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contemporary dance troupe brings two programs to the Sony Centre, to Feb 4. 8 pm. $28-$88. 1-855-872-7669. The Syrian UpriSing U of T Mideast prof Jens Hanssen moderates a discussion on Syria, the Arab left and the Palestinian cause. 7 pm. $5 min. Beit Zatoun. 647-726-9500.

African roots fest kicks off with films, an art exhibit and a Honey Jam alumni concert featuring Kellylee Evans, Kim Davis, Eternia and others. To Feb 5. harbourfrontcentre.com. leS rhyThMeS de la ForeT The Collective of Black Artists performs dances from the SubSahara region. To Feb 5. Fleck Dance Theatre. $15-$30. 416-973-4000. +pink ribbonS, inc. Léa Pool’s incendiary doc critiquing the campaign to end breast cancer opens today.

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david Miller The former mayor lectures on how we can fight climate change and create jobs. 10:10 am. Free. St. Clement’s Church Parish Hall. 416-483-6664. +penny plain Ronnie Burkett’s new puppet play, an apocalyptic dark comedy, continues at the Factory Theatre to Feb 26. 2 pm. $38-$55. 416-504-9971.

Impressive Will Munro retrospective runs at the York U gallery, Feb 8

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dk iboMeka The Nigerianborn, London, Ontario-based jazz-pop singer launches his new album at Hugh’s Room. 8:30 pm. $17 advance. Will MUnro This excellent retrospective of the late artist’s work includes a soulful appreciation, at Art Gallery of York U, to Mar 11. Free. 416-736-5169.

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No cover for Occupy i’m disappointed in y ou. all these years of claiming to be the alternative voice and you never once gave Occupy the cover while it struggled to survive. You missed a huge opportunity. The current Time Magazine names its person of the year: the protester. Time Magazine, the straightest publication of the straight world, while next week NOW will have another Hollywood bimbo or generic model selling something on the cover. I really mind NOW not giving back to the very community and people who support it. Don’t be terribly surprised when a local publication comes along with the kind of energy and purpose NOW once had. NOW, you’re getting in the way of history. Nick Winters Toronto

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Transit sanity, maybe i’m very glad there’s more organ izing occurring about the retention of Transit City and attempting to bring some sanity to Toronto transit (NOW, January 5-11). Mayor Rob Ford’s unilateral trashing of the funded Transit City is a travesty. There is a strong wish to hobble public transit with blighting megaprojects and deny the laws of physics at the same time. Let’s hope the Code Red group can catalyze a lawsuit against Ford for the $65 million in cancellation costs of Transit City. We also need a transit commission where the majority of commissioners actually use transit. Hamish Wilson Toronto

CLA warning adria vasil’s column are weight loss herbs environmentally safe? (NOW, January 5-11) gave wrong info on conjugated linoleic acid. CLA is a highly beneficial natural trans fatty acid in the meat and milk of animals that get to use their muscles to walk and graze on green pasture. Factoryfarmed meat and dairy products are very low in CLA because the animals are confined and eat processed GM corn and soy. Commercial CLA is made from safflower oil. The only vegan alert is that the soft gels are made from animal gelatine. A tablespoon of organic high-oleic safflower oil twice a day before meals works about as well as taking CLA pills. Aliss Terpstra Certified Nutritional Practitioner Toronto

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Bike plan a one-way street i’d just like to make a quick contribution to the discussion about bike lanes. The old city of Toronto cycling plan suggested making oneway streets accessible to cycling in either direction. This may be a great idea. It’s true that T.O. is driver-oriented, that public transportation isn’t great and as a result many people drive. This would take a long time to change. Main streets don’t have much room to give up to be transformed [to conform to] a complete street design, and again, this is a big challenge financially and politically. So instead of forcing the fight between cars and bikes onto Queen and Dundas, let’s look at linking residential streets in a network of bike lanes. Christina Carballo Toronto

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i’d love to read in your progressive weekly what we can do to bring out the problem of destruction of Toronto’s heritage architecture. When I became a Canadian citizen, I remember learning from the citizenship guide that one of the responsibilities of a citizen is preservation of the country’s heritage. When I moved to Toronto, I was shocked to walk the streets, to see such brutality committed to a beautiful Victorian architecture. Nilton Costa Toronto

Gen-Xers take advantage i received a copy of your “paper” after my son travelled into the city for New Year’s Eve. I was so happy when Rob Ford won the mayor’s office. To me, this meant an end to people always turning to the government for things they want, an end to Liberals always trying to give things away to gain votes. What I didn’t understand is just how addicted a small portion of society has become to government. When I grew up, we worked. We didn’t ask for things. Toronto is full of immigrants and Gen-Xers who line up to take advantage of free goods and services. Grow up. Put in a few more hours. If you don’t like things, go donate your time and fix them. Brian Shaw Guelph

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Fionna Flauntit dazzles at the Girlesque burlesque show, Friday, January 27, at Revival. The annual showcase of saucy talent proved again that Toronto has it going on when it comes to the art of taking it off.

[Frontlines] Glenn Sumi on reality TV’s war of the roses

DEMO WATCH Greenpeace Canada and the Council of Canadians celebrated the marriage of Tory resource Minister joe Oliver (he of the “foreign radicals” accusation) and Big Oil on Friday, january 27, at the Sheraton in their latest action against the enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline. The bride and groom will be honeymooning in their Hummer on the melting permafrost.

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Frankenscience has set its sights on alfalfa, and GM foes have another fight on their hands. Last weekend at the Guelph Organic Conference, the Canadian Biotechnology Action Network launched its protest video explaining how GM alfalfa would contaminate organic and conventional fields of the flowering plant via nectarsucking bees. The U.S. department of agri already allows plantings of the GM crop, and now the only hurdle in Canada is variety registration. Tell the feds to keep their mitts off Mama Nature.

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WHERE Logan and Dundas WHAT One of seven billboards in Toronto-Danforth advertising brainy human rights lawyer Craig Scott, NDP candidate in the upcoming by-election for the seat of much-missed Jack Layton. WHY The PM has until February 26 to set the election date. The NDP is ahead by miles of area Libs, who haven’t yet picked their standard-bearer. 12

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Uncork the champagne and de-thorn those long-stemmed roses. The Bachelor, the TV show about hot singles looking for love – or at least their 15 minutes of reality show fame – is coming to Canada. i’m late to the decade-old phenomenon, having watched the last five seasons. But the thing’s ridiculously fun. What’s not to love when two dozen women (or men, in the case of the Bachelorette) climb all over each other for that final rose and (hopefully) a marriage proposal? it’s a Cinderella/Cinderfella fantasy that plays on our drive for wish-fulfilment. Surrounded by dozens of hotties, you embark on a “journey” to “find true love,” to quote just one of the show’s smarmy stock phrases. Crap? Yeah. But it’s crap with skinny dipping and crying jags. it makes sense that the franchise would travel north. Canadians love it. Season 5’s Bachelorette, Jillian harris, hailed from peace river, alberta. and t.o. has spawned many contestants, including slimy “entertainment wrestler” Justin rego, Jessie Sulidis, who ratted on a two-timing contestant in a later season, and Craig McKinnon, the sales guy with big hair and attitude. But you see what i just did there? i re-

duced these people to a few nasty adjectives. i’m sure they’re complex, soulsearching individuals capable of genuine emotion and worthy of love. on air, they came across as fame whores who were publicly humiliated. Doubtless they were primed with drinks and pushed by producers to deliver juicy, embarrassing sound bites that were later

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pieced together by sadistic editors. i like to think we cautious Canadians have more sense than to join this vanity fair. after all, when the real housewives franchise came looking to cast in toronto, several high-profile women turned the producers down. Smart. and what ever happened to our Jersey Shore knockoff, the lake Shore? Dead in the water, apparently. But i already know several intelligent single women who want to apply to be on the Bachelor Canada. one even said to me, “it can’t be worse than the guys i meet on dates.” i looked at her and thought: enjoy your dignity while you still have it. glenns@nowtoronto.com

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Get into the Black History Month headspace with the ROM’s repeat screenings of RasTa: A Soul’s Journey, featuring Donisha Prendergast, the granddaughter of Rita and Bob Marley, who explores the roots and evolution of Rastafari. Every Saturday and Sunday in February at 2:30 pm. Free with general admission.

Barometer FACTS OVER FICTION The PM offered the stunner last week that he intends to tamper with Old Age Security, but a report, commissioned by the feds, by Edward Whitehouse, researcher for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, reports no problemo with the pension scheme. When will the Harper demographic get its marching boots on?

CAT OUT OF THE BAG While the business community gushed about Caterpillar Inc’s recent reported 58 per cent rise in quarterly earnings, praising it for boosting U.S. consumer confidence, blah, blah, blah – that windfall sends a more chilling message. The lockout of workers at Cat’s Electro-Motive in London and the company’s determination to cut wages by 50 per cent show progressive economists haven’t been exaggerating when they dis profit-padded firms for opportunistically using the downturn to snuff employee gains. It’s war, folks.

The province’s Catholic school boards, aiming to nix gay-straight alliances, settles on Respecting Differences clubs. What’s behind the name change? A lot, actually. A staff adviser has to attend meetings, and protest or advocacy is outlawed. Sorry, not the same animal at all.

HOLDING POLS TO ACCOUNT The city integrity commissioner recommends Doug Ford be sanctioned for intimidating an uppity citizen at a council meeting, and asks Rob Ford to prove he returned sketchy donations given to his charity as directed by council.

The Somali-Canadian artist sends a message to Republican front-runner Mitt Romney, who used K’naan’s Wavin’ Flag in celebration of his victory over Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary Tuesday night.

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Thirty years after Canada’s spectacularly successful rock band Rush first formed, NOW’s editor and publisher Michaet Hollett I’M ON STRIKE TO SAVE talked with the THE CITY + NIKE BULLIES band about BANDS AT NEW CLUB + their new tour THE BEAUTY OF TENT CITY + SKINHEADS backstage at INFILTRATE G8 PROTEST their venue in Saratoga Springs. The CANADA’S HARD-ROCK story repreHEROES GET PERSONAL + sented a maFRINGE FEST’S HITS AND MISSES + SKA PIONEER jor coup for LORD TANAMO NOW but the cover photo took the feature to the next level. It was taken by Andrew MacNaughtan, the gifted shooter famous for his images of our homegrown celebrities – cultural and political – and who was the go-to guy when Rush needed a shot. MacNaughtan passed away last week in Los Angeles, where he was doing yet another photo session with the iconic Canuck rockers. There was no one like him. (For the Rush interview, go to http:// www.nowtoronto.com/daily/andrew_ macNaughtan.html) View online at nowtoronto.com/archives

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Picking up the pieces It’s time for all to remember why it was we chose light rail in the first place By ADAM GIAMBRONE the current blow-up over transit policy, triggered by TTC chair Karen Stintz’s dissent on the mayor’s subway plan and now complicated by this week’s TTC board meeting, poses the possibility that we could end up with a pricey, useless subway add-on simply because the mayor refuses to compromise. Or end up with a shortsighted decision to let a new buslane try to do the job of Transit City. Compromise is under discussion along with a push for a special council meeting to debate Toronto’s transit future. There are

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many alternative proposals, but all of them start with putting part of the Eglinton LRT on the surface again and using the $2 billion thus saved in various ways, including restarting the Sheppard LRT, possibly building a busway on Finch and maybe extending the Sheppard subway by a stop or two. While I certainly welcome an alternative to the mayor’s plan to bury the Eglinton LRT, cancel Transit City and build a Sheppard underground, it’s important to take a deep breath and remember why LRT was chosen in the first

place. Yes, the new proposals do at least consider the idea of having a network of lines, but they still leave most Torontonians without hope of any transit expansion in the coming decade, and in an era of fiscal restraint actually provide little value for dollars spent. More than that, Finch transit users are sold a bill of goods by the promise of an undefined busway that may be little more than what they have now. And most of all, the plan fails to make transit a viable alternative for all corners of the city. (Remember, Transit

City’s rationale came from the Official Plan and was based on the principle that no one should be disadvantaged in getting around Toronto by not owning a car.) I would remind those trying to figure all this out that the Transit City team examined the use of buses in exclusive lanes, or Bus Rapid Transit (BRT), but ultimately rejected it. “BRT-Lite” (as it’s called in the transit industry), like York Region’s Viva, is often proposed as an alternative to light rail, but these buses don’t operate in dedicated lanes and therefore continued on page 20 œ

the simmering debate over rob Ford’s transit plans escalated Tuesday, January 31, into a messy political battle that’s left the TTC board fractured and the province pleading for the city to get its act together. Ford’s critics say there’s only one way that’s going to happen: council, not the mayor, needs to decide the future of transit, and the push is now on to get competing plans on council’s agenda and put them to a vote. Tuesday’s meeting certainly was dramatic, with Ford’s allies outvoting TTC chair Karen Stintz and scrapping a recommendation that staff come back in February with a full report on the Eglinton Crosstown LRT line. That report was expected to contain information detrimental to Ford’s plan to have the entire length of the line run below ground, and Stintz had urged other commissioners to back it. After they refused, she accused Ford-friendly councillors on the board of deliberately withholding information vital to Toronto’s longterm transit strategy. “There are so many fundamental issues that need to be addressed, not just for this commission, but for the next 50 years of this city,” Stintz said. “The commission had a decision [either] to get that information and debate and consider it or not get it. They chose not to receive it.” The vote also scuttled a recommendation that the commission support discussions with the province to resolve ongoing issues about the project. Stintz, who was Ford’s choice for TTC chair, has been on a collision course with the mayor and his allies since coming out against his underground-only transit design last week. Tuesday’s vote signals that on the TTC’s most important project, the board is prepared to undermine her, putting her future as chair in doubt. Vice-chair Peter Milczyn denied continued on page 20 œ

“I thought there was a level of openness to the compromise that clearly wasn’t there,” July 16, 2007 Council approves engineering and environmental studies for Transit City.

December 1, 2010 Newly elected Mayor Rob Ford cancels Transit City, declares, “The war on the car is over.”

March 2011 Ford signs a memorandum of understanding with the province to bury the entire Eglinton Crosstown line and have the city assume responsibility for building a Sheppard subway.

December 12, 2011 Ford’s point man on the Sheppard project, Gordon Chong, says the private sector will likely pay only 30 per cent of the subway line’s cost, not all of it, as Ford had assured voters.

January 23, 2012 TTC chair Karen Stintz, usually a Ford ally, goes public with her belief that the Eglinton line should be brought above ground east of the Don Valley.

January 30, 2012 Ford rejects Stintz’s compromise proposal, saying, “It’s all about subways.”

January 31, 2012 Ford’s allies on the TTC board outvote Stintz and block a full staff report on the Eglinton line.

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Papering over postering rights

Bands put up ads but bars get dinged under new crackdown By SAIRA PEESKER

if a poster goes up illegally but no one sees it happen, should anyone get charged? The city seems to think so, and has embarked on a costly crusade against the event venues listed on handbills plastered on downtown hydro poles. It doesn’t seem to matter who hung up the notices, that the Supreme Court has protected postering rights or that those who dispute the tickets handed out by the city have a good chance of winning. Municipal Licensing and Standards takes the complianceby-sanction approach, slapping fines of up to $500 per poster on those who flout the poorly advertised law. The bylaw, which was drafted in 2006 but came into effect in 2010, bans postering on light or hydro poles, parking meters and bus shelters, leaving officially sanctioned kiosks as the only legal option. It was part of a 20-year street-furniture deal with Astral Media, which included the installation of 2,000 postering boards and 500 postering columns. Thanks to seemingly minimal public education about the new legal landscape, many bar owners first heard of the law last year through a court summons or ticket. The Horseshoe Tavern, Lee’s Palace, Clinton’s and the Cameron House – all venues that claim they never poster – are among those charged. Horseshoe and Lee’s co-owner Jeff Cohen says he specifically urges bands not to bother, offering them free print and online advertising instead. “Nevertheless, local bands who play our venues sometimes put up street posters,” Cohen tells NOW. “Instead of finding the band and fining them, [the city’s] handing us the fine – even though we’ve never seen the actual poster.” Under the bylaw, the city can charge either the person who puts up the poster, the event organizer or the venue, says Lance Cumberbatch, director of investigations with Municipal Licensing and Standards. A city bylaw officer who wasn’t comfortable being named says enforcement agents have been assigned lofty quotas, so they go for the venues because they’re easiest to locate. “We were told not to waste time by talking to the venue owners and just issue the tickets,” he says, noting that charges against venues rarely stick when disputed in court. “They waste court time and my time. It’s a problem with the bylaw.” The claim was supported Tuesday, January 17, when Lee’s Palace was in court over one of its alleged infractions. (The Cameron’s case comes up March 5). City prosecutor Paula Liu noted that it’s “a bit of a convoluted bylaw” and requested more time to study it, but Justice Ronald Yamanaka dismissed the case.

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He found there was insufficient evidence that Lee’s Palace was guilty, leaving the bar owners high-fiving with smug satisfaction. “I’d love to sit down with the city and help them communicate with bands about what the laws are,” said a grinning Cohen moments after successfully representing himself in the case. “Instead, they’re out fining businesses for anything they can as a means of generating revenue. And the city says it’s pro-business.” In principle, Cohen agrees with the bylaw, saying postering is environmentally unsound and unnecessary thanks to the internet. But others – including the Supreme Court of Canada – say limiting posters limits freedom of speech. In a 1993 ruling, the court said postering promotes political and social discourse, and that a total ban would limit expression – an issue Toronto may have skirted with its postering kiosks. While the city does allow non-commercial notices on city property, lawyer Dave Steele believes concerts also fall under the Charter definition. “A political event, music/art event, pic of [Mayor Rob] Ford’s face, Banksy-type shit – all that is easily protected,” writes Steele, who works for CUPE, in an email. No stranger to controversy, he was active in a legal fight against Fredericton, NB’s postering-averse BIA while in law school. He believes postering remains a necessary communication tool, especially among people who don’t have time to troll the internet. “[Posters] are localized, they’re cheap and accessible and they claim public space,” he said. “It’s hard to get [everyone] to go to your website, but people are just standing at that bus stop for 20 minutes each day with all those empty telephone poles around.” Lee’s isn’t the only bar contesting the bylaw. Lawyer Jerry Levitan, who represents Clinton’s and other establishments, is one of at least two lawyers who have raised the constitutional issue in recent weeks. In response, he says, the city has put several cases over to late March to study the law. He’s also heard that officers have stopped laying charges in the meantime. Jamie Gillis, owner of prolific outdoor postering company Dr. Jamie’s Events, believes posters should be allowed in downtown areas like Queen West and pokes fun at a bylaw that authorizes charges without proof of who put up a given poster. “Makes me wonder what would happen if I put up a bunch of posters advertising something for Rob Ford,” he mused. “Would Rob Ford get in trouble? If he didn’t, that would be discrimination.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com

okay, I admit it, the canadian Urban Institute’s new report doesn’t exactly have a catchy title. But don’t be deceived – Repositioning Age-Friendly Communities: Opportunities To Take AFC Mainstream, far from being a staid policy tract, is actually counselling a radical shakeup in the way cities plan. The operative phrase is “universal design,” and the idea is to cease and desist creating public infrastructure that privileges one particular group, whether it’s car drivers, the able-bodied or those with paycheques, and start envisioning people with parallel but not identical mobility and sociability needs: children, teens, seniors, new immigrants, those on low incomes, parents, those with sports injuries or with physical and mental limitations, and those who care for any of the above. Did I leave anyone out? This is a new paradigm for democratic planning, and, as the CUI report points out, you get to its essence when you apply the seniors test. “Design for the young and you exclude the old; design for the old and you include everyone,” the report quotes late UK gerontologist Bernard Isaacs as saying. It’s interesting that I was looking at this study in the midst of the current showdown over transit – subways vs LRT– because in many ways the mayor has forced us to debate yesterday’s issues, not tomorrow’s. Too bad the discussion is being dominated by themes that demographics will quickly overshadow. Public transit is currently mainly geared to able-bodied people going to and from their jobs, not to moms with strollers, people in wheelchairs or dragging shopping buggies – or seniors either. Making retrofits for inclusivity will require not only millions of dollars but also a rethink about the way infrastructure, paid for by all, often turns into a mechanism for discrimination. O f course,

a significant cadre of design experts is already familiar with the ABCs of this proposition. If you’ve seen a clear logo for washrooms, you’ve seen universal design that’s sensitive to those who don’t read English or fine print. If you’ve not tripped at a sidewalk that slopes instead of drops to the street, you’ve walked on a design aimed simultaneously at people in scooters, athletes in foot or leg casts, moms with baby carriages, seniors with canes or walkers. If you’ve pulled a door handle instead of twisted a knob, you’ve got a grip on universal design that welcomes those recovering from strokes or suffering from arthritis, or a child with weak wrists and arms. If you’ve walked a ramp instead of taking the steps, you’ve joined others with luggage or bicycles, those in baby carriages or on tricycles, who’ve found a way opened by this form of equality planning: inclusive mind over exclusive matter. The City of New York, the report points out, has given pedestrians a few more seconds to cross at more than 400 intersections, with older folks in mind, and if bike lanes are constructed to suit seniors, they will work for kids, too.

“Plan for the young and you exclude the old; plan for the old and you include everyone.” Almost every service for any “minority” can be universally and economically designed to meet the needs of multiple user groups. That’s the new math behind the CUI report. So the seniors agenda is synonymous with the one for a livable metropolis: community walkability, an end to big boxes, local service and shopping hubs so people don’t have to travel excessively, more main streets in this city that has so few, planting trees to mitigate heat stress, benches for rest and loitering, etc. Design can create mutually inclusive abundance instead of mutually exclusive scarcity – something that’s been lost sight of over 50 years of grievance-based pressure groups lobbying for their own causes. But the big news is that planners now have a framing device that can give them some leverage. If rightwing politicians don’t care about moms, those with low-incomes or the disabled, they have a hard time ignoring the bloc most likely to show up at the polling booth – the one, if things go well, that everyone hopes someday to be a member of. Let seniors save the city. 3 Wayne Roberts volunteers as a senior associate at the Canadian Urban Institute. news@nowtoronto.com

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Is the point of the PM’s rising rhetoric to send Canada’s navy into conflict with Iran? By PAUL WEINBERG the temperature of the west’s relations with Iran is hot and getting hotter, and activists North Americawide are getting out their “No war on Iran” placards for a major mobilization this weekend (February 4). The EU recently imposed sanctions on Iranian oil (to take effect in July), and this week U.S. director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. ratcheted up tensions when he charged that some Iranian leaders are now willing to conduct an attack on American soil. Some suggest, given ongoing assassinations of atomic scientists in Iran, not to mention suspicious bombings there, and a malicious computer worm invading Iran’s nuke network, that a secret war against that country has already begun. So where is Canada in this gathering storm? Are Stephen Harper and Peter MacKay gearing up for more adventures abroad, and will Canadian ships be called upon for backup in the event of a frontal attack? Certainly, Stephen Harper’s language is getting tougher. A few

months back, the feds imposed further sanctions on the supposedly nuclear-ambitious country, and just weeks ago the PM called Iran “the world’s most serious threat to international peace and security.” It’s speculation at this point, but some observers say they can easily imagine Canadian frigates participating in a U.S.-led naval blockade off the southern coast of Iran, in another war with an uncertain outcome. The entire atmosphere “has the air of the pre-Iraq days – juicing up the intelligence to make it what you want it to say,” says Paul Heinbecker, a former Canadian ambassador to the UN and currently a fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation at U of Waterloo. “Another Western war on a Muslim country would be unpredictable, negative and very dangerous,” Heinbecker says, pointing out that there is a difference between Iran’s “capability” of making nuclear weapons and producing them. The latter, he says, is “not evident,” according to reliable U.S. and International Atom-

ic Energy Agency intelligence estimates. An air and sea attack on Iran would have enormous economic and geopolitical repercussions, and one worried Iran specialist, professor Houchang Hassan-Yari of Kingston’s Royal Military College, warns that any attempt on Iranian atomic installations located in large centres like Tehran would lead to significant civilian casualties. “When you have a very high level of rhetoric, discussions and threats and put all of those together, then you prepare your forces and [war] becomes inevitable,” he says, adding that he’s concerned there’s no discussion about the possibility of conflict. “The Canadian public in general, Parliament and the political parties do not debate these issues very publicly. They have a tendency to leave them to government.” Rob Huebert, a prof at the U of Calgary’s Centre for Military and Strategic Studies (closely tied to the Department of National Defence) and a naval enthusiast, says that while Ca-

Some observers say they can easily imagine Canadian frigates participating in a U.S.-led naval blockage off the southern coast of Iran, in another war with an uncertain outcome. nadian soldiers and fighter pilots get all the attention, it’s our Navy, well integrated into the larger U.S. Naval monolith, that’s most permanently prepared for new missions. “The Navy is usually the first political instrument that governments – either Conservative or Liberal – send out,” he says, “because it’s always ready to go. I don’t think there is a high probability that you’ll see an ac-

tual use of force [in Iran]. But I do see it as a possibility.” Also, the U.S. Navy likes working with the Canadian Navy because of the latter’s familiarity with the latest satellite communications tech, explains Dr. Paul Mitchell, a professor and naval technology expert at the Royal Military College. The Canadian Navy kept pace with the Americans as part of U.S. manoeuvres from 2002 to 2007 in the Gulf of Oman, just south of Iran, he says. “This enabled Canada to take on a leadership role because we have the technical capability to talk to the high end (USN) as well as the low end (Greek navy) and share information between both sets.” Canadian warships are already intimately familiar with the Persian Gulf and the adjoining waterways, stemming from recent missions as part of the U.S. fleet in the Afghan and Iraq wars, where they monitored enemy coasts and intercepted vessels to search for smuggled weapons and contraband in anti-terrorism ops. Few appreciate the role of individual Canadian frigates in the Iraq war (Operation Altair), as solitary escorts for U.S. Navy carrier strike groups. “I’d say Canada’s naval involvement in the Iraq war was hidden behind a clever PR smokescreen that cast it as merely part of the publicly more acceptable Afghanistan mission,” says Richard Sanders, co-coordinator of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade The special role of Canada’s fleet was emphasized last fall, when the feds, who’ve otherwise set out to cut public spending, handed a $25 billion contract over 20 years to Halifax’s Irving Shipbuilding to build combat ships. “The Harper government captured the media and turned what should have a been serious story about the kind of Navy and Coast Guard we need into a breathless beauty pageant,” says Michael Byers, a UBC international law prof. “The question is, do we need a Cold War navy in the early-to-mid 21st century?” 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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aren’t real rapid transit, since they get stuck in traffic like regular buses. True, there are many successful examples of true BRT around the world that move large numbers of people at very low cost, but when you crunch the numbers, a bus system isn’t really that much cheaper in a Toronto context. For one thing, BRT requires expensive road widening. Cities that have been able to build low-cost BRT have very wide roads, usually six-to-10-lane roads (three to five in each direction) versus Toronto’s typical suburban four to six lanes (two to three in each direction). Of course, the LRT requires road widening as well. The difference is that while capital costs for BRT are about 70 per cent those of

LRT, buses in the end have higher operating costs per passenger, since they carry fewer riders and require more personnel. Staffing makes up 85 to 90 per cent of the cost of transit operations. (In developing countries using BRT, wage costs make up less than 50 per cent of operating costs.) Finally, BRT has proven not to be as good a promoter of urban regeneration. This is important because Toronto’s planned LRT routes go through some of the areas most in need of renewal, like Jane/Finch and Malvern. Indeed, cities from Paris to Los Angeles, Hong Kong and Tokyo have used LRT to uplift areas outside the core with fantastic success. Well-planned public investment often results in eight to 10 times as much private investment over subsequent decades. A new LRT might thus repay most of its capital costs through taxes generated by the private invest-

ment stimulated by their construction over the lifespan of the project. And on top of all this, LRT attracts more riders because it’s a more pleasant, smoother ride. The other aspect of the plans being floated is the proposed subway extension. This isn’t itself a horrible idea, but the realities of construction make it impractical for a reasonable amount of money. Had the addition been constructed when the ill-chosen Sheppard line was built, it would have made more sense. Tunnelling short stretches of subway is comparatively expensive. Estimates for this short extension of fewer than 2 kilometres hover around $1 billion, since construction start-up costs cannot be spread over a longer tunnel. That cost is more than the entire 12- or 13-kilometre Sheppard LRT that Ford cancelled at a cost likely to reach $200 million.

