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New fest starts with J Mascis and Luke Doucet at the Great Hall. $25, pass $75. 9 pm. Till Nov 6. sleepwalkguitar.com. live FroM THe cenTre Rob Baker, Dale Boyer, Adam Cawley and Brian G Smith star in an improv comedy inspired by their new web series. Studio 720. 8:30 pm. $10. Also Nov 5. +SiSTerS & broTHerS Carl Bessai’s film kicks off the nineday Rendezvous With Madness Film Fest. 5:15 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox. $30 (incl reception). rendezvouswithmadness.com.

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Fela! The smash Broadway hit about legendary Nigerian musician Fela Kuti closes at the Canon. 1:30 and 7 pm. $35$130. 416-872-1212.

WHo Took THe boMp? Shameless Magazine screens the excellent doc about female rockers Le Tigre at the Projection Booth. 2 pm, $10-$15. womensbookstore.com.

screening of Jon Snow’s doc and a discussion with MPs Peggy Nash and Rathika Sitsabaiesan. 7 pm. Free. Revue Cinema. revuecinema.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.

closes the authors fest with an onstage interview. Harbourfront’s Brigantine Room. 7 pm. $18, stu free. readings.org. +SkeTcH coMedy FeST Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald, Picnicface, This Is That, the Imponderables and others take part in the annual fest, on till Nov 13 at various locales. $15-$20. 647-505-1050. crooked FingerS Former Archer of Loaf Eric Bachmann brings his solo-turned-band project to the Drake. 8:30 pm. $15.50. RT, SS.

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would have accused Miller of being “soft” on unions by not provoking a strike, but that argument would likely have had little traction.

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Garbage mess avoidable

it is quite the irony that the whole Rob Ford garbage privatization mess (NOW, October 27-November 2) could easily have been avoided.

If the David Miller administration had resisted the temptation to establish right-wing cred by going after CUPE’s sickleave benefits, who would’ve noticed?

There likely would have been no strike and no reason to turn the entire city on its head in a fit of pique over a few hundred uppity garbage collectors.

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Staking out Rob Ford

glenn sumi thinks rob ford can’t take a joke when Mary Walsh and the crew of This Hour Has 22 Minutes “staked out his Etobicoke home for an interview” (NOW, October 27-November 2).

The point is politicians should be allowed some privacy in their homes.

Ford should have been “staked out” at City Hall or even in the streets, since a man’s home is his castle.

Were other politicians “staked out” by Mary Walsh? The anti-Ford campaign is getting out of hand.

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regarding “don’t you fucking Know?” (NOW Daily, October 29). Rob “Fucking” Ford’s right to privacy matters. Does the This Hour Has 22 Minutes crew have the right to ambush him in the morning at his home?

Abso-fucking-lutely. Rob Ford is the mayor of the largest city in the country.

That said, he has an expectation of privacy regarding what he said when he called 9-1-1. The privacy rules are there for a reason, and that is to ensure that people who call don’t hesitate because their distress might be put on display for all the world to hear.

Ford has an absolute right to his privacy, and that right includes, if necessary, lying to the media to keep it private.

Raymond Li Toronto

Maple Leaf Foods spoils

wayne roberts’s cold cut (now, October 27-November 2) brings back memories of the days when I stuffed wieners at the Maple Leaf plant. The grandfather of today’s wieners was old J.S. MacLean. Union members always knew where he stood.

Speaking to a parliamentary committee on prices in the food industry in the 40s, he put it very succinctly: “I buy as cheaply as I can, I process as cheaply as I can, and I sell as dear as I can.”

Capitalists had more faith in their prerogatives, or got away with things more easily, back then. Maple Leaf is true to their tradition.

Jim Mitchell Toronto

Heads up for bike riders

while i applaud any effort to increase the quality and quantity of bicycle-friendly infrastructure (NOW, October 27-November 2), those looking to enhance their personal safety while cycling on city streets should not overlook the benefits of the humble helmet.

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What readers are saying at nowtoronto.com Impoverished Parkdale?

regarding peggy nash and local Champion To Leader Of The Opposition (NOW Daily, October 27). I’ve lived in Parkdale-High Park since I was three and didn’t know it was “impover ished.”

Actually, ParkdaleHigh Park is very well off, and in Ward 14 we had the largest increase in assessments in Toronto.

Peggy Maybe it’s Nash another Parkdale-High Park Ben Spurr is thinking of?

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Explaining lefty Parkdale

i’ve seen up close and personal the tension in Parkdale between the haves and have-nots, and it isn’t pretty. It’s not because the riding all looks like High Park and Swansea that the NDP has gained a foothold here at all levels of government.

Gerard Di Trolio

Fantastic Blitzen

i disagree with reviewer richard Trapunski (NOW, October 27-November 2). Blitzen Trapper’s American Goldwing is a fantastic record, full of amazing musicianship, harmonies and some good ol’ storytelling. Agreed that some of the themes may get a little old, but lyrically, what doesn’t after a while? If anything, BT have become (though, yes, maybe slightly less experimental) more cohesive and “grown-up,” in a good way. I’ve seen them live, and these boys deliver the goods.

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cyclists I see prefer to risk having all sorts of nasty things happen to their heads should they get into an acci­ dent. Those who rationalize keeping their heads unprotected point to sta­ tistics showing that mandatory hel­ met laws have not decreased the mor­ tality of cyclists in accidents.

Focusing on legislation is beside the point. A recent review of the med­ ical evidence concluded that “helmets reduce bicycle­related head and facial injuries in all types of crashes includ­ ing those involving motor vehicles.” It doesn’t get simpler than that.

Ed Weiss London, Ontario

Up the union

today i was on my bike near bay and the waterfront while the CUPE union was taking part in an Occupy Toronto march.

One of them wanted to give me a button. I said that I don’t support unions, and a few started to yell that I must be part of the 1 per cent.

Unions have become a huge part of the greed problem they are protest­ ing. The incredible audacity to strike and make ludicrous demands during a world economic meltdown is a sign that unions worldwide have forgotten what workers fought for a century ago. They should be thankful they have a job.

Scott Robinson Toronto

Wiki vs. Occupy movement

some events are milestones in the history of human progress. Oc­ cupy Toronto (NOW, October 27­Nov­ ember 2) and similar movements around the world are not. A more re­ markable blow for freedom was Julian Assange’s recent Wikileaks, which re­ vealed the secrets of politicians who, to put it bluntly, dominate us.

Jacob Mendlovic Toronto

Keriwa, WTF?

i was pleasantly surprised to read a review of a much anticipated restaurant, Keriwa (NOW, October 20­ 26). But WTF were you trying to do opening a food review by referring to grotesque murders that have nothing to do with Keriwa?I have never seen a food review such as this and cannot believe that it was not intentional.

The ramifications of this lapse in judgment are hugely detrimental to the public’s informed perspectives.

Hopefully, Keriwa’s excellent service and food will help it outlast this short­ sighted, ignorant and unnecessarily harmful reference. Honestly, really?

Please limit your review to the task at hand and leave history to the histor­ ians!

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Earth Hour feast

Procession for the two-headed gravy boat, inspired by Rob Ford, 8:33 Saturday, March part of pm, the Night Of Dread parade26: on Saturday, October 29, 6:16 pm Clockwise from left, Leah, Stella and Nicole at Insomnia.

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spotted What Winter digs from Mongolia, courtesy of some seven unions that pitched in for the structures Where Occupy Toronto camp at St. James Park When 10 am Wednesday, November 2 Continuing Occupy Toronto coverage page 16

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Sniper rifles are among the weapons slated to be declassified under the HarperCons’ bill to kill the longgun registry, according to researchers with the Coalition for Gun Control. A number of guns, including models similar to the rifle Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik used, would be declared non-restricted and no longer have to be registered under changes being considered by the Conservatives. Stats for thought: police use the registry 17,000 times a day; current gun control laws have reduced firearm-related suicides by 43 per cent since 1991; gun-related murders of women by their intimate partners have gone down by 69 per cent. Contact your MP at parl.gc.ca/parlinfo.

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The Yorkville Library, Toronto’s oldest operating public branch, has been saved from the auction block – for now. The library board’s budget committee voted Monday to oppose its sale, but the newly constituted Ford-friendly board will have the final say later this month. Local councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam is opposed to the sale, especially since the branch holds the TPL’s collection on LGBT history and literature.

The library is one of four in T.O. erected in the early 1900s with grants from the Carnegie Corporation.

[Frontlines] Ben Spurr on the mayor’s pricey business cards Reports last week that Rob Ford channelled public money to his family’s printing company no doubt sent the mayor’s opponents leafing through city bylaws to find out whether he broke the law. Are there finally grounds to take our divisive mayor to court? Sorry, anti-Ford Nation, the answer appears to be no.

The Toronto Star reported last Friday (October 28) that the mayor used his office budget to buy $1,579 worth of premium business cards from Deco Label and Tags, the company his father founded and that his brother, Councillor Doug Ford, still presides over as president. That’s roughly four times the price usually charged by the printers most councillors use.

Ford has since promised to pay back the city for the business cards, but the odour of impropriety remains.

However, the business card purchase doesn’t appear to have violated the province’s Municipal Conflict Of Interest Act, which only deals with decisions that go to a vote before council.

City council’s code of conduct, on the other hand, says members must avoid “real and apparent” conflicts of interest, but municipal law expert Stephen D’Agostino says those who violate the code receive a slap on the wrist at most.

“Under the Conflict Of Interest Act, the matter goes to court, and if you’re found to be in conflict you lose your seat, no questions asked,” says D’Agostino, who declined to speak specifically about allegations against Ford.

“With the code of conduct, the worst you can expect is a motion of censure from the rest of the elected officials at council.”

According to D’Agostino, members of council may use their office budget basically at their own discretion.

“The theory is, if you’re found to be doing things that are morally questionable or unpopular, then the voters will deal with that at election time,” he says.

To avoid accusations of underhanded-

Are there finally grounds to take Rob Ford to court? ness at City Hall, both the mayor and the public might be better served by bylaws that explicitly prohibit dubious inside deals like this one.

“My impression is that politicians try to follow the rules,” says D’Agostino, “but the question is whether the rules are appropriate.” bens@nowtoronto.com

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The Executive Committee endorses a wide-ranging policy allowing the sale of naming rights to city properties and parks.

Ben Spurr’s story at nowtoronto.com

Canada’s new ranking in the Bribe Payers Index 2011, compiled by anti-corruption group Transparency International – a pronounced decline for Canada on TI’s list of countries whose companies are least likely to bribe while doing business abroad. In 2008, we held the number-one spot.

ecowatch Energy Minister Chris Bentley announced this week that the province will be reviewing the price it pays for wind and solar energy under its Feed-in Tariff program.

Critics say the 80 cents per kWh the province is currently paying small wind and solar producers is unsustainable. The review, though, may be a product of the program’s success. Energy input has overwhelmed the province. Look for our Q&A with the minister at nowtoronto.com later this week.

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Jack-o’-lanterns Spotted while trick-or-treating Monday night, one of several pumpkin creations inspired by the memory of late NDP leader Jack Layton.

Pride Toronto

Gay org gets politically savvy new EA, former Adam Giambrone assistant Kevin Beaulieu – as well as good news on the financial front that they’ve wiped out a $100K debt three years ahead of schedule.

Shadow dancing

NDP leader Andrea Horwath unveils her shadow cabinet, handing Toronto-area MPPs the biggest jobs. She’s put Peter Tabuns in charge of energy, and given rookie Jonah Schein the environment and urban transportation portfolios.

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from the archives November 7, 1996

As soon as Michael Ondaatje’s Booker winner The English Patient was adapted for the big screen – and NOW made its star Kristin Scott Thomas our cover story – her career took off. The movie swept the Oscars, including best picture (Scott Thomas was nominated but lost), and since then she’s made over 30 films, many of them in France.

She’s the best thing in the holocaust drama Sarah’s Key, still playing on Toronto screens. (Page 42 of the issue.)

Travel back in time with NOW’s online archives. See all the articles, the photos – even the ads – on every page of every issue, as originally printed. Just use the cool searchable viewer online at nowtoronto.com/archive

The mayor makes international headlines, again. U.S. political commentator Keith Olbermann gives our mayor the “worst person in the world” award after his fbomb-laced blow-up during the now famous 9-1-1 call. Our story on the fallout from that mess on page 14.

Winding down the Afghan war

Turns out Canada’s “training mission” in Afghanistan is not without risks, a reality the PM was forced to admit after Canadian Byron Greff was killed by a suicide bomber October 29.

Thinking globally, acting locally

Council kills funding for the voluntary downspout disconnection program effective January 1, 2012.

That means more polluted runoff into our sewer system and water supply.

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The 411 on ford’s 911 Now that the tapes are sealed, what’s the quid pro quo for cops’ sweeping the mayor’s embarrassing calls under the rug? By ENZO DiMATTEO

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olice chief bill blair has declared the matter “closed.”

Toronto police union head Mike McCormack pro­ nounced it “done.” The mayor’s office is declining further comment.

It now seems unlikely the public will ever hear the tapes of the 9­1­1 calls made by Rob Ford – sorry, Rob “Fucking” Ford – over his encounter in his driveway with the TV crew of This Hour Has 22 Minutes.

According to my police sources, these tapes have been removed from the 9­1­1 data bank and placed under police seal by the chief. That’s usually done when a 9­1­1 call becomes part of a police investigation. But it doesn’t look like disciplinary measures against the 9­1­1 dispatchers involved in handling the Ford calls – or those who leaked details of the mayor’s f­bomb­laced comments to the CBC – are being considered.

The chief’s spokesperson, Mark Pugash, declined to comment direct­ ly on that question. “We don’t discuss our internal procedures,” he says. But according to McCormack no one’s be­ ing charged. End of story. Time to change the channel.

Question is, what’s the quid pro quo for the cops’ sweeping this bit of embarrassment under the rug for the mayor? You gotta know there is one. There always is when it comes to police politics. The chief seems to want the last word.

In an attempt to put the mat­ ter to rest, Blair released a state­ ment Friday saying the mayor didn’t utter the word “bitches,” as the CBC reported, in those now famous 9­1­1 conversations.

But Blair’s intervention on Ford’s behalf only raises more questions.

The chief’s attempt to defuse everyone’s obsession with whether or not Ford used the b­word is ob­ scuring the real issue: that the may­ or’s abuse of 9­1­1 dispatchers speaks to his character.

Blair’s behaviour also gives the dangerous impression that he acted under political pressure, even if he didn’t.

The chief says in his statement that he listened to the tapes because the controversy “may have created confusion with the public about whether to call9­1­1.”

Seems a rather specious argument,

“Hello, 911?

Yes, that’s right, 5-foot-5, brunette, 140 pounds. And yes, I said ‘a fucking warrior princess.’”

especially since I’m told the chief may not have viewed the CBC video of This Hour’s encounter with Ford to deter­ mine if the mayor had reason to call 9­1­1 and proceed to blow a gasket.

Be that as it may, the chief seemed equally bent on squelching the im­ pression that one of his own leaked info to the press to make the mayor look bad.

The chief couldn’t afford to let that happen, for obvious political reasons.

His relationship with the mayor hasn’t exactly been the best. On that front, he talked about “setting the record straight.” But has he?

“The mayor did not describe him­ self as the original account claimed,” Blair said in his statement. Which is to say Ford may still have uttered the words, “Don’t you know?

I’m Rob fucking Ford, the mayor of this city,” only not in what Ford himself described as a “conceited manner.”

Ford has apologized for dropping a few f­bombs during those 9­1­1 con­ versations. His office declined to com­ ment on Blair’s statement Friday.

For privacy reasons, only the may­ or can order the 9­1­1 tapes released.

And he seems disinclined, telling re­ porters post­dust­up Thursday, Octo­ ber 27, that he’d rather put the inci­ dent behind him.

Those don’t appear to be the words of someone who is absolutely confi­ dent in his position – or his demean­ our on the tapes.

But whether or not the mayor said “bitches,” the problem is that he seems to have abused the 9­1­1 sys­ tem, its dispatchers and his office, and then to have misrepresented what happened.

In the context of the recently rescinded cuts to the police force, Blair’s message seems to be “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine,” as one policing observer put it to me.

Some in the media (here’s

looking at you, Sun Media) have now set their sights on the CBC’s reporting of the incident, calling on the national broadcaster to apologize or come clean about where it got its info.

Of course, the CBC can’t comprom­ ise the confidentiality of its sources.

That would be professional suicide.

The network has also declined to an­ swer directly whether its reporters heard the tapes or have a transcript of them. Admitting to having these would put the broadcaster in contra­ vention of privacy laws.

The CBC is sticking to its guns, say­ ing after the release of Blair’s state­ ment that it will continue to report on what it describes as a “developing story.” Did its sources mishear the 9­ 1­1 call, confuse the word “bitches” for “fucking ridiculous,” other words the mayor admits to having said?

Hard to imagine the CBC not law­ yering the story three ways to Sun­ day or cross­referencing the reports of multiple sources on this one.

The mayor’s office continues to spin the story that Ford feared for his safety when confronted by the This Hour crew, even after it became ob­ vious that he was lying about its be­ ing dark (it was 8:30 am) and that he feared for his daughter’s safety (she was inside the house).

In fact, the mayor’s PR peeps were in spin mode soon after the incident occurred Monday, leaking their ver­ sion of the story to the City Hall press corp in an effort to get out in front.

The embellishing continued Thurs­ day when the shit hit the fan about what the mayor said or didn’t say to 9­1­1 dispatchers. The official statement issued by the mayor’s office on that count states that the This Hour crew “trespassed” on the mayor’s property and “refused to leave when asked.”

The mayor’s statement says he was being “attacked.” Clearly, no one was trying to kill or injure him.

His “frustration” in his 9­1­1 call seems to stem more from the fact the cops didn’t respond fast enough than from anything the CBC crew did.

Maybe the integrity commis­ sioner should investigate why the mayor insisted on preferential treat­ ment when emergency services have other priorities. That issue seems to have gotten lost.

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occupy toronto

Robin Hood goes g20

By ALICE KLEIN we should all be giving thanks for the brave souls at Occupy toronto and all the others around the world. they aren’t just freezing their butts off and facing down all the demons

of our time; they’re turning the tide on the global conversation.

Listen­for­them­at­the­G20­meeting­ in­Cannes­this­week.­Big­players­are­ echoing­the­Occupy­demand­for­a­new­ financial­transaction­tax­because­it’s­ the­most­hopeful­and­­holistic­option­ on­the­table.

The­simple­truth­is­that­we­live­in­ taxing­times.­Literally.

To­keep­the­global­economy­moving,­people­have­to­spend­money.­That­ isn’t­going­to­happen,­because,­to­ understate­the­problem,­our­incomes­ aren’t­there­and­debt­is­tapped­out.­

That­leaves­government­spending.

But­bad­politics­has­played­a­big­ hand.­We­all­know­the­downward­ spiral.­Unemployment­gets­worse­as­ governments­cut­taxes­–­especially­for­ the­wealthy.­Then­social­spend­ing­triggers­debt­crisis.­Welcome­to­a­world­ economy­on­the­brink­of­another­credit­ meltdown­and­global­recession.

We­remember­from­the­last­financial­crisis­that­public­spending­is­the­ only­way­out.­Even­Finance­Minister­ Jim­Flaherty­has­mumbled­about­the­ need­for­stimulus­if­global­recession­ takes­hold,­all­the­while­claiming­that­

Occupy is a brand...

And thousands make their pilgrimage to pay respects By ELLIE KIRZNER you can see your breath during ­ night­ meetings­ in­ the­ gazebo­ at­ St.­ James­Park­as­winter­creeps­onto­the­ movement’s­agenda.­All­through­the­ camp,­occupiers­are­fortifying­tarps,­ laying­skids­under­tents­and­search­ ing­ for­ con­sen­sus­ over­ uses­ for­ the­ three­ stunning­ Mongolian­ yurts,­ cour­tesy­of­seven­generous­unions.

I­now­wear­my­hulking­down­jack­ et­ so­ I­ can­ make­ it­ through­ assem­ blies­ in­ the­ evening­ chill,­ where­ I­ watch­mind­spinning­debates­about­

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per­sonal­ autonomy­ and­ collective­ rights­and­how­all­that­relates­to­the­ creation­ of­ a­ people’s­ law­ and­ order­ in­the­park.­ Sometimes­ in­ the­ heat­ of­ diverg­ ing­ opinions,­ just­ as­ some­ tuned­in­ soul­calls­a­round­of­deep­breathing,­I­ forget­this­isn’t­just­a­­wild­ride­group­ experiment­ but­ a­ much­ bigger­ pro­ ject­–­the­shaping­of­a­­powerful­new­ political­brand.­This­is­why,­over­the­ last­few­weeks,­thousands,­often­one­ at­ a­ time,­ have­ made­ their­ pilgrim­

age­to­St.­James­to­pay­their­respects­ and­smell­the­rebel­air.

The­union­movement,­with­a­bit­of­ occupation­envy,­spent­the­first­week­ sending­in­washrooms,­food,­comput­ ers­ and­ supplies­ but­ staying­ mind­ fully­out­of­the­public­eye.

“We­didn’t­want­to­swing­in­there­ with­ banners­ and­ take­ over­ what­ is­ an­organic­process.­We­wanted­to­let­ them­ get­ their­ model­ established,”­ Ontario­Federation­of­Labour­rep­Joel­ Duff­tells­me.­“Detractors­would­have­

­Canada­is­all­good.­Yeah,­right.

The­Occupy­movement­has­put­it­all­ on­the­table.­We­need­government­to­ step­up­and­meet­the­needs­of­our­human­family­instead­of­leading­us­further­into­the­clutches­of­the­masters­of­ commerce­who­have­utterly­failed­us.­ We­need­meaningful­work­to­address­this­profound­mess­through­major­social­investments­in­green­infrastructure,­education,­health­and­more.

It’s­tax­innovation­time.

The­voices­in­favour­of­a­financial­ transaction­(or­Robin­Hood)­tax­are­ ­piling­up.­The­27-­member­European­

Union­is­considering­the­tax,­with­ German­leader­Angela­Merkel’s­and­ French­president­Nicolas­Sarkozy’s­ strong­endorsement.­Bill­Gates­has­ added­his­support.­Hundreds­of­esteemed­economists­and­lawmakers­ have­publicly­signed­on.­But­thank­ you,­Occupy­movement,­for­giving­ legs­and­heart­to­this­heady­demand.­ And­only­this­ongoing­grassroots­ mobilization­can­make­sure­that­ whatever­positive­tax­changes­we­ win­aren’t­highjacked­once­again­by­ that­wily­1­per­cent.­­ 3

said­we­were­hijacking­it.”

But­last­Thursday,­October­27,­at­a­ King­and­Bay­rally,­OFL­president­Sid­ Ryan­went­for­broke,­sending­a­mes­ sage­to­the­mayor’s­office:­“If­you­try­ to­take­down­the­camp,­you’ve­got­a­ major­ fight­ with­ the­ labour­ move­ ment­on­your­hands.”­And­on­Satur­ day,­ CAW­ prez­ Ken­ Lew­enza,­ who­ walked­ the­ whole­ length­ of­ the­ march­for­a­Robin­Hood­tax­despite­ the­ fact­ that­ there­ were­ no­ speech­ ifying­ opportunities,­ told­ reporters,­ “In­a­real­world,­we­[labour]­would­all­ be­occupying”­and­pledged­to­ensure­ the­camp’s­survi­val.­ Meanwhile,­ while­ the­ occupiers­ shed­ light­ on­ social­ inequality­ writ­ large,­ they’re­ busy­ on­ a­ daily­ basis­ dealing­with­the­actual­fallout­from­ it.­ The­ park­ is­ safe,­ friendly­ to­ all­ comers­ and­ inclusive­ to­ a­ fault,­ but­ it’s­also­a­magnet­for­troubled­souls­ –­the­mentally­distressed,­the­home­ less,­the­alcohol­afflicted­–­and­activ­ ists,­with­a­grace­that­gets­to­me­every­ time,­are­seeking­to­absorb­and­find­a­ place­for­all­of­them.­ We’re­ talking­ serious­ “no­ one­ left­ behind.”­The­other­night,­a­rep­from­ logistics­ said­ they­ needed­ more­ sleep­ing­bags­and­tents,­because­they­ were­giving­so­many­away.­He­meant­ not­ just­ to­ protesters­ but­ to­ the­ home­less,­ the­ original­ park­ occupi­ ers.­St.­James­is­now­a­service­centre­ for­many­about­whom­it­can­be­said­ that­ this­ tiny,­ welcoming­ village­ is­ their­best­option.

It’s­now­standard­to­have­meetings­ studded­ by­ the­ disconnected­ thoughts­ of­ those­ who­ live­ in­ an­ al­ ternate­reality.­Protesters­treat­them­ graciously,­listening­closely­for­their­ nuggets­of­truth.

But­there­is­a­price­for­these­gener­ ous­ instincts.­ All­ week­ long,­ people­ have­ been­ wrestling­ with­ a­ protocol­

for­protecting­each­other­from­assaults­ by­the­small­number­of­substance­abus­ ers­now­roaming­the­space.­Reluctance­ to­make­use­of­the­now­few­police­offi­ cers­ringing­the­park­and­an­aversion­to­ punitive­ justice­ mean­ mega­pressure­ on­marshals,­who­have­generally­been­ doing­pretty­well.

“If­we­want­to­keep­the­park­police­ free,­we­have­to­deal­with­the­issue­[of­ violence],”­ one­ marshal­ told­ a­ GA.­ “Peer­pressure­is­what­we­can­use,­and­ unlike­police,­we­de­escalate.”­ Some­didn’t­think­there­was­enough­ clarity­ in­ this.­ Taylor,­ who­ moved­ a­ moment­ of­ silence­ for­ all­ those­ suffering­from­addictions,­proposed­a­ five­person­team­to­chill­those­threat­ ening­others,­and­if­this­didn’t­suffice,­ offering­them­the­option­of­being­es­ corted­out­of­the­park­or­involvement­ by­police.­ Some­declared­this­unworkable,­and­ others­said­it­gave­too­much­authority­ to­marshals.­“Evicting­people­is­a­form­ of­violence,”­someone­worried.­Others­ insisted­ that­ if­ an­ agreement­ for­ re­ moval­was­not­in­place,­the­group­was­ favouring­the­rights­of­the­uncontrol­ lable­over­the­common­security.­ The­ dialogue­ is­ ongoing,­ daily­ and­ serious,­ and­ enabled­ by­ a­ team­ of­ spectacular­ consensus­ facilitators­ who­ should­ themselves­ someday­ go­ out­ into­ the­ world­ to­ make­ a­ revolu­ tion­in­deci­sion­mak­ing.­ I­ sit­ through­ these­ discussions­ dazed­ by­ the­ dilemmas­ and­ touched­ by­the­belief­everywhere­in­evidence­ that­there­is­always­a­loving­response­ to­a­cruel­predicament.

Occupiers­ have­ taken­ on­ the­ big­ structural­issues­of­the­economy,­but­ it’s­ the­ smaller­ ones­ that­ are­ being­ forced­ on­ them.­ And­ what­ we’re­ all­ learning­is­nothing­less­than­priceless. ­ 3

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number crunch

Unplugging city sell-off

Selling our stake in Enwave and Hydro would be okay if the cash went to city-building By ADAM GIAMBRONE there are good business deals and bad ones, but City Hall today seems ready to sacrifice financial sense for ideology with its plan to sell what we hold in common.

This week the Executive Commit­ tee voted to sell the city’s share in Enwave but delayed its decision on monetizing 10 per cent of its Toronto Hydro shares as well as some real es­ tate assets, seeking more infor­ mation. This was a pleasant change from the new normal at City Hall, where big decisions are rushed into with little consultation.

Let’s examine the arguments for sell­offs.

Staff, likely at the urging of the mayor’s office, have noted that the sale of assets would allow the city to invest in other needed capital pro­ jects such as transit.

You could say that if the estimated $600 million from selling assets (in­ cluding Enwave, Toronto Hydro and real estate) were invested in the city’s future, it’d be a good thing. Perhaps the money could go to repairing and building rec centres, libraries and daycares, since studies show that in­ vestments in early childhood result in better outcomes and cost savings

in the future.

Alternatively, you could argue that transportation would be the best re­ cipient of the sales cash.It could im­ prove TTC service or ease the more than $400 million backlog in road repairs.

Sadly, I fear this is not the debate we will have. While transit was cited as a possible beneficiary of the sale, the cash would likely just go to re­ ducing regular budgeted items for transit capital projects, so we’d be no further ahead.

Other needs might arguably de­ serve this money. But Mayor Rob Ford and some on council see such revenue as an easy way to fill the cur­ rent deficit hole deepened by the ill­ advised tax freeze.

As for Enwave, some say the city can sell its share and recoup part of the investment made in getting En­ wave going over 25 years ago. How­ ever, the company is struggling fi­ nancially and unattractive to private investors, so we’d likely lose money selling at the wrong time.

Alternatively, we could hold on to our share of Enwave, allowing the corp to expand its successful district heating and cooling operation, which

provides inexpensive service to over 100 buildings and gives a competi­ tive advantage to businesses in the downtown, not to mention being a greenhouse gas reducer.

When it comes to selling Toronto Hydro, the stakes are much bigger.

Toronto has owned the company since 1911. It was set up to combat the high cost of privately provided elec­ tricity.

Similar projects were created in many communities across the country, and it’s remained true that rates are lower where public companies control the electricity system. Alberta and California are extreme examples of what can hap­ pen when private forces take over: not only does electricity cost more, but there can also be shortages and economic impacts as power compan­ ies relocate, seeking higher prices.

To assess the advisability of the sale of Hydro, we need more infor­ mation, but if we go with what we now know, here’s the scenario. Based on various valuation methods, To­ ronto Hydro would be worth from $700 million to $1.5 billion if it were a market company. Taking the mean, you get about $1.1 billion. This means

a 10 per cent stake would be worth $110 mil minus brokerage costs, bringing the city’s share to $100 mil.

The money could be used either to reduce the city’s debt or to invest in new infrastructure. On the face of it, this looks like a smart way to manage finances, until you realize that $100 million of city debt costs 4 per cent or $4 million a year to carry (the result of the city’s excellent debt rating, which is better than the province’s). But the average profit turned over to the city

by Hydro (it’s pretty steady, since it’s regulated by the Ontario Energy Board) is 50 per cent of $50 to $70 mil­ lion per year or $25 to $35 million.

Finally, subtract 10 per cent of that, or $2.5 to $3.5 million, that would be turned over to private investors if the city sells 10 per cent of Hydro.

The end result is that we’d be $1 million ahead at best.

There’s also the fear that a pri­ vate investor (although a minority shareholder) would press for bigger dividends from the profits instead of doing what’s currently done: pru­ dently investing the profits in mod­ ernization and enviro­friendly prac­ tices that better prepare Hydro for the future, in the public interest.

We should always be open to new ideas. The problem is, the sale of city assets is not a new or particularly cre­ ative idea – and we should only go forward if we are very clear about the numbers and the purpose of the sale.

Filling one­time budget holes should not be one of them.

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Sprawl bomb It’s not population growth that’s the biggest threat to food security – it’s distance. By WAYNE ROBERTS flashbulbs exploded along with population numbers this week as cameras captured the birthday of the planet’s 7-billionth person.

But when it comes to population, it’s not just size that matters. The real number to watch is the percentage of people living in cities: more than 50 per cent worldwide over much of the past decade.

That means population growth is increasingly a local and municipal, more than a global, challenge. City planning without regard to a local food supply may have worked a century ago, when the world’s population was 3 billion mostly rural people and when cities of a million were considered huge. But it doesn’t wash today.

Case in point: The Federation of Canadian Municipalities invites applications for $550 million in green funds for energy, transportation, waste or water projects. But, hello out there, food doesn’t rank.

The separation of city folk from their food sources is more worrisome than a potential world food scarcity crisis. Indeed, some of that scarcity panic is foisted on us by interest groups entrenched in an industrialized global food system that’s ever more reliant on genetic engineering, synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.

For some time now, scientific and mass media reports have been peppered with doom-and-gloom stats – many from the respected but thoroughly pro-industrial UN Food and Agriculture Organization – on the need to double world food production in order to feed 9 billion screaming empty mouths by 2050.

But there are many expert doubters. A recent report of the UK-based Soil Association, Telling Porkies: The Big Fat Lie About Doubling Food Production, argues that such claims are flawed because they assume that poor nations will continue to import staples, when it’s local production that’s vital. As well, estimates neglect the

waste levels in today’s system, which sends a third of a ton of perfectly good food per person annually to garbage.

As much as half the food produced or caught in the world is wasted, according to University of Manitoba geographer and food expert Vaclav Smil.

The real threat to food security lies elsewhere than farms and fisheries. It lies in distance. It lies in sprawl and the destruction of agricultural land around cities – like the area adjacent to Ontario’s greenbelt and beyond. To compound the problem, disappearing farmland opens the door for the manipulation of food by financial instruments similar to those that brought us the housing bubble and subsequent stock market crash.

According to Peter Wahl of German think tank World Economy, Ecology and Development, when the financial crisis hit, institutional investors left their traditional markets to invest heavily in commodities like agricultural products, accelerating already rising prices. That speculative move, he says, created a price bubble that pushed 120 million additional people into poverty. And the answer, as he suggests, is a citizen movement to win regulation.

To protect food access from this new species of predators, cities need to move quickly. Toronto’s greenbelt, though one of the largest in the world, was not designed for food security or food sovereignty, which partly accounts for its erratic boundaries and the fact that they protect less than half the vulnerable farmland that could be feeding the GTA. For those who eat for a living, preserving farmland – which, by the way, means an immediate end to quarries on productive acreage, the Shelburne mega-quarry being the most egregious example – and enhancing local and sustainable food should be the first order of city and provincial business.

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The kitchen can be a dangerous place for a klutz. Case in point: I somehow figured out a way to slice open my Achilles tendon with a cake mixer. Don’t ask. But actually, this is the least of the culinary threats.

There are plenty of nefarious characters in our kitchens, includ­ ing the cancer-linked non-stick chemicals used in pans, countertop appliances and grease­resistant food packaging, as well as the high levels of lead found in crystal and in some ceramic Chinatown dishes (according to testing done by doctors at a Philadel­ phia university).

What of that clear, hard plastic stuff in your blender and food processor? In most cases, it is indeed that estrogenic BPA-heavy (bisphenol A) villain polycarbonate. That’s true for new appliances, too, unless they specific­ ally say the plastic is BPA­free, as is the case with KitchenAid’s immersion blender jars but not with its food processors. If you’re unsure, call and ask, though when I first called the company, reps told me all of their food processors were BPA­free.

When I pressed for specifics about what plastic is being used in its place, the rep came back to tell me she was wrong – BPA it was.

BPA-free blenders are easy to find – just reach for those with glass pitchers. Food processors, on the other hand, not so much. Hamil-

ton Beach says its food processors and plastic blenders are now BPAfree and made with safer polypro­ pylene. However they do have PVC lids (which contain phthalates). Your only plastic­free bet is to go your grandmother’s route and get your­ self an old-fashioned stainless steel food mill. Bonus: it’s hand powered, so no dirty electricity is required.

