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discusses his non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavour with Robert J Sawyer. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library. torontopubliclibrary.ca. NATreL rINk Skate off those holiday calories at Harbourfront’s free rink, open until 10 pm tonight. 416-973-4866. FAITH AND OCCUPY Conversation about how the spiritually inclined can help further the aims of Occupy Toronto. 7 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity. 416-598-4521.
musician’s “go big or go home” show has made him a rising star. Drake Underground. 9 pm. $10. 416-531-5042.
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Theatre’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s feminist response to Homer’s Odyssey continues at Buddies in Bad Times to Jan 29. 1:30 and 8 pm. $22-$46. 416-975-8555. OTHer PeOPLe Christopher Shinn’s gritty play about 20-something New Yorkers previews tonight and opens tomorrow at the Young Centre. To Jan 28. 8 pm. $15-$22. 416-866-8666.
The sculptor who grows her art in the garden and exhibits it in canning jars has a new show at Loop Gallery, to Jan 29. Free. 416-516-2581. HerMAN DUNe The French folkrock duo bring their Strange Moosic LP and new EP to the Horseshoe. Doors 8:30 pm. $12.50. HS, RT, SS.
Ontario’s weekend-long event showcases 26 dance companies. Fleck Dance Theatre. $10 min donation. 416-973-4000.
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+kIM’S CONveNIeNCe Ins Choi’s hugely successful Fringe play about a Korean-Canadian family that owns and runs a convenience store continues to preview in its expanded Soulpepper remount at the Young Centre. To Feb 11. 8 pm. $22$68. 416-866-8666.
see this beautiful AGO show. $16.50-$25. ago.net. AMerICAN IDIOT The Green Day musical closes today at the Toronto Centre for the Arts. 2 and 7 pm. To Jan 15. $62-$180. 416-644-3665.
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Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical set against the backdrop of the civil rights movement opens at 8 pm at Berkeley Street Theatre and runs to Feb 12. $32-$45. 416-3683110.
rock-inspired English electronic band hits Wrongbar. 8 pm. $12.50. RT, SS. PeNNY PLAIN Ronnie Burkett’s new puppet play, an apocalyptic dark comedy, opens at the Factory Theatre and runs to Feb 26. 8 pm. $38-$55. 416504-9971.
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If Smitherman had won wayne roberts left out another reason to be grateful for Rob Ford’s victory (NOW, January 511). The dam age Ford is doing can, at great cost in time and money, be reversed. If George Smitherman had won, with his record of arrogance and incompe tence in provincial government, we’d arguably be worse off. Smitherman is neither a pompous ideologue nor a complete fool. How ever, the longterm systemic harm he did to Ontario through his mis management of eHealth is not easily undone. Howard A. Doughty Richmond Hill
email letters@now toronto.com Mayor’s domestic trouble although i scratch my head over the tone of some of Enzo Di Matteo’s columns, I think this week’s prose on the mayor’s domestic trou bles (NOW, January 511) is balanced and appropriate for the ongoing dis cussion – at least for those who listen to both sides of an argument. Ian Byers Toronto
People like Rob Ford... it’s too bad the general public is still so mystified by sociopathic beha viour, especially when that socio pathy is protected by wealth. Rob Ford
sadly (because it’s not just his fault, but a social disease) fits the bill. Wealth creation in a society that embraces privatization amplifies sociopathic behaviour. People like Ford are a danger to so cial functionality because wealth hoarding is viewed as a legitimate behaviour, something to be applaud ed as the natural companion and even foundation of democracy. This is why Ford’s pattern of bad behaviour is not only defended as “regular family stuff” but ignored outright as a pattern of disease. John Dawn Toronto
near impossibility. One has to wonder yet again where the planners were on this one. I can only assume that nobody took a drive along the route before putting pen to paper. Nicholas Brooks Toronto
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regarding code red alert (now, January 511). It shouldn’t be long be fore Rob Ford and his band of idiots realize that burying the Eglinton LRT for it’s full length is DOA simply be cause of the Don Valley. Tunnelling under it is already recognized as a
joshua errett’s article on helping feral cats and kittens (NOW, De cember 29January 4) is offensive. His thesis is equivalent to the state ment “I punch babies, but I donate to Greenpeace, so it all evens out.”
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Helping kittens is a charitable thing to do but does not give anyone the right to steal from a store. Adding insult to injury, Errett equates steal ing from a bulkbin store to directly decreasing the wage of his server or bartender. Doing one good deed does not can cel out the bad things he does. Doing daily good deeds (otherwise known to the rest of us as normal actions, like tipping well or simply not steal ing) will not take away any time or energy from his feral kitten project. Emily Q. Toronto
i don’t understand why daydream Nation didn’t make TIFF’s list of best Canadian films (NOW, Janu ary 511). It’s a beautiful local movie that all my friends and I love without caring that it’s Canadian. If we’re talking about films that people my age actually love to watch over and over, this is the one. Kat Dennings is amazing, and the whole movie has a real vision that’s much more inspir ing than a lot of the films on TIFF’s list. My two cents. Annie West Toronto (Editor’s note: Daydream Nation wasn’t eligible for this year’s awards because it premiered in 2010. But it didn’t make TIFF’s cut that year either.)
Book smarts what? not one non-fiction work among the top 10 books of 2011 (NOW, December 22 28)? I don’t understand many of today’s novels, which are written by 20somethings, often living with their par ents. Never trust anyone under 30 to give you insight into experiences of life, let alone the meaning of it. Jacob Mendlovic Toronto
Comedy Top 10 a joke just read now magazine’s Best And Worst Com edy Shows Of 2011 (NOW, De cember 2228). Second City, Pat’s 24 Hour Show and James Gangl are very deserving, but why has the list become so scattershot and nonlocal? Most of this year’s list was made up of TV/films, predominantly from the U.S. Charlie Sheen got two blurbs. And I’m sorry, but this really
jumps out at me: “Worst Local Comedy Loss: Just For Laughs Toronto”? JFL is a big loss, and I know not everyone can be mentioned, but I’m disappointed that NOW’s comedy reviewers are not more plugged into the scene. Instead of features, local comics are lucky to get a small blurb or photo in NOW. Even the quarter-page Q&As have become less frequent. Positive reviews help good comedians make a living, so could you please let us keep the hope of being appreciated at the end of the year in the city’s biggest weekly? Besides, Sheen doesn’t need publicity in NOW when he has all that tiger blood. Ron Sparks Toronto
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[Frontlines] Alice Klein on the real foreign money behind the Gateway pipeline Has he gone too far this time? Prime Minister Stephen Harper has shown many times over that he has little regard for democracy. I mean, how did we learn to spell the word “prorogue”? The long record is too wearisome to recount, but the ominous new attack on opponents of the Northern Gateway pipeline has opened a front in his battle against civil society that makes you wonder. Now that we’re watching the 1 per cent more closely, will the times still be on Harper’s side? Thousands of citizens are in the queue to give deputations at the public regulatory hearings into the proposed pipeline, which will cut through 1,200 kilometres of Canada’s northern mountains and streams to deliver tar sands product to waiting tankers in northern BC’s sensitive coastal waters. According to Harper, this surge of participation is the egregious result of “the use of foreign money to overload the public consultation phase.” He is promising – threatening, actually – that his government “will be taking a close look” to ensure that “our regulatory processes are effective and deliver decisions in a reasonable amount of time.” Just the day before the hearings,
Two of the tar sands’ biggest foreign backers are the Koch brothers, poster children for the 1 per cent. which began Tuesday, January 10, Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver upped the ante with an open letter claiming that “there are environmental and other radical groups that threaten to hijack our regulatory system to achieve their radical ideological agenda.” He spares no froth repeating Harper’s charge that these undesirables “use funding from foreign special interest groups to undermine Canada’s national economic interest.” If this all sounds ironically like a foreign narrative imported from the Tea Party in the U.S., there may indeed be good reason.
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Two of the top five richest people in the entire world (according to a December 2011 study by the International Forum on Globalization) are the American Koch brothers. They are poster children for the 1 per cent, and they haven’t been timid about making their influence felt. Among their many political activities, brother David is co-founder of the political action committee Americans for Prosperity that helped bring the Tea Party into existence. As the New Yorker pointed out in August 2010, the Kochs are known for “creating slippery organizations with genericsounding names.” They are fierce proponents of climate-change denial – and why am I mentioning this? Because among their many interests, they have a huge stake in Alberta’s tar sands. When Joe Oliver speaks of Canada’s “national economic interests,” just whose interests is he really defending? The Koch brothers are an example of the really worrisome “foreign” interests involved in pipeline politics. How will these ironies play out in Canada’s public sphere this overly warm January and beyond? For those of us in the 99 per cent, this is no time to tune out. 3
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The final word from the CBC ombudsman on the network’s coverage of Rob Ford’s 911 blow-up back in October: the CBC didn’t contravene journalistic standards when it relied on unnamed police sources. The real bomb in the CBC report: assertions by police Chief Bill Blair, who said Ford didn’t call 911 dispatchers “bitches,” can’t exonerate the mayor. That’s because Blair was not a “disinterested party,” concludes CBC ombudsman Kirk LaPointe, who notes that the police budget averting layoffs was passed only a week before the 911 controversy. Predictable howls from the conservative press followed LaPointe’s statement, but Blair’s intervention in the affair was by his own admission unusual. Ford isn’t eager to clear up the whole matter by releasing the tape. He called the CBC report “old news.”
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be cut from 57 library branches in Talk about a paradigm shift. Among the groups advocating a lighter touch – and highthe proposed 2012 budget. That’s er property taxes – in this budget go-round roughly 341 fewer hours of operis... the biz-friendly, tax-cutting Toronto Board ation per branch affected, for a of Trade. Among the concerns raised by the BoT in total closure of six weeks its submission on the 2012 budget are reduced fundper branch. ing to the TTC (“the City cannot reduce new transit infrastructure without risking our future prosperity”), $4.7 million in proposed cuts to funding for 13 priority neighbourhoods, which the board notes has created 2,000 jobs in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods. The board recommends raising the proposed 2.5 per cent property tax increase to 3 per cent. Meanwhile, the Social PlanWhat Chalktivism on blackboard-festooned Info pillar near ning Council has released an updated map (above) of neighbourhoods that’d College and Bathurst When 2:43 pm, Sunday, January 8 be most adversely affected by cuts. Of the 75 location-specific cuts still on the Why Because these menaces to public space give more room table, 56 per cent are in low-income neighbourhoods (in brown on the map) to advertising than to info. The Public Works and Infrastrucwith poverty rates above 24.5 per cent. ture Committee recommended last week that future installa-
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Solution We can ditch the cuts and invest in innovation for a mere $160 a year By ADAM GIAMBRONE that $150 million surplus toronto ran last year puts us way ahead of other large cities on the continent. But the mayor and his followers aren’t planning to use any of it – or any other mechanism – to enhance the quality of city life. What if a coalition of progressive councillors and temporary allies in the mushy middle banded together at next week’s budget showdown to propose a winning budget cocktail: one part surplus, with a modest tax increase as a mix? Here would be a chance not only to stop service cuts, but also to make T.O. a better place far into the future. My proposal: with a few prudent decisions and increased efficiencies, plus a reasonable 2.5 per cent tax in crease on top of the 2.5 currently budgeted, we could balance the bud get, save services and do some city building at the same time. The additional bumpup would bring in an extra $57 mil and cost the average homeowner only $80 above the existing proposed $80 increase, and, on the other hand, would save residents the costs of withdrawn ser vices and new user fees. What’s needed now is to remain fiscally prudent while starting again to envision Toronto’s longterm health, with more green space, pub lic health services and better transit. Just 1 per cent of funds from the extra 2.5 per cent tax increase I’m suggesting would remove the threat of most nontransit cuts, like the pro posed 10 per cent reduction to the li brary budget. The other 1.5 per cent could become a citybuilding levy, meaning that at a cost of just $80 per household, we could go back to creat ing a truly worldclass metropolis. Let’s consider some of the options. First, we could take $1.25 mil and in vest it in public health, which, be cause the province matches every dollar with $3, would give us $5 mil lion more for preventive health care. Imagine dental clinics, info clinics for new mothers, more school break fast and lunch clubs, etc. We could take $3 million and ac tually grow our cultural community by increasing Arts Council grants that already support over 200,000 jobs, and find more ways to make art
accessible to residents from all areas. We’ve heard a lot of concerns about the pace of development. So let’s spend $2 million to hire 20 planners to streamline the process, better in volve the community and ensure that a sector that employs 250,000 people and adds taxable value to our city moves ahead in a smart, well planned and green fashion. On the TTC front, Mayor Ford’s proposal is for a $9 million cut to ser vice just when more is desperately required. And now, with the delay of Transit City, we need to develop cheap, fast options. In 2008 the TTC adopted the Transit City Bus Plan (TCBP). With a little tweaking, it’s a blueprint for how to move forward without large capital budgets. It called for an increase in bus service for around $40 mil (including fare revenues from added riders). The TCBP would take some years to implement, so if we started with $10 million in 2012 and used revenue from already planned fare increases to expand it by $10 million a year for the next four years, we’d have a real istic way of providing better transit. One rare but responsible way to budget is to pay for capital projects (structures, vehicles, major repairs) from the operating budget. The capi tal budget already has a selfimposed debt ceiling, but if money were bor rowed and financed by the additional tax hike for a dedicated project that would cost more if delayed, it wouldn’t effect the city’s excellent tripleA credit rating (better than the province’s). Usually, the rough figure is that if you increase revenue permanently, you can borrow about $15 for every $1 in revenue. In this way, $20 million allows us to spend around $350 mil over five years, or $70 million a year. There’s so much we could do: put $10 mil a year towards the $200mil lionplus park repair backlog; use $5 mil a year to build a new library or community centre every five years, put $15 million per year toward $500 mil of public housing repairs, etc. We need to make smart decisions today to ensure Toronto remains strong. Let’s hope councillors realize this sooner rather than later. 3
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or a split second at the Thursday, January 5, meeting of council’s Employee and Labour Relations Committee, it seemed councillors couldn’t believe what they were reading on the agendas in front of them. The committee had gathered to discuss strategy – how best to put the boots to city unions in ongoing contract talks. The contracts of four city unions expired December 31, including CUPE Local 416, which represents 6,000 outside workers, CUPE Local 79, which represents 23,000 inside workers, and the library workers’ union. But it was the good news on the labour front that was throwing them off, creating a PR problem given all that Ford’s allies have been saying to cast the unions as no-good greedy pigs getting fat at the public trough. Seems those same unions are saving us money, a cool $800K to be exact, thanks to the fact that workplace grievances are down 13 per cent and workplace injury claims down by a whopping 15 per cent. Holy crap. Some committee members didn’t know what to make of the situation, predisposed as they are to view labour as the bogeyman responsible
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for all that ails T.O. But Denzil Minnan-Wong tried, noting that there was actually an increase in reported injuries among 311 staff. It’s called repetitive stress, Denzil. We’re now realizing savings on the occupational health and safety front thanks to changes brought in by the previous labour-friendly administration, proof of what’s possible when labour and management work together. That reality doesn’t jibe with Ford & Co.’s demonization of the good men and women who deliver city services. In fact, so eager is the administration to cut employees that city manager Joe Pennachetti is proposing to extend the voluntary separation package offered earlier this year (few accepted it) and to spend millions to kick people out the door on an “as needed” basis. Shit. Just how bad has the work environment become for city employees? Councillors are even going undercover. Yes, that was TTC chair Karen Stintz, also a member of the Employee and Labour Relations Committee, disguised as a brunette in a fetching bit of PR reportedly designed to help her appreciate the challenges faced by TTC employees.
Public support will be critical, so it’s doubtful the city’s unions will respond in kind to any Ford provocations – at least at first. Stintz discovered that driving a subway train and cleaning transit stations can be hard, tedious, isolating work that’s not as easy as the right-wingers who fill the blogosphere with anti-union BS would have us believe. But don’t expect deputy mayor Doug Holyday, the cat who’s heading up contract negotiations for the city, to turn up in an orange jumpsuit to chuck garbage into trucks. It’s war the Fordists want with the unions. The mayor is depending on it to bolster his waning popularity. The signs have been there for weeks and were confirmed again January 5 when it was revealed after the Employee and Labour Relations Com-
mittee’s in-camera meeting that the city has asked the province to appoint a conciliator. Notable here was committee member Chin Lee’s objection, marking his further distancing from the Ford fold. The committee’s decision wasn’t unexpected, but it is tactically questionable if we’re supposed to believe assurances that the city is bargaining in good faith. It’s not, of course. Nothing vaguely resembling negotiations have occurred to date. From what I can gather, there’ve been virtually no talks. The city’s request for a conciliator is simply intended to speed the process of getting to a legal lockout. It’s high-stakes poker Ford is playing, and the unions seem to be at an early disadvantage. The mayor’s holding most of the cards, preparing to hunker down for as long as it takes to eliminate bumping rights from the current collective agreement and get the 10 per cent cut in wages and benefits the city’s looking for. Contracts have already gone out to hire replacement workers. He has no intention of following the pattern of past labour negotiations and honouring the current agreement while talks are ongoing. Instead, speculation is he’ll toss a
bomb into the works – say, cut wages unilaterally to antagonize the unions into striking or some other rash action that’ll remind the public of the fallout from the 2009 labour disruption. Public support is absolutely critical, so it’s doubtful the unions will respond in kind to any Ford provocations, at least at first. But even council observers who argue it’s not in the interest of the unions to strike say it’s hard to know how workers will react when scabs – er, replacement workers – start crossing picket lines. “That may provoke some craziness,” is how one put it. The unions are intent on not striking, no matter what Ford throws at them. They seem prepared to take a few body shots for the sake of good PR, including, I’ve been told, accepting a wage freeze in the first year of a three-year deal. The unions know they’ll need the public onside, bringing pressure to bear on council. Concessions over bumping rights, however, will be harder for labour to accept, since they go to the heart of job protection provisions in the current agreement: the idea that those with seniority have some reasonable expectation of job security. It’s easy to see why the city wants to eliminate bumping rights. Laying off staff with seniority and replacing them with lower-paid workers would certainly give it the so-called “flexibility” (read arbitrary layoff power) it’s looking for to cut labour costs. That’s how it’s done in the private sector. But the unions are not the only ones with something to lose. For the mayor, taking on the unions to prove he’s tough on the bottom line carries risks. Not least among these is the prospect of other unions coalescing around the cause of city workers. How long can they stand by and watch their brothers and sisters in CUPE get the axe? Will the trade unions stand idly by, or the development industry, for that matter, if building permits dry up and mess with construction schedules? Developers have already been calling councillors’ offices on that front. There’s no guarantee that middle managers will be willing to fill in for regular workers in the event of a lockout. After all, managers are part of the public service that Ford & Co. have attacked as so much garbage. The spectre of a Wisconsin-like scenario has been raised. Labour lost that battle, but is also set the stage for public awareness about the corporate attack on public services. For the Canadian union movement in general there’s much at stake in this fight. The whole country is watching to see just how far Ford can go. If he can bring the city’s unions to heel, then presumably there will be little resistance to his privatization agenda, which has already started in waste management but could conceivably affect every facet of the public service. Can the privatization of water services be far behind? Radical conservative agenda? You bet. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com
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vancy rep on the AFO. Until recently, despite protests by enviros, landowners and municipalities, Ontario’s quarries, many on the escarpment, the moraine and other sensitive areas, have had a fairly easy ride. Not only are they legally exempt from enviro assessments, under the Aggregate Resources Act, because they’re located on private land, but they also benefit from a provincial decree in the mid-1980s that sand and gravel should be sourced close to market – in other words not far from major centres and sprawl country. This has entrenched the rights of extraction over other land uses, meaning that pits are allowed even in the Greenbelt. And fighting these projects has been a costly uphill and sometimes losing battle before the Ontario Municipal Board. All this is what made the Liberals’ passage in September (in the midst of election fear) of a special regulation subjecting the Melancthon quarry to a full individual EA a watershed event in quarry politics. Lack of community consultation on sand and gravel operations put a premium on the AFO’s efforts. But just as the org was moving along, things got rocky. In 2011, after nearly two years of discussions, Environmental Defence and Holcim Canada (owner of Dufferin Aggregates) formally launched a competing process, Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate (SERA). The two groups aren’t hurling stones at each other. But clear differences in approach, and some angst, are evident. AFO, while working with a wide range of participants, kept a low public profile and quietly hired a consultant to frame the issues. The Forum has sought broad consensus among stakeholders and has slowly been developing standards on community
The protest against the mega-quarry was just the highest-profile. All through the province locals are taking on sand and gravel ops.
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Melancthon By SAUL CHERNOS engagement, site rehabilitation, protection of biodiversity and such. But in June, SERA jumped the gun, releasing a 35-page draft standards document that includes local consultation, First Nations rights, enviro stewardship and benefit to the community and workers. The AFO’s Reid says SERA caught him by surprise. “One company making an agreement with one environmental organization raised confusion about who was doing what.” SERA exec director Lorne Johnson responds that his group’s participants were finding the AFO process too exploratory and wanted to move faster on actual certification. Not everyone’s worried by the duelling mandates. At Gravel Watch, which has ties to both groups, president Ric Holt says he hopes the two efforts “will lead to running pits better.” Each, he explains, is contributing: AFO, slow and cautious, has spent time developing relationships,
while SERA has moved quickly to produce a tangible agreement. Even as the two standards efforts play out, the parties sometimes wind up at the same table. This was the case at a Canadian Urban Institute panel held in Brampton in October to discuss the use in new projects of recycled aggregate from demolished roads and buildings. It seems a no-brainer that reusing rubble could reduce the extraction of virgin rock, and that’s pretty much what the talk was about. Holt urged the gathering to cut back on our “gravel habit” and recycle more than the estimated 13 million tonnes we already reuse annually in Ontario, compared to the 167 million tonnes of virgin rock extracted here. “Take the concrete we’ve got, crunch it up, make it into something else and keep it going,” Holt urged, calling on governments to increase haulage and landfill fees and set targets for use of recycled materials. While recycled aggregate is being used for road bases, it’s not yet employed in Ontario for paved surfaces, buildings and bridges. Several technical speakers said this will change as performance issues are resolved. There was, however, an elephantsized boulder in the room: the Highland Companies, which had sent two reps. On the phone, their spokesperson at Hill & Knowlton, Lindsay Broadhead, tells me: “Highland fully embraces best practices, and we’ll work with whomever, but right now the only standards are the Aggregate Resources Act and the environmental assessment,” she says. Highland, she adds, avoided protected areas such as the Oak Ridges Moraine and the Greenbelt. “If we need aggregate,” Broadhead asks, “does it come from a number of smaller quarries or from a single source? In our case, it’s a deep source, so you can impact less top land.” Ultimately, says Gravel Watch’s Holt, it’s not going to be easy to decide where to source gravel. Should we really mine thousands of acres in Melancthon? It’s not a trivial question.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com
ROCKY BUSINESS 24%
164 million tonnes
Percentage of aggregate made from recycled material in the UK
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114,000 tonnes
Amount of aggregate Ontario consumes annually on average, mainly from provincial quarries
Percentage of aggregate made from recycled material in Ontario
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Amount of aggregate used for a 2,000-square-foot house
Amount of aggregate used per kilometre of subway line
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When you’re addicted to the planet Is the alum in crystal deodorants really safer than the aluminum in antiperspirants?
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Five years after the iPhone, are we any better off? By nowtoronto.com editor JOSHUA ERRETT “An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator.” Those were the exact words Steve Jobs used to introduce Apple’s new product, the iPhone, on January 9, 2007. Five years later, I still don’t know what an internet mobile communicator is. Regardless, Apple’s iPhone has revolutionized the way we.... I’m sorry. I can’t bring myself to finish that sentence. Fact of the matter is, I’m not in love with my iPhone any more. I actually think it’s a restrictive, moribund piece of hardware that is bringing us all down. And what better occasion to list all the ways Apple has ruined things with its iPhone than on the fifth birthday of the wretched device. Here goes: Appspalling If there were a way to track down the marketer who coined the phrase “There’s an app for that” and publicly humiliate him or her, I would pursue it. Besides being annoying, it’s misleading. There may very well be an app for any and everything, but we’d have to wait for Apple to approve it and then sell us the expensive device it can run on. The sales pitch conveniently sidesteps that fact. Apps are the modern-day CD-ROM: technology designed first and foremost for profit. iPhone apps are the worst kind of proprietary technology, inaccessible to users without an iPhone and even to those who have an iPhone without an iTunes account. Without much opposition, Apple created an enormous walled garden whose like hasn’t been seen since the days of AOL. Despite the more than 500,000 apps in its store and 18 million downloads, it’s a true digital archipelago. (The best way to avoid this: web-based apps. They don’t need any approvals and look and work just as well.)
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Up(date) yours Before the iPhone, I updated my software so seldom that I don’t remember ever doing it. Every time I pass through the App Store, I have dozens of updates waiting for me. I blame Apple for introducing this culture of constant updates. Most of them are minor bug fixes. Does anyone need to update software on a daily basis? Can’t I just agree to automatic updates? This state of affairs stems not just from the apps, but from the phones themselves. The iPhone has essentially
been updated every year since 2007. Aside from the increasingly awesome camera feature, what have we really gained in those five updates?
Bad Apple$ Color was a mobile photo- and videosharing app that automatically shared your media with everyone – strangers included – within a 100-foot radius. It
had a huge $41 million investment even before its launch last March. The fundamental problem with Color is that no one wants to share their photos with strangers. That’s not the iPhone’s fault. Not directly anyway. But it is a symptom of aforementioned profit-first walled garden: the appetite for cash-making apps undermines their need to be useful. Apple pioneered the idea that an app can be a full-fledged business. That’s berserk, and all these single-use apps, inflated by misguided investments, will harm – if not blow up – the technology business. Thanks, iPhone. But, of course, the device that changed the world isn’t all bad. For instance, I wrote and researched this entire column on my iPhone 3GS joshuae@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/joshuaerrett
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Stories of the Big Bang, dark matter, quantum computers and more with astronomer Johannes Hirn. 7 pm. Free. Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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Talk on organizing our spaces. 7 pm. $15. Urban Mode, 145 Tecumseth. designtalks.ca. diving into ecstasY Tantric sex workshop for all genders. 7-10 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-588-0900.
The tumultuous city budget discussion wraps up Tuesday to Thursday (January 17 to 19), when council makes its final decisions on a host of avoidable citywrecking cuts. Come give moral support to progressive councillors, join a
tHe eFFects oF militarism on a Fragile planet Discussion with education and film
cultures oF resistence Cinema Politica Dan-
forth screening of the documentary by Lara Lee and discussion with environmental activist Deborah Barndt. 7:30 pm. Free. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/ danforth. Flogging demo Learn the delicate art of flogging with Master Tony. 11:30 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.
Human rigHts and wrongs: religion and creed in tHe puBlic spHere Lecture with law
prof Richard Moon and others. 1:30 pm. Free. U of T Multi-Faith Centre, 569 Spadina. 416946-3119, richard.chambers@utoronto.ca. micHael BrotHers Illustrated presentation on the science of global warming by the Council of Canadians activist. 7 pm. Free. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. 416966-2815.
occupation, eviction, urBanization: race and space struggles in palestine, tHe americas and europe Panel discussion with
professor Abigail Bakan, architect Kanishka Goonewardena and others. 7 pm. $5 min donation. Beit Zatoum, 612 Markham. 647-7269500.
