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just wanted to express how much I appreciated Ellie Kirzner’s No Plans To Leave. It was representative of the challenges Occupy Toronto faces, especially with society’s forgotten and downtrodden. I’ve slept at Occupy for 21 nights. I’m employed and healthy and both active as a musician and in the daily camp logistics. I’ve seen delinquent behaviour from some individuals (usually in an inebriated state) but also watched them rise up and assume leadership roles. I’ve been exposed to more of the hidden world and have used OccupyTO as a space to unlearn constantly. I’ve counted my blessings many times over, for the opportunity this occupation has provided to expand my social bubble and to include new individuals with life struggles I’ve never been aware of. This human art piece is one for the books. Bryan Sutherland Toronto

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just a quick note of disagreement on Leveraging For A Lockout (NOW, November 17-23). The city’s public sector unions are not part of the 99 per cent. They are part of a very powerful, wealthy, entrenched organization. They enjoy higher wages than in the private sector, better job security and incredibly generous benefits. They are part of a mega-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme that sucks all the breath and money (taxes) from the real 99 per cent. Mark Fienberg Toronto

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I am a Local 416 member and in 35 years have seen a lot of negotiations, but not the out-and-out lying we’re witnessing coming from the city administration this time. I am really ashamed of our council and most of all our mayor. Steve Miles Toronto

Are Euro cyclists more able?

the death of cyclist jenna morrison and her unborn child is such a profound tragedy (NOW, November 10-16). As the current city administration continues to “de-civilize” Toronto, making it a meaner, more difficult place to live, perhaps there should be some legislative consequences similar to holding corporate executives legally accountable for occupational health and safety violations. But what, in addition to city traffic infrastructure, makes European cyclists safer, abler and evidently more cooperative users of the same city streets as cars? Brian McAteer Toronto

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regarding adam giambrone’s Colour- Coding Civic Power (NOW, November 17-23). Liberal racial quotas are counterintuitive with regards to innovation and competitiveness. We spend too much time/resources looking only to a specific niche of candidates. We select the candidate of lower competency to meet a quota. Competency should never take second place. This is business. Eric Lefebvre

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regarding the economics of Occupy (NOW Daily, November 19). I’ve been thankful for the balanced reportage on the Occupy process in NOW over the past weeks. But it is very important to note that the Design Exchange discussion Occupied Economies was the first in a series. The crowd in attendance was very diverse. People of all walks of life discussed topics over quality catered veggie appetizers and a cash bar. The venue itself lent a certain legitimacy and a sense that if we can combine occupied parks and Park Avenue, we can really learn something. Guest

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Barometer The 99 per cent T.O.-based record label Thoughtless Music announces it will donate the first 99 sales of Deepchild’s single The Suffering Ones and 1 per cent of sales thereafter to Occupy Toronto.

Toronto Sun fulminations The little paper that knew better freaks after the mayor’s neo-con allies on his executive – here’s looking at you, David Shiner – push to keep curbside pickup of excess recyclables. Now Shiner wants council to reverse its decision to cut Environment Days. It’s coming apart for Robbie Boy.

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Snow jobs The city’s transportation department announces its fleet of snowplows and salt trucks is ready for whatever winter throws at us – including a labour disruption. Not so clear, though, how prepared the city will be to repair the 300 or so water main breaks that occur each winter if there’s a lockout.

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November 28, 1985 With four LPs under her belt and a self-produced fifth, Hounds Of Love, just about to hit record stores, reclusive singer/songwriter Kate Bush talked to NOW about the risks of touring and the pleasures of controlling her own material. Her recording output since has been spotty – she took a hiatus between 1993 and 2005, when she released Aerial, and then didn’t complete a recording project until this year. But when she’s in creative mode, there’s no stopping her. This year, Bush recorded not one but two discs, including the just-released 50 Words For Snow. Check NOW’s 5N review this week on page 62. (Page 11 of the issue) NOW’s online archives at nowtoronto.com/archive

“Without some balancing of what people can and cannot do in parks, chaos would reign.” Justice David Brown, perhaps guilty of a little overstatement, in his 54page decision Monday, November 21, upholding the eviction notice served by the city to Occupy Toronto protesters in St. James Park. Full coverage of the eviction carried out Wednesday begins on page 14 .

[Frontlines] Enzo DiMatteo on neo-con hate-on for human rights Barely 50 days into the parliamentary session and pundits in the Ottawa press corps are declaring politics on the Hill o’ Beans poisoned. Case in point: a “fuck you” tweet from an opposition MP garners more attention than the government of the day moving yet again to shut down debate on a bill to implement last spring’s budget. The perils of majority rule are such that it can resemble that other word beginning with the letter “f” – fascism – depending on who’s in charge. Before you colour me crazy, take Alberta MP Brian Storseth’s private member’s bill to repeal Sections 13 and 54 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Section 13 prohibits communication by telephone or on the internet of “any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt.” Section 54 prescribes financial penalties. Those in favour of repeal say the sections have been used to file “frivolous” claims. They’re talking mostly about Muslim groups taking right-wing commentators to task for alleged Islamophobia. See Western Standard publisher Ezra Levant’s Muhammad cartoons, and Mark Steyn’s 2007 piece in Maclean’s about Muslim birth rates constituting a “threat” to the West. But the sections have been used in the past, too, to stop the likes of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. In fact, they have been instrumental in marginalizing neo-Nazi groups in Canada. Which is why Jewish groups, even

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Free speech isn’t the lifeblood of our democracy. Tolerance is. difficult to close.” The group says a simple change to the act to award costs to the targets of complaints would go a long way toward discouraging vexatious claims. But Storseth’s bill has the blessing of Justice Minister Rob Nicholson, who rose in the House Thursday, November 17, to push the bill in the name of free speech, as if free speech were the lifeblood of our democracy. It isn’t. Tolerance is. Check the history books. The greatest atrocities in the world did not begin with censorship. They began with hate speech.

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Police made their move to dismantle the Occupy Toronto encampment at St. James in the early hours of Wednesday, November 23.

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The rebel camp is gone, but the Occupy movement lives on, having changed forever the tone of social protest By ELLIE KIRZNER / Photos by CHEOL JOON BAEK

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O ccupy, as its participants like to say in their gentle, optimistic style, is now “moving into the next phase.” But it’s a forced evolution, thanks to the drawn-out, dramatic takedown in the mud of St. James Park on Wednesday, November 23. That eviction is the project of a municipal regime ready to intrude on the lives of many more people through service cuts than has the five-week bit of communal activity in a public green space. The mobilization of green-vested

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of this park tonight or tomorrow. I know where I will go: I will keep occupying wherever I am needed or until I die or the system is fixed.”

park staff and the extensive police operation we witnessed Wednesday were ostensibly in support of a few dog walkers and a handful of disgruntled restaurant owners, whose rights, it seems, have trumped an urgent appeal for social fairness or what Occupy lawyer Susan Ursel calls “an expression of conscience.” Not to mention the fact that the contested terrain, on shelter-laden Jarvis, has long been a haven for the dispossessed. If you’re looking for a sense of proportion, don’t seek it here. The rebel camp in old Toronto, its structures methodically tagged, dismantled and packed up by park staff, is no more. Now we watch for signs that the movement that created it can survive an unnerving eviction and morph with precision and grace into a permanent political presence. Tuesday evening, mere hours before the raid, was bitterly cold, wet and lonely. Sixty protesters packed the gazebo, shivering and coughing in an encampment fast evaporating; the

kitchen, the info centre, the safe-space yurt and many tents were gone, the village slowly returning to the emptiness of November parkland. There was a kind of wired calm. One of the team who had already been chained for several hours to the library yurt – the scene of intense interest the next day – removed his chains to address the GA and express his frustration: “As of now, there’s no coherent plan. What does tomorrow look like? Who the fuck knows?” But Trey, with his trademark black bowler hat and keffiyeh scarf, more accurately tapped the electricity of the moment. “People came to the park in anger, love and hope,” he said. “This does not end tonight. We are all going out of this park tonight or tomorrow, some in handcuffs. I know where I will go: I will keep occupying wherever I am needed or until I die or the system is fixed.” Logistics mastermind Michael Vessey, whose supply centre was still functional and ablaze with its crazy

red lights, vowed his committee would hand out blankets and food “until the last minute” to those determined to hold out to the point of arrest. And Wednesday’s events saw them do exactly that. “We need a large indoor space to keep living communally, having GAs, serving the poor and sharing the resources. I’m not sure we’ll get it, but if we show respect to this park [by cleaning it], then we show we deserve a new home.” And this is the dilemma. To Occupy, you need public space and a permanent presence to maintain the requisite sense of emergency and keep the dialogue going. But does that space have to be wrested from the authorities, or can it be freely given and still have the necessary resistance appeal? The GA has agreed, post-eviction, as a short-term plan, to convene in the park for meetings and organizing in the daylight hours – the city lawyer, after all, offered 19 hours a day.

But what Tuesday night showed is that without a structure, the weather is a formidable foe. What kind of venue does the ambitious project need? And can Occupy get and hold it? No question, the movement carries a likely unbearable weight of expectation. I almost couldn’t believe my eyes late Monday, the chill creeping up under my multiple layers, as hundreds and hundreds of people flocked to the park, believing a raid was imminent. With the djembes beating (noise curfew set aside) and harmonic chanting drifting from the rose garden, facilitator Mischa Saunders captured the geist. “We will make all our dreams possible,” he said, calling for the crowd to break into groups to dialogue, with instructions to “respect the quiet voices.” Under the dark night sky, at 1 in the morning, multi-aged supporters stood in small circles in the cold, using up their sleep time to solve global continued on page 16 œ

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just before 7 am on wednesday, November 23, as a cold rain fell on St. James Park, police and city bylaw officers entered the site where protesters have been camped out for the past five weeks and began the work of taking down their makeshift community. While some protesters had feared a crackdown on the scale of last year’s G20 summit, the initial stages of the police foray into the park occurred largely without incident. “It’s been going really peacefully so far,” said Leila, a 23-year-old activist who came to St. James Park to bear witness to the eviction. “The police are leaving the people who are just

watching and filming them alone, which means they don’t have anything to hide.” In fact, police paid more attention to structures in the park than to the occupiers themselves. Roughly 60 officers walked slowly over the muddy lawn inspecting tents and tarps, telling anyone inside it was time to leave. Bylaw officers taped numbers to tents and photographed them so their owners could retrieve them once they’d been dismantled. But at least four people remained barricaded inside one of the yurts at the centre of the park. They had chained themselves inside and said they would have to be carried out by

the authorities. Protesters stood in lines in front of the structure waiting to confront the police. “We’re going to do our best to peacefully hold them off,” said Brandon Gray, one of the men in the yurt. “We’re not going to resist arrest at all.” Gray explained that he wanted to protect Occupy Toronto’s library, which is housed inside. But he and three others chained inside ended up leaving peacefully a few hours later, they say to save the books from being destroyed. Meanwhile, a small group of occupiers were inside the park’s gazebo, which had been lightly fortified with

wood pallets and pieces of plywood erected around it. Several others were inside an open-sided tent near St. James Cathedral. Inside, a fire was burning and protesters struck a gong and chanted slogans at the police. The total number who seemed determined to stay in the park until they were removed by force was less than 30. Others stood watch and milled around the tents, and some followed the police as they moved through the park. Occupy Toronto’s eviction had been expected ever since a judge Monday upheld the city’s notice of eviction handed out a week earlier. Many thought the police would move

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new arrivals. The question for Occupy now is how to keep their movement going without the physical community that many felt embodied their mes sage of equality and economic jus tice. Some have suggested setting up camp elsewhere, possibly on the lawn at Queen’s Park. Others say they should keep re turning to St. James during daylight hours to continue their protest, but not sleep overnight. Organizers of New York City’s Oc cupy Wall Street, for their part, have called for a second phase of the move ment, to be characterized by surprise actions. The clarion call after the re treat from St. James is now to regroup and reoccupy. 3 bens@nowtoronto.com

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When you’re addicted to the planet

What’s a greener gift, an iPhone or a BlackBerry? Forget sugarplums. If there’s a technophile in your life, chances are there’s a Kindle Fire, iPad or some sort of smartphone etch-a-sketched in their heads. When it comes to electronics, I’ve always been really clear: buy less, invest in durability, use the extended warranty and resist the temptation of younger, sexier models. (Yes, I’m talking to you, iPhone 4 gawkers.) Alas, phone fidelity is not our strong point. Canadians toss their

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cells, oh, every 33 months (compared to the four-and-a-half year itch that drives sales on PCs globally). But if you or your giftee are in the market for a new one and it’s got to be smart, how can you make sure yours is the least taxing on the planet? Thanks to Greenpeace’s biannual electronics rankings, electronic makers have, for a few years, been in a horse race to gain the most green cred. A company that comes out ahead one year can plummet the

next, though, like LG. It’s the first year that RIm’s been included in the guide, and I hate to break it to any already beleaguered CrackBerryheads, but RIM got the lowest overall score of the 15 companies listed. The November report slams RIm for failing to set greenhouse gas reduction targets or a timeline for phasing out hazardous substances from all its products (deadlines Apple and others have, for the most part, already met). On the bright side, it is

one of the better scorers on the use of conflict minerals from the Congo. Apple, on the hand, has climbed up the ranks, scoring most of its points for improvements in energy efficiency, e-waste recycling (exceeding 70 per cent globally), being PVC-,

brominated-flame-retardantand conflict-mineral-free, as well as for sustainable operations. On that last front, however, Apple has been repeatedly slagged by a consortium of five Chinese NGOs. Just last week, reports emerged that 15

Apple supply factories in China have been accused of “excessive pollution.” According to the eco orgs, Apple told them it has been putting pressure on the factories to clean up their act. The company could not be reached for comment. Greenpeace didn’t look at reliability and durability, but a 2010 survey of 50,000 mobile devices from four smartphone makers (Apple, Rim, motorola and HTC) did. it found iPhones were the most dependable but were also the most breakable. BlackBerries had a higher malfunction rate, but do, as klutzes can attest, withstand a fall better. There are, of course, other phones on the market. How do they stack up? Aside from total corporate standing, Greenpeace does have a list of the six greenest phones. Though it’s a bit dated now, here it is in order: Sony Ericsson Aspen (M1i), Nokia N8-00, Samsung GT-S8500 (Wave), HP Palm Pixi Plus, and much further behind, the BlackBerry Pearl 3G 9100/9105 and Dell Aero. Apple chose not to participate in the product report. Note: at this point in the game, Samsung Evergreen is probably Samsung’s greenest model with 70 per cent recycled materials, though it has gotten flak for mediocre performance. Nokia’s greenest phone to date is also billed as the world’s smallest smartphone. it’s free of PVC, free of nasty brominated and chlorinated fire retardants, plus it’s made in part with recycled and bio-plastics and recycled metals. The cover is painted with plant-based paints, and Nokia, overall has been a top-two company for several years now in terms of green cred. The U.S. branch of the Sierra Club says you can make your smartphone greener by multi-tasking – that is, by making the most of one gadget instead of also doling out for an e-reader, music player, GPS and point-andshoot camera. Then you’ll at least be minimizing your overall e-waste. Wanna know which phone still wins greenest mobile device year after year? That, my friends, is a second-hand phone. Tips for making your smartphone more energy-efficient? Maximize your battery life by turning off features when you’re not using them, like GPS/mapping services, WiFi, Bluetooth, music equalizers, as well as by reducing screen brightness and closing power-hungry apps properly. (An Android app called PowerTutor tells you just how much power those applications are swallowing; powertutor.org.) Check your phone manufacturer’s website for lots more brand-specific battery-saving tips. By the way, switching over to a 4G network will only drain your battery even quicker. Remember, the lighter your phone use, the longer your battery will last, not to mention, you might just become more engaged in reallife conversations. imagine that.

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Toronto Island Water Supply Route Study Municipal Class Environmental Assessment Notice of Filing of Addendum The City of Toronto (the City) has completed an addendum for the Toronto Island Water Supply Route Study Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) Project File. The Class EA study was completed in April 2011 and followed the Schedule B Municipal Engineers Association, Municipal Class EA document planning process. As presented in the Project File, the preferred construction method and watermain route was based on a deep tunnel installation from the mainland on the east side of Eireann Quay that would extend under the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (BBTCA) lands to Hanlan’s Point (outside airport south property line). In March 2011, the Toronto Port Authority (TPA) completed an Environmental Screening Report for a proposed pedestrian/services tunnel that would improve pedestrian access from the mainland to the BBTCA. The proposed TPA pedestrian tunnel is in the same general location of the City’s proposed Western Channel watermain crossing, and is proceeding to design and construction. Recognizing the potential cost savings and co-ordination opportunities, the City has completed an addendum to its April 2011 Class EA Project File that now supports alignment of the watermain route (mainland to Hanlan’s Point section) with the TPA pedestrian tunnel. A Project File Addendum Report has been prepared that includes a review of the planning and design process of the original Class EA, and documents what has changed with regards to proposed watermain route alignment, construction methods and anticipated impacts. The Addendum Report is available for a 30-day public review period. Copies of the EA Addendum Report and all supporting documentation are available during normal business hours at the following locations starting on November 17, 2011 and ending on December 16, 2011: Toronto City Hall City Clerk’s Office 100 Queen St. W., 13th Fl. Toronto ON M5H 2N2 (Hours: Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p. m.)

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Information can also be found on the project webpage at: toronto.ca/involved/projects/toronto_island_water_supply/index.htm Please note that only the changes proposed in the addendum are open for review. During the public review period, anyone who has any outstanding concerns with the project that cannot be resolved in discussion with the City may request that the Minister of the Environment make an order for the project to comply with Part II of the Environmental Assessment Act (referred to as a Part II Order), which addresses individual environmental assessments. Requests must be submitted to the contacts below. If no request is received on or before December 16, 2011, the City may proceed with the detailed design and construction of the project. Jim Bradley Minister of the Environment Minister’s Office, Ministry of the Environment 77 Wellesley St. W., 11th Fl., Ferguson Block Toronto ON M7A 2T5

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Basic research is

what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing,” said rocket scientist Werner von Braun. I think it’s an excellent time for you to plunge into that kind of basic research, Aries. You’re overdue to wander around frontiers you didn’t even realize you needed to investigate. You’re ready to soak up insights from outside the boundaries of your understanding. In fact, I think it’s your sacred duty to expose yourself to raw truths and unexpected vistas that have been beyond your imagination’s power to envision.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 In Woody Allen’s film Midnight In Paris, the Ernest Hemingway character says, “All cowardice comes from not loving, or not loving well enough.” Given the state of your current astrological omens, Taurus, that is an excellent piece of advice. I suspect you are going to be asked to call on previously untapped reserves of courage in the coming weeks – not because you’ll have to face physical danger, but rather because you will have a chance to get to the bottom of mysteries that can only be explored if you have more courage than you’ve had up until now. And the single best way to summon the valour you’ll need is to love like a god or goddess loves.

think you need to be in the presence of a face like that, Gemini. You’ve got to get your fixations scrambled by an arresting vision of soulful authenticity. You need your colours transposed and your fire and water reconfigured. Most of all, it’s crucial that you get nudged into transforming your ideas about what you really want. So go find that healingly disruptive prod, please. It’s not necessarily the face of a gorgeous icon. It could be the face of a whisperer in the darkness or of a humble hero who’s skilled in the art of surrender. Do you know where to look?

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “All my life I have longed to be loved by a woman who was melancholy, thin and an actress,” wrote 19th-century French author Stendhal in his diary. “Now I have been, and I am not happy.” I myself had a similar experience – craving a particular type of woman who, when she finally showed up in the flesh, disappointed me. But it turned out to be a liberating experience. Relieved of my delusory fantasy, I was able to draw more joy from what life was actually giving me. As you contemplate your own loss, Cancerian, I hope you will find the release and deliverance I did. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 If you travelled 300

million years back in time, you might freak out in abject fear as you encountered dragonflies as big as eagles and face, the stones start spinning!” wrote the cockroaches the size of dogs. But since poet Rumi, as translated by Coleman you’re quite safe from those monsters Barks. “Water turns pearly. Fire dies down here in the present, need to and doesn’t destroy. In your presence I 1 11/21/11 NOWskateCultureAD:Layout 12:23there’s PM noPage 1 worry yourself sick about them. Similarly, don’t want what I thought I wanted.” I

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “When I see your

if you managed to locate a time machine and return to an earlier phase of your current life, you’d come upon certain events that upset you and derailed you way back then. And yet the odds are very high that you’re not going to find a time machine. So maybe you could agree to relinquish all the anxiety you’re still carrying from those experiences that can no longer upset and derail you. Now would be an excellent moment to do so.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 To prepare for her

role in the film The Help, actor Jessica Chastain forced herself to gain 15 pounds. It was tough, because she normally follows a very healthy diet. The strategy that worked best was to ingest a lot of calorieheavy, estrogen-rich ice cream made from soybeans. To be in alignment with current cosmic rhythms, it would make sense for you to fatten yourself up, too, Virgo – metaphorically speaking, that is. I think you’d benefit from having more ballast, more gravitas. You need to be sure you’re well-anchored and not easy to push around. It’s nearly time to take an unshakable stand for what you care about most.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 In a famous Monty Python sketch, a Hungarian tourist goes into a British tobacconist’s store to buy cigarettes. Since he doesn’t speak English, he consults a phrase book to find the right words. “My hovercraft is full of eels,” he tells the clerk, who’s not sure what he means. The tourist tries again: “Do you want to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?” Again, the clerk is confused. In

the coming week, Libra, I foresee you having to deal with communications that are equally askew. Be patient, please. Try your best to figure out the intentions and meanings behind the odd messages you’re presented with. Your translating skills are at a peak, fortunately, as are your abilities to understand what other people – even fuzzy thinkers – are saying.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 There are mod-

ern Chinese painters who use oil paints on canvas to create near-perfect replicas of famous European masterpieces. So while the genuine version of Van Gogh’s Starry Night is worth over $100 million, you can buy an excellent copy on the Internet for less than $100. If you’re faced with a comparable choice in the coming week, whether to go with a pricey original or a cheaper but good facsimile, I suggest you take the latter. For your current purposes, you just need what works, not what gives you prestige or bragging rights.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “It is a

tremendous act of violence to begin anything,” said Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke. “I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.” I urge you to consider trying that approach yourself, Sagittarius. Instead of worrying about how to launch your rebirth, maybe you should just dive into the middle of the new life you want for yourself. Avoid stewing interminably in the frustrating mysteries of the primal chaos so you can leap into the fun in full swing.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 The Golden Gate Bridge spans the place where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific Ocean. It wasn’t easy to build. The water below is deep, wind-swept, beset with swirling currents and on occasion shrouded with

blinding fog. Recognizing its magnificence, the American Society of Civil Engineers calls the bridge one of the modern Wonders of the World. Strange to think, then, that the bridge was constructed between 1933 and 1937, during the height of the Great Depression. I suggest you make it your symbol of power for the coming weeks, Capricorn. Formulate a plan to begin working toward a triumph in the least successful part of your life.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 It’s an excel-

lent time for you to get an entourage – or if you already have one, to expand it. For that matter, it’s a perfect moment for you to recruit more soldiers to help you carry out your plot to overthrow the status quo. Or to round up more allies for your plans to change the course of local history. Or to gather more accomplices as you seek to boldly go where you have never gone before. So beef up your support system. Boost the likelihood that your conspiracy will succeed.

pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 If you expand your concept of what you’re capable of, you will receive a specific offer to move up a notch. If you perform your duties with intensified care and grace, you will be given new responsibilities that catalyze your sleeping potential. The universe doesn’t always act with so much karmic precision, with such sleek, efficient fairness, but that’s how it’s working in your vicinity right now. Here’s one more example of how reasonably the fates are behaving: if you resolve to compete against no one but yourself, you will be shown new secrets about how to express your idiosyncratic genius. Homework: Are you ready for an orgy of gratitude? Identify 10 of your best blessings. Tell me all about it at Freewillastrology.com.

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FChrisTmAs bAzAAr (St Christopher House)

Crafts, a white elephant table, snacks and more. 10:30 am-4 pm. Free. St Christopher House, 248 Ossington. 416-532-4828 ext 114.

CommemorATe ANd CelebrATe: AN eveNiNG iN hoNour oF womeN ANd moThers (Inter-

national Development and Relief Fdn) Talk by activist Louise Binder and Zimbabwean music by Nhapapti Mbira. 6 pm. $10-$15. U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina. bit.ly/CommemorateCelebrate. Give A NiGhT (Stephen Lewis Fdn/Dignitas Int’l) World AIDS Day gathering with a silent auction and prizes. 8 pm. $20-$25. Devil’s Martini, 473 Adelaide W. giveanight.ca. FrholidAy Tree liGhTiNG (Toronto Firefighters’ Toy Drive) Tree lighting, music, a Santa visit and more. 5 pm. Free (donations of unwrapped toys appreciated). Shops at Don Mills Town Square, 1090 Don Mills. liveattheshops.com. movember For JACk (Movember Canada) Jack Layton tribute event and fundraiser with music by Tanika Charles and the Wonderfuls, Hercini Arts aerial performance and more. 9:30 pm. $20. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. movemberforjack.eventbrite.com. FsANTA experieNCe (Sleeping Children Around the World) Interactive play session featuring singalongs, dancing and stories. Weekdays and Saturdays too Dec 23. $5 per child. Sherway Gardens, 25 the West Mall, QEW & hwy 427. sherwaygardens.ca. TeddyFesT 2011 (child with special needs) Karaoke with David Wall, Jim Creeggan and others, plus a live auction. 7 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

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Science for Peace lecture by physicist Adele Buckley. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca. eNviroNmeNTAl workiNG Group Meeting to help environmental groups on campus share ideals and goals. 6:30 pm. Free. Croft Chapter House, University College, 15 King’s College Circle. michael.lagace@utoronto.ca.

Food sovereiGNTy iN CANAdA: CreATiNG JusT ANd susTAiNAble Food sysTems FoodShare panel discussion with author Hannah Wittman and others. 7 pm. Free. Foodshare, 90 Croatia. foodshare.net.

housiNG, homelessNess ANd The CiTy budGeT Housing Action Now forum with

speakers on affordable housing, emergency shelter and tenant support. 6:30 pm. Free. St Stephen’s Community House, 91 Bellevue. Pre-register hanmeeting.eventbrite.com. The Jew is NoT my eNemy Author/radio host Tarek Fatah gives a talk on unveiling the myths that fuel Muslim anti-Semitism. 7 pm. $20$45, stu $10. Beth David Synagogue, 55 Yeomans. 416-636-5425, naamatevents.com.

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Historian/sociologist Erna Brodber talks about socio-historical issues in Jamaica. 12:30 pm. Free. York University Accolade W Bldg, rm 006, 4700 Keele. cerlac@yorku.ca. The New orieNTAlism Panel discussion on Edward Said’s theories, contemporary ideas and more. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. sAmANThA NuTT The War Child Canada founder talks about greed, guns, armies and

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Festivals New GrouNdswell Festival of contemporary women’s theatre with staged readings of plays by Lisa Codrington, Jordi Mand, Kelly Thornton and others, plus workshops and talks. $20, passes avail. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net. Nov 30 to Dec 10 reel AwAreNess Amnesty International’s human rights film festival features documentaries and features from around the world. Pwyc-$10. National Film Board, 150 John. aito.ca/reelawareness. Nov 24 to 27 The word FesTivAl A 400th-anniversary celebration of the King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare through readings, lectures, stage performances, improvisation, movement and song. $20-$25, stu $15; pass $59. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. youngcentre.ca/thewordfestival. Nov 25 to 27 CANAdiAN lAbour iNTerNATioNAl Film FesTivAl Films exploring workers’ rights,

health and safety, racism, unions and other issues. Sat and Sun only. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. labourfilms.ca. To Nov 27 aid. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Forum on the Occupy movement and how we can build on this year of resistance and beat back austerity and corporate attack. 6 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St George. torontosocialists@gmail.com.