Regardless, the amount of time your pesto or margarita is in contact with your blend­ er or food processor is pretty minimal. Plus,

That innocentlooking blender could be full of BPA- ridden plastic, so chuck it for one with a glass pitcher. if you’re washing those appliances by hand, you’re minimizing time and wear in a leach­boosting dish­ washer. I’m more worried about the plastics used in items that get run through the dishwasher and/or chewed on every day. You know, clear hard­plastic glasswear (cups, wine glasses, pitchers) and reusable plastic straws (yep, the ones your kids chew on until they look like dog toys).

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Some measuring cups, cutlery, salt/ pepper grinders and citrus juicers.

You can actually find polycarbonate in opaque colours, too, and in kitch­ en stuff like candy/chocolate moulds (into which bakers pour piping­hot melted goo).

What about mela­ mine? This common “kid­friendly” dishware/ whiteboard/countertop plastic made headlines when the compound was found to be tainting baby formula in China. Melamine is basically urea formaldehyde. Sounds dodgy, and it can be. Tai­ wan’s Consumers’ Foun­ dation tested plastic tableware and found that it can leach melamine into hot food or when microwaved.

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Thursday, November 3

Benefits

The BiG picTuRe (Couchiching Institute on Pub-

lic Affairs) Small interactive discussions over dinner with Michael “Pinball” Clemons, Edward Burtynsky, Clayton Ruby and others.

6:30-9 pm. $500. The Boiler House, Distillery District, 55 Mill. couch.ca.

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, Suzy Lake, Micah Lexier and others. 7 pm. Free. Burroughes Bldg, 639 Queen W. youthline.ca/lineart.

RedesiGn 2011 (Textile Museum of Canada) Gala evening and silent auction of Louis XVIstyle armchairs redesigned by local artists.

6:30 pm. $100. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-599-5321 ext 2246. sonGs FoR seed (Students for Education, Empowerment and Development) A night of musical performances. 8 pm. $6. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. seedcan.net. sTephen lewis and Michele landsBeRG (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) Talking about their lives, passions and the future of the country. 7 pm. $20-$40. Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. 416-525-4927.

Events

ancienT eGypTian deMonoloGy Lecture. 7

pm. $5. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, rm 142, 5 Bancroft. sseatoronto@yahoo.ca. aRT wiTh insiGhT Tour of the exhibition Angela Grauerholz: The Inexhaustible Image. 7 pm. Free. University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

BesT chesT conTesT Competition hosted by Bob Watkin. Midnight. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

cheRRy BlossoMs and Japanese inTeRnMenT in canada in 1942 Presentation by Alan Skeoch. 7 pm. Free. Burnhamthorpe Library, 3650 Dixie. 905-615-3500 ext 3660. rcReaTinG MeMoRies cReaTively Program for children and their mothers/caregivers. To Nov 11. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register fatima@artstarts.net. dia de los MueRTos Mexican Day of the Dead celebration with music, art, poetry, food and a tribute to Mexican human rights defenders. 6 pm. Free. Amnesty International, 1992 Yonge.

Pre-register 416-363-9933.

econoMic & social secuRiTy in The 21sT cenTuRy: how does canada sTack up aGainsT oTheR wealThy developed naTions? Science

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

essenTial FaTTy acids: how To choose?

Seminar. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth.

416-466-2129.

exTRa viRGin olive oil: a niGhT wiTh liquid Gold Lecture and oil tasting with Gaia Massai.

6:30 pm. $10. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802.

FoRGeT BaGhdad Film screening and a talk by academic Ella Shohat. 6 pm. Free. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. diasporafilmfest.com. isaBelle pauwels: Tic Tac Toe Artist talk. 7 pm. $6. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. liFe in The GeoRGian TheaTRe Illustrated talk.

2 pm. Free. Mt Pleasant Library, 599 Mt Pleasant. 416-393-7737.

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listings index Live music Theatre Comedy

58 69 73

Dance Readings Art galleries

74 76 77

Movie reviews Movie times Rep cinemas

83 88 91

festivals • expos • sports etc.

Bougie, James Robertson, Kurt Swinghammer, Danny Michel, Melissa McClelland and others.

4:30 pm. $25, festival pass $50-$75. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. sleepwalkguitar.com. whaT’s youR sToRy? Afternoon of storytelling from diverse cultural traditions. Today and tomorrow. 2, 3 & 4 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Festivals this week

Mcluhan100 – Then, now, nexT Confer-

ence and festival celebrating the centenary of Marshall McLuhan’s birth, with speakers, concerts, art installations and screenings.

Various prices and venues. mcluhan100.ca.

Nov 7 to 10 Reel asian FilM FesTival Contemporary cinema by East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $5-$20, passes $65-$80. Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles W), Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts (10268 Yonge) and other venues. reelasian.com.

Nov 8 to 19

Rendezvous wiTh Madness FilM FesTival

Shorts and features that touch on mental illness and addictions plus panel discussions and more. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W), Workman Hall (651 Dufferin). rendezvouswithmadness.com.

Nov 4 to 12 sleepwalk GuiTaR FesTival Performances

by Amos Garrett, Colin James, Luke Doucet & the White Falcon and others, plus workshops and panels. $25, pass $75. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. sleepwalkguitar.com.

Nov 4 to 6 ToRonTo skeTch coMedy FesTival Performances by Picnicface, the Imponderables, This Is That, Fratwurst, Jape, Deadpan Powerpoint and many others. $15-$20, pass

MeRRy-Go-Rounds in The cosMic aMuseMenT paRk Astronomy lecture by Wayne

Ngan. 8:10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, 60 St George. uoft.me/astrotours. oldeR lGBT social in noRTh ToRonTo LGBT and LGBT-friendly adults 55 and over meet and mingle. 2-4 pm. Free. SPRINT, 140 Merton.

416-481-0669 ext 287.

a paTholoGical oBsession: disease ThRouGh a MicRoscope Science lecture. 7:30 pm. Free. Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe. 416-977-2983.

souTh asians in The aRTs: diaspoRa, alliances and collaBoRaTions acRoss coMMuniTies Talks by artists Sylvat Aziz, Mesma

Belsare and others. 10 am-4 pm. Free. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military, Brown Theatre. pampatterson@wiaprojects.com. spReadinG RooTs Symposium on the issues affecting urban trees with speakers, panels and more. Today and tomorrow 9 am-9 pm; Nov 5, 9 am-noon. $26-$155. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. Pre-register spreadingroots.ca.

TinTin: a heRo FoR The 21sT cenTuRy Michael Farr lectures on the life and work of Tintin creator Hergé. 8 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-393-7746. waTeR & The ciTy: MoBilizinG leadeRs The Waterlution Toronto Hub launches with a talk by infrastructure manager Michael D’Andrea, performances and more. 6 pm. Free. The Richmond, 477 Richmond W. Pre-register waterlutiontorontohub.eventbrite.com. yiddish vinkl Author Ralph Wintrob talks about the Warsaw Ghetto archive. Noon. $16 (includes lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College.

Pre-register yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca.

Friday, November 4

Benefits

aRaB woMen Go wild (Canadians for Justice

and Peace in the Middle East) Dinner and comedy benefit with Maysoon Sayid and ElHusseini. 6:30 pm. $100. Capitol Banquet Centre, 6435 Dixie, Mississauga. cjpme.org. aqua GRoove (Toronto Twilight Rotary) Party in support of building sustainable water infrastructure in Tanzania. 7 pm. $45 adv. Studio 561, 561 Bloor W. torontotwilightrotary.com.

TiBeTan healinG and peace dances (Drigung Kagyu/Toronto Cat Rescue/Toronto Humane Soc/Toronto Wildlife Centre) Sacred dances, chants and meditation. 8 pm. $15-$25. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. drigung.com.

Events

dave MaRTin, a celeBRaTion oF liFe Gathering to celebrate the life and work of the en-

Sunday, November 6 Lover’s​​ Discourse​ opens​the​ Reel​Asian​ Film​Fest. $40. Lower Ossington Theatre (100A Ossington), Comedy Bar (945 Bloor W), Second City (51 Mercer). torontosketchfest.com.

Nov 8 to 13

continuing

The 416 ToRonTo cReaTive iMpRoviseRs FesTival Improvised music performances by

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

416festival.com.

To Nov 5

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.

To Nov 6

vironmental activist with Green Party leader Elizabeth May and others. 9 pm. Free. Victory Cafe, 581 Markham, 2nd fl. remember.dave. martin@gmail.com. diGiTal aRTisT show and Tell Artist showcase. 7 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

palesTine un Bid: The way FoRwaRd oR a diveRsion? Discussion on the application to

the United Nations, with Mazen Masri, Issam al Yamani and Nahla Abdo. 7-9 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. rRoM sleepoveR Dinosaur-themed sleepover for kids 5 & up accompanied by an adult.

5 pm-10 am. $75. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca. sounds deMo Sir Tony Palazzo demonstrates safe and fun forms of SMBD play. 11:30 pm.

Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219. ssea scholaRs’ colloquiuM Presentations

by Egyptologists and other academics. Today 9 am-5 pm; tomorrow 1-5 pm (U of T). Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca.

The waR you don’T see Rebel Films screening and discussion. 7 pm. $4. OISE, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

Saturday, November 5

Benefits

Fall FlinG (Echo Women’s Choir) Old-style

community square dance with kids crafts and more. 7 pm. $10, underwaged $8, fam $25.

Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square. echowomenschoir.ca. squeaky wheel TouR (Missing Persons Fdn) Unplugged concert with musicians including Jannel Rap, Kiki Mizumi and Danny Marks. 7 pm. Free/donations). Long & McQuade, 925 Bloor W. 411gina.org/squeakywheeltour.htm.

ToRonTo newsGiRls anniveRsaRy/ calendaR launch paRTy (Shape Your Life)

Celebration with food, prizes and more. 8-11 pm. Free (calendars $20). Newsgirls Boxing Club, 388 Carlaw. torontonewsgirls.com.

Events

raniMals ThaT hooT & howl in The niGhT

Meet a live owl, visit a bird-banding station and go on a hike looking for night animals. 7 pm. $12, srs/child $6. Kortright Centre For Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289.

BeauTiFul noise woRkshop Sleepwalk Guitar Festival workshop with Richard Lloyd, Ian Blurton and Andrew Dickson. 12:30 pm. $25, festival pass $75, youth $50. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. sleepwalkguitar.com.

Books aBRoad saTuRday MaTinée: los anGeles A monthly book club led by Nicholas

ReGenT paRk FilM FesTival Multicultural programming for youth and emerging filmmakers. Free. Lord Dufferin School, 350 Parliament. regentparkfilmfestival. com.

To Nov 5 soundplay NAISA festival of experimentation in sound art and new media, with performances, installations, workshops and more. Various prices, some events free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca/soundplay.

To Nov 26 woRds and iMaGes Theatre, films, music, book launches and art promote Latin American culture. Most events free. Various venues. wordsandimagesfestival.com.

To Nov 19 Hoare bookseller Peter Merriman runs to Jun 2. $155 (includes books). Pre-register 416-7772665, booksabroad.com. conveRGence Graduate student symposium on interdisciplinary perspectives on fashion. 9 am-5:30 pm. Free. Ryerson U Kerr Hall S, rm 251, 40 Gould. ryersonfashionsymposium.ca. rday oF The dead Mexican cultural celebration with altars, music, storytelling, visual arts and food. Today and tomorrow noon-6 pm.

Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. deaTh alonG The nile Symposium on Egypt’s lost tombs. 9 am-5 pm. $90, stu $40. U of T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. Pre-register thesseaa.org. dia de los MueRTos Mexican Day of the Dead party with performances by QuiQue Escamilla and others. 8 pm. $15. Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461. i’M noT scaRed Presentation on the book by Niccoló Ammaniti. 2 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802. issues oF conTexT Discussion on the curriculum of museum and gallery spaces, the politics of display, and more. 10 am-5 pm. $160, stu $90. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Pre-register ago.net. rkoRean culTuRal heRiTaGe day Family activities. 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Pk. rom.on.ca. laTin aMeRican caFé Open exchange of ideas, music, poetry, art and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free.

Ryerson University, 350 Victoria, POD 250. latinamericanresearchers.com/cafe.html. rnaTuRe JouRnallinG Make a journal for a park stroll. 1 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

no shelTeR heRe: MakinG The woRld a kindeR place FoR doGs Talk by Zoocheck’s Rob Laidlaw and a vegan potluck. 6 pm. Free (bring food to share). St Thomas Anglican Church Hall, 283 Huron. 416-979-2323.

ouTspoRT ToRonTo 2011 scRuM and conFeRence Conference for LGBTTIQQ2SA amateur

athletes and recreation enthusiasts. 10:30 am-5 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. scrum2011.outsporttoronto.org. packaGinG youR iMaGinaTion CANSCAIP conference for those interested in writing, illustrating or performing for children. 8:15 am-4:30 pm. $155. U of T Victoria College, 73 Queen’s Pk. Pre-register 416-515-1559.

Rock and Roll woRkshop Sleepwalk Guitar Festival workshop. 2:30 pm. $25, festival pass $75, youth $50. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. sleepwalkguitar.com. sideMan woRkshop Sleepwalk Guitar Festival workshop with Afie Jurvanen, Christine

Benefits

FiTness FoR Food zuMBa yoGaThon (UTSU Food and Clothing Bank) Stretch and shake the day away to benefit U of T students. 10 am-3 pm. $25, stu $15. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. poRRidGe FoR paRkinson’s (Parkinson’s Soc Canada) Breakfast tasting with chefs including Jamie Kennedy and Donna Dooher. 10 am. $125. 93 Highland. 416-227-3378. who Took The BoMp? le TiGRe on TouR

(Shameless Magazine) Documentary screening introduced by Tara-Michelle Ziniuk and Sarah Liss. 2 pm. $15, adv $10. Projection Booth, 1035 Gerrard E. shamelessmag.com.

Events

dia de los MueRTos FesTival oF The aRTs A craft fair (11 am-6 pm) and cabaret (8 pm) celebrate the Mexican Day of the Dead. $20, adv $15 (craft fair free). Revival, 783 College.

416-535-7888. an enchanTed eveninG Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. Free w/donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. haRlan: in The shadow oF Jew suss Film screening and talk by film critic Adam Nayman. 4 & 7:30 pm. $10-$15. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606. hell wiTches and pansy Boys: Media, ModeRniTy and queeR idenTiTy in inTeRwaR ToRonTo and Today Interactive history salon with Steven Maynard. 2 pm. $12. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.

99 MRkT Local food, craft and art. 11 am-5 pm. Free. 99 Sudbury. 99sudbury.ca/99-mrkt. onTaRio’s FaR noRTh Illustrated lecture by Justina Ray. 2:30 pm. Free. Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park, torontofieldnaturalists.org.

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Freehand art auCtion (Warchild Canada) Live auction of art by Elle Flanders & Tamira Sawatzky, Luke Painter and others. 6 pm. $100. 99 Sudbury. artbarrage.com.

Women’s natural health summit (breast cancer charities) Workshops on women’s health concerns. 7 pm. $14.50. Uof T Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. 1-888-222-6608.

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Fred ritChin: meaningFul media The photography/imaging professor lectures on the digital revolution. 7 pm. $22.50, stu $17. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net. roB Bell: Fit to smash iCe tour Performance by the evangelical Christian pastor. 8 pm. $25.

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Part two of a three-part series on music with Rick Phillips talking about Beethoven. 6:30 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697. tokyo: City under Pressure Lecture on Tokyo’s urban renaissance by professor André Sorensen. 6:30 pm. Free. Japan Fdn, 131 Bloor W. Pre-register jftor.org/whatson.rsvp.php. toronto talks moBility Public forum on kick-starting a campaign for transportation solutions for the GTA with columnist Christopher Hume, Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi and others. 7 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. citiescentre.utoronto.ca.

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Fundraising dinner. 7 pm. $500. Ritz-Carlton, 181 Wellington W. 416-322-8448.

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FOOD

BEST BAGEL

ST. URBAIN BAGEL BAKERY 93 Front East, 416-364-8305, and others

In the southeast corner of the St. Lawrence Market’s upper level, this fouroutlet bakery first introduced Toronto to Montreal-style bagels back in the early 90s. Since then, we’ve fallen for these dense, honey-dipped wonders, especially when they’re still warm from the on-site wood-burning oven. On offer: two basic models with sesame or poppy seeds and upgrades like chocolate chips and blueberries. Don’t forget to pick up a tub of garlicky cream cheese laced with lox.

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GRYFE’S BAGEL BAKERY 3421 Bathurst, 416-783-1552

BEST INDIAN

BANJARA 796 Bloor West, 416-963-9360/ 164 Eglinton East, 416-486-6644, torontobanjara.com

Relocated to the west side after his popular Indo resto collapsed along with the Uptown Theatre next door, ex-Jamie Kennedy vet Rajeesh Veerella turns up the heat with a carte that ranges from mild-mannered spinach stir-fries to volcanic beef vindaloos. Formally set tables, attentive service and moderate prices make it all go down that much easier. And, yes, they deliver!

RUNNER-UP

LAHORE TIKKA HOUSE

1365 Gerrard East, 416-406-1668, lahoretikkahouse.com

BEST BURGER

BURGER’S PRIEST 1636 Queen East, 647-346-0617, theburgerspriest.com

Ex-cleric Shant Mardirosian doesn’t just serve the most righteous burgers in his tiny east-side takeaway; he’s in their spiritual service as well. That’s why they call him the burger’s priest. But even those of a secular bent will be converted by these holiest of hamburgers, two freshly ground patties smash-fried on a griddle and loaded with caramelized onion and proudly processed cheese – hold the relish – on an absorbent white bun. True devotees know to order them Jarge-style (i.e., fried in Heinz mustard).

BEST RESTAURANT

ORIGIN

107 King East, 416-603-8009, origintoronto.com

Everybody’s going downmarket. Susur Lee’s doing cheeseburgers in the Lounge, Splendido’s gone cow-punk at the County General, and Mark McEwan has both a suburban grocery store and a TV reality show. Origin is Colborne Lane gastronaut Claudio Aprile’s move into the mainstream, a great buzzing space with an accessible card that’s best when he keeps it simple. And cheap. His $8 tostones and $5 devilled eggs are some of the tastiest things in the house. Aprile promises a second Origin — Origin North, no less — somewhere between here and Penetanguishene in the new year.

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CANOE

66 Wellington West, 416-364-0054, oliverbonacini.com/canoe

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BEST JApANESE

5 Roncesvalles, 647-352-0202, cardinalrulerestaurant.com

398 Church, 416-977-0999 / 559 Bloor West, 647-343-1101, guu-izakaya.com

Following in the pioneer spirit of the Peter Pan and the Swan, Katie James and Marta Kusel have transformed a down-on-its-luck diner into an offbeat dinner destination. Sure, the retro room’s a little funkier than what the 1 per cent might expect if they were ever to stumble this far down Queen Street (dig that argyle paint job!), but their carte, much of it vegan and/or glutenfree, couldn’t be more on trend if it tried. Factor in meat loaf muffins and deep-fried “sushi” fashioned from Kraft Dinner and it’s little wonder that this Cardinal truly rules.

If you’re hankering for California rolls and miso soup in a room as serene as a Zen garden, you’ve come to the wrong sushi shack. However, if upmarket panAsian pub grub like deep-fried takoyaki octopus balls or creamy udon noodles with bacon à la carbonara served in a room as raucous as a frat house on a Friday night is more your style, have we got a Guu for you. Nine of them, in fact, including the Vancouver-based chain’s just-launched new Guu in partyhearty Chengdu, China.

RUNNER-Up

493 Bloor West, 416-963-8861, newgenerationsushi.com

133 Jefferson, 647-352-3553, libertybellebistro.com

BEST ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT

Korean Grill House 214 Queen West, 416-263-9850

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Got a beef with the way most restos cook your steak? This suburban barbecue chain allows its customers to grill their thinly sliced marinated beef – or pork or chicken or squid or ox tongue – themselves on braziers built into every table, whether they want it bloody raw or like shoe-leather. The DIY meal deal includes an assortment of kimchee and Korean pickles as well as bowls of fluffy short-grain rice, all for as little as $8.99 per person.

Who says dining on a dime can’t be delish?

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813 Yonge, 416-9691221, and others

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BEST CARIBBEAN

THe real JerK 709 Queen East, 416-463-6055, therealjerk.com

Back when Ed and Lily Pottinger first opened the doors of their east-side Jamaican take-away in 84, Toronto didn’t know jerk from jack. Nearly 30 years later, they’re still at the front of the pack, delivering substantial island-style plates heaving with fiery chicken and nutty rice ’n’ peas in a riotous two-storey room complete with palm trees and Christmas lights that was built for non-stop partying.

Sometimes the original is still the greatest.

RUNNER-Up

isLANd Foods

1182 King West, 416-532-6298, and others, islandfoods.com

Japanese favourite Guu is always rammed.

BEST MEXICAN

TaCos el asador 690 Bloor West, 416-538-9747

Despite the cramped quarters and uncomfortable picnic-bench seating, Elena and Salvador Gonzalez’s celebrated Koreatown cantina continues to pack ’em in. Made-to-order chorizo quesadillas and avocado enchiladas go for all of $3.20 and lime-squirted soft tacos stuffed with sweet al pastor pork and diced pineapple will set you back $2.57. Hung-over regulars know to head straight for massive $9 bowls of pozole laced with tummy-soothing hominy. No surprise, there’s most always a lineup.

RUNNER-Up

rANcho reLAxo

300 College, 416-920-0366, ranchorelaxo.biz

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Cardinal 504 Bloor West, 416-537-4417, and others, Rule's Katie ghazale.ca James serves up What started out as a lilliputian lunch her original Maki N' counter tucked under the marquee of Cheese. the Bloor Theatre has grown into a

string of five late-night pit stops across the GTA. There’s even one in the wilds of Rob Ford’s Etobicoke. Where else will you find pita wraps overstuffed with house-ground chickpea meatballs and a salad’s worth of chopped parsley,

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shredded romaine, ripe tomato and slivered red onion finished with tabouleh, tahini and a splash of sinus-searing hot sauce for $3.79 at 3 am?

BEST DINER/GREASY SpOON

THe laKeview 1132 Dundas West, 416-850-8886, thelakeviewrestaurant.ca

RUNNER-Up

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229 Church and other locations, 416-2039908, alibabas.ca

BEST KOREAN

Bi Bim Bap 950 Eglinton West, 416-787-7423, stonebowl.ca

Bap till you drop! Meat-mad Korean kitchens don’t offer many alternatives for vegetarians, let alone hardcore vegans. Yet Sam Lee and Janet Yun’s modish spot on the fringes of Forest Hill manages to do just that with a lineup of meal-in-one rice casseroles that come topped with everything from spicy beef bulgogi to exotic mushrooms and seeds. And don’t miss their trendy Korean tacos, apparently “very popular in New York and Los Angeles.”

Though it got off to a shaky start when it first relaunched under its current owners more than two years ago, this lovingly restored art deco gem has finally found its sea legs. Now the retro comfort food card – the inevitable burger, poutine and all-day breakfast – are as tasty as the tunes rockin’ the Wurlitzer jukebox. And service, once clueless, is now focused and quick. A resto reborn.

RUNNER-Up

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KALENDAR

546 College, at Euclid, 416-923-4138, kalendar.com

Time literally stands still at this selfdescribed “candlelit salon”: all three of the antique fin de siècle station clocks that watch over the art nouveau café have been stopped since the second it opened back in 1994. But who has time for such trivialities when the night is young, the wine is flowing and love is on the menu along with inexpensive finger food like baked Camembert and vegetarian dahlpuri pizza designed to be shared by two?

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7 WEST CAFÉ

7 Charles West, 416-928-2380, 7westcafe. com

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CALIFORNIA SANDWICHES 244 Claremont, 416-603-3317, and others, californiasandwiches.ca

two-fisted kaisers piled with gently battered veal, pounded chicken breast or mamma-mia meatballs, all slathered in classic tomato sauce and optionally spiked with sweetly sautéed onions, mushrooms and peppers. True carnivores go for double meat. Messy but delish.

RUNNER-UP

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825 Dundas West, 647-352-6611, porchettaco.com

BEST COCKTAIL

BLACK HOOF 928 Dundas West, 416-551-8854, theblackhoof.com

You likely know Jennifer Agg as the visionary behind this celebrated barnyard bistro, but she first dazzled downtown with her mixology skills at Cobalt on College back in the late 90s. That’s where she developed her signature Manhattan, a classic blend of 10-yearold Canadian rye whiskey, Carpano Antica Formula vermouth and housemade bitters finished with local cherries soaked in a tincture of bitter almonds ($16/3 ounces). Make mine a double!

Since launching in a grocery store on an RUNNER-UP obscure side street THE in Little Italy 44 years ago, this HARBORD mom ’n’ pop op has ROOM 89 Harbord, grown into a family416-962-8989, run chain of 10 sub theharbordroom. shops with locations com across the GTA. And what 62055_Malivoire_NOWmag_ad_ART_Layout 1 11-10-28 3:22 PM Page 1 wicked ’wiches they be – hefty

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BEST BEER SELECTION

BEST COCKTAIL BAR

58 The Esplanade, 416-862-7575, and others, thebiermarkt.com

1150 Queen West, 416-531-5042, thedrakehotel.ca

Let’s do the math: 42 draft taps and 100 different beers from 30 different countries equals cheers from NOW readers. The hopped-up selection draws a busy after-work and nightlife crowd who hit Bier Markts east and west. Beyond foamy, frosty libations served in elegant imported brandspecific glassware, the Bier Markt offers a full range of beer-compatible snacks and entrees. Items like cheese and lager fondue, six different kinds of mussel and bouillabaisse signal the Markt’s Continental accent.

With its Lobby Lounge, rooftop Sky Yard bar and Underground club, it might be more appropriate to say NOW readers picked the Drake as best cocktails bars. Unifying the lot is a crack team of shakers and stirrers including Toronto bar stars like Gord Hannah and Simon Ho, who whip up finely tuned takes on classic cocktails and innovative originals. The Drake knows it’s much easier to stand around looking beautiful when you have a well-made drink in your hand.

BIER MARKT

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THE RHINO

1249 Queen West, 416-535-8089, therhino.ca

THE DRAKE

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BAR CHEF

472 Queen West, 416-868-4800, barcheftoronto.com

BEST PUB FOOD

THE QUEEN & BEAVER 35 Elm, 647-347-2712, queenandbeaverpub.ca

It might seem like every other resto that opens these days fancies itself a gastropub, but only ex-Crush Wine Bar Jamieson Kerr’s palatial Victorian pile has the menu to make it the real deal.

Blame chef Andrew Carter for superb pub grub like devilled lamb kidneys on toast smeared with drippings, woodoven-roasted quail with shoestring frites, and the tastiest gourmet burger around. Not exactly pickled eggs and a packet of crisps, is it?

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HOUSE ON PARLIAMENT 454 Parliament, 416-925-4074, houseonparliament.com

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BEST LOCALLY MADE BEER

Mill StrEEt

MICHAEL WATIER

55 Mill, 416-681-0338, millstreetbrewery.com

BEST MARTINI

Eat My Martini 648 College, 416-516-2549, eatmymartini.ca

A cold glass, vodka or gin, a rumour of vermouth and an olive or twist: it should be so easy, but one tiny misstep and the whole delicate structure can collapse into a cocktail crisis. With a drinks list that claims to have 130 martinis, it’s understandable that Eat My would work hard to get the original right. Sip this paean to elegant mixeddrinks simplicity in the comfortable, low-key-chic confines of this popular neighbourhood spot or, better yet, eat that martini out on the patio and watch the College Street scene sashay by.

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Hey Lucy

295 King West, 416-979-1010/440 Bloor West, 416-967-9670, heylucy.ca

They staked their claim with the original Organic Lager. Then they got serious with Tank House Ale. Next, it was time to take on the big boys with Mill Street Lemon Tea beer. This multiplicity of styles means these T.O. craftbrewing pioneers can cater to any hop-head’s palate. Mill Street’s presence in the beer community is further enhanced by their status as an original resident in the Distillery District, which is now home to their popular brew pub.

Runner-Up

SteamwHiStLe

255 Bremner, 416-362-2337, steamwhistle.ca

BEST WINE BAR

Fat Cat WinE Bar

331 Roncesvalles, 416-5354064, fatcat.ca

The neighbourhood wine bar that NOW readers across the city love. And with the completion of the Roncesvalles roadwork apocalypse, now you can get there again. Eight Ontario VQA wines by the glass, half-litre or bottle take pride of place on the well-composed and afford-

able wine list. To accompany the wine, The Cat’s small-plates menu provides all the flavours required for sophisticated pairing. Gourmands make themselves at home in Fat’s sleek, contemporary interior or on one of the city’s nicest patios.

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SwirL

946½ Queen East, 647-351-5453, swirltoronto.com

BEST CHOCOLATE

SoMa

443 King West, 416-599-7662 / 55 Mill, bldg 48, 416-815-7662, somachocolate. com

Like some Willy Wonka wet dream, Cynthia Leung and David Castellan’s downtown chocolate factory celebrates the humble cocoa bean.

Whether it’s hand-made bars of Peruvian chocolate spiked with chili pepper and Maldon salt, milky almond clusters or Mayan hot chocolate, all are organic, fair trade and flavour grade.

Some sugar-free, too! Throw a chocolate tasting at your next dinner party with Soma’s $23 exploration box, an interactive kit that includes samples of seven wildly different microbatches.

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tHe cHocoLateria

361 Roncesvalles, 416-588-0567, thechocolateria.ca

MICHAEL WATIER

The Queen & Beaver elevates the burger.

Chocolate freaks go crazy for Soma.

Voted Toronto’s Best Steak We take a great deal of pride in everything we do.

So the fact that you’ve recognized our efforts is especially rewarding.

Thank you.

www.kegsteakhouse.com

York Street Keg 165 York St. (416) 703-1773 Esplanade Keg 26 The Esplanade (416) 367-0685 Keg Mansion 515 Jarvis St. (416) 964-6609 Yonge & Eglinton 2201 Yonge St. (416) 484-4646

Leslie St. 1977 Leslie St. (416) 446-1045 Estate Drive 60 Estate Dr. (416) 438-1452 Bloor West Mall 291 The West Mall (416) 626-3707 Dixon Road 927 Dixon Rd. (416) 675-2311 Find us on

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BEST WINERY

BEST WINGS

Malivoire

Duff’s faMous Wings

4260 King, Lincoln, Ontario, 905-563-9253, malivoire.com

In Ontario, you can make excellent wine and you can make sustainable wine, and the two often go together, as is the case with Malivoire. One of the earliest innovators on the peninsula, Malivoire has gone a long way toward convincing us and the rest of the world that Canada can make world-class vintages. Their fruity and energetic Gamay is a perennial critics’ pick, and the Guilty Man series shows that quality needn’t be sacrificed to create a more affordable lineup of labels. A visit to the winery is a real mouth- and eyeopener.

248 Carlton, 416-968-9275, danieletdaniel.ca

Cousin to the Amherst, New York, bar that helped launch the Buffalo chicken wing food phenom back in the 60s, Hy and Rob Erlich’s Cheers-like saloon first hit Hogtown in 98, building its considerable rep on fresh, never-frozen birds.

Polish off as many armageddon wings in an hour as you can — the current record is 51 — and get your name posted on the resto’s legendary Wall Of Pain. Tuesdays from 5 pm, 10 wings go for $7.25 with the purchase of a beverage.

The kings of canapés, Daniel Clairet and Daniel Megly have been catering to the upper crust since Duran Duran were the new kids on the block. Be it a cocktail party for a crowd or a private supper for two, the Daniels deliver quality grub – mini beef Wellingtons, baked Brie with poached pears – at prices that, surprisingly, won’t break the bank. Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up a spread of asparagus and snap pea salad, Brussels sprout slaw and boneless braised short ribs for under 20 bucks. And the lemon chiffon cake is to die for.

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Tawse winery

558 College, 416-963-4446, and others, duffsfamouswings.ca

BEST CATERER

Daniel et Daniel

3955 Cherry – Vineland, ON, 905-5629500, tawsewinery.ca

by Now readers for eight years running!

ToronTo’s original & only rock n’ roll chip shop “nnnnn...Daily fresh fish delivery & hand-cut fries guaranteed” - Steven Davey, Now Magazine

4 Irwin, 416-923-5438, ethiopianhouse.com

74 Lippincott, 416-324-1375, auntiesanduncles.ca

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Lady marmaLade

969 Bloor West, 416-535-079

898 Queen East, 647-351-7645, ladymarmalade.ca

BEST BAKERY

Dufflet

BEST BuSINESS LuNCH

nota Bene

787 Queen West, 416504-2870, and others, dufflet.com

180 Queen West, 416-9776400, notabenerestaurant. com

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harbord bakery

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Le seLecT bisTro

115 Harbord, 416922-5767

BEST BAR AND GRILL

1296 Queen West, 416-536-7717, cadillaclounge.com

249 Ossington, 416-850-4579, thedakotatavern.com

Decked out in enough leopard print to outfit a dozen Edith Prickleys, this rockin’ 50s roadhouse proudly thumbs its nose at Queen West gentrification.

From lunch to last call, owner Sam Grosso dishes up a classic retro card – love that cannelloni – to a soundtrack that randomly shuffles through Johnny Cash rockabilly to Motown’s Smokey Robinson and back again. Residencies most nights, too. RuNNER-up

The rivoLi

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nazareTh

the Dakota tavern

CaDillaC lounge

Voted Best Fish & Chips

BEST BREAKFAST

432 Wellington West, 416-596-6405, leselect. com

BEST BAR OR puB

722 Queen East, 416-850-8835, loicgourmet.ca

745 Queen West, 416-368-1920 67 Richmond East, 416-366-4743, harlemrestaurant.com

BEST AFRICAN RESTAuRANT

334 Queen West, 416-596-1908, rivoli.ca

BEST CAppuCCINO

Dark horse espresso Bar 682 Queen East, 647-436-3460, and others, darkhorseespresso.com

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ceiLi coTTaGe

sam James coffee bar

1301 Queen East, 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com

297 Harbord/668a Bloor West, 647-3412572, samjamescoffeebar.com

BEST BBQ CHICKEN

BEST CHINESE RESTAuRANT

the stoCkyarDs

rol san

699 St. Clair West, 416-658-9666, thestockyards.ca

323 Spadina, 416-977-1128

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churrasco of sT cLair

309 Spadina 416-977-0601

679 St Clair, 416-656-4050, churrasco.net

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“Exceeding expectations one plate at a time.“

danieletdaniel.ca

248 Carlton Street | 416.968.9275

Happy Hour Menu

“Birdwatching for foodie...

Awesome inspiring cocktail list” -TORONTO STAR

896 Queen St. E. 416-625-2653

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Authentic & Delicious Ethiopian Coffee

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A BIG THANKS… AGAIN. “ TORONTO’S THANKS To Everyone Who Voted Us BEST CAPPUCCINO.

