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When the three little pigs built their homes, the wisest of the bunch was preoccupied with withstanding wind damage. No doubt if the wolf had had a flame-thrower, the friendly ungulates would have opted for some fireretardant protection. But at what cost? You can thank the 70s and that decade’s love for flammable synthetic fabrics and plastic-encased electronics for increasing the volume of dodgy brominated (or bromine-based) flame retardants. In the last few years, a group of brominated bad boys called PBDEs have been put on the hot seat. As news of their nastily persistent toxicity spread, bans on various PBDEs have been enacted in countries across the globe, including Canada. Environment Canada had the good sense to finally recognize them as toxic (they’re tied to cancer, brain damage, reproductive problems and more). While the feds, after much foot-dragging, promised to include decaBDE in the list of PBDEs being

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minated flame retardants for eons now. Ikea phased them out by 2002, and Canadian foam supplier Foamite went BFR-free in 1996. I just wish the story ended there. It doesn’t. You see, weary readers, there are other kinds of naughty flame retardants on the market that aren’t bromine based. Ikea was caught with its Ektorp pants down when it was discovered that the company was using chlorinated tris (banned from children’s PJs in the 70s) in some of its furniture. When that scandal hit, Ikea said it was phasing out tris by mid-2010 – definitely a good thing, considering that California recently declared the substance a carcinogen, ordering that products containing it must carry warning labels. Today, Ikea’s official stance is that it only uses flame retardants when legally required to do so. At best, the company covers furniture with naturally flame-retardant fabrics like wool and fills certain mattresses with latex. With foam furniture, though, reps say unspecified organic phosphorous/nitrogencontaining compounds or melamine or chloro-phosphorous compounds are used that meet Ikea’s restrictions

New-wave retardants are now turning up in air and wildlife. against carcinogens, mutagens and reproductive toxins. Of course, it’s tough to say without further specifics and studies whether more of today’s flame retardants will end up being tomorrow’s PBDEs. Your safest choice is to ask for totally flame-retardant-free options. Foamite sells several foams that are 100 per cent flame-retardant-free. You can request some from custom upholsterers (like Bellfiori, Coja) and local reupholsterers like Rewrap on Dundas East, Princess Upholstery on Pape, the Big Stuff Reupholstery on

Dufferin and Avenue Upholstery at Av and Lawrence. Keep in mind that soybased foams tend to contain flame retardants, too. You just have to inquire about which ones they use. All-natural latex, on the other hand, is totally flame-retardant-free, but it’s harder to find in the 21st century and a good deal more expensive. By the way, most of our exposure to PBDEs comes via household dust, so technically if you dust, wash your hands and vacuum often, you can get a grip on existing flame retardants lurking in your dust bunnies. But if you want persistent flame retardants gone for good, email Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq (leona.aglukkaq@parl.gc.ca) and Environment Minister Peter Kent (peter.kent@parl.gc.ca) today. If the feds want to get tough on toxins, as they claim, they’d better put this fire out. 3 @ecoholicnation on Twitter ecoholic.ca

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love is in the Air (Eco-Justice) Three-course

fundraising dinner. 7 pm. $89. Against the Grain Restaurant, 25 Dockside. loveisintheair2. eventbrite.com. MysticAl MAyheM (George Brown College/ Grocery Fdn) Gala party on the theme of fairy tales/fantasy by George Brown special events planning students. 7 pm. $20-$29. Fly Nightclub, 8 Gloucester. mystical-mayhem.ca.

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rAfricAn cAnAdiAn children And youth literAry festivAl Spoken word and story-

telling from Canada and the diaspora. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416-3955980. Feb 18 and 19 cineMA kABuki festivAl Screening of Japanese kabuki theatre and dance films. $15. Scotiabank Theatre, 259 Richmond W. jftor.org. Feb 22 and 23 rfAMily dAy fest Entertainment by The Trevor Show and others, an obstacle course, circus and more. 10 am-6 pm. $25-$40, adults $8. Downsview Park Studio 3, 40 Carl Hall. familydayfest.ca. Feb 18 to 20 reel Artists filM festivAl Festival of documentaries on visual art and artists. $12, stu/srs $8, pass $85, opening night gala $195. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. canadianart.ca/raff. Feb 22 to 26 WAvelength Music festivAl Performances

Just eArth Toronto planning group meeting on climate action strategizing, oil subsidies lobbying and more. 7 pm. Free. 419 Carlton. info@justearth.net. lost And found spAces: Buildings, cities And the stories they tell Discussion with

chAllenges fAcing reconstruction & the Quest for Justice in hAiti Discussion with

dreAM cAtcher? Where the industriAl nightMAres fAll Seminar with Aamjiwaang

Music U of T Graduate Department of Musicology/Ethnomusicology/Theory colloquium with a talk by Yale musicologist Gary Tomlinson. 3:30 pm. Free. Edward Johnson Bldg, rm 130, 80 Queen’s Park. music.utoronto.ca.

First Nation member Ron Plain. 4:10 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. environment.utoronto.ca.

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author/urbanist Shawn Micallef, urban photographer David Kaufman and architectural historian Sara Ferdman Tauben. 7 pm. $5. Kiever Synagogue, 25 Bellvue. makomto.org.

writer/social justice advocate Roger Annis and attorney Nicole Phillips. 12:30 pm. Free. York U, 280A York Lanes, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/cerlac/events11-12.htm.

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Talk by Polish art and cultural historian Pawel Leszkowicz. 1:30 pm. Free. OCADU S-Lab, 205 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 423. tAfelMusik Lecture on baroque music by panel with Malcolm X’s grandson, Malcolm Tafelmusik violinist Patricia Ahearn. 7 pm. Shabazz, and indigenous feminist Krysta WilFree. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. liams. 6 pm. Free. Ryerson University, SCC Pre-register 416-395-5639. 115, 55 Gould. studentsagainstracism.ca. tropicAl getAWAy Tour of Allan Gardens guidestones Sneak peak behind the interConservatory and talk by The Untamed Garactive thriller series with writer/director Jay den author Sonia Day. 7:30 pm. $30. Allan Ferguson. 7:30 pm. Free. Culture, KRO 071 Now MagConspiracy Ads FNL_Layout 1 Gardens 10/02/12 1:41 PM 19Page 1 Conservatory, Horticultural, Jarvis 1696 Queen W. 416-916-1696.

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ArianaGillis playsthe Winterfolk XBlues AndRoots Festival. by Eucalyptus, Fucked Up, Slim Twig and many others. $10 and up, pass $36. Various venues. wavelengthtoronto.com. Feb 16 to 19

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Tenth anniversary of the festival featuring folk, roots, world and blues artists. Free. Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard W. winterfolk.com. Feb 17 to 19 and Carlton. Reserve 416-397-1341. urBAnesQue Burlesque show. Today 8 pm; tomorrow 8:30 pm. $28. Courthouse, 57 Adelaide E. joyofdance.ca/urbanesque.php.

vAndAvA shivA – seeds And seed MultinAtionAls Sneak preview of the animated

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Art for cAncer (ART for Cancer Fdn) A multimedia exhibit opens today with a reception and runs to Feb 24. 6:30 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. artforcancerfoundation.org.

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Svs) A screening of The Lion King and performances by Donlands and Mortimer and others. 6 pm. $5-$10. Creatures Creating, 627 Queen W. 647-709-8337.

Bcrisis in the congo: uncovering the truth Film screening and panel discussion

with CUPE member Safia Gahayr. 7 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, rm 1170, 40 St George. network4panafrikansolidarity@gmail.com.

performances take place very second Sun (call for schedule). Pwyc. St David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands. 416-466-3142. To Mar 18 rhuBArB festivAl New works theatre festival. $20 (Thu-Sun evenings), afternoons pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. To Feb 19 sociAl MediA Week City-wide digital culture festival with activities and talks on emerging trends in social and mobile media. Most events free. socialmediaweek.org/ toronto. To Feb 17 u of t drAMA festivAl Theatre written, directed, produced and performed by students. $12, stu/srs $10. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. To Feb 18 WhAt Are you doing BAck there? Winter arts festival with playwrights, musicians, comics, dancers and poets. $5-$10 sliding scale. Dominion on Queen, 500 Queen E. facebook.com/events/245691598839371. To Feb 18

fAMily dAy Action to deMAnd Justice for MigrAnt fArMWorker deAths Justicia for

Migrant Workers rally and march to the ministry of labour. Noon. Free. Office of the Chief Coroner, 32 Grenville. 647-832-4932.

BgArveyisM in the cAriBBeAn diAsporA: A neW perspective Lecture by professor Rob-

ert Hill and launch of the UNIA Papers 19101920. 6:30 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. newcollege.utoronto.ca. hAiti: solidArity And sociAl Justice Forum with speakers Roger Annis of Canada Haiti Action Network and Instit for Justice and Democracy in Haiti attorney Nicole Phillips. 7 pm. Free. Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil. facebook.com/events/321710011204158. Bhip-hop dAnce Workshop Freestyle session with Philly. 6 pm. Free. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. 416-396-8969.

Saturday, February 18

Benefits

Butch feMMe sAlon: cABAret of love

(People with AIDS) Burlesque, music and dance with Rowena Fonseka, Belle Jumelles and others. 9 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). Rivoli, 332 Queen W. butchfemmesalon@gmail.com.

Jory nAsh (Lake Scugog Camp) A concert with the singer-songwriter/storyteller benefits a camp for underprivileged children. 7:30 pm. $20 sugg. Patagonia Toronto, 500 King W. 416-861-1102.

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the early black community in Toronto. Today and tomorrow. Free w/ admission, Sun pwyc. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. cAfe scientifiQue: love Find out more about the science of love from biologists, psychologists and others. 4 pm. Free. Rivoli, 332 Queen E. ontariosciencecentre.ca. cAnes And cAining All-genders workshop with cainmaker Adrian. 7:30 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 701 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934. dAre night v4.0 Party where participants execute exhilarating dares in front of a crowd. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Drake Lab, 1140 Queen W. hello@mammalian.ca. dJ skAte night Skate beside the lake while DJs spin. 8-11 pm. Free. Harbourfront Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay. 416-973-4000. rfAMily dAy At second city Family-friendly interactive comedy. Today and tomorrow noon; Feb 20 noon & 2 pm. $14, family fourpack $45. Second City, 51 Mercer. rfAMily dAy At the roM Tour of the Maya exhibit plus Maya-themed crafts and activities. To Feb 20, 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rfAMily dAy on the kingsWAy Ice sculpture demos and competition, carnival activities and more. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Willingdon and Wendover at Bloor. kingswaybia.ca. rfAMily dAy stAycAtion All-day film screenings and pixilation activities. To Feb 20, 10 am. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416-973-3012. rfAMily dAys At the science centre Flight workshops, a Leonardo de Vinci adventure, electricity and paper-making demos, and more. To Feb 20 various times. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. rfAMily fun fAir Rides, carnival games and more. Today, tomorrow and Feb 20, 10 am-6 pm. $20-$30. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. rogerscentre.com.

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$2 sugg. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. Icycle 2012 Cyclists race on the rinks to be ice-cycling champions. 7-10 pm. Free, box seats $5. Dufferin Grove Park Ice Rink, Dufferin S of Bloor. thebikejoint.com. rKIds-Fest Entertainers, magic shows, birds of prey, character meet-and-greets and more. To Feb 20, 10 am-5 pm. Admission free; inflatables $25, toddlers $15. International Centre, 6900 Airport. kids-fest.ca. lower don rIver Marshes Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen and Sumach. 416-5932656.

PassIng on the coMMedIa dell’arte tradItIon International conference of theatre

scholars, movement educators and practitioners. 9 am. $20, stu $15. York U Glendon Hall, 2275 Bayview. 416-487-6822. Polly hIggIns Talk by the laywer and environmental activist followed by a potluck supper. 4 pm. Free. Friends’ House, 60 Lowther. torontoclimatecampaign.org.

QI gong & well-BeIng: ancIent PractIces For daIly lIFe Women’s wellness workshop. 2:30 pm. $60, stu/unwaged $50. Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, 252 Bloor W. cwse@utoronto.ca.

B28 days: reIMagInIng BlacK hIstory Month Panel discussion on black culture

and memorialization with artists and curators including Sonia Boyce and Paul Goodwin. 1-5 pm. Free. Hart House Music Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. jmbgallery.ca.

voces PolItIcas (PolItIcal voIces): dIrect, oPen deBate Discussion exploring constitutional innovations in Ecuador and Bolivia. 5 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun House, 612 Markham. nchamah@me.com. rweeKend Fun at the Bata Kids three to nine try on shoes, go on a treasure hunt and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Bata Shoe Museum, 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799, batashoemuseum.ca.

your Food, your choIce: the value oF organIc Canadian Organic Growers confer-

ence with a keynote address by The Dirty Life author Kristin Kimball and other speakers. 9 am-5 pm. $85. U of T Conference Centre, 89 Chestnut. Pre-register cogtoronto. org. your sIster’s MarKet Goods from local women who own home-based businesses. Today and tomorrow 11 am-4 pm. Free. Riverdale Hub, 1326 Gerrard E. 416-465-6021.

druMMers In exIle Weekly drum and dance circle. $2-$5. Annex Wreck Room, 794 Bathurst. drummersinexile.com. Beat 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. For the love oF Food Hands-on workshop on preparing a five-course meal with a Mexican theme. 6-9 pm. $10. Hart House Catering Kitchen, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register harthouse.ca/class/community-kitchen-3617. vegetarIan cooKIng Cooking class. 7 to 9:30 pm. $70. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. thebigcarrot.ca.

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QueerIng art MuseuMs

There’s been a surge in queer exhibitions all over the international art scene, and Pawel Leszkowicz can take some credit for that in his home country of Poland. The cultural historian, who specializes in contemporary art and sexuality, lectures at OCADU’s S-Lab today (Thursday, February 16), 1:30 pm, on Queering The National Museum Of Poland. He touches on issues related to uncovering repressed works, the queering of visual fields and more. Free. 205 Richmond West, room 7410. 416-977-6000 ext 423.

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Alliance video and discussion. 7 pm. Free. OISE, rm 2211, 252 Bloor W. cca_toronto@ hotmail.com. rFaMIly day screenIng Screening of A Kid For Two Farthings and a talk by critic Mark Clamen for kids six to 12. 4 & 7:30 pm. $10$15. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-9246211 ext 606. rharBourKIds long weeKend Performance by skate troupe Le Patin Libre, music by Toronto All-Star Big Band and others, storytelling, hockey, skating and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rModel raIlroad show Model Railroad Club open house. Today and tomorrow noon4:30 pm. $8, srs $5, child $4. 171 East Liberty.

workers from Peru and a Canadian truck driver is raising alarms about workers from poor countries in the farm sector. Justicia for Migrant Workers wants a coroner’s inquest into the accident, highlighting the rights denied these employees, from fair working hours to decent housing, health care and safety protection. Join the rally Friday (February 17), noon, at the Office of the Chief Coroner (32 Grenville). Free. justicia4migrantworkers.org.

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Imagine being able to appeal to the United Nations when facing the havoc caused by oil spills, climate change, water pollution, etc. That’s the project of UK lawyer Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide, who points out modelrailroadclub.com. sunday scenes Tour the current exhibitions with David McIntosh. 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4949.

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hughIe (Anaphylaxis Canada) Fundraising performance of the Eugene O’Neill play. 8 pm. $50-$100. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988.

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Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Queen and Logan. 416-593-2656. rFaMIly day: castIng KeePsaKes Kids sculpt their hands in a detailed plaster cast. 10 am or noon. $20. ARTiculations Workroom, 2928 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-901-7464. rFaMIly day druMMIng Drumming workshop for kids seven and up with Drum Artz. 1 pm. Free-pwyc. Drum Artz Community Centre, 27 Primrose. 416-538-6342. rFaMIly day IrIsh ceIlIdh Dance workshop and a ceilidh with storyteller Nan

Pawel Leszkowicz lectures on queering museums, February 16.

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Wellness talk with physician Zeev Gross. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5649. cannIng worKshoP West End Food Co-op workshop on making apple-cranberry sauce. 6-9 pm. $50. Parkdale Neighbourhood Church, 201 Cowan. Pre-register westendfood.coop.

that while the UN recognizes four categories of international crimes against peace, from genocide to war crimes, there is no such recourse for crimes against the environment. Higgins brings news of her creative legal intervention to Toronto on Saturday (February 18), 4 pm. Free. Friends’ House, 60 Lowther. torontoclimatecampaign.org.

econoMIc IneQualIty: what do we do?

Forum with speakers including Armine Yalnizyan of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 7 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. economicinequality.ca. FlaMenco at 5:15 Film screening followed by a Q&A with writer/historian James Neufeld. 7 pm. Free. NFB Mediatheque, 150 John. 416973-3012. It’s tIMe to talK: how local we grow Discussion with NOW writer/author Wayne Roberts, food policy expert Lauren Baker and city councillor Joe Mihevc. 7 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-392-0208. tyler haMIlton Post Carbon Toronto presents a talk by the Corporate Knights editor and author of Mad Like Tesla: Underdog Inventors And Their Pursuit Of Clean Energy. 7 pm. Free. Wallberg Memorial Bldb, 200 College, rm 115. postcarbontoronto.org.

Brien. 1 pm. Pwyc. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113.

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Woofjocks canine performance (11:30 am, 1, 2:30 & 4 pm, Pawsways, 245 Queens Quay W, pawsways.ca), Treehouse TV’s Harry and his Bucket Full of Dinosaurs, plus clowns, balloon sculpting and more (11 am). Free. Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay W. qqterminal.com. rFaMIly druMMIng worKshoP Percussion workshop using found instruments including teacups and flower pots. 2:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. rKIds gallery oF ontarIo Kids create an exhibition and sample printmaking, sculpture and more. 10 am-4 pm. $39 family pass (2 adults, 5 youths), under 5 free. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. toons on taP Costumed life drawing for animators. 7 pm. $10. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. patricia@acidanimation.com. trans FIlM screenIng Screenings of short films by and about trans folk of colour followed by a discussion. 6:30 pm. Free. William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks. 416-978-8201.

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Registration is open for the next round of Toronto Fashion Week shows taking place in David Pecaut Square in front of Metro Hall March 12 to 17. The fall 2012 designer lineup will include runway regulars David Dixon, Joe Fresh and Pink Tartan, indie faves Juma and Ezra Constantine and new name Cara Cheung. Full day passes are $175 online at worldmastercardfashionweek.com.

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JUMA This season, clothing label Juma debuts a collection of totes, clutches, iPad cases and duffels ($325, A2Zane, 753 Queen West, 416-803-7754, jumastudio.com) in bright owl, tribal and batik prints. top finds to playful molecule building sets by Trini Anderson are marked down 15 per cent. Over at Grassroots (408 Bloor West, 416-944-1993; 362 Danforth, 416-466-2841, grassrootsstore.com), budget bed shoppers are in luck. All eco-friendly mattresses, including natural latex and organic wool models, are discounted by 10 per cent this month. And at Patagonia (500 King West, 416-861-1102, patagonia. com), the February sale we hinted at a few style sections back continues. Look for R4 jackets, organic cotton flannel shirts, packable rain parkas and more, all half-price.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 What do you typi cally do just before you fall asleep and right after you wake up? Those rituals are important for your mental health. Without exaggeration, you could say they are sacred times when you’re poised in the threshold between the two great dimensions of your life. I’ll ask you to give special care and attention to those transitions in the coming week. As much as possible, avoid watching TV or surfing the Internet right up to the moment you turn off the light, and don’t leap out of bed the instant an alarm clock deton ates. The astrological omens suggest you are primed to receive special revelations, even ringing epiphanies, while in those inbetween states. TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 Have you ever

gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk al lows them to have a field of vision that extends as far as 340 degrees, as op posed to humans’ puny 160210 de grees. They can also see better at night than we can. Goats are your power ani mal in the coming week, Taurus. Meta phorically speaking, you will have an ex cellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to make that happen.

Pumbaa. Their actions are often heroic. They help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his rightful role as king. The hu man actors who provided the voices for Timon and Pumbaa, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, originally auditioned for the lesser roles of hyenas. They set their sights too low. Fortunately, fate con spired to give them more than they asked for. Don’t start out as they did, Gemini. Aim high right from the begin ning – not for the bit part or the minor role, but for the catalyst who actually gets things done.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “He who is out

side his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him,” says a Dutch proverb. Ancient Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro articulated a similar idea: “The longest part of the journey is the passing of the gate.” I hope these serve as words of encouragement for you, Cancerian. You’ve got a quest ahead of you. At its best, it will involve freewheeling exploration and un predictable discoveries. If you can get started in a timely manner, you’ll set an excellent tone for the adventures. Don’t procrastinate.

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you the rest of the way, I offer two re lated insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1. If you get too fixated on solving a certain problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that prob lem. 2. If you intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a situation that’s right in front of you, you will be less likely to see a good idea that’s right behind you.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 This would be

an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for ex ceptional human beings. You’re in a phase when you could derive tremen dous inspiration by closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is do ing it with liberated flair.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 Thirtytwo car rier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritor ious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have pre ferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give them goodies they would actually love to receive, not meaningless gold stars or abstract acco lades. It’s time to honour and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 WD40 is

a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens stuck hinges, removes hardto getat dirt, and has several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried 39 dif ferent formulas before finding precisely the right combination of ingredients on his 40th attempt. The way I understand your life right now, Sagittarius, is that you are like Larsen when he was work ing with version number 37. You’re get ting closer to creating a viable method for achieving your next success. That’s why I urge you to be patient and deter mined as you continue to tinker and ex periment. Don’t keep trying the same formula that didn’t quite work before. Open your mind to the possibility that you have not yet discovered at least one of the integral components.

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 The caterpillarto butterfly transformation is such an iconic symbol of metamorphosis that it Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 You’re so close to has become a cliché. And yet I’d like to finding a fresh perspective that would point out that when the graceful allow you to outmanoeuvre an old tor winged creature emerges from its ment, Leo. You’re on the verge of break chrysalis, it never grows any further. GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 In the animat ing through a wall of illusion that has We human beings, on the other hand, ed film The Lion King, two of the central sealed you off some very interest RCM_Now1/5bw_Downs_contests_Feb16_Layout 1 from 12-02-13 12:58 PM Page are 1 asked to be in a lifelong state of characters are a talking meerkat named ing truths. In the hope of providing you metamorphosis, continually adjusting Timon and a talking warthog named with the last little push that will take and shifting to meet our changing cir cumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO THIS CONCERT of that capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to do so. Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “He who is not

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 A person

who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to pro duce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee. That’s one way to metaphoric ally illustrate my bigger point, which is

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that making a dramatic show of emo tional agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness. Please take this to heart in the coming week, Capri corn. If you do fall prey to a frothy erup tion of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to main tain your poise. Better yet, abort the tu mult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Jeep vehicles always feature seven slots on their front grills. Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driv en on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius. Your assign ment is to pick an accomplishment you’re really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Face book status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it’s in a modest or mysterious way.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 A sign outside the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick, invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After all, if the builder of the Ark had re fused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we’d be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) Please apply this lesson to a situa tion in your own sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind. Homework: Exhausted by the ceaseless barrage of depressing stories you absorb from the news media? Here’s an antidote: http://PronoiaResources.

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651 Queen West, 416-366-2828, cb2.com There’s more than office furniture to covet at the new CB2 spot at Queen and Bathurst, but workspace-friendly finds are featured prominently on the store’s three levels. Desk options range from the go-cart console made of powdercoated steel and mounted on castors ($169) to the Dorino table with a lacquered top on handsome white oak legs ($599). Once the bigger buys are out of the way, accessorize with felt storage boxes, colourful bookends and quirky clocks to keep you on deadline.

DESIGN WITHIN REACH 435 King West, 416-977-4003, dwr.com Fantasy modern workspaces get outfitted with designer buys from DWR. Start with an Eames desk with a wire frame and multicoloured drawer, side and top panels, then pull up an Egoa task chair available in a similar rainbow of wool upholstery fabrics. Top the table with a Tolomeo desk lamp, a set of stainless steel accessories like a notepad holder, stapler and tape dispenser, and crocheted rubber baskets to hold office knick-knacks.

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Cornerstone offers a range of styles, from traditional to industrial.