It would also have the dubious distinction of being one of the most expensive subway projects per kilometre in North America, and would end up costing 15 times more per kilometre than the Sheppard LRT would. And it would likely shorten most eastern Scarborough residents’ trips by less than four or five minutes. They would still suffer bus rides of many kilometres to catch the tiny 7-kilometre-long stubway. Hardly a transformative project. Transit planning, which shapes the city in profound ways, should not be done off the cuff. Transit City was the product of many studies that had gone into Toronto’s Official Plan, and any changes should be well studied – and should not be made for political expediency. 3 Adam Giambrone is former chair of the TTC and currently an employee of the Agence Metropolitaine de Transport (AMT) of Montreal. news@nowtoronto.com

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that the vote had been orchestrated by the mayor, and pointed out that staff is still authorized to write a report on Eglinton, albeit with the narrower scope of who should design, build and maintain the line. “We didn’t want to give TTC staff a blank cheque to take whatever position they want,” he said. TTC manager Gary Webster is now tasked with completing the report, which he says will no longer include information on the pros and cons of burying the line. The original recommendation tabled Tuesday was for him to weigh in on the suitability for a buried Eglinton line of $700 million worth of light rail vehicles designed to run above ground, which have already been ordered. Instead, he’s now limited to assessing the roles of the province and the TTC in the project, a task he says will be difficult because the wording of the motion seems to preclude his talking to the province. “I can’t tell you what they want or they don’t want,” he said of the board. “I’m confused.” Such uncertainty at the top of the TTC will likely send a troubling message to Metrolinx, the regional transit agency in charge of delivering the Eglinton Crosstown. Earlier in the day, Metrolinx chair J. Robert S. Prichard released a strongly worded open letter to the mayor and Stintz, warning that his “concern has been sharply elevated” by recent disagreement at City Hall over whether Eglinton should be built entirely below ground. Stintz and other councillors think it should be “daylighted” in the suburbs, and the money saved by doing so used to build other rail lines, as proposed by the Transit City plan Ford scrapped in 2010. Proponents of Transit City say that clarity can be achieved by bringing the matter to a vote at council, where they believe the mayor does not have enough support for his plan. If Ford doesn’t put his subway-centric transit scheme on the agenda at his executive committee meeting next month, Councillor Joe Mihevc says councillors could call a special meeting of council. “Somehow we have to find a way to bring that to the floor of council. They’ve lost it,” said Mihevc, who on Monday released a legal report finding that Ford never had the authority to unilaterally cancel Transit City. To convene a special council session, Mihevc would have to convince 23 councillors to sign a petition to submit to the city clerk, and he admits he’s not sure he could reach that number yet. But critics of the mayor like Councillor Gord Perks say only Ford and his closest followers are still backing his plan, and council must have a chance to vote on the future of Toronto’s transit. “It’s very clear that this small group of allies of the mayor has to be reined in, and city council has to take control of this issue,” Perks said. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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ClimAte CHANge ANd HumAN HeAltH: wHAt does CeliNe dioN HAVe to sAY ABout tHAt

Seminar with Clean Air Partnership director Eva Ligeti. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. environment.utoronto.ca. tHe gArdeNs of VersAilles Illustrated talk by artist David Wistow plus French music and fare. 6:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 4163971340.

greeN eCoNomY: fiCtioN or pAtHwAY to sustAiNABle deVelopmeNt? eVideNCe from greeN eNergY Lecture by professor Paul

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destiNY of tHe HumAN BeiNg New Acropolis seminar on learning about nature and life from the ancient Maya. 7:30 pm. $25, stu $15. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. toronto.newacropolis.ca. meditAtioN Introductory class. 7 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 4165390234, meditationtoronto.com. pAolo geNoVese The Italian director talks about his career in movies and beyond. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. 4169213802. tHe sYriAN uprisiNg, tHe ArAB left ANd tHe pAlestiNiAN CAuse Talk. 7 pm. $5 min. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 6477269500.

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the Megaquarry) Art sale with proceeds going to the fight to stop the quarry in Melancthon township. Today 69 pm; tomorrow 11 am5 pm. Free. Studio Five, 1362 Bathurst. artistsagainstthemegaquarry.com.

Events

Art sCieNCe CAmp 2 Subtle Technologies gathering of artists, scientists, students, en gineers, architects, designers and others. To day 710 pm; tomorrow 10 am6 pm. $10, stu/ unwaged free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Cir cle. subtletechnologies.com. CApitAlism, A loVe storY Youth for Socialist Action film screening and discussion with Oc cupy Toronto’s Lana Goldberg and others. 7 pm. $4 or pwyc. OISE, rm 2212, 252 Bloor W. socialistactioncanada.blogspot.com. rom reseArCH Colloquium Curatorial ex perts present the latest discoveries on topics including fishes of the lost world, saving the kiwi and Peking Man. 9:30 am7 pm. Free. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. tAles from tHe g20 Documentary film screening and discussion. 7:30 pm. Free. Cen tre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica. org/danforth.

Saturday, February 4

Benefits

AHoN (Typhoon Sendong survivors) Fundrais

ing concert with performances by Melvin Buslon, Len Cervantes, Rhea Gamana and others. 4 pm. $5 min. Kapisanan Philippine Centre, 167 Augusta. kapisanancentre.com. AttAwApisKAt BeNefit CrAft sAle (Attawa piskat relief) A raffle, draw and native tacos. 10 am4 pm. Free. Native Canadian Centre, 16 Spadina Rd. 4169649087. CeltiC diNNer-dANCe (Leaside United Church) Music by Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Trad ition and a silent auction. 6 pm. $40. 822 Mill wood. 4164234333. CommuNitY triViA NigHt (Wychwood Open Door) Trivia games, a silent auction and more hosted by illustrator/broadcaster Kevin Syl vester. 7 pm. $25. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 4166520857.

plex) Stretch yourself through 108 sun saluta tions led by professional instructors. 1 pm. $20. 60 Woodfield. applegrovecc.ca.

dJ sKAte NigHt Skate beside the lake while DJs spin. Saturdays to Feb 19. 811 pm. Free. Harbourfront Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay. 416 9734000. rdog sled rACes Dogsled races, snowshoe ing, skiing, hikes and more. Today and tomor row 10 am4 pm. $9, child/srs $6.59. Kortright Centre, 9550 Pine Valley (Woodbridge). rlittle HANds iN tHe KitCHeN Fiveweek workshop for budding chefs ages four to sev en. 910 am. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Preregister 4165961495 ext 231. rloVe, sCArBorougH Celebrate the month of love with baking crafts, chocolatey treats and more. Today and tomorrow noon4 pm. Pwyc. Scarborough Museum, 1007 Brimley. 4163388807. oCCupY, stiKe, resist... How do we BeAt tHe 1%? International Socialists conference on the next steps for the Occupy movement, with workshops and an opening meeting. 11:30 am5:30 pm. Pwyc. Galbraith Bldg, 35 St George. Preregister bit.ly/feb4conf.

operA exCHANge: sAAriAHo’s loVe from AfAr Canadian Opera Co discussion with aca

demics and artists. 9:30 am12:30 pm. $23. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 4163638231. rsNowsHoeiNg Family snowshoeing walk. Today and tomorrow 10 am & 1 pm. $8, w/ shoe rental $11.30. Humber Arboretum, 205 Humber College. 4166755009. toroNto roller derBY Season opener with DVAS vs DVAS and GoreGore Rollergirls vs Chicks Ahoy! 6 pm. $18, adv $12. Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com. toY of tHe moNtH Learn how to safely maxi mize your pleasure with sex toys. 10 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 4164131219.

trAVel ANd experieNtiAl eduCAtioN fAir

Info fair for students on summer credit cours es, GAP year opportunities and international volunteer placements. 11 am2 pm. Free. Royal St George’s College, 120 Howland. 416 5336724 ext 270. VegAN BAKe-off Enjoy goods baked by local professionals as a celebrity judge awards priz es. 2 pm. Free. 918 Bathurst. veg.ca. rweeKeNd fAmilY fuN At tHe BAtA Kids

three to nine try on shoes, go on a treasure hunt and more. 11 am4 pm. Free w/ admis sion. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416 9797799, batashoemuseum.ca. rwiNter Birds Family nature walk. 1 pm. $2 sugg. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

rYeAr of tHe drAgoN – CHiNese New YeAr

CeleBrAtioN Lion dance, kung fu demos, clas sical Chinese dance and music performances. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 Col lege. 4163937746. ZumBAtHoN Event to honour murdered nurse Sonia Varaschin with a ballroom, Latin and belly dance show and kids activities. 2:30 pm. $30, adv $25. St Michael College School, 1515 Bathurst. inmemoryofsonia.com.

Sunday, February 5

Benefits

A New Hope (Stephen Lewis Arts Fund) Fund

raising production of the onewoman play by Shelley Hamilton. 3 pm. $25. ING Direct Café, 221 Yonge. 4168266855.

Events

BAldwiN-grossmAN VillAge: BowliNg greeNs to mArKets Lost rivers walk. 11 am.

Free. Queen’s Park subway. 4165932656. dAVid miller: figHtiNg ClimAte CHANge The former Toronto mayor lectures on how we can fight climate change and create jobs. 10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, 50 Briar Hill. 4164836664.

grAssroots fiNANCiAl mANAgemeNt 101

Tools for Change workshop with Sharmeen Khan. 15 pm. $10$20 sugg. Preregister tools.change@gmail.com.

KosHer lAw, ANimAl etHiCs ANd JewisH ideNtitY Lecture by Farm Forward founder

Aaron Gross. 7 pm. Free. Hart House E Com mon Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. cjs.utoronto.ca. sHoresH food CoNfereNCe Presentations on kosher, organic and local food and other con temprary food issues with backyard chicken advocate Darlene Litman and others. 11 am5 pm. $72. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. Pre register shoresh.ca.

tHe stArtliNg speedup of tHe expANsioN of tHe uNiVerse Lecture by Raymond Carlberg. 3

pm. Free. U of T Medical Sciences Bldg, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org.

suNdAY sCeNe: ANAstAsiA HAre & JuliA pAoli Artistled tour of the current exhibitions. 2

Festivals

mosAiC storYtelliNg festiVAl Perform

learn about the history of Valentine’s Day. 14 pm. $15, child $8. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 4163962819. rVAugHAN wiNterfest Entertainment, ice carving demos, pizzamaking workshops, crafts, displays and more. 10 am3:30 pm. Free. North Thornhill Community Centre, 300 Pleasant Ridge. Volume oNe proJeCt Writing workshop for kids eight to 12 with The Tiffin author Mahtab Narsimhan. 10 amnoon. $15 (includes book). Mabel’s Fables, 662 Mt Pleasant. smallprinttoronto.org.

Monday, February 6

Benefits

BoB mArleY’s BirtHdAY KNowledge for tHe piCKNeY BeNefit (school/art supplies for

kids in Cauldwell, Jamaica) Fundraising party. 7 pm. $5 or donation of school/art supplies. Hot Box Cafe, 191A Baldwin. 4162036990.

Events

tHe Artists’ soup KitCHeN Talk by artist Annie Onyi Cheung and free lunch for artists. Noon3 pm. Free. Raging Spoon, 761 Queen W. starvingartistsoupkitchen@gmail.com. tHe CArter erA: tHe CoNVersAtioN, NAsHVille, All tHe presideNt’s meN, stAr wArs ANd more Lecture by film critic/author Kevin Courrier. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 4169246211, mnjcc.org. drAwiNg from oBJeCts/still life Open drawing session. 6:30 pm. $2$3. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. donriverdwgsessions@hotmail.com.

JoHN duffY: tHe emergiNg politiCs of teCHNologY The Liberal strategist talks about

whether technology is beyond political or democratic control and what role citizens play when it comes to hightech innovations. 7 pm. Free. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. Preregister 4165868080. miCHAelle JeAN Unique Lives & Experiences lecture by the former governor general of Canada. 7:30 pm. $36. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. uniquelives.com. post A letter soCiAl ACtiVitY CluB Letter writing night. 7 pm. Pwyc stationery. Avro, 750 Queen E. palsac.com. trAmpoliNe HAll Minilectures curated by Erica Kopyto, hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net. Hub. 6:30 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 6477269500.

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for all ages with entertainment by Karl Wolf, Karina Es, Kris Arabian and others, a hockey tournament, ice rink, marketplace and more. Free. Armenian Youth Centre, 50 Hallcrown. ayfwinterfest.com. Feb 3 to 5 festiVAl of origiNAl tHeAtre U of T Cen tre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies presents plays by Beatriz Pizano, Helen Vosters and others, plus workshops and panels. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 Col lege. foot2012.wordpress.com. Feb 2 to 5 BKuumBA The festival of black culture features audio installations, visual arts, theatre, dance workshops, films, comedy, panel discussions, kids’ activities and con certs by Kellylee Evans, Motion, Saidah Baba Talibah and others. Most events free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 4169734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Feb 3 to 5 rHuBArB festiVAl New works theatre festival featuring plays by Maggie Hutche son and Elinore Whidden, Claude Whit tman, Damien Atkins and many others. $20 (WedSun), afternoons pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416 9758555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. Feb 8 to 19

pm. Free w/ admission. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 4169734949.

Tuesday, February 7 CHArles diCKeNs iN toroNto (1842): lost CreeK sites NeAr old toroNto wAterfroNt Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. King and Jarvis.

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AndrewKushnir, (left)PaulDunn andDamien Atkinsdevelop workatRhubarb. ances for all ages by storytellers including Itah Sadu, Sandra Whiting and others. Every second Sun (call for schedule). Pwyc. St David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands. 4164663142, stdavidstoronto.ca/mosaic/mosaic.html. To Mar 18 u of t New musiC festiVAl Compositions in a wide gamut of genres by student, faculty

and guest composers, plus lectures. Free $25. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park. 4169783744, music.toronto.ca. To Feb 5 wiNterliCious Culinary festival with participating restaurants offering a spe cial prixfixe menu. toronto.ca. To Feb 9

Meet ClimateSpark winners, social entrepre neurs, investors and idea shapers. 6 pm. $35. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. eventbrite.com/ event/1640335287. CooKiNg ClAsses Learn to make healthy treats. 7 to 9:30 pm. $70. Big Carrot, 348 Dan forth. thebigcarrot.ca. drummers iN exile Weekly drum and dance circle. $2$5. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bath urst. drummersinexile.com. gAlApAgos Travel talk. 7 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Preregister atcadventure.com. JeANNe gANg Lecture by the Chicago architect. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, 230 College. 416978 5038. upper toroNto iN pArKdAle Community consultation on the community art project about citybuilding. 7 pm. Free. Parkdale Ac tivity and Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen W. uppertoronto.ca.

Wednesday, February 8

Benefits

tHe gutter BAll (Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art) Fundraising bowling tourna

David Miller was the greenest mayor we’ve ever had, ushering in a spate of eco policies and giving Toronto a fine rep the world over. Now, in the midst of debates over Transit City, Miller’s major carbon-fighting plan, the former chief magistrate weighs in on how to fight climate change and create green jobs, Sunday (February 5), 10:10 am. Free. St. Clement’s Church Parish Hall, 50 Briar Hill. 416-483-6664.

NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

syRia anD the aRab Revolt

movement against the eco-unfriendly project. Say no to the proposal to extract aggregate at the expense of heritage food land at the headwaters of five Ontario rivers by snapping up works by artists committed to the earth. Friday (February 3), 6 to 9 pm, and Saturday (February 4), 11 am to 5 pm. artistsagainstthemegaquarry.com.

As the Syrian government continues to murder brave democracy protesters, Beit Zatoun hosts a forum, The Syrian Uprising, The Arab Left, And The Palestinian Cause, in an attempt to get perspective on these events, both disturbing and inspiring. Jens Hanssen, professor of Middle Eastern and Mediterranean history at U of T, moderates a conversation with audience participation. Tonight (Thursday, February 2), 7 pm. $5. 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Pre-register office@scarborougharts.com. nikos PaPasteRgiaDis The cultural studies professor speaks about how public screens transform public space. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/ srs $7. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond W. prefix.ca. Putin anD the stalinist legaCy Discussion with history professor Robert E Johnson. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. ReaDing boCCaCCio Professor Pietropaolo discusses the social and political climate during the Renaissance that surrounded Boccaccio’s Decameron. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer

Park Library, 40 St Clair E. 416-393-7657. sexy hoRmones Valentine’s Day seminar. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129. someone else’s tReasuRe Photojournalist Allan Lissner gives a multimedia presentation on his documentary project. Noon. Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. kaleidoscope@ocic.on.ca. uRban sPin Small Plot INtensive farmer Curtis Stone lectures on how he effectively manages and profits from SPIN farming. 7 pm. $25. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. greencityacres.com. 3

Artists fight the mega-quarry with a show and sale February 3 and 4.

Remember that mammoth food event months ago that raised funds to stop the proposed mega-quarry in Melancthon Township? Now, Artists Against the MegaQuarry step in, presenting an art show and sale at Studio Five (1362 Bathurst), with proceeds going to the grassroots ment. 6:30 pm. $50. Ballroom, 145 John. 416395-7613.

Events

Costa RiCa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. Pre-register atcadventure.com. DRake tRivia Play a game of Trivia. 8 pm. $2. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. enviRonmental management of the albeRta oil sanDs: new feDeRal anD PRovinCial intiatives Seminar with geology pro-

fessor Andrew Miall. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1190, 40 St George. environment. utoronto.ca. fiResiDe: the auDitions Performers’ audition XXXXXX 00-00 Fireside 2011 NOW for the upcoming Culture Week. 1-8 pm. Free. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. festival@parkdalevillagebia.com.

fRom the ashes of waR, a nation is boRn

Event commemorating the War of 1812 with music, food, a panel discussion and presentations by historians. 9 am-5 pm. $35. Fort York, Garrison off Fleet. uofttix.ca. the futuRe of Zoos Lecture by architect/ former zoo director David Hancocks. 7 pm. $5 sugg. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. Pre-register zoocheck@ zoocheck.com. meet uP anD kiCk off Learn how to train for a marathon and fundraise with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Soc. 6 pm. Free. 480 University, suite 1502. 416-585-2873. RembRanDt anD the faCe of Jesus Talk by the AGO’s European art curator, Lloyd deWitt. 7 pm. $22.50, stu $17. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/talks.

the uneven PRogRess of CsR PRaCtiCes in euRoPe: a winDow foR PubliC inteRvention? Lecture by economist Rosa Fernández.

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An unforgettable evening of fine food, wine and beer featuring top Toronto chefs

professor Jason Gilliland. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. environment.utoronto.ca. meet the makeR tasting seRies Meet Nicole Bzikot, sheep milk cheese producer from Best Baa Dairy. 7 pm. $30. Cheesewerks, 56 Bathurst. cheesewerks.com. musiCal Jam session Scarborough Arts meet-up for musicians on all instruments. 6 pm. Free. Scarborough Arts, 1859 Kingston.

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“Toronto needs to step up. We’re known as a diverse city, so why not put everybody in the forefront? I still have a hard time, even with all my accomplishments,” says McKenzie, getting choked up.

“But this is me.”

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homegrown norm-busting model flaunts her defiant charisma on the catwalk at kuumba By ANDREW SARDONE

Photos by DAVID HAWE

stacey mckenzie admits that her fashion career got off to a rocky start. Just a few seconds into her first strut down the runway – Jean Paul Gaultier’s Paris catwalk in 1996 – she spotted Lenny Kravitz in the audience and ditched her modelling duties to sashay over to the rock star, sit on his lap and plant a big smooch on his lips. “You know you’re in a show, right?” asked a cool Kravitz, prompting McKenzie to make a quick return to the runway, where she wondered if she’d just ended her career as it was getting started. “What was that?” demanded Gaultier backstage later. “It was perfect! Amazing! I loved it,” gushed the designer. “That showed me right there that modelling isn’t just about my look and my body,” says McKenzie. “It’s about my personality.” That personality pours from every inch of her 5-foot-10 frame. It makes watching her sit in the front row at a fashion show almost as much fun as seeing her work the runway. Often dressed in over-the-top looks that show lots of leg, the exaggerated, posey way McKenzie moves is upstaged only by the bold raspiness of her voice. The seasoned Canadian catwalker regularly attends Toronto Fashion Week, and doesn’t hide her appreciation when a fellow model really struts her stuff. “I love to see a model on the runway who exudes the confidence of ‘I’m the shit,’” she says.

Stacey McKenzie l eading the workshop Wal k This Way at Fashion Bl ackout, part of Kuumba, in the Brigantine Room (235 Queens Quay West), Saturday (February 4), 2 pm. Free. harbourfrontcentre.com/kuumba.

So it’s not surprising that her latest career move is hosting Walk This Way workshops, where she bolsters the self-esteem of fans – not just models – seeking a confidence boost. McKenzie brings her runway tutorial to Harbourfront Centre’s Kuumba Festival as part of its Fashion Blackout event on Saturday. She launched the workshops after years of working in front of audiences and cameras as a model-slash-actor-slash-TV personality. McKenzie appeared alongside Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich in the model-stacked cast of 1997’s The Fifth Element and judged aspiring catwalkers on two seasons of Canada’s Next Top Model. One of the amazing things about her career is that she’s come all this way without many role models. “I never had any mentors. A lot of [models] don’t,” she says. “As the unconventional beauty who wasn’t supposed to make it [in the fashion industry], I thought it was important to put my experiences out there to help others.” Critiquing the fashion industry’s narrow idea of what models should look like drives a chunk of Kuumba’s programming. Fashion Blackout also includes a screening of Elizabeth St. Phillip’s fashion documentary The Colour Of Beauty, about Toronto model Renee Thompson’s attempt to

break into the industry in New York City, and a panel discussion about the state of diversity on the runway. McKenzie is no stranger to that ongoing debate, and has witnessed the industry’s fickle and often entirely clueless approach to black models first-hand. “I almost had a heart attack when one campaign came out,” she says, remembering the thorough retouching job. “I was completely revamped: straight nose, no freckles, small lips, super-extra-high cheekbones, smaller and more wide-set eyes, extra-straight hair. I was a straight-up white girl in that ad. “My agency had to fight for me, but there’s only so much they can do,” she says. “It’s up to me to stand up for myself.” McKenzie has been standing up for her right to be fierce since she first started flipping through fashion magazines as a six-year-old in Jamaica. After years of practice posing in front of the mirror and walking imaginary catwalks in her mom’s pumps, the 15-year-old McKenzie, then living in Toronto, crashed the casting for Ryerson’s Mass Exodus fashion show wearing a black cat suit and sky-high stilettos. Most of the student designers didn’t give her a chance, but Joeffer Caoc, today one of the city’s biggest fashion names, took one look at McKenzie’s walk and declared, “I got dibs on her!” The path from there to Gaultier’s door was full of false starts, but McKenzie hustled, often pretending on the phone to be a Jamaican model agent to get herself appointments continued on page 28 œ

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New shades in fashion

Fashion’s diversity debate usually Focuses on the industry’s Faces, but these three leaders in toronto’s style community are operating oFF the catwalk. By ANDREW SARDONE Photos by StEfANiA YARhi

Norwayne Anderson

“The industry is always looking for a white girl with ethnic features and an ethnic girl with white features,” says seasoned model agent Nor wayne Anderson. “With so many cultures mixing, we’re finding faces that are so ambiguous.” That seems like a step forward for the cause of diversity in magazines and runway shows, but Anderson has his scouting eyes a bit more open than most. He got into the fashion industry as a model, but quickly found himself more interested in the other faces around him. When a colleague suggested he become an agent, he starting hunting for fresh faces in Toronto’s nightclubs and launched his agency, NAM, from the kitchen table in his apartment. After 16 years, he and his model roster merged with the agency PUSH (pushthetalent.com) in 2010. After all those years, he still believes beauty is in the eye of the beholder. “I don’t look for what’s hot now, because the industry moves on so quickly,” he says. “We look for something interesting – the face of the future.”

Chinedu Ukabam Musician, emcee and filmmaker Chinedu Uka bam is becoming better known as a fashion designer (chinedesign.com). Last July, he opened SUPAFRIK, a two-week pop-up shop in Kensington Market featuring clothing cut from fabrics printed with patterns inspired by Ndebele wall art, kente cloth and adire batik. It was an impressive step into higher fashion for a label that started in 2003 by focusing on the screen-printed T-shirts Ukabam made for his gigs. On Saturday (February 4), at 8 pm, he unveils his newest collection, Afro tropolis Wanderland, at 99 Sudbury ($25, afrotropolis.eventbrite.ca). The 20 looks for men and women mix influences as varied as nsibidi graphics from Nigeria and Black Panther uniforms. There are knit pieces with unwoven hems, digitally printed silk shirt-dresses and sharp suits in quilted cloth. Ukabam is mastering the fashion mix by drawing on his hip-hop background. “A different type of originality comes from combining elements,” he says. “I don’t feel like I need to hide from my influences. I like showing people how all the different parts come together.”

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Septembre Anderson Isn’t afraid to call out the fashion industry’s more culturally clueless moments, but she also doesn’t want to be known as the style writer who only reports on race. Her J’Adore fashion blog (jadorefashionblog.wordpress.com) is more multifaceted than that, featuring runway reviews, outfit posts and a popular series of nail art tutorials. “I don’t want to be preachy,” says Anderson, who also writes about style for Slice.ca and Filler Magazine. “I just think we need to be more mindful of diversity.” A late fashion bloomer, she discovered style mags in university and applied makeup for the first time at 21. She quickly noticed that articles promising to school her on the perfect shade of red lipstick or the right sunscreen weren’t taking someone with her skin tone into consideration. “It’s difficult to reprogram people,” she says. “I wish I could open more magazines and see myself in them.”

with reps in New York and occasionally spending a week’s worth of afterschool job earnings to buy a Greyhound ticket to the Big Apple. That paid off when she landed her first cover shoot, for New York Magazine, and made a name for herself on Paris runways. But the amount of adversity she faced prompts the question, why host workshops that encourage other young women to enter such a cutthroat industry? “At the end of the day, it’s up to the person,” she says. “But if you have a dream, why not go for it? Even if there are going to be lots of obstacles, go for it 100 per cent.” She’s had the opportunity to travel the world and collaborate with a cast of renowned creative types. Still, McKenzie wishes the industry took diversity more seriously, especially here at home. “Toronto needs to step up. We are known as a diverse city of people from all over the world, so why not put everybody in the forefront? I still have a hard time, even with all my accomplishments,” she says, getting a bit choked up. “But this is me.” Which brings us to our photo shoot with McKenzie, where her me-ness is out full force. We’re in photographer David Hawe’s downtown studio, and there’s a wig on the makeup table. McKenzie, who’s wearing her hair in short curls, isn’t impressed. “I hate wigs,” she confesses. She’s also skeptical of a pair of black leather leggings hanging on a rack with a mix of pieces from her own wardrobe (an oversized-floral mini-dress from H&M’s Versace collection; a BCBG jacket with a massive ruffle falling over its left shoulder) and pieces by Toronto label Chine Design (see profile, this page). “People often try to make me look like a drag queen,” she says. “As a model, I don’t usually have a voice, but as a personality, I’m being myself. This is what Stacey McKenzie is about. I like my naturally curly hair. I like my cat eye [makeup] and big red lips. I like to be a little in your face.” Some people might read the scene as a model having a diva meltdown, but that’s not the case at all. It’s just Stacey watching out for Stacey. 3 fashion@nowtoronto.com

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28 DAYS: REIMAGINING BLACK HISTORY MONTH at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery (7 Hart House, 416-978-8398), to February 19, and at Georgia Scherman Projects (133 Tecumseth, 416-5544112), to February 29. Free. See review, page 61.

Music

History happenings Thursday, February 2 Alvin Ailey AmericAn DAnce TheATre The

NYC company presents two different programs with works by Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Robert Battle, Joyce Trisler and Rennie Harris. Feb 2-4, Program A Thu 8 pm, Sat 2 pm; Program B Fri-Sat 8 pm. $28-$88. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. 1-855-8727669, sonycentre.ca. BlAck Women ArTisTs Talk by art historian/ artist Suzanne Tevlin. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674. cAroline, or chAnGe Acting Up Stage Company and Obsidian Theatre present Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s musical about a black maid and the son of her Jewish employer, both of them struggling with extraordinary life changes. Runs to Feb 12, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat 2 pm, Feb 12 at 3 pm. $32-$45. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, actingupstage.com, td.com/ thenandnow.

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michAel chAmBers Posters exhibit. To Feb

14. Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue, 823A Bloor W. blackartndialog.com.

sTAn DouGlAs: enTerTAinmenT: selecTions from miDcenTury sTuDio A photography

exhibition runs to Mar 4. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. An eveninG WiTh pAm Grier The actor talks about why she entered the film business, choices she’s made and challenges she’s faced. 7 pm. $18.50. Varsity and VIP Cinemas, 55 Bloor W. ticketweb.ca, td.com/thenandnow. Dirk mcleAn Author visit. 1 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-3941000. rAsTA: A soul’s Journey Documentary on the journey of Rita and Bob Marley’s granddaughter, Donisha Prendergast, to eight countries to explore the roots of Rastafari. To Feb 29, Sat and Sun 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rastaonline.ca/rom.

IS MARRIAGE FOR WHITE PEOPLE?, a talk by Ralph Richard Banks at North York Memorial Community Hall (5110 Yonge), Friday (February 10), 6:30 pm. $15. blackmarriage2012.eventbrite.ca. The provocative title of this lecture is taken from Ralph Richard Banks’s book, and it’s bound to get the fur flying. But the Stanford Law School prof, an expert on race and equality issues, offers a clearer guide to his thinking in the subtitle, How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone. Banks’s candid talk on black relationships follows a forum on, you guessed it, love and coupling.

KUUMBA (February 3-5) at Harbourfront (235 Queens Quay West). Free$10. harbourfrontcentre.com. Harbourfront hosts a full weekend of music events celebrating Black History Month, and most of them are free. The one exception is the all-female urban talent showcase Honey Jam: Then & Now (Friday, February 3, 7 pm), featuring Saidah Baba Talibah, Jemeni, Motion, Kellylee Evans and more. Dub reggae pioneer Clive Chin leads a free afternoon DJ workshop and Jamaican musical history lesson (Saturday, February 4, 8 pm). Stick around for the Known (Un)Known showcase later that night, which focuses on up-and-coming independent artists like Rochelle Jordan, Shi Wisdom and 88 Days of Fortune.

28 DAys: reimAGininG BlAck hisTory monTh

the Gullahs through their songs, arts and crafts. 6 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. Pre-register torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saidah Baba Talibah, Motion, Natasha Waterman and others perform as part of Kuumba. 7 pm, $10. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Brigantine Rm. harbourfrontcentre. com, td.com/thenandnow. kuumBA See Music box, this page. les ryThmes De lA foreT See Stage box, page 30. reDempTion: BoB mArley’s BirThDAy Live music. Doors 10 pm. Sound Academy, 11 Polson. 416-930-9650, dbandit.com. PDR. riTA cox Storytelling. 10 am. Free. Queen/ Saulter Library, 765 Queen E. 416-393-7723.

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Saturday, February 4

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AfroTropolis WAnDerlAnD Collaborative multi-arts presentation with Marcos Fantu, Chinedu Ukabam, Kalkidan Assefa and Jimmy Chiale. 8 pm. $25, adv $20. 99 Sudbury. afrotropolis.eventbrite.ca, td.com/thenandnow.