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WE THINK YOU’RE PRETTY SWELL, TOO.

If you don't know us yet, drop by to see what all the fuss is about.

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Thank you for all your support!

Throughout Fall & Winter, we are offering a 3 course pre-fix dinner for $25 Sunday to Thursday and 2 course pre-fix lunch for $15 Monday to Friday.

THE LAKEVIEW STOREHOUSE • TAKEOUT • CATERING • AND SO MUCH MORE

The Boulevard Cafe

1134 Dundas St.W. (at Ossington), Toronto, Ontario M6J 1X2 T. 416.546.8889 F. 416.850.7005 W. thelakeviewrestaurant.ca

161 Harbord Street ∙ 416.961.7676 ∙ www.dine.to/theboulevardcafe

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Best of Toronto BEST DESSERT SHOP

BEST FRENCH RESTAURANT

BEST LATIN RESTAURANT

BEST POOL HALL

DUFFLET

LE SÉLECT BISTRO

BOULEVARD CAFÉ

THE RIVOLI

787 Queen West, 416-504-2870, and others, dufflet.com

432 Wellington West, 416-596-6405, leselect.com

161 Harbord, 647-977-2625

332 Queen West, 416-596-1908, rivoli.ca

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JULIE’S CUBAN

NADEGE PATISSERIE

LE PAPILLON ON THE PARK

BEST FISH AND CHIPS

BEST GOURMET TAKEOUT

780 Queen West, 416-368-2009, nadege-patisserie.com

CHIPPY’S

893 Queen West, 416-866-7474, chippys.ca

RUNNER-UP

1001 Eastern, 416-649-1001, lepapillonpark.com

PUSATERI’S

57 Yorkville , 416-785-9100, and others, pusateris.com

RUNNER-UP

HARBORD FISH & CHIPS

WHOLE FOODS

147 Harbord, 416-925-2225

87 Avenue, 416-944-0500, wholefoodsmarket.com

Opening SOOn!

BEST GREEK RESTAURANT

ASTORIA SHISH KEBOB HOUSE 390 Danforth, 416-463-2838, astoriashishkebobhouse.com

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...for gelato & espresso bar.

An Upscale Gelateria/Espresso Bar Serving Artisanal Gelato, Dessert, Pizza, Coffees, Soups & Sandwiches.

Corner of Jarvis & Adelaide

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RUNNER-UP

ANDY POOLHALL

202 Dovercourt, 416-532-7397, juliescuban.com

489 College, 416-923-5300, andypoolhall. com

BEST LUNCH UNDER $10

BEST RESTAURANT PATIO

BURRITO BOYZ

THE CADILLAC LOUNGE

218 Adelaide West, 647-439-4065, and others, burritoboyz.ca

1296 Queen West, 416-536-7717, cadillaclounge.com

RUNNER-UP

BIG FAT BURRITO

BEST PIZZA

112 Dundas West, 416-340-0340, and others

720 Queen West, 416-504-1992, terroni.com

MILL STREET BREW PUB

221 Ossington, 416-532-8000, pizzalibretto.com

BEST RESTAURANT SERVER

55 Mill, Building 63, 416-681-0338, millstreetbrewpub.ca

QUEEN MARGHERITA PIZZA

BEST MICROBREW

BEST ITALIAN RESTAURANT

BEST MIDDLE EASTERN RESTAURANT

TERRONI

720 Queen West, 416-504-1992, and others, terroni.com

RUNNER-UP

BUCA

604 King West, 416-865-1600, buca.ca

gforgelato.com

1402 Queen East, 416-466-6555, queenmargheritapizza.ca

BAR VOLO

587 Yonge, 416-928-0008, barvolo.com

JERUSALEM HOUSE

955 Eglinton West/4777 Leslie, 416-783-6494/416-490-7888, jerusalem-restaurant.ca

Drop in for lunch or dinner:

340 YONGE STREET (2nd floor, above Foot Locker)

Call ahead for lunch reservations or take-out:

416.593.0333

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167 Niagara, 416-703-9675

RUNNER-UP

MARTIN YONKOVICH AT THE OLD NICK

123 Danforth, 416-461-5546, old-nick.com

ED’S REAL SCOOP

BEST SPECIALTY COFFEE SHOP

2224 Queen East, 416-6996100/920 Queen East, 416406-2525, edsrealscoop. com

JET FUEL

519 Parliament, 416-9689982, jetfuelcoffee.com

RUNNER-UP

DUTCH DREAMS

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78 Vaughan, 416-656-6959, dutchdreams.ca

POMEGRANATE

420 College, 416-921-7557, pomegranaterestaurant.ca

COMEDY REVUE Thank you NOW Magazine readers for once again voting us Best Thai Restaurant in T.O.

JAY MCEWAN AT THE OLD YORK

BEST PLACE FOR ICE CREAM

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GEORGE WESTERHOLM

GEMINI & THREE TIME CANADIAN COMEDY AWARD WINNER & THE WINNIPEG COMEDY FESTIVAL

EDDIE DELLA SIEPE

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CREMA

53 Bloor East, 416-962-3131, and others, cremacoffee.ca

ADVA15 NCE

EAST END

All your Best Thai in T.O. votes are belong to us.

TERRONI

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MEZES

456 Danforth, 416-778-5150, mezes.ca

RUNNER-UP

PIZZERIA LIBRETTO

JO-ANNA DOWNEY

HOST OF “SPIRITS OPEN MIC NIGHT” & GUEST ON CBC’S “THE DEBATERS”

LIANNE MAULADIN, MARK DEBONIS, DOM PARE, DESIREE LAVOY-DORSCH

Thanks for voting for us!

BEST ICE CREAM IN TORONTO! Stop in for our exquisite home-made holiday chocolates. · All Natural Ingredients · Made in our store daily Leslieville · 416-406-2525 · 920 Queen Street East The Beaches · 416-699-6100 · 2224 Queen Street East

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BEST SEAFOOD RESTAURANT

oySter Boy

872 Queen West, 416-534-3432, oysterboy.ca

RUNNER-Up

rodney’S

469 King West, 416-3638105, rodneysoyesterhouse.com

TORONTO!

17TH ANNUAL

BEST SpECIALTY pIZZA

Pizzeria liBretto

BEST THAI RESTAURANT

221 Ossington, 416-532-8000, pizzerialibretto.com

340 Yonge, 416-593-0333, saladking.com

RUNNER-Up

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MaGic oven

6 Wellesley, 416-929-7888, and others, magicoven.com

Salad King

BEST VEGGIE-FRIENDLY RESTAURANT

66 Wellington West, 416-364-0054, oliverbonacini.com

326 Bloor West, 416-531-2635, and others, freshrestaurants.ca

RUNNER-Up

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730 Queen East, 416-465-0100, rubywatchco.ca

478 Queen West, 416-504-5127, fressenrestaurant.com

BEST STEAK

BEST VIETNAMESE

515 Jarvis, 416-964-6609, and others, kegsteakhouse.com

350 Spadina, 416-593-4274/200 Bloor West, 416-963-5080

ruby Watchco

the Keg

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, South Building, Downtown Toronto

Sukhothai

74A Parliament, 416-913-8846

BEST SpLURGE RESTAURANT

Canoe

November 17-20, 2011

SAMPLE FROM OVER 1500 WINES, BEERS, SPIRITS & SAVOUR INTERNATIONAL GOURMET CUISINE!

FreSh FreSSen

Pho hung

VIP PREVIEW EVENING THURS 6-10 • $40

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GENERAL ADMISSION $18 advance | $20 onsite

Golden turtle

barberianS

125 Ossington, 416-531-1601

7 Elm, 416-597-0335, barberians.com

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shopping Get cleverly curated curiosi ties at Drake General Store.

Drake General Store 1144 Queen West, 416-531-5042, and others, drakegeneralstore.myshopify.com

We all have people in our lives who are impossible to shop for on birthdays and holidays, but finding them a perfect present got easier when the Drake General Store opened. There are now three locations, and each is loaded with a cleverly curated mix of curiosities, apothecary finds, books, housewares and one- of-a-kind vintage buys guaranteed to surprise and satisfy even the most ungiftable person.

RUNNER-Up

Red Pegasus

BEST BICYCLE STORE

BEST CAMERA STORE

309 Augusta, 416-966-2453 / 779 Queen West, 647-352- 6550, bikesonwheels.ca

119 Church, 416-868- 0872, and others, henrys.com

bIkeS on wHeelS

Henry’S

Bikes on Wheels brought its cycle selection of Fuji, Norco, Marinoni and Surly rides to Queen West this year, opening a second location on the “it” strip just west of Palmerston. There are accessories hanging from its walls, too, including bags by Ortlieb and Linus, Vans sneakers, Brooks saddles and Kryptonite locks to keep your new set of wheels safe and sound.

Photo favourite Henry’s may have relocated its outlet location to Mississauga in 2010 but the square footage in its downtown store tripled to make room for fresh, full-priced merch. The location on Church is still the first stop for photography students and seasoned shutterbugs looking to snap up digital SLRs, lenses, lighting, memory cards and every camera type and related accessory you can imagine.

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625 Queen West, 416-504-6138, dukescycle.ca

496 Queen East, 416-365-1777, vistek.ca

duke’s CyCle

Vistek

628 College, 416-536-3872, redpegasus.ca

BEST COMpUTER STORE Get your Marinoni ride from Bikes on Wheels.

BEST FURNITURE STORE

Ikea

apple Store Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 647-258- 0801, apple.com

This past summer, Ikea mounted an exhibit in a former condo sales centre at King and Peter, filling it with fashion, photography and art installations incorporating furniture and accessories from its stores. The idea was to encourage shoppers to see beyond the stock’s budget-friendly price tags and flatpacked convenience and inspire them to make those Lack tables and Billy bookcases their own. It’s a DIY-boosting strategy guaranteed to make us love the yellow-and-blue furniture stop even more.

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CaRbon ComPuting

772 Queen East, 416-535-1999, carbonation.com november 3-9 2011 NOW

Henry's is number one for Toronto shooters.

1475 the Queensway, 416- 646-4532 / 15 Provost, 416-222-4532, ikea.com

There doesn’t seem to be a moment in the day when the Apple Store at the Toronto Eaton Centre isn’t flooded with Mac fans fawning over i- everything (and, earlier this fall, gathering to remember the company’s co-founder, Steve Jobs). For a more low-key but equally Mac-tastic shopping experience, this category’s runner-up, Carbon Computing, might be a better bet.

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BEST UNIQUE GIFT STORE

RUNNER-Up

mjölk

2959 Dundas West, 416-551-9853, mjolk.ca

BEST JEANS STORE

over tHe raInbow

101 Yorkville, 416-967-7448, rainbowjeans.com

Here’s a roll call of some of the blues brands carried at Over the Rainbow: [Blank], Paige, Citizens of Humanity, Joe’s, Nudie, Earnest Sewn, Fidelity, J Brand, Levi’s, True Religion, 7 for all Mankind, Hudson and Naked & Famous. Notice that we said “some,” since listing OTR’s entire denim selection would far exceed the most generous of Best Of word counts.

RUNNER-Up

the FutuRe oF FRanCis Watson

1390 Queen West, 416-531-8892, thefutureoffranciswatson.blogspot.com

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featuring live musical performances by

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THANK YOU to all of our loyal customers & NOW readers for voting us

BEST PET STORE

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joe grushecky & the houserockers joe d’urso & the stone caravan willie nile and the beauties hosted by “big pussy” vincent pastore 1300 Queen Street West SATURDAY

CadillaC lounge 416-536-7717

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Best of Toronto BEST LEATHER STORE

DANIER

various locations, danier.com

We already heaped kudos on Danier for its designer collaboration collections with Mark Fast, Greta Constantine and George Antonopoulos in our annual Fashion Heroes feature a few weeks back, and NOW readers are also responding to the leather retailer’s new cachet. Plus, we can’t forget about accessories including sharp riding gloves, great handbags and silk scarves, or the deep discounts on offer year round.

RUNNER-UP

NORTHBOUND LEATHER

586 Yonge, 416-972-1037, northbound.com

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SHERWAY GARDENS

25 The West Mall, 416-621-1070, sherwaygardens.ca

BEST MEN’S CLOTHING STORE

GOTSTYLE MENSWEAR

62 Bathurst, 416-260-9696, gsmen.com

GotStyle has every dapper dressing base covered. New menswear finds this fall include outerwear by Farah Vintage, Spiewak, Johnny Love, Superdry, SAND and Rogue, and shirting

by SUIT. There are also dress trousers in windowpane check wool and jackets from Cinque and Strellson.

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HARRY ROSEN

Eaton Centre, 218 Yonge, 416-598-8885, and others, harryrosen.com

Heel Boy's smart shoe collection tops the list.

Bay Bloor Radio is a perennial Readers Poll favourite.

BEST ART SUPPLY STORE

CURRY’S

BEST BEAUTY SPA

BODY BLITZ

573 Queen West, 416-260-2633, and others, currys.com

471 Adelaide West, 416-364- 0400, bodyblitzspa.com

NOW readers’ favourite art supply store celebrates 100 years in business this year, and over that century its product lineup has expanded to include more than 20,000 creative tools and media. New stock for fall includes LED light boxes, Field Notes plain paper notebooks, a full spectrum of washable finger paints and drawing models cast in plaster.

The rumours are true. Soon, east enders will have their own Body Blitz water spa. For now though, the women- only Adelaide and Portland original is the place to go for its soothing circuit of dead sea salt, hot green tea and cold plunging pools. There are also 20 treatment rooms where staff scrub, mud and massage customers to pampered perfection and a take-home line of serums, moisturizers and toners so that fresh Zen feeling never has to end.

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ABOVEGROUND ART SUPPLIES 74 McCaul, 416-591-1601, abovegroundartsupplies.com

BEST AUDIO EQUIPMENT STORE

BAY BLOOR RADIO 55 Bloor West, 416-967-1122, baybloorradio.com

If you’re craving some stereo components or a big-ass TV but can’t make it to Bay Bloor Radio’s Manulife Centre showroom, have we got great news for you. The store has seriously beefed up its e- commerce site so those Tivoli radios and Bose headphones are just a click-into-your-shopping- cart away.

RUNNER-UP

MOOG AUDIO

442 Queen West, 416-599-6664, moogaudio.com

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PURE + SIMPLE

41 Avenue, 416-924-6555, and others, pureandsimple.ca

BEST SPORTING GOODS STORE

MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT CO- OP 400 King West, 416-340-2667, mec.ca

When winter comes, MEC devotees focus their attention on the retail coop’s snow sports selection. There are oodles of outdoorsy options for skiers, snowboarders and snowshoes. If you consider making it from your front door to the office through hip-high snowbanks sporty enough, though, give their cozy clothing, including down coats, wool toques and more for men, women and kids a try.

KATHRYN GAITENS

1 Yorkdale, 416-789-3261, yorkdale.com

Compared to its retail mix just one year ago, Yorkdale is an entirely different place to shop today. New mall arrivals include J.Crew, Top Shop, 7 for All Mankind and, most recently, Banana Republic’s refreshed space featuring its Monogram and Heritage collections.

And that’s just the beginning of the expansion plans, with another 145,000 square feet of shopping space set to open by the end of 2012.

ETHAN EISENBERG

BEST MALL

YORKDALE

Dapper guys love GotStyle.

BEST SHOE STORE

HEEL BOY

773 Queen West, 416-362-4335, heelboy. com

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There’s a smart selection of boots in the window at Heel Boy right now. The styles for women and men are handsome and hardy, an essential combination for surviving a Canadian winter in some semblance of style. Before the snow falls, though, there’s still time to slip into a pair of Bass loafers or look way forward to spring with some classic Hunter galoshes.

2665 Yonge, 416-485-1611, and others, sportinglife.ca

GET OUTSIDE

SPORTING LIFE

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437 Queen West, 416-593-5598/3456 Yonge, 416-440-8880, getoutsideshoes.com

BEST VINTAGE CLOTHING STORE

PHILISTINE

1394 Queen West, 416-532-3662, philistinevintage.tumblr.com

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inspired. Both sorts of style have a home at Parkdale’s Philistine, where retro-referencing By Boe jewellery, Timex watches and Mink Pink womenswear share store space with authentically older clothing and accessories.

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69 VINTAGE

1100 Queen West, 416-516-0669, and other locations, 69vintage.com

BEST WOMEN’S CLOTHING STORE

WINNERS

various locations, winners.ca

Its promise to offer “the latest designer and brand-name fashions for up to 60 per cent less” pretty much guarantees Winners a regular spot in our annual Best Of lineup. The “new items daily” part doesn’t hurt either. But you love second-time runner-up Robber, too, suggesting that womenswear from offprice retailers and indie boutiques can hang happily ever after in your wardrobes.

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ROBBER

863 Queen West, 647-351-0724, robberstore.wordpress.com

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SCHOOL OF CONTINUING STUDIES

Earn more.

Ingrid Palmer Graduate, Certificate in Human Resources, began her courses as an HR Manager. She has since been promoted to Business Capability Director at Sears Canada Inc.

kAThRYn GAITEnS

The Curry's experience is an artist's wet dream.

“Returning to school provided me with the knowledge and confidence to go after my career dreams.

In fact, the pay-off was almost immediate.”

From Arts to Business, Creative Writing to Languages, we offer hundreds of courses and certificates at U of T Mississauga, U of T St. George and U of T Scarborough. For a free copy of our course catalogue or to register, call 416-978-2400 or visit:

BEST YOGA STUDIO

Moksha Yoga Downtown 577 Wellington West, 416-361-3033, mokshayogadowntown.com

www.learn.utoronto.ca

There’s often a bewildered look on the faces of people about to attend their first hot yoga session at Moksha. They don’t know whether to expect a studio that’s toasty warm or unbearably scorching. But as they wipe the sweat from their brow, settle into their downward dog and realize that the high temperature is helping them reach deeper than ever before, that expression quickly changes from fear to stretched-out satisfaction.

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kula ToronTo

304 Brunswick, 416-922-5852, mykulatoronto.ca

Dr. Judy Sturm Cosmetic & General Dentistry

A Gentle and Caring Environment at Bay & Bloor

Thank you so much to all the NOW readers for choosing me again for another year as Best Dentist in 2011!

Just a

little obsessed with your smile because we really care!

Dr JuDy STurm & ASSOciATeS 77 Bloor Street West | Suite 1202 | Toronto 416 967-4212 | www.yorkvillesmiles.com

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BEST BEAUTY SPA – MANICURE/PEDICURE

Ten SpoT

749 Queen, 416-915-1010, the10spot.com

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Pure + SimPle

41 Avenue and other locations, 416-9246555, pureandsimple.ca

BEST BIKE MECHANIC

BikeS on WheelS 309 Augusta, 416-966-2453/ 779 Queen West, 647-352-6550, bikesonwheels.ca

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Sweet Pete’S Bicycle ShoP

1204 Bloor West, 416-533-4481/517 Bloor West, 416-533-4225, sweetpetes.com

BEST BODY PIERCING

Blair

New Tribe Tattooing and Piercing, 232 Queen West, 416-977-2786, newtribe.ca

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Daryl

New Tribe Tattooing and Piercing, 232 Queen West, 416-977-2786, newtribe.ca MICHAEL WATIER

BEST HAIR SALON

The Saloon Come as you are

384 Harbord, 416-588-4526, thesaloonsalon.com

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BEST OPTICAL STORE

BEST SEX SUPPLIES STORE

CoMe aS you are

701 Queen West, 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com

Bucking the trend of retailers moving west on Queen, come as you are will soon go east. everyone’s favourite positive-sex shopping space recently let it slip that it’s taking over the criminal records storefront at 493 Queen West and filling it with a selection of vibrators, strap- ons, lube, bondage toys and carnal gifts.

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gooD For her

175 Harbord, 416-588-0900, goodforher.com

SpeCTaCle

752 Queen West, 416- 603-0123, and others, spectaclelovesyou.com

With locations in trinity Bellwoods, Lawrence Park and the Distillery District, it’s not surprising that all of toronto loves spectacle. the window displays, like a recent oliver Goldsmith vignette featuring vintage typewriters and apothecary accessories, lure eyewear shoppers in while easygoing service (and the occasional sunday mimosa) keeps them coming back.

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gaFaS

561 Queen West, 416-601-4786, gafas.ca

couPe Bizarre

710 Queen West, 416-504-0783, coupebizarre.com

BEST BULK FOOD

Bulk Barn various locations, bulkbarn.ca

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Strictly Bulk

924 Bloor West, 416-533-3242, and others, strictlybulk.ca

BEST CELLPHONE PROVIDER

TeluS MoBiliTy telusmobility.com

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FiDo

fido.ca

BEST COSTUME STORE

MalaBar

14 McCaul, 416-598-2581, malabar.net

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Value Village

924 Queen East, 416-778-4818, and others, valuevillage.com

BEST DENTIST

From our family to your family

Judy STurM

Thank you

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to all those who voted us

Toronto’s Best Pizza!

77 Bloor West, 416-967-4212, yorkvillesmiles.com

ken montague

800 Bathurst, 416-533-3712, wordofmouthdentistry.ca

BEST DOCTOR

Mark linder King West Village, 626 King West, 416-7031313, kingwestmedical.com

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chriStine Palmay

Midtown Health and Wellness Clinic, 110 Eglinton East, Suite 702, 416-486-3300, midtownhwc.ca

BEST FARMERS’ MARKET

dufferin Grove

875 Dufferin, 416-392-0913, dufferinpark.ca

BEST INTERNET PROVIDER

roGerS rogers.com

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Bell

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St lawrence market

92 Front East, stlawrencemarket.com

BEST DRIVING SCHOOL

younG driverS of Canada yd.com

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caa/all city DriVing School

881A Jane, 416-532-1400, caasco.com

BEST GYM / FITNESS CLUB

BooTy CaMp fiTneSS 74 Berkeley, 1-877-762-6689, bootcampfitness.com

RUNNER-UP

croSSFit Quantum

2 Thorncliffe Park, 416-421-5266, crossfitquantum.com

BEST INTRODUCTION / DATING SERVICE

plenTy of fiSh plentyoffish.com

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okcuPiD

okcupid.com

BEST JEWELLERY STORE

Made you look

bell.ca

BEST FLORIST

pink TWiG

711 College, 416-537-7465, pinktwig.ca

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PoPPieS

1094 Queen West, 416-5382497, poppiesplantofjoy.com

BEST PET STORE

MenaGerie peTShop 549-553 Parliment, 416-921-4966

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Small wonDerS Pet emPorium

148 Danforth, 416-465-7419, smallwonderspets.ca

BEST SKATE SHOP

lonGBoard livinG 86.5 Nassau, 416-901-7787, longboardliving.ca

RUNNER-UP

carDinal Skate co.

2142 Bloor West, 416-546-2594, cardinalskate.com

BEST SNOWBOARD SHOP

hoGToWn exTreMe SporTS

1338 Queen West, 416-463-2136/1273 Queen West, 416-516-9595, madeyoulook.ca

401 King West, 416-598-4192, hogtownextreme.com

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BoarDSPortS

mark laSh

938 Eglinton West, 416-256-5229, marklash.com

BEST LANGUAGE SCHOOL / CLASSES

GeorGe BroWn ColleGe georgebrown.ca

RUNNER-UP 2010 Yonge, 416-485-9463, boardsports. ca

BEST TRAVEL AGENT

fliGhT CenTre 639 Bay, 866-388-4271, and others, flightcentre.ca

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exPeDia

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expedia.ca

lsc-canada.com

Queen WeST aniMal hoSpiTal

lSc language StuDieS canaDa

BEST NATURAL FOOD MARKET

BEST VETERINARIAN

BiG CarroT

923 Queen West, 416-815-8387, queenwestvets.com

RUNNER-UP

Downtown animal hoSPital

348 Danforth, 416-466-2129, thebigcarrot.ca

FieSta FarmS

200 Christie, 416-537-1235, fiestafarms.ca

BEST NEWSSTAND / MAGAZINE STORE

la preSSe inTernaTionale 622 College, 416-531-1187

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tyPe BookS

883 Queen West, 416-366-8973, typebooks.ca

RUNNER-UP 579 Church, 416-966-5122, petwellnessnetwork.com/ downtown-animal-hospital

BEST VITAMIN/ HERBALIST STORE

The BiG CarroT 348 Danforth, 416-466-2129, thebigcarrot.ca

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eSSence oF liFe organicS 50 Kensington, 416-506-0345

New Dawn Fades sparked the 2011 edition of Nuit Blanche, your fave free event.

BEST FREE EVENT

Nuit blaNche September 29, 2012, throughout the city, scotiabanknuitblanche.ca

In what other freebie event can you go out into the dark, urban landscape and get your head bent for hours on end?

This display of artistic invention ranging from spectacular outpourings of light, sound and fury to small and playful happenings unfolds in and around the city’s landmarks, creating a 12-hour parallel reality. If you’re not seeing the lampposts, sewer grates and hydro wires as installation pieces by the time you head home, it just means you haven’t stayed out long enough. Here’s hoping the arts-phobic mayor’s office doesn’t scrap this head-changing night romp.

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Gay Pride

pridetoronto.com

ChEOL jOON BAEk

BEST ACTIVIST GROup

city

leaf

(local enhancement and appreciation of foreStS) artscape Wychwood Barns, 253-601 christie, 416-413-9244, yourleaf.org

We couldn’t agree more with NOW readers – LEAF’s the best when it comes to preserving and enhancing the city’s greenery, not to mention sowing new attitudes about the ecological importance of creating a healthy urban forest. Making the city’s

neglected nooks and crannies is also part of LEAF’s mission. Check the good works outside TTC stations. The tree tours aren’t bad either. From disseminating native garden kits to eco education in schools, LEAF’s activities aren’t just about planting trees to keep communities leafy and cool. They’re also about growing tree consciousness and our relationship with space. Beauty.

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ToronTo aCorn

1324 danforth, 416-461-9233, acorncanada.org

BEST LOCAL COuNCILLOR

aDaM VauGhaN 100 Queen West, 416-392-4044, ward20.ca

As councillor for Trinity-Spadina, the former television journo has taken the kick-ass style he displayed hunting down stories for Citytv to the Clamshell. Vaughan is a strong advocate for the arts and healthy neighbourhoods, pumping planning reforms and efforts to build more family housing and parks downtown. Not the sexiest issues, but Vaughan’s not about headlines. He’s one of council’s hardest-working pols and among its most thoughtful speakers. Can a run for the mayor’s office be far off? Vaughan would seem a natural.

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Mike LayTon

Thank you NOW readers for voting George Brown College “Best Language School/Classes.” To find the language class that is right for you, please visit us on-line at coned.georgebrown.ca/languages.

Whether you have a personal goal to reach, are an avid traveller or are a business professional with international associates, our Continuing Education language courses will take you where you want to go.

Arabic Chinese French German Greek

Italian Japanese Portuguese Russian Spanish

We also offer American Sign Language and many ESL/English classes.

Check out all our Continuing Education courses at coned.georgebrown.ca.

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BEST LOCAL MP

jaCk layton jacklayton.NDP.ca

We sure are missing the charismatic, can-do activist-turned-parliamentaryleader, who spent two decades making this city a fairer, greener place and who took his own brand of decency and caring to the nasty game in Ottawa.

We’re counting on all the hope, love and optimism he bequeathed to light the rocky road ahead.

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oliviA Chow

oliviachow.ca

BEST LOCAL TV PERSONALITY

GeorGe StroumboulopouloS cbc.ca/strombo

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AliyA-JAsmine sovAni mtv.ca/hosts/aliya-jasmine

BEST BLOG

bloGto blogto.com RuNNER-uP

she Does the City shedoesthecity.com

BEST LOCAL RADIO DJ / HOST

matt Galloway CBC Radio One, cbc.ca/metromorning

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JiAn Ghomeshi

CBC Radio One, cbc.ca/q The Remix Project mentors youth in music production.

BEST YOuTH ORGANIZATION

tHe remix projeCt 2 PARDEE, 416-583-2120 theremixproject.ca

The city’s most influential youth-led arts project turns dust to dreams by giving economically challenged young people burning with raw talent but no place to develop it the coaching they need to make it to the marketplace. At its 5,000-square-foot space in Liberty Village, the non-profit Remix mentors

applicants in music performance and production, videography, writing, graphic designing, entrepreneurship, photography and more, in six-month stints. Then it sends them out into the artsy world and watches them turn up in interesting places – like in Drake’s entourage, where Remix grad Future the Prince DJs. And speaking of the D man, his producer, Noah Shebib, aka 40, used to run Remix’s recording arts program.

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lGBt youth line youthline.ca

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BEST LOCAL TV STATION

CitytV citytv.com RuNNER-uP

CBC toronto cbc.ca/toronto

BEST PARK

HiGH park highparktoronto.com RuNNER-uP

trinity BellwooDs trinitybellwoods.ca

BEST POOL

SunnySide pool 1755 Lakeshore West, toronto.ca/parks

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Alex Duff Pool

Christie Pits, 779 Crawford, 416-392-0910, toronto.ca/parks

art

BEST ART MUSEUM

Art GAllery of ontArio 317 Dundas West, 416-979-6648, ago.net

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MOCCA

952 Queen West, 416-395-0067, mocca.ca

BEST InDEpEnDEnT ART GALLERY

Show & tell GAllery

1161 Dundas West, 647-347-3316, showandtellgallery.com

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GAllery TPW

56 Ossington, 416-645-1066, gallerytpw.ca

BEST LOCAL VISUAL ARTIST

BEST FASHIOn DESIGnER

ShAry Boyle

Jeremy lAinG

sharyboyle.com

207 A Cowan, 416-530-1976, jeremylaing.com

Her weird and wonderful exploration of the psychosexual underworld of folk tales, porcelain princesses and mysterious animal-human hybrids have put 2008 Best of Toronto artist Shary Boyle on top again. In Flesh And Blood, her 2010 Iskowitz Prize show at the AGO, her installations, paintings and ceramic figurines bounced off eccentric Old Masters from the museum’s collection, and her surreal porcelains were part of the Gardiner Museum’s spooky Breaking Boundaries show. Her practice also includes projection works made with musicians, and comics, as seen in this year’s That’s So Gay Pride show at the Gladstone. There’s more to come beyond T.O. Boyle is part of Oh, Canada, a big blowout of current Canadian art at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts next year and has a commission from the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. Look for more new work at next year’s World Stage at Harbourfront Centre.

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Thieves

1156 Queen West, 647-435-4880, thieves.ca

BEST LOCAL GRAFFITI ARTIST

lA BomBA myspace.com/labomba RUnnER-Up

elixir

BEST MUSEUM

royAl ontArio muSeum 100 Queen’s Park, 416-586-8000, rom.on.ca

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OnTAriO sCienCe CenTre 770 Don Mills Road, 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca

BEST TATTOO ARTIST

fABrizio DivAri

Shary Boyle's porcelain works, like this one called Tumbleweed, captured your imagination.

RUnnER-Up

Alex MCleOd alxclub.com

1336 Queen West, 647-299-2124, fabriziodivari.com

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lizzie renAud AT sPeAkeAsy

299 Harbord, 647-378-2481, speakeasy-tattoo.com

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Best of Toronto

MUSIC BEST BLUES CLUB

THE DAKOTA TAVERN 249 Ossington, 416-850-4579, thedakotatavern.com

You could argue that the Dakota Tavern is more of a country bar than a blues joint, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s the best place in town to experience some great 12-bar jams. It’s got amazing down-to-earth atmosphere, good sound (for a place this size) and tends to book roots acts that successfully balance gritty tradition with a contemporary edge.

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SILVER DOLLAR

486 Spadina, 416-975-0909, silverdollarroom.com

BEST LOCAL BAND

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE The critics aren’t drooling over the shape-shifting indie rock big band like they used to, and they didn’t even make the Polaris Music Prize short list this year, but NOW readers are staying loyal to Broken Social Scene. The outfit’s recently announced another hiatus, though, which should open up the Readers Poll competition for next year, assuming they don’t reform (again) within the next few months.

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FUCKED UP

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BEST LOCAL DJ

BEST LOCAL MALE VOCALIST

We’ve got to admit that DJ Shannon’s win took us by surprise, especially given how many local dance music DJ/ producers have been enjoying international success and touring the world over the past few years. However, she’s been DJing since the early 90s, so she’s definitely paid her dues, and Toronto clearly loves the retro 80s vibes she’s built her career on. Completely coincidentally (we swear), she’s also become a regular guest DJ at the recently reopened NOW Lounge.

Despite not having released an album for more than two and a half years, k-os is still top of mind. He does have a new album called Black On Blonde coming out next year, which offers what he says is something new for him: a combination of rock and rap. But isn’t that pretty much what he’s always done? Regardless, he does it well, and we’re looking forward to the new tunes.

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knaanmusic.ning.com

startingfromscratch.com

BEST LOCAL SONGWRITER

DJ SHANNON

DJ STARTING FROM SCRATCH

BEST LOCAL FEMALE VOCALIST

FEIST

Last year’s winner, Emily Haines, has been usurped by Feist, another Broken Social Scene collaborator. (Toronto just can’t get enough BSS.) After pretty much disappearing for a few years, Feist’s win bodes well for the success of her excellent new album, Metals, currently enjoying rave reviews all over the world. It might be her best work yet.

Feist rises to the top.

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EMILY HAINES

emilyhaines.com

Hear music-makers like Bradley Boy at the Dakota.

K-OS

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K’NAAN

RON SEXSMITH ronsexsmith.com

Sometimes it seems like Ron Sexsmith is the Rodney Dangerfield of Toronto singer/songwriters, so it’s great to see NOW readers giving him the respect he deserves. When you’re known as a musician’s musician, it’s got be nice to have the general public’s appreciation to go along with the critics’ kudos.

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JUSTIN RUTLEDGE

justinrutledge.com

K-os maintains his loyal fan base even when he isn't churning it out.

Thanks Toronto.

BEST BARTENDER

BEST LIVE MuSIC CLuB

The Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen West, 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com

529 Bloor West, 416-532-1598, leespalace.com

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hoRseshoe TaveRn

The Crooked Star, 202 Ossington, 416-536-7271

370 Queen West, 416-598-4753, horseshoetavern.com

BEST CD / RECORD STORE

BEST LOCAL RADIO STATION

SoundScapeS 572 College, 416-537-1620, soundscapesmusic.com

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BEST CONCERT HALL

BEST MuSIC EQuIpMENT STORE

MaSSey Hall 178 Victoria, 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com

ciuT 89.5

STeve’S MuSic STore

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415 Queen West, 416-593-8888, stevesmusic.com

60 Simcoe, 416-872-4255, roythomson.com

lonG & mcQuade

Roy Thomson hall

BEST DANCE CLuB

fraser

cbc.ca/radio2

sonic Boom

512 Bloor West, 416-532-0334, sonicboommusic.com

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trinity

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925 Bloor West, 416-588-7886, long-mcquade.com

Wrongbar 1279 Queen West, 416-516-8677, wrongbar.com

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GuveRnmenT

132 Queens Quay East, 416-869-0045, theguvernment.com

BEST GAY/DYKE BAR

beaver caFé 1192 Queen West, 416-537-2768, beavertoronto.ca

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henhouse

1532 Dundas West, 416-534-5939, henhousetoronto.com

BEST JAZZ CLuB

THe rex

194 Queen West, 416-598-2475, therex.ca

trinity

heelboy

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ReseRvoiR lounGe

52 Wellington East, 416-955-0887, reservoirlounge.com

773 Queen St. W 416•362•4335

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haNNah­­ MoScovItch

toronto dance theatre, 80 winchester, 416-967-1365, tdt.org

The Royal Alexandra is one of the stage gems operated by Mirvish.