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Ex-Hoof Café chef’s Hopgood’s Foodliner is a sensation on Roncey By STEVEN DAVEY Not only does his two-week-old Roncey resto not offer the two dishes that put him on the foodie map in the first place, but he doesn’t do brunch at all. Not interested, thanks. Why, he doesn’t even serve coffee. “Having to make all that coffee in the middle of service kind of slows things down,” is Hopgood’s explanation. Tonight’s lack of caffeine hasn’t affected Foodliner’s considerable buzz. Here it is 7 pm on a wintry Monday night and the 50-seat room is packed with an even mix of scenesters and soccer moms, all bent on being the

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cesvalles, at Grenadier, 416-5332723, hopgoodsfoodliner.com) Complete dinners for $60 per person, including tax tip and a glass of wine. Average main $22. Open for dinner Thursday to Monday 6 to 11 pm. Reservations recommended. Closed Tuesday, Wednesday, some holidays. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNN

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Here, he quickly stir-fries a roughly ground mix of chuck and pork in garlic, paprika and oregano before piling the ridiculously delish meat on a pair of warm house-baked pitas. He then dresses them with diced ripe tomato, sweet Vidalia onion and a final dollop of a weirdly addictive sauce made from evaporated milk, sugar, garlic and vinegar that’s so wrong it’s right, a crumpled paper bag and stack o’ serviettes standing in for a plate. His mom provided the recipe for her Hot Crab Dip and Triscuits ($14), now gussied up with in-season Atlantic snow crab and a topping of Japanese panko crumbs like some Kraft tuna noodle casserole from a parallel universe. We’re not sure where Hopgood got the idea of reducing cream until it separates into milk solids to become a nutty brown “cheese” he grates over a tartare of lamb’s heart

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first of their friends to experience downtown’s latest restaurant du jour. Some may remember the space as Brad’s, a popular brunch spot on weekends but dead the rest of the time. Hopgood and crew have kept the dimly lit room’s semi-open kitchen, but added gunmetal paint to the walls and reclaimed barnboard to the floor, a look as timeless as the vintage Velvets and Stones spinning on the MP3 player. The carte has a similar retro-futurism. Chef pays tribute to his Haligonian roots with a playful spin on donair ($12), the poutine of the Maritimes.

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laced with dehydrated cauliflower purée and the tang of green olives ($16 with house-baked rye crisps), but it works brilliantly. A lidded baking dish reveals a tasty cassoulet-like stew of creamy French flageolets thick with meaty sweetbreads and tiny sage-scented sausages, a perfectly flaky Parker roll on the side ($19), while a boneless Cumbrae chicken thigh gets stuffed with boneless breast, wrapped in crispy skin and garnished with a spectacular chiffonade of deep-fried collard greens. Love the cheesy grits in maple syrup sauce studded with housesmoked Perth County bacon that complete the main ($24). Hopgood believes a final course should be “a simple one-two punch.” Consider us knocked out by the audacity of maple walnut squares on pie dough finished at table with a pitcher of warm milk ($8), and what the menu describes as Crispy Toffee ($6). Coffee Crisp more like, but then, as Hopgood reminds me, Foodliner doesn’t do coffee. Instead, this clever take on a frozen chocolate bar finds a brittle wafer made from crushed Rice Crispies and white chocolate dipped in sticky toffee and airbrushed with powdered dark chocolate, the lot wrapped in paper rubber-stamped with the resto’s logo and tied with twine. We’ll call it nouveau Nova Scotia trailer park, with the inevitable twist, but how would the former Hoofer describe his cooking style? “Creative but unpretentious,” Hopgood deadpans. “I’m serious about what I do but I still want to have some fun.” 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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1515 Gerrard E, at Coxwell, 647-341-4070. Though there may be similar all-day indie spots on every street corner west of Bathurst, here in Little India, Dawn Chapmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s artsy 34-seat cafĂŠ is cause for dancing in the streets. A short locavore card of soups â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; sandwiches augmented by stellar baked goods from nearby Knead Bakery makes this an inevitable magnet for the stroller brigade. Best: sweet Berretta

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Farms ground beef chili sided with jalapeĂąo cornbread miniature whoopee pies filled with Fifth Town goat cheese and smoked Mennonite bacon; broccoli and Woolwich cheddar quiche with buttery croissant crust; Cha Cha chicken salad sandwiches on St Urbain poppyseed bagels; salted caramel and chocolate cheesecake brownies; for the Star Wars fanatic, Princess Leia cinnamon buns. Complete meals for $15, including all tax, tip, and a Te Aro coffee. Average main $8. Open Monday to Thursday 7 am to 6 pm,

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gust eve, come winter it fits the bill like a pair of fleece-lined Gortex gloves. Best: to start, tarte flambĂŠe dressed with hickorysmoked trout, fromage blanc, green olives and fresh dill on a flaky flatbread crust so thin itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost gluten-free; mains like coq au vin with spaetzle laced with onion, mushrooms and slivered celery; velvety foie gras over gingerbread French toast; Baeckeoffe, an Alsatian shepherdâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pie thick with slow-braised, short ribs, lamb shank and pork belly sided with greens in cranberry vinaigrette; to finish, another tarte flambĂŠe dressed with cinnamondusted apple. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $30), including tax tip and a glass of wine. Average main $20/$13. Open for lunch Tuesday to Friday 11:30 am to 2 pm, dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms upstairs. Rating: NNNN

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430-1/2 College, at Bathurst, 416-9618424, thekoreantaco.com. Multi-culti tacos served with a slamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; side of retro hip-hop might not be the most original thing going, but first-time restaurateurs Michael and Jason Jang do the food-truck staple better than most. Best: soft flour tortillas stuffed with strips of rare bulgogi beef, iceberg lettuce, sweetly pickled cuke and halved baby grape tomatoes splashed with mayo and pepper sauce; pulled pork tacos in Indo-spiced tomato with guacamole and banh-mi-style pickled daikon â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; carrot; minced chicken tacos with caraway coleslaw; tofu â&#x20AC;&#x2122;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; chive pan-fried mandu dumplings. Complete meals for $22 per person, including, tax, tip and a shot of 40-proof soju. Average main $8. Open Wednesday to Saturday 5 pm to 2 am. Licensed. Access: short step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN 3

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No relation to Il Gusto on College, Gusto 101 (101 Portland, at Adelaide West, 416-504-9669, gusto101. com) has finally opened in a former body shop just off the King West resto strip. The folks responsible for Yorkvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s CafĂŠ Nervosa are behind the two-week-old trat, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s little wonder that ex-Hockley Valley Resort chef Daniel Mezzoloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inaugural card is made up primarily of upscale pasta, pizza and panini. The roomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s striking industrial design â&#x20AC;&#x201C; rusted steel walls, exposed cinder block, floor-to-ceiling glass garage doors â&#x20AC;&#x201C; comes courtesy of Munge Leung (Salad King, Ultra, La SociĂŠtĂŠ). Look for a swanky rooftop deck as well as a sidewalk patio come summer.

Use your noodle

Put off by the lengthy lunchtime lineups at Kenzo Ramen at Dundas and Bay? Head to Yonge and Wellesley, where the insanely popular Japanese noodle house has quietly launched its third location (522 Yonge, at Maitland, 647-340-2112, kenzoramen.ca). Same terrific sD menu, significantly less chaos. Got some insider dish to share? Contact: stevend@nowtoronto.com

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Rating: NNNNN It was bizarre to see hundreds of kids moshing and crowd-surfing to local jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD at For The D, a party memorializing cult hip-hop producer J Dilla. Reread that sentence. Young people moshing... to jazz? Paying homage to Dilla’s iconic production work, BBNG showed off brand new material and enthusiastically met the challenge of deconstructing Dilla’s mathematical craftsmanship, transposing meticulously sampled hip-hop songs into jazz-inflected compositions without being uptight or academic. The young trio burnished the inner musicality of rap’s gristly boom-bap, carrying it through from opening song Jaylib’s The Message to closer De La Soul’s Stakes Is High. They deftly straddled the line between improvisation and rehearsed precision, inciting singalongs during Busta Rhymes’s Woo Hah!! and Slum Village’s Fall In Love, the set’s heart piece, a cover of which they recorded last year. Plus, when’s the last time you saw

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Rating: NNNN This free early evening show was meant to be an unofficial friends-andfamily release party for Bahamas’ excellent new album, Barchords (the real release show happens in April), yet there were more people in line in front of the Dakota than capacity would allow. To soften the blow, Afie Jurvanen played an acoustic song outside for those stuck in the cold, which perfectly illustrates his classy good-guy vibe. The star of a Bahamas show is Jurvanen’s effortless, understated guitar-playing, backed at the Dakota by drummer Jason Tait and two female vocalists. He can play his ass off, but mostly restrains himself, opting for simple bass lines and briefly dropping in a flurry of notes with a wink and a smile. It’s gorgeously heartwarming and romantic music, even if the subject matter is on the heartbreak side. At first glance, Bahamas’ music

seems like relatively conservative Canadian roots pop – likely why it’s escaped wider attention. But when you listen closer (or catch him live), you realize there’s more going on under the surface. With momentum building behind Barchords, he likely won’t be the secret treasure of the Toronto music BENJAMIN BOLES scene for much longer.

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Fest at Parts and Labour, Friday, February 10. Rating: NNNN

All’s been quiet on the Ladyhawk front since the Vancouver rockers released Shots in 2008 on Jagjaguwar. A 2010 solo album by frontman Duffy Driediger, meanwhile, did little to dispel worries that the band was over (nor does the fact that Jagjaguwar’s website currently lists them as “alumni” rather than “active” artists). But the beloved four-piece emerged from hibernation for the first of a twonight stint at Parts and Labour in celebration of head chef Matty Matheson’s birthday. The crowd couldn’t get enough, singing along, crowd-surfing,

spraying beer, enthusiastically punching the venue’s low ceiling. Ladyhawk’s strong melodies offer enough buoyancy for a party band vibe, while their warm vintage tones hint at classic rock and Americana but never quite become either of those things. Best, Driediger introduced one song as a new one from the album they’re currently recording, which “should be out in a year… or two.” Slow Learners (who switched nights with Marine Dreams) and Julie Doiron played earlier. Eamon McGrath and two members of Cancer Bats joined the latter, helping Doiron achieve unprecedented levels of grit, raucousness and looseness. Her singing had an unhinged quality. Those of us who remember the singer/songwriter’s timid Broken Girl days couldn’t help but note her transformation. CARLA GILLIS

CHARLES BRADLEY at

ñLee’s Palace, Saturday, February 11. Rating: NNNN Anyone wondering how Charles Bradley earned his “screaming eagle of soul” nickname wondered no more after the 63-year-old performer

launched into his single Heartaches And Pain. As a raspy wail coursed through his body, he flapped his arms as if about to lift off and fly away. Bradley is the messiest and most viscerally emotional of Daptone Records’ soul revivalist acts. A former James Brown tribute singer, he’s got the crowd-pleasing mic stand moves down, though it’s his aching, confessional lyrics and impressive ability to hold a note that make him such a transfixing presence. Watching Bradley perform is almost like forced group therapy – or penance. The seven-piece Menahan Street Band kept the music loose and continuous during the 90-minute set, which ended – after three costume changes – with a sermon on finding one’s inner love. Bradley then dismounted and walked through the crowd hugging fans. When informed of Whitney Houston’s death, he re-took the stage in near tears to reiterate his point: “I love each and every one of you like I love KEVIN RITCHIE myself.”

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PETER ELKAS BAND at the Dakota (249 Ossington), Tuesday (February 21 and 28), 10 pm. $7. 416-850-4579.

Anyone who knows Peter Elkas even just a little is aware of his undying devotion to Bruce Springsteen. He dresses like him in blue jeans and rolled-sleeve shirts, often slings his vintage Telecaster behind his back while he sings, and peddles a similarly emotive brand of rock ’n’ roll that draws from 50s R&B, pop and soul. In fact, the first time I ever saw Elkas onstage, at the Rivoli in 1995 with his former band the Local Rabbits, he did a cover of Dancing In The Dark. So imagine the state he was in last month when he found himself playing on a New Jersey stage with the legend as part of a benefit concert for the Light of Day Foundation, which funds research into Parkinson’s disease. “I wound up onstage with him for the final three songs of the night,” says the still awed Elkas, just before heading to a gig in Hamilton. “And as if that wasn’t enough, we ended up having a long conversation at a party later that night. He told me a bunch of real stuff about marriage and songwriting, and he was funny and cool and treated me like a peer. It renewed my personal drive, and I’ll

never forget it.” For the newly married singer/songwriter – and guitarist/keyboardist in Joel Plaskett’s Emergency band – the timing couldn’t have been better. His recent album, Repeat Offender (New Scotland), was made during a challenging period in which he parted ways with his manager and label. He ended up recording and producing the album himself, a lengthy and at times overwhelming process that left him thinking he’ll likely use a producer next time. “I didn’t know how it would turn out, because I really didn’t know how it would get made,” Elkas says. “I was feeling very weak creatively because even as a solo artist I’d always been part of a kind of musical Voltron with many able minds. This time I wasn’t even sure if my band was going to be able to play on it. “In a way, it forced me to step up and execute my ideas, which continued in the blue-eyed soul ethos but with rougher edges. I was too close to it for a long time” – the album was literally made in his basement – “but now I love it again. I’m proud of it. And I ended up being far from alone in making it. Ian McGettigan came on to co-produce, my entire band played on it, and Joel released it on his label. I get by with a little help from my friends.” music@nowtoronto.com

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“Before you realize that whatever Lila Downs touches turns to art, it’s that voice that draws you to want to learn the rest.” (LA Weekly) Earthy and ethereal, at this multimedia concert, the music is enhanced with Mexican paintings as she transforms folk traditions into something cutting edge and vibrantly alive.

Art of Time Ensemble: BRASIL Saturday, March 3, 2012 8pm Koerner Hall Experience the range of Brazilian music including songs by Villa Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim and the music of Guinga performed by Toronto's groundbreaking chamber ensemble featuring 8 cellos.

Max Raabe and Palast Orchester Thursday, March 8 & Friday, March 9, 2012 8pm Koerner Hall The Berlin cabaret circa 1920 with authentic arrangements of Kurt Weill, Cole Porter, and Franz Lehár. “Irresistible.” (Los Angeles Times) Presented in association with the Goethe Institut Toronto.

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PriEstEss, BArn BurnEr, noBEl PrizE FightEr, slow lEArnErs

w/ Phife Dawg, Chip Fu, Abdominal, More or Les and more Revival (783 College), Friday (February 17) All hip-hop karaoke party.

wintErFolk BluEs & roots FEstivAl

w/ Danny Marks, David Gillis, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Lynn Miles and more Delta Chelsea Hotel (33 Gerrard West), Friday to Sunday (February 17 to 19)

EvErything undEr thE moon

w/ Christine Fellows and Shary Boyle Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West), Saturday to Wednesday (February 18 to 23) See cover story, page 50.

AlixAndEr iii, FAryl, FAthom

Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Friday (February 17) Classic metal madness.

hiP-hoP kArAokE 5th AnnivErsAry

Massive annual folk festival.

Slim Twig

Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West), Sunday (February 19) DJ set by Azari & III producer.

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Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), Tuesday (February 21) See preview, page 37.

shArron vAn EttEn, shEArwAtEr

Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (February 11) See preview, page 46.

Just announced Martyn & Egyptrixx Red Bull

Music Academy Session Tour Wrongbar redbull.ca/rrbma. March 1.

thE OrdEr Of gOOd ChEEr, thE BEautiEs, thE arkElls, MEM BErs Of BrOkEn sOCial sCEnE, By divinE right, Our lady pEaCE, trEBlE ChargEr, thE skydiggErs and OthErs Juno Concert Series: NXNE Presents Horseshoe 9 pm, $20. HS, MM, RT, SS, TM. March 3.

angéliquE kidjO Royal Conserv-

atory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $33.50. March 10.

Will CurriE & thE COuntry frEnCh, Murray fOstEr, ChristOphEr stantOn, katE hEWlEtt Fundraiser for the Pop Group

theatre company Arts & Letters Club 7 pm, $25. wearethepopgroup.com. March 16.

MargOt & thE nuClEar sO & sO’s The Garrison doors 9 pm, $11.50. RT, SS. April 5.

thE dEEp dark WOOds The Great

Hall 8 pm, all ages, $10. April 6.

COnvErgE, Burning lOvE Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. April 6. nErO Sound Academy. April 6. thE planEt sMashErs, Big d & thE kids taBlE Opera House doors 7:30

pm, all ages, $18. RT, SS, TM. April 13.

hOrsE fEathErs Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS. April 29.

la disputE, dE fEatEr, Bal anCE & COMpO surE Virgin Mobile

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Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50-$39.50. TM. March 24.

pitBull, flO rida Planet Pit World Tour 2012 Ricoh Coliseum doors 6 pm, all ages, $47.50-$64.50. TM. March 28.

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Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. For venue addresses and phone numbers, see Venue Index, page 48. = Critics’ pick (highly recommended) ñ 5= Queer night

B = Black History Month event How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, February 16 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk) 9 pm. cAdillAc lounge Mighty Big Word 10 pm. clinton’s CD release Chad Driscoll, Spadina

Avenue, Adam Genge, Propane Propane. crocodile rock Sound Parade Open Mic. dAzzling restAurAnt Liive 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 underground Alphabot release party Alphabot, Wax Mannequin, Common Grackle, Dick Sanchez doors 8 pm. drAke Hotel lounge Weekend Startup Boot Knives doors 11 pm. el MocAMbo Road To CMW Talent Search: Supernova 7 pm. el MocAMbo Stone, Angel, Faint Reflections, Short & Curlies, Daniella Watters, Calvin James doors 9 pm. Holy oAk cAfe Laura Barrett, Dan Werb & Robin Hatch (pop) 10 pm. HorsesHoe The Devil Makes Three, Brown Bird (acoustic bluegrass punk) doors 8:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce Ain’t No Love. living Arts centre HAMMerson HAll Playing For Change 8 pm.

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Hall doors 9:30 pm, $22.50. PDR, RT, SS, TW. May 5.

EsCapE thE fatE, attaCk attaCk! This World Is Ours Tour Sound Academy. May 7.

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Sound Academy. May 8.

ty sEgall, WhitE fEnCE, thE strangE BOys & WilliaM tylEr Horseshoe doors 9

pm, $16.50. RT, SS, TW. May 12.

aMElia Curran Glenn

Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. May 15.

BOnniE raitt, MarC COhn Massey Hall 8 pm, $50-$75. RTH, TM. May 26.

kElly jOE phElps, lynnE hansOn Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $22.50-

$25. June 1.

gOOd lOvEliEs Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. June 16.

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PARTS & LABOUR THE SHOP Wavelength 12th Anniversary Festival Metz, Odonis ñ Odonis, Slim Twig, Man Made Hill, Eucalyptus

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MUSIC FESTIVAL

WAVELENGTH 12TH ANNIVERSARY Celebrating 12 years of scene building By BENJAMIN BOLES

WAVELENGTH 12TH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL with FUCKED UP, NO JOY, PS I LOVE YOU, SANDRO PERRI, OFF THE INTERNATIONAL RADAR, ODONIS ODONIS, CATL, BONJAY and others, Thursday to Sunday (February 16 to 19), various venues. $10$20, $36 for festival pass. wavelengthtoronto.com.

Twelve years ago, Wavelength started throwing pay-whatyou-can music showcases every Sunday at the now defunct Ted’s Wrecking Yard, and they quickly became a key gathering space for the local music scene. Over the years, countless diverse Toronto acts played their first gigs, met future bandmates and tested musical boundaries at Wavelength. The cross-genre approach, DIY attitude and grassroots scene-building provided a model that has influenced a generation of Toronto promoters, musicians and record labels. While the non-profit, artist-run org may no longer be doing weekly Sunday shows, Wavelength continues to have a strong presence in Toronto. This weekend’s anniversary festival is stacked with talent. Rather than focus on individual highlights, we thought it more in the spirit of Wavelength to ask some of this year’s performers to reflect on the impact it’s had on them personally. “Back in 2002 I affectionately referred to it as ‘church.’ It was the same group of people getting together every Sunday to worship the spirit of underground music or whatever. I was too shy to play in a band or even meet people, so I would just pay $1 at the door, buy one bottle of beer, sit in a corner of Sneaky Dee’s and nurse it for the whole night. Thank you, Wavelength, for giving me hope for the future when I was so young, poor and alone.” PS I Love You guitarist/vocalist Paul Saulnier “I remember going to one of the first Wavelength nights at Ted’s Wrecking Yard. Someone was playing an extremely unsettling electric violin while someone else used a garbage can lid for percussion. By the set’s end, most of the

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room had cleared out except my sister and me. We agreed that it was amazing that there was a place for different types of musical expression, where people were encouraged to experiment and try new things. It’s been good to see such a receptive, positive community build up around that idea.” Off the International Radar keyboardist Aaron Dawson

9 pm. See preview, this page. RIVOLI Dane Hartsell, Francesco, Hill & the Sky Heroes (rock/pop) 7:30 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Lost Horizons, Red Slam Collective, Truth Starwalker Streetbeatz doors 9 pm. THE SISTER Daiva Paskauskas. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. SUPERMARKET Hey Amy & the Countrymen, Red Nightfall, Hollis & the Widows 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Delta Will, Charles Tilden (indie pop) 10 pm. VELVET UNDERGROUND Corpusse, Trematron, Sexbeast 9 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Ray Whimsey (folk/blues)

9:30 pm.

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic Nite/Jam 8 pm. CAMERON HOUSE Fedora Upside Down 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm.

CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situation (country/folk/rock) 9 pm. ñ THE CENTRAL I Love Music Parlour: Duets 9 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Trevor Gordon & the Nighthounds (folk/rock) 10 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Dustin Bentall 10 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Patrick Brealey (folk rock/ roots) 9 pm.

ETON HOUSE Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR The Distillery (blues trio) 9 pm.

“It wasn’t an official Wavelength show, but [current programmer] Ryan McLaren’s bloodbath birthday with Lullabye Arkestra was the most memorable for me. Our bathroom at [Buzz Records headquarters/DIY venue] the Garage was destroyed by an irate fan who got soapy blood in his eyes. The blood was being shot out of water guns, balloons and a piñata. I can’t really blame the guy.” Odonis Odonis bassist/vocalist Denholme Whale

GRAFFITI’S Tim Bradford & the Bandits (coun-

“Having grown up on Toronto Island, I was really excited to get the invitation to play there as part of Wavelength’s ALL CAPS! festival. Being back there was totally surreal; the area where most of the bands played was my old school cafeteria. It was a warm summer evening, so at the last minute we decided to set up in the schoolyard. My heels kept sinking into the soft grass, so off they came, spending the rest of the night perched on my organ. The fireworks going off behind us while we played our finale were strange, awesome and hilarious, but the highlight was my feet being attacked and bitten by red ants. A true Island experience.” Catl keyboardist/vocalist Sarah Kirkpatrick

LULA LOUNGE FunkaBelly Nomadica, DJ Medi-

try) 7 pm.

HART HOUSE ARBOR ROOM U of T Idol Dave Clark & the Woodshed Orchestra 8 pm. ñ HUGH’S ROOM CD release David Newland (roots) 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL Aunt Beazy, Alistair Christl. LOLA Brian Cober (double slideblues) 9 pm. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Thursdays!

Mike C (acoustic blues/funk/soul/ska) 10 pm.

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PS I Love You

cineman (gypsy-funk) 7:30 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Singer’s Den Open Mic Al St.

Louis 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thurs-

days Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm. UNDERDOWN PUB Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (roots/blues) 9 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

L’Amour À 4 Russell Braun noon-1 pm. GATE 403 Gia & the Unpredicted Update 9 pm, Margot Roi Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

MARKHAM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Broadway To Paris Louise Pitre, Michael Kaeshammer 2 & 8 pm.

Metropolitan United ChUrCh Noon At Met Gregg Redner (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 Yves Léveillé Quartet 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm. roy thoMSon hall Beethoven Symphony 5 Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Chang (violin) 8 pm. SoMewhere there StUdio Alaniaris 8 pm. Upper Jazz StUdio Small Jazz Ensembles 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

andy poolhall Flave The World DJs Lori J

Ward & T Orlando (underground house/tech house) 10 pm. annex wreCkrooM Law Follies Afterparty Rick Toxic (party tunes) 10 pm. Bovine Sex ClUB Yelp.ca Broken Hearts Party DJ Cactus. Cheval Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/ club anthems). Goodhandy’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 the hoxton John Dahlback doors 10 pm. 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). the oSSinGton DJ Justin Ridgeway. the piSton Sunfields 10 pm. SUtra The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). velvet UnderGroUnd DJ Ozaze (industrial/ goth) 11:30 pm.