Works ranging from print, drawing, video, photography, sculpture and painting explore Black History Month and its relation to contemporary art. To Feb 19 at Justina M Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House, 416-978-8398. To Feb 29 at Georgia Scherman Projects, 133 Tecumseth, 416-554-4112, td.com/thenandnow.

visiTinG AfricAns in The DiAsporA, virTuAlly Teens explore the rich culture of

anchor talks about how he struggled to get to the top of his game. 10 am. Free. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. torontopubliclibrary.ca. honey JAm: Then & noW Kellylee Evans, Kim Davis, Eternia, Jemeni, Belinda Brady, True,

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Learn about the early black community in To-

ronto. Feb 4-5, noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission (Sundays and Family Day pwyc). Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. clive chin The music producer presents A Celebration Of Jamaica’s 50th Anniversary Of Independence Through Reggae Music, as part of Kuumba. 8 to 10 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Lakeside Terrace. harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Performances by Ghanaian Canadian singersongwriter Kae Sun and singer/social activist Amai Kuda. 8 pm. $10. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. cbc.ca/toronto/community. Dr JAy De socA prince DJ Skate Night, part of Kuumba/Soca On Ice. 8 to 11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. J nichole noel Interactive storytelling. 2:15 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. The meeTinG AfriCan Theatre Ensemble presents a staged reading of the Jeff Stetson play. 7 pm. $10-$15. 918 Bathurst. 416-364-7313. The memBerz Bob Marley Tribute benefit concert. Donations for Daily Bread Food Bank requested. Cadillac Lounge, 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717.

music, mAGic, clAsh: neW voices in The AfricAn DiAsporA See Movies box, pg 30. plAy oWAre Teens play one of the oldest

games from Africa and the West Indies. 2 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

kuumBA: The knoWn, (un)knoWn ArTisT shoWcAse Rochelle Jordan, Shi Wisdom, KJ

(88 Days of Fortune), Spek Won, Abstract Random and others. 9:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Sunday, February 5

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(Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund) Music and dance performances by Kellylee Evans, Jackie

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IT STARTED WITH THE MAROONS: CARIBBEAN ROOTS IN CANADA, a reading and storytelling by Althea Prince, at the Pape/ Danforth Library (701 Pape) Saturday, (February 11), 3 pm. Free. torontopubliclibrary.ca. “Maroons” refers to runaway slaves who formed independent settlements in the West Indies, South and Central America, the U.S. and Canada. This interactive storytelling event led by Althea Prince traces their history and experience, particularly in Toronto. Among her many other talents, Prince is a Ryerson sociology prof, a novelist, essayist and author of The Politics Of Black Women’s Hair.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH/EVENTS 9:30 pm. Rex, 194 Queen W. therex.ca. free fAvourites At four Screening of Martine Chartrand’s Black Soul and Jennifer Holmes’s Speakers For The Dead. 4 pm. Free. National Film Board, 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque.

pHyllis wAlKer: Keeper of tHe ANANsi flAme Storytelling. 1:30 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. 416-393-7674.

rosemAry sAdlier Talk by the president of

the Ontario Black History Society. 1:30 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. Preregister torontopubliclibrary.ca. tHe spider speAKs Storytelling. 1:30 pm. Free. St Clair/Silverthorn Library, 1748 St Clair W. 416-393-7709, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Thursday, February 9 iNvisible City Screening of a documentary

about transformation of community and identity in Regent Park. 2 pm. Free. Reference LIbrary, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. tHe love trAiN revue Musical celebration with Jackie Richardson, George St Kitts and Spider Jones. 6:30 pm. $50. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. rhcentre.ca.

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ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER at the Sony Centre (1 Front East), Thursday to Saturday (February 2 to 4). $28-$88. sonycentre.ca. See related story, page 55. CAROLINE, OR CHANGE, by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori, at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley), to February 12. $32-$45. 416-3683110. See review, page 55. LES RYTHMES DE LA FORET at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West), Friday to Sunday (February 3 to 5). $18-$30. 416-973-4000. Tap your toes to the infectious rhythms of dance and music from sub-Saharan Africa pre-

Friday, February 10 sented by COBA, the Collective of Black Artists, including works by co-artistic directors Charmaine Headley and BaKari I. Lindsay as well as guest choreographers Lindsay Faye Johnson and Sister Robin Hibbert. OBEAH OPERA at the 918 Bathurst Centre, February 16 to March 4. $15-$30. 416-5331500, bcurrent.ca. There aren’t too many Caribbean-themed Canadian operas, but that’s about to change with Nicole Brooks’s Obeah Opera, which fuses blues, spirituals, jazz and more to tell the story of five black women accused of witchcraft in 17th-century New England. The b current/Theatre Archipelago co-pro-

duction, directed by ahdri zhina mandiela, stars a diverse cast that includes soul rocker Saidah Baba Talibah. TRIBUTE: A MOVING HISTORY OF CANADIAN BLACKS IN DANCE at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West), 8 pm, February 23 to 25. $22-$32. 416-9734000. This dance Immersion showcase mixes dance, film and spoken word to celebrate the achievements of some of the country’s best artists. On the bill: performances by Caribbean Dance Theatre, Learie McNicolls, Ronald Taylor Dance and Danny Grossman, with film by Gregory Christmas and blues poet Amani.

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Richardson, Shawn Byfield and others. 3 pm. $50, adv $40. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211 ext 0, td.com/thenandnow. A New Hope (Stephen Lewis Fdn Arts Fund) Shelley Hamilton Productions presents Hamilton’s solo play about the first African-Canadian communities in Canada. Feb 5, 19 and 26 at 3 pm, plus Feb 26 at 1 pm. $25. ING Network Orange Café, 221 Yonge. 416-826-6855.

Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. torontopubliclibrary.ca. ritA Cox Storytelling. 1:30 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. 416-396-4054. syNCopAtioN: life iN tHe Key of blACK Photo exhibit, to Feb 10. Africentric Alternative School, 1430 Sheppard W. 416-395-5251.

Events

KuumbA: p.e.A.C.e. (people everywHere ACtuAlly Co-existiNg equAlly) Identifying

with hip-hop culture, this workshop uses musical inspiration and sound therapy to generate positive energy. 4 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Lakeside Terrace. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-97e-4000.

KuumbA: t&t 50tH ANNiversAry of iNdepeNdeNCe Pan Fantasy Steel Band concert.

3:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Monday, February 6

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bob mArley’s birtHdAy KNowledge for tHe piCKNey beNefit (school/art supplies for

kids in Cauldwell, Jamaica) Fundraising party. 7 pm. $5 or donation of school/art supplies. Hot Box Cafe, 191A Baldwin. 416-203-6990.

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gAil NyoKA Meet the playwright. 2 pm. Free.

Tuesday, February 7 tHe AfriCAN forum: tHe meANiNg of mArley Discussion with Klive Walker and hon-

ouring Al Hamilton with Norman Richmond. 7 pm. Pwyc. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. tranestudio.com. JeAN AugustiNe Talk, interview and Q&A with the Black History Month founder. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. mAN 2 mAN A confident man in his 20s meets a man in his 40s who is coming to terms with his sexuality in this play by Kwame Stephens. 7:30 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Arbor Room. harthouse.ca/studentengagement/man-2-man.

Wednesday, February 8 bill witHers tribute Justin Bacchus, Chris

Gale, Chris Hunt, Dafydd Hughes, Eric St. Laurent, Steve Zsirai-B and Tim Shia perform.

JustiCe oN triAl: tHe CAse of mumiA AbuJAmAl Film screening and panel discussion

with community worker Nathan Okanta and others. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. network4panafrikansolidarity@ gmail.com. bob mArley birtHdAy tribute The House of David Gang, Friendlyness & the Human Rights, Michael Garrick, High Plains Drifter, Amber Coates, April Jonston and others perform. Doors 9 pm. $10 w/ canned food donation or $15. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. Tickets at Ticketweb. nufunk.ca.

rAlpH bANKs: is mArriAge for wHite people? See History Box, pg 29. tHe uNdergrouNd rAilroAd witH lAurel tAylor-AdAms Storytelling. 10 am. Free. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. 416-3937653, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saturday, February 11 etHiopiA: A musiCAl perspeCtive Girma Woldemichael, Fantahun Shewankochew, Henok Abebe, Martha Ashagari and others perform. Doors 7 pm. $20-$25. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. batukimusic.com. it stArted witH tHe mArooNs: CAribbeAN roots iN CANAdA See History box, pg 29. bob mArley tribute Kidd Rasta & the Peacemakers, I-Sax, DJ Chocolate and Patrick Roots perform. Doors 9 pm. $10 w/ canned food donation, $15 without. El Mocambo, 464 Spadina. nufunk.ca. sANdrA wHitiNg Storytelling. 2 pm. Free. Oakwood Village Library, 341 Oakwood. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Tuesday, February 14 voiCes of tHe diAsporA... tHe booK of Negroes The Nathaniel Dett Chorale. 8 pm. $20$53. Royal Conservatory Of Music, Koerner Hall, 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

Wednesday, February 15 louis ArmstroNg, tHe AfriCAN HeritAge ANd tHe begiNNiNgs of JAzz Lecture. 2 pm.

Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. Preregister 416-395-5440, torontopubliclibrary. ca.

oNCe upoN AN AfriCAN villAge: soNg, dANCe ANd story witH fule bAdoe Program for all ages. 10:30 am. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Thursday, February 16 AdwoA bAdoe Author visit. 1 pm. Free. Maria

A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-3941000, torontopubliclibrary.ca. berNAdette gAbAy dyer Songs and stories from a Caribbean heritage. 1:30 pm. Free. Parliament Street Library, 269 Gerrard E. 416393-7663. dwAyNe morgAN Poetry reading. 10 am. Free. Danfoth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth. 416-393-7783, torontopubliclibrary.ca. obeAH operA See Stage box, this page.

Friday, February 17 Crisis iN tHe CoNgo: uNCoveriNg tHe trutH

Film screening and panel discussion with

CUPE member Safia Gahayr and others. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. network4panafrikansolidarity@gmail.com. fleurette AfriCAiNe wind in the leaves collective present a collection of poetry and dance narratives exploring identity. 7:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. fleuretteafricainefebruary.eventbrite.com, td.com/thenandnow.

Saturday, February 18 AfriCAN CANAdiAN CHildreN ANd youtH literAry festivAl Spoken word and story-

telling from Canada and the diaspora. Feb 1819. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-395-5980.

blACK History moNtH At mACKeNzie House

Learn about the early black community in Toronto. Feb 18-19, noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission (Sundays and Family Day pwyc). Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. CAlibAN Arts tHeAtre relAuNCH Kahil El’Zabar & the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble perform. 8 pm. $15-$20. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. plAy owAre Teens play one of the oldest games from Africa and the West Indies. 2 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

zouK, mAKossA, rAggAe ANd NgwA musiC

Fojeba, Adam Solomon, Njacko Backo, Blandine, Djenabou, and Jahmez. Doors 6:30 pm. $15-$20. Music Gallery, 197 John. 416-2041080.

Tuesday, February 21 tHe AfriCAN forum: soutH AfriCA 20 yeArs After ApArtHeid Discussion with Usheak

Koroma. 7 pm. Pwyc. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. tranestudio.com. eAt your History Meet Carl Cassell of the Harlem Underground Restaurant. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5613. miCHAel st george The dub poet reads. 1 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. migHty Jerome Screening of Charles Officer’s film about the rise, fall and redemption of Canadian track-and-field star Harry Jerome. 6 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. 416-396-8969.

Thursday, February 23 KeitH C Holmes Meet the author of Black In-

ventors, Crafting Over 200 Years Of Success. 1:30 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

tribute – A moviNg History of CANAdiAN blACKs iN dANCe See Stage box, this page.

Friday, February 24 rAstA CoNCert Performance by Julian Marley,

Time tba (check website). Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-6000, rastaonline.ca/rom. tHe roAd tAKeN Film screening and panel discussion with community activist June Veecock and others. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. network4panafrikansolidarity@gmail.com. soweto gospel CHoir Performing African Grace. Feb 24-25, 8 pm. $30-$90. Sony Centre, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca.

Saturay, February 25 AfriCAN ANd CAribbeAN CulturAl HeritAge

dAy Live music by Errol Blackwood and others, adult and kids film screenings, storytelling, gallery tours and more. 11 am-6:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. blACK History moNtH At mACKeNzie House

Learn about the early black community in Toronto. Feb 25-26, noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission (Sundays and Family Day pwyc). Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. plAy owAre Teens play one of the oldest games from Africa and the West Indies. 2 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Tuesday, February 28 tHe AfriCAN forum film NigHt Screening of

The Making Of Catch A Fire and The Language We Cry In. 7 pm. Pwyc. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. miCHAel st george The dub poet reads. 1:30 pm. Free. Morningside Library, 4279 Lawrence E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. 3

MovieS

AN EVENING WITH PAM GRIER at the Varsity (55 Bloor West), Thursday (February 2), 7 pm. $18.50. ticketweb.ca. Pam Grier became one of the brightest lights of 1970s grindhouse cinema by giving actual performances in exploitation quickies like Coffy and Black Mama, White Mama. Over the years, her incandescent screen presence has matured into something mellower but no less formidable. (Sure, she’s amazing in Jackie Brown, but she even classes up a few episodes of Smallville.) Filmmaker Clement Virgo interviews the near-legend in an event sponsored by the Canadian Film Centre. MUSIC, MAGIC, CLASH: NEW VOICES IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA at TIFF Bell Lightbox (Reitman Square, 350 King West), $9.50-$12. tiff.net. TIFF marks Black History Month with, a selection of features and documentaries screening through February. Highlights include Storm Saulter’s Better Mus’ Come (Saturday, February 4, 2 pm; Sunday, February 5, 3:45 pm), a love story set against Jamaica’s 1978 Green Bay Massacre, and Kinyarwanda (February 17, 6:30 pm; February 19, 4 pm), an ensemble drama, hailed at last year’s Sundance Festival, about the Rwandan genocide. LYING LIPS, directed by by Oscar Micheaux, at the Studio Theatre (235 Queens Quay West), Saturday (February 4), 5 pm. Free. harbourfrontcentre.com. This is a rare screening of Oscar Micheaux’s 1939 drama starring Edna Mae Harris as a nightclub performer framed for murder. Part of the excellent film component of Harbourfront’s Kuumba festival.

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Design Week might be over, but one of its standout exhibitions continues this week. At the Design Exchange (234 Bay, 416-363-6121, dx.org), Wedge Curatorial Projects presents Stephen Burks: Man Made Toronto until April 1. Spotlighting the products New Yorkbased Burks creates in collaboration with his studio, Readymade Projects, and developing-world artisans, the show features basketry lamps, shelving and tables made in conjunction with communities in Senegal.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Sad but true: a lot of people seem to be perpetually in a state of wanting what they don’t have and not wanting what they actually do have. I’m begging you not to be like that in the coming weeks, Aries. Please? I’ll tell you why: more than I’ve seen in a long time, you will have everything going for you if you want precisely what you do have – and are not full of longing for what’s unavailable. Do you think you can manage that brilliant trick? If so, you will be amazed by the sublimity of the peace that will settle over you.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Of all the signs of the zodiac, Tauruses are the least likely to be arrogant. Sadly, in a related development, they’re also among the most likely to have low self-esteem. But your tribe now has an excellent opportunity to address the latter problem. Current cosmic rhythms are inviting you rather loudly and dramatically to boost your confidence, even at the risk of your careening into the forbidden realm of arrogance. That’s why I recommend Taurus musician Trent Reznor as your role model. He has no problem summoning feelings of selfworth. As evidence, here’s what he confessed when asked whether he frequents music social networks: “I don’t care what my friends are listening to. Because I’m cooler than they are.” GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 “If Mark Twain

had had Twitter,” says humorist Andy Borowitz, “he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn’t have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.” I

think you’re facing a comparable choice, Gemini. You can either get a lot of little things done that will serve your shortterm aims, or else you can at least partially withdraw from the day-to-day giveand-take so as to devote yourself with more focus to a long-range goal. I’m not here to tell you which way to go; I just want to make sure you know the nature of the decision before you.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 You now have a

special talent for helping your allies tap into their dormant potentials and latent energy. If you choose to use it, you will also have a knack for snapping lost sheep and fallen angels out of their wasteful trances. There’s a third kind of magic you have in abundance right now, Cancerian, and that’s the ability to coax concealed truths out of their hiding places. Personally, I’m hopeful that you will make lavish use of these gifts. I should mention, however, that some people may resist you. The transformations you could conceivably set in motion with your superpowers might seem alarming to them. So I suggest that you hang out as much as possible with change-lovers who like the strong medicine you have to offer.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “Publishing a volume

of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo,” said author Don Marquis, speaking from experience. Something you’re considering, Leo, may seem to fit that description, too. It’s a project or action or gift that you’d feel good about offering, but you also wonder whether it

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will generate the same buzz as that rose petal floating down into the Grand Canyon. Here’s what I think: To the degree that you shed your attachment to making an impact, you will make the exact impact that matters most. Give yourself without any expectations.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Comedian Louis

CK told a story about his young daughter. She had a fever, and he gave her some Tylenol that was bubble-gum-flavoured. “Ewwww!” she complained. Louis was exasperated. “You can’t say ‘Ewwww,’” he told her. What he meant was that as a white kid in America, she’s among the most privileged in the world – certainly far luckier than all the poor children who have no medicine at all, let alone medicine that tastes like candy. I’m going to present a similar argument to you, Virgo. In the large scheme of things, your suffering right now is small. Try to keep your attention on your blessings rather than your discomfort.

ra. For the sake of your emotional health and spiritual integrity, you can’t see or treat the world anything like the way a technical writer would.

your own sake and the sake of the people you love, you must find a way to shrink your urge to make them responsible for your well-being.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Are you ready to start playing in earnest with that riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma? Are you looking forward to the rough-and-tumble fun that will ensue after you leap into the middle of that sucker and start trying to decipher its impossibly interesting meaning? I hope you are primed and eager, Scorpio. I hope you can’t wait to try to answer the question that seems to have no answer. Be brave and adventurous, my friend – and be intent on having a blast.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 If you go to

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 Lessons

could come to you from unforeseen sources and unanticipated directions during the next few weeks, Sagittarius. They will also come in expected forms from all the familiar influences, so the sum total of your learning could be pretty spectacular. To take maximum advantage of the opportunity, just assume that everyone and everything might have useful teachings for you – even people you usually ignore and situations that have bored you in the past. Act like an eager student who’s hungry for knowledge and curious to fill in the gaps in your education.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 I stumbled upon an engineering textbook for undergraduates. There was a section on how to do technical writing, as opposed to the literary kind. It quoted a poem by Edgar Allan Poe: “Helen, thy beauty is to me / Like those Nicean barks of yore / That gently, o’er a perfumed sea, / The weary way-worn wanderer bore / To his own native shore.” Then the book advised the student: “To express these ideas in technical writing, we would simply say, ‘He thinks Helen is beautiful.’” Don’t take shortcuts like that, Lib-

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “The con-

suming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person,” said British writer Quentin Crisp. If you harbour even a small tendency in that direction, Capricorn, I hope that in the coming days you will make a concentrated effort to talk yourself out of it. In my astrological opinion, this is a critical moment in the long-term evolution of your healthy self-sufficiency. For both

California’s Yosemite National Park this month, you might get the chance to witness a reddish gold waterfall. Here’s how: At sunset, gaze up at the sheer east face of the rock formation known as El Capitan. There you will see what seems to be a vertical river of fire, also known as Horsetail Fall. I nominate this marvel to be your inspirational symbol for the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have the power to blend fire and water in novel ways. I encourage you to look at the photo here – bit.ly/fluidicfire – and imprint the image on your mind’s eye. It will help unleash the subconscious forces you’ll need to pull off your own natural wonder.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 After singer Amy Winehouse died, actor Russell Brand asked the public and media to scale back their derisive opinions about her struggle with intoxicants. Addiction isn’t a romantic affectation or glamorous self-indulgence that people are too lazy to overcome, he said. It’s a disease. Would you mock a schizophrenic for his “stupid” propensity for hearing voices? Would you ridicule a victim of multiple sclerosis for not being vigorous? I’m of the opinion that all of us have at least one addiction, although it may not be as disabling as Winehouse’s weakness for liquor and narcotics. What’s yours, Pisces? Porn? Sugar? Internet? Bad relationships? The coming weeks would be a very good time to seek help in healing it. Homework: You can read free excerpts of my recent book at http://bit.ly/HotExcerpts. Tell me your thoughts: Truthrooster@gmail.com.

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located in downtown’s picturesque Baldwin Village, Elle M’a Dit seems ready-made for romance. The welcome is genuinely warm. Candles twinkle on tables, the intimate two-storey room positively aglow. On the hi-fi, Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot whisper their tribute to star-crossed sweethearts Bonnie and Clyde. And a non-stop parade of Alsatian comfort-food plates beg to be shared à deux. How can you not fall in love? When ex-Thuet and Senses sous Gregory Furstoss and pregnant partner Tory Yang first opened the 50seat resto last summer, the cozy bis-

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plated over white-wine-laced sauerkraut sautéed in duck fat ($21). Think of Baeckeoffe ($19) as the Alsatian shepherd’s pie, a potato-topped casserole thick with slow-braised shredded short ribs, lamb shank and more gloriously fatty pork belly, sided with a salad of organic mesclun in cranberry vinaigrette – the only greens we see all night. So gloriously rich is the velvety seared foie gras over gingerbread French toast finished with a buttery veal reduction and a few slices of sautéed pear ($20),

it could masquerade as dessert. (No consolation to the duck, of course.) But we end as we began, with tarte flambée, this time layered à la tarte Tatin with sliced cinnamon-dusted apple ($7). The bargains don’t stop there. On Valentine’s Day, they’ll be serving a romantically themed six-course prix fixe at dinner for $55, and through February 10 a ’Licious-like threecourse $17 lunch and $28 dinner. How would chef describe his culinary credo? “I’m just trying to do what I used to do back home in Alsace,” says the affable Furstoss. “It’s simple, really. Good food, big portions and affordable prices.” Fait accompli! 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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1338 Lansdowne, at St. Clair, 416-6547248, thebigragu.com. Old-school Italian trat with a subterranean grotto complete with red checkered tablecloths, candles in Chianti bottles and Dino and Frank on the stereo. Average main $20. Open for dinner Tuesday to Thursday 5 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 to 11 pm, Sunday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Monday. Licensed. Access: two steps at narrow entrance, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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974 College, at Rusholme, 416-5327424, blackskirtrestaurant.com. Classic Sicilian cucina in a room that looks like a corner store in Little Italy circa 1963, with 6 and 8 pm seatings on February 14. Average main $25. Open Tuesday 5 to 10 pm, Wednesday to Saturday and Monday 9 am to 10 pm, lunch from 10 am, dinner from 5 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN

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519 Church, at Dundonald, 416-3556781, fabarnak.com. This socially aware café in the 519 Community Centre offers four lovers-inspired three-course prix fixe options as diverse as their clientele Monday through Friday (February 13 to 17). Our favourite? The Pretentious Lovers, with day-boat scallops brûlées, saffron cauliflower panna cotta and almond-truffle gremolata (all $30). Open for dinner Monday to Friday 5:30 to 9:30 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNNN

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317 Dundas W, at McCaul, 416-979-6688, ago.net/frank. The elegant Frank Gehrydesigned supper club will feature chef Anne Yarymowich’s veggie-friendly $75 four-course prix fixe February 10, 11 and 14. Open for dinner Friday, Saturday and Tuesday 5:30 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN

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372 Bay, at Richmond W, 647-352-3211, thegabardine.com. New York-style saloon in the financial district known for its contemporary comfort food card and classic cocktails. Average main $20. Open for dinner Monday to Friday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday. Licensed. Access: one step at door, tight entrance, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN

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111 Queen E, at Mutual, 416-8636006, georgeonqueen.com. In lieu of his à la carte lineup, chef Lorenzo Loseto sends out a luxe $150 five-course tasting menu in a gorgeous 19th-centry warehouse. Free glass of champagne, too! Open for dinner Tuesday, February 14, 5:30 to 10 pm. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNNN

89 Harbord, at Spadina, 416-9628989, theharbordroom.com. Chef Cory Vitiello’s contemporary takes on retro classics in a girly pink-on-pink room never fail to warm the heart. Don’t have a reservation? Sit at the bar! Average main $25. Open for dinner nightly 5:30 to 10:30 pm. Licensed. Access: three steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNN

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651 College, at Grace, 416-551-5025, labrestaurant.com. Chef Howard Dubrovsky goes molecular with a five-course $40 prix fixe, with seatings at 6, 6:30, 8:30 and 9 pm on February 14. Open for dinner Tuesday 6 to 11 pm, Wednesday to Sunday 6:30 to 10:30 pm. Brunch Sunday 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN continued on page 36 œ

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603 King W, at Portland, 416-5047867, susur.com. Top chef Susur Lee celebrates the day with a specially designed $75 four-course prix fixe with cocktails. (February 15 as well.) Open for dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 to 11:30 pm. Closed Sunday. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnnnn

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722 Queen E, at Broadview, 416-8508835, loicgourmet.ca. Prefer a quiet night in but can’t be bothered with all that cooking? This Riverside caterer is offering two three-course DIY takeout dinners ($65/$85) on Friday, Monday and Tuesday (February 10, 13 and 14) with three days’ notice. Too busy to pick up? They’ll send them by cab! Open Friday, Monday and Tuesday noon to 7 pm. Closed Saturday, Sunday. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms. Rating: nnn

WHAT: Inniskillin Riesling Icewine 2008 Rating: nnnn WHERE: Niagara Peninsula WHY: The icewine harvest has come and gone, complete with “picking parties.” C’mon, everyone, let’s go bend over in a field in the dark when it’s -10°C and pick shrivelled-up grapes until our fingers go numb! Really sorry to have missed that. Again. I’ll just have to console myself with a bottle of this. Not the cheapest icewine, but one of the most consistent. Peach, apricot, minerality, brilliant acidity and a long, elegant finish. Try it with your sweetie when you’re eating those Valentine’s Day sweets. PRICE: 375 ml/$69.95 AVAILABILITY: Limited quantities at selected Vintages outlets (product #558288) 3

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82 Ontario, at Richmond, 416-840-2759, mengraithai.com. Upscale Thai in a gorgeous warehouse setting with a $49 per person/$90 per couple four-course prix fixe on the 14th. Open for dinner Tuesday 6 to 10 pm, dinner Wednesday and Thursday 5 to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 to 11 pm, Sunday 4:30 to 10 pm, Monday 5 to 10 pm. Lunch Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 2 pm. Licensed. Access: seven steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnn

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432 Wellington W, at Spadina, 416-5966405, leselect.ca. Three-course $55 Parisian prix fixe in one of the most atmospheric bistros in town on February 14. Open for dinner Tuesday 5 to 11 pm, Monday and Wednesday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 11:30 pm, Saturday 11 am to midnight, Sunday 10:30 am to 10:30 pm. Brunch Saturday and Sunday till 3:30 pm. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn

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516 Eglinton W, at Headington, 416-3225183, sevennumbers.com. Five-course southern-Italian-style $49 prix fixe on the 14th. Reserve before February 7 and get two free glasses of Prosecco with dinner! Also: 307 Danforth, at Bowden, 416-4695183. Open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 11 pm, Sunday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Monday. Licensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: nnn

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Nathan Isberg’s a bit of a prankster. The Atlantic (1597 Dundas West, at Brock, 416-219-3819, atlanticondundas.com) chef is, after all, known to put crickets on his menu. For February 14, the iconoclastic cook claims he’s offering an “off-the-cuff” 69course prix fixe Valentine’s dinner inspired by the Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs opus. The price? $69, of course. He warns that single reservations will be paired randomly, “within reason,” while in a bid to promote polymorphism, those who book a table for three at the 7 pm seating will only pay for two. The regular Portu-centric carte will be available at the 6 and 8 pm seatings.

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582 Church, at Dundonald, 416-929-9108, sugotrattoria.ca. Chef Lia Buggemi goes rustic southern Italian with three courses for $50 in a lovely turn-of-the-century Victorian on February 14. Open for dinner nightly 5 to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: six steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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38 Wellington E, at Leader Lane, 647-343-0268, swishbyhan.wordpress. com. It’s business as usual at Leemo and Leeto Han’s edgy Korean bistro: a darkly romantic room, dazzling fusion tapas and service that borders on disciplinarian. Momofuku who? Open for lunch Monday to Friday noon to 2 pm, dinner Monday to Saturday 5 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNN

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Though Scott and Rachelle Vivian’s Beast (96 Tecumseth, at Whitaker, 647352-6000, thebeastrestaurant.com) is closed on Valentine’s Day, they’re holding another of their ongoing Group Of 7 Chefs dinners the night before. Besides the hosts, participating toques this round include Cowbell’s Mark Cutrara, Parts & Labour’s Matty Matheson, Earth Rosedale’s Marc Dufour and the Globe’s Kevin McKenna as well as Guy Rawlings, Chris Brown and Bertrand Alépée, formerly of Brockton General, Perigee and Amuse Bouche respectively. Tickets for the sevencourse locavore love-in go for $80 ($140 with wine pairings), available via eventbrite.ca/event/2733906187/ efblike?ebtv=C.

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LOVE FROM AFAR Canadian Opera Company

presents Kaija Saariaho’s opera about a 12thcentury French troubadour who has a longdistance love affair with a woman in Tripoli. Runs to Feb 22, see website for schedule. $12$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

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MAsquEs OF LOVE Night of revelry celebrating Cupid, featuring poetry and love songs with Patricia O’Callaghan, Teri Dunn and others. Today and tomorrow 8 pm. $15-$35. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity. torontomasquetheatre.com. DRACuLA – A LOVE sTORY Brant Theatre Workshops presents an adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel that takes actors through the castle’s historic halls in. Runs to Feb 14, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $34-$66. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 647-725-1822, casaloma.org.

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to Heart Fdn) Live entertainment, a DJ, silent auction and more. 6:30 pm. $100. Presidente Banquet Hall, 1133 Creditstone (Concord). heart.2.heartfoundation@hotmail.com. jAzz bEnEFiT COnCERT (Newman Centre Music Ministry) Newman Jazz Group (DongHoon Lee, Barbara Forbes, JD Considine, Josh Brecka), Katie Young and Bruno Cormier. 7:30 pm, $15-$20. Newman Centre Chapel, 89 St George. 416-9635137.