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Clothing, accessories, furniture, crafts, toys, gifts and more, plus workshops. Mon- Sat 10 am-9 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm to Dec 4. $12, stu/ srs $7. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. oneofakindshow.com. FrreAdiNGs wiTh sANTA Santa reads classic holiday stories. Saturdays and Sundays 9 am to Dec 24. Free (RSVP required). Eaton Centre, 250 Yonge. 416-598-8560. The sileNCe is brokeN: Now whAT? No More Silence panel discussion on raising awareness around the disappearance of indigenous women, with writer Lee Maracle and others. 6:30 pm. Free. Native Women’s Resource Centre, 191 Gerrard E. 416-963-9963. FrsTArs For wishes workshops (Children’s Wish Fdn) Children create a crystal tree ornament. 10 am-noon. To Dec 10. $20. Swarovski Crystal Wish Tree at the Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. Pre-register 647-439-8584.

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The AuTumN AFFAir (Build Change) Singles

mixer and dance. 8 pm. $25. Merchandise Lofts, 155 Dalhousie. autumnaffair.info.

boNe weAry: A reTiremeNT pArTy From The sex TrAde (Maggie’s: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project) Writer Gerald Hannon marks the end of his career with a party featuring DJs and performers. 9 pm. $5-$20. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. 416-927-1970. FrGiNGerbreAd Cookie FACTory (Trillium Health Centre) Decorate a gingerbread cookie and help support seniors’ health and wellness. To Dec 18. $4/cookie, 3 for $10. Sherway Gardens, QEW and Hwy 427. sherwaygardens.ca.

JusTiCe For ChildreN & youTh beNeFiT

(JFCY Street Youth Legal Services program) Performers include Elvira Kurt and the Sneaky Castros, plus a live art auction. 7 pm. $40, stu $15. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. jfcybenefit.com. reAd AFriCA bAll (CODE) Music by Amadou Kienou and the Resolutionaries Marimba Band and a silent auction promote literacy in Africa. 8 pm. $100. Rosehill Lounge, 6 Rosehill. codecan.org.

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Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square, beside the Eaton Centre. shopcats.ca. 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.

Sunday, November 27

Benefits

FrThe beACh CANdy CANe ChrisTmAs pArAde (Community Centre 55) The parade

starts at Kingston and Victoria Park, heads W to Walter and N to Swanwick. 1 pm. $2 donation appreciated. centre55.com. buddhisT Temple FuNdrAiser (Wada Ji Sangha Temple) Etigami postcard painting and Japanese tea ceremony. 11 am-5 pm. $20 sugg. 344 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-925-7575. The sex you wANT (AIDS Comm of Toronto) Benefit party with dancer/pop singer Blake McGrath and 4Korners. 7 pm. $20. Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen W. 647-286-2145.

Events

ANCieNT-CoNTemporAry CoNverGeNCe

europeAN uNioN Film FesTivAl Screenings

redsandcastletheatre@gmail.com. To Nov 27 souNdplAy NAISA festival of experimentation in sound art and new media, with performances, installations and workshops. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca/soundplay. To Nov 26

Events

queer and Asian. 11 am-5:30 pm. Free. Network Orange, 221 Yonge. qay.ca. FrCAvAlCAde oF liGhTs Lighting of the city’s Chrismas tree with performances by Jarvis Church, Justin Hines and others plus fireworks and skating. 7 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca. FrChrisTmAs wreATh-mAkiNG Workshop. Today and tomorrow 10 am (adult), 2 pm (adult and child). Various prices. Colborne Lodge, High Park. Pre-register 416-392-6916. CyCliNG iN FAll ANd wiNTer Learn how to keep fit and safe in cold, wet and snowy weather. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-393-7746. dowNTowN eAsT sTop The CuTs Rally for housing and public services. Noon. Free. Moss Park, Queen and Sherbourne. facebook.com/ events/171712942921429. duNdAs wesT ArT GAllery CrAwl Guided tour of local art galleries and other venues. Noon, 1 or 2 pm. Free. Full of Beans, 1348 Dundas W. duwestbia@gmail.com. The GreAT iNdiAN bus Tour Indigenous Sovereignty Week bus tour to visit sites of significance in Toronto. 3-6 pm. $20. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087. rkidzFesT Entertainment by Dora and Diego, Mumble and Erik and others, plus rides and games. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. rloCAl CrAFT FAir Local green and sustainable vendors, guided hikes and entertainment. Today and tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. Free. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289. mediA sTrATeGy workshop 101 Tools for Change workshop on writing press releases, giving interviews and developing messages. 11 am-5 pm. $10-$20. U of T St George Campus. Pre-register toolsforchange.net.

of 24 films from 24 countries. Free. Royal Cinema, 608 College. eutorontofilmfest.ca. To Nov 30 love ANd obsessioN TheATre FesTivAl Performances of plays including A Depper Kind Of Love and The One. $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 992 Queen E. 416-845-9411,

eCosANiTy’s loFT 404 pAr-TAy Activist up-

dates by Greenspiration’s Angela Bischoff, Occupy Toronto and others. 8 pm. Free. Loft 404, 263 Adelaide W. ecosanty.org. rGAmerCAmp.CA Festival celebrating art and creativity in video games with speakers, demos, arcades and more. To Nov 27, 9 am-6 pm. $30, 3 days/$60. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. jaime@gamercamp.ca.

psyChiATriC druGs/ChemiCAl loboTomies/ CommuNiTy TreATmeNT orders Co-lecture

by antipsychiatry activist Don Weitz and author Erick Fabris. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2211, 252 Bloor W. 416-545-0796. sCi Fri Youth 14 to 19 play games and experiment with exhibits on the theme of water. 6 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. whole liFe expo Speakers, workshops and exhibits on natural health, alternative medicine and green living. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 11 am-8 pm; Nov 27, 10 am-6 pm. $10-$15. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. wholelifeexpo.ca.

Saturday, November 26

Benefits

CheF’s ChAlleNGe For A Cure (Mt Sinai Hospital) Battle it out with celebrity chefs including Mark McEwan and Lynn Crawford to support breast and ovarian cancer research. Today and tomorrow. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. chefschallengeforacure.com. FuNdrAisiNG diNNer (Dystonia Medical Research Fdn) Music by Pull Me from the Wreckage, a silent auction and more. 6:30 pm. $55. Hazelton Place, 111 Avenue Rd. dystoniacanada.org. bACh ChildreN’s Chorus (East End Refugee Committee) Benefit concert. 7:30 pm. $5-$15. St John Norway Church, 470 Woodbine. 416699-6091. GrowiNG our homeTowN heroes (Canadian Hero Fund) Music by Zelmer, the Dueling Magicians, games and more. 7 pm. $20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137, tickets@homegrownheroes.info. sTrAiGhT To The sTreeTs (Project Humanity) Walk various routes and distribute warm clothes to those in need. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Queen and Bathurst. Pre-register antonio@ projecthumanity.ca.

Events

AsiANs iN moTioN Forum Gathering of LGBTTIQQ2SA East and Southeast Asian youth to explore and express what it means to be

Ndp soCiAlisT CAuCus ANNuAl FederAl CoNFereNCe Panels, talks, elections and more. 9:30

am. $5 or pwyc. OISE, rm 2-213, 252 Bloor W. ndpsocialists.ca. Queer As (blACk) Folk Black Daddies Club panel discussion on homosexuality and homophobia in the black community with Junior Burchall and others. 6 pm. $30, adv $20. George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church. 416-264-3999. soCiAl liGhT CoNFereNCe Entrepreneurial and leadership event with speakers including G Adventures founder Bruce Poon Tip. 10 am-6 pm. $100-$150. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. socialightconference.com. FwANderiNG wiNTer CrAFT show Holiday craft show. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Church of the

Roundtable discussion responding to themes in the Spinoff exhibition at the Koffler Gallery. 4 pm. $5. Toronto School of Art, 410 Adelaide W. kofflerarts.org. bArley’s ANGels Join other beer-loving women to talk about Toronto’s brewing history. 2 pm. $30-$35. In front of Hockey Hall of Fame, 30 Yonge. angelsinnovember. eventbrite.com. CommuNiTy reAd-iN Short readings by Catherine Bush, Kathryn Kuitenbrower and others, plus discussions to stop the cuts to libraries. 3 pm. Free. Davenport-Perth Library, 1101 Bloor W. torontostopthecuts.com. CoNTemporAry ArT bus Tour Tour exhibitions at Justina M Barnicke Gallery, Blackwood and Doris McCarthy Gallery. Noon-5 pm. Free. Justina M Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register 416-978-8398. dANCe dANCe pArTy pArTy All-women, alcohol-free dance party. 3:30 pm $8. Mad for Dance, 263 Adelaide W. ddpptoronto@gmail. com.

doverCourT swAmp: ChildreN’s memoriAl weTlANd Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. College and Dovercourt. 416-593-2656.

hiGh pArk buCkThorN busTiNG ANd poTluCk luNCh Help remove invasive buckthorn

from the park. 10:30 am. Free. Outside Grenadier Café, High Park. highparknature.org. FrholidAy GreeTiNG CArds Workshop for adults and kids six and up. 1-4 pm. $15, child $8. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. Pre-register 416-396-2819. lATiNos/lATiNAs For The Ndp Launch with guest speakers. 6 pm. Free. Yellow Griffin Pub, 2202 Bloor W. latinndp@gmail.com.

oCCupy ToroNTo CommuNiTy ouTreACh dAy

Peaceful witness against the growing gap in our city between the rich and poor. 1 pm. Free. St James Park, King and Church.

Monday, November 28

Benefits

A bid For A bike (My First Wheels) A live auction supplies bikes to local children from financially disadvantaged communities. 7:30 pm. $5. Duke of York, 39 Prince Arthur. robynkurta@gmail.com. live & uNleAshed (Ontario Soc for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Performances by Steven Page, Debra McGrath and others. 8 pm. $50-$100. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. liveandunleashed.ca. Quiz/TriviA NiGhT (Horizon Children’s Centre) Play for prizes. $10/team. Pour Boy, 666 Manning. 416-343-7969.

Events

dx sAloN NiGhTs Writer/artist Rose Bouthillier is interviewed by Power Plant curator Melanie O’Brian. 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. dx.org. The mAkiNG ANd uNmAkiNG oF A GeNre Film

Film clips and discussion of comedy films with critic Shlomo Schwartzberg. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211. my FrieNd briNdley Trans Inclusion Group screening and Q&A with filmmaker Alec Butler. 6:30 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. 416-978-8201.

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Molly Johnson boosts Stephen Lewis Foundation, November 30

On Stage: tOpdOg/UnderdOg Obsidian Theatre director Philip Akin talks about their upcoming production of the Suzan-Lori Parks play. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Opening the ClOSet On aging: the 50+ lgBtQ empOwerment COnferenCe Talks by local ac-

tivists and experts including professor Rinaldo Walcott and Camille Orridge. Today and tomorrow. $50-$150. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register seniorpridenetwork.com. pOwering Up YOUr neighBOUrhOOd Town hall meeting to discuss the current state of the electricity system and suggested improvements. 6 pm. Free. Etobicoke Civic Centre, 399 the West Mall. torontohydro.com/ townhallsessions.

Tuesday, November 29

Benefits

Big BOOk Sale (Women’s College Hospital) 10 am-2 pm. Free. Women’s College lobby, 52 Grenville. 416-323-6400. t.O. YOUr mO mOvemBer fUndraiSer (Movember Canada) Humber College students

The Stephen Lewis Foundation launches its Arts Fund with community-based HIV/AIDS activists from Zambia and South Africa, performers Molly Johnson and d’bi. young and, of course, Stepehen Lewis. NOW’s Susan G. Cole hosts. Healing And Hope Through The Arts, Wednesday (November 30), Hart House (7 Hart House Circle), 6 pm sharp. Free. RSVP to ccanzius@ stephenlewisfoundation.org. throw a party with live music by the Colts and BF Soul and moustache painting. 8 pm. $10. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. toyourmo.com.

Events

art Battle 19 Live competitive painting with audience voting. 7:30 pm. $15. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. artbattleto.com.

egYpt and alexandria: anCient wiSdOm and mOdern SCienCe Society for the Study of

Egyptian Antiquities lecture. 7 pm. $35. 4 Bancroft. thessea.org. iCOnneCt Entertainment showcase and social networking for people in the music, art, television and fashion industries. 8 pm. Revival, 783 College. Pre-register 416-876-3329. pOlitiCal advOCaCY On the internet Panel discussion. 7 pm. $12. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

ShOlem aleiChem and the art Of mOdern JewiSh StOrYtelling Lecture by Jeremy

Dauber. 3-5 pm. Free. Jackman Humanities Bldg, 170 St George, rm 318. cjs.utoronto.ca. ShOp SUStainaBle High-end clothing swap, toxic-free makeup demo, vendors and more. 5 pm. $15 and an item to swap. CSI Annex, 720

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Thousands in this city don’t have decent, affordable housing, and city policies aren’t helping. Housing, Homelessness And The City Budget examines the shortfall in tenant support, emergency shelters and good housing, featuring Toronto Drop-In Network’s Linsey MacPhee, the Toronto Christian Resource Centre’s Phil Nazar, the Wellesley Institute’s Michael Shapcott and Beth Wilson of Social Planning Toronto. Tonight (Thursday, November 24), 6:30 pm. Free. Bathurst. shopsustainable.eventbrite.com.

the Street araB – the StOrY Of a BritiSh hOme Child Talk by novelist Sandra Joyce. 6

pm. $5. St Matthew’s Bowling Club House, Riverdale Park E (Broadview N of Bridgepoint). riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

Wednesday, November 30

Benefits

fOrk U (Project Engagement) An evening of

fine wines and foods helps feed local families in need. 6:30 pm. $150. Muzik, 15 Saskatchewan. projectengagement.org. the lOve ShOw (LOFT Youth Centre) Art show and sale. 6-10 pm, show runs to Dec 14. $5 or food donation. Gallery 918, 918 Bathurst. 918bathurst.com/loveshow. mUSiC fOr life (Dixon Hall Music School) Jim Cuddy performs to provide music lessons to Regent Park youth. 6:30 pm. $200. Arcadian Court, 401 Bay, 8th floor. dixonhall.org. warm SUmmer hOtneSS (St Michael’s Hospital) Evening with the sketch comedy troupe. 9 pm. Pwyc ($5 min). Wayla Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

St. Stephen’s Community House, 91 Bellevue. pre-register hanmeeting. eventbrite.com.

BUdgeting fOr fairneSS

Keep your eye on the numbers as city council discusses the 2012 operating budget with all its service-paring implication. To grasp what austerity means for communities, check out Social Planning Toronto’s forum featuring John Cartwright from the labour council, Geordie Dent, Federation of Metro Tenants’ Associations, Mark Ferguson, CUPE Local 416, Franz Hartmann, Toronto Environmental Alliance and more. Thursday, Dec 1, 9:30-noon. Free. YWCA Elm Centre, 87 Elm. pre-register 2012citybudgetforum.eventbrite.com

Events

China Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Pre-register atcadventure.com. dOUglaS giBSOn The raconteur talks about Canadian writing, politics and culture. Noon. $25 (includes bag lunch). Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. i will Be a hUmmingBird Celebration of the life of Nobel Peace Prize winner/activist Wangari Muta Maathai with poems, art, songs and more. 6 pm. Free. Centre for Women Studies in Education, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register thedoc@ drmarilynj.com. the JewelS Of the dUCheSS Of windSOr Lecture by Sotheby’s Carol Elkins and an ID clinic 4:30 pm. $35. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca. marC Chagall and hiS timeS Lecture by Benjamin Harshav. 7 pm. $22.50, stu $17. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/ marc-chagall-and-his-times. pOwering Up YOUr neighBOUrhOOd Town hall meeting to discuss the current state of the electricity system and suggested improvements. 6

pm. Free. Scarborough Civic Centre, 150 Borough. torontohydro.com/townhallsessions. tOrOntO: diverSitY Or diviSiOn? Lecture on how our diversity is increasingly reflected in a growing inequality, by Social Planning Toronto director John Campey. 6:30 pm. Free. Japan Fdn, 131 Bloor W. Pre-register jftor.org/ whatson.rsvp.php.

UpStream and dOwnStream Of pOliCY inStrUmentS fOr SUStainaBle UrBan tranSpOrtatiOn Lecture. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Cen-

tre, rm 1190, 40 St George. environment. utoronto.ca. wOrld aidS daY Performances and discussion with Stephen Lewis, spoken word poet d’bi. young and drummer Kwasi Dunyo. 6 pm. Free. Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register j.kopelow@utoronto.ca.

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Thursday, December 1

Benefits

FfeStive Bazaar (Toronto Intergenerational Partnerships) Christmas gifts, an auction table and more. Noon-7 pm. Free. 145 Strathmore. 416-531-8447. UndieS 4 aidS (AIDS Comm of Toronto) A drag show, karaoke, fashion show, raffle and more. 8 pm. Donation. Crews/Tango, 508 Church. 416-972-1662.

Events

Between SpeCieS Discussion, debate and im-

agery with authors Erika Ritter, Andrew Westoll and others. 7 pm. $5. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. zoocheck.com. evening with mike and friendS Celebration of Mike Schreiner’s second year as Green Party of Ontario leader with Elizabeth May and others. 7-10 pm. $40. Hotel Ocho, 195 Spadina Ave. 416-977-7476, gpo.ca/event/secondmike-and-friends.

prOteCting farmland and refOreSting OUr Barren planet Author John Bacher talks

about remedies for climate change. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College. scienceforpeace.ca. rOller derBY wOrld CUp 2011 First-ever World Cup of Roller Derby with skaters from 13 countries. To Dec 4. $35, wknd pass $100. Downsview Park Bunker, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com. 3

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Wrap up with GSUS’s triangle-shaped scarf ($49, Yoka, 2116J Queen East, 416-686-0836, yokafashions.com).

Save up for next holiday’s gift haul using this fair trade gourd piggy bank ($30, Ten Thousand Villages, 362 Danforth, 416-462-9779, and others, tenthousandvillages.ca).

Concentric metal circles are fastened with a swatch of colourful felt on this Lady Mosquito brooch ($37, 1020 Queen West, 647-344-3266, ladymosquito.ca).

Puppy will love fetching these Hudson’s Bay Company Collection doggy tennis balls ($10, The Bay, 176 Yonge, 416-861-9111, and others, thebay.com) created in collaboration with Harry Barker. On Rachel: Three quarter sleeve sweater ($49.95, Gap, 60 Bloor West, 416-921-2555, and others, gapcanada.com. On Tilly: Elanor coat ($90, Timmie Doggie Outfitters, 867 Queen West, 416-203-6789, timmie.ca).

Mixologists keep making their ice cubes bigger and bigger – slower melting means a less watered-down cocktail. Freeze your own at home with King Cube’s tray ($14.99, BYOB, 972 Queen West, 1-877-989-8980, byobto.com).

Send your kid back to school with Herschel’s heritage backpack ($40, Mini Mioche, 795 Queen West, 647-3485883, minimioche.com).

Poch2 creates a collection of silicone pouches in varying sizes and popping colours ($16.95, Outer Layer, 577 Queen West, 416-8699889, and other, outerlayer.com).

A buffalo-checked polar bear is screen printed onto Identity Apparel’s navy toque ($20, One of a Kind Show, booth T-07, Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, oneofakindshow.com).

The DJ Kitty D scratchboard makes any cat look like a mix master ($32.95, Rolo, 24 Bellair, 416-920-0100, rolostore.com).

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Encourage safe winter cycling with this instantly spot-able, noodle-protecting helmet by Nutcase ($65, Curbside Cycle, 412 Bloor West, 416-920-4933, curbside.on.ca). Striped T-shirt ($16, Joe Fresh, 589 Queen West, 416-361-6342 and others, joefresh.com)

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Stack on a selection of Lauren Manoogian leather bracelets ($80 to $150, Ewanika, 1083 Bathurst, 416-927-9699, ewanika.ca).

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Festive tops don’t have to be covered in felted snowmen or dotted with jingle bells. Try on Sarah Duke’s blouse cut from a vintage bow print fabric ($52, Sara Duke Factory Store, 1244 Bloor West, 416-605-9695, imadethisforyou.ca).

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If she’s a fan of photojournalism, this New York Times photography book ($79.95, Type, 883 Queen West, 416366-8973, and other, typebooks.ca) should do the trick.

The Microsoft Touch Mouse copies Apple touch screens’ and laptop pads’ popular fingering motions and plops them into a beautiful pointer engineered for any Windows 7 fans still out there ($79.95, Best Buy, 65 Dundas West, 416-642-8321, and others, bestbuy.ca).

This Bambu cutting board has different surfaces for chopping, scooping and serving ($56, Ecoexistence, 21 Vaughan, unit 103, 416-652-0808, ecoexistence.ca).

The best-reviewed game of 2011 (with its own original soundtrack), Batman: Arkham City Collector’s Edition will be loved by gamers on your list. Bonus art book, cards and Batman statue. For PlayStation 3, Windows, Nintendo Wii, Xbox 360. Consoles not included ($99.99, Best Buy, 65 Dundas West, 416-642-8321, and others, bestbuy.ca).

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New eatery’s popularity proves the Dundas West strip’s still hot By STEVEN DAVEY If you do, you’ll virtually fade into the woodwork sitting on a white chair at a white table in a white room. Funny thing is, as bleak and austere as the former speakeasy feels by day, the 44-seat storefront positively glows after dark, cast in a warm yellow light from several rows of lowwatt floods overhead. And don’t show up without a reservation. Open mere weeks, L’Ouvrier is already the hottest thing to hit the hip Dundas West strip since the early days of the Hoof. We’re lucky to snag

L’OUVRIER (791 Dundas West, at Palmerston, 416-901-9581, louvrier.ca) Complete dinners for $55 (brunches $25), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $21/$12. Open for dinner Tuesday to Sunday from 6 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN

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tic chicken liver pâté à la campagne dressed with pickled celery, coupled with smoked ham hock croquettes and house-made piccalilli ($12). We pass on the mandatory beet ’n’ goat cheese salad and choose a tangle of peppery organic arugula in honeyed vinaigrette tossed with slivered radish, shaved Parmigiano and toasted pecans (both $9). Smart move. Perfectly crisp of skin, moist of flesh and free of grease, a confit thigh and leg of King Cole duck ($24) comes sided with baked pastry-like gnocchi and wild honey mushrooms in a marvellously rich roasted garlic cream sauce. Slow-braised in red wine, shredded lamb shank finds its way into large house-made ravioli ($21) finished with buttery cauliflower purée and lemon zest. Mistakenly described elsewhere as heart-shaped, butternut squash

love letters ($18) turn out to be rectangular pasta envelopes stuffed with silkily puréed veg finished with lemony cream and roasted pumpkin seeds. Too bad the monochromatic colour scheme – white sauce on white noodles on a white plate on a white table in a white room – makes the tasty dish almost disappear. A double dessert of flourless chocolate fudge cake and candied lemon cheese cake (both $7) vanishes just as quickly but for a different reason: they’re damned delish! Back for brunch, we begin with Bennett’s sugar-coated scones spread with house-made mango jam and crème fraîche ($6) – shame there’s two of them and three of us – and strong Café Brasiliano Americanos ($3). Chilled tap water arrives at table in a recycled bourbon bottle. We split a salad of translucent English cuke and fennel strewn with red pomegranate seeds and crumbled Greek feta before moving on to potato rosti finished with smoked salmon, fried shallots and capers ($13). BLTs built on Ace Bakery sourdough get tiered with meaty house-smoked bacon and tomato ($12), while 5-ounce grilled-to-order Wellington County burgers come dressed with aged cheddar and more smoky bacon ($16, both with enough fab fries to share). Stingy County General, take note. Sure, not everything’s up to speed just yet. Servers are still finding their feet and latter-day Madonna doesn’t make ideal dinner music – minor quibbles all. But if full houses nearly every night are any proof, L’Ouvrier is well on it way to being more than a blank canvas. 3

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ñRating: NNNN WHERE: Plymouth, England WHY: Miss Grey Cup? Isn’t that a 10-yard penalty in lingerie football? The Grey Cup was donated in 1909 by then governor general Albert Grey, the fourth Earl Grey. Earl Grey tea was named after his grandfather. Do you see where this is going? Lets start with the always excellent Plymouth gin. Combine 2 oz gin, 1½ oz cold strong Earl Grey tea, ¾ oz lemon juice and ½ oz simple syrup. Pour over ice in a Collins glass and top with soda. This drink probably already exists – there’s very little new under the cocktail sun – but in the spirit of CanCon, let’s call it an Earl Camembert. PRICE: 750 ml/$26.85 AVAILABILITY: At most liquor stores (product #540682) 3 drinks@nowtoronto.com

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936 Queen W, at Shaw, 416-531-4447, thecountygeneral.ca. Little wonder they’re already calling this spinoff from Splendido the new Hoof Café. Could be the similar all-day/late-night diner set-up, snout-totail brunchy carte and no-reservations policy. Show up early or mid-afternoon if you hope to get one of only 27 seats without the inevitable wait and kitchen delays. Best: smoky ham and navy bean soup with coriander, scallion and croutons; sandwiches like ripe heirloom tomato with lemony avocado chutney and aged cheddar on toasted Thuet sourdough; house-smoked brisket and house-made sauerkraut with Gruyère with 1,000 Island dressing on rye à la Reuben, both sided with triple-blanched frites; at brunch, English breakfasts of two peppery eggs, boudin noir sausage, smoked peameal, sautéed ’shrooms and baked beans ’n’ pork parts. Complete meals for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a pint. Average main $14. Open Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to midnight, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to 3 am. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnn

($2.20). Better yet, come back Friday night for free ballroom dancing! Best: from the ever-circling carts, al dente shrimp har gow and pork siu mai dumplings; crunchy fried water chesnut cake; deep-fried baby octopus in five-spice powder; sticky rice with Chinese sausage and ground pork in lotus leaves; pan-fried shrimp dumplings with wilted greens; sweet ’n’ sour pork buns in puff pastry. Complete dim sum meals weekdays 9 am to 3 pm $10 per person (weekdays after 3 pm and all-day weekends $15) including tax, tip and a pot of green tea. Average dim sum $2/$3. Open for dim sum daily 9 am to 11 pm. No reservations. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnn

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iliar Korean favourites like bi bim bap and DIY shabu-shabu hot pots by day, their romantic chandelier-lit storefront turns into one of the most adventurous kitchens around after dark. Momofuku who? Best: to start, gyoza-style pot-stickers stuffed with Berkshire pork in sweet citrus soy sauce; gently pickled Asian pepper over organic greens in fiery sesame vinaigrette finished with crumbled Stilton blue cheese; shareable mains like sliced sous-videbraised Beretta Farms’ beef shank over mesclun and seared scallions, sided with tempura-battered red onion rings and kimchee aioli; spicy pork-neck tacos dressed with purple cabbage, chipotle mayo and sour cream queso fresca. Complete dinners for $35 (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a domestic beer. Average main $15. Open for lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2 pm, dinner Monday to Saturday 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: nnnn 3

