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Thursday, March 8

Benefits

celebrating 50 Years oF choice (Planned Parenthood Toronto) Party, silent auction and speakers including Rosario Marchese, Adam Vaughan, Susan Swan and others. 7 pm. $25. Ramada Plaza Ballroom, 300 Jarvis. tinyurl. com/ppt50. the F Word (Centre for Women’s Studies in Education/All Saint’s Women’s Drop In) Performances of a new play by Jennifer Phillips and Loretta Chan. Today and tomorrow 7:30 pm. $21-$45. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. Kitchen sisters (Sistering) Reception and four-course dinner by chefs including Suzanne Baby and Donna Dooher. 6 pm. $500-$1,000. Mildred’s Temple Kitchen, 85 Hanna. 416-9269762 ext 243. rhap art shoW Fundraiser (RHAG) Art and music to fundraise for free community programs in T.O. East communities. 6 pm. $20, stu $10. Ben Navaee Gallery, 1107 Queen E. rhag@rhag.ca.

Events

art & struggle Conference with panels on art and the body politic, feminism and identity struggles, and more. Today 1-5:30 pm; tomorrow 9:30 am-6 pm. Free. OCADU, 100 McCaul. ocad.ca/artandstruggle. Icivic muslims communitY caFe Evening commemorating International Women’s Day. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647726-9500. columbia building intelligence project

Columbia University international think tank on solutions that could change the building industry for the better, with architects, engineers and others. 1-7 pm. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. Pre-register cbip@arch. columbia.edu.

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challenges like climate change and human rights. Wed 5 pm to Mar 28. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.utoronto.ca/ student-engagement/make-world-change.

Festivals this week

Imiss representation International

Women’s Day documentary screening and panel discussion with phys ed professor Margaret Macneill and others. 5 pm. Free. Hart House Library, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register uoft.me/missrep. occupation 101 Israeli Apartheid Week film screening and talk by journalist Jon Elmer. 2 pm. Free. York U Student Centre, rm 430 (GSA), 4700 Keele. toronto.apartheidweek.org. Iour Faces, our voices Awards ceremony with Penny Krowitz and Kathleen Wynne. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre Auditorium, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

Flipside Festival Performances, readings and workshops by new and emerging Filipino-Canadian playwrights, performers and directors. Pwyc. Kapisanan Philippine Centre, 167 Augusta. carlosbulosan.wordpress.com. Mar 8 to 11 toronto irish Film Festival Screenings celebrate the best of Irish cinema. $15, opening gala $20. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. torontoirishfilmfest.com. Mar 9 to 10

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Isisters and outsiders: celebrating Women’s resilience Talk by counsellor Farrah

eco art & media Festival Campus-wide

and community event inspiring public discussion, engagement and dialogue through visual arts, performances, academic forums, workshops, food, music and more. Free. York University campus, 4700 Keele and other venues. yorku.ca/ecoart. To Mar 9

human rights Watch Film Festival

Screenings of films about human rights issues including the struggle of refugees, sex trafficking and bullying. $12, stu $5. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. hrw.org. To Mar 9

eYe health the naturopathic WaY Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129.

Frugal Feasts: the $24/WeeK Fresh living plan Workshop on how to eat well on a

budget with the Daily Apple’s Lesley Stoyan. 6 pm. $32, stu $8. Hart House Music Room, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca/culture/ frugalfeasts. Iinuit Women and art Tour the Museum of Inuit Art and learn about the artists. 5:45 pm. Free. 207 Queens Quay W. Pre-register zoomerang.com/survey/web22e4dbcmfs3. izKor: slaves oF memorY Israeli Apartheid Week screening of the film by Israeli filmmaker Eyal Sivan. 7 pm. Free. Ryerson U Oakham House, Thomas Lounge, 63 Gould. toronto.apartheidweek.org. Ijoin me on the bridge West-end event for showing solidarity with women on bridges around the world who are taking a stand for peace and women’s equality. Bring a candle. 5:30-7 pm. Free. Humber Bay Arch Bridge, Lake Shore Blvd W of Windermere. 647-928-9762. Ijoin me on the bridge toronto Rally to

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rmosaic storYtelling Festival Performances for all ages. Every second Sun (call for schedule). Pwyc. St David’s Anglican Church, 49 Donlands. 416-466-3142, stdavidstoronto.ca/mosaic/mosaic.html. To Mar 18

show solidarity with women on bridges around the world in solidarity with women who are survivors of violence. 4-8 pm. Free. Queen’s Park, University north of College. 647-893-8988, joinmeonthebridge.org/ events/join-me-on-the-bridge-toronto. Ijoin Women on the bridge Join a critical mass on the Bloor Viaduct and show solidarity with women around the world seeking peace and women’s equality. 5 pm. Free. Meet in parkette on Danforth at Cambridge (E side of bridge). rita.bijons@sympatico.ca.

jorge munguia The Mexican curator speaks about his work with Pase Usted with Spacing associate editor Dylan Reid. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/ srs $7. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. prefix.ca. judas! exploring the relationship betWeen bob dYlan and contemporarY art Workshop on the relationship between artists and their audience, and the link between music and contemporary practice. $99. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-9796648.

maKe World change Conference for undergrad students to learn about urgent global

Khan from the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic. Noon. Free. Women’s College Hospital, 76 Grenville, Cummings Auditorium. Pre-register janelle.noel@wchospital.ca.

Isisters oF the planet: Four inspirational Women and the Fight against climate change Film screening and discussion with a

speaker from Oxfam. 7 pm. Pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. torontoclimatecampaign. org. torture tour oF toronto Stop Canadian Involvement in Torture and Toronto Action for Social Change present a tour of corporations and government agencies that are complicit in acts of torture. 8:30 am-1:30 pm. Free (donations welcome). For details email tasc@web.ca.

the traFFic in nannies: the exploitation oF Female labour? Discussion with investigative journalist Susan McClelland. 4 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

Where do We stand noW? a status report on the 30th anniversarY oF the charter oF rights and Freedoms NOW editor/CEO Alice Klein joins the CBC’s Daniel Henry and others in a panel discussion as part of the Press Freedom in Canada Conference. 9 am. $50-$120 conference registration. Ryerson U Rogers Communications Centre, 80 Gould. ryerson. ca/lawcentre/events/pfc.html.

IWomen at the crossroads: gender and culture at the centre oF a changing southeast asia Talk by Asian history prof

Nhung Tuyet Tran in conjunction with the exhibit Half A Sky. 7 pm. Free. Art Square, 334 Dundas W. Pre-register online at womenatthecrossroads.eventbrite.com. IWomen oF inFluence Luncheon with HGTV host Sarah Richardson. 11 am. $99. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. 416-923-1688.