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rVALEnTinE CARD-MAking FAMiLY wORkshOp Create personalized Valentine cards and learn about the history of Valentine’s Day. 1-4 pm. $15, child $8. Todmorden Mills, Pottery E of Bayview. 416-396-2819.

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Sight presents an evening of burlesque with guests Stocking Stripping Lederlads, Dirty Blonde Venus, Teutonic Terrors in Uniform and others. 9:30 pm. $30, adv $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635, bemeinvalentine2012. eventbrite.com. CupiD’s CAbARET Diana Salvatore, Suzana Da Camara and Her Company Of Men. 8:30 pm. $17.50-$20. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-5316604.

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Pastel Supernova, Real-Girl Dolls and others. Today and tomorrow. 8 pm. $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. ThE sEx shOw Curated exhibition of painting, photography and mixed media. Artists include Katherine Verhoeven, Tony Wallachy, David Folk, Zachary Fish and others. To Feb 19. Wed to Sun 1-6 pm. Gallery 1313, 1313 Queen W. g1313.org. VALEnTinE’s ChOCOLATE CAbARET The Velvet Curtain Ensemble and guest artists perform songs from various countries. Today and Feb 11. 8 pm. $20-$25. Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen E. thevelvetcurtain.ca.

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classics. 8 pm. Tickets from $28. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905306-6000. VALEnTinE’s DJ Val LaVille and DJ Tudor. 10 pm. The Local Company, 511 Danforth. 10 pm. 416-465-5522. VALEnTinE FiEsTA ROMAnTiCA Johannes Linstead, and Antonitas D’Havila play Gypsy flamenco guitar. 7 pm. $30-$50. Latin Fever, 7777 Keele, Concord. uofttix.ca.

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ChoColate truffle Diy workshop Learn about chocolate and how to make truffles. 11 am-1 pm. $25. Riverdale Hub, 1326 Gerrard E. Pre-register chocolatetruffleworkshop. eventbrite.com. spenCer GorDon/nathaniel G moore/eVie Christie/mat laporte Valentine poetry reading. 8 pm. Free. Universal Grill, 1071 Shaw. 416-588-5928.

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Monday, February 13

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Bossa noVa for loVers Gord Sheard, Geoge

Koller, Bill McBirnie, Mark Kelso, Luanda Jones and Barbra Lica play Latin jazz. Doors. 7 pm. $32-$37. Old Mill Inn, 21 Old Mill. 416-2362641. jazz.fm.

three short silent films By Buster keaton aBout loVe anD romanCe Screenings Neighbors, The Balloonatic and more with live piano scores by Robert Bruce. 8 pm. $15, stu/ srs $12. Trinity St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. robertbrucemusic@gmail.com.

Tuesday, February 14 amore Soprano Julie Makerov accompanied

by Anne Larlee. Noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Richard Bradshow Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. 416363-8231. BlooDy Valentine massaCre Singles, couples or menages of all types party with gory costumes, fake blood, bloody drinks, free ping pong (after 9 pm), a killer photo booth and more. 9 pm. SPiN Toronto, 461 King W, lower level. rockitpromo.com. sweet loVe Alithea Cameron Quintet perform soul, jazz and blues classics. Dinner 6 & 8:30 pm, show 7 & 9:30 pm. $69, $15 standing only. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416588-0307. Valentine’s Day Stacy Kaniuk, and Gray perform soul infused pop. 8 pm. $10. RivoliI, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. Valentine’s Day show Betty & the Bobs perform. $20-$22.50. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. Valentine’s Dinner & show Carlo Berardinucci & Double A Jazz play romantic ballads. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. Valentine’s JaZZ Brownman Quartet. 8 pm. $10. Trane Studio, 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197.

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the scene CASS McCOMBS and FRANK FAIRFIELD at the Garrison, Friday, January 27. Rating: NNN Cass McCombs’s public image and moniker suggest a single entity, yet the Californian singer/songwriter’s Garrison show would’ve been far less effective without his four-piece band. It was their full, soft-focus arrangements – wafting pedal steel, pulsing drums and bass, dazzling keyboard work (at times easily mistaken for electric guitar) – that brought the tunes to life. Things got downright jammy at several points, with each member even taking a brief solo midway through the set. This made for some attentionwandering, especially since McCombs is more of a standout guitarist and songwriter than performer (or vocalist, for that matter). The mournful County Line from Wit’s End, one of two albums he released last year, got the biggest response. Opener Frank Fairfield left us gobsmacked but scratching our heads. Switching between banjo, acoustic

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guitar and fiddle and sitting on a chair placed far from his old-timey microphone, he looked like the mustachioed piano player in an Old West saloon, delivering rollicking blues-folk out of the side of his mouth with the creaky timbre of a 78 gramophone record. The obnoxious crowd easily talked over him until a woman hollered for everyCARLA GILLIS body to shut up.

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ñRICK WHITE at Saving Gigi, Thursday, January 26.

Rating: NNNN This super-intimate concert by Rick White and Julie Doiron at Saving Gigi began with White introducing himself as Doiron’s old boyfriend (he’s also recording her new album) and ended with the former Eric’s Trip bandmates hugging Love Tara-style in the window of the café. Doiron is known for anecdotal between-song ramblings and whispered apologies, and this show was no exception. Alone with her electric guitar, she played new songs, a handful from I

Can Wonder What You Did With Your Day and requests like Sending The Photographs, and little mistakes were met with encouraging applause White managed to sound psychedelic on acoustic guitar through the power of repetition, and his ghoststory tour song Anna Leigh, written for the Sadies, was chilling. While Eric’s Trip material was to be expected, the duo’s campfire-song-like covers – an obscure Neil Young tune, the Everly Brothers’ All I Have To Do Is Dream – came as a surprise. It was easy to picture them as teenagers learning to sing together in their bedrooms. SARAH GREENE

A$AP ROCKY at the Opera House, Friday, January 27.

Rating: NNN A convivial vibe gripped A$AP Rocky’s Opera House show, his first outside the U.S. Minutes after stepping onstage, he took the first of many dives into the packed front rows. Single Wassup loosened up the crowd, and by the time Rocky cued Three 6 Mafia’s Sippin’ On Some Syrup, which teased

into the woozy Purple Swag, they were game. Likeable and in command of his fans, Rocky combined lots of quotable shit with city praise – “Toronto’s a Crayola box!,” “Shout out the Somalians!” – all while kissing the hands of the women pressed upfront. Hooky songs like the meditative Bass and smoker’s anthem Get Lit seem intended for crowd participation. Drake sidled onstage in an OVO Canada Goose, hood up and Nike batting gloves on, to perform Cameras and The Motto while Rocky played hype man. The latter closed with the easy sway and trigger-effect chorus of Peso, and then returned for encore song Out Of This World, delivering the last verse a cappella. A rappy flourish to end a pretty good rap show. ANUPA MISTRY

YAMANTAKA//SONIC TITAN at the Garrison, Saturday, January 28. Rating: NNNN

Working within their invented “noh wave” genre, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan

stand out on their sound alone, which effortlessly combines prog rock, metal, Asian pop, Chinese opera, ambient and experimental. Live, the Toronto/Montreal collective manage to take their delightful weirdness to a whole other level, making them one of the few contemporary buzz bands to actually live up to their hype. The club version of their rock opera vision is more straightforward than the full theatrical one (which you can catch February 8 to 12 at Buddies in Bad Times as part of the Rhubarb Festival), but it’s still nothing like a traditional indie show. Besides face paint and costumes, they incorporate masks, a Chinese dragon puppet, dramatic lighting and an inventive set design that all make for an immersive, engrossing show. On paper it sounds like something only conceptual art students would enjoy, yet somehow they turn the chaos into a type of (very strange) pop music. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Thursday, February 2 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Bovine Sex CluB Permanent Bastards, Brixton Robbers, Bathurst, DJ Boom Boom.

CaStro’S lounge Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

Cherry Cola’S roCk n’ rolla OTYUGH (psych rock) 10:30 pm. Clinton’S Bruno Capinan & Jerusa Leã doors 9 pm. CroCodile roCk Sound Parade Open Mic. dakota tavern Ana Egge 7 pm. dazzling reStaurant Live Thursdays Omar ‘Oh’ Lunan, Mike Ferfolia, Jarelle, DJs Spoonz, Smartiez, Big Jacks, P-Plus (R&B/Motown/ soulful house/selective hip-hop) doors 8 pm. drake hotel Weekend Startup Boot Knives doors 11 pm. el MoCaMBo Big Intent, Danielle Duval, Little Creatures doors 9 pm. horSeShoe Dinosaur Bones, Young Rival, Prussia 9 pm. PartS & laBour the ShoP Jumple, TNG, the Blind Cats (indie rock) 10pm. the PiSton Tusks, Old Foes 10 pm. PreSS CluB Akhaya (reggae) 10 pm.

ranCho relaxo $5 Rap Show: Double video release More or Les, Wordburglar, ñ Timbuktu, Chokeules, Thesis Sahib, Fresh Kils & Mister E doors 9 pm.

the roverS PuB Arjun & David 10 pm. SouthSide Johnny’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

CaMeron houSe BaCk rooM Dear Sister, Alanna Gurr 9 pm. CaMeron houSe Fedora Upside 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. CaStro’S lounge Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. Cloak & dagger PuB Darin Yorston (bluegrass/folk) 10 pm. dakota tavern Luther Wright, Patrick Brealey 10 pm. eton houSe Keith Jolie (folk) 7 pm. gladStone hotel Melody Bar Toronto Blues Society Julian Fauth & Paul Reddick 9 pm. graffiti’S Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. holy oak Cafe Soozi Music: Not For Sissies! Soozi Schlanger, Tony Quarrington (folk) 7 pm. hugh’S rooM Ian Thomas 8:30 pm. the loCal The Shraggs. lola Brian Cober (solo acoustic blues) 9 pm.

MarkhaM theatre for the PerforMing artS Dan Hill 2 & 8 pm. tranzaC Southern CroSS Bluegrass Thurs-

days Bum Tickins 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. underdown PuB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots/blues) 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

edward JohnSon Building walter hall

roy thoMSon hall Beethoven Emperor Concerto Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Anton Kuerti 8 pm.

royal ConServatory of MuSiC koerner hall Sealed Angel Elmer Iseler Singers & the Amadeus Choir 8 pm.

royal ConServatory of MuSiC Mazzoleni hall Afiara String Quartet 7:30 pm. SoMewhere there Studio Alaniaris 8 pm. trane Studio The Blue Train Revisited Steve

Hall 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. College Street Bar DJ Chiclet. goodhandy’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 inSoMnia DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). lee’S PalaCe danCe Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance) 10 pm. lolaBar DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/ R&B). MaiSon MerCer Savoir Thursdays DJ Chris La Roque (French). rivoli Praxis 3 Toronto Electronic Music Showcase Basic Soul Unit, Scott Stanley, DJ Eric Downer (live sets) 10 pm. SuPerMarket FC Party. Sutra The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). wrongBar Respect The Artform: A Celebration Of DJs, Breaks And Beats House Shoes (DJ set) DJ Serious, Kaewonder, Elaquent, Suncleff, DJ Nana 10 pm.

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Beverley Johnston (percussionist) 12:10 pm. eMMet ray Bar The John Wayne Swingtet (Gypsy swing) 9 pm.

Friday, February 3

four SeaSonS Centre for the PerforMing artS riChard BradShaw aMPhitheatre

alleyCatz Graffitti Park. annex wreCkrooM Sykosis & Fusion Richie

From The Grammar Of Dreams: Vocal Music Of Kaija Saariaho Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio noon to 1 pm. gallery 345 Reve Doux-Amer/Bittersweet Dream Stacie Dunlop, Krista Vincent 8 pm. gate 403 The Betty’s (all-girl jazz trio) 9 pm, Melissa Lauren Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. lula lounge Swing Shift Big Band 7:30 pm. MetroPolitan united ChurCh Noon At Met Bruce Kirkpatrick Hill (organ) 12:15 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 Perfectly Hank 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Salvaggio, the Beatfabrikators, DJ Bliss 10 pm. aquila uPStairS All The Tired Horses (indie rock) 9:30 pm. Bar italia Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40). Beaver PP28 This One’s For Love Mac DeMarco, DJs Kontravoid & Tarantula X 10 pm. BlaCk Swan Malaria, Desekratewhore, Cromlech (heavy metal) doors 9 pm. Bovine Sex CluB Rockin’ Surfin’ Garage! Christian D & the Hangovers, the Blue Demons, Aunt Beazy, DJ Vania (rock) 9 pm. dakota tavern Dodge Fiasco (rock) 10 pm, Ana Egge 7 pm. drake hotel underground CD release Lynzie Kent doors 8 pm. el MoCaMBo downStairS Jumple, Lemon-

bucket Orchestra doors 9 pm. the flying Beaver PuBaret Carole Pope 7 pm. the garriSon Cursed Arrows, the Mark Inside, the Guest Bedroom, Crosss & Promsimii 9 pm. graffiti’S Paul Martin Rocks For Sick Kids 5 to 7 pm. groSSMan’S The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues).

Centre Brigantine rooM Kuumba: Honey Jam – Then And ñ Now Kellylee Evans, Eternia, Jemeni, Kim bharBourfront

Davis, Belinda Brady, True, Saidah Baba Talibah, Motion, Natasha Waterman and others 7 to 10 pm. holy oak Cafe Yuka (funk) 10 pm. horSeShoe Young Empires, Brave Station, Honheehonhee, Paradise Animals. kornerStoneS Carmella Long 9:30 pm. lee’S PalaCe Cletus, the Bloody Five, Amortek, Red Orkestra 9:30 pm. the loaded dog Midnight Jewel (pop rock) 9 pm. oPera houSe Juicy J doors 9 pm. PJ o’BrienS iriSh PuB Covered in Cash (Johnny Cash tribute band). PreSS CluB Alun Piggins & the Goat Men (rock) 10 pm. river run Centre Hillside Inside Dan Mangan & the Wooden Sky, Lowlands 7 pm. rivoli Fair Game, City & the Sea, Daniel Mager Band, Greg Preston & the Great Machine, Leela & the Agtestics 8 pm. the roverS PuB Scully and the Crossbones 10 pm. Sneaky dee’S Album release party Aggressor, Diemonds, Fatality, Shotgun Cure doors 9 pm. bSound aCadeMy Redemption: Bob Marley’s Birthday doors 10 pm. SouthSide Johnny’S Ten Q (rock) 10 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

axiS gallery & grill Poppa K’s Saturday Night Richard Keelan, Bill Heffernan. CaMeron houSe CD release Kayla Howran, Big Tobacco & the Pickers 9 pm, David Celia (folk/rock) 6 pm. dora keogh Taxi Chain (Celtic soul). bgladStone hotel Melody Bar Music Africa BHM Free Concert Series Fojeba (Afropop) 9 pm. highway 61 Southern BarBeque The Little Naturals w/ Tony Springer (blues) 8 pm. hugh’S rooM Garnet Rogers (folk) 8:30 pm. lola The Danny Beerio Jam 3 to 7 pm. lula lounge Salsa Friday Changuy Havana, DJ Suave 10 pm. now lounge Rock N’ Blues Jam Johnathan Link, Mike Zingrone, David Goldman. rePoSado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). Silver dollar Johnny Dowd, the Schomberg Fair, Brave Little Toaster, Mimico doors 9 pm. trane Studio Santerias & Ventanas (flamenco fusion) 8 pm. tranzaC Southern CroSS 60th Birthday Concert Kazumi Tsuruoka 7 pm.

u of t SCarBorough CaMPuS leigha lee Browne theatre Winter Blues Festiñ val: World Rhythms Concert Series Autorickshaw 7:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

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doMinion on queen Maureen Kennedy & Cory Weeds 8:30 pm.

edward JohnSon Building MaCMillan theatre Wind Symphony (wind and brass)

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venoCh turner SChoolhouSe Masques Of Love Patricia O’Callaghan, Ken Whiteley 8 pm. gallery 345 Chamber Music Pemi Paull, John Corban, Katelyn Clark (viola, violin, piano) 8 pm. gate 403 Sabor Latin Jazz Band 9 pm, Elizabeth Martins Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm. hart houSe arBor rooM Jazz At Oscar’s Sultans of String 9 pm. old Mill inn hoMe SMith Bar Fridays To Sing About Georgia Ambros Trio 7:30 pm. quoteS Fridays At Five The Canadian Jazz Quartet & Alastair Kay (trombone) 5 to 8 pm. rex Jazz Navigators (swing) 9:45 pm, the Maisies (three-part vocal harmony septet) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. royal ConServatory of MuSiC koerner hall Sealed Angel Elmer Iseler Singers & the Amadeus Choir 8 pm.

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Ex-Constantines frontman shifts perspective By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI BRY WEBB with DOUG TIELLI at the Music Gallery (197 John), Saturday (February 4), 6 and 8:30 pm. $12. RT, SS.

Don’t mistake Bry Webb for a man who’s lost his edge. He’s traded his road warrior lifestyle for domesticity and his gruff meat-and-potatoes rock and roll for glacial, acoustic folk, but the former Constantines frontman hasn’t given up his punk rock ideals. “The touring lifestyle tends to invite self-centredness, because you’re kind of living in your own world in that situation,” says the Guelph-based singer/ songwriter over coffee in Toronto. “But when you have a kid, you can’t do that at all. You start to pay more attention to the things around you that are going to influence his future.” The deep-voiced crooner’s first solo album, Provider (Idée Fixe), is a mellow meditation on private moments, though the second-person address of Ex-Punks stands out for its didacticism. “It’s about growing up in punk rock and trying to figure out what those ideals mean to me now,” explains Webb. “Punk rock, to me, is about being adaptive and economical with your energy and doing something interesting with it. It’s important not to deny the things you value just because you’re tired.”

That’s a hard-learned lesson for Webb. Many of the songs on Provider were recorded over five years with the Harbourcoats, a supergroup of sorts, but after overworking the tunes in the studio, he deemed them unfit for release. Then, when the Constantines went on indefinite hiatus in 2010, Webb moved from Montreal back to Guelph, accepted a job in community radio and briefly considered retiring as a musician. “A friend of mine said to me, ‘It’s more important that your kid see you happy and see that it’s possible to do what you love than for you to simply provide all of his material goods,’” recounts Webb. “That was such a revelation. It made me realize that I really needed music to be happy, even if it’s just writing songs for my son to hear.” An additional boost came from Leslie Feist, who invited Webb to duet on her new Metals album. When she later asked him to open for her on tour, he rushed to complete his album in time. That deadline compelled him to rediscover the value of back-to-basics recording and musical spontaneity. “When you start to over-think everything, it can kill a song. The performance that happens in the moment, that’s what a song is anyway. It’s a well-articulated moment.” 3

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Mette Lindberg doesn’t own a television and therefore can’t gauge how ubiquitous she’s become. She’s the eye-catching singer for Danish cosmic soul sixpiece the Asteroids Galaxy Tour, which you might know better as the retro/future big band in that heavily played Heineken commercial. In the stylish clip, a suave spy type makes a James Bond entrance before joining the band onstage to jam on some flute. The party erupts, and you’re left with AGT’s infectious tune The Golden Age stuck in your head – and perhaps a sudden thirst for a cold one. “It’s not in Denmark and I don’t have a television, so I’m always surprised when people know it,” says Lindberg from the Canary Islands, where the band is playing a private gig. “I don’t think people recognize us, because [the ad] is very fast and classy and glossy. I don’t have people saying, ‘You’re the girl from the Heineken commercial.’”

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Mandy, Marcus Visionary, Krinjah, Subhuman & Evidence (live dubstep w/ vocals/ DnB/ragga/electronic fusion) 9:30 pm. Bar neon Scissors DJs Fawn Big Canoe, Sokes (sexy house) $5.5 caSTro’S lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. clinTon’S Girl & Boy 90s Dance Party. coBra lounge The Fix Fridays Mkutz. college STreeT Bar DJ Arroganz. crawford Soul Block Party DJ Fase, Splattermonkey, Cozmic Cat (Motown/Stax/60s soul). drake hoTel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. drake hoTel underground Never Forgive Action Total Eclipse, Sweet Touch Foundation, DJ Numeric & Ted Dancin’ 11 pm.

Lindberg and co-founding member Lars Iversen have successfully played the licensing game during the band’s four-year existence. Horn-heavy single Around The Bend was used in an iPod spot, and The Sun Ain’t Shining No More is the theme music for Canadian spy-spoof series Insecurity, though the benefits of the latter are questionable. The band hopes to capitalize on the beer ad momentum with Out Of Frequency (BMG), due out this week. Their first album since their 2009 debut, Fruit, it follows up on their fixation with retro quirk and big beat soul. “We reference a lot of music from the 60s and 70s, and a lot of different genres,” she says. “We like spy movies, gangster movies and blaxploitation soundtracks. We like to play around with colours. Our music is romantic and has a psychedelic big band feel.” The big band sound is what landed the AGT their first gig in Copenhagen, opening for Amy Winehouse. “Amy had a great voice and was a crazy rock ’n’ roll character. She fascinated me, and I’m so sad she’s not here any more. She was one of a kind.” music@nowtoronto.com

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PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

(reggae) 10 pm.

Klinck doors 10 pm.5 hoT Box cafe High Fantasy Iain’n’Nick 7 pm. inSomnia Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Mickey D (house/breaks). kool hauS The Capricorn/Aquarius Soiree: Only Man She Wants Edition Infa Red, Legacy, Whitebwoy, Soca Sweetness, DJ Tyrone, DJ Flatline, Black Reaction and others. lee’S Palace dance cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop) 10 pm. levack Block Back room DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop). levack Block fronT room DJ Nerdvana. maro Anokhi Magazine Bollywood In Vegas Night Out DJ Kayper, Anjulie, Fenulla, Prita Chhabra doors 9:30 pm. ParTS & laBour STD DJs Stew Innes & Isosceles 10 pm. The PiSTon Versus (DJs pick out two classic artists and battle it out) 10 pm. The Savoy DJ JRyDee (hip-hop/old school) 10 pm. SuPermarkeT Rollin’ & Scratchin’ Beni 10 pm. ThomPSon hoTel The Bellboy Did It. virgin moBile mod cluB Come Out And Play Matt Medley (anthems/dance/90s) doors 10 pm.

alleycaTz Graffitti Park. aquila uPSTairS Lisette St Louis 9:30 pm. Bovine Sex cluB CJ Sleez, Crooked Valentine, Kether, DJ Sir Ian Blurton.

Bcadillac lounge Bob Marley Tribute The Memberz.

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Conflicted, Black Out Hatred, Leap of No Faith doors 6:30 pm, all ages. dominion on queen Ronnie Hayward Trio 4 to 7 pm. dora keogh Aideen O’Brien Band (pop). douBle douBle land LP release Rattail, Skitso Convo & Cartoons 9 pm. duffy’S Tavern Double Comeback Show Saprophyte, Wovesskin, Kynesys, Xyphos doors 8 pm. feaTherS PuB Replay (R&B/soul/funk/popop/ rock/jazz) 8 pm. The flying Beaver PuBareT Carole Pope 7 pm. full of BeanS coffee The Oolong 7 4 to 5:30 pm. The garriSon Scientists of Sound, Tupperware Remix Party (members of Jimmy Swift Band/electro-rock) doors 9 pm.

ñ BharBourfronT cenTre lakeSide Terrace Kuumba: A Celebration Of Jañ maica’s 50th Anniversary Of Independence

Through Reggae Music Clive Chin 8 to 10 pm.

BHarbourfront Centre brigantine room Kuumba: The Known, (Un)Known

Artist Showcase Rochelle Jordan, Shi Wisdom, KJ (88 Days of Fortune), Spek Won, Abstract Random and others 9:30 pm. HorsesHoe Juno Concert Series/Exclaim! 20th Anniversary Edition The Sadies, the Elwins, Michie Mee, Choclair, members of Broken Social Scene, Tokyo Police Club, Fucked Up, Rural Alberta Advantage and others. Lee’s PaLaCe This Will Destroy You, Mountains, Amen Dunes doors 9 pm. tHe Loaded dog Red Velvet Band (pop rock) 9 pm.

rebas Café Open Mic Saturdays The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm. st george’s CHurCH sanCtuary Hillside Inside Harry Manx & Kim Churchill 3 pm. trane studio

Amai Kuda, Kae Sun 8 pm. ñ tranzaC soutHern Cross Paul Kolinski’s

Country Jam 10 pm, Jamzac (folk) 3 pm.

CHaLkers Pub David Occhipinti Quartet 6 pm. dominion on Queen Moo’d Swing 8:30 pm. edward JoHnson buiLding maCmiLLan tHeatre Wind Ensemble (wind and brass)

massey HaLL Chicago 8 pm. ñ oPera House Comfortably Numb: Pink Floyd Show doors 3 pm, all ages show.

PJ o’briens irisH Pub Covered in Cash (Johnny Cash tribute band).

Press CLub Cactus (acoustic punk) 10 pm. rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. tHe rovers Pub Yellow Brand Band 10 pm. siLver doLLar Barbarosa, Redanda, Illitry. sneaky dee’s A Sight for Sewn Eyes, Bare-

bones, Lifestory: Monlogue early all ages show. sound aCademy Theory of a Deadman, Bleeker Ridge 8 pm, all ages. soutHside JoHnny’s Freedom Train (rock/ top 40) 10 pm. tranzaC Marc Ross 9 pm. virgin mobiLe mod CLub The Cab, the Summer Set, He Is We, Days Difference, Paradise Fears doors 6 pm, all ages.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

asPetta Caffe Snow White, Caitlin Burgess,

Stacey Howchin, Courtney Lynn, Infamous Box, Mittenz (all female rock show) 6 pm to midnight. Cameron House Jack Marks (country/folk) 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm. Cameron House baCk room Luke Michielsen (singer/songwriter). dakota tavern Tennessee Voodoo Coupe (rockabilly country) 10 pm. fogarty’s The Josh Gordon Band (blues) 3 to 7 pm. gate 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. graffiti’s Samantha Martin n’ the Haggard 4 to 7 pm. HoLy oak Cafe Cowan House Ramblers (bluegrass/oldtime) 10 pm. Hot box Cafe Hairy Holler (folk/punk/blues/ jazz/gypsy/swing) 7 pm. HugH’s room Fathead (blues) 8:30 pm. Leaside united CHurCH Celtic Dinner-Dance Fundraiser Sandy Macintyre & Steeped in Tradition 6 pm. tHe LoCaL Michael Brennan 10 pm, Arthur Renwick 5 pm. LuLa Lounge Salsa Saturday Lady Son y Articulo Veinte, DJ GIO 10 pm. musiC gaLLery Bry Webb, Doug Tielli 6 & 8:30 pm. See preview, page 45.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

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VenoCH turner sCHooLHouse Masques Of Love Patricia O’Callaghan, Ken Whiteley 8 pm. gate 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. metroPoLitan united CHurCH BachFest II: Jam Sessions With Bach Benjamin Stein, SaraAnne Churchill, Daniel Rubinoff 7:30 pm. oLd miLL inn Home smitH bar Jazz Masters Adrean Farrugia Trio 7:30 pm. rex Vaughan Misener (jazz) 9:45 pm, Lester McLean Trio 7 pm, Composers Collective (big band) 3:30 pm. roy tHomson HaLL Beethoven Emperor Concerto Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Anton Kuerti 8 pm. royaL Conservatory of musiC Conserva

tory tHeatre A Year Of Great Sax Ravi Coltrane Quartet, Christine Jensen Quartet w/ Ingrid Jensen 8 pm. st gabrieL’s Passionist ParisH Dreams Of Flying Sneak Peek Orchestra 7:30 pm. toronto Centre for tHe arts george weston reCitaL HaLL The Firebird Toronto

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CLinton’s Shake, Rattle & Roll Bangs & Blush (60s soul/rock & roll party). Cobra Lounge Crown Saturdays DJ Jed Harper. CoLLege street bar Heavy Rotation DJ Royale, DJ Mercilless, DJ Riccachet, DJ Thera-P (funk/soul/R&B/hiphop/house/reggae) doors 10 pm. Crown bar & Lounge Crown Saturdays (top 40/house/mashups) doors 10 pm. CzeHoski KNOWN I.James.Jones. drake HoteL underground Broken English 08 Jillionaire, D4KOT4, Famou$ Players doors 11 pm. See preview, page 42. drake HoteL Lounge MembersOnly DJs doors 10 pm. emmet ray bar Soul Hop DJ Sawtay (soul/ hip-hop/funk) 10 pm. ezone Embryon: FunFunFun DJs B7, Speedfrek, Damo, Fuzzboy and others (techno/dubstep/hardstyle/metal). footwork Drumcode Night Adam Beyer & Ida Engberg, Greg Gow, the Junkies doors 10 pm. gLadstone HoteL Pop Kult #004 Perseus, Enis, the Wheel Wells, Elect Blake 10 pm. goodHandy’s Fetish Party DJ Jimi LaMort doors 9 pm.5 BHarbourfront Centre iCe rink DJ Skate Night: Kuumba/ Soca On Ice Dr Jay de Soca Prince 8 to 11 pm. insomnia Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). Lee’s PaLaCe danCe Cave Full On Alternative DJ Mr Pete (alternative) 10 pm. LoLabar DJ Mr Stylus (house/hip-hop/R&B/ reggae). maison merCer Célébration Ramy Vs David. maro Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems). moroCo CHoCoLat Void Music Adam Khan, Haf (deep house/techno) 8 pm. neu+raL Fixion DJ Dwight (alt/electronic/ remix). Parts & Labour No No Pony DJs Suzie Boo & Magnum PI (90s hip-hop/Elvis) 9 pm. tHe Piston Rip It Up Davy Love (psyche/ Northern soul) 10 pm.

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JoniE & thE ExEs the masses • maps patrick mccauley & the wandering bones tHurS february 9 • $6.00

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Revival 90s House Music Tribute Party

Michael Watford, DJs Dino & Terry, Kevin Williams, Groove Institute, Tyrone Solomon & JMK 10 pm. Rivoli Droppin’ Knowledge Fashawn, Notes to Self, Tim FUNDAMENT Stuard, DJ James Redi 9:30 pm. Sneaky Dee’S Shake A Tail (60s pop & soul) 11 pm. SupeRmaRket Do Right Sturdays! DJs John Kong, MC Abs. thompSon hotel Suite Saturdays. viRgin mobile moD Club UK Underground MRK, Tigerblood, Bingo Bob (indie/electro/ dubstep/rock) doors 10 pm.