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kidnapping tell-all
Get the lowdown on an experience you really don’t want to have from Robert Fowler, an outspoken Canadian diplomat who survived a horrendous kidnapping in Niger and who bravely opposes the Afghan war and the feds’ one-sided view of the Middle East. Fowler discusses his book, A Season In Hell: My 130 Days In The Sahara With Al Qaeda, with NOW publisher Michael Hollett as part of the NOW Talks series. Sunday (January 15), 4 pm. $15. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen West. nowtoronto.com.
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Thursday, January 12
consultant Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. george stroumBoulopoulos tonigHt Join the live audience for an interview with cyberpunk prophet/author William Gibson and actor Sarah Gadon. 3:30 pm. Free. CBC Broadcast Centre, 25 John. Pre-register strombo.com/ tickets. HealtH & Fitness launcH partY Group classes, games and refreshments. 1-4 pm & 6-9 pm. Free. Omega Health & Fitness, 1089 Kingston. omegahealthandiftness.com. occupY tHe spirit Conversation about how faith groups can address the issues raised by the Occupy movement. 7 pm. Free. Church of the Holy Trinity, 10 Trinity Square, behind the Eaton Centre. 416-598-4521. older lgBt social Social gathering for LGBT people 55 and over. 2 pm. Free. Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto, 140 Merton. 416481-0669 ext 287. polYgamY in tHe canadian context Panel discussion with Canadian Council of Muslim Women director Alia Hogben, law professor Brenda Cossman and Islamic studies prof Timothy Gianotti. 7 pm. $5. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148. swingin’ out Seven-week swing dance course for the queer community. 6:30 pm. $25, first class only $5. 519 Church Community Centre. swinginout.ca.
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sacred waters oF roman egYpt Lecture by
U of T’s Nathalie Lacoste. 7 pm. Free. U of T, 5 Bancroft, rm 142. 647-520-4339. strategizing tHe resistance Conversation on developing strategies to fight the attack on jobs and services with author Manny Ness. 6 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. 416977-7274 ext 300. u.s. college expo Meet admissions officers and athletic coaches from U.S. colleges and universities. Today 5-8 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-7 pm. $10, free in advance. Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place. prepskills.com/us-college-expo/ us-college-expo-pre-registration.
Saturday, January 14
Benefits
cat adopt-a-tHon (Toronto Cat Rescue) Give
an abandoned cat a home. Today 10 am-6 pm; tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. $100 adoption fee. Essentia, 2180 Queen E. torontocatrescue.ca.
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act oF disHonour Screening of the NFB film by Nelofer Pazira and discussion. 3 pm. $5. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. 416-4447148. rart’s BirtHdaY Multidisciplinary artist Rob Cruickshank creates a carrot slide whistle and plays it at an arts celebration. 10 am. Free. Stop Farmer’s Market, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca/art_birthday. BasHed! all girl pillow FigHt revue
Women prove their pillow prowess on the mats. 10 pm. $20, adv $15. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. bedlampillowfighting.com. cHinese new Year’s eve prep Behind-thescenes walk led by culinary historian Shirley Lum and baked goods tastings. Today and tomorrow 10 am. $45, stu/srs $40, child $30. Lucky Moose Statue, 393 Dundas W. Preregister 416-923-6813. cHris langan weekend Irish music weekend in memory of Langan, featuring performances and workshops with Kieran O’Hare, Liz Knowles and others. Today and tomorrow. $5-$39. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. chrislangan.ca. contra dance Beginner class and dancing to live music by Mumblypeg. 7 pm. $10. St Barnabas Anglican Church Hall, 175 Hampton. tcdance.org. dJ skate nigHt Skate beside the lake while DJs spin. Saturdays to Feb 19, 8-11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay. 416973-4000. rgrowing taste Buds Eight-week workshop for kids eight to 12 on experimenting in
the kitchen. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. $160. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Pre-register evergeen.ca/whats-on/kids-families/growingtaste-buds. rHow to Build an igloo Animation program for families. 12:30 & 2:30 pm. $1-$9. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. Pre-register 416-9733012.
is russia on tHe road to liBeralization?
Humanist Assoc talk. 1:30 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca. Julie weiss The Oscar-nominated costume designer talks about her life, career and creative process. 8 pm. $40, stu $28. Bell TIFF Lightbox, 350 King W. caftcad.com/learning. mad students societY Peer support meeting for students who have experiences with mental health systems. 3:30 pm. Free. Details at outreach@madstudentsociety.com.
a musical introduction to cHinese tHrougH YoutuBe songs Learn how to sing
Chinese golden oldies at a basic Mandarin class. Saturdays to Jan 28, 2:30 pm. Free. Scadding Court Community Centre, 707 Dundas W. Pre-register mandarinthroughmusic@ yahoo.ca.
rtHe Queer FamilY “summer in winter” dance partY Queer Parenting event for
LGBTQ parents and their kids with DJ Nik Red. 3 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. 416-355-6780. rsuper Hero scHool Kids learn the ropes and create a secret identity. Saturdays to Jan 28. $60. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. Pre-register 416-338-4386, toronto.ca/ torontofun. rtoronto international Boat sHow Indoor wakeboarding pool, watersports, seminars, fishing tips, power boats, canoes, kayaks, fishing boats and more. To Jan 22, Saturdays 10 am-7 pm, Sundays 10 am-6 pm, weekdays 11 am-8 pm. $12-$22. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. torontoboatshow.com.
toronto’s own camino de santiago: dugwaY cove to sorauren mountain
Urban ecology walk exploring the military geology of Parkdale. 2 pm. Free. Roncesvalles and Queen W. 416-593-2656. tHe untamed garden All-day master gardeners workshop with author Sonia Day. $45. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. Pre-register torontobotanicalgarden.ca. world revolutions: a teacH-in Occupy Toronto Free School discussion with Roxy Cohen of Occupy Toronto, Maria Paez Victor of the Louis Riel Bolivarian Circle and others. 5:30 pm. Free. Friends Meeting House, 60 Lowther. occupyto.org.
Stop The Cuts Rally (Tuesday, 5:30 pm), and help Occupy Toronto’s tentin in Nathan Phillips Square. Council starts meeting at 9:30 am. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. torontostopthecuts.com; occupyto.org; toronto.ca.
putting racism in its place
All over the world, human-rightsviolating governments use territoriality to control specific populations. Occupation, Eviction, Urbanization: Race And Space Struggles In Palestine, The Americas And Europe features panellists examining the spatial forms of state racism and resistance to them. Participants include York profs Stefan Kipfer (environmental studies) and Cynthia Wright (women’s studies), U of T architect Kanishka Goonewardena and more. Friday (January 13), 7 pm. $5 minimum donation. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500.
Sunday, January 15
Events
rart’s BirtHdaY in tHe naisa space New
Adventures in Sound Art celebration with hands-on art-making, interactive activities and more. Noon-5 pm. Free. NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa. ca/art_birthday.
nora Young: digital Bodies, digital citizens The CBC Radio host/Spark creator lec-
tures on the coming of age of the data map. 10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, 50 Briar Hill. 416-483-6664. now talks: roBert Fowler Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, author of A Season In Hell: My 130 Days In The Sahara With Al-Qaeda, talks with NOW publisher Michael Hollett. 4 pm. $15. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com/nowtalks. rsnowsHoeing Family snowshoeing walk. 10 am & 1 pm. $8, w/ shoe rental $11.30. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College. 416-675-5009. sundaY scene: JoHnson ngo Artist talk and tour of the current exhibitions. 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.
toddle down tHe taddle (part ii – goodwin creek) Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Labyrinth S of Holy Trinity Church 10 Trinity Square (behind the Eaton Centre). 416-593-2656. rtodmorden JanuarY open House Tours of the historic houses, Papermill Theatre and wildflower preserve plus crafts. 1-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416-396-2819. rwinter Fun daY Taffy-pulling, marshmallow-roasting and other outdoor activities. 11 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Colborne Lodge, S end of High Park. 416-392-6916.
Monday, January 16
Benefits
Quiz/trivia nigHt (Horizon Children’s Centre) Play for prizes. $10/team. Pour Boy, 666 Manning. 416-343-7969.
Events
tHe artists’ soup kitcHen Talk by Helen Reed and Hannah Jickling and free lunch for artists. Noon-3 pm. Free. Raging Spoon, 761 Queen W. starvingartistsoupkitchen@gmail.com. drawing From oBJects/still liFe Open drawing session. 6:30 pm. $2-$3. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@hotmail.com.
Female eJaculation and tHe g-spot Workshop for women, trans people and men accompanied by a woman. 7:30-10 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. george stroumBoulopoulos tonigHt Join the live audience for an interview with the Wealthy Barber David Chilton. 3:30 pm. Free. CBC Broadcast Centre, 25 John. Pre-register strombo.com/tickets. martin lutHer king daY Forum on active nonviolence Speakers on Gandhian nonviol-
ence in India and Nepal, the Canadian Boat to Gaza and direct action in Canada. 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. peaceworkstmm.org. media mondaY: tHe kennedY era Lectures and clips with film critic Kevin Courrier. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 606. sorauren park Farmers market Mondays year-round. 3-7 pm. Sorauren S of Dundas. westendfood.coop. ukrainian village dance worksHop Learn traditional Ukrainian village dances (all ages). 7 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Holy Protection, 30 Leeds. kosakolektiv.com.
Tuesday, January 17
Events
drummers in exile Weekly drum and dance circle. $2-$5. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bathurst. drummersinexile.com. an evening oF sin & redemption Evening of discussion, laughter and questions on faith and the Catholic Church for young adults 18 to 35. 7 pm. Free. Sin and Redemption Pub, 136 McCaul. stpatrickstoronto.ca. Final Budget sHowdown: toronto vs roB Ford! Stop the Cuts rally and action to resist
cuts to city services and increased user fees. 5:30 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. stopthecuts@gmail.com. Freelance secrets oF success Professional Writers Association panel discussion on how to make a living with Camilla Cornell, David Hayes and others. 7 pm. $20, adv $15. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. Pre-register pwactoronto.org. george stroumBoulopoulos tonigHt Join the live audience for an interview with Toronto Argonauts’ Michael “Pinball” Clemons. 3:30 pm. Free. CBC Broadcast Centre, 25 John. Pre-register strombo.com/tickets. opera 101: tosca Opera talk with Canadian Opera Co soprano Julie Makerov and others. 6 pm. Free. Duke of Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca. tHe stop’s good Food market Tuesdays year-round. 4-6 pm. Davenport-Perth Neighbourhod Centre, 1900 Davenport. thestop.org.
Wednesday, January 18
Events
Book cluB Meet other book lovers, discuss books and listen to guest speakers. To May 16. 6 pm. $102. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register readings.org. Breast HealtH i Explore stretches, breathing, massaging and other techniques that support your body’s ability to heal itself. 6-9 pm. $60, stu/unwaged $50. Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register cwse@utoronto.ca. BYoB Bring your own book or book suggestions for reading and discussion at a future meeting of Riverdale Community Arts and Letters Club. 6 pm. Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416-393-7720. cHristian Holstad Talk by the New York- and Cologne-based artist. 7 pm. $6. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. galapagos Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Pre-register atcadventure.com. george stroumBoulopoulos tonigHt Join the live audience for an interview with former WWE star turned yoga fanatic Trish Stratus. 3:30 pm. Free. CBC Broadcast Centre, 25 John. Pre-register strombo.com/tickets. HYperactive dreamers: creative or adHd?
Presentation on creative people being wrongly diagnosed. 7 pm. Free. Metropolitan Community Church, 115 Simpson. hyperactivedreamers.com. 3
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Bar Mozza chef Fabrizio DeCicco preps Fettuccine Nero with cuttlefish and squid ink (left), and shows off his Cipolla and Il Cotto pizzas; the charcuterie and cheese board, Tagliere Misto.
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Turns out Bar Mozza is totally cheesy – and that’s good thing By STEVEN DAVEY expecting to find a vegan greasy spoon dedicated to Morrissey, I soon discover that Bar Mozza is fixated on mozzarella instead. Makes sense when you learn that the all-day café in the new Alimento Fine Food Emporium belongs to the folks behind Grande Cheese Factory Outlet on Orfus Road. Far grander than the North York original, the 8,000-square-foot warehouse clearly
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416-362-0123, alimentofinefoods.com) Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $25), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $$15. Open Monday to Saturday 8 am to 10 pm, for lunch from 11:30 am, dinner from 5 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN
models itself on Mario Batali and co.’s mega-Eataly in Manhattan, though on a much smaller scale. Call it a Pusateri’s for the King West condo crowd. Grab a seat at the long marbletopped bar that snakes through the breezy space and start with what Mozza does best: wooden platters piled with the likes of spongy freshly made fior di latte, creamy ricotta-like formaggio fresco and sharp aged caciocavallo. Add shaved sheets of imported DOP Ruliano prosciutto crudo, fatty mortadella and cooked prosciutto cotto ham, a house-baked basket of toasted cornbread and whole-wheat sourdough and a bowl of black, briny olives and get a sizable app or light lunch that easily feeds two (Tagliere Misto, $25). Chef Fabrizio DeCicco should know his way around pizza, having worked most recently alongside Pizzeria Libretto’s Rocco Agostino at Enoteca Sociale. Their thin, buttery crusts knock our collective socks off, but Mozza’s eponymous pie ($15) topped with a monochromatic melt of more ricotta and caciocavalla, its fior di latte upgraded for $3 to buffalo mozzarella ($3), is such a tragic sea of cheese, we can’t finish it. It’s only after we’re more than half way through our Il Cotto pizza ($17) dressed with sweet San Marzano tomato sauce and a deli’s worth of Parma ham, smoked speck, raw cotto salami and an optional egg that we realize what they’ve been missing – bomba, the incendiary hot chili peppers in San Giovanni olive oil that the couple next to us lovingly spoon from a large Mason jar. A bottle on every table should be mandatory. Not that his stacked eggplant Parmigiana ($9) finished with basil
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needs the help. And a shaved Brussels sprouts salad ($9) tossed with crumbled pancetta and apple gets its considerable kick from a cleverly caramelized honey vinaigrette. Pastas also impress, especially chef’s impossibly thin pappardelle in tomato ragu laced with spicy ground pork, sweet shredded lamb and snippets of mint. Sadly, his black squidink fettuccine with tender cuttlefish and garlicky nduja sausage (both $15) and braised octopus salad ($13) over chickpeas and celery tops, though tasty, are better suited to a terrace overlooking the Adriatic come summer than here on wintry King West. Maybe that’s why neither is on the menu that kicks in this week. And where else in this
pricey nabe are you going to find a decent bottle of Sicilian Syrah for $30 and pastry chef Andrea Mastrandrea’s terrific brioche stuffed with lemon cream for a buck and a half? But whatever you order – well, maybe excepting the brioche – don’t forget the bomba! 3
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Thompson Hotel, Cheesewerks comes across as a marketing exercise, from its Facebook page and Twitter accounts to the T-shirts, modish decor and catchy slogans (“Lactose-intolerant intolerant!”). The first of a franchise, no doubt. Shame the same attention that’s carefully curated the retro 80s soundtrack of the Cure and the Smiths – oh, that Morrissey – hasn’t been paid to the grub. And so we get the Charleston ($9.25), a mess of double-cream Brie, balsamic-caramelized onions and sugary apricot chutney on St. John’s Bakery’s nutty raisin bread. Or the Original ($7.50), a relatively straight combo of aged Balderson and double-smoked cheddar on “signature” sourdough. Add bacon for $3. But double digits for a not terribly large grilled bacon ’n’ cheese sandwich with ketchup, no matter how artisanal? SD Not this sucker.
CHEESEWERKS (56 Bathurst, at Wellington West, 416-243-3327, cheesewerks.com) Complete meals for $25 per person, including tax, tip and a pint of local microbrew. Average main $10. Open Tuesday and Wednesday 11 am to 9 pm, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 11 pm, Sunday 11 am to 8 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: barrierfree. Rating: NN Those who think nothing of spending almost $12 for a grilled cheese sandwich – a sloppy one made with Asiago, Chinese barbecue pork, hoisin sauce and shredded green onion tops (the Beijing, $10 plus tax) – let alone an additional 75 cents for ketchup will love Cheesewerks. The rest of us might want to steer clear. Located across from the chi-chi
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321 Roncesvalles, at Grenadier, 416534-4414, pizzeriadefina.com. No one has yet posed a threat to Libretto, but this stylish family-friendly west-end bistro comes close, from better-than-they-should-be starters to perfectly blistered thin-crusted pies in two styles, Neapolitan with a raised edge and completely flat Roman pies. Servers are sweet if run off their feet. Best: The Red Hot Chili Pepper pizza dressed with house San Marzano tomato sauce, creamy fior di latte, chorizo, salami and jalapeños; cheesy lasagna pizzas, the only thing missing the pasta; the pierogi-inspired Roncey topped with thinly sliced potatoes, Asiago, pancetta and guanciale; house-made papardelle in sweet, meaty Bolognese scented with fresh basil chiffonade and shaved parmigiano. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $30), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $15. Open Sunday to Thursday noon to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday noon to 11 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday noon to 2 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnnn
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550 Danforth, at Carlaw, 416-4660400, pizzerialibretto.com. Not only is the second outpost of downtown’s favourite pizza parlour twice as big as the original, but the Greektown annex takes reservations. The pace is much more relaxed, too, with servers more interested in pleasing customers than getting them in and out as quickly as possible. Also: 221 Ossington, at Dundas W, 416-532-8000. Best: thin-crusted certified Neapolitan pies brushed with family-recipe San Marzano tomato sauce and dressed with crumbled Gorgonzola, roasted red pepper and see-through ribbons of speck (the Papa Luigi); smoky pork belly in sauce with bomba chili peppers and Ontario mozzarella di bufala; pastas like house-made ravioli stuffed with sweet Dungeness crab in dazzling sea urchin cream; to finish, goat cheese pannacotta. Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches $30), including tax, tip and a glass of vino. Average main $15. Open Monday to Saturday 11:30 am to midnight, Sunday 4 pm to midnight. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating:
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392 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-3630588, banhmiboys.com. Though they take their name from the Saigon sub, this barebones takeaway gets its considerable foodie rep from its Vietnamese take on the Korean taco. With a South Asian twist, of course. The food may be fast, but the lineup moves slowly at peak feeding times, especially weekdays from noon till 2 pm. Best: wrapped in grilled Indian paratha flatbread instead of a soft tortilla, tacos of sweet bulgogi beef, lemongrass chicken thigh or pulled sesame pork dressed with pickled carrot ’n’ daikon, diced jalapeños, English cucumber, coriander, kimchee, house-made hoisin, aioli and Srirachi; steamed Chinese buns stuffed with fabulously fatty grilled five-spice pork belly; veal meatball banh mi in Indo tomato sauce; on the side, boxes of sweet potato fries. Complete meals for $10 per person, including tax, tip and an Orange Crush. Average main $5. Open Tuesday to Friday 11 am to 8 pm, Saturday and Sunday noon to 8 pm. Closed Monday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnnn
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BELT WAY Continuing on the style site beat, Toronto belt maker Brave has launched a new Workshop site (braveleather.com/onlineshop) where you can create and customize your own waist cincher. Choose from four belt styles, then tweak the leather hue, buckle, grommets, edge colour and stitching. Prices range from $80 to $120 depending on your material and accent picks.
WEDDING PRIMER If you’re planning to get hitched but are stumped about centrepieces, perplexed about photos and freaked out about favours, this weekend’s The Wedding Co. Show can help set you straight. Happening Friday through Sunday (January 13 to 15) at the Carlu (444 Yonge), it promises lots of nuptial inspiration and oodles of knot-tying contacts, from cake makers to florists. Tickets are $20 at the door or online at theweddingco.com.
4. In print since 1906, Okakura Kakuzo’s The Book Of Tea ($22, Good Egg, 267 Augusta, 416-593-4663, goodegg.ca) blends the history of the Japanese tea ceremony with chapters on aesthetic pursuits like architecture and flower arranging. 5. Perch Alessi’s playful Te ò strainer ($42, Ziggy’s at Home, 794 College, 416-535-8728, ziggysathome.com) over your favourite cup. 3
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A group of local designers have combined their samples, oneof-a-kind pieces and overstock for a pop-up trunk show at Chartreuse Style (1692 Queen West, chartreusestyle.com). Until Sunday (January 15), designers including Paper People Clothing, Spruce, Things Aren’t So Terrible and Mandala Design, are selling their wears at up to 75 per cent off. Down the street at Shopgirls (1342 Queen West, 416-534-7467, shopgirls. ca), the winter sale offerings include coats by Mackage, Soia & Kyo and Stacey Zhang. There’s also a new, limited shipment of Yoga Jeans cords up for grabs for $79 each. 3
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ing’s former occupants, whose name is tiled into the floor of the storefront’s vestibule, hosts monthly shows by local artists. Upcoming classes in the workroom include paper cutting and block printing, or drop in for pay-whatyou-can open studio hours on Monday evenings. ARTiculations picks: The store stocks everything art outfit Golden makes, including a lineup of gel mediums, $13.50; pick up an all-in-one Speedball block printing kit, $50; classes start at $20, and some focus on craftier pursuits like fashioning new jewellery from vintage baubles, or bookbinding. Look for: Amanda McCavour’s Neon Glow installation featuring suspended spirograph thread drawings in the gallery until January 20. Hours: Monday to Friday 10 am to 7 pm, Saturday 9 am to 6 pm, Sunday 10 am to 5 pm. 3
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The trouble with tears
Does crying “let it all out” or just make us feel sick? By elizaBeth Bromstein I used to be one of those people who cry all the time. I cried at weddings, watching movies, reading books and listening to music. I could be moved to tears just by looking at one of my cats. Then one day it occurred to me that shedding so many tears was sentimental, maudlin and self-indulgent, and I put a moratorium on it except for when something really terrible happens. But is remaining dry-eyed bad for my health? Some believe weeping cleanses by “letting it all out.” I’m suspicious of this claim. Crying just makes me feel snotty, tired and generally crappy.
What the experts say “My studies show that people feel better after crying. They feel less sad, less angry. Alleviating stress is important, no matter how. Crying just happens to be a way of doing this; it may have evolved for that purpose in humans. No one has longitudinally followed one group that cries and another that doesn’t to look at health and determine any adverse affect of not crying. There are stressrelated hormones in tears, but that doesn’t prove that removing those by crying will make you feel better.” WILLIAM FREY, department of neuro science, University of Minnesota, St. Paul “The primary health benefits of crying are the ways in which it elicits help from others. Results of lab work on the direct benefit of tears has been very mixed. There’s a bit of evidence that crying may make people feel better initially and may increase their equilibrium. But there’s a lot of evidence that if someone comforts us and our tears receive a positive re-
sponse, we’ll feel better. We’re often tense, angry or sad going into a crying episode, and the exhaustion afterwards can change our bodily state. Sometimes we fall asleep. But are there direct benefits? Did crying evolve to get us back to some homeostasis? It’s just not clear.” RANDOLPH CORNELIUS, department of psychology, Vassar, Poughkeepsie, New York “Crying is associated with mood improvement; a majority of people remember feeling better after crying. But people’s memories for this can be suspect. One reason I’m suspicious is that when people cry in a laboratory setting and feelings are measured before and after crying, there’s really no evidence that mood is improved. When you do the research more carefully by giving people diaries and measuring every single crying episode closer to when it actually happened, you find that the benefits may be more modest
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than the conventional wisdom suggests.” JONATHAN ROTTENBERG, depart ment of psychology, U. of South Flor ida, Tampa “Women after puberty shed more tears than men; before puberty there’s no difference. After puberty, there’s an increase in prolactin in women, which is also found in emotional tears (not lubrication ones). Studies suggest that visible tears in a conflict are like a white flag; they might bring people closer together. Women ‘tend and befriend’ more than ‘fight or flight.’ Tons of research has shown that when women are stressed, they seek social support. My research showed that women felt closer to an actress when she cried talking about her mom dying of cancer versus when she talked about it without crying.” CARRIE LANE, department of psych ology, Florida State University, Tal lahassee
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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 The Sanskrit word
“tapasya” is translated as “heat,” but in the yogic tradition it means “essential energy.” It refers to the practice of managing your life force so it can be directed to the highest possible purposes, thereby furthering your evolution as a spiritual being. Do you have any methods for accomplishing that – either through yoga or any other techniques? This would be a good year to redouble your commitment to that work. In the coming months, the world will just keep increasing its output of trivial, energy-wasting temptations. You’ll need to be pretty fierce if you want to continue the work of transforming yourself into the Aries you were born to be: focused, direct, energetic and full of initiative.
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 “Live out of your imagination, not your history,” says Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People. While that’s always true, it will be especially crucial for you to remember in 2012. This is the year you can transcend stale traditions, Taurus – a time when you can escape your outworn habits, reprogram your conditioned responses and dissolve old karma. You will be getting unparalleled opportunities to render the past irrelevant. And the key to unlocking all the magic will be your freewheeling yet highly disciplined imagination. Call on it often to show you the way toward the future. GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 Comedian Steven Wright says his nephew has HDADD, or
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High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. “He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.” I’m predicting something like that for you in the coming week, Gemini. You will encounter more things that are dull than are interesting, but those few that fascinate you will awaken an intense focus that allows you to see into the heart of reality.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 As I contemplate
the most desirable fate you could create for yourself, I’m reminded of a lyric from one of my songs: “We are searching for the answers / so we can destroy them and dream up better questions.” Here’s what I’m implying by that, Cancerian: This is not the right time for you to push for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. Rather, it’s a favourable moment to draw up the incisive inquiries that will frame your quest for comprehensive formulas and definitive solutions. That quest is due to begin in two weeks. For now, raise your curiosity levels, intensify your receptivity and make yourself highly magnetic to core truths.
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “A writer – and, I be-
lieve, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource,” said author Jorge Luis Borges. “All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” I agree that this advice isn’t just for writers, but for everyone. And it so happens that you are now in an astrological
phase when adopting such an approach would bring you abundant wisdom and provide maximum healing. So get started, Leo: wander through your memories, reinterpreting the difficult experiences as rich raw material that you can use to beautify your soul and intensify your lust for life.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 “Poetry is the kind
of thing you have to see from the corner of your eye,” said the poet William Stafford. “If you look straight at it you can’t see it, but if you look a little to one side it is there.” As I contemplate your life in the immediate future, Virgo, I’m convinced that his definition of poetry will be useful for you to apply to just about everything. In fact, I think it’s an apt description of all the important phenomena you’ll need to know about. Better start practising your sideways vision.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 A Swedish man named Richard Handl decided to conduct a scientific experiment in his kitchen. Would it be possible to split atoms using a homemade apparatus? He wanted to see if he could generate atomic reactions with the radioactive elements radium, americium and uranium. But before he got too far into the process, the police intervened and ended his risky fairy tale. I bring this to your attention, Libra, as an example of how not to proceed in the coming weeks. It will be a good time for you to experiment around the house – refining your relationship with your roommates, moving the furniture around and
in general rearranging the domestic chemistry – but please avoid trying stuff as crazy as Handl’s.