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the Four men (Christian Peacemaker Teams/ United Church Mission) Broadway tunes, operatic arias, jazz and folk concert. 7 pm. $15-$20. Trinity St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. 416-4235525, cpt.org. st patricK’s daY luncheon (Ireland Fund of Canada) Irish entertainment by Sean McCann and the Committed. 12:30 pm. $250. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. 416-3678311, irelandfund.ca.

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alain de botton Talk on art history, aesthe-

tics and the art world. $29, stu $20 (includes brown-bag lunch). Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

cutting the ties to israeli apartheid: the cultural and academic border Israeli

Apartheid Week panel discussion with Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi, writer Mary-Jo Nadeau and video artist Richard Fung. 7 pm. Free. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. toronto. apartheidweek.org.

Iinternational Women’s daY celebration Canadian Voices of Women for Peace

celebration. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. rnational dog shoW Show competitions, relay races, doggie gear and more. To Mar 11, 10 am. $10, child $6. International Centre, 6900 Airport. thepurinanational.ca.

nuFsicisum: phil nimmons in conversation

The Canadian jazz legend takes part in a Q&A session. Noon. Free. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail, rm AA303. aep@utsc. utoronto.ca. treehouse talKs Short talks on three topics by Andrew Westoll, Denise Balkissoon and John Sobol. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. treehousetalks.com. the Writing liFe Discussion with authors and literary agents on the process, challenges, craft and business of writing. 6:30 pm. Free. Hart House library, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca/arts/writinglife. WWe smacKdoWn World tour Wrestling with John Cena, Kane, CM Punk, the Miz and others. 7:30 pm. $25-$80. Ricoh Coliseum, Exhibition Place. ticketmaster.ca.

Saturday, March 10

Benefits

Icamp sis dance (Camp Sis/missing and

murdered women) International Women’s Day dance. 7 pm. $20 sliding scale. 519 Church Community Centre. 416-760-2169. standin’ up to cancer (Gilda’s Club) Performances by young female comics. 8:30 pm. $10, stu $5. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. brianne.watson@gmail.com. uWi beneFit gala (University of West Indies) Awards ceremony, auctions, dinner and entertainment by Quincy Bullen, Divine Brown and others. 6 pm. $300-$2,000. Four Seasons Hotel, 21 Avenue. 416-214-7848. When love is not enough (Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Charity) Performance by musical group Standing on Stars. 5-9 pm. $50. Revival, 783 College. revivalbar.com.

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beit zatoun open house Second-anniversary party with Middle Eastern music by George Sawa, Maryem Toller and others. 6:30 pm. $20 min. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun. org. FortY Years as a union militant: class struggle on the WaterFront International

Bolshevik Tendency forum presentation on working-class struggles. 7 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 5-170. bolshevik.org. hoW to Write a poem For the Queen Workshop with Parliamentary poet laureate Fred Wah. 1:30-5 pm. $75. Of Swallows, 283 College. Pre-register tinyurl.com/7p2z2r3. rmarch breaK Fun Log cabin building, spelling bees, maple syrup and more. To Mar 18. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. rmarch mania in the valleY! Learn about life in 19th-century Toronto through tours, baking and crafts. To Mar 18, 11 am-3 pm. continued on page 25 œ

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Free w/ admission. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. rMarch ’MuseMents Print your own picture at a drop-in. To Mar 18, 10 am-4 pm, Sat & Sun noon-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915. rMuseuM Mystery Madness Family tour to solve a mysterious jewel heist. To Mar 18 noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910.

a PeoPle’s InterrogatIon of law and huMan rIghts Israeli Apartheid Week discussion with Russel Tribunal on Palestine co-ordinator Frank Barat and human rights lawyer Faisal Bhabha. 3 pm. Free. Ryerson University Library Bldg, rm 72, 350 Victoria. toronto. apartheidweek.org. Queen west gallery tour Explore the galleries and project spaces along the Queen West strip. 11:45 am. $25, two for $45. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

rhyMes of resIstance and the sounds of exIstence Closing party for Israeli Apartheid

Week with Palestinian spoken word poet Remi Kanazi, hip-hop collective Red Slam and artist/ activist Chand-nee. 7 pm. $10-$20 sliding scale. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. toronto.apartheidweek.org. rsound Bash March Break Drop-in activities include fishing for sounds, recycled bowling and bucket toss. To Mar 18. Free. NAISA Space, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. naisa.ca. tales froM the street Former Coronation Street cast members including Ken Morley (Reg Holdsworth) and Julia Haworth (Ashley Peacock) spill the secrets and gossip about their characters. 2 & 8 pm. $55. Jane Mallett Theatre, St Lawrence Centre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723.

woMen: destroy the PatrIarchal PrIson systeM A rally (1 pm), march (3 pm) and party

(7:30 pm, Sylvesters Cafe, 16 Bancroft) to free the G20 politial arrestees. Chilean Consulate, 2 Bloor W. wccctoronto.wordpress.com.

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celebrate choice

Planned Parenthood, the courageous organization that puts women’s reproductive freedom at the top of its agenda celebrates 50 years in 2012. A huge party and silent auction take place tonight (Thursday, March 8), 7 pm, to mark the occasion. Hear from stellar supporters including councillor Adam Vaughan, activist lawyer El-Farouk Khaki, author Susan Swan, NOW sex columnist Sasha and many more and support one of Toronto’s essential services. Tickets are just $25. Ramada Plaza (300 Jarvis). Just one of several inspiring International Women’s Day events. tinyurl.com/ ppt50.

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Just how free is today’s free press? Get a handle on the limits to liberty at Press Freedom in Canada: A culture and resIstance Israeli Apartheid

Week discussion with professor Paul Kellogg, artist John Greyson and students. 7 pm. Free. York U Stedman Lecture Hall A, 4700 Keele. toronto.apartheidweek.org. ZeItgeIst day Films, lectures, activist workshops, info booths, a Kids Zone and info on the movement. 11 am-9 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. zeitgeist-toronto.com.

Status Report On The 30th Anniversary Of The Charter Of Rights And Freedoms, sponsored by Ryerson’s Journalism Research Centre and Law Research Centre. The kick-off session features NOW editor/CEO Alice Klein, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression’s Paula Todd, CBC legal counsel David Henry and more, today (Thursday, March 8) from 9 am. Conference continues until 5:45 pm and resumes Friday (March 9) from 9 am to 6:45 pm. $85 for a day; $150 for the conference. 80 Gould. ryerson.ca.

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activities happen daily to Mar 18 during museum hours. Free w/ admission. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-5868000.