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strange spectre of death stalks the music of Lana del Rey, a preoccupation she’s captured quite succinctly in the title of her forthcoming album, Born To Die. “The thought of dying has always scared me,” she explains, “and it influenced the way I felt when I was younger. I’ve had snapshots of happiness, like when I fell in love – things like that. Born To Die is about honouring true love and enjoying moments of happiness in the midst of mortality.” It’s also the title of her next single – her favourite song on the album – an appropriate one given the solemn string arrangements that underscore her graceful, sensuous pop melodies. But despite the shadow of death, the rising star insists that she remains a resolutely happy person. “I am optimistic in my life. But things haven’t always been that easy, and death is a part of that in terms of people I’ve really loved,” she says. “I don’t talk about it that much. But when I start to write it comes out.” The song also completes a thematic trilogy that began with sleeper hit single Video Games (and its B-side, Blue Jeans) that launched her out of the Brooklyn underground and into the UK top 10, and top 5 on the U.S. iTunes chart. The haunting, cathartic song depicts a woman lost in domestic bliss as she watches the boyfriend she loves play video games. Like many of the best pop songs, Video Games renders a complex emotional situation in simple, visceral and hummable terms. When del Rey posted it on YouTube in August, set to a self-directed music video of nostalgic stock footage cut with footage of her pouting and preening, it initially received attention only from the small group that knew her from Brooklyn’s music clubs. Soon, however, it went viral, propelled equally by glowing reviews and catty derision that questioned the veracity of her backstory: a singer from Lake Placid named Lizzie Grant who’d struggled for seven years in New York City before rechristening herself with a cinematic moniker that better reflects the darkly glamorous mood her music and vintage screen siren image evoke. Many of the attacks were personal, ridi-

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culing her sultry appearance as the work of plastic surgeons, her music as the work of songwriters and her story as the work of spin doctors. How did she deal with it all? “That’s the question, isn’t it?” she says enigmatically. “But I’m not really sure yet.” In October, she announced a deal with Interscope and a short club tour of Europe and North America that sold out in minutes. Speaking over the phone from London, del Rey is articulate and effusive about music, but nervous giggles intrude when the conversation turns personal. She says she’s never had it easy as a musician and wrote Video Games 10 months ago at a time when she’d nearly given up on music to focus on other things. Two months after song went wild on the web, she signed her deal. “I never had huge ambition in terms of being a singer, but I did always hope that I’d be able to tour Europe and have a career making records whose sounds I liked,” she says. “It wasn’t as easy as I thought, and a lot of people actually want that same thing. “When I wrote the song, I thought I was gonna keep on playing in New York just for my friends the way I had been,” she adds. “I just decided that was gonna be okay and started doing a lot of other things.” Seven years earlier, at 18, she’d moved from Lake Placid to New York City to study metaphysics at Fordham U in the Bronx and make it as a musician. After drifting between places, she moved into a trailer park in New Jersey. At a songwriters competition, she caught the attention of a rep from 5 Points Records, a tiny label that signed her and sent her demo to several producers. David Kahne, who works with Paul McCartney among other A-list acts, responded minutes later. They worked together on an album for a year, only to watch the finished product languish for two years as the label tried un-

successfully to upstream it to a major. The label finally released it online in 2010, but pulled it two and a half months later. When asked why it was pulled, she becomes a bit defensive. “It’s not because it’s a bad record,” she says. “We took it down because I was making my second record and [5 Points] didn’t have the time or money to support the first one. There’s no conspiracy, nothing to hide. I consider it to be a masterpiece.” Discouraged, she put Lana del Rey’s career on the back burner to pursue Lizzy Grant’s other interests. “I’ve been singing in New York since I was 18, but I have a really big life outside of music.” Asked about her interests, she hesitates and then explains that for the past six years she’s concentrated on grassroots homeless outreach, helping street people in her New York neighbourhood get their identification and paperwork together to find jobs and transition back to normal life. “My focus for a long time has just been my service work,” she says. “My sister and I have our own homeless outreach thing that we’ve been doing for the last six years. That’s what we do. “We lived together. We were working from home,” she adds. “We have a lot of friends who’ve been involved in the same thing and they all work out of programs and they all came together.” Philosophy is another interest she’s pursued since age 14. “Like all truth-seekers, I’m looking for answers,” she says. “I want to know why we don’t talk about where we come from and why we are here. When I found philosophy, I found other thinkers who were asking questions about the origins of the universe. I felt comforted by that.” Right now she’s devoted to her music. She’s finishing up her second album, a process that began in earnest nearly two years ago after she caught the eye of a music lawyer during the CMJ Music Marathon. He said her dark sound would go over better in Europe and flew her to London to meet producers. She now spends most of her time there. She writes her own lyrics and melodies but works with three producers on the rest: British musician Justin Parker, her best friend and orchestral arranger Daniel Heath, and Kid Cudi collaborator Emile Haynie, who’s helping her with beats and samples. Sonically, she says, we can expect lush, filmic strings with sparse, heavier beats underneath. Hanging around London has also afforded her another collaboration opportunity. A month ago Blur/Gorillaz main man Damon Albarn saw her on TV and invited her to sing on the new Bobby Womack record, which he’s producing. “They wanted me to freestyle a couple of choruses,” she enthuses. “It doesn’t mean that they’re gonna use it. You never know, really, but the boys were nice.” Touring has allayed her fears of performing before larger audiences that, she says, have been “ridiculously nice.” It helps that she’s still enamoured of Video Games, the song that made her famous. “Luckily for me, that song actually embodies the spirit of my record, and melodically it fits perfectly with me. It’s very much myself in song form,” she says. “I’m happy to sing it and I won’t get tired of it.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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Friday night was a homecoming for well-loved Toronto roots-rock trio Elliott Brood, just back from a monthlong tour of western Canada with altcountry band One Hundred Dollars. The party-ready Brood crowd seemed to dig OHD’s raw, lyric-heavy opening set, despite Simone Schmidt’s low-register vocals being muffled in the mix and an unfortunate feedback issue during catchy Waiting On Another, off their recent Songs Of Man album. Schmidt wandered the stage in a sparkly shirt, mic in hand, long hair in her face, while Paul Mortimer banged out one great solo after another overtop Ian Russell’s rhythm guitar. Tour-tired but dapper as ever, Elliott Brood played an hour-and-a-half-long set that was smooth and well-paced

despite technical setbacks. (Casey Laforet had to reconfigure his guitar rig early on, yet that somehow made the band look not just professional but heroic). Laforet and Mark Sasso repeatedly thanked the crowd for being there and asked them to sing along, which they of course did, even on songs from the new World War I-inspired album, Days Into Years. The trio explored a broader sonic palette in the new songs. Sasso put his acoustic guitar through distortion, Laforet played electric guitar and bass pedals, and drummer Stephen Pitkin used a full kit and drum fills to go way beyond the throbbing country-disco beat for which EB is known. Not that they didn’t deliver some classics, too. They stacked the end of the set with danceable singalongs like Oh, Alberta and Write It All Down For You. During the encore – Dylan’s When I Paint My Masterpiece and their own

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Back in 1977, the Diodes played their first “3D” show alongside the Dishes and the Doncasters, a concert now recognized as a landmark in the quickly solidifying Canadian punk movement. Nearly three and a half decades later, with renewed interest in that scene, the Diodes returned to once “alternative” Queen West for a modern-day 3D show at the Horseshoe. Punk rock reunions are criticized for evoking nostalgia for a movement that largely rejected the idea of nostalgia, and considering that the bulk of their set was culled from their 1977 debut

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MATTHEW BARBER and LOUISE BURNS at the Music Gallery, Friday, November 18.

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On the heels of lengthy concept albums that have ranged in theme from astral travel (2009’s Crack The Skye) to Moby Dick (2004’s Leviathan), The Hunter is a thematically varied collection of tracks that mostly clock in under four minutes. Sanders says shelving the concept routine lifted a creative burden from the band’s shoulders. “This time the writing process had such a freer feel to it. We weren’t con fined to writing certain sounds or lyrics under the umbrella of a thematic storyline. ‘Anything goes’ was the [ap proach we took]… so we were able to explore any musical territory we felt like pursuing. “It sparked more fun into the pro cess, as opposed to working on com plex, epic, lengthy songs that are stressful to put together. We did that with Crack The Skye and we’re proud of that album, but this time we want ed to be more freeform. It reignited a raw energy between the four us that we hadn’t felt in a few years.” The Hunter displays some of Masto don’s strongest vocal arrangements to date, with Dailor stepping up his in volvement in the harmonies and even taking a lead turn on a tune called Creature Lives. The increased attention to vocals is partially due to working with Mike Eli zondo for the first time. The producer’s credits are mostly in the pop, hiphop and R&B sphere, but he’d wanted to work with Mastodon since 2006’s Blood Mountain. That collaboration is another ex ample of Mastodon keeping their fans guessing what they’ll do next. “Mike has a very broad range of musical talents, and that’s what brought us together. He was very in sync with the four of us individually as well as with what the band wanted for the sonic feel of the record. He was the perfect man for the job.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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It’s surprising to see a musician of Kathryn Calder’s calibre going on first at a free Nu Music Nite at the Horseshoe. But the Victoria-based indie pop singer/keyboardist – and full-time member of the New Pornographers – couldn’t be happier about it. “It’s actually really great for me,” Calder insists. “Touring with the New Pornographers in other countries, England in particular, I’m used to music curfews being 11 pm. I find that [curfew] so reasonable. Because, honestly, most people coming to see live music have to work the next day. People still party at 9. Think of weddings. People are totally drunk and partying by 9!” Calder is upbeat and genuine, much like the music on her bold sophomore album, Bright And Vivid (File Under: Music). Refreshingly light on electric guitar, it’s driven by her bell-clear vocals and layered synths, and peppered with strings, pump organ, horns, percussion and oddities like the sound of her kitchen’s gas stove turning on. She has a way with melody – hers move in constantly unexpected directions. “I was surprised by the electronic element because it wasn’t something I went out of my way to achieve. But I

was purposely trying to make a bit of a statement, particularly by leading off the record with One Two Three, which is noisy and distorted. I was trying to make the point that I don’t have to make folky records, which I think some people expect me to do. I wanted to surprise people.” Bright And Vivid comes just a year after the acclaimed Are You My Mother?, a sparser effort written while Calder was taking care of her mom, who died in July 2009. Since then, Calder’s father has also passed away – from a stroke last Christmas Eve. It’s actually a bit hard to reconcile those heavy circumstances with Bright And Vivid’s undeniable uplift. “I think that because my mom’s illness had been going on for a long time and her decline had been relatively quick, by the time 2010 came along I was quite ready to start working on new material. To kind of move on and put a foot forward…. And then Dad, well, that was very sudden. It’s been very strange and surreal. Very tough. “But the thing is, my parents were huge supporters of my music career. They paid for my piano lessons when I was small. They were supportive when I dropped out of school to join the New Pornographers. I’d be hard pressed to stop music and be able to say that that’s what they would’ve wanted. That just isn’t true. I can’t use their deaths as an excuse to quit.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

AIR CANADA CENTRE Watch The Throne Tour The Throne (Kanye West & Jay-Z) 7:30 pm. ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park. BOVINE SEX CLUB Slayer Party Diemonds, Shotgun Cure, DJ Steve Rock. DAKOTA TAVERN Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Nick Teehan, Silbin Sandovar 10 pm. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE Weekend Startup Boot Knives doors 11 pm. EL MOCAMBO G Mark Weston, Treasures, Cletus 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S The Hollow Bodies, Pat Martini 8 pm, Andrew Hickey 5 to 7 pm. HEMINGWAYS Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 9 pm.

Just announced Sound Academy doors 6 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TM. January 28.

Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Music Club Index, page 60, for venue address and phone number.

Thursday, November 24

ticketless fans vowed they’d make the trek to London or even Kanata to get the chance to boogie down with the Purple One. Hell, plenty of diehards are probably going to all three. These are, after all, the flamboyant Minneapolis musician’s first Canadian shows since 2002. Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Friday and Saturday (November 25 and 26), 8 pm. $49.50-$250. TM.

Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall $25$105. 416-964-6337. December 14 to 17.

this week

BASSEKOU KOUYATE & NGONI BA, DANIEL NEBIAT

FUNK-POP

TAFELMUSIK Handel’s Messiah Royal

clubs&concerts

KITTIE Opera House 7 pm, all ages, $17. TM. February 18.

DROPKICK MURPHYS Sound

Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $30.50. RT, SS, TM. February 22. DEICIDE Opera House 7 pm, all ages, $28.50. TM. March 6. GRIMES Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $8. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 19. FIRST AID KIT The Great Hall 9 pm, $18. TW. April 4.

HOLY OAK CAFE Thom Gill (pop) 10 pm. ñ HORSESHOE Current Swell, Michou, the Ascot

Royals 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Zeus doors 8:30 pm. ñ NOCTURNE Food For Thought: An Evening Of

THE NAKED & FAMOUS

Conscience Hip-Hop Vibonics, Jay So Breezy, Suspicious Package, Admiral Krumple, Devilz Speciez doors 10 pm. OPERA HOUSE Fearless Friends Tour blessthefall, the Word Alive, Motionless in White, Tonight Alive, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! doors 6 pm, all ages.

Sound Academy 8 pm, all ages, $32.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 5. JOHNNY REID General Motors Centre 6:30 pm, all ages, $24.50-$59.50. May 10.

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& labouR Marine Dreams & USA Out of Vietnam, Hut (rock) 10 pm. ñpaRts phoenix ConCeRt theatRe Hey Rosetta!, the Jezebels, Ivan & Alyosha ñ doors 8 pm. the piston Boys Who Say No, Dilly Dally 10 pm. pRess Club Sarah Burton Band (roots pop) 10 pm. Rivoli Red Hot Chili Peppers Day The Power of

Equality (RHCP cover band) 9 pm. silveR dollaR EP release The Cool Hands, Wet Dreams, No Breakup. the sisteR MISO. sound aCadeMy Nirvana Tribute Hands & Teeth, Dinosaur Bones, Rebel Emergency, the Johnstones, the Junction doors 7 pm. southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. velvet undeRgRound Techstasy, Dead Red Velvet, DJ Osaze doors 9 pm. viRgin Mobile Mod Club Korpiklaani, Polka dot Cadaver, Forged in Flame, Rossomahaar doors 7 pm, all ages. white swan R&B Rock Jam. the wilson 96 Jeff Eager (roots/rock) 9 pm.

FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

aquila upstaiRs Suitcase Sam & the Suits (acoustic blues). aspetta Caffe Open Mic Nite 7 pm. blue Moon Firedance (drum and dance circle) 8 pm. CaMeRon house Fedora Upside Down 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. CastRo’s lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. the danny Acoustic Open Stage Sebastian Agnello (eclectic) 9:30 pm. dave’s... on st ClaiR Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (country/folk/blues/rock) 9:30 pm. eMMet Ray baR Mr Rick & the Biscuits (country) 9 pm. gladstone hotel The Distillery Blues Band 10 pm. holy oak Cafe Lost Girl (old time) 7 pm. hugh’s RooM CD release Ariana Gillis, Kath erine Wheatley 8:30 pm. living aRts CentRe RbC theatRe JW Jones (blues) 8 pm. the loCal Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban) 10 pm. Magpie Cafe Shannon Hoff, Darin Yorston (folk/blues/bluegrass) 10 pm. naCo galleRy Cafe Laura Repo (country) 9 pm. tRanzaC southeRn CRoss Bluegrass Thursdays The Preseason Draft w/ Mike Eckert 10 pm, Houndstooth, Mother Banjo (bluegrass/old-time) 6:30 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

Cool Runnings RestauRant Norman

Marshall Villeneuve’s Jazz Message Trio 8 to 11 pm. doMinion on queen Jefferson Grant Quin tet 8:30 pm. edo Brenda Lewis, Tony Quarrington & Bren dan Davis Jazz Trio 7:30 pm.

edwaRd Johnson building walteR hall

10 O’Clock Jazz Orchestra, Kirk MacDonald 7:30 pm. the flying beaveR pubaRet Tabby Johnson w/ Rosemary Galloway & Neil Brathwaite (soulful jazz) 7:30 pm. galleRy 345 Enoch Arden By Richard Strauss Mauro Bertoli, Kevin White (piano, voice) 8 pm. gate 403 Mighty Tusk Band 5 to 8 pm. gate 403 Cyndi Carleton Jazz & Swing Band 9 pm. glenn gould studio Fallen Realm Adam Sherkin (piano) 8 pm. habits gastRopub Jazz Duos 7 to 10 pm. haRleM undeRgRound Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm. MetRopolitan united ChuRCh Noon At Met Sarah Svendsen (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. old Mill inn hoMe sMith baR John Sher wood (solo piano). Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Rex Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. Rex Barry Elmes Quintet 9:45 pm. Roy thoMson hall Branford Marsalis, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (saxophone) 8 pm.

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Don’t miss the final Slayer Party of the year, which will not only deliver all your fave heavy metal tuneage, but also performances by local sleazerockers Diemonds and thrash metallers shotgun Cure. Sure to be a demonic good time. Bovine Sex Club, tonight (Thursday, November 24). $5.

room temperature Need a hot fix of body-rocking and, er, slam-dancing to offset those cold temperatures now creeping in? The disco/house monthly series Room Temperature takes over Lower Ossington Theatre Friday (November 25), with DJ sets by Nacho lovers and parasol and frenetic art-punk from Bad Dads. $5.

Royal ConseRvatoRy of MusiC ConseRva toRy theatRe Véronique Mathieu 7:30 pm. soMewheRe theRe studio Aaron Lumley &

Liam Parker 8 pm. tRane studio Nina Simone The Sharron Mc leod Fauxtet 8:30 pm. waylabaR All That Jazz Jeffrey Hewer Trio (swingin’ classics) 9 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

aliCe fazooli’s squaRe one DJ Other Brother

Darryl (rocksteady/rock & roll/hip-hop/funk) 7 pm. blaCk Moon lounge Sound Directions (house/electronica/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight. blondies No Rule!! (underground rock & roll past and present) 10 pm. CobRa lounge Dirty Nasty, DJ Jedi & Matt Medley. CRawfoRd downstaiRs Barletta, Paul David, Burner Mag DJs (house/electro). CRawfoRd upstaiRs Movember Fundraiser DJ New Money. dRake hotel undeRgRound Africa Hitech (Mark Pritchard & Steve Spacek), Mymanhenri, Kevin McPhee (electro) doors 10 pm. fly Rocket DJ Sumation 10 pm.5 gladstone hotel ballRooM TeddyFest: Benefit Auction DJ Paul Petro 7 pm. goodhandy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 gRotto lounge Bar Fly DJ Spence Diamonds, DJ Corey Dawkins 8 pm.

the hoxton

Boys Noize doors 10 pm. ñ insoMnia DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house).

lolabaR DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/ R&B).

MaRgRet RAG (girl rock anthems). the ossington E-Z Now DJ Lite Favourites at

Work (smooth tunes). shallow gRoove New Country Thursdays DJ Jonathan Demers 8 pm.

Friday, November 25 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL aiR Canada CentRe

Prince. ñ alleyCatz Graffitti Park. annex wReCkRooM The 3Tards, Epeleptic Brain Surgeons, Fatality 9 pm. ñ aquila upstaiRs Pete Eastmure & the Well

digger Band (rock). baR 460 Warlock Moon, Douchine, Durvasag, Sounds Like War (black metal/thrash metal) 8:30 pm. baR italia upstaiRs Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/ top 40) 9:30 pm. bovine sex Club Wreck The Halls Video Party The Waxmen, South of Bloor, DJ Vania 8:30 pm. CadillaC lounge The Paul James Band (blues). CadillaC lounge baCk patio Ancient Chi nese Secret 7:30 pm. the Cave Silent Shout, Rouge, Gold Zebra, Autoportrait doors 9 pm. dRake hotel undeRgRound Ganglians, Friends doors 8 pm. el MoCaMbo CD release Lauren Malyon, Lit tle Black Dress, Winter City 8:30 pm. el MoCaMbo upstaiRs Gin & Phonic The Heavyweights Brass Band, DJs Mog paws & Diabloavocado (soul/jazz/funk/electronic). the flying beaveR pubaRet Slanty Eyed Mama (Kate Rigg, Lyris Hung) 8 pm. the gaRRison Light Fires, Dance Your self to Death. gladstone hotel Justice For Children & Youth Benefit Arlene Bishop, Steven Foster, Jen Schaffer & the Shiners, the Sneaky Cas tros doors 7 pm. gRaffiti’s Paul Martin Rocks For Sick Kids 5 to 7 pm. heMingways Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 10 pm. hoRseshoe CD release Cuff the Duke, Huddle, JJ Ipsen doors 9 pm. See preview, page 59. continued on page 54 œ

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kool hauS Mastodon, Dillinger Escape

Plan, Red Fang doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 50. laMBadina Friday Night Expo DJ Red Out (live hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. lee’S Palace TNG, Julia Set Generator, Recover 9:30 pm. MaSSey hall Classic Albums Live: The Band – The Last Waltz 8 pm. naughTy nadz CD release The iDENTiTY CRiSiS doors 7 pm. oPera houSe Thursday, Maylene & the Sons of Disaster, Zechs Marquise & Native doors 7 pm, all ages. The PorT LP release Silver Dapple, Each Other, Odonis Odonis 10 pm. PreSS cluB Jim MacDonald (acoustic/alternative/roots) 10 pm. queen elizaBeTh TheaTre Ray Davies doors 7 pm. rancho relaxo The Indie Machine Polyester Heart, Kirby, BrodieDakin, Modern Field Recordings doors 9 pm. rivoli Pop With Brains #34 Benefit for Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Behind Sapphires, 1977, Secrettes, Cedar, Don’t Stop, DJ the FranDiscos doors 9:30 pm. Silver dollar Cheap Thrills, the Get Nuns, the Sphinxs, the Leslie Spits. The SiSTer Red Revue. Sound acadeMy Lights, Nightbox, Rich Aucoin 9 pm, all ages. See Rich Aucoin preview, page 55. SouThSide Johnny’S The Lineup (rock/blues) 10 pm. STeaM WhiSTle BreWing Unsigned Series Still Life Still, Tiny Danza, Teenage X, Dinosaur Bones (DJ set) doors 8 pm. Tranzac SouThern croSS GUH (indie) 10 pm.

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FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

aSPeTTa caffe Brett Dylan, Cordcalling, Michael Lindberg (folk/rock) 7 pm.

caMeron houSe Kayla Howran 10 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm.

doMinion on queen Havana To Toronoto Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo 9 pm.

gladSTone hoTel Melody Bar Gypsy Rebels (world) 9 pm.

graffiTi’S Hicks & Dawe Country Band 8 pm. highWay 61 SouThern BarBeque Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals 8 pm.

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holy oak cafe Square Peg String Band (old time) 7 pm.

hugh’S rooM The Heart Of Saturday

Night: Tom Waits Tribute Matt Brubeck ñ & Roberta Harrison, Ariana Gillis, Al Parrish,

Big Rude Jake, Elizabeth Shepherd, Joe Nolan and others 8:30 pm. lula lounge Sintonia Carioca, Carla Dias, Jo

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Luterio (música populaire brasileira/samba) 9 pm.

MarkhaM TheaTre for The PerforMing arTS Gamushara – The Beat Of Courage

Yamato Drummers of Japan 8 pm. rePoSado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). roSe TheaTre George Canyon 8 pm. roSehill lounge Read Africa Ball benefit for CODE Amadou Kienou & the Resolutionaries Marimba Band 8 pm.

ToronTo cenTre for The arTS george WeSTon reciTal hall Masters Of Oud, Sitar & Flamenco Guitar Magnificent Strings 8 pm.

TriniTy ST. Paul’S church CD release Jon Brooks 8 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

alliance françaiSe doWnToWn Maurice Ravel & Omar Daniel Olivier Chauzu (piano) 7:30 pm. Fchurch of The redeeMer A Christmas Concert The Weston Silver Band, the Timothy Eaton Memorial Church Choir School 7:30 pm. dave’S... on ST clair Happy Hour Jazz Chicken Scratch 5 to 8 pm. edWard JohnSon Building WalTer hall

Guitar Ensemble 7:30 pm. free TiMeS cafe Stephanie Martin Quintet (jazzy soul) 8:30 pm. fuzion Fridays At Fuzion Melissa Lauren & Ken Lindsay 6 to 9 pm. gallery 345 The Music Of George Enescu Ilya Poletaev, Axel Strauss (piano, violin) 8 pm. gaTe 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm, Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. glenn gould STudio Canadian Songbook Justin Rutledge (Americana country) 8 pm. harleM Shelly Hamilton (Latin jazz/soul/pop) 7:30 pm. harT houSe arBor rooM Jazz At Oscar’s Terry Promane Jazz Orchestra 9 pm. huB 14 Free Bach: Movement Improvisation on Bach’s 1st solo cello suite Tilman Lewis (cello) 8 pm. Fliving arTS cenTre haMMerSon hall Joy To The World Czech Boys Choir 8 pm. FMeTroPoliTan uniTed church BachFest I: Christmas Oratorio, Parts 1-3 Metropolitan Bach Choir & Orchestra 7:30 pm. MuSic gallery Emergents 1 Stephen Tam, Marta Herman (flute/vocals) 8 pm. old Mill inn hoMe SMiTh Bar Fridays To Sing About! Bonnie Brett Trio 7:30 pm. quoTeS Fridays At Five Richard Underhill (saxophone) 5 to 8 pm. rex Barry Elmes Quintet 9:45 pm, Don Scott Trio 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

royal conServaTory of MuSic koerner hall Royal Conservatory Orchestra, Uri Mayer 8 pm.

SoMeWhere There STudio Leftover Daylight

Series Hat & Beard, Paul Dutton, Dan Friedman, Keir Neuringer, Joe Sorbara, Allison Cameron, Deaglan Wallingford-Kernohan 8 pm. ToronTo cenTre for The arTS A Romantic Tryst With Liszt! Angela Park, Rachel Mercer, Eve Rachel McLeod 8 pm.

Trane STudio Jhon Clark (Creole soul) 8 pm. Tranzac SouThern croSS Errunriv (avant-garde

jazz) 7:30 pm, The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm. WaTerfallS Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Beaver A Night In The Snowy Bush: Kate Bush album release party DJs New Romantic & Bobby Alfons 11 pm. Black Moon lounge Sound Directions (house/ electronica/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight. BuddieS in Bad TiMeS TheaTre Fuck U Fridays DJ Triple-X, DJ Posterboy 10:30 pm.5 caSTro’S lounge DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. clinTon’S Music For Winners Dance Armstrong. cloak & dagger PuB Elektro Tank (DJ set). coBra lounge Funkagenda, Manzone & Strong, Adam Kyron, Joee Cons. craWford uPSTairS Get Amplified! (hip-hop). craWford doWnSTairS Faith (80s throwbacks). drake hoTel underground Itzsoweezee, Tom Wrecks, Demiggs doors 11 pm. drake hoTel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. eTon houSe Singles Dance DJ Phil (top 40) 9 pm. fly Dance Camp: We Run The World! DJ Mark Falco, Pop Candy Lounge, DJ Rolls Royce 10 pm.5 fooTWork Dunity, Addy doors 10 pm. fuzion Head: Sex Music With Soul DJ Denise Benson (house/tech/future grooves) 10 pm. goodhandy’S Bone Weary: Gerald Hannon Retirement Party DJ Nik Red (neo soul/nu jazz) doors 9 pm.5 The greaT hall Freerange Records Celebration Jimpster (uber deep & Underground beats) 10 pm. harleM Prince4U DJ Sean S, Jason Palma (all Prince all night) 10 pm. hoT Box cafe Big Spliff Joda C, Mike S (reggae/ roots/rocksteady/dub/early dancehall) 7 pm. inSoMnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Matty Ryce (house/breaks). loWer oSSingTon TheaTre Room Temperature Nacho Lovers, Bad Dads, Parasol (disco/house/boogie). naco gallery cafe Gayfinity DJs Leila P, Alex M, leatherDATA (dancehall/hip-hop/disco/ house) 10 pm.5 nocTurne Space Pirates & Shakti Collective DJs Southwild, Ekoplex, Plan B, Twisted Eagle (psytrance/psychadelic dance) doors 10 pm. The oSSingTon Get Buck DJ Nino Brown (hiphop/soul/R&B/dancehall). The PiSTon Shindig (Motown/Stax/Northern soul) 10 pm. rainBoW Palace Embryon B7, Deztro, Thuun, Jesse Jet & Damo (hardcore/ hardstyle/dubstep) 10 pm. raSPuTin vodka Bar Weight Lift DJs Dustbuster, Weapon Keys, Dusty Metropolis (funk/house/boogie). The Savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. ShalloW groove House & Old School. SuPerMarkeT Market Fresh DJ Classick (hiphop/party jams) 10 pm. virgin MoBile Mod cluB Arcade Zedd & Phonat doors 10 pm. Woo’S lounge Heart Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz doors at 10:30 pm.