WRongbaR

ñSurkin doors 10 pm.

Sunday, February 5 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

College StReet baR The Grind, DJ James Redi. Dominion on Queen Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

gRaffiti’S Michael Brennan & the Roundup 4

to 7 pm.

BhaRbouRfRont CentRe lakeSiDe teRRaCe

Kuumba: P.E.A.C.E. (People Everywhere Actual ly Coexisting Equally) (hip-hop) 4 to 6 pm.

BhaRbouRfRont CentRe bRigantine

Room Kuumba: T&T 50th Anniversary Of Independence Pan Fantasy Steelband 3:30 to 5 pm. holy oak Cafe Team Building Exercises (pop) 10 pm. magpie Cafe Heavy Generator (ska/dub/reggae/rocksteady night) 9 pm. Roxton Matt Antaya 9:30 pm. Sneaky Dee’S Reaction Nicole Coward, Muso Project, Carlo Meriano & the Science Club 8:30 pm. SouthSiDe Johnny’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

aQuila Junction Jam The New MynahBirds 3:30 pm.

aQuila upStaiRS McDale’s Open Mic 8:30 pm.

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february 2-8 2012 NOW

CameRon houSe Kevin Quain & the Mad

Bastards 9 pm, Joanne Mackell (folk) 6 pm. CaStRo’S lounge Gypsy Rebels (world) 4 pm. the CentRal Howard Gladstone & Julie Gladstone 2 to 4:30 pm. Cloak & DaggeR pub These Boots (folk/pop) 10 pm. Dakota taveRn Bluegrass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm, Flash Lightnin’ 10 pm. epiC lounge Iya Ire (Afro-Cuban drum and dance) 5 to 8 pm. fRee timeS Cafe Marc Ross 8 pm. hugh’S Room 12th Annual Banjo Special Chris Coole, Arnie Naiman, Chris Quinn, Brian Taheny 8:30 pm. the loCal Sheesham & Lotus 10 pm, Chris Coole 5 pm. lula lounge Cuban Son Duo (salsa/son) 11 am. muCh me Open Mic (eclectic) 8 pm. pogue mahone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic) 4 to 8 pm. pReSS Club Staggy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. RebaS Café Bob Marley Tribute Peter Janes (singer/songwriter) 1 to 4 pm. Rivoli Roxanne Potvin, Kim Wempe. SupeRmaRket Free Fall Sundays Fifth Anniver sary hosts Stephen York & Tony Rabalao. 7 pm. tRanzaC SoutheRn CRoSS The Woodchoppers Association 10:30 pm, The Spanish Waiter – Mike Hopkins 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm. unDeRDoWn pub Open Mic Porter 9:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Bal gReen theatRe Syncopation: Life In The Key Of Black Jackie Richardson, KellyLee Evans, Shawne & Jay Jackson 3 pm. Dominion on Queen Jazz Jam Noah Leibel 4 to 7 pm.

eDWaRD JohnSon builDing WalteR hall

New Music Festival TorQ Percussion Ensemble 7:30 pm. emmet Ray baR Angela Sande 9 pm. gate 403 Kyle McGyle Jazz Duo 9 pm, Jeff Taylor & the SLT 5 to 8 pm. glenn goulD StuDio Off Centre Music Salon: Shubertiad: The Composer Contemplates & Twitters Inna Perkis, Boriz Zarankin, Charlene Santoni, Vasil Garvanliev, Jacques Israelievitch 2 pm. hiRut fine ethiopian CuiSine Acoustic Dinner Showcase Mark Sepic, Gary 17 (jazz/pop) 4 to 7 pm. Rex Random Access 9:30 pm, the Offbeat 7 pm, Club Django (gypsy-swing) 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. St geoRge’S angliCan ChuRCh East Meets West The Dunhuang Chamber Ensemble, musicians of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7 pm. WateRfallS Lord Bubba’s New Jazz Project 8 pm.

9 pm.

DRake hotel unDeRgRounD Family Concert The Monkey Bunch doors 2:30 pm.

gRaffiti’S blackmetalbrunch DJ Murder Mike (black metal) 11 am.

inSomnia DJ Shannon (old school hip-hop/

disco/funk).

lee’S palaCe DanCe Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro 70s/80s) 10 pm.

Monday, February 6

music notes

PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Dakota taveRn The Sure Things (country

rock) 10 pm.

DRake hotel unDeRgRounD Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.

DRake hotel lounge Ride the Tiger (60s &

70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm. gRaffiti’S Kevin Quain’s Gutbucket Lounge 6 to 9 pm. hoRSeShoe Shoeless Monday Engine Empire, Last Bullet, Haley Stark 9 pm. Bhot box Cafe Bob Marley’s Birthday: Knowledge For The Pickney Benefit DJ Chocolate, Abi Roach, Raffa Dean, Uncledropsi, Ryan Reid 7 pm. the hoxton The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, Vacationer doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page 46. phoenix ConCeRt theatRe Iced Earth, Symphony X, Warbringer doors 6:30 pm, all ages. pReSS Club Domestic Bliss Mondays Ray Whimseys Sweet Piece (rock) 10 pm. tRanzaC SoutheRn CRoSS This Is Awesome! (indie lounge music) 7 pm. viRgin mobile moD Club Rumer doors 7 pm, all ages.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

CameRon houSe Rucksack Willies 6 pm. Dakota taveRn Mariachi Mondays 6 to 10 pm. highWay 61 SoutheRn baRbeQue Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

the loCal Hamstrung Stringband (blugrass)

Cameron house Records launches

It’s been more than a year since long-running Queen West institution the Cameron House (408 Queen West) announced it was starting a record label. It’s finally becoming a reality on Friday (February 3, 9 pm), with the release of Kayla Howran’s debut LP, Pistol. I guess if you’ve been operating a bar for more than 30 years, you don’t feel the need to rush these things. As Cameron House regulars might expect, Pistol is a twangy back-to-basics altcountry album, with contributions by many musicians who play at the venue. There are plenty of songs about whiskey, beer and heartbreak, recorded and arranged as if new country had never invaded the airwaves.

9:30 pm. on Cue Camdon Blues (blues) 8 pm. Roxton Michael Peter (bluegrass) 9:30 pm. tRane StuDio Blue Mondays Son Roberts Band (nublues) 8 pm. tRanzaC SoutheRn CRoSS Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm. RepoSaDo Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean. thompSon hotel Blacklist. WateRfallS The Lion’s Den (reggae).

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Clinton’S Hue, Broken Arrows (indie rock) doors 7:30 pm. College StReet baR Sunday Boys. Dakota taveRn Peter Elkas Band 10 pm. geneRal motoRS CentRe Gigantour Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat, Lacuna Coil doors 6 pm. gRaffiti’S Max Marshall 5 to 7 pm. hoRSeShoe Nu Music Nite Atom Division, Will Currie & the Country French, Marlboros 9 pm. kool hauS The Kills, Jeff the Brotherhood, Hunters doors 8 pm, all ages. See preview, page 41. phoenix ConCeRt theatRe Cody Simpson (singer/songwriter) doors 6 pm, all ages. tRanzaC SoutheRn CRoSS Colette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

emmet Ray baR Shannon Graham Group 9 pm. gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm,

Ken McDonald Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. people’S ChiCken Advocats Big Band (bop/ mambo/swing/swoon) 7:30 pm. Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

alleyCatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. bovine Sex Club Moody Mondays Douglas

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

inSomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). the piSton Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks (pre

bovine Sex Club B.Y.O.DJ. CaStRo’S lounge Watch This Sound DJ Greg

t.o.

Fairbanks Jr.

Volunteer Opportunities of the Week • Salvation Army Isabel & Arthur Meighen Manor • Culturelink • ALS Ontario • Daily Bread Food Bank For details on these opportunities, see this week’s Classified section.

Tuesday, February 7 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

annex WReCkRoom Drummers In Exile (drum and dance circle) 8:30 pm.

CameRon houSe Friendly Rich 10 pm. CaStRo’S lounge Quiet Revolutions blue-

Venus (singer/songwriter showcase) 10 pm.

Cloak & DaggeR pub Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm.

Delta ChelSea hotel Acoustic Tuesday 7:30 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. habitS gaStRopub OldTime Tuesdays Rosalyn Dennett 8 pm. holy oak Cafe Matt Bailey (folk) 9 pm. hot box Cafe Hotbox Unplugged Open Stage/ Jam EvanB & JasonC 7 pm. the loCal Massey/Harris. the piSton Leh Lo’s Song Writer Circle 9 pm. pReSS Club Toast & Jam Open Jam 10 pm. Roxton Union Duke (bluegrass/alt-country) 9:30 pm. the RuSty nail Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

alleyCatz Swing Tuesdays Carlo Berardinucci & the Double A Jazz Swing Band. Dominion on Queen Django Jazz Jam 8:30 pm. eDWaRD JohnSon builDing WalteR hall U of T Student Composers 7:30 pm. fouR SeaSonS CentRe foR the peRfoRming aRtS RiChaRD bRaDShaW amphitheatRe

Collaborations Artists of the COC Ensemble Studio & Atelier Lyrique de l’Opéra de Montréal noon to 1 pm. gate 403 Jorge Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 5 to 8 pm. Rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam: Monthly Blues Jam Dr Nick and the Rollercoasters 9:30 pm, Shields & Fielding Trio 6:30 pm. SupeRmaRket The Ambient Ping: The Return Of The DreamState Drone Cycle Part Two dreamSTATE w/ Matthew Poulakakis, NOiNo doors 8 pm. tRanzaC Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 10 pm.

dance muSic/dJ/lounge

bloke & 4th Swank Tom Wrecks. gooDhanDy’S Ladyplus TGirl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5

inSomnia Soulful Tuesdays D-Jay. RepoSaDo Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Sneaky Dee’S MFOY late eve.

Wednesday, February 8

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Copps Coliseum Gigantour Megadeth, Motorhead, Volbeat, Lacuna Coil doors ñ 6 pm. Dakota tavern Hot Rock! (Flash Lightnin’ and Beauties members play Rolling ñ Stones) 10 pm. Drake Hotel unDergrounD Ohbijou doors 8 pm. ñ HorsesHoe Patrick McCauley & the Wandering Bones 9 pm.

chin (blues) 7 pm.

Hirut fine etHiopian Cuisine Gary 17s Open Stage Steve Raiken 8:30 pm. tHe loCal Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban). silver Dollar High Lonesome Wednesdays Crazy Strings (bluegrass jam) 9 pm. supermarket Wednesdays Go Pop! Mike Celia, the Sweetness, Robyn Dell’Unto, Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers 9 pm. trane stuDio Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (singer/songwriter) 8 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Emilie Mover (folk) 7:30 pm. tranzaC tiki room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm.

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Japan (post-punk) 10 pm. tHe piston Whirly Birds, Drunk Woman, Planet Creature. Brex Bill Withers Tribute Justin Bacchus, Chris Gale, Chris Hunt, Dafydd Hughes, Eric St. Laurent, Steve Zsirai-B, Tim Shia 9:30 pm. sneaky Dee’s Whats Poppin’. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s Steve Aucoin’s Wingman Duo (acoustic pop) 8 pm.

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CHalkers pub Girls Night Out Jazz Jam 8 pm. Dominion on queen Corktown Ukulele Jam gate 403 Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm. HugH’s room Album launch DK Ibomeka (jazz/blues) 8:30 pm.

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ters cabaret Pastel Supernova, Real-Girl Dolls and others 8 pm. mezzetta Morgan Childs Guitar Trio 9 pm. nawlins Jazz bar Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm. rex Rhonda Stakich Trio 6:30 pm. tranzaC John Russon Quartet (jazz) 10 pm. unDerDown pub Jazz Night 10 pm.

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Venue Index al green tHeatre 750 spadina. 416-9246211. aliCe fazooli’s square one 209 rathburn W (mississauga). 905-281-1721. alleyCatz 2409 yonge. 416-481-6865. anDy poolHall 489 College. 416-9235300. annex wreCkroom 794 Bathurst. 416536-0346. aquila 347 keele. 416-341-8487. aspetta Caffe 207 augusta. 416-725-0693. augusta House 152 augusta. 416-9778881. axis gallery & grill 3048 dundas W. 416-604-3333. bar italia 582 College. 416-535-3621. bar neon 1226 Bloor W. beaver 1192 Queen W. 416-537-2768. blaCk swan 154 danforth. 416-469-0537. bloke & 4tH 401 king W. bovine sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-5044239. CaDillaC lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-5367717. Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-7030811. Castro’s lounge 2116 Queen e. 416-6998272. tHe Central 603 markham. 416-913-4586. CHalkers pub 247 marlee. 416-789-2531. CHerry Cola’s roCk n’ rolla 200 Bathurst. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. Cloak & Dagger pub 394 College. 647436-0228. Cobra lounge 510 king W. 416-361-9004. CoConuts restaurant & lounge 2180 steeles W. 905-532-0504. College street bar 574 College. 416-5332417. Copps Coliseum 101 york Blvd (Hamilton). CrawforD 718 College. 416-530-1633. CroCoDile roCk 240 adelaide W. 416-5999751. Crown bar & lounge 393 king W. 416341-2345. CzeHoski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787. Dakota tavern 249 ossington. 416-8504579. Dave’s... on st Clair 730 st Clair W. 416657-3283. Dazzling restaurant 291 king W. 416506-8886. DC musiC tHeatre 360 munster. 416-2340222. Delta CHelsea Hotel 33 gerrard W. 416595-1975. Dominion on queen 500 Queen e. 416368-6893. Dora keogH 141 danforth. 416-778-1804. Double Double lanD 209 augusta. Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. Duffy’s tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416-6280330. eDwarD JoHnson builDing 80 Queen’s park. 416-978-3744. el moCambo 464 spadina. 416-777-1777. emmet ray bar 924 College. 416-792-4497. enoCH turner sCHoolHouse 106 trinity. 416-863-0010. epiC lounge 1355 st Clair W. 416-792-9382.

eton House 710 danforth. 416-466-6161. ezone 95 the east mall/121 north Queen. 416-252-8300. featHers pub 962 kingston rd. 416-6940443. tHe flying beaver pubaret 488 parliament. 647-347-6567. fogarty’s 3481 lake shore W. 416-2535500. footwork 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. four seasons Centre for tHe performing arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. free times Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078. full of beans Coffee 1348 dundas W. 647-347-4161. gallery 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781. tHe garrison 1197 dundas W. 416-5199439. gate 403 403 roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. general motors Centre 99 athol e (oshawa). 1-877-436-8811. glaDstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635. glenn goulD stuDio 250 Front W. 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. 416-5337272. Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Hart House 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9788849. HigHway 61 soutHern barbeque 1620 Bayview. 416-489-7427. 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. tHe Hoxton 69 Bathurst. HugH’s room 2261 dundas W. 416-5316604. insomnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. kool Haus 132 Queens Quay e. 416-8690045. kornerstones 1601 Birchmount. 416-8404238. leasiDe uniteD CHurCH 822 millwood. 416-425-1253. lee’s palaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. levaCk bloCk 88 ossington. 416-916-0571. tHe loaDeD Dog 1921 lawrence e. 416-7509009. tHe loCal 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lola 40 kensington. 416-348-8645. lolabar 1173 dundas e. lula lounge 1585 dundas W. 416-5880307. magpie Cafe 831 dundas W. 416-916-6499. maison merCer 15 mercer. 416-341-8777. markHam tHeatre for tHe performing arts 171 town Centre Blvd (markham). 905-305-7469. maro 135 liberty. 416-588-2888. massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255. metropolitan uniteD CHurCH 56 Queen e. 416-363-0331. mezzetta 681 st Clair W. 416-658-5687. moroCo CHoColat 99 yorkville. 416-9612202.

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muCH me 816 st Clair W. 416-651-0009. musiC gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. nawlins Jazz bar 299 king W. 416-5951958. neu+ral 349a College. 416-926-2112. now lounge 189 Church. 416-364-1301. olD mill inn 21 old mill rd. 416-236-2641. on Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417. opera House 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. parts & labour 1566 Queen W. 416-5887750. people’s CHiCken 744 mt pleasant. 416489-7931. pHoenix ConCert tHeatre 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. tHe piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. pJ o’briens irisH pub 39 Colborne. 416-8157562. pogue maHone 777 Bay. 416-598-3339. press Club 850 dundas W. 416-364-7183. quotes 220 king W. 416-979-7717. ranCHo relaxo 300 College. 416-9200366. rebas Café 3289 dundas W. 416-626-7372. reposaDo 136 ossington. 416-532-6474. revival 783 College. 416-535-7888. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. river run Centre 35 Woolwich (guelph). 877-520-2408. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. tHe rovers pub 570 Bloor W. 647-977-6455. roxton 379 Harbord. 416-535-8181. roy tHomson Hall 60 simcoe. 416-8724255. royal Conservatory of musiC 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. tHe rusty nail 2202 danforth. 647-7297254. tHe savoy 1166 Queen W. silver Dollar 486 spadina. 416-975-0909. sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. somewHere tHere stuDio 227 sterling, unit #112. sounD aCaDemy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s 3653 lake shore W. 416-521-6302. st gabriel’s passionist parisH 670 sheppard e. 416-221-8866. st george’s CHurCH 99 Woolwich (guelph). 519-822-1366. st george’s angliCan CHurCH 5350 yonge. 416-225-1922. supermarket 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. sutra 612 College. 416-537-8755. tHompson Hotel 550 Wellington W. 416-640-7778. toronto Centre for tHe arts 5040 yonge. 416-733-9388. trane stuDio 964 Bathurst. 416-913-8197. tranzaC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. u of t sCarborougH Campus 1265 military trail. unDerDown pub 263 gerrard e. 416-9270815. unitarian Congregation great Hall 84 south service rd (mississauga). 905-3385702. virgin mobile moD Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. waterfalls 303 augusta. 416-927-9666. wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677

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album reviews Pop

LANA DEL REY Born To Die (Universal)

album of the week NNNN ñBAHAMAS

Barchords (Brushfire) Rating: Few musicians look as comfortable playing a guitar as Afie Jurvanen, aka Bahamas. Live, the Barrie-born soul-folk musician often breaks into longish instrumental passages, his fingers flying up and down the fretboard, earning him applause and wolf whistles. On record, though, he’s careful not to indulge in flash of any kind, using his soulful picking solely to serve the song. And his second album offers plenty of standout songs. Like on his Pink Strat debut, a few hint at In Need Of Medical

Attention-era Joel Plaskett and Haligonian folk hero Al Tuck. Barchords also shares Pink Strat’s lazy-Sunday bedroom intimacy – cosy with close-miked, nearspoken vocals, simple arrangements and (occasionally hokey) lyrics that let you in on the workings of his heart. This time around, though, female backing vocals add interest and drama to what is essentially a rich batch of breakup songs that somehow leave you feeling good. The ever-relaxed Jurvanen, after all, is an expert at bringing the good vibes. Top track: Be My Witness CARLA GILLIS

Rating: NN Lana Del Rey is a songwriter with literary flair and a sense of drama, but ultimately her moody tales of love and lost innocence fail to solve the quandary faced by many a serious-minded pop singer: how to convey your deepest emotions with pointed simplicity without sounding totally ridiculous? It’s a feat she does not pull off. All is not lost, however. Born To Die nicely balances sweeping, orchestral R&B and hip-hop beats. As a singer, Del Rey’s as theatrical as her glamorous image, lowering her voice to a husky register and vamping it up with sing-talky turns of phrase. The best songs succeed on the strength of her sultry melodies and pop hooks in spite of the terrible lyrics. Given that it was evocative single Video Games that lured us in, it’s disappointing to hear Del Rey lean so heavily on corny platitudes and cringe-worthy imagery. Much of her music aims to capture elusive emotions, yet she ends up spelling them out with literal refrains, banal narratives and sexed-up histrionics that leave little to the imagination. Top track: Video Games KEVIN RITCHIE

CHAIRLIFT Something (Columbia)

Rating: NNN It’s been nearly four years since Chairlift scored modest crossover success, a major label deal and prime placement in an iPod RCM_Now1/5bw_Yasmin/Omar_contests_Feb2_Layout 1 12-01-20 3:59 PM Page 1 commercial – recently enough to capitalize on name recognition but long enough ago to escape categorization as “that iPod band.” That leaves a relatively clean slate for the Brooklyn electro-pop duo’s sophomore album, on which they replace their earlier shifting identity with one firmly grounded in 80s revival. WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THIS CONCERT On slick, feckless romance ballads like I Belong In Your Arms, that rooted-in-thepast sound can seem like empty nostalgia, but it blooms with freshness when used as a springboard for experimentation. Opening track Sidewalk Safari, for instance, is a bouncy, irresistible pop number from the perspective of a maniac running someone down with her car, while lead single Amanaemonesia uses dark Bauhaus-esque vocals to explore modern Saturday, February 11, 2012 8pm rituals (and, in the video, dance routines). Top track: Sidewalk Safari Koerner Hall Chairlift play the Horseshoe March 28. “Powerful, passionate, and RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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Yasmin Levy and Omar Faruk Tekbilek intriguing” (The Guardian) singer Yasmin Levy blends Ladino (Judeo-Spanish music) with fiery flamenco. “Gorgeous and sensuous with a voice that leave audiences shivering with delight.” (Sydney Telegraph) Multi-instrumentalist Omar Faruk Tekbilek is known world-wide for his magical performances, prestigious award wins, millions of album sales, and virtuoso playing of Turkish flutes.

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GOTYE Making Mirrors (Universal) Rating: NNN Australian pop singer Gotye (aka Wouter De Backer) would rather talk about all the strange instruments and records he samples to build his hypnotic grooves than about his influences or lyrical ideas, and that’s reflected on his third studio album, Making Mirrors. He’s got a knack for rich, inventive textures and intricate rhythms, but his songwriting is strangely conservative and, occasionally, surprisingly silly. State Of The Art, for instance, is a goofy ode to an old organ. Even when he’s mining digital dub techno, he ends up sounding more like

Peter Gabriel or Sting than Basic Channel’s experimental minimalism. It’s sometimes an awkward fit, but on many tracks it works better than you might think. Gotye’s less successful when he’s running away from his pure pop potential and trying too hard to be arty and experimental. At his best he reminds you of everything that makes Miike Snow’s self-titled debut such an addictive listen, but at his worst he comes across like an electronic music dilettante. Top track: Eyes Wide Open Gotye plays Kool Haus March 31. BENJAMIN BOLES

YOUNG EMPIRES Wake All My Youth (Pirates Blend) Rating: NNN When Matthew Vlahovich put his oneman-band synth-pop project Golden Girls on hiatus back in early 2010 to focus on electro-rock trio Young Empires, he suddenly found himself heading out on the road opening up for acts like Chromeo, Foster the People and Vampire Weekend and enjoying lots of blog buzz. Maybe that’s why it’s taken so long for the Toronto band to drop their highly anticipated debut EP. Better late than never, but you can’t help wondering if this indie-friendly dance pop would have got more traction had it hit shelves a few years ago. Nevertheless, the hooks are rock-solid and the beats pleasingly pumping. What really makes this stand out from Vlahovich’s Golden Girls output is the absence of anything that could be mistaken for ironic kitsch. Wake All My Youth is unashamedly earnest, in a way that makes you wish you were 16 instead of making you cringe with embarrassment. Top track: Rain Of Gold Young Empires celebrate the release of Wake All My Youth Friday (February 3) at the Horseshoe. BB

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SHARON VAN ETTEN Tramp (Jagjaguwar) Rating: NNN Sharon Van Etten’s third album, produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner, should move her closer to being recognized as a great and unique songwriter, though the album never quite takes off the way many of us hoped. That’s the thing about the Brooklyn indie folk musician: you find yourself rooting for her, possibly because of the aching sadness – mournfulness might be a better word – in her soulful voice and the vulnerability of her lyrics, which continue to focus on failed relationships. Or perhaps it has more to do with the glimpses of genius she does offer, found here on the gorgeous Leonard, almostrocker Serpents and the slowly-buildingto-dramatic-catharsis All I Can. Van Etten’s wandering melodies are like heavy exhalations of emotions (though rarely “breathy”), staying low and close to where they began. Sometimes the lack of definition and the deluge of words grow tedious, but in these songs, all lushly arranged, as is the entire album, the effect is nothing short of riveting. Top track: All I Can Sharon Van Etten plays Lee’s Palace on February 21. CG THE SCHOMBERG FAIR Mercy (independent) Rating: NNN The Schomberg Fair play banjo-laden roots rock with punk rock velocity and intensity. Nutshelling their sound as “speed gospel” and/or “psychobilly” makes it seem like novelty music, but its straightfaced sincerity and the band’s impressive musicianship attest to its authenticity. The band’s use of themes and lyrics usually associated with early 20th century spirituals can raise some eyebrows – they are, after all, a trio of white Canadians, one of whom sings in a robust baritone – but that’s hard to sidestep in music so firmly rooted in folk and gospel. (Interestingly, reviewers rarely bring this up when it comes to Mumford & Sons, the Schomberg Fair’s higher-selling, softer-rocking

British counterparts.) On this EP, a follow-up to 2009’s Gospel LP, they do a good job of invoking the soulful delivery of gospel, even while augmenting it with distorted rock crunch and breakneck tempos. And with another fulllength already in the pipeline, the Schomberg Fair are bound to transcend their underrated status in Toronto’s rootsrock scene. Top track: Black Train The Schomberg Fair play the Silver Dollar Friday (February 3). RT

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The Sound Of Ronnie Hayward And His Quartet (independent) Rating: Ronnie Hayward is an underground Canadian rockabilly legend who’s been dragging his upright bass all over the country and playing in countless bands since 1982. He currently calls Toronto home, and you can catch his unique brand of authentic old-school beatnik country at local bars every week. His newest album, however, captures his Montreal quartet in 2008 and is a great introduction to his primitive backwoods flavour. As entertaining as younger cartoonish psychobilly bands might be, there’s a more genuine menace and tension in Hayward’s stripped-down traditionalism. He doesn’t need to rock a pompadour or wear blue suede creepers, because it’s obvious after 15 seconds of listening that he’s the real deal. There’s a rich earthiness in his voice, which he doesn’t clutter up with unnecessary hiccups and yelps, and similarly, the production style sidesteps the glossy sound of acts like the Stray Cats in favour of something more timeless and raw. Top track: Eleanora Ronnie Hayward plays Castro’s Lounge Thursday (February 2), and every Saturday afternoon at the Dominion on Queen. BB

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Robert Battle (centre) is expanding the range of the legendary modern dance company.

Ready to do Battle Alvin Ailey’s newest artistic director makes some major moves By GLENN SUMI ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER with choreography by Ailey, Robert Battle, Paul Taylor, Joyce Trisler and Rennie Harris, at the Sony Centre (1 Front East), from tonight to Saturday (Thursday, February 2 to February 4), two programs, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Saturday 2 pm. $28-$88. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca.

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one of robert battle’s first dance memories involves moving to the song That’s Entertainment. Little did he know how prophetic that title was. “My mother was a big fan of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, and when I

was young she played piano and I’d sing and mimic the movement. I always say she ruined me right then and there.” In the 80s, Battle could also do a mean Michael Jackson imitation, but it was a school trip to Miami Beach to see the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater that changed his life. “That’s when I saw Revelations for the first time,” he says, about the signature Ailey piece. “It was riveting. I never forgot it, and it’s one of the reasons why I kept going and am where I am.” Where that is happens to be one of the most prestigious positions in the modern dance world. Since last sum-

mer, he’s been artistic director of the Ailey, the third person to hold that position after Ailey and his successor, Judith Jamison. Significantly, Battle has included the classic Revelations – scored to various genres of African-American music – on the two programs that he’s bringing to the Sony Centre this weekend. He’s also included three of his own works (Takademe, The Hunt, and IN/SIDE) already in the company’s repertoire, as well as pieces he hopes will expand the company’s range. One is Arden Court, created by modern dance great Paul Taylor – whose roots aren’t exactly in AfricanAmerican culture.

“We are the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater,” says Battle from his Manhattan office. “Taylor is an American master, and I think it’s fitting that we have one of his works, as we are a repository for great modern dance works.” The two men got to bond last fall, when Taylor helped oversee the company’s version for their New York season. “I think he really loved the idea of the company doing the repertory,” says Battle. “He felt a camaraderie with Mr. Ailey, since they both started their companies around the same time. It was wonderful to have him in the studio with the dancers.” Battle, in his late 30s, knows he’s got to make the company relevant to new generations while satisfying loyal fans. Which explains his first commission, Home, by hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris. “I think younger people can feel disconnected from modern or concert dance,” he says. “[Hip-hop dance] is sometimes so commercialized, or we only celebrate negative images of it. To put it in a positive context and go back to its real roots is important. This dance represents a lot of people who don’t always feel represented on the concert stage.” Home’s also symbolic because it’s a contemporary response to HIV and AIDS. Ailey died from the syndrome in 1989. “AIDS is still around, and I wanted to put it on the table so we don’t forget,” he says. “Mr. Ailey died at a time when the stigma around it was almost as debilitating as the disease itself. You couldn’t say you had it – and even after death it had to be shrouded in secrecy and shame. In a way, I wanted to remember his death and also remember his life. “And hip-hop has so much to do with survival.” 3

MUSICAL REVIEW

Change it up CAROLINE, OR CHANGE by Tony

Kushner and Jeanine Tesori (Acting Up Stage/Obsidian). At Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). Runs to February 12. $32-$45. 416-368-3110. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNNNN

Caroline, Or Change is an amazing show: a slice of history, a rainbow of musical styles and a lesson in life all rolled into one. The Tony Kushner/Jeanine Tesori musical gets a first-class production, directed by Robert McQueen and produced by Acting Up Stage and Obsidian Theatre. In 1963 Louisiana, Caroline Thibodeaux (Arlene Duncan), a black woman, works as maid in the Gellman house. A single mother of four, she leads a frozen life of anger and frustration but is adored by young Noah Gellman (Michael Levinson), whose new stepmother, Rose (Deborah Hay), tries unsuccessfully to befriend Caroline. To teach Noah not to leave change in his pockets, Rose tells Caroline to keep the money she finds there, continued on page 56 œ

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something Caroline is initially loath to do. The result is pain, hurt and – indeed – change in Caroline, her children and the Gellman family, all set to Tesori’s wide-ranging musical styles, given a fine reading by music director Reza Jacobs. Kushner’s lyrics make a perfect match for the music’s various moods; his book, which includes a singing washing machine and dryer, is just as clever and strong. Working on Michael Gianfrancesco’s impressive three-level set, the whole cast is splendid, with first honours going to Duncan’s memorable Caroline. A woman who finds a strange comfort in her rocklike emotional solitude, Caroline calls herself “mean and tough.” Duncan slowly reveals this flinty woman’s core of pain. Hay is both funny and moving as an outsider northerner in this Southern culture, her liberal Jewish guilt triggered by all her interactions with Caroline. Levinson makes us care about the needy Noah, who fantasizes an alternative, happier life in Caroline’s family. Another key member of the cast is Sabryn Rock as Emmie, Caroline’s teenage daughter, who learns her mother’s true value and suggests, at the final curtain, that change – political, social, emotional – has indeed arrived. Caroline, Or Change is one big, ambitious show; come prepared to think Jon Kaplan and feel deeply.