Friday, February 17 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL

aBySSinnia Ontario Plates, Learning, James O-L & the Villains 9 pm. alleyCatz Ascencion (R&B/funk) 9:30 pm. aqUila UpStairS The Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9:30 pm. aSpetta Caffe Daniel Mager, T-Ball the Stickman, Lucian Thomas 7 pm to midnight. Bar italia Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40). Bovine Sex ClUB Butch Haller & His Chesterfield Ramblers, DJ Vania. CadillaC loUnGe Stone Sparrows 10 pm. CaStro’S loUnGe Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm. CreatUreS CreatinG Native Child & Family Services of Toronto benefit and Lion King screening Donlands and Mortimer, Run with the Kittens, Kiz and Legin, Phil Allister/Sid Alaistar, Grandfather Mantis, Down by Riverside 6 pm. dakota tavern Shane Murphy Band 10 pm, Graham Playford 8 pm. dora keoGh Tim Bovaconti Big Band (rock). drake hotel UnderGroUnd Lickpenny Loafer, Cousin Rufu, Sing Bandana Singh doors 7 pm.

drake hotel loUnGe DJ Your Boy Brian doors

10 pm.

the dUke live.CoM Think Freud (Pink Floyd

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el MoCaMBo The Wet Bandits, the Midnite, Final Thoughts, Eleven Past One 8:30 pm.

el MoCaMBo UpStairS Gin & Phonic: Round 2

Jazz Amnesty Sound System, DJs Mogpaws & Diabloavacado (soul/jazz/funk/hip-hop/ beats) 8 pm. eton hoUSe Who Stole the Cookies? 9 pm. Graffiti’S Paul Martin Rocks For Sick Kids 5 to 7 pm. the Great hall The Big Sound: A Celebration Of Motown The Big Sound 11 pm. horSeShoe Priestess, Barn Burner, Nobel Prize Fighter, Slow Learners 9 pm. kornerStoneS Jen & the Men (top 40/rock) 9:30 pm. lee’S palaCe A Tribute To Michael Jackson JacksonLIVE. the loaded doG Broad Belly Band (pop rock) 9 pm. lola Box Full of Cash 8 pm. revival Hip-Hop Karaoke: 5-Year Anniversary Phife Dawg, Chip Fu, Abdominal & More or Les, DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia, Ted Dancin’ doors 9 pm. Silver dollar Record Release Show Silence in the Studio, the Lying Cheats, Rebel Rebel, Professor. the SiSter James Clark Hangover, Voodoo Bunny, TNG. SoUthSide Johnny’S Busted Again (rock) 10 pm. SteaM whiStle BrewinG Wavelength 12th Anniversary Festival Fucked Up, Bonjay, Catl, Silver Dapple, Hut 9 pm. See preview, page 40. UniCorn pUB Paris Black 9:30 pm. velvet UnderGroUnd Space Monster, Fyoosha, Repeat Radio 8 pm. wronGBar Theophilius London (rap/ hip-hop) doors 10 pm.

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friday

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march 23 arts & crafts 11:00pm

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sat march 24

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tuesday april 3 lee’s palace • $18.50 advance

the revival tour

chuck ragan dan andriano (hot water music)

(alkaline trio) cory branan nathaniel rateliff

tues march 6

atlas lee’s palace • $16.50 adv

sound

fri april 6 @ mod club • $18.50 adv • all-ages • 6:00pm

BurninG loVe

sunday april 15 lee’s palace • $20 advance

friday april 13 opera house

$ 18.00

advance • doors 7:30pm

phoenix • all-ages • $18.50 adv

kina grannis $ 23.50

on sale now @ the roy thompson hall Box office massey hall Box office & masseyhall.com

friday may 18 & saturday may 19

queen elizabeth theatre scrappy happiness tour $ 29.50 advance + ff (reserved seating)

thursday may 17

queen elizabeth theatre all-ages • 29.50 advance reserved seating • 7:15pm $

ron sexsmith

february 16-22 2012 NOW

thurs march 29 @ lee’s palace $

36.50 advance • 8:30pm doors • 19+

saturday

april 14

horseshoe • $15.50 adv

big d & the kids table

advance • 8:30pm doors • 19+

saturday may 5 @ the phoenix

thurs april 12 & fri april 13 @ lee’s palace

cancer yukon bats blonde wednesday

supersuckers nashville pussy

massey hall

march 2

the phoenix • $25 advance

touche amore

thursday april 26 @ horseshoe

all-ages / tickets $59.50 - $69.50 advance

friday

sat april 7 @ lee’s palace • $20.00 advance

sunday april 29

thursday april 19

(Playing a selection of their discograPhy from 2002 - 2012)

psychedeli c furs rasputina w i th

trampled inbreds by turtles

& low

10th anniversary

april 25 phoenix • 20.00 adv

cults $

$ 15.00

advance • 9:00pm

library voices

friday

april$ 20

opera house • 15.50 adv

the

wooden sky

monday june 18 @ the phoenix

spiritualized mogwai $ 27.00

advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

saturday

march may 1212 opera house

$ 18.50

advance • 8:30 doors

justin townes earle w/ TriSTEN

tues may 8 the phoenix

neon

indian w/ lemonade

$ 29.50

advance • 8:00pm doors • 19+

thurs july 19 @ sound academy

beirut all-ages / licensed • $ 35.00 advance ga $ 50.00 advance vip (19+)

advance ticketS @ ticketmaster.ca or 1-855-985-5000 • HorSeSHoe Front Bar • SoundScapeS • rotate tHiS

friday

february 24 the great hall • 10.00 advance

Santa cruz acouStic punk $ 15.00 advance

Friday february 17 • $8.00 montreal metal

the devil barn makes burner

bellaclava noble prize fighter three slow learners brown bird

Sat february 18 $ 13.50

advance • double header

mon february 20 $ 15.50

advance • fat poSSum

fang

Wed february 22 • $4.00 Hosted by bookie (18th year)

tueSday february 21

lost babies skag barons Jamsquid leif vollebeckk Friday february 24 $12.50 advance • montreal 60’s king kahn-bbQ-deadly SnakeS Style garage punk reunion!

Quiet center lamont james 40 sons carmela antonia

tHurS february 23 • $7.00

lambs become lions poor young things the davey parker radio sound maladies of adam stokes Sat february 25 $ 10.00

advance • ottaWa

amos the

les transparent

sexareenos

(cd release)

brett caswell & the marquee rose marvelous darlings the archives rats of spring + the sphinxs andre m bluteau Wed february

29 • fat poSSum • $13.50 adv

tennis Hospitality

with

the rassle + gentlemen hUsbands friday march 16 @ lee’S palace • $15.00 advance

hey ocean! shabazz lee’S palace • 15.00 advance

with

palaces lee’S palace • $ 13.50 advance

the unbelievers devin therriault

friday march 30

annex Wreckroom • $15.00 adv

advance • 7:00pm doors

tueSday april 10 $

Sunday april 1

Hacienda

$ 12.50

phedre • doldrums moon king • l con

the queers heartless the ataris bastards tyler

far from finished

virgin mobile mod club

hooded mona david choi $

thurS february 16

Sat february 25

aiden knigHt

WedneSday april 11 @ lee’S palace • $17.50 adv

the cribs

friday february 17 $ 7.00

@ door

Jackson

Sat february 18 local cd releaSe

the fires of bryant sleepy white live! ruby spirit michael jackson wendy versus sun denim plants & april 17 sign me to Sunday april 15 horSeShoe • $ 10.50 advance

monday april 16

horSeShoe tavern • $12.50 adv

triBute to

Saturday $april 21 lee’S palace • 15.00 advance

tueS february 21

Wed february 22 • $ 10.00

animals alabama sharon roadrunner van sHakes etten crocodiles tueSday

@ lee’S palace • $16.50 adv

$ 15.50

advance • brooklyn

tHurS february 23 • $13.50 adv

friday april 27 lee’S palace • $15.00 advance

we were promised active joe jetpacks child pug TUESDAY may 15 thurSday

lee’S palace • $ 15.00 advance

Saturday may 26 horSeShoe tavern • $11.50 adv

W/ balam acab

friday march 2 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

tueS march 13 @ garriSon • $13.50 adv

With

shearwater

Fri february 24 • $ 10.00

the rivoli • $12.00 advance

pianos become

sat march 10 @ the drake • $10.00 adv

Sat february 25

hearts,unicorns,gin! stolen change scud stood fallen mountain the real boys $ 16.50

advance • alt country

keith’s live presents...

slow the teeth ema the club young prisms great pile of leaves punch Sunday february 19

w/ bleeding rainbow

tueS february 28 • $16.50 adv

sun march 25 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

Wed february 29 $ 12.00

advance • Scotland

twilight

bowerbirds jonny corndawg gavin mcinnes brothers sad marY margaret chairlift o’hara flatfoot 56 hunx & his punx wannabe jay brannan margot & acid stephane mar 23 - cloud nothings grimes youth lagoon the mar 24 - the inbreds nuclear mother’s wrembel mar 30 - pillow fights so-so’s temple pontiak horseshoetavern.com leespalace.com willis earl beal father john misty with

Saturday march 3 Sat march 17 • $10.00 door juno concert SerieS 34th aniv martian $ 20.00 advance awareness ball featuring memberS of

the order of good cheer the beauties the arkells • bss by divine right our lady peace treble charger the skydiggers

featuring

and tons of special guests!

monday march 19 $ 8.00 advance • montreal • 4ad

born gold + moon king

with

air waves

mansions + Young statues tues march 20 @ drake hotel • $10.00 adv

tues march 27 @ garrison • $12.50 adv

wed march 28 @ the drake • $11.50 adv

shovels & rope + robert ellis

book launch for how to piss in public

wed march 28 @ horseshoe • $12.00 adv

thurs march 29 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

sat march 31 @ silver dollar • $11.50 adv

thurSday april 5

thurSday april 26

with

nite jewel

sat march 31 @ lee’s palace • $13.50 adv

garriSon •

$ 11.50

advance

the garriSon •

$ 15.00

advance

aoife o’donovan Saturday march 3

forest fire

Wed march 7 • $ 15.00 adv

a tribute to the spice girls Full live Band, coStumeS tWo SetS + 90s dJ dance party

Sun march 18 • $ 20 @ door

friday april 27 @ drake hotel • $11.50 adv

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

mon april 30 @ the drake • $13.50 adv

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

monday may 14 @ horSeShoe tavern • $11.50 advance loS angeleS fleet foxeS Sub pop folk rock

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

529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW february 16-22 2012

clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 43

(416) 588-4MOD (663) .com 722 COLLEGE STREET

FRIDAY FEB 17 /12

COME OUT AND PLAY

ANTHEMS,DANCE,90s/2012 doors @ ten

MATT MEDLEY & friends

70s soul/Motown/stax/R&B) doors 11 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Family Day Brunch Oozakazoo (pop/folk duo) noon to 4 pm. HARLEM Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/ soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm. HORSESHOE Heartless Bastards, Hacienda, Devin Therriault (blues garage/rock & roll) doors 8:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS This Is Awesome! (indie lounge music) 7 pm. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB WhiteGirlsWasted The Comeback Season Kids doors 10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

SATURDAY FEB 18 /12

CAMERON HOUSE David Baxter Band 10 pm, Rucksack Willies 6 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Alun Piggins (folk/pop) 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Mariachi Mondays 6 to 10 pm. ENWAVE THEATRE Everything Under The

Moon Christine Fellows (singer/songñ writer performs with visual artist Shary Boyle)

doors @ ten

2 pm.

THE LOCAL Hamstrung Stringband (blugrass)

9:30 pm.

Vai Media Group 1 year anniversary STUCK on PLANET EARTH

FEBRUARY

18 Chasing Amee 19 / 20 White Girls Wasted Girls Waisted 25 Mona 29 Hunter Hayes

OLD YORK Lindy (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. ON CUE Camdon Blues (blues) 8 pm. ROXTON Michael Peter (bluegrass) 9:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

THE CENTRAL JT Kim Quintet 9 pm. EMMET RAY BAR David Buchbinder 9 pm. GATE 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm,

Tom Duke 5 to 8 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE LAKESIDE TERRACE SK8 Toronto All-Star Big Band (swing) 2 to 4 pm. REX Will Vinson 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Panic! Lone Bone Steve Ward (trombone/electronics) 8 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ALLEYCATZ Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

LADY DAY: AN EVENING OF BILLIE HOLIDAY

Jessica Rose & The Grand Salon Orchestra Conductor Kerry Stratton SATURDAY

MARCH 3 @ 8PM GLENN GOULD STUDIO 250 FRONT ST W. TICKETS 416.872.4255 / WWW.ROYTHOMSON.COM WWW.GRANDSALONORCHESTRA.COM

Win TickeTs! collective concerts presents

sharon Van eTTen February 21 at Lee’s Palace

$15.50 advance 19+ Tickets available at HS/RT/SS/TM O n s ale n o w. C h e c k o u t c o l l e c t i ve c o n c e r t s .c a f o r m o r e inf o.

Pianos Become The TeeTh

March 2 at Hard Luck Bar $10.50 advance All-Ages/Licenses Tickets available at RT/SS

Visit nowtoronto.com to enter!

Deadline is Sunday, February 19, at 11pm. One entry per household.

FEBRUARY 16-22 2012 NOW

SINGER/SONGWRITER

SHARON VAN ETTEN The musician’s musician adds big names to new LP without losing herself By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI SHARON VAN ETTEN with SHEARWATER at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (February 21). $15.50. HS, RT, SS, TM.

Sharon Van Etten is your favourite musician’s favourite musician. Though her long-touted “up-and-coming” status finally seems to be shifting to “arrived” with the release of her third album, Tramp (Jagjaguwar), the New Jersey-bred Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter had the seal of approval of a variety of respected names in American indie rock long before now. In fact, the chain of events that led to this breakthrough record started nearly two years ago, when Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon teamed up with the National’s Aaron and Bryce Dessner to cover Love More, a slow-burning ballad from her then upcoming sophomore release, Epic. “That was really mind-blowing,” says the soft-spoken Van Etten over the phone from New York. “It’s humbling to know that people I’m a fan of are also fans of mine.” After hearing the cover, Van Etten reached out to Aaron Dessner to ask him to collaborate, and Dessner did her one better by inviting her to his backyard studio to record. The ensuing Tramp album was recorded in bits and pieces over the course of a busy year of touring for both musicians. Dessner’s studio became the one place Van Etten consistently returned to between short sublets and stints on

friends’ couches. “It’s hard to afford New York rent when you’re only home for a week a month,” she says. “So for the most part, I just didn’t.” That lack of stability meant Van Etten had to force herself to write and demo songs whenever she had a spare moment, but she credits the spread-out studio time for giving her the distance necessary to smooth out the bumps. That accounts for Tramp’s fuller, more fleshed-out sound, which marries the intimate vulnerability of her first two albums with some welcome snarl. Aiming to feature voices other than her own (and learning how to communicate her musical ideas to other people), Van Etten, with Dessner’s help, put together a group of musicians to collaborate on harmonies and instrumentals. The result is an all-star lineup of indie rock players: Beirut’s Zach Condon, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, Julianna Barwick and Dessner himself (to name a few). But despite the bold-faced roster, Tramp is achingly personal. “Even though we had this insanely good band, we were very careful not to make any song sound like ‘Sharon Van Etten featuring so and so,’” she says. “I’m lucky to have so many talented people playing with me, but it’s still my record.” music@nowtoronto.com

LOUNGE LIVE AT THE

SATURDAY night

A TRIBUTE TO JAZZ PIANO with Jazz Legend

KEN SKINNER (jazzmongers!)

No cover. Doors 6:00 pm for dinner. Show to follow.

SUNDAY brunch

BRUNCH JAM (live music) No cover. Great food. 10.30am–3.30pm

189 Church St (at Church and Shuter) 416-364-1301 nowlounge.com | twitter.com/nowloungecafe

THE OSSINGTON Thur 16 EthEr by Ben Ehrenreich - book launch, then DJ Justin Ridgeway...

Fri 17 SwEat PantS

w/ DJ Coolin... Hip hop, soul, dancehall et al...

SaT 18 FriEndShiP

w/ DJ Hi Mom! ...The legendary party continues...

Sun 19 BraSS FactS trivia City’s best quiz night followed by:

UnlimitEd SUnday

2 turntables, special guests, special times ...

Mon 20 icE & yo Tales from our hood...

TueS 21 comEdy at oSS w/ Don’t get bored & leave...

Wed 22 hUmBlEmania

Live performance, screening, & bitchin’ vinyl...

61 OSSINGTON AVE | 416•850•0161 | theossington.com

Bovine Sex CluB Moody Mondays Douglas

THE DAKOTA TAVERN

Fairbanks Jr.

Crawford Mix Fix Mondays DJ Shan Dub & DJ Boots.

inSomnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). The PiSTon Junk Shop DJs Jorge & Jeeks (pre

Dustin bentall Fri Feb 17 & Sat Feb 18 8pm graHam playfOrD 10pm sHane murpHy banD

Thu Feb 16

to post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

rePoSado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean. roCkwood Mashup Mondays Crunch (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

ThomPSon hoTel Blacklist. waTerfallS The Lion’s Den (reggae).

Tuesday, February 21 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

Bovine Sex CluB Blurred Vision. dakoTa Tavern Peter Elkas Band 10 pm. See preview, page 37. ñ holy oak Cafe Alex Lukashevsky and Joel

Urquhart (pop) 9 pm. horSeShoe Nu Music Nite Skag Barons, Leif Vollebekk 9 pm. lee’S PalaCe Sharon Van Etten, Shearwater doors 8 pm. See preview, page 46. oPera houSe Every Time I Die, Terror, Stray from the Path, Former Thieves doors 6:30 pm, all ages. TranzaC main hall Ronley Teper’s Lipliners w/ Mark Bragg 8 pm.

ñ ñ

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

CadillaC lounge Andrew Collins 9 pm. Cameron houSe Friendly Rich 10 pm, Luke

Nicholson (blues singer/songwriter) 6 pm. CaSTro’S lounge blueVenus (acoustic singer/ songwriter ) 10 pm. The CenTral Jam Nite At The Central Dr Keys 9:30 pm. Cloak & dagger PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. dakoTa Tavern Fat Tuesday Swamperella (cajun/zydeco) 6 to 9 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. hugh’S room Discoveries David Krystal, Rory Jordan-Stevens, Nastasia Rizikov, Jordana Talsky 8:30 pm. The loCal Chris Bartos & the Racoons. PreSS CluB Toast N’ Jam Open Jam 10 pm. The ruSTy nail Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

ChalkerS PuB Robi Botos Trio 7:30 pm. dominion on Queen Django Jazz Jam 8:30 pm. four SeaSonS CenTre for The Performing arTS riChard BradShaw amPhiTheaTre

Passion And Poetry Mehdi Ghazi (piano) noon. glenn gould STudio Brandi Disterheft 8 pm. groSSman’S Mardi Gras Party Tall Grass, the UJS Horns (gospel/jazz) 9 pm. lola The Sheryl Show 8 pm.

continued on page 48 œ

Thursday february 16

WaVeLeNGTh TWeLVe

frIday february 17

WhITe GIrL

raP frOM 1993-2012 saTurday february 18

bITCh CrafT

aLL-GIrL dJs PLay LOud raP Thursday february 23

bIbLICaL

reCOrd reLease ParTy

B-17 • FRESH SNOW COMING sOON: frIday MarCh 23

TYVEK • BARE WIRES frIday aPrIL 6

MarK suLTaN frIday aPrIL 27

The PrOWLers www.partsandlabour.ca

TwiTTer.com/Thesneakydees booking@sneaky-dees.com

$3.25 BREAKFAST • MON - FRI 11AM- 4PM thuRSDAY FEbRuARY 16

dockeTs dance Jam

Fundraiser For dockeT TheaTre FRiDAY FEbRuARY 17

ROB DYER & IAN STANGER SWEET 16 SAtuRDAY FEbRuARY 18 (EARLY 7pM)

MORNE • CREEPER ride aT dawn gaTes

w/DJ Cactus

thu feb 16

PkewPkewPkew w/leSlIe SPItS, tIght nunS

w/DJ Vania

fri feb 17

Butch haller

& his chesterfield ramBlers w/DJ Sir Ian Blurton

Sat feb 18

eamon mcGrath w/SIngle MotherS, roB MoIr tue feb 21

the Pink & Black Attack Present:

Blurred Vision upcoming: Sat mar 10

carole PoPe w/ArMy gIrlS

542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com

Sun Feb 19 11-3pm bluegrass bruncH

MeTZ

OdONIs OdONIs • SLIM TWIG MaN Made hILL • euCaLyPTus

EVERY SAtuRDAY (LAtE)

#SHAKE A TAIL 60’s pop & soul

SuNDAY FEbRuARY 19

doomTree EVERY MoNDAY

#Legends oF karaoke EVERY tuESDAY

#mFoy

EVERY WEDNESDAY

#what’s poppin’ 80’s/90’s hip hop party upcomIng

fEB 24 TOPANgA cd release mAR 1 TEENANgER cd release mAR 2 vIcTIM PARTy cd release mAR 5 SIghTS ANd SOuNdS

10pm

mexican food & drink specialsfamilies are welcome!

8pm mariacHi

Saturday Supper Club Blues!

fuegO

tHe sure tHings

10pm fat tuesday Tue Feb 21 6-9pm

Mar 10 • • • • • • • • • • • • 7pM

jack dekEyzEr

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H thu feb 16 real truth Music presents H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H fri feb 17 record release show H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H sat feb 18 full blast barrage Punk H H H H H H H H H H H H H H Plus! H H H H H H H H and H H H H H HigH lonesome Wednesday • 9:30pm H H H H H H big city bluEgrass H H H fEaturing MEMbErs of H H thE foggy hogtown boys H H H H & thE crEaking trEE H H string quartEt H H H H H H thu H H feb 23 H H H H H H H H H Plus! @11:30 H H H H H H H fri H H feb 24 H H H H H H H @ 9:20 H H H H H H sat feb 25 seattle punk/Chicago garage H H H H H H H H H H H w/ H H H H H H H H adv tix @ rotate This, soundscapes H H H H H H fri H H Mar 2 H H H H H H H H @ 9:30 H H H H Old school Punk bash H H sat Mar 3 H H H H H H H H H H H thu Mar 8 The round table presents H H H H H H H H H H H H NeXt-@-CMf 2012 - Mar 22, 23, 24 H H H H Next Wave southern u.s. Garage rock H H H H H H H H sat Mar 31 Oakland, Ca, Garage Wildcat H H H H H H H H (Nashville.TE) H H H H H H sat aPr 14 san francisco barrage rock H H H H H HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H

flasH ligHtnin’

Mon Feb 20 mariacHi mOnDays

486 spadina ave. @ college www.silverdollarroom.com

swamperella 10pm peter elkas banD w/ special guests

Wed Feb 22 10pm HOt rOck feat. members of

TRUTH STARWALKER STREETbEATZ

flasH ligHtnin’ & tHe beauties

Thu Feb 23

The Lost Horizons, Red Slam Collective

10pm

eugene ripper

249 OssingtOn Ave (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com

SILENCE IN THE STUDIO

The Lying Cheats REbEL REbEL, pROfESSOR

TV fREAKS

Greys, Cartoons JOHN mILNER YOU’RE SO bOSS

DJ James pleasance

crazy strings

ATOm & THE VOLUmES

The Responsables, Elissa mielke SHOOT THE STORK

RUNNING RED LIGHTS

Alexy & The Other Side, Twosome Plus! TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT

THE SpITS TV GHOST

Dentata, School Damage

RACCOON WEDDING

meanwood, Stray feathers

Plus! THEODOR

TNG, ARSON Lad Classic

DUKE bUZZY, babylon Warchild Grandfather mantis, mINDbENDER

thu feb 16 | 8PM | $10

DaNE harTSEll w/franceSco, hill

ThE STrumbEllaS cd releaSe Party Sat feb 18 | 4-6PM

EDUmACATiON

w/graYDoN JamES & ThE YouNg NovEliSTS, ThE hamilToN TraDiNg Co.

CafE SCiENTifiQuE Sat feb 18 | 8PM | $10 Sug. don. or PWyc butch feMMe Salon PreSentS:

CabarET of lovE

a coMMunity fundraiSer for PerSonS With aidS Society (PWa) DJ Nik rED SpiNNiNg NEo Soul/Nu Jazz iNTo ThE wEE hourS. eMceeS: DEb SiNgh, TiTuS aNDrogYNouS PerforManceS by: rowENa foNSEka, DaiNTY box, CoCo laCrEmE, TiNa TimEbalm Sun thu feb oct 19 6|| 8PM 9PM ||$5 $12 folk-rock duo froM Sheffield, england w/guESTS air wavE

Slow Club

Mon feb 20 | drS 8:30PM | PWyc ($5) mC roN SparkS Debra Digiovanni K. trevor Wilson, Jon sChabl Keesha broWnie, Dylan gott niCK Flanagan, Myles Morrison

alTDoTComEDYlouNgE.Com tueS feb 21 | drS 8:30PM | PWyc ($5)

ThE hEaDliNEr SEriES mC arThur SimEoN fEaT: JapE W/guests: british teeth, Cheap sMoKes, neWsDesK & More!