Saturday, November 26 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

acadeMy of lionS CD release: Benefit

ñ air canada cenTre Prince. ñ alleycaTz Graffitti Park.

concert for This Shirt Built A School In Africa Kids & Explosions.

aquila uPSTairS The Paul Gellman Band

(rock/R&B).

Bar iTalia uPSTairS Jordan John & the Funk

Parade w/ Prakash John & Al Webster 9:30 pm.

Bovine Sex cluB Jack Rollin Dandies, Reverse Grip, Reed Holland, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

doMinion on queen Ronnie Hayward Trio 3 to 7 pm.

douBle douBle land Cheap Thrills Nordic Nomadic, Hollow Earth, Black Walls ñ doors 8 pm. el MocaMBo Ketch Harbour Wolves, FireX-

Fire, River Tiber 9 pm. eTon houSe Who Stole The Cookies? (rock) 9 pm. The flying Beaver PuBareT Slanty Eyed Mama (Kate Rigg, Lyris Hung) 10 pm. The flying Beaver PuBareT Lucas Silveira 8 pm.

The garage Township, the Soupcans, Holy Mount, Hussy 9 pm.

graffiTi’S Russell Leon’s SSW Saturday Night

evening, Dodge Fiasco (rock) 4 to 7 pm. heMingWayS Jan Albert (rock/country/ blues/jazz) 10 pm. holy oak cafe Yuka & Jean Darlene (funk) 10 pm. kaPiSanan PhiliPPine cenTre Daps All Ages Volume 8 Maiko Watson, Christien Summers, Memoryhouse 2:30 to 6 pm. lee’S Palace Exit 404, Bloody Five, the Diction, Random Family 9:30 pm. naThan PhilliPS Square Cavalcade Of Lights Jarvis Church, Kellylee Evans, JRDN, Justin Hines, Victoria Duffield 7 pm. Phoenix concerT TheaTre Delhi 2 Dublin, Grand Analog doors 8 pm. The PiSTon The Order of Good Cheer, Molly Rankin 10 pm. queen elizaBeTh TheaTre Timber Timbre, Agnes Obel doors 7 pm, all ages. rex Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm, Brunch Matinee Danny Marks (pop) noon.

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royal conServaTory of MuSic koerner hall Still Black, Still Proud: An African ñ Tribute To James Brown Pee Wee Ellis, Maceo Parker, Cheikh Lô (soul/funk/R&B) 8 pm. Silver dollar EP release Heartbeat Hotel, Ostrich Tuning, Foxes in Fiction. The SiSTer Miracle Whip, the Z-Rays, Arson. SPorTSTer’S Nicola Vaughan 10 pm. Tranzac SouThern croSS Ben Gunning 9-Piece Group, Yellow Jacket Avenger Solo 10 pm, Joe Hall (pop) 6:30 pm. WaTerfallS Rub A Dub Market Progress, Anthony King, Amber Cotes & April Johnston, XIXGON INTL, the Rebel Alliance Band (reggae/dancehall) doors 10 pm.

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FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD

aSPeTTa caffe Ukulele Stu, Ciaran O’Shea,

Town Hall Cryers (country/folk) 4 pm to midnight. BeTTy oliPhanT TheaTre World Instrumental Music Concert Sajjad 8 pm. cadillac lounge The Mashmen (folk/pop) evening, Mary & Micky (country) 3:30 pm. caMeron houSe Sheesham & Lotus 10 pm, Lil Jimmy’s Chicken Pickers 6 pm. caSTro’S lounge Big Rude Jake (blues) 4:30 to 7:30 pm. c’eST WhaT CD release Andy Griffiths 8 pm. dora keogh Howard Gladstone (singer/ songwriter) 9:30 pm. eTon houSe Broadbelly Band (country) 4 pm. free TiMeS cafe Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party, Ada Dahli 9 pm. gaTe 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. gladSTone hoTel Joanne Mackell & Tru Grit (country) 9 pm. horSeShoe CD release Cuff the Duke, the Pinecones, Louise Burns (alt country) 9:30 pm. hugh’S rooM Ferron, Sarah MacDougall 8:30 pm. The local Vanessa’s Entire Heart w/ Kristine Schmitt evening, Arthur Renwick 4 pm. lula lounge Salsa Saturday Cafe Cubano, DJ Suave 10 pm.

MarkhaM TheaTre for The PerforMing

arTS Gamushara – The Beat Of Courage Yamato Drummers of Japan 2 & 8 pm. MaSSey hall Women’s Blues Revue Kat Danser, Ada Lee, Emma-Lee, Treasa Levasseur, Shakura S’Aida, Suzie Vinnick 8 pm. PreSS cluB The Theatre Zero (folk indie) 10 pm. reBaS café Open Mic Saturdays Judith McBurney 1 to 4 pm.

Froyal canadian legion – PorT crediT

Acoustic Christmas Wendell Ferguson, Kevin Phillips, Michael Theodore 8 pm. SouThSide Johnny’S Robin Banks Band (blues/soul) 10 pm, Robin Banks Trio (blues/ jazz/soul) 3:30 to 7:30 pm. ST nicholaS anglican church Acoustic Harvest Christina Smith & Jean Hewson, Brown Ale 8 pm. Tranzac Tiki rooM Fiddle Class Anne Lederman noon.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

Fcalvin PreSByTerian church Around The

Mediterranean: A Holiday Concert The Jubilate Singers, Maryam Tollar & Ensemble 8 pm. chalkerS PuB Side B (Multifunktion) Josef Botos, Brian Chahley, Robi Botos, Kelly Jefferson 6 to 9 pm. FchriST church deer Park A Glorious English Christmas Ryerson Oakham House Choir, Matthew Cassils (baritone) 7:30 pm. continued on page 58 œ

exuberant pop

Rich Aucoin

Halifax musician finally has an over-the-top LP to match his live shows By RichaRd TRapunski RICH AUCOIN with LIGHTS and NIGHTBOX at Sound Academy (11 Polson), November 25. $27.50-$35. RT, SS, TM.

Rich Aucoin built his reputation on his legendary live show, a confetti-laden, barrier-free, audio-visual dance party that can coax gleeful participation out of even the most hardened crossarmed cynic. But after countless hours of work, thousands of kilometres of travel and contributions from more than 500 musicians from all over Canada, the Halifax songwriter finally has a fulllength album that can stand on its own. Culled from myriad guest performances and arranged into an epic 22-track song suite, We’re All Dying To Live (Sonic) matches the communal, bittersweet, we’re-all-in-this-together spirit of his live show on a purely auditory level. “It’s nice that the headline isn’t always ‘Rich knows how to throw a party,’” says the soft-spoken Aucoin over the phone from Brazil, where he’s been invited to perform two shows at the Eletronika Festival. “There’s finally something that can go out and spread the music, rather than just me.” In the three years that the album took to write, record and mix, Aucoin’s legend has spread, almost entirely on the strength of his performances,

often held at unconventional venues and house parties. He relies on that intimacy for crowd-leading tricks like individualized choreography and parachute games, but ironically it’s led to big-ticket festival gigs and high-profile opening slots. So how does he adapt to larger venues? “Well, I have a slightly bigger parachute now,” Aucoin deadpans. “And I’ve made it a rule of thumb not to immediately jump into the crowd at the beginning of each song. The larger environments can be fun because the bigger the crowd, the bigger the singalongs.” His record release at Halifax Pop Explosion gathered nearly 100 musicians to recreate the larger-than-life instrumentals and gang vocals, but since it’s logistically impossible to carry that version of the show on tour, he instead sources as much as he can from his crowds. Still, he admits he’s considering similar shows in Toronto and Montreal, where many of the album’s guest musicians live. “My mission statement is to make sure that someone can’t say, ‘I’ve seen that show, I don’t have to see it again,’” says Aucoin. “I want to introduce something new or fresh at every performance.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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friday december 16 • lee’S palace • $18.00 adv

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friday january 27 horSeShoe • $15.00 advance

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cuff the duke electric six thee $ 14.00

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lee’S palace • $ 20.00 adv • rootS alt country

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Saturday

february 11 lee’S palace

the skeletones

mon november 28 $ 12.00

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Bloodshot Bill

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FChurCh of the holy trinity Nowell Sing We Cantemus Singers 7:30 pm.

edward Johnson Building walter hall

Pura Fé, U of T Music Students 7:30 pm. gate 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm, Ian Sinclair Trio (jazz) noon to 3 pm. gloBal Kingdom ministries Raise Your Voices Tour Tenore (Shane Wiebe, Jason Catron, Mark David Williams), Toronto Mass Choir (gospel) 7 pm. harlem James King Trio (jazz/soul) 7:30 pm. harlem underground Carl Bray (jazz) 8 pm. FKingston rd united ChurCh Sounds Of Yule Toronto Beach Chorale 7:30 pm.

Bank Chris McKhool, Suba Sankaran, Aviva Chernick, Shannon Thunderbird, Maryem Hassan Tollar, Ernie Tollar, Jordan Klapman & Sultans of String 1 pm. viCtoria College Chapel Hit & Run Scaramella (17th-century music) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

annex wreCKroom DJ Rick Toxic 10 pm. the Barn Mad House DJ ViVi Diamond (top 40/remixes/electro) 10 pm.5

Clinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush

(rock & roll dance party). CoBra lounge The Fix Fridays: Forever Yonge Ink Hennie V (house/hip-hop/club anthems). Crawford upstairs Ignition DJ Caff (R&B). Crawford downstairs Grilled Cheese (old school hip-hop). draKe hotel underground Evening living arts Centre hammerson hall Standard, Soho 808, Membersonly Beethoven’s Fifth The Mississauga Symphony doors 11 pm. Orchestra 8 pm, all ages. draKe hotel lounge DJ Jr Flo doors 10 pm. old mill inn home smith Bar Jazz Masters Lorne Lofsky Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. emBassy Bar Pressure Drop: Wailers Tribute DJs Moose Jah, Guv’nor General, Chuck rex Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 3:30 pm. Boom, Morningside 116 10 pm. rex Phil Dwyer 9:45 pm. emmet ray Bar A Nice & Smooth Night DJ rex Rich Brown’s Rinse The Algorithm Gerald Belanger 10 pm. 12:45 am. fly Matinee – Amazing Tour! DJ Lydia Sanz, DJ roy thomson hall Classical Spotlight Shawn Riker, DJ Mike Vieira.5 Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm. footworK DJ T, James Teej, Jamie Kidd, somewhere there studio Ken AldNathan Barato. croft, John Oswald, Michelangelo gladstone hotel melody Bar Beats N Iaffaldano, Octopus (Mark Zurawinski & Brunch DJ Damn Aykroyd 11 am to 4 pm. Germaine Liu) 8 pm. goodhandy’s Leather & Fetish Naked Dance st John’s norway angliCan ChurCh East DJ Sexy Pants 6 pm.5 End Refugee Committee benefit The Bach Children’s Chorus & Bach Chamber Youth grotto lounge Bogey Nights DJ Grouch, Choir 7:30 pm. Bozack Morris doors 10 pm. st simon-the-apostle angliCan ChurCh hot Box Cafe Saturday Slam: Pot Smokers Traditional Ways Of Remembering Bell’Arte Dub Science Open Mic Red Gorilla Sound BrigSingers (choral/classical) 8 pm. ade (reggae/jungle/dubstep/electro) 7 pm. toronto west masoniC temple Sounds Of the hoxton Alvin Risk doors 10 pm. The Solar System: Crystal Journey David insomnia Sense Saturday DJ Charles (deep Michael Hickey (symphonic gongs/quartz house). crystal bowls/santoor/vibraphone) 8 pm. lamBadina The Art Of Raw Fresco P, DJ trinity College Renaissance And Beyond: Skeletah & Redi 10 pm. Benefit Concert for Daily Bread Food Bank & RCM_Now1/5bw_contests_Nov24_Layout 1 11-11-09 11:40 AM Page 1 lolaBar DJ Mr Stylus (house/hip-hop/R&B/ Trinity College Choral Scholarship Fund Cantareggae). bile Chamber Singers 7:30 pm.

mint night CluB Marquee Saturdays Rene-

Cameron house Jack Marks (country/folk)

naCo gallery Cafe Last Tapette DJ Phil V

Cameron house Kevin Quain & the Mad

gade Squad.

10:30 pm. neu+ral Fixion Saturdays DJ Dwight (alt/ electronic/indie/retro/remix). noCturne Bring The Bass: Black & White Movember DJs Mark Grimace, Cynex & Destructo, Lady Bass, Ken Finch, DJ Flyboy, Polaris, Bacchus, addaM, Switchbass doors 10 pm. the ossington Love Handle DJs Catalist & Famous Lee (boogie/funk dance party). parts & laBour Born To Run DMC DJs Miz Brown & Paul G (rock/hip-hop) 10 pm. rivoli Footprints 10 pm. shallow groove DJs Carl Allen & Jay Dunaway (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. sutra The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hiphop).

Sunday, November 27 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

aspetta Caffe Strange Specimens (indie rock) 3 to 5 pm.

Castro’s lounge Cash on Demand (Johnny Cash covers) 4 to 7 pm.

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

9:30 pm.

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

dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

graffiti’s Michael Brennan 4 to 7 pm. the hideout Julian Taylor Band (rock singer/

songwriter) 11 pm. holy oaK Cafe Tripple Gangers & OG Melody (pop) 9 pm. parts & laBour 7-inch release show Total Trash, Mighty Atom, Direct Approach, Violent Future (hardcore punk) 7 pm, all ages. plaCeBo spaCe Advance Base, Alpha Couple, Mantler doors 8:30 pm, all ages.

royal Conservatory of musiC mazzoleni hall Mazzoleni Masters Barry Shiffman, Andres Díaz, Jeanie Chung 2 pm.

the wilson 96 Beefknuckle Sunday Supper Show 6 to 9 pm.

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aQuila upstairs Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds, Martin Alex Aucoin (mostly blues) 3:30 pm. aQuila Open Mic The McDales’ 8:30 pm.

6 pm.

Bastards 9 pm.

Clinton’s Ben Kunder. free times Cafe Chicka Boom Kathy Anderson,

Jamie Arfin, Ashley Keefer 8 pm. gate 403 James Brown Student Recital 1 to 3 pm. gladstone hotel Acoustic Brunch (bluegrass) 9 am to 2 pm, Old Time Jam 2 to 5:30 pm. the great hall Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Daniel Nebiat doors 8 pm. grossman’s Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm.

harBourfront Centre Brigantine room

Music With Bite: Annabelle Follows Her Voice (family concert) 1 pm. harlem The Roots Lounge Open Mic & Poetry Slam Dwayne Morgan, Lishai 8 pm. hugh’s room Suzanna Da Camara & Her Company of Men, Ashleigh Semkiw, Nicole Byblow and others 8:30 pm. living arts Centre Old Time Ways Family Concert Sheesham & Lotus 1 & 3 pm. the loCal Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm, Hannah Naiman 5 pm. lula lounge Sunday Family Salsa Brunch 12:30 & 2:30 pm. press CluB Staggy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. reBas Café Ruth Jenkins (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. southside Johnny’s Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Band 9:30 pm. supermarKet Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. tranzaC southern Cross Marianne Girard (folk) 3 pm.

Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL

CadillaC lounge Swinging Sundays Tia Brazda & her Madmen 9 pm.

ChalKers puB Ensemble Vivant Ensemble Vi-

vant (Catherine Wilson, Erica Beston, Sybil Shanahan) 2 to 5 pm. dominion on Queen Musical Theatre Cabaret 7 to 11 pm. emmet ray Bar Tropical Punch (tropical jazz) 9 pm. Ffairmont royal yorK hotel Sing Loo! four-hour long sing-athon concert Toronto Children’s Chorus noon to 4 pm. gate 403 Definitely Spot-On 9 pm, Brownman Akoustic Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. Fhope united ChurCh Nowell Sing We Cantemus Singers 3 pm. hot Box Cafe Jazz 7 pm. pauper’s puB Ron Westray Quartet 3 pm. rex Mark Segger Sextet 9:30 pm, Ugly Beaut-

ies & Marilyn Lerner 7 pm, Freeway Dixieland 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. roy thomson hall Classical Spotlight Toronto Symphony Orchestra 3 pm. somewhere there studio Paul Newman, Rosana Coutinho Trio 8 pm, Jack Vorvis, Ken Aldcroft 5 pm. Fst martin in-the-fields ChurCh Dancing Day Healey Willan Singers (seasonal music) 3 pm. Fst patriCK’s ChurCh Handel’s Messiah Mississauga Choral Society & Orchestra 3 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. Crawford Church: Soul Sundays DJ Fase (soul/funk/Motown/R&B). goodhandy’s The Almighty Ball 3 DJ Blackcat (R&B/reggae/house/hip-hop/soca) doors 6 pm.5 graffiti’s Blackmetal Brunch DJ Murder Mike (black metal) 11 am to 5 pm. insomnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. the ossington Unlimited Sundays. tattoo roCK parlour The Sex You Want: Fundraiser For The Aids Committee Of Toronto 4 Korners (house/hip-hop/club anthems) 7 pm.

Monday, November 28 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

Bovine sex CluB Pet Milk. Castro’s lounge The Turnarounds (rocka-

billy) 9 pm.

draKe hotel underground Elvis Monday (doors 9 pm).

the garrison Touche Amore, Pianos Become

the Teeth, Seahaven (hardcore punk) doors 7 pm, all ages. harlem Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/ soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm. harlem underground Daniel Gagnon (pop/ folk/rock) 8 pm. lee’s palaCe Tandoori Knights, Bloodshot Bill, King Khan doors 8 pm. the piston Junk Shop Huckleberry Friends, Actual Water, Madame Raz, DJs Tweed & Jeeks (pre- to post-punk/new wave/garage/ indie) 10 pm. press CluB Domestic Bliss Mondays BISON (rock) 10 pm. roy thomson hall Live & Unleashed: Ontario SPCA Benefit Steven Page, Planet Earth, Matthew James 8 pm. the wilson 96 Jeff Beadle (roots/alt country) 9 pm. continued on page 60 œ

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At the heart of Cuff the Duke’s fifth album, Morning Comes, is the song Standing On The Edge. Fuelled by jangly guitar and big choruses, it’s about feeling uncertainty about the present but holding out tentative hope for the future. According to singer/songwriter Wayne Petti, Standing On The Edge pretty much sums up the album. “This record is a coming-of-age thing for me,” he says. “It’s either the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning, you know what I mean?” He and bassist Paul Lowman, both 31, have played in the Toronto via Oshawa rootsy indie band for a decade now, and guitarist Dale Murray for five years. During the making of Morning Comes, they switched managers, signed to Paper Bag and got a new drummer, AJ Johnson, who joined after Corey Wood left. Despite the losses and changes, the songs are Cuff the Duke’s catchiest and most upbeat yet. Petti cites the Jayhawks, CCR and Tom Petty as inspiration. “We had songs in the past, like Ballad Of A Lonely Construction Worker,

with meandering two-and-a-halfminute intros,” he says. “[This time] I was obsessed with writing a song where the second chorus hits when we’re only one and a half minutes into the song.” The band returned to Greg Keelor’s farmhouse near Peterborough to track the album, where they’d also recorded 2010’s Way Down Here. This time they and the Blue Rodeo musician got a fuller sound complete with three- and four-part harmonies. For the first time, Petti recorded his lead vocals live. (“It

kind of freaked me out.”) They plan to head back to Keelor’s studio in the spring to record a followup that expands on Morning Comes’ more experimental moments, like the eight-minute epic Bound To Your Own Vices and the eerie reverb bleed from a late-night take on Brightest Part Of The Sun. “This album is the eve of a new era,” says Petti. “I want the next one to be a push in a new direction in terms of sounds and textures.” 3

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FOLK/BLuES/COuNTRY/WORLD

cAmeron house David Baxter Band 10 pm, Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

grAffiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6

to 9 pm.

highwAy 61 southern BArBeque Chris

Chambers (blues) 7 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday Chris Altmann, Ctznshp, Garage Baby 9 pm. the LocAL Hamstrung String Band. oLd nick M Factor Mondays Courtney Lynn, Candice Chantrell, Elana Harte 7 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Open Mic 10 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENTAL

cAdiLLAc Lounge Juliannes Jazz Jam Richard

Underhill.

edwArd Johnson BuiLding wALter hALL

Chamber Music Series Festival Winds 7:30 pm. emmet rAy BAr Dan Easty Quartet 9 pm. gAte 403 Ken McDonald Jazz Band 9 pm, Dave Rubel Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. oLd miLL inn Sound Of Jazz Concert Series Claire Martin doors 7 pm. rex John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross This Is Awesome (jazz) 7 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

crAwford Mix Fix Mondays (Motown/funk/ dance R&B).

drAke hoteL Lounge Ride the Tiger (funk/

R&B) doors 10 pm.

goodhAndy’s 120 cLuB Amplify DJs Cozmic Cat, Boots Boogie, the Nobis, Jeff Breen (funky/tech/deep/electro house).5 insomniA DJs Topher, Oranj (rock). the ossington Ice & Yo (spooky styles). rePosAdo Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

BLAck swAn Honouring Our Own: Salute To

Robbie Rox Robbie Rox Band, Michael Fonfara, Steve Ambrose & others 8 pm. Bovine sex cLuB Pink & Black Attack Black Cat Attack, Corgasm, Make No Gains, Rackula. cAmeron house Friendly Rich 10 pm. cAstro’s Lounge Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8:30 pm. drAke hoteL underground The Transformation Tour Clara Venice (love-pop) 8:30 pm. the gArrison Jolly. grAffiti’s Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm. hArd Luck BAr Terror, Cruel Hand, Malfunction, Trail of Lies doors 6:30 pm. hoLy oAk cAfe Yeah, You’re Right (funk) 9 pm. horseshoe Nu Music Nite Dub Trinity, JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound, Ooh Baby Gimme Mores, Kathryn Calder, Himalayan Bear 8:30 pm. See Kathryn Calder preview, page 51. LAmBAdinA B2D, Alumini & Vibonics, DJ Cali 7 pm. oPerA house The Ready Set, the Summer Set, the Downtown Fiction. the Piston Dead Tuesdays 10 pm. revivAL Omar Lunan, Kim Davis, Toya Alexis doors 7 pm. virgin moBiLe mod cLuB Digitalism, Data Romance, American Royalty doors 8 pm. wrongBAr T.O. Your Mo: Movember Fundraiser The Colts, BF Soul 8 pm.

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

cAmeron house Whitney Rose (country) 6 pm. cAstro’s Lounge Quiet Revolutions Acoustic Jam blueVenus 10 pm.

drAke hoteL Lounge Memphis Tuesday The

Treasures (country/bluegrass) doors 10 pm. free times cAfe Jenny MacDonald, Mary Stewart, Cat Bent (East Coast music) 8:30 pm. gAte 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm, Michael Keith 5 to 8 pm. hot Box cAfe Hot Box Unplugged: Acoustic Open Mic 7 pm. hugh’s room Many Hands... One Voice: Fundraiser For Somalia/World Vision Canada Mike Janzen, Jacob Moon, Terry Posthumus & Kevin Pauls. the LocAL Dave Picco, Ben Sures and Michelle Rumball. LuLA Lounge Lonesome Heroes Concert Series Bryce Jardine, Emma-Lee, Joel Sweet, Samantha Martin 9 pm. Press cLuB Toast ’N Jam: Open Mic 10 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Drumheller 10 pm, Toronto Folk Singers 8 pm.

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four seAsons centre for the Performing Arts Postcards From Paris Nathaniel Ander-

son-Frank, Carson Becke (violin, piano) noon to 1 pm.

hArLem underground John Campbell (jazz/ pop/soul/R&B) 8:30 pm. rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 9:30 pm, Richard Whiteman 6:30 pm. royAL conservAtory of music koerner hALL

Tango Roxana Fontán, Serouj Kradjian, Lara St John, David Young, Hector del Curto 8 pm. somewhere there studio Paul Dutton, Tomasz Krakowiak, Alan Bloor, Michael Lynn, Mark Segger 8 pm. trAne studio Taylor Cook Sextet (jazz) 8 pm.

DANCE MuSiC/DJ/LOuNGE

Andy PooLhALL 24K Hip-Hop Jam DJ Serious, Kaewonder, DJ Starting From Scratch, Muziklee Inzane, Big Jacks, Mensa, DJ Ariel and others 10 pm. crAwford Drink & Destroy (punk rock). goodhAndy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insomniA DJs Mikel BC, Rusty James. the ossington Cellar Door DJ Justin Ridgeway. rePosAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

Wednesday, November 30 POP/ROCK/HiP-HOP/SOuL

ArcAdiAn court Dixon Hall Music School Benefit Concert Jim Cuddy. ñ cAdiLLAc Lounge The Neil Young’uns.

cLinton’s Army Girl, Old English, Viva Mars (electro indie rock). drAke hoteL Singapore doors 8 pm. the gArrison Devon Williams, Persian Rugs doors 8:30 pm. grAffiti’s The Matthew Bailey Band 5 to 7 pm. hoLy oAk cAfe Valery Gore (pop) 10 pm. horseshoe White Rabbits, Arms doors 8 pm. the Piston Danielle Duval, Tex Message 9 pm. Press cLuB Henry Taylor (roots rock) 10 pm. revivAL Bash For The Boogieman: benefit for Rick Gunn David Henman, Bob Segarini, Glenn Reid, Sebastian Agnello, Lori Alter 7 pm. virgin moBiLe mod cLuB Lana del Rey 8 pm, all ages. See cover story, page 46.

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AquiLA uPstAirs Ken Yoshioka (blues). cAmeron house The Strumbellas (folk) 10 pm, Joshua Cockerill 6 pm.

cAstro’s Lounge Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. c’est whAt Ania Ziemirska, Stacey Kaniuk,

Harrison Fine 8 pm, all ages. gAte 403 Ken Yoshioka Blues Band 5 to 8 pm. grAffiti’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband evening. grossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. highwAy 61 southern BArBeque Sean Pinchin (folk) 7 pm. hugh’s room Find The Others CD release Andy Sheppard 8:30 pm. the LocAL Jerry Leger & the Situation, Jay Clark Reid. siLver doLLAr High Lonesome Wednesday: Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings doors 9 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Colin Fisher 10 pm.

