze-soaked journalist falls hard in 1960 Puerto Rico.

For the film – an adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson’s semi-autobiographical novel – director Bruce Robinson dressed Heard in a meticulous period wardrobe, but it’s the decade itself that best suits her.

“It fits me,” she says. “It’s appropriate. And for The Rum Diary I did make certain choices to hearken back to these old 50s and 60s movie stars in order to do justice to my character, who’s the embodiment of the archetype. [She’s] the woman of that era in many ways.”

The enigmatic Chenault is a rare passive role for Heard. We’re more used to seeing her characters drive the plot – sometimes literally, as in her wheel-spinning turn opposite Nicolas Cage

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in Drive Angry earlier this year. She’s a hell of a lot of fun in that movie, although she acknowledges that the details of her performance were lost on some.

“I actually did create a character with Drive Angry,” she laughs. “People might not be able to see that because I’m wearing Daisy Dukes, but that’s due to their incompetence at being able to distinguish a female character beyond the fact that she might be sexy. And if they stop at sexy, then that’s their problem, you know?”

It wouldn’t be fair to say Heard has had to struggle against her looks, but she’s certainly resisted the temptation to coast on them. Don’t expect her to turn up in Transformers 4, no matter how much money they wave at her.

Instead, she’s taken on a lot of modestly budgeted suspense and thriller projects because she believes those films allow for stronger characters than mainstream comedies or dramas. And she has a point.

Her big-screen breakthrough, Jonathan Levine’s ingenious All The Boys Love Mandy Lane, uses her as the ultimate Final Girl in a subversion of slasher-movie tropes. John Carpenter cast her in The Ward as a troubled young woman rallying her fellow inmates in a 1964 mental asylum. The little-seen remake of And Soon The Darkness offered Heard the chance to play an action hero, a young American tourist looking for her abducted friend in Argentina.

“I want to create characters and tell a story [at this stage] in my life, and I’m saddened by

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the lack of opportunity to do that,” she says. “In Hollywood it’s almost as if women are treated like any other minority class. We’re represented in very two-dimensional terms. I guess when 99 per cent of filmmakers are male, stories are going to be told through certain eyes. You know, there’s so much potential there, and I’m saddened that there’s such a lack of opportunity.

“So in movies like And Soon The Darkness, I seized upon the chance to play a character who does something. I work with artists like John Carpenter because I like genre movies, and I was excited to work with a filmmaker who could direct strong women. And I also got the opportunity to do something in The Ward – fight a ghost, fight myself, run from a killer or be the killer. These roles go beyond how you look in a bathing suit.”

Heard’s just as committed in her personal life. She turned heads late last year when she attended GLAAD’s 25th anniversary party with her girlfriend, the photographer Tasya van Ree. It was the couple’s first public appearance.

“I personally think that if you deny or hide something, you’re inadvertently admitting it’s wrong,” she said in an interview about coming out on the website AfterEllen.com. “I don’t feel like I’m wrong.”

Being out and outspoken was one thing; signing onto the NBC series The Playboy Club was something else.

Heard’s association with the just-cancelled show – which plumbed the lives of the women

Amber Heard and Johnny Depp heat up The Rum Diary.

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working as bunnies at Hugh Hefner’s sexed-up nightclub in the early 60s – seems at odds with her dynamic feminism.

“I wanted to work on a show that was character-driven and had a complex, female-driven cast because that’s rare,” Heard stresses. “My character had a lot of potential and a lot to work against. I relate very much to being someone who is perceived to be something at a superficial level but is quite opposite on the inside. I wanted to tell that story.”

The show was cancelled just three episodes in, but Heard is proud of the time she spent on it and happy with the experience.

“As a woman, you have to fight tooth and nail to get a [developed] character out of a normal script. For that reason, I viewed a project like The Playboy Club with a certain hope and interest. It was a female-driven character drama on a network show aimed to premiere in prime time. As a woman, I’m interested in changing perceptions and minds and challenging standards and norms, and that’s exactly what these women were doing at that time.

“The fact that I’m trying to challenge many of the same standards [that existed in the 60s] is ironic and interesting and exciting to me. It’s part of why I wanted work on a project that set out to ruffle feathers.”

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THE RUM DIARY (Bruce Robinson) Rating: NNN Hunter S. Thompson’s early novel about a rookie journalist plunged into political corruption and general debauchery in 1960 Puerto Rico comes to the screen with its semi-autobiographical nature front and centre.

Producer/star Johnny Depp may be playing a character named Paul Kemp, but he’s channelling Thompson himself, reviving the clipped delivery he used for the writer’s Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas avatar, Raoul Duke, and slouching around with a perpetual hangover. Things get serious when Kemp falls for an alluring young woman (Amber Heard) who happens to be the girlfriend of a local swell (Aaron Eckhart) bent on enlisting Kemp in a shady land deal.

Venturing behind the camera for the first time in 19 years, director Bruce Robinson (Withnail & I) tones down Thompson’s bad craziness for a more realistic mood. The result is a strange push-pull between Depp’s farcical inclinations and Robinson’s world-weariness, and while it doesn’t totally gel, Eckhart and Heard do some really interesting work on the NW margins.

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As we see in Cindy Meehl’s terrific documentary Buck, the rugged, plainspoken Brannaman comes by his knowledge the hard way. As a boy in Montana, he and his brother were removed from the care of their violent, alcoholic father and rehabilitated by compassionate foster parents.

That history informs every moment in Meehl’s profile, which shows Brannaman smoothing out the relationships between owners and horses.

He’ll talk about his tragic past, but refuses to be defined by it – though it may be what drives him to try even harder to save a colt so badly unsocialized that it charges any human in sight.

Meehl illustrates her subject’s kindness and compassion through interviews with family, friends and illustrious colleagues like Robert Redford, who hired the trainer as a technical adviser on The Horse Whisperer – a film inspired in part

by Buck’s own story.

But Brannaman’s spirit comes through best in the footage of him working with the animals. It’s enough to break your heart, even as it heals his own.

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Bustling Brazil Ó paÍ, Ó! (Monique Gardenberg). 96 minutes. Subtitled. Screens tonight (October 27), 7 pm, as part of the Brazil Film Festival, at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. brazilfilmfest.net. See Indie & Rep Film, page 91. Rating: nnn The fifth annual Brazil Film Festival kicks off tonight at the TIFF Bell Lightbox with a 7 pm gala screening of Monique Gardenberg’s raucous 2007

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feature, Ó Paí, Ó!

The title is an expression of wonder and disbelief that roughly translates as “Would you look at that?”

That was more or less my response to the movie, an expansive, chaotic look at a day in the life of a neighbourhood in bustling Bahia, where the residents of a shabby apartment building spend the last day of Carnival arguing, cross-dressing and occasionally bursting into song.

It’s a good-hearted hodgepodge of plot lines and characters that leaves

you feeling like you’ve parachuted into a vibrant community and landed on your head. It’s dizzying and disorienting, and the expected rules do not apply (did that guy just wash his genitals in the middle of a musical number?), but there sure is a lot going on.

The festival moves to the Royal Cinema from Friday to Sunday (October 28 to 30), screening various features, docs and a program of short films, all organized around this year’s theme of “Bahia, a place for everybody.” nORMan WILnER

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also opening In Time (D: Andrew Niccol, 109 min) Justin Timberlake starred in three movies this year, and this sci-fi thriller could be his most popular. In Time is set in the future, where the rich live forever. JT plays an ordinary guy on the run from corrupt cops, with Amanda Seyfried as his hostage. Director Andrew Niccol helmed the superior sci-fi pic Gattaca, so this could be good.

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Atlas Shrugged (D: Paul Johansson, 97 min) Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler star in this big-screen adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel.

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movie reviews Playing this week How to find a listing

Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Top 10 of the year NNNN Honourable mention NNN Entertaining NN Mediocre N Bomb

Ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended)

Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 88.

ABDUCTION (John Singleton) proves were-

wolf 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) Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30

ANONYMOUS (Roland Emmerich) 130 min.

See review, page 78. N (GS) Opens Oct 28 at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24.

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (Paul Johansson) 97 min. See Also Opening, page 83.