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 In 1878, Thomas Edison perfected the phonograph, a machine that could record sounds and play them back. There had been some primitive prototypes before, but his version was a major improvement. And what were the first sounds to be immortalized on Edison’s phonograph? The rush of the wind in the trees? A dramatic reading of The Song Of Songs? The cries of a newborn infant? Nope. Edison recited the nursery rhyme, Mary Had a Little Lamb. When you make your own breakthrough in communication sometime soon, Scorpio, I hope you deliver a more profound and succulent message.
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 I suspect
you may soon find yourself in a situation similar to the one that 19th-century American president Abraham Lincoln was in when he said the following: “If this is coffee, please bring me some tea. But if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” In other words, Sagittarius, you may not be picky about what you want, but whatever it is, you’ll prefer it to be authentic, pure and distinctly itself. Adulterations and hodgepodges won’t satisfy you, and they won’t be useful. Hold out for the Real Thing.
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Last summer, before the football season started, sportswriter Eric Branch wrote about a rookie running back about whom San Francisco 49er fans were becoming increasingly excited. The newbie had made some big plays in exhibition games. Would he continue performing at a high level when the regular season began? Were the growing expectations justified? After a careful analysis, Branch concluded that the signs
were promising but not yet definitive: “It’s okay to go mildly berserk,” he informed the fans. That’s the same message I’m delivering to you right now, Capricorn. The early stages of your new possibility are encouraging. It’s okay to go mildly berserk, but it’s not yet time to go totally bonkers.
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 In summer,
the pickleweed plant thrives in the saltwater marshes around San Francisco Bay. In many places, bright orange patches of the dodder plant intermingle with the pickleweed’s sprightly jade green, creating festive displays that suggest nature is having a party. But there’s a secret buried in this scene. The dodder’s webby filaments are actually parasites that suck nutrients from the pickleweed. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I’ll ask you if a situation like that exists in your own life. Is there a pretty picture that hides an imbalance in the give and take of energy? It’s not necessarily a bad thing – after all, the pickleweed grows abundantly even with its freeloader hanging all over it – but it’s important to be conscious of what’s going on.
pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 “That in a person
which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness,” said the writer Antonio Porchia. I invite you to keep that challenging thought close to your heart in the coming days, Pisces. In my astrological opinion, it is an excellent moment to tune in to your wildest goodness – to describe it to yourself, to cherish it as the great treasure it is, to foster it and celebrate it and express it like a spring river overflowing its banks.
Homework: How could you change yourself in order to get more of the love you want? Testify by going to RealAstrology.com and clicking on “Email Rob.”
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It’s usually a sign of a good band when the first few rows of fans at a loud rock show are dancing their asses off, which is exactly the response Oshawa’s Micronite Filters provoked at the Horseshoe Saturday. The four-piece sounds like a bluesier, more soulful version of proto-hard-rock acts like Blue Cheer or the MC5, tweaking the acid rock formula just enough to sound new again. They’re clearly building a decent fan base, although judging from the applause provoked by mentions of Durham Region, much of their support seems to be from out of town. It wouldn’t take much for them to fit in better with the Toronto scene; just making sure that more than half the band wear suits onstage would help earn cool points. Stage wear aside, it’s refreshing to hear musicians pull off the hard-rock-and-blues combination without it sounding like a beer comBENJAMIN BOLES mercial.
PICASTRO and LOOM as part of FEAST IN THE EAST 9 at Dickens Street Theatre, Saturday, January 7.
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Rating: NNNN There tends to be a lull in big-name travelling musical acts in early January, but that allows smaller, local-focused shows to draw surprisingly large crowds. At the Dickens Street Theatre, a modest loft space, it was shoulder-to-shoulder standing-room-only for most of the ninth edition of its monthly Feast In The East series. The downcast experimental folk of Picastro and Loom usually falls into the “unsung heroes” category, but both acts got their full due Saturday night. The singer/songwriter projects of Liz Hysen and Brooke Manning respectively offered few big moments but, with the aid of strings and electronics, created a dark, heartbeat-slowing atmosphere that eventually convinced the crowd to sit cross-legged on the floor. That made it a challenge to scarf down the vegetarian Balkan feast cooked up by Hysen (it’s not just a clever series name), which included delicious
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MUSKOX at the Holy Oak Cafe, Sunday, January 8.
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Rating: NNNN The Holy Oak only holds a few dozen people, and it seemed that many at the Muskox gig were musicians from other local bands. That’s not so surprising: Muskox’s hard-to-define prog/ math-rock/jazz/post-rock/Kraut-rock banjo-led instrumental songs are definitely more muso-friendly than your average pop band’s. Despite the sheet music stands, complex arrangements and general nerdy awesomeness, Muskox are more accessible than you might think. If you listen closely, you can catch traces of many genres bundled up cohesively. Two of those are jazz and post-rock, but the band’s music is more structured than the former and more dynamic than much of what we associate with the latter. And as we learned from Mike Smith’s jovial stage patter, Muskox are also a lot more lighthearted than many “serious music” bands. BB NOW JANUARY 12-18 2012
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Five songwriters, one cohesive sound By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
HANDS & TEETH with ARMY GIRLS, HONHEEHONHEE and SIDNEY YORK at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (January 17). Free.
Whoever decided that a band needs a distinct leader forgot to tell Hands & Teeth. When they first came together, every member of the Toronto fivepiece had hands (and teeth) in other, more rock-oriented projects. They started H&T as an excuse to practise more delicate, communal-based songwriting. “There are four members who were creating music on their own before we started, and they continue to do so,” explains towering singer/ guitarist/keyboardist Jeffrey Pinto over coffee at Moonbean Café in Kensington Market. “But Hands & Teeth is taking up the lion’s share of everyone’s attention right now.” Though everyone contributes to singing, songwriting, producing, engineering, artwork or all of the above, their ability to blend multiple voices with tight compositions and unified arrangements helps them avoid a “too many cooks” situation. Songs occasionally abruptly change direction, but that doesn’t dilute their signature sound. In fact, plurality is the basis of that sound.
“None of us can write a Hands & Teeth song on our own,” explains Pinto. “I’ll work on one and say, ‘That would go well with the band,’ but it doesn’t become a Hands & Teeth song until everyone’s had their input. Otherwise, it doesn’t sound like our band.” That sound, as represented on their upcoming self-released debut LP, Hunting Season (out Tuesday), is dense with multi-part harmonies and carefully constructed arrangements despite the disc’s mere half-hour running time. But they’re also careful to err on the “pop” side of “art pop.” “We do want to try to fit things into pop songs that haven’t been put into pop songs, but we want to be accessible, too,” Pinto explains. It’s a “finessed” and “often timeconsuming” way of recording, says Pinto, but it helps that the band’s studio is located in the same Parkdale apartment where four out of five members also reside (all but Natasha Pasternak). “I’ll admit there are times in the recording space when you don’t know whether it’s the person’s suggestion you dislike or the dishes in the sink,” says Pinto. “But we’re all so into the project that it’s only a momentary irritation and then you get back to work.” music@nowtoronto.com
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BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Lisbon party starters move beyond kuduro By BENJAMIN BOLES BURAKA SOM SISTEMA with A TRIBE CALLED RED and LUCIE TIC at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (January 13), 10 pm. $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW.
When Lisbon dance music crew Buraka Som Sistema burst onto the global scene with their 2008 major label debut, Black Diamond, they suddenly found themselves the ambassadors of the Angolan club sound kuduro. It was an awkward position to be in; only half the group is actually from Angola, and this supposedly new sound, which has existed in West Africa since the 90s, was only one aspect of their style. “We didn’t sign up for it,â€? producer/DJ JoĂŁo Barbosa (aka Li’l John) admits from an airport pay phone. “It was obviously something that gave us visibility around the world, so we weren’t fighting it either. If it had just been a one-record project, we could have left it at that, but to continue as a band, we had to move beyond it.â€? Their newest album, Komba (Enchufada/Sony), does exactly that, bringing on board a wider range of rhythms and textures while keeping the focus on their trademark highenergy Portuguese rapping. Komba also sees the group transformed from a producer-driven recording project into something closer to a real band.
“We didn’t realize it at first, but after doing all this touring we had become a band. I think the first time we noticed that was when we sat down to start working on Komba. It became more personal in a way. Instead of just making beats and thinking about which vocalist would be best for it, it became more about trying to extract the best from ourselves and tell our own stories.� While it’s no longer accurate to describe them as a kuduro act, the global fusion aspect so central to their appeal is still intact. As Barbosa explains, this pan-cultural mandate is the logical outcome of growing up in a city like Lisbon.
“We just try to keep things as honest as possible. Half the band is from Angola, but we feel this is a Portuguese band, and especially a band that comes from Lisbon. The Portuguese-speaking immigrant communities, like where I grew up, are concentrated in the suburbs around Lisbon. Even if you don’t realize it, you absorb all these Brazilian and Angolan rhythms and ideas, and even stuff from Mozambique. “When I went to school, my class was 50 per cent Portuguese and the rest immigrants. That’s part of who I grew up to be.� benjaminb@nowtoronto.com
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STark Naked & The FleShToNeS, MaMabolo, dJ Sir iaN blurToN
Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Saturday (January 14) Reformed 1980s Toronto punk rockers.
Tycho, beacoN
Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Saturday (January 14) Dreamy ambient pop.
derrick carTer, The loopiTy GooFS, Mike GleeSoN, baby Joel
Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (January 14) Funky Chicago house hero.
WreckiNG ball
w/ Battlesoul, Corpusse, Into Exile, Natalie Zina Walschots, Liisa Ladouceur, Liz Worth The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (January 13) See preview, page 34.
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Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (January 17) See preview, page 29.
Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Friday (January 13) See preview, page 30. Dance Rock
Rich Aucoin
Halifax synth pop singer/songwriter Rich Aucoin has been mainly opening up for larger acts in Toronto lately, so this is your first chance to catch him headlining since the fall release of his critically praised new album, We’re All Dying To Live. If you’ve never seen his uniquely over-the-top, high-energy DIY multimedia live show, you need to check him out. At the Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), Friday (January 13), doors 9 pm. $10.
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madlib, J roCC The Great Hall doors 10 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TW. January 19.
$12.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. February 15.
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HS, RT, SS, TM. February 17.
Modern Love Affair Footwork doors 10 pm. January 21.
Jane bunnett & tHe HeaVyWeiGHts brass band Hugh’s Room
8:30 pm, $32.50-$35. January 27.
priestess Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $12.50.
Van Halen, Kool & tHe GanG Air
Canada Centre $69.50-$149.50. TM. March 17.
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miKe douGHty The Book Of Drugs
Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. March 31.
CroCodiles Lee’s Palace 8:30 pm,
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Reading and Concert Drake Hotel 7:30 pm, $22. February 23.
$13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. February 23.
Ice Tour Opera House doors 6 pm, all ages, $25. RT, SS, TM, UE. April 5.
edu imbernon Footwork. January 28. bassJaCKers The Hoxton doors 9 pm,
HooK n slinG The Hoxton doors 10 pm,
drop tHe lime Wrongbar doors 10 pm,
Haus doors 8 pm, all ages, $39. RT, SS, TM. March 2.
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dinosaur bones Horseshoe doors
Hate eternal, Cerebral bore, serene molestation Hard Luck Bar
yann tiersen Phoenix Concert Theatre
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8:30 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS. February 2.
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tHe tinG tinGs Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7:30 pm, $26, all ages. LN, RT, SS, TW. April 6. $10. RT, SS, TW. April 20.
doors 8 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TM, UE. May 2.
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adam beyer & ida enGberG Footwork. February 4.
surKin Wrongbar doors 10 pm, $13.50.
PDR, RT, SS, TW. February 4.
rumer Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $20. RT, SS, TW. February 6. Will Currie & tHe Country frenCH Horseshoe. February 7. emma-lee Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm,
$12. HS, RT, SS, TM. February 9.
Girma WoldemiCHael, fantaHun sHeWanKoCHeW, HenoK abebe, martHa asHaGari and otHers Ethiopia: A Music Per-
spective Glenn Gould Studio doors 7 pm, $20-$25. batukimusic.com. February 11.
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Wrecking Ball Don’t think live metal and poetry go together? Think again. By Carla Gillis BAttleSoul, CorPuSSe and into exile as part of tHe WreCking BAll at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (January 13), doors 8 pm. $10. goldenspruceentertainment.ca.
It’s not often that the quiet, contemplative world of
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poetry readings enters into the chaotic, visceral world of live heavy metal. But Natalie Zina Walschots, aka Natalie Zed, doesn’t see why that should be. “It turns out that metal and poetry go really well together,” she says, “like a bacon and peanut butter sandwich. Both require thought, time, digestion and particular tastes. “Fans tend to have encyclopedic knowledge about them and a passion for discussing them. And since both metalheads and poetry lovers are used to engaging with difficult work, there’s a lot of crossover appreciation.” Walschots made these discoveries after launching The Wrecking Ball, a quarterly performance series featuring metal, hardcore and noise musicians alongside experimental poets who
Sandies & the Lying Cheats 9 pm. HorSeSHoe The Responsables, Atom & the Volumes, 1977, Leonids, Jilted Lovers Club 8:30 pm. noCturne CD release Binge Ninja Vs the First Seed, Schizoid, Tiger Venom, Mr. Shitshow (industrial/digital hardcore/alternative/ cyberpunk) doors 10 pm. orBit rooM Julian Taylor Band (rock ) 10 pm. tHe PiSton Metal Health (hair band metal) 10 pm. PreSS CluB Laura Hubert 10 pm. rivoli Music City Industry Showcase Mark Spicoluk 7 pm. Silver DollAr Cletus, Stone Sparrows, Whitney Rose (alt-country rock). tHe SiSter Hamburger James, Chris Staig. SoutHSiDe JoHnny’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. SuPerMArket Nice Friends Showcase #005 The Box Tiger, Elos Arma, Inlet Sound 9 pm. WHite SWAn R&B Rock Jam.
do readings between the sets. She threw her first one last July as part of the UnFestival portion of the final Scream literary festival. It was a “noisy and joyous” success, with just one hiccup. “There was one glowering metal head who, in the middle of Chris Doda’s poetry, announced, ‘This is bullshit,’ and walked out,” Walschots recalls. “But he represents the single bit of negative feedback I’ve ever received at any of these events.” The winter edition features the Celtic-informed thrash-folk of Battlesoul, operatic shock artist Corpusse (pictured left), Into Exile’s heavy metal, plus bloody, gothy goodness from writer Liisa Ladouceur (Encyclopedia Gothica), poetic distillations of the sex, drugs and rock and roll lifestyle from Liz Worth (Amphetamine Heart) and supervillain-centred erotica from Walschots (DOOM: Love Poems For Supervillains). “I was sick and tired of boring poetry readings,” says Walschots. “The Wrecking Ball prevents that in a few ways. If you’re a poet, your reading had better be tight and succinct, your material gripping and exciting and your delivery flawless, because you’re going up before or after a freaking rock band. “Likewise, the bands are challenged to be smart, sophisticated and as varied and challenging as the language the poets are using. At the events so far, metalheads end up buying poetry books and poetry fans jump in the mosh pit. It seems very natural.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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CAMeron HouSe BACk rooM Petunia, Sean Conway, Sheila Gostick (roots) 10 pm. CAMeron HouSe Fedora Upside Down 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. CAStro’S lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. CloAk & DAgger PuB Jon Travis (country/pop) 10 pm. DAve’S... on St ClAir Uncle Herb’s Open Mic (country/folk/blues/rock) 9:30 pm. HugH’S rooM CD release Enter the Haggis (Celtic rock) 8:30 pm. tHe loCAl Loraina Fox and the Old Fashioned. lolA Brian Cober (solo acoustic blues) 9 pm. lulA lounge Quique Escamilla Band, Laura Fernandez. SAving gigi Julie Doiron (singer songwriter). trAnzAC SoutHern CroSS Lost Girl (old time) 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. unDerDoWn PuB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots/blues) 9 pm.
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gAte 403 Eddie Paton Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Donna Greenberg Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. JAne MAllett tHeAtre Leslie Newman & Erica Goodman (flute, harp) 8 pm. MuCH Me Ben D Cunha (piano). olD Mill inn HoMe SMitH BAr John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. rePoSADo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Vaughan Misener (jazz) 9:45 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm. roy tHoMSon HAll Mozart Jupiter Symphony Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. trAne StuDio Ernesto Cervini 8 pm.
dance muSic/dJ/lounge
AliCe FAzooli’S SquAre one DJ Other Brother Darryl (rocksteady/rock & roll/hip-hop/funk) 7 pm.
Andy PoolhAll Flave The World DJs Lori J Ward & T Orlando (underground house/tech house) 10 pm. BlAck EAglE Pub Night: Black Eagle Kennel Klub 10 pm. BlAck Moon loungE Sound Directions (electronica/house/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight. drAkE hotEl undErground Dirty Sick: Video and Mixtape Release Party Roney & Nani, DJ Phil doors 10 pm. EMBAssy BAr Girls Go Crazy! DJs Tara, Christina, Elaine (garage/psych/punk/power pop/ glam/soul) 10 pm. goodhAndy’s Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 InsoMnIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lolABAr DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/ R&B). MAIson MErcEr Savoir Thursdays DJ Chris La Roque (French). thE PAIntEd lAdy DJ Black Pearl (funk/rock/ Motown/alt/punk) 5 pm. rIvolI Pool loungE DJ Plan B (electrobeats/ disco). sutrA The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop).
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AquIlA Committee (R&B/rock). BovInE sEx cluB Aerith & the Video Dead,
Bombing Neverland, DJ Vania. dorA kEogh Aideen O’Brien Band (pop). drAkE hotEl undErground Rich Aucoin, Sandman Viper Command doors 9 pm. Eton housE Hurricane Cove (rock & roll) 9 pm. thE gArrIson Wrecking Ball Battlesoul, Corpusse, Into Exile, Natalie Zina Walschots, Liisa Ladouceur, Liz Worth doors 8 pm. See preview, page 34. holy oAk cAfE A Soul (soul) 10 pm. horsEshoE Tiny Danza, Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose, Janes Party, Sound of Lions 9:30 pm. lEE’s PAlAcE CD release London Swagger, Corners, Wentworth Colts 8 pm. thE locAl John Showman. lolA Box Full of Cash 8 pm. noW loungE Jam The Lazy Poets. PArts & lABour Return Of The Capricorns Diego Bros (old school hip-hop). rAncho rElAxo Christian Hansen & the Autistics, Christien Summers, Fitness Club Fiasco doors 9 pm. sIlvEr dollAr July Talk, Nicholas Doubleyou, the ‘B’ Squad, Lava & Ash, Les Frauleins. thE sIstEr Sara Giguere, Annie Chaplin, the Danger Bees. snEAky dEE’s Maximum RNR, Darlings of Chelsea, Teethmarks, Bumpin’ Tacos doors 9 pm. sound AcAdEMy Michael White and the White doors 8 pm. southsIdE Johnny’s 22nd Street (rock/R&B) 10 pm. suPErMArkEt Rollin’ & Scratchin’ Plastic Plates, Jeremy Glenn doors 10 pm. vIrgIn MoBIlE Mod cluB Van Hunt. WrongBAr Buraka Som Sistema doors 10 pm. See preview, page 30.
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cAdIllAc loungE The Howling Bullets, Rehab for Quitters, Christian D & the Hangovers. cAMEron housE Kayla Howran 10 pm, Patrick Brealey (folk rock/roots) 8 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. cAMEron housE BAck rooM Black Sky. thE flyIng BEAvEr PuBArEt Sara Minx (country) 7 pm. gAtE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 9 pm. glAdstonE hotEl MElody BAr Tim Bastmeyer (blues) 9 pm. hABIts gAstroPuB Austin & Jimini 9 pm. hugh’s rooM CD release Enter the Haggis (Celtic rock) 8:30 pm. lolA The Danny Beerio Jam 3 to 7 pm. rEPosAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rIvolI A Music And Moving Pictures Show The Orienteers, South of Bloor, Pamela Brennan (space folk) 9 pm. undErdoWn PuB Kevin Myles Wilson (folk/ roots rock) 10 pm.
Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental
dAvE’s... on st clAIr Happy Hour Jazz Chicken Scratch 5 to 8 pm.
gAllEry 345 13 Ways Of Looking At The Goldberg Lara Downes (piano) 8 pm.
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GATE 403 Heather Luckhart (blues/roots/jazz) 5 to 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE Friday Jazz Series Dominic Mancuso 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Friday Son Ache, DJ Suave (salsa). MUSIC GALLERY Music/dance improvisation Aaron Lumley (contrabass) doors 7 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Fridays To Sing About: The Standards Session Melisssa Stylianou, Reg Schwager, Steve Wallace, Mike Murley 7:30 pm. QUOTES Fridays At Five The Canadian Jazz Quartet & Bob DeAngelis (clarinet) 5 to 8 pm. REX Mike Downes 9:45 pm, The Jivebombers (8-piece blues combo) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. TRANE STUDIO Waleed Kush & the African Jazz Trio 8 pm. TRANZAC Shafton Thomas Group 10 pm. WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 6:30 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
ANNEX WRECKROOM 90s Party/Pre Malanka Party DJs Fawn BC & Caff 10 pm.
BEAVER Cub Camp DJs Scooter & L-Rock 11 pm. BLACK MOON LOUNGE Sound Directions (elec-
tronica/house/disco) 6:30 pm to midnight. CASTRO’S LOUNGE DJ ‘I Hate You’ Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. CLINTON’S Fuck It Dance Party Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). COLLEGE STREET BAR DJ Tricky Moreira. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Broken English Famou$ Players midnight. FLY Grapefruit DJ Shane Percy, DJ Aural 10 pm.5 THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Daddy Next Door DJ Dwayne Minard 10:30 pm. FOOTWORK Luv This City Sydney Blu, Jonathan Rõsa, Baby Joel, Ticky Ty ddoors 10 pm. FOX & FIDDLE MANSION Sexy Swagg Fridays Suppa Natty, Outcast, DJ Wise Guy. GOODHANDY’S Queer Idol DJ Todd Klinck doors 9 pm.5
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male R&B/soul/disco dance party) 10 pm. HOT BOX CAFE Big Spliff JodaC & Mike S 7 pm. INSOMNIA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Matty Ryce (house/breaks). LEVACK BLOCK BACK ROOM DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop). LEVACK BLOCK FRONT ROOM DJ Nerdvana. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Chocolate & Patrick (roots/reggae) 10 pm. THE PISTON Soulskank (soul/funk/dancehall/ ska) 10 pm. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock/old school/ Brit/electro/classics/retro). THE SAVOY DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. UNLOVABLE Dirty Talk DJs Diana, Pammm, Jaime Sin (Italo/disco house/indie dance/ space junk) 10 pm. VOGUE SUPPER CLUB Reservation Fridays DJ Platinum Touch, DJ Dun & ChuxStarr, DJ Feelinz.
Saturday, January 14 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
BOVINE SEX CLUB Stark Naked & the Fleshtones, Mamabolo, DJ Sir Ian Blurton. ñ DORA KEOGH Jack Marks (roots rock). EL MOCAMBO Wannabe: the Spice Girls Tribute Band, DJ Tyler Johnston doors 9 pm.
ETON HOUSE Phoenix5 (rock & roll) 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S The John Borra Band 4 to 7 pm. HORSESHOE Dwayne Gretzky, Rouge doors 9 pm.
PHILIPPINE CENTRE Craftstock The Elwins, Formalists, Union Duke, ñ4KAPISANAN Wide Eyed Tour Guide, LUM doors 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Bedlam Ring Pillow Fights. THE LOCAL Ancient Chinese Secret (instru-
mental). LOLA Clara Engel 8 pm. REX Donna Grantis Trio 9:45 pm, Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm, Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 3:30 pm, Danny Marks (pop) noon. RIVOLI Kim the Lion, Everybody Wave, Alexander Quail, Courtney Lynn Music 9:30 pm. ROCKPILE Teenage Head. SOUND ACADEMY 61st Birthday Bash Paul James doors 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S The Remnants (60s pop rock) 10 pm.
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ANTHEMS,DANCE,90s/2012 MATT MEDLEY & friends
SATURDAY JAN 14 /12 w/DJ misty
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Age oF the eNemy w/The BlooDy FiVe, liVing arT
w/DJ Vania
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Aerith
w/The ViDeo DeaD, BomBing neVerlanD Sat jan 14
w/ DJ Sir ian Blurton
StArk NAked & the FleShtoNeS w/mamaBolo
ETON HOUSE Catfish Blues (country/blues/
rock) 4 pm.
THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET The in Between (Leigh Williams & Luke Mitchell) 7 pm. FOGARTY’S The Josh Gordon Band (blues) 3 to 7 pm. HOT BOX CAFE Dub Science: Open Mic Red Gorilla Sound Brigade (reggae/jungle/dubstep/ dnb/electro) 7 pm. IMPERIAL PUB Penny Dreadful (alt country/ rock) 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Saturday Ricky Franco, DJ Gio. REBAS CAFÉ Open Mic Saturdays Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm. TRANZAC MAIN HALL Chris Langan Weekend Gala Concert Kieran O’Hare, Liz Knowles, Peter Maguire, Pat O’Gorman 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Tribute To Albert Ayler 9 pm, Scott B Sympathy (folk) 6:30 pm.
STEVE STOBER
clubs&concerts
HENHOUSE That Time Of The Month (all-fe-
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
CHALKERS PUB Nancy Walker Quartet (jazz) 6
to 9 pm.
GATE 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm, Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Jazz Masters Steve Koven Trio 7:30 pm. ROY THOMSON HALL Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage Toronto Symphony Orchestra (family concert) 1:30 & 3:30 pm. ST SIMON-THE-APOSTLE ANGLICAN CHURCH Goldberg Varia-
tions Canzona Choir 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO Sharron McLeod Fauxtet (vocal jazz/fusion) 8 pm.
YORKMINSTER PARK BAPTIST CHURCH Singsation Saturday:
Beethoven’s Mass In C Major Toronto Mendelssohn Choir (choral workshop) 10:30 am to 1 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/ LOUNGE
ANNEX WRECKROOM DJ Rick Toxic 10 pm.
CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle &
Roll Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). COBRA LOUNGE Crown Saturdays DJ Jed Harper. COLLEGE STREET BAR Get Shaky. DISGRACELAND Everyone’s A DJ DJ Matt Blair (16 DJs playing 20-min sets) 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Evening Standard Axel Boman doors 11 pm. FLY Gaelen’s Going Away Party! DJ Aron, DJ Shawn Riker, DJ Mike Vieira 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK Derrick Carter, the Loopity Goofs, Mike Gleeson, Baby Joel (electro/ house/jazz) doors 10 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Beats ‘n Brunch DJ VS 11 am. GOODHANDY’S T-Girlicious DJ Todd Klinck doors 10 pm.5 HARBOURFRONT CENTRE ICE RINK DJ Skate Night: Skatery/Cratery Arcee, Kaewonder, DJ Serious 8 to 11 pm. HOLY OAK CAFE Saigon Nights Superkid, Paul G (indie electro/80s remixes/50s-60s Vietnam tracks/international dance music) 10 pm. INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). JANGBANG Static Zine Fundraising Dance
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GREAT GIGS FOR $5 OR LESS BROWNMAN
At the Trane Studio on Sunday (January 15), award-winning innovative jazz trumpeter Nick “Brownman” Ali continues his Generation Next series, which shines a spotlight on young up-and-coming Toronto talent. This edition features the colourful horn blower performing with the Metcalfe Brothers. $5.