SkETChComEDYlouNgE.Com Wed feb 22 | 8:30PM | $15

EroS, ThaNaToS & ThE avaNT-garDE the Cabaret series • the lineuP ~ choreograPhy

& PerforManceS by: aNJEliCa SCaNNura & Nikki, marvElouS marTha ET lES rag-a-muffiNS, viCToria SEgui, mr wiNSToN SpEar, marCY muSSari, ChriSTophEr kNowlES, SamaNTha farruggio, kirSTiE kEENaN, laurEN ruNioNS, brookE NagY SPec. MuSical gueSt: DirECT from mTl!! aNNiE bECkEr!!

thu feb 23 | 9PM | $15 PreSented by take notice

LAST YEAR’S mEN

CElEbraTiNg ThE lifE of JamES DEwiTT YaNCEY (J Dilla)

HUNX & HIS pUNX

muSiC bY: DJ NaNa, DJ TakTikS,

w/ Heavy Cream

THE DIRTY GHOSTS

ALPHABOT

RELEASE PARTY w/ wAX mANNEQUiN + mORE DOORS @8Pm_$8

fri feb 17 | 9PM | $12

Featuring his brother, illa J iNNEr CiTY groovES, 2SwifT

COMING SOON

Mar 2 STS (Sugar ToNguE Slim) Mar 4 mark brEubE

332 QuEEN ST. w. | 416.596.1908 | rivoli.ca

w/ DJ FASE

DOORS @11Pm_$10

DUB TRiNiTY CELEBRATES BOB mARLEY! DOORS @8Pm_$7

BANG THE PARTY

w/ mYTH PARADiSE mUSiC

DOORS @11Pm_$10 THE mONKEY BUNCH

FAmiLY DAY! DOORS @3Pm_$8/$28 FAmiLY PACK

BROKEN ENGLiSH PRESENTS

GAViN RUSSOm

DOORS @11Pm_$10

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dorA keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. drAke hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. duffy’s tAvern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330. the duke live.Com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. el moCAmbo 464 Spadina. 416-777-1777. embAssy bAr 223 Augusta. 416-591-1132. emmet rAy bAr 924 College. 416-792-4497. enWAve theAtre 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000. ePiC lounge 1355 St Clair W. 416-792-9382. eton house 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161. fogArty’s 3481 Lake Shore W. 416-253-5500. footWork 425 Adelaide W. 416-913-3488. four seAsons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. free times CAfe 320 College. 416-967-1078. gAllery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781. the gArrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. gAte 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glAdstone hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. glenn gould studio 250 Front W. goodhAndy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. grAffiti’s 170 Baldwin. 416-506-6699. the greAt hAll 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossmAn’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. guvernment 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. hAbits gAstroPub 928 College. 416-533-7272. hArbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. hArd luCk bAr 772a Dundas W. hArlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. hArt house 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. heliConiAn hAll 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. hirut fine ethioPiAn Cuisine 2050 Danforth. holy oAk CAfe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. the hoxton 69 Bathurst. hugh’s room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604. insomniA 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. kornerstones 1601 Birchmount. 416-840-4238. lee’s PAlACe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. living Arts Centre 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). 905-306-6000. the loAded dog 1921 Lawrence E. 416-750-9009. the loCAl 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

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album reviews Grimes feels more like a skilled teen-pop singer remixed by an experimental ambient producer. And while Visions is unmistakably 2012 sonically in its references to R&B and hip-hop, it also fits remarkably gracefully into 4AD’s impressive back catalogue of dream pop – you can picture Cocteau Twins touring with her back in their heyday. Top track: Visiting Statue Grimes plays the Horseshoe March 19. BB

and Isabel Ritchie on strings. Produced by Cone McCaslin (Sum 41), the lush album is heavy on the thumpy, anthemic material that contributes to the band’s live appeal. Despite lyrics about yearning, lying and death, the songs are surprisingly uplifting though verging on formulaic. Better are the more sophisticated The Bird That Follows Me, Windsurfers and haunting Diane. More of that, please. Top track: Diane The Strumbellas play a CD release at the Rivoli on Friday (February 17). SARAH GREENE

LAKE FOREST Silver Skies (Vérité)

album of the week PERFUME GENIUS Put Your Back N

2 It (Matador) Rating: NNNN Given that Perfume Genius’s breakthrough debut was a lo-fi bedroom affair mastered from secondgeneration MP3s, its follow-up is a chance for Seattle-based singer/songwriter and pianist Mike Hadreas to give greater clarity and breadth of expression to his striking melodies in a proper studio. Like his debut, Put Your Back N 2 It is a collection of songs about addiction, hustling, suicide, gay sex and self-doubt, though it’s slightly more expansive in scope. Not only is Hadreas’s fearless falsetto easier to hear, but it’s

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FRANKIE ROSE Interstellar (Slumberland)

Rating: NNN Frankie Rose has made it clear that she doesn’t want to be defined by the bands she used to play with, yet the erstwhile drummer of Crystal Stilts, Vivian Girls and Dum Dum Girls did little to distance herself from those projects on her 2010 solo debut. On her sophomore album, though, Rose has left behind the girl-groupisms, the fuzz and the Outs (her former backing band), replacing them with the stylish synth and jangle pop of the 80s underground. The shift in direction suits her. Rose’s sweet, ethereal vocals are still reverbed as all hell but are no longer hidden behind waves of distortion. Her voice, in fact, is usually the most audible instrument, hovering above swashes of Cure keys and Johnny Marresque riffs. Often, that results in catchy, irresistible dream pop, though the hooks are staggered between floaty bits of unresolved slow-build atmosphere. Ditch the padding and Interstellar could be a flawless EP. Top track: Know Me RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

ISLANDS A Sleep & A Forgetting (Anti-)

Rating: NNN The fourth album from Islands sees main man Nick Thorburn in a transitional phase. In the aftermath of a breakup, his songwriting’s become more introspective, while he’s also stripped back all the futuristic glam production touches of past recordings in favour of a bare-bones liveoff-the-floor early-60s R&B feel. It’s immediately enjoyable, but suffers on repeat listens due to a lack of variety. On the bright side, this is far more exciting than his disappointing “doom-wop” indie supergroup Mister Heavenly, while exploring some of the same musical ideas. Frustratingly, A Sleep & A Forgetting feels

also surrounded by uplifting flourishes and fine detail: ephemeral sounds on the Edna St. Vincent Millay-penned Dirge, a rising wall of noise on AWOL Marine that mirrors the melody’s inhale/exhale pattern – subtleties that draw you deeper into his world. As quickly as he lures you in, however, he’s on to the next emotionally vexing mini-narrative. (The album’s longest song lasts three minutes and 16 seconds.) Conveying so much harrowing detail in such a brief time is no small feat – one reason why his music lingers long after the album ends. Top track: No Tear KEVIN RITCHIE like a collection of demos for what could be a great album. We like minimalism, and we’re down with lo-fi, but these compositions demand more colour and life. Some backup vocals would have gone a long way. While it’s not a triumph, it does make us optimistic about his next recording. It might be an imperfect stepping stone, but the staircase he’s climbing here shows great promise. Top track: Cold Again Islands play the Music Gallery February 28. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Visions (4AD) Rating: Given the exceptional strength of so many female-fronted electronic underground pop acts at the moment, it must be a tough time to be an old-school rock guitar guy. They’re getting left behind, and no amount of Foo Fighter Grammys is going to change that. Even worse for them, Montreal’s Grimes just raised the bar even further with her richly textured and inventive new album (the third in just two years). Based purely on her gender, nationality, vocal abilities and instrumentation, Grimes will likely get some comparisons to Austra, but while they’d make a good double-bill, their sounds are actually miles apart. Whereas Austra channels opera influences into new wave dance grooves,

SEEKER LOVER KEEPER (Spunk) Rating: NNN Seeker Lover Keeper is an Australian supergroup made up of Sarah Blasko, Sally Seltmann and Holly Throsby. Seltmann, who helped write Feist’s massive hit 1234, is likely the name most familiar to Canadians. She’s released a few of her own albums here, but her two collaborators have fairly impressive resumés as well. They cite the Trio records by Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris as an inspiration, but this is far closer to modern indie folk than it is to country, so don’t be surprised by the lack of pedal steel. It’s not the most groundbreaking record, but this self-titled debut is extremely listenable. It’s perfect mellow background music, with just enough going on that it’s still interesting when you pay attention. But the pleasantness overshadows the hints of drama that occasionally bubble to the surface. The most promising moments recall an easy-listening PJ Harvey, which admittedly sounds like a bad idea, but are you really going to blast Rid Of Me during a romantic dinner? Top track: Every Time BB

Rating: NNN Will Whitwham stepped away from his work with the Wilderness of Manitoba to pen this batch of wispy folk tunes under the solo moniker Lake Forest. But aside from their more bare-bones arrangements and lack of multipart harmonies, they aren’t much of a departure from WOM. Undertaken last winter as a song-a-day project, the results include a few too many hallmarks of the played-out indie folk genre: introspective lyrics, nature imagery (in the lyrics and artwork), fragile, melancholic tone, breathy reverbed-out vocals that climb into falsetto range. A few, like Ohio, slip right through your fingers. Which isn’t to say that the songwriting isn’t solid, or that these nine tunes don’t offer rewards to a listener. The instrumental Teepee comes as a nice surprise, with its vaguely off-tempo layers and banjoand-piano-laced parts, while the sophisticated Birds Of Prey has fine guitar-picking and unusual melodies. Whitwham’s engaged and committed throughout, which ensures that the tunes,

though sombre, never grow morose. Top track: Birds Of Prey Lake Forest plays Saving Gigi February 24 and 25. CARLA GILLIS

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JACQUES GREENE Concealer EP (Vase). Rating: NNN Concealer, a four-track EP, is the inaugural release by young producer Jacques Greene on his new label imprint, Vase. Boosting his own venture seems logical enough, though Greene (who cameos with co-Montrealer Lunice in Azealia Banks’s now-viral clip for 212) has said he won’t release further on Vase, letting it serve instead as a showcase for his signed friends and collaborators. Greene’s variations on R&B-tinted house – sample an underdog 90s/00s tune, strip it bare, rebuild with probing bass and chic sparseness – form the backbone of Concealer, but it could also be considered a Vase sampler. On lead track Flatline, Greene uses original vocals by Montreal producer/singer Ango; his voice is pleasant enough, though it can’t compete with the dynamism of the sampled R&B stars. Twostep influence shows up on Arrow, featuring Scottish producer Koreless, which builds to a minimalist central section starting with two minutes of looped crescendoing synths. These Days – clashing pretty, cascading arpeggios against aggressive drum stabs, then reeling back into fleeting moments of relative silence – is a case study in Greene’s in-demand style. Top track: These Days ANUPA MISTRY 3

BIBLICAL (independent) Rating: NNN

Four of Toronto’s hardest-working, heaviest-gigging chameleonic musicians make up Biblical, so it’s no surprise that they excel at guitar-driven, retro hard rock, a genre that rewards technical proficiency. Members have played with Sebastien Grainger’s Mountains, Steamboat, the Old Soul, the Big Sound, the Bicycles and Maylee Todd (an abbreviated list). And while they bring lots of side-gig-honed chops, they also have a lot of soul. This 10-inch EP has just four songs but shows off a diverse skill set that includes heavy riffs, psychedelic stoner rock meanderings and organ-soaked soul-rock, all held together under warm production that begs to be listened to on vinyl. Nickel & Dime, Under Duress and Eyes Of Lies boast tense, swaggering arrangements, while six-minute closer Oubliette shows they’re also adept at slowing the tempo for multipart mini-epics. Top track: Oubliette Biblical play an album release February 23 at Parts & Labour. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

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EVERYTHING UNDER THE MOON by Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows. Presented by World Stage at Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West), Saturday (February 18) to February 23, Saturday, Wednesday-Thursday 7 pm, mats Sunday-Monday 2 pm. $15, child $10. 416-973-4000.

Shary Boyle (left) and Christine Fellows play with splashy animal imagery.

prolific toronto artist shary boyle and her collaborator, Winnipeg-based singer/ songwriter Christine Fellows, are taking a bold new move into theatre as openers for this year’s World Stage season at Harbourfront. From her early paintings of sad, damaged children and freakish Scottish and Finnish folklore figures to her porcelain figurines of women with wildly misplaced body parts, Boyle – winner of NOW’s Readers Poll for best local artist – has always been an intrepid traveller of the psychosexual terrain underlying mythology, history, childhood and femininity. With Everything Under The Moon, she expands on another aspect of her practice: magiclantern-style live performances in which she hand-animates painted imagery using transparencies on an old-school overhead projector. “We have a lot of trust in each other,” says Boyle about collaborating with Fellows. “It’s the perfect platform to create something new and challenging.” The voluble 40-ish duo, old friends who’ve toured together extensively, share an easy, bantering relationship and an appreciation for the weird and eccentric. Talking in the quiet of a moonlit night at Artscape’s Gibraltar Point artist residence on Toronto Island, on a dinner break while setting up for rehearsals, Fellows describes how they met at a Winnipeg book club. Locals there are resigned to the fact, she says, that artists – Boyle included – try out their city for a year or so and then move on. “How many people move to Winnipeg? Four people in the last 10 years?” jokes Boyle. “There’s the satanist, Jimmy, lots of people...,” counters Fellows. Turning serious, Fellows says that when Boyle first made animations for some of her songs, “it was incredibly moving. I had no idea what Shary was going to do. I’ve played with amazing musicians, and as a songwriter you bring something to the group and they elevate it. She was taking not just from the music but from the lyrics, and elevating it. “I take a lot of care with lyrics, and for me to have someone noticing little bits, literally pulling them up and showing those nuances, was the best experience of my life.” Boyle, who can be steely and assertive when it comes to her work, says she’s turned down musicians who’ve asked her to do projections for hire. It’s all about relationship, “a huge amount of labour and listening, witnessing something as fully and as deeply as I can, because I love music so much.” After doing cabaret-style shows in which Boyle usually worked from Fellows’s songs, they performed The Monkey & The Mermaid at the 2010 Images Festival, a mix of existing and new material. Eager to make something completely from scratch, they jumped at the opportunity when Harbourfront’s Fresh Ground put out a call for multidisciplinary performers who don’t usually work in theatre to create shows for all-ages audiences. Neither had experience making art for kids. Fellows’s songs, says Boyle in an earlier solo interview in the living room of her westend home, often involve “elderly or marginalized characters – spinsters, nuns or ancient poets – whereas my work has been about childhood, but through a very adult lens. “But we were both excited about the idea becontinued on page 52 œ

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cause we feel that children need proper education,” laughs Boyle. “Children are capable of much more complex thought and feeling than they’re given credit for.” It’s not, she insists, specifically a children’s show, though. “There are a lot of meta-narratives, as in the best writing for children. As they get older, they’ll reread a book and realize, ‘Oh, there’s a whole subtext there I couldn’t understand.’ The kids are going to get what they’re going to get out of it, and the adults are going to get a whole other thing.” Though neither had ever written a script, each outlined 10 plot points and found they were thinking along similar lines. “It was this amazing ping-pong-like situation,” says Boyle. They already knew they wanted to write an environmentally themed adventure with local animals as protagonists: “honeybees and colony collapse disorder, and little brown bats and white nose fungus syndrome,” says Boyle, listing the distressing eco-trends. “There are really big decimations happening in those communities, and Christine and I are concerned and alarmed.” Boyle then created the visual spectrum, while Fellows wrote the music. The show is entirely sung, requiring Fellows to deliver a complex hour-long narrative almost singlehandedly. Though they have some assistance from York U theatre students, backing musicians and a few others, the DIY duo are doing everything: writing, designing (Heather Goodchild is making the costumes), rehearsing and performing, plus administrative tasks. “It’s a super-huge learning curve,” Boyle says. “It’s something we want to take on the road.” I ask about the value of the handmade both in Boyle’s projections, which often include her actual hand (“like the hand of God,” she says), and her work in general. “It’s a cliché to talk about the over-technology of our culture. But I see the relief, almost a visible unwinding, when people sit in a theatre and watch something happen with just two people’s hands and a light bulb and some dancing around and singing. “Magic does not have to happen exclusively through a production studio. We’re all amazed by 3-D films and special effects, but the shadow puppet never gets trumped.” She mentions Herzog’s Cave Of Forgotten Dreams (“in 3-D, which is hilarious because here’s this super-modern technology talking about the most ancient art in European history”), and imagines torch-lit shadow plays that might have incorporated the beautiful prehistoric drawings. Despite her success, she resists farming her work out to be fabricated by assistants, a mark that you’ve arrived in the art world and a practice she says is based on a corporate model. “Yes, I work with my hands, but it’s not just a political position – it’s because I love it. Being a highly skilled craftsperson who really understands material or can achieve representation through drawing or painting, they’re not the criteria any more for what is important work. “But there’s an underground secret: people love something that artists have actually made with their own hands. It has the whole realm of thought and ideas and politics as well as materiality and care and craft. You get the whole package – it’s a powerful thing.” 3

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Up in the rarefied air of the BMO’s 68th-floor suite of boardrooms is one of our more unusual art spaces. The tiny BMO Project Room – open to visitors by appointment on Friday afternoons – houses an annual commissioned project. Shary Boyle’s installation, Canadian Artist – inspired by the blank response those words usually elicit when she’s introduced abroad – is her invented family tree, plaster portrait plaques of unlikely progenitors from all over the world, from mermaids and pirates to suffragists and aboriginal healers. “There are so many rigid uncomfortabilities about looking into your racial and cultural origins. What we want to claim says a lot about where we’re at in history. That shifts around every 50 or 100 years, and goes to the

Other World Stage sensations Harbourfront’s World Stage season kicks off this weekend with Everything Under The Moon, but that’s just the beginning. At the end of the month, UK choreographer Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance troupe arrives with Entity (February 28 to March 3), a work for 10 dancers that fuses movement and technology, all scored to music by Coldplay and Massive Attack collaborator Jon Hopkins. You won’t want to miss it; McGregor’s Chroma, featuring music by the White Stripes, was a huge local hit for the National Ballet last season. New York’s legendary Wooster Group helped launch the careers of artists like Spalding Gray and Willem Dafoe. It breaks down

walls between disciplines, frequently using multimedia and playing with autobiography and existing texts. Their Vieux Carré (March 28 to 31) reinterprets one of Tennessee Williams’s final plays. Should

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heart of what makes us feel we belong or don’t belong,” says Boyle. Though she exposes some hard truths like the Hudson’s Bay Company’s rape of indigenous people and Scottish witch persecutions, “ultimately it’s more about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, how completely random and invented they are, or how the emphasis on certain aspects is so arbitrary. “But I’m also interested in people all over the world. It was really fun to say, ‘What are they doing over there?’ ” Check out the stories and research behind it at canadian-artist.ca, complete with links to everything from the novel Dogboy to YouTube clips of Anne Murray and FS Dolly Parton. To November 30 at BMO Project Room, 100 King West, 68th floor, Friday 12:30-4:30 pm by appointment. 416867-5290.

be fascinating, especially after the glimpse we got last season of another late Williams play in His Greatness. So far, 2012’s hottest theatre is Greek mythology. Margaret Atwood reimag-

ined The Odyssey in The Penelopiad and Martin Crimp adapted Sophocles’ Women Of Trachis in Cruel And Tender. In Ajax & Little Iliad (April 4 to 8), Canadians Evan Webber and Frank Cox-O’Connell rework Sophocles’ tragedies to take a look at contemporary wars and how to make theatre from them. An earlier version of Little Iliad showed great promise at the Free Fall Festival two years ago. Can’t wait to see the final version. And that’s just the first two months. Other shows include new work by the Dietrich Group, the only local dance troupe to make it onto my Best of Dance 2011 list, former NOW cover troupe Compagnie Käfig, and the return of Dance Marathon, the thrilling interactive show by bluemouth inc. Get info at harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage2012 or 416-973-4000. GLENN SUMI

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Nicole Brooks explores Afro-Caribbean history in Obeah Opera By JON KAPLAN

Writer Nicole Brooks’s eclectic score draws on jazz, blues, folk, R&B and voodoo songs.

OBEAH OPERA by Nicole Brooks, directed by ahdri zhina mandiela, with Brooks, Macomere Fifi, Joni NehRita, Saphire Demitro and Saidah Baba Talibah. Presented by b current and Theatre Archipelago at 918 Bathurst Centre (918 Bathurst). Previews from tonight (Thursday, February 16), opens Wednesday (February 22) and runs to March 4, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm (no show February 18), matinee Sunday 2 pm (except February 19, 8 pm). $30, opening night gala $50, previews $15. 416-5331500, bcurrent.ca.

writer nicole brooks knew she’d touched a nerve when, while researching her new script, her mother asked if she was an obeah woman. Obeah is an African/Caribbean

practice associated with witchcraft, and though for some it has negative connotations, others are intrigued by it. “Were those who used it wise women or witches?” asks Brooks. “They were certainly healers, and I see them as herbal practitioners, a variation on today’s homeopaths.” The writer’s search brought her to a surprising place: the 1690s Salem witchcraft trials, the subject of her new work, Obeah Opera. Theatregoers likely know something of the trials from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, one of whose characters is Tituba, the minister’s black slave. “She was from the Bahamas and accused of obeah,” says Brooks, who’s known for her work in film and TV.