MeMorIal walk: water and cholera ePI deMIcs (1844 & 1866) Lost rivers walk. 11 am. Free. Queen and Power. 416-593-2656.

toronto rally agaInst voter suPPres sIon By roBocalls Let the politicians know that they must respect the democratic institutions that have allowed them to be in power. 2 to 5 pm. Yonge/Dundas Square. facebook.com/events/161404757312027. rwIZard world fun Park A 3-D wizard’s maze, entertainment, carnival rides, a pet-

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six to 10. To Mar 15, 10 am-12:30 pm & 2-4:30 pm. Free. Ontario Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-325-0061, tourbookings@ontla.ola.org. rMarch Break toy desIgn caMP Kids six to 12 design toys and listen to guest speakers at a day camp. To Mar 16. $325. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. Pre-register dx.org/designcamp. rMarch through tIMe March Break activities include an 1812 soldier drill, historical cooking and dress-up. To Mar 16, 10 am-3 pm. Free w/ admission. Fort York, Garrison between Strachan and Bathurst. 416-392-6907. rPIoneer March Break caMP Kids eight to 12 enjoy pioneer crafts, cooking, games and more. To Mar 16. $45/day. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. Preregister 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca. rsPrIngfest The Fun Depot, an interactive stage show, rides and more. To Mar 16, 10 am to 5 pm. $5-$20. Downsview Park Studio 3, 40 Carl Hall. torontospringfest. com.

IwoMen’s rIghts – worker’s rIghts: the struggle contInues International Women’s Day panel discussion with Laurell Ritchie, Deena Ladd and Ozlem Aslan. 2 pm. Pwyc. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416789-5502, winchevskycentre.org.

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raises awareness of autism. 6 pm. Donation. Chesswood Arena, 4000 Chesswood. jsmht. org.

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ting zoo, crafts and more. To Mar 18. 10 am-5 pm. $10-$20. Better Living Centre, Exhibition Place. wizardworld.ca.

fItness for food: yoga nIa ZuMBa Party!

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tIcal vIolence Talk by professor/filmmaker/ journalist Bassam Haddad. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

around the world at three different locations: Queen’s Park, 4 to 8 pm (647-893-8988); Humber Bay Arch Bridge, Lake Shore Blvd west of Windermere, 5:30 to 7 pm (647-9289762); and Bloor Viaduct, Danforth at Cambridge, 5 pm (rita.bijons@ sympatico.ca). Free.

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(UTSU Food & Clothing Bank) Yoga, dancing, stretching, shiatsu and more. 10 am-3 pm. $25, stu $15 (plus food doantion). Hart House Great Hall 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca.

about permaculture and what’s being done locally. 2 pm. Free. Hart House, S Dining Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register campusagriculture@gmail.com.

In a moment of electric reconciliation, women from Congo and Rwanda met on a bridge connecting their two countries in 2010 to initiate a global bridgeathon for peace and equality. Today (Thursday, March 8), International Women’s Day, women in T.O. stand in solidarity with sisters on bridges

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Sherbourne. parentingnetwork@ sherbourne.on.ca. IranIan fIre festIval Celebration of spring with traditional dance, music, food and more. 7 to 10 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre, Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. torontoiranians.com.

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Faith Nolan, Dawna Armstrong and others plus a butch fashion show. 7 pm. $20 or pwyc. 519 Church Community Centre. faith@ faithnolan.org.

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actIvIsM In actIon! PeaceWorks seven-week

course on practical skills for effective social change. 6:30-9:30 pm. $15-$25 or pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. Pre-register peaceworks@primus.ca. rharBourfront March Break caMPs Day camps for kids three to 15 in fashion, circus, architecture, comics, theatre and more. To Mar 16. 9 am-4 pm. $230-$335. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register harbourfrontcentre.com/camps. rMarch Break art caMP Kids six to 13 create art projects using a wide range of media and techniques. To Mar 16. 9 am-4 pm. $335. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Preregister 416-979-6648. rMarch Break at the gardIner Clay day camp for kids seven to 14. To Mar 16. 9:30 am12:30 pm. $200. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. rMarch Break at the legIslature Scavenger hunts, dress-up, crafts and tours for kids

roPera caMP Day camp for kids five to 12 with opera-based activities including learning an aria and making costumes. 8:30 am-3:30 pm. $35, half day $25. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Pre-register coc.ca/explore. rtoronto sPortsMen’s show Fishing seminars, an outdoor adventure zone, all-star dog show and more. To Mar 17, 10 am-8 pm. $19, stu/srs $13, under 6 free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Bremner. torontosportshow.ca.

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THE FALL FASHION MOOD Twisted muses, heavy textures and classic horror flicks: those are just some of the things inspiring designers who’ll unveil their fall 2012 collections under the tents in David Pecaut Square starting Monday. Preview it all with our mood board of sketches, fabric swatches and lookbook shots.

Simply stated, this season’s inspiration came from being Canadian.” Evik Asatoorian shows his Rudsak collection (rudsak.com) March 15 at 6 pm.

My muse for fall 2012 is a woman who finds an eclectic way of remixing her classic lifestyle with the darker and edgy twists from her youthful, sordid past.” Joeffer Caoc (joeffercaoc.com) shows March 16 at 6 pm.

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There’s a luxurious, wintry texture to our oversized houndstooth car coat.” Andrea Lenczner and Christina Smythe (smythelesvestes.com) show as part of Holt Renfrew’s presentation Monday (March 12) at 8 pm. This collection is named Untamed, and it’s inspired by elements of nature and their raw beauty.” Lucian Matis (MATISbyLucianMatis.com) shows Tuesday (March 13), 9 pm.

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I was inspired by science, technology and the infinite universe.” Caitlin Power (caitlinpower.com) shows March 15 at 5 pm.

Fall is inspired by the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds. Personally, I’m a bit skittish about birds, and I’m not a huge fan of horror films, so finding inspiration in my fears has been enlightening.” David Dixon (daviddixon.ca) shows March 15 at 9 pm.

I drew inspiration from what I call the hipster urban traveller.” Ilan Elfassy shows Soia & Kyo (soiakyo.com) Tuesday (March 13) at 7 pm.

A key theme for this season is protection. The collection is underlined by a utilitarian, functional element.” Stephen Wong and Kirk Pickersgill (gretaconstantine.com) show their Ezra Constantine collection March 15 at 7 pm.

There’s a 60s vibe to the collection. You’ll see a lot of rich, deep colours (red wines, olives, blues, mustards), interesting textures (tweeds, leathers, silks) and bold use of patterns.” Joseph Mimran, Joe Fresh (joefresh.com), shows Wednesday (March 14), 9 pm.