DJ SKATE NIGHT Assuming this freakishly warm weather clears up by the weekend, Harbourfront’s DJ Skate night should be back on. (The ice just wasn’t solid enough last week.) You’ll be able to catch DJ Serious, Kaewonder and Arcee laying down some hip-hop Saturday (January 14) in the weekly winter ice skating party series. Free.
Party DJ Alex Pulec. LOLABAR DJ Mr Stylus (house/hip-hop/R&B/ reggae). MAISON MERCER Célébration Ramy Vs David. NEU+RAL Fixion Saturdays DJ Dwight (alt/ electronic/indie/retro/remix). THE PAINTED LADY Salazar 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR Bitch Craft (all-girl DJs play loud rap). THE PISTON Digital Needle Presents (funk/ disco/old school/new school) 10 pm. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Osum (disco/electro/ funk). RIVOLI UPSTAIRS Bump N’ Hustle Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull. SNEAKY DEE’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJ John Kong, MC Abs. WHITE SWAN Social Party 7 pm.
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Sunday, January 15 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
CADILLAC LOUNGE Burlesque Brunch 1 pm. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Leon Knight & the Neon
w/The Key FrameS
Lights (rockabilly) 4 pm. GRAFFITI’S Michael Brennan, Steve Briggs 4 to 7 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Casey Jones & Death Before Dishonor, Hundredth, No Bragging Rights, Boys No Good doors 6 pm, all ages. LOLA Tipping Canoes. ROXTON Matt Antaya 9:30 pm. SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm.
Sat jan 21 • finaL SHOW!
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
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AQUILA The McDales’ Open Mic (mostly country) 8:30 pm, The Sunday Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds, Tommy Fyfe (mostly blues) 3:30 pm. CADILLAC LOUNGE Whiskey Jack.
CAMERON HOUSE Joanne Mackell (folk) 6 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Jacob Brodovsky (folk/
pop) 9 pm.
THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Ashley Bea &
Momo MacLeod 7 pm.
GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Acoustic Brunch (bluegrass) 9 am. HOLY OAK CAFE Moonshiner Duo, Lost Girl (folk/old time) 9 pm. THE LOCAL Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. MUCH ME Open Mic (eclectic) 8 pm. MUSIDEUM MAIN FLOOR Ed Hanley, Rattan Bhamrah-esraj 8 pm. POGUE MAHONE Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. PRESS CLUB Lucas Stagg and Paddy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. REBAS CAFÉ Brian Blain (blues/folk/country) 1 to 4 pm. REX Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. THIRSTY FOX PUB Acoustic Open Jam Fera 4 to 8 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Open Mic Porter 9:30 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
CAMERON HOUSE Kevin Quain & the Mad Bastards 9 pm.
EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING WALTER HALL
Dmitri Berlinsky, International Chamber Soloists (violin) children’s concert 1:15 pm & 3:15 pm. GATE 403 Wendy Weiler Jazz Band 9 pm, Cindy Urech Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. REX Sean Bray’s Peach Trio 9:30 pm, Michael Herring 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.
ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL Cecilia String Quartet w/ John O’Conor 2 pm.
ST. ANDREW BY-THE-LAKE CHURCH Beethoven’s
Diabelli Variations Vadim Serebryany (piano) 2 pm. continued on page 38 œ
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trAne studio Generation Next: The
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Young Vanguard Series Brownman, Metcalfe Brothers (jazz) 8 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Monk’s Music (jazz) 5 pm. trAnzAc The Thing Is (jazz) 7:30 pm. trAnzAc southern cross Rebecca Hennessy’s RJH Project (jazz) 10 pm.
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
doors 9 pm.
drAke hotel lounge Tom Collins Night 86’D
w/ Ivy Knight doors 8 pm. drAke hotel lounge Ride the Tiger (soul) doors 11 pm. grAFFiti’s Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. horseshoe Shoeless Monday Darker Still, Nicole Aub, Live on Brighton. Press cluB Domestic Bliss Mondays Self Cynic, the Executives (alternative/indie rock) 10 pm.
FOLK/BLuES/COuntRY/WORLD
Candy-O.
cAstro’s lounge Watch This Sound DJ Greg
(old school soul/reggae/dub/ska/rock-steady) 9 pm. college street BAr The Grind. grAFFiti’s Blackmetal Brunch 11 am to 5 pm. insomniA Sunday Mass DJ TvT (old school hiphop/disco/funk). the ossington Unlimited Sundays. the PAinted lAdy Spandex Sundays DJ Todder 10 pm.
Monday, January 16
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
the locAl Bluegrass Mondays Hamstrung
Duffin, Dan Dwoskin doors 8 pm. grAFFiti’s Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm. horseshoe CD release Honheehonhee, Hands & Teeth, Army Girls, Sidney York 9 pm. See preview, page 29. oPerA house The Fray doors 8 pm, all ages.
9 pm.
String Band 5 pm. old nick M Factor Monday Rakkatak, Lisa Michelle, Elana Harte. on cue Camdon Blues (blues) 8 pm. roxton Michael Peter (bluegrass) 9:30 pm.
royAl conservAtory oF music koerner hAll Maple Blues Awards 7 pm.
JAzz/CLASSICAL/ExPERIMEntAL
1 HR FROM TORONTO
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Wednesday, January 18
cAmeron house BAck room Rebecca Everett. cloAk & dAgger PuB Alun Piggins (folk/pop)
chard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm. rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.
cAstro’s lounge Rockabilly Night 9 pm.
Fairbanks Jr. crAWFord Mix Fix Mondays (Motown/funk/ dance R&B). insomniA DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). the ossington Ice & Yo (spooky styles). the PAinted lAdy Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. the Piston Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks (pre to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. rePosAdo Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean. WAterFAlls The Lion’s Den (reggae).
Tuesday, January 17
gAte 403 The Erica Romero Trio 5 to 8 pm, Ri-
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
the Piston Dead Tuesdays 10 pm. rePosAdo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.
Bovine sex cluB Moody Mondays Douglas
cAmeron house David Baxter 10 pm, Rucksack Willies 6 pm.
Bovine sex cluB School For Band Aids DJ
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
cAmeron house Friendly Rich 10 pm. drAke hotel underground Late July, Kyle
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Annex Wreckroom Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.
cAmeron house Whitney Rose (country) 6 pm. cAstro’s lounge Quiet Revolutions blue-
Venus (singer/songwriter showcase) 10 pm. cloAk & dAgger PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. drAke hotel lounge Memphis Tuesdays The Treasures (country/bluegrass) doors 10 pm. duFFy’s tAvern Szan T No. gAte 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm. holy oAk cAFe Nick Ferrio (folk) 9 pm. hot Box cAFe Hotbox Unplugged Open Stage/ Jam EvanB & JasonC 7 pm. the locAl EP fundraiser These Boots (folk/pop). monArchs PuB Acoustic Tuesdays Anne Lederman 7 pm. Press cluB Toast n’ Jam Open Mic 10 pm. the rusty nAil Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm. underdoWn PuB Eric Underdown & Noah Jones (country/blues) 8 pm.
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOuL
Bovine sex cluB Jacques & the Valdanes, the
Key Frames. clinton’s Kilowatt Band, Masters of Da Funk (R&B funk jam). the gArrison Rikers. grAFFiti’s Lucas Gadke, Angie Hilts 6 to 9 pm. horseshoe CD release Barlow 9 pm. lolA Johnny Bootz Jam 8 pm. the Piston Culture Reject 10 pm. the Port Oscar Tango (power pop/rock) 10 pm. suPermArket Wednesdays Go Pop! Kandle, Morgan Cameron Ross, Passwords.
FOLK/BLuES/COuntRY/WORLD
AquilA Nicole Coward, Dean Cavill (acoustic folk) 9 pm. cAdillAc lounge The Neil Young’uns. cAmeron house Devin Cuddy Band 10 pm, Kirty 6 pm. cAstro’s lounge Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. cloAk & dAgger PuB Trevor Gordon & the Nighthounds (folk/rock) 10 pm. gAte 403 Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov (blues duo) 5 to 8 pm. glAdstone hotel melody BAr Random Order Record Label Signing Party (reggae/ ska) 9 pm. grossmAn’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm. hirut Fine ethioPiAn cuisine Gary 17s Open Stage Peter Verity (singer/songwriter) 8:30 pm. the locAl David Celia Band. mezzettA Andy Scott & Jake Wilkinson (guitar, trumpet) 9 pm. silver dollAr High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass jam) 9 pm.
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chAlkers PuB Girls Night Out Jazz Jam 8 pm. gAte 403 Lara Solnicki Jazz Band (piano, bass)
9 pm.
nAWlins JAzz BAr Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm.
rex Michael Skeete 9:30 pm, Norbert Botos
6:30 pm.
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AlleycAtz Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci
& the Double A Jazz Swing Band.
Four seAsons centre For the PerForming Arts richArd BrAdshAW AmPhitheAtre In
Praise Of Women Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio noon. gAte 403 Carol Oya Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. rex Rex Jazz Jam Marika Galea 9:30 pm, Amanda Tosoff Group 6:30 pm. roxton C’est La Vie (jazz trio) 9:30 pm. roy thomson hAll Celebration Of Youth Bach Children’s Chorus noon. trAnzAc southern cross Stop Time (jazz) 10 pm.
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
crAWFord Drink & Destroy (punk rock). goodhAndy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd
Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insomniA Soulful Tuesdays D-Jay. the PAinted lAdy DJ Black Pearl (funk/rock/ Motown/alt/punk) 5 pm.
roy thomson hAll Mozart Requiem Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Amadeus Choir, Elmer Iseler Singers 8 pm. trAne studio CD release Allister Bradley (jazz pop) 8 pm. underdoWn PuB Jazz Night 10 pm.
DAnCE MuSIC/DJ/LOunGE
BrAssAii Les Nuits DJ Undercover (house/hiphop/club anthems).
goodhAndy’s Amplify Wednesdays DJs Sexy Pants, Cesar & Klinck doors 10 pm.5
hot Box cAFe Hump Day Uncut The Man! (old
school/R&B/hip-hop/dancepop/electro house) 7 pm. insomniA DJ Sweet Jelly Roller. the ossington HumbleMania XXXI. the PAinted lAdy DJ Black Pearl (funk/rock/ Motown/alt/punk) 5 pm. rePosAdo Sol Wednesdays Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy. WrongBAr Roksonix, Hydee doors 10 pm. 3
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Venue Index Alice FAzooli’s squAre one 209 Rathburn W (Mississauga). 905-281-1721. AlleycAtz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. Andy PoolhAll 489 College. 416-923-5300. Annex Wreckroom 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346. AquilA 347 Keele. 416-761-7474. BeAver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. BlAck eAgle 457 Church. 416-413-1219. BlAck moon lounge 67 Richmond W. 416-6033100. Bovine sex cluB 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. BrAssAii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. cAdillAc lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. cAmeron house 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. cAstro’s lounge 2116 Queen E. 416-699-8272. chAlkers PuB 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. cloAk & dAgger PuB 394 College. 647-436-0228. coBrA lounge 510 King W. 416-361-9004. college street BAr 574 College. 416-533-2417. crAWFord 718 College. dAve’s... on st clAir 730 St Clair W. 416-6573283. disgrAcelAnd 965 Bloor W. 647-868-5263. dorA keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duFFy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. edWArd Johnson Building 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3744. el mocAmBo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777.
emBAssy BAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. the Flying BeAver PuBAret 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567. FogArty’s 3481 Lake Shore W. 416-253-5500. FootWork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. Four seAsons centre For the PerForming Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. Fox & Fiddle mAnsion 1294 Liverpool. gAllery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grAFFiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. hABits gAstroPuB 928 College. 416-533-7272. hArBourFront centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luck BAr 772a Dundas W. henhouse 1532 Dundas W. 416-534-5939. hirut Fine ethioPiAn cuisine 2050 Danforth. holy oAk cAFe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. hot Box cAFe 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. imPeriAl PuB 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. JAne mAllett theAtre 27 Front E. 416-366-7723.
upcoming Thursday, January 19 chloe chArles & the doneFors Rivoli 8 pm,
$10.
dAdA liFe The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $20. PDR, RT, SS, TW. dAvid neWlAnd, JAson FoWler, dAvid mAtheson, dAvid WoodheAd & christine Bougie, cAdence, the good lovelies And others Gordon Lightfoot Tribute Hugh’s
Room 8:30 pm, $36-$38.50. HR.
derek miller, JAce mArtin, the cleAring, PhAntom BlAck, PAPPy Johns BAnd, JAsPer, Plex, Arthur renWick, JAnet PAnic And others Attawapiskat Benefit Concert Revival
8 pm, $25. tinyurl.com/benefitconcertTO. hermAn dune, Ben cAPlAn Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, Advance $12.50, $15 at the door. HS, RT, SS. holy coBrAs Ivy Lovell Photo Book Launch Parts & Labour. mAdliB, J rocc The Great Hall doors 10 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TW.
Friday, January 20 ABdominAl & more or les, dJ numeric Hip-
Hop Karaoke Revival doors 10 pm.
ABsolutely Free (Formerly dd/mm/yyyy), cArl didur, dJ dirty Blue gene Double Double Land 9 pm, $5.
corners, oPoPo, singAPore, house monsters, the FrAndiscos POP With Brains #35 Benefit for CAMH Rivoli 9 pm, $5.
dAvid neWlAnd, JAson FoWler, dAvid mAtheson, dAvid WoodheAd & christine Bougie, cAdence And others Gordon Light-
foot Tribute Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $36$38.50. dJ AkAlePse & dJ rich medinA Props Supermarket 10 pm, $15-$20. RT, SS. monster truck, BiBlicAl Horseshoe $8. Pissed JeAns, AnAgrAm, tv FreAks Sneaky Dee’s 8 pm, $19.75. PDR, RT, SS, TM. rAy montFord Confluences: Sound And Images Alliance Française Downtown 7:30 pm, $10-$15. reAl estAte Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $15.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.
xin WAng, WAllAce hAllAdAy, dAvid hetherington Fragments Of Love Gallery 345 8 pm, $25.
Saturday, January 21 AnAmAnAguchi, extreme AnimAls & moon king Wrongbar doors 7 pm, $10. PDR, RT, SS,
TW.
Brodinski & gesAFFelstein Wrongbar doors 11 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW.
cAution JAm, mArk crissinger, Bruce Booker 20th Anniversary Show Grossman’s 9
pm.
chArlie Winston, current sWell Phoenix
Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $27. RT, SS, TM.
dAvid neWlAnd, JAson FoWler, dAvid mAtheson, dAvid WoodheAd & christine Bougie, cAdence, the good Brothers, John mcdermott And others Gordon Lightfoot
Tribute Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $36-$38.50. DJ Skate Night: LunarFest Skate Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink 8 to 11 pm, free. 3
JAngBAng 430.5 College. 416-961-8424. kAPisAnAn PhiliPPine centre 167 Augusta. 416-979-0600. lee’s PAlAce 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. levAck Block 88 Ossington. 416-916-0571. the locAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lolA 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. lolABAr 1173 Dundas E. lulA lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. mAison mercer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. mezzettA 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687. monArchs PuB 33 Gerrard W. 416-585-4352. much me 816 St Clair W. 416-651-0009. music gAllery 197 John. 416-204-1080. musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323. nAWlins JAzz BAr 299 King W. 416-595-1958. neu+rAl 349a College. 416-926-2112. nocturne 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178. noW lounge 189 Church. 416-364-1301. old mill inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. old nick 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. on cue 349 Jane. 416-913-2995. oPerA house 735 Queen E. 416-466-0313. orBit room 580A College. 416-535-0613. the ossington 61 Ossington. 416-850-0161. the PAinted lAdy 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. PArts & lABour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. the Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. Pogue mAhone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. the Port 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270. Press cluB 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. quotes 220 King W. 416-979-7717. rAncho relAxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. reBAs cAFé 3289 Dundas W. 416-626-7372. rePosAdo 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474.
rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. rockPile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. roxton 379 Harbord. 416-535-8181. roy thomson hAll 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. royAl conservAtory oF music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. the rusty nAil 2202 Danforth. 647-729-7254. sAving gigi 859 Bloor West. the sAvoy 1166 Queen W. silver dollAr 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. the sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. sneAky dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. sound AcAdemy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625. southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416521-6302. st. AndreW By-the-lAke church 102 Lakeshore, Ward’s Island. 416-203-0873. st simon-the-APostle AnglicAn church 525 Bloor E. 416-923-8714. suPermArket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501. sutrA 612 College. 416-537-8755. thirsty Fox PuB 1028 Eglinton W. trAne studio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. trAnzAc 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. underdoWn PuB 263 Gerrard E. 416-927-0815. unlovABle 1415 Dundas W. 416-532-6669. virgin moBile mod cluB 722 College. 416-5884663. vogue suPPer cluB 42 Mowat. WAterFAlls 303 Augusta. 416-927-9666. White sWAn 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089. WrongBAr 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. yorkminster PArk BAPtist church 1585 Yonge. 416-922-1167.
album reviews come their influences, they hardly phone in the formula. They play with confidence, attacking each song with a frenetic fury that’s easy to get caught up in – more so on the high-octane pop numbers than on the shoegazey dirges. Top track: Told You Once KEVIN RITCHIE
BON ñCATE LENNNN
album of the week NNNN ñKATHLEEN EDWARDS
Voyageur (Maple) Rating: How you feel about Kathleen Edwards’s Voyageur depends a lot on the expectations you bring to it. Ever since the news got out that Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, had come aboard as coproducer, the buzz about Edwards and her fourth album has reached circles far beyond the alt-country one to which she once belonged. But those hoping to hear the Toronto-based musician take off on a dramatically different path complete with, say, Auto-Tune experiments might be disappointed. You get the sense that Vernon and Edwards worked diligently and dutifully to keep her music’s essence intact: those soaring, singalong choruses, the lean-machine traditional
Pop/Rock
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Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (Sony ATV) Rating:
Hot on the heels of their 2011 full-length, France’s Herman Dune (they’ve dropped the umlaut over the “u”) return with an EP anchored by the title song, previously released, and also featuring four new ones. Singer/guitarist David-Ivar Herman Dune and drummer Cosmic Neman here flesh out their sound with piano, bongos, bass and warm backing vocals, adding depth to Dune’s pleasingly conversational style. Most of the lyrics seem like journal entries or letters written to distant friends, which makes sense considering how much time the duo spend on the road. Contemplating the demise of friendship and the disorienting feeling of life without love, the Dune boys traverse introspective ground even as the music bubbles and becomes outright danceable on Shadow Of A Doubt. Top track: Drunk But Not With Wine Herman Dune play the Horseshoe on January 19. JOANNE HUFFA
GUIDED BY VOICES Let’s Go Eat The
Factory (GBV Inc.) Rating: NNN Few bandleaders are as prolific as Robert
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structures. The arrangements, though, are far more expansive, all gorgeously produced and delivered with subtlety. The badass pulsating synth in Sidecars. The Crazy Horse crunch of Mint’s guitars. And there’s greater depth of emotion: less sass, more vulnerability. Edwards’s yearning vocals carry more than a hint of worry, even in the surging pop of Change The Sheets. Against themes of bewilderment, loss/hope and marital regret, that seems just right. Plus, they blend beautifully with Vernon’s vocals on gently weary A Soft Place To Land and countryish ballad House Full Of Empty Rooms, and with Norah Jones’s on striking final tune For The Record. Top track: Change The Sheets Kathleen Edwards plays the Phoenix on February 11. CARLA GILLIS Pollard, so although it’s been 15 years since the demise of Guided by Voices’ socalled “classic lineup,” fans have never wanted for new material. However, when the lineup responsible for 1994’s Bee Thousand and 1995’s Alien Lanes announced they would reunite for some shows, the immediate question was whether they would record. Let’s Go Eat The Factory is the first of two scheduled albums from the reformed band, and while it fails to match their previous hit quotient, it’s still a decent listen. Doughnut For A Snowman and Laundry And Lasers are pure Pollard, matching absurdist lyrics with catchy melodies. And guitarist Tobin Sprout has a couple of lovely ballads, including Who Invented The Sun, to balance Pollard’s bravado. There are some definite weak spots among the 21 tunes, including The Big Hat And Toy Show, a lackadaisical blues jam that sounds like it was made up during the recording sessions. Top track: Who Invented The Sun JH
HOWLER America Give Up (Rough Trade)
Rating: NNN Hyped by frontman Jordan Gatesmith as the next great dirty rock ’n’ roll record, the debut LP from Minneapolis five-piece Howler delivers catchy choruses, danceable garage rock riffs and narcissistic machismo, all the requisites of the Next Big Rock Record Wrought From Sexual Frustration. Their sound falls somewhere in between the Strokes’ pop precision and the Jesus and Mary Chain’s grungy detachment. Peppered with riffs and references typical of young musicians rabidly researching their predecessors (Back To The Grave’s melody borrows from JAMC’s Taste Of Cindy, just one of the many quotations), this is an endearing and eminently likeable listen. Although Howler don’t exactly over-
Cyrk (Control Group) Rating: It seems like every time you think the punked-up 60s girl group formula has been exhausted, someone comes up with a pleasing new twist. Cate Le Bon marries simple jangly guitar chords with heavyhearted Nico-esque vocals, bursts of woozy, disorienting noises and a subtly off-kilter sensibility that never lets you get too comfortable, no matter how peacefully drifting the melodies might be. She’s been associated with the Super Furry Animals, but that connection is more about their shared penchant for singing in both Welsh and English than it is about the music. Although the Velvet Underground comparisons are useful in describing her sound, this is far from another retread. Le Bon’s pop sensibilities are much more pronounced, yet they don’t dilute any of her wonderful weirdness. Definitely one to watch. Top track: Cyrk BENJAMIN BOLES
cause Penner’s soaring soprano – the kind that can be mistaken for “intimate” and “diminutive” before she shows her power – is clearly the star. The swaying, oceanic lullabies are a lovely falling-asleep soundtrack (she even references waking from dreams in the intro of Hunt & Gather), but I prefer her livelier side, revealed on Hey Stranger and Maiden Of Ice. Also cool is Nikki Komaksiutiksak’s throat-singing on Arctic Sea. Imagine a soft Canadian indie take on Kate Bush or Björk. Top track: Hey Stranger SARAH GREENE
Electronic
SKRILLEX Bangerang EP (Warner)
Rating: NNN Google 23-year-old dance music sensation Skrillex and you’ll learn that people either think he’s a musical god or hate him with a passion usually reserved for serial killers. The sheer intensity of the vitriol directed at him almost makes you feel sorry for the
kid, until you remember that he just picked up five Grammy nominations and is well on his way to becoming the biggest electronic music performer in the world. You could blame him for turning dance music mainstream, but compared to electronic superstars like Tiësto, Paul Oakenfold, the Prodigy or the Chemical Brothers, he’s far more creative and musically compelling. Call him a one-trick pony, but in reality he’s got a million tricks up his sleeve and crams a few dozen of them into every bar of his music. Heavy metal, dubstep, house music, IDM, techno, screamo, Chicago juke, drum ’n’ bass, trance and electro are slammed together in a tacky but uniquely infectious mix. It’s not a tasteful formula, but that doesn’t mean it’s not valid. However, whether he can maintain this impressive momentum over a full album remains to be seen. Top track: Right On Time (featuring 12th Planet and Kill The Noise) BB
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Rich Forever (Maybach Music Group) Rating: NNNN Rich Forever is the masterful prelude to Rick Ross’s upcoming fifth studio album, God Forgives, I Don’t. And despite its free release and mixtape billing, Ross doesn’t skimp. Like all of his music, Rich Forever plays out cinematically. It’s flagrantly, lushly capitalist – “Being dead broke is the root of all evil,” he raps on Holy Ghost – and infamy-obsessed, but we love and buy into the self-mythologizing because Ross is such a good actor. Your mental camera is trained on him, at a perennial lean, in the driver’s seat of a label-namesake Maybach, frequently ad-libbing “Woop!” as he joyrides. Threatening, doomy production provides an appropriate score for gratuitouscrime fiction, supported by an all-star cast of titans (Diddy, Nas, Pharrell), rapping rappers (Styles P, Future), MMG-signed proteges (Meek Mill, Stalley, Wale) and ’hood phenomenons (French Montana, 2 Chainz). Oh, and Drake takes shots at Common over laser-like synths on the Nas-sampling Stay Schemin.’ A film crit might say, “It’s a romp!” Top track: Stay Schemin’ featuring Drake and French Montana ANUPA MISTRY
Folk
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Lone Migration (Head in the Sand) Rating: NNNN Winnipeg-based traveller, visual artist and yoga instructor Demetra (full name: Demetra Penner) explores Northern landscapes and the hardships of love on her debut full-length. It’s a spacious, slow album propelled by piano and guitars, with hints of folk, classical and pop influences and decorated with banjo, mandolin, autoharp, ukulele and strings. Good thing there’s space, be-
= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Stratospheric NNNN = Sizzling NNN = Swell NN = Slack N = Sucks
“I love hearing Norah Jones sing anything. But I was overjoyed and overwhelmed when I heard her sing my song “Jolene”. I salute The Little Willies.” – Dolly Parton
LEE ALEXANDER, JIM CAMPILONGO, NORAH JONES, RICHARD JULIAN & DAN RIESER Return to perform a slew of country classics by JOHNNY CASH, WILLIE NELSON, LORETTA LYNN, DOLLY PARTON and more www.thelittlewillies.net www.facebook.com/thelittlewillies © 2012 Milking Bull Records
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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interviews with PAUL SUN-HYUNG LEE and DIANA TSO • Reviews of EVERY NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL SHOW • Scenes on THE LAST FIVE YEARS, FRESH GROUND and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings THEATRE PREVIEW
Paul Sun-Hyung Lee says Kim’s is a generational tale that everyone can relate to.
Seeing Red Poetic play explores legacy of Nanjing By JON KAPLAN RED SNOW by Diana Tso, directed by Beatriz Pizano, with Zoé Doyle, Vienna Hehir, Derek Kwan, Janet Lo and Richard Tse. Presented by the Red Snow Collective, Toronto ALPHA and Aluna Theatre at Theatre Passe Muraille (16 Ryerson). Previews from today (Thursday, January 12), opens Saturday (January 14) and runs to January 28, January 19-21 and 23-28 at 7:30 pm, mats January 21, 25 and 28 at 2 pm. $30, Saturday mat pwyc. 416-5047529.