Opens Oct 28 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

BENDA BILILI! (Renaud Barret, Florent de La Tullaye) is an uplifting music doc that follows a ragtag band of Congolese paraplegic musicians and their new recruit, Roger, a skeletal-looking kid who produces reverberating sounds from an instrument he made from a milk can, an arched stick of wood and a wire. Although the filmmakers intervene in the story, plucking Roger from the mean streets and introducing him to the Staff Benda Bilili band, and focus more on rehearsals and recording sessions than on the characters, it doesn’t matter since the music speaks volumes about who they are and where they come from. When Staff sing about sleeping on cardboard while they dream about one day buying mattresses, Roger’s milk can and band leader Ricky’s beaten guitar and soulful voice make their humble hopes come alive. Subtitled. 85 min. NNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox THE BIG YEAR (David Frankel) turns Mark

Obmascik’s non-fiction narrative about competitive American birders trying to spot the most species in a calendar year into a comedy about cuddly eccentrics who bond over their shared passion. It feels wobbly and forced, but every now and then the gimmicks are put aside so that the actors can treat their characters as actual human beings. Jack Black and Steve Martin, as a retired corporate shark determined to devote himself to birding, build a lovely and genuine friendship, and each actor has scenes with another co-star (JoBeth Wil-

liams for Martin, Brian Dennehy and Dianne Wiest for Black) that add further depth to our understanding of his character. But every scene with Owen Wilson’s vain contractor who’ll do almost anything to hold on to his record feels like it belongs in a broader movie. 100 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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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) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñBUCK

(Cindy Meehl) 88 min. See review, page 82. NNNN (NW) Opens Oct 28 at Carlton Cinema.

ñCIRCUMSTANCE

(Maryam Keshavarz) tracks two teenage girls (Nikohl Boosheri and Sarah Kazemy) struggling with Iran’s social strictures and a fundamentalist brother as they embark on a sexual relationship. Director Keshavarz expertly evokes Tehran’s dance club underground – hear great Iranian hip-hop – where the young women and their friends find fleeting freedom. A sequence in which an Iranian American helps them dub the film Milk ingeniously encapsulates Circumstance’s pro-sex themes. Brian Rigney Hubbard’s cinematography give the film an airy feeling at the beginning but grows increasingly claustrophobic. Look for Toronto theatre director Soheil Parsa, terrific as a father of one of the girls, desperately trying to keep his family from crumbling. Winner of the Audience Choice award at Sundance. Subtitled. 105 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Empire Theatres at Empress

Steve Martin, Jack Black and Owen Wilson team up in this pic inspired

by Mark Obmascik’s nonfiction story about three birdwatchers who get a tad obsessive about their hobby.

Joseph GordonLevitt plays a journalist diagnosed with cancer whose best friend (Seth Rogen) provides some very weird moral support.

Serious subject, fascinating approach.

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recreates the siege of Nanking, a sixweek period in late 1937 and early 1938 when the Japanese army sealed off the city and began a campaign of sanctioned terror, slaughtering an estimated 300,000 civilians and raping tens of thousands of women. A few characters come into focus: a Chinese soldier (Liu Ye) defeated by overwhelming numbers; a Japanese soldier (Hideo Nakaizumi) who seems like a decent man on the wrong side of history; a Chinese bureaucrat (Wei Fan) who thinks his position as a German envoy’s secretary will keep his family safe. Steven Spielberg’s unblinking Schindler’s List seems to be director Lu’s touchstone; he also shoots in black and white, with a largely handheld camera. The difference is that Spielberg ultimately believes in the human spirit. Lu has no such illusions, and by the end of his film neither will you.

Subtitled. 135 min. NNNN (NW) Projection Booth

Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly and impressive newcomer Dakota Goyo star in this familiar but exciting pic about a boxer-turnedrobot-promoter who’s put in charge of a son he barely knows.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton and others get out the flamethrowers while trying to figure out who’s a monster in this worthy prequel to the chilly 1982 John Carpenter classic.

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. 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñCRAZY, STUPID, LOVE.

(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 smug­ gling a body into an apartment, for exam­ ple – but it’s an effective nail­biter. Three Mossad agents return to Israel as heroes after they’ve tracked down and killed a Nazi war criminal. Or have they? The Debt fea­ tures 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 real­ ly 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 spy­ master 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, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant Die (Dominic James) is a Canadian­made

thriller about strangers forced to take part in a game where their fates are determined by the role of a die. 90 min.

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DirTy Girl (Abe Sylvia) has the big, brassy energy of a Broadway musical, but it’s a road movie set in the 80s with a kick­ass soundtrack. Small­town Oklahoma teen misfits Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), the bullied high school queer, and Danielle (Juno Tem­ ple), the school’s sexually precocious dirty girl, take off together when her mother (Milla Jovovich) decides to marry a creepy Christian (William H. Macy) and Clarke’s angry dad (Dwight Yoakam) and meek mom (Mary Steenburgen) find out he’s gay. The cast of character actors is terrific, but it’s Temple who’s the revelation here, all fucked­up sexy and cruel yet kind to Clarke at the same time. The movie does have tonal problems, sometimes shifting irritat­ ingly from gritty to melodramatic to farci­ cal. But it’s got a big heart. 106 min. NNN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24 DolphiN Tale (Charles Martin Smith) is a clichéd and overlong inspirational film about a young boy (Nathan Gamble) who helps to rehabilitate an injured dolphin.

Sloppily paced and illogically plotted, the film does boast some good performances and cute animal antics, but adults will find it a long sit. 113 min. NN (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale DowN The roaD aGaiN (Donald Shebib) finds writer/director Shebib returning to the characters he created in his seminal 1970 drama Goin’ Down The Road for a wheezy, flat and utterly unnecessary fol­ low­up that tries in the clumsiest way ima­ ginable to put a happy ending on the down­ beat story he told four decades ago. The entire concept is hobbled by the 2003 death of actor Paul Bradley, who’s seen here in clips from the original film. His absence leaves a hole that Shebib doesn’t know how to fill; the whole movie hangs on the slumped shoulders of Douglas McGrath, and his blank, shrugging presence just isn’t enough to drive it. Such a waste. 84 min. N (NW) Cumberland 4, Varsity Dream house (Jim Sheridan) is a big ol’ mess of a movie. Sheridan’s skill with char­ acter dramas doesn’t translate to semi­ supernatural thrillers. The endless produc­ tion troubles that delayed the release for months should have been taken as a sign that the film wasn’t meant to be seen. 100 min. N (Phil Brown) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñDrive

(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. As a stunt driver who moonlights as a wheelman for hire, Ryan Gosling finds the middle ground between Steve McQueen and a Terminator, but Albert Brooks walks off with the picture as a gimlet­eyed heavy with a fondness for

edged weapons. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

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(Jonathan Levine) is a shaggy and entertaining buddy movie that just happens to have life­or­death 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 Gordon­Levitt, playing a version of Reiser) copes with chemo and counselling while his best friend (Seth Rogen, essen­ tially playing himself) provides some very inappropriate moral support. Gordon­Levitt is terrific, and Anna Kendrick is great as his novice therapist. (Bryce Dallas Howard goes a bit broad as Gordon­Levitt’s shallow girl­ friend, 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, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

FooTloose (Craig Brewer) is a slavish re­

make of a movie that wasn’t all that good to begin with. Kenny Wormald steps into Kevin Bacon’s dancing shoes as Ren, a twin­ kle­toed teen from Boston who moves to a Southern city where partying is outlawed.