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said Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl. His advice might be just what you need to hear right now, Libra. Have you struggled, mostly fruitlessly, to change a stagnant situation that has resisted your best efforts? Is there a locked door you’ve been banging on, to no avail? If so, I invite you to redirect your attention. Reclaim the energy you’ve been expending on closed-down people and mouldering systems. Instead, work on the unfinished beauty of what lies closest at hand: yourself.

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Tasty edible sculptures make the new Queen West spot a big hit By STEVEN DAVEY Sharkey Pearce’s month-old Ursa. Not more bloody beets. “There’s a few,” replies our server, he of the requisite beard, plaid lumberjack shirt and skinny jeans. We’ll say! Imagine a pair of whole baby red and yellow beets, barely blanched, their topknots removed, plated upright, their long rat-tail roots left intact. Next to them stand great curlicued sheets of heirloom carrot and candy-cane beet, surrounded by fennel fronds, dehydrated burdock and a fine chiffonade of watermelon radish, all on a bed of wilted beet greens in house-made kefir vinaigrette. This isn’t an appetizer – this is edible sculpture! And healthy, too. Like most everything on offer except the fish, chef’s veggies are compressed in a vacuum before being slowly cooked en sousvide to retain their nutrients. He also uses techniques (sprouting, dehydration, fermentation) more common to the raw vegan food movement – no surprise when you learn that he and his brother Lucas previously ran a successful sports catering business

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that numbered a couple of Raptors and the entire Italian national basketball team among their clients. “Food can be functional, but it can be beautiful, too,” says Sharkey Pearce. That doesn’t mean you have to show up at the former Bar One wearing a hair shirt. Far from it. Both times I visit the stylish 50-seat cinder-block bunker, a fashion shoot is taking place. We start with chewy Thuet sourdough and raw pumpkin ’n’ flaxseed flatbread spread with house-made probiotic butter smoky from sea salt before moving on to wild venison tartare with fatty blueberry-vinegarcured foie gras ($16), finished with medicinal Icelandic moss. Mains like tender Niagara pork loin brined in whey, and belly glazed with cider, get sided with tasty du Puy lentils, a puddle of apple-skin reduction and the type of decorative kale ($24) one usually finds on the next-door neighbour’s front porch. Locally raised Rhode Island White chicken ($23) comes two ways, first as

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sisting of a warm bowl of made-toorder ricotta with bee pollen, honeycomb, pomegranate and raisins fashioned from dehydrated grapes still on the vine, the whey left over from making the fresh cheese served in two tiny milk bottles. Outrageously clever. Will Ursa turn out to be the most groundbreaking resto to hit Hogtown since Susur Lee’s Lotus invented East-West fusion in 87 and David Crystian’s Patriot went locavore in 00 before there was a word for it? Beets me! 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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garlic and vinegar; lamb’s heart tartare with green olives and dehydrated cauliflower purée over nutty caramelized cream; cassoulets of French flageots beans with sweetbreads and sage-scented sausages; deep-fried chicken roulade on cheesy grits in bacon sauce; frozen house-made chocolate bars. 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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After a long delay, Rob Rossi’s Best ellen (972 College, at Rusholme, 647341-6769, bestellen.ca) is finally up and running. Look for the Top Chef Canada first-season champ and exMercatto touque’s inaugural carte to

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Le Canard Mort has adopted Le Rossignol’s menu and staff.

rossignol rebranded

Although Richard Henry has rebranded Le Rossignol as Toucan Taco Bar (686 Queen East, at Broadview, 416-461-9663), fans of the east-side eatery will be glad to know that the Riverside bistro’s menu and staff have resurfaced at nearby sister resto Le Canard Mort (896 Queen East, at Logan, 416-625-2653, lecanardmort.ca), legendary server Véronique Rigault included. “I wouldn’t lose her if my life depended on it!” says Henry. Can we expect more Toucans if the first one, er, flies? “Definitely,” says Henry. “But what I’d really like is a Toucan Taco truck.”

digs, CG&I has the potential to succeed in a permanent location. Best: sandwiches of braised beef short ribs dressed with sweet ’n’ sour coleslaw and deep-fried onions on Golden Wheat Bakery milk buns spread with ancho chili barbecue sauce; go Hawaiian with slow-roasted pork belly glazed in hoisin topped with pineapple salsa, pickled red onion and crunchy crackling; convert both into poutine with the addition of skinny fries, rich demiglazed gravy and local mozzarella curds; meal-sized green bean salads finished with fluffy quinoa in garlicky tomato vinaigrette. Complete meals for $12 per person, including tax, tip and a soft drink. Average main $8. Open Tuesday to Saturday 11 am to 8 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Unlicensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: nnnn 3

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY PLANNER

Where to get some Irish action T.O. celebrates St. Paddy at entertainment hot spots all over town Compiled by JULIA HOECKE

r indicates kid-friendly events

Thursday, March 8 THE LONESOME WEST by Martin McDonagh

(Toronto Irish Players). Play about a young priest trying to resolve violent disputes between two brothers following their father’s death. Runs to Mar 10. $20, stu/srs $18; opening night $50. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. torontoirishplayers.com.

OLDER LGBT SOCIAL – ST PATTY’S DAY CELEBRATION Social gathering for LGBT people 55 and over. 2 pm. Free. Senior Peoples’ Resources in North Toronto, 140 Merton. 416-481-0669 ext 287.

Friday, March 9 ST PATRICK’S DAY LUNCHEON (Ireland Fund of

Canada fundraiser) Irish entertainment by Sean McCann and the Committed. 12:30 pm. $250. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. 416-367-8311, irelandfund.ca. ST PAT’S IRISH MENU Colcannon pie, lamb stew, corned beef and cabbage and other Irish treats offered until April 29. Fionn MacCool’s, 70 the Esplanade and other locations. 416362-2495. esplanade.fionnmaccools.com. TORONTO IRISH FILM FESTIVAL Screenings celebrate the best of Irish cinema. Today and tomorrow. $15, opening gala $20. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. torontoirishfilmfest.com.

Sunday, March 11 rST PATRICK’S DAY PARADE The annual parade celebrating all things Irish starts at Bloor and St George, heads E on Bloor to

Yonge, S on Yonge to Queen and W on Queen to University. Noon. Free. topatrick.com. rPARADE DAY FAMILY DAY Leprechaun dressup, face-painting and family activities. Noon11 pm. Free. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416406-1301, ceilicottage.com.

Monday, March 12 ST PATRICK’S SHENANIGANS The Ceiligrass

Boys play bluegrass from 7:30 pm for this party. The Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416406-1301, ceilicottage.com.