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“That’s a strange word to see in these accounts, and I discovered there were other black Caribbean women in Salem accused of witchcraft. “All I found, of course, were a few sentences here and there. Though four of the five central characters in Obeah Opera are historic figures, including Tituba, they have no voice in the historic records.” The fifth, known as the Elder, has historic roots in Colombia but fulfills a mythic role in Brooks’s story. A force from Yoruba legend who represents Yemaya, the mother of waters, she keeps African beliefs alive in the black diaspora. Obeah Opera is filled with references to other indigenous African and Caribbean practices, its story told through music that ranges from

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ANNE OF GREEN GABLES adapted by Donald Harron (Meadowvale Music Theatre). Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic story of the redhaired orphan comes to life in this musical. Opens Feb 17 and runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun (and Feb 25) 2 pm. $26, stu/srs $24. Meadowvale Theatre, 6315 Montevideo, Mississauga. 905-615-4720 ext 2588. ART by Yasmina Reza (Paul Groulx/John O’Hara). The purchase of an expensive mod-

blues and folk to jazz, gospel and R&B. The show began as “a little sidenote” in one of b current’s rock.paper. sistahz festivals, says the first-time playwright, who’s also composer and librettist here. “The company’s head, ahdri zhina mandiela, was so intrigued by it that she asked me to write a 10-minute play; like a good artistic mother, she kept the idea growing.” Mandiela also suggested adding a chorus and making the music a cappella, an even greater challenge for Brooks, who plays Candy, one of the accused. “The chorus of 10 black women was a great idea, because there would have been so much for the five central people to do. Now the chorus plays the Ancestors, other slaves and even the white Puritans of Salem, who show their trailer park roots and sing bluegrass when they get nasty.” Brooks, a former choir director, followed her own instincts as to what music was appropriate to each section of the show. For the women in jail, seeking solace, a spiritual was the natural choice. “And it seemed to me that obeah could best be approached through music,” she adds, then singing and humming me a tune. “That’s a voodoo song with a beautiful, ballad-like melody. The show contains some music that the Puritans considered evil and wouldn’t want to hear.” That thought brings the author to one of her reasons for writing Obeah Opera. “Christianity is such a young religion in comparison to many others. The black slaves in the New World were told that their own religion was wrong and bad, which forced obeah and other practices to become secretive. “I’m celebrating and giving a voice back to those indigenous practices that went underground. I admire the fact that people kept them alive in adversity.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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Uneven duo HUGHIE by Eugene O’Neill (Alley Theatre Workshop). At the Theatre Centre (1087 Queen West). Runs to March 3. $25. 416538-0988. See Continuing, page 56. Rating: NNN As written, Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie is more than a solo show and rather less than a two-hander. Set in a seedy 20s New York hotel, the 45-minute work puts the spotlight on Erie Smith, a sometime gambler (horses, mostly) who bemoans the death of the title character, the former night clerk, to Charlie Hughes, the current clerk. Erie does most of the talking; Charlie listens and occasionally interjects a comment. In this Alley Theatre Workshop production, directed by David Ferry, we learn a lot more about Charlie. After an atmospheric musical preshow, we hear one side of a dialogue. This staging makes us privy not only to Erie’s speeches, but also to Charlie’s surtitled thoughts, a combination of what he’d rather do with his life than sit bored behind a hotel desk and comments on Erie’s meandering memories. Those memories and philosophical ruminations are the core of the play, and O’Neill demonstrates that even in “thumbnail” fashion he can plumb a character’s depths. Erie (Michael Kash) has just returned from a drunken binge following Hughie’s funeral. He needs the solace of the bottle, for it becomes clear that Hughie gave substantial meaning to Erie’s life: listening to the gambler, trusting him, being his patsy, Hughie instilled in him a sense of definition and pride. Kash captures the loneliness of the bereft Erie; a lost look crosses Kash’s face occasionally, a look he pushes away in order to remember the good old days and Hughie’s constant if lowkey admiration. Hughie clearly was, in several senses, the gambler’s lucky rabbit’s foot. Laurence Dean Ifill’s Charlie is a comparatively stolid figure, and while Ferry’s idea of enlarging his character is clever, it doesn’t add much. An enigmatic quality suits Charlie rather better than a filled-in personality, even when he’s drawn more fully into Erie’s world.

ernist painting tests the limits of friendship. Feb 16-18, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$40. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. BECKETT: FECK IT! (Queen of Puddings Music Theatre/Canadian Stage). Samuel Beckett’s shorter plays are combined with contemporary classical music from Irish composers inspired by Beckett’s Michael Kash feels so lonely appreciation for the in Eugene O’Neill’s Hughie. absurd. Opens Feb 17 and

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runs to Feb 25, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. The Big Smoke by Amy Nostbakken and Nir Paldi (Theatre Ad Infinitum Canada/Why Not Theatre). This solo a cappella performance is inspired by the lives of Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. Previews Feb 21. Opens Feb 22 and runs to Mar 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $18, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. Dani girl by Christopher Dimond and Michael Kooman (Talk is Free Theatre/Show One Productions). A young girl with leukemia goes on a magical journey to reclaim her health in this musical. Previews Feb 16-17. Opens Feb 18 and runs to Mar 4, Wed-Mon 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $33. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, tift.ca. everyThing UnDer The moon by Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows (Harbourfront World Stage/Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery). Multimedia and visual artist Boyle and musician Fellows combine live drawings, projections and music in an all-ages show (see cover story, page 50). Opens Feb 18 and runs to Feb 23, Thu and Sat 7 pm (and Feb 22), Sun-Mon 2 pm. $15, child $10. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. ForBiDDen BroaDway by Gerard Alessandri (Civic Light Opera Company). This musical revue salutes and spoofs big musicals. Opens Feb 22 and runs to Mar 10, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Mar 10) 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com. high liFe by Lee MacDougall (Soulpepper). An unlikely group of masterminds plan ‘the perfect crime,’ with dangerous and comic results. Previews to Feb 20. Opens Feb 21 and runs to Mar 28, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. The merry wiDow by Franz Lehar (Toronto Opera Repertoire). A rich widow’s trip worries those who want her money in this comic

operetta. Opens Feb 17 and runs to Mar 4, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. 416978-8849, toronto-opera.com. BoBeah opera by Nicole Brooks (b current Performing Arts/Theatre Archipelago). Based on historical texts about the Salem witch trials, this opera tells the story of five women accused of abominable spiritual acts (see story, page 53). Previews Feb 16-19, Thu-Fri and Sun 8 pm. Opens Feb 22 and runs to Mar 4, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/ srs $20. 918 Bathurst Cultural Centre, 918 Bathurst. 416-533-1500, bcurrent.ca. The open CoUple by Dario Fo and Franca Rame (G&T Productions Co-op). This satire looks at gender politics and the evolving nature of marriage. Opens Feb 21 and runs to Feb 27, Mon-Thu 8 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22, stu/srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com. le paTin liBre (Reg Hartt). The contemporary skating troupe presents a video and spoken word performance followed by a live performance of excerpts from its ice show at a nearby rink. Feb 19-21, Sun-Tue 8 pm. $15-$20. Cineforum, 463 Bathurst. lepatinlibre.com. pSyCho Thriller TheaTre (Sunny Breaks Productions/Breen Godfrey). Two one–act plays by Breen Godfrey get a staging. Opens Feb 16 and runs to Feb 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $12. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. breengodfrey@gmail.com. SeeDS by Annabel Soutar (Crow’s Theatre/ Porte Parole). A Canadian farmer battles a biotech giant in court in this documentary play about the future of food. Previews Feb 18-21. Opens Feb 22 and runs to Mar 10, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $10-$35. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, crowstheatre.com.

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O’Neill (Soulpepper). O’Neill’s story of isolation, addiction and despair reveals a day in the life of his own family. Previews to Feb 22. Opens Feb 23 and runs to Mar 28, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22/stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. war horSe based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford

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(National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). An English boy sets out to find his horse after it’s sold to the cavalry and shipped off to France during WWI. Previews to Feb 27. Opens Feb 28 and runs to Jun 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm (no mats Feb 11, 12, 15, 26, 29). $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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performs her solo show about a woman who turns to witchcraft to find her self in this funder for her Australian tour. Feb 16 at 7 pm. $15-$20. Waterfalls, 303 Augusta. indiegogo. com/laurentinas-oddyssey. liFT oUT loUD (Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto). Two short screenplays get a reading. Feb 16 at 7:30 pm. $5. Xpace, 58 Ossington. lift.on.ca/mt/liftoutloud.html. BmoSaiC SToryTelling FeSTival (The Open Door East End Arts Collective). Sandra Whiting presents West African mythologies, folklore and traditional tales from the Caribbean for all ages. Feb 19 at 3 pm. Pwyc. St David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands. 416-466-3142, stdavidstoronto.ca/mosaic/mosaic.html. SpeakeaSy (Les Coquettes). The cabaret theatre company presents burlesque, music and more inspired by vintage NYC nightclubs in a dinner theatre show. Feb 20, doors 6 pm, show at 8 pm. $35-$85. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

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It’s a rap in The heighTS by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes (Work Light Productions/DanCap). At the Toronto Centre for the Arts (5040 Yonge). Runs to February 19. $51-$165. 416-644-3665. See Continuing, page 56. Rating: nnn

This touring production of In The Heights doesn’t quite reach great heights, but it does showcase the huge The BlUe Dragon by Robert Lepage (Mirvish). talent of composer/lyricist Lin-Manuel Lepage’s latest multimedia show is set in Miranda. Shanghai, where a middle-aged former MontThe Tony Award-winning musical realer who now runs an art gallery finds his life interrupted by an old flame, even while draws on Miranda’s upbringing in New he’s involved with a younger Chinese woman. York City’s Washington Heights, and The plot and symbolism feel a tad contrived, every lyric and note sizzles with spicy but the design elements – projections, shifting panels, multi-tiered playing areas – are authenticity, although the effect is wondrous. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats watered down by Quiara Alegría Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra TheHudes’s sitcom-y book. atre, 260 King W. mirvish.com. nnn (GS) Over three scorching summer days, a BrimFUl oF aSha by Asha and Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre). Ravi Jain and his mother bodega owner Usnavi (Jeffrey Nuñez, Asha present their autobiographical show filling in for Perry Young on opening about mom’s attempts to set actor/writer night) tries to ward off a graffiti artist Ravi up with dates while in India. The show is full to the brim with humour and loving, (Roddy Kennedy), deal with his ailing personal admissions, but the conflicts feel Abuela Claudia (Christina Aranda), who repetitive near the end and some scenes feel forced. Runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, raised him and his cousin Sonny (Robmats Feb 18 and 26 at 2:30 pm. $18-$22, stu ert Ramirez) after his parents died, and $15-$19. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, woo Vanessa (Presilah Nuñez), who ExtraExtra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnn (Naomi Skwarna) works in the hairPM salonPage next door. 24873 NOW Entity:Layout 1 2/10/12 4:17 1 There’s also drama going on at nearcontinued on page 56 œ

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by car and limo business Rosario’s. Miranda’s songs – an energetic mix of rap and Latino pop – capture these ordinary characters’ hopes and dreams with lyrics that are catchy and clever and rhythms that will have you swivelling your hips in your seat. Usnavi, a part the composer played offand then on Broadway, gets the choicest raps, which reference everything from Cole Porter to The Wizard Of Oz. Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman’s orchestrations and Andy Blankenbuehler’s choreography give the tunes the toe-tapping kick they need, and Anna Louizos’s gritty set makes it feel like you’ve just stopped off the A Train at 168th. The slightly sanitized show could be trimmed; a few songs feel repetitive, and the whole thing verges on sentimentality. The cast, while appropriately young, is uneven, and several performers are stretched vocally. (This is a non-Equity production, and many of the singers lack experience.) One of the best voices belongs to salon owner Daniela (Tauren Hagans), who belts out her numbers with power and passion. But even with these shortcomings, Miranda’s material aims high – and glenn SUmi almost gets there.

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adian Stage). Atom Egoyan’s production of Crimp’s 2004 update of Sophocles’s The Trachiniae is rarely dull, what with bad karaoke singing, blown-up video projections and scenes that end with broken glass. But these gimmicks – along with weird lighting and sound design – detract from Crimp’s play about the spoils of war. Debra Hanson’s stark white set is used nicely, and some performances are focused, but in the central role of the bored, pampered wife of a corrupt general, Arsinée Khanjian is woefully miscast. Runs to Feb 18, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. nn (GS) divisAdero: A PerformAnCe based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje (Necessary Angel/the Film Farm). This adaptation of Ondaatje’s novel – actually, only part of the book – relies on character and imagery to tell the emotionally intertwined story of a rancher, his daughters and a hired hand. Evocative, poetic and musical, this piece of storytelling features some mesmerizing performances. Runs to Feb 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25$35, Sun pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, necessaryangel.com. nnnn (JK) The double by Fyodor Dostoevsky (TheatreRUN). This adaptation of the Dostoevsky novella about a man haunted by his double is a fascinating study in paranoia and a fine showcase for the performers. Its first half is sometimes too text heavy; given the physical skills of the cast, there could be more reliance on movement and less on words. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20$28, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, theatrerun.wordpress. com. nnn (JK) funkylAnd (Famous People Players). The blacklight theatre company presents a twist on Alice In Wonderland. Runs to Apr 28, TueSat noon and 6:45 pm. $62, srs $56, child $40 (incl meal). 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. 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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) The GreAT mounTAin by Tracey Power (Red Sky Performance). Drama, dance and movement are used to tell the story of a girl who discovers the power of nature and the importance of courage (see review, page 57). Runs to Feb 20, Sat-Sun 2 pm (see website for other days and times). $15-$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. nnn (JK) 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 in this oneact play (see review, page 53). Runs to Mar 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988. nnn (JK) 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 (see review, page 54). Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $51$165. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-644-3665, dancaptickets.com. nnn (GS) love from AfAr by Kaija Saariaho (Canadian Opera Company). This muchproduced contemporary opera about a troubadour and countess who’ve never met but love each other doesn’t have much of a plot, but the shimmering score and Daniele Finzi Pasca’s visually inventive production will enchant you all the same. There’s fine work by singers Russell Braun, Erin Wall and Krisztina Szabò (as a go-between pilgrim), but they’re occasionally upstaged by the visual splendour around them. Runs to Feb 22, Feb 18 and 22 at 7:30 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. nnnn (GS) luCiA di lAmmermoor by Gaetano Donizetti (Toronto Opera Repertoire). This story of tragic love, set during the reign of Mary, Queen of Scots, is performed in Italian with surtitles. Runs to Mar 3, see website for schedule. $25, stu/srs $15. Bickford Centre Theatre, 777 Bloor W. 416-978-8849, toronto-opera.com.

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(George Brown College Theatre School). This drama satirizes the behaviour of the libertines, courtiers and wits of 17th-century London. 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. BA new hoPe by Shelley Hamilton and Stan Christie (Shelley Hamilton Productions). This solo play about the first African-Canadian communities in Canada benefits the Stephen Lewis Foundation Arts Fund. Runs to Feb 26, Sun 3 pm plus Feb 26 at 1 pm. $25. ING Direct Café, 221 Yonge. 416-826-6855. our CounTry’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker (Theatre Erindale). Convicts in 1780s Australia struggle to stage a play against the brutality of their keepers. Runs to Feb 19, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. theatreerindale.com. Penny PlAin by Ronnie Burkett (Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes). Ronnie Burkett’s puppetry is always amazing, and his latest, an apocalyptic satire filled with quirky characters and thoughtful confrontations, is a powerful piece about the tenacity of family. Burkett can invest marionettes with feeling in such a subtle yet dazzling way that their physical interaction is as emotional as their words, all voiced by Burkett himself. Runs to Mar 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $38-$55. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, 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. PlAyGround (Theatre @ York). This juried festival presents new plays and works-inprogress by students. Runs to Feb 17, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm, mat Fri 1 pm. $7. York University, 4700 Keele, Joseph G Green Studio Theatre. 416-736-5888, yorku.ca/finearts/theatre. Pomme is frenCh for APPle by Liza Paul and Bahia Watson (Paul Watson Productions). Paul and Watson perform a series of vignettes about women and their most embarrassing and empowering moments. Runs to Feb 18, Mon-Sat 9 pm. $20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. pommeisfrenchforapple.com. PoTTed PoTTer by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner (Starvox Entertainment/Potted Productions). The duo use costumes, music and props to perform all seven Harry Potter books in 70 minutes. Runs to Mar 4, daily at various times, see website for details (no show Feb 21, 27). $29.95-$99.95. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 1-800-461-3333, mirvish.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. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20. Studio 561, 561 Bloor W. redonetheatre.com. reAsons To be PreTTy by Neil LaBute (Theatre Bassaris). A quartet of friends and lovers confront issues of image, identity, love and betrayal. Runs to Feb 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. $10. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. theatrebassaris.com. rhubArb fesTivAl (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). The new works festival features plays, dance, performance art and more by Adam Lazarus, Natasha Mytnowych, Damien Atkins, the Independent Aunties, Cara Gee and others. Runs to Feb 19, Wed-Sun evenings and Sun afternoons (see website for details). $20 eve pass, Sun pwyc. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. sAnCTuAry sonG by Abigail RichardsonSchulte and Marjorie Chan (Theatre Direct). This opera for young people looks at the journey of an Asian elephant from captivity to freedom. Runs to Feb 20, Sat 4 pm, Sun-Mon 2 pm. $10-$20. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-537-4191, theatredirect.ca. she loves me by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joe Masteroff (Rose Theatre). Colleagues unwittingly exchange anonymous love letters as pen pals. Runs to Feb 19, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $33-$53. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. sonneTs for An old CenTury by José Rivera (Column 13 Actors Company). In a waiting room for the afterlife, souls have one chance to concisely relate the story of their lives. Runs to Feb 25, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm. $12. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. 416-536-0048, column13.org. TosCA by Giacomo Puccini (Canadian Opera Company). Musically the production of this popular Puccini opera succeeds, but dramatically it’s frequently histrionic; the melodrama’s grounded in believable emotions only partway through the performance. Still, Adrianne Pieczonka is a fine singing actor who knows

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Aimed at family audiences, The Great Mountain addresses the importance of caring for Mother Earth, wrapping the message in a tale of a young girl’s quest. Nuna (Allyson Pratt), a city dweller, how to play the title character’s myriad moods. Runs to Feb 25: Feb 16, 21, 23 and 25 at 7:30 pm. $12-$318. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-3638231, coc.ca. NNN (JK) U Of T Drama fesTival (U of T Drama Coalition). This competitive showcase features plays written, directed and performed by students. Runs to Feb 18, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $10 (uofttix.ca). Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. harthousetheatre.ca. visiTiNg mr. greeN by Jeff Baron (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Veteran character actor Theodore Bikel stars as Mr. Green, an aging Jewish widower who receives court-ordered visits from Ross (Aidan deSalaiz), a young executive. Standout performances by Bikel and deSalaiz make this realistic exploration of stubbornness, bigotry and friendship both poignant and memorable. Runs to Feb 18, Thu and Sat 8 pm. $40-$70. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, hgjewish-

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Thursday, February 16 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Jason Laurans,

Nick Reynoldson and host Martha O’Neill. To Feb 19, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY AT THE COMMON presents stand-up comics Fraser Young, Rhiannon Archer, Chris Locke, Deb Etta Robinson, Tom Henry and hosts Jordan Foisy and Steve Patrick Adams. 8 pm. Free. The Common, 1071 College. 416-546-7789. THE COMEDY LOUNGE Rose Theatre presents stand-up w/ Pete Zedlacher. 8 pm. $25. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. GILSON LUBIN & DAVE MERHEJE Laugh Out Loud presents stand-up with Lubin & Merheje, plus Keith Pedro and host Ali Hassan (see Q&A, page 60). 8 pm. $25. Glenn Gould Studio, 250 Front W. ticketmaster.ca.

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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, Carmine Lucarelli, Kerry Griffin, Kayla Lorette, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUGH SABBATH: THE REBOOT Laugh Sabbath presents a relaunch with a new format and new location, w/ Brian Barlow, Adam Christie, David Dineen-Porter, Aaron Eves, Nick Flanagan, Sara Hennessey, Tom Henry and others. Doors 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089. MY TAPES Paloma Nuñez, Kevin Whalen, Robin Archer and James Gangl present homemade movies and guest Anand Rajaram. 10 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. 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. 416343-0011, 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.

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provisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Feb 18 at 8 pm. $10. Arraymusic Studio, 60 Atlantic. coexisdance.wordpress.com. THE EROS CABARET Eros, Thanatos & the Avant-Garde Cabaret Series presents dance and interdisciplinary performances by Marcy Mussari, Anjelica Scannura & NIKKI, Kirstie Keenan and others, plus films and music. Feb 22 at 9 pm. $12-$15. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. dancetodancefestival@hotmail.com. bFLEURETTE AFRICAINE wind in the leaves collective presents a collection of poetry and

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dance narratives exploring identity and personal struggles with family, intimacy and love. Feb 17 at 7:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. fleuretteafricainefebruary.eventbrite.com. RISkY BUSINESS & REBEL YELLS Dance Matters presents boundary-pushing works by Ofilio Portillo, Geneviève Bolla, Emmalie Ruest & Karenne Gravel, Simon Renaud and Kelly Gammie. Feb 18-19 at 4 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. 416-556-0347, dancematters@gmail.com. SENSES Bridge to Artists presents a journey through the five senses with choreography by Vlad, Linda Garneau and Julia Cratchley. Feb 18-20, Sat and Mon 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$40. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. bridgetoartists.com. TANGO PASION Sony Centre for the Performing Arts presents stories about Argentine society and culture choreographed by Hector Zaraspe. Feb 18 at 8 pm. $45-$80. 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669, sonycentre.ca. TORONTO DANCES WITH THE STARS 2some Dance presents a weekend of workshops and gala performances featuring celebrities from Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. Feb 18-19, see website for details. $99-$249. Grand Victorian Convention Centre, 175 Derry E, Mississauga. 416-368-3006, 2somedance.com.

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FAMILY DAY DANCE The National Ballet of Canada presents performances by apprentices and family movement workshops with YOU dance. Feb 20, 10:30 am to 4:30 pm. Free (must pre-register). Walter Carsen Centre, 470 Queens Quay W. national.ballet.ca/education/programmes/family_youth/. LES CHEMINEMENTS DE L’INFLUENCE (PATHWAYS OF INFLUENCE) Coleman Leñ mieux & Compagnie presents a solo dance

work created and performed by Laurence Lemieux as a tribute to her father. Runs to Feb 25, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $25. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-364-8011, colemanlemieux.com. TEMENOS York Department of Dance presents MFA thesis projects from Shannon Roberts, Ilse Gudiño Barthold and Nancy Latoszewski. Runs to Feb 17, Wed-Fri 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $10. York University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele. 416-736-5888. 3

Love, Becky Bays, Daniela Saioni and others. at 8 pm. $5. 1610 Queen W. westendgirls.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Chris Molineux. To Feb 19, Wed-Sun 8 pm, plus FriSat 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, February 17 ABOUT AN HOUR Comedy Bar presents the real-time improv show w/ Rob Baker, Jan Caruana, Kerry Griffin, Alex Hatz and Jim Annan. To Feb 24, Fridays 10 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. ABSOlUTe COmeDY See Thu 16. BlACK SWAN COmeDY presents The Ladder Quarter Finals of the improv competition. 8 & 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. COmeDY ON THe DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Athletic Robot. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. lAURIe ellIOTT The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the stand-up comic in a live show. 9 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com. THe leGeND OF BURNING mIC Comedy Show Room presents stand–up comedy with Chris Laker, K Trevor Wilson, Robby Hoffman, Adam Mcfawn, and Graham Kay. 9 pm. $15. Paully’s Pub, 1240 Yonge. paullyspub.com. mARTHA CHAVeS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a two-night stint with the multilingual comedian. To Feb 18, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $15$20. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com. NAKeD FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents improv, sketch, music and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@gmail.com. THe NO NAme COmeDY SHOW The Bar with No Name presents a weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9:30 pm. Free. 1651 Bloor W. 416-997-6045. THe SAl & SANDY SHOW Underground Comedy Club presents Sara Hennessey, Poetik Justiz, Trucker Dan, Rhiannon Archer, hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli and others. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761. SpRING ‘12 mAINSTAGe ReVUe See Thu 16. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 16.

Dylan Gott, Jon Schabl, Keesha Brownie, Nick Flanagan, Myles Morrison, Trevor Buchanan and MC Ron Sparks. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BeST. mONDAY. eVeR. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. BlACK SWAN COmeDY presents Monday Night Variety Show w/ Jenna Rocca, Haylet Kellett, Gord Oxley, Ron Sparks and the BSC Players. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. CHeAp lAUGHS mONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. COmeDY CABAReT UpTOWN Chris MacLean and Robin Crossman present a pro-comic lineup. 8 pm. $5. Kramer’s, 1915 Yonge, upstairs. 416483-0697. THe SWITCH OFF SHOW: 2ND eDITION Touch My Stereotype presents a sketch competition w/ Standards & Practices, Shoeless and the Rulers of the Universe. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com.

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Strombo. I want to challenge him to a stare-off. Winner gets a black V-neck. You’re known for your onstage rants. What’s pissing you off these days? People who don’t need glasses who wear glasses. What accounts for your manic energy in front of a mic? Too many Red Bulls? Sour Keys. I have nine of them with a Booster Juice every morning. What relaxes you? The sound of a Slurpee machine in the summer. How did you spend Valentine’s Day? Cuddling with my lovely girlfriend. True story. Funniest thing that happened on your We Ain’t Terrorists Comedy Tour? Ali Hassan made us grilled cheese sandwiches at 4 am and I tried rapping. GLENN SUMI

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B indicates Black History Month event Atti GAllery Beverly Owens, to Feb 25.

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BArBArA edwArds coNteMPorAry Painting: Jack Tworkov, to Apr 7. 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110. BMo ProJect rooM Installation: Shary Boyle, to Nov 30. Fri afternoon by appt. 100 King W, 68th fl. 416-867-5290. cliNt roeNisch Painting: Harold Klunder, to Feb 29. 944 Queen W. 416-5168593. christoPher cutts Painting: Louise Robert, Feb 18-Mar 14, reception 2-6 pm Feb 18. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

video: Paulette Phillips and Kelly Mark, Feb 16-Mar 17, reception 6-8 pm Feb 16. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. eNwAve theAtre Performance: Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows, Feb 18-23 ($15). 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. esP/eriN stuMP ProJects The Gatherer group show, to Feb 26. 1086 1/2 Queen W. 416-834-0005. feMiNist Art GAllery An Audience Of Enablers Cannot Fail, to Feb 25

2152 Yonge. 416-484-6266.

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Mar 13. 55 Mill. 416-979-1980.

diAz coNteMPorAry Drawing/sculpture/

John Latham’s The N-U Niddrie Heart joins Read All Over at Scrap Metal. (Sats 1-5 pm). 25 Seaforth.