SUSAN KING
THEATRE PREVIEW
Becoming Mr. Kim Actor savours the role of a lifetime in Kim’s Convenience By GLENN SUMI KIM’S CONVENIENCE by Ins Choi, directed by Weyni Mengesha, with Clé Bennett, Choi, Esther Jun, Paul Sun-Hyung Lee and Jean Yoon. Presented by Soulpepper at the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (55 Mill). Previews from tonight (Thursday, January 12), opens January 19 and runs to February 11, Monday-Saturday 8 pm, some 2 pm matinees. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $5-$22. 416-866-8666.
there’s nothing like seeing a terrific actor connect with a fantastic part, one that shows him or her off like never before. That happened last summer when Paul Sun-Hyung Lee seized the role of the proud KoreanCanadian owner of a Regent Park convenience store in Ins Choi’s breakthrough Kim’s Convenience. Lee’s portrayal of Mr. Kim – a part that’s as weighty as an Asian Willy Loman – was funny, terrifying and ultimately moving. From the start, the actor knew it was something special. “It really is a dream role, the kind of part where you think, ‘I know how to play it,’” says Lee, in a café a couple of weeks before the work’s revised remount as part of Soulpepper’s new season. “If you play golf or baseball, you know that feeling when you hit the ball right in that sweet spot. It’s comfortable, and there’s this confidence that comes from that.” It helps that Lee knows these characters, particularly Mr. Kim, or “Appa,” who in the play is hoping his
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unmarried daughter takes over the family business after he retires. In the Korean-Canadian community, he points out, Mr. Kim would be called an ajusshi. “There are bits of my dad in there, my grandfather, my uncles and all these other church men I knew growing up,” says Lee. “There’s a certain ajusshi uniform: rolled-up dress pants, dress socks, slippers, cellphone clipped to the belt or golf shirt. They have a certain way of acting – it’s usually their way or the highway.” Lee, who has been attached to the role in the seven years it’s been developed, first at a Diaspora Dialogues reading and then at a Fu-GEN Potluck Festival, is excited about what director Weyni Mengesha is bringing to this production. “She’s digging deep roots and giving the show a real emotional core,” says Lee. “We had this shtick we’d use at the Fringe to get laughs. And as a comic” – he has a background in improv comedy – “I was concerned that she was taking away my fun stuff, the money-makers. But Weyni explained that things would be funnier if they came from a more honest place. And she’s right.” Like most Asian-Canadian actors, Lee has starred in many works exploring the immigrant experience – but this one is different. “I like that it’s contemporary,” he says. “Younger audiences can relate to it. We’ve all seen those historical plays that are part fairy tale, involving a dragon head or smuggled immi-
grants. Those plays had their hearts in the right place, but they often seemed derivative.” Lee’s on a roll, and I can feel he’s wanted to talk about this for a while – hell, it’s something I’ve thought of myself. “I remember being in shows where people said afterwards, ‘That’s such a beautiful story,’” he says, his voice full of syrupy sweetness. “And I’m thinking, ‘Are you just saying this because I’m an actor of colour?’” While the Fringe run of Kim’s drew a big Korean-Canadian audience (Lee says it’s the only play he’s starred in that his family has seen twice), the work resonated with everyone. “It’s a generational tale,” says Lee. “Everyone has baggage with their parents. There’s miscommunication. Parents and children love each other and truly want the other group to be happy, but they go about it in different ways.” For this production, Lee hopes his Korean has improved. Soulpepper’s hired a dialect coach to make sure the language is authentic and the rhythms right. Mr. Kim speaks a couple of lines of Korean with his wife (Jean Yoon), and Lee recalls his mother not being convinced. “‘Why not just get a Chinese or Vietnamese guy to do it?’” he says, mimicking her affectionately. “‘Talk same way!’” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com
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chance to speak about an event in the 20th century too long kept quiet, and also to start healing it.” Tso’s research began with Nancy Tong and Christine Choy’s documentary In The Name Of The Emperor and continued with Iris Chang’s book The Rape Of Nanking, followed by several trips to Nanjing to interview survivors and visit sites. She was repeatedly struck by the fact that poetry was the way to tell her story, relying not only on words but also on the artistic brush strokes of calligraphy. “The only memory Gung Gung has of Popo is a portrait he painted from memory,” says Tso. “Art was something he, an illiterate fisherman, learned from his wife, a merchant’s daughter. Every letter in Chinese is a painting, and writing is a way of continuing our culture from one generation to the next. “As a theatre artist, I don’t paint with a brush, but rather with my body, blending words and movement. Red Snow uses the image of the phoenix – it’s both Isabel’s and Popo’s Chinese name – to talk about resurrection and a move toward peace and harmony.” 3
when chinese canadian theatre artist Diana Tso discovered an unknown page of her own cultural history, the 1937 deaths of hundreds of thousands of Chinese at the hands of Japanese soldiers in Nanking (now Nanjing), anger and passion drove her to write Red Snow. “I never knew that the hatred between the two nations was so great that it resulted in a holocaust as brutal as the Jewish Holocaust in Europe,” says Tso, who’s been developing the play for over 10 years and premieres it during the massacre’s 75th anniversary. The piece is about the Canadianborn Isabel, living with her mother, Lily, and her grandfather, Gung jonkap@nowtoronto.com Gung, who fled Nanjing after the MORE ONLINE death of his wife. Nightmares inInterview clips at nowtoronto.com volving her grandmother, Popo, drive Isabel to China in search of Popo’s history, which Gung Gung won’t discuss. When she meets Jason, a Japanese scientist, she unwittingly sets up a conflict between cultures as well as between past and present. “Though I was born here,” explains Tso, “I’ve always wanted to be in touch with my roots, to reinvent Chinese myths through my own voice, merging East and West. “One of the elements in the play is the Chinese opera The Peony Pavilion, in which love unites a dead beauty and a scholar. The relationships between Isabel and Jason and between Isabel’s grandparents parallel the opera narrative; that 16th-cenDiana Tso merges East and West in Red Snow. tury work offers a
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Opening AveNue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and works through the transition to adulthood in this musical puppet show. Opens Jan 18 and runs to Feb 4, WedSat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. The BriTish PuB show (Studio 60 Theatre). This musical show features sing-along songs and dance. Opens Jan 18 and runs to Jan 29, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mats Jan 18 and 29 at 2 pm. $20. 60 Six Point. studio60theatreboxoffice.com. CABAreT by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Hart House Theatre). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Opens Jan 13 and runs to Jan 28, WedSat 8 pm, mat Jan 28 at 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca. DisNey Live! Three CLAssiC FAiry TALes (Feld Entertainment). Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, Cinderella and Beauty And The Beast come to life in this stage production. Jan 1315, Fri 6:30 pm, Sat noon, 3 and 6 pm, Sun noon and 4 pm. $25-$78. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. ticketmaster.ca. The GoLDeN DrAGoN by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Tarragon Theatre). A restaurant’s kitchen staff help an illegal immigrant search for his lost sister. Previews to Jan 17. Opens Jan 18 and runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun 2:30 pm (and Jan 21, 28, Feb 4). $20-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. The PeNeLoPiAD by Margaret Atwood (Nightwood Theatre). This response to Homer’s Odyssey comes from the perspective of Odysseus’s wife and is told through classical tragedy, Victorian melodrama, burlesque and song. Opens Jan 12 and runs to Jan 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm, Wed 1:30 pm. $22$46. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, nightwoodtheatre.net. The PLAy’s The ThiNG by Ferenc Molnar, adapted by PG Wodehouse (Stage Centre Productions). A playwright schemes to save a relationship and his operetta in this romantic comedy. Opens Jan 12 and runs to Jan 21, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Jan 21) at 2 pm. $27.50, stu/srs $22. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-299-5557, stagecentreproductions.com. reD sNow by Diana Tso (Red Snow Collective). This story of love and trying to reconcile the past with the present is inspired by stories of survivors of the Rape of Nanking (see story, page 40). Previews Jan 12-13. Opens Jan 14 and runs to Jan 28, Jan 19-21 and 23-28 at 7:30 pm, mats Jan 21, 25 and 28 at 2 pm (see website for other times). $30, stu $15, Sat mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, redsnowcollective.ca.
story, page 40). Previews Jan 12-18. Opens Jan 19 and runs to Feb 11, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. oTher PeoPLe by Christopher Shinn (Mutual Friends Co-op/Mercedes Grundy). Three ambitious young adults struggle with sex, desire and their art over Christmas in the East Village in NYC. Previews Jan 18. Opens Jan 19 and runs to Jan 28, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill, Tank House Theatre. 416-866-8666, otherpeopletoronto.com.
One-Nighters The ANT & The GrAsshoPPer by Ted Hallett and the Company (Cow Over Moon). This interactive, musical show for ages 4 and up is based on an Aesop fable. Jan 14 at noon, 3 and 7 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Burnhamthorpe Library, 1350 Burnhamthorpe E, Maja Prentice Theatre, Mississauga. 905-510-8210, cowovermoon.ca. heNri FABerGé’s heLiGoLAND FoLLies (Stages). 24812_wsNOWpackages:Layout This monthly six-part performance series fea- 1 continued on page 45 œ
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NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL REVIEWS You will LOL a lot at Jessica Moss’s Modern Love.
Her character, Trish, resorts to online dating to find a mate, which reworks and remounts presented in rep quires writing a suitable online profile (Toronto Fringe). At Factory Theatre and trolling through a series of unlikely (125 Bathurst). Runs to January 15. matches. Eventually, she clicks with $10-$15, passes $48/$88. someone who seems to get her unique 416-966-1062,fringetoronto.com. personality, but will they meet IRL? Moss’s script is funny and truthful, and director Eric Double stages things economically, getting great use out of Kyle Purcell’s multimedia design, MODERN LOVE by Jessica Moss which includes a clever black-and(Theatre Caravel). Factory Studio. white silent film. January 12 at 5:15 pm, January 13 at 5:30 Trish’s character could be further pm, January 14 at 7:15 pm, January 15 at deepened, but Moss shows enor2:45 pm. Rating: NNNN mous range playing a half-dozen others, in one show-stopping secIn Modern Love, Jessica Moss captures tion even enacting a Twitter conthat particular irony of the contemporary versation complete with dramatic singles scene: how can you have so many 24799_NS_NOWAd:Layout 1 1/10/12 1:55 PM Page 1 GLENN SUMI hashtags. Facebook friends and yet feel so alone?
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LOVESEXMONEY written and directed by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha). Factory Studio. January 12 at 7 pm, January 13 at 7:15 pm, January 14 at 9:15 pm, January 15 at 4:45 pm. Rating: NNN
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This sexy comedic triptych depicts three scenes in the same hotel room where some form of unromantic sex is being negotiated: a middle-aged lawyer pays a young student for it; a man unpacks a robotic sex doll modelled after his ex; and a pair of drunk office co-workers seem about to hook up. Kat Sandler’s strong writing offers a number of funny and interesting characters – the best of which is Simon (Scott Clarkson), the awkward niceguy would-be John – and a few hilarious one-liners. However, some filler in the last two scenes makes the whole feel a bit long (the audience applauded too soon, thinking it was over). And the emotional stakes are never as high as they are in the first section, which could be expanded to a standJORDAN BIMM alone piece.
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by Alistair Newton (Ecce Homo). Factory Mainspace. January 12 at 9 pm, January 13 at 5:15 pm, January 14 and 15 at 7 pm. Rating: NNNN
The writer’s actual interview with Flinsch inspires the production, and Flinsch (played by Hume Baugh, capturing the man’s humane spirit and awareness of his lifelong luck) gives the material its strongly beating heart. JON KAPLAN
Loving The Stranger Or How To Recognize An Invert functions exactly as writer/director Alistair Newton intends: it amuses while it informs. A history of the battle for queer rights in the 20th century – much of it in Germany but with references to the U.S. and Canada – the show is styled as a 20s cabaret, with talented actors in whiteface singing, dancing and performing comic sketches. Newton organizes the material around the life, art and memories of Peter Flinsch, a gay German who lived in Canada from the 50s until his death in 2010.
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NEXT STAGE FESTIVAL REVIEWS Party’s on TOMASSO’S PARTY by Jules Lewis (Rooftop Creations). Factory Studio. January 13 at 9:30 pm, January 14 at 3 pm, January 15 at 7:15 pm. Rating: NNNN
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Whether or not to go to a birthday party is the source of wonderfully comic anxiety in Tomasso’s Party, in which lovers Hugo (Simon Bracken) and Madeleine (Leah Doz) bicker about book titles, porn stars, infidelity and Uncalled For Presents Hypnogogic Logic will float your boat. high-heeled shoes. Tomasso, Madeleine’s boss, is the the life-preserver-clad foursome rock subject of much of the couple’s tense their silly sketches with total abandon. but highly entertaining quarrel. Is he Some of the bits are funnier than having an affair with Madeleine? The UNCALLED FOR PRESENTS HYPNOothers (I loved an incredibly long chairinsecure, neurotic Hugo thinks so, and GOGIC LOGIC by Matt Goldberg, pushing sequence), but all are so though the enigmatic Madeleine keeps Mike Hughes, Dan Jeanotte and Anders cleverly conceived denying it, she Yates (Uncalled For). Factory Mainspace. and performed drops enough hints January 12 at 6:45 pm, January 13 at 9:15 MORE ONLINE that it’s hard not to keep him – and pm, January 14 at 4:45 pm, January 15 at For more Next Stage Festival, go to to be a little mindthe audience – nowtoronto.com/stage 9 pm. Rating: NNNN blown by the creaguessing. tivity of the conThe two actors Montreal’s Uncalled For, here repped cept and the wit of the handle Jules Lewis’s strong dialogue in by Matt Goldberg, Dan Jeanotte, Colin transitions. a way that suggests constantly new Munch,and Anders Yates, perform Look out for the callbacks to layers of character. their whimsical (but hella sharp) previous jokes (the Eurythmics have a Director Nigel Shawn Williams sketches with all the sweaty verve of a particularly dazzling place in the reperpaces the hour-long Red Bull-fuelled boys’ night out. toire) to see just how clever these guys argument with finesse, As they wander through the looseyare. Sweet dreams are indeed made of ending the play on a goosey realm of the hypnagogic – the NAOMI SKWARNA these. tantalizing note of sestate between waking and sleeping – duction and sensuality.
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LOVE IS A POVERTY YOU CAN SELL by Kurt Weill and others, additional dialogue by Justin Haigh (Soup Can). Factory AnteChamber. January 14 at 8:15 pm, January 15 at 4:15 and 6:15 pm. Rating: NNN Music is the winning element in Love Is A Poverty You Can Sell, a cabaret featuring the tunes of Kurt Weill and theatre composers he influenced. The production is a stripped-down version of a 2010 Fringe hit, which had more tunes and a story missing here.
The 30-minute show would probably stand better on its own, without the emcee antics of Ryan Anning and Scott Dermody, which lack context and development. Musical standouts include Sweeney Todd’s My Friends, with Alex Dault, aided by Dayna Chernoff, bringing quiet intensity to the murderous barber; the bittersweet September Song, with Dault and Natalie Kulesza; Christian Jeffries’s poignant Streets Of Berlin; and the company’s angrysnarl finale, What Keeps JK Mankind Alive.
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(Nathan Carroll). Carroll presents a show with Joel Gomez, Steffi Didomenicantonio and Chris Tsujiuchi. Jan 14 at 8:30 pm. $10, stu $5. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. 416-967-1078. opera 101: tosca (Canadian Opera Company). Members of the COC discuss the upcoming production of the Puccini opera. Jan 17 at 6 pm. Free. Duke of Westminster, 77 Adelaide W. coc.ca. true storIes, made up plays (Sage Tyrtle). Improv troupes act out plays based on stories by Danielle Cole, Marco Bernardi and Faizel Karmali. Jan 14 at 8 pm. Free. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537.
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Continuing amerIcan IdIot by Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike
Dirnt, Tré Cool and Michael Mayer (Dancap Productions). Green Day’s multi-million dollar musical critique of post-9/11 America is pretty tame once you get past the amped-up guitar anthems, “punk-”styled choreography and anarchist symbols. The performances are strong, but a weak plot and characters make this feel like a glorified tribute show. Runs to Jan 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $62$180. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) tHe Blue dragon by Robert Lepage (Mirvish). The life of a Canadian expat living in Shanghai is turned upside down by two women in this multilingual dance-theatre piece. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. mirvish.com. dIsco Fever (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a dance party musical show. Runs to Jan 21, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (incl meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. Four dogs and a Bone by John Patrick Shanley (Lyric Artist Alliance Co-op/AK Productions). Two female actors, a producer and a screenwriter vie for control of an art-house film in this satirical comedy. Runs to Jan 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. fourdogsandabone.com. tHe last FIve years by Jason Robert Brown (Clearwater Theatre). Different views on a relationship are revealed in regular and reverse chronology in this musical. Runs to Jan 14, daily at 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $25, stu/ srs $20. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, clearwatertheatre.com. lIvIng WItH Henry by Christopher Wilson (Beyond Boundaries/Next Stage Theatre Festival). This musical drama explores the fear, complications and realities of living with HIV/ AIDS today (see review online at nowtoronto. com/stage). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-9661062, fringetoronto.com. nn (GS) love Is a poverty you can sell by Justin Haigh (Soup Can Theatre/Next Stage Theatre Festival). This 1920s Berlin cabaret features a theatrical tribute to the music of Kurt Weill (see review, page 44). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $10, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Upstairs Bar. 416966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnn (JK) lovesexmoney by Kat Sandler (Theatre Brouhaha/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A woman sells her virginity online in this comedy-drama about intimacy in the information age (see review, page 42). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm)
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lovIng tHe stranger or HoW to recognIze an Invert by Alistair Newton ñ (Ecce Homo Theatre/Next Stage Theatre Festival). This play looks at sexuality, spectacle and satire from the cabarets of 1920s Berlin to the horrors of the Third Reich (see review, page 42). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnnn (JK) modern love by Jessica Moss, Eric Double, Julia Nish-Lapidus and Kyle Purcell (Theatre Caravel/Next Stage Theatre Festival). This solo show looks at the ways we connect and disconnect from each other (see review, page 42). Runs to Jan 15, see website
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my motHer’s ItalIan, my FatHer’s JeWIsH & I’m In tHerapy by Steve Solomon (Philip
Roger Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin). Solomon performs his solo show about growing up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family. Runs to Feb 26, 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. pInkalIcIous, tHe musIcal by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. Runs to Jan 29, Sun 1 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca.
tHe tIkI BIkInI BeacH paradIse party a-gogo by Allison Beula (Allison Beula Produc-
tions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A live band accompanies this comedic play about beach party films of the 60s (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnn (GS) a tIny pIece oF land by Joni Browne-Walders and Mel Weiser (TEATRON Theatre). A recently widowed American makes a tumultuous trip to Israel to visit his estranged brother. Runs to Jan 15, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mats Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs $26-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-733-0545, teatrontheatre.com. tomasso’s party by Jules Lewis (Rooftop Creations/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Preparing for a party exposes a couple’s fiery and comic relationship (see review, page 44). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnnn (JK)
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trip through the world of dreams (see review, page 44). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnnn (Naomi Skwarna) tHe WasHIng macHIne by Radha S Menon (Red Betty Theatre/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A bereaved mother and wife tries to wash away the past with fancy renovations at her ancestral plantation home in India (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $12$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto. com. nn (JK) 3
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Thursday, January 12 comedy tHursdays The Starving Artist presents a show w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647-342-5058.
dreams really do come true! (and otHer lIes) Second City presents its ñ latest revue, a high-energy, tons-of-laughs
show that gets a big jolt of energy from four new writer/performers, a bold set and an amplified sound system. The writing is solid, but the performers sharpen each scene with their physicality, especially newcomer Alastair Forbes, a tall, lanky clown who’s unafraid of looking silly. A couple of political sketches hit their targets, and some very long sequences pay off nicely. But the funniest scenes involve a tech-challenged mom bribing her son and a surreal baseball sketch that defies time and place. Wed-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm, Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. nnnn (GS) gIggles @ tHe groove The Groove Bar presents open-mic comedy w/ host Jean Paul. 9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917. tHe Improv sHoW Comedy Bar presents Lauren Ash, Kayla Lorette, Kerry Griffin, Rob Baker, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. It’s a WonderFul strIFe Second City Conservatory 6 Class presents a sketch comedy show to benefit the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada w/ Katie Beahen, Jeff Clark, Yitzi Gal, Deborah Ring and others. 3 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. itsawonderfulstrife.com. JeFF dunHam Icon Entertainment Group presents the character comic on his Controlled Chaos tour. 7:30 pm. $58. Air Canada Centre, 40 Bay. ticketmaster.ca. mullet’s nIgHt sHoW Black Swan Comedy presents a talk show w/ clown Jean-Paul Mullet. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. tHe soaps The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised
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a festival of duets January 17 – 28, 2012 Tickets at dancemakers.org
George Stamos (Montreal) | Peter Bingham / EDAM (Vancouver) & Andrea Spaziani (Toronto) | Martin Nachbar (Berlin) January 17-19
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tures music, comedy, film and narrative theatre about an 1820s community trying to reach a utopian ideal. Jan 12 at 9 pm. Pwyc. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Arbor Room. harthouse.utoronto.ca/arts/stages/henri.
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for schedule. $12-$15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. nnnn (GS) morro and Jasp: go Bake yourselF by Heather Marie Annis, Byron Laviolette and Amy Lee (Up your Nose and In your Toes (U.N.I.T.) Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). The Fringe-fest famous clown sisters go on a culinary adventure in this new show (see review, page 43). Runs to Jan 15, see website for schedule. $10, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Upstairs Bar. 416-9661062, fringetoronto.com. nnnn (JK)
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soap opera. 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 TasTY shOw presents weekly stand-up w/ host Jeffrey Danson. 10 pm. Free. La Revolucion, 2848 Dundas W. 416-766-0746. wesT end girls Poor John’s Café presents allgirl stand-up w/ Sara Hennessey, Hoodo Hersi, Shelley Kidwell, Avery Edison, Daniela Saioni and others. 8 pm. $5. 1610 Queen W. westendgirls.ca. YuK YuK’s dOwnTOwn presents Mark DeBonis. To Jan 15, Wed-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YuK YuK’s wesT presents Mark Walker. To Jan 14, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.
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Friday, January 13 COMedY On The danfOrTh Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ the Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com.
deMeTri MarTin: Telling JOKes in COld PlaCes 2012 TOur Just For Laughs preñ sents the stand-up comic in a live show w/
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opener Levi MacDougall. 7:30 & 10 pm.
dreaMs reallY dO COMe True! (and OTher lies) See Thu 12. TeXas COMedY MassaCre 2 Fox & Fiddle
Wellesley presents stand-up with Ali Hassan, Matt O’Brien, Martha O’Neill, Jy Harris, Ron Sparks, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com. YuK YuK’s dOwnTOwn See Thu 12. YuK YuK’s wesT See Thu 12.
Saturday, January 14 BlaCK swan COMedY presents an Improv
Drop-In workshop. 6 pm. $5. Made Up Plays w/ Simon Pond, Carmine Lucarelli and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Ladder, competitive comedy. 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. The ‘C’ BOMB varieTY hOur Moniquea Marion presents a comedic variety show. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.
dreaMs reallY dO COMe True! (and OTher lies) See Thu 12. PerfeCT 10 PresenTs: The Third anniversarY shOw Comedy Bar presents Daniel Woodrow, Mark Bennet, Alex Pavone, Ryan Horwood and Chris Robinson. Doors 9:30 pm. $15. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. sMash hiT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.
YuK YuK’s dOwnTOwn See Thu 12. YuK YuK’s wesT See Thu 12.
Dani, Eli Jakeman, Loren SanCartier, Dave Kemp, CJ McCarroll, host Arie Kizel and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. sundaY nighT live The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. YuK YuK’s dOwnTOwn See Thu 12.
8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. The JOKeBOX – The regulars Impulsive Entertainment presents the Regulars w/ Good Game, Sid Beamer, Josh Murray and host Mike Rita, plus post-show karaoke. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com. OPen MiC COMedY aT The POrT Jon Hyatt presents a weekly open-mic comedy show with musical guests. 9 pm. Free. The Port, 1179 Dundas W. 416-516-1270. The seCOnd CiTY’s iMPrOv all-sTars Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. 8 pm. $20, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. sTanding On The danfOrTh Eton House presents Debra DiGiovanni, Christophe Davidson, Todd Van Allen, Carolyn Bennett, Pat MacDonald, Eric Clifford, Adam Kagan, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.
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Wednesday, January 18
Sunday, January 15 COMedY aT 51 Kyra Williams presents a com-
edy cabaret w/ Garrett Jamieson, Leah Mac, Danish Anwar, Jenna Warriner, Reid Along With Browning and Andrew Chapman. 10 pm. Pwyc. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011.
dreaMs reallY dO COMe True! (and OTher lies) See Thu 12. haPPY hOur @ ein-sTein presents Jack
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Tuesday, January 17 BlaCK swan COMedY presents Student Night w/ performers from the BSC Improv Program.
PEGGY BAKER DANCE PROJECTS presents
January 20 -22 & 25 -29, 2012 choreography by Canadian dance icon
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Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly standup. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca.
dreaMs reallY dO COMe True! (and OTher lies) See Thu 12. hard TiMes COMedY lOunge Impulsive En-
tertainment and Bite TV present a comedy mashup w/ Touch My Stereotype, Two Weird Ladies, Ashley Moffatt, Mark Edwards and host Dan Ramos. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com. siren’s COMedY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Chuckie Dorkens and host Jake Leland. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. sPiriTs COMedY nighT presents Matt Shury, Roy Daye, Will Norris, Cal Post, Brian Kassal, Tim Allen, Josh Menezes, Jonathon Kai Benson and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. 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 Adam Christie. To Jan 22, Wed-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3
dance listings Opening Children Of The Triangle Company Vice Versa presents a new contemporary work by Valerie Calam about family relationships. Jan 12-15, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $23. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. eventbrite.com/ event/2676173507/eorg. danCes fOr One TwO Three and fOur The Free Concert Series in the Richard ñ Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents excerpts
from a solo, a duet, a trio and a quartet by Peggy Baker Dance Projects. Jan 12 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. reviving 5,000 Years Of CivilizaTiOn Shen Yun Performing Arts presents classical Chinese dance and music inspired by legends and myths. Jan 12-15, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $60-$280. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 416-248-1168, torshow.com. TwOBYfOur Dancemakers presents a festival of duets, with works by George Stamos, Peter Bingham, Andrea Spaziani and Martin Nachbar. Jan 17-23, Tue-Thu, Sat-Mon 8 pm (and Jan 26-28 at 8 pm). $25, stu/srs $20; passes $54-$60. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 55 Mill, bldg 58, studio 313. 416-367-1800, dancemakers.org.