Friday, March 16 DEATH OR CANADA Film screening and discus-

sion with historian Gerald Whyte on the journey of Irish immigrants in 1847. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 2nd flr, 765 Queen E. 416-886-5052. IRISH CEILI Traditional Irish group dances for all ages with instruction. 8 pm. $5-$12. Christ the Saviour Russian Orthodox Cathedral, 823 Manning. info@set-dance.ca. THE MAHONES The Irish punks perform. Doors 9 pm. $12. Tickets at Horseshoe, Rotate This and Soundscapes. Horseshoe, 370 Queen W. horseshoetavern.com. ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN Randy Vancourt, Paul Gibson and Daniel Giverin perform. 8 pm. $25, stu $20. Lower Ossington Theatre Green Door Cabaret, 100A Ossington. randyvancourt.com/Dublin.html. TEICA ARTS & LETTERS DAY Limerick contest, painting challenge, auction and prizes. From 4 pm to close. Free. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com.

Saturday, March 17 ANNEX WRECKROOM BASH The Doozies per-

form from 8 pm, followed by DJs RickToxic and Lexx dB from 10 pm. Green Beer, beer Olympics competition and tons of giveaways. 794 Bathurst. 416-536-0346, theannexwreckroom.com. ARJUN & DAVE Cover band performs at this party from 10 pm. No cover. The Rovers Pub, 570 Bloor W. 647-977-6455. THE BETTER HALF TRIO Music from 3 to 7 pm. Brunch offered from 11 am to 2 pm. The Roy Public House, 894 Queen E.416-465-3331, theroy.ca. CHILDREN’S WISH FOUNDATION BENEFIT Reception with Irish band and David Cavan Fraser from 6 pm. God Made Me Funky, Soul Motivators, DJ Goldfinger and Splattermonkey play at this benefit concert From 10 pm. $25-$50 (gettickets.com). Planet Storage, 1655 Dupont. planetstorage. ca. COLIN RYAN & GREG WYARD Ryan plays from 2 to 7 pm, followed by Wyard at 9 pm. Murphy’s Law, 1702 Queen E. 416-690-5516. DOWN EAST KITCHEN PARTY Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition perform Celtic music for this party. 6 pm. $30. Royal Canadian Legion, Upstairs Ballroom, 35 Front N, Port Credit. 905-274-7177. FAMILY BRUNCH Family event with Irish music from the Bellwoods Trinity, a puppet show and more. 11 am to 2 pm, no cover. Gladstone Hotel, Melody Bar,

1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com.

JUKEBOX: ST PATRICK’S ROCK AND SOUL DANCE PARTY The Gillespie Brothers and Circle Re-

search spin rock, funk and soul. Doors 11 pm. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. EXTREME METAL MASSACRE Nephelium, Malignancy, Fragile Existence and Accursed Spawn play. Doors 8 pm. $10. Hard Luck Bar, 772A Dundas W. facebook.com/events/ 236988413058942. LAUREN MALYON St Patrick’s Day concert. Doors 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. facebook.com/laurenmalyonmusic. MADISON’S ST PATRICK’S DAY PARTY Huge party with bands Big Fog, the Make Barnes Band, Dan Kosub Duo, Reuben

O-Dell, Mark Feldman, Mike Walmsley and others playing on five floors. 14 Madison. madisonavenuepub.com. MISCHIEF DJ Deko-Ze, DJ Baby Joel and Floh spin at this party. 10 pm. $10-$20. Fly, 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. PROPHET’S, LOSSES AND HELIGAN’S WAKE $6. The Sister, 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570. RANT MAGGIE RANT Party with the high-energy Celtic World Beat quintet. 8:30 pm. $25$27.50. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416531-6604. STEAM WHISTLE’S ST PADDY’S DAY PARTY Irish entertainment with Poor Angus, the Woodgate-Shamrock Academy of Irish Dance, Brogue and the Celtic Dance Company of Canada. 2 pm to midnight. $15. The Roundhouse, 255 Bremner. steamwhistle.ca ST PATRICK’S DAY AT THE COTTAGE Live music with the Mere Mortals, dance performances and more. 11 am to close. $10. Ceili Cottage, 1301 Queen E. 416-406-1301, ceilicottage.com. ST PARTY’S DAY BASH All-day St Patrick’s celebration with music by U2 tribute band Desire, Irish Imposters, Fallen Ground and others plus food and more. 11 am. $15-$20. St Lawrence Market N, 92 Front E. tinyurl.com/ stpartyday17. DJ BILL WILLIAM Spinning from 9 pm, traditional Irish drinks and Irish oysters on the half shell. Auld Spot, 633 College. 416-645-0285, auldspot.ca. ST PAT’S WAY BACK! Butter the Butcher spins the best in 80s & 90s beats. Tota Lounge, 592 Queen W. bosno.info. SHANE MCSHANE & THE SHENANIGANS St Pat’s Party. 7:30 pm. No cover. Dominion On Queen, 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. SINGLES PARTY Music by Irish band the Spice Of Life, green beer and munchies. 6 pm. $30, adv $20. Whistler’s Pub, 995 Broadview. 416203-3434, meetmarketadventures.com. SODOM: THE GREEN PARTY DJ Sumation spins. Doors 10 pm. $5-$10. Goodhandy’s, 120 Church. 416-760-6514.

Sunday, March 18 TENTH ANNIVERSARY ACHILLES ST PATRICK’S DAY RUN/WALK 5K run/walk to benefit the

Achilles Track Club, a running club to benefit disabled people. Post-race libations and Irish eats. 10:15 am start outside Steam Whistle Brewing, 255 Bremner. steamwhistle.ca. TRANZAC’S ST PATRICK’S DAY SHOW Cairdeas (Irish for friendship) members Marsala Lukianchuk, Steafan Hannigan and Saskia Tomkins play this party. 7:30 pm. $20. Tranzac Southern Cross, 292 Brunswick. 416-9238137. 3

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If it’s rivers of green beer served up by barmaids dressed like leprechauns you’re after, faith and begorrah, don’t bother coming to Leslieville’s Ceili Cottage in the week leading up to St. Patrick’s Day. Your typical Pig ’n’ Slop Bucket this ain’t. “That’s an American thing for tourists,” says the Cottage’s Patrick McMurray. “I try to stay away from words like ‘authentic’ and ‘traditional,’ but no one in Ireland would ever put artificial food colouring in their beer.” Instead, he’ll be offering eight days of celebration that kick off on Saturday (March 10) with St. Practice Day, when Ceili’s terrific Full Irish Breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, baked beans and blood sausage goes for 15 bucks. Highlights include a family day parade on Sunday (March 11), a match-making session and barn dance on Wednesday (March 14), and Irish karaoke on March 15 – I’ve got dibs on Thin Lizzy’s Whiskey In The Jar – most events accompanied by Celtic dancers. On the Great Day itself, what McMurray refers to as “general debauchery” starts at 11 am followed by live

music and a floor show at 5 pm in the heated tent that’s been installed to cover the patio and double the tiny watering hole’s capacity. And, no, he doesn’t take reservations. “Last year people started showing up an hour before we opened,” warns McMurray. “We had to put ropes up because the lineup went all the way down to the beer store.” 3