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Mother lode a briMFul oF asha by Asha and Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre/Tarragon, 30 Bridgman). Runs to February 19. $15-$22. 416-531-1827. See Continuing, Page 58. Rating: nnn Instead of sending his folks a terse invite to a show about their traumatic parenting, actor, writer and director Ravi Jain has collaborated on one with his mother, Asha, allowing her to respond to his side of the story with her own take. According to Ravi, it goes something like this: in 2007, his parents decide it’s time for him to get married. He agrees to meet any girls they might select – an easy enough thing to evade since he’s preparing to leave

Toronto to travel in India. But to his surprise, they’ve set him up with nice Indian girls, created a biodata (a hilariously sober dating profile) without his knowledge and advertised his marriageability in an Indian newspaper. Ravi may be the one with the gift of gab, but brevity is the soul of nonactor Asha’s wit. She often manages to corner the audience’s attention with an acid remark, delighting us while also quelling her charismatic son’s efforts to be free of her epic matchmaking schemes. Unfortunately, by the final third, the conflict feels a bit repetitive. Asha’s meddling ceases to be funny, and Ravi’s frustration plateaus without any real resolution. When the pair finally face one another, re-enacting a hurtful fight, the dramatic turn feels forced in contrast to the natural ease of the preceding scenes. Still, A Brimful Of Asha is full to the brim with loving, personal admissions. It’s both a diatribe against and a tribute to mothers (and their comnaoMi sKWarna plaining sons).

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: nnnnn Standing ovation nnnn Sustained applause nnn Recommended, memorable scenes nn Seriously flawed n Get out the hook B = Black History Month event v = Valentine’s Day related event

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Opening The Double by Fyodor Dostoevsky

(TheatreRUN). A man tries desperately to fit in with a grotesque society in this multidisciplinary adaptation (see preview at nowtoronto.com/stage). Previews Feb 2. Opens Feb 3 and runs to Feb 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20-$28, preview/Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-5049971, theatrerun.wordpress.com. FesTival oF original TheaTre (U of T Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Studies). The conference and festival features panels and workshops plus performances of Beatriz Pizano’s La Maleta, Helen Vosters’ Performing Peace and others. Feb 2-5, see website for schedule. Free. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. foot2012.wordpress.com. golDilox & The bears by Sue T Plyte and Dave B Harris (Nags Players). This Englishstyle pantomime tale is loosely based on the children’s story. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Feb 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $10-$20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 647-338-6247,

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The greaT MounTain by Tracey Power (Red

Sky Performance). Drama and dance are used to tell the story of a girl who discovers the power of nature and the importance of courage. Opens Feb 6 and runs to Feb 20, Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for other days/times). $15$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. hughie by Eugene O’Neill (The Alley Theatre Workshop). A night clerk at a NYC hotel hears a small-time hustler’s tale of woe. Previews Feb 7. Opens Feb 8 and runs to Mar 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988. in The heighTs by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegria Hudes (Dancap Productions). Theatre, music and dance are used to tell the stories of residents of a hip Latino neighbourhood in NYC. Opens Feb 7 and runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $51-$165. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. inTra Muros i (FADO Performance Art Centre). Martin Viale presents a performance installation through self-displacement, successive actions and minimal materials. Feb 2-4, Thu-Fri 2 to 7 pm, closing action Fri 8 pm, artist talk Sat 1 pm. Pwyc. Artscape Triangle Gallery, 38 Abell. performanceart.ca. love FroM aFar by Kaija Saariaho (Canadian Opera Company). A 12th-century French troubadour has a long-distance love affair with a woman in Tripoli through a pilgrim who carries their messages. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Feb 22: Feb 2, 8, 10, 14, 18 and 22 at 7:30 pm, Feb 4 at 4:30 pm, Feb 12 at 2 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. The Man oF MoDe by George Etherege (George Brown College Theatre School). This Restoration drama satirizes the behaviour of the libertines, courtiers and wits of 17thcentury London. Opens Feb 8 and runs to Feb 18, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm. $18, srs $12, stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666. MaraThon ‘33 by June Havoc (Ryerson Theatre School). Fading celebrities and the jobless looks for cash prizes at marathon dance competitions in the 1930s. Opens Feb 8 and runs to Feb 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $18, stu/ srs $14. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. vMasques oF love (Toronto Masque Theatre). Stories of romance and heartbreak are

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told through torch songs, blues standards, Renaissance lute songs and more in this cabaret. Feb 3-4 at 8 pm. $35, srs $30, under 30 $15. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity. 416-410-4561, torontomasquetheatre.com. BA New Hope by Shelley Hamilton and Stan Christie (Shelley Hamilton Productions). Hamilton performs her solo play about the first African-Canadian communities in Canada in support of the Stephen Lewis Foundation Arts Fund. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 26, Sun 3 pm (no show Feb 12) plus Feb 26 at 1 pm. $25. ING Direct Café, 221 Yonge. 416-826-6855. RHubARb FestivAl (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). The new works festival features plays, dance, performance art and more by Natasha Mytnowych, Adam Lazarus, Cara Gee, the Independent Aunties, Damien Atkins and others. Opens Feb 8 and runs to Feb 19, Wed-Sun evenings and Sun afternoons (see website for details). $20 evening pass, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. tHe seAled ANgel by Rodion Shchedrin (Soundstreams). This music drama features the Elmer Iseler Singers, ProArte Danza dancers and others. Feb 2-3 at 8 pm. $47-$73. Royal Conservatory of Music, 273 Bloor W, Koerner Hall. 416-408-0208, rcmusic.ca. tHe tAle oF tHe AlleRgist’s wiFe by Charles Busch (Amicus Productions). A depressed woman is roused by the arrival of a childhood friend, who then becomes an unwanted permanent houseguest. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Feb 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Feb 4-5 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $18. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-860-6176. tHe wHo’s tommy by Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff (UC Follies). A traumatized boy discovers his talent for pinball in this rock musical. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Feb 11, WedSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $15. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-9788849, uofttix.ca. ZoNe by Marcel Dubé (Théâtre français de Toronto/Théâtre la Catapulte). A group of young criminals mix love, dreams and violence in 50s Montreal. Previews to Feb 2. Opens Feb 3 and runs to Feb 12, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 3:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $33-$57, srs $28-$57. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

Previewing divisAdeRo: A peRFoRmANce based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje (Necesñ sary Angel/the Film Farm). A family is forever

changed by a violent event in this musical adaptation about memory, identity and love. Previews Feb 8. Opens Feb 10 and runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$35, preview $10, Sun pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16

Ryerson. 416-504-7529, necessaryangel.com. pvt. wARs by John McLure (Red One Theatre Collective/Hinson’s Radio Co-op). Three Vietnam vets at an army hospital discuss their physical and emotional wounds. Previews Feb 8-9. Opens Feb 10 and runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20. Studio 561, 561 Bloor W. redonetheatre.com. ZeRo HouR by Jim Brochu (Lia and Danna Matthow). Writer and actor Jim Brochu’s solo show about Zero Mostel draws an immensely sympathetic portrait of a man who acted so he could paint. Brochu instills passion into an occasionally sentimental performance of unbridled, lovingly hokey humour. Previews Feb 8. Opens Feb 9 and runs to Mar 11, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 2 pm, Sun 3 pm. $59$69.50. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 1-855-985-2787, zerohourshow.com. NNN (Naomi Skwarna)

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cus). This workshop performance series for new aerial works features Holly Treddenick, Sabrina Pringle, Natalie Fullerton, Haley Shannon and others. Feb 4 at 2 pm. $10. Centre of Gravity West, 213 Sterling, suite 100, south entrance. hollytreddenick@gmail.com.

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soNgs by ZAcHARy FloReNce (Acting Up Stage Dark Night Cabaret Series). Works of Zachary Florence are performed by Eric Craig, Sara Farb, Thom Allison, Susan Henley and Gabi Epstein. Feb 6 at 8 pm. $20. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, actingupstage.com. HeNRi FAbeRgé’s HeligolANd Follies (Stages). This monthly six-part performance series features music, comedy, film and narrative theatre about an 1820s community trying to reach a utopian ideal. Feb 2 at 9 pm. Pwyc. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Arbor Room. harthouse.utoronto.ca/arts/stages/henri. loNg distANt loviNg: love FRom AFAR (COC Opera Exchange Series). Artists and academics explore themes in Kaija Saariaho’s opera. Feb 4 at 9:30 am. $23. Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. BmAN 2 mAN by Kwame Stephens (Hart House). A confident man in his 20s meets a man in his 40s who is coming to terms with his sexuality. Feb 7 at 7:30 pm. Free. 7 Hart House Circle, Arbor Room. harthouse.ca/student-engagement/man-2-man. BtHe meetiNg by Jeff Stetson (AfriCan Theatre Ensemble). Stetson’s drama about an imaginary 1965 meeting between Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X gets a staged reading. Feb 4 at 7 pm. $15. Gallery 918, 918 Bathurst. 416-364-7313, africantheatre.org.

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Shiny Penny peNNy plAiN by Ronnie Burkett

(Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes/Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst). Runs to February 26. $38-$55, Sunday pwyc. 416-504-9971. See Continuing, page 58. Rating: NNNN

Family ties are tenaciously, relentlessly strong, even at the end of the world. Ronnie Burkett’s Penny Plain is set during the apocalypse, but we see none of the devastation. The action takes place in the house of blind Penny Plain, a wise old woman who harbours various boarders and visitors from those outside disasters. Penny’s anthropomorphized dog, Geoffrey, her companion and best friend, sets off to see the world, offering various candidates as his substitute. Penny chooses Tuppence, a troubled orphan who passes herself off as a hound. She’s hardly the most unusual character here, though, for we also meet a serial killer, the murderer’s raunchy mother and the puppet-maker Gepetto, in disguise since his son Pinocchio left him. As entertaining as the show is, with

its combination of humorous and touching moments, it aims for more. While destruction seems inevitable, there’s also hope for a future in the person of Evie, who desperately wants a child in what might be the new Eden of Penny’s house. Evie might have some help from Oliver, a shy young man who’s determined not to be wiped out. The show has many wonderful moments, none more poignant than the reunion of Gepetto and his grown-up son, one of a series of parent-child relationships, both literal and metaphorical, woven through the script. Drama, pain, love and need are all part of these relationships; you’ll find that richness in the dialogue but also in the way a puppet drops its head, relaxes a shoulder or leans in to another. At one point I could swear I saw one smile when he was treated tenderly. That’s part of the magic of Burkett’s work, presented with John Alcorn’s atmospheric sound design and Kevin Humphrey’s lighting. The puppeteer’s design for set and marionettes is beautiful as always, his voicing of the many characters and the limpid way he moves them across the stage a JoN KAplAN treat.

NYC company with works by Alvin Ailey, Paul Taylor, Robert Battle, Joyce Trisler and Rennie Harris (see story, page 55). Feb 2-4, Program A Thu 8 pm, Sat 2 pm; Program B Fri-Sat 8 pm. $28-$88. 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca. BKuumbA Harbourfront Centre presents the Black History Month festival, including Lua Shayenne’s Afro-Roots Dance workshop and performance, plus film, music, comedy and more. Feb 3-5, see website for schedule. Most events free (Honey Jam $10). 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com/kuumba. Bles RytHmes de lA FoRet Collective of Black Artists and Harbourfront NextSteps present dances and rhythms from the subSaharan region accompanied by traditional drums and chants. Feb 3-5, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $22-$30, stu/srs $18-$25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. pteRos tActics York U Department of Dance and Toronto Dance Theatre present a dance work about the instant of desire, choreographed by Christopher House. Feb 2-3 at 7:30 pm. $35, stu/srs $20. York University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele. 416-7365888.

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Archie Alleyne presents a benefit for the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund with live jazz, dance by Shawn Byfield, a photo exhibit and more. Feb 5 at 3 pm. $40-$50. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, aasf.ca.

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Ballet of Canada presents an open class with company dancers for intermediate ballet students and spectators. Feb 5 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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Abena Malika (left) and Arsinée Khanjian have Cruel intentions.

Acting Cruel CRUEL AND TENDER by Martin Crimp (Canadian Stage). At the Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front East). Runs to February 18. $22-$99. 416-368-3110. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NN You can say this about Atom Egoyan’s production of Martin Crimp’s Cruel And Tender: it’s rarely dull. How could it be, with a bad karaoke session, blown-up video projections and many scenes that end with characters shattering glass?

But these gimmicks don’t leave much of a lasting impression, and they distract attention from Crimp’s play, which is an update of a lesserknown tragedy by Sophocles. Amelia (Arsinée Khanjian) is a bored, pampered wife and mother whose husband, the General (Daniel Kash), is engaged in an anti-terrorist operation somewhere in Africa. When it’s revealed that he razed a city to capture a young woman named Laela (Abena Malika), who then shows up on her doorstep, Amelia concocts a plan to win her man back.

Crimp wrote the play in the aftermath of 9/11, and it’s easy to see a metaphor here about the suspect motives for waging a war on terror. The script is less successful in detailing the disintegration of a family, and it doesn’t help that Crimp, like Sophocles, allows no opportunity for husband and wife to confront each other. As Amelia, Khanjian thrashes around and has an intriguing stage presence, but her familiar quirky vocal rhythms and inflections add nothing to her character. (She was much better in Canadian Stage’s The Palace Of The End.) Contrast this with Nigel Shawn Williams’s velvet-voiced government spin doctor, or Brenda Robins’s crisply matter-of-fact housekeeper, and you’ve got a black hole at the centre of this production. Even Kash, in his single scene, makes a strong impression, clad in a yellow track suit and stumbling down the staircase on Debra Hanson’s stark white set, then shouting out his messianic gibberish to a video camera. Egoyan also should have told his design team to tone things down. John Gzowski’s sound design grumbles and roars for no apparent reason, while Michael Walton still seems to be working out his lighting design (On or off? Please decide.) That said, one of the best moments in the show comes during a blackout, when a character aims a flashlight all over the theatre and talks about the destruction of the war. The horrors we imagine are more brutal than anything GLENN SUMI we witness onstage.

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Continuing ALL IN ThE TIMING by David Ives (Down n’ Out

Productions). A series of vignettes satirize the family life of bourgeois America (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage). Runs to Feb 12, daily at 7:30 pm (dinner 6 pm), mat Sun 2 pm (no shows Feb 4 & 8). $55 (includes dinner), mat pwyc (show only). Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227 ext 2. NNN (JK) 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. Runs to Feb 5, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. ThE BLUE DRAGoN by Robert Lepage (Mirvish). Lepage’s latest multimedia show is set in Shanghai, where a middle-aged former Montrealer who now runs an art gallery finds his life interrupted by an old flame, while he’s involved with a younger Chinese woman. The plot and symbolism feel a tad contrived, but the design elements – projections, shifting panels, multi-tiered playing areas – are wondrous. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. mirvish.com. NNN (GS) A BRIMfUL of AShA by Asha and Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre). An Indo-Canadian man discovers that his Indian vacation is actually a wife-seeking scheme by his parents (see review, page 56). Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Feb 11, 18 at 2:30 pm, Feb 5 at 4:30 pm. $18-$22, stu $15-$19. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, ExtraExtra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) BCARoLINE, oR ChANGE by Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori (Acting Up Stage Company/Obsidian Theatre). A black maid and the son of her Jewish employer struggle with extraordinary life changes (see review, page 55). Runs to Feb 12, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat 2 pm, Feb 12 at 3 pm. $32-$45. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, actingupstage.com. NNNNN (JK)

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Productions). Two couples engage in a game of partner swapping and self destruction. Runs to Feb 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. mnemonictheatre.com. CRUEL AND TENDER by Martin Crimp (Canadian Stage). A general fighting a war in Africa sends a local woman back home to his wife in this modern update of Sophocles’ Trachiniae (see review, this page). Runs to Feb 18, MonSat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NN (GS) VDRACULA – A LovE SToRy by Sharyl Hudson (Brant Theatre Workshops). Follow actors through the castle’s historic halls in this adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel. Runs to Feb 14, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $34-$66. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 647-725-1822, casaloma.org. fUNkyLAND (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a twist on Lewis Carroll’s Alice In Wonderland. Runs to Apr 28, Tue-Sat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (includes meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. ThE GoD of hELL by Sam Shepard (Unit 102 Actors Company). A small-town couple’s peaceful life is undone by a friend in trouble and an aggresively patriotic stranger in this post-9/11 tragic farce. To Feb 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $12-$15 (email unit102tix@gmail.com for adv tickets). Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102theatre.com. ThE GoLDEN DRAGoN by Roland Schimmelpfennig (Tarragon Theatre). This disturbing urban parable centers around a young cook, an illegal immigrant from China who is searching in vain for his runaway sister and who’s suffering from a terrible toothache. The show delivers great suspense, but stylistic choices like having characters speak stage directions might obscure its scathing criticism. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun 2:30 pm (and Feb 4). $20-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm) hAMLET LIvE (Hamlet Live). Shakespeare’s tragedy is adapted to a post-apocalyptic future in this production that can be viewed live onstage or via computer live stream. Runs to Feb 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $5-$40. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. hamletlive.com. kIM’S CoNvENIENCE by Ins Choi (Soulpepper). Choi’s groundbreaking script looks at a Korean-Canadian-run variety store in a rapidly changing Regent Park. Paul SunHyung Lee dominates the production as the street-smart, stern patriarch who wants his independent daughter (Esther Choi) to take over the business. Director Weyni Mengesha, working with Ken MacKenzie’s naturalistic set, brings out all the laughs and drama in a play that deserves to be open for business a long time. Runs to Feb 11, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32, rush $22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNNN (GS) ThE LARAMIE PRojECT by Moisés Kaufman and Tectonic Theatre Project (Encore Entertainment). Residents of a small town react to the beating death of a gay man in this drama based on actual events. Runs to Feb 5, TueSat 7:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $28-$29.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855985-2787, encoreshows.com.

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Roger Roy/Dana Matthow/Bud Martin). Solomon performs his solo show about growing up in a wacky, bi-ethnic family. Runs to Feb 5, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $51.50-$56. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 1-855-985-2787, italianjewish.ca. No ExIT by Jean-Paul Sartre (art & lies productions). Three deceased people await their punishment in this existential drama. Runs to Feb 4, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. $24.95, stu/srs $19.95. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, artandliesproductions.com. PENNy PLAIN by Ronnie Burkett (Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes). A reclusive old woman’s sanctuary is disrupted by a chaotic outside world (see review, page 57). Runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $38$55. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-5049971, factorytheatre.ca. NNNN (JK) PINkALICIoUS, ThE MUSICAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family show. To Mar 11, Sun 1 pm. $20. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. A REALLy BAD PLAy by Daniel Stolfi (FroMast Productions). A cast of understudies, a bad script and poor production derail a theatre show in this comedy. Runs to Feb 4, Tue-Sat 8:30 pm. $15-$20. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. areallybadplay.eventbrite.com.

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Thursday, February 2 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Frank Spadone,

John Burton and host Evan Carter. To Feb 5, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. THE BOOM SHOW: CHAPTER 43 Drake Hotel presents the sketch troupe w/ Eric Andrews, Mark DeBonis and musical guest

Burrow. 8:30 pm. $10. 1150 Queen W, Underground. boomcomedy.com. THE COMEDY SHOW Hard Rock Cafe presents a sexy variety show with improv, music, standup and more. 8 pm. $5. 279 Yonge. 416-3623636. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents weekly stand-up w/ hosts Andrew Fox and Jamie O’Connor. 10 pm. Free. Hot Wings, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860. THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar presents Rob Baker, Lauren Ash, Kerry Griffin, Kayla Lorette, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089. MAGGIE’S MISH MASH The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents music and comedy w/ host Maggie Cassella. 7 pm. Pwyc. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera. 8 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945

Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE Second City presents previews of the upcoming revue, featuring a collection of sketches, songs and improvisations. Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.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. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Terry Clement XXX Rated, a multimedia comedy show that pushes the limits. To Feb 4, Wed-Sat 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, February 3 ABOUT AN HOUR Comedy Bar presents the real-time improv ñ show w/ Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Rob

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SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2.

Sunday, February 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. DARCY MICHAEL The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Vancouver’s gay stoner dad ñ in a live show. 7 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com.

SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. STRIP COMEDY Comedy Bar presents Matt Fol-

liott and host Georgea Brooks-Hancock. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons. com.

Baker, Alex Hatz and Jim Annan. To Feb 24, Fridays 10 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv w/ the Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents weekly improv, sketch, stand-up and music. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@gmail.com. SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 2.

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Saturday, February 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 2. ANNABELLE: TAILS FROM JAIL Modern Atti-

Kuumba Festival presents a duel of jokes and more w/ Team USA (Sheldon Johnson, Zack Johnson) and Team Canada (Jay Martin, Trixx). 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Brigantine Room. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com/kuumba. GRINDHOUSE COMEDY Grindhouse Burger Bar presents Stacey McGunnigle, Kate Davis, Jay Scott, Zabrina Chevannes, Ali Hassan, host Julia Hladkowicz and others. Doors 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 365 King W. 416-977-3010. I’M ONLY EXPLAINING THIS ONCE Comedy Bar presents Noam ‘Moe’ Rosen performing his solo comedy show about his name change. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta.

City presents a comedic play about relationships in the age of social networking. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com.

Tuesday, February 7 BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents The Nick Pry-

ce Televised Quiz Program. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com. HARD TIMES COMEDY LOUNGE Impulsive Entertainment and Bite TV present a comedy mashup w/ Tony Ho, Mike Kellett, Kirk Jorgenson and host DJ Demers. 7 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents sketch and stand-up by the Short Form Richards, the Whiskey Dicks, Rulers of the Universe, Peter Anthony, Michelle Neilson and host Hunter Collins. 9 pm. $5. Hard Luck Bar, 772a Dundas W. impulsiveent.com. THE LIAR LIAR SHOW Sasha Manoli presents a storytelling mock game show w/ Mark Little, K Trevor Wilson, Chris Betts and host Asaf Gerchak. 8:30 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rivoli.ca. 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. SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Eli Jakeman, Brian Ward, Steve Tassie, Eric Clifford, Gilson Lubin, Julia Hladkowicz, Cal Post, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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tudes presents a musical sketch comedy solo show by Morgonn Ewen about a country girl. Doors 9 pm, show 10 pm. Free. Old Nick, 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Improv DropIn workshop. 6 pm. $5. The Ladder Playoffs, improv competition. 8 & 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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Monday, February 6 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents

Dave Merheje, Nile Seguin, Chuck Byrn, ñ Ron Sparks, MC Arthur Simeon and others. 9

pm. Pwyc. Coming Soon... w/ Kivork Kidanian, Danielle Meierhenry, Karina Karina and MC Dave Brennan. 11 pm. Free. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Monday Night Variety Show w/ Josh Gladston, Amy Zuch, the Leotards and others. 8 pm. Monday Night Improv Jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 10 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. BLAIR STREETER presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Jon Fisch, Bruce Wright, Eric Clifford, Robin Crossman, Sarah Donaldson, Suneet Luthra and host Dan Shaki. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS Joel Buxton, Adrian Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Carolyn Nesling and host Nigel Grinstead. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS COMEDY NIGHT presents Luis Aguilar, Darren Springer, Danish Anwar, Gilson Lubin, Peter Aterman, Karen O’Keefe, Geoff Hendry and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. SPRING ‘12 MAINSTAGE REVUE See Thu 2. 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. 3

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culture in which blacks are often invisible or misrepresented, many work with some form of collage, layering photographs, altering historical images, adding to painted surfaces or mixing video footage. At Barnicke, Carrie Mae Weems, showing blurry photos of black women singers in Slow Fade To Black, seems to melt these icons together into a memory of pure vocal emotion. Sonia Boyce’s video Crop Over juxtaposes street carnivals, cane fields and plantation houses in Barbados with a mas-costumed black man on stilts who sombrely wanders the gardens of a British estate. In Wangechi Mutu’s Black Thrones, a trio of black-plastic-and-featherwrapped kitchen chairs, also on stilts, have a strong presence. Dana Inkster uses video drama to put a queer spin on the story of the destruction of

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READINGS THIS WEEK B indicates Black History Month events

HUGH OLIVER Poetry reading. 7 pm. Free.

Thursday, February 2

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

BDIRK MCLEAN Author visit. 1 pm. Free.

Saturday, February 4

Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000.

Friday, February 3 J’ACCUSE Dramatic readings of works by Hassan Diab, Emile Zola and others about injustice, with Barbara Jackman and Diab. 7:30 pm. Donation. Hart House Music Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. justiceforhassandiab.org.

PICO IYER Meet and dine with the author of The Man Within My Head. 7:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. 416-361-0032.

Sunday, February 5 PICO IYER/MODRIS EKSTEINS/BRAD SMITH/ EVA STACHNIAK Authors’ brunch. 10 am. $45. King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. 416-361-0032.

Sonia Boyce’s video probes themes of carnival, slavery and British privilege.

Halifax’s Africville; a video documents Miss Canadiana’s (the beauty queen/goodwill ambassador alter ego of Camille Turner) spirited black history tour of the Grange neighbourhood. At Georgia Scherman, highlights include a photo riffing on retro representations of black women by Mikalene Thomas, also known for sequined collages on the same subject; Nari Ward’s hair- and cowrie-enhanced painting of the World Bank logo; Radcliffe Bailey’s glittering

Black Ark, a magical sailing vessel to counter the slave ship; and Godfried Donkor’s solemn Jamestown Masquerade video of Caribbean dancers appropriating a European performance style. It’s impossible to touch on everything in this big show. Let’s hope we get a chance to see more by Weems and Boyce, major figures in their native U.S. and UK, and other artists of 28 Days, outside Black History Month. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

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CORIN RAYMOND & THE SUNDOWNERS Toronto’s Corin Raymond & The Sundowners record an upcoming live album at The Tranzac club, which was paid for entirely by Canadian Tire money. 4:36

JOHN K. SAMPSON Watch The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson play an intimate acoustic set at Soundscapes. 3:28

LAUNCHING THIS WEEK ploying his favourite three words: “I don’t remember.” Central to the story is the life-changing road trip Yosef and Mariam took to Nashville, which Jonas tries to recreate on his own 30 years later when his life falls apart. Occasionally, Mengestu tells us more than he needs to about his characters’ internal workings. There are only so many ways to describe Jonas’s reasons for making himself invisible. But in spare moving prose, he craftily interweaves his narrative elements to tell a powerful story. And during Black History Month, his essential theme – that the present is inextricably linked to the past – couldn’t be more relevant. SUSAN G. COLE

Montreal-based Howard Shrier has quickly cemented his reputation as one of Canada’s most gifted thriller writers. His debut, Buffalo Jump, introducing PI Jonah Geller, took the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for best first novel, and his follow-up, High Chicago, walked away with the best novel award in 2010. He’s back with Boston Cream ($19.95, Vintage), in which Geller looks for a missing doctor and runs up against an organ transplant conspiracy – excellent timing, with shady transplant rackets in the headlines. Shrier launches Boston Cream at Dora Keogh, Tuesday (February 7). See Readings, this SGC page.

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MADLIB First watch Cali beatmaker Madlib meditate over his turntables at a recent Toronto stop. Then compare that to his tourmate J.Rocc, who spun party tracks and danced the entire set. 1:53

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Tuesday, February 7 DESSA KASPARDLOV The financial planning

expert signs copies of The Fireman And The Waitress. 7 pm. Free. Walmart, Square One Shopping Centre (Mississauga). 416-537-2561. NAZNEEN SHEIKH Talking about her memoir Moon Over Marrakech. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer

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Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca.

DEBORAH KIRSHNER/BARBARA LANDRY/STEVE MUNDY/DAVID SILVERBERG Reading. 7:30 pm.

Free (donations appreciated). Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. quattrobooks.ca. DAVID ROTENBERG Launching his new novel, The Placebo Effect. 6:30 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697.