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After wowing local audiences with beautifully crafted and uncompromising works like Essay, The Russian Play and East Of Berlin, Hannah Moscovitch is in demand at every theatre in the country and even a couple south of the border, all of whom are clamouring for her scripts. We’re fine with that, as long as they keep getting staged here in T.O., like her darkly funny look at a dysfunctional family, Little One, which recently wowed SummerWorks audiences, and The Children’s Republic, about the life and work of children’s rights activist Janusz Korczak, which opens later this month at the Tarragon.

Enjoy her work while you can, before TV and film steals her away.

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Playwright Hannah Moscovitch is in demand at theatres everywhere.

city with several theatres to fill during an economic downturn, including the Royal Alex. But the Mirvish company has kept the quality high, making our hearts leap for Billy Elliot, giving us another glimpse of the Canadian classic 2 Pianos, 4 Hands and letting us be able to boast “We saw it earlier” about Broadway-bound shows starring Hugh

Jackman, Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross.

The best is yet to come, however, when the West End and Broadway hit War Horse gallops into the Princess of Wales next February. Neigh? Yay.

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Dance lovers know that a new Christopher House work will feature something surprising. Will it integrate film and video? Take on German performance artist and sculptor Joseph Beuys?

Evoke the fresh-air feeling of being in the Yukon? His previous works for Toronto Dance Theatre have done all that. Another testament to how inspiring a choreographer he is, however, is the career trajectory of dancers who performed during his TDT tenure.

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She always complains that she doesn’t need any more recognition, but our readers can’t help it – 2011 has been a great year for Canada’s most famous scribe.

The prolific author released In Other Worlds (Signal), a savvy set of essays on the meaning of speculative fiction. She’s stayed true to her eco passions by partnering with Canopy to release a special edition of the book on straw paper – a strategy that, if embraced by the industry, could transform the art of publishing.

In January, Nightwood Theatre presents an adaptation of Atwood’s book The Penelopiad, a response to Homer’s Odyssey.

And let’s be honest, as soon as Doug Ford announced that he wouldn’t know Atwood if she passed him on the street, he looked mighty dumb and City Hall’s plan to cut libraries went way south. We’d go so far as to say that the deputy mayor’s ignorance set the stage for the Ford administration’s precipitous decline in popularity. Don’t mess with Canada’s literary icon.

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Last May, Alex Woodside, Nigel Agnew and Charlie Lawton opened their basement-level rep cinema with a free double bill of Clue and Big Trouble In Little China, two 1980s cult classics that functioned as a statement of intent. The Toronto Underground Cinema wasn’t going to be just another second-run house; it would be a little different, a place for classic cult films and odd new indies, open to the possibility of live performances, gaming events and anything the 700-seat audi-

torium could accommodate. And it’s become exactly that, a prized venue for film festivals like NXNE and Toronto After Dark – and home to the irregular Defending The Indefensible series, where local critics (including NOW’s Norm Wilner) do their best to rehabilitate box- office bombs.

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Sure, Ryan Gosling makes his home in Manhattan, but he grew up in southern Ontario and played the local hero card when he walked the red carpet at the most recent TIFF. Speaking of the Film Fest, he premiered not one but two films that showed off his versatility: the tense political thriller The Ides Of March, in which he more than held his own opposite Oscar winners George Clooney, Marisa Tomei and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and Drive, a stylish throwback to 70s actioners. About that last film: is it a coincidence that the soundtrack features local music duo Electric Youth, or that Gosling’s character is obsessed with a basketball game involving the Toronto Raptors? We think not. We love you, too, Ryan.

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Because it’s a city of so many things, NOW’s Best Of Toronto has been reformatted to reflect all our different restaurants, businesses, landmarks and locations. Instead of voting for the best pizza slice in the city, readers can now vote for the best pizza slice in Parkdale.

Instead of voting for the best all-you-caneat buffet in Toronto, readers can vote for the best all-you-can-eat buffet in Scarborough.

And so on.

Though there will still be a Best Of Toronto – the pizza slice with the most city-wide votes still wins – our year-long Best Of Toronto will be more like a Best Of Toronto’s Neighbourhoods.

Just like before, our new Best Of will rely on

you, the reader, to tell us your favourites. If you think your neighbourhood restaurant is a slepton masterpiece, your local video store is underappreciated or the coffee at the end of your street is an unheralded find, this is a way to let the rest of the city know about it.

It will also be a resource for sniffing out the best of wherever you are and whatever you want. Our system is location-aware, so you can search by neighbourhood, and has tons of categories, so you can search what you’re craving.

Use our new Best Of Toronto to explore your city. Try out new places, go to different parks, discover that all-night Korean BBQ next to your work.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Here’s Malcolm

Gladwell, writing in The Tipping Point: “We need to prepare ourselves for the possibility that sometimes big changes follow from small events, and that sometimes these changes can happen quickly.... Look at the world around you. It may seem an immovable, implacable place. It is not. With the slightest push – in just the right place – it can be tipped.” You are now within shouting distance of your own personal tipping point, Aries. Follow your gut wisdom as you decide where to give a firm little push.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Welcome to the autumnal garden of earthly delights, Taurus. It’s a brooding, fermenting paradise, full of the kind of dark beauty that wouldn’t be caught dead in a spring garden. There’s smoldering joy to be found amidst this riotous flowering of moody colours, but you won’t appreciate it if

you’re too intent on seeking bright serenity and pristine comfort. Be willing to dirty your hands and even your mind.

Feel the moss on your back, the leaves in your hair and the mist on your bare legs.

(P.S. If you like, you can take what I just said as an elaborate metaphor.)

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Here’s a vi-

gnette described by columnist Thomas Friedman: “Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 5, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is 2 plus 2 and he tells you 97, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking with is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.” I’d like to suggest, Gemini, that for you right now the whole world is like the man who swears 2 plus 2 is 97. At least temporarily, you are on a very different wavelength from your surroundings. In

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CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 If you want to

grow vanilla beans, you have to pollinate the plant’s flowers within 12 hours after they bloom. In nature, the only insect that can do the job is the Melipona, a Mexican bee. Luckily, humans can also serve as pollinators, which they do on commercial vanilla farms. They use thin wood splinters or stems of grass to perform the delicate magic. I’m thinking that you resemble a vanilla bean right now, Cancerian. It is the season when you’re extra receptive to fertilization, but all the conditions have to be just right for the process to be successful. Here’s my advice: Figure out exactly what those conditions are, then call on all your resourcefulness to create them.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Even our most sophisticated drilling machines have barely made pinpricks in the earth’s surface. The deepest hole ever dug was 40,000 feet, which is just 0.2 per cent of the planet’s 20-million-foot radius. I offer this up as a spur to your imagination, Leo. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to plumb further into the depths of anyplace or anything you’re intrigued by – whether that’s a subject you’ve always wondered about, a person you care for, the mysteries of life or the secrets of your own psyche. You could reach the equiva-

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graphic speculates that most of the species on earth are still unknown and unnamed (tinyurl.com/UnknownLife). While 1.2 million life forms have been identified by science, there may be as many as 7.5 million that are not, or 86 per cent of the total. I suspect that this breakdown is similar to the situation in your life, Virgo.

You know about 14 per cent of what you need to know, but there’s still a big frontier to explore. The coming months should be prime time for you to cover a lot of new ground – and now would be a perfect moment to set the stage for that grand experiment.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 I suspect that you will have a minor form of good luck going for you this week. It probably won’t be enough to score you a winning lottery ticket or earn you a chance to get the answer to your most fervent prayers. But it might bring you into close proximity with a financial opportunity, a pretty good helper or a resource that could subtly boost your stability over the long haul.

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sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “Dear Rob:

I was born on November 30, and am quite attached to having it as a birthdate.

But there’s a complication. While in Iraq in 2006, I was half-blown up by a bomb, and had a near-death experience. When I returned from my excursion to the land of the dead, I felt I’d been born anew.

Which is why I now also celebrate September 24, the date of the bombing, as my second birthday. What do you think?

Two-Way Tamara.” Dear Two-Way: I believe we’d all benefit from having at least one dramatic rebirth in the course of our lives, though hopefully not in such a wrenching fashion as yours. In fact, a fresh rebirth every few years or so would be quite healthy. If it means adding additional astrological identities to our repertoire, so much the better. Thanks for bringing up the subject, as it’s an excellent time for Sagittarians everywhere to seek out an exhilarating renewal.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Social climb-

ers are people who are focused on gaining higher status in whatever circle of people they regard as cool, even to the point of engaging in fawning or ingratiating behaviour. Soul climbers, on the other hand, are those who foster the power of their imagination, keep deepening their connection with life’s intriguing enigmas and explore the intersection of self-interest and generosity toward others. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could go far in either of those directions during the coming weeks, Capricorn – but not both. Which will you choose?

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man named Daniel Fowler has more giraffe tattoos on his shoulders than any other human being on the planet. So says the Universal Record Database at Recordsetter.com. Meanwhile, Darryl Learie is now the only person to ever be able to insert three steak knives into an inflated balloon, and Billy Disney managed to inject a world-record 31 sexual innuendoes into a rap song about potatoes. What could or should be your claim to fame, Aquarius? This would an excellent time to try to establish your reputation as the best at your specific talent.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 “You have to know

how far to go too far,” said poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I reckon that’s good advice for you right now. You’re at a phase of your astrological cycle when you really can’t afford to keep playing by all the rules and staying inside the proper boundaries. For the sake of your physical and psychological and spiritual health, you need to wander out beyond the limits that you’ve been so faithfully respecting.

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erotic life than you do?

We sure are pressured to perform when the standards are set by the endless blast of lasciviousness coming from mass culture. This could be

seriously messing with our sexual self-concepts and sending everyone into angst overdrive.

So how do you know if your libido is in the normal range?

What the experts say “I break sexual desire into: the drive, the rapport with your partner and your erotic mood and frame of mind. If you don’t have much in the urge compartment, then you want to have a lot in the other two areas. If women or men don’t feel a great deal of horniness or urge and that’s what they’re waiting for, they could be waiting for a while.

Some people have a too limited view of what sex drive is; they think of it as solely biological. Depression, medication, general health and level of fitness can affect urges. Some clients wonder how they compare to a norm, but the norm has a broad range. The issue is more about how they are enjoying themselves.”

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showed a significant increase in their sexual function across all domains: desire, feeling sexually aroused, ability to have an orgasm. It’s hard to figure out exactly what happened. There was a lot of behaviour change going on. I encounter a lot of women who want to know what normal is. We’re still driven by a culture that privileges men’s pleasure and men’s views. That’s not to say that men can’t have low sexual desire – a very taboo subject that few many men will admit to. There’s a view that libido is just a biological drive, and if you don’t have it there must be something wrong with you.”

ANDREA BRADFORD, gynecologic on­ cology and reproductive medicine, U of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

“Women who were given a placebo

“There are some general things people

can do, like feeling rested, not being anxious about something else, and feeling relaxed and available. It’s about being connected to a partner and not just coming from grocery shopping or doing the dishes and having to think about sex. It’s about switching the mind. What do you need to do to put a boundary between the rest of life and your sexuality? Making it a duty is probably not going to improve desire, but I like the idea of being intentional and making it a priority.’’

JOAN MARSMAN, registered sex therapist, Toronto “We asked in the National Health and Social Life Survey in 92, ‘How often do you think about sexual things?’ About 51 per cent of men and 25 per cent of women said at least once a day, so there’s about a 2:1 ratio. You could ex-

plain this as a cultural bias that men are supposed to be sexually ready at all times, while women are raised to be more demure. On a national sample, we measured C-reactive protein, a stress response protein known to be associated with sexual interest. The higher your score on C-reactive protein, the lower your interest in sex.

The average score for men is half as high as for women. There is evidence that men are more interested than women. One argument you might make is that women because of fertility have an adapted lower level of sexual interest. For men, it doesn’t cost anything.”

EDwARD LAUMANN, professor of sociology, University of Chicago

“we’re now realizing that to be ‘sexually neutral’ may be completely normal for a woman. I deal with women who wish they had more desire. I see so many women with chronic vaginal infections. Another big problem is vaginal pain with sex. The key is prevention. I’m using vaginal Valium now for people who have a condition where the muscles clench and the body doesn’t relax. Women need to know that there are new treatments for these conditions. Also, oral contraceptives can decrease sex drive by increasing proteins that bind free testosterone. Fatigue is the big sexdrive killer.”

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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 at Sound Academy, Thursday, October 27.

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Rating: NNNN Death from Above 1979 called it quits after just one album in 2006, claiming they’d taken their formula as far as it could go: playing music meant for dirty rock clubs on some of the biggest stages in the continent. But by burning out rather than fading away, they only increased their reputation, and their riotous live shows became the stuff of rock and roll legend.

The deafening duo’s unlikely reunion, then, has put them near the top of the bill of practically every big summer music festival and, at their long-

awaited Toronto return, won them their biggest headlining hometown crowd.

They rewarded their fans’ patience with a non-stop blast of energy, burning through their short catalogue with the shrieking, fuzz-drenched, oddly danceable fury for which they’re known. They’ve adopted a better defined visual aesthetic – bassist Jesse Keeler dresses all in black, bleached blond shrieker/drummer Sebastien Grainger all in white – but otherwise it was the same old DFA1979. Grainger shredded his vocal cords, Keeler employed liberal amounts of feedback, and the crowd tried its best to mosh.

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MUMFORD & SONS at the Air Canada Centre, Tuesday, October 25. Rating: NNN “Are you all right? It’s not too big, is it?” said Marcus Mumford at one point during his band’s nearly two-hour set at the Air Canada Centre.

Well, yes, actually. The ACC is larger, cooler and boomier than what’s ideal for Mumford & Sons’ sometimes footstompingly rowdy, sometimes intimately subdued folk-rock. But the award-winning UK group managed to fill most of the stadium in what Mumford referred to as “far and away double the largest show we’ve done by ourselves.”

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more hanging from the ceiling, the fleshed-out band (with Texan fiddler Ross Holmes and a horn section) also filled the stadium sonically, though some of Mumford’s vocals got swallowed up. Their instrument-swapping worked well, and fans sang along to songs off Sigh No More, even overpowering the singer during Awake My Soul. A number of new songs had a romantic bent, while a cover of Neil Young’s Dance Dance Dance sounded SARAH GREENE decidedly British.

DAN MANGAN at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Friday, October 28. Rating: NNN It was apparent from the first song

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that Dan Mangan is intent on breaking out of the nice-guy folk-rock mould.

His new band played most songs with their delay pedals set to maximum echo, and random free-jazz noise freak-outs punctuated the set. Sonically, it’s an awkward fit, though it’s easy to see why he’d want to become more than just the guy who sings that Robots song.

When the audience applauded his introductions to the newer Oh Fortune material, he seemed relieved, though fans were clearly more enthusiastic about the older, cheerier singalong numbers. Mangan looked a little lost when his band veered into experimental space-rock territory, but he’s so

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RICARDO VILLALOBOS, LUCIANO and MILANO at Downsview Park, Saturday, October 29. Rating: NN DJ Sneak’s birthday party is always one of Toronto’s biggest house music events of the year, but a snowstorm in NYC prevented him from making it.

Luckily, headliners Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano and last-minute addition

Milano (formerly known as Mario J) did their best to get the crowd onside.

The party was obviously attempting to recapture the vibe of a 90s rave (right down to the shuttle bus running from Nathan Phillips Square), so it made sense that many attendees were veterans from that era. Unfortunately, the event also served as a reminder of what sucked about those days.

The huge warehouse space made for horribly muddy sound. The unconventional venue meant horrifically gross washrooms and outhouses. The middle-of-nowhere location made transportation a nightmare. The rock-star DJs played so casually and sloppily, it could have been a lounge gig. If the dance floor had been rocking, all would’ve BB been forgiven. It wasn’t.

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sarah slean Becoming comfortable with being complicated

By BENJAMIN BOLES Sarah Slean at the Winter Garden Theatre (189 Yonge), Saturday (November 5), 7 pm. $28-$48. TM.

Sarah Slean’s new double album, Land & Sea (Pheromone), is easily her most ambitious project yet. It’s also the first time in a decade that she isn’t on a major label. But while those two facts are connected, she’s not about to start

bad-mouthing her former employers.

“It’s not like I had a bad experience with Warner,” Slean insists over coffee.

“It was really positive, and they didn’t constrain me creatively at all.”

She will admit, though, to feeling some pressure to please the machine that was investing so much money in her career. She says she probably wouldn’t even have pitched the idea of releasing Land, a stripped-down rock

record produced by Joel Plaskett, and Sea, which features a 21-piece string section recorded live off the floor at the same time as her piano and vocals, to her old bosses.

“We live in a forest of branding, and people just want to put a very short slogan on your forehead.

“That was part of what I struggled with when I was on a major label. They wanted me to decide who I was musically, which meant putting myself within comfortable, understandable parameters that could be easily marketed. I get that, but look at Joni Mitchell’s or Leonard Cohen’s catalogue. That’s just not the way art moves through people.”

Slean no longer seems to have doubts about the public’s ability to process a more complex version of her musical identity. Our conversation drifts to the Occupy movement, and her eyes sparkle as she jumps on the idea that the world is ready and hungry for more complicated narratives.

“People are accusing [the protesters] of not having a mandate or [clear] demands, but if you want to hear all voices, that takes a long time, and it’s messy. There’s a major shift happening, and everyone I know feels it. This is such an exciting time to be alive.”

That feeling of being alive in the moment is palpable on both halves of Land & Sea. Not only did she take a major risk tackling Sea in the oldschool way without a safety net, but Plaskett’s involvement on Land ensured an equally rough-and-ready approach, yet very different from the lush orchestration on Sea. “I’ve always built albums carefully and scientifically, but Joel said to me, ‘None of your favourite albums were made that way.’ And he’s probably right.”

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w/ Slim Moore & the MarKays, the Soul Motivators, DJ General Eclectic El Mocambo (464 Spadina), Saturday (November 5) Kick-off party for jazz-funk festival.

w/ J Mascis, Luke Doucet, Ian Blurton, Richard Lloyd Trio, the Sadies and more The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday to Sunday (November 4 to 6) See preview, page 59.

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Rogers Centre (1 Blue Jays Way), Saturday (November 5) Arena-sized electro-house blowout.

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Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Monday (November 7) Fuzzed-out psych rock.

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Ian Blurton

Richard Lloyd

Marquee Moon.

“I’d rather not battle solo with Richard Lloyd,” says Blurton. “He’s one of my favourite guitar players of all time.

I’m terrified to be in his presence. “[The show] is about what kind of noises you can get out of a guitar. I don’t think anyone’s going to be battling solos back and forth. It’s going to be weird. I don’t consider myself an improv player, so it’s either going to be really good or really awful, from my perspective.”

Blurton’s parents helped him buy his first guitar, a Les Paul knockoff, when he was 12, and today he owns “eight or nine.”

His favourite is a 1965 Mosrite,

festival preview

SLEEPWALK GUITAR FESTIVAL Luke Doucet wants to help rehabilitate the six-string SLEEPWALK GUITAR FESTIVAL at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), Friday to Sunday (November 4-6), $25-$40, weekend pass $50-$75. sleepwalkguitar.com.

The title of the inaugural Sleepwalk Guitar Festival is the first indication that this six-string celebration will not be a three-day shred fest.

It’s named after the Farina brothers’ dreamy steel-guitar instrumental Sleep Walk, and when you scroll through the performers list, you find the names of alt-rock legend J Mascis, proto-punk Richard Lloyd of Television

and local gunslinger and festival curator/co-founder Luke Doucet rather than Satriani, Beck or Vai. “I’m as interested in people who are deconstructionists with the instrument as I am in shredders,” says Doucet. “I like people who do things that are unusual and not necessarily just acrobatic.”

Doucet conceived the idea with Six Shooter Records label boss Shauna de Cartier and drew up a wish list of players. The Sadies, Colin James, country guitar whiz Brent Mason and local lapsteel queen Christine Bougie, among

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many others, all readily signed on.

Well-respected Toronto rock staple Ian Blurton also accepted the invite, even though he recently closed the book on his band C’mon and says he’s been avoiding even looking at his guitar since their final show.

Blurton, known for his grinding AC/ DC-style riffs, will be taking part in a Saturday afternoon improv session called Beautiful Noise. He’ll be joined by members of Tricky Woo and the Beauties, Glenn Milchem of Blue Rodeo, and the man behind that famous alarm-sound lick in the intro to

made famous by surf combo the Ventures.

“I have a mansion filled with guitars. It’s in Rosedale, but don’t tell anyone,” jokes Blurton. “Those guitars are the only thing I’ve gotten out of rock ’n’ roll.”

Doucet says he owns 12 or 15, and points to a late-50s Stella as his current fave. He started in the music industry as a guitarist for Sarah McLachlan, later formed power trio Veal and now tours as a solo artist with his off-kilter country-pop band White Falcon, named after a Gretsch guitar model.

Doucet feels guitar skills have slipped somewhat since Kurt Cobain torpedoed the glam metal movement and reminded us that you don’t need to be an axe ace to write affecting songs.

“The guitar ended up in an embarrassing place in the late 80s when it became a weapon and didn’t have a lot to with music,” he says. “Cobain destroyed [that] and restored the guitar to its musical place. But [the simplicity of his style] also provided an excuse for a lot of musicians not to work at it. That’s bullshit. It’s an instrument like any other that deserves the respect of being played well.

“I hope this festival is not perceived as something simply for guitar players or guitar aficionados. We’re not going to bludgeon people to death with guitar. There’s going to be some intense, focused playing, which should be mind-blowing.

But first and foremost it will be about music.”

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FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

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

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

Thursday, November 3 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

Avoiding gimmicks is harder than it sounds

Action Bronson could be Ghostface Killah’s voice double, a comparison the Queens, NY-based rapper is tired of hearing.

“I’m not interested in being a gimmick,” says Bronson, who’s actually collaborated with Ghost, over the phone from L.A. “I don’t want to make a million and then disappear, so I’ve got to be myself.”

Resemblances litter rap lore (take Shyne, whose Biggie likeness dogs his legacy), but Bronson’s blessed with more than just a tense, nasal, vaguely familiar flow. He has the charisma to back it up.

On his recent debut, Dr. Lecter (Fine Fabric Delegates), Bronson’s fluid, nobullshit delivery has wooed those

drawn to the grit of 90s New York rap.

That’s what he came up on, he says, citing Mobb Deep and Cam’ron as some of his favourites.

His eccentric sense of humour shines through when paired with his other passion: food. Culinary-schooltrained and with, he hints, a cooking series in the works, he doesn’t want to be called “the rapper who’s a chef.”

Bronson probably thinks that’d sound like a gimmick. Still, no one raps better about marshmallows and prosciutto.

At the Rivoli (332 Queen West), Friday (November 4), 10 pm. $10.

ANUPA MISTRY 416-596-1908.

PRESS CLUB Scotty Mac Band (rock) 10 pm.

QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE Matthew Good,

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ACTION BRONSON

Fors 9 pm.

Daniel Wesley doors 7 pm, all ages.

SILVER DOLLAR Trevor Gordon & the Nighthounds, Goodnight Sunrise, Satelites, Sharing doors 8:30 pm.

THE SISTER Alyson McNamara & the Nomads.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer 9:30 pm.

TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Rebel Emergency, Hello Beautiful, Bootleg Glory, Courtney Taylor doors 8:30 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Umphrey’s McGee (prog rock) doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

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HIP-HOP

THE PISTON Shoot the Cameraman, the Done-

ALLEYCATZ Local Music Is Sexy Showcase.

ANNEX WRECKROOM Havok, Exhumed, Goatwhore, Disgust 7 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB CD release Playdeaf, Bella Clava, Wentworth, DJ Boom Boom.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Ginger St James.

C’EST WHAT Oscar Tango (pop/rock) 9 pm.

CLINTON’S Steve Gorman, Stella Jean, For the

Birds.

DAKOTA TAVERN Sean McCann & the Commit-

ted 7 to 9 pm.

DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND Amen Dunes, I Love You 9 pm, all ages. ñ DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Weekend Startup Boot Knives (rock) doors 11 pm.

GRAFFITI’S Everyone’s Talkin’ 8 pm.

HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country) 9 pm.

HORSESHOE Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, Chang A Lang doors 8:30 pm. ñ LEE’S PALACE Lukas Rossi, Piggott Brothers,

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Suitcase Sam (blues).

CAMERON HOUSE Ron Leary (folk) 6 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Fedora Upsidedown 10 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situa-

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THEATRE Symphonic Impressions U of T Symphony

Orchestra 7:30 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Bharatanatyam Beat Ed Hanley (tabla)

noon to 1 pm.

GATE 403 Denise Leslie Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm, Sabor Latin Jazz Band 9 pm.

HABITS GASTROPUB Jazz Duos 7 to 10 pm.

HARLEM UNDERGROUND Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm.

METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met Ron Jordan (piano) 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 & her Alleycats (jazz).

REX Kevin Quain 6:30 pm, Hendrik Meurkens & Jeremy Price 9:30 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Dvorák & Mendelssohn Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Jackiw (violin) 2 pm.

SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Aaron Lumley, Mani Mazinani 8 pm.

TRANE STUDIO The Offering of Curtis Andrews (world jazz septet) 8:30 pm.

TRANZAC 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival: Jazzit Tova Kardonne Weft, Mike Filice 3, Titanium Trio 9:30 pm.

YORK UNIVERSITY ACCOLADE EAST BLDG MARTIN FAMILY LOUNGE Jazz At Noon Andy Middleton Quartet 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALICE FAZOOLI’S SQUARE ONE DJ Other Brother Darryl (rocksteady/rock & roll/hip-hop/funk) 7 pm.

COBRA LOUNGE Richard Dinsdale, Manzone & Strong, Jed Harper, Simon Jain.

ñFOOTWORK Marco Carola.

GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck

PARTS & LABOUR Powers, Foxfire, Mirror Phase (indie rock) 10 pm. ñ PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Cold War Kids,

GROTTO LOUNGE Bar Fly DJ Spence Diamonds,

PRESS CLUB Alun Piggins & the Goat Men

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QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE Matthew Good,

doors 8 pm.5

DJ Corey Dawkins 8 pm.

THE HOXTON SBTRKT, Araabmuzik doors 10 pm.

INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

LEE’S PALACE DANCE CAVE Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance).

THE OSSINGTON Stunts (hip-hop/R&B/dancehall/grime).

RIVOLI Praxis 2 Mark and Matt Thibideau, Scott Stanley, Jakob Thiesen, DJ Eric Downer (electronic) 10 pm.

SHALLOW GROOVE New Country Thursdays DJ Jonathan Demers 8 pm.

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Friday, November 4 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

tion (country/folk/rock) 9 pm.

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

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Ironbark (rock).

BAR ITALIA UPSTAIRS Shugga (funk/soul/

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Darin Yorston 10 pm.

CROWN & TIGER Chris Lord 10 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN CD release Greg Cocker-

R&B/top 40) 9:30 pm.

BOVINE SEX CLUB Bombs, Tracking Nicely, Broken Bricks, DJ Vania.

EL MOCAMBO Provocative Penguin Party Jumple, Meanwood, Brank Scekic 9 pm.

THE GARRISON Dub Trio doors 9 pm.

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

THE GREAT HALL Sleepwalk Guitar Festival J Mascis, Luke Doucet & the White Falcon 9 pm.

See preview, page 59.

HARLEM Stacie Tabb (soul) 7:30 pm.

HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/blues/jazz) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Teenage Kicks, Fast Romantics, Greys, Goddamn Robots 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Hotel Royale, Elos Arma, Hello Kelly, Counselors.

ill (folk rock/American/roots) 10 pm.

THE DANNY Acoustic Open Stage Sebastian Agnello (eclectic) 9:30 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Bobby Long (singer/songwriter) doors 7 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Michael Jerome Brown (blues) 9 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Anthony Gomes Blues Band 8:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE CD release Treasa Levasseur, Paul Reddick, Richard Underhill, Raoul & the Big Time (blues/R&B8 pm) 8 pm.

WHITE SWAN Jam Section 8 7 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/ EXPERIMENTAL

BAR ITALIA Fusion Events Orchestra.

CHERRY STREET RESTAURANT Thursday Night Jazz: A Sondheim Jazz Project 7:30 pm.

Young Men (indie rock) doors 8:30 pm. (rock) 10 pm.

Daniel Wesley doors 7 pm, all ages.

RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Steven Page 8 pm.

RIVOLI Droppin’ Knowlege Action Bron-

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son, Tre Leji the Get By, DJ James Redi and Double X 10 pm. See preview, page 60.

ROC N DOC’S Paris Black 10 pm.

ROCKPILE Dance Laury Dance.

ROSE & CROWN Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/ songwriter) 10 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR CD release Mushy Callahan, Vibonics, Petty Victories, Use As Directed doors 8:30 pm.

THE SISTER The Reply, the Hook Up. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Mena Hardy’s Shotgun Revolutionaries (Southern rock) 10 pm.

ST LOUIS BAR & GRILL Robbie Rox & the Raw Trio.

TORONTO UNDERGROUND CINEMA Toronto’s Loveless: 20th-Anniversary ñ Celebration Of My Bloody Valentine’s Master-

piece Ruby Coast, Volcano Playground, Portraits, Beliefs and others doors 8 pm, all ages.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Hey Ocean (indie pop) doors 6:30 pm.

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CADILLAC LOUNGE Catfish Blues.

CAMERON HOUSE Devin Cuddy 6 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Kayla Howran 10 pm.

DORA KEOGH Taxi Chain (Celtic soul).

GATE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm.

GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Ungrorom

(gypsy) 9 pm.

HABITS GASTROPUB Dave Borins 8:30 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Ladies Night Salsa Friday Alithea Cameron, DJ Suave (salsa) 8 pm.

MUSIC GALLERY Minor Empire (Turkish/ rock/jazz) 7 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

VILLAGE VAPOR LOUNGE Kim Jarrett 9 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

THE ANNEX LIVE Next Stop Haiti Cabaret Peggy Mahon 7:30 pm.

Die by Remote doors 8:30 pm.

LIVING ARTS CENTRE HAMMERSON HALL Nick

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Carter 8 pm.

THE LOCAL The Shraggs.

PARTS & LABOUR Grand Trine, Natural Child, Crosss (psych/ ñ punk) 10 pm.

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BURNING LOVE No desire for crossover success

Saturday will be one of the last times Toronto’s Burning Love perform before holing up in Salem, Massachusetts, to record their sophomore LP, which already has a name and label: Rotten Thing To Say, to be released on Southern Lord. They’ve lightened their schedule to accommodate that task, but if it were up to them they’d already be on break.

“We came back from the U.S. tour with Converge and cleared off all tour plans until after the recording in order to write and focus on it,” says lead shouter/punk veteran Chris Colohan, formerly of Cursed. “Then we squandered our lead and now we’re down to the wire and cranking out jams under great amounts of art-stress.”

That’s good news for local fans, who now have another chance to catch the group’s riotous live show, which is

much coarser than the cleanly produced, stoner-metal-infused hardcore heard on 2010’s Songs For Burning Lovers.

“Compared to the really misanthropic shit, Burning Love seems like pop music,” he admits. “But to most people from that world it’s really still hardcore punk.”

The band emerged from the same scene as crossover punks Fucked Up, but Colohan doesn’t have similar aspirations (and bristles at the oft-made comparison).

“We don’t have any elaborate designs on world domination. Having a solid label, challenging ourselves, being able to keep travelling and seeing friends all over, connecting with people anywhere and personally, stringing out my punk adolescence by an extra two decades – that’s success to me.”

Burning Love play the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (November 5). $7. RT, RICHARD TRAPUNSKI SS.

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Parlovr + the Paint movement

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bless the fall The Word Alive

Maylene & the SonS of DiSaSter • ZechS MarquiSe • native

MoTionless in WhiTe

frIDAy december 9 @ oPErA houSE

sat november 26 queen elizabeth theatre

$ 20.50

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clap your hands

say yeah

wIth the jezabels

$ 25.00

advance • all-ages

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teenaGe

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crooked fingers

featuring Eric Bachmann of archErs oF LoaF

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with

tHurS november 10

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tueSday november 8

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Wed november 9 • $ 4.00

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tueSday december 6

atkins

dogs

drake • 15.00 advance • Solo

off with their heads

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dentata

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indian Handcrafts + deafHaven

Jonny corndawg honky + the shrine

Saturday november 12

drake underground

$ 12.00

drugs Friday december 16 lee’S palace • $18.00 adv

danny

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michel y Los homBres maLos!

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WitH guards + tHomas Hardy

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mon nov 28 @ garrison • all-ages • 7pm

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tHurS november 24

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Secret (instrumental) 7:30 pm. dave’s... on st Clair Happy Hour Jazz Chicken Scratch 5 8 pm. dominion on Queen Young Kim Quartet 8:30 pm.

Fuzion Fridays At Fuzion Melissa Lauren & Ken Lindsay 6 to 9 pm. gate 403 Andy Malette (piano) 5 to 8 pm.

Harlem underground Chris Weatherstone Trio (jazz) 8 pm.

Hart House arBor room P.R.A.M Trio (jazz) 9 pm. living arts Centre Hammerson Hall The Miles Davis Experience: 1949-1959 Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet 8 pm. old mill inn Home smitH Bar Fridays To Sing About! Ori Dagan, Makr Kieswetter, Jordan O’Connor 7:30 pm.

Quotes Fridays At Five Drew Jurecka (violin, saxophone) 5 to 8 pm. rex Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm, Don Scott Trio 6:30 pm, the Galaxy All-Star Orchestra 9:45 pm.

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somewHere tHere studio Leftover Daylight

Series Nicole Rampersaud, Dan Friedman 8 pm. trane studio Greg Spero 8 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. tranzaC 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers Festival: Neither/Nor Night Marc Couroux,

John Mark Sherlock, eldritch Priest 9 pm. waterFalls Jim Heineman Trio 6:30 pm.

wrongBar Big Primpin-Call DJs Blackcat, Rory Them Finest & Max Mohenu ñ (hip-hop) doors 10 pm.

Mic 8 to 11:30 pm.

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york university aCColade east Bldg sterling BeCkwitH studio Improv Soiree: Open annex wreCkroom Nicky Blackmarket, MC

Shabba D, DJ Sicknote 10 pm.

Bar neon Scissors DJ Fawn Big Canoe, DJ Sokes doors 10 pm.

Castro’s lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

Clinton’s Girl & Boy Dance Party.