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THE WALKMEN at the Phoenix, Friday, March 2. Rating: NNN It takes a certain level of self-indulgence for a band to celebrate its own decade-long history with a two-and-ahalf-hour, two-set show with no opening act. But unabashed grandiosity has always been a major part of the Walkmen’s aesthetic. The set list, culled from the New York City indie rock band’s six-album discography (plus a few new ones from their forthcoming seventh), alternated between elegant rockers, shuffly mariachi-tinged jaunts – complete with upright piano and full horn section – and a couple of solo acoustic ballads. Despite the varied dynamics, the songs all had a few elements in common, namely the reverbed-as-all-hell guitars and Hamilton Leithauser’s forever-yearning vocal rasp. Having a distinct sound is a good thing, especially for a band with so many stylistically similar peers, but after 20-plus songs it became a bit of a monotonous blur. RT

THE BARR BROTHERS and LITTLE SCREAM at the Great Hall, Thursday, March 1. Rating: NNN The Barr Brothers set at the Great Hall started strong, with the four Montrealers crowded together on a darkened stage inside a perimeter of pulsing white light bulbs. This evoked a midnight campfire, enhanced by the warm intimacy of Brad Barr’s vocals, his fingerpicked acoustic guitar, the percussive pitter-patter of hand-hit drums and the elegant plucking of Sarah Page’s harp. Things got louder and more experimental as the night wore on, revealing the band’s jam-folk tendencies and their audience’s penchant for hippie dancing. Andrew Barr and Andres Vial used bows to saw away at cymbals, and crashed sticks against bicycle wheels mounted on stands; Brad Barr used his right hand to pull a wire across his electric guitar strings while his left-hand fingers

hammered on and off. Mid-set, two members of opening band Little Scream – Laurel Sprengelmeyer and Richard Reed Parry (yes, that Richard Reed Parry) – came aboard to hit the bicycle wheels, a violinist added swooping Gypsy-folk touches and the songs sprawled out into epic harmonica-squealing jams that grew tiresome. By the time the Barr Brothers pulled back to a focused four-piece, the crowd had thinned considerably. CARLA GILLIS

TEENANGER at Sneaky Dee’s, Thursday, March 1.

Rating: NNNN Teenanger aren’t strangers to Toronto stages, but the local garage punks have resolved to focus on other markets to promote their just-released album, Frights. Last night’s release show was one of just two the band plan to play here this year, so they had to make it count. And they did, playing most of the songs off the album, plus a few others

and a cover of a Discharge song. The fact that their set lasted barely more than a half-hour just reinforced the quicker, punkier disposition the band displays on this new record. Songs were faster and louder. Plaidshirted, nasal lead singer Chris Swimmings spent much of the show either spitting out beer or jumping into the crowd, while guitarist Jon Schouten and bassist Melissa Ball kept up a rapid, consistent groove. That’s the perfect mode for the claustrophobic Sneaky Dee’s show space, made even more so by the unfathomable fact that the streetside windows have been painted black. For some reason, Teenanger replaced their drummer and guitarist for a firebrand version of album highlight Bank Account, but otherwise they worked as a well-oiled, house-rocking RICHARD TRAPUNSKI unit.

JOSE JAMES at the Great Hall, Friday, March 2. Rating: NNN Soulful Brooklyn vocalist José James’s approach to reinventing jazz singing

for a hip-hop world keeps the genre’s improv aspect front and centre while wrapping it with heavy soul rhythms and melodies. Backed by bass, Rhodes electric piano and a drummer, he comes across as smooth, confident and supremely laid-back. He’s long had his routine down to a crowd-pleasing science, and as a result, his Toronto fan base grows every time he comes through town. The drawback to this well-defined identity is that over the course of a full set it starts sounding formulaic. Yes, imitating turntable tricks with your voice as a substitute for a scatting is a great trick, but it loses power when applied to every jam. Likewise, flipping a hip-hop groove into a jazz shuffle is highly effective the first time but suffers from diminished returns after that. James is inarguably one of the most talented jazz-inspired vocalists taking the form in new directions, but he’s a little too comfortable at the top. BENJAMIN BOLES

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They may be headlining arenas, but the Black Keys still feel like underdogs By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI THE BLACK KEYS with ARCTIC MONKEYS at the Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Wednesday (March 14), doors 6:30 pm. $39.50-$59.50. LN, TM.

When a band bases its image on its underdog status, what does it do when it finally breaks big? The Black Keys find themselves at that perilous juncture, at odds with their own success. After more than a decade of recording no-frills blues-rock and touring constantly, singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney have become bona fide rock stars in a musical landscape where few still exist. Not that you’d know they were from looking at them. In Toronto doing press for their seventh full-length album, El Camino (Nonesuch), Carney and Auerbach hardly look like diamond-encrusted media deities. They’re surrounded by media wranglers and label reps, but they look like a couple of average bros. And though we discuss SNL visits and sold-out arena shows, their Akron, Ohio, accents betray their workingclass origins. “I’ve peeled onions for a living, so I can’t really complain about doing a day of press,” says a leather-clad Auerbach, who wears his exhaustion on his face. “We’ve always had a schedule,” says Carney. “It just used to be more like ‘Show up to Dallas and maybe this show will still be happening. The next day drive to Houston.’ We’ve put out

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records and had no one want to talk to us, so we can’t really bitch about it when people do.” Those humble roots are hard to shake, especially considering the band’s slow rise to stardom. Their audience grew incrementally with every album until 2010’s Brothers shot them to the top of the charts. El Camino, in addition to selling well, has given them their biggest opportunities to date: arena shows and headlining spots at the upcoming American mega-festival Coachella. In their minds, however, they’re still hard-working Akron boys toughing it out in their 92 Plymouth Grand Voyager (which, not coincidentally, appears on the cover of El Camino). “We’re not new to playing big venues and festivals for huge crowds, but usually we open for other bands,” says Carney. “I remember watching the [headlining] bands and thinking how cool it was that all the people in the crowd knew their songs, because no one knew ours. Now they do.” When acts graduate to Air Canada Centre level, they usually have to bring in extra bells and whistles to fit the arena scale. But aside from a couple of modest stage embellishments, the Black Keys haven’t altered their stage show. Their biggest indulgence is the seemingly least publicized one: two new touring members, bassist Gus Seyffert and keyboardist John Wood. The extra players help recreate the smoother, funkier sound of El Camino,