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sissauga, to Feb 25. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Yael Bartana; Team Macho; Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette (free, Young Gallery); From Renaissance To Rodin: Celebrating The Tanenbaum Gift; Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1. 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. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Will Munro, to Mar 11. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Seripop (Chloe Lum and Yannick Desranleau), to Mar 4. U of T Missis-

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Audio clips from interviews with DANIEL RADCLIFFE, GLENN CLOSE and more • Interviews with TI WEST, GERARDO NARANJO • and more GHOST STORY

All Inn

ACTOR INTERVIEW

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THE INNKEEPERS (Ti West). 101

MICHAEL WATIER

minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNNN

Radcliffe reborn

Harry Potter actor reinvents himself in spooky Woman In Black By NORMAN WILNER THE WOMAN IN BLACK directed by

James Watkins, written by Jane Goldman from the novel by Susan Hill, with Daniel Radcliffe, Ciarán Hinds and Janet McTeer. An Alliance Films release. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

daniel radcliffe is leaving harry Potter behind. Moving on after a decade in that iconic role, he’s spent most of the last year singing and dancing on Broadway and gleefully sending himself up on Saturday Night Live. But his new film, The Woman In Black, presents him with a new challenge: silence. In the film’s centrepiece, Radcliffe’s character, widowed lawyer Arthur Kipps, investigates strange goings-on in a spooky old house on the remote English coast. There’s no dialogue; Radcliffe carries the whole thing with his physical performance. It’s a great sequence, but there’s one small problem. “The Artist has kind of really pissed on our parade,” he says halfseriously during a Toronto press stop. “We thought, you know, ‘Twenty minutes of silence! Nobody does that!’ And now, god, look at them.” He doesn’t have to worry. Rad-

cliffe’s fans won’t have seen Michel Hazanavicius’s black-and-white pastiche, so The Woman In Black’s silent sequence will still be novel – as will the sight of Radcliffe as a griefstricken widower. It’s a major step forward for the actor, who says he relished the opportunity not only to break away from playing a boy wizard but also to take an active role in developing a vehicle from the ground up. “I was involved from an earlier point than I was in Potter,” he says. “It wasn’t until really the fourth or fifth film that we started having our own input, because we weren’t confident enough to do so before. But on this film, I watched James [Watkins] take every opportunity he could, using whatever costume or makeup or set design, to continue telling the story. Odd as this might sound, I feel like I learned more about direction on this film than I did on any of the Potter films, just because I felt I was closer to the process the whole time.” That included fine-

tuning the film’s ending. The movie is steeped in grief and misery – when Arthur is introduced, he’s contemplating suicide, for a start – and horror movies rarely wrap up in sunshine and puppies. Some grimness is required. “I mean, god, I remember on the fourth Potter film, we shot a beautiful ending in Scotland,” he says. “Very sad, because a 16-year-old boy, Cedric Diggory, has died. We had to reshoot it because it was far too sad and we couldn’t end on a down note. That was slightly distressing – you know, somebody has died. You have to take that into account. “Films don’t need to have happy endings. They need to have endings, but as long as they’re real, and feel good and do justice to the story, I don’t get the obsession with leaving the audience on a high note. I don’t think it’s necessary.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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REVIEW THE WOMAN IN BLACK

ñ(James Watkins) Rating: NNNN

British director James Watkins takes an accomplished step up from his breathless chase picture, Eden Lake, with The Woman In Black, an elegant ghost story that packs some thoughtful character work in between its jump scares. Set a century ago, it stars Daniel Radcliffe as the despondent Arthur Kipps, a widowed estate lawyer dispatched from London to a remote coastal town to sort out a deceased client’s affairs. The paperwork is the least of his problems once he twigs to the legend of a vengeful spirit that’s preying on the town’s children. Though Watkins deploys a few strategic crashes and thuds to keep the attention-deficit crowd from drifting off, his film has a stateliness and gravity that recall grand ghost stories of decades past like The Haunting and The Innocents. And in his first role after wrapping the Harry Potter series, Radcliffe is entirely credible as a widower with a small child – hey, people married young 100 years ago – and proves quite able to hold the screen in a 20-minute set piece played entirely without dialogue. NW

It would almost be better if The Innkeepers weren’t a ghost story at all. Ti West’s low-key creeper – paced much like his retro delight The House Of The Devil – tracks a pair of hotel employees investigating mysterious phenomena in their (almost) empty workplace. It’s so effective at capturing the natural rhythms of being bored at work that the supernatural stuff feels like an unnecessary intrusion. The Yankee Pedlar Inn is about to close for good, and Claire (Shark Night’s Sara Paxton) and Luke (Great World Of Sound’s Pat Healy) are making sure the handful of remaining guests still have fresh towels and putting the finishing touches on their website about the hotel’s history of supposed hauntings. Then they start to freak themselves out – or maybe something’s really going on. Oh, sure, there are weird creaking and scraping noises, and the has-been celebrity (Kelly McGillis) in town for a convention is having psychic flashes about something awful in the basement, but The Innkeepers is at its best when it’s just watching Paxton and Healy screwing around – browsing the web, taking out the garbage, playing a passive-aggressive game with the bell on the front desk. We get to genuinely like these people before they go in the spooky basement, and that makes a world of NORMAN WILNER difference.

Sara Paxton and Pat Healy shine brightly in The Innkeepers.

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Glenn Close is well-suited to the role of butler Albert Nobbs.

ALBERT NOBBS (Rodrigo García) Rating: NN Like The Iron Lady, Albert Nobbs isn’t as good as its performances. Glenn Close plays an uptight, proper butler working in a luxurious 19th-century Dublin hotel, whose big secret is that he’s actually a she. When the painter Hubert (Janet McTeer) reveals that he’s got the same secret – and lives with a woman – Nobbs begins courting a restless young hotel maid (Mia Wasikowska) as a potential mate. Physically, Close’s performance is a marvel: notice her stiff posture, with only her eyes expressing her character’s hopes and fears. But McTeer, whose charm and charisma leap off the screen, is the revelation here. Too bad the script doesn’t travel to some more interesting places about gender and sexuality in a repressed era. GS A missed opportunity.

A Close encounter

Glenn Close waited two decades to don trousers in Albert Nobbs By GLENN SUMI ALBERT NOBBS directed by Rodrigo García, written by Glenn Close, Gabriella Prekop and John Banville from the story by George Moore, with Close, Mia Wasikowska and Janet McTeer. An eOne release. 113 minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

a few days into the toronto film Festival, buzz begins spreading about Glenn Close’s performance in Albert

Nobbs, in which the five-time Oscar nominee plays a woman living as a butler in 19th-century Dublin. It’s the kind of demanding role – and performance – that wins awards, so of course when I sit down with her, I eventually have to bring up the “O” word. “You know, I’ve learned not to expect anything until it actually happens,” said Close, looking calm and gracious in a darkened hotel room. “It would be a huge honour, and par-

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LÉA POOL & RAVIDA DIN

Pink Ribbons, Inc. tracks the ways big business manipulates women trying to end breast cancer.

Stink over Pink

NFB doc sees red over Pink Ribbons By SUSAN G. COLE PINK RIBBONS, INC. directed by Léa

Pool. 98 minutes. A National Film Board release. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

lea pool doesn’t seem like a prime candidate for documentary directorfor-hire. The features she’s known for, riffing on themes of sexual discovery and family disruption (Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur and Emporte-Moi, for example) reflect her own fiercely personal choices, and

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their style is anything but neutral. So when the National Film Board pitched her a documentary about the corporatization of the Pink Ribbon campaign, she had the unusual – for her – opportunity to consider a project that wasn’t entirely her own. “I would never have had the idea,” she admitted during a conference call with producer Ravida Din just before the film’s TIFF premiere last year. “It’s strange. Sometimes you push your own projects and nothing comes from that, and then you’re asked to do something and you say,

ticularly gratifying for this piece. Um… but… you know…” she trails off modestly. Well, Close can rest easy. Later this month she’ll be walking the red carpet as a best-actress nominee at the Kodak Theater. Incredibly, it’s been 23 years since her last nomination. After dominating the screen in the 80s with iconic roles in films like Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction, she shifted to the small screen (where lately she’s ‘I’m not sure I’m the right person.’” Wrong. Pool, with her feminist impulse, sharp eye and immense empathy, wound up making a powerful doc guaranteed to change the public conversation about breast cancer. Though it’s based on the book by Samantha King, Lee was quick to find her own themes once she started shooting Pink Ribbon events. “I was disappointed,” she says. “They looked more like a mix of Gay Pride and Halloween, with all the costumes. I didn’t see the word ‘cancer’ anywhere or hear any demands.” That’s because corporate sponsors are less interested in ending breast cancer than in promoting their own brands. Which makes their exploitation of the passionate women running, walking and doing everything else to raise funds infuriating. “As soon as you got close to these people, you saw that each had her own story, and it became more emotional,” recalls Pool. “These women are doing the right thing. They would just be more efficient if they asked the right questions.” Armed with the information packed into the doc – brazen activists, some of them with the disease, talk about cancer causes, research strategies and the ways the industryled campaign is ignoring both – Pink Ribbon participants are bound to change their approach. Currently, as breast cancer has become deeply depoliticized, says pro-

sizzled as Damages’ high-powered attorney, Patty Hewes) and the stage. In fact, it was in an off-Broadway show that she first played Nobbs. “So I knew the power of that story,” she says about the minimal production, which had a simple set and required her to wear a short wig and no makeup. “Every night it blindsided people. They were moved and stunned.” Close always knew it would be a good screen role. But it took her 20 years to make the film, which she cowrote (with Booker Award winner John Banville) and produced. “I hope the movie engenders a lot of conversation,” she says. “We put on faces every time we walk out the ducer Din, corporations are seen as good citizens, governments can abdicate their social welfare responsibilities and volunteers can be relied on to raise money. Getting women to buy Pink Ribbon-related products, says Din, is a built-in corporate priority. “It’s easy to normalize the disease, package it, put it in bright pink wrapping, ask women to embrace it and convince them that they can be part of managing their health Director by buying prodLéa Pool ucts.” On the other hand, corporations have resisted the red ribbon campaign to end AIDS because they’re unwilling to confront their own homophobia. “Everyone has a relative or a friend who’s been touched by breast cancer,” says Pool. “In a way, it’s also about motherhood. There are no bad habits associated with breast cancer, no judgment, so it’s much easier for corporations to get behind it.” “There’s another way to build civil society,” adds Din. “By demanding real change, not by shopping.” 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com

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door, but a lot of people feel they have to hide who they really are. And I think this story speaks to that.” The uptight, always proper Albert saves up her salary and tips, hoping one day to open a tobacco shop. But when she meets Hubert (Janet McTeer, also Oscar-nominated), another woman living as a man, who’s got a female partner, she begins getting ideas about what kind of life she can eventually lead. I ask Close to clarify the idea of Nobbs’s sexuality – or lack thereof – for me, which seems to be one of the film’s flaws. “She has no clue about sex,” says Close. “She had a terribly traumatic violent sexual experience, and that caused her to withdraw and basically disappear. So she’s shut that whole side of herself off, and she doesn’t know what sex is or what love is. She’s been a totally isolated individual, and perfectly content because she’s surviving and not in the poorhouse.” The actor who’s used to playing exuberant characters – think of Fatal Attraction’s Alex Forrest or even human cartoon Cruella De Vil – says she loved disappearing into Nobbs’s skin. “Every morning when they finished putting that face on, I didn’t recognize myself,” she says. “It was a shock to walk past the mirror on the set and look at this person. I loved that person. [I] became Albert. When I walked on the set, [director] Rodrigo [García] would say, ‘Albert’s here.’” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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REVIEW PINK RIBBONS, INC.

ñ(Léa Pool) Rating: NNNN

Cancer is big business, nowhere more so than in the context of the Pink Ribbon campaigns. Léa Pool’s superb documentary, based on Queen’s University prof Samantha King’s book, probes the outrageous ways corporations exploit breast cancer for profit while doing almost nothing about the epidemic itself. The political anger that spawned the movement to end breast cancer has morphed into a series of feel-good events that serve to build brands. Many of the corporations involved – including Revlon, Ford and even KFC (!) – support Pink Ribbon campaigns while promoting products that could themselves be related to cancer. Like Pool’s previous features, the film looks terrific, thanks, ironically, to all those seas of pink. Animated sequences add to the effect, and the talking heads are brilliant, including King, Barbara Ehrenreich (whose article Welcome To Cancerland also inspired the doc) and especially Barbara Brenner of Breast Cancer Action. SGC Shit-disturbing at its best.

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Semi Miracle BIG MIRACLE (Ken Kwapis). 107 minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN

It’s been a few months since Dolphin Tale swam out of theatres, so the time is ripe for Hollywood’s latest animalin-danger environmental melodrama. Big Miracle delivers the true story of three whales trapped under a patch of ice in Alaska. In 1988, a local news anchor (John Krasinski) files a report that causes a national media sensation, and Greenpeace (embodied by a comically obsessed Drew Barrymore), an oil tycoon (Ted Danson), the Army and a

Russian icebreaker team up to free the animals. Despite following a predictable dramatic arc, veteran sitcom director Ken Kwapis assembles a primarily comedic cast to inject some levity into the schmaltz. Those goofy performances help make the drab story compelling, as does the manipulated archival footage (e.g., sticking Krasinski into a grainy video with then-reporter Sarah Palin). The environmental message is hammered home without subtlety, and the simplistic representation of the Inuit

characters gets a little grating, but at least Big Miracle doesn’t needlessly anthropomorphize the whales or excessively pander to children. This could have easily been Free Willy On Ice, and avoiding that fate alone makes it a modest success. PHIL BROWN

MISS BALA (Gerardo Naranjo)

ñRating: NNNN Miss Bala, which translates as Miss Bullet, hits the mark. It’s a fast-paced, surrealistic take on the drug wars in Mexico, shot from the perspective of the unlikeliest abetter. Stephanie Sigman plays Laura, a teenage Mexican beauty pageant contestant who witnesses a nightclub massacre and ends up under the thumb of a vicious cartel. Soon, she’s helplessly thrust into a world where the gangsters are running politics, the police and even beauty pageants – a nice jab at that particular industry. The film was inspired by a real-life event, but director Gerardo Naranjo forgoes docudrama for a critical mood piece that’s both nightmarish and darkly comical, where the wide frames and long takes teem with seemingly infinite RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI sleaze and violence. Opens Friday (February 3). See Movies, page 68.

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Vivid Vendeur LE VENDEUR (Sébastien Pilote). 107 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN

Sébastien Pilote’s Le Vendeur packs a punch even though you can see it coming from a mile away. Gilbert Sicotte plays Marcel, the eponymous salesman in a small-town Quebec car dealership, whose likeability and smarts have earned him consecutive salesman-of-the-year plaques and the admiration of his boss and coworkers. The 67-year-old widower could retire and spend more time with his

daughter and cute grandson, but he loves his work. Even though business is bad – the town’s pulp and paper mill has laid off hundreds and is threatening closure – Marcel stills finds a way to charm customers and close the deal. Pilote’s script eschews Glengarry Glen Ross anger for a quiet tone reminiscent of one of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue films. A stronger editor could tighten the pace, while the ominous soundtrack could be scaled back. The director also plays up the salt-ofthe-earth faces of the townsfolk a bit too much. But Pilote has produced a small yet powerful recession-era moral fable, and Sicotte delivers a completely convincing portrait of a decent, kind man forced to examine his soul. GLENN SUMI

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Roxx talks INSIDE LARA ROXX (Mia Donovan). 84 minutes. Opening Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNN Photographer and filmmaker Mia Donovan pursues her interest in the commodification of sexual desire in this disturbing film about the first female porn star ever diagnosed with HIV. The naive Lara Roxx, whom we first meet in a psychiatric ward in Montreal, has been abandoned by the media that made her story a sensation. She’s preparing to reinvent herself back in L.A., where, at the porn industry’s annual

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W.E. don’t like W.E. (Madonna). 119 minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NN Madonna’s second feature looks decent and features a dramatic, celloheavy score that throbs with art-house class. But the film is basically a lesser take on The Hours, with two overlapping stories instead of three and none of the emotional depth. Abbie Cornish plays Wally, a late1990s Manhattan socialite who wants to get pregnant by her successful but distant psychiatrist husband (Richard Coyle). Intrigued by an upcoming auction of items belonging to Wallis Simpson (Andrea Riseborough) and King Edward VIII (James D’Arcy), Wally (named after Wallis) reimagines scenes from the historic couple’s romance while finding herself attracted to a Sotheby’s security guard (Oscar Isaac).

Doc gets up close and personal with porn star Lara Roxx.

In some of the least convincing scenes, Wallis and Wally actually talk to each other, making you question the latter’s mental state. The film is over-produced yet hollow, like one long perfume commercial. In the unconvincing contemporary

convention, she tries to get performers and producers interested in AIDS prevention. Donovan has always been fascinated by the relationship between documentary filmmaker and subject, and that comes through here in communication between the two during the shoot – intimate footage that would normally hit the cutting room floor. The film doesn’t really get going until Roxx returns to Montreal midway through. Even the porn convention isn’t a grabber. But there are some very tender moments, especially between Roxx and her mom. And check out what Roxx was thinking during the porn scene that led to her illness. Like I SUSAN G. COLE said, disturbing. section, Coyle’s villainous husband character is so one-dimensional he might as well be twirling a moustache. Cornish’s Southern accent comes and goes, while Riseborough captures Wallis’s fashionable surface but little else. GLENN SUMI

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Unless that toothy French actor wins for The Artist, George Clooney could be up at the Oscar podium for this smart, funny ﬁlm about a Hawaiian lawyer dealing with a family crisis.

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the seafood tank of a Chinese restaurant. The movie descends into protracted and repetitive dialogue scenes between Kevin, who wants to escape, and the other fish, and the restaurant owner and his perpetually downcast son, who doesn’t want to go into the family business. Kevin’s situation is hopeless until he and the son unite to foil a thief. The characters are visually simple and the fish don’t have much range of movement. Backgrounds are well-drawn and coloured but don’t have much texture or detail. 96 min. N (AD) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise) is a 3-D rerelease of the classic 1991 animated film about the resourceful Belle and the cursed Beast who’s holding her captive in his enchanted castle. The film remains one of Disney’s glories, and the 3-D adds depth and texture to the already impressive animation. It’s preceded by a short and very funny 3-D sequel to Disney’s Tangled. NNNNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Steven Spielberg) brings Belgian cartoonist Hergé’s boy journalist to the screen for a new generation. It’s the first “performance capture” movie that doesn’t look like it’s populated by wall-eyed zombies. And it’s thrilling. Spielberg crafts a series of amazingly BIG MIRACLE (Ken ambitious action seKwapis) 107 min. See EXPANDED REVIEWS quences, one of which is review, page 66. NNN nowtoronto.com as complex as the great (Phil Brown) truck chase in Raiders Of Opens Feb 3 at 401 & MorThe Lost Ark. 108 min. ningside, Canada Square, Coliseum ScarborNNNN (NW) ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, ColTown Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, ossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town CenRainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, tre, Humber Cinema, Queensway, SilverCity Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga. Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24 CAFÉ DE FLORE (Jean-Marc Vallée) finds writer/director Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., ALBERT NOBBS (Rodrigo García) 113 min. The Young Victoria) playing out a complex, See interview and review, page 64. NN (GS) time-jumping narrative involving a presentOpens Feb 3 at Empire Theatres at Empress day Montreal father (Kevin Parent) in the Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity. throes of a mid-life crisis and the mother (Vanessa Paradis) of a Down syndrome ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPchild in 1969 Paris. Some people are going WRECKED (Mike Mitchell) places the to hate it; I found it bracing, daring and Chipmunks on a desert island, where entirely invigorating. Stay for the closing they’re accompanied by former SNL player credits. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Jenny Slate and series villain David Cross. Carlton Cinema Preschoolers might enjoy the slapstick in this castaway comedy, but others will find CARNAGE (Roman Polanski) turns this high-pitched squeakquel unbearable. Yasmina Reza’s play God Of Carnage 87 min. N (Phil Brown) into a vividly cinematic endurance test, as 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colitwo sets of parents (Jodie Foster and John seum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town C. Reilly, and Kate Winslet and Christoph Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Waltz) face off in a Brooklyn apartment Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, over a fight between their sons. Not SilverCity Yorkdale necessarily something you’d call a holiday delight, but a damn fine little picture. 79 THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius) is a min. NNNN (NW) stylistic experiment pulled off with Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (BéréCHRONICLE (Josh Trank) 84 min. See nice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is review, page 69. NNNNN (NW) taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of Opens Feb 3 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, gorgeous black-and-white, director HazanaCourtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Emvicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of pire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, the familiar narrative with a slight edge Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenthat should satisfy contemporary tastes. ade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank The100 min. NNNN (GS) atre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity MissisBeach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, sauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow CONTRABAND (Baltasar Kormákur) stars Market Square, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Mark Wahlberg as an ex-smuggler risking everything to run one last job, and yeah, BACK TO THE SEA (Thom Lu) comes up dry that’s a movie he’s made before. It’s a movon thrills, laughs, appealing characters, visie everyone has made before, come to think ual splendour and anything else that might of it – including director Kormákur, who coappeal to the small fry who are its intended wrote and starred in the 2008 Icelandic audience, or the adults accompanying thriller Reykjavik-Rotterdam, and now finds them. Things start lively with Kevin the flyhimself in the curious position of directing ing fish, who wants to go to Barbados, but its remake. Wahlberg’s got pretty good at he’s soon caught by fishermen and put in the stone-faced hero thing, and his sim-

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mering presence suits the film’s tone nicely. The ever-mounting complications start to feel a little ridiculous about an hour in, but Kormákur keeps the action moving so swiftly that you won’t really mind. The admirably modest scale makes for an interesting change of pace after the IMAX-sized spectacle of the Mission: Impossible and Sherlock Holmes sequels. 109 min. NNN (NW) 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

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(Ralph Fiennes) is a modern updating of Shakespeare’s tragedy about a Roman general and war hero (Fiennes) whose refusal to play politics leads to his exile and an eventual alliance with his mortal enemy (Gerard Butler). It’s a muscular, vivid directorial debut for its star, who’s assembled a terrific cast – Vanessa Redgrave as his formidable mother, Jessica Chastain as his loyal wife and Brian Cox as a wily but ultimately noble politician – and given them their head. (The focus rightly remains on his character, a ferocious warrior undone by his own integrity.) Barry Aykroyd, who shot The Hurt Locker and Green Zone, convincingly creates an alternate Rome out of British and Serbian locations, and John Logan streamlines the play into a series of harsh confrontations, handing most of the formal exposition to media pundits. Sure, Baz Luhrmann did it 15 years ago in Romeo + Juliet, but a good device is a good device. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity

A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg) finds the master filmmaker adapting Christopher Hampton’s play The Talking Cure, exploring the friendship and eventual schism between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), which 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 seems 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 the two analysts. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

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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) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Cumberland 4, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

THE DEVIL INSIDE (William Brent Bell) elicits audience boos. 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 and a documentary filmmaker who overdoes the shakycam. 87 min. N (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, 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 the father who died in the collapse of the World Trade

Center, but the core story is compelling, Thomas Horn is an appealing hero and director Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader) is surprisingly restrained and less patronizing than usual. 129 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(David Fincher) is a taut thriller adapted from the Swedish bestseller and film. Daniel Craig has lots of charisma as a disgraced journalist investigating the disappearance of an industrialist’s niece, and Rooney Mara rocks as his troubled, tattooed research assistant. But this is another unnecessary English-language remake. 158 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

The Grey (Joe Carnahan) is an existentialist

survival thriller about a handful of men working out their personal issues after a plane crash in the wilds of British Columbia, which would be a lot easier if they weren’t also being stalked by ravenous timber wolves. After Smokin’ Aces and The A-Team, this is the first of Carnahan’s movies to aspire to depth, and he’s genuinely trying to tell a visceral, meaningful story. And though The Grey is undermined by unconvincing wolf effects (a mixture of CG, animatronics and real animals) and a clumsy backstory for Liam Neeson’s character, it has just enough gravity to make you wish it really delivered more fully on its potential. 116 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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) Humber Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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(Angelina Jolie) is Jolie’s directorial debut, about Serbian commander Danijel (Goran Kostic), who’s dating the Muslim Ajla (Zana Marjanovic) when war erupts. The Serbian army murders the Muslim men and imprisons the women, who cook and serve meals to the soldiers by day and then are raped by night. Danijel, who runs the prison, decides to protect Ajla. Soon they’re having a fullon sexual relationship. Is this love? Is this real consent? Victims of rape in Bosnia are calling the film exploitive, but the situation comes across as wholly authentic. Both Ajla and Danijel are overwhelmed by guilt and the power of their survival instincts. Too bad Danijel’s father (Rade Serbedzija), a vengeful Serbian general, is a caricature. continued on page 70 œ

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chroNicle (Josh Trank). 84 minutes. Opens Friday (February 3). For venues and times, see page 68. Rating:

NNNNN It’s nearly impossible to write about Chronicle without giving away its secrets. Hell, by the time you read this, the internet will be crawling with spoilers. Don’t go looking for them. The movie deserves fresh eyes. Josh Trank’s ingenious, resourceful feature applies the found-footage principle to a very unlikely genre, using the gimmick to move the story forward and ground its more outsized activity in a believable, even mundane reality. Most of the footage we see is shot by Andrew (Dane DeHaan), a miserable teenager dealing with an ailing mother, a drunken, abusive father and a hell-

ish school life. And then, one night, Andrew’s popular cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and Matt’s friend Steve (Michael B. Jordan) drag Andrew and his camcorder down into a hole in the ground. They find something there that changes them – and not necessarily for the better.

Honestly, there’s no way to describe why the movie works so brilliantly without spoiling its greatest moments. It’s thrilling to watch it evolve, blossoming into something very familiar while feeling utterly new. Go see it. And marvel. NorMaN WilNer

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(Steven Soderbergh) stars MMA fighter Gina Carano as hardass gun-for-hire Mallory Kane, who spends most of the picture outrunning a series of men who mean to do her harm. Director Soderbergh and screenwriter Lem Dobbs (who last collaborated on The Limey) turn the most generic of action plots into a meditation on what we want from action movies. Carano gets plenty of opportunities to beat the living shit out of several fairly intimidating opponents, but the movie’s rhythms are more about our anticipation of those beat-downs and the way the characters build to the point where they stop talking and start punching each other. The action choreography is rough and graceless, which makes it feel real; people struggle for any advantage they can get, and it’s not always pretty. Soderbergh covers the fight scenes in wide shots, so we can appreciate the ingenuity with which Mallory uses confined spaces to her advantage. She might not be able to outdrive her pursuers in a car chase, but god help them if they corner her in a hallway. 93 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

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And the rubble on the war-ravaged landscape looks too carefully arranged. But Jolie sheds light on a brutal conflict and the way war compromises even the most courageous person’s values. Subtitled. 127 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4

genius. 105 min. NNN (SGC) Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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JOYFUL NOISE (Todd Graff) is a sloppy musical that stars Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton as feuding gospel choir members whose teenage kin get all hot and heavy with each other between ballads. The characters and plot turns are INSIDE LARA ROXX so contrived, you’re forced (Mia Donovan) 84 min. to swallow it all on blind EXPANDED REVIEWS See review, page 66. faith. The music offers no nowtoronto.com NNN (SGC) salvation, unless of course Opens Feb 3 at the Royyou’re big on gospel. 117 al (see Indie & Rep Listmin. N (RS) ings, page 76). 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, RainTHE IRON LADY (Phyllida Lloyd) portrays bow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, former British PM Margaret Thatcher as a SilverCity Yorkdale proto-feminist outsider fighting the male establishment, and steers clear of her KEVIN SMITH: LIVE FROM BEHIND is an union-busting, privatizing, deregulating interactive Q&A event broadcast live from policies. It’s a jaw-dropping performance by Toronto’s Scotiabank, in which director Meryl Streep, both as the formidable politSmith answers audience questions (at the ician in her prime and as the elderly retiree theatre and via Twitter) and hosts a podcast suffering from dementia whose attempt to with his frequent co-star Jason Mewes. 180 go through her late husband’s (Jim Broadmin. bent) personal effects triggers memories of Feb 2, 9:30 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, her political rise and fall. Lloyd demonColossus, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, strates better visual chops than in her first SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge feature, Mamma Mia!. But screenwriter Abi Morgan tells the story from inside ThatchLE VENDEUR (Sébastien Pilote) 107 min. See er’s head, covering only those moments review, page 66. NNN (GS) when she felt most embattled. This po-mo Opens Feb 3 at Cumberland 4. subjective stuff runs the risk of being misMAN ON A LEDGE (Asger Leth) is a heist read by uninformed audiences who’ll see movie, the mechanics of which are so elabonly near-wholesale celebration. The polorate that the characters have to remind itics are a mess; even Thatcher would be each other they’ve been planning this for a appalled. But Streep’s performance is solid year. Otherwise, we might think the (Ti West) 101 min. See review, page 63, and director interview at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNNN (NW) Opens Feb 3 at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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whole thing was just made up by a screenwriter with no regard for physics, human stamina or the limits of audience credulity. It’s dumb as a box of rocks, but it’s the cheesy, shameless kind of dumb where everyone seems to be having a good time – except maybe Sam Worthington, who still hasn’t learned how to enjoy himself in an action role. But he totally nails the physicality of a man on a ledge. 101 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

MELANCHOLIA (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) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Gerardo Naranjo) 113 min. See review, page 66, and director interview at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNNN (RS) Opens Feb 3 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL ñMISSION:

(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) in the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team racing around the Eastern hemisphere to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia – a defiantly retro scheme that’s still scary, especially when half the Kremlin gets blown up in a mysterious bombing pinned on Hunt’s crew. As Cruise runs through traffic, battles umpteen villains and scales tall buildings (in spectacular IMAX footage, even), Ghost Protocol zips through its paces with marvellous craftsmanship; the action scenes are only incoherent when they need to be, the characters are sharply and simply defined, and the locations are attractively photographed and smartly used. Some subtitles. 133 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

MONSIEUR LAZHAR (Philippe Falar-

deau) is a tender and touching drama that captures the pulse of both primary

MOON POINT (Sean Cisterna) 85 min. See review, page 76. NN (NW) Opens Feb 3 at Yonge & Dundas 24.