CzeHoski The Impossible Night, the Wheel Wells, WKBDYB? doors 11 pm. drake Hotel underground Never Forgive Action Linx & Taktiks, DJ Numeric & Ted Dancin’ (hip-hop/R&B) doors 11 pm. drake Hotel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm.

Fly Dirty Sexy Party – King-Size Special Extravaganza DJ Foxx Trot (11 pm).5 goodHandy’s All Out DJ Reggie Tingz doors 10 pm.5 Hot Box CaFe Big Spliff Joda C, Mike S (roots/ reggae/rocksteady/dub/early dancehall) 7 pm. tHe Hoxton Steve Porter & Eli Wilkie. insomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Thunder. lee’s PalaCe danCe Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop). margret Funktion In The Junction DJ Cozmic Cat (soul/house/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm. noCturne Dubsidia, Zimo (dubstep) 10 pm. now lounge Electro-Pop! DJ CG (indie/pop/ electro/retro/remixes). tHe ossington Secret Models (dance). tHe Piston Blur VS Oasis DJ Battle 10 pm. tHe red ligHt The Cold Sweat DJ Double K, Dennis P (rare soul/funk) 10 pm. tHe savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/ol skool) 10 pm. sHallow groove House & Old School. suPermarket Rollin’ & Scratchin’ Kyle Marshall, R&S DJs 10 pm. virgin moBile mod CluB Arcade TEED (Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs) doors 10 pm. woo’s lounge Heart Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz doors at 10:30 pm.

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CadillaC lounge Heads Up Lincoln 10 pm. dakota tavern Emm Gryner, Colleen Brown. diCkens street tHeatre Feast In The East VII Army Girls, Ghostly Graves, Jacqueline Rendell 9 pm, all ages. dora keogH Swamp Yankees (rock). drake Hotel underground Loney Dear doors 8 pm. drake Hotel underground Broken English Colin Bergh, Famou$ Players doors 11 pm.

FresH City Farms greenHouse Everything Roof Fundraiser A Yellow Field, Far from Rich, Isla Craig noon to 5 pm. graFFiti’s Taxi Chain 4 to 7 pm. tHe great Hall Sleepwalk Guitar Festival Richard Lloyd Trio 9 pm. See preview, page 59. tHe great Hall Sleepwalk Guitar Festival The Sadies 10:30 pm. See preview, page 59.

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Day Of The Dead Jaime Elizondo 3 pm.

Hard luCk Bar Allison Weiss (pop) 8 pm.

Hemingways Jan Albert (rock/blues) 10 pm. tHe Hideout CD release Darlings of Chelsea.

HorsesHoe Stereokid, Automatic Toy, Two Crown King, Erin Mills Trip 9 pm.

Hot Box CaFe Saturday Slam: Pot Smokers Dub Science Open Mic Red Gorilla Sound Brigade (reggae/jungle/dubstep/dnb/electro) 7 pm. lee’s PalaCe Sea & Cake, Brokeback doors 9 pm. tHe loCal Arthur Renwick 4 pm. tHe loCal Erika Werry and the Alphabet, Scott Maynard. long & mCQuade Squeaky Wheel Canada Tour: Missing Persons Foundation Benefit Kiki

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rex Brunch Matinee Danny Marks (pop) noon,

Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm. rivoli Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata 8 pm. roCkPile Speak of the Devil. silver dollar Burning Love, Indian Handcrafts, Topanga, July Talk doors 9 pm. See preview, page 61. tHe sister Skyjumper. soutHside JoHnny’s The Homeless 10 pm. sPortster’s Nicola Vaughan 10 pm. tattoo roCk Parlour Neverest, Alyssa Reid (pop) doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Eclipse: The Pink Floyd Story 8 pm.

toronto newsgirls Boxing CluB Toronto Newsgirls Calendar Release Party ñ Tomboyfriend House Cabaret 8 pm. winter garden tHeatre Sarah Slean doors 7 pm. See preview, page 56. ñ xs nigHtCluB Flatline DNA Vs Dizaster, Illmaculate & Thesaurus Vs poRich & Diaz.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

CadillaC lounge Cadillac Ranch Matinee 4

pm.

Cameron House The Rattlesnake Choir (roots) 6 pm.

Cameron House Al Tuck 10 pm.

CHurCH oF tHe Holy trinity Echo Women’s

Choir Fall Fling & Square Dance Dan Macdonald, Kate Murphy (fiddle, piano) 7 to 10 pm. dakota tavern Gram Parsons Birthday Tim Bradford & the Bandits, Badly Bent, Jamie Oliver, Jerry Leger, Eamon McGrath, Burke Carroll, Tim Armour, Mike Brennan, Kristin Cavoukian, Ryan Bishops 10 pm. gate 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. gladstone Hotel melody Bar CD party The Wanted (country) 9 pm.

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alleyCatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk). aQuila uPstairs Urbane Guerillas (rock).

Bovine sex CluB Careers in Science, Pawn

Mizumi, Andreena Mill, Brian Blain & Danny Marks, Arthur Renwick and others 7 to 9 pm. musiC gallery Will Currie & the Country French, An Old Fellowship doors 8 pm.

PlaCeBo sPaCe Entire Cities, the Loom, Del Bel 9 pm.

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HarBourFront Centre lakeside terraCe

Day Of The Dead QuiQue Escamilla (singersongwriter) 2:30 pm.

HugH’s room Jory Nash. lula lounge Salsa Saturday Moda Eterna (salsa) 10 pm. old niCk Kim Jarrett, Jennifer Brewer 9 pm. reBas CaFé Open Mic Saturdays Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm.

royal Conservatory oF musiC koerner Hall Peter & Paul 8 pm. ñ soutHside JoHnny’s Robin Banks Trio

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LITTLE FOOT LONG FOOT THE GOODLUCK ASSEMBLY THE SPEAKING TONGUES DJ BITCHSLAP

EVEry saturday

SHAKE A TAIL 60’s pop & soul

suNday NOVEMBEr 6

REACTION: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS MARCUS AND THE MOUNTAIN THE ACIDTONES

Legends oF karaoke EVEry tuEsday

my Friends oVer yoU w/DJ Boom Boom

PLayDeaf

(CD Release Party) w/Bella Clava, Wentworth w/DJ Vania

fri nov 4

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w/Tracking Nicely, Broken Bricks w/DJ Ian Blurton

sat nov 5

Careers in sCienCe

w/Pawn Shop, 120 & The Fighting 68's, The Ward w/DJ Candy-O

SuN Nov 6

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H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H adv tix @ Rotate This, soundscapes H H H HigH lonesome Wednesday • 9:30pm H H H H H H H big city bluegrass H H H featuring members of H H the foggy hogtown boys H H & the creaking tree H H string quartet H H H H FRi nov 11 Early show 8pm H H H H H H H H H H H H H 10:30pm indie Machine presents H H H H H H H H H H H and H sat nov 12 From nashville & Chicago H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H w/ H H H H Plus!

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Parsons, Toronto Improvisers Orchestra 9 pm. unitarian ConGreGation Great hall Mozart & More Chamber Music Society of Mississauga 8 pm.

roGers Centre Deadmau5, Crystal Castles, MSTRKRFT, Manzone & Strong, ñ 7Wallace, Sydney Blu doors 6:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

away (top 40/hip-hop/R&B/retro). sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. suPermarket Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. WronGbar The Magician doors 10 pm.

anDy Poolhall Major Rager Billionaire, Bal-

listik, Mickey D, Mandelephant, O-God Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal (house/dubstep/reggae/electro) 10 pm.

C’est What Del Dako (jazz) 3 pm. annex WreCkroom DJ Rick Toxic 10 pm.

C’est What John Capon 8 pm. auGusta house Reality Bytes 90s Night DJs Chalkers Pub Soul Stew (R&B/soul/jazz/ 4est, Lindzrox, Jrox, B n B Musak Faktory funk) 9:30 pm. (dance/hip-hop/electronica) doors 9 pm.

Chalkers Pub Dave Young Quartet 6 to 9 pm. the barn Mad House DJ ViVi Diamond (top Dominion on Queen Ronnie Hayward Trio 3 40/remixes/electro) 10 pm.5 to 7 pm.

Clinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush Dominion on Queen Big City Band 8:30 pm.

(60s soul/R&R dance party).

DonWay Covenant uniteD ChurCh The HurDrake hotel lounGe Membersonly DJs ricanes Big Band 7:30 pm. doors 10 pm.

DoverCourt house Alex Pangman & her Fly Our City Beats – Daylight Savings! DJ Mark Alleycats (jazz).

Falco doors 10 pm.5 el moCambo NuJazz Festival Slim the FlyinG beaver Pubaret Slinky Retro Moore & the Mar-Kays, the Soul MotivDance Party DJ Triple-X, DJ Poster Boy 10 pm. ators, DJ General Eclectic doors 9:30 pm.

FootWork The Modern Love Affair Wolf First uniteD ChurCh Benefit for Compass Food & Lamb, Nitin, Jeff Button, Rafwat & Bank Mississauga Choral Society 7:30 pm.

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Gate 403 Jake Koffman Jazz Band noon to 3 the Garrison Cherry Bomb Lucas, pm, Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm.

Rouge, MC Nilla, DJ Mama, Cozmic Cat, harlem Samantha Clayton (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Denise Benson 9 pm. 5 harlem unDerGrounD Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm.

GooDhanDy’s Fetish Party DJ Jimi LaMort doors 9 pm.5 markham theatre For the PerForminG arts Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony Kindred insomnia Sense Saturday DJ Charles).

Spirits Orchestra 8 pm. lee’s PalaCe DanCe Cave Full On Alternative olD mill inn home smith bar Jazz Masters DJ Mr Pete (alternative).

Richard Whiteman Trio, Kurt Nielsen, Morgan 99 Gallery Sweet Tears DJs Starting from Childs 7:30 pm.

Scratch, Tyrone Solomon, Jason Palma, Guerrex Chris Hunt Tentet + 2 3:30 pm, Humber illa Science.

College Faculty Denny Christianson, Kirk MacnoCturne Neurodance Gamesystem (indusDonald, Geoff Young, Brian Dickinson, Mike trial techno) 11:30 pm.

Downes, Mark Kelso 9:45 pm. noW lounGe My Prerogative: All 90’s Night roy thomson hall Dvorák & Mendelssohn V.2 DJ Squidbot 10 pm.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Stefan Jackiw the ossinGton Friendship DJ Hi Mom (post (violin) 2 pm. hip-hop/cold punk/disco dance). royal Conservatory oF musiC mazzoleni Parts & labour STD DJs Isosceles & Innez Da hall The Glenn Gould School Vocal Showcase Future 10 pm.

7:30 pm. the Piston Fine Tuning Davy Love (Brit/psysomeWhere there stuDio Michael McNeill che/Northern soul) 10 pm.

Trio 8 pm. revival Do You Love House? DJs Bucie, trane stuDio Greg Spero 8 pm.

Tricky Moreira, Dirty Dale,9:27 Groove RCM_Now1/5bw_contests_3Cohens_Nov3_Layout 1 11-10-28 AMInstiPage tranzaC 416 Toronto Creative Improvisers tute, Gadjet, Morgan Shim, Junior Palmer & Festival: Old/New Glen Hall’s So Nu, Timar/ Chico Pacheco 10 pm.

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Sunday, November 6 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

CaDillaC lounGe Rock the Vote.

Castro’s lounGe Leon Knight & the Neon Lights (rockabilly) 4 pm.

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

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

Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

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GraFFiti’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. the Great hall Sleepwalk Guitar Festi-

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Day Of The Dead Jaime Elizondo 3 pm. harD luCk bar Set it Off (pop punk) 6 pm, all ages. orbit room Horshack (rock) doors 9 pm.

Parts & labour Regulations, Spectres, TV Freaks, No Problem, Total Trash (hardcore punk) 8 pm, all ages. rivoli Capacoa doors 8 pm. the sister Protomen, I Fight Dragons doors 8 pm. virGin mobile moD Club Team StarKid, Charlene Kaye doors 7 pm, all ages.

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aQuila uPstairs Blues Brunch Ken Yoshioka (blues) noon-2 pm. aQuila uPstairs Sunday Junction Jam New Mynah Birds, Nicole Dunn 3:30-7:30 pm. aQuila uPstairs Open Mic The McDales (country) 8:30 pm.

Cameron house Jack Marks (country) 6 pm.

Cameron house Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm.

C’est What CAPACOA Showcase Darrrelle London (alt folk) 8:30 pm.

Clinton’s Home And Native Sound Series Andrea Caswell, Elyse Simpson, Carmen Corcoz, Aria Tesolin doors 7:30 pm.

Cloak & DaGGer Pub Blair Harvey 9 pm.

GlaDstone hotel meloDy bar Family Acoustic Brunch (bluegrass) 10 am to 2 pm.

Grossman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.

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Monday, November 7

Day Of The Dead Festival: Mariachi Grand Finale Viva Mexico Mariachi 4:30 pm.

Day Of The Dead QuiQue Escamilla (singersongwriter) 2:30 pm. huGh’s room Rome In A Day CD release 5 After 4 (Vito Rezza, John Johnson, Matt Horner & Peter Cardinali) 8:30 pm. the loCal Kristine Schmitt & her Special Powers 5 pm. the loCal Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. lula lounGe Sunday Family Salsa Brunch (salsa) 12:30 & 2:30 pm.

PoGue mahone Celtic Ceilidh Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition 4 to 8 pm.

Press Club Lucas Stagg & Paddy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. rebas CaFé Ken Yoshioka & James Thomson (blues) 1 to 4 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. sPirits Kim Jarrett (acoustic) 9 pm. suPermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. the Wilson 96 Sunday Supper Dave Picco (singer/songwriter) 6 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

Chalkers Pub CD launch Courtney Quebec 7

to 10 pm.

Dominion on Queen Debbie Fleming Jazz

Trio 3:30 to 6:30 pm.

Gallery 345 Intimate Echoes Chelsea Shanoff, Teresa Vaughan 3 pm.

Gate 403 Melissa Lauren Jazz Band noon to 3 pm, Mark Rainey Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm, Jeff Scarrott Jazz Band 9 pm. hot box CaFe Jazz 7 pm.

Joe mama’s Nathan Hiltz Organ Trio w/ Beverly Taft 7 to 11 pm. musiC Gallery Fuzzy Logic Continuum Contemporary Music (chamber music) 8 pm. rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon, Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm, Ugly Beauties & Marilyn Lerner 7 pm, Joel Frahm & Ernesto Cervini 9:30 pm.

royal Conservatory oF musiC koerner hall Angela Hewitt (piano) 3 pm. someWhere there stuDio Jack Vorvis, Avesta Nakhaei 5 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

bovine sex Club School For Band Aids DJ Candy-O.

Castro’s lounGe Watch This Sound DJ Greg

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

ChurChill Soul’d Out Sunday One-Year Anniversary DJs Cozmic Cat & Sandy DeAlmeida 10 pm.

GraFFiti’s Blackmetalbrunch 11 am. insomnia DJ Shannon (old school hip-hop/ disco/funk). lambaDina The Known Unknown: EPIC (Every Person Is Creative) URVah Khan, Mischa Q, Staasia Daniels, Jelly TooFly, Lola Bunz, Nyce Touch 9 pm.

Bug and Mantis (deep grooves).

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Castro’s lounGe Ron Howard 9 pm.

Drake hotel unDerGrounD The Odds 8 pm.

Drake hotel lounGe Ride the Tiger (funk/

R&B) doors 10 pm.

GraFFiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. the Great hall Yael Naim doors 8 pm, all ages. harD luCk bar Obscura, Abysmal Dawn 7 pm. harlem unDerGrounD Daniel Gagnon (pop/ folk/rock) 8 pm. horseshoe Wooden Shjips, Birds of Avalon, Biblical (psyche rock) doors 8:30 pm. massey hall Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (songwriter/guitarist).

Press Club Domestic Bliss Mondays The Executives (rock) 10 pm. the Wilson 96 Esteban Puchalski (roots rock).

WronGbar Blue Scholars, Bambu doors 8 pm.

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Cameron house Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

Cameron house David Baxter 10 pm.

Cloak & DaGGer Pub Ciaran O’Shea (pop/folk) 9 pm.

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

GlaDstone hotel meloDy bar EH?! (Canadian folk) 8:30 pm.

huGh’s room Harpdog Brown 8:30 pm. the loCal Hamstrung String Band. olD niCk Elana Harte 7 pm, all ages. tranzaC southern Cross Open Mic 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

CaDillaC lounGe Julianne’s Jazz Jam. Centre For the arts Gallery theatre A Little

Night Music: Music As A Mirror: A Composer Speaks Kerry Stratton (lecture/performance) 7:30 pm.

Gate 403 Sid Lee Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm, Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm. harlem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (jazz/funk/ soul/Motown/swing/pop) 8 pm.

PeoPle’s ChiCken Advocats Big Band (bop/ mambo/swing/swoon) 7:30 pm. rex U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. rex Joel Frahm & Ernesto Cervini 9:30 pm. someWhere there stuDio NOW Series Tiina Kiik, Michael Lynn, Rob Piilonen, Ken Aldcroft 8 pm. tranzaC southern Cross This Is Awesome (jazz) 7 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

annex WreCkroom Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 3 Launch Party DJ Misty 9 pm.

bovine sex Club Moody Mondays Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

insomnia DJs Topher, Oranj (rock).

Saturday, November 12, 2011 8pm Koerner Hall Jazz goes global with Yuval, Avishai, and tenor sax artist Anat Cohen, and Jamey Haddad, one of the world’s foremost jazz percussionists with his pan-Arab all-star group.

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Lee’s PaLace Dance cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro 70s/80s).

The OssingTOn Ice & Yolanda’s Big Night.

The PisTOn Junk Shop DJs Tweed & Jeeks (preto post-punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

RePOsaDO Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, November 8 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

DRake hOTeL UnDeRgROUnD ñ gRaffiTi’s

Crooked Fingers, Strand of Oak doors 8:30 pm.

Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm. gRaffiTi’s Marcus Walker’s Tumultuous Tuesdays 7 to 10 pm. hORseshOe Nu Music 18th Anniversary These Imaginary Cities.

Massey haLL Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (songwriter/guitarist).

PhOenix cOnceRT TheaTRe Noah & the Whale doors 8 pm, all ages.

The PisTOn Dead Tuesdays 9 pm.

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DOMiniOn On QUeen Hot Club Of Corktown Wayne Nakamura (Django jam) 8:30 pm.

fOUR seasOns cenTRe fOR The PeRfORMing aRTs RichaRD bRaDshaW aMPhiTheaTRe

Three Two One ArrrayMusic noon to 1 pm. gaTe 403 Donné Roberts Band 5 to 8 pm. haRLeM UnDeRgROUnD John Campbell (jazz/ pop/soul/R&B) 8:30 pm.

Jane MaLLeTT TheaTRe Lise De La Salle (piano).

Rex Richard Whiteman 6:30 pm, Classic Rex Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 9:30 pm.

ROyaL cOnseRvaTORy Of MUsic MazzOLeni haLL ARC Ensemble 7:30 pm. sOMeWheRe TheRe sTUDiO Sweet Talk Jake

Henry, Dustin Carlson, Devin Drobka 8 pm.

TOROnTO cenTRe fOR The aRTs Mozart And Friends Tafelmusic Baroque Orchestra 8 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

gOODhanDy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

Klinch doors 8 pm.5 insOMnia DJ Shannon (rock/dance). nOcTURne Twisted Tuesdays (electro/dubstep).

RePOsaDO Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

annex WReckROOM Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

Wednesday, November 9

caMeROn hOUse Whitney Rose (country) 6 pm. caMeROn hOUse Friendly Rich 10 pm. casTRO’s LOUnge Quiet Revolutions Acoustic

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

caDiLLac LOUnge The Neil Young’uns.

DRake hOTeL UnDeRgROUnD Polaris

Jam blueVenus 10 pm.

cLOak & DaggeR PUb Slocan Ramblers 10 pm.

DakOTa TaveRn East End Open Stage 8 pm. gaTe 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm.

hOT bOx cafe Hot Box Unplugged: Acoustic

Open Mic 7 pm. hUgh’s ROOM Chad & Jeremy 8:30 pm.

The LOcaL Aunt Beazy & Alistair.

LULa LOUnge Graydon James, Kayla Howran, Josh Cockerill, Pigott Brothers (folk/rock) 9 pm.

MOnaRchs PUb Acoustic Tuesdays Mr Rick.

PRess cLUb Toast ’n’ Jam Open Mic 10 pm. sMiLing bUDDha Open Stage 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

caMeROn hOUse Peripheral Vision (jazz ). c’esT WhaT Paisley Jura (alt jazz/pop) 9 pm. chaLkeRs PUb Grand Tuesdays Robi Botos Trio

7:30 pm.

Music Prize Record Salon/Talk Fucked Up ñ doors 7:30 pm.

The gaRRisOn Sainthood Reps doors 8:30 pm. ñ gLaDsTOne hOTeL baLLROOM Oh So Beautiful

Showcase AHI, Karen Jewels, T-Stylez, Jae Ari, Joy Lapps, Mel Grace, Sam Rose, NewBreedMC 7 pm. hUMbeR cOLLege LakeshORe caMPUs Humber R&B Night The Humber Groove Merchants, the Humber Rhythm & Soul Band 8 pm.

The LOcaL Jerry Leger & the Situation, Patrick Brealey.

OPeRa hOUse Mat Kearney 8 pm.

PanTages hOTeL Chris Ritchie (pop/rock piano) 6 pm.

The PisTOn Danielle Duval 9 pm.

RivOLi International Pop Overthrow Hunnay!, the Breaking Lakes, Oscar Tango, Swindled, Little Creatures, Harrison Fine (rock) doors 7:30 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

aLLeycaTz The Graceful Daddies (swingin’ blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm. aQUiLa UPsTaiRs The Cowan House Ramblers (bluegrass). caMeROn hOUse Joshua Cockerill 6 pm. caMeROn hOUse The Strumbellas (folk) 10 pm. casTRO’s LOUnge Smokey Folk 9 pm. gRaffiTi’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. gROssMan’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. hUgh’s ROOM Valdy.

PRess cLUb Nancy Dutra (folk) 9 pm. siLveR DOLLaR High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

cLOak & DaggeR PUb Submutations (dub/ jazz) 10 pm.

DOMiniOn On QUeen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm.

gaTe 403 Joshua Goodman Jazz Band 5-8 pm,

Brian Cober and Aslan Gotov Blues Duo 9 pm.

Jane MaLLeTT TheaTRe Ludovico Einaudi 8 pm.

MezzeTTa Ted Quinlan, Mike Downes (jazz) 9 & 10:15 pm. naWLins Jazz baR Jim Heineman Trio 7 pm.

Rex Morgan Childs Trio + 1 6:30 pm, Samir Zarif w/ Maria Neckam 9:30 pm.

ROy ThOMsOn haLL Lang Lang Plays Beethoven 1 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Lang Lang (piano) 8 pm. sOMeWheRe TheRe sTUDiO Cheryl O, Matt Miller, Germaine Liu, Pamela Rhae Ferguson 8 pm.

TRane sTUDiO Alain Bédard, Pierre Tanguay, François Bourassa, Frank Lozano, Guy Boisvert 8 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

hOT bOx cafe Hump Day Uncut The Man (50s & 60s R&B/hip-hop/dance/pop) 7 pm. insOMnia DJ O-God (house/reggae/ mashups).

RePOsaDO Sol Wednesdays Spy vs Sly vs Spy. WROngbaR Smash Gordon.

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Venue Index

aLice fazOOLi’s sQUaRe One 209 Rathburn W (mississauga). 905-281-1721. aLLeycaTz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. anDy POOLhaLL 489 college. 416-923-5300.

The annex Live 296 Brunswick. 416-929-3999. annex WReckROOM 794 Bathurst. 416-5360346. aQUiLa 347 keele. 416-761-7474. aUgUsTa hOUse 152 augusta. 416-977-8881. baR iTaLia 582 college. 416-535-3621. baR neOn 1226 Bloor W. The baRn 418 church. 416-593-9696. bLOnDies 1378 Queen W. bOvine sex cLUb 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. caDiLLac LOUnge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717. caMeROn hOUse 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. casTRO’s LOUnge 2116 Queen e. 416-6998272. cenTRe fOR The aRTs 263 adelaide W. 647436-2787. c’esT WhaT 67 Front e. 416-867-9499. chaLkeRs PUb 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. cheRRy cOLa’s ROck n’ ROLLa 200 Bathurst. cheRRy sTReeT ResTaURanT 275 cherry. chURch Of The hOLy TRiniTy 10 trinity Square. 416-598-4521. chURchiLL 1212 dundas W. cLinTOn’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cLOak & DaggeR PUb 394 college. 647-4360228. cObRa LOUnge 510 king W. 416-361-9004. cROWn & TigeR 414 college. 416-920-3115. czehOski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787.

DakOTa TaveRn 249 ossington. 416-850-4579.

The Danny 2183 danforth. 416-686-1705.

Dave’s... On sT cLaiR 730 St clair W. 416-6573283.

Dickens sTReeT TheaTRe 35 dickens.

DOMiniOn On QUeen 500 Queen e. 416-3686893.

DOnWay cOvenanT UniTeD chURch 230 donway W. 416-444-8444.

DORa keOgh 141 danforth. 416-778-1804.

DOUbLe DOUbLe LanD 209 augusta.

DOveRcOURT hOUse 805 dovercourt. 416-5353847.

DRake hOTeL 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. eDWaRD JOhnsOn bUiLDing 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. eL MOcaMbO 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. ePic LOUnge 1355 St clair W. 416-792-9382. fiRsT UniTeD chURch 151 lakeshore W (mississauga). 905-278-3714. fLy 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426.

The fLying beaveR PUbaReT 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567. fOOTWORk 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488.

The fOUnTain 1261 dundas W. 416-203-2311. fOUR seasOns cenTRe fOR The PeRfORMing aRTs 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. fResh ciTy faRMs 70 canuck, downsview Park. fUziOn 580 church. 416-944-9888. gaLLeRy 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781.

The gaRRisOn 1197 dundas W. 416-519-9439.

gaTe 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. gLaDsTOne hOTeL 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635. gOODhanDy’s 120 church. 416-760-6514. gRaffiTi’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699.

The gReaT haLL 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. gROssMan’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. gROTTO LOUnge 647 college. habiTs gasTROPUb 928 college. 416-533-7272. haRbOURfROnT cenTRe 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. haRD LUck baR 812 dundas W. haRLeM 67 Richmond e. 416-368-1920. haRLeM UnDeRgROUnD 745 Queen W. 416366-4743. haRT hOUse 7 Hart House circle. 416-9788849. heMingWays 142 cumberland. 416-968-2828.

The hiDeOUT 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. hORseshOe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hOT bOx cafe 191a Baldwin. 416-203-6990.

The hOxTOn 69 Bathurst. hUgh’s ROOM 2261 dundas W. 416-531-6604. hUMbeR cOLLege LakeshORe caMPUs 3199 lake Shore W. 416-675-5005. insOMnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907.

Jane MaLLeTT TheaTRe 27 Front e. 416-3667723.

JOe MaMa’s 317 king W. 416-340-6469.

LaMbaDina 875 Bloor W. 416-888-4607.

Lee’s PaLace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

Living aRTs cenTRe 4141 living arts (mississauga). 905-306-6000.

The LOcaL 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

LOng & McQUaDe 925 Bloor W. 416-588-7886.

LULa LOUnge 1585 dundas W. 416-588-0307.

MaRgReT 2952 dundas W. 416-762-3373.

MaRkhaM TheaTRe fOR The PeRfORMing aRTs 171 town centre Blvd (markham). 905305-7469.

Massey haLL 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255.

MeTROPOLiTan UniTeD chURch 56 Queen e.

416-363-0331.

MezzeTTa 681 St clair W. 416-658-5687.

MOD cLUb 722 college. 416-588-4663.

MOnaRchs PUb 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352.

MUsic gaLLeRy 197 John. 416-204-1080. naWLins Jazz baR 299 king W. 416-595-1958.

99 gaLLeRy 99 Sudbury. 647-426-5997. nOcTURne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. nOW LOUnge 189 church. 416-364-1301.

OLD MiLL inn 21 old mill Rd. 416-236-2641.

OLD nick 123 danforth. 416-461-5546.

OPeRa hOUse 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313.

ORbiT ROOM 580a college. 416-535-0613.

The OssingTOn 61 ossington. 416-850-0161.

PanTages hOTeL 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777.

PaRTs & LabOUR 1566 Queen W. 416-5887750.

PeOPLe’s chicken 744 mt Pleasant. 416-4897931.

PhOenix cOnceRT TheaTRe 410 Sherbourne.

416-323-1251.

The PisTOn 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

PLacebO sPace 1409 Bloor W.

POgUe MahOne 777 Bay. 416-598-3339.

PRess cLUb 850 dundas W. 416-364-7183.

QUeen eLizabeTh TheaTRe 190 Princes’ Blvd.

416-263-3293.

QUOTes 220 king W. 416-979-7717.

Rebas café 3289 dundas W. 416-626-7372.

The ReD LighT 1185 dundas W. 416-533-6667.

RePOsaDO 136 ossington. 416-532-6474.

ReseRvOiR LOUnge 52 Wellington e. 416-9550887.

RevivaL 783 college. 416-535-7888.

Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

RichMOnD hiLL cenTRe fOR The PeRfORMing aRTs 10268 yonge (Richmond Hill).

905-787-8811.

RivOLi 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

ROc n DOc’s 105 lakeshore e (mississauga).

905-891-1754.

ROckPiLe 5555 dundas W. 416-504-6699.

ROgeRs cenTRe 1 Blue Jays Way. 416-341-3000.

ROse & cROWn 2335 yonge. 416-487-7673.

ROy ThOMsOn haLL 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

ROyaL cOnseRvaTORy Of MUsic 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

The savOy 1166 Queen W. shaLLOW gROOve 559 college. 416-944-8998. siLveR DOLLaR 486 Spadina. 416-763-9139.

The sisTeR 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. sMiLing bUDDha 961 college. 416-516-2531. sneaky Dee’s 431 college. 416-603-3090. sOMeWheRe TheRe sTUDiO 227 Sterling, unit #112. sOUnD acaDeMy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. sOUThsiDe JOhnny’s 3653 lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. sPiRiTs 642 church. 416-967-0001. sPORTsTeR’s 1430 danforth. 416-778-0258. sT LOUis baR & gRiLL 10620 yonge. 905-7800183. sUPeRMaRkeT 268 augusta. 416-840-0501.

TaTTOO ROck PaRLOUR 567 Queen W. 416703-5488.

TOROnTO cenTRe fOR The aRTs 5040 yonge.

416-733-9388.

TOROnTO neWsgiRLs bOxing cLUb 388 carlaw, unit 108. 416-480-2058.

TOROnTO UnDeRgROUnD cineMa 186 Spadina. 647-992-4335.

TRane sTUDiO 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197.

TRanzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

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to balance the non-stop sugar high.

Nevertheless, Awake, You Sleepers! is an undeniably addictive listen and a promising debut from a young Canadian band worth checking out.

Top track: Railroad Will Currie & the Country French celebrate the release of Awake, You Sleepers!

Saturday (November 5) at the Music Gallery.

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with graceful violence.

So all-encompassing is Ceremonials that the Machine sometimes threatens to swallow Florence. Like Mickey Mouse conducting the ocean in Fantasia, she often seems more a celestial vessel for the heady energy and abstract imagery than a relatable character – a balance she doesn’t always strike.

Top track: Shake It Out KEVIN RITCHIE

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Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Domino) Rating: NNNN Considering Anthony Gonzalez’s tendency toward oversized melodrama and unfiltered ambition, it’s not a shock to see his M83 release a double album. More surprising is that it’s taken this long.

With a band this reliant on big, synthy climaxes, there’s a danger that the album could turn into 80 minutes of nothing but crescendos. There is plenty of that, but Gonzalez also proves adept at pa-

cing, surrounding M83’s bigger, more anthemic moments with ambient instrumental interludes and balladic “comedown” tracks.

That leaves room for a few go-nowhere experiments like the twee child-narrated Raconte-Moi Une Histoire, but it also means that when the highs do hit, they hit hard. It’s a shame that the biggest moment – the epic one-two punch of Midnight City and Reunion – peaks so early.

Top track: Midnight City M83 play Lee’s Palace on November 18.

RICHARD TRAPUNSKI es of synths slowly dropping off in favour of dual fingerpicked guitars. The title track is a blip-bloopy electronic instrumental (!), while Up On The North Shore veers back into more familiar territory. The highlight, though, is the expansive, adventurous 10-minute opus Inn Keeping.

Top track: Inn Keeping The Sea and Cake play Lee’s Palace on Saturday (November 5).

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The Moonlight Butterfly (Thrill Jockey) Rating: The Sea and Cake’s The Moonlight Butterfly opens with Covers, a song so exactly Sea and Cake that you immediately assume you’re in for the same old, same old with their ninth album. That same old, same old – John McEntire’s hypnotic, rocksteady drumming, Sam Prekop’s breathy, charming vocal delivery, Archer Prewitt’s clean, jazzy guitar chords – offers the comfortable familiarity of an old flannel shirt from the 90s but leaves you wondering if time has stood still for the Chicago post-rock quartet.

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Lyric finds the band getting far dreamier, with vocals and subtle wash-

Awake, You Sleepers! (File Under: Music) Rating: NNN Every song by Will Currie & the Country French sounds maddeningly familiar, but this isn’t a complaint. Rather than paying tribute to one particular part of classic pop, they combine small elements from across the retro spectrum into one instantly recognizable sound. The upbeat pianos and vocals bring to mind the theme song of an imaginary 70s sitcom (and somehow make this seem like a good thing), while the guitar heroics have more in common with Queen, and the songwriting owes as much to Billy Joel as it does to the Beatles.

If those references seem a bit cornball, you’re not completely wrong, but Currie and company somehow make it work most of the time. They still need to learn how to dial back the cheese – too often 10/29/11 2:20 the lyrics fall on AM the wrong side of cute, and the band could use a few rough edges

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Species (Universal) Rating: NN Vancouver alt-rocker Matthew Good returned to long-time producer Warne Livesey for his ninth full-length (fifth postsolo career). It’s an orchestral affair complete with viola, bassoon, cor anglais and horns, and Good has said that the two discussed making a project like it years ago while mixing 1997’s Underdogs.

Parts of it sound lifted from a gothic rock opera, with quieter piano pop interludes in between. And the lyrical themes – apocalypse, war, the music industry – aren’t as immediate as on Good’s Vancouver or Hospital Music.

It’s cerebral rock, without the roll that makes you move. Only Zero Orchestra might make you dance. Good’s vocals are overwrought, and the lead guitar parts meander more than inspire. It’s an ambitious project that fails to deliver.

Top track: How It Goes Matthew Good plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre Thursday and Friday (November 3 and 4).

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Rating: N Lulu is the confounding collaboration between Lou Reed, once an innovative and progressive musician who expanded the parameters of rock music, and Metallica, once an innovative and progressive band that expanded the parameters of heavy metal.