As in the original, Ren gets on the wrong side of the preacher who helped impose these laws (Dennis Quaid) while falling for his wild daughter Ariel (Julianne Hough, a comely mix of bootylicious and small town sweety). Ren has a local cop on his case (for playing loud music), as well as Ariel’s red­ neck ex. These characters were already cli­ chés in the 80s, which makes you wonder why director Brewer treads so close to the original in this lead­footed and anachronis­ tic remake. Wormald (a charmless actor but a very capable dancer) sticks to Bacon’s old moves, which aren’t exactly a thrill in the age of Step Up and How She Move. Some might excuse it as an homage. I think it’s just lazy. 113 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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casts Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as put­upon wage slaves who decide to murder their repugnant em­ ployers (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jen­ nifer 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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(George Cloo­ ney) is a nimble adaptation of Beau Willimon’s stage play Farragut North, about the ideological deflowering of a campaign strategist (Ryan Gosling) as he ushers a hopey­changey Democratic governor (Clooney) through the Ohio presidential pri­ mary. The plot’s a Mamety mixture of be­ trayal, disillusionment and high­stakes brinksmanship, but it’s performed by a cast working at peak efficiency. Clooney, Gos­ ling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and Philip Seymour Hoffman

iNNi (Vincent Morisset) 75 min. See review, page 78. NNN (Andrew Parker) continued on page 86 œ

“ A BRAVE, THRILLING PERFORMANCE

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vives the subject that made Bon Cop, Bad Cop (which director/co­writer Tierney pro­ duced) a local hit. The clash between anglo­ phones and francophones is ripe territory for comedy, but it doesn’t yield fruit here. A northern Quebec town has as its primary industry a linguistic institute that teaches ignorant anglophones to speak French. The whole community gets in on the act, board­ ing students in their homes and flagging them on the streets for speaking English.

The characters have as much nuance as Rob Ford’s rhetoric, with the singular exception of Karine Vanasse, who exudes charm in a movie that has very little of its own. Some subtitles. 100 min. N (RS) Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre

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(John Michael McDon­ agh) is showy, smart and hysterically funny, no mean feat for a movie about a small­town Garda sergeant (Brendan Glee­ son) and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) on the trail of a drug­smuggling ring in rural Ire­ land. Damned if it isn’t one of the best mov­ ies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4

The help (Tate Taylor) is a successful adap­ tation of Kathryn Stockett’s mega­selling novel thanks to another powerful perform­ ance 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 exploit­ ing the help play their parts to stereotypi­ cally shrieking heights. 137 min. NNN (SGC)

are so good, and so good together, that I didn’t mind being a step ahead of their characters throughout the entire running time. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE INTERRUPTERS (Steve James) chron-

edy slack. Sadly, the film is yet another depressingly mediocre effort from the once brilliant creator of Black Adder and Mr. Bean. 101 min. NN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

icles 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. 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 KILLER ELITE (Gary McEXPANDED REVIEWS slightly better place. But Kendry) is a B-movie nowtoronto.com director James (Hoop that tries to take itself Dreams, Stevie) never seriously. Jason really digs into the social Statham plays a contract and cultural factors that have created the killer who comes out of retirement to resenvironment CeaseFire is trying to change cue his mentor (Robert De Niro), held hos– the hopelessness, the lack of decent emtage by a vengeful Sheikh. The assassinaployment, the posturing machismo that tion attempts and getaways provide some demands bloody reprisal for the slightest worthwhile distractions, but the movie hint of disrespect. A longer version that shoots for grit and depth that’s way out of played the festival circuit reportedly adits reach. 105 min. NN (RS) dressed some of that, but this cut doesn’t, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton and that’s a problem that becomes increasTown Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas ingly hard to ignore as the movie goes on.

24 Some subtitles. 125 min. NNN (NW) THE LION KING 3D (Roger Allers, Rob MinTIFF Bell Lightbox koff) is a re-release in 3-D of the iconic animated film about a death, love and courage IN TIME (Andrew Niccol) 110 min. See Also on the African veldt. 87 min.

Opening, page 83.

Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum ScarborOpens Oct 28 at 401 & Morningside, Coliough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Empire seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow MarMACHINE GUN PREACHER (Marc Forster) is ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow an overwrought docudrama about Sam Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Childers (Gerard Butler), a Pennsylvania bikYonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas er who found God, cleaned up and devoted 24. himself to building an orphanage in Sudan.

It’s a noble story, but director Forster’s JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (Oliver Parker) (Quantum Of Solace) clumsy, broad-strokes returns Rowan Atkinson to his inexplicably approach reduces everything to a Hollypopular slapstick spy spoof to stop an assaswood cliché – and yet another movie where sination plot and uncover the identity of a African suffering is used as a backdrop for a secretly evil colleague. Atkinson trots out white man’s redemption. As Childers’s best stale one-liners and boring physical busifriend, Revolutionary Road’s Michael Shanness (more often than not involving his non steals the picture by refusing to buy groin) that never elicits more than a smile. into Forster’s melodramatic mindset. Just With a supporting cast full of straight men, playing the part straight makes him the there isn’t even anyone to pick up the com-

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the Met’s new production of the Mozart opera. 235 min.

Oct 29 at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge.

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.

NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller) makes an en-

tertaining if undistinguished sports movie out of Michael Lewis’s book about GM 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 manager 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 the ending goes on about three beats longer than it should. 126 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

1911 (Jackie Chan, Zhang Li) 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 sub-

The Three Musketeers’ Ray Stevenson (left), Matthew Macfadyen, Logan Lerman and Luke Evans hope to wield more power at the box office this week. titles, you’re left with a string of scenes that only occasionally work. Revolutionaries Dr. Sun Yat Sen (Winston Chao) and Huang Xing (director 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 fights. Chan turns in a solid performance, but the movie really belongs to Chao, who delivers Dr. Sun’s high-minded speeches like he’s saying them for the first time. Subtitled. 118 min. NNN (AD) TIFF Bell Lightbox

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (Henry Joost,

Ariel Schulman) finds the found-footage franchise succumbing to the law of diminishing returns, jumping back to 1988 for a prequel that either hopelessly over-complicates the mythology of the previous chapters or invalidates it entirely. Documenting the first encounter between young Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) and the supernatural force that would return to torment them as adults, directors Joost and Schulman abandon the series’ locked-down, slow-burning aesthetic for editorial jumps and a really annoying number of false scares. And screenwriter

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Christopher Landon reveals far too much about the nature of the threat and directly contradicts the mythology established in the previous movies for the sake of a subpar Wicker Man reference. 84 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(James Marsh) charts the odyssey of Nim Chimpsky, a chimpanzee raised among humans as part of a Columbia University linguistics experiment, which, as Man On Wire director Marsh reveals, was undermined by stunning arrogance and incompetence. An astonishing, heart-wrenching story, recounted in one of the year’s best documentaries. 99 min.

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PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller) 90 min. See review, page 77. NNN (Andrew Parker) Opens Oct 28 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Missis-

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Real Steel (Shawn Levy) has surprising heart and intelligence for a movie about a father and son who bond over outsized games of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots. Some of it comes from the script, which applies the usual boxing-movie arcs of underdogs and aging heroes to a near-future world 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 former boxer-turned-robot-promoter who grudgingly takes charge of the son he barely knows (Dakota Goyo) after the the boy’s mother dies. Stuck together for a summer, the two find a junked robot and rebuild him into a contender – bonding along the way. It’s utterly predictable, but Levy hits his marks with warmth and energy, letting Jackman sell us on the emotions and the effects. And the kid’s pretty good, too. 127 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale 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) Scotiabank Theatre

the Rum DiaRy (Bruce Robinson) 119 min.

See cover story and review, page 80. NNN (NW) Opens Oct 28 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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.

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natural ability to heal the sick and dying.

Every moment is agitated and abrasive, with Ward directing every last one of his actors to go as big as possible and piling on one self-consciously gritty element after another. 87 min. NN (NW) Projection Booth

SoPhie (Leif Bristow) 98 min. See review, page 78. NN (SGC) Opens Oct 28 at Winston Churchill 24.

StaRbucK (Ken Scott) follows David, a fuckup who discovers that he fathered 533 kids after donating sperm in his youth. Those grown children are taking legal avenues to find their father, while David secretly plays guardian angel in their lives. Preposterous, manipulative and saccharine, Starbuck has all the ingredients for a sure-fire crowdpleaser. Subtitled. 109 min. NN (RS) Cumberland 4 StRaight to hell RetuRNS (Alex Cox) 91

min. See review, page 78. NNN (Phil Brown) Opens Oct 28 at Projection Booth.