GeNerAl hArdwAre coNteMPorAry Paint-

ing: Alexander Irving, to Mar 3. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876. BGeorGiA scherMAN ProJects 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, to Feb 29. 133 Tecumseth. 416-554-4112. JessicA BrAdley Art + ProJects Sculpture: Michel de Broin, Feb 18-Mar 17, reception 3-6 pm Feb 18. 1450 Dundas W. 416-537-3125. kAthAriNe MulheriN Photos/painting:

this week in the museums Art GAllery of MississAuGA Visual Arts Mis-

sissauga, to Feb 25. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. Art GAllery of oNtArio Gary Taxali and Matt Barnes, Royal Canadian Mint coin launch 6:30 pm Feb 16 (RSVP caperaa@mint. ca). Yael Bartana; Team Macho; Sean Martindale and Pascal Paquette (free); 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 Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga N (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. BurliNGtoN Art ceNtre Khalid Thamer, to Feb 19. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-6327796. city of toroNto Archives A World Of Music: Celebrating 90 Seasons With The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778. BdesiGN exchANGe (Wedge Curatorial Projects) Stephen Burks, to Apr 1. Marco Cibola and Jacqui Oakely, artist talk 6:30 pm Feb 22 (pwyc). Design Exchange Awards, to Feb 26. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. doris MccArthy GAllery The ‘C’ Word: A Look At The Role Of Craft, to Apr 4. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GArdiNer MuseuM of cerAMic Art Greg Payce, to May 6. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. BJustiNA M. BArNicke 28 Days: Reimagining Black History Month, to Feb 19, panel 1-5 pm Feb 18 (Common Rm). 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMichAel cANAdiAN Art collectioN The Tree, to Apr 22. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MoccA The Spectral Landscape; Tasman Richardson and Daisuke Takeya, to Apr 1. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MuseuM of iNuit Art Sculpture/prints/drawing from the collection; Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591. oAkville GAlleries Hyper Spaces, to Mar 4 (Centennial Sq, 120 Navy). Chris Kline, to Feb 19 (Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E). 905844-4402. oNtArio scieNce ceNtre I, Robot... You, Robot... We, Robot, to Feb 28. Leonardo Da Vinci’s Workshop, to Mar 18. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. Bthe Power PlANt Coming After; Stan Douglas, to Mar 4. $6, stu/srs $3, free Wed 5-8 pm. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. royAl oNtArio MuseuM Maya: Secrets Of Their Ancient World, to Apr 9 ($25, stu/srs $22.50, Fri after 4:30 pm $19, stu/srs $17). The Art Of Collecting, ongoing. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

textile MuseuM of cANAdA Woven Images

Of Afghanistan II rug sale, to Feb 18. Dare To Wear Love, to May 6. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416599-5321.

uNiversity of toroNto Art ceNtre

Transformative Human Rights: 25 Years In The Field, to Feb 23. ‘Photography Collected Us’: The Malcolmson Collection, to Mar 10. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-9781838.

vArley Art GAllery

Deconstructed: Works From The Permanent Collection, to May 12. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905477-9511. 3

Stephen Burks collaborates with Senegalese artisans, at the Design Exchange.

Nancy Friedland and Roberta McNaughton, to Feb 26. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416-9936510. kAtzMAN kAMeN GAllery Sculpture/installation: Patrick Mahon and Barbara Balfour, to Mar 4, reception 2-5 pm Feb 18. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515. le lABo Performance: Julie Lassonde, 8 pm Feb 16-18, performance: Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson Feb 18. 55 Mill, Cannery bldg 58, #317. 416-861-1853. Mercer uNioN Installation: Annie MacDonell and Pierre Leguillon, to Mar 10. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519. NeuBAcher shor coNteMPorAry Painting: Katie Pretti and Bobby Mathieson, to Mar 3. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683. NicholAs Metivier Drawing/painting: Alison Lambert and Shelley Adler, to Feb 25.

451 King W. 416-205-9000. olGA korPer Painting: Susanna Heller, to Feb 28. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. reel Artists filM festivAl Films about art, Feb 22-26 ($12, stu/srs $8, fest pass $85), opening gala w/ Marina Abramovic 6 pm Feb 22 ($195). TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. canadianart.ca/raff. scrAP MetAl Read All Over group show, to May 1. Fri-Sat or by appt. 11 Dublin (enter via laneway). 416-588-2442. susAN hoBBs Photos: Althea Thauberger, to Mar 3. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. toroNto free GAllery Photos: Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge, to Feb 26. 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461. wArc Installation: Heather Van Winckle, to Feb 25. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-9770097. 3

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ARTHUR BULL Launching his poetry book The Lake Diary with a reading and music. 8 pm. Free. Linuxcaffe, 326 Harbord. 416-534-2116.

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pm. Free. Ossington, 61 Ossington. editor@ brokenpencil.com. LIFT OUT LOUD Reading and discussion of Jayvibha Vaidya’s screenplay The Temp, and Cody Campanale, Andrew Smith and Rob Stockman’s screenplay Viaticum. 7:30 pm. $5. XPACE, 58 Ossington. lift.on.ca. BDWAYNE MORGAN Poetry. 10 am. Free. Danfoth/Coxwell Library, 1675 Danforth. 416393-7783, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Reading. 5:30 pm. Pwyc. Holy Oak Cafe, 1241 Bloor W. liz.howard.poetry@gmail.com. MATT FORSYTHE Launching his wordless graphic novel Jinchalo. 6 pm. Free. Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

CARLA HARTSFIELD/BEATRIZ HAUSNER/LYNN MCCLORY/JIM NASON Readings and an open

mic. 6 pm. Pass-the-hat. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W. pauperspub.com. ANDREW KLIMAN Talking about his new book, The Failure Of Capitalist Production: Underlying Causes Of The Great Recession. 1:30 pm. Free. Ross S Bldg 6th fl, York U, 4700 Keele. facebook.com/ events/349784835034707. BSUNDAY POETRY Black History Month read-

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ages to shed light on both Israeli intransigence and ambivalences. A triumph. Not all of them are gems. Peep Show takes on sexual longing and hypocrisy but doesn’t have much bite. And a story that uses short snippets to convey a man’s alienation from his personal history lacks the heft of the others. But they don’t take away from the rest of these gripping stories, written in direct and vivid prose. While they do have a level of speci-

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Signing/talk by contributors Kevin Edmonds and Nicole Phillips. 7 pm. Free. A Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst. styluspub.com.

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Esi Edugyan pays a visit to Indigo at Manulife to sign copies of her Giller Prize winner, Half-Blood Blues ($24.95, Thomas Allen), on Friday (February 17). It’s the perfect Black History Month event, spotlighting a book with a unique take on something almost never addressed in literature – the experience of black people, specifically jazz musicians, under the Nazi occupation. Edugyan is based in Victoria, BC, so she doesn’t make the trip east that often. Get some face time with her while you can. SGC

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The dialogue is devastatingly real. Mark tells the religious couple that with their 10 kids, they could have their own reality show. And the night ends with a game in which the four ask which of their non-Jewish friends would hide them should anti-Semitism take over. In the second story, Sister Hills, a woman makes a pact she regrets with the woman living on the next hill of a settlement pressing up against a Palestinian village. The story is a near-perfect metaphor for the intractability of the Mideast conflict. A story called Camp Sundown portrays Jewish elders – some of them on the brink of dementia – seeking mindless revenge against a fellow summer camper they think may have collaborated with the Nazis. The last, most devastating tale – riffing off a Holocaust trauma – man-

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Holland’s Holocaust tale gets real

Director of Oscar-nominated In Darkness insists that mainstream images of the terrible trauma tend to be predictable By SUSAN G. COLE

IN DARKNESS directed by Agnieszka Holland, written by David F Shamoon from the book by Robert Marshall, with Robert Wieckiewicz and Maria Schrader. 145 minutes. Subtitled. A Mongrel release. Opens Friday (February 17) . For venues and times, see Movies, page 66.

holocaust imagery is now almost hackneyed, and stories about the terrible trauma border on kitsch. So says Agnieszka Holland, who’s tired of predictable representations of the victims and perpetrators of the Second World War slaughter. Not all the victims were angels, and not all Poles happily turned in every Jew they could find. Her insistence on honouring complexity drives In Darkness, her Oscarnominated story about a Polish worker who helped several Jews hide in the sewers of Lvov (then Polish, now in the Ukraine) during the Nazi occupation. She allows that in the past two decades, thanks to the mass media – Schindler’s List, for example – and the establishment of Holocaust museums, awareness of the period has deepened. “But at the same time, the representations are sentimental,” she says in her strong Polish accent while relaxing in a hotel room during last

year’s Toronto Film Festival whirlwind. “They’ve almost got the dimensions of a comic book story.” She’s particularly annoyed by Roberto Benigni’s Life Is Beautiful. “It was like a lesson, that if you really love your child you can save him. But that’s not the lesson at all. All those people loved their children and could not save them.” In telling her story, Holland insists on giving her Jewish characters more complexity. One of the startling aspects of In Darkness is the open eroticism of the imperilled Jews. Before they go underground, they’re living in terror yet remain fully sexually alive. Even in close quarters in the sewers, adultery rules. She cites the reminiscences of cardiologist Marek Edelman, last survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, who died in 2009, as a major inspiration. “He recalls that they were fucking all the time,” she says. “That’s what kept them alive: laughter, sex, sensuality. “There were rich Jews, poor Jews, sexual conflicts. Jews are like all people. There are good and bad, weak and strong, brave and cowardly. It irritated me that they were portrayed as holy figures. That denies them the right to be human in a multi-dimensional way.”

Holland says people have been so inundated with Holocaust images – pictures of Jews wearing yellow stars lined up in the streets, or as skeletal prisoners – that they’ve almost become inured to it. So she was committed to one particularly terrifying sequence portraying the slaughter of female prisoners by Nazi soldiers. It’s a jarring moment filmed in the open air, whereas over half the movie is shot in extremely tight spaces. And the sight of scores of naked women running for their lives through the forest is unforgettable. “We were looking for images that would penetrate and stay with you,” says Holland. “I had to fight for the scene, because some German producers were offended. It was a good test for me. A German person involved in a subject like this can’t stay emotionally indifferent. When it gets too real and too true, they want to push it away. “They’ll accept a clichéd vision, but when it’s too real they are afraid of it.” 3

Milla Bankowicz plays a young Jewish girl protected by sewer worker Robert Wieckiewicz in Agnieszka Holland’s (below) In Darkness.

REVIEW IN DARKNESS (Agnieszka Holland) Rating: NNN Director Agnieszka Holland sets out to redeem the reputation of Poles during the Nazi occupation in this true story about a sewer inspector (Robert Wieckiewicz) in Lvov who hid a dozen Jews underground. The actors are excellent, the tension sometimes unbearable, and Holland and her team do wonders depicting the murk and rat-infested slime of the underground tunnels where most of the action takes place. Some elements test our credulity. A sequence in which one of the men in hiding goes above ground has elements that were obviously added to raise the stakes when they’re plenty high enough as it is. This is a harrowing film and, at nearly two and half hours, a lot to take. But it’s an important story told with deep conviction. No surprise it’s Oscar-nominated in the foreignlanguage SGC category.

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The secreT WOrLd Of arrieTTy (Hiromasa Yonebayashi). 94 minutes. Opens Friday (February 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: nn

Dan Hurlin strings you along in terrific theatre doc Puppet.

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Puppet power PuPPeT (David Soll). 74 minutes.

Opens Friday (February 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: nnnn

If you’ve been itching for a good wartsand-all theatre documentary, check out David Soll’s Puppet. Yes, the star is a tiny little creature made of chicken wire and papier-mâché, but it still counts. Puppet follows the development of Dan Hurlin’s stage show based on the life of Mike Disfarmer, a Depressionera loner with a curious backstory who worked as a photographer in a tiny Arkansas town. Determined to tell Disfarmer’s story through elaborate Bunraku-inspired

puppetry, Hurlin settles into a rehearsal space in upstate New York with his puppeteers to work out a story. Over two years, a script takes shape – sort of. Soll is a savvy enough filmmaker to let us understand that the project isn’t nearly as complex as the charismatic Hurlin believes. The more we see of it, the more we understand that the company is so fixated upon making their character act out simple tasks like writing a letter or drinking a beer that they’ve forgotten that these tasks should mean something within the story. Puppet doesn’t mock its subjects for their passion or set them up to fail; I’m sure Soll was hoping Hurlin would pull something magnificent out of his whirlwind of ideas. What happens instead is just as compelling. nOrMan WiLner

In The Secret World Of Arrietty, a Japanese animated adaptation of British novel The Borrowers dubbed with an American voice cast, the charm of Mary Norton’s popular children’s story has been lost in translation. Bridgit Mendler voices the pixie-sized Arrietty, who lives under the floorboards of an old house outside Tokyo alongside her parents (Will Arnett and Amy Poehler). The family of “Borrowers” live off basic goods like sugar swiped covertly from the humans above. These stepby-step operations, where Arrietty and her father skip across nails and use duct tape to scale walls, are ingeniously and

Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler) shows us her Secret world. Meh.

patiently rendered. Unfortunately, Arrietty’s adventure takes our patience for granted. The film’s narrative rhythm is as flat as the hand-drawn cartoons, and the voice actors don’t liven up the proceedings. A little more genuine fun and humour and less of Cécile Corbel’s irritatingly sentimental folk songs could have

Ethan Ruan and Shu Qi want you to fall in Love. Um, not likely.

romance

Not in Love LOve (Doze Niu). 127 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (February 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating:

This glossy Taiwanese take on Love Actually weaves together the meet-cute love stories of a few extended families, with predictably teary-eyed results. A single mother convinces her son that his father is a rich businessman through a series of slapstick encounters; a pair of art school girls secretly share a boyfriend until one becomes pregnant;

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War is hell This Means War (McG). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (February 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66. Rating: n The director who calls himself McG must have seemed like the right person to helm This Means War. He’s the guy who brought Charlie’s Angels to the big screen and made it work as both zippy action-adventure and fluffy romantic comedy. He’s good with juggling genres, right? Then someone please explain this abysmal action comedy about two CIA agents whose bond is sorely tested when they both fall for the same Los Angeles product tester. Chris Pine and Tom Hardy are the agents, FDR and Tuck, introduced as wisecracking pals capable of taking out

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a roomful of arms dealers with ease. But then they fall for Reese Witherspoon’s Lauren, who’s dating both of them while unaware of their covert status – or their friendship. Wackiness ensues as Tuck and FDR use their resources to butter Lauren up while undermining one another by any means necessary. (Apparently the Patriot Act allows you to check out your girlfriend’s past lovers if you have the proper clearance.) The script is nonsensical even for an outsized action movie, with a nasty streak that finds characters actively endangering each other for cheap laughs. I’d probably have felt worse about the hateful treatment of Lauren’s best friend if she weren’t played by Chelsea Handler at her most deadeyed and noncommittal. Maybe that was some sort of coping strategy. I certainly wouldn’t blame nOrMan WiLner her.

Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance

hOKaiBO (Hiroyuki Nakatani). 150

minutes. Subtitled. Screens February 23 as part of Cinema Kabuki, which screens February 22 and 23 at the Scotiabank Theatre. See Times, page 72. Rating:

(D: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor, 95 min) Human cartoon Nicolas Cage revs up his flaming motorcycle again as a hotheaded guy who tries to stop the Devil from taking human form. The fine panEuropean supporting cast includes Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba and Christopher Lambert.

nnnn If you’ve never seen Kabuki theatre, head over to the Scotiabank next week and treat yourself to high-definition screenings capturing live performances of the centuries-old art form. Only one of the mini-fest’s four plays was available for pre-viewing, but it’s a good one. Hokaibo is the name of a lusty monk who gets involved in a complicated plot involving disguises, unrequited love and the loss of a valuable carp scroll. It might take a while to get used to the stylized way actors enunciate, not to mention the tradition of onnagata, or men playing women’s roles. But the motivations of the characters – greed, lust, vengeance – still hold up, and low slapstick is universal. The sets and costumes are lovely,

and a woman who spent years serving as professional arm candy for wealthy older men finally meets a charming young man with a stutter. Director Doze Niu balances the stories and gets strong performances from his actors, but his trite attempt at crafting a big-screen Hallmark card yields only mildly entertaining results. Love never lives up to its incredible opening tracking shot flowing through several floors of a high-rise building to introduce all the main characters, as if Niu blew all his creative energy on the credits sequence. A few dark themes like abortion, Taiwanese/Chinese tension and even a bizarre murder-suicide fantasy are woven in, yet they’re all presented through such a thick layer of romantic whimsy that they never make much of a dramatic impact. The film works as a pretty, fluffy date movie. But it’s nothing that won’t vanish from memory seconds after PhiL BrOWn you leave the theatre.

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kabuki Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine flick should go straight to video.

gone a long way. We expect more from the studio that brought us Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away and Howl’s Moving Castle. Here, Miyazaki’s regular animator, Hiromasa Yonebayashi directs, but his mentor’s mystery and exoticism have been left somewhere beneath radheyan siMOnPiLLai the floorboards.

Actor Nakamura Kanzaburo hams it up as Hokaibo.

Opens Friday (February 17). Screened after press time – see review February 17 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

especially in the climactic scene set on the Sumida River. And while the play premiered in 1784, the actors have fun adding topical material. In the title role, Nakamura Kanzaburo improvises and even makes references to Obama and Bush. If you become a fan, check out the Japan Foundation’s exhibit on Kabuki actor Tamasaburo Bando, on until June GLenn suMi (jftor.org).

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ñTHE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

(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 ambitious action sequences, one of which is as complex as the great truck chase in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñBEAUTY AND THE BEAST 3D

(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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, SilverCity Yorkdale

BIG MIRACLE (Ken Kwapis) tells the true story of three whales trapped under the Alaskan ice that became a national media sensation in 1988 when Greenpeace, the Army, an oil company and a Russian icebreaker teamed up to free them. Yep, it’s another animal-in-danger melodrama. Fortunately, it’s one of the better examples of the genre, and sitcom directing veteran Kwapis cleverly assembles a cast of comedic actors led by John Krasinki as an awkward reporter and Ted Danson as a charmingly sleazy oil tycoon. The welcome laughs stifle the cheese factor just enough prevent the film from becoming Free Willy On Ice. 107 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

ñCAFÉ DE FLORE

(Jean-Marc Vallée) finds writer/director Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) playing out a complex, time-jumping narrative involving a presentALBERT NOBBS (Rodrigo García) isn’t nearly day Montreal father (Kevin Parent) in the throes of a mid-life crisis and the mother as good as its performances. Glenn Close (Vanessa Paradis) of a plays an uptight, proper Down syndrome child butler working in a luxuriin 1969 Paris. Some ous 19th-century Dublin EXPANDED REVIEWS people are going to hotel, whose big secret is nowtoronto.com hate it; I found it that he’s actually a she. bracing, daring and When the painter Hubert entirely invigorating. Stay for the closing (Janet McTeer) reveals that he’s got the credits. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) same secret – and lives with a woman – Carlton Cinema Nobbs begins courting a restless young hotel maid (Mia Wasikowska). Physically, CARNAGE (Roman Polanski) turns Close’s performance is a marvel: notice her Yasmina Reza’s play God Of Carnage stiff posture, with only her eyes expressing into a vividly cinematic endurance test, as her character’s hopes and fears. But McTeer, two sets of parents (Jodie Foster and John whose charm and charisma leap off the C. Reilly, and Kate Winslet and Christoph screen, is the revelation here. Too bad the Waltz) face off in a Brooklyn apartment script doesn’t travel to some more interestover a fight between their sons. Not necesing places about gender and sexuality in a sarily something you’d call a holiday derepressed era. A missed opportunity. 113 light, but a damn fine little picture. 79 min. min. NN (GS) NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Carlton Cinema Commons 20, Varsity CHRONICLE (Josh Trank) is an ingenALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPious, resourceful feature that applies WRECKED (Mike Mitchell) places the the found-footage principle to a very unChipmunks on a desert island, where likely genre, using the gimmick to ground they’re accompanied by former SNL player its more outsized activity in a believable, Jenny Slate and series villain David Cross. even mundane reality. Most of that footage Preschoolers might enjoy the slapstick in is shot by Andrew (Dane DeHaan), a miserthis castaway comedy, but others will find able teenager dealing with an ailing moththis high-pitched squeakquel unbearable. er, a drunken, abusive father and a hellish 87 min. N (Phil Brown) school life. And then, one night, Andrew’s Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kingsway popular cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and Theatre Matt’s friend Steve (Michael B. Jordan) drag Andrew and his camcorder down into a hole THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius) is a in the ground. They find something there stylistic experiment pulled off with that changes them – and not necessarily for panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean the better. There’s no way to describe why Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (Béréthe movie works so brilliantly without nice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is spoiling its greatest moments. But it’s taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of thrilling to watch it evolving, blossoming talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in into something very familiar while feeling gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanautterly new. Go see it and marvel. 84 min. vicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of NNNNN (NW) silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colithe familiar narrative with a slight edge seum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park that should satisfy contemporary tastes. 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at 100 min. NNNN (GS) Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Canada Square, Colossus, Grande - Yonge,

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CONTRABAND (Baltasar Kormákur) stars Mark Wahlberg as an ex-smuggler risking everything to run one last job, and yeah, that’s a movie he’s made before. But he’s got pretty good at the stone-faced hero thing, and his simmering presence suits the film’s modest scale nicely. The ever-mounting complications start to feel a little ridiculous about an hour in, but director Kormákur keeps the action moving so swiftly that you won’t really mind. 109 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, 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) Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4

A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronenberg) finds the master filmmaker 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 Christopher Hampton’s too on-the-nose play makes for a very static drama; it’s as if he’s much more comfortable dealing with eroticism as subtext than text. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity THE DESCENDANTS (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

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) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE

(Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) 96 min. See Also Opening, page 64. Opens Feb 17 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

(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) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Mt Pleasant, Scotiabank Theatre

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, Carlton Cinema, 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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(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 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 beatdowns 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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

HUGO (Martin Scorsese) turns a children’s

adventure into a heartfelt appeal for film preservation and a love song to pioneering film director Georges Méliès. I don’t blame Scorsese for making this bauble; after decades of tireless advocacy for cinema history, it’s probably the best way to get his message out. I just don’t know whether it works as a movie. 126 min. NNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

IN DARKNESS (Agnieszka Holland) 145 min. See interview and review, page 63. NNN (SGC) Opens Feb 17 at Grande - Yonge, Varsity. IN THE LAND OF BLOOD AND HONEY

(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 full-on 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. 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

ñTHE INNKEEPERS

(Ti West) follows a pair of hotel employees (Sara Paxton, Pat Healy) investigating mysterious phenomena in their almost empty workplace. It’s so good at capturing the natural rhythms of being bored at work that the supernatural stuff – when it finally rears its head – feels like an unnecessary intrusion. The movie’s at its best when it’s just watching Paxton and Healy screw 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 difference. 101 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

THE IRON LADY (Phyllida Lloyd) portrays former British PM Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) as a proto-feminist outsider fighting the male establishment, and steers clear of her union-busting, privatizing, deregulating policies. The politics are a mess; even Thatcher would be appalled. But Streep’s performance is genius. 105 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Italian master, presented by art historian Tim Marlow and broadcaster Mariella Frostrup. 85 min. Feb 16, 7 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

LE VENDEUR (Sébastien Pilote) packs a

punch even though you can see it coming from a mile away. Gilbert Sicotte plays Marcel, the eponymous salesman in a smalltown Quebec car dealership, whose likeability and smarts have earned him consecutive salesman-of-the-year plaques. The 67-yearold 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 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. But it’s 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. Subtitled. 107 min. NNN (GS) Canada Square

LOVE (Doze Niu) 127 min. See review, page 64. NN (Phil Brown)

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MAN ON A LEDGE (Asger Leth) is a heist movie, the mechanics of which are so elaborate that the characters have to remind each other they’ve been planning this for a solid year. Otherwise, we might think the 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. 101 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge MISS BALA (Gerardo Naranjo) is a

fast-paced, surrealistic take on the drug wars in Mexico, shot from the perspective of the unlikeliest abetter. Stephanie Sigman stars as Mexican teen Laura, a beauty pageant contestant who witnesses a nightclub massacre and ends up under the thumb of a viscious cartel. Like Alice through the rabbit hole, Laura is helplessly thrust into a world where the cartels control politics, the police and, yes, even beauty pageants—a nice jab at superficial aesthet-

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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

MOON POINT (Sean Cisterna) is not the first coming-of-age 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 who ropes his wheelchair-bound buddy (Kyle Mac) into towing him to nearby Moon Point to find his childhood best friend (Kristen Gutoskie), who’s shooting her first movie there. Along

the way, a young woman (Paula Brancati) joins them on the journey. The film improves considerably in its second half, when director Cisterna pulls off a rousing karaoke sequence to Home For A Rest and Mac and Brancati develop their characters in a couple of well-played scenes. But their story keeps getting shoved aside so Cisterna and screenwriter Robert Lazar can give more time to the jerk they think is the hero. 85 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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) 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 does very little to fill it. 101 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Cumberland 4, Humber Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Wim Wenders) doesn’t reveal a lot about dance great Pina Bausch – she died right before shooting was set to begin – but it does capture the essence of her art through excerpts from 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) Cumberland 4, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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(Léa Pool) riffs off Samantha King’s book of the same name to probe 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. Worse, 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. Shitdisturbing at its best. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñPUPPET

(Dave Soll) 74 min. See review, page 64. NNNN (NW) Opens Feb 17 at Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 74).