Over the years, both have made albums that fall far short of their best work and have been criticized for being pompous about their art. However, Lulu sinks to almost unimaginable lows. Reed, trying to be provocative with lyrics about “the taste of your vulva” and biting off nipples, comes off like a teenager trying to shock his elders. Not very dignified for a man pushing 70.

As for Metallica, their riffing rarely comes close to accompanying Reed. Only final song Junior Dad sounds like the two actually worked together to make something nuanced and dynamic. But after an hour and a half of aural bludgeoning, it’s too little too late.

Top track: Junior Dad JOANNE HUFFA

It’s been six years since MED (aka Medaphoar) released a full-length, and his latest doesn’t disappoint. In hip-hop “classic” signifies you’ve arrived; you haven’t made it until you’ve dropped one. But here it’s less about wishful thinking than it is about timelessness. In that comforting sense, Classic comes through.

Stones Throw’s familial infrastructure means some of hip-hop’s best production talent – Oh No, Aloe Blacc, Karriem Riggins and, of course, Madlib, who backtracks 10 of the 14 songs – is on hand to wield dizzying samples, menacing bass and enveloping ambience. Alchemist’s contribution, War & Love, is the kind of insanely theatrical stuff the producer probably composes in his sleep.

There are some exciting moments, too: Georgia Anne Muldrow, a female producer (still a hip-hop rarity), nabs the opening spot with Int’l, while Odd Future’s Hodgy Beats throwing his pipsqueak flow on Outta Control is a fuzzy, torch-passing elder co-sign move. The only problem is that MED, a perfectly adequate rapper lacking a unique voice or cadence, ends up outshone.

Top track: Outta Control, featuring Hodgy Beats ANUPA MISTRY

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Rating: NNNN On their debut EP, Powers keep the anthemic hooks that their old band, the Ghost Is Dancing, were known for but add walls of synths and programmed beats.

The result is a more shoegazey sound that’s sure to connect with rock-leaning fans of electronic music. Rewarding the listener’s patience, Powers take time to build sweeping, grandiose whirls of keys and guitars, often holding out for a minute or more before introducing a gorgeous linchpin hook.

Opener Last Year briefly captures the icy doom of SALEM but then drifts into much more upbeat territory. A lush, pulsating synth hook and Jesus and Mary Chain vocals anchor Second Summer, while an infectious guitar part caps Sleeping Patterns. On epic closer Tom Thomson, singer Jamie Matechuk’s distant-sounding, singalong vocals curl into a supercatchy stadium-sized chorus.

Top track: Tom Thomson Powers play an EP release Friday (November 4) at Parts and Labour.

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FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE Ceremonials (Universal) Rating: NNN Ceremonials is the musically cohesive follow-up to Florence and the Machine’s breakout but uneven 2009 debut, Lungs, which established Florence Welch as a stylish, ambitious songwriter with a powerhouse voice and a penchant for visceral metaphors.

Working solely with A-list producer Paul Epworth, Welch expands on the debut’s blustery moments with unapologetically huge-sounding production that channels the wild, communal energy of her go-for-broke live shows. Church bells, triumphant piano chords, epic builds and multi-track harmonies on opener Only If For A Night establish her reverent formula, while intoxicating single Shake It Out kicks the gospel rave into overdrive – Welch’s voice swells, swoops and crashes

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Unlike many of his peers, he resists the temptation of the frat-boy-friendly brostep route to concentrate on bringing R&B, hip-hop and grime tendencies to the foreground. Unfortunately, subtlety gets lost in the process, and only about half the guest vocalist are actually effective. Joker’s knack for writing catchy melodies remains intact, though, and despite his attempts at pop politeness, the bass drops still demand to be heard on a punishingly loud club system.

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interviews with MACKENZIE KING’S JACOB JAMES and LOVE LIVE BLEEDING’S JEAN GRAND-MAITRE • Scenes on DITCH, STANDING ON CEREMONY and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings Jacob James is Bennett, Hitler and more in The Life And Times Of Mackenzie King.

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James’s choice Jacob James welcomes multiple roles By JON KAPLAN THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MACKENZIE KING written and directed by Michael Hollingsworth, with Paul Braunstein, Greg Campbell, Richard Alan Campbell, Mac Fyfe, Jacob James and Linda Prystawska (VideoCabaret). At the Cameron House (408 Queen West). Previews through Wednesday (November 9), opens November 10 for a limited run, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. $20-$40.

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and Richard Greenblatt (Mirvish). At the Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). To November 20, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, mats Saturday-Sunday and Wednesday 2 pm. $39-$74. 416-872-1212. See Continuing, page 73. Rating: NNNN

It might not be the coolest show in town, but Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s cozy, clever 2P4H still has the quality that endeared it to audiences 15 years ago: a low-key, self-deprecating passion for music,

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Mackenzie King, he adds another theatre icon to his list of mentors: Michael Hollingsworth.

The newbie in the company, who’s going on with the current cast to perform VideoCabaret’s The War Of 1812 at Stratford next summer, James plays about 15 characters in Hollingsworth’s rich and funny series based on Canadian history. He takes on a number of average guys as well as R.B. Bennett, King’s political rival in the 1920s and 30s.

“At the National Theatre School, I was the one who did five roles in a show,” he recalls with a smile, “so I’m well prepared for this. Last summer I did Billy Bishop Goes To War, which had me playing about 20 characters.”

Canadian prime minister several performance and, incidentally, their loyal audiences.

The premise is unabashedly middle-class: two pianists in tails sit at facing pianos, playing scales and goading each other to increasingly impressive keyboard feats. Suddenly they’re children, learning the fundamentals from their respective putupon instructors. Dykstra and Greenblatt trade off playing parents, teachers and groggy Kiwanis organizers, intercut with medleys, scales and classical songs. They make it look effortless, but like Mozart’s Sonata Facile, just because it looks easy doesn’t mean it is.

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times between World Wars I and II, Mackenzie King is perhaps best known for his attraction to the occult; he conversed, through mediums, with his dead mother.

The playwright ups the humour, though, with outrageous, cartoony characters who appear in dozens of short scenes that involve both political bigwigs and the little people whose lives they influence.

“After all the classical theatre I’ve done,” says James, a teaching artist in schools as well as a performer, “this is the kind of challenging work that helps me grow as an actor.”

His two main roles are Vince, a soldier returning from the war, and the pompous Bennett.

“Vince is the best friend of Joe, an everyman character whose story he helps tell. Vince returns to Canada war-crazy and with a short fuse; he’s quick to jump into a fight, especially when he realizes the poverty and rejection that veterans face.

“Bennett’s another kind of character, a man who built himself up from a modest background and carried that attitude of hard work into his political philosophy. His war cry was raising tariffs to create jobs; he wanted people to do their best, as he had, or face the consequences.”

Designer Astrid Janson’s costume makes the power-hungry politician a poster boy for gluttony. It’s tricky, admits James, getting into the Bennett costume, complete with huge belly and receding-hairline wig.

But James goes one step further into evil later, playing Hitler, a leader whom Mackenzie King admired.

“It’s amazing what can happen in one brief scene. These two guys suss each other out and talk positively about the new ‘recreation camps’ that Hitler is thinking about. It’s like they knew each other in another life.”

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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THE DARK ROOM by SR Krieger (Socratic Theatre Collective). Eight tales of ghosts and spirits from ancient Greece to modern times are presented. Opens Nov 3 and runs to Nov 13, Tue-Fri 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10, Tue-Wed pwyc. Unit 102 Studio, 376 Dufferin. socratictheatre.com.

DECEIVED by Motti Lerner (TEATRON Theatre).

An American Jew is caught transferring information to Israel in this drama based on the Jonathan Pollard story. Previews Nov 9 at 1 pm. Opens Nov 9 (eve) and runs to Nov 20, Tue-Thu and Sat (and Nov 13) 8 pm, mats Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs $26-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre.

416-733-0545, teatrontheatre.com.

DITCH by Geoff Kavanagh (Sometimes Y Theatre). Two shipmates on an 1845 Arctic expedition must confront their mortality after their ship is trapped in ice. Opens Nov 3 and runs to Nov 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $10-$20, Sun pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-5047529, sometimesytheatre.com.

DON’T DROP THE SOAP! by Brian Bird (Bird Entertainment). The cast of a soap opera struggles with a crazy producer and threats of cancellation. Nov 4-5 at 8 pm. $20. Gallery 918, 918 Bathurst, Great Hall. birdent.com.

LITTLE PEA’S REVOLUTION by Laura Quigley (Little Revolutions). A 12-year-old girl hides from adulthood and from learning about her political, sexual and racial identity. Nov 4-5 at 8

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ment of two young artists, the slightly prolonged second marks the chromatic breaking down of childhood expectations – the finding of discipline when it’s just a little too late.

Dykstra and Greenblatt may not have become the concert pianists they hoped to be, but 2P4H is, in some small way, a combination fuck you/thank you to the people who told the two boys they didn’t have what it takes.

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pm. $15. Hub 14, 14 Markham. 416-268-3897.

LITTLE WOMEN adapted by Emma Reeves from the novel by Louisa May Alcott (George Brown College Theatre School). The March sisters grow up in genteel poverty against the backdrop of the American Civil War. Opens Nov 9 and runs to Nov 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Nov 12, 16 at 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12, stu $7.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill.

416-866-8666.

LIVE FROM THE CENTRE (Chris Earle/Brian Smith). The improvised web series about a progressive office co-op gets a live staging.

Nov 4-5 at 8:30 pm. $10. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst, Studio 720. improvisationnation.ca/the-centre.

MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). Ambition leads to bloody murder in the classic tragedy. Opens Nov 9 and runs to Nov 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 26 at 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca.

MADAMA BUTTERFLY by Giacomo Puccini (Opera York). A geisha marries an American naval officer in this tragic opera. Nov 3-5, Thu and Sat 8 pm. $40-$50, stu $25. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge.

905-787-8811, operayork.com.

THE PROVOK’D WIFE by John Vanbrugh (Theatre @ York). A woman trapped in a bad marriage ponders her choices in this adaptation of the English Restoration play. Previews Nov 6-7. Opens Nov 8 and runs to Nov 12, nightly at 7:30 pm, mats Wed and Fri 1 pm. $17, stu/ srs $12, previews $5. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/perform.

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 Tue-Wed nights and Sat-Sun mats (see website for details). $20-$45. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

THE SECRET LIFE OF A SCHOOLMISTRESS by Adrianna Prosser (Historic Zion Schoolhouse).

A schoolmistress who is about to retire tells stories of her life and work in an early 20thcentury one-room schoolhouse. Nov 4-5 at 7:30 pm. $22 (must reserve). 1091 Finch E. 416-395-7435, zionschool@toronto.ca.

SHINING CITY by Conor McPherson (Toronto Irish Players). A Dublin therapist counsels a widower haunted by the ghost of his wife.

Opens Nov 3 and runs to Nov 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu-srs $18, opening gala $50, Nov 10 $10. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. 416-440-2888, torontoirishplayers.org.

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a security-obsessed mayor and a talent agency. Opens Nov 9 and runs to Nov 13, WedSun 8 pm. $20. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble, Scotiabank Theatre. brownpapertickets.com.

THE TEST by Lukas Bärfuss (The Company Theatre). A man seeks scientific proof of his son’s paternity in this dark comedy. 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. 416-368-3110, companytheatre.ca.

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Previewing THE CHILDREN’S REPUBLIC by Hannah (Harold Green Jewish TheñMoscovitch atre Company). A champion of children’s

rights and a boy face a looming catastrophe in

WWII-era Poland. Previews Nov 8-15. Opens Nov 16 and runs to Dec 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $38-$47, srs $33-$45, stu/ previews $20-$24. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, hgjewishtheatre.com.

IMPRINTS by Michael Spence (Theatre Gargantua). An ailing woman is haunted by the ghosts of her ancestors while undergoing an experimental treatment. Previews Nov 9-10, Wed 6:30 and 9:30 pm, Thu 8 pm. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat (and Nov 15) 8 pm, Nov 13 at 2:30 pm. $20-$25, previews $17. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, theatregargantua.ca.

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 (see story, page 69). Previews to Nov 9. Opens Nov 10 and runs to Nov 27, Tue-Sat 8

pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$40. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-1725, videocab.com.

THE REZ SISTERS by Tomson Highway (Factory Theatre). Women on a reservation plan a trip to Toronto to attend a huge bingo tournament. Previews Nov 5-9. Opens Nov 10 and runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$55. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca.

SEUSSICAL by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Young People’s Theatre). This all-ages musical is based on the classic Dr. Seuss books.

Previews Nov 7-9. Opens Nov 10 and runs to Dec 30, Sat-Sun 2 pm, see website for other dates and times. $15-$20. 165 Front E. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

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Elton John calling Jean Grande-Maître couldn’t refuse pop star’s Love Lies Bleeding By JORDAN BIMM LOVE LIES BLEEDING choreographed by Jean Grand-Maître (Alberta Ballet). At the Sony Centre (1 Front East). Opens Tuesday (November 8) and runs to November 12, Tuesday-Thursday 7:30 pm, Friday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Saturday 3 pm. $30-$190.

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when sir elton john calls, you answer the phone.

“At first I thought it was a joke,” laughs Jean Grand-Maître, the artistic director of Alberta Ballet, about the 2008 phone call that gave rise to Love Lies Bleeding, his contemporary ballet based on the iconic pop star’s life.

The voice on the other end told him John was in town performing and would like to meet him before his sold-out show at Calgary’s Saddledome.

As it turned out, the pop singer had heard about Grand-Maître’s previous project, a ballet about Joni Mitchell (Joni Mitchell’s The Fiddle & The Drum), and being a big fan of both ballet and Mitchell’s work, wanted a copy of the show on DVD. “That says a lot about the man,” gushes the quick-talking Grand-

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The Alberta Ballet steps into Elton John’s Bennie And The Jets in Love Lies Bleeding.

Maître, “that he would come to Calgary and want to meet the local ballet company.”

Sensing an opportunity, or perhaps just taking a hint, Grand-Maître wrote to John a few months later about creating a ballet based on his life and music. The response was nearly immediate, and the next thing GrandMaître knew, he was on a flight to Vegas for an afternoon brainstorming session with the man himself.

“What’s special about these pop ballets is that they’re collaborations.

The artists let us into their world in a very private way so we can understand their music. As soon as I sat down in Vegas, Elton wanted to know exactly what my vision was. It was probably the most important pitch of my life.”

John was so impressed that he withdrew the rights to his songs from an American ballet company and awarded them to Grand-Maître instead.

“He thought we had the balls to do it! He wanted a company that could be provocative, and not afraid of darker themes. He wanted us to use his life story to educate people about drug addiction, HIV/AIDS and homosexual repression. He wanted a lot of homosexual erotica – ‘Don’t avoid it,’ he said. ‘This is me, this is my life, this is my music – let’s represent it truthfully.’”

For the choreographer GrandMaître, the collaboration has opened up exciting new possibilities within a traditionally conservative art form.

“I became a ballet dancer, but growing up, my dream was to be on Broadway singing and tap dancing my way up a staircase. So this is my dream come true. I created something a little bit Vegas and a little bit Broadway, with some Bob Fosse in there, too.

There’s hip-hop and surrealistic imagery. I knew I had to be more jazzy, more honky-tonk, more eclectic, because Elton John is everything but the kitchen sink.”

The ballet uses 14 John hits to tell the story of an avid fan who, in a Being John Malkovich-like twist, becomes an avatar for the singer and is forced to recapitulate the triumphs and tragedies that come with pop stardom.

“Pop stars like John, they’ve done it all. They’ve sung at the Oscars, they’ve won Oscars, they’ve sold a gazillion records. They don’t need more profile, more branding or more money. For them, it’s about trying something new, something unheard-of. They want to experiment.”

Grand-Maître hopes to continue creating these pop-ballet portraits of contemporary music icons, and admits he has Leonard Cohen and k.d. lang in his sights. “My dream,” he says, “would be to work with Peter Gabriel one day.”

Well, with the Rocketman already under his belt, the sky really is the limit.

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vitch talks about the upcoming production of her play. Nov 7 at 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7011.

Dia De Los Muertos FestivaL oF the arts (Dia De Los Muertos Festival/TheOriginalFace.ca).

This showcase for local artists features a vaudeville cabaret with musicians, burlesque and circus performers. Nov 5, craft fair 11 am-6 pm (free), cabaret at 8 pm. $15-$20.

Revival, 783 College. DiaDeLosMuertos2011. eventbrite.com. hanseL anD GreteL by Engelbert Humperdinck (Canadian Opera Company). Young artists of the COC present a retelling of the classic fairy tale. Nov 5 at 11 am and 2 pm. $20, srs $15, child $10. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. henri FaberGé’s heLiGoLanD FoLLies (Stages).

This monthly six-part performance series features music, comedy, film and narrative theatre about an 1820s community trying to reach a utopian ideal. Nov 3 at 9 pm. Free.

Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Arbor Room. harthouse.utoronto.ca/arts/stages/henri. i, CLauDia by Kristen Thomson (Crow’s Theatre). A 12-year-old girl deals with growing pains and her parents’ divorce in this solo show. Nov 4 at 8 pm. $39-$44. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. the MiLes Davis experienCe: 1949-1959 (CAMI Music/Miles Davis Properties, LLC/Blue Note Records). Beat-poet narrator Donald Lacy and the Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet perform a tribute show to the iconic jazz musician. Nov 4 at 8 pm. $40-$75. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. livingartscentre.ca. paDre x by Marc Moir (Looking Glass Productions). Moir’s solo play about a Canadian chaplain’s loyalty and heroism during WWII is performed as part of the Remembrance Day service. Nov 6 at 10:30 am. Free. Forest Grove United Church, 43 Forest Grove. 416-222-2781. private pain in pubLiC pews adapted from the book by Elaine A Brown Spencer (Music Hall). A minister struggles to maintain his image when an old flame shows up. Nov 5 at 7:30 pm. $35. Lester B. Pearson Theatre, 150 Central Park, Brampton. ticketgateway. com. sara’s Cave by Donald Molnar (Medina Theatre Ensemble). Two Jewish women hide in the

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by Adam Seelig (One Little Goat). At the Walmer Centre Theatre (188 Lowther). To November 13. 416-915-0201. See Continuing, page 73. Rating: nn Normally solid writer and director Adam Seelig stumbles in this play based on Pirandello’s 1920 comedy Come Prima, Meglio Di Prima, offering up little more than a few bedroom spats and a boring trudge through the old mistaken-identity trope.

Unfolding in what seems like slow motion, the sluggish action revolves around Fulvia (Cathy Murphy), who

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Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

Buzz (Theatre Passe Muraille). Projects in development are presented for audience input.

Runs to Nov 5, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. By donation.

16 Ryerson. passemuraille.on.ca. 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, Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $35.50-$65.50. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewishtheatre.com.

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by Yasmina Reza (Théâtre français de ñ Toronto). Two couples trying to sort out the

fight between their young sons descend into childishness themselves in this funny if overlong French play, sometimes performed with English surtitles. An excellent cast highlights the work’s dark comedy. Runs to Nov 5, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $33-$48, stu/srs $28-$41. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com. nnnn (JK)

doc WutherGLooM’S haunted Medicine ShoW by Eric Woolfe (Eldritch Theatre).

Woolfe’s zombified carnival performer recounts his eventful life, which includes murder and mayhem. The narrative feels slack at times, and it’s never clear why the Doc’s putting on the show in this secret location, but the production is colourful and is enhanced

Characters played

by Dov Mickelson and Cathy Murphy generate little interest in Like The First Time.

abandons her family and becomes a prostitute. To save face, her husband, Silvio (Andrew Moodie), tells their

by Woolfe’s imaginative puppets and impressive magic tricks involving audience members. Runs to Nov 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$35. Secret Venue, location revealed with purchase. eldritchtheatre.ca. nnn (GS) don Giovanni by WA Mozart (Opera Atelier).

Stefano Montanari conducts the Tafelmusik Orchestra in the comic opera about the incorrigible playboy. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Nov 5, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm. $35-$175. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855622-2787, operaatelier.com.

FeLa! by Bill T Jones, Jim Lewis and Stephen Hendell (Shawn ‘Jay-Z’ Carter, Will & Jada Pinkett Smith/Mirvish). This musical looks at the life of Nigerian Afrobeat musician and civil rights activist Fela Kuti. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Nov 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) 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. Runs to Nov 19, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $15. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. theredlightdistrict.ca.

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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,

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ment). This musical comedy looks at the quest for love through social networking sites, blogging and texting. Runs to Nov 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28-$29.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. encoreshows.com.

MURDER AT TWILIGHT by Brian Caws and Barb Scheffler (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Modern-day vampires, old-school monsters and humans try to coexist in this murder mystery. Runs to Dec 23, Fri-Sat 6:30 pm (see website for other dates). $79-$85. 2026 Yonge.

416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

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MY MOTHER’S ITALIAN, MY FATHER’S JEWISH & I’M IN THERAPY by Steve Solomon (Philip

ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Steve Levine,

Roger Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin). Solomon performs his solo show about growing 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.

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 Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$35. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, 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, 55 Mill.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (JK) 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt (Mirvish). Two boys struggle with lessons, parents and stage fright while dreaming of becoming piano stars (see review, page 69). 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. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) 3

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Thursday, November 3 Julie Kim, Faisal Butt and host Nick Carter.

To Nov 6, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge.

416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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

647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) Second City presents its ñ 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. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. NNNN (GS) GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents players from the longform program. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-3407270.

STONER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca.

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

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

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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ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 3.

ARAB WOMEN GO WILD Canadians for Jus-

tice and Peace in the Middle East present a dinner and comedy fundraiser featuring Maysoon Sayid and El-Husseini. 6:30 pm. $100. Capitol Banquet Centre, 6435 Dixie, Mississauga. cjpme.org.

COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ the Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

DARCY MICHAEL The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Vancouver’s gay stoner dad in a live show. To Nov 5, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com.

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DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 3.

THE FULL BAWDY COMEDY SHOW Underground Comedy Club presents Shelley Marshall, Phil Luzi, Sandra Battaglini, Precious Chong, Ginger St James, Evelyn Reese, Candace Lovett and others. Doors 8 pm. $12.

670 Queen E. 416-732-7761, fullbawdycomedy.com.

ic with guest Darryl Purvis. 8 pm. $29.50.

6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. 905-6154720, mtix.ca.

Ivimey, Cal Post, Allyson June Smith, Sandra Battaglini and host John Hastings. 7 pm. $10. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 3.

MOM-ICS Comedy Bar presents stand-up w/

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 3.

LAUNCHPAD COMEDY White Swan presents a

David Tsonos, Zabrina Chevannes, Victoria Stewart, Shelley Kidwell and host Rose Giles.

8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 8 pm. Pwyc.

Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

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Troupe of Seven presents a sketch comedy show about relationships, politics, family, pop culture and more. 8 pm. $12. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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 3.

YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 3.

Sunday, November 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 3.

THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents

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

CABBAGETOWN COMEDY CABARET The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Robert Keller, Gavin Kingshott, Rob Bebenek, Andrew

weekly open mic w/ host Earl the Sqrl. 10 pm. Free. 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

LIL ANGELO TSAROUCHAS’ BIG CANADA SHOW Mirvish presents the comic in a ñ live show. 8 pm. $44. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

THE SEEDLINGS present SlowGrow, improv

created one line at a time, w/ Peter Madore, Leesa Gaspari, Jimi Shlag, Amie Vu, Tom Vest and others. 7 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 3.

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O’Grady’s presents Paul Hutcheson, Shawn Hitchins, Lianne Mauladin, Zabrina Chevannes, Becky Bays, Diana Love, Jillian Thomas and host Candice Gregoris. 8:30 pm.

Pwyc. 518 Church. 416-323-2822.

JUST FOR LAUGHS COMEDY TOUR Just For Laughs presents the first ever British-edition lineup w/ Abandoman & Rob Broderick, Matt Kirshen, Hal Cruttenden, Terry Alderton, Sean Meo and host Steve Patterson. 7:30 pm. $35.50-$52.50. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, ticketmaster.ca.

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

Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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THE ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY MADE UP SHOW Second City presents inter-

active, family-friendly improv and sketch. 1 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

COMEDY LOUNGE Lambadina presents Matt O’Brien. 8:30 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca.

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guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-8157562.

CREAM OF COMEDY The Tim Sims Encouragement Fund presents Tim Sims Award nominees British Teeth, DJ Demers, Fratwurst, Kirk Jorgenson and Mark Edwards, plus host Ryan Belleville. 8 pm. $15.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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benefit show for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. To Nov 8, from Mon 6 pm to Tue 6 pm. $5 come-and-go wristband. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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

LAUGH YOUR NADS OFF Blair Streeter presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents Eric Andrews, Bryan O’Gorman, Calvin Storoschuck, Jo-Anna Downey, Alex Pavone, Barry Taylor and hosts Nick Flanagan and Steph Tolev. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents an interactive improv show. 9 pm.

Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, November 8 A DARE TO REMEMBER: PAT THORNTON’S 24HOUR STAND-UP SHOW See Mon 7.

IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. To Nov 29, 8 pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com.

SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE presents The Headliner Series w/ Plum Thunder, Fratwurst, Parker & Seville, Newsdesk, MC Andrew Ivimey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Nick Flanagan, Brian Hyle, Linda Ellis, Tom Mes, Candice Gregoris, Ted Morris and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm.

Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

STELLA AND ME: A COMEDY SHOW Jordan Foisy and Stephen Patrick Adams present Joel Buxton, Deisiree Lavoy-Dorsch, Natasha Henderson, Todd Graham, John Hastings, Jamie O’Connor and others. 9:30 pm. Pwyc.

Stella Cafe, 1261 Bloor W. 416-655-7142.

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EDY BAR presents Humber College School of Comedy, Touch My Stereotype and the Hooligans. 7 pm. The Regulars, Beautiful Losers and a Classy Affair. 10 pm. $15-$20, 4-show

pass $40. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 647505-1050, torontosketchfest.com.

TORONTO SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL @ LOT

presents Asiansploitation, Shark Jump and Good Game. 8 pm. Troupe of Seven, the Templeton Philharmonic and Ladystache. 10 pm. $15-$20, 4-show pass $40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 647-5051050, torontosketchfest.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, November 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Perry Perlmutar, Akshay ñ Sharma, Danne Freedman, Erik Bamberg,

Jackie Nicholson, Keven Soldo and host Matt Davis. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS Comedy Bar presents weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

CORKTOWN COMEDY Betty’s presents an open mic w/ Andrew Young, Kamran Hesari, Rose Giles, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 3.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-

mic stand-up w/ Jarrett Campbell and host Michelle Mohan. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

THE SPECIALS IN 9/11/11 The Specials presents sketch comedy about a security-obsessed mayor threatening the existence of a talent agency. To Nov 13, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $20. Scotiabank Studio Theatre, 6 Noble. brownpapertickets.com.

SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Hunter Collins, Lianne Mauladin, Sarah Carver, Shelley Marshall, Andre Arruda, Anna Gustafson, Alex de Witt, Cal Post, Rene Robichaud and host Jo-Anna Downey.

9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church.

416-967-0001.

STUDENTS ROCK THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents improv by Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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TORONTO SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL @ COMEDY BAR presents Tony Ho, the Really Good

Show, British Teeth. 7 pm. Sketch Wars. 9 pm. Showgame. 11:59 pm (free). $15-$20, 4-show pass $40. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 647-505-1050, torontosketchfest.com.

TORONTO SKETCH COMEDY FESTIVAL @ LOT

presents Shoeless, She Said What and National Theatre of the World. 8 pm. Queer Comedy Collective, Punch in the Box and Haircut. 10 pm. $15-$20, 4-show pass $40.

Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington.

647-505-1050, torontosketchfest.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Alan Park. To Nov 13, Wed-Sun 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents a contemporary take on classical Indian dance by Nova Bhattacharya. Nov 3 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

FLUENCY Harbourfront NextSteps, DanceWorks and Tribal Crackling Wind present a fusion of video, interviews and dance that explores choreographer Peter Chin’s attempt to integrate into the culture of Nicaragua. Nov 3-5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $28$33.50, stu/srs $19-$22.50. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

LIMINAL MOMENTS York MFA Dance Program presents original autobiographical dance solos

by Nancy Greyeyes, Ilse Gudiño and Shannon Roberts. Nov 3-5, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. York University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888.

LOVE LIES BLEEDING David Mirvish, Corey Ross and the Alberta Ballet present a contemporary ballet by Jean Grand-Maître based on the life and music of Sir Elton John and Bernie Taupin (see story, page 70). Opens Nov 8 and runs to Nov 12, Tue-Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3 pm. $33-$178. Sony

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TIBETAN HEALING AND PEACE DANCES Drigung Kagyu presents sacred dances performed by monks to benefit the monastery and various Toronto animal charities. Nov 4 at 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $15. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-789-2911, drigung.com.

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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 by Linnea Swan and Gerry Trentham, and two performed virtually via live feed from Buffalo. Runs to Nov 5, Thu-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. Runs to Nov 5, Thu-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.

Runs to Nov 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $26, stu/srs $20.

Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester.

416-967-1365, tdt.org.

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This is ThaT (PaT Kelly and PeTer Oldring) Headliners, Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival

Comedy lovers know Pat Kelly and Peter Oldring for their improv chops and work at Second City. Since their breakthrough CBC radio hit This Is That, however, they’ve reached a national audience, delivering – in that deadpan “CBC voice” – fake stories about everything from Quebec lowering its legal drinking age to 14 to Nova Scotia planning to cancel Grade 4. Now they’re headlining two shows during the Toronto Sketch Comedy Fest’s final weekend at the Lower Ossington Theatre. See torontosketchfest.com and this week’s listings for the rest of the fest, which begins Tuesday (November 8).

You guys are now based in Vancouver. How does it compare to Toronto?

The only major difference between the two cities is pretty much everything.

You’re performing two shows on

November 12. How else are you going to spend your time at the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival?

We’d definitely like to go to the Toronto Sketch Comedy Museum, the Sketch Comedy Hall of Fame and up the Toronto Sketch Comedy Tower.

named Bob Flord and get him to say all the stuff we assume Rob Ford would say.

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Will you be visiting the Occupy Toronto site?

Nah. We visited it on a Grade 7 field trip.

Ever have a story you thought would be too outrageous to air?

Yes. About 80 per cent of the stories that make it to air.

Long gun registry: thoughts?

It’s not the size of gun that counts... it’s how you use it.

This Hour Has 22 Minutes recently had a tough time interviewing Toronto’s Mayor Rob Ford, and he phoned 911. How would you get that interview?

We would likely make up a character

Daylight Savings is coming up. How will you spend that “extra” hour?

Phoning all the people we have emotionally wronged in life and finally beginning the healing process. Either that or watch some golf on TV. GLENN SUMI

This Is That’s Peter Oldring (left) and Pat Kelly perform at the Sketch Comedy Fest.

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as shocking as it is that a literary western captured the imagination of all three of Canada’s major juries – Patrick deWitt took the Writers Trust fiction prize last Tuesday – there’s a reason why The Sisters Brothers pulled it off.

For one thing, it establishes a tremendously strong mood. More importantly, it creates its own moral, or rather, amoral, universe. The West is absolutely lawless, but Eli and Charlie Sisters know how to thrive there.

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Hired hit men working for the mysterious Commodore, they’re heading from Oregon to California to knock off the prospector Warm, who has a formula for mining gold that the Commodore wants.

A lusty, liquor-loving womanizer, Charlie is also a cold-blooded killer who gets away with taking down anyone who gets in his way or doesn’t do what he wants. Say no to Charlie – about the most trivial thing – and you’re dead.

Eli, through whose eyes the story is told, fantasizes about changing his

Ron MacLean is best known as the host of Hockey Night In Canada – and as the man who copes with Don Cherry during the broadcast – but his resumé also includes stints as a weather forecaster, hockey ref and journalist covering the Olympics. He talks about it all in his autobiography, Cornered ($34, HarperCollins), in which he doesn’t shy away from getting personal. MacLean writes candidly about his family life, his very public salary disputes with the CBC and more. He discusses the book with journalist Damien Cox tonight (Thursday, November 3) at the Reference Library. See Readings, this page. SGC profession while they’re on the road, and even makes a few clumsy attempts at developing relationships

with women, usually hardened hookers who use him badly. Basically, however, he’s trying to find his own moral compass – not easy given his dependence on his brother.

DeWitt delivers all of this in a still prose style that’s at once exhilarating and absolutely deadpan. Sounds improbable, but that’s its genius.

Ultimately, this reinvention of the genre – there are no heroes here – is a meditation on the meaning of family connection, which is why the ending, surprising as it is, makes so much sense.

We find out if deWitt walks away with the Giller Prize on SUSAN G. COLE Tuesday (November 8).

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Thursday, November 3 JOHN GIORNO/GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE/

SACHIKO MURAKAMI Evening of poetry, prose and conversation. 7 pm. Free. Hart House Music Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-5362.

KEVIN CHONG/HAL NIEDZVIEKI/KATHRYN MOCKLER Launch and reading. 6 pm. Free.

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

JASON SIMON Dead

LAURA LUSH/ARIEL GORDON Poetry launch.

Meadow’s Jason Simon plays pared down spacey jams at Sonic Boom. 3:03

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Twin sister band play a cut off their spooky collaboration with Timber Timbre in at the Great Hall. 6:05 SKRILLEX The former NOW cover guy comes back into town. Look in the background for Crystal Castles as the dubstep/”brostep” party DJ dives into the crowd at the Hoxton. 2:54 BESNARD LAKES Watch the husband-and-wife Montreal space-rock band play a song at Sonic Boom. 4:36 D.O.A. Watch Joey “Shithead” Keithley talk a little about his legendary punk band D.O.A. and play a solo show at Sonic Boom. 5:37 JANE’S PARTY See a video of

the T.O. indie pop band celebrating a new EP with a show at the Horseshoe. 3:28 FAST ROMANTICS

The Fast Romantics, an energetic pop band from Calgary, stopped by the Horseshoe for a quick show. 2:55 JIM CUDDY See the Blue Rodeo frontman play a tune from his new album at the Drake Hotel for NOW Talks, our interview series. 7:41

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Chef Matt Blondin AcAdiA 50C Clinton St., Toronto acadiarestaurant.com

Chef John horne cAnoe RestAuRAnt 66 Wellington St. W., Toronto oliverbonacini.com

Chef Carl heinriCh MARben RestAuRAnt 488 Wellington St. W., Toronto marbenrestaurant.com

Matt embraces the flavours and techniques of Acadian and Lowcountry cuisine to create his take on regional southern cooking.

John leads the celebrated kitchen at Canoe, representing the growing national culinary identity that Canadian fare has to offer.

Carl’s cuisine is inspired by quality ingredients and driven by classic and modern techniques. He makes uncomplicated food and keeps the flavours pure.

chRis nuttAll-sMith food Writer & restaur ant ColuMnist, toronto life lucy WAveRMAn Writer, gloBe & Mail

Chef franCisCo aleJandri AgAve y AguAcAte 214 Augusta Ave., Toronto agaveyaguacate.blogspot.com

Chef anthony rose the dRAke hotel 1150 Queen St. W., Toronto thedrakehotel.ca

Pastry Chef Colen Quinn PAngAeA RestAuRAnt 1221 Bay St. Toronto pangaearestaurant.com

Mexican cooking is in Francisco’s heart, soul and blood. As such, this passionate chef wants to change your opinion of Mexican cooking.