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(Jeff Nichols) reunites Shotgun Stories director Nichols with star Michael Shannon – who’s since gone on to earn an Oscar nomination for his scene-stealing turn in Revolutionary Road – for a piercing character study of a husband and father who starts having apocalyptic dreams every night. Is it displaced economic anxiety or is there a much more terrifying explanation? Jessica Chastain has some fine moments as the confused wife, but Shannon’s wrenching performance is the film; he conveys the uncertain terror of a man who’d almost prefer to be losing his mind if it meant the rest of the world could keep going. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

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(Matthijs van Heijningen) has no intention of improving on John Carpenter’s 1982 classic or even impinging on it; instead, it sidles up to the material, nudges it over the tiniest bit and plops down alongside it to tell the story of humanity’s first encounter with the bodystealing alien, a week before the events of

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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) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre

the SKiN i live iN (Pedro Almodóvar) 117

min. See interview and review, page 77.

NNN (RS) Opens Oct 28 at Varsity.

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) Interchange 30

SoN of the SuNShiNe (Ryan Ward) is the

magic-realist tale of a young Toronto man (Ryan Ward, who also directed and cowrote) with Tourette syndrome who undergoes experimental surgery to rid himself of the tics, only to find out that losing his affliction also means giving up his super-

Carpenter’s film. Scott Pilgrim’s Mary Elizabeth Winstead makes a compelling hero, and even when he doesn’t quite stick the landing, director van Heijningen is always trying to do justice to the source material.

He’s not appropriating Carpenter’s style, but saluting his attitude – walking around in the universe of a movie he truly loves and adding to that universe in a way that not only honours the original, but reminds us why it deserves to be honoured in the first place. Some subtitles. 103 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

the thRee muSKeteeRS (Paul W.S. Anderson) is a stupid movie that owns its baser instincts, doesn’t try to be anything but and reminds that there are still some modest pleasures to be had. Director Anderson takes a blunt blade to the Alexandre Dumas novel, turning it into a B-movie adventure with injections of Bond, Indiana Jones and Pirates Of The Caribbean. The dialogue is so atrocious, it’s practically surreal, the plot (involving airborne battleships designed by Da Vinci) is bloated and preposterous, and the Musketeers are far from memorable.

Though the supporting players have a ball, including Milla Jovovich as the vixenous Milady, a nimble acrobat even in a corset, and Orlando Bloom as the villainous Buckingham, just as concerned about beating King Louis at fashion as defeating him on the battlefield. The movie is practically a spoof with a few legitimately rousing action scenes and without the condescending tone. If all only all silly movies were this sincere. 110 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge,

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(Jeremy Lalonde) is a bittersweet comedy/ drama about a documentary filmmaker (Kris Holden-Ried) who checks up on his exgirlfriends to make a film about modernday relationships. The set-up and “found footage” aspect of the film is the least successful part, filled with repetitive jokes and logical inconsistencies. But writer/director Lalonde has a nice way with actors, and gets solid performances from lots of locals, including Alex Poch-Goldin as a producer and Christine Horne, Mary Krohnert, Zoie Palmer and Tricia Braun as four very different exes. Holden-Ried comes across as oddly blank, but that sort of works for the film. 103 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 offcentre observations and one-liners and nicely subverts most of the rom-com cli-

chés, 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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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Le Guay) is smart about class and but really dumb about sex. A stockbroker, husband and father (Fabrice Luchini) lives in a luxury first-floor apartment in 60s Paris. His maid shares cramped lodgings on the sixth floor with five other domestic servants. When she quits, the new maid (Natalia Verbeke) introduces her boss to her floor-mates, triggering his life transformation. Unfortunately, we’re supposed to cheer him on when he starts falling for her. I can handle the man of the house being hot for the maid, especially since she’s turning his value system upside down. But why make her half his age, especially when the other five women on the sixth floor are more his vintage, including the very sexy Carmen Maura? Subtitled. 104 min. NN (SGC) Cumberland 4 3

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Downtown CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

BUCK (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10 CELL 211 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 CIRCUMSTANCE (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:35 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 4:35, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:45 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:30 DIE Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10 50/50 (14A) 1:35, 3:50, 6:45, 9:00 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 THE HELP (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 MACEDONIAN FILM FESTIVAL Sun 2:00, 3:30, 7:00 MACHINE GUN PREACHER (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:55 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 1:30, 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:55, 7:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:50, 3:55, 9:25 FriWed 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:25 PROJECT NIM Thu 1:55, 7:25 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 6:40, 9:20 SARAH’S KEY (PG) Thu 1:45, 6:55 Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:05 SENNA (14A) Thu 4:20, 9:45 THE UNTITLED WORK OF PAUL SHEPARD Thu 4:25, 9:20 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:55, 9:15 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:40, 7:20

CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444

DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 FRENCH IMMERSION (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 THE GUARD (14A) Thu 1:40 4:45 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 STARBUCK Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR (PG) 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

50/50 (14A) 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Sat 11:40 late FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 9:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25 FriWed 1:15, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25, 11:35 IN TIME (PG) 1:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:25 late JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:45, 7:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:15, 5:15, 7:25, 9:30, 11:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05 Fri-Sat 11:05 late REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 7:15, 9:45 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:35, 7:05, 9:20

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SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 9:20 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 8:40 Sat 6:15, 8:40 Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:40, 10:05 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Sat 6:00, 9:00 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:35, 5:10 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:15, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 7:50, 8:50, 10:15 GHOSTBUSTERS Mon 7:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 7:40, 8:50 FriWed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 REAL STEEL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 6:55, 9:30 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 2:00 3:40 4:40 6:20 7:20 9:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:10, 1:20, 2:50, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55

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

BENDA BILILI! (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:45, 8:45 Fri, Tue 1:45, 4:00, 6:15 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30 Mon 6:15 INNI (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 4:45, 8:45 Mon 8:45 THE INTERRUPTERS (14A) Thu, Sat-Tue 7:00 1911 (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:15

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 ANONYMOUS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 10:05 THE HELP (PG) Thu 1:50 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 12:40 3:30 6:30 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:30, 9:30 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:30 3:40 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18A) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 TAKE SHELTER Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 9:45

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:30 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat BREAKAWAY Thu 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 11:00 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:15, 9:15 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:25, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 CONTAGION: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 10:50 DIRTY GIRL (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:15, 10:00, 10:45 Fri 3:45, 6:30, 9:15, 12:00 Sat 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15, 12:00 Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 2:00, 2:45, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Fri 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 12:00 Sat 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30, 12:00 Sun 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:00, 9:30 IN TIME (PG) 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30, 11:15 Fri 12:00 late Sat 11:00, 11:45, 1:00 mat, 12:00 late Sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:00 mat JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 11:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 Sat-Sun 10:30, 11:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30, 11:30 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 3:15, 6:00, 8:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 6:30 THE LION KING 3D Thu 1:30, 3:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:25, 7:35 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:00, 3:10, 5:25, 7:35 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 3:45, 4:30, 5:15, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:30, 11:15 Fri 12:00 late Sat 10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 12:45 mat, 12:00 late Sun 10:30, 11:15, 12:00, 12:45 mat RA. ONE (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15, 4:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:00, 10:15, 11:15 Sat-Sun 11:45, 12:45, 3:15, 4:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:00, 10:15, 11:15 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri 2:00, 2:45, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00, 11:45 Sat 11:00, 11:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00, 11:45 Sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:15, 2:00, 2:45, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00, 11:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00, 11:30 THE THING (14A) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:00, 11:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 WAR OF THE ARROWS Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:30 Sat-Sun 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:30

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:05 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:15 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:25 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Thu 4:05, 6:45 Fri 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 SatSun 1:05, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 THE HELP (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 Fri 4:20, 7:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:50 Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15 REAL STEEL (PG) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05 THE THING (14A) Fri 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:25

CIRCUMSTANCE (14A) Fri-Sat 9:05 Sun, Tue 7:00 SENNA (14A) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) Fri 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 7:20, 9:45 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 IN TIME (PG) Fri 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:00 Wed 3:40, 7:25, 10:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 1:40, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40

Metro

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

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 9:00 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 2:15 FRENCH IMMERSION (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00 THE HELP (PG) 4:20 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 12:45 Fri-Wed 12:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ANONYMOUS (PG) Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 BREAKAWAY Thu 10:00 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:10 Mon-Wed 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 1:15 3:55 6:40 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Mon 12:40, 3:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:10, 6:45, 10:00 50/50 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:50, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:35, 9:30, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 10:00 GHOSTBUSTERS Mon 7:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:50 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:20, 6:55, 9:25 Wed 3:20, 6:55, 9:25 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 9:20 THE LION KING 3D Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:40 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55

MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 7:05, 10:05 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:35, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50, 10:45 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:20 mat PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:15 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 7:50, 10:50 MonWed 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Wed 9:20 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Thu-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:25 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:45 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) 1:25, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 REAL STEEL (PG) 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 7:15 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) 1:10, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35

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

FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:20 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat, Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) 7:30, 9:50 Fri 4:45 SatSun 1:50 mat, 4:45 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 7:20, 9:40 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:45 mat, 5:00 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:10

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

CIRCUMSTANCE (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:10, 9:10 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:10 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 IN TIME (PG) 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat THE LION KING 3D Thu 3:30, 9:20 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:45, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:40, 9:00, 10:20 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:10 mat PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 SatSun 1:10, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:40, 6:45, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 1:30, 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 VOROOD-E-AGHAYAN MAMNOO Thu 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 BREAKAWAY Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 9:25 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 THE HELP (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:40 Sat 8:40 Sun 2:10, 5:20, 8:40 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, MonWed 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 1:25, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:25, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 3:40 6:40 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat RA. ONE (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:30, 9:30 RA. ONE 3D (PG) 5:10, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat THE RUM DIARY (14A) 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:30, 9:55 Sat-Sun 7:30, 9:55

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 2:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Tue 10:00 Wed 10:45 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Tue 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Wed 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:25 Mon, Wed 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 11:55, 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30, 10:45 Mon, Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:15 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Tue 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 Wed 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Wed 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:45 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 THE THING (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 Mon, Wed 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45

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

THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:00, 9:40 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:15 DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 9:55 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:10 4:20 7:10 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:15 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Sun 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:00 mat REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 MonWed 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 THE THING (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Fri-Sat 10:45 Sun 10:05 Mon-Wed 9:50 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:45 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:15, 6:50

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

THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:45, 9:30 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:20 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:20 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 DRIVE (18A) Thu 7:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:00, 6:10 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:25, 9:30 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:10 IN TIME (PG) 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 FriSat 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:05 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:00 MonWed 4:30, 7:35, 10:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 8:50 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 FriSun 2:00, 4:40, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:30 mat REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:35, 9:55 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 FriSat 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 MonWed 4:10, 7:10, 9:55

DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 THE LION KING 3D Thu 12:55, 3:20, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 12:40 1:00 3:00 4:00 5:25 7:00 8:00 10:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 3:05, 3:35, 5:25, 7:25, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:15, 10:15 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 3:40, 7:20, 10:20

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:15 mat THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:10 COURAGEOUS Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 6:50, 9:45 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:40, 6:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 IN TIME (PG) 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:20 mat JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 FriSun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 3:45, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 9:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:20 mat PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:40 mat REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:45, 9:30 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:50 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:15, 9:35 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:20

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

7AUM ARIVU Thu 5:15, 2:00, 3:00, 6:15, 8:45, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:15, 3:30, 5:45, 6:45, 9:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00, 11:45, 2:15, 3:30, 5:45, 6:45, 9:00, 10:00 ANONYMOUS (PG) 3:20, 4:05, 6:15, 7:00, 9:10, 9:55 SatSun 12:25, 1:10 mat THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:15, 9:45, 4:50 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Thu 2:10, 7:35, 4:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35 Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:35 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 50/50 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:20, 4:45, 10:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Thu 3:30 mat, 6:00, 8:45 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat GHOSTBUSTERS Mon 2:15, 7:45 THE HELP (PG) 2:40, 5:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Thu 1:30, 4:00 mat, 6:30, 9:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:20 Fri, MonWed 2:30, 3:00, 4:15, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 7:15, 7:55, 9:30, 9:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:45, 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:15, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 7:15, 7:55, 9:30, 9:45, 10:15 MONEYBALL (PG) Fri-Wed 1:45, 7:10 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri, Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Tue 3:00, 5:15 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 1:30, 2:15, 3:45, 4:30, 6:00, 6:45, 8:15 Sat-Sun 11:15, 12:00 mat RA. ONE (PG) Thu 3:00 6:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:00, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat RA. ONE 3D (PG) 3:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat THE RUM DIARY (14A) 2:20, 3:20, 5:05, 6:05, 8:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:35, 12:35 mat THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Mon 5:00, 10:15

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Thu 3:15 6:00 8:45 Fri-Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:45 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat

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

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:30 4:10 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 DREAM HOUSE (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 Fri 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 THE LION KING 3D Thu 1:15 3:50 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 12:50, 1:35, 3:10, 4:15, 5:30, 6:40, 8:00, 9:10, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:10, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 6:15, 8:45 Wed 3:40, 6:15, 8:45 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50 REAL STEEL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:40, 4:45, 6:30, 7:50, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:25, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:40, 10:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 FOOTLOOSE (PG) 2:10, 5:00, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 10:40 Fri-Sat 10:35, 12:50, 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 10:55 Sun 10:35, 12:50, 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 10:40 IN TIME (PG) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:35, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 THE LION KING 3D Thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:20 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Fri-Sat 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 8:15, 9:30, 10:45 Fri-Sat 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:30, 11:30 Sun 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30, 11:10 Mon 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30, 11:10 Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:00 mat PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 11:10, 2:05, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35 REAL STEEL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Sat 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 11:15, 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 THE THING (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:15, 4:45, 5:35, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:00, 4:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:25, 10:05 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Thu 1:45, 7:15 Fri-Sun 1:40, 7:15 Mon-Wed 7:15 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 7:20, 9:55 YAAR ANNMULLE (PG) Thu 2:05, 5:30, 9:00

ANONYMOUS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 MonWed 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 DRIVE (18A) Thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 THE LION KING 3D Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:15 mat THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:50

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 MonWed 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:35 BREAKAWAY Thu 3:40, 6:55, 9:40 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 10:15 MonWed 9:30 COURAGEOUS Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:15, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 9:35 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 DRIVE (18A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:25 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 7:45, 10:35 Mon 4:45, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:10 GHOSTBUSTERS Mon 7:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 IN TIME (PG) 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:20 mat JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 FriSun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 THE LION KING 3D Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: DON GIOVANNI LIVE Sat 12:55 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:20, 5:45, 7:10, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 5:00, 5:45, 7:30, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 5:20, 7:40, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 6:20, 8:50 MonWed 3:30, 6:00, 8:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:20 mat REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 REAL STEEL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 4:30, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:05

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat DOLPHIN TALE (G) 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 2:00 mat Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00 mat FOOTLOOSE (PG) 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:30, 9:15, 10:00 Fri 2:30 mat Sat-Sun 11:45, 1:30, 2:30 mat THE HELP (PG) 6:15, 9:30 Fri 3:10 mat Sat-Sun 11:50, 3:10 mat HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A) 4:40, 9:35 Thu 7:15 Sat-Sun 12:05 mat RA. ONE (PG) 6:00, 9:15 Fri 2:45 mat Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:45 mat SARAH’S KEY (PG) 4:35, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 2:05 mat Sat-Sun 11:35, 2:05 mat THE SMURFS IN 3D (G) 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30 mat SatSun 11:55, 2:30 mat 30 MINUTES OR LESS (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 9:45 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 2:15 mat Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:15 mat

RAINBOW PROMENADE (I)

PROMENADE MALL, HWY 7 & BATHURST, 905-764-3247 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:25, 6:45, 9:15 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:10 4:10 6:50 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:15 4:15 6:55 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10 IN TIME (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:10 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun, TueWed 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 Mon 4:00, 6:55, 9:25 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 9:30

West GRANDE - STEELES (CE) HWY 410 & STEELES, 905-455-1590

DOLPHIN TALE (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:25 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:40, 6:25 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:10 50/50 (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Fri, MonWed 4:15, 7:15 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:15 IN TIME (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 MONEYBALL (PG) 9:40 Thu 3:40 mat, 6:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Fri 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 9:35 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Fri 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 1:10, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 3

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Part character study, part thriller, part exploration of a subculture, The Conversation is one of the great 70s movies and one of Francis Ford Coppola’s best.

Privacy-obsessed Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is San Francisco’s top surveillance technician. He has no interest in his clients or his targets until one day he hears something that suggests murder.