Continuing BalleT Class wiTh The sTars The National Ballet of Canada presents an ñ open class with company dancers for inter-
mediate ballet students and spectators. Jan 15 at 11 am. $40 per class, $10 to watch (must pre-register). Walter Carsen Centre, 470 Queens Quay W. 416-345-9595. 3
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Mythic message Laurie Walker reinvents Prometheus By DAVID JAGER LAURIE WALKER at Susan Hobbs
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though montreal artist laurie Walker focused primarily on sculpture, Susan Hobbs is showing four large-scale drawings she completed just before her death last year. Entitled Prometheus Rebound, the exhibition displays the signature elements that helped forge Walker’s
reputation: exhaustive research, and a complex involvement with the symbolic and theoretical underpinnings of her process and her chosen subject. In these graphite drawings on paper, tinged lightly with washes of colour, she reimagines the myth of Prometheus, imbuing it with a contemporary preoccupation with the environment. Walker’s take draws on several tellings of the story. The playwright Aes-
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ART METROPOLE L’Escalier magazine/installation: Michael Maranda,
Jan 13-Feb 10, reception 6-9 pm Jan 13. 788 King W. 416-703-4400. COOPER COLE GALLERY Brother Of The Weird group show, to Jan 22. 1161 Dundas W. 647-347-3316. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Prints/video: Dara Gellman, Jan 12-Feb 11, reception 6-8 pm Jan 12. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. DRAKE HOTEL That Was Now group show, to Feb 6. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. GALLERY 44 Photos/intallation: Marc Audette and Yannig Willmann, Jan 13-Feb 11, reception 6-9 pm Jan 13. 401 Richmond W #120. 416979-3941. G GALLERY Sediment group show (Toronto Design Offsite), Jan 13-Feb 26, reception 7-10 pm Jan 13. Fri-Sun. 134 Ossington. 647-340-3998. GLADSTONE HOTEL Public magazine launch, 6:30 pm Jan 16. Ethereal Existence group show, to Jan 22, reception 7-10 pm Jan 12. Textiles: Amanda McCavour; Hard Twist 6 – Obsession, to Jan 29. Reframing The Pap Smear, to Jan 15. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. INDEXG GALLERY Photos: Lee Ka-sing, Jan 18-Feb 26. 50 Gladstone. 416-535-6957. KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY Nestor Kruger, Jan 13-Feb 11, reception 5-8 pm Jan 13. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515. KWT CONTEMPORARY Drawing/mixed media: Dagmara Genda and Jay Wilson, Jan 12-Feb 19, reception 6-8 pm Jan 12. 624 Richmond W. 416-646-2706. NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Painting/multimedia: Bogdan Luca, Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and Geoffrey Pugen, Jan 12-Feb 4. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683. O’BORN CONTEMPORARY After The End: emerging artists, reception 6-9 pm Jan 13, Jan 14-28. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555. OLGA KORPER Photos: Barbara Steinman, to Jan 21. 17 Morrow. 416538-8220. PEAK GALLERY Painting: Gary Michael Dault, to Jan 14. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108. SCRAP METAL Read All Over group show, to May 1 (by appt until Jan 27). Fri-Sat or by appt. 11 Dublin (enter via laneway). 416588-2442. SUSAN HOBBS Laurie Walker, to Jan 21. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.
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chylus’ Prometheus Bound treats the demigod as a tragic hero punished by Zeus for stealing fire and giving it to humanity. In the poet Shelley’s version, Prometheus Unbound, Zeus is overthrown and Prometheus frees himself along with humanity. Here, however, he’s Rebound and finds himself chained to a glacial wall instead of a rock. Fire has given rise to the oil industry, and the father of industrialization is confronted with the consequences of his crime in the spectre of global warming. A tiny oil rig on the horizon of the second drawing bears out this allusion. There are art historical references as well. The third drawing recalls Barnett Newman’s early painting Prometheus Bound, in which an inky sea of black presses down on a single frothing line of white. In Walker’s version, an immense wall of ice presses down on a inky black line, a cheeky echo of Newman’s painting. The fourth drawing is an aerial view of the Torngat mountains in Labrador, Walker’s supremely disciplined rendering illustrating her love of naturalism. The symbolism is once again cryptic and open-ended: a magic lamp, an allusion to letting the genie out of the bottle, releases the roiling clouds that cover the range. With her curious blend of romantic landscape, mythological symbolism and a nod to abstract expressionism, Walker’s last drawings are a window into an eclectic and unique art practice that compressed weighty conundrums into elegant images. 3 art@nowtoronto.com
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Diamond mine THE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach (Little Brown), 512 pages, $28.99 cloth. Rating: NNN
chad harbach’s debut novel has landed on many year-end best lists, including the New York Times Book Review, no less, and – be still, my heart – it has a baseball theme. So how could I resist? Beware great expectations. The Art Of Fielding is an entertaining read, but it’s not a major literary event. At a small college in Wisconsin, baseball prodigy Henry Sk r i msha nder, helped by teammate and self-appointed coach Mike Schwartz, has turned his team into state champions. But a disastrous error in the field fills him with self-doubt, and he suddenly loses his touch. College president Guert Affenlight, in the meantime, has fallen in love with Henry’s roommate, Owen, while his daughter Pella has sought a haven at the college. She’s just left the older husband she dropped out of school to marry, and soon hooks
up with Schwartz. The Art Of Fielding is definitely a page-turner, with a story that races right along. And the characters are strong. Schwartz, the Jewish student trying to make it as a jock, is a terrific creation, and poor Skrimshander’s sad slide is elegantly evoked. But the book keeps reaching for literary cred – making Affenlight a Herman Melville scholar, for instance, so Harbach can carry on about American culture – while coming across as strangely middlebrow. It also embraces all those tired tropes that make baseball a metaphor for life itself. Come on, athletes aren’t the only ones who feel intense pressure. And you can see where the narrative concerning Affenlight and his gay student lover is heading from 300 pages away. At least Harbach knows what he’s talking about when it comes to college life and baseball itself, unlike Tom Wolfe, for example, who in I Am Charlotte Simmons makes it look like he’s never attended a basketball game or set foot on a campus in his entire life. And when you best Tom Wolfe, that’s saying something. SUSAN G. COLE
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MUSEUMS
READINGS THIS WEEK
reception 6 pm Jan 12. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Chagall And The Russian Avant-Garde, to Jan 15 ($25, stu $16.50). Francisco Goya y Lucientes and James Gillray, to Apr 15. Songs Of The Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, to Apr 29. Jack Chambers, to May 13. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Will Munro, to Mar 11. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Seripop (Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau), Jan 18-Mar 4, reception 5-9 pm Jan 18 (bus from OCAD 6:30 pm). U of T Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. DESIGN EXCHANGE Designers In The Classroom, to Jan 17 (pwyc). Design Exchange Awards, to Feb 26. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Beatriz Olano and Magdalena Fernández, to Jan 28. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, reception 6:30-8:30 pm Jan 18, Jan 19-Feb 19. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Jack Chambers, to Jan 15. Norval Morrisseau and others, to Jan 31. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Hyper Spaces, to Mar 4 (Centennial Square, 120 Navy). Chris Kline, to Feb 19 (Gairloch Gardens, 1306 Lakeshore E). 905-844-4402. THE POWER PLANT Coming After; Stan Douglas, to Mar 4, Christian Holstad talk 7 pm Jan 18 ($6, Studio Theatre). $6, stu/srs $3, free Wed 5-8 pm. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Judith Snow, to Jan 20. The Kingston Prize, to Jan 29. The Archaeology Of Godin Tepe, Iran, to Jan 31. 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 GRAFT: Linking Textiles, Art And Science, to Jan 22. Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum, to Feb 12, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Jan 18. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Vertical Fictions, Jan 12-Feb 4, reception 6-8 pm Jan 12. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. VARLEY ART GALLERY Deconstructed: From The Permanent Collection, to May 12. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511. 3
Thursday, January 12
Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. nowtoronto.com.
JEFF COTTRILL/DAVID CLINK/CHARNIE GUETTEL
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ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Visual Arts Mississauga, Jan 12-Feb 25,
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Poetry and an open mic. 7 pm. Pwyc. Zelda’s Upstairs, 692 Yonge. charnieguettel.com. WILLIAM GIBSON The speculative sci-fi writer discusses his non-fiction collection Distrust That Particular Flavour with writer Robert J Sawyer. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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Dundas W. 416-519-9439.
Sunday, January 15 DRAFT 7.3 Readings by Lily Quan, Myna Wallin and others. 3 pm. Free (donations welcome). Only Café, 966 Danforth. theonlycafe.com. ROBERT FOWLER The Canadian diplomat and author of A Season In Hell: My 130 Days In The Sahara With Al-Qaeda, talks with NOW publisher Michael Hollett. 4 pm. $15. Drake
LILLIAN NECAKOV/JIM SMITH Necakov reads from Hooligans, Smith reads from Back Off Assassin! 7 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
Tuesday, January 17 SARA PARETSKY The mystery writer talks about her latest thriller, Breakdown, and 30 years of writing VI Warshawksi. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. TORONTO POETRY SLAM Qualifying competition for the Vancouver International Poetry Festival, featuring Ian Keteku. 8 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-312-3865.
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Wednesday, January 18 BILL BROWN’S 1-2-3 SLAM Poetry slam compe-
tition. Free. Waterfalls Indian Tapas Bar & Grill 303 Augusta. cytopoetics.ca. 3
IN PERSON
It’s been 30 years since Sara Paretsky’s private eye V.I. Warshawski first hit the page, and she’s still going strong in the just-released Breakdown ($28.50, Putnam). Paretsky talks to James Grainger about her enduring protagonist, how she’s made sure Warshawski ages in real time and the art of writing mystery thrillers, Tuesday (January 17) at the Reference Library. See Readings, this page. For an interview with Paretsky go to nowtoronto.com/books on Monday (January 16). SGC
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all fired up. Meryl Streep is getting heat for her portrayal of margaret thatcher in the iron lady, but she won’t melt under pressure By SUSAN G. COLE
tHe irON lady
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ondon, uk – meryl streep is under attack. Her new film, The Iron Lady, is just about to open in the UK, and she and her collaborators are already getting creamed for trying to turn former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher into a human being. The ex-PM’s admirers – including current Prime Minister David Cameron and former foreign secretary Douglas Hurd – are outraged that the story is
told from the viewpoint of an aging Thatcher suffering from dementia. Meanwhile, the left is furious that Streep makes Thatcher her personal plaything, ignoring the Conservative PM’s bitter legacy. The Guardian reviewer claims she’s done more for Thatcher than any spin doctor. But Streep isn’t interested in any of that. When it’s suggested that The Iron Lady is apolitical, she remarks pointedly, even slyly, “It’s a subversive act to
make a movie about an old woman. No one’s interested in that.” It’s a typical comment from an actor who’s consistently taken the least predictable approach to difficult characters, whether it’s Lindy Chamberlain of “The dingo ate my baby!” fame or Karen Silkwood, whom she made sure to portray as a less than perfect victim. continued on page 50 œ
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In The Devil Wears Prada, Streep found a way to make even dragon lady Miranda Priestly – in a bathrobe, sans makeup after her husband dumps her – sympathetic. No one, insists Streep, ensconced in a London hotel room, is only an icon or a monster, including Margaret Thatcher. I’d expected America’s most accomplished female screen actor to be
standoffish, impatient and obviously desperate to exit this interview. But she doesn’t give off even a whiff of entitlement. Being in a room with her is weirdly disorienting. Hair swept off her face and dressed in black slacks and a fire-engine-red blouse, she’s open, funny, looks you straight in the eye and takes every question seriously. “That’s why,” she continues, “the film begins at the point of powerlessness, one we’ll all encounter in our lifetime, and it looks at life from that point of view,” she says quietly, not the least shaken by the criticisms. Streep has no qualms about playing real-life characters, and even gets turned on by the challenge. “When I play a real character, I have to pay more attention to their physiognomy, how they move, how they speak, because all of those things, how Thatcher presented herself, had a lot to do with how people regarded her and reacted to her. “The old lady? I had no idea. I had to make that up.” In doing so, she gives a performance that defies late New Yorker critic Pauline Kael’s famous dismissal of the young Streep: “I can’t visualize her from the neck down.” Here, Streep lowers her speaking voice what sounds like two full tones in order to sound like Thatcher. At the end of one pivotal scene in which she dresses down her cabinet and
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Phyllida Lloyd’s new film portrays former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher as a proto-feminist outsider fighting the male establishment, and steers clear of the union-busting, privatizing, deregulating policies that transformed the UK’s political landscape. This is a jaw-dropping performance by Meryl Streep, who turns into both the formidable Thatcher in her prime and the elderly Thatcher suffering from dementia, whose attempt to go through her late husband, Denis’s (Jim Broadbent), personal effects triggers a wave of memories. Lloyd, tracking Thatcher’s rise from grocer’s daughter to MP and then PM, demonstrates better visual chops than in her first feature, Mamma Mia! (damning with faint praise, perhaps). But instead of focusing on, say, Thatcher’s push to dismantle the social safety net, screenwriter Abi Morgan tells the story from inside Thatcher’s head and covers only those moments when she felt most embattled. All this po-mo subjective stuff runs the risk of being misread by uninformed audiences who’ll see only near-wholesale celebration. The politics are a mess; even Thatcher herself would be appalled. But Streep’s performance is genius. SGC
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throws them out of the room, she literally deflates for nearly 10 seconds. And she plays the demented older Thatcher in a perpetual stoop. As Streep herself ages – see also Donna in Mamma Mia! and her portrayal of Julia Child, for that matter – her characterizations are more and more physical. And physically demanding. “All I wanted to do at the end of the day was open my chest and not be like this,” she says, bending over. “That feeling when you expand your lungs again is so amazing. We worked 14hour days, and I was in the makeup chair for a long time at the beginning of each day. It was very liberating, actually, to be able to take off that age. I was grateful for my 62 years instead of 86, happy to be alive.” Maintaining an artificially lowered voice is also taxing, almost like having to sing through the entire movie. “It has to do with capacity of breath to carry a thought through from the beginning of the argument all the way to the end of the argument so the other person doesn’t have the chance to interrupt you, and when you do,” she says, pointing at me when I look like I may interject, “– No, no.” As she finishes the sentence, she’s become Thatcher before my eyes – her voice deep, her body suddenly looming larger – and I realize why having a normal conversation with Streep feels so strange. It’s because she’s curiously uncharismatic. She’s not a “movie star,” with that unmistakable aura. She’s an actor, and she can turn it on in a flash. Back in her own voice she adds, “I went to drama school for three years – and I spent a lot of money doing it – and I couldn’t keep up with Thatcher [as master actor].” Later, as Streep talks about how it’s more important for women in the U.S. to be elected to Congress than to the presidency, because it’s only then that government institutions can begin to talk about health, education and the environment, she seems politically a bit lost, forgetting that Thatcher was female and did none of the above. While secretary of state for education, she removed milk subsidies from public schools, and it certainly wasn’t because she had an antipathy to fossil fuels that she smashed the coal miners’ union. But taking that on is not Streep’s project. Rather, as an actor, she connects profoundly to the Iron Lady’s status as an outsider struggling to gain acceptance within a male establishment that mocked her ambitions. “I did have a white-hot part of me that understood what it must have been like to walk into that Parliament as one of only 17 female members. I was one of 60 women who integrated Dartmouth College when the student body had 6,000 men,” she recalls, “and I remember that feeling very well. There were men who were thrilled we were there, and there were more who felt the college was diminished. “That was real – I was there,” she
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The Iron Lady doesn’t pretend to be a biopic, but movies – regardless of their artistic intent – have a huge influence on how people view real-life characters (see, among others, Milos Forman’s revisionist The People Vs. Larry Flynt). So watch the movie as drama, but take into account Margaret Thatcher’s actual legacy. From 1979 to 1990, her government, bent on deregulation and privatization, paved the way for the neo-cons’ shaking things up in economies around the world and right here in our own city. Without Thatcher there’d be no:
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FURIOUS MUSIC COMMUNITY IN THE 80S UK British musicians responded to Thatcher’s determination to get government out of the way of corporations with uncommon rage. Elvis Costello wanted to Tramp The Dirt Down on her grave, and Billy Bragg blasted Thatcherites. Don’t forget Morrissey’s Margaret On The Guillotine, and the Clash was, well, the Clash. U.S. WAR WITH IRAQ Thatcher’s declaration of war on Argentina over control of the Falkland Islands created the template for a cynical military conflict pursued mainly – even as it lined the pockets of some private business interests – in the name of “recovering national self-esteem” and to improve the leader’s re-election prospects. UK’s 1 PER CENT Thatcher led a government that went on a privatization spree of nationalized utilities and the industries that depended on them – coal, gas, water, railways, to name a few – fuelling a capitalist orgy of greed and widening the gap between rich and poor. FINANCIAL MELTDOWN OF 2009 Alongside her American crony Ronald Reagan, Thatcher championed neoliberalism’s mythology of the job-creating, wealth-creating unfettered free market. Her financial deregulation, instituted in 1986, abolished the barriers separating the activities of banks, traders and brokers, setting the stage for the gigantic tech and housing bubbles, massive fraud and the ongoing global recession. LONDON RIOTS OF 2011 Those enraged demonstrators who took to the streets last summer are the children of the new underclass created when she toppled the welfare state. At the same time, Thatcher’s government passed draconian employment legislation undermining the power of the union movement to SGC respond to worsening conditions and rectify equity imbalances. says, her passion palpable. You’d think the two-time Oscar winner (nominated 16 times, but who’s counting? She is, it turns out) soon to be awarded a lifetime achievement Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival would think the awards business was getting pretty old. But it’s been almost 30 years since Streep won her second Oscar for her performance in Sophie’s Choice, and she still craves that nomination.
“If I’m nominated I’ll be very, very, very happy, because those are my people. It’s the actors who nominate, not the publicity machine,” she says, suggesting that factors other than merit determine the winners. Then she feigns disappointment. “But I also have 14 crumpled-up speeches that I never got to make.”3 susanc@nowtoronto.com
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THE SWELL SEASON (Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis). 90 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (January 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 53. Rating: NNN
Sex on the brain Director and star unearth the roots of psychoanalysis By NORMAN WILNER A DANGEROUS METHOD directed by David Cronenberg, written by Christopher Hampton from his play The Talking Cure, with Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Sarah Gadon. An eOne Films release. 93 minutes. Opens Friday (January 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 53.
you could argue that all of David Cronenberg’s films are psychodramas. Think of the unleashed bloodthirsty ids of Shivers, Rabid and The Brood; the slippery interior journeys undertaken in Naked Lunch, eXistenZ and A History Of Violence; the secret societies explored in Videodrome, Crash and Eastern Promises; the identity crises of The Fly, Dead Ringers and M. Butterfly. The landscape of the mind has always fascinated the director as much as the canvas of the body. In A Dangerous Method, Cronenberg tries something different, looking back to the early 20th century, when Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) debated the inner workings of the mind. Adapting Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, the film traces the development of psychotherapy through the contentious relationship of its pioneers – and through Jung’s thorny relationship with Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), a patient who became his
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pupil and eventually his lover. “It is all resurrection, for me,” Cronenberg says in an interview at the Toronto Film Festival, “to bring them all back to life, so we can see and hear them in intimate moments we would never actually have seen – but the era as well, the epoch just before the First World War, so rich and pregnant with both disaster and potential.” Mortensen, who played tightlipped heavies for Cronenberg in History and Promises, says he was less worried about bringing Freud to life than he was about pulling off the character’s long speeches. “It’s always that way,” he says. “The biggest obstacle, the thing you think, ‘Oh, shit, how am I going to do this?’ Once you make friends with it, it becomes your favourite thing about the project. To find a contrast between the more staid, austere, Lutheran [Jung] and this VienneseJewish urbane guy, it was really fun, and the way to do that was with the words.” Mortensen had the good fortune to play the one character in A Dangerous Method who’s allowed to enjoy himself. The others are so repressed, they won’t even fully undress for sex. “The way they dressed
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was hugely important,” Cronenberg says. “It was an era of very formal elegance. Women were corseted, with high, tight collars. [It’s] the repressiveness of the era – but there was also an elegance and a beauty to it. You needed [the costumes and sets] to deliver not just the people but the tone of the era as well.” The attention to detail makes for an elegant drama, if an inflexible one. I ask if he was tempted to find a way to let his actors express some of their characters’ tension. “No,” he says. “No, absolutely not. I mean, the tight, controlled structure of the movie replicates the society of the time, and the relationships. They never did allow themselves to go completely crazy, and for me to impose that on them would spoil this process of resurrection. They were always proper; they never let go completely. “Even in the sex scenes,” he adds, “it’s never complete, wild abandon. Ever. To me, that’s once again being accurate and faithful rather than trying to, you know, put rock and roll music over a period piece, saying, ‘Well, I’m gonna impose some contemporary taste and ideas onto something that would never have happened then.’” 3
A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg) Rating: NN Adapting Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, David Cronenberg explores the friendship and eventual schism between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) that gave birth to modern psychoanalysis. Cronenberg’s clinical approach to Hampton’s too on-the-nose dialogue makes for a very static drama; it’s as if the filmmaker is much more comfortable dealing with eroticism as subtext than text. Fassbender and Mortensen are never less than watchable as the cautious Jung and the more flamboyant Freud, but Keira Knightley is mannered and artificial as Jung’s patient, disciple and lover, Sabina Spielrein, whose tragic story is relegated to the background by Hampton’s focus on the conflict between NW Freud and Jung. KATHRYN GAITENS
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In 2008, Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová won an Oscar for a song they wrote and performed as fictional characters in John Carney’s delicate romance Once. The award capped a whirlwind year for the pair, who were lovers in real life as well as onscreen. Hansard and Irglová went on tour accompanied by a trio of documentary filmmakers. The result is The Swell Season, named for their band. The doc functions as both a superficial concert movie and an unflinching portrait of a decaying relationship; by the time the tour wrapped up in 2009, the pair were still performing together but no longer a couple. The first third of the doc captures the blush of first love a little too well. Co-directors Nick August-Perna, Chris Dapkins and Carlo Mirabella-Davis clearly believe Hansard and Irglová are the most adorable creatures on god’s green earth, and the tweeness is nearly insufferable. Look at them in grainy clips from their movie! There they are at the Oscars! Ooh, they’ve impulsively stripped off for a skinny-dip on the Irish coast! I shudder to think what might have resulted if the filmmakers hadn’t lucked into the drama of Hansard and Irglová’s relationship dissolving under the stress of the tour. But once that trajectory reveals itself – the 40-ish Hansard pushing back against the fame he’s been chasing since his teens, the much younger Irglová struggling with her own unexpected stardom – the film becomes an utterly compelling fly-on-the-wall experience. And the music’s not bad either. NORMAN WILNER
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Adepero oduye Actor, Pariah a hit at 2011’s Sundance Fest, Pariah features a riveting performance by adepero oduye as alike (pronounced a-leekay), a high school poet who finds her artistic voice and discovers her sexuality. the nigeria-born actor talks to now about her collaboration with director dee rees, working with Kim wayans of the iconic comedy clan in a dramatic film and what it’s like to be in a Sundance hit. Tell me about your creative collaboration with director and screenwriter Dee Rees. She made it very clear that if I had any questions about anything I should talk to her. We talked about our lives. From the very beginning, it was a very open exchange that helped build trust. So I felt comfortable – and safe – going to those places that are challenging as an actor. What kind of places? In the last scene with Kim Wayans [who plays Alike’s mother], I say I love her and nothing comes back. We didn’t talk about the scene or rehearse it. I just sat down in front of her and the air was thick with tension. It was the last scene we shot, so we had the history of everything that came before. I thought Alike would be strong in the scene and would say what she felt and leave it at that. I didn’t expect tears. Wayans is known more for her comedy. What was it like to work with her in a drama? She’s so committed and focused. At
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ñ(Dee Rees) Rating: nnnn A lesbian coming-out film with energy and edge should not still be so rare. But I haven’t seen anything like this story of Alike, an African-American high-schooler who’s looking for love, mostly in the wrong places. Charismatic Adepero Oduye (unbelievably, 33 years old playing 17) stars as a teen poet struggling for affirmation in a Brooklyn, New York, household where her Christian mom (Kim Wayans) gives her no support and her police officer dad (Charles Parnell) is keeping too many secrets of his own to pay much attention. Pariah has three things going for it: great performances (Wayans, known as a comic performer, does an amazing dramatic turn), an exhilarating soundtrack of girl-powered hip-hop, metal and soul (including Reema Major, Khia) and director Dee Rees’s savvy script. Among its pleasures are Alike’s dykey best friend, Laura (Pernell Walker), who scares the shit out of Alike’s mother, and Alike’s classic encounter with a girl who’s only sGC toying with her. Totally fresh.
Kim Wayans (left) and Adepero Oduye add power to Pariah.
Re-release adds another dimension to Disney’s Beauty And The Beast.
leased a decade ago (and recently on DVD and Blu-ray) that includes the song Human Again. But it still works beautifully. As in any great musical, all the elements of the story are introduced in the soaring opening number, and the French-flavoured Be Our Guest remains one of the catchiest tunes written by the brilliant team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. And even 20 years after the fact, it’s still rare to find a female movie hero who’d rather read a book and experience adventure than hook up with the buff town hunk. As a bonus, it’s preceded by a short and very funny 3-D sequel to Disney’s GLenn suMI Tangled.
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Seeing Red the same time, when we were hanging out, she offered a lot of advice, experience and knowledge about the business and encouraged us to empower ourselves as artists. We know her from In Living Color, and you have all kinds of assumptions about a star, but she was down-to-earth and giving. Spike Lee executive-produced. Did you meet him? He came over to me in the lobby at NYU. He knew who I was, and I was in complete shock. He was always concerned and asking about career stuff. You’re thinking, “Oh my god, it’s Spike Lee,” and he’s focused on making sure you’ve been getting your cheques. Awesome soundtrack. Did you have any input into that? There were a lot of cues in the script, so I could suggest to Dee what kind of music Alike was listening to. It was cool finding independent artists and different voices – not just one sound, one type of music for one type of people. There was a type of music for my character and a type for Laura, Alike’s best friend. Can you describe the first time you saw the movie on the big screen? It was opening night at Sundance and it was overwhelming, especially afterwards onstage at the Q&A. I remember thinking, “Wow this is really happening.” I met people of all ages and colours and I realized that, wow, you don’t have to be gay, you don’t have to be young, you don’t have to be black to relate to the film. I understood the power of film. susan G. CoLe
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red LIGht revoLutIon (Sam Voutas). 91 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (January 13). For venues and times, see Movies, page 53. Rating: nn Red Light Revolution provides an amusing peek at the entrepreneurial spirit and sexual mores in a rapidly changing China, but as a comedy it’s pretty limp. Down-to-earth Beijing cabbie Shunzi (Zhao Jun) loses his job and gets dumped by his two-timing wife, so he moves in with his parents and looks for work. Then an old acquaintance convinces him to open a sex toy shop. Soon the plain-talking Shunzi and his comely employee, Lili (Vivid Wang), are stocking the shelves with dildos, inflatable dolls and other erotic paraphernalia that attracts customers, especially after hours, when they’re unseen by nosy neighbours. Complications ensue when a crusty business inspector comes calling; Shunzi’s fruitless attempts to get a business licence send up modern bureaucracy. And then there’s the
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Japanese suit who’s invested in the company and wants his cut – or he’ll physically cut Shunzi. The continually kvetching Zhao and Wang establish some fine comedy rhythms, and there’s something ballsy about a film that climaxes with the appearance of an erection. But the plot is formulaic, and the farce occasionally plodding. Maybe the jokes come across better in Mandarin. GLenn suMI
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(D: Baltasar Kormákur, 110 min) Actor Mark Wahlberg might not have the biggest range, but he does the intenseguy-pushed-to-save-his-family thing pretty well. So this film, about a man who tries to protect his no-good brother-in-law from a drug lord, should be right in his wheelhouse. Giovanni Ribisi and Kate Beckinsale co-star.
Joyful Noise (D: Todd Graff, 117 min) Divas Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton play women from different backgrounds who must team together to win a choir competition. File this one under: possible guilty pleasure. Both open Friday (January 13). Screened after press time – see reviews January 13 at nowtoronto.com/movies.