Anthony and his culinary team aspire to create nostalgic and eclectic menus while emphasizing homespun, farmto-table eating at the Drake.

As pastry chef, Colen’s goal is to use seasonal and regional ingredients to keep the Pangaea dessert menu fresh and satisfying all year long.

Chef Craig harding cAMPAgnolo 832 Dundas St. W., Toronto campagnolotoronto.com

Chef roCCo agostino enotecA sociAle 1288 Dundas St. W., Toronto sociale.ca

Craig is chef and owner of Campagnolo Rocco’s seasonally-inspired menu includes a daily house-made pasta restaurant where he puts a modern with inspiration from classic Roman spin on rustic Venetian cuisine. cuisine and local ingredients.

Chef daMon CleMents & Chef daniel usher oRtolAn 1211 Bloor W., Toronto littledrunkbird.com

Ortolan’s chalkboard menu changes daily, featuring rustic old-school fare with French and Italian influences.

Butterflies And Italy. 8 pm. Free. Vecchio Frak, 690 College. 416-516-3725.

Sunday, November 6 IAN ANGUS Launch for Too Many People?

Population, Immigration, And The Environmental Crisis. 3 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. 416-972-6391.

LITERARY DEATH MATCH Grace O’Connell, Dani Couture and others do battle. 7 pm. $10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Monday, November 7 AMANDA JERNIGAN Book launch. 6 pm. Free.

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

SANDRA JOYCE Launching The Street Arab – The Story Of A British Home Child. 7 pm. Free.

Murphy’s Law, 1702 Queen E. 416-690-5516.

WADE DAVIS The anthropologist talks about his book Into The Silence. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

Tuesday, November 8 DAVE BIDINI Meet the author of Writing Gordon Lightfoot. 7 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. 416-396-3975.

I JOAN DIDION Reading and interviewed by Margaret MacMillan. 7 pm. $18, stu free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. readings.org.

SORAYA MIRE Reading from The Girl With Three Legs. 6:30 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744.

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STAR TALKS: RON MacLEAN The HNIC host discusses his memoir, Cornered, with journalist Damien Cox. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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MICHAEL KAUFMAN Launching The Guy’s Guide To Feminism. 7 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416-366-8973.

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ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY re:encounter

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CIRCUIT GALLERY @ GALLERY 345 Sculpture: Robert Bean, reception 6-9 pm Nov 4, Nov 5-Dec 3. 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Painting: Toronto’s Modern Masters group show, to Nov 12. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

DEW LINE FESTIVAL Gallery installations and talks in honour of Marshall McLuhan, Nov 5-10. Various locations. mcluhan.ischool. utoronto.ca/dew-line-festival.

DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Sculpture: Corwyn Lund and Stéphane La Rue, to Nov 19.

100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.

DOWNSVIEW PARK About Face Collective/ Fresh City Farms: Greenhouse Gallery (benefit for Everything Roof project), Nov 5-6 ($10 sugg). 70 Canuck. aboutfaceollective.com.

GALLERY TPW Decisive Moments, Uncertain Times group show, to Nov 19. 56 Ossington.

416-645-1066.

GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Nowheresville group show, to Nov 12. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876.

GLADSTONE HOTEL SpeakEasy Comic Book Show, 7-11 pm Nov 3 (pwyc, $4 sugg, SpeakEasyTO.com). Kaleb Robertson and May Brand, Nov 3-4, reception 7-11 pm Nov 3. Sig-

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). 905-8965088.

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 UNIVERSITY 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.

BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Wearable Art Sale, 10 am-4 pm Nov 5. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-632-7796.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Capacity, to Nov 3 (free).

CANstruction (food can sculptures, benefit for Daily Bread Food Bank), Nov 8-11 (free, various locations in the TD Centre, 222 Bay).

Kissing Mooses pop-up shop, to Nov 13. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Creamware, to Dec 4. The Tsar’s Cabinet: 200 Years Of Russian Decorative Arts Under The Romanovs, 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. 416978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Inuit Traditions, to Nov 27. In Focus: Photographing The Alberta And Montana Frontier; Lomen Brothers, to Jan 8. Jack Chambers, to Jan 15.

Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 31. $15, stu/srs $12, free Oct 1-2. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

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

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Denyse Thomasos (Centennial Square, 120 Navy), Marla Hlady Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E), to Nov 13.

905-844-4402.

THE POWER PLANT The Plot, to Nov 6, Isabelle

nals From The DEW Line: Art And Poetry In The Global Village, Nov 8-13, reception 7-10 pm Nov 8. Photos: Ann Gagno, Nov 8-14.

Post-Graffiti group show, to Nov 20, closing reception 7-10 pm Nov 8. Textiles: Amanda McCavour, Nov 3-Jan 29, 2012, reception 9:30-11 pm Nov 3. 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635.

I.M.A GALLERY Photos: Martin Weinhold, to Nov 26, reception 6-9 pm Nov 3. 80 Spadina #305. 416-703-2235.

INDEXG GALLERY Painting: Harvey Chan, to Nov 6. YYZ Dialogues group show, to Nov 6.

50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957.

INTERACCESS Strategic Arts Initiative 2.0 group show, Nov 3-5. 9 Ossington. 416-5320597.

JESSICA BRADLEY ART + PROJECTS Painting: Ben Reeves, to Nov 5. 1450 Dundas W. 416537-3125.

KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY Arbitrary Triangle: Three Passages Through Shanghai group show; photos: Sarah Nind, to Nov 19.

80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515.

99 GALLERY Freehand (benefit for Warchild Canada), auction 6 pm Nov 8 ($50). 99 Sudbury. 416-209-4321, ArtBarrage.com.

PAUL PETRO Crossing Natures group show, to Nov 12. 980 Queen W. 416979-7874.

P|M GALLERY Drawing: Otino Corsano, Nov 3-26, reception 6-9 pm Nov 3. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

PREFIX Film: Susan Hiller, to Nov 26.

401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

TORONTO FREE GALLERY Performance/party: Día De Los Muertos, 8 pm-1 am Nov 5 ($15).

1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461.

TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Photos: Osheen Harruthoonyan, to Nov 26. 80 Spadina. 416703-1999.

VTAPE Big Eye: Aboriginal Animations From Canada And Australia, to Nov 25. 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317.

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ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM ICC: David Hockney, to Jan 1. Judith Snow, to Jan 20. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31. The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination Of Muslim Africa, to Nov 20. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, to Feb 12, artist talk 6-7 pm, reception 7-8:30 pm Nov 9. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Angela Grauerholz, to Nov 26, curator’s tour 7 pm Nov 3. Holography: Institute for Optical Sciences students, Nov 8-Dec 2, reception 5-7 pm Nov 8. 15 King’s College Circle. 416978-1838.

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Strauss-Schulson, written by Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg, with John Cho, Kal Penn, Thomas Lennon, Paula Garcés and Neil Patrick Harris. A Warner Bros. release. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (November 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

john cho and kal penn are not Harold and Kumar. Really, they’re not. There are no controlled substances floating around the interview suite, and nothing is accidentally set on fire (or thrown out a window) at any point in our conversation. The characters are crazy; the actors don’t have to be.

Cho and Penn are two pleasant, thoughtful guys who clearly enjoy

hanging out together, which makes the press tour for A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas go very smoothly.

The third film in the Harold & Kumar series picks up six years after the back-to-back adventure detailed in the first two movies, and finds the characters dealing with slightly more mature issues.

“I was really happy that they were

setting it six years later,” Cho says.

“You know, cuz the second movie was set a minute after the first one. I thought it might be interesting to age them a little bit and mix up their circumstances. But they’re still Harold and Kumar, and they react as such.”

Penn agrees. “What I’ve done in the last seven years versus what Kumar has done in the last seven years has been totally different, so it was fun to come back to that.”

Things have gone very well for Penn and Cho since Harold and Kumar escaped from Guantánamo Bay in 2008. Penn spent a couple of years opposite Hugh Laurie and Olivia Wilde on House, ultimately leaving that job to spend a year as associate director of the White House’s office of public engagement under Barack Obama, while Cho was cast as the new Sulu in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek reboot and co-starred in the TV series FlashForward.

“I felt really rusty trying to go back into comedy,” Cho admits. “I was worried that I was losing my touch.

You’re in character trying to make it real, but also there’s the larger objective: your performance is always servicing a joke. You may not be doing something funny, but you’re always servicing something funny. You have to get into that mindset. On a comedy set, you’re constantly wondering if the joke is clear, whether the timing is right, and I’d kinda forgotten about that.”

More important, for both actors, was reconnecting to the heart of the series.

“You do a great job of describing this,” Penn nudges Cho. “I do?” Cho responds. “Oh, I always thought of the Harold & Kumar movies as a love story between two dudes.

In a love story you have to have the kiss scene, and I’m always keen to find the [equivalent of a] kiss scene at the end of a Harold & Kumar movie – making sure we’ve got hearts circling around our heads. That’s what it is: a Harold & Kumar movie is a romance between two best friends.” 3

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Rating: NNNN Six years after they escaped from Guantánamo Bay, our heroes – now facing maturity and in desperate need of a new adventure – embark on an epic search for the perfect Christmas tree after Kumar accidentally destroys the one in Harold’s home with a giant joint.

You know how these things go.

As in the previous films, absurdity and raunch are plentiful, with the looser Kumar (Kal Penn) roping the nervous Harold (John Cho) into one insane situation after another. They piss off a Russian gangster (Elias Koteas), befriend a waffle-making robot and accidentally discharge a firearm in the vicinity of a flying sleigh. An underlying sweetness balances the crassness and lets screenwriters Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg get away with almost anything. (This is, after all, the series that depicts Neil Patrick Harris as a drug-gobbling sociopathic sex fiend and still makes him seem adorable.)

Is it a new holiday classic for the ages? Not really. But it’s funny and it’s weird, and it uses 3-D really NW well.

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André Wilms advises Blondin Miguel how to stay safe in Le Havre.

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André Wilms says acting is dull unless his director is Le Havre’s Aki Kourasmäki By SUSAN G. COLE LE HAVRE written and directed by Aki Kaurismäki, with André Wilms and Blon­ din Miguel. 93 minutes. Subtitled. A Films We Like release. Opens Friday (November 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

you’d better catch veteran French actor André Wilms while you can. The star of over 50 movies – in­ cluding Le Havre, the Cannes FIPRES­ CI Prize winner opening this week – says he’s getting tired of acting.

“All great actors are a bit ashamed to be doing this,” says Wilms, loung­ ing at the Films We Like headquar­ ters two months ago at TIFF. “Robert Mitchum said it was a girly job. Bran­ do said acting is a nightmare – that an actor is a bit of a whore. ‘Go to the left, go to the left, please suffer.’ I’m a bit bored with it.”

Except when he’s being directed

by Aki Kaurismäki. Wilms plays shoeshine man Marcel in his fourth collaboration with the Finnish direc­ tor, who, Wilms insists, is like no other.

“He’s always saying, ‘Don’t come at me with your pathetic tricks. Less is more,’” says Wilms, sipping wine courtesy of oenophile distributor Ron Mann and sneaking a cigarette.

“He always says, ‘The audience has to cry, not you.’ When I was saying goodbye to the boy” – the African ref­ ugee Marcel tries to rescue – “I was a bit moved. And Aki said, ‘Do you want to win an Oscar? It’s too late.’”

Wilms laughs and shakes his head.

Le Havre is laced with political ironies typical of Kaurismäki’s leftist leanings. (The director won’t travel to the U.S. lest the American govern­ ment get its mitts on his finger­ prints.) And Wilms says Kaurismäki set the movie in Le Havre for specific reasons.

“Le Havre was the last Communist town in France. The harbour was dy­ ing and people were without work.

Aki wanted to keep the port alive. He said it was our duty.

“And there’s a reason why Marcel’s last name is Marx,” he smiles.

“Aki wanted to revive those French movies with proletarian themes. He loves those old French films, but not

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review LE HAVRE (Aki Kaurismäki) Rating: NNN Good-hearted bohemian Marcel (André Wilms) works shining shoes in the port city of Le Havre, France, and times are very tough. But he’s well loved by his friends, neighbours and especially his wife (Kati Outinen), who is gravely ill, unbeknownst to Marcel.

When he decides to help an illegal refugee (Blondin Miguel), he must engage the support of his friends and figure out a way to elude a very dogged police inspector (Jean-Pierre Darroussin).

This is an unabashed fairy tale and it doesn’t ooze irony like the Finnish director’s other movies.

But it expertly evokes its titular location and has many quiet pleasures, chief among them its deft performances. Wilms, especially, is a delight, the kind of SgC sly fox you want to root for.

the bourgeois shit they’re making now. ‘Come fuck me. Je t’aime. Je ne t’aime pas.’ They talk and talk,” Wilms grumbles, waving his hand in disgust.

Kaurismäki went to the suburbs of Paris to find his star, the non­ac­ tor Blondin Miguel, who plays the boy Marcel takes under his wing.

Wilms says Kaurismäki was acutely aware of the rising racism in France and the unrest in the Parisian sub­ urbs, which was why he wanted to set the movie in that country.

“He said to me, ‘When I was young, France was all about liberté and égalité and the French revolu­ tion. And now this shit is happen­ ing,’” Wilms recalls.

Kaurismäki wanted to make a comedy, Wilms says, to combat the distress that’s accompanied recent political upheavals. He’s certainly made enough depressing films.

“It’s time to make something popular,” Wilms declares, “to give people hope. Le Havre is a cry in the desert.”

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The final instalment in Carl Bessai’s family trilogy examines four sets of siblings as they encounter crises and work toward resolving them. A few of the conflicts feel contrived and resem­ ble acting exercises more than any­ thing else, but Bessai successfully plays with tone and mood, interspersing the

Basic bullies FINdINg KINd (Lauren Parsekian, U.S.). 76 minutes. November 11, 6:45 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox. Rating: NNN

The “mean girl” phenomenon has be­ come a pop­culture joke, but in the real world girl­on­girl bullying is a lot more serious. Director Lauren Parsekian and

Mother load U.F.O. (Burkhard Feige, Germany).

95 minutes. Subtitled. Saturday (November 5), 7 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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Made for German television, writer­ director Burkhard Feige’s tale of a young boy (Henry Stange) coming of age in 1986 against the backdrop of the Challenger and Chernobyl disas­ ters, and his mother’s mental instabil­ ity, invests a fairly standard narrative

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narratives with interviews and em­ ploying comic­book­style graphics and thought bubbles to amusing effect.

In what’s largely a big performing showcase, most of the actors rise to the challenge of the improvisatory style. Corner Gas’s Gabrielle Miller and Benjamin Ratner are completely convincing as siblings dealing with mental illness, while Cory Monteith and Dustin Milligan, both well known for their TV roles, provide a gentle send-up of the Entourage scenario as siblings on different levels of the fame spectrum.

It’s a fine film to open up the festigLENN SUMI val. her friend Molly Stroud launched the Kind Campaign to encourage teenage girls to share their stories of despair and recovery, and the documentary Finding Kind follows them as they drive across the United States inter­ viewing high school girls and encour­ aging forgiveness, understanding and recovery.

Cut like a music video, it’s a fairly basic documentary: Parsekian and Stroud look sympathetic as their subjects share their private pain, then move on to another school and do it all over again. They’re doing good work; it just doesn’t necessarily make for great NORMAN WILNER cinema.

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If the Dardenne brothers made a movie about post­traumatic stress and survivor guilt, it would probably look a great deal like this grim tale of a mall security guard (Sam Louwyck) reeling in the aftermath of a suicide bombing.

Except the Dardennes might not take the magic-realist turns embraced by director Koen Mortier (Ex Drummer), who mixes handheld hyperrealism with subjective, surrealistic moments in which Louwyck’s protagonist is confronted by bombing victims he wasn’t able to save. The result is an unsettling, dramatically tricky but undeniably powerful drama.

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with powerful emotion thanks to an intelligent screenplay, a naturalistic visual approach and Julia Brendler’s complex performance as the crum­ bling parent.

Feige doesn’t indulge in period nostalgia (life in small-town West Germany kinda sucked during the Cold War, it seems), instead crafting an honest depiction of life at a time when the threat of sudden annihilation was part of the fabric of daily conversation. You can understand why a kid would want to hang onto his mom at a time like NW that.

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revieW THE WAY (Emilio Estevez) Rating: NNN When his son is killed in an accident walking the Camino de Santiago from France to Spain, a California ophthalmologist (Martin Sheen) flies to Europe to claim the body and ends up impulsively making the pilgrimage himself.

The Way is structured like a fairly predictable road movie, with Sheen’s insulated American slowly opening up thanks to the prodding of the ragtag folks he meets on his walk. But Sheen sells his character’s evolution with a finely modulated performance that reminds us that, yes, this guy really is one of the great American actors.

Estevez, who plays the dead son in flashbacks, is working at something meaningful here, and if his spiritual points never quite crystallize into something dramatic, his film does reach a gentle catharsis by the time the NW journey ends.

Martin Sheen and eMilio eStevez emilio estevez’s latest directorial effort, the Way, reunites him with his father, Martin Sheen – whom he previously directed in smaller roles in the War at home and Bobby – in a drama about an ophthalmologist who travels to europe to collect his son’s remains and impulsively decides to follow the young man’s footsteps on the 700-kilometre route of the Camino de Santiago. in toronto last month on a bus tour promoting the film, estevez and Sheen sat down to discuss spiritual journeys and family connections – but not Charlie.

Martin, you’ve actually done the Camino, haven’t you?

SHEEN: We were on a break from The West Wing. Emilio’s son Taylor was working for me as an assistant, and Matt Clark, [an] old dear friend [joined us]. So the three of us were travelling together, driving the Camino because we didn’t have time to do it on foot. We stopped at a refugio in Burgos and Taylor met his future wife. Her mother’s name is Milagros, which means “miracles” in Spanish. So I thought, “Ah, you know, there’s something going on here!” Emilio kind of picked it up from there and had his own journey with it.

Emilio, what was it like directing your father on location?

ESTEVEZ: He wanted to jump into crowds and shake hands, say “How you doing?” and “Good to see you,” take pictures – [but] this [character] is not a friendly guy. This is a guy who’s got a hardened shell around him.

Martin, did you feel the need to up your game, working for your son?

SHEEN: He wrote it for me. It was the best part I’ve had in I can’t even remember how long. I had some anxiety that I wouldn’t live up to his expectations, but he assured me that I was the first violinist and that there would be crescendos and valleys and to just trust him, which I did.

The Way is a small movie with a modest marketing budget. Has the family angle helped get it onto people’s radar?

ESTEVEZ: It’s certainly an aspect – a hook, if you will – that’s helping us sell it. But the film kinda speaks for itself.

We’ve been screening it across the country to audiences as big as 3,000 to 5,000 and as small as 200. The reaction has been amazing.

Has working on The Way led you to any surprising discoveries about yourselves?

ESTEVEZ: It made me want to take a gap year. I never got to do that. When my character says, “I gotta go, I gotta go,” I say that to myself every day. I NormaN WilNer gotta go.

kATHryn GAITEnS

Actor and director, The Way

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WAR MUSICAL

Eric Peterson uses his age to great effect in Billy Bishop Goes To War.

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Improv is Crazy-making Like Crazy director and star say spontaneity is a secret weapon By GLENN SUMI LIKE CRAZY written and directed by Drake Doremus, with Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence. A Paramount release. 84 minutes. Opens Friday (November 4). For venues and times, see Movies, page 83.

boy meets girl. boy loves girl.

Girl fucks up her immigration situation and so the couple has to attempt a long-distance relationship.

In Like Crazy, writer/director Drake Doremus takes this simple premise and makes it achingly real, thanks to a fresh cast, a novel rehearsal method and a bit of autobiography.

“I went through a lot of the same customs issues,” says the shaggy, likeable director during an interview at TIFF, where his movie – the subject of a bidding war at Sundance – was a big crowd-pleaser.

“It was heartbreaking because it wasn’t just about being separated by countries [his own girlfriend was from Austria]. It was also about being separated by a government. Although this movie isn’t about government.”

He laughs at his own joke. And his off-the-cuff humour comes naturally; his mom was a founding member of the Groundlings, the legendary L.A. improv troupe, and he recalls future SNL stars like Phil Hartman and Julia Sweeney hanging out at home.

When it came time to make nobudget indies like Spooner (2009) and Douchebag (2010), he began writing traditional scripts but eventually started adding improv. For Like Crazy, he worked with a 50-page outline that included character subtext, objectives and backstory, and then let his actors run with the scenes.

“It was the most liberating and extraordinary experience to be able to create your character and do whatever the fuck you wanted,” says actor Anton Yelchin, who’s had a string of

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Like Crazy’s Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones try to sustain a longdistance romance.

Billy Bishop Goes To War, based on the recent Soulpepper production of John Gray and Eric Peterson’s 33-year-old musical about the Owen Sound-born WWI flying ace, fails to soar the way it does on stage. But it’s a worthy document of a Canadian classic.

Director Barbara Willis-Sweete doesn’t disguise the fact that the two actors are in a theatre. Gray sits at the piano and delivers backup vocals, while Peterson, as expressive as ever, fleshes out more than a dozen characters with the help of a prop or two. The live show’s sound design has been subtly enhanced, and Willis-Sweete employs film footage (some archival, some made to look it) to lend context about the war. One bold addition in the film’s final moments is too powerful to give away.

Peterson remains as spry and engaging as ever, morphing believably from the couch-ridden older Bishop to The arrival of Inca the dog changes Jordan Prentice’s life in An Insignificant Harvey.

CHARACTER STUDY REVIEW LIKE CRAZY (Drake Doremus) Rating: NNNN Like Crazy is the most affecting romance since John Carney’s Once. American Jacob (Anton Yelchin) and Brit Anna (Felicity Jones) meet in college in L.A. and fall madly, can’t-stop-looking-at-you, in love. But after Anna violates her student visa and visits London for the summer, she is not allowed to return to the U.S. Their careers start to take off, they meet other people (including, for him, a coolly beautiful assistant, played by Jennifer Lawrence) yet still feel connected to each other.

Doremus’s third feature relies on none of the po-mo affectations or twee self-consciousness of recent 20-something romances like (500) Days Of Summer and Blue Valentine. Its simplicity works beautifully, allowing viewers to project their own hopes and dreams about love and fate onto the characters.

The spare, suggestive script – devised through improvisation – and deeply GS felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker.

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high-profile gigs, from Charlie Bartlett to Star Trek.

“You just lived it for a period of time, messed around with scenes and came up with moments that felt so real.”

What’s refreshing about Like Crazy is that even though it came out of improv, it’s not full of unnecessary dialogue.

“The first takes were often really talky, where we worked out scenes,” says Doremus. “Then it got stripped down and simplified. Improv isn’t just about talking. It’s in a look, a beat, a stolen glance. That, to me, is what a relationship is.”

The ambiguous ending should spark many café conversations.

“If you’re a cynic, go with your version. If you’re a romantic, [same

thing],” says the director. “It’s up to you to decide how you feel. In my mind, it’s about the greyness – the relationship is never fully over and never fully on. These people are soulmates.”

The film could become the kind of romance classic people watch more than once while eating a tub of ice cream. Does he have a message he wants audiences to take away?

“I’d love that,” says Doremus about the ice cream. “I guess the message would be, ‘Throw yourself into a relationship. Don’t hold back.’ My whole life would have been different if I hadn’t gone through that experience, so I’m grateful. It hurt and was painful at times, but it was important.”

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Harvey quirky AN INSIGNIFICANT HARVEY (Jeff Kopas).

78 minutes. Opens Friday (November 4).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 83. Rating: NNN The shadow of Tom McCarthy’s The Station Agent looms noticeably over writer-director Jeff Kopas’s An Insignificant Harvey, and not just because both films feature little people in the leads.

It’s more that both films tell remark-

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his naive younger self, a genteel British bureaucrat and an upper-class dowager. Still, some of the performance loses its magic in 2-D; theatre lets you use your imagination more.

What makes the film so moving is that Peterson and Gray are approximately the same age Bishop was when he died, so the piece becomes not just a meditation on survival during war but also among friends, artists and GLENN SUMI audiences.

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ably similar stories about a little person drawn out of his shell by happenstance in a small community. In The Station Agent, Peter Dinklage’s character inherits a railway station and winds up befriending two similarly lost souls.

Here, Jordan Prentice plays Harvey, a withdrawn janitor whose world expands when he takes in a stray dog and meets an appealing young woman (Kristin Adams) as a result.

It’s a wobbly construction, swinging between credible character development and clumsy plotting, but the genuinely sweet chemistry between Prentice and Adams holds the whole thing together.

If some of Kopas’s odder choices fail to pay off – like the opening fantasy sequences in which Harvey imagines himself as a raccoon – a few others do, giving the picture an intriguingly unpredictable rhythm.

And it’s got the strangest product placement for Steam Whistle I’ve ever NORMAN WILNER seen.

also opening

Tower Heist (D: Brett Ratner, 104 min) When the downtrodden folks who work in a luxury condo – Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Gabourey Sidibe – find out they’ve been defrauded by one of

the residents (smarmy Alan Alda), they take their revenge. Given the stacked cast, Tower Heist could be very cool.

Opens Friday (November 4). Screened after press time – see review November 4 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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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.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 88.

ABDUCTION (John Singleton) stars Twi-

light’s Taylor Lautner as a teen suffering from a Bourne-like identity crisis. The plot is preposterous and the cast of faded stars dial down their performances so as not to make Lautner look bad. 106 min. N (RS) Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

ANONYMOUS (Roland Emmerich) is a Da Vinci Code wannabe that questions the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays to unspool a ridiculous plot about burned manuscripts, incest, and royal bed-hopping. Emmerich directed disaster pics like The Day After Tomorrow and Godzilla, so of course the CGI-created Elizabethan setting, mob scenes and rain and fire effects come off best. But the tone is wildly uneven, and as the Earl of Oxford, the suggested “true”

author of the plays, Rhys Ifans whispers his way through the role, resulting in a different kind of disaster movie. 130 min. N (GS) Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ATLAS SHRUGGED: PART 1 (Paul Johansson) is a big-screen adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel about a woman struggling to keep her business alive. 97 min.

Interchange 30, 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 Williams 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) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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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 decade-old 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, Interchange 30

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(Cindy Meehl) is a documentary about rugged, plain-spoken horse trainer Buck Brannaman, who came by his remarkable empathy 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. 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 horses. It’s enough to break your heart, even as it heals his own.

88 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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A lesson in the healing arts.

Anna Faris stars as a woman who gets the cad next door to help her look up her ex-boyfriends.

Fortunately, director Mark Mylod doesnt’ try to smooth Faris’s rough edges. An unusual rom-com.

When two teen outcasts, the sexually charged Danielle (Juno Temple) and queer Clarke (Jeremy Dozier) hit the road, they forge a powerful bond. Brassy fun, with great character actors.

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ican hero, with appealing lead Chris Evans, inventive Second World War action sequences and genuine spectacle. But in the last act, the screenwriters compress what feels like months of story into a couple of reels in order to get Cap into the 21st century – just in time for next summer’s Avengers movie.

At least the 3-D is decent this time out. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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tian-themed film about police officers dealing with faith and fatherhood. 130 min.

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(Werner Herzog) is a hypnotic 3-D documentary that presents the 33,000-year-old paintings discovered in the Chauvet Pont d’Arc cave as though we were standing 4 feet away from them. Experts explain the historical value of the cave, but director Herzog’s contemplative narration is all we really need. That, and some closing footage of mutant albino crocodiles. Some subtitles. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant

Cell 211 (Daniel Monzón) is a hard-edged, fast-paced prison drama from Spain with an unusual premise and a mid-point plot twist that changes the stakes completely.

The day before he’s to start work as a prison guard, Juan visits the facility and gets caught in a riot. His only hope for survival is to pose as a prisoner. Juan’s biggest threat is a convict leader who likes the newcomer’s bright ideas but needs to keep him in his place to maintain his status among the rival gangs and negotiate with the authorities. Alberto Ammann’s Juan is nervous but not timid, while Luis Tosar avoids the dominating- psychopath cliché as a natural leader with nothing to lose. Subtitled. 110 min.

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(Maryam Keshavarz) tracks two teenage girls (Nikohl Boosheri and Sarah Kazemy) struggling with Iran’s social strictures as they embark on a sexual relationship. A worthy winner of the Audience Choice award at Sundance.

Subtitled. 105 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

CoNtagioN (Steven Soderbergh) is a disease procedural about the Center for

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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-YearOld 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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

the Debt (John Madden) has plot holes all over the place – no one notices spies smuggling a body into an apartment, for example – but it’s an effective nail-biter.

Three Mossad agents return to Israel as heroes after they’ve tracked down and killed a Nazi war criminal. Or have they? The Debt features a fascinating moral dilemma, but that doesn’t surface till way late, so the film isn’t nearly as weighty as it wants to be. It’s really just a thriller with superb performances, especially by Helen Mirren as the agent whose daughter has written a book about the case, and Tom Wilkinson as the spymaster who fears for his reputation.

Watch for the scene where one of the spies gets a gynecological exam. Totally terrifying. 112 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant 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 kick-ass soundtrack. Small-town Oklahoma teen

misfits Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), the bullied high school queer, and Danielle (Juno Temple), 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 fucked-up sexy and cruel yet kind to Clarke at the same time. The movie does have tonal problems, sometimes shifting irritatingly from gritty to melodramatic to farcical. But it’s got a big heart. 106 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, 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, pointless follow-up that reunites the surviving actors and tries, in the clumsiest way possible, to put a happy ending on the downbeat story Shebib told four decades ago. Such a waste. 84 min. N (NW) Cumberland 4

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 gimlet-eyed heavy with a fondness for edged weapons. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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(Jonathan Levine) is a shaggy and entertaining buddy movie that just happens to have life-or-death stakes, based as it is on screenwriter Will Reiser’s own diagnosis with a rare spinal tumour.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is terrific, Anna Kendrick is great as his novice therapist and Seth Rogen – essentially playing himself – is rock-solid. 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

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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 twinkle-toed 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 redneck ex. These characters were already clichés in the 80s, which makes you wonder why director Brewer treads so close to the original in this lead-footed and anachronistic 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, Canada Square, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

freNCh immersioN (Kevin Tierney) imagines a northern Quebec town where the

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primary industry is a linguistic institute that teaches ignorant anglophones to speak French. The characters in this overpopulated affair have as much nuance as Rob Ford’s rhetoric. Some subtitles. 100 min. N (RS) Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre

The Guard (John Michael McDonagh) is showy, smart and hysterically funny, which is no mean feat for a movie about a small-town Garda sergeant (Brendan Gleeson) and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) on the trail of a drug-smuggling ring in rural Ireland. Damned if it isn’t one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4

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The help (Tate Taylor) is a successful

adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s megaselling novel thanks to another powerful performance by Viola Davis (Doubt) as a maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who agrees to share her story with an upstart journalist. Too bad the junior league matrons exploiting the help play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. 137 min.

NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

ñhorrible bosses

(Seth Gordon) casts Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day as put-upon wage slaves who decide to murder their repugnant employers (Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston), only to see their clockwork plan go sideways almost immediately.

It’s a devilishly smart farce disguised as a really, really dumb one, with Sudeikis and Day turning their Going The Distance buddy act into a perpetual joke machine. 97 min.

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ñThe ides of March

(George Clooney) 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 hopey-changey Democratic governor (Clooney) through the Ohio presidential primary. The plot’s a Mamety mixture of betrayal, disillusionment and high-stakes brinksmanship, but it’s performed by a cast working at peak efficiency. 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

aN iNsiGNificaNT harvey (Jeff Kopas) 78 min. See review, page 82. NNN (NW) Opens Nov 4 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

The iNTerrupTers (Steve James) chron-

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.

Director James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie) never digs into the social and cultural factors that have created the violent world CeaseFire is trying to change – and that’s a problem that becomes increasingly hard to ignore as the movie goes on. Some subtitles. 125 min.

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JohNNy eNGlish reborN (Oliver Parker)

returns Rowan Atkinson to his inexplicably popular slapstick spy spoof to stop an assassination plot and uncover the identity of a secretly evil colleague. Atkinson trots out stale one-liners and boring physical business (more often than not involving his groin) that never elicits more than a smile.

With a supporting cast full of straight men, there isn’t even anyone to pick up the comedy 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, Canada

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Killer eliTe (Gary McKendry) is a B-movie that tries to take itself seriously. Jason Statham plays a contract killer who comes out of retirement to rescue his mentor (Robert De Niro), held hostage by a vengeful Sheikh. The assassination attempts and getaways provide some worthwhile distractions, but the movie shoots for grit and depth that’s way out of its reach. 105 min.

NN (RS) Coliseum Scarborough le havre (Aki Kaurismäki) 93 min. See

interview and review, page 80. NNN (SGC) Opens Nov 4 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

liKe crazy ñ NNNN

(Drake Doremus) 84 min.

See interview and review, page 82.

(GS) Opens Nov 4 at Varsity.

The lioN KiNG 3d (Roger Allers, Rob

Minkoff) is a re-release in 3-D of the iconic animated film about a death, love and courage on the African veldt. 87 min.

Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Interchange 30, Queens-

way, Yonge & Dundas 24

MachiNe GuN preacher (Marc Forster) is

an overwrought docudrama about Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), a Pennsylvania biker who found God and devoted himself to building an orphanage in Sudan. Director Forster’s clumsy, broad-strokes approach reduces everything to a Hollywood cliché – and yet another movie where African suffering is used as a backdrop for a white man’s redemption. 123 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Sean Durkin) is an intense, actorly study of a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen, better known as the younger sister of MaryKate and Ashley) who flees a cult and comes to stay 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 Olsen’s shaky recovery and flashbacks to her time with the cult, dominated by a pitch-perfect John Hawkes (Winter’s Bone), and writer/director Durkin confidently escalates the psychological tension like a seasoned pro. The ending’s going to piss off a lot of people.

103 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

MidNiGhT iN paris (Woody Allen) casts Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an

MoNeyball (Bennett Miller) makes an entertaining if undistinguished sports movie out of Michael Lewis’s book about GM Billy Beane’s revolutionary statistics-based redesign of the 2002 Oakland As. 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, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity paraNorMal acTiviTy 3 (Henry Joost,

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iN TiMe (Andrew Niccol) posits a future

where time is literally money: people stop aging when they turn 25, and they get one year of time to spend as they see fit. (When you go broke, you drop dead.) An impulsive decision to help a suicidal drunk leaves a working-class guy (Justin Timberlake) in possession of an extra century, eventually sending him on the run to beat the system with a wealthy young woman (Amanda Seyfried). The first hour is vibrant allegorical SF; the second devolves into a lot of running and jumping, and the capitalism metaphor hits a conceptual dead end. Time may be the most valuable commodity in writer-director Niccol’s fictional universe, but ideas are still the most important thing in ours. 109 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

iNNi (Vincent Morisset) is the simple document of a two-night stand at London’s Alexandra Place by Icelandic post-rockers Sigur Rós. Shot in grainy 16mm that evokes both early Jarmusch and Murnau, director Morisset lets the band’s music speak for itself and aims his sights squarely at their fan base, a tactic that might turn off casual observers. The brief 75 minute running time feels just right. Some subtitles. 75 min.