By the final shot, the unconscious pervasive fear suggested by Hackman’s performance, Coppola’s surveillancecamera approach to the visuals and David Shire’s quiet, lunatic score have set a mood of paranoia that lasts long after the movie ends.

Coppola and editor Walter Murch both comment thoughtfully on the production, their approaches to filmmaking and their careers. In a separate doc, Coppola discusses his ongoing fascination with the figure of the lonely man.

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1979) D: John Irvin, w/ Alec Guinness, Michael Jayston. Rating: NNNNN; DVD package: NNN With the two-hour theatrical version of John LeCarré’s espionage classic opening December 16, it’s no surprise that the original sixpart BBC miniseries is back on the shelves. And welcome, too. It’s an absorbing mix of clever plotting, complex characters and brilliant acting.

The Cold War is raging, and retired spymaster George Smiley (Alec Guinness) is recruited to find the Soviet mole who may be lurking in the highest echelons of the British secret service.

What follows is a nasty tangle of botched operations, inconclusive interrogations, bureaucratic in-fighting, character assassination and betrayal at every turn.

Guinness makes Smiley small, deferential and emotionally vulnerable.

Everyone knows his weaknesses and uses them against him, but few notice his sharp mind and steely core. In a thoughtful half-hour interview, LeCarré calls his performance “mystical” and offers some insights into Guinness’s methods.

The entire cast is solid, even in roles that last only a scene or two. Among them, Ian Richardson stands out for the remarkable range he brings to senior bureaucrat Bill Haydon.

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(Sony, 2011) D: Joe Cornish, w/ John Boyega, Jodie Whittaker. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNNN Bursting with energy and non-stop action, Attack The Block provides big fun on all fronts: engaging characters, humour, a bit of a social critique, an original approach to the alien invasion story and cool creatures. One of the characters calls them “gorilla-wolves.”

They fall from the sky on a south London slum, and there’s nobody to fight back but a five-kid teen gang and the young

vides most of the novelty in this wellmade but standard superhero outing.

Ninety-eight-pound weakling Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) can’t get into the Army until a secret experiment makes him big and strong. After a stint hyping war bonds (the movie’s funniest sequence), he rescues a friend from Hydra, a high-tech Nazi offshoot commanded by would-be world dominator Johann Schmidt.

Some of the action works well, but much of it feels like the unavoidable result of a string of iconic poses, and the climactic punch-up aboard a futuristic bomber is a poor cousin to the one in Die Another Day. Fine acting and script keep the human dimension interesting. Hugo Weaving makes a crisp, energetic villain, and Tommy Lee Jones enlivens the

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woman they’ve just mugged.

The actors, who play their own ages (from 14 to 16), bang through the action with believable exuberance and a lot of funny dialogue that’s nothing but their own slang. You get a good sense of them on the informative making-of doc and two of the three commentaries.

Check out the effects doc for a look at the joys and sorrows of monster-suit acting.

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Evans displays the requisite courage and moral rectitude throughout, but he’s most fun as the pre-transformation weakling.

The moderately informative makingof docs have one shining moment of brilliant creative insight when Captain America co-creator Joe Simon explains exactly how he came up with the comic’s signature villain.

The packaging promises 3-D, but read the back of the box: it only works if you have a 3-D TV, high-speed cable and your own glasses.

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Eco-Pirate: The Story Of Paul Watson (2011) Documentary on the founder of Greenpeace, who quit that organization to engage in more direct, sometimes illegal, efforts to protect the planet.

Father Of Invention (2010) Kevin Spacey stars as an excon inventor struggling to regain his place in the world of infomercials and reconnect with the family he neglected.

Monte Carlo (2011) Selena Gomez, Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy star as a trio of friends whisked into the high life when one of them is mistaken for an heiress.

Love Ranch (2010) Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci star in a fact-based drama about a couple who succeeded at legalized prostitution in Nevada while their personal lives crashed.

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

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Susan Ray introduces a screening of 1957 war classic Bitter Victory on Sunday.

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

THu 27 TO SuN 30 – Festival of films about Afro­Brazilian culture from Bahia. ñ All films w/ s­t. Opening night at TIFF Bell

Lightbox, all other screenings at the Royal. $10, stu/srs $8, festival pass $65. Ticketweb 1­888­222­6608.

THu 27 – Opening night: Ó Paí, Ó (2007) D: Monique Gardenberg. 7 pm. fRI 28 – Malu On A Bicycle (2010) D: Flávio R Tambellini. 7 pm. Into The Blue (2010) D: João Rodrigo Mattos. 9 pm.

SAT 29 – Memorias do Reconcavo: Besouro And Other Capoeiras (2008) D: Pedro Abib. 5 pm. 5X Favela, Now By Ourselves (2010) D: Cacau Amaral, Wagner Novaiss, Manaira Car­ neiro and others. 7 pm. So Hard To Forget (2010) D: Malu de Martino. 9:15 pm.

SuN 30 – Gisele Omindarewa (2009) D: Clarice E Peixoto. 4 pm. Rio Sonata: Nana Caymmi (2010) D: Georges Gachot. 6 pm. Beyond The Road (2010) D: Charly Braun. 8:15 pm.

diaspora film festival

innis town hall, 2 sussex. diasporafilmfest.com

TuE 1-NOv 6 – A cultural mosaic of the present world through cinema. $10, stu/ ñ srs $8, fest pass $80. 416­571­2150.

TuE 1 – Honorary award presented to Deepa Mehta. 7 pm. Deepa comments after screen­ ing of Bollywood Hollywood (2002). 8:20 pm.

WED 2 – David (2011) D: Joel Fendelman. 7 pm.

Discussion panel to follow screening.

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lord dufferin public school, 350 parliament. regentparkfilmfestival.com.

WED 2-NOv 5 – Multicultural programming for

youth and emerging filmmakers. Free.

WED 2 – Opening gala: Community Stories: Youth Media Arts Program, fiction, animation and documentary works by young filmmakers including My Brothers Keeper (2010) D: Ally Rheaume, Love And Defiance (2010) D: Jeffrey W Pike and others. 7 to 9:30 pm.

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toronto underground cinema, 186 spadina. torontoafterdark.com.

THu 27 – Horror, sci­fi, action and cult movies.

$13, galas $15. Tickets at TO Tix, Dundas Square, Yonge & Dundas, or torontoafterdark. com.

H THu 27 – The Woman (2011) D: Lucky Mc­ Kee. 7 pm. Closing gala: The Innkeepers (2011) D: Ti West. 9:45 pm.

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

SAT 29 – Everybody’s Fine (2009) D: Kirk Jones.

3 pm. Free.

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WED 2 – Sarah’s Key. 7 pm. The Debt (2010) D: John Madden. 9:15 pm.

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fRI 28 – Get Animated! Toronto Animated Im­

age Society program. 6:30 pm. Free. Get Ani­ mated! new releases program. 8 pm. Free.

SAT 29 – Get Animated! Toronto Animated Im­ age Society program. 7 pm. Free. Get Animat­ ed! new releases program. 8:30 pm. Free.

WED 2 – Get Animated! new releases program.

4 pm. Free. Green Screens presents Qimmit: A Clash Of Two Truths (2010) D: Ole Gjerstad, about Arctic sled dogs. 7 pm. Free.

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TIFF Cinematheque’s ongoing salute to director Nicholas Ray ramps up this weekend with the arrival of the filmmaker’s widow, Susan Ray, for three very special screenings at the Lightbox.

On Saturday (October 29) at 4 pm, Ray will present her documentary Don’t Expect Too Much, which looks at the making of her late husband’s experimental feature We Can’t Go Home Again – a political collage film he made in collaboration with his students at SUNY Binghamton in the early 1970s.

On Sunday at 4 pm, Susan Ray introduces We Can’t Go Home Again in a new restoration that attempts to reconcile the various edits

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

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

HTHu 27 – Manon (1949) D: Henri­Georges Clouzot. 9 pm. L’Arcano Incantatore (1996) D: Pupi Avati. Introduction by Guillermo Del Toro.

9:30 pm.

HfRI 28 – Black Sabbath (1963) D: Mario Bava. 6:30 pm. A Clockwork Orange (1971) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9 pm. Sixteen Candles (1984) D: John Hughes. 9 pm.