ñTHE MUPPETS

(James Bobin) recaptures the unpredictable energy and genuine magic of Jim Henson’s beloved felt creations and releases that energy back into the wild. No, the new songs don’t have the scale or impact of The Rainbow Connection; what could? But when Camilla the chicken covers Cee Lo, all is right with the world. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis) is

as star-struck by its subject as its narrator is. It’s based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, who barely registers as a character. As for Marilyn Monroe (an excellent Michelle Williams), the film acknowledges the void between her public persona and private life but it does very little to fill it. 101 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

ONE FOR THE MONEY (Julie Anne Robinson) stars Katherine Heigl as flat-broke Jersey girl Stephanie Plum – from Janet Evanovich’s series of novels – who takes a job with a bail bond outfit. Her first case

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school politics and Canadian immigration. Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Fellag) becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with grief after their former teacher’s suicide. He must navigate the minefield that is dealing with traumatized children – no physical contact being of utmost importance. Like the kids who are faced with a new world of tragedy and lost innocence, Bachir must confront his own personal demons while figuring out his place in a new country. Director Falardeau proves once again why he’s one of Canada’s premier talents in this focused and intelligent drama that never allows allegorical touches to overwhelm the very personal story at its centre. A witty screenplay, moving performances – particularly from the precocious child cast – and social observations free of a political agenda makes Monsieur Lazhar a high achiever. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

NEW YEAR’S EVE (Garry Marshall) is strictly by the numbers, a generic exercise in empty momentum that follows various slick hipsters, 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 schematic screenplay, and producerdirector Marshall doesn’t ask anything of his cast beyond saying their lines while staying in focus. 117 min. N (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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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involves Joey Morelli (Jason O’Mara), a blast from her romantic past, who convinces her he’s not guilty. Soon the baddies are killing off anyone who talks to Plum. Why don’t they just shoot her? She’s easy to spot in that neon-blue vintage car. Why does a police officer she doesn’t know buy her a gun when she doesn’t have a permit? Why, in their initial investigation, didn’t the police flush out all the info Plum gets so easily from a witness? I’m all for watching women kick ass in the bounty-hunting business, but do I have to turn off my brain while I’m doing it? 106 min. NN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñPARIAH

(Dee Rees) is a lesbian coming-out story starring charismatic Adepero Oduye as an African-American high-schooler struggling for affirmation, with great performances, an exhilarating soundtrack of girl-powered hip-hop, metal and soul and director Rees’s savvy script. Totally fresh. 86 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñPINA 3D

(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 her richly dramatic works and unconventional interviews with her dancers. Director Wenders uses 3-D technology effectively, getting visceral effects from Bausch’s complex choreography. Subtitled. 104 min. NNNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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(Léa Pool) 98 min. See interview and review, page 64. (SGC) Opens Feb 3 at Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24.

RED TAILS (Anthony Hemingway) is a well-

meaning banality about the Tuskegee Airmen, a squadron of black pilots who flew fighters and bombers in the segregated U.S. Army during the Second World War. As one has come to expect from a George Lucas production, the digital effects used to recreate the dizzying aerial dogfights are state-of-the-art (if a little too soft, in that specifically Lucasy way), and everything that has to be rendered in meatspace – characters, dialogue, emotions – feels like it was slapped together from old parts. 124 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñA SEPARATION

(Asghar Farhadi) is one of the strongest films of the year. A middle-class Tehran couple (Peyman Moadi and Leila Hatami) attempt to separate, and in their stubbornness and lack of communication irrevocably affect the lives of those around them, including their precocious 11-year-old daughter (Sarina Farhadi), the husband’s Alzheimer’s-stricken father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) and a devout cleaning woman (Sareh Bayat). Writer/ director Farhadi has created a complex, gripping mystery that sheds light on modern Iran’s religious and class differences, not to mention its circuitous legal system. But above all it’s a human and moral drama that plays with your sympathies and poses questions of innocence and guilt while providing no pat answers. Superbly acted and crafted, with an ending that will provoke arguments, A Separation is a great film that will haunt you. Subtitled. 123 min. NNNNN (GS) Grande - Yonge, Varsity

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) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (Guy Ritchie) follows the bigger-and-

THE VIRAL FACTOR (Dante Lam) follows two estranged brothers on opposite sides of the law who join forces to prevent a lethal small pox formula from reaching the black market. Lam is an action master, but his storytelling skills are stuck at in daytime soap opera mode. Sadly, every scene without a gun is a bore. Subtitled. 123 min. NN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

TINKER TAILOR SOLDIER SPY (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 selfimportance, 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) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñWAR HORSE

(Steven Spielberg) adapts Michael Morpurgo’s children’s novel to tell a simple but affecting story about an English farm boy (Jeremy Irvine) following his beloved horse into World War One. The script allows Spielberg to touch on the senseless brutality of combat and the redemptive power of a non-human creature, all captured in cinematographer Janusz Kaminski’s vivid imagery. The result is an old-fashioned picture full of humanity and heroism that only occasionally dips into sentimentality. 146 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE WAY (Emilio Estevez) follows California

ophthalmologist (Martin Sheen) 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

The Woman In Black

W.E. (Madonna) 119 min. See review, page 66. NN (GS) Opens Feb 3 at Carlton Cinema.

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(James Watkins) 95 min. See interview and review, page 63. (NW) Opens Feb 3 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, 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). She’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. 94 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox 3

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(Terrence Malick) perfects the intuitive approach to cinema Malick has been developing for nearly four decades, and it affected me more profoundly than any of his earlier films. It’s beautiful in its inelegance and confusion, embracing the awe of adolescence and the loss of innocence in the purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhapsody on the mystery of simply being alive. 138 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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TYRANNOSAUR (Paddy Considine) is the

gritty character study of a deeply troubled Yorkshire man (Peter Mullan) befriended by a younger woman (Olivia Colman) who has problems of her own. In his first feature as a writer/director, invaluable character actor Considine (My Summer Of Love, Submarine) mashes the misery button down as far as it will go: animal cruelty, abusive husbands, alcoholic rages, child endangerment – and that’s just the first reel. You can’t deny the intensity or the impact of individual scenes, and the actors hold nothing back, but there’s a sense, as one awful event piles atop the last, that the filmmaker is trying to outdo Leigh and Loach for cinematic suffering. And that gets wearying. 91 min. NNN (NW) Cumberland 4

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lind, Björn Stein) brings the horror franchise back to “Kate Beckinsale in a rubber catsuit shooting monsters with machine guns” but is still incredibly stupid, with vampires and werewolves carrying on their blood feud 12 years after humans have finally figured out they walk among us. Beckinsale’s Selene, accompanied by a mysterious little girl (India Eisley), has found another vampire coven to involve in the war against the Lycans, and that’s pretty much when everything gets thrown out for more shooting and growling and snarling and bleeding. I can’t complain that Underworld: Awakening breaks no new ground for the series; there’s no new ground to break. I just don’t understand why people go to see these movies in the first place. 88 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at

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ThE ArTIsT (PG) 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:05 Fri-Sat 11:15 late ChronIClE (14A) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat 11:00 late ConTrAbAnd (14A) thu 12:55, 3:20, 6:55, 9:10 Fri-Wed 9:40 ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu 1:15, 3:55, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:05 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 12:45, 6:45 hAyWIrE (14A) thu, tue 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25, 11:25 Sun-mon, Wed 1:00, 3:10, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 4:05, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:20, 9:35 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 3:45, 9:45 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) thu 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:25, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:30 late

february 2-8 2012 NOW

AlbErT nobbs (14A) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 monWed 12:35, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 12:50, 3:25, 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 CorIolAnus thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 FriSun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 hugo 3d (PG) thu 12:35, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:25, 6:25, 9:40 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 mon-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 MonsIEur lAzhAr (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 pInA 3d (G) thu 1:10, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 12:55, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu, Wed 12:30, 3:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 mon-tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00

VIP SCREENINGS

A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:55, 9:15

ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:05, 10:25 mon-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu, mon-Wed 12:55, 3:25, 6:05, 9:05 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 MonsIEur lAzhAr (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 9:45 pInA (G) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 A sEpArATIon (14A) thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:25

yonge & dundaS 24 (amC) 10 dundaS St e, 416-335-5323

ThE AdvEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 4:15 6:50 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:30 mat ThE AdvEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) thu 3:30 6:00 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:05 Sat-Sun 10:35, 1:00 mat AgnEEpATh (14A) 2:25, 6:05, 9:50 Sat-Sun 10:45 mat All’s WEll, Ends WEll thu 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Fri-Wed 10:00 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:25, 7:00, 8:15, 9:40, 10:40 Fri, monWed 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 bACk To ThE sEA 3d (G) thu 3:20, 5:35 bEAuTy And ThE bEAsT 3d (G) 3:05 Sat-Sun 10:35, 12:50 mat ThE dEvIl InsIdE (14A) 2:50, 4:55, 7:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:40, 12:50 mat ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 2:30, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:45, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:40, 11:55, 1:05, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 10:00 MIss bAlA 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat Moon poInT 2:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:45 mat ThE MuppETs (G) thu 2:20, 5:05 Fri, mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 Sat-Sun 11:35, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 2:20 4:45 8:20 10:40 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 8:20, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat nEW yEAr’s EvE (PG) thu 8:10, 10:45 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:45, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 3:10, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:25 Sat-Sun 10:30, 11:45, 12:45, 2:00, 3:10, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:25 pArIAh (14A) thu 3:45, 6:20, 8:30, 10:45 pInk rIbbons, InC. 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 1:00 mat rEd TAIls (PG) thu 3:00, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00 Fri, mon-Wed 3:10, 6:00, 9:15 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:00, 9:15 TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 10:30, 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 SatSun 11:00, 1:30 mat undErWorld: AWAkEnIng – An IMAx 3d ExpErIEnCE (18A) 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 10:30, 12:45 mat undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 11:50 mat ThE vIrAl fACTor 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:40 mat WAr horsE (PG) thu 3:35, 7:05, 10:20 Fri-Wed 5:15, 8:25 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) thu 12:01 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-Sun 11:15, 12:15, 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00

midtown Canada Square (Ce) 2200 yonge St, 416-646-0444

ThE ArTIsT (PG) Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 bIg MIrAClE Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 4:20, 6:40 Fri 4:45, 7:25, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 4:25, 7:30 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 3:50, 7:10 Fri 4:40, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:40, 8:00 mon-Wed 4:00, 7:20 MIssIon: IMpossIblE – ghosT proToCol (PG) Fri 4:50, 7:40 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40 mon-Wed 4:35, 7:30 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 4:15, 6:45 Fri 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 mon-Wed 4:10, 6:30 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 mon-Wed 4:30, 6:40 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 4:10, 6:55 shErloCk holMEs: A gAME of shAdoWs (PG) thu 4:05, 6:50 WAr horsE (PG) thu 4:00, 7:15

mt PleaSant (i)

675 mt PleaSant rd, 416-489-8484 hugo (PG) thu, tue-Wed 7:00 Fri 6:50, 9:25 Sat 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Sun 4:15, 7:00

ThE AdvEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:30 Fri 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 bEAuTy And ThE bEAsT 3d (G) thu-Fri 2:10, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 ChronIClE (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 9:40 mon-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 ConTrAbAnd (14A) thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat 1:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 12:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 mon-tue 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 1:25, 3:55, 9:45 ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu, monWed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 ThE grEy (14A) thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:10, 10:00 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:50, 9:15 Fri 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Sun-tue 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Wed 4:10, 9:40 kEvIn sMITh: lIvE froM bEhInd thu 9:30 MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sun-tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 ThE METropolITAn opErA: fAusT EnCorE Sat 12:55 MIssIon: IMpossIblE – ghosT proToCol (PG) thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:45 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) Fri 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00

Metro

West end humber Cinema (i) 2442 bloor St. WeSt, 416-232-1939

ThE AdvEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00 ThE IdEs of MArCh (14A) Fri-Wed 9:00 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) Fri-Wed 3:00, 7:00 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) Fri-Wed 5:00 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) thu 7:00, 9:00

kingSWay theatre (i) 3030 bloor St W, 416-232-1939

ThE ArTIsT (PG) 1:00, 7:00 hugo (PG) 2:50 ThE IdEs of MArCh (14A) thu 9:00 ThE MuppETs (G) Sat-Sun 11:00 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 5:00 pInk rIbbons, InC. Fri-Wed 5:00, 9:00

queenSWay (Ce)

1025 the queenSWay, qeW & iSlington, 416-503-0424 ThE AdvEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:35, 10:15 mon-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 AlvIn And ThE ChIpMunks: ChIpWrECkEd (G) thu 1:45, 4:10 Fri-Sat 12:50 Sun 2:30 mon-Wed 2:20 bACk To ThE sEA (G) thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:45 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:10 mon-Wed 2:10, 4:45 bEAuTy And ThE bEAsT 3d (G) thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:45 FriSun 2:20, 4:45, 7:15 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:45 bIg MIrAClE Fri 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 4:25, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 3:35, 6:25, 9:15 mon-tue 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 ChronIClE (14A) Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:40, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 mon-Wed 2:40, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 ConTrAbAnd (14A) thu 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 mon-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:40 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 9:35 mon-Wed 9:05 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 1:05, 3:45, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 mon-tue 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 ThE dEvIl InsIdE (14A) thu 10:05 ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 mon-tue 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 3:00, 6:30, 9:55 Fri 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 2:40, 6:10, 9:30 mon-Wed 2:50, 6:20, 9:45 ThE grEy (14A) thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:30 Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:20,

7:45, 10:05 Sun 4:50, 7:25, 9:40 mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:15 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 mon-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 kEvIn sMITh: lIvE froM bEhInd thu 9:30 MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:20, 8:50 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 ThE METropolITAn opErA: fAusT EnCorE Sat 12:55 MIssIon: IMpossIblE – ghosT proToCol (PG) thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun 12:35, 3:05, 6:35, 9:10 monWed 2:05, 4:30, 7:20, 9:35 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 6:25 shErloCk holMEs: A gAME of shAdoWs (PG) thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sun 6:55, 9:55 mon-Wed 7:10, 10:05 TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 mon-tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 WAr horsE (PG) thu 9:10 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15

rainboW Woodbine (i)

Woodbine Centre, 500 rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 AlvIn And ThE ChIpMunks: ChIpWrECkEd (G) 12:55, 3:55 bIg MIrAClE Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 ChronIClE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 ConTrAbAnd (14A) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 thu 9:45 ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 9:30 ThE grEy (14A) thu 1:05 4:05 6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 9:35 Joyful noIsE (PG) 6:50, 9:25 thu 1:15, 3:50 mat MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 1:20 4:00 7:20 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:25 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 6:55, 9:35 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 9:40 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 7:00, 9:20

east end beaCh CinemaS (aa) 1651 queen St e, 416-699-5971

AlvIn And ThE ChIpMunks: ChIpWrECkEd (G) Sat-Sun 1:20 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 mon-Wed 6:40, 9:20 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat, 4:10 ThE grEy (14A) 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:20 Sat 1:00 mat, 4:20 Sun 1:30 mat, 4:20 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 7:20, 9:50 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 6:40, 9:20 Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Sat, mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 ThE METropolITAn opErA: fAusT EnCorE Sat 12:55 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat, 4:45 ThE WoMAn In blACk (14A) 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:30

north york emPire theatreS at emPreSS Walk (et) 5095 yonge St, 416-223-9550

AlbErT nobbs (14A) 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat bEAuTy And ThE bEAsT 3d (G) thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 Fri, mon-Wed 3:35 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:40 ChronIClE (14A) Fri, mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 8:50 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 6:30, 9:00 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:30 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) Fri, mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:30, 9:30 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 5:00, 9:00 Fri, mon-Wed 5:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 5:50, 9:10 ThE grEy (14A) thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri, mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:30 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, monWed 4:20, 6:50, 9:05 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 shErloCk holMEs: A gAME of shAdoWs (PG) thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, mon-Wed 10:00 Sat-Sun 10:10 TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Fri, mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:50 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) thu 3:40, 4:50, 6:30, 7:40, 8:50, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 SatSun 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20

grande - yonge (Ce) 4861 yonge St, 416-590-9974

ThE ArTIsT (PG) 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:40 mat bIg MIrAClE 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat ConTrAbAnd (14A) thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 1:40, 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 monWed 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 CorIolAnus thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 ExTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIbly ClosE (PG) thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 mon-Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 hugo 3d (PG) thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 ThE METropolITAn opErA: fAusT EnCorE Sat 12:55 MIssIon: IMpossIblE – ghosT proToCol (PG) thu 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 6:45, 9:45 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 mon 3:50, 9:35 tue-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 continued on page 74 œ

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a separaTion (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00

SilveRCiTy FAiRvieW (Ce)

FAiRvieW MAll, 1800 ShePPARd Ave e, 416-644-7746 The adVenTures of TinTin 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:05 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:35 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:25 chronicle (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 conTraBand (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 exTremely loud & incrediBly close (PG) Thu 6:40 The grey (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 hayWire (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Sun 10:00 Mon-Wed 9:55 keVin smiTh: liVe from Behind Thu 9:30 man on a ledge (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 one for The money (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 FriSun 12:45, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:35, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10

SilveRCiTy yoRKdAle (Ce) 3401 duFFeRin ST, 416-787-4432

alVin and The chipmunks: chipWrecked (G) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:45, 6:40 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 chronicle (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Sun 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 conTraBand (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:45, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 The deVil inside (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:20, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:30 The girl WiTh The dragon TaTToo (18A) Thu 9:50 The grey (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Joyful noise (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50 Fri-Sat 10:35 Sun 10:00 Mon-Wed 9:00 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 one for The money (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 FriSat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40 red Tails (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

Scarborough 401 & MoRningSide (Ce) 785 MilneR Ave, SCARboRough, 416-281-2226

alVin and The chipmunks: chipWrecked (G) Thu 4:55 Fri, Tue 4:10 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:10 Mon, Wed 4:50 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu 5:30, 7:40 Fri 5:20, 7:45, 9:55 Sat 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:45, 9:55 Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:15 Tue 4:30, 7:00, 9:20 Big miracle Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:25 Tue 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 chronicle (14A) Fri 3:50, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Sun 1:30, 3:45, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:10 Tue 3:45, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 conTraBand (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:55 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 Mon, Wed

5:10, 7:50 Tue 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 exTremely loud & incrediBly close (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:35 The grey (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:10 Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:55, 7:35 Tue 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 hayWire (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Joyful noise (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:10, 9:50 Mon, Wed 7:05 man on a ledge (PG) Thu 5:50, 8:15 Fri 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:15 Tue 4:20, 7:30, 9:55 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:50 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Mon, Wed 4:45, 7:40 Tue 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 one for The money (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:00 Fri 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 Sat 12:55, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:10 Sun 12:55, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:40, 7:45 Tue 5:25, 7:50, 10:05 red Tails (PG) Thu 7:20 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:20 Fri 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 Sat 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 Sun 1:40, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 Tue 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:25 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:00 Tue 3:25, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25

ColiSeuM SCARboRough (Ce) SCARboRough ToWn CenTRe, 416-290-5217

The adVenTures of TinTin 3d (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:30, 6:45, 9:35 The adVenTures of TinTin (PG) Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Big miracle Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 conTraBand (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:10 The deVil inside (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:20, 5:10, 7:45, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:20 The girl WiTh The dragon TaTToo (18A) Thu 2:15, 6:20, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:35, 4:00, 7:25, 10:55 Sun-Wed 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 The grey (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 hayWire (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:15, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Joyful noise (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55 keVin smiTh: liVe from Behind Thu 9:30 man on a ledge (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50 Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 7:30, 10:10 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 red Tails (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05

eglinTon ToWn CenTRe (Ce) 1901 eglinTon Ave e, 416-752-4494

The adVenTures of TinTin 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 alVin and The chipmunks: chipWrecked (G) Thu 4:40, 6:55 Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:40 Sun 2:00, 4:20 Mon-Wed 4:20 Back To The sea (G) Thu 4:35, 7:10 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:45 Sun 1:25, 4:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:35, 9:55 Big miracle Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 chronicle (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:45, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 conTraBand (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 2:15, 4:35, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 a dangerous meThod (14A) Thu 9:35 exTremely loud & incrediBly close (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:20 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 The girl WiTh The dragon TaTToo (18A) Thu 5:00, 8:30 Fri-Sat 7:15, 10:35 Sun 6:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 8:40 The grey (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 hayWire (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Sun 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:55 The iron lady (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Joyful noise (PG) Thu 9:20 man on a ledge (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:15, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 one for The money (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 MonWed 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 red Tails (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 sherlock holmes: a game of shadoWs (PG) Thu 3:30, 9:40 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:55 Sun-Wed 6:45, 9:40 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sun

12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

Kennedy CoMMonS 20 (AMC) Kennedy Rd & 401, 416-335-5323

agneepaTh (14A) 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:30 mat alBerT noBBs (14A) 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:15 mat all’s Well, ends Well Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 The arTisT (PG) 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Sun 11:05 mat Back To The sea 3d (G) Thu 2:00 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu 1:45, 3:55, 6:00, 8:15 Fri-Sun 11:30, 1:45, 4:00, 6:10, 8:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 6:10, 8:15 chronicle (14A) 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:15, 12:15, 1:25 mat coriolanus Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 a dangerous meThod (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:00 The descendanTs (14A) 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:20 mat exTremely loud & incrediBly close (PG) 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:40 mat hugo 3d (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 The iron lady (PG) 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:10 mat my Week WiTh marilyn (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 8:45 nanBan (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30 mat one for The money (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:05, 4:50, 6:25, 7:10, 9:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30, 1:55, 4:05, 6:25, 9:00 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:05, 6:25, 9:00 pina 3d (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 pink riBBons, inc. 2:10, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat sherlock holmes: a game of shadoWs (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:45, 4:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 9:30 Tinker Tailor soldier spy (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 The Viral facTor Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 War horse (PG) 1:40, 4:45, 8:00 Fri-Sun 10:35 mat The Woman in Black (14A) 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:45 mat

WoodSide CineMAS (i) 1571 SAndhuRST CiRCle, 416-299-3456

agneepaTh (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:00 Fri 4:30, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:00, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 5:30, 7:30, 9:00 marina Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 nanBan (PG) Thu 7:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSAugA (Ce) SquARe one, 309 RAThbuRn Rd W, 905-275-3456

alVin and The chipmunks: chipWrecked (G) Thu 2:00, 4:10, 6:30, 8:45 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:20, 6:30, 8:45 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu-Sat 2:10, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 6:50, 8:50 chronicle (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 SunTue 1:30, 3:40, 5:45, 7:50, 10:00 Wed 3:40, 5:45, 7:50, 10:00 The deVil inside (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Sun-Wed 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 The girl WiTh The dragon TaTToo (18A) Thu-Sat 2:50, 6:20, 9:40 Sun-Wed 2:50, 6:10, 9:30 The grey (14A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 FriSat 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 hayWire (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 The meTropoliTan opera: fausT encore Sat 12:55 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) Thu-Sat 2:20, 5:20, 8:30 Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:20, 8:40 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol: The imax experience (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 one for The money (PG) Thu 1:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 FriSat 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Tue 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:45 Wed 5:30, 7:40, 9:45 sherlock holmes: a game of shadoWs (PG) Thu-Sat 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) 2:40, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20 Thu 3:40 mat, 5:50, 8:10

CouRTney PARK 16 (AMC)

110 CouRTney PARK e AT huRonTARio, 888-262-4386 The adVenTures of TinTin 3d (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:50, 5:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:25, 9:50 BeauTy and The BeasT 3d (G) Thu 3:15, 5:25, 7:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 10:40, 3:25, 7:50 Mon-Wed 3:25, 7:50

Big miracle 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:30 mat chronicle (14A) 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 11:00, 1:00 mat conTraBand (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:45, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 The descendanTs (14A) 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:35 mat exTremely loud & incrediBly close (PG) 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 10:50, 1:40 mat The girl WiTh The dragon TaTToo (18A) Thu 7:25 FriSun 10:35, 3:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:50, 9:55 The grey (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:15, 8:15, 10:50 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 11:00 Sun 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 hayWire (14A) Thu 3:00, 5:45, 8:00, 10:35 Fri-Sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:00, 5:45, 7:55, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:45, 7:55, 10:40 The iron lady (PG) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 10:55, 1:25 mat man on a ledge (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Sat 10:30, 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 8:20, 10:50 Sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 8:20, 10:40 mission: impossiBle – ghosT proTocol (PG) 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Sat 1:45 mat one for The money (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:45, 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 red Tails (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 sherlock holmes: a game of shadoWs (PG) Thu 4:40, 10:40 underWorld: aWakening (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:45, 7:40 Mon-Wed 7:40 underWorld: aWakening – an imax 3d experience (18A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:30, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 underWorld: aWakening 3d (18A) Thu 3:10, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:20 The Woman in Black (14A) Fri-Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30

SilveRCiTy MiSSiSSAugA (Ce) hWy 5, eAST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

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Time is money. In Time takes that mouldy cliché literally to create an apt and vivid metaphor for the condition of the 99 per cent – that’s you and me. In the future, everyone stops aging physically at 25, but then the implant clock starts ticking down and one year later hits zero. Then you die, unless you can earn or steal more time. Most scramble every day to earn a few hours, but a few have eons. Ordinary peon Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) gets hold of an extra century and heads for the upper-crust neighbourhood where he

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thu 2 – Elegy (1971) D: Yilmaz Güney. 6:30 pm. Solaris (1972) D: Andrei Tarkovsky. 8:45 pm. Fri 3 – Bride Of The Earth (1968) D: Yilmaz Güney. 6:30 pm. Soviet Sci-Fi: Who Wants To Kill Jessie? (1966) D: Václav Vorliçek. 9 pm. b sat 4 – The Black Stallion (1979) D: Carroll Ballard. 10:30 am. Caribbean Tales Youth Film Festival gala premiere: New African Voices: Better Mus’ Come (2010) D: Storm Saulter.

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Not over the Moon MOON POINT (Sean Cisterna) Rating: NN Moon Point isn’t the first coming-ofage road movie about a traumatized young man drawn out of his shell by his weird best friend and a fetching young stranger. But it’s the first one that thinks the weird best friend should be the star. That’d be Darryl Strozka (Nick McKinlay), a 24-year-old nothing whose idea of a job is helping his wheelchair-bound buddy, Femur (Kyle Mac), with his paper route. When Darryl learns that his childhood best friend, TV star Sarah Cherry (Kristen Gutoskie), is shooting Noon. $50. L’Altra Italia presents Immaturi (2011) D: Paolo Genovese. 6:30 pm. The Hungry Wolves (1969) D: Yilmaz Güney. 7 pm. Late Night-The Cinema Of Nicolas Cage: The Rock (1996) D: Michael Bay. 10 pm. b suN 5 – Johnny Guitar (1954) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. New African Voices: Better Mus’ Come. 3:45 pm. The Friend (1974) D: Yilmaz Güney. 6:30 pm. moN 6 – Books On Film Discussion and screening series: Atom Egoyan On Felicia’s Journey (1999). 7 pm.

her first movie in nearby Moon Point, he ropes Femur into driving him there in his souped-up scooter. Along the way, they run into a young woman (Paula Brancati) who joins them on the journey. Director Sean Cisterna and screenwriter Robert Lazar never decide what sort of movie they’re making. The tone changes with each scene, veering from gentle absurdism to broad comedy to even broader comedy. (The impressive supporting cast, which includes Jessica Holmes, Christian Potenza, Art Hindle and Jayne Eastwood, all overplay their roles in different directions.) Things improve considerably in the tue 7 – Food On Film discussion and film Scott Conant On Babette’s Feast ñseries: (1987) D: Gabriel Axel. 6:30 pm. $35. wed 8 – Hot Docs Doc Soup presents Calvet

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pm. Q&A w/ filmmakers & cast to follow. Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 9:30 pm. Fri 3 – Carnage (2011) D: Roman Polanski. 7 pm. Inside Lara Roxx (2011) D: Mia Donovan. 9 pm. sat 4 – Inside Lara Roxx. 1:30 & 7 pm. Carnage. 9:30 pm. moN 6-wed 8 – Carnage. 7 pm. Inside Lara Roxx. 9 pm.

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cut my head off. It’ll just take a sec: Snooping is always wrong! You invaded your husband’s privacy! That was wrong! WRONG! Moving on…. Your husband hit the jackpot when he met you, HITME. There aren’t a lot of women out there who would embrace – much less marry – a man with his particular collection of kinks. You’ve been GGG and all you’ve asked in return is… total transparency and the immediate, real-time disclosure of all outside flirtations and contacts as they happen. Why can’t the kinky ingrate honour this agreement? Only he knows the answer to that question, HITME, but I suspect one of two issues is at play. Your husband may be ashamed – he may have been brutally shamed in past relationships – about the extent of his kinks and about just how much of his time and erotic energy his kinks consume. You may be completely sincere when you tell him you’re okay with everything, HITME, so long as there’s immediate and full disclosure. But he may fear that sharing the full extent of his online activities will leave you feeling either squicked out or threatened. So he downplays and minimizes, disclosing some but not all, because he doesn’t want to lose you. If this is the issue, impress upon your husband that hiding shit from you represents a bigger threat to his marriage than full disclosure ever could. Or…. Having and keeping sexual secrets may turn your husband on, HITME, and having a secret life could be another one of his kinks. Even if this is the issue, HITME, I think you two should be able to come to mutually agreeable terms that accommodate both his desire to have a secret and

your need for full disclosure. Here’s a potential compromise: He doesn’t keep anything from you, HITME, but he doesn’t disclose in real time. So long as he’s not being unsafe or neglectful, so long as his online activities remain online-only, he can carry on flirting and texting and pic-swapping. But every few months, you get to depose his submissive ass. You get to sit him down and ask him questions, and he answers all your questions truthfully and opens up about any current secrets that your questions didn’t uncover. This way, he can have all the erotic secrets he wants (he’ll just have to make new ones every few months), and you can have the transparency you need (you just won’t have it immediately). Good luck.

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guy who “stumbled over” his brother’s femdom sex blog reminded me of a funny story: my little brother came out to my conservative but not particularly religious Jewish parents in 1995. It was rough. Our parents refused to help pay for my wedding because I insisted on inviting my brother and his boyfriend. Mom and Dad are now rightly embarrassed by their behaviour and they worship his husband. (It helps that my brother married a doctor – some stereotypes are true.) Last year, my parents found out that my older brother – their straight son – is kinky. A vindictive ex hacked into his email and sent a letter to everyone in his address book. Big bro has a dungeon, his current girlfriend is his slave, he’s made BDSM porn. The email came with pictures no mother would want to see. Mom, completely distraught, called her gay son: “Why can’t Josh have a normal relationship!” she cried. “Like yours!” So far as Mom is concerned, her gay son is normal and her straight son is a freak. Is that progress, Dan? Brothers Done Shocking Mom I don’t know if it’s progress, BDSM, but it’s hilarious. And I trust that you’re sticking up for your kinky straight brother now just like you stuck up for your gay brother back in the day.

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