NNN (Andrew Parker) TIFF Bell Lightbox

engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in time to meet the great artists of the 20s. It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min.

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Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow PromenBrown) and the supernatural force that ade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Thewould return to torment them as adults, atre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Missisdirectors Joost and Schulman abandon the sauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale series’ locked-down, slow-burning aesthetic for editorial jumps and a really annoying REAL STEEL (Shawn Levy) has surprising number of false scares. And screenwriter heart and intelligence for a movie about a Christopher Landon reveals far too much father and son who bond over outsized about the nature of the threat and directly games of Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. That’s contradicts the mythology established in largely due to Hugh Jackman’s performance the previous movies for the sake of a subpar as a boxer-turned-robotWicker Man reference. 84 promoter who grudgmin. NN (NW) ingly takes charge of 401 & Morningside, Beach EXPANDED REVIEWS the son he barely Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, nowtoronto.com knows (Dakota Goyo).

Coliseum Mississauga, It’s utterly predictable, Coliseum Scarborough, but Levy hits his marks Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town with warmth and energy, letting Jackman Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, sell us on the emotions and the effects. And Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow the kid’s pretty good, too. 127 min. NNN Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity (NW) Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity York401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colidale, Yonge & Dundas 24 seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller) finds the tituCentre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, lar feline outlaw (voiced by Antonio BanGrande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow deras) from the Shrek series teaming up Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank with his former best friend, Humpty DumpTheatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity ty (Zach Galifianakis), and Kitty Softpaws Yorkdale (Salma Hayek) to steal some magic beans, get to the top of the beanstalk and retrieve RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Rupert the goose that lays the golden eggs. The Wyatt) follows a genius Alzheimer’s re3-D animation is top-notch, and the voice searcher (James Franco) who raises a supercast (especially Galifianakis) works well intelligent chimp (performed though the with the artists to keep the film entertainmagic of motion capture by Andy Serkis), ing for both kids and adults despite some who’ll grow up to lead a rebellion of simisizable plot holes that develop around the larly enhanced primates. Stuff happens, but halfway point thanks to an unnecessary none of it is anchored to anything that plot twist. 90 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) makes any kind of sense. 105 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Scotiabank Theatre Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, THE RUM DIARY (Bruce Robinson) brings Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Hunter S Thompson’s early novel about a

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rookie journalist (Johnny Depp) plunged into the political corruption and general debauchery of 1960 Puerto Rico to the screen with its semi-autobiographical nature front and centre. 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, Aaron Eckhart and Amber Heard do some really interesting work in the margins. 119 min. NNN (NW) 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. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30

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(Asif Kapadia) tracks Brazilian Formula 1 driver Ayrton Senna 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 has with its own set of challenges: 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) Regent Theatre

THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar) features all of Almodóvar’s 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

Carey Mulligan gives the hero a reason to live in Drive. who experiments with engineered skin on Vera (Elena Anaya), a fetching lab rat he keeps locked in his home. To say 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 material would be impossible to swallow, but with Almodóvar it’s a weird and delectable dish. Subtitled.

117 min. NNN (RS) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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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

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– 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) Cumberland 4, Regent Theatre, Varsity

The ThiNg (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 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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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, SilverCity Yorkdale

90 min. See interview and review, page 78.

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(Mark Mylod) stars Anna Faris 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 gets to employ her curveball timing in a film that allows her to play an actual human being. The movie occasionally sags is 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) Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

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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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BUCK (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:10 CELL 211 Thu, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 1:45 Sun 9:40 CIRCUMSTANCE (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:35 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 9:45 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 4:00, 9:30 DIASPORA FILM FESTIVAL Thu 5:00 DIRTY GIRL (14A) Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:35 50/50 (14A) 1:35, 3:50, 6:45, 9:00 THE HELP (PG) 1:20, 6:50 Thu 4:05 MACHINE GUN PREACHER (14A) Thu 1:25, 6:55 Fri-Sat 4:05, 9:45 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) 1:55, 7:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 9:25 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) 1:40, 4:35, 6:40, 9:20 SARAH’S KEY (PG) Thu 1:30 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:55, 9:05 THE UNTITLED WORK OF PAUL SHEPARD Thu 3:55 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:55, 7:05, 9:15

CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444

DOWN THE ROAD AGAIN (PG) Thu 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 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 TAKE SHELTER Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR (PG) Thu 1:50 4:30 7:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

50/50 (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:35 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) 1:15, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25 Thu-Sat 11:35 late IN TIME (PG) 1:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:25 late JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 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 THE RUM DIARY (14A) 1:00, 3:45, 7:15, 9:45 TOWER HEIST (PG) 1:25, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:35 Fri-Sat 11:40 late A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS (18A) 1:10, 3:15, 5:15, 7:25, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:30 late

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

BEN-HUR Wed 6:30 THE BIG YEAR (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 8:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 12:00, 2:35, 5:10 DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Sat 7:30, 9:55 50/50 (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 7:50, 8:50, 10:15 FriWed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Fri, MonWed 2:40, 6:20, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:20, 8:40 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00 Sat 7:40, 10:00 Sun-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 7:40 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Thu 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:35, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 9:00 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 12:10, 1:20, 2:50, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:20, 3:30, 4:50, 6:10, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:45, 1:50, 3:20, 4:30, 6:10, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 TWILIGHT: SPECIAL PRESENTATION Mon 6:30 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:10, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 2:00, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:10, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 2:00, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:45, 9:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:45, 9:10, 10:00 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:25, 6:00, 8:30 Sat 7:05, 10:00 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:25, 10:00

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

BENDA BILILI! (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30 INNI (PG) Thu 4:45, 8:45 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 6:45, 8:45 Mon 6:45, 8:45 THE INTERRUPTERS (14A) Thu 7:00 LE HAVRE (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 7:00, 9:30

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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 12:20 3:30 6:40 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:50 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 9:30 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 FriWed 12:50, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:30, 9:30 LIKE CRAZY (14A) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (14A) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Tue 1:00, 4:00, 10:10 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18A) Thu 12:30 3:40 6:50 10:00 FriWed 12:30, 3:10, 6:30, 9:20 TAKE SHELTER Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 THE WAY Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40

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

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Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

DOLPHIN TALE (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50 Fri 4:05, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:25 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 THE HELP (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10 Fri 4:20, 7:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Fri 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 SatSun 1:20, 4:00, 6:55, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55 Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 THE THING (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:25

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ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:20, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 12:20,

3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 50/50 (14A) Thu-Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 7:20, 9:45 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 6:40, 9:10 Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 IN TIME (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu-Fri 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00

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CONTAGION (PG) Fri-Wed 7:00 CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG) 9:00 THE DEBT (14A) Thu 2:15 FRENCH IMMERSION (14A) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 2:30 THE HELP (PG) 4:20 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Wed 12:45

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:15 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 BEN-HUR Wed 6:30 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 10:05 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Fri-Tue 2:30, 5:05 Wed 1:20, 4:00 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40 DRIVE (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Tue 7:45, 10:20 Wed 10:30 50/50 (14A) Thu 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri, SunWed 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 6:55, 9:30 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 9:35 Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:35, 8:15, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 2:55, 8:15, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 IN TIME (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:20, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:35, 3:55, 6:45, 9:50 THE LION KING 3D Thu 12:45, 3:05, 5:25, 7:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:35, 7:05, 10:05 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Sat 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 2:50, 3:50, 5:10, 6:10, 7:30, 8:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun

12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:40, 9:00 Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:00 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:20 4:20 7:25 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 THE THING (14A) Thu 9:20 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Sun 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 7:55, 9:45, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:15, 2:15, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Sun 12:40, 1:40, 3:00, 4:00, 5:15, 6:20, 7:30, 8:40, 9:55, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 3:00, 4:05, 5:15, 6:50, 7:30, 9:15, 9:55

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 FOOTLOOSE (PG) 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 IN TIME (PG) 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) 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, 7:10, 9:45 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) 1:10, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45

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

THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat, Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:20 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 7:30, 9:50 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:30 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) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:50 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:10 TOWER HEIST (PG) 7:00, 9:45 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:15 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) 7:30, 10:00 Fri 5:15 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00 mat, 5:15

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

DRIVE (18A) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 9:10 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:20, 6:30, 8:50 Wed 6:30, 8:50 IN TIME (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:00, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:50, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Wed 4:00, 6:20, 9:10 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:40, 6:10, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 Wed 3:30, 6:10, 8:40 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 3:15, 6:50, 9:30 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri, Mon-Tue 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:20, 10:10 Wed 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:40, 9:00, 10:10 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri, Mon-Tue 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 VOROOD-E-AGHAYAN MAMNOO Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:10

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

ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 9:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 Sat 6:55, 9:25 Sun 1:00, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 THE HELP (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:40 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Fri, MonWed 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 7:05, 9:45 Sun 1:05, 3:55, 7:05, 9:45 Mon 9:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20

88

NOVEMBER 3-9 2011 NOW

RA. ONE 3D (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:25, 5:00, 8:40 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 3:30 6:40 9:30 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat SILENCED 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 1:05 mat Sun 1:10 mat THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18A) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE THING (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:30, 9:55 THE WAY 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat

SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)

FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 BEN-HUR Wed 6:30 50/50 (14A) Thu 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:20 Mon-Wed 10:30 IN TIME (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Mon-Tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Wed 1:15, 3:50, 8:10, 10:45 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Wed 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30, 10:40 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15 Fri-Tue 12:20, 2:40, 4:55 Wed 12:25, 2:40, 4:55 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 1:20 3:40 6:00 8:20 10:35 FriWed 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:20, 10:35 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Tue 7:20, 10:20 Wed 10:30 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 7:40, 10:25 Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45 Mon-Wed 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:35, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40

SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:15 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Tue 6:40, 9:30 Wed 7:10, 9:50 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:15 IN TIME (PG) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:20 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 2:00, 4:40, 9:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 1:00, 3:30 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:15 Mon-Tue 1:15, 3:40 Wed 2:30, 5:00 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Tue 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 THE THING (14A) Thu 9:50 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:40 4:15 6:50 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00

Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226

50/50 (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:25, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:25, 9:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 9:10 IN TIME (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:45, 10:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 8:50 Fri-Wed 8:45 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 10:05 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:55, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 6:20 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:10 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 FriSun 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:30, 9:50 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 MonWed 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:00

KILLER ELITE (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 THE LION KING 3D Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 3:05, 3:35, 5:25, 7:25, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 THE THING (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 3:45, 4:15, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45, 10:15 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 1:00, 3:05, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER? (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:40, 9:35 BEN-HUR Wed 6:30 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:40 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Mon-Tue 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Wed 4:10 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:55 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:40 IN TIME (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 FriSun 1:00, 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 9:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 3:50, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:40, 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 MonWed 4:45, 7:00, 9:10 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:45, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:00, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:55, 9:45 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:15, 9:05 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:15, 9:05 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 TOWER HEIST (PG) 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:15 FriSun 12:40, 1:40 mat A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:50 mat

GTA Regions Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

BEN-HUR Wed 6:30 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 DRIVE (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 9:55 Wed 1:25, 3:50, 10:40 IN TIME (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 THE LION KING 3D Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 12:10, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:05, 6:30, 8:55 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 6:30, 8:55 Wed 4:05, 6:30, 8:55 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:40, 7:50, 10:10 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Thu-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 REAL STEEL (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 10:00 THE THING (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Sun 12:45, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:40, 9:30, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:05, 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:35, 9:30, 10:05 Wed 2:00, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:35, 9:30, 10:05 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Sun 12:00, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:05, 2:20, 3:20, 4:50, 5:35, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15

COURTNEY PARK 16 (AMC)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 888-262-4386

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ANONYMOUS (PG) 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat DRIVE (18A) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 50/50 (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20 FOOTLOOSE (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:00, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:50, 5:25, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:25, 10:40 IN TIME (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sat 11:40, 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Fri-Wed 2:25, 7:50 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 2:00, 3:30, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:40, 1:00, 2:05, 3:25, 4:25, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 9:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:05, 3:25, 4:25, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 9:25, 10:25 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 11:45, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 10:00, 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:55, 7:30, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 8:10, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:40, 8:10, 10:20 PUSS IN BOOTS: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat REAL STEEL (PG) 2:05, 4:55, 7:55, 10:35 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sat 11:15, 2:15, 5:05, 8:05, 11:00 Sun 11:15, 2:15, 5:05, 8:05, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:05, 8:05, 10:45 THE THING (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 10:05 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Thu 7:15 TOWER HEIST (PG) 2:15, 3:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:30, 12:45 mat, 11:15 late Sun 11:30, 12:45 mat A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) 3:00, 3:30, 5:15, 5:45, 7:45, 8:15, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:00, 12:30, 1:15 mat

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ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 FriSun 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 FriSun 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10

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ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 CONTAGION (PG) Thu 9:30 COURAGEOUS Thu 3:35, 6:40, 9:35 Fri, Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:45 DRIVE (18A) Thu 4:25, 7:30, 10:20 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:45, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 IN TIME (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:20 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:15 FriSun 1:15, 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35, 9:25 THE LION KING 3D Thu 4:00, 6:35 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIEGFRIED LIVE Sat 12:00 MONEYBALL (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A) Thu 4:50, 5:20, 7:40, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:05, 8:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 6:20, 8:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 8:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 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 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 THE THING (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 TOWER HEIST (PG) Fri-Sun 12:10, 1:20, 2:50, 4:20, 5:30, 7:10, 8:10, 10:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 3:50, 4:20, 6:40, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:00, 2:40, 4:30, 5:15, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 MonWed 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30

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Li Bingbing and Gianna Jun, who play both sets of friends, hold our interest with understated affection and constant disappointment, while director Wayne Wang brings both contemporary and pre-modern worlds to life with different styles, which he describes in the extras.

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Beginners stars Christopher Plummer (left) and Ewan McGregor.

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Every so often Beginners seems to stop dead in its tracks as if it’s forgotten the plot. Not so. It’s just much more interested in its themes – matters of love, loneliness, where our personalities come from and whether we can change.

Thirty-eight-year-old Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a string of failed relationships behind him, starts dating nomadic actor Anna (Mélanie Laurent) and recalls his childhood and his newly deceased father (Christopher Plummer) who

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Here’s something you don’t see every day: Nicolas Cage as a normal human being, and a middle-class professional to boot. He’s good at it, too – convincingly quick-thinking, articulate, emotionally tamped down and a little smug.

He’s Kyle Miller, a diamond broker with a million-dollar dream home, a slowly fracturing marriage to Sarah (Nicole Kidman) and a teenaged daughter (Liana Liberato). No sooner does the kid sneak out to a forbidden party than a masked quartet with big guns burst in.

They want Kyle’s diamonds. He refuses.

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McGregor, Plummer and Laurent create complex characters who bring spontaneity and emotional truth to every moment. So do Mary Page Keller, Oliver’s mom, and Goran Visnjic, Dad’s much younger lover.

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Some of the story is autobiographical. Mills comments on that and has interesting things to say about his cast.

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August buys Rosie and turns her over to his just-hired veterinarian (Robert Pattinson) for training. Then he notices that his beloved wife (Reese Witherspoon) is getting cozy with the vet.

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present world presented through cinema. $10, stu/srs $8, fest pass $80. thu 3 – Forget Baghdad (2003) D: Samir. 5 pm (CC). Free. Kofta (2010) D: Michiel van Jaarsveld. 7 pm (IT). Lessons For Zafirah (2011) D: C Rivas and D Sarhandi, and short film On The Run With Abdul. 9 pm (IT). fri 4 – Gaza Women Film Festival, various filmmakers. 7 pm (CC). Flowers Of Evil (2010) D: David Dusa. 9 pm (IT). Les Secrets (2010) D: Raja Amari. 9 pm (CC). Free.

Sat 5 – David (2011) D: Joel Fendelman, and short film Checkpoint. 1 pm (CC). My Grandpa The Bank Robber (2011) D: Ineke Houtman.

1:10 pm (IT). Gaza Women Film Festival, various filmmakers. 3 pm (IT). Almanya (2011) D: Yasemin Samdereli. 3 pm (CC). Before Your Eyes (2010) D: Miraz Bezar. 5 pm (IT). Unveiled Views (2009) D: Alba Sotorra. 5 pm (CC).

Burmese Night: Lady Of No Fear (2011) D: AG Bonne, and Burmese Dreaming (2010) D: T Syrota. 7 pm (IT). Kaddish For A Friend (2010) D: Leo Khasin, and short film My Name Is Mohammad. 7 pm (CC). Playoff (2011) D: Eran Riklis. 9 pm (CC).

SuN 6 – Flowers Of Evil (2010) D: David Dusa.

1:30 pm (CC). Kaddish For A Friend. 2 pm (IT).

Amin (2010) D: Shahin Parhami. Director in attendance. 3:30 pm (CC). Almanya. 4 pm (IT). Playoff. 6 pm (IT). Round Trip (2010) D: Golkou Parhizgar, and short film Sibil. 6 pm (CC). Closing night film: If You Die, I’ll Kill You (2011) D: Hiner Saleem. 8:15 pm (IT).

regent park film festival

lord dufferin public school, 350 parliament. regentparkfilmfestival.com.

thu 3-Sat 5 – Multicultural programming

for youth and emerging filmmakers. Free.

thu 3 – Questioning Canada: Beyond The Gar-

dens’ Wall (2010) D: David R Gray, My Father The Terrorist? (2010) D: Safiya Randera. 6 pm.

Discussion to follow screenings. fri 4 – Hankering For A High: Pop/Lock (2011) D: Kathleen Smith, Wapawekka (2010) D: Danis Goulet, and short film Yabai. 6 pm.

Ghetto Millionaires (2010) D: Gilles Remiche.

8 pm.

Sat 5 – Working To Help My Mom (2005) D: Leuten Rojas, and Urban Roots (2010) D: Mark MacInnis. Noon. To Fly And Fade Away Shorts Program including Growing Up Regent, Choke, Warchild and others. 3 pm. Migration Stories including Atlantiques (2009) D: Mati Diop, Dilli (2011) D: Sushmit Gosh & Rintu Thomas, and short film Diaspora. 5 pm. Closing night film: Bang Bang (2011) D: Byron Q. Filmmaker in attendance. 7 pm.

reel asian film festival

isabel bader theatre, 93 charles w(ib); innis town hall, 2 sussex (it); national film board, 150 john (nfb). reelasian.com.

tue 8-Nov 19 – Contemporary cinema by East Asian and Southeast Asian filmmakers. $12, srs/stu $10; youth screenings $5, opening night $20, stu/srs $15, closing night $15, srs/ stu $12; passes $36-$80, stu/srs $30-$65.

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Diaspora in its many meanings PLAYOFF (Eran Riklis) Rating: NNN The word “diaspora” refers to peoples dispersed from their original homeland – originally, Jews forced to leave Israel after the destruction of the temple. The Diaspora Film Festival dilutes the concept with the vague mandate of giving audiences a chance to experience the global cultural mosaic through film.

But this does allow organizers to program a wide range of culturally diverse films. This year’s fest includes a documentary about Burmese activist Aung San Suu Kyi, several evenings with director Deepa Mehta and films under series titles like Dutch Dreaming, Gaza Women and more.

A movie like Eran Riklis’s Playoff, part of the Can Muslims And Jews Ever Be Friends series, spins the original idea of diaspora on its head.

It’s about basketball coach Max tue 8 – Opening night gala: Lover’s Discourse

(2010) D: Derek Tsang Kwok Cheung and Jimmy Wan. 7 pm (IB).

Wed 9 – Youth presentation: Crossroads shorts program. Directors in attendance. 1 pm (NFB). Summer Pasture (2010) D: Lynn True, Nelson Walker. 6:45 pm (IT). Trailblazers shorts program. 8:45 pm (IT).

rendezvous with madness film festival

workman arts, 651 dufferin (wa); tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w (tiff). 416-599-8433, rendezvouswithmadness.com.

fri 4-Nov 12 – Festival of films exploring the

facts and mythologies surrounding mental illness and addiction. $15. fri 4 – Opening night gala: Sisters & Brothers (2011) D: Carl Bessai. Director in attendance. 7 pm (TIFF).

Sat 5 – Gods Of Youth (2009) D: Kate Twa. 1 pm (WA). Isolerad (2010) D: Johan Lundberg. 3 pm (TIFF). U.F.O. (2010) D: Burkhard Feige. 7 pm (TIFF).

SuN 6 – Our Stories, Our Voices: Canadian Shorts including Nowhere Elsewhere (2010) D: Annick Blanc, I Need My Best Friend Back (2011) D: Gina Simone, and others. 1 pm (WA). Baderech Lemalla (2009) D: Shirly Berkovitz, and short film Latzuf (2010) D: Inbal Gibrolter. 3 pm (TIFF). Part Time Fabulous (2011) D: Alethea Root. 7 pm (TIFF).

Wee Requiems: Shorts. 8 pm (WA). moN 7 – 22 Mei (2010) D: Koen Mortier. 1 pm. People In White (2011) D: Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleiinen, and short film Art Works (2011) D: Julie Pasila. 7 pm. Screeningst at WA. tue 8 – Yelling To The Sky (2011) D: Victoria Mahoney, and short film Collect Call (2010) D: Christopher Mills. 1 pm. We’ll Get Used To It (2009) D: Mohsen Ostad Ali Makhmalbaf. 7 pm. Screenings at WA. Wed 9 – Laughing Like Crazy Short Program including Distilled Love (2010) D: Joe Kicak, Blunderkind (2011) D: Zak Mechanic, and others. 6 pm. Screenings at WA.

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bloor cinema

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

thu 3-Wed 9 – Closed for renovations.

Playoff, with Danny Huston, screens at the wide-ranging Diaspora Film Festival.

Stoller (Danny Huston), a Holocaust survivor living in Israel – diaspora in reverse – who returns to his West German hometown to coach the national basketball team.

Max can’t bear to confront his roots.

He won’t speak German, deflects questions from the media regarding his feelings about returning – and being called a traitor in Israel – and can’t set foot in his old neighbourhood pastry shop for fear of triggering memories.

When he meets Deniz (Amira Casar) and her teenaged daughter Sema

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

Sat 5 – Heart Of Gold (2006) D: Jonathan

(Selen Savas), members of the Turkish diaspora, he begins to open up. But until he faces the past, he’s destined to remain emotionally cut off.

These elements give Playoff its heft. Though the film begins by focusing on Stoller’s attempts to make something of a bunch of unknown athletes – and to engage his alienated captain, Thomas – the story of the basketball team gets almost completely left behind.

Thomas all but disappears, only to turn up miraculously at the end in an example of disastrous editing.

But the actors, especially Casar and the young Savas, are excellent, and Stoller’s traumatic story has power. A scene in which he finally takes a forkful of the rich cake from his childhood is killer.

Screens Saturday (November 5) at the Carlton, and Sunday (November 6) at Innis Town Hall. See listings, this SuSaN G. CoLe page.

graham sprY theatre

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

Demme. 3 pm. Free.

thu 3-Wed 9 – Continuous screenings Monday

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

thu 3-fri 4 – One Day, Part Two. moN 7-Wed 9 – Long Story Short– CBC Turns

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

thu 3 – A Clockwork Orange (1971) D: Stanley Kubrick. 9 pm. fri 4 – Dial M For Murder (1954) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 6:30 pm. Say Anything... (1989) D: Cameron Crowe. 9 pm.

Sat 5 – A Little Princess (1995) D: Alfonso Cuarón. 2 pm. To Catch A Thief (1955) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 5 pm. Psycho (1960) D: Hitchcock. 8 pm. 12 Monkeys (1995) D: Terry Gilliam. 11 pm.

SuN 6 – Rebel Without A Cause (1955) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. Alfred Hitchcock X 2: The Birds (1963). 4 pm. The 39 Steps (1935). 7 pm. moN 7 – Dial M For Murder. 6:30 pm. tue 8 – Rebel Without A Cause. 6:30 pm. Miquette Et Sa Mère (1950) D: Henri-Georges Clouzot. 9:15 pm.

Wed 9 – Breaking The Waves (1996) D: Lars Von Trier. 6:30 pm. Hot Docs Doc Soup presents Paul Goodman Changed My Life (2011) D: Jonathan Lee. Director in attendance. 6:30 & 9:15 pm. $14, free to students (9:15 pm screening) with ID. hotdocs.ca.

fox theatre

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

thu 3– Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody

Allen. 7 pm. The Guard (2011) D: John Michael McDonagh. 9 pm. fri 4 – Moneyball (2011) D: Bennett Miller. 7 pm. Drive (2011) D: Nicolas Winding Refn. 9:30 pm.

Sat 5 – Lion King 3D (1994) D: Rogers Allers and Rob Minkoff. 2 pm. Moneyball. 4 & 9:15 pm.

SuN 6 – Lion King 3D. 2 pm. Moneyball. 6:45 pm. Drive. 9:15 pm. moN 7-tue 8 – Moneyball. 6:45 pm. Drive. 9:15 pm.

Wed 9 – Moneyball. 1:30 pm Sarah’s Key (2010) D: Gilles Paquet-Brenner. 7 pm. Crazy, Stupid, Love (2011) D: Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. 9:15 pm.

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thu 3-Wed 9 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. thu 3 – Ciné-Jeudi presents Pour La Cause/For The Cause (2011) D: Rodolphe Caron. 7:30 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.

Wed 9 – Free Favourites At Four presents The Trenches (2008) D: Claude Cloutier, and John McCrae’s War: In Flanders Fields (1998) D: Robert Duncan. 4:30 pm. Free.

ontario place cinesphere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com

Sat 5 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part Two (2011) D: David Yates. 7 pm.

SuN 6 – Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows

Part Two (2011) D: David Yates. 2 pm.

ontario science centre

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

thu 3-fri 4 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am

& 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley.

1 pm.

Sat 5 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1, 3 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon, 4 & 7 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm.

SuN 6 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. moN 7-Wed 9 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

the projection booth

1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, projectionbooth.ca.

thu 3 – Bong Of The Dead (2011) D: Thomas Newman. 7 pm. Straight To Hell Returns (2010) D: Alex Cox. 9 pm.

fri 4-Sat 5 – Check website for schedule.

SuN 6 – Shameless Magazine presents

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

thu 3-Wed 9 – Check website for schedule.

revue cinema

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

thu 3 – Sarah’s Key (2010) D: Gilles Paquet-

Brenner. 7 pm. The Debt (2010) D: John Madden. 9:15 pm. fri 4 – Moneyball (2011) D: Bennett Miller. 7 pm. Drive (2011) D: Nicolas Winding Refn.

9:30 pm.

Sat 5 – Winnie The Pooh (2011) D: Stephen J Anderson and Don Hall. 2 pm. Moneyball. 4 & 7 pm. Drive. 9:30pm.

SuN 6 – Winnie The Pooh. 2 pm. Moneyball. 4 & 7 pm. Drive. 9:30 pm. moN 7 – Peggy Nash presents Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields D: Jon Snow, followed by discussion w/ MPs Nash and Rathika Sitsabaiesan. 7 pm. Free. Drive. 9:15 pm. tue 8 – Moneyball. 6:45 pm. Drive. 9:15 pm.

Wed 9 – Moneyball. 1 & 6:45 pm. Sarah’s Key. 9:15 pm.

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

fri 4– Billy Bishop Goes To War (2010) D: Barbara Willis-Sweete. 7 pm.

Sat 5– Billy Bishop Goes To War. 2 pm. Warren Miller presents Like There’s No Tomorrow (2011) D: Max Bervy. 6 & 9 pm. warrenmiller.com.

SuN 6– Billy Bishop Goes To War. 4:30 & 7 pm. moN 7-tue 8 – Check website for schedule.

Wed 9 – Found Footage Festival Vs Found Magazine, a battle royale of found stuff. 7 pm. $15. foundfootagefest.com.

toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

thu 3-Wed 9– Call or check website for schedule.

other films thu 3 –

Video Services Corporation presents Face Off (2011) D: George McCowan. Reception and silent auction 6:30 pm, screening 8 pm. $100, benefit forstopconcussions.com.

Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. Tickets @faceoffmovie.com.

Evergreen Brick Works presents Brick By Brick: The Story Of Evergreen Brick Works D: Catherine Annau, a documentary on the former industrial site. Director in attendance. 7 pm. 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca/cal/ event/film-screening-fundraiser. fri 4 – Toronto Socialist Action presents Rebel Films: The War You Don’t See (2010) D: Alan Lowery and John Pilger, examining how business media conceal the truth. 7 pm. $4 donation requested. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. socialistaction-canada.blogspot.com.

Sat 5 – Pleasure Dome and Vidéographe presents the moving images of Donigan Cumming and the launch of his book Splitting The Choir. Launch 7 pm, screening 8 pm. $8. CineCycle, 129 Spadina. 416-656-5577, pdome.org.

Sat 5-SuN 6 – Harbourfront Centre’s Day Of The Dead Festival presents El Padrecito/The Little Priest (1964) D: Miguel M Delgado, a celebration of comedian Cantinflas. 1:30 pm.

Free. Studio Theatre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

SuN 6 – Toronto Jewish Film Society presents Harlan: In The Shadow Of Jew Süss (2008) D: Felix Moeller. Director in attendance. 4 & 7:30 pm. $15, $10 (ages 18 to 35 at 7:30 pm). Al Green Theatre, Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina.

416-924-6211 ext 606, mnjcc.org.

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I am marryIng a man wIth two chIl-

dren – a boy and a girl – and we want to include his children in our wedding party.

My best friend and maid of honour happens to work as an escort.

You and I agree that prostitution should be legal and that sex work shouldn’t be stigmatized, Dan, but the ex-wife of my fiancé disagrees strongly. She somehow deduced what my BFF does for a living, and now she has told my fiancé that she will not allow her daughter to participate in the wedding if my BFF is the maid of honour. She says she does not want their daughter to think that being a prostitute is okay. His ex-wife will not budge. I am furious that this woman would have me remove my oldest, closest, most important friend from my wedding party. What say you, Mr. Savage?

Too Angry For Cute Acronyms I say it’s disturbing that your fiancé’s exwife isn’t demanding that both her children be removed from your wedding party. Not because I agree with her – I most certainly do not – but because I firmly believe that someone who’s being a dick about something is obligated be a logically consistent dick.

If tossing rose petals in the presence of a known prostitute – known to her, not known to her daughter (how on earth would her daughter find out?) – is going to pollute her daughter’s tiny mind, then bearing rings in the presence of a known prostitute is going to pollute her son’s. If this woman believes that ap-

pearing in wedding photos with a sex worker will result in her daughter one day doing sex work, why isn’t she concerned that her son will one day hire a sex worker? Or do a little escorting himself?

This woman is trying to screw with you, TAFCA; otherwise, she would’ve yanked both kids. But this is the kind of issue that could land your fiancé back in court – if his batshit ex decides to really push it – and a sex-negative judge could tear up your husband-to-be’s custody agreement and place limits on his (or your) access to his children, all because his new wife is BFFs with a sex worker. So you’re going to have to give way, TAFCA. But I think you should drop the kids, not your BFF, from your wedding party.

And while you might be tempted to tell the kids to go ask their mother why they’re suddenly out of the wedding party – thereby making her the bad guy – take the high road and come up with an explanation that makes sense to the kids and spares their feelings… if, you know, these kids were actually looking forward to being in your wedding party.

There’s a small-but-not-insignificant chance that your fiancé’s children will be relieved to be left out. As much as they may like you, as much as they may approve of your relationship with their father, TAFCA, a child can feel under pressure to play a public role in a divorced parent’s second (or third or fourth) wedding. Since children – particularly small children – may not feel

comfortable saying no, lest that “no” be misinterpreted as disapproval of their parent’s new spouse, I believe that smart parents and smart stepparentsto-be should err on the side of not asking their children to toss petals, bear rings or make toasts.

over a year ago, I broke up wIth my

girlfriend of two years. I let the whole thing drag out way too long and made a lot of bad choices, and hurt her a lot more than I needed to. Three months after it was over, I broke contact with her. Six weeks later, she started calling me, but I didn’t respond. One night around then I was in my basement bedroom at about midnight. She started calling me and I ignored the calls.

Then I heard a knock on my window.

I came outside, and she was next to my bedroom window. She came at me and started screaming. I could smell alcohol on her, and she started choking me. She spent that night in jail, having been dragged off my front porch by two policemen, but not before kicking in a window. The last communication I had with her was an email in which I told her not to contact me again or I would put a restraining order on her.

It’s been about a year now, and I find myself wanting to contact her again, to say something like “I’m sorry that I hurt you.” I want to know if she’s okay, if she’s on a good path, etc, but I don’t want to be her friend or even see her in person ever again.

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When is it too soon to contact a crazy ex?

Wanting Après-Resolution Never, WAR. Never is too soon to contact a truly crazy ex.

If you’re concerned about how she’s doing, ask a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend or lurk on her Facebook page like everybody else. But if what you’re after is some sort of absolution for the excessive hurt your “bad choices” caused her – choices you didn’t elaborate on in your rush to get to her faults – then you’re not really motivated by any genuine concern for her well-being, WAR, just by a selfish desire to ease your guilty conscience. Either way, no good will come of contacting her. Let it go.

I’m gay, been gay for years now, and

I want to be with a man as a life partner. My problem is that I honestly don’t enjoy anal, but I like my boyfriend to be dominant, the man, the boss – however you want to define it. Is that just plain weird? Will I find a man?

Worried About My Ever After The results of a study recently released in the Journal of Sexual Medicine might interest you, WAMEA. Researchers from George Mason University and Indiana University asked nearly 25,000 gay and bi men about their last sexual encounter with another dude. “Of all sexual behaviours that men reported occurring during their last sexual event, those involving the anus were the least common,” Joshua G. Rosenberger, one of the study’s authors, writes. Fewer than 40 per cent of the men surveyed fucked ass or got their asses fucked during their last sexual encounter. “There is certainly a misguided belief that ‘gay sex equals anal sex,’ which is simply untrue much of the time,” Rosenberger says. (Most interesting data point: Gay and bi men have “immense sexual repertoires.” Researchers documented more than “1,300 combinations of activities.” Most concerning data point: Only half the men who reported having anal intercourse the last time they fucked used condoms. Many of these men are, presumably, in long-term relationships, and may not need to use condoms.

But high HIV-infection rates among gay and bi men prove that there are lots of guys out there who should be using condoms and are not.)

Back to you, WAMEA: Some of those gay and bi guys studied might have had anal sex the second-to-last time they got it on, or were looking forward to anal the next time. But we know from other studies that there are lots of gay and bi guys out there – some estimates put it at 25 to 30 per cent – who never have anal sex. They just don’t dig it. Your mission is to find a dominant, manly, bossy man with whom you’re sexually compatible, i.e., a bossy top who wants to fuck your throat, your fist, your clenched thighs, your Christmas ham – whatever – but not your ass.

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