HSAT 29 – Wallace And Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2000) D: Steve Box & Nick Park. 2 pm. Don’t Expect Too Much (2011) D: Susan Ray. 4 pm. The Innocents (1961) D: Jack Clayton. 8 pm. A Clockwork Orange. 9 pm. Jabberwocky (1977) D: Terry Gilliam. 11 pm.

HSuN 30 – Bitter Victory (1957) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. We Can’t Go Home Again (1973­79) D: Nichola Ray. 4 pm. Cronos (1993) D: Guillermo del Toro. 7:15 pm. A Clockwork Orange. 9 pm. The Devil’s Backbone (2001) D: Guillermo del Toro. 9:45 pm.

HMON 31 – My Bloody Valentine (1981) D: George Mihalka. 6:30 pm. Goethe Films Shoot­ ing Stars program presents Four Minutes (2006) D: Chris Kraus, and Life Actually (2006) D: Alain Gsponer. 6:30 pm. A Clockwork Orange. 9 pm.

HTuE 1 – Bitter Victory. 6:30 pm. Goethe Films Shooting Stars program presents Goethe! (2003) D: H.C. Schmid, and Along Come Tourists (2007) D: Robert Thalheim. 6:30 pm. Le Corbeau (1943) D: Henri­Georges Clouzot. 9 pm. A Clockwork Orange. 9 pm.

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Nicholas Ray made to the picture between its premiere in 1973 and his death in 1979.

These screenings are fine illustrations of where the director’s obsessions took him toward the end of his life. But the real highlight of the weekend is the restored print of the 1957 war picture Bitter Victory, which Susan Ray will introduce Sunday at 1 pm.

Revolving around the power struggle between two British officers (Richard Burton and Curt Jürgens) who happen to be in love with the same woman (Ruth Roman), it’s an excellent example of the director’s emotionally volatile, visually striking approach to melodrama. It’s also the film that prompted the famous Jean-Luc Godard remark from which TIFF’s series takes its name.

Bitter Victory screens again Tuesday (November 1) at 6:30 pm, but, really, you’ll want to see it with NORMAN WILNER Susan Ray.

fox theatre

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

THu 27 – Senna (2010) D: Asit Kapadia. 7 pm.

Beginners (2010) D: Mike Mills. 9:15 pm. fRI 28 – The Guard (2011) D: John Michael Mc­ Donagh. 7 pm. Contagion (2011) D: Steven Soderbergh. 9 pm.

HSAT 29-SuN 30 – The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming. 2 pm. The Guard. 4 & 7 pm.

Contagion. 9 pm.

HMON 31 – Alien: The Director’s Cut (1979) D: Ridley Scott. 7 pm. The Shining (1980) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9:20 pm.

TuE 1 – The Guard. 7 pm. Contagion. 9 pm.

WED 2 – The Guard. 7 pm. Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 9 pm.

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THu 27-TuE 1 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. No screenings Wed Nov 2.

THu 27-fRI 28 – One Day Part One. MON 31-WED 2 – One Day Part Two.

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

THu 27-WED 22 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. Tue­Wed noon­7 pm, Thu­Sat noon­10 pm, Sun noon­5 pm. Free.

THu 27 – Get Animated! new releases pro­ gram. 8:30 pm. Free.

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THu 27 – Higher Ground (2011) D: Vera Farmiga. 7 pm. Blue Velvet (1986) D: David Lynch. 9:15 pm. fRI 28-SuN 30 – Brazil Film Fest. See listings, this page.

MON 31 -WED 2 – Check website for schedule.

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

HTHu 27 – Toronto After Dark Film Festival.

See listings, this page.

HfRI 28 – Repo The Genetic Opera (2008) D: Darren Lynn Bousman. 9:30 pm. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:59 pm. Both screenings with live shadowcast.

HSAT 29 – Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ live shadowcast. 9:30 pm.

HSuN 30 – Evil Dead 2 (1987) D: Sam Raimi. 8 pm.

HMON 31 – Rocky Horror Picture Show w/ live shadowcast. 7 & 9:30 pm.

SAT 29 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two (2011) D: David ñ ñ Yates. 7 pm.

SuN 30 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two. 2 pm.

festivals royal cinema, 608 college (rc); tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w (tiff). brazilfilmfest.net

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31 – The Exorcist: The Director’s Cut (1973) D: William Friedkin. 7 ñ pm. Zombie (1979) D: Lucio Fulci. 9:30 pm.

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

THu 27-fRI 28 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11

am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

SAT 29 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1, 3 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon, 4 & 7 pm.

Under The Sea. 2 pm.

SuN 30 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

MON 31-WED 2 – Rocky Mountain Express.

11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon.

Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

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1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, proJectionbooth.ca.

THu 27 – City Of Life And Death (2009) D: Lu Chuan. 9 pm. ñ HfRI 28 – Straight To Hell Returns (2010) D:

Alex Cox. 6:30 pm. Grinderhouse Halloween Party including screenings: Bong Of The Dead (2011) D: Thomas Newman. 8:30 pm.

The Millennium Bug (2011) D: Kenneth Cran.

10:30 pm.

HSAT 29 – Cartoons. 10 am. Bong Of The Dead. 5 pm. Straight To Hell Returns. 7 pm.

Autumn (2011) D: Steven Rumbelow. 9 pm.

HSuN 30 – Cartoons. 10 am. The Millennium Bug. 5 pm. Straight To Hell Returns. 7 pm. Bong Of The Dead. 9 pm.

HMON 31 – Carry On Screaming! (1966) D: Gerald Thomas. 7 pm. Straight To Hell Returns. 9 pm.

HTuE 1 – The Millennium Bug. 7 pm.

Straight To Hell Returns. 9 pm.

WED 2 – Son Of The Sunshine (2009) D: Ryan Ward. Discussion with director to follow screening. 9 pm.

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

THu 27 – Stereoscopic Cinema. 7 pm.

HSAT 29-SuN 30 – The Devil And Daniel

Webster (1941) D: William Dieterie. Noon.

Haxan (1922) D: Benjamin Christensen. 2 pm. Curse Of The Demon (1954) D: Jacques Tourneur. 3:30 pm. The Devil’s Bride (1968) D: Terrence Fisher. 5 pm. The Wicker Man (1973) D: Robin Hardy. 7 pm. The Devils (1971) D: Ken Russell. 9 pm.

MON 31 – Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks.

7 pm. Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau. 9 pm.

revue cinema

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

27 – Film School Confidential: Shivers (1975) D: David Cronenberg. 9 ñ pm. Free.

HTHu

fRI 28 – Sarah’s Key (2010) D: Gilles Paquet­

Brenner. 7 pm. Contagion (2011) D: Steven Soderbergh. 9:15 pm.

SAT 29 – Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory (1971) D: Mel Stuart. 2 pm. Contagion. 4 & 9:15 pm. Sarah’s Key. 7 pm.

HSuN 30 – Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory. 2 pm. Silent Sundays: Cat And The Canary (1927) D: Paul Leni. Silent film w/ live piano accompaniment. 4 pm. Sarah’s Key. 7 pm. Contagion. 9:15 pm.

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THu 27-WED 2 – The CN Tower presents The

Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screen­ ings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416­ 868­6937, cntower.ca.

THu 27-WED 2 – 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. 416­923­1171, casaloma.org. fRI 28 – Toronto Socialist Action presents Rebel Films: Land Of Destiny (2008) D: Brett Story, about the petrochemical industry and workers and residents of Sarnia. 7 pm. $4 do­ nation requested. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2­212. socialistaction­canada.blogspot.com.

The Toronto Psychoanalytic Society’s Cinema & Psychoanalysis Series, thought­provoking films presented by leading psychoanalysts: The Fighter (2010) D: David O Russell. 7:30 pm. Screening followed by discussion. Regis­ ter online for subscription series $235. 40 St Clair E, suite 203. Information Jean Bowlby, 416­922­7770.

HSAT 29 – Wavelength presents Surrender To The Passion (2010) D: Malcolm Fraser, a documentary on electro rock sensation Cor­ pusse. Screening followed by DJ dance party with Invisible City Sound System. 10 pm. $15.

Cinecycle, 129 Spadina. Tickets @ rotate.com and soundscapesmusic.com.