JAzz/CLASSiCAL/ExPERiMENTAL

dominion on queen Corktown Ukulele Jam

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vast thematic and dynamic range, from the sunny clang of And The Bells They Rang to the haunting vocal work on barebones acoustic tune Nightshade. But his knack for fitting gentle, moody vocal hooks into complex song structures should have been extended to I Like You and Sons And Daughters, compelling songs topped with chopped-up spoken word and found sounds. Top track: Nightshade Find the Others play Hugh’s Room on Wednesday (November 30). JORDAN BIMM

disc of the week

Though the strange-time-signatured rock of Fresh Fruit has little in common structurally with, say, the patient, slowburning atmospherics of the closer, Conda Banna, both have the same gentle, reverby group vocals. Unlike some purveyors of psychedelia more focused on mood than songs, Heartbreak Hotel haven’t forgotten the hooks. Top track: Condo Banna Heartbeat Hotel release Intae Woe Saturday (November 26) at the Silver Dollar. RT

MARINE DREAMS (You’ve Changed)

ñKATE BUSH

50 Words For Snow (Fish People/EMI) Rating: NNNNN Yetis, snowman sex, snowflake conception, doomed romance: Kate Bush’s 10th studio album (and her second this year) is in strikingly chilly counterpoint to the warm domestic bliss evoked in her last LP of all-new material, 2005’s Aerial. As you might expect from a winter-themed record, a solitary tone pervades these seven shivery compositions, many of which unfurl slowly and deliberately from Bush’s trembling piano. There’s a grace and simplicity to the arrangements. Jazzy syncopations

Pop/Rock

REAL ESTATE Days (Domino) Rating: NNN

Real Estate’s career follows an arc that’s become increasingly common in the last few years: lo-fi debut builds buzz, band signs to bigger label, moves to Brooklyn and, with a suddenly inflated budget, repurposes the original aesthetic to accommodate higher recording values. That works out well for Real Estate, whose languid, carefree jangle-pop benefits from the brighter, cleaner production on their sophomore LP, but it also exposes their weakness as songwriters. Their un-

give way to almost a cappella interludes, twittering guitar riffs and choral harmonies. The production has a lighter touch than her previous two efforts, but is no less considered (and perhaps more easily adapted for the stage?). Best are Bush’s vocals, distinctly lower now but as brilliant and playful as ever. She grumbles, coos, burrs and wails, drawing out syllables with such devastating intensity, it’s hard to resist drifting into her darkly whimsical winter world. One of the year’s most imaginative albums. Top track: Snowed In At Wheeler Street KEVIN RITCHIE fussy beach-pop remains pristinely pleasant, but over the course of 41 minutes, it starts to blend into one unending midtempo mishmash. In the absence of memorable or defined hooks, what stands out is the quietly virtuosic guitar-playing. It’s impressive, but not quite enough to build an album around. Days is a step in the right direction, but we’re hoping they can challenge themselves to do something greater on album three. Top track: It’s Real RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

FIND THE OTHERS (independent)

Rating: NNN Find The Others is a collection of richly constructed jazz- and rock-influenced tunes by noted guitarist/songwriter/CBC Radio 2 producer Andy Sheppard. It’s also the name of Sheppard’s new project, coming after a string of records released under his own name, starting with 1995’s Eclectic Guitar. Alongside guest appearances by Isabella Rossellini, Snowblink and Olivier Alary, Sheppard offers a musical scrapbook containing textured soundscapes and delicate melodies. He demonstrates

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Rating: NNN Former Attack in Black bassist Ian Kehoe is the latest musician to leave behind a small Ontario town – Welland, in his case – for the even smaller Sackville, New Brunswick, the site of Sappyfest, and near Moncton, hometown of noise-pop pioneers Eric’s Trip. Kehoe, performing under the name Marine Dreams, plays that loosely delivered but sharply considered indie rock common to the region, the kind that blends ample experience and melodic flair with let’s-do-this DIY attitude. Think Joel Plaskett. Think Shotgun Jimmie (who left Ajax for Sackville). The self-titled debut sounds like it was recorded over a couple of days in somebody’s home studio, which it was (in AIB bandmates Daniel and Ian Romano’s Welland studio, with contributions from all the AIB members and Baby Eagle’s Steve Lambke and Hunters and Anglers). It’s shabby, lean and spirited, with uptempo fuzz guitars and stick-in-your-head melodies. The songs rarely go where you expect them to, and frequently charm. Top track: New Decade Marine Dreams play Parts & Labour tonight (Thursday, November 24). CARLA GILLIS

ñHEARTBEAT HOTEL

Intae Woe (independent) Rating: NNNN Heartbeat Hotel have only been together for a couple of years, but they’ve proved impressively prolific in that time, independently releasing albums at a quick clip. Their latest short LP was self-recorded in a week in a cottage-cum-recording-studio in Mountain Lake, and it’s another tantalizing taste of dream pop. Over the course of six tracks, the Toronto band retain their familiar split penchant for uptempo psych-pop songs and ambient drifters. NOW writers have criticized the group in the past for their lack of cohesion, but they’ve developed a knack for blending disparate musical modes into a distinct Heartbeat Hotel “sound.”

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R.E.M. Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011 (Warner) Rating: NNN When R.E.M. announced their dissolution a little over a month ago, it was shocking only in that it seemed like they would always be around. After all, we’ve had 30 years of consistent output from the Athens, Georgia, college-rock pioneers. And as this hastily released anthology affirms – particularly disc one, which focuses on their IRS and early 90s Warner breakout years – R.E.M. will go down as one of the great American bands. But what of disc two? With the exception of the best songs from 92’s Automatic For The People that start the disc, it makes clear the fact that R.E.M. never could get back to the top of the mountain for most of their career – even at the very end, as evidenced by the three new songs that bookend the double-disc set. Considering the band’s blazing run through the 80s and early 90s that produced the unimpeachable rock gems on disc one, that’s confounding. Top track: The One I Love JASON KELLER DEVON WILLIAMS Euphoria (Slumberland) Rating: NNN Devon Williams’s sophomore album evokes all the right dream-pop influences for a Slumberland songwriter: the Beach Boys, 80s British indie pop, 90s jangle. But although he’s synthesized reference points like reverb vocals, lightweight melodies and lush orchestration, the L.A. musician rarely achieves the genre’s atmosphere in his songwriting. A lot of craft obviously went into the record, but with few strong hooks, little of it sticks after listening. Euphoria leads off with Revelations, a catchy, psychedelic pop gem straight out of the school of Brian Wilson. But it’s probably not a good sign that the strongest track is such a straight crib. The rest floats by pleasantly enough but often sinks under the weight of its influences. It’s difficult to honour the masters with-

out paling in comparison. Top track: Revelations Devon Williams plays the Garrison Wednesday (November 30). RT

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BRY WEBB Provider (Idée Fixe) Rating: NNN On his first solo album, former Constantines vocalist/guitarist Bry Webb effectively puts to work the “keep it simple, stupid” approach. The story is that he’d tried to record many of these songs previously as the Harbourcoats but got caught up in endless multi-tracking that left him with songs so densely layered that their essence was lost. On this go, he opts for lots of breathing room (as well as the most exquisite redblack-and-gold artwork packaging, courtesy of Standard Form). It’s mostly just softly plucked, atmospheric guitar and Webb’s weary vocals building up songs that are achingly slow, sombre and intimate. There are subtle horn parts by Colin Stetson, buoyant backup vocals by Evening Hymns and Jennifer Castle, hints of lap and pedal steel and upright bass. You’re left to settle back and focus on the lyrics’ imagery. A little hawk in a magnolia tree. A sky-fallen river. A zebra standing on the moon. Top track: Get You Up In Peace Bry Webb opens for Feist at Massey Hall on December 1. CG

CHRIS ALTMANN Que Paso (Ridin’ High)

Rating: NNN Last year Australian songwriter/multiinstrumentalist Chris Altmann shifted his focus away from his heavier project, the Vandas, to put out Que Paso, a solo album showcasing his country-soul side. He also recently relocated to Canada, where he’s now promoting the album. Que Paso initially comes across as silly barroom country music, but it’s a grower. Altmann is charismatic and seemingly ready to move in new directions on bluesy opener Who Knows Where. Love Like This has a sweet, simple nostalgic feel, and All The Things That You Do is a clever, clangy duet. Altmann sings comfortably from behind the kit, Levon Helm-style, and plays most of the instruments himself (very well). Because the music is so much in the spirit of the Band, you can’t help but wonder how much better it’ll all sound live. Top track: Who Knows Where Chris Altmann plays the Horseshoe Monday (November 28). SARAH GREENE 3

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mond and Brooke Maxwell (Atomic Vaudeville/Acting Up/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). To December 3. $30$35. 416-504-7529. See Continuing, page 69. Rating: NNNN

Director tackles Pulitzer Prize winner about black brothers By JON KAPLAN

TOPDOG/UNDERDOG by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by Philip Akin, with Kevin Hanchard and Nigel Shawn Williams (Obsidian/Shaw). At the Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West). Opens tonight (Thursday, November 24) and runs to December 4, Tuesday-Saturday 7 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2 pm. $20-$30. 416-538-0988.

battling brothers go back at least as far as Cain and Abel, but you won’t find a more striking pair than the characters in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize winner Topdog/Underdog. One of the black sibs, dressed in whiteface as Abraham Lincoln, works in an arcade where he’s shot over and over; the other is doing his best to become a three-card monte hustler. If that’s not bizarre enough, their long-gone, ironic father named the former Lincoln (maybe thus determining his later job) and the latter Booth. “It’s one of the most fascinating plays I’ve ever worked on,” says Obsidian Theatre’s artistic director, Philip Akin, who staged the production at the Shaw Festival last summer after a 2010 workshop reading. “On the one hand, it’s about how these two brothers, left by their parents and forced to take care of each other, deal with the world and their relationship.

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“But it’s also about what it means to be a black man. What does putting on whiteface do to Lincoln, how emasculating and destroying is that act? I think that he kills himself inside every day.” Devoted to the parents who abandoned them, Lincoln was closer to their father and Booth to their mother. “There isn’t a lot of crossover in the emotional links to the parents. Being left alone, first by one parent and then the other, is a profound event in their lives,” notes Akin, a fine actor as well as a director. “They’ve reacted differently, but the loss has poisoned their other relationships and the one between them. “Each has been strange and secretive about how it’s affected him, but they also know they’re connected in a basic way. They need each other as much as they grate on each other.” Parks’s plays have a musical quality, adds the director. It’s important to follow the way she’s written rests and beats into the text. “The internal rests actually break up the scenes into sections. Other productions of the play, from what I’ve seen, handle the material too slowly. For us, the language is fast, and the text kicks in a staccato fashion. “At times I feel that my work is like that of a conductor.”

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Akin has found other potential challenges for the actors, who have to learn the patter of the monte and shift the three cards believably on the game’s traditional milk crate. “And then there are jumps in logic that you can’t always understand at first. The shifts can be monumental, but there are so many different, delicate ways to play the script’s music.” He’s set the piece in 1982, in part because the play’s language doesn’t hold up in 2011. “The technology aspect of our world is different now, for one. Our designer, Camellia Koo, brought in a book called A Time Before Crack, a photo essay about black neighbourhoods before crack was a big thing. They were poor, but not devastated by drugs. “The brothers, I’m sure, would have been influenced by crack, so I’ve set it just before that period. The sound design is old-school hip-hop, great to listen to.” He stops for a second, a memory making him smile. “I loved watching the traditional audiences at Shaw chair-dancing to the music.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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Ride The Cyclone lights up the Passe Muraille Mainspace, and the local theatre scene, like a crazy carnival. That’s appropriate, since Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell’s terrific show concerns six members of a youth choir who’ve died in a tragic amusement park ride accident. If that sounds morbid, it’s intentional – one of the victims, in fact, is a Jane Doe whose decapitated head was never found. But there’s lots of fun when, via a bit of magic involving an oracle and a bass-playing rodent (ya gotta be there), Jane (Sarah Pelzer) and the others come alive one final time to tell and sing about their brief lives. A huge hit at SummerWorks 2010, the show’s been expanded, and if at times the additions mar the pacing, they don’t detract from the power of the writing – and the superb performances. Like a musical Breakfast Club, each character gets to reveal his or her true self. Noel (Kholby

Wardell) is the town homo who channels his inner chanteuse, while the bossy Ocean (Rielle Braid), besides MC’ing the show, reveals how she learned some Tea Party tactics from her school debates. Most fun of all is Ricky (Elliott Loran), a geeky pianist whose hidden persona is a Ziggy Stardust-type character in a spandex silver suit. Richmond and Maxwell’s songs are catchy, clever and performed with balls-to-the-walls commitment. Treena Stubel’s choreography enhances each number, and director Britt Small makes sure every moment is clear and precise. An undercurrent about happiness and acceptance adds some heart to the show, and there’s even some metaphysical musing in the Jane Doe sections. But mostly this production by Atomic Vaudeville, TPM and Acting Up is an outrageously fun show performed by young artists you’ll be hearing lots GLENN SUMI about in years to come.

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underground theatre). A therapist confronts

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her late husband’s identical twin when he comes to talk about his brother. Opens Nov 25 and runs to Dec 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$25, Sun pwyc. Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. dyingcity.com. MISS TORONTO ACTS BACK by the Ditchwitch Brigade (Pandemic Theatre). This multimedia performance presents an alternative history of beauty pageants in Toronto. Opens Nov 25 and runs to Dec 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5 pm. $15. Unit 102 Studio, 376 Dufferin. pandemictheatre.blogspot.com.

THE NEW GROUNDSWELL FESTIVAL – A NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY WOMEN’S THEATRE (Nightwood Theatre). Workshop pro-

ductions of plays by Lisa Codrington, Jordi Mand and Ann-Marie Kerr & Susan Leblanc Crawford will be staged, plus readings, workshops and more. Opens Nov 30 and runs to Dec 10, performances Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm (see website for other events). $20. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net. RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES (Mirvish). This multimedia show recreates performances. Nov 25-27, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. mirvish.com. RED by John Logan (Canadian Stage/ Vancouver Playhouse/Citadel Theatre). Painter Mark Rothko struggles to create a masterpiece in the face of fame, fortune and commercialism. (See story at nowtoronto.

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Cohen (left), Hutt, Correia, Larson and Fox help create a powerful, if uneven, Republic.

Half-hearted thE chiLdrEn’S rEpuBLic by Hannah Moscovitch (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). To December 18. $22-$47. 416-531-1827. See Continuing, page 67. Rating: nnn

Hannah Moscovitch’s The Children’s Republic introduces audiences to a fascinating historical figure fighting a dif-

ficult crusade in an impossible time. Janusz Korczak, a doctor, author and champion of children’s rights, runs an orphanage before and during the years of the Warsaw Ghetto. Dramatic material for sure, but the play spends much of its first act setting up the situation before finally involving us emotionally in the second. Korczak (Peter Hutt) has an ironic sense of humour that in the first half of the play sometimes overshadows

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Hector del Curto alongside live musicians. Nov 29 at 8 pm. $47-$73. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W, Koerner Hall. 416-4080208, soundstreams.ca.

Collective presents a dance competition, DJ party, prizes and more. Nov 30, doors 7 pm. $8-$15. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. 416578-1553, matadanze@gmail.com. SEriES 8:08 – taKE two presents a choreographic performance workshop featuring Diana Groenendijk, Leslie Glen, Jamee Vallin, Nicola Pantin and Liisa Smith. Nov 26 at 8:08 pm. $10, stu $8. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. series808.ca. SEvErE cLEar Toronto Dance Theatre present choreography by Christopher House about a journey in the Yukon. Nov 24 at 8 pm. $49-$54. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469, markhamtheatre.ca. ShuMKa at 50! Sony Centre for the Performing Arts presents the Ukrainian music and dance company celebrating its golden anniversary. Nov 25-26 at 8 pm. $35-$85. 1 Front E. 416-872-2262, sonycentre.ca. tango Soundstreams presents Argentine tango performed by Roxana Fontán and

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by youth group Break it Down and playwright Ins Choi that looks at b-boy culture. Nov 2427, Thu-Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28, srs $24, stu $15. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. frEE Bach Hub 14 presents corporeal mime Julie Lassonde performing movement improvisation to Bach’s first solo cello suite. Nov 25 at 8 pm. $15, stu 10. 14 Markham. freebach. wordpress.com. KLorofyL Harbourfront NextSteps and Gadfly present a dance piece about the rebirth of seven fallen warriors who reconnect and rekindle their passion. Nov 24-27, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm, Sun 4 pm. $28, stu/srs $24. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. MatadanzE 5-yEar annivErSary MataDanZe

the concern he expresses for the youngsters he gathers under his wing. Stefa (Kelli Fox), his partner and associate in the orphanage, plays tough parent to Korczak’s lenient father figure. Moscovitch and director Alisa Palmer capture the story’s palpably fearful atmosphere, but the action in the first act, presented in short scenes, has a stop-start quality that hinders its drive. Once we move into the ghetto in the second act, the action accelerates and catches us up in the characters’ plight. It’s here, too, that Hutt starts to show Korczak’s feelings for his charges; in the first act, he tends to be clinical and observing. The rest of the cast is excellent, the four children (Emma Burke-Kleinman, Katie Frances Cohen, Mark Correia and Elliott Larson) creating strong characters on whose shoulders much of the play rests. Fox is a solid Stefa, her heart showing occasionally beneath a rough exterior. And Amy Rutherford offers a memorable cameo as Madame Singer, the children’s teacher, who proves to be more naive than those she inJon KapLan structs.

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thE atoMic wEight of happinESS Stand Up Dance presents a remount of Meagan O’Shea’s theatre/dance mashup about human emotion and ecological responsibility. Runs to Nov 27, Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10-$15. Theatre Direct, 76 Wychwood. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. roMEo and JuLiEt The National Ballet of Canada presents Shakespeare’s story and Prokofiev’s music, with choreography by Alexei Ratmansky (see review, page 65). Runs to Nov 27, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats SatSun 2 pm. $25-$234. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416345-9595, national.ballet.ca. nnn (GS) ryErSon dancES 2011 Ryerson Theatre School presents works by Vicki St Denys, Aresenio Andrade Calderon, Valerie Calam and Allen Kaeja, performed by students. Runs to Nov 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18, stu $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. 3

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full-blown adults, their post-coital bedroom duet – with Juliet’s pointe shoes literally dragging on the floor – a vision of hopeless romantic longing. Ratmansky’s version shows them merely sad, with repeated lifts and twirls that could have come any time earlier. Another scene that suffers is the Dance Of The Knights, performed to Prokofiev’s menacing music and rendered in Cranko’s version with a grand majestic sweep. Ratmansky intriguingly plays up the violence in the court – the men wield swords – but the scene looks thin and insubstantial. Certainly Richard Hudson’s dance review costumes don’t add to the effect. (Speaking of costumes, it’s hard to tell the warring Capulets from the Montagues, which I figure should be a nobrainer.) new romeo and Juliet lacks drama By GLENN SUMI That said, the National’s openingnew version opens the National’s night cast performed their roles ROMEO AND JULIET choreographed by 60th season. well, Guillaume Côté and Elena Alexei Ratmansky (National Ballet of Don’t get me wrong. The young Lobsanova believable in their arCanada). At the Four Seasons Centre (145 Russian choreographer has talent, dour, their partnering graceful and Queen West). To November 27. $25-$234. which we got to see in his recent ele- fluid. (Shame about Lobsanova’s fall 416-345-9595. See Listings, page 64. gant short ballet Russian Seasons. in the first act.) Piotr Stanczyk hanRating: NNN And there are glimpses of brilliance dled the physical and emotional dein his R&J, from the youthful, ener- mands of Mercutio with ease on there’s a reason why john getic scenes for Romeo’s pals to the Hudson’s clean, unfussy set. Cranko’s choreography for Romeo can’t-stop-looking-at-each-other inI’d mention other performers, but And Juliet remained in the National fatuation of the title characters, Radmansky’s choreography doesn’t Ballet of Canada’s repertoire for decwhose young love is captured in a allow for much secondary character ades. It was powerful. Not everything heartbreakingly tender early pas de development. He even robs Lady worked, mind you – those street deux. Capulet of her melodramatic Act II scenes could get hokey – but the man What Ratmansky fails to do, how- exit, replacing it with something knew how to capture character and ever, is find a way to suggest the pair’s that’s still watchable – but not nearly 24706_NSEnterShadowNOWAd:Layout 1 11/15/11 3:54 PM beginPage 1as theatrical. drama in movement. The same can’t maturity and growth. By the 3 be said of Alexei Ratmansky, whose ning of act three, Cranko’s couple are glenns@nowtoronto.com Elena Lobsanova and Guillaume Côté make believable lovers in uneven R&J.

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com/stage.) Opens Nov 24 and runs to Dec 17, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. Snow white & the Several DwarfS (Act II Studio). Love and politics collide in this interactive, all-ages Panto. Nov 24-26, Thu-Fri 7 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2 pm. $15, child $10. St Vladimir’s Theatre, 620 Spadina. 416-979-5000 ext 6297, act2studio.ca. topDog/UnDerDog by Suzan-Lori Parks (Obsidian Theatre/Shaw Festival). Two brothers learn to survive as hustlers while trying to overcome their past (see story, page 63). Opens Nov 24 and runs to Dec 4, Tue-Sat 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$30, Nov 29 pwyc. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-5380988, obsidian-theatre.com.

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of T). Sicilian Limes and The Man With The Flower In His Mouth are performed to mark the 75th anniversary of Luigi Pirandello’s passing. Nov 25-27, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10, Sun pwyc. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986. Une MaiSon face aU norD by Jean-Rock Gaudreault (Théâtre français de Toronto). A man faces a changing society, modern issues and generational conflict in this family drama. Nov 24-27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $33-$48, srs $28-$41. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com. Fwhite chriStMaS by Irving Berlin (Civic Light Opera Company). This holiday musical is based on the 1954 film with Bing Crosby. Opens Nov 30 and runs to Dec 17, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Dec 17) 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com. the worD feStival (Young Centre for the Performing Arts). This 400th-anniversary celebration of the King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare features theatre, lectures, improvisation, readings, movement and song. Nov 25-27, Fri from 6:30 pm, Sat from 2:30 pm, Sun from 2 pm. $20-$25, stu $15; pass $59. 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca/thewordfestival.

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JeSUS chrySler by Tara Beagan (Praxis The-

atre). Set in 30s Toronto, this play looks at the activities and relationship of activist Eugenia ‘Jim’ Watts and poet Dorothy Livesay. Previews Nov 29-30. Opens Dec 1 and runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$30, preview/mat $15. Theatre Passe Mu-

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(National Theatre of the World). The cast performs an improvised play based on audience suggestions. Nov 27, Party Piece Cabaret 7:30 pm, Impromptu Splendor 9 pm. $10-$12, $5 with a moustache (proceeds to Movember Canada). Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. leS hUgUenotS by Giacomo Meyerbeer (Opera in Concert). This French opera is based on the St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of Protestants by Catholics in 1572. Nov 27 at 2:30 pm. $40-$52. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, operainconcert.com.

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Daniel Santo (Homage to the Fool Productions). This comedy cabaret pays tribute to theatre’s favourite teacher. Nov 26 at 2:15 pm. Pwyc. Merchants of Green Coffee, 2 Matilda. 416800-9083. hUllaBaloo 2011 (Young People’s Theatre). This funder for YPT features face painting, crafts, a special performance of Seussical and more. Nov 27 at 12:30 pm. $100-$130, child $50-$65. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

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See our appreciation of actor and director John Neville (1925-2011) at nowtoronto.com/daily. raille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, praxistheatre.com. proof by David Auburn (QED Theatre Co-op). The death of a mathematician reunites his estranged daughters and a former student as they seek the line between genius and madness. Previews Nov 29-30. Opens Dec 1 and runs to Dec 18, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $15-$20. The Branding Factory, 136 Geary, unit 215. secureaseat.com.

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Nicholas Hune-Brown (Ross Petty Productions). A snowstorm transports a city girl to a wacky new world in this farcical version of the classic story. Previews from Nov 25-30, opens Dec 1 and runs to Jan 6, 2012, Tue-Sat 7 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for other dates and holiday exceptions). $27-$85. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-872-5555, rosspetty.com.

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adian Opera Company). Singers seeking to join the Ensemble give a public performance for the final audition. Nov 28 at 5:30 pm. $30. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. the evil leagUe of Sexy (The Underground Peepshow). This villain-themed burlesque show for ages 19+ features Dolly Berlin, Bella Fox and others. Nov 26, doors 9 pm. $10-$13. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina, basement. undergroundpeepshow.com.

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Making pretenD: a celeBration of BeSt frienDS, new voiceS anD the paprika feStival (Paprika Festival). Charlotte Corbeil-Cole-

man hosts and more than 20 female artist enact a play reading of The End Of Pretending by Coleman and Emily Sugerman. Nov 27 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, paprikafestival.com. QUeer aS (Black) folk? (Black Daddies Club). This public discussion on homosexuality in the black community includes a performance of the play ‘I’. Nov 26, doors 5:30 pm. $20-$30. George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre, 245 Church. 416-363-8408, swaymag.ca/ tag/black-daddies-club. topDog/UnDerDog (On Stage Performing Arts Theatre Series). Obsidian Theatre’s Philip Akin talks about the upcoming production. Nov 28 at 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7011.

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the aDDaMS faMily by Marshall Brickman, Rick Elice and Andrew Lippa (Dancap Productions). This musical comedy is based on the TV series about the ghoulish, quirky family (see review at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Nov 27, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $62-$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. n (Naomi Skwarna) the BUnDle by Edward Bond (Ryerson Theatre School). A foundling grows up to be a militant voice for the people against the landowners in feudal China. Runs to Nov 24, Thu 8 pm. $18, stu/srs $14. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46

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Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. THE CHILDREN’S REPUBLIC by Hannah Moscovitch (Harold Green Jewish Theatre Company). A champion of children’s rights and a boy face a looming catastrophe in WWII-era Poland (see review, page 64). Runs to Dec 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $38-$47, srs $33$45, stu $20-$24. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, hgjewishtheatre.com. NNN (JK) CLASS CITY (Action Slacks). An Irish immigrant family struggles to establish themselves in Toronto in this improvised play. Runs to Nov 28, Mon 8 pm. $15. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. classcitytoronto.eventbrite.com. DEATH (A PLAY!) by Woody Allen (art & lies productions). A young man is forced to face his fear of death in this absurd play inspired by Eugene Ionesco’s The Killer. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 7 pm. $15. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. artandliesproductions.com. DESPERATE CHURCH WIVES by Diane Johnstone (Under the Blood Productions). Church ladies are upset when a minister’s wife is busted for prostitution. Runs to Nov 26, Sat 8:30 pm. $15$18. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. bourgee-bushwoman.com. HALLAJ by Soheil Parsa and Peter Farbridge (Modern Times Stage Company). This drama is based on the life of the 10th-century Sufi poet Mansur el-Hallaj. Runs to Dec 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $18-$35, Sun pwyc at the door. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, moderntimesstage.com. IMPRINTS by Michael Spence (Theatre Gargantua). A woman with a life-threatening disease is sent into suspended animation and meets her ancestors, who aren’t as nice as she thought they were. Done with Theatre Gargantua’s typical visual flair, the production is sometimes unclear in its narrative but always captivating in its physical work. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20-$25. Factory Theatre,

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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MACKENzIE KING: THE HISTORY OF THE VILLAGE OF THE SMALL HUTS, 1918-39 by Michael Hollingsworth

(VideoCabaret). This instalment of Video Cabaret’s long-running Canadian history series follows Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King from the Roaring Twenties through the Great Depression to the beginnings of World War II. Highly stylized sets and props, as well as attention to all levels of society makes this hilarious take on history both engaging and comprehensive. Runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$40. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. 416-703-1725, videocab.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME adapted by Constance Cox from a short story by Oscar Wilde (The Village Players). A palm reader’s prediction sets off a a comedic chain of events. Runs to Dec 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Nov 26 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. villageplayers.net.