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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Bourne Trilogy knock-off. After years as a freelance spy, an ex-CIA operative Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington) turns himself in and gets hustled off to a safe house in Johannesburg. When the place is raided, a novice agent (Ryan Reynolds) goes on the run with Frost in tow. Its car chases and punch-ups lack the Bourne series’ manic invention, but it still delivers solid thrills, good acting and a fast-paced if predictable spy story. 115 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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masa Yonebayashi) 94 min. See review, page 64. NN (RS) Opens Feb 17 at Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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(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 their precocious 11-year-old daughter (Sarina Farhadi), the husband’s Alzheimer’sstricken 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

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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

Sherlock holmeS: A GAme of ShAdowS (Guy Ritchie) follows the bigger-and-

louder sequel formula; shit constantly blows up or catches on fire, and the story rarely pauses for breath. Robert Downey Jr. is still miscast as Holmes, but a delightful Stephen Fry steals the picture as his brother, Mycroft – though that might simply be a side benefit of his appearing exclusively in scenes where nothing explodes. 129 min. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

SoN of the SuNShiNe (Ryan Ward) is the

magic-realist tale of a young Toronto man (director and co-writer Ward) with Tourette syndrome who undergoes experimental surgery to rid himself of the tics, only to find out that losing his affliction also means giving up his supernatural ability to heal the sick and dying. Every moment is agitated and abrasive, an Ward directs his actors to go as big as possible, piling on one self-consciously gritty element after another. 87 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

StAr wArS: epiSode i – the phANtom meNAce 3d (George Lucas) is still the same

insipid, pointless, noisy, uncomfortably racist contraption it was in 1999, only now it’s in 3-D. If you bought the Blu-ray version released last year, you’ve seen all of Lucas’s new tweaks, including the replacement of Muppet Yoda with an all-digital version. More importantly, you know that none of the tinkering helped fix the film’s sarlaccsized problems of plot and tone. And don’t get me started on the acting; as NOW’s late film writer John Harkness once said, there

was a time when it would have been impossible to imagine Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor and Samuel L. Jackson being boring – and then they all made The Phantom Menace. Six-year-olds might like it, but six-year-olds can watch it at home without the stupid glasses. 132 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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 Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

thiS meANS wAr (McG) 98 min. See

review, page 64. N (NW) Opens Feb 17 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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) Cumberland 4, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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) Kennedy Commons 20

uNderworld: AwAkeNiNG (Måns Mår

lind, Björn Stein) brings the monster franchise back to “Kate Beckinsale in a rubber catsuit shooting monsters with machine guns,” with vampires and werewolves still carrying on their blood feud. 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, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 the Vow (Michael Sucsy) is a silly romance that’ll quickly evaporate from your memory. That’s appropriate, because it’s about Paige (Rachel McAdams) and Leo (Channing Tatum), two married boho Chicagoans whose lives are upturned when an accident causes Paige to lose all memories of him. She does remember her earlier life, however, including her old fiancé (Scott Speedman) and her estranged parents (Jessica Lange and Sam Neill), who now want her to live with them. All this hokum would be semi-bearable if the characters had any depth, but the script never makes them more than pretty people who hang out in trendy downtown cafés and dabble in the arts. The only suspense comes from loca-

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tion-spotting, since Toronto stands in for the Windy City more than a few times. 104 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre

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a dramatic 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 married to a successful but distant psychiatrist (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). The film is over-produced yet hollow, like one long perfume commercial. 119 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema

we BouGht A Zoo (Cameron Crowe) is a

syrupy concoction that stars Matt Damon as a recent widower with a troubled emo son and a precocious little girl who seems manufactured to giggle adorably. The mourning clan leave their troubles behind and embark on a mission to rehabilitate a broken-down zoo, which the characters practically tell you is an earnest allegory for rehabilitating themselves. 124 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30

ñwe Need to tAlk ABout keViN

(Lynne Ramsay) examines a Columbine-style tragedy from a new perspective. Tilda Swinton plays the suffering mother of a teen killer. Adapting Lionel Shriver’s bestselling novel, director Ramsay vividly captures her nervous breakdown through a nonlinear narrative as she struggles with memories of her son and the repercussions of his actions. Is the boy (Ezra Miller as a teen, Jasper Newell as a child, both excellent) psychotic from birth? Ramsay wisely avoids easy answers or pat psychoanalysis. Instead, she creates a terrifying lifelong chess match between an emotionally absent mother and her embittered son, laced with dark humour and filmed with a painter’s eye for emotive details. The result is almost as disturbing, fascinating and enigmatic as the school shootings that inspired the story. 112 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) Varsity

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(James Wat kins) takes place a century ago, when a widowed estate lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) encounters a vengeful spirit in a remote coastal town. Though director Watkins deploys a few strategic crashes and thuds to keep the attention-deficit set from drifting off, there’s a stateliness and gravity to his film that recalls 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, proving able to hold the screen in a 20-minute set piece played entirely without dialogue. 95 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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rainboW market Square (i) market Square, 80 Front St e, 416-494-9371

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

ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, tue-Wed 4:15 Sat-mon 11:00, 1:30, 4:15 AgnEEpATh (14A) thu 2:25, 6:05, 9:50 All’s WEll, Ends WEll thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:25 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-mon 11:20, 1:50 mat dAnCIng QuEEn 2:55, 6:35, 9:40 Sat-mon 11:40 mat Ek dEEWAnA ThA 3:20, 6:50, 10:05 Sat-mon 11:50 mat Ek MAIn Aur Ekk Tu (PG) thu 3:15, 6:35, 9:45 Fri, tueWed 3:15, 6:00 Sat-mon 11:45, 3:15, 6:00 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) thu 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Fri-Wed 6:40 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, tue 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-mon 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 2:25 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) 2:45, 5:15,

8:00, 10:45 Sat-mon 12:15 mat JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd – An IMAX 3d EXpErIEnCE (PG) 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-mon 11:30 mat JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) thu 11:45, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 6:15, 8:00, 9:15, 10:45 Fri, tue-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Sat-mon 10:30, 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 loVE 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-mon 10:35, 1:20 mat MIss BAlA thu 5:00, 10:30 Moon poInT thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:00, 9:20 ThE MuppETs (G) thu 2:10, 4:50 mon 10:30, 1:30, 4:30 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 8:20, 10:40 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 2:35, 4:00, 4:40, 6:30, 6:40, 10:00 rEd TAIls (PG) thu 2:15, 7:40 sAfE housE (14A) thu 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 10:00, 11:00 Fri, tue-Wed 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:00, 11:00 Sat-mon 10:30, 11:15, 12:15, 1:15, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 6:15, 7:15, 8:00, 8:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:00, 11:00 ThE sECrET World of ArrIETTy (G) Fri 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 mon 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45, 10:15, 11:00 tue-Wed 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) 2:30, 3:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:45, 8:30, 9:00, 9:45, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-mon 10:30, 11:15, 11:55, 1:00, 1:45 mat TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, tue-Wed 4:25 Sat-Sun 10:40, 1:35, 4:25 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) thu 4:00 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, tue-Wed 2:15, 4:45 Sat-mon 11:50, 2:15, 4:45 ThE VIrAl fACTor thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:30 ThE VoW (PG) 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:15, 6:30, 7:30, 8:15, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 Sat-mon 10:30, 11:00, 11:45, 12:45, 1:30 mat ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) thu 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Fri, tue-Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:45 Satmon 11:45, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:45

ghosT rIdEr: spIrIT of VEngEAnCE 3d (14A) Fri-mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 ThE grEy (14A) thu, tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 3:55, 9:35 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) thu 1:40 Frimon 1:00 tue-Wed 1:35 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) thu, tueWed 4:05, 6:30, 9:10 Fri-mon 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 lEonArdo lIVE thu 7:00 MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 9:45 sAfE housE (14A) thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 tue-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 sTAr WArs: EpIsodE I – ThE phAnToM MEnACE 3d thu, tue-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-mon 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) Fri-mon 12:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 tue 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 ThE VoW (PG) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-mon 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 tue-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 tue-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:00

MIssIon: IMpossIBlE – ghosT proToCol (PG) thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-mon 9:25 tue-Wed 9:35 ThE MuppET MoVIE Sat 11:00 onE for ThE MonEy (PG) thu 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Frimon 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05 tue-Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:45 sAfE housE (14A) thu, tue-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 FriSat, mon 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 2:00, 4:55, 7:55, 10:40 ThE sECrET World of ArrIETTy (G) Fri-mon 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 tue-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 sTAr WArs: EpIsodE I – ThE phAnToM MEnACE 3d thu, tue-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-mon 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) Fri-mon 12:35, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 tue 1:20, 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 Wed 4:05, 6:55, 9:55 To kIll A MoCkIngBIrd Sun 1:00 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng 3d (18A) thu, tue-Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri, mon 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Sat 12:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 4:45, 10:15 ThE VoW (PG) thu, tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Wed 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:40, 9:25 Fri-mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 tue-Wed 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 WWE ElIMInATIon ChAMBEr - 2012 Sun 8:00

Metro

rainboW Woodbine (i)

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

midtown

ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) 1:00 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) 9:00 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 3:00, 7:00 Fri-Wed 5:00 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) Fri-Wed 7:00

Canada Square (Ce)

kingSWay theatre (i)

2200 yonge St, 416-646-0444

ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) Fri 4:05, 6:30, 9:00 Sat, mon 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 9:00 Sun 1:15, 3:40, 6:30, 9:05 tueWed 4:05, 6:30 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:35, 7:15 Fri 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 tue-Wed 4:10, 6:40 BIg MIrAClE thu 4:05, 6:30 Fri 4:30, 7:10 Sat-mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:10 tue-Wed 4:30 ConTrABAnd (14A) thu 4:25, 7:00 Fri-mon 9:45 tue-Wed 7:10 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 4:30, 7:10 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 Sat-mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 tue-Wed 3:50, 6:45 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-mon 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 tue-Wed 4:00, 6:50 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 4:45, 7:20 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-mon 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 tue-Wed 4:20, 7:00 lE VEndEur (PG) thu 4:15, 6:50 My WEEk WITh MArIlyn (14A) thu 4:50, 7:20 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 Sat-mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:40 tue-Wed 4:40, 7:20 ThE sECrET World of ArrIETTy (G) Fri 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 Sat-mon 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05

mt PleaSant (i)

675 mt PleaSant rd, 416-489-8484 ThE gIrl WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) Fri-Sat 9:25 Sun 7:00 mon 6:50 hugo (PG) thu, Wed 7:00 Fri 6:50 Sat 4:00, 6:50 Sun 4:15 mon 4:00

regent theatre (i) 551 mt PleaSant rd, 416-480-9884

shAME (18A) thu 7:00 WAr horsE (PG) 7:00 Sat-mon 4:00 mat

SilverCity yonge (Ce) 2300 yonge St, 416-544-1236

ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10 ChronIClE (14A) thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-mon 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:50, 10:00 tue 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40 Wed 4:45, 7:30, 9:40 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) thu 1:00, 3:50, 9:30

3030 bloor St W, 416-232-1939

AlVIn And ThE ChIpMunks: ChIpWrECkEd (G) Sat-mon 11:30 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 1:00 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 7:30 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) Fri-Wed 5:00 hugo (PG) 2:50 pInk rIBBons, InC. (G) thu 5:00 shErloCk holMEs: A gAME of shAdoWs (PG) thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 9:30

queenSWay (Ce)

1025 the queenSWay, qeW & iSlington, 416-503-0424 ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn 3d (PG) thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) Fri, Sun-mon 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 6:50 tue-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:00 BIg MIrAClE thu, tue-Wed 1:15, 3:45, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sat, mon 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 2:15, 4:50, 7:20 ChronIClE (14A) thu, tue-Wed 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-mon 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 ConTrABAnd (14A) thu, tue-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-mon 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu, tue-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 1:50, 4:35, 8:00, 10:50 Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 ghosT rIdEr: spIrIT of VEngEAnCE 3d (14A) Fri, Sunmon 12:50, 1:40, 3:20, 4:15, 5:50, 7:00, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 11:15, 12:50, 1:40, 3:20, 4:15, 5:50, 7:00, 8:20, 9:45, 10:45 tue-Wed 1:50, 2:55, 4:20, 5:20, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:10 ThE grEy (14A) thu, tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Frimon 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 hAyWIrE (14A) thu 2:55, 5:20, 10:05 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu, tue-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Fri, Sun-mon 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) thu, tue-Wed 2:30 Fri-mon 12:25 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) thu, tueWed 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-mon 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 lA phIl lIVE: gusTAVo dudAMEl ConduCTs MAhlEr 8 Sat 5:00 lEonArdo lIVE thu 7:00 MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-mon 10:25 tue-Wed 10:05

Woodbine Centre, 500 rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 BIg MIrAClE 1:00, 3:50 thu 6:45, 9:15 ChronIClE (14A) 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 ghosT rIdEr: spIrIT of VEngEAnCE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 ThE grEy (14A) thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:15 MAn on A lEdgE (PG) thu 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:15 sAfE housE (14A) 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:05, 9:25 ThE VoW (PG) 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) 1:15, 3:45, 7:10, 9:20

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

ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu, tue-Wed 7:10, 9:50 Fri-mon 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 ghosT rIdEr: spIrIT of VEngEAnCE (14A) Fri-mon 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 tue-Wed 7:30, 10:00 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd (PG) Fri-mon 1:20 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-mon 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 tue-Wed 6:50, 9:20 sAfE housE (14A) thu, tue-Wed 7:20, 10:10 Fri-mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sTAr WArs: EpIsodE I – ThE phAnToM MEnACE 3d thu 6:50, 10:00 Fri-mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:40 tue-Wed 6:40, 9:40 ThE VoW (PG) thu 7:30, 10:15 Fri-mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 tue-Wed 7:00, 9:30 ThE WoMAn In BlACk (14A) thu 6:40, 9:20

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

AlBErT noBBs (14A) thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, tue-Wed 6:00 Sat-mon 1:20, 6:40 ChronIClE (14A) thu 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Fri, tue-Wed 6:20, 9:20 Sat-mon 6:50, 9:10 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, tueWed 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 ghosT rIdEr: spIrIT of VEngEAnCE 3d (14A) Fri, tueWed 3:10, 4:40, 6:10, 7:40, 9:10, 10:20 Sat-mon 1:10, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:20, 7:40, 9:00, 10:15 ThE grEy (14A) thu 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri, tue-Wed 3:00, 9:00 Sat-mon 4:00, 9:20 JournEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IslAnd 3d (PG) thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Fri, tue-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-mon 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 sAfE housE (14A) thu 3:10, 4:10, 6:10 Fri, tue-Wed 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:10 Sat-mon 1:40, 2:20, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 sTAr WArs: EpIsodE I – ThE phAnToM MEnACE 3d thu 3:30, 4:20, 6:40, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Fri, tue-Wed 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30 Sat-mon 1:30, 2:10, 4:30, 5:10, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 TInkEr TAIlor soldIEr spy (14A) thu 3:50, 6:50 Fri, tueWed 3:20 Sat-mon 1:00, 3:50 undErWorld: AWAkEnIng (18A) thu 10:00

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

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu, tue-Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-mon 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 BIg MIrAClE thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 tue-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 ConTrABAnd (14A) thu 4:50, 9:55 EXTrEMEly loud & InCrEdIBly ClosE (PG) thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 hugo 3d (PG) thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-mon 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 In dArknEss (14A) Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 mon 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 tue-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 ThE Iron lAdy (PG) thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 tue-Wed 4:00, 7:05, 9:40

february 16-22 2012 NOW

la phil liVe: GustaVo dudaMel conducts MahleR 8 Sat 5:00 leonaRdo liVe Thu 7:00 Man on a ledGe (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 a sepaRation (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Mon 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 the VoW (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:50, 8:10, 10:20 Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:00

SilverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW Mall, 1800 ShePPard ave e, 416-644-7746 chRonicle (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:55, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:35, 9:40 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 the GRey (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu 2:30 FriMon 12:35 Tue-Wed 2:00 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Mon 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 the Muppet MoVie Sat 11:00 safe house (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat, Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 TueWed 1:30, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Tue 1:20, 3:50, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 3:50, 7:30, 10:15 to kill a MockinGbiRd Sun 1:00 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon 12:45, 2:55, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Sun 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Tue-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 the VoW (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:40 Tue 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 FriMon 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55

SilverCiTy yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin ST, 416-787-4432

beauty and the beast 3d (G) Thu 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 FriMon 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40 Tue-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:15 chRonicle (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:05, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 contRaband (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 the GRey (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Tue 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 6:50, 9:45 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu 1:55 FriMon 12:30 Tue-Wed 1:45 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Mon 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 one foR the Money (PG) Thu 9:40 safe house (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 TueWed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40 Tue-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Mon 10:10 Tue-Wed 9:40 the VoW (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 FriMon 12:35, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40

Scarborough 401 & MorningSide (Ce) 785 Milner ave, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

biG MiRacle Thu 4:40, 7:10 Fri-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:10 Tue 4:30, 7:10 Wed 4:40 chRonicle (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Fri-Mon 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:25, 10:30 Tue 3:50, 6:10, 8:25, 10:30 Wed 6:10, 8:20 contRaband (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:15 Fri-Tue 10:20 Wed 7:20 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Mon 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Tue 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 5:50, 8:15 the GRey (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35 Fri-Mon 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:50, 7:30 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Fri-Mon 12:45 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:40 Fri-Mon 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Tue 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 5:10, 7:35 Joyful noise (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20 safe house (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Mon 2:25, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Tue 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Wed 5:00, 7:50 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 4:50, 8:00 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:35 Mon 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Tue 4:15, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 4:45, 7:45 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 7:40, 10:10 Tue 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 5:20, 7:40 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG (18A) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:00, 6:25, 8:35, 10:45 Mon 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Tue 4:00, 6:15, 8:25, 10:35 Wed 6:15, 8:20 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 6:10, 8:20 the VoW (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:40 Mon 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 5:35, 8:00 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:45 Mon 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:35 Tue 3:40, 6:00, 8:15, 10:35 Wed 6:00, 8:15

contRaband (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 the GRey (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:15, 5:10, 8:15, 10:55 Mon 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 10:15 hayWiRe (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 9:55 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:25 Fri, Sun 12:40 Sat 11:45 Mon 12:10 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu, TueWed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, Sun 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 Mon 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10 leonaRdo liVe Thu 7:00 Man on a ledGe (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 7:50, 10:25 Mon 7:25, 9:55 Tue-Wed 7:35, 10:10 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu, Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:40, 4:40 Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 the Muppet MoVie Sat 11:00 safe house (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:10, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:35, 8:15, 11:00 the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 TueWed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 this Means WaR (14A) Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:05, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 1:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:30, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50 the VoW (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 3:05, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 WWe eliMination chaMbeR - 2012 Sun 8:00

Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance (14A) Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 1:15, 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 TueWed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri, SunMon 11:15, 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45, 9:45 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45, 9:45 the GiRl With the dRaGon tattoo (18A) Thu, TueWed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:30, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 huGo 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15 Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 the iRon lady (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Mon 11:10, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 loVe Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Moneyball (PG) Sat 1:40 nanban (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:30, 4:30, 8:30 Tue-Wed 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 one foR the Money (PG) Thu 4:05, 9:00 Red tails (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 2:30, 5:30, 7:30, 8:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 tinkeR tailoR soldieR spy (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 the tRee of life (PG) Sat 4:10 the ViRal factoR Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 WaR hoRse (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:45, 8:00 Fri-Mon 10:35, 1:40, 4:45, 8:00 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Mon 10:35, 12:55, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce)

WoodSide CineMaS (i)

the adVentuRes of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 the adVentuRes of tintin (PG) Fri-Sat, Mon 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:45 Tue-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 biG MiRacle Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 chRonicle (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 contRaband (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 10:05 eXtReMely loud & incRedibly close (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:50 Mon 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:45 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 the GRey (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 hayWiRe (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 the iRon lady (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Fri-Mon 12:30 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu, TueWed 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Mon 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:35 Man on a ledGe (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Mon 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 4:25, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 the Muppet MoVie Sat 11:00 safe house (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:35, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45 Mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 Mon 1:20, 4:25, 7:35, 10:40 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 to kill a MockinGbiRd Sun 1:00 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Tue-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 the VoW (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Mon 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Mon 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:25, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 WWe eliMination chaMbeR - 2012 Sun 8:00

aGneepath (14A) Thu 5:30, 9:00 Fri-Mon 6:15 ek deeWana tha Fri-Mon 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:30 ek Main auR ekk tu (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Mon 3:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 6:30, 9:15 kadhalil sodhappuVadhu yeppadi Fri-Mon 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 7:00, 10:00 MaRina Thu 7:00, 10:00

1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

kennedy CoMMonS 20 (aMC) kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

aGneepath (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Fri-Mon 10:30, 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 albeRt nobbs (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Mon 11:15, 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 all’s Well, ends Well Thu 1:35, 6:20 aMc 2012 best pictuRe shoWcase - day one: febRuaRy 18th Sat 11:00 the aRtist (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 FriMon 11:05, 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 chRonicle (14A) Thu 2:30, 3:45, 5:00, 6:15, 8:40 Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:30 Tue-Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:30 the descendants (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Mon 11:20, 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 ek deeWana tha Fri-Mon 11:45, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 TueWed 3:30, 7:00, 10:15 ek Main auR ekk tu (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:35, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 eXtReMely loud & incRedibly close (PG) Thu, Tue-

1571 SandhurST CirCle, 416-299-3456

GTA Regions Mississauga

ColiSeuM MiSSiSSauga (Ce) Square one, 309 raThburn rd W, 905-275-3456

alVin and the chipMunks: chipWRecked (G) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:30, 8:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:20, 6:40 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 6:40 Sun 2:00, 4:20 beauty and the beast 3d (G) Thu 1:10, 3:20 chRonicle (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 2:40, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 Wed 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance (14A) 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sun only 1:10 4:00 7:00 9:40 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:15 the GiRl With the dRaGon tattoo (18A) Thu 6:10, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:10, 5:30, 9:30 Sun 5:30, 9:30 the GRey (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 hayWiRe (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu 1:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:30 Sat 11:40 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 the Muppet MoVie Sat 11:00 one foR the Money (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 FriSat, Mon-Wed 8:50 Sun 9:45 safe house (14A) Thu 1:40 4:20 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 sheRlock holMes: a GaMe of shadoWs (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:30 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 to kill a MockinGbiRd Sun 1:00 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:10, 9:00 WWe eliMination chaMbeR - 2012 Sun 8:00

CourTney Park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTney Park e aT huronTario, 888-262-4386 biG MiRacle Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Mon 10:35, 12:50, 3:10 Tue-Wed 3:10 chRonicle (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:15, 5:25, 7:30, 9:45 FriMon 10:50, 1:15, 3:15, 5:25, 7:30, 9:45 contRaband (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40 Fri-Wed 5:35, 8:05, 10:40

the descendants (14A) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 4:50, 7:25, 10:20 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance (14A) Fri-Mon 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:45 Tue-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:45 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Tue-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 the GRey (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:30, 8:15, 10:40 Fri-Mon 11:20, 2:05, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Tue-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 1:45 Fri-Mon 11:00 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island – an iMaX 3d eXpeRience (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 FriMon 11:45, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu, TueWed 4:00, 6:15, 8:30 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30 Man on a ledGe (PG) Thu 3:10, 5:35, 8:20, 10:50 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:35, 10:35 one foR the Money (PG) Thu 6:15, 10:50 safe house (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 2:00, 2:30, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:25, 11:00 Fri-Mon 11:15, 11:45, 2:00, 2:30, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:25, 11:00 the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) 11:00, 3:50, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35, 1:30 Tue-Wed no 11:00, 1:30 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu, Tue-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 10:45, 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG (18A) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:40 the VoW (PG) Thu 2:45, 3:30, 5:15, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30 FriMon 10:30, 12:15, 1:00, 2:45, 3:30, 5:15, 5:45, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30, 11:00 Tue-Wed 2:45, 3:30, 5:15, 5:45, 7:45, 8:30, 10:30, 11:00 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 10:40, 1:10, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:40 Tue-Wed 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:40

SilverCiTy MiSSiSSauga (Ce) hWy 5, eaST oF hWy 403, 905-569-3373

biG MiRacle Thu, Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:45, 7:15, 9:45 chRonicle (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:25, 7:40, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:15, 7:40, 9:55 contRaband (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 the descendants (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 huGo 3d (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 the iRon lady (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:10 FriMon 1:20, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 tinkeR tailoR soldieR spy (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:40 the VoW (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05

north ColoSSuS (Ce) hWy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

the adVentuRes of tintin 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:05 alVin and the chipMunks: chipWRecked (G) Thu 3:55, 6:10 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:15, 5:45 Sat 11:40, 1:55, 4:30 TueWed 3:35, 5:45 the aRtist (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:15 beauty and the beast 3d (G) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:10 biG MiRacle Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:15 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 chRonicle (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Fri-Mon 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25, 10:55 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 the descendants (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:20, 9:20 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri, SunMon 1:00, 1:45, 3:30, 4:20, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 11:25, 1:00, 1:45, 3:30, 4:20, 6:00, 7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:00 Tue-Wed 4:45, 5:05, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15 the GiRl With the dRaGon tattoo (18A) Thu 5:00, 8:45 Fri, Sun-Mon 9:00 Sat 6:45, 10:05 Tue-Wed 8:30 hayWiRe (14A) Thu 9:55 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Thu 3:30 Fri, Sun-Mon 1:10, 3:50 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:15 Tue-Wed 3:40 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Man on a ledGe (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sat, Mon 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:50 Tue-Wed 4:20, 6:55, 9:25 Mission: iMpossible – Ghost pRotocol (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 the Muppet MoVie Sat 11:00 one foR the Money (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat, Mon 1:15, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 9:30 Tue-Wed 4:05, 6:25, 9:20

safe house (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Mon 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:35 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Mon 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:25, 3:40, 6:05, 8:20, 10:50 Tue-Wed 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 the VoW (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:50, 10:45 Tue-Wed 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:25 Fri, SunMon 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:35 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 WWe eliMination chaMbeR - 2012 Sun 8:00