Pleasure Dome presents Films For One To Eight Projectors Performance with filmmaker Roger Beebe. 7:30 pm. $8. Trash Palace, 89­B Niagara. 416­656­5577, pdome.org.

HSuN 30 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival pre­ sents an Erev Challoween (night before Hal­ loween) premiere of Rabies (2010) D: Navot Papushado and Aharon Keshales. Hebrew w/ s­t. 8 pm. $10. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. 416­ 324­9121, tjff.com.

Toronto Jewish Film Festival’s Chai Tea And A Movie series presents Restoration (2011) D: Joseph Madmony. Tea 4 pm, film 5 pm. $15.

Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinemas, 4861 Yonge. 416­324­9121, tjff.ca.

Toronto Film Society presents Appointment With Danger (1951) D: Lewis Allen, and Affair In Trinidad (1952) D: Vincent Sherman. 2 pm. $15 walk­in trial membership. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. torontofilmsociety.com.

Mines Action Canada presents the documen­ tary Miss Landmine D: Stan Feingold. 5 pm.

Free. Discussion and vegetarian dinner to fol­ low screening. Bloor St United Church, 300 Bloor W. miss­landmine.org/cambodia.

HMON 31 – Short & Sweet Weekly series presents short films, animation and music videos as part of their Late Night Halloween edition by Nicky Lianos, Mathieu Samuel, Loic Anquetil, Xavier Zahra and others. 9 pm. Free.

No One Writes to the Colonel, 460 College. shortandsweet.tv.

H Cameron House Music Movie Mondays launch presents Troll 2 (1990) D: Claudio Fragasso. 8 pm. $5. 408 Queen W. musicmoviemondays.wordpress.com.

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Each are committed to embracing the way local food production benefits consumers in nearby towns and cities who are looking to purchase high-quality, homegrown foods.

To meet this demand, Durham College in Oshawa, Ont., has introduced Artisan Agriculture, a program designed to give students the expertise needed to successfully grow and deliver the food today’s consumers are looking for. Whether they want to be an agritourism movement leader, own a greenhouse or garden centre or farm their own land and provide high-quality foods to local markets, this program will prepare students for a successful career.

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The college has also introduced Horticulture Technician, another eco-focused program that enables students to express creativity via green plants and landscape materials. Focused on arboriculture, landscape design and construction and soil and plant nutrition, students learn how to combine art, science and nature to create beautiful landscapes and nurseries.

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By Dan Savage

My boyfriend and i are in college and oing the long-distance thing until June d 2013. Over the years, he’s granted me increasing amounts of freedom to be intimate with women – I’m female, and date women while we’re apart – but I still don’t have full autonomy. It’s much better than it used to be, but lately another one of my “needs” has been eating at me: my masochism. He’s repeatedly refused me permission to let someone lay into me with a flogger. That’s all I ask!

In order to abide by the rules of his jealousy, am I missing out on a huge facet of the best years of my life? I don’t even want to have anything sexual with the person who flogs me! I just want them to beat me!

And this might be relevant: he has the freedom to do whatever he wishes, but – god only knows why – he never indulges in anything more than the odd vanilla woman here and there. Also, I’m not allowed to attend fetish clubs, because he knows I’ll make bad choices if I do (I’ll play!), but the burner and fetish scenes are converging here in Los Angeles, and I’m going to get in trouble soon!

University Pain Slut

You’ve given your boyfriend permission to do who he wants, what he wants, when he wants. But you’re not allowed to do half of humanity – the male half – or get your ass beat at a BDSM club?

That hardly seems fair, UPS. But my knees don’t automatically jerk when I hear about a couple with an arrangement that appears to be “unfair” on its face. If Person A enjoys more “freedom” than Person B, it doesn’t necessarily follow that Person B is being wronged. Some people get off on the tension that an erotic power im-

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balance creates, and nothing says “You’re in charge” quite like your partner having the freedom to do people and things you’re not allowed to do. Or maybe the idea of your being with other men makes the boyfriend feel threatened and insecure, while the idea of his being with other women turns you on. If that’s the case, UPS, then you’re not doing something that makes him unhappy (sleeping with other men) while he’s doing something that makes you happy (sleeping with other women).

For me, UPS, it comes down to this: if you’re happy – if you’re getting off on your unfair deal – then I’m happy.

But are you happy? Or are you still happy? If this deal isn’t working any more, UPS, then it’s time to negotiate a new, perhaps slightly fairer deal. His insistence that you mess around only with other girls while you’re apart is understandable – I don’t think it’s fair, UPS, but I can understand it – but the “no flogging” rule seems ridiculously arbitrary. Battle your sexual submissiveness and negotiate from a position of strength: tell your boyfriend you’ll continue to stick to his no-other-dudes rule on the condition that he lift his silly flogging ban.

i’M a 21-year-old college student

living in San Diego. I have some sex-related issues/questions that I’d like to talk with a counsellor about. These issues are complicated – porn consumption, sex work, ability to orgasm, etc. – but I hesitate to go through my insurance; since I’m still on my parents’ plan, that would involve my talking to them about this. They are very nosy and also very traditional, so I can only imagine the shitstorm. What are my other options? Would my university health care cover this? Would my university report back to my parents about what I sought counselling about? I’m getting along fine, but this is negatively affecting my sex life, and I’m tired of it.

Uneasy Collegian Seeks Discretion Rules about patient confidentiality apply even to college students, UCSD, so your stu-

dent health centre is not going to rat you out to Mom and Dad. But you don’t have to take my word for it.

“I want your reader to know that care provided at UCSD Student Health Services and the Counselling and Psychological Services is confidential,” writes Regina Fleming, director of Student Health Services at the University of California, San Diego. “We don’t bill insurance for visits to Student Health, though sometimes the cost of lab tests is put on the student’s account; these charges do not specify what type of tests were done. [And] all services at our Counselling and Psychological Services are free.”

My girlfriend of four years cheated

n me. I’m in college now; we’ve been dato ing since high school. She and a male friend hooked up four times when they were both drunk. This guy was supposed to be her best friend, and it turns out he was into her. I asked her once about their relationship, and she assured me that nothing had or ever would happen between them. That was a few weeks after she cheated on me.

She rationalizes the events in a manner that makes her seem like she’s not to blame, and she constantly tells me how much she really loves me. Do I hook up with another girl and tell her about it?

Cucked-Over College Kid

No, COCK, you don’t hook up with another girl. You ask yourself this question: how many adults – people over 30 – do you know who are still with and/or married to their high school sweethearts? The answer is either zero or approaching zero. A breakup was inevitable-ish all along, COCK, and now seems like a pretty good time to pull the plug. While your girlfriend is telling you she loves you, and while she may still have feelings for you, she’s slamming her hand down on the self-destruct button because – consciously or not – she wants out, too.

in your advice to the straight best

an, you suggested that the first gay m couples to legally wed in both Canada and

the United States ended up divorcing and that this fact was largely unknown because anti-divorce and anti-gay-marriage evangelical Christians have essentially dodged the issue in a bid to divert attention from their own spectacularly high rates of marriage implosion.

While the first American same-sex marriage ended in divorce, I can happily report that the first legal same-sex marriages in Canada are still going strong 10 years later.

A gay couple, Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa, and a lesbian couple, Anne and Elaine Vautour, were married in a joint ceremony on January 14, 2001, at Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCCT). At that time, the government was still refusing to issue marriage licences to same-sex couples. To solve this problem, the church, on advice from its legal team, did an end run around the pre-authorized licence requirement, using the ancient, but perfectly legal, Christian tradition of proclaiming the banns of marriage. While the government refused to register the marriages as valid, on June 10, 2003, the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that the marriages had been legally performed, and ordered the province of Ontario to register them immediately. The court also ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and ordered the province to begin issuing marriage licences for same-sex couples that same day.

Both couples remain happily married, having renewed their vows in a public ceremony at MCCT on the occasion of their joint 10th anniversaries earlier this year.

Nice Thing To Be Wrong About, Eh? I’m happy to stand corrected – I’m delighted – and I’d like to send my belated congrats to Joe & Kevin and Anne & Elaine on the occasion of their 10th anniversaries.

Here’s to many, many more happy years together!

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net

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