THE LOVE AND OBSESSION THEATRE FESTIVAL

(Good Humour Productions). Four plays explore longing and redemption in art, romance, celebrity and pop culture. Runs to Nov 27, ThuSun 7:30 & 9 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 & 3:30 pm. $15-$25. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, loveandobsessionfest.com. MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). Ambition leads to bloody murder in the classic tragedy. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. harthousetheatre.ca. MARY POPPINS by Richard M Sherman and Robert B Sherman (Mirvish/Disney Theatrical Productions/Cameron Mackintosh). A breathtaking spectacle, this big-budget Disney musical brings to life all the songs and magic of the original film. Picture-perfect as the mysterious nanny, Rachel Wallace im-

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Thursday, November 24 THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 42 Supermarket presents British Teeth, Catherine McCormick, Mark Little, Eric Andrews, Darryl Orr, Tim Golden, Joshua Elijah and the Boom. 9 pm. $10. 268 Augusta. boomcomedy.com. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com.

REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) Second City presents its ñDREAMS latest revue, a high-energy, tons-of-laughs

THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar pre-

ñsents Lauren Ash, Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Rob Baker, Kayla Lorette, Carmine

Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. RED NOSE DISTRICT Black Swan Comedy presents the monthly clown comedy show w/ Helen Donnel, Rachelle Elie, hosts Christel Bartelse & Rebecca Carney and others. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

SECOND CITY’S DYSFUNCTIONAL HOLIDAY REVUE Second City presents a ñ holiday-themed show of scenes and songs. To fTHE

Dec 30, Mon 8 pm, Wed-Fri 2 pm. $15-$22. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera. 8 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld. com. STONER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. 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 Allyson

Smith. To Nov 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, November 25 COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Dan Hershfield and Dan’s Mix ‘95. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.

DREAMS REALLY DO COME TRUE! (AND OTHER LIES) See Thu 24. IMPROV WITH GREG PROOPS Comedy Bar pre-

sents a guest appearance by Proops w/ Catch 23 at 8 pm and with Mantown at 10:30 pm, as part of its 3-year-anniversary celebration. $20 per show. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. LAUNCHPAD COMEDY White Swan presents a weekly open mic w/ host Earl the Sqrl. 8:30 pm. Free. 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089.

MOCKERY NIGHT IN THE JUNCTION: LOCK UP YOUR POULTRY Shoxs presents stand-up,

improv and more w/ Marc Hallworth, Scott Yamamura, Stu Vaughan, Natalie Norman, host Neil Ross and others. 8:30 pm. $10. 2827 Dundas W, downstairs. mockerynight.com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

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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. 416-340-7270. GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE The Groove Bar presents open-mic comedy w/ host Darryl Purvis. 9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917. THE GOD-AWFUL COMEDY SHOW Centre for Inquiry and JP Hodgkinson present atheistfriendly comedy. 8 pm. $10. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. cfiontario.org.

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Saturday, November 26 BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents an Improv Drop In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. The Ladder, competitive comedy. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. COMEDY AT THE SWAN Black Swan presents Kyle Betts, Jane Luk, Dwayne Mailman, Tanya Morgan, Erin Rodgers, Lara Tai, Gord Oxley and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416469-0537. DrEAMS rEALLY DO COME TruE! (AND OTHEr LiES) See Thu 24. GrEG PrOOPS Comedy Bar presents the comic

in a stand-up show as part of its 3-year-anniversary celebration weekend. 8 & 10:30 pm. $25. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

FTHE MirACLE ON MErCEr STrEET

Second City presents all-ages seasonal comedy mixing live-action sketches with puppetry and songs. Saturdays at noon to Dec 17, see website for showtimes to Dec 31. $12, family 4-pack $40. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SMASH HiT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 8 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com. THEATrESPOrTS Bad Dog Theatre presents a new cycle of unscripted comedy battles leading up to the Dec 10 Ca$h $howdown. 8 pm (undercard from 7 pm). $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. YuK YuK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 24.

OCCUPY TORONTO’S GENERAL ASSEMBLY Watch a full session of

Occupy Toronto’s planning meeting as police get ready to raid the camp and remove the protesters. NOW Talks. 3:03

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all-female comedy, music and dance cabaret w/ Kathleen Phillips, Jess Grant and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 320 College. 416-967-1078.

DrEAMS rEALLY DO COME TruE! (AND OTHEr LiES) See Thu 24. LAuGH SABBATH presents Hour Of Power w/ Sara Hennessey, Catherine ñ McCormick, Alex Nussbaum, Brian Barlow,

Steph Kaliner, host Nick Flanagan and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com. THE MCCOMEDY SHOW The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents sketch comedy and short films w/ hosts Shannon McDonough and Michael McLean and guests. 7 pm. $10. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

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rEVuE Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents the monthly show w/ Keesha Brownie, Matt Henry, John Moses, De Low, Patrick Haye, Jon Caesar, Arthur Simeon, host Kenny Robinson and others. 8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. THE SMArTEST MAN iN THE WOrLD Comedy Bar presents a sketch show and podcast with Greg Proops as part of its 3-year-anniversary celebration weekend. 7 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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SuNDAY NiGHT LiVE The Sketchersons present a special editions of the weekly ñ sketch show w/ guest host Greg Proops and live music. 9:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com.

Monday, November 28 ALTDOT COMEDY LOuNGE presents Mark Little, Craig Fay, Eytan Crouton, Adam Richmond, Chris Robinson, Ennis Esmer, Jeff Leeson, Matt Shury, Zabrina Chevannes and MC Debra DiGiovanni. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Improv Jam & Variety Hour w/ Pat Lynndale, Ben Ball and others. 8 pm. The Improv Gong Show. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. CHEAP LAuGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. THE COMEDY CABArET Chris MacLean and Robin Crossman present stand-up w/ Todd Van Allen, Jon Hyatt, Anthony Ciardulli, Dave Code, Victoria Stewart, Bev Ellis, Graham Kay and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. thecomedycabaret.com. HArD TiMES AT THE HArD LuCK Impulsive Entertainment presents a comedy mashup w/ Fratwurst, Jess Grant, Scott MacLean, host DJ Demers and others. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. hardluckbar.com. LAuGHABLE AT uNLOVABLE presents Sara Hennessey, Dave Martin, Ian Gordon, Matt Collins, Stephanie Kaliner, Nick Flanagan and host Stephanie Tolev. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

THE SECOND CiTY’S DYSfuNCTiONAL HOLiDAY rEVuE See Thu 24. THE VEST SHOW iN TOWN Comedy Bar pre-

sents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 7 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WHEEL Of iMPrOV John Candy Box Theatre presents an interactive improv show. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

Tuesday, November 29 iMPrOV NiGHT iN CANADA John Candy Box

Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.

THE SECOND CiTY’S iMPrOV ALL-STArS Second City presents a fast-paced, comñ pletely improvised weekly show. To Nov 29, 8

pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SKETCHCOMEDYLOuNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ Ladystache, Jape, Alex Pavone, Third Klass, Newsdesk, MC Mark Little and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. STANDiNG ON THE DANfOrTH Eton House presents Candice Gregoris, Jeff Paul, Michael Jagdeo, Justin Laite, Troy Stark, Richard Ryder, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Wednesday, November 30 CHuCKLE CO. PrESENTS Comedy Bar presents weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. DrEAMS rEALLY DO COME TruE! (AND OTHEr LiES) See Thu 24. fuNDrAiSEr fOr ST MiKE’S WAYLA Bar pre-

sents sketch comedy by Warm Summer Hotness to benefit St Michael’s Hospital. 9 pm. Pwyc. 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

LAuGHSTACHE – A MOVEMBEr fuNDrAiSEr Impulsive Entertainment preñ sents a comedy benefit w/ British Teeth, the

Imponderables, Daniel Stolfi, Illusionoid, the Celebrity Moustache Panel and hosts the National Theatre of the World. 8 pm. $10-$15. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. laughstache. eventbrite.com. MiCK fOLEY: A NiGHT Of COMEDY The Comedy Addict and Highest Level Entertainment presents the pro-wrestler turned author/comic in a live show w/ Rob Mailloux, Dylan Gott and the Boom. 8 pm. $20-$25. The Groove Lounge, 200 John W, Oshawa. ticketweb.ca. THE SCOTTiSH SHOW Yuk Yuk’s Downtown presents Billy Kirkwood, Patrick Rolink and Gary Little. 8 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

THE SECOND CiTY’S DYSfuNCTiONAL HOLiDAY rEVuE See Thu 24. SirEN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic

stand-up w/ Matt Caldwell and host Sam Feldman. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. SPiriTS COMEDY NiGHT presents Trevor Boris, Candice Gregoris, K Trevor Wilson, Bryan Hatt, Christine Walkinshaw, Kristeen Von Hagen, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. 3

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presses by singing, dancing and... um, believably flying. Runs to Dec 24, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (no eve show Dec 24; see website for other dates). $38-$185. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-8721212, mirvish.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) MATT & BEN by Brenda Withers and Mindy Kaling (Theatre Elusive). Matt Damon and Ben Affleck struggle to find success as screenwriters in this satire. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu $18 (totix.ca). Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. theatreelusive.com.

MY MOTHER’S ITALIAN, MY FATHER’S JEWISH & I’M IN THERAPY by Steve Solomon (Philip

Roger Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin). Solomon performs his solo show about growing up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family. Runs to Jan 29, 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 REZ SISTERS by Tomson Highway (Factory Theatre). Director Ken Gass has employed colour-blind casting for this remount of Highway’s 1986 script about seven women on a Manitoulin Island reserve who dream of coming to Toronto play in a gigantic bingo tournament. The performers are okay but not everyone’s in the same league, and the production feels under-rehearsed, with technical elements – particularly sound and lighting design – often distracting from the script. Runs to Dec 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20$45, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. NN (GS) RIDE THE CYCLONE by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell (Acting Up Stage Company/Atomic Vaudeville). Teens from a choir group get a chance to express themselves after dying in a roller coaster accident (see review, page 63). Runs to Dec 3, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $30-$35, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, actingupstage.com. NNNN (GS) THE SANKOFA TRILOGY by d’bi.young anitafrika (Tarragon Theatre). The third part of the trilogy, word! sound! powah!, uses the prism of the 2012 Jamaican election to look at the possibility of social change through art. The extraordinary d’bi.young anitrafrika, playing multiple characters, enthralls the audience by drawing us into the storytelling and the action. Runs to Dec 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, some Tue-Wed nights and SatSun mats (call/see website for details). $20$45. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) SEUSSICAL by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Young People’s Theatre).

Based on several Dr. Seuss works, including Horton Hears A Who and Horton Hatches An Egg, this lively musical is great family entertainment, despite a dip in energy near the end. Director Alan MacInnis’s production features some first-rate performers, including George Masswohl as Horton and Damien Atkins as a charming Cat in the Hat. Runs to Dec 30, Sat-Sun 2 pm, see website for other dates and times. $15-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) SPRING AWAKENING by Frank Wedekind, with music by Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater (Toronto Youth Theatre). Teens journey from youth to adulthood in 19th-century Germany in this musical. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$35. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, tytspringawakening.eventbrite.com. SYLVIA by AR Gurney (Alumnae Theatre). A stray dog comes between a man and his wife in this comedy. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. 70 Berkeley, Studio. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. THE TEST by Lukas Bärfuss (The Company Theatre). When a man starts to believe that his son is someone else’s offspring, only a paternity test can prove the truth. Director Jason Byrne’s taut production gives the excellent cast a chance to explore the nuanced lives of the characters, lives filled with doubt, anger and a desire for security and love. Runs to Nov 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, companytheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) 2 PIANOS 4 HANDS by Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt (Mirvish). Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt’s cozy, clever 2P4H still has the thing that endeared itself to audiences fifteen years ago: the charming writer/performers making it all look easy, even when it isn’t Runs to Dec 4, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $39-$74. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNN (Naomi Skwarna) WILLOW QUARTET by Joan Burrows (Greenwillow Productions). A married woman dealing with a tragedy returns to her family’s farm and becomes interested in a visiting musician. Runs to Dec 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, Sun pwyc. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 647342-7454, secureaseat.com. WOULD YOU SAY THE NAME OF THIS PLAY? by Berend McKenzie (Young People’s Theatre). A gay black youth deals with taunts and marginalization in this play for ages 14 and up. Runs to Dec 3, call/see website for schedule. $15-$20. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. 3

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Gallery TPW (56 Ossington, 416645-1066), has work by more than 70 of Canada’s best emerging and established artists, including Edward Burtynsky, Suzy Lake and Nina Levitt, December 2-10. Most cost $200 to $600, and a $75 collector membership entitles you to first choice at a December 1 preview. In Gallery 1313’s (1313 Queen West, 416-536-6778) Small Works

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Gallery 44 sells photos, including Alex Kisilevich’s Cabinet, at the Wall To Wall sale.

printmaking demos at the December 1 open house (sale continues to December 17). The Red Head Gallery’s (416-504-5654) Red Dot Show rounds up work by this year’s featured artists, including Peter Dykhuis, Dana Holst, Sam Mogelonsky and Ram Samocha. Prices start at $110, Snap up items from Silvia Taylor’s Journey Vessel Series at Ontario Crafts Council.

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November 30-December 17. ForPin Up, former AGO curator Michael Parke-Taylor selects limited-edition prints and posters that go for $75, a funder for Mercer Union (1286 Bloor West, 416-5361519), an artist-run centre for local and international contemporary art. December 15-17. At Hang Man Gallery (756 Queen East, 416-465-0302), members of the Artists’ Network, the group that puts on the Riverdale Art Walk, sell work under $500 at the BowsArt holiday show, November 29-December 24. Although IndexG (50 Gladstone, 416-535-6957) features affordable drawings and prints year-round, its holiday Art Brownie Shop sells $30-to-$100 artworks constructed on 2.5-inch-square wooden blocks by Fiona Smyth, Kai Chan, Larry Eisenstein and

many others, to December 18. O’Born Contemporary (131 Ossington, 416-413-9555), specializing in photography, painting and installation work by living Canadian artists, holds a Holiday Multiples Fair of books and multiples under $200, on December 10. At Art Interiors (446 Spadina Rd, 416-488-3157), a Forest Hill gallery that wants everyone to own some art, tiny works by over 50 artists go for $55 to $250 at its Festival Of Smalls, to December 24. Neubacher Shor Contemporary (5 Brock, 416-546-3683) puts on Highly Desirable, with 100-plus works by gallery artists including Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, Katie Pretti and Ray Caesar, to December 24. John B. Aird (900 Bay, 416-9286772), a not-for-profit gallery in the Ontario government’s Mowat Block that often features orgs like the Society of Painters in Watercolour, holds the affordable Mistletoe Magic silent auction, which ends with a party on December 1.

Holiday craft sales abound, but at the Ontario Crafts Council (990 Queen West, 416-925-4222), cutting-edge craft meets art for Ontario Craft 11, which includes winners of the org’s four annual awards for boundary-pushing artists. Works range from $200 to $8,000. November 24-December 30. Two worthy charities raise funds with participants’ artwork: Creative Works Studio (793 Gerrard East, 416-465-5711), a St Michael’s Hospital art program for people with mental health challenges, puts on Toronto Treasures, art made at the program, and launches its art calendar, The Blues, on December 1. Sale of paintings by Pockets Warhol, a monkey resident of Story Book Farm Primate Sanctuary who supposedly copies Andy’s work, benefits the Sunderland refuge for primate retirees from research facilities and zoos. At Sadie’s Diner (504 Adelaide West, 416-777-2343), December 6-January 30. 3

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AGO The Grange Prize, to Nov 27. Robert

Motherwell, to Dec 11. General Idea, to Jan 1. Chagall And The Russian Avant-Garde, to Jan 15 ($25, stu $16.50). Jack Chambers, Nov 26-May 13. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK U Raqs Media Collective, to Dec 4. 4700 Keele, Accolade E. 416-736-5169. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Daïchi Saito and Cindy Mochizuki, to Dec 11, bus tour Nov 27, see Justina Barnicke. 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. DESIGN EXCHANGE RGD Spatial Graphics, to Nov 30 (pwyc). DX Awards, Nov 24-Feb 26. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Beatriz Olano and Magdalena Fernández, to Jan 28, bus tour Nov 27, see Justina Barnicke. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM Twelve Trees Of Christmas, to Dec 11. Kate Hyde, to Dec 4 (free). Creamware, to Dec 4. The Tsar’s Cabinet: Russian Decorative Arts, to Jan 8. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Models For Taking Part, to Dec 11, bus tour noon-5 pm Nov 27, re-

serve. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. MOCCA Ineffable Plasticity: The Experience Of Being Human; Human/Nature, to Dec 31, ARTbus tour Nov 27 (see Oakville Galleries) . 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Hyper Spaces group show, Nov 26-Mar 4 (Centennial Sq, 120 Navy); Chris Kline, Nov 26-Feb 19 (Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E), ARTbus tour 11:30 am-5 pm Nov 27 (from MOCCA, $10, reserve). (Oakville). 905-844-4402. ROM ICC: David Hockney, to Jan 1. The Kingston Prize, to Jan 29. Maya: Secrets Of Their Ancient World, to Apr 9 ($25, stu/srs $22.50, Fri after 4:30 pm $19, stu/srs $17). $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 Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, to Feb 12. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. U OF T ART CENTRE Angela Grauerholz, to Nov 26. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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MUST-SEE SHOWS ART AND DRINKS Video: Laurel MacDonald,

Nov 24-25 6-11 pm. 800 Dundas W. 647765-8585. CANADIAN SCULPTURE CENTRE Small Treasures, to Dec 2. 500 Church. 647-435-5858. CLINT ROENISCH Painting: Dorian FitzGerald, to Jan 3. 944 Queen W. 416-516-8593. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Video/sculpture: Brendan Fernandes and Young & Giroux, Nov 26-Jan 7, reception/performance 3-6 pm Nov 26. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. DuWEST ART GALLERY CRAWL 8 venues, tours noon, 1 and 2 pm from Full of Beans, 1348 Dundas W) Nov 26. Various locations on Dundas W of Ossington. dundaswestbia. ca. GENDAI GALLERY Feasibility Study: A Renovation In Three Stages, to Dec 12. Offsite at 1265 Bloor W. 416-534-1693, gendaigallery. org. GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Painting: Nicole Collins, to Jan 21. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876. GLADSTONE HOTEL Painting: Richard Foster, Nov 24-28, reception 7-10 pm Nov 25. Textiles: Hard Twist 6 – Obsession group show, Nov 25-Jan 29, reception/pieceWORK popup shop 6-9 pm Nov 25. Textiles: Amanda McCavour, to Jan 29. Ancestral Teachings:

Contemporary Perspectives, to Nov 30. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Painting/ photos/prints: Suzanne Nacha, to Dec 31. Multimedia (Fresh Ground): Shelley Miller and More or Les, to Dec 4. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. JULIE M. GALLERY Painting: Ilya Gefter, to Dec 18. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626. KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY Drawing/sculpture: Crystal Liu, Julie Moon and Rajni Perera, Nov 26-Dec 22, reception 2-5 pm Nov 26. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515. LOOP GALLERY Drawing/assemblage: Mark Adair and Jane LowBeer, to Dec 4. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. PAUL PETRO Painting: Julie Beugin and Amy Bowles, to Dec 23. 980 Queen W. 416-9797874. PREFIX Film: Susan Hiller, to Nov 26. Prefix 24: Big Skies, magazine launch 7-10 pm Nov 24. 401 Richmond W. 416-5910357. TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY Textiles: Household Notions group show, Nov 30-Jan 28. 3148 Dundas W. 647-270-7903. WELLINGTON STREET ART GALLERY Painting: Michèle LaRose, to Dec 5. 270 Wellington W #104. 647-352-3463.

books PERIOD FICTION

Complex cure

THE VIRGIN CURE by Ami McKay (Knopf), 368 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNN from abortion to sex work, ami McKay fearlessly confronts hard issues in women’s history. In her debut novel, The Birth House, an early-20thcentury small-town midwife in Nova Scotia faces opposition from a reactionary doctor. In The Virgin Cure, McKay moves to the tenements of 1870s Lower Manhattan, where 13-year-old Moth lives with her mother, a “Gypsy” fortune teller. Mama, cash-strapped and desperate, sells Moth to a brutally abusive high society matron to work as a maid. Moth manages to escape, but then she’s homeless and vulnerable on the street. Young girls were highly prized by men who believed that sex – that is, rape – with a virgin could cure them of STDs. When she’s taken in by a high-end brothel as a sex worker, she believes she’s been rescued, but that feeling doesn’t last. McKay’s depiction of New York’s street life and the struggles of its mid-19th-century immigrant com-

munities is clear-eyed. There’s exploitation everywhere, but also the occasional kindness. She’s dotted The Virgin Cure’s pages with quotes from the era’s newspapers, song lyrics, pamphlets, etiquette guides, fashion notices and other ephemera. These add a sense of authenticity to the narrative, but, sitting in the margins as they do, tend to interfere with the reading process. The historical material would have worked better between chapters or sections. Marina Endicott deploys that strategy in The Little Shadows, providing original descriptions of the vaudeville circuit in a way that’s not so distracting.

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GUERNICA FALL LAUNCH Readings by Ray-

LAURA AGUSTIN 7:30 pm. Free. Raging

Spoon, 761 Queen W. maggiestoronto.ca. MARINA NEMAT 7 pm. Free. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham Rd. 416-3968850. SPEAKEASY Readings by Adam Honsinger, Judith Thompson and others. 7:30 pm. Free. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. 416-916-6499. ANDREA SYRTASH 7 pm. Free. Indigo, John and Richmond. chapters.indigo.ca. WORDS OF RESISTANCE Open mic and potluck. 6 pm. Free. Centre for Women & Trans People, 563 Spadina. womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca.

Friday, November 25 MICHELE LANDSBERG The author of Writing

The Revolution gives a talk and signs books. 6:30 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. womensbookstore.com.

mond Beauchemin, Joy Kogawa and others. 3:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. guernicaeditions.com.

IAN ROGERS/TOBIN ELLIOTT/JEFF COTTRILL

Reading. 7 pm. Free. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. burningeffigy.com.

JIM WESTERGARD AND JON EVANS/GEORGE WALKER A discussion launches Westergard

and Evans’s Beasts Of New York, and Walker’s The Book Of Hours. 2:30 pm. $5 or free w/ book purchase. Gladstone Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

Tuesday, November 29 MARINA NEMAT 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. MAURICE VELLEKOOP 7 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

Wednesday, November 30 BARRY DEMPSTER/STEVE McORMOND/TANIS RIDEOUT Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca.

EMMA RUBY-SACHS 7 pm. Free. North York

Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535.

TORONTO EROTICA WRITERS AND READERS MEETUP Open mic night. 7 pm. $5. Tequila

Bookworm, 512 Queen W (upstairs). meetup. com/toronto-erotica-writers-group. 3

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Saturday, November 26 BOOKTHUG FALL LAUNCH Readings by Lise

Downe, Steve McCaffery and others. 7:30 pm. Free. St Stephens-in-the-Field Church, College and Bellevue. bookthug.ca. DON FERGUSON Launch/signing for Airfarce: 40 Years Of Flying By The Seat Of Our Pants. 11 am. Free. Costco Etobicoke, 50 Queen Elizabeth. airfarce.com. MUSKRAT LAUNCH The magazine launches its food issue with a potluck feast and book sale. 6 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 416-964-9087. IAIN REID 7 pm. Free. Holy Oak Café, 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. MADISON SHADWELL Reading. 7 pm. Free. Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition. 7 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Sunday, November 27 DON FERGUSON Launch and signing for

Airfarce: 40 Years Of Flying By The Seat Of Our Pants. 11 am. Free. Costco, 1411

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Marina Nemat has published a follow-up to Prisoner Of Tehran, her harrowing account of being held captive by Iranian authorities at the age of 16; her crime: challenging a teacher. After Tehran: A Life Reclaimed ($20, Penguin) describes her early childhood, her struggle after she was released to break the silence about her detainment, and her life in her new country, Canada. She talks about the new book and her experience at two library venues, Cedarbrae tonight (Thursday, November 24) and Barbara Frum Tuesday (November 29). See Readings, this page. SGC

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Moth is a compelling character, at times wily, often naive, but always intelligent – a true survivor. And Dr. Sadie, who works with underprivileged women, including workers in the brothel, is a fascinating mix of privilege and conscience. No surprise, she’s based on a reallife woman, McKay’s own great-greatgrandmother, one of the first graduates of the Women’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children in the 1870s. Plainly, McKay’s written this book SUSAN G. COLE from a passionate place.

The Edmonton Arts Council is now seeking applications to its pre-qualified artists pool for eligible Percent for Art projects with budgets over $100,000 CAD. This competition, open to all Canadian and international visual artists, is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas. Project Budget Range: $100,000 to $500,000+ CAD (all inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Friday, December 9, 2011 Term of Pre-Qualified Artist Pool: 2012-2014 Visit our website to download the complete public art call:

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The warm and fozzies Jason Segel spent five years bringing the Muppets to the screen By NORMAN WILNER

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sunk deep into a couch at the Windsor Arms, sipping Red Bull out of a glass designed for something much stronger, Jason Segel is telling me about the time he first met the Muppets. “It was our first table reading in New York,” says the affable, gigantic co-star of How I Met Your Mother, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and I Love You, Man. “They brought out Kermit, and it was just overwhelming. It felt like a childhood dream come true. I shed a tear, I’m not gonna lie to you.” I know exactly what he means. Kermit the Frog was just downstairs for a press conference, and watching the character in action four feet away from me was a far more moving experience than I could ever have expected. I know, rationally, that Kermit is operated and voiced by Steve Whitmire, who inherited the role after Muppet creator Jim Henson’s sudden death in 1990; everyone else

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knew it, too. But in the moment, that didn’t matter: Kermit the Frog pops up behind a table and dozens of adults are instantly reconnected to their sense of wonder. “There’s something very pure about the Muppets,” Segel says. “They’re inherently good, you know? You’re instantly sent back to childhood. There’s nothing cynical about them, or sarcastic, or anything like that – it’s that wide-eyed, mouth-open, let’s-take-onthe-world kind of attitude.” Segel’s love of the Muppets led him to spend five years bringing Henson’s creations – and their ramshackle variety show – back to the screen. “It’s a love letter to the Muppets,” Segel says. “That was my goal. I just love them so much and I wanted to do something that was just pure. The pure Muppet joy, you know?” Segel’s facility for puppetry and oddball characters – first expressed in the left-field climax of Sarah Marshall – made him the ideal star to relaunch the Muppet brand. But the more he and his writing partner, Nicholas Stoller, worked on the Muppets script, the less patience Segel had for his own character. “It was a tricky concept,” he says. “We had to present the idea that there

were contemporary, sell-tickets kind of actors in it; myself, and Amy [Adams], and Chris [Cooper]. The stars of the movie are the Muppets. But to get them to even make the movie in the first place – before we could even get to how cool the Muppets are – we had to get the movie greenlit. Also, posing it as a comeback movie was a very important thing. Not just the next Muppet movie: ‘We’re bringing back the Muppets!’” It hasn’t been an entirely smooth road. Just a few days before Segel arrived in Toronto, the Hollywood Reporter ran a story that some of the original Muppet cast and crew had misgivings about the new project – based, apparently, on early script drafts and a viewing of the theatrical trailer. “It felt like a forced controversy,” Segel shrugs. “None of them have seen it. All I can say is that I think when any of these people see the movie, they might feel silly.” It will later occur to me that he’s given a perfectly Muppet-scaled response – kind, understanding, not the least bit mean. The frog would approve. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Kermit the Frog delivers a deeply felt performance.