“I’VE PEELED ONIONS FOR A LIVING, SO I CAN’T REALLY COMPLAIN ABOUT DOING A DAY OF PRESS,”

written and recorded with producer Danger Mouse (for the first time, the songwriting was split three ways), and their addition alters the band’s iconography. Whether they’ll admit it or not, the Black Keys’ duo makeup signified their hardscrabble roots – a “jamming econo” model that fit their early rough, minimalist home recordings. “We’re just able to afford [expanding] now,” Auerbach says. “It was never supposed to be a gimmick. We never really thought of ourselves as a twopiece band. Even back when we started, we auditioned, like, four or five different guys. None of them fit, so we just kept it to the two of us. But even our first record had synth and bass overdubs. They just weren’t recorded as professionally as they are now.” In January, the band caught some flak for taking a well-publicized shot at Canadian corporate rockers Nickelback. It was the kind of swipe most young bands wouldn’t think twice about delivering, but coming from the cover of Rolling Stone it read like the pot calling the kettle black. The Black Keys don’t seem to realize that their own meteoric rise means that to many people they’re no longer worlds apart from the band they dissed. So, after all the success, can they still claim to be underdogs? “We can always make that claim,” says Auerbach. “The road we travelled to get here was long.” 3

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The issue of bullying has been big news lately, and experimental noise-pop artist EMA (aka former Gowns singer Erika M. Anderson) joined the conversation a few weeks ago with the video for her song Take One Two. The proceeds from the single are going to anti-bullying non-profit the Jamie Isaacs Foundation. Maybe more significant is how she’s flipped the concept of the It Gets Better campaign. Rather than telling teens from an adult perspective to wait out any difficulties, she repurposed old camcorder footage of herself and her high school friends goofing around in the mid-90s. The result is a message about how to make it through the trauma of adolescence. “What I wanted to do was show us having fun rather than show victims and persecution,” Anderson explains as she gets set to wrangle her band members for this tour. “I wanted to think of myself singing it to a teenage queer boy who’s getting shit on in life. When I was in high school, even though I was one of the freaks, I would step in and break up fights. I got thrown into lockers and people would yell shit at me, but I was a pretty strong individual and felt like I had to protect these nerdy comic-book boys.” It’s a subtle shift of perspective on the issue, and while it may not have tangible lessons for teens, it has remarkable emotional power. Anderson has some theories about why bullying is getting so much attention lately. “When I was in high school, once the bell rang you hung out with your friends and you could close the door and hide from that world. Now people make fake Facebook pages of other students and post about how much they hate them and want to kill them. It’s constant, and people are realizing it can have traumatic effects.” Considering the subject matter of much of her work and the raw intensity with which she performs, it’s easy to assume that Anderson is the typical tortured artist. But something else comes out during her shows. “People think the record [Past Life Martyred Saints] is serious and that I’m despondent. But then I come onstage and act like Jay-Z for a minute, smash my guitar, make a joke and cover a Danzig song. It makes them have to rethink what I’m about.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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f you want to hear toronto’s best electronic artists ply their trade, you have to go to Europe. That’s where people like Art Department (aka Jonny White and Kenny Glasgow) tend to relocate to make it big. They spend so much time touring overseas that they only play their hometown a couple of times a year. For that reason alone, Saturday’s homecoming gig at Footwork is special. But don’t assume they’ll stay away forever. The unexpected whirlwind success of electro-dubstep acts like Dead-

mau5 and Skrillex in North America might mean the tables are turning. Yet White makes a point: “The stuff we’re doing has more in common with a fucking Bob Marley record than with a Skrillex record,” he says on the phone from a Paris hotel room. “I’m not knocking Skrillex, though. His success is good for everyone. And there are people who will be introduced to us through artists like him. “It feels a bit like what happened with hip-hop over the past decade might be starting to happen with dance music.

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It’s crazy to watch, because this music has been so under-the-radar in North America for so long.” Maybe, but Art Department are an incredibly hot commodity in the global scene right now. They hit the ground running with their 2010 debut single, Without You, which was exactly what the underground dance world was waiting for. Without You is built around that familiar fouron-the-floor thump, but it’s relaxed and sensual in a way that sounds more like the 80s than the 00s. It’s anchored by a huge, melodic bass line you could actually hum, but paired with a mournful minorkey mood almost reminiscent of goth (see sidebar, page 46). When it hit the street, it felt like a breath of fresh air, and ended up on countless year-end charts, including the number-one spot on the influential Resident Advisor list. While few could have predicted the success of their oddball formula, it worked, and the hits kept coming along with their critically well-received full-length album debut, The Drawing Board. But as the old story goes, they quickly realized it made more sense to relocate to Europe (Glasgow to London and White to Barcelona). For their kind of dance music, that’s where the gigs are, where the labels are and where the mainstream radio support is. The duo even did a prestigious BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix last year. Pinning down Glasgow was a challenge even before he became an international dance music star. The first time I interviewed the DJ/producer/ vocalist for NOW in 2001, I ended up in the parking lot of his studio, waiting forever in a car with two of his old DJ partners because he didn’t recognize their phone number. You learn to plan for Glasgow to go AWOL when it comes to press, but his huge talent makes you willing to work around that. Still, the lack of a firm interview time for this story has me worried. This time though, White has a novel suggestion. “I’m pretty sure he’s in his hotel room right now. Just call the front desk and ask for him. If he doesn’t know you’re calling and he answers, then he has to do it.” It works, and, as always, once you get him on the phone, he’s charming, relaxed and more than willing to talk about anything. “Toronto is my home, and I love it, but travelling from there to come to Europe every weekend doesn’t make any sense,” Glasgow explains wistfully. “It’s not cost-efficient. If I wanted to take it seriously, I needed to move here.” His international profile may have skyrocketed recently, but he comes across as the same happy-golucky dude who was a familiar fixture in the Toronto party scene for 20-something years. And “fixture” isn’t an overstatement. In the early 90s, the JMK Family Tree after-hours warehouse parties (the K referring to Glasgow) were pulling big numbers to desolate corners of the city for long nights of soulful house music. Glasgow later fell in love with techno and ended up being one of the residents at the legendary legal after-hours Industry Nightclub, which is where his current partner-in-crime, White, realized he needed to be involved in the exploding underground dance music scene. “My first real experience with house music was partying at Industry,” says White. “It was about two weeks after my first time there that I bought my first turntables. I always thought this was what I wanted to do for a living, but I was a bit timid about producing. I was afraid I was going to find out I wasn’t any good at what I wanted to do.” As the big-room techno scene died down in Toronto and Industry closed its doors, Glasgow started exploring the then-emerging sounds of electro while also finding a home for himself in the techhouse scene. His schedule locally was busy enough that he was one of the few Toronto underground DJs who could live relatively comfortably without having a hit record to promote on tour.