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silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening the familiar narrative with a slight edge that should satisfy contemporary tastes. 100 min. NNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
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(Sarah Smith) is the best all-ages Christmas movie since Elf. As they’ve done since the days of Wallace & Gromit, Aardman’s animators lure us in with clever jokes and ingenious visuals, and then sucker-punch us by revealing unexpected emotional depths. And Bryony the wrapping elf deserves her own sequel. 97 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway
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(Jean-Marc Vallée) finds writer/director Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) playing out a complex, time-jumping narrative involving a presentday Montreal father (Kevin Parent) in the throes of a mid-life crisis and the mother (Vanessa Paradis) of a Down syndrome child in 1969 Paris. Some people are going to hate it; I found it bracing, daring and entirely invigorating. Stay for the closing credits. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, TIFF Bell Lightbox
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(Michel Hazanavicius) is a stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanavicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of
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Steven Spielberg’s first animated film brings several Hergé stories to life in a thrilling fashion – especially in 3-D. The action recalls the best of Spielberg’s Indiana Jones flicks.
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Ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 58. (Steven Spielberg) is the first “performance capture” movie that doesn’t look like it’s populated by wall-eyed zombies. The ripping adventure introduces French cartoonist Hergé’s boy journalist (voiced by Jamie Bell), his faithful terrier, Snowy, and the boozy but noble Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) to a new generation. They’re solving a mystery involving model ships, a shady man (Daniel Craig) and pirate gold, among other things, but really it’s just an excuse for Spielberg to craft a series of amazingly ambitious action sequences, one of which is as complex as the great truck chase in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Without the restrictions of a physical shoot, the “camera” can spin above, below and all around the chase as it plays out, with John Williams’s rousing score and some impressive 3-D effects adding extra punch. It’s thrilling and, incidentally, a much more satisfying follow-up to Spielberg’s original Indiana Jones trilogy than that thing with the crystal skulls. 108 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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into a vividly cinematic endurance test, as two sets of parents (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) face off in a Brooklyn apartment over a fight between their sons. Conciliation turns to friction, friction to aggression, and aggression explodes into rage; allegiances shift and mutate, and supportive marriages fracture as the argument reconfigures along gender lines. Foster and Waltz deliver the most compelling performances – Foster whipping herself into a righteous fury at any provocation, Waltz cheerfully doing most of the provoking – though Winslet has her moments as well. Reilly’s natural affability works against him in a couple of key scenes, but he’s by no means weak. Not necessarily something you’d call a holiday delight, but a damn fine little picture. 79 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity
CoNtrabaNd (Baltasar Kormákur) 110 min. See Also Opening, page 52. Opens Jan 13 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. a daNgerous Method (David Cronen-
berg) 93 min. See interview and review, page 51. NN (NW) Opens Jan 13 at Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity.
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a third-rate Stephen King movie of the week, but lacks any discernible plot, character or ideas – ya know, things that actually make those MOWs worth watching. A handful of hot, young (mostly American) tourists in Moscow witness an invasion by invisible aliens who instantly eat up every bit of electrical energy (hence the title) and reduce living things to atoms. After coming out of hiding, the kids try to avoid the aliens, who conveniently light up electrical devices when they’re near, and get to the American Embassy. What they expect to find there isn’t clear, but nothing else is either, including what the aliens are doing
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with the power. The CG effects, dialogue and acting are laughable, and there’s no variety in the deaths-by-pulverization. Some subtitles. 89 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(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 before her accident. It’s sort of a comedy. Clooney’s textured performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity
the devil iNside (William Brent Bell) earned derisive laughter from the preview audience and actual boos as it finished. There’s no climax; it just stops. A young woman tries to uncover the truth about the triple murder her mother committed while being exorcised. She’s helped by a couple of young priests, who exorcise various energetically writhing women tied to beds, and a documentary filmmaker, who overdoes the shakycam. In the ample downtime, people discuss the Vatican’s reluctance to deal with demonic possession, with a pause to telegraph the big plot development. 87 min. N (AD) 401 & Morningside, 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 extreMely loud & iNCredibly Close
(Stephen Daldry) takes some of the edge off Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a socially challenged boy trying to solve a mystery left behind by his father, who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Oskar (newcomer Thomas Horn) is now less of a clinical Asperger’s case than a well-meaning but awkward boy, and the trauma of 9/11 is treated with kid gloves (and one really ill-considered recurring image). But the core story – which follows Oskar on a quest through New York City, often accompanied by an elderly mute (a terrific Max von Sydow) – is compelling, and young Horn is an appealing hero. Director Daldry
(Billy Elliot, The Reader) is surprisingly restrained and less patronizing than usual, though he still does that thing where he ignores the movie’s natural ending to pound his lessons into the audience. 129 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
FullMetal alCheMist: the saCred star oF Milos (Kazuya Murata) is a feature
based on the international anime sensation. 110 min. Jan 15, 12:45 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview
the girl With the dragoN tattoo
(David Fincher) is another unnecessary English-language remake. It’s a still a taut thriller, and Daniel Craig, as disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who’s investigating the disappearance of the niece of wealthy industrialist Henrik Vanger (Christopher Plummer), has more charisma than Swedish counterpart Michael Nyqvist. But when Fincher’s at the helm, you expect a little more inventiveness. While on the trail, Blomkvist clicks endlessly on his laptop, and Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara), the troubled tattooed girl he enlists to assist him, busily flips through archived newspapers. Not exactly riveting. What’s missing here is mood. Where the dread-filled Swedish Tattoo deepens the tension every time Blomqvist crosses the bridge into the Vangers’ island compound, Fincher uses the bridge sequences purely to establish location. Mara gives the movie some energy, but if you’ve seen the Swedish adaptation, this one’s superfluous. 158 min. NNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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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twin sister, who inexplicably attracts the actor’s eye. The irritating one-note comedy is worth watching only to see Pacino deliberately ham his way into self-parody for once. 91 min. N (Phil Brown) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20
JOYFUL NOISE (Todd Graff) 117 min. See
Also Opening, page 52. Opens Jan 13 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale.
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(John Michael McDonagh) is showy, smart and hysterically funny, which is no mean feat for a movie about a small-town Garda sergeant (Brendan Gleeson) and an FBI agent (Don Cheadle) on the trail of a drug-smuggling ring in rural Ireland. Damned if it isn’t one of the best movies I’ve seen this year. 96 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre
JACK AND JILL (Dennis Dugan) is Adam
Sandler’s latest overextended sketch. He plays both a commercial director trying to land Al Pacino for an ad and his annoying
fairy tale in which a shoe shine operator (André Wilms) tries to help a boy (Blondin Miguel) who’s entered the country illegally via the titular port. It lacks Kaurismäki’s signature irony but has many quiet pleasures, chief among them deft performances, especially by Wilms. Subtitled. 93 min. NNN (SGC) Mt Pleasant
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the first 48 hours of the 2008 financial meltdown like a moral horror story, as the traders at an over-leveraged Wall Street firm debate whether they should save themselves at the expense of the global economy. Kevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant
as a company lifer who sees what’s coming but is powerless to stop it. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Lars von Trier) gets under your skin, and a moody aftertaste sticks with you long after it’s over. In this atmospheric, operatic, end-of-theworld allegory, von Trier ratchets up anxiety and provides an insightful metaphor for people who, like the planets, are better left in their own space. 135 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox
THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE is a high-def broadcast of
Philip Glass’s landmark opera about future leader Mahatma Gandhi’s early experiences in South Africa. Sung in Sanskrit with English subtitles. 210 min. Jan 14, 12:55 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (Woody Allen) casts Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple vacationing in Paris, where at midnight, a vintage cab picks up a wandering Wilson and takes him back in time to meet the great artists of the 20s. It’s a pleasurable narrative hook, but the mes-
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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. 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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
HUGO (Martin Scorsese) turns a children’s
adventure into a heartfelt appeal for film preservation and a love song to pioneering film director Georges Méliès. I don’t begrudge Scorsese for making this bauble; after decades of tireless advocacy for cinema history, it’s probably the best way to get his message out. I just don’t know whether it works as a movie. 126 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
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(George Clooney) is a nimble adaptation of Beau Willimon’s stage play Farragut North, about the ideological deflowering of a campaign strategist (Ryan Gosling) as he ushers a hopey-changey Democratic governor (Clooney) through the Ohio presidential primary. The plot’s a Mamety mixture of betrayal, disillusionment and high-stakes brinksmanship, but it’s performed by a cast working at peak efficiency. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24
THE IRON LADY (Phyllida Lloyd) 105 min. See cover story and review, page 48. NNN (SGC) Opens Jan 13 at Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24. J. EDGAR (Clint Eastwood) is the latest in Eastwood’s late-period series of stately patrician duds. Dustin Lance Black seems to be writing a Douglas Sirk melodrama playing out in the corridors of American power, but Eastwood dances around the sexually risky material without ever fully committing to it. It’s just one big missed opportunity. 135 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
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sage that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min. NN (SGC) Regent Theatre
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design of the 2002 Oakland As. It’s charming enough, though the midsection sags and the ending goes on about three beats longer than it should. 126 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) THE MUPPETS (James Bobin) recapin the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure tures the unpredictable energy and that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his genuine magic of Jim Henson’s beloved felt team racing around the eastern hemisphere creations and releases that energy back into to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear the wild. No, the new songs don’t have the war between the U.S. scale or impact of The and Russia – a defiantly Rainbow Connection; retro scheme that’s still what could? But when EXPANDED REVIEWS scary, especially when Camilla the chicken covers nowtoronto.com half the Kremlin gets Cee Lo, all is right with the blown up in a mysteriworld. 98 min. NNNN (NW) ous bombing pinned on Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Hunt’s crew. As Cruise runs through traffic, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town battles umpteen villains and scales tall Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, buildings (in spectacular IMAX footage, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Silvereven), Ghost Protocol zips through its paces City Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 with a marvellous sense of craft; the action MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis) is scenes are only incoherent when they need as star-struck by its subject as its narrator to be, the characters are sharply and simply is. It’s based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, defined, and the locations are attractively who barely registers as a character. As for photographed and smartly used. Some subMarilyn Monroe (an excellent Michelle titles. 133 min. NNNN (NW) Williams), the film acknowledges the void 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton between her public persona and private life Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum but it does very little to fill it. 101 min. NN Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, (RS) Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow MarKingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24 ket Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity NEW YEAR’S EVE (Garry Marshall) is strictly Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkby the numbers, a generic exercise in empty dale momentum that follows various slick hip-
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sters, lovelorn singletons and overprotective parents around New York over the course of the eponymous holiday. There’s no wit or charm in Katherine Fugate’s
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(Wim Wenders) doesn’t reveal a lot about dance great Pina Bausch – she died right before shooting was set to begin – but it does capture the essence of her art through excerpts from suggestive, richly dramatic works like The Rite Of Spring and Café Müller. Director Wenders uses 3-D technology effectively, allowing the viewer to practically feel the heat emanating from the dancers’ bodies and get up close to complex configurations that defy description. The range of settings includes traditional stages as well as parks and rivers outside Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. The performers, interviewed in unconventional ways – we see them, but hear them on a separate track – recall Bausch with affection and intelligence. Of course, they communicate best through dance. Subtitled. 104 min. NNNN (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox
PUSS IN BOOTS (Chris Miller) is an entertaining prequel for kids and adults focusing on the feline outlaw (voiced by Antonio Banderas), who teams up with his former best friend, Humpy Dumpty (a great Zach Galifianakis), to steal the goose that lays the golden eggs. Top-notch animation and voice performances compensate for some pretty sizable plot holes. 90 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre RED LIGHT REVOLUTION (Sam Voutas) 91
min. See review, page 52. NN (GS) Opens Jan 13 at Carlton Cinema.
SHAME (Steve McQueen) is the study of a
successful New York suit (Michael Fassbender) who’s a slave to his sexual compulsions. Fassbender lays himself bare in every way imaginable, but the forceful visual sensibility that worked so well in McQueen’s abstract film Hunger isn’t suited to the more human-scale story here. Shame’s set pieces feel like showy flourishes rather than grace notes that clarify and amplify the drama. 99 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, Regent Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity
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SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Guy Ritchie) follows the bigger-and-
louder formula devised by producer Joel Silver for his Lethal Weapon and Die Hard sequels; shit constantly blows up or catches on fire, and the story rarely pauses for breath. Robert Downey Jr. is still miscast as Holmes, but it’s less bothersome than it was the first time around because we already know what we’re in for. Jude Law remains an excellent Watson, Jared Harris makes a decent Moriarty, and a delightful Stephen Fry steals the picture as Holmes’s brother, Mycroft – though that might simply be a side benefit of his appearing exclusively in scenes where nothing explodes. 129 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, 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 Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
THE SITTER (David Gordon Green) offers a
sharp story, decent acting and a zippy pace, but only scattered chuckles and a few laughs. Twentysomething layabout Noah (Jonah Hill) babysits the kids next door, which launches them all into car thefts, explosions, fights, robberies and a bit of obligatory learning and growing. 81 min. NN (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Pedro Almodóvar) fea-
tures all of Almodóvar’s trademark kitsch, melodrama and recurring questions about sexual identity and voyeurism. Antonio Banderas plays a mad scientist who experiments with engineered skin on a fetching lab rat he keeps locked in his home. The jaw-dropping revelations and startling twists from tragedy to dark comedy would normally be impossible to swallow, but with Almodóvar it’s a weird and delectable dish. Subtitled. 117 min. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema
SURVIVING PROGRESS (Mathieu Roy, Harold Crooks) adapts historian Ronald Wright’s book A Short History Of Progress to look at the ill-defined notion that all forms of human advancement are inherently positive. Wright and talking heads examine the difference between good and bad progress and the fuzzy line between them when dealing with environmental, evolutionary and economic matters. It’s an admirable film that’s bound to spark necessary and passionate discussions. 86 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) Carlton Cinema
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once evil Neil Patrick Harris turns up), but an underlying sweetness balances the crassness. Not exactly a new holiday classic, but it uses 3-D well. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus
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Chris Dapkins, Carlo Mirabella-Davis) 90 min. See review, page 51. NNN (NW) Opens Jan 13 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 61).
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(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
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(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. Director Alfredson (Let The Right One In) understands that this is largely much ado about nothing; for all their posturing and self-importance, the British are basically middlemen in the larger battle between the Americans and the Soviets. But he’s assembled a remarkable cast – Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch – and given them the challenge of never quite revealing the raging emotions hidden just behind their eyes. 127 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
(Steven Spielberg) adapts Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel (which also inspired the award-winning play) to tell a simple but affecting story set during World War One. English farm boy Albert (Jeremy Irvine) loses his horse, Joey, to the calvary. As the animal’s passed from the Germans to the French, doing whatever he can to survive, Albert leaves his parents (Emily Watson and Peter Mullan) to enlist and find him. The script, by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis, allows Spielberg to touch on some of his favourite themes, like the senseless brutality of combat and the redemptive power of a non-human creature. Cinematographer Janusz Kaminski immerses the viewer in his imagery, from the pastoral glories of the English and French countryside to the steaming corpsestrewn trenches of the Somme. The result is an old-fashioned picture full of humanity and heroism that only occasionally dips into sentimentality. 146 min. NNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge
THe Way (Emilio Estevez) follows California
ophthalmologist (Martin Sheen) as he flies to Europe to claim the body of his dead son and ends up impulsively completing a pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago. Sheen gives a finely modulated performance, and if writer-director Estevez’s spiritual points don’t quite crystallize into drama, his film does reach a gentle catharsis. 115 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant
We BougHT a Zoo (Cameron Crowe) is a
syrupy concoction that stars Matt Damon as a thrill-seeking journalist and recent wid-
ower with a troubled emo son and a precocious little girl who seems manufactured to giggle adorably. His mourning clan leave their troubles behind and embark on a mission to rehabilitate a broken-down zoo, which the characters practically tell you is an allegory for rehabilitating themselves. From taming a depressed grizzly bear to taming an emotionally torn pubescent, the unfocused movie finds whimsical solutions to the family’s challenges, making it hard to believe it’s based on a true story. It’s the fluffy, family-friendly alternative to The Descendants, with George Clooney’s Ocean’s 11 pal Damon mugging to make this heavy-handed dramedy work. My sympathies go out to him. 124 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Jason Reitman) gives us the ultimate mean girl in Mavis Gary (Charlize Theron), who’s returned to her hometown of Mercury, Minnesota, determined to snag her high school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson), who’s now happily married with a new baby. Scriptwriter Diablo Cody’s come up with a fascinating character, at once repulsive and appealing. She may be on the brink of failure – she’s writing the last volume of her meal-ticket young adult book series – but Mavis feels superior to everyone in Mercury. And when she’s talking trash, she’s vicious – and hilarious. Theron inhabits the role fearlessly, trumping her Oscar-winning turn as Aileen Wuornos, and with no makeup artist to credit. Patton Oswalt is almost as good as a guy who was traumatized by a beating in high school. These deep characters are matched by some pointed social satire. Cody and Theron are definitely courting Oscar. 94 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity 3
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at a chic Manhattan residence (Ben Stiller) as he plans rob the top resident (Alan Alda), who’s defrauded the building’s staff. Usually the heist is the most enjoyable thing about these movies, but here it drains away all the fun. Entertaining – up to a point. 104 min. NNN (RS) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20
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THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 1:35, 4:30, 6:45 Thu 9:05 CONTRABAND (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) 1:55, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15 THE GUARD (14A) 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20 J. EDGAR (PG) Thu 1:20, 6:50 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 MELANCHOLIA (PG) Thu 3:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:40 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:35 RED LIGHT REVOLUTION Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:30, 7:00 Sun 7:00 THE SKIN I LIVE IN (18A) Thu 4:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:05 SURVIVING PROGRESS (R) 1:50, 7:25 TAKE SHELTER Thu 1:30, 7:00 Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:30 THE WAY (14A) 1:25, 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10
CUMBERLAND 4 (AA) 159 CUMBERLAND AVE, 416-646-0444
CAFÉ DE FLORE (14A) Thu-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 MonWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) Thu-Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:45 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu-Sun 1:45, 5:00, 8:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 8:00
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) 1:10, 3:40, 7:15, 9:25 Fri-Sat 11:30 late CONTRABAND (14A) 12:55, 3:20, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Sat 11:35 late THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 FriSat 11:00 late THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) 1:15, 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu
1:40, 4:00, 6:20, 8:40 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 CONTRABAND (14A) Fri 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:15, 2:00, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:20, 10:15 A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 8:50 FriSun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:45 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:05, 8:40 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS Sun 12:45 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu 2:00, 3:10, 5:30, 6:40, 9:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 3:00, 6:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:15 HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:15, 6:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:00, 8:50 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE Sat 12:55 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:00, 7:40, 9:00, 10:30 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 SatSun 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 SHAME (18A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:20, 4:15, 6:10, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 Fri 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 6:15, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:00 THE SITTER (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 2:15, 4:50, 8:00, 10:10 Sat 8:00, 10:10 Sun 3:50, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:25 Wed 2:15, 4:20, 10:00 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu 12:40, 2:50, 3:50, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 2:50, 6:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:30, 9:50
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433
A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) Thu 7:00 MELANCHOLIA (PG) Fri-Wed 9:00 PINA (G) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:15, 8:45 PINA 3D (G) Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 8:45 Sun, Wed 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 6:55, 8:45 Mon 6:15, 8:45 Tue 12:45, 3:30, 4:15, 6:15, 6:55, 8:45 YOUNG ADULT (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:00 Sun, Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Mon 7:00, 9:45
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THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 CARNAGE (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:55, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05 A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 9:25 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu 1:15, 5:15, 8:45 THE IRON LADY (PG) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:35, 6:15, 8:45 Wed 1:05, 3:35, 8:45 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 12:35 3:25 6:25 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:25, 6:25, 9:15 YOUNG ADULT (14A) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 2:30, 4:45, 5:15, 7:30, 8:00, 10:10, 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:45 Sat-Sun 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:45 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 3:00, 5:15, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:45 mat THE DARKEST HOUR 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 THE DARKEST HOUR (PG) 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:00 mat THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) 3:00, 3:45, 5:30, 6:00, 7:45, 8:30, 10:00, 10:45 Thu 9:15 Sat-Sun 10:30, 11:15, 12:45, 1:30 mat DON 2 (14A) Thu 3:50 7:00 10:15 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat DON 2 3D (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:15, 8:30 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE (PG) 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:25, 9:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:45, 12:30, 1:40 mat THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50 THE IRON LADY (PG) 2:15, 3:15, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:15, 7:15, 8:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:45 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:45, 12:45, 1:15 mat MARGIN CALL Thu-Fri 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:25, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Wed 10:00 THE MUPPETS (G) 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 Sat-Sun 10:35, 1:05 mat MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) 3:10, 5:30, 8:20, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat NANBAN 5:40, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 2:05, 3:45, 4:40, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:10, 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 PARIAH (14A) 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:15, 1:30 mat PLAYERS (PG) 2:45, 6:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:15 mat TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 5:20, 7:45, 8:20, 10:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:40, 5:40, 7:40, 8:40, 10:30 Sat-Sun 10:40, 11:40, 1:40, 2:40, 4:40, 5:40, 7:40, 8:40, 10:30 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) 4:25, 7:05, 10:05 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:35 mat WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Thu 2:45 mat, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 10:35, 1:40 mat
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THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 CARNAGE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 FriSun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Tue 12:50, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 10:00 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 1:10, 4:50, 8:30 HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:30, 9:40 THE IRON LADY (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 MonWed 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 SHAME (18A) Thu 6:15, 9:00 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 YOUNG ADULT (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) 4:10, 6:55 Fri 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat, 9:00 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) Thu 4:50, 7:25 CARNAGE (14A) 4:45, 7:15 Fri 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:55 mat, 9:50 A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) 4:50, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 9:45 THE DARKEST HOUR (PG) Thu 6:55 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:45 Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) Thu 4:25 HUGO (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:50 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) 4:05, 6:45 Fri 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat, 9:25 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 4:15, 7:00 Fri 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 SatSun 1:15, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 1 (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05 YOUNG ADULT (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:20
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675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 LE HAVRE (PG) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30 THE WAY (14A) Thu 8:55 Fri 9:10 Sat 4:15, 9:10 Sun, Tue 7:00
REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884
MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu-Sat 7:00 Sun 4:30 SHAME (18A) Fri-Sat 8:55 Sun, Tue-Wed 7:00
SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G) Fri 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Mon, Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Tue 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 CONTRABAND (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 MonWed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:10, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 1:50, 4:10, 7:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:30, 9:40 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu, MonWed 1:15, 4:40, 8:15 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:40, 8:15 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE Sat 12:55 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 MonTue 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:50, 8:00 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 8:00 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15
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THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 2:00, 5:00, 8:00
KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
THE GUARD (14A) 12:45 THE IDES OF MARCH (14A) 9:25 J. EDGAR (PG) 5:00 MONEYBALL (PG) 2:30 MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (14A) 7:30 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Sat-Sun 11:15
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu 1:55, 2:30, 4:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:35, 9:10 ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (G) Thu 2:00, 4:35 THE ARTIST (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 1:25, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 Tue 1:25, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 CONTRABAND (14A) Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 MonWed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 10:35 A DANGEROUS METHOD (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 12:40, 4:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 3:50, 7:10, 9:45 THE DARKEST HOUR 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 THE DESCENDANTS (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:05, 8:05, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:50 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS Sun 12:45 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu 1:45, 5:10, 6:45, 8:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:55, 7:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:40, 10:00 HAPPY FEET TWO (PG) Thu 1:10 HUGO 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:45 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 Mon-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:00 Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:20 THE IRON LADY (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 1:55, 4:25, 7:35, 10:15 Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE Sat 12:55 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:35, 4:20, 6:35, 7:20, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:40, 6:55, 7:55, 10:05, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:40, 6:25, 7:55, 9:20, 11:00 THE MUPPETS (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:15 MonWed 1:10, 3:45 NEW YEAR’S EVE (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Tue 9:50 Wed 10:10 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 7:05, 9:50, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 THE SITTER (14A) Thu 9:45 TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:50, 7:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 3:00, 6:50, 10:05 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 7:05, 10:20 Sun 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 YOUNG ADULT (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:00
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 3:40 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu 12:45 2:55 4:55 7:05 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:55, 2:55, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 CONTRABAND (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 THE DEVIL INSIDE (14A) Thu 1:30 4:15 7:15 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 JOYFUL NOISE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 WAR HORSE (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:20 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu 1:15 3:55 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20
East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971
THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:10 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu 7:15, 9:30 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D (G) 6:50, 9:10 Fri 4:30 SatSun 2:20 mat, 4:30 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 8:30 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 5:00 THE IRON LADY (PG) 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat, 4:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SATYAGRAHA ENCORE Sat 12:55 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:50 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat, Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 WE BOUGHT A ZOO (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:40
North York EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550
ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Thu
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3:40, 4:40, 6:00, 7:10, 9:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:35 Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Arthur ChristmAs (G) Thu 4:00 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 1:15, 4:40, 6:50, 9:15 Sun 1:45, 4:40, 6:50, 9:15 CArnAge (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:25, 8:50 Sat 1:30, 4:00, 6:15, 8:50 Sun 2:00, 4:00, 6:15, 8:50 A dAngerous method (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 2:10, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 6:20, 8:40 the devil inside (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, MonWed 4:50, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 2:05, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:30, 10:10 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 4:50, 6:10, 8:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 5:00, 7:30, 9:00 Sat 12:40, 1:40, 4:30, 5:15, 8:00, 9:00 Sun 1:10, 1:40, 4:30, 5:15, 8:00, 9:00 Joyful noise (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 mArgin CAll Thu 6:40, 9:20 the muppets (G) Thu 3:35 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 3:30, 3:50, 6:10, 6:50, 8:50, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:15, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 7:10, 9:30, 10:00 the tWilight sAgA: BreAking dAWn pArt 1 (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 We Bought A Zoo (PG) 3:30 Sat 12:30 mat Sun 1:00 mat