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30 inTerChange Way, hWy 400 & hWy 7, 416-335-5323 the adVentuRes of tintin (PG) Fri 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Mon 10:25, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 aGneepath (14A) Thu 5:30, 9:30 contRaband (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Mon 10:45, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 ek Main auR ekk tu (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:05, 9:35 Fri 3:05, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Mon 12:30, 3:05, 7:05, 9:35 eXtReMely loud & incRedibly close (PG) Thu, TueWed 7:15, 10:05 Fri 2:15, 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Mon 11:15, 2:15, 7:15, 10:05 the GRey (14A) Thu 4:00 7:00 10:15 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:25, 10:15 Sat-Sun 10:50, 1:30 mat Mon 1:30 mat hayWiRe (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 Sat, Mon 11:25, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 huGo 3d (PG) 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 10:15, 1:15 mat Mon 10:15, 12:05, 1:15 mat the iRon lady (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:15, 9:50 Fri 3:00, 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Mon 10:05, 12:35, 3:00, 7:15, 9:50 nanban (PG) Thu 5:50, 9:25 Red tails (PG) 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Mon 10:05, 1:50 mat the secRet WoRld of aRRietty (G) Fri 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat, Mon 10:30, 12:45, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Tue-Wed 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 sheRlock holMes: a GaMe of shadoWs (PG) 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Mon 10:20, 1:20 mat tinkeR tailoR soldieR spy (14A) Thu 4:00, 10:10 Fri-Mon 4:00, 10:05 Tue-Wed 10:05 WaR hoRse (PG) Thu-Fri 7:00 Sat-Mon 10:00, 1:10, 7:00 Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00 We bouGht a Zoo (PG) Thu 4:10 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 10:10, 1:05 mat Mon 10:00, 1:05 mat

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ProMenade Mall, hWy 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 biG MiRacle 1:10, 4:20 Thu 6:55, 9:10 chRonicle (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:30, 7:15, 9:25 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 7:10, 9:20 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 7:10, 9:20 safe house (14A) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 this Means WaR (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 9:30 the VoW (PG) 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Wed 6:55, 9:10

West grande - STeeleS (Ce) hWy 410 & STeeleS, 905-455-1590

chRonicle (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 Sat-Mon 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 Tue-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 9:50 contRaband (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 Fri-Mon 3:30, 9:40 Tue-Wed 3:30, 9:35 the descendants (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Tue-Wed 6:30 Sat-Mon 12:30, 6:30 Ghost RideR: spiRit of VenGeance 3d (14A) Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 the GRey (14A) 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Mon 12:40 mat JouRney 2: the MysteRious island (PG) Sat-Mon 1:00 JouRney 2: the MysteRious island 3d (PG) 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 safe house (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Tue-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:55 staR WaRs: episode i – the phantoM Menace 3d Thu, Tue-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sat-Mon 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 this Means WaR (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Tue-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 undeRWoRld: aWakeninG 3d (18A) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 the VoW (PG) Thu, Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 the WoMan in black (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, TueWed 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 3

ColiSeuM SCarborough (Ce) SCarborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

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NOW

february 16-22 2012

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repertory schedules

How to find a listing

Wed 22 – National Ballet of Canada 60Year Celebration: Flamenco At 5:15 ñ (1983) D: Cynthia Scott, and short films Ballet

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

Adagio and Tour en L’Air. 7 pm. Free.

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Thu 16-fri 17 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

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

festivals reel artists film festival

tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. canadianart.ca/raff.

Wed 22-feb 26 – Festival of documen-

taries on visual art and artists. Opening night (includes screening and celebration) $195; $12, stu/srs $8, festival pass $85. canadianart.ca/raff. Wed 22 – Opening night: Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012) D: Matthew Akers. 8 pm (dinner 6 pm, celebration 10 pm). Artist and director in attendance.

cinemas bloor cinema

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

Thu 16-Wed 22 – Closed for renovations.

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

saT 18 – Rebel Without A Cause (1955) D: Nicholas Ray. 3 pm. Free.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

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

bThu 16 – Les Anges Du Péché (1943) D:

Robert Bresson. 6:30 pm. New African Voices: I Want My Name Back (2011) D: Roger Paradiso. Performance by the Sugarhill Gang and Q&A with members to follow screening. 8 pm. bfri 17 – New African Voices: Kinyarwanda (2010) D: Alrick Brown. 6:30 pm. Soviet Sci-Fi: Eolomea (1972) D: Herrmann Zschoche. 9 pm. bsaT 18 – Fantastic Mr Fox (2009) D: Wes Anderson. 10:30 am. Free. Moon-

Staring at success Marina Abramovic and Matthew Akers open the Reel Artists Film Fest.

The arTisT is presenT (Matthew Akers). 105 minutes. Opens the Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival, Wednesday (February 22), 8 pm, with artist and director present, and February 26, 5:30 pm. At the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Indie & Rep Film, this page. Rating: nnn

This profile of performance artist Marina Abramovic, the Serbian Sarah Bernhardt of the art world, takes its title from a performance at her 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective. For the entire three-month duration of that show, which documented her work since the beam Bear And His Friends (2008) D: Thomas Bodenstein and Mike Maurus. 11 am. Free. Cover To Cover: Literature Meets Animation, including The Fantastic Flying Books Of Mr Morris Lessmore (2010) D: William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg, Lost And Found (2008) D: Philip Hunt, and others. 12:45 pm. The Flying Classroom (2003) D: Tomy Wigand. 2:30 pm. New African Voices: Colour Me (2011) D: Sherien Barsoum. 7 pm. Free. Con Air (1997) D: Simon West. 10 pm. Free. bsun 19 – Sergeant Pepper (2004) D: Sandra Nettelbeck. 10:45 am. Free. King Of

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70s – often involving nudity, fasting and self-mutilation – via video and re-enactments by a troupe of young artists, Abramovic sat in the museum’s atrium silently staring into the faces of audience members who queued up to take the chair opposite her. Interviews and a reunion with former artistic and romantic partner Ulay provide background, while scenes of Abramovic at photo shoots, her New York loft, her Hudson Valley estate and haute couture shopping in Paris give some idea of the magnitude of her success. Most of the film focuses on the MoMA performance: visitors from Ulay to kids and seniors gaze back at

Abramovic as the camera records their puzzled, bemused or tearful faces. People start camping outside the museum for a chance to participate. Whether she’ll make it through the arduous days of sitting and focusing adds suspense. At almost two hours, though, the film itself is a bit of an endurance test. Whether you consider Abramovic’s oeuvre a moving art/theatre hybrid enacted with the body, a modern-day shamanic bridge to sacred space or a bunch of self-dramatizing S/M stunts re-contextualized as art (I’m leaning toward the latter), you have to admire the inclusive spirit of this performance. fran sCheChTer

Kings (1961) D: Nicholas Ray. 1 pm. Free. Moonbeam Bear And His Friends. 1:15 pm. Free. Circus Dreams (2010) D: Signe Taylor. 3 pm. Free. New African Voices: Kinyarwanda (2010) D: Alrick Brown. 4 pm. Free. New African Voices: African Phantasms: New African Short Films including The Adventures Of Mwansa The Great (2011) D: Rungano Nyoni, Hasaki Ya Suda (2011) D: Cedric Ido, and others. 7 pm. Free. mon 20 – Cover To Cover: Literature Meets Animation. 10: 45 am. Sergeant Pepper. 11:30 am. Moonbeam Bear And His Friends. 12:30 pm. The Flying Classroom. 2 pm. Circus Dreams. 2:30 pm. Lancelot Du Lac (1974) D: Robert Bresson. 6:30 pm. Tue 21 – Food On Film: Anna Olson speaks on Mostly Martha (2001) D: Sandra Nettelbeck. 6:30 pm. $35. Wed 22 – Science On Film: Martin Antony speaks on Vertigo (1958) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 7 pm. $35.

Tue 21 – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 6:45 pm. Pina. 9:15 pm. Wed 22 – Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 1:30 pm. Café De Flore (2011) D: Jean-Marc Vallée. 7 pm. Midnight In Paris. 9:20 pm.

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2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 16 – Beginners (2010) D: Mike Mills. 7 pm. Young Adult (2011) D: Jason Reitman. 9:15 pm. fri 17-saT 18 – The Muppets (2011) D: James Bobin. 2 pm. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (2011) D: Brad Bird. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. Pina 3D (2011) D: Wim Wenders. 7 pm. sun 19 – The Muppets. 2 pm. Pina. 4:15 & 7 pm. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 9:15 pm. mon 20 – The Muppets. 2 pm. Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol. 4:15 & 9:15 pm. Pina. 7 pm.

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cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

Thu 16-Wed 22 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. Thu 16-fri 17 – Arctic Air – Episode Three. mon 20-Wed 22 – Arctic Air – Episode Four.

national film board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque

Thu 16-Wed 22 – More than 5,000 NFB films

available at digital viewing stations. TueWed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. bfri 17 – All Balls Don’t Bounce Sport Weekend and Fusicology present Joe Frazier: When The Smoke Clears (2011) D: Mike Todd. 7 pm. Free. saT 18-mon 20 – Family Day Staycation: Allday film screenings and pixilation activities. Daily from 10 am. Free. bsaT 18 – All Balls Don’t Bounce Sport Weekend: White Wash (2011) D: Ted Woods. 3 pm. Fire In Babylon (2010) D: Stevan Riley. 5 pm. Mighty Jerome (2010) D: Charles Officer. 7 pm. Tue 21 – National Ballet of Canada 60-Year Celebration: Celia Franca: Tour De Force (2006) D: Veronica Tennant, and short films Ballet Adagio and Pas De Deux. Director in attendance. 7 pm. Free.

am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. saT 18 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1, 3 & 8 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon, 4 & 7 pm. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. sun 19 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Tornado Alley. Noon & 4 pm. Jane Goodall’s Wild Champanzees. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. mon 20-Wed 22 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am & 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm.

the ProJection booth

1035 gerrard e. 416-466-3636, ProJectionbooth.ca.

Thu 16 – The Ponzi Scheme (2010) D: Billie Mintz, Cinemall (2011) D: Craig Belliveau and Gavin Shaw, and Matatu Express (2010) D: Colm Hogan. 1 pm. Nostalgia For The Light (2010) D: Patricio Guzmán. 3 pm. Le Havre (2011) D: Aki Kaurismäki. 5 pm. Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 7 pm. My Perestroika (2010) D: Robin Hessman. 9 pm. fri 17 – Check website for schedule. saT 18 – Super Punch Saturdays: Taoism Drunkard (1984) D: Cheung-Yan Yuen. 9 pm. Shaolin Drunk Fight (1984) D: Wen Po Tu. 11 pm. sun 19-Wed 22 – Check website for schedule.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

Thu 16 – Dolphins And Whales 3D: Tribes Of The Ocean (2008) D: Jean-Michel Cousteau. 7 pm. Kiss Me Kate (1953) D: George Sidney. 8 pm. saT 18 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003). 5 pm. Key 56 (2011) D: Alexandre Hamel. 7 pm. sun 19 – The Ring Of The Nibelungs (1924) D: Fritz Lang. 12:30 pm. What I Learned From LSD (2011) D: Reg Hartt. 7 pm. Tue 21 – Hell’s Hinges (1916) D: Charles Swickard. 7 pm. Salò, or The 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 9 pm.

revue cinema

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

Thu 16 – Young Adult (2011) D: Jason Reitman. 7 pm. Tree Of Life (2011) D: ñ Terrence Malick. 9 pm. fri 17-saT 18 – The Adventures Of Tintin (2011) D: Steven Spielberg. 1 pm. ñ Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) D: David Fincher. 3:30 & 9 pm. Carnage (2011) D: Roman Polanski. 7 pm. sun 19 – The Adventures Of Tintin. 1 pm. Book Revue: The Age Of Innocence (1993) D: Martin Scorsese. 4 pm. Carnage. 7 pm. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 9 pm. mon 20 – The Adventures Of Tintin. 1 pm. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 3:30 & 9 pm. Carnage. 7 pm. Tue 21 – Carnage. 7 pm. Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 9 pm. Wed 22 – Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 1 pm. Carnage. 7 pm. Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 9 pm.

the roYal 608 college. 416-534-5252. theroYal.to

Thu 16 – The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (2011) D: Robert Guédiguian. 7 pm. Shame (2011) D: Steve McQueen. 9:15 pm. fri 17 – Puppet (2011) D: David Soll. 9:30 pm. The Room (2003) D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm. saT 18 – Melissa! (2011) D: Michael Sykora. 7 pm. Puppet. 9:30 pm. sun 19 – Puppet. 4:30 & 7 pm. Young Adult (2011) D: Jason Reitman. 9 pm.

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Top ten of the year nnnn = Honourable mention nnn = Entertaining nn = Mediocre n = Bomb

blu-ray/dvd disc of the week

moN 20 – Private screening. Tue 21 – Young Adult. 7 pm. Tinker Tailor

Soldier Spy (2011) D: Tomas Alfredson. 9 pm. weD 22 – Young Adult. 7 pm. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. 9:30 pm.

The Rum Diary (eOne, 2011) D: Bruce Robinson, w/ Johnny Depp, Michael Rispoli. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

Johnny Depp gives Rum some punch.

Hunter S. Thompson’s work always plays better on the page than the screen, but writer/director Bruce Robinson captures Thompson’s spirit as effectively as Terry Gilliam in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas or Art Linson in Where The Buffalo Roam, which is to say it’s not bad. The comic escapades are in place, and the protagonist’s rants sound like they come directly from Thompson’s typewriter. Kemp (Johnny Depp), an unformed young journalist, arrives in 1960 San Juan, Puerto Rico, to work on a moribund news-

ToronTo UndergroUnd Cinema

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Bay, 2010) D: Howard Ford, Jonathan Ford, w/ Rob Freeman, Prince David Oseia. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NNNN A couple of twists on the standard zombie apocalypse make The Dead both more and less interesting than the recent run of walking dead entries. For starters, co-directors the Ford brothers have chosen the actionadventure genre, not horror, and a duo, instead of the usual group trying to survive. A pair of soldiers, one American, one African, make their way across west Africa to find the latter’s son. It’s a good premise, but it tells you right away that one of these guys will certainly die, and it leads to repetitive action: zombies lurch up, heroes drive off. Second, they’ve shot in backwoods Burkina Faso, with local villagers as zombies. The landscape is so harsh and beautiful that it yanks you right out of the story, while the zombie-killing conjures horrific but irrelevant recol-

lections of the Rwandan genocide. The Dead faces a third problem: much of what the Ford brothers wanted didn’t get shot. Check out their commentary for a breezy account of the shoot from hell, including their own bad decisions and star Rob Freeman’s getting malaria. EXTRAS Commentary, on-set footage. English audio. English SDH, Spanish subtitles.

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(Corinth, 2010) D: James Rasin. Rating: NNN; DVD package: none Jimmy Slattery, born on Long Island in 1944, grows up, moves to Greenwich Village and reinvents himself as a she: Candy Darling, a beautiful, witty, platinum-blond incarnation of 40s style movie glamour. She does some theatre and stars in Andy Warhol movies. Tennessee Williams writes a play for her. Candy is living her lifelong fantasy. She dies in 1974 at 29. Candy’s life and scene are thorough-

paper. Before long, he’s getting hammered with colleagues Sala and Moberg (brilliant comic turns by Michael Rispoli and Giovanni Ribisi) and being drawn into a development scam by Sanderson (Aaron Eckhart, projecting a solid platinum sense of entitlement). He’s also beginning to notice how the Americans grind the locals into the dirt. In the cast and crew interviews, Robinson tells us he advised Depp to play himself, not Thompson. This may explain Depp’s occasional unevenness. It’s clear that he’s recycling some, but not all, of his performance from Fear And Loathing. EXTRAS Cast and crew interviews. English, French audio. English SDH subtitles.

ly dissected in masses of archival footage, period and contemporary interviews and readings from her diary by Chloë Sevigny. Among those weighing in are Warhol, Williams, John Waters, Paul Morrissey, Holly Woodlawn and Fran Lebowitz. It’s great stuff as biography and as social and transgender history. It also raises serious questions about identity. Is Candy, a man choosing to live not only as a woman, but as a Hollywood glamour queen, being true to herself or living a lie? Stay to the end of the credits for Candy’s final word. EXTRAS English audio. No subtitles.

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Sequence) (IFC, 2011) D: Tom Six, w/ Laurence R. Harvey, Ashlynn Yennie. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN Writer/director Tom Six’s original Human Centipede was a mediocre movie that got by on its one spectacularly original, grotesque and gross idea: a mad doctor stitches

people together mouth to anus for his sadistic amusement. The shock value was immense, but that wears off. To his credit, Six tackles that problem by making a movie that’s as unlike the original as possible while delivering the same disgusting action. Gone is the cultured mad doctor, replaced by emotionally and socially dysfunctional Martin, who’s obsessed with the first movie and kidnaps not three, but a dozen victims for his graphically depicted amateur surgery. Hand-held black-and-white visuals and a filthy setting add to the overall air of deranged depravity. So does the absence of dialogue. There’s none at all to interfere with the torture porn of the last half-hour. Actor Laurence R. Harvey does a brilliant job of making Martin both pitiable and contemptible. On the commentary he shares with Six, he takes a shot at defending the movie as black comedy and satire, but Six nails it when he says, “This is a movie about shit.” EXTRAS Director commentary and interview, set tour, sound effects footage, poster creation doc. B&w. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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Students seeking answers I headed north last week to do Savage Love Live – a rapid-fire, slightly tipsy Q&A session – at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It was my third visit to UAA and it was a blast. All of the questions in this week’s column were submitted to me by UAA students and staffers.

should I go ahead and dIvorce my

fantastic wife of 23 years now because gay marriage is going to destroy it eventually anyway? Tony From Wasilla You might as well do it now, TFW, if only to beat the rush. Just in the last couple of weeks, the 9th Circuit ruled that California’s Prop 8 is unconstitutional, the governor of Washington State signed marriage equality into law and marriage equality campaigns made huge strides in Maryland and Maine. Pretty soon, all the lawyers who specialize in “traditional divorce” are going to be booked solid as traditional marriages buckle under the strain of all of this equality nonsense. Wait too long to get divorced, TFW, and you may not be able to get divorced at all. Find a lawyer now!

I am wIth a gIrl who Is a female

ejaculator. It’s pretty cool, but the quantity of ejaculate is way too much. Am I getting peed on here? Tidal Wave You’re not getting peed on. (Science says female ejaculate ≠ urine.) But don’t take my word for it, TW. Ask your girlfriend to piss on you sometime, and see if you can’t tell the difference.

my frIend Is a lesbIan but recently

started dating a gay man. They seem really

happy. What does that make them? They were both really active in the LGBT community before getting together. Confused Straight Ally You see that “B” in LGBT, CSA? It stands for “bisexual,” and it’s there for a reason. Your friend may have been B all along, or perhaps she’s just B for this one particular guy, and he’s B for her, but there’s really nothing to be confused about, and your friends can and should remain active in the LGBT community.

I know about your “prIce of admIs-

sion” theory. What else do you have to offer by way of advice for a healthy, lasting relationship? Annoyed With Him Selective, self-induced short- and long-term memory loss. You have to learn to shrug off minor and sometimes not-so-minor annoyances – maybe even a betrayal or two over the decades – because an ability to forgive and truly forget is necessary for the survival of any long-term relationship. If you’re having a hard time getting there, AWH, speak to your doctor about medical marijuana.

I’m a lesbIan, and my frIend who Is a

bi male keeps asking me to peg him. How should I deal with this? Not Into Boys If it doesn’t bother you, NIB, laugh it off. If it does bother you, slap him down.

how do you tell a more-than-a-

friend that his hygiene is an issue? The New Girlfriend “Hey, big boy, you stink. Jump in the shower – there’s a blow-job in it for you.”

advIce for begInnIng butt-sexers?

We’re having trouble getting started. Hole New World

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Start with rimming, during or immediately after a shower; move on to fingers, small toys and finally dick. Take your time! Work

up to butt-sex over a week or two, HNW, not in a single evening. Lots of lube, penetration should be slow and very controlled, breathe, medical marijuana.

I can’t brag to my frIends, but I need

to brag publicly and anonymously: I had a threesome for the first time, and it was AWESOME. Highly recommended! Fun Unicorn Completes Kinksters Another perceived-to-be-monogamous couple that actually isn’t monogamous! Welcome to the monogamish club, FUCK!

my husband wants to be spanked.

This is beyond my comfort zone. What can I do to get over this apprehension? Practise on the dogs and cats? Can’t Go There A woman who spanks her dogs and cats goes to actual jail, CGT, but a woman who spanks her husband goes to GGG heaven. But if you simply can’t get over your apprehension, outsource those spankings to your friendly local professional dominant.

my best guy frIend had sex wIth me.

Does that mean he loves me? Holding Out Hope Don’t be ridiculous, HOH. People have sex with people they don’t love all the time. It isn’t proof that your guy friend doesn’t love you, of course, but it’s not proof that he does.

I recently broke off a relatIonshIp

after my female partner demanded that I get a circumcision. I told her I would get one if she did. She told me I was a sexist asshole. I don’t see where she gets off asking me to mutilate myself if she won’t. Am I wrong? Uncut About Anchorage You weren’t wrong to refuse to cut yourself for her, UAA, but you were wrong to equate “female circumcision” with male circumcision. A woman who’s been “circumcised” – a woman who has been subjected to genital mutilation – has had her clit cut off. The male equivalent would be the removal of the head of the cock, not the foreskin.

wIth all the stress of jobs, relatIon-

ships, kids, etc, what’s your advice for romance and great sex when you’re overwhelmed by life? Jack And Jill My advice is to give up on great sex. Not for-

ever, JAJ, but for now. Make time for some good-not-great, low-stakes, low-pressure, undemanding mutual masturbation sessions. Lie down together and get off while dirty talking about the truly great marathon sex sessions you’re gonna have once your stress levels drop. Then do it!

you have heard that an ordInance

to protect LGBT people from being evicted or fired will be up for a vote in Anchorage soon. Well, I am a bi woman in a het relationship who works in an office where the environment is akin to the Fellowship of the Bros. Recently, I attended a Pride event where a co-worker saw me act in a very nonhetero way. I’m afraid this person will out me and I will be harassed at best and fired at worst. What can I do? Unsafe At Work Not much, sadly. LGBT people are not protected under the city of Anchorage’s antidiscrimination statutes. There have been three attempts to add protections for LGBT people to the law; all three failed after “Christian” activists protested, lied, demagogued, bullied mayors and lied some more. One Anchorage – a coalition of progressive organizations – gathered enough signatures to put a equal rights initiative on the ballot in Anchorage. The vote is April 3, and passing Proposition 5 will make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people in housing, public accommodation, employment and credit.

hey, lgbt supporters: we scored some big victories in the U.S. in the last two weeks. But as we race toward marriage equality in California, Washington State, Maryland and New Jersey (don’t be such a fucking coward, Christie!), we should remember that there are LGBT people living in American cities, counties and states without any civil rights protections for queers. I hate to guilt folks into making political donations two weeks in a row – last week, Planned Parenthood, this week, One Anchorage – but One Anchorage could use our help. The haters are planning a big advertising campaign to block equality for LGBT people in Anchorage. One Anchorage needs to get on the air and counter the hate and lies. Donate here: oneanchorage.com. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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Then: A people’s triumph Now: An unforgettable celebration

Join us for Then & Now, a series of events celebrating Black History Month. This February, we’re once again pleased to present an inspiring and entertaining cultural showcase of one of Canada’s prominent communities. Called Then & Now, our lineup of events includes films, concerts, exhibitions, and performances by a host of Canadian and international artists. So come celebrate Black History Month. Who knows, with so much excitement around, you may end up creating some history of your own.

To see what’s on, visit www.td.com/thenandnow for event listings.

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