REVIEW THE MUPPETS (James Bobin)

ñRating: NNNN The Muppets shouldn’t work. The story is clichéd, the music isn’t great, and the focus shifts awkwardly between small-town brothers Gary (Jason Segel) and Walter (a Muppet voiced by Peter Linz) and the classic characters we know and love. But somehow, once our new heroes have convinced Kermit and company to save their theatre from an evil oilman, none of that matters. That’s because The Muppets – co-written and -produced with deep, abiding love by star Segel – does what it most needs to do. It recaptures the unpredictable energy and genuine magic of Jim Henson’s beloved felt creations, and releases that energy back into the wild. It reminds us how much we love Kermit, Fozzie, Miss Piggy, Animal, the Swedish Chef and all the rest, and it lets a lot of famous people – among them Feist, Emily Blunt and Neil Patrick Harris – pop up to express their own affection. The new songs by Flight of the Conchords’ Bret McKenzie don’t have the scale or impact of The Rainbow Connection. (What could?) But then Camilla NW the chicken covers Cee Lo, and all is right with the world.

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Arthur (voiced by James McAvoy) and his movie stand out from the ordinary holiday fare.

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Rio de Janeiro’s violent cartels are mere pawns in the hands of a ruthless police force and shady politicians in Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, a kinetic, blood-soaked movie that plays like a jacked version of The Wire. Wagner Moura stars as Nascimiento, the head of an aggressive special ops unit that’s nicknamed the Skulls. A fatal raid on a prison riot makes him an unlikely hero, resulting in a promotion to the political side of the war on drugs, much to the chagrin of peacenik Fraga (Irandhir Santos), who makes it his mission to get in Nascimento’s face at every opportunity. From behind a desk, Nascimiento proves especially effective in tooling

Irandhir Santos plays hardball in Elite Squad: The Enemy Within.

up the Skulls with massive firepower and getting rid of the cartels, but that leaves a crime vacuum in the slums that corrupt cops are more than willing to fill. At times, José Padilha’s film aims to be a realistic snapshot of contemporary Rio, with gritty aesthetics and natural performances. But the plot is riddled with as many contrivances as

bullets, and the film’s moralizing, finger-waving conclusion seems more like a fairy tale than a slice of life. You barely notice the flaws, though, since the intense violence, pulsating pace and gallery of rogue characters serve as enjoyable distractions. Elite Squad is a gruesome and entertaining action movie that earnestly tries for rADhEYAN simONPiLLAi more.

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It’s been a while since we’ve had a good all-ages Christmas movie – since 2003’s Elf, I’d say. And the early trailers for Aardman Animation’s Arthur Christmas didn’t exactly get my hopes up. But that’s why I don’t trust trailers. Viewed in full, this turns out to be a terrific Christmas picture – and a great movie, period. It’s an inventive, ingenious adventure that doesn’t pander to kids or adults. And it’s even pretty great in 3-D. This giddy, computer-generated romp through the hierarchy of the North Pole establishes in its opening minutes that the position of Santa Claus passes from father to son over the centuries. The current Santa (voiced by Jim Broadbent) is considering retirement, and his technocratic eldest (Hugh Laurie) fully expects to inherit the role. But then there’s awkward younger son Arthur (James McAvoy), whose dedication makes him the only person who cares when one child is inadvertently missed. Breaking protocol (and letting Santa sleep), Arthur and his ancient grandfather (Bill Nighy) decide to deliver the present themselves, accompanied by a wrapping elf called Bryony (Ashley Jensen). What follows is a breakneck comedy in the Aardman style established in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit and Flushed Away. The animators lure us in with clever jokes and ingenious visuals – including a most unexpected urban detour – and then sucker-punch us by revealing the characters’ surprising emotional depths. And if I can just put this out there, Bryony deserves her own sequel. Can NOrmAN WiLNEr someone get on that?

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KLITscHKo (Sebastian Dehnhardt). 117 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (November 25) at the Projection Booth. See Indie & Rep Film, page 82. Rating: NN After The Fighter and Warrior, another movie about brothers who live to fight and fight to live might seem unnecessary. But Klitschko has something that sets it apart from the pack: all the drama is real. Sebastian Dehnhardt’s documentary explores the bond between Ukrainian siblings Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, current heavyweight champions of the World Boxing Association and the World Boxing Council, respectively. It’s a compelling story: having literally grown up in the shadow of Chernobyl, the brothers discovered kick-boxing in the late 80s on blackmarket videotapes of American action movies and came to the West to seek

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So-so Monroe MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis). 101 minutes. Opens Friday (November 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NN

their fortune as fighters. Dehnhardt clearly believes that the brothers’ beginnings as struggling Eastern Bloc émigrés give them a drive and focus their opponents lack, as well as an unbreakable bond of support. It’s certainly a compelling story, but it takes forever to get going – and once it does, the brothers’ resemblance to one another (and the repetitive nature of boxing footage) means that every fight looks exactly the same. It also doesn’t help that Dehnhardt inserts the Wilhelm scream into a key fight montage, which yanked me right out of the movie. Way to keep it real. NoRMAN WILNER

Let’s get the obvious out of the way. Yes, Michelle Williams delivers as Marilyn Monroe. She nails the flirty, insecure 50s icon and is likely to land an Oscar nomination. However, her performance is too good for My Week With Marilyn, a movie as star-struck by its subject as its narrator. Director Simon Curtis is so infatuated by the glint in Monroe’s eyes that his film goes weak in the knees when it comes to examining what’s behind the pretty face. It’s based on the memoirs of Colin Clark (Eddie Redmayne), who at 23 served as third assistant director to Laurence Olivier (Kenneth Branagh) on the disastrous The Prince And The

Michelle Williams makes a splash as Marilyn Monroe.

Showgirl. Colin works as a set gofer whose duties include keeping tabs on the high-maintenance Monroe, a task that makes him vulnerable to her “innocent” charms. There’s a coming-of-age tale buried somewhere here, in which Colin learns to be a man at the feet of the sassiest of women. Unfortunately, Colin barely registers as a character in a film that is

as easily distracted as Monroe herself. In his books, Clark inserted himself into Marilyn’s story, but director Curtis makes the author into a footnote. Yet the film also fails to come into focus on Monroe. While My Week With Marilyn acknowledges the void between her public persona and private life, it does very little to fill it. RADHEYAN sIMoNPILLAI

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scorsese’s ode to classic cinema doesn’t chime as a movie By NORMAN WILNER HUGo directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan from Brian Selznick’s novel, with Asa Butterfield, Chloë Grace Moretz, Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen. A Paramount Pictures release. 126 minutes. Now playing. For venues and times, see Movies, page 75. Rating: NNN THE WITH SHORT EW ALL-N

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–acroissant,abottleofmilk–from thevendorsinthestationandspends his nights trying to repair an odd mechanicalman. Theautomatonneedsparts,which Hugo has been pilfering from the crotchety owner of the station’s toy shop (Ben Kingsley). And when said ownercatchesHugo,ittriggersaseriesofdiscoveriesthatleadto,well,a heartfelt appeal for film preservation and a love song to pioneering filmdirectorGeorgesMéliès. That’s because Hugo isn’t really thestoryofanurchininatrainstation;that’sjustitsstartingpoint.You can feel Scorsese growing less and less interested in the emotional beats, because he’s itching to get to thesetpieces,wherehecanresurrect the images and techniques of the earlysilentshesoclearlyloves. There’s a magical scene in which Hugo takes the toy-maker’s god-

daughter Isabelle (Chloë Grace Moretz, luminous and giddy) to her first cinema for a screening of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last, and a later sequencethatfindsHugohimselfdanglingfromaclocktowertoavoidthe station’sdoggedinspector(SachaBaron Cohen, doing his Sacha Baron Cohen thing). When the film dives into the past to watch Méliès making his own movies, Scorsese gets to bring that vanished past to life – in 3-D, even! – and give it the respect and gloryitdeserves. Thethingis,theperspectiveisoff. HugoandIsabellehavebecomespectatorsinsomeoneelse’sstory.Idon’t begrudge Scorsese for making this bauble;afterdecadesoftirelessadvocacyforcinemahistory,it’sprobably thebestwaytogethismessageout.I justdon’tknowwhetheritworksasa movie. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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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) Mt Pleasant

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disease procedural about the Center for Disease Control’s response to the outbreak of an unknown virus with the potential to kill millions. Soderbergh keeps the action zipping along like a thriller with short, sharp scenes, purely visual storytelling and liberal use of pounding music. 105 min. NNN (AD) Yonge & Dundas 24

THE DEBT (John Madden) has plot holes all over the place – no one notices spies smuggling a body into an apartment, for example – but it’s an effective nail-biter. Three Mossad agents return to Israel as heroes after they’ve tracked down and killed a Nazi war criminal. Or have they? The Debt features a fascinating moral dilemma, but that doesn’t surface till way late, so the film isn’t nearly as weighty as it wants to be. It’s really just a thriller with superb

(Alexander Payne) stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian lawyer trying to cope with his wife’s impending death from a brain injury, figure out how to relate to his two young daughters (Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him. Payne’s first feature since Sideways treads the same prickly, seriocomic ground, focusing on a man who’s not quite as equipped to deal with himself as he believes himself to be. The subject matter plays more seriously, but Clooney’s textured performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. And as good as they all are, it’s Judy Greer who steals the picture with just three stunning scenes as a sympathetic spectator to the family drama. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

Vanessa Paradis plays the mother of a Down syndrome child in 1969 Paris in JeanMarc Vallée’s absorbing drama that’s also partially set in present-day Montreal. Daring and invigorating.

a pufﬁn named Sven in this inventive, clever sequel to the CGI saga about Mumble the tapdancing penguin. It’s great fun for the whole family, with a big emotional payoff.

George Clooney directs and stars in this well-made political drama about a campaign strategist (Ryan Gosling) working for a Democratic presidential candidate. Great acting ensemble.

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Vinci Code wannabe that questions the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays to unspool a ridiculous plot about burned manuscripts, incest and royal bed-hopping. Disaster pic specialist Emmerich makes the most of his CGI-created Elizabethan setting and mob scenes, but the tone is wildly uneven and the performances stiff. 130 min. N (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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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(Jean-Marc Vallée) finds writer/director Vallée returning to the fluid, intuitive filmmaking that made him a sensation with C.R.A.Z.Y. Café De Flore plays out a complex, time-jumping narrative involving a present-day Montreal father (Kevin Parent) in the throes of a midlife crisis and the mother (Vanessa Paradis) of a Down syndrome child in 1969 Paris. Parent’s character is a DJ, and that’s the role Vallée assumes as a filmmaker, tracking powerful emotional beats against themes sampled from Krzysztof Kieslowski, Nicolas Roeg and early Denis Villeneuve. Some people are going to hate it; I found it bracing, daring and entirely invigorating. A word of advice: when the credits start rolling, remain seated. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4

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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) Kingsway Theatre

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Drive (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, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

eliTe SquaD: The enemy WiThin (José Padilha) 116 min. See review, page 73. nnn (RS) Opens Nov 25 at Cumberland 4.

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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)

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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’s outlawed. 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. 113 min. n (RS) Interchange 30

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Donagh) 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) Canada Square, Cumberland 4

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(George Miller) continues the CGI saga of Mumble the tap-dancing penguin – voiced again by Elijah Wood – by giving him a son who doesn’t want to dance. But that becomes a secondary issue once a glacial catastrophe separates them from the rest of their Antarctic colony. Director and co-writer Miller brings back most of your favourite characters (as well as the ones voiced by Robin Williams) and introduces a few intriguing new ones: a

puffin named Sven (Hank Azaria, basically recycling Bartok the bat from Anastasia) who promises salvation through flight and a particularly ambitious krill (voiced with considerable good humour by Brad Pitt) whose existential crisis sends him on a quest for purpose under the ice shelf. It sounds crazy, and yet it all builds to a spectacular and even moving payoff. It’s incredible that a movie this objectively nuts can reach for that sort of profundity and achieve it. 100 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

The help (Tate Taylor) is a successful adaptation of Kathryn Stockett’s mega-selling novel thanks to another powerful performance by Viola Davis (Doubt) as a maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who agrees to share her story with an upstart journalist. Too bad the junior league matrons exploiting the help play their parts to stereotypically shrieking heights. 137 min. nnn (SGC) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre huGo (Martin Scorsese) 126 min. See re-

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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) Canada Square, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Immortals (Tarsem Singh) is the latest

ultra-violent, CGI-heavy Greek mythology movie to follow 300’s lead by wallowing in carnage. Marching over similar terrain as last year’s 3-D disaster Clash Of The Titans, it’s an improvement of sorts, though that doesn’t say much. Future Man of Steel Henry Cavill lets his pecs do the talking as Theseus, a peasant warrior who must protect the heavens and earth from Mickey Rourke’s sufficiently nasty, would-be conqueror King Hyperion. There’s enough squirm-worthy torture to satisfy genre fans waiting for the next Saw movie. Director Singh excels at concocting nightmarish sights (remember The Cell?), and the 3-D serves him well. Theseus and the Gods engage in some nifty swordplay, but the film’s riddled with pompous speeches and characters as colourless and stiff as Greek statues. There’s a whole lot of death in Immortals, but frankly not enough life. 111 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ham his way into self-parody for once. 91 min. N (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

klItschko (Sebastian Dehnhardt) 117 min. See review, page 74. NN (NW) Opens Nov 25 at the Projection Booth (see Indie & Rep Film, page 82). laugh at my PaIN (Leslie Small) is a ser-

viceable Kevin Hart stand-up special padded to feature length with an opening trip to Hart’s old neighbourhood in Philadelphia and a really, really long skit in which he and his buddies try to hold up a bank Reservoir Dogs-style. Hart’s stand-up is competent and he clearly knows how to work the crowd, telling elaborate stories around a punchline that repeats several times within the routine, building laughs with each repetition. (One of them involves his debit card, another his crackhead father’s inappropriate enthusiasm at grim social functions.) If you really, really, really like Hart, that might be something you want to pay 13 bucks to see. 88 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

le havre (Aki Kaurismäki) strains credulity, but that’s the point. Good-hearted French bohemian Marcel (André Wilms) works shining shoes in the port city of Le Havre, and times are very tough. But he’s well loved by his friends, neighbours and especially his wife (Kati Outinen), who, unbeknownst to him, is gravely ill. When he decides to help an illegal refugee (Blondin Miguel), he must figure out a way to elude a very dogged police inspector (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). This is an unabashed fairy tale that doesn’t ooze irony like Finnish director Kaurismäki’s other movies. But it expertly evokes its titular location and has many

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(Drake Doremus) 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-stoplooking-at-you in love. But after Anna violates her student visa and visits London for the summer, she’s not allowed back in 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 they still feel connected to each other. The simplicity of Doremus’s third feature 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 felt performances by the appealing leads make this a real heartbreaker. 84 min. NNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity

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(J.C. Chandor) frames the first 48 hours of the 2008 financial meltdown like a moral horror story, as the traders at an over-leveraged Wall Street

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(Sean Durkin) is an intense, actorly study of a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen, better known as the younger sister of Mary-Kate 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 sea-

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firm grapple with their company’s impending collapse – and debate whether they should save themselves at the expense of the global economy. Writer-director Chandor structures the story brilliantly, moving in small steps up the ladder of responsibility from the analyst (Zachary Quinto) who first does the terrifying math all the way to the bloodless CEO (Jeremy Irons), showing us how each additional level of management tries to dodge responsibility and focus on the bottom line. And Kevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant as a company lifer in the awful position of knowing what’s coming but being powerless to stop it. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 J. edgar (Clint Eastwood) is the latest in Eastwood’s late-period series of stately patrician duds. Dustin Lance Black’s screenplay ticks off the key events in Hoover’s career while nodding to the rumours that he occasionally wore women’s clothing and was more comfortable around associate FBI director Clyde Tolson than he was around the ladies. Leonardo DiCaprio’s Hoover is a man so deeply terrified of any form of intimacy that he can’t ever relax with anyone, and Armie Hammer plays Tolson as unapologetically queer and devoted to his boss. Throw in Naomi Watts as Hoover’s secretary, who bears witness to his pain but can’t assuage it, and you’ve got a Douglas Sirk melodrama playing out in the corridors of American power. Eastwood dances around the material without ever fully committing to it. It’s just one big missed opportunity. 135 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

quiet pleasures, chief among them its deft performances. Wilms especially is a delight, the kind of sly fox you want to root for. Subtitled. 93 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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soned pro. The ending’s going to piss off a lot of people. 103 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

a meditation on what inspires a work of art, specifically Pieter Bruegel’s 16th century The Procession To Cavalry, painted during Spain’s occupation of Flanders and relentless repression of the Reformation. In the MELANCHOLIA (Lars von Trier) gets painting, Spanish cavalry lead Jesus to his under your skin, and a moody afterexecution through a crowd of nearly 500 taste sticks with you long after it’s over. Dutch villagers while a godlike miller looks Given its contemplative vision, the director down from a gigantic rock. Majewski is obviously invested in what’s onscreen. doesn’t just probe the creative process, he His atmospheric, operatic, end-of-thegets inside the painting itself, imagining the world allegory feels a bit daily lives of the villalike two separate movies gers and the brutality that never fully connect of the occupiers. By inEXPANDED REVIEWS the way the planets do in genious means – menowtoronto.com its conclusion. The first ticulous art direction, chapter is a delightfully the use of blue screen sinister comedy about a and more – the action seems to take place wedding, its resentful guests and a bride in the painted landscape, which appears as (Kirsten Dunst) who suffers from depresthe background in almost every shot. You’ll sion on her big day. In the second chapter, a either call this a pretentious piece of ponwaiting game for mysterious planet Melanderous pageantry or go crazy for it. Put me cholia’s collision with Earth, von Trier in the second category. Amazing. 95 min. patiently ratchets up the anxiety only NNNN (SGC) subtly felt in the earlier segment. It’s an inTIFF Bell Lightbox sightful metaphor for people who, like the planets, are better left in their own space. MONEYBALL (Bennett Miller) makes an en135 min. NNNN (RS) tertaining if undistinguished sports movie out of Michael Lewis’s book about GM Billy TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity Beane’s revolutionary statistics-based reMIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen) casts design of the 2002 Oakland As. It’s charmOwen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an ing enough, though the midsection sags engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where and the ending goes on about three beats at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wanlonger than it should. 126 min. NNN (NW) dering Wilson and takes him back in time to Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumbermeet the great artists of the 20s. It’s a land 4, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, pleasurable narrative hook, but the mesKennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, sage that life is best lived in the present Yonge & Dundas 24 tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min. NN (SGC) THE MUPPETS (James Bobin) 98 min. Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre See interview and review, page 72. NNNN (NW) THE MILL AND THE CROSS (Lech 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ColiMajewski) uses almost no dialogue in seum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park

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Ariel Schulman) finds the found-footage franchise jumping back to 1988 for a prequel that documents the first encounter between young Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) and the supernatural force that would return to torment them as adults. Directors Joost and Schulman abandon the series’ lockeddown, slow-burning aesthetic for editorial jumps and a really annoying number of

false scares. 84 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller) finds the titular feline outlaw (voiced by Antonio Banderas) from the Shrek series teaming up with his former best friend, Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis), and Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek) to steal some magic beans, get to the top of the beanstalk and retrieve the goose that lays the golden eggs. The 3-D animation is top-notch, and the voice

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cast (especially Galifianakis) works well with the artists to keep the film entertaining for both kids and adults despite some sizable plot holes that develop around the halfway point thanks to an unnecessary plot twist. 90 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

REAL STEEL (Shawn Levy) has surprising

heart and intelligence for a movie about a father and son who bond over outsized games of Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. That’s largely due to Hugh Jackman’s performance as a boxer-turned-robot-promoter who grudgingly takes charge of the son he barely knows (Dakota Goyo). It’s utterly predictable, but Levy hits his marks with warmth and energy, letting Jackman sell us on the emotions and the effects. And the kid’s pretty good, too. 127 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

THE RUM DIARY (Bruce Robinson) brings Hunter S Thompson’s early novel about a 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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar) fea-

tures 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 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) Cumberland 4

ñTAKE SHELTER

(Jeff Nichols) reunites Shotgun Stories director Nichols with star Michael Shannon for a piercing character study of a husband and father who starts having apocalyptic dreams every night. 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 means the rest of the world keeps going. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre

delights but wears out his welcome as soon as the heist begins. The laughs peter out, and the incoherent robbery goes down without a lick of sense to it. It’s an improbable comic caper that’s actually entertaining – up to a point. 104 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (Bill Condon) picks up on the heels

of last year’s Eclipse, finding Bella and Edward embarking on their grand voyage into matrimony and finally consummating their love. Because author Stephenie Meyer is so terrified of sex that she wrote a four-book cycle about it, Bella gets knocked up with a parasitic monster fetus that puts her own life in danger, whereupon the movie embraces a pro-life allegory that’s doubly repugnant because it goes straight to the worstcase scenario: told she’ll die before she can carry her monster fetus to term, she refuses to hear any talk of aborting it. Kristen Stewart is content to play Bella as the same sullen mope she’s always been, and Taylor Lautner is wooden as usual as her wolfen pal Jacob; once again, Robert Pattinson is the only thing worth watching in this lopsided love triangle, delivering Edward’s halting dialogue with absolute professionalism. It doesn’t help him in the batshitcrazy climax, but by that point the movie’s so fully divorced from understandable emotional arcs or conventional plotting that it hardly matters. And there’s one more on the way. 117 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Todd Strauss-Schulson) picks up six years after the last movie, putting our heroes, now facing maturity and in desperate need of a new adventure, on an epic search for the perfect Christmas tree. 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, but there’s an underlying sweetness that balances the crassness. This is, after all, the series that paints Neil Patrick Harris as a drug-gobbling sociopathic sex fiend and still makes him seem adorable. Not exactly a new holiday classic, but at least it uses 3-D well. 90 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE WAY (Emilio Estevez) charts the spirit-

ual journey of a California ophthalmologist (Martin Sheen) who flies to Europe to claim the body of his dead son and ends up impulsively completing a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. It’s a fairly predictable road movie structure, but Sheen sells his character’s evolution with a finely modulated performance. Writer-director Estevez (who plays the dead son in flashbacks) is working at something meaningful here and, if his spiritual points don’t quite crystallize into something dramatic, his film does reach a gentle catharsis by the time the journey ends. 115 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity

the film with repetitive, dull talking heads, a manufactured climax and a sentimental score. Worse, they get all self-righteous themselves, trying to influence the story’s outcome. While executive producer Ryan Reynolds does a fine job narrating, the script itself lacks momentum, and Parfit’s own onscreen statements sound so rehearsed, he comes off like Christopher Plummer reciting the classics. 85 min. NN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

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Le Guay) is smart about class and but really dumb about sex. A stockbroker, husband and father (Fabrice Luchini) lives in a luxury first-floor apartment in 60s Paris. His maid shares cramped lodgings on the sixth floor with five other domestic servants. When she quits, the new maid (Natalia Verbeke) introduces her boss to her floor-mates, triggering his life transformation. Unfortunately, we’re supposed to cheer him on when he starts falling for her. I can handle the man of the house being hot for the maid, especially since she’s turning his value system upside down. But why make her half his age, especially when the other five women on the sixth floor are more his vintage, including the very sexy Carmen Maura? Subtitled. 104 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema 3

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QUEENSWAY (CE)

THE DEBT (14A) Fri-Sat 9:10 LE HAVRE (PG) 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:30

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:15 BEN-HUR Sun 12:30 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50 HAPPY FEET TWO 3D (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 FriSun 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 HUGO (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00 HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 FriWed 7:20, 9:50 IMMORTALS (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 IMMORTALS 3D (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:20 IN TIME (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:40 Sat 9:50 J. EDGAR (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 JACK AND JILL (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (14A) Thu 10:20 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:30, 2:35, 4:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:30, 2:10, 4:10, 4:45, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 2:10, 4:10, 4:45, 6:45, 9:20 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Sun 12:40, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:05, 6:55, 9:20 Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:20 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 2:25, 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:10 mat TOWER HEIST (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 2:40, 3:30, 4:00, 4:50, 5:30, 6:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:20, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:10, 1:25, 2:00, 2:50, 4:15, 4:55, 5:30, 6:40, 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 9:30, 9:55, 10:35, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:25, 1:45, 2:00, 4:15, 4:25, 4:55, 6:40, 7:10, 7:15, 7:40, 9:30, 9:55, 10:20, 10:30 A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR CHRISTMAS (18A) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:45 Sun 5:05, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:45 WE BOUGHT A ZOO Sat 7:00

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu, Sun, Tue 7:00 Fri-Sat 9:20 TAKE SHELTER Fri-Sat 7:00 Sun 4:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 SatSun 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 HAPPY FEET TWO 3D (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 IMMORTALS 3D (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 10:30 Mon 1:50, 4:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 J. EDGAR (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 JACK AND JILL (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 1:20, 3:35, 6:40, 9:00 Fri 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:25, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:00 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 1:10, 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:00, 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Wed 1:45, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMA (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-232-1939

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

ANONYMOUS (PG) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 1:00 DOLPHIN TALE (G) Sat-Sun 11:00 DRIVE (18A) 9:35 50/50 (14A) Thu 5:15 Fri-Wed 3:15 THE HELP (PG) Thu 12:30 MONEYBALL (PG) 7:15 THE RUM DIARY (14A) Fri-Wed 5:00

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) Thu 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 HAPPY FEET TWO 3D (PG) 1:00, 3:40, 6:50, 9:20 IMMORTALS (18A) 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 JACK AND JILL (PG) 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 1:20 3:50 7:05 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Thu 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:15, 9:25 FriWed 1:25, 3:55, 7:20, 9:25 TOWER HEIST (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 9:45 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971

ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) 6:50, 9:30 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:00 mat HAPPY FEET TWO 3D (PG) 7:30, 10:00 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30 mat, 5:00 IMMORTALS (18A) Thu, Wed 9:50 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 SatSun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Tue 7:10, 9:50 JACK AND JILL (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:30 THE MUPPETS (G) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat, 4:10 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) 7:40, 10:10 Fri 5:10 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40 mat, 5:10 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 7:20, 10:20 Fri 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat, 4:20

NOVEMBER 24-30 2011 NOW

North York EmpirE ThEaTrEs aT EmprEss Walk (ET) 5095 YoNgE sT, 416-223-9550

Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 sat-sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Fri, monWed 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 sat-sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:20 sat-sun 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 sat-sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 puss In Boots (G) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:30 sat-sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:30 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 sat-sun 1:05, 3:40, 6:10, 8:50 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 4:05, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 10:00, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 sat-sun 1:30, 1:40, 4:20, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 a Very HarolD & kumar cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 3:35, 6:10, 8:50 Fri, mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:40 sat-sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:40

graNdE - YoNgE (CE) 4861 YoNgE sT, 416-590-9974

artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 Fri, monWed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 sat-sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 tHe DescenDants (14A) 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 sat-sun 1:10 mat 50/50 (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:00 Fri, mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 sat-sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Hugo (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 3:20, 6:10, 9:10 satsun 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 9:10 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:10, 9:10 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 sat-sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 tHe IDes oF marcH (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:30 Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 sat 1:50, 4:20, 10:10 sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 J. eDgar (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 Fri 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 sat-sun 12:15, 3:40, 6:55, 9:55 mon-Wed 5:30, 8:40 lIke crazy (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 5:20, 7:40, 10:15 sat-sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:20, 7:40, 10:15 mon-Wed 5:20, 7:30, 10:00 martHa marcy may marlene (14A) Thu 9:20 moneyBall (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:45, 9:45 my week wItH marIlyn (14A) 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 sat-sun 12:00, 2:30 mat sIlenceD (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 tHe way Thu 3:25 6:30 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 sat-sun 12:40 mat we BougHt a zoo sat 7:00

silvErCiTY FairviEW (CE)