the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:05, 7:25, 9:45 the dArkest hour (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 10:10 Sun 4:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:40, 9:55 the devil inside (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 1:30, 4:40, 8:05 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:50, 8:15 hAppy feet tWo (PG) Thu 1:30 hugo (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:35 Joyful noise (PG) Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 6:30, 7:10, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 FriWed 1:40, 7:00
Grande - YonGe (Ce)
401 & MorninGSide (Ce)
4861 YonGe ST, 416-590-9974
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 Mon 3:50, 9:25 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 the Artist (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:40, 9:35 MonWed 4:10, 6:40, 9:35 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 the desCendAnts (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sat 4:15, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 12:55, 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:40 hugo 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 MonWed 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 the iron lAdy (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat the metropolitAn operA: sAtyAgrAhA enCore Sat 12:55 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:40, 10:10 Fri 3:40, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 MonWed 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 10:00 spellBound Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 tinker tAilor soldier spy (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 MonWed 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 WAr horse (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Fri 3:35, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 12:25, 6:30, 10:00 Sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 young Adult (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30
SilverCiTY FairvieW (Ce)
FairvieW Mall, 1800 Sheppard ave e, 416-644-7746 the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45 Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:40, 9:55 MonWed 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 10:05 the devil inside (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 fullmetAl AlChemist: the sACred stAr of milos Sun 12:45 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:35 Fri 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 6:50, 10:00 hAppy feet tWo (PG) Thu 1:45 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 10:50 Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Mon 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 10:15 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 WAr horse (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00
SilverCiTY Yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00
Scarborough 785 Milner ave, SCarborouGh, 416-281-2226
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 FriSat 2:15, 5:00, 8:10, 10:35 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Mon, Wed 7:15, 9:50 Tue 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 6:50, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:35, 7:50, 10:00 Mon, Wed 6:25, 8:40 Tue 3:25, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Mon, Wed 7:10, 9:35 Tue 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:25 Mon, Wed 7:30, 10:00 Tue 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 7:30, 9:55 the devil inside (14A) Thu 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 6:25, 8:30, 10:40 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 6:20, 8:25, 10:25 Mon, Wed 7:40, 9:50 Tue 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:45, 10:05 Sun 3:15, 6:40, 9:55 Tue 5:00, 8:15 Joyful noise (PG) Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 7:20, 10:00 Tue 4:15, 7:20, 9:55 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:00 Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:55, 10:40 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Mon, Wed 6:45, 9:40 Tue 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 WAr horse (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Tue 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Mon, Wed 6:50, 9:30 Tue 3:55, 6:50, 9:35
ColiSeuM SCarborouGh (Ce) SCarborouGh ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 10:00 Arthur ChristmAs (G) Thu 1:00, 3:30 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 SunWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 A dAngerous method (14A) Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 7:55, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:05, 9:40 Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 5:25, 7:45, 10:25 Sun 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 the devil inside (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:45, 8:20, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:25, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 fullmetAl AlChemist: the sACred stAr of milos Sun 12:45 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 1:30, 5:30, 6:00, 9:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:15, 3:45, 7:10, 10:40 SunWed 2:30, 6:45, 10:10 Joyful noise (PG) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 SunWed 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 the metropolitAn operA: sAtyAgrAhA enCore Sat 12:55 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 5:50, 6:50, 9:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:50 Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:40, 10:05 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 the sitter (14A) Thu 1:35, 3:55, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:35, 3:55, 7:20, 9:40 WAr horse (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 9:50 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:45, 7:50, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Won’t lAst A dAy Without you (G) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sat 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:35
eGlinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eGlinTon ave e, 416-752-4494
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri 1:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:50 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 MonWed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10
A dAngerous method (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Tue 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 the desCendAnts (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 the devil inside (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 Fri 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:25, 10:45 Sat 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:25, 10:50 Sun 12:35, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 4:40, 5:45, 8:10, 9:10 Fri-Sat 12:30, 4:00, 7:30, 10:55 Sun 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:30 hugo (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:05 MonWed 4:10, 7:05 the iron lAdy (PG) 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:30 mat Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30 mat Joyful noise (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:25, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:35, 10:45 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 the muppets (G) Thu 4:25 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:55 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 3:45, 5:15, 6:40, 8:15, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:10 the tWilight sAgA: BreAking dAWn pArt 1 (PG) Thu 9:35 WAr horse (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:30 Fri 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:35 Sat 12:20, 3:45, 7:10, 10:35 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 young Adult (14A) Thu 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Wed 10:00
kennedY CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedY rd & 401, 416-335-5323
Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 1:40, 3:00, 4:00, 5:15, 6:15, 7:30, 8:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:50, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) 1:45, 3:55, 6:00, 8:15 FriSun 11:30 mat CArnAge (14A) 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat the desCendAnts (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:35, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:20, 12:45, 2:15, 3:35, 5:05, 6:30, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:15, 4:10, 5:05, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 the dirty piCture (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:50, 10:20 don 2 (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:10, 2:25, 6:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:25, 6:30, 10:00 don 2 3d (14A) Thu 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 the iron lAdy (PG) 1:45, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:15 mat J. edgAr (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 JACk And Jill (PG) Thu 3:30 lAdies vs. riCky BAhl (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 mArgin CAll 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:55 mat moneyBAll (PG) Thu 6:10, 9:15 the muppets (G) 1:35, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat my Week With mArilyn (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 8:45 FriSun 10:45, 1:15, 3:40, 6:20, 8:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 nAnBAn Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:00, 4:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00 Wed 2:00, 3:30, 6:00, 10:00 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat plAyers (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:15, 2:45, 6:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:25, 10:05 rAJApAttAi (14A) Thu 3:05, 6:15, 9:40 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 1:45, 2:30, 3:45, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:45, 8:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:30, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45 toWer heist (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 the tWilight sAgA: BreAking dAWn pArt 1 (PG) 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat WAr horse (PG) 1:40, 4:50, 8:00 Fri-Sun 10:30 mat
WoodSide CineMaS (i) 1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456
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Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 1:30 2:20 3:40 4:30 6:40 8:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:50, 3:40, 5:20, 7:30, 9:35 Sat 12:40 mat BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 the dArkest hour (PG) Fri-Wed 8:45
the devil inside (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:40, 6:30, 8:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 9:45 hAppy feet tWo (PG) Thu 2:10 Joyful noise (PG) Fri-Tue 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 the metropolitAn operA: sAtyAgrAhA enCore Sat 12:55 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) 2:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00 Thu 3:00 mat mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol: the imAX eXperienCe (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 the muppets (G) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:15 Sat 12:50, 3:30, 6:15 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:50, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:15, 3:20, 5:10, 6:20, 8:15, 9:10 Sat 2:20, 5:10, 6:20, 8:15, 9:10 Wed 3:20, 5:10, 6:20, 8:15, 9:10 the sitter (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:20 the tWilight sAgA: BreAking dAWn pArt 1 (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 A very hArold & kumAr ChristmAs (18A) Thu 10:00
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110 CourTneY park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:20, 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 the Adventures of tintin: An imAX 3d eXperienCe (PG) Thu 2:00 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 3:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 11:10, 1:25, 3:40, 5:50, 7:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:50, 7:50, 10:00 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 9:45 FriSun 10:45, 1:00 mat ContrABAnd (14A) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 8:20 the dArkest hour (PG) Thu 6:00, 10:35 the desCendAnts (14A) 7:25, 10:25 the devil inside (14A) 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:00 mat the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) 2:15, 3:30, 5:40, 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:15 mat the iron lAdy (PG) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:55, 1:30 mat Joyful noise (PG) 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:50 mat, 1:35 late mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 2:45, 4:45, 5:45, 8:15, 8:45 Fri-Sat 11:00, 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol: the imAX eXperienCe (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sun 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 the muppets (G) 2:20, 4:50 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:00, 5:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:05, 2:05, 5:05, 7:55, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:05, 5:05, 7:55, 10:40 WAr horse (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:45, 5:00, 7:00, 8:30, 10:20 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:45, 5:10, 8:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:10, 8:30 We Bought A Zoo (PG) 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 Fri-Sun 11:50 mat
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the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:45, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 9:55 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 the Artist (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 TueWed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 the desCendAnts (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:20 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:10 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 hugo 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 the iron lAdy (PG) Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 TueWed 4:00, 6:50, 10:00 Joyful noise (PG) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 TueWed 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 the muppets (G) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Mon 1:25, 4:10 Tue-Wed 4:10 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:35 We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:25, 6:55, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:50 young Adult (14A) Thu 9:35
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the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 the Adventures of tintin (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:50 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 3:50, 4:20, 6:00, 6:30, 8:10, 8:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:50, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40 Another eArth (14A) Thu 3:55 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 the dArkest hour 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 the dArkest hour (PG) Fri-Sun 10:15 Mon-Wed 8:50 the desCendAnts (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 the devil inside (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Sun
12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu, MonWed 3:30, 6:50, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:30, 6:20, 9:00, 9:45 hAppy feet tWo 3d (PG) Fri-Sun 12:05, 2:45 immortAls 3d (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sun 7:40, 10:25 the iron lAdy (PG) Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 MonWed 4:10, 6:40, 9:25 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15, 9:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol: the imAX eXperienCe (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00 mat the muppets (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:10 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 6:55 neW yeAr’s eve (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 puss in Boots 3d (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:10 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:15, 6:15, 7:05, 9:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:35, 7:05, 9:35, 10:00 the sitter (14A) Thu 8:50 the tWilight sAgA: BreAking dAWn pArt 1 (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 A very hArold & kumAr 3d ChristmAs (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Sun 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 young Adult (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:00
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proMenade Mall, hWY 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:10 Mon 4:10, 7:10, 9:10 the Adventures of tintin (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:10 Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 6:55, 8:50 ContrABAnd (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:25 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:50, 9:25 WAr horse (PG) 1:20, 4:50, 8:20
West Grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWY 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590
the Adventures of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 3:40 6:20 9:15 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Mon 12:30 mat Alvin And the Chipmunks: ChipWreCked (G) Thu 3:45, 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 SatMon 1:30, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 BeAuty And the BeAst 3d (G) 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Sat-Mon 12:20, 2:40 mat ContrABAnd (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Mon 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 the dArkest hour (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:20 the devil inside (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:30, 9:40 the girl With the drAgon tAttoo (18A) 4:10, 8:00 Sat-Mon 12:50 mat mission: impossiBle – ghost protoCol (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Mon 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 sherloCk holmes: A gAme of shAdoWs (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 WAr horse (PG) 4:30, 8:15 Sat-Mon 1:00 mat We Bought A Zoo (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sun-Mon 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 3
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blu-ray/dvd Contagion (WB, 2011) D: Steven Soderbergh, w/ Matt Damon, Kate Winslet. Rating: NNN; Bluray package: NNN Contagion’s epic story spans half a dozen cities on three continents and whips along like a high-tech thriller, with clean images, short, sharp scenes and lots of purely visual storytelling. An American woman and her young son catch an unknown bug and die within 48 hours. More cases erupt around the world. The potential for
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death is in the millions. The Centers for Disease Control and World Health Organization shift into high gear, tracking the woman’s movements, analyzing the virus, informing local officials, setting up quarantine centres and looking for a cure. Matt Damon stands in as an Everyman coping with the resultant isolation, food shortages, looting and social breakdown. Kate Winslet pumps out reams of exposition as a doctor. So does Jennifer Ehle as a researcher desperate for a human guinea pig. Laurence Fishburne plays the CDC chief facing a hearing and pilloried in the media, represented by Jude Law, who’s very credible as an influential blogger with a private agenda. None of these stories resolves as you might expect. In the extras’ two brief docs, cast, crew and various experts testify to the realism of Contagion’s events and performances – useful, in case you were wondering. EXTRAS Two realism docs, short animation on virus spread. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles. FanExpo Jim Cuddy
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Killer Elite isn’t the hard action extravaganza you might expect from reading the cover blurbs. It has its share of shootings, punch-ups and car chases, but they’re relatively down-to-earth, and the whole movie feels more like a spy thriller than a shoot-’em-up. Jason Statham plays Danny, a mercenary killer who comes out of retirement to ransom his mentor (Robert De Niro) from an exiled sheikh who wants revenge on the three British Special Forces guys who killed his sons. Danny gets to work, but he and his crew are targeted by Spike (Clive Owen, conveying delivering an odd, anguished sense of loss behind a bristly mustache), the agent of a shadowy NGO. Spike figures prominently in the extras’ 13 deleted scenes. Check them out to see how little it would take to flip this into almost-tragedy. EXTRAS Cast and crew interviews, deleted scenes. English, French audio. English subtitles.
What’s Your Number?
(Fox, 2011) D: Mark Mylod, w/ Anna Faris, Chris Evans. Rating: NN; DVD package: N Anna Faris (Scary Movies 1-5, Happy Face) is a great comic – wide-eyed and alert (or totally spaced) and poised for chaos. She deserves a better movie than this formulaic snooze. She plays Ally Darling, who’s deep in the grip of a marriage panic that compels her to revisit every guy she ever slept with in case she might have somehow bypassed Mr. Right, who, of course, is right there by her side in the form of Chris Evans. Ally’s mission supplies most of the scarce humorous moments, but the movie gets hijacked by a substandard wedding comedy centred on her sister and mother. It’s short on laughs and adds nothing to the story. The deleted scenes involving Ally and old boyfriends offer a few chuckles. EXTRAS Deleted scenes. English, French audio. English SDH, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com
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(WB/HBO, 2010) Creator: Terence Winter, w/ Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: NNNN Complex, conflicted characters, good writing, acting and production values plus a killer premise with some surprising developments make Boardwalk Empire gripping TV drama. It’s 1920, and Nucky Thompson is Atlantic City’s political boss. He runs the mayor, police department and Republican party machine. He supports the Temperance League and the suffragettes while taking kickbacks from gambling and prostitution. Prohibition kicks in, and Nucky goes into the booze business. Suddenly, he’s dealing with hardcore mobsters as well as problems with his ambitious protege, resentful police chief brother, two different women and a zealous federal agent. Steve Buscemi handles Nucky’s steady stream of duplicity with an easy confidence that keeps us poised between booing and cheering him on. As one of his loves, Kelly Macdonald reveals a hard intelligence under her soft surface as she tries to navigate Nucky’s world without sacrificing her values. And Michael Shannon is seriously scary as the demon-driven federal agent cloaked in righteousness. The pilot, directed by Martin Scorsese, looks more like a movie than a series, and the 11 hour-longs that follow it take pains to maintain the lavish costumes and settings. Nucky and his world are based on real-life Atlantic City political boss Nucky Johnson. The extras include excellent features on the history of the Jersey shore town and the series’ production, particularly via the picture-in-picture enhanced-viewing mode. EXTRAS Six commentaries, picture-in-picture mini-docs, making-of doc, set design doc, Atlantic City history doc, speakeasy doc, more. English, French, Latin Spanish, Castilian Spanish audio. English, French, Latin Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Swedish, Nor wegian, Finnish subtitles.
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Moneyball (2011) Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane, who struggles to put together a winning team on a losing budget.
The Help (2011) Tate Taylor’s Oscar-bound ensemble drama explores life as an African-American domestic servant in the 1960s South.
Margin Call (2011) Paul Bettany, Kevin Spacey and Zachary Quinto star as investment bankers caught in the 2008 financial meltdown.
Redbelt (2008) David Mamet’s character study finds a martial arts master forced by circumstance and against his philosophy to compete for cash.
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Politics gets reel reFlections in the hall oF Mirrors: aMerican Movies and the Politics oF idealisM by Kevin Courrier, every Monday until March 26 at the Miles Nadal JCC. See listing, this page.
Popular culture has always served as a mirror of social realities, as artists interpret the world around them through fiction. Whether the result is comforting or confrontational depends on the artist. In Reflections In The Hall Of Mirrors: American Movies And The Politics Of Idealism, a new weekly lecture series, film critic and academic Kevin Courrier explores the direct connections between America’s recent history and its cinema, starting Monday (January 16) with a look at the Kennedy years and their reflection in John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate and Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather: Part II. In the following weeks, Courrier moves through half a century of American cinema, contextualizing the shifting national mood with clips from key films. The hardening of spirits under Lyndon B. Johnson can be felt in Dr. Strangelove,
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sat 14 – Nashville (1975) D: Robert Altman. 3 pm. Free.
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reitman sQuare, 350 king W. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net
thu 12 – Canada’s Top Ten: Marécages (2011) D: Guy Edoin. 3 pm. Canada’s Top Ten: A Dan-
Night Of The Living Dead and The Wild Bunch (January 23); post-Nixon paranoia slithers through the Carter years in The Conversation, All The President’s Men and Winter Kills (February 6). The Reagan revolution offers Courrier the chance to make some very interesting choices: Philip Kaufman’s Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, Brian De Palma’s Blow Out, Barry Levinson’s Diner (February 13). But I’m particularly intrigued by his inclusion of Field Of Dreams in a lecture on the George H.W. Bush era (February 27). There’s a strong streak of Reaganesque nostalgia in Phil Alden Robinson’s father-son weeper, so I’m curious to see how that fits into the buttoneddown, thin-lipped milieu of Bush the First. Maybe if George had played a few games of catch with his no-account son, things would have worked out a little differently for the kid. But then we wouldn’t be able to look at the reflection of his legacy in Team America: World Police norMan Wilner (March 19).
gerous Method (2011) D: David Cronenberg. 7 pm. Inside Out Screening Series: Pariah (2011) D: Dee Rees. 7 pm. $10. insideout.ca. Fri 13 – Canada’s Top Ten: Starbuck (2011) D: Ken Scott. 3 pm. Design For Living: Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy: Urbanized (2011) D: Gary Hustwit. Director in attendance. 6:30 pm. Canada’s Top Ten: Café de Flore (2011) D: JeanMarc Vallee. 9 pm. Istituto Italiano Di Cultura presents Noi Credevamo/We Believed (2010) D: Mario Martone. Italian w/s-t. 9 pm. sat 14 – Design For Living: Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy: Helvetica (2007), 12:30 pm; and Objectified (2009, director in attendance), 3 pm. Canada’s Top Ten: Le Vendeur (2011) D: Sébastien Pilote. 6 pm. Canada’s Top Ten: Take This Waltz (2011) D: Sarah Polley. 9 pm. sun 15 – Canada’s Top Ten: Le Vendeur. Noon. Take This Waltz. 3 pm. Café de Flore. 5:30 pm. Urbanized. 8:30 pm. tue 17 – Urbanized. 6:30 & 9 pm. Wed 18 – 50 Years OfDiscoveries: Cannes Critics Week: The Spirit Of The Beehive (1973) D: Victor Erice. Peter Howell in attendance. 6:30 pm; and Clerks (1994) D: Kevin Smith. George Stroumboulopoulos in attendance. 9 pm.
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thu 12 – Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
D: Sean Durkin. 7 pm. My Week With Marilyn (2011) D: Simon Curtis. 9:15 pm. Fri 13 – Hugo 3D (2011) D: Martin Scorsese. 7 pm. Ides Of March (2011) D: George Clooney.
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9:30 pm. sat 14 – Hugo 3D. 2 & 7 pm. Ides Of March. 4:30 & 9:30 pm. sun 15 – Hugo 3D. 2 & 6:45 pm. Ides Of March. 4:30 & 9:15 pm. Mon 16-tue 17 – Hugo 3D. 6:45 pm. Ides Of March. 9:15 pm. Wed 18 – Hugo 3D. 1:30 & 9 pm. Café De Flore (2011) D: Jean-Marc Vallée. 7 pm.
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CBC museum, CBC BroadCast Centre, 250 front W, 416-205-5574. CBC.Ca
thu 12-Wed 18 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.
thu 12 – Glenn Gould On Television (1962). sun 14-Wed 18 – Glenn Gould On Television (1962/63).
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thu 12-Wed 18 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. Fri 13 – Shorts That Are Not Pants. 7 pm. $5$10. shortsnotpants.wordpress.com. sat 14 – Arctic Odyssey animation program for families. 12:30 & 2:30 pm. $5 per child, free for adults. Pre-register 416-973-3012. Wed 18 – Free Favourites: Unikkausivut: Sharing Our Stories, Part One. 4 & 5 pm. Free. A World Of Shorts: Past Perfect. 6 & 8 pm. $6, stu/srs $4.
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thu 12-Wed 18 – The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 12-Wed 18 – Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am to 4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. thu 12 – Mining Injustice Solidarity Network presents Cry Of The Andes (2010) D: Carmen Henriquez and Denis Paquette, about the fight by Chile’s indigenous Diaguita community to protoect their water supply. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. solidarityresponse.net. Fri 13 – Cinema Politica Danforth presents Cultures Of Resistance (2010) D: Iara Lee. 7:30 pm. Free. Discussion to follow with Deborah Barndt and Dave Vasey. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org/danforth. sat 14 – Noor Cultural Centre presents Act Of Dishonour (2010) D: Nelofer Pazira. 3 pm. Discussion to follow. $5. 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. sun 15 – Raindance Canada presents the short films of 17-year-old filmmaker Joseph Procopio, including his newest film, Onion Skin. 2:30 pm. $10, srs/child under 13 $6. Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. raindancecanada.com. Mon 16 – Reflections In The Hall Of Mirrors: American Movies And The Politics Of Idealism lecture series by film critic Kevin Courrier presents The Kennedy Era, including clips from The Manchurian Candidate (1962) D: John Frankenheimer, and The Godfather: Part Two (1974) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 7 pm. $12, stu $6 (nine lectures $100). Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, mnjcc.org. 3
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thu 12 – The Mark Of Zorro (1920) D: Fred Niblo. 2 pm. The History Of Animation: Winsor McCay. 5 pm. Bugs! 3D (2003) D: Mike Slee. 7 pm. It Came From Outer Space 3D (1953) D: Jack Arnold. 8 pm. sat 14 – Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm. sun 15 – Steppenwolf (1974) D: Fred Haines. 1 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 3 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003). 5 pm. Best Of Bugs Bunny & Friends Part Two. 7 pm. The Music Lovers (1970) D: Ken Russell. 9 pm. Mon 16 – Broken Blossoms (1919) D: DW Griffith. 2 pm. Animal Crackers (1930) D: Victor Heerman. 5 pm. Destiny (1921) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm. tue 17 – The Iron Horse (1924) D: John Ford. 2 pm. Christmas In July (1940) D: Preston Sturges. 5 pm. Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) D: Michael Curtiz. 7 pm. Edvard Munch (1974) D: Peter Watkins. 9 pm.
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Savage Love By Dan Savage
I am wrItIng to thank you. I remem-
ber reading your definition of “santorum” – “the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex” – when it first appeared. I remember thinking it was a cute way to make fun of a dickhead politician. I never thought it would go this far. But after Iowa, Rick Santorum is in the spotlight again. And so is that frothy mixture. And that’s fucking awesome. Jeff In Wisconsin
Don’t thank me, JIW. Thank Rick Santorum for making his bigotry crystal clear in a 2003 interview with the Associated Press. Santorum equated consensual gay sex with child rape and dog fucking, stated that birth control should be illegal, argued that states should be able to arrest, prosecute and imprison people – gay and straight – for private, consensual sex acts. Thank the Savage Love reader who, after reading that interview, urged me to invite my readers to submit new definitions for Santorum’s last name. And thank the Savage Love readers who – in their wisdom – selected “the frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the by-product of anal sex” from a crowded field of equally repulsive candidates. I did my part: I counted the ballots, I created a website (spreadingsantorum.com) that eight years later remains the number-one return when you google “Santorum.” But, again, if it weren’t for my creative, kinky and hilarious readers, JIW, an otherwise distressing news cycle – a ranting, raving, washedup religious bigot tied for first place in the Iowa caucuses?!? – would not have been leavened by such unintentionally hilarious headlines as “Santorum Surges From Behind,” “Santorum Runs Hard,” and “Romney Squeezes Out Santorum.”
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excuse for a human being. Truly a sad piece of sh*t. Especially trying to “insert himself” – pun intended – into the GOP presidential race. Savage Isn’t Completely Kind
We redefined “santorum” back in 2003, SICK, long before Santorum was running for president. So it would be more accurate to say that the GOP presidential race has inserted itself into me, not the other way around. And, gosh, I hope there isn’t any santorum on the GOP presidential race when it pulls out of me – that would be so embarrassing! Also embarrassing: Elise Foley’s gushing profile of Elizabeth Santorum, Rick’s adult daughter, that appeared on the Huffington Post before the Iowa caucuses. “It is tough [being] a young surrogate for a candidate/father clinging to an older world view,” Foley writes. “Her father’s stance on same-sex marriage and gay rights, in particular, has caused some friction from nonsupporters. ‘It’s a policy thing,’ [Elizabeth Santorum] said of gay marriage… Opposed to same-sex marriage herself, Elizabeth said she has gay friends who support her father’s candidacy based on his economic and family platforms.” Yeah, it’s tough out there for a ’phobe – and it’s getting tougher all the time. Rick Santorum was nearly booed off a stage in New Hampshire last week after he insisted that legalizing gay marriage would lead to the legalization of polygamous marriage. (The same argument was made against legalizing interracial marriage – and here we are, 44 years after the Supreme Court declared laws against interracial marriage to be unconstitutional, and Tiger Woods can marry only one busted Olive Garden hostess at a time.) You know what else is tough? Gay widowers losing their homes after the deaths of their spouses because they don’t qualify for the same Social Security benefits as all other married couples. Also tough: seeing your wife deported because the federal government doesn’t recognize your marriage. But, hey, Elizabeth Santorum isn’t a bigot – she can’t be! She has gay friends! And her gay friends support her dad! Who are these gay people who support Rick Santorum despite his having equated
consensual gay sex to child rape and dog fucking? Who are these gay people who support Rick Santorum despite his opposition to gay marriage and any other legal framework – civil unions, domestic partnerships – that might provide legal protections for same-sex couples? Who are these gay people who support Rick Santorum despite his promises to write anti-gay bigotry into the U.S. Constitution, forcibly divorce all legally married same-sex couples in the United States, reinstate DADT and ban adoptions by same-sex couples? Who are these faggots? To Ms. Foley and all the other political reporters out there: When someone like Elizabeth Santorum tells you that she has gay friends and her gay friends support her dad based on his “family platforms” – gay people shouldn’t be allowed to have families – your subject is making an astonishing claim. Your immediate response should be a demand for the names and phone numbers of these gay friends. Offer to quote these gay friends anonymously, to protect their privacy/stupidity, but tell the homophobe that you will need to verify the existence of her gay friends because you’re a journalist, not a stenographer. You’ll either catch the homophobe in a very revealing lie – what does it tell us about this moment in the struggle for LBGT equality that even bigots like Rick and Elizabeth Santorum perceive a political risk in being perceived as homophobic? – or land a fascinating interview with a crazy-ass faggot.
I’ve been a loyal reaDer for half my
life. Today, a friend and I got into a debate about you. My friend says your campaign to redefine “santorum” flies in the face of your anti-bullying “It Gets Better” campaign. Would you please address this issue? Google Problems
First, GP, the campaign is over: Santorum has been redefined. Second, taking the piss out of a middleaged bigot who has repeatedly and viciously attacked a tiny minority for personal and political gain – a man surrounded by people who support him personally, politically and financially – is not the moral equivalent of beating the shit out of a vulnerable and isolated 13-year-old queer kid in rural Texas who is a member of the tiny minority that this powerful bigot has repeatedly and viciously attacked.
Third, circling back to Elizabeth Santorum’s blow job on HuffPo: “[Elizabeth] is aware of her father’s so-called ‘Google problem,’ part of a campaign by columnist Dan Savage…. ‘That just makes me sad. It’s disappointing that people can be that mean,’ she said.” I’m sorry for giving you a sad, Elizabeth. You know what gave me a sad? Reading about Janice Langbehn and Lisa Pond. The women, together 18 years, were vacationing in Florida in 2007 with three of their four children when Pond suffered an aneurysm. Langbehn and the children were barred from Pond’s room when they arrived at the hospital. A social worker informed Langbehn – who was distraught – that she wouldn’t be able to see her wife because they were in an “anti-gay city and state.” Lisa Pond was not a “policy thing,” Elizabeth. She was a human being. And her wife and children were prevented from saying good-bye to her because people who agree with you and your father – people who doubtless felt empowered to act on their bigotry thanks to high-profile bigots like you and your father – persecuted them as Pond lay dying. By being so mean as to oppose legal protections for gay and lesbian families, Elizabeth, you and your father are trying to make sure that other families headed by same-sex couples will suffer as Langbehn, Pond and their children were made to suffer. It is disappointing how mean some people can be, Elizabeth, it really is.
tIme to follow through on your
threat to redefine “rick,” Dan. Matt Via Twitter
Already done: To “rick” is to remove something with your tongue – the “r” from “remove,” the “ick” from “lick” – which makes “rick santorum” the most disgusting twoword sentence in the English language after “vote Republican.” Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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