FairviEW mall, 1800 shEppard avE E, 416-644-7746 artHur cHrIstmas (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Fri-sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Ben-Hur sun 12:30 Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 2:20 Fri-sun 12:20 mon-Wed 2:40 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-sun 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 sun 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 monTue 2:30, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 tHe muppets (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 puss In Boots (G) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:30, 8:15 mon-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 7:50 tower HeIst (PG) Fri-sun 10:35 mon-Wed 10:00 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:40 monWed 1:30, 2:20, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:30, 10:10

silvErCiTY YorkdalE (CE) 3401 duFFEriN sT, 416-787-4432

artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 sat-sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 sat-sun 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 mon-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 sun 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 mon-Wed 2:40, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 tHe muppets (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 sat-sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 monWed 1:40, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 puss In Boots (G) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 2:50, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 sat-sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 tower HeIst (PG) Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:05 sat 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05 sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:10 mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:00 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:50, 4:50, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:20, 8:00, 10:05, 10:45 sat 11:55, 1:30, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:20, 8:00, 10:05, 10:45 sun 1:30, 2:20,

4:15, 5:05, 7:00, 7:50, 9:45, 10:30 mon-Wed 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 4:40, 6:40, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 a Very HarolD & kumar cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 1:10, 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-sat 10:35 sun 9:50 mon-Wed 9:30

scarborough 401 & morNiNgsidE (CE) 785 milNEr avE, sCarborough, 416-281-2226

artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-sun 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Happy Feet two (PG) Fri-sun 1:30 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:35, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35, 10:00 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 9:35 tHe muppets (G) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 puss In Boots (G) Thu 3:50, 6:30, 8:45 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:15, 6:20, 8:50 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 5:00, 6:20, 7:10, 8:00, 9:00, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:45, 1:45, 2:45, 3:30, 4:15, 5:20, 6:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:40 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:15, 5:20, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:40 a Very HarolD & kumar cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 5:20, 7:50, 9:55 Fri-sun 2:15, 5:10, 7:50, 10:00 mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 9:55

ColisEum sCarborough (CE) sCarborough ToWN CENTrE, 416-290-5217

artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-sun, Tue 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40 mon, Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Hugo (PG) Fri-sun, Tue 12:15, 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 mon, Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-sun, Tue 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 10:35 mon, Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-sun, Tue 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50 mon, Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-sun, Tue 12:10, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20 mon, Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 paranormal actIVIty 3 (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:40, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-sun, Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 mon, Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-sun, Tue 12:30, 3:10, 6:45, 9:30 mon, Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:15, 1:30, 3:00, 4:00, 4:15, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00, 10:15, 10:30 Fri-sun, Tue 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 2:40, 3:30, 4:00, 5:25, 6:30, 7:00, 8:10, 9:30, 10:00, 10:55 mon, Wed 1:00, 1:20, 3:00, 4:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:00, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00, 10:20 a Very HarolD & kumar 3D cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-sun, Tue 1:10, 3:35, 6:05, 8:30, 10:45 mon, Wed 1:30, 3:45, 6:55, 9:50

EgliNToN ToWN CENTrE (CE) 1901 EgliNToN avE E, 416-752-4494

artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 9:55 Ben-Hur sun 12:30 tHe DescenDants (14A) 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-sun 1:00 mat Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:50 mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 mon-Wed 7:55, 10:25 Hero HItler In loVe (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Wed 9:30 Hugo (PG) 4:45 Fri-sun 1:45 mat Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 mon-Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:50 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 J. eDgar (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-sat 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 sun 4:35, 7:35, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:10, 9:15 Fri-sun 1:25, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:00, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:00, 1:10, 2:30, 4:05, 5:10, 7:05, 7:50, 9:45, 10:35 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:05, 6:35, 7:05, 9:15, 9:45 puss In Boots (G) Thu 4:05, 6:25, 9:20 Fri-sun 12:10, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:25 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:25 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-sun 1:55, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 5:30, 6:20, 7:00, 7:40, 8:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-sun 12:40, 1:20, 2:00, 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 6:30, 7:10,

7:45, 9:20, 10:00, 10:40 mon-Wed 3:30, 4:10, 4:50, 6:30, 7:10, 7:45, 9:20, 10:00, 10:30 a Very HarolD & kumar cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 5:10, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 7:40, 10:15 sat-Wed 7:40, 10:10

kENNEdY CommoNs 20 (amC) kENNEdY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

7aum arIVu (14A) 2:50, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:00, 12:00 mat tHe DescenDants (14A) 2:15, 3:35, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:15, 12:45 mat DesI Boyz 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-sun 1:00 mat Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-sun 10:45, 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:20, 8:15, 10:00 Fri-sun 11:30, 12:30, 2:05, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:20, 8:15, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:05, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:20, 8:15, 10:00 tHe IDes oF marcH (14A) 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-sun 12:20 mat In tIme (PG) Thu 9:50 J. eDgar (PG) Thu 2:15, 3:15, 6:35, 7:15, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:00, 2:10, 7:15, 10:25 mon-Wed 2:10, 7:15, 10:25 JoHnny englIsH reBorn (PG) Thu 2:10 laugH at my paIn Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 lIke crazy (14A) 2:30, 4:45, 7:25, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:15 mat margIn call 3:20, 6:15, 9:10 Fri-sun 12:25 mat martHa marcy may marlene (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 mayakkam enna 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:40 mat moneyBall (PG) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-sun 10:30 mat tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:15, 4:35, 5:50, 7:15, 8:20 Fri-sun 11:40, 12:20, 2:10, 3:15, 4:50, 5:50, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50 monWed 2:10, 3:15, 4:50, 5:50, 7:15, 8:20, 9:50 my week wItH marIlyn (14A) 1:35, 4:05, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-sun 10:45 mat puss In Boots (G) 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-sun 10:30, 12:50 mat puss In Boots 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:05, 8:20 ra. one (PG) Thu 2:35, 6:00, 9:15 rockstar (PG) Thu, mon-Wed 3:10, 6:25, 9:55 Fri, sun 11:45, 3:10, 6:25, 9:55 sat 11:45, 3:10, 10:20 tHe way 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Fri-sun 11:10 mat we BougHt a zoo sat 7:00

WoodsidE CiNEmas (i) 1571 saNdhursT CirClE, 416-299-3456

7aum arIVu (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:45 sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30 DesI Boyz Fri 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00 sat 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 8:15, 9:45, 11:00 sun 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 8:15, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:30, 5:45, 7:00, 9:30 ra. one (PG) Thu 4:45 rockstar (PG) Thu 4:45, 8:00 Fri-sun 6:45 mon-Wed 9:15

GTA Regions mississauga

ColisEum mississauga (CE) squarE oNE, 309 raThburN rd W, 905-275-3456

Ben-Hur sun 12:30 Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50 Fri-sun 1:00, 3:40 mon-Wed 1:00, 3:30 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 6:10, 8:50 Happy Feet two: an ImaX 3D eXperIence (PG) Thu, mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Immortals (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Immortals 3D (18A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Frisun 1:20, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10 mon-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:10 tHe muppets (G) Thu 12:35, 1:15, 3:30, 4:20, 6:45, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:20, 1:40, 3:20, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 mon-Tue 1:50, 3:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 3:10, 4:40, 6:30, 7:20, 9:20, 10:00 puss In Boots 3D (G) Thu 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:10, 6:00, 8:20 mon-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 4:50, 6:30, 7:00, 7:20, 7:40, 9:15, 9:45, 10:10, 10:30 Fri-sun 12:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 3:00, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 5:45, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:40 mon-Tue 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 3:00, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 5:45, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:40 Wed 1:30, 2:20, 3:00, 3:30, 4:10, 5:10, 5:45, 6:20, 6:50, 7:50, 8:30, 9:00, 9:40

a Very HarolD & kumar 3D cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-sat 2:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 sun 7:40, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00

CourTNEY park 16 (amC)

110 CourTNEY park E aT huroNTario, 888-262-4386 artHur cHrIstmas (G) 2:15, 7:30 artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) 4:45, 10:00 Fri-sun 11:30 mat Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 2:00 4:45 7:45 10:45 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Frisun 11:00, 1:30, 4:15 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15 Happy Feet two: an ImaX 3D eXperIence (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15 Fri-sun 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20 monWed 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20 Hugo (PG) Thu 1:40, 7:40 Fri-Wed 10:30 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 10:40 Fri-sun 11:15, 2:15, 5:10, 8:10 mon-Wed 2:15, 5:10, 8:10 Immortals (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:45 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-sun 11:35, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 mon-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 In tIme (PG) 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-sun 11:40 mat J. eDgar (PG) 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-sat 10:30 mat Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-sun 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 mon-Wed 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 tHe muppets (G) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 my week wItH marIlyn (14A) 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-sun 10:45, 1:15 mat puss In Boots (G) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:10 Fri-sun 11:40, 2:05, 4:40, 7:05 mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:05 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:40 Fri-sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 mon-Wed 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 10:00, 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00 Fri 11:00, 11:45, 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45, 11:15 sat 10:00, 11:00, 11:45, 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45, 11:15 sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:00, 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 mon-Wed 2:00, 2:45, 4:00, 5:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 a Very HarolD & kumar 3D cHrIstmas (18A) Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:25

silvErCiTY mississauga (CE) hWY 5, EasT oF hWY 403, 905-569-3373

tHe DescenDants (14A) Fri-sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 3:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:10 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 tHe IDes oF marcH (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 J. eDgar (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:35, 9:55 mon-Wed 3:25, 6:35, 9:55 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:25 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:20, 9:05 JoHnny englIsH reBorn (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:10, 3:50, 6:45, 7:25, 9:20, 10:00 Fri-sun 12:05, 12:40, 2:40, 3:50, 5:20, 6:50, 7:55, 9:35, 10:30 mon-Wed 3:55, 4:40, 6:50, 7:25, 9:25, 10:00 my week wItH marIlyn (14A) Fri-sun 1:10, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 mon-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:20 puss In Boots 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:10, 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:35

North Colossus (CE) hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

artHur cHrIstmas (G) 3:45 Fri-sun 12:45 mat artHur cHrIstmas 3D (G) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 mon-Wed 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 tHe DescenDants (14A) 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:10 mat Happy Feet two (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Fri-sun 12:30, 3:15, 6:10 mon-Wed 3:35, 6:10 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Happy Feet two: an ImaX 3D eXperIence (PG) Thu, monWed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Immortals 3D (18A) Thu 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 mon-Wed 4:05, 7:25, 10:05 In tIme (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 mon 4:35, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 J. eDgar (PG) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:00, 10:40 Fri-sun 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 mon-Wed 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:45, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:35, 10:15

Fri-sun 12:40, 1:25, 3:55, 4:40, 6:40, 7:15, 9:20, 10:00 monWed 3:55, 4:40, 6:40, 7:15, 9:20, 10:00 my week wItH marIlyn (14A) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-sun 1:00 mat paranormal actIVIty 3 (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Fri-Wed 9:40 puss In Boots (G) Thu 3:50 puss In Boots 3D (G) Thu 4:25, 6:40, 8:55 Fri-sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 raIDers oF tHe lost ark mon 7:00 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 mon-Wed 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:20, 4:50, 6:00, 6:40, 7:20, 7:40, 9:00, 9:40, 10:20, 10:30 Fri-sun 12:15, 12:50, 1:30, 3:10, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:05, 10:40 mon-Wed 3:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:30, 7:10, 7:40, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 a Very HarolD & kumar 3D cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-sun 1:55, 4:50, 7:55, 10:35 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:55, 10:10

iNTErChaNgE 30 (amC)

30 iNTErChaNgE WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323 7aum arIVu (14A) Thu 4:45, 6:15, 8:00, 9:30 Fri 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 sat-sun 11:40, 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 mon-Wed 6:15, 9:30 anonymous (PG) 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 sat-sun 1:30 mat DesI Boyz 6:00, 9:15 Fri 2:45 mat sat-sun 11:30, 2:45 mat DrIVe (18A) 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 Fri 2:30 mat sat-sun 12:05, 2:30 mat Footloose (PG) 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:30 mat sat-sun 11:45, 2:30 mat tHe Help (PG) 6:35, 9:40 Fri 3:30 mat sat-sun 12:20, 3:30 mat Hugo (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:15 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 sat-sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Hugo 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:00, 9:45 Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 sat 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 sun 11:00, 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 laugH at my paIn Thu 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 tHe lIon kIng 3D Thu, mon-Wed 4:35, 6:45 Fri 2:30, 4:35, 6:45 sat 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 9:45 sun 12:20, 2:30, 4:35, 6:45 mayakkam enna 6:00, 9:15 Fri 2:45 mat sat-sun 11:30, 2:45 mat moneyBall (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 sat-sun 1:00 mat real steel (PG) 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 sat-sun 11:00, 1:45 mat tHe tHree musketeers (PG) 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Fri 2:25 mat sat-sun 11:50, 2:25 mat we BougHt a zoo sat 7:00

raiNboW promENadE (i)

promENadE mall, hWY 7 & baThursT, 905-764-3247 artHur cHrIstmas (G) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20, 9:20 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 7:05 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:00 Immortals (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 6:50, 9:35 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 1:05 3:15 5:15 7:20 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:15, 5:10, 7:10, 9:15 tHe muppets (G) Thu 1:25 4:00 7:10 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 puss In Boots 3D (G) 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:10 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30 mon 4:15, 7:05, 9:30

West graNdE - sTEElEs (CE) hWY 410 & sTEElEs, 905-455-1590

artHur cHrIstmas (G) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 sat-sun 11:50, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Happy Feet two 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 sat-sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 monWed 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Immortals (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 sat-sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 J. eDgar (PG) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 sat-sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Jack anD JIll (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:15 Fri 4:10, 7:35, 10:00 sat-sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:35, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 tHe muppets (G) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 satsun 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 puss In Boots 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:25 Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 sat-sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 tower HeIst (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:35 Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 sat-sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 tHe twIlIgHt saga: BreakIng Dawn part 1 (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:45, 10:20 Fri 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:15 sat-sun 12:30, 1:20, 3:30, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:15 mon-Wed 3:40, 4:20, 6:25, 7:05, 9:20, 10:00 a Very HarolD & kumar cHrIstmas (18A) Thu 5:05, 7:40, 9:55 3

NOW

november 24-30 2011

indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

How to find a listing

The Green Wave uses animation to explore 2009 Iran election.

Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

WEd 30 – Klitschko. 7 pm. Last Man On Earth. 9 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum

ñ f = Festive/seasonal event

463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

How to place a listing

SAT 26-TuE 29 – Total Eclipse (1995) D:

= Critics’ pick (highly recommended)

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals amnesty international reel awareness film festival national film board, 150 john. aito.ca/reelawareness.

Thu 24-SuN 27 – Films about human rights

abuse, resistance and struggle presented to inform, educate and engage audiences. Pwyc, suggested donation $5, opening night $10. Thu 24 – Opening night: Give Up Tomorrow (2011) D: Michael Collins. 7:30 pm. FRI 25 – Bhopali (2011) D: Van Maximillian Carlson. 7:30 pm. SAT 26 – Prosecutor (2010) D: Barry Stevens. 2 pm. Who Killed Natasha? (2011) D: Mylene Sauloy. 4 pm. The Price Of Sex (2011) D: Mimi Chakarova. 6:15 pm. The Green Wave (2010) D: Ali Samadi Ahadi. 8 pm. SuN 27 – Impunity (2010) D: Juan Jose Lozano. 3:30 pm. Lady Of No Fear (2010) D: Anne Gyrithe Bonne. 6 pm. Call & Response (2008) D: Justin Dillon. 7:30 pm.

canadian labour international film festival

innis town hall, 2 sussex. 416-970-clif (2543), labourfilms.ca

SAT 26-SuN 27 – Films about workers and the conditions under which they live, work, fight, and succeed in their daily lives. Free. SAT 26 – Triangle: Remembering The Fire (2011) D: Daphne Pinkerson. 2 pm. Locked Out (2011) D: Joan Sekler. 3 pm. Last Stand At Nymboida (2010) D: Jeff Bird. 4:30 pm. Alta Gracia: A Victory For The Labour Movement (2011) D: Morgan Currier. 5:30 pm. Breathtaking (2010) D: Kathleen Mullen. 6 pm. SuN 27 – The Best Of CLIFF films, and Tanaka-San Will Not Do Calisthenics (2008) D: Maree Delofski. 2 pm. The Coca-Cola Case (2009) D: Carmen Garcia and German Gutierrez. 3:45 pm.

european union film festival royal cinema, 608 college. eutorontofilmfest.ca

Thu 24-WEd 30 – Festival of contemporary

European cinema featuring 24 films from 24 countries. Free admission. Thu 24 – Soul At Peace (2009) D: Vladimir Balko. 6 pm. Love And Rage (2009) D: Morten Giese. 8:30 pm. FRI 25 – Return Of Sergeant Lapins (2010) D: Gatis Smits. 6 pm. Basilicata Coast To Coast (2008) D: Rocco Papaleo. 8:30 pm. SAT 26 – Breathing (2011) D: Karl Markovics. 6 pm. DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006) D: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. 8:30 pm. SuN 27 – Balls (2010) D: Josef. 6 pm. The Mystery Of Sintra (2007) D: Jorge Paixao da Costa. 8:30 pm. MoN 28 – Wedding In Bessarabia (2010) D: Napoleon Helmis. 6 pm. TuE 29 – The Other Side Of Sleep (2011) D: Rebecca Daily. 6 pm. Stricken (2009) D: Reinout Oerlemans. 8:30 pm. WEd 30 – My Piece Of The Pie (2011) D: Cedric Klapisch. 6 pm.

november 24-30 2011 NOW

Thu 24 – Films Of Andy Warhol. 7 pm. What I Learned From LSD. 9 pm.

Agnieszka Holland. 7 pm. What I Learned From LSD. 9 pm.

revue cinema

400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

Thu 24 – Toronto International Film And Video Awards. tifva.com.

FRI 25 – The Help (2011) D: Tate Taylor. 7 pm.

Spotlight on human rights Criminal Court in the Hague, who negotiates with governments and NGOs to bring legal action against the individuals who order and orchestrate atrocities. Framed around the 2009 war crimes trial of Congo’s Thomas Lubanga, Prosecutor flashes back on the creation of the ICC and Moreno Ocampo’s never-ending efforts to overcome political and ideological opposition. (The United States infamously refuses to endorse the ICC.) Though not exactly a fun afternoon at the movies, it’s a solid, unflinching look at a good man doing a miserable job. Ali Samadi Ahadi’s The Green Wave

(Saturday, 8 pm; rating: NNN) looks at the 2009 Iran election and that moment when it appeared Iranians might be able to get rid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, only to see their democratic revolution crushed by militias bent on repressing every sign of dissent. Ahadi tells the Iranian people’s story by combining sorrowful talking-head interviews with animated re-enactments of events, a technique applied with greater impact in Ari Folman’s 2008 Waltz With Bashir. Q&As will follow each screening; guests were still being determined NoRMAN WILNER at press time.

cinemas

fox theatre

bloor cinema

Thu 24 – Down The Road Again (2011) D:

fSAT 26 – The Polar Express 3D (2004) D: Robert Zemeckis. 2 pm. MoN 28 – Bugs! 3D & Blue Planet. 10:15 am. TuE 29 – Bugs! 3D & Mysteries Of Egypt. 10 am. Mysteries Of Egypt & Blue Planet. 12:30 pm.

REEL AWARENESS FILM FESTIVAL from tonight (Thursday, November 24) to Sunday (November 27), at the National Film Board. See listings, this page. aito. ca/reelawareness.

Amnesty International’s Reel Awareness Film Festival takes over the NFB cinema tonight through Sunday, screening documentaries about human rights issues around the world. One standout is Barry Stevens’s Prosecutor (Saturday, 2 pm; rating: NNNN), a profile of Argentine attorney Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor for the International

506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com

Thu 24-WEd 30 – Closed for renovations.

camera bar 1028 Queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

SAT 26 – One Week (2008) D: Michael

McGowan. 3 pm. Free.

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reitman sQuare, 350 king w. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net

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Donald Shebib. 7 pm. The Help (2011) D: Tate Taylor. 9 pm. FRI 25 – Moneyball (2011) D: Bennett Miller. 7 pm. Take Shelter (2011) D: Jeff Nicholls. 9:30 pm. SAT 26 – Johnny English Reborn (2011) D: Oliver Parker. 2 pm. Moneyball. 4 & 7 pm. Take Shelter. 9:30 pm. SuN 27 – Johnny English Reborn. 2 pm. Moneyball. 4 & 6:45 pm. Take Shelter. 9:15 pm. MoN 28 – Moneyball. 6:45 pm. Take Shelter. 9:15 pm. TuE 29 – Take Shelter. 7 pm. Moneyball. 9:15 pm. WEd 30 – The Help. 1:30 pm. Take Shelter. 7 pm. Moneyball. 9:15 pm.

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am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. SAT 26 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1, 3 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon, 4 & 7 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. SuN 27 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. MoN 28-WEd 30 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

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Todd Loren’s Rock ’N Roll Comics (2005) D: Ilko Davidov. 7 pm. Music From The Big House (2010) D: Bruce McDonald. 9 pm. FRI 25 – Klitschko (2011) D: Sebastian Dehnhardt. 7 pm. Last Man On Earth (1964) D: Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow. 9 pm. House On Haunted Hill (1959) D: William Castle. 10:45 pm. SAT 26 – His Girl Friday (1940) D: Howard Hawks. 5 pm. Klitschko. 7 pm. Last Man On Earth. 9 pm. House On Haunted Hill. 10:45 pm. SuN 27 – Sholay (1975) D: Ramesh Sippy. 3 pm. Klitschko. 7 pm. Last Man On Earth. 9 pm. House On Haunted Hill. 10:45 pm. MoN 28 – Klitschko. 7 pm. House On Haunted Hill. 9 pm. TuE 29 – Klitschko. 7 pm. Last Man On Earth. 9 pm. House On Haunted Hill. 10:45 pm.

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I’m 26, straIght, and male. I consIder

myself a socially progressive person, have been a vocal supporter of LGBT issues since high school, and was president of my college Gay-Straight Alliance. Here’s my issue: I fully support the trans community. I have numerous friends in varying states of transition and I’m 100 per cent behind them. But in my own dating life, I wouldn’t feel comfortable dating/having sex with a woman who had at one point in her life been a man. I realize I wouldn’t be fucking a dude, but it’s a mental hurdle I can’t clear. All my LGBTQA friends – be they trans, gay, bi – call me a transphobe, because if I were truly on their side, if I truly “understood,” then sex with a MTF straight woman would be no different than sex with a cisgender straight woman. Do I have the right to feel uncomfortable with the idea (or reality) of having sex with these women and still consider myself a supporter of the trans community? Are my friends being unreasonable by judging me against their schema of appropriate sexuality? Or am I a hypocrite? Fears Real Activism Undermined [by] Dick “He’s not transphobic – not in my book,” says Kate Bornstein, author, performer, “advocate for teens, freaks and other outlaws” and herself a trans woman. “One more thing he’s not is straight. Sex-positive, supportive of trans folk and heterosexual? Cool! He’s a queer heterosexual – and some of my best friends are queer heterosexuals.”

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As for your specific issue – you’re not attracted to trans women – Bornstein says that by itself isn’t evidence of transphobia. “A queer heterosexual is just as entitled to the fulfillment of his or her sex and gender desires as anyone else,” says Bornstein. “Sometimes those desires depend on the nature of the lover’s body. Well, trans people have bodies that are different than cis people’s bodies. We’re two (or more) mints in one – a physical blend that attracts a lot of people. FRAUD just doesn’t happen to be one of them. The fact that he’s sensitive to that blending of genders in our bodies does not make him transphobic.” What can you do about it? “Go have good sex with cis women,” says Bornstein. (Don’t know what “cis” means in this context? See: tinyurl.com/ cisdefine.) Whatever else you do, FRAUD, Bornstein wants you to stop identifying as straight. “He’s part of our queer tribe,” she says. “And who knows? One day, he might meet the right trans person.” And who knows? One day, your cranky LGBTQA friends might accept who you are just as you’ve accepted them. Make an effort to use “attracted to cis women” in place of “wouldn’t feel comfortable dating” trans women and you’ll hasten that day’s arrival. Kate Bornstein’s new memoir, A Queer And Pleasant Danger (Beacon Press), will be published in the spring. Follow her

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I’m a 26-year-old guy In a polyamor-

ous relationship. As this is my first kick at the poly can, I wasn’t dying to tell my family, “Hey, I’m dating a married woman!” However, through the magic of Facebook, my brother found out that the girl I’m seeing has a husband. Once I was “busted,” I discussed the situation with my sister-in-law. The issue is that my GF and her husband have a 10-yearold son. This isn’t an issue for me, but my brother has compared the poly community to drug addicts and stated that CPS should remove my girlfriend’s child from her home, etc. My brother and his wife are now threatening to cut me out of their lives – as well as their children’s lives, whom I care for a great deal – if I don’t dump the girlfriend. Thoughts? Forced To Pick Right off the top of my head: Your brother is a shit-smeared asshole, your sister-in-law is an ass-smeared shithole and they’d be doing you a huge favour if they cut you out of their lives. Pick the GF, FTP. That might mean you won’t see your nieces/nephews for a while, which would be sad for you and bad for those kids (children with crazy, controlling parents need to spend quality time with saner family members). But if you dump your girlfriend at their insistence – if you fail to stand up to them – you will have established a dangerous precedent: your love life isn’t yours to manage, it’s theirs, and all your

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future partners will be subject to their batshittery/scrutiny and, if they disapprove of any future girlfriends (concurrent or subsequent), they will attempt to exercise the veto power you ceded to them during this conflict. Your brother and sister-in-law are bullies, FTP, and you’ve got to defend yourself. So long as your GF and her husband aren’t doing anything inappropriate in front of their son and they’re not placing unfair burdens on their son (they don’t expect him to keep secrets, if they’re not out about being poly; they don’t expect him to be out about his parents being poly, if they are out and he’s not comfortable sharing that info with his friends), you need to come to their defence, too. And you might want to consult a lawyer now, just in case your brother and sister-in-law call CPS.

I am a 29-year-old male wIth a fetIsh

for snapping pictures of women’s legs and feet in nylons. I look for women online who will allow me to pay them to take these pictures. I recently posted an ad and received a reply from a co-worker. I find her very attractive and would like to photograph her legs and feet. How should I handle this? Sent From My Mobile Device Here’s a relevant story from the files: Vanilla Gay pays a social call on Kinky Gay. KG informs VG that there’s a Hot Dude tied up in his playroom. KG invites VG to view HD. KG is right: HD is hot. HD is also, as it turns out, one of VG’s co-workers – one of VG’s straight coworkers. It was an unexpected twist of fate – HD didn’t know that VG and KG were friends – that resulted in VG discovering something about HD that HD didn’t choose to reveal to VG. (A twist of fate and the rules HD agreed to when he played with KG: HD had consented to KG showing him off.) While it’s possible that HD wouldn’t have cared that VG knew his secret, it’s likelier that HD, if he knew VG knew his bi-for-bondage secret, would’ve felt embarrassed around his co-worker – not to mention compromised during any routine workplace conflicts with VG. I urged VG to keep his mouth shut. In your case, SFMMD, while it’s possible that your co-worker doesn’t care who knows that she does fetish modelling on the side for extra money and/or thrills, it’s likelier that she would be embarrassed to learn that someone she knows professionally discovered what she’s doing. There are plenty of other women out there, and plenty of other legs and feet to photograph. Keep your mouth shut.

I was readIng a letter In your

archives from a woman who didn’t have much libido. I was disappointed that you didn’t mention that decreased libido is a common side effect of almost every form of hormonal birth control. The first thing a woman with low libido should do, if she’s been on the same pill for years, is to switch methods. I would love it if you’d mention this in your column. Spread The Word Done and done.

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