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But in some ways he was too comfortable. “I was a big fish in a small pond. I was content to live like that but not to see the younger kids coming up and starting to get more gigs than me. The only logical thing for me to do was to get back into making music and hope the right people heard it.” Luckily, White wasn’t about to let the guy who helped introduce him to dance music give up on his musician aspirations. He’d been carving out a place for himself in Toronto throwing late night warehouse parties and DJing, and was starting a label called No. 19. After some prodding, he convinced Glasgow to record his debut solo album, and that set the stage for their coming together as Art Department. “There’s no beating around the bush there – I lit a fire under his ass,” White says. “He was comfortable where he was, but I thought it was a huge waste of his talent.” White’s push not only led Glasgow to fire up his studio again but also got him to revisit singing. It’s not obvious from the dense, deliberately awkward melodies he vamps on with Art Department, but some of his first musical experiences were in a gospel choir, and his long-forgotten early 90s recordings on the Toronto label Jinx featured his vocals. “I guess I’m still pulling from gospel, but on a twisted and dark tip now,” Glasgow admits. There are few traces of the hands-in-the-air, liftyourself-up positive energy of classic soulful house in what Art Department do, but as the cliché says, house is a feeling. And as it turns out, dance floors don’t mind contemplative lyrics about heartbreak and the depressing, seedy underbelly of the late-night life. “I was into house music in the 80s when it hit Toronto, and that’s where my sound has come from. Techno DJs play a certain way, but I’ve always played it like house. I’ve just adapted those roots to the moment. “Toronto does have a sound right now that’s hard to pin down, but basically it has one foot in the past and the other in the future.” Both Glasgow and White are thinking hard about their own future, but the pair need to find some way to take a break from the constant touring to get down to business. Glasgow is starting up a label of his own, White is looking to ramp up the upcoming release schedule of No. 19, both are eager to finish preparation for the full live set they’ve been planning forever, and somehow they’ve also got to start work on the next Art Department album (not to mention individual solo work). Maybe it’s time for the pair to take a sabbatical in the relative calm of Toronto before the scene blows up on this side of the ocean, too. 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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For reasons that aren’t completely clear, Toronto seems to be having a moment with music that combines elements of soulful dance music with spooky goth pop influences. To be fair, at least half the artists in this sidebar would be horrified to see themselves lumped in with the bat-cave scene (sorry!), but the trend is undeniable. Is this just an accidental cross-pollination of otherwise unrelated scenes and sounds? Maybe, but these kinds of unexpected cultural collisions are essentially what define Toronto’s music scene.

the Weeknd Sure, hiphop and R&B are much bigger influences on the Weeknd than dance music and goth pop, but the goth connection isn’t as much of a stretch as it at first seems. Many critics have noted how much his production is influenced by industrial music, and the Siouxsie and the Banshees references and samples in House Of Balloons definitely can’t go unnoticed. And has anyone in the history of R&B ever gone to such a dark and creepy place lyrically as the Weeknd?

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Austra’s opera-informed synth pop with house music, but they’ve been quite clear that discovering dance music was a key influence. The moody minor-key melodies and theatrics definitely owe a debt to the gloomy side of vintage electro-pop, but it’s the club influences that made Austra an act that captured the world’s attention.

CrystAl CAstles They’ll angrily deny it, but the eyeliner and leather they wear onstage aren’t the only signs that Crystal Castles have some bats and vampires in their blood. They claim they’d much rather listen to black metal in the tour bus than electro, but really their vibe is exactly in between the two extremes. Bonus goth points: Ethan Kath (once known as Ethan Deth) was a regular at the Ministry-friendly Bovine Sex Club when he played with glam metal band Kill Cheerleadër.

AzAri & iii Like Art Department,

Azari & III wouldn’t exist were it not for the influence of Industry Nightclub, and are similarly heavily influenced by all eras of house music. However, the reason they’ve managed to transcend the insular world of underground dance music is because they also embrace new wave and electronic pop, and tracks like Undecided betray a seldom-mentioned industrial edge.

trust Up-and-coming Toronto band Trust share percussionist Maya Postepski with Austra, and also a taste for dance-floor-ready synth pop dripping with dark and depressing atmospherics. Of all the acts on this list, Trust are the only ones to readily admit to goth influences, but considering lead singer Robert Alfons’s Peter Murphyesque baritone, it’s not like they could really deny it. BENJAMIN BOLES

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Footwork (425 Adelaide West), Saturday (March 10) See cover story, page 44.

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Week Wrongbar doors 10 pm. $21. RT, SS, TW. March 23. GRASSHOPPER (Hong Kong) Ricoh Coliseum $48-$168. TM. April 4. NICK LOWE & HIS BAND Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7:30 pm. $34. RT, SS, TM. April 23.

THE DRUMS, CRAFT SPELLS, PART TIME Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7:30

pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TW. April 27. FRANKIE ROSE, DIVE Parts & Labour doors 10 pm, $11.50. RT, SS, TW. May 2. FUTURE ISLANDS Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 3. GROUPLOVE, REPTAR Wrongbar doors 8 pm, $18. RT, SS, TW. May 9. ALLEN STONE Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $18.50. RT, SS, TW. May 11. XIU XIU, DIRTY BEACHES Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. May 12. MAPS & ATLASES Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS. May 16. ZEUS Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TM. June 9. RADIOHEAD, CARIBOU Downsview Park, doors 5 pm, $64.50. RT, SS, TM. June 16. LAURA MARLING Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $25. RT, SS, TM. June 17.

LMFAO & THE PARTY ROCK CREW,

FAR EAST MOVEMENT, THE QUEST CREW, SIDNEY SAMSON, EVA SIMONS & NATALIA KILLS Molson Amphitheatre $34.50-$69.50. TM. July 4.

JUSTICE, M83, AUSTRA, BURAKA SOM SISTEMA Garrison Common 5 pm, all

ages, $39-$49. PDR, RT, SS, TW. August 4.

THE BLACK KEYS, THE SHINS Molson Amphitheatre doors 7 pm, $35-$59.50. TM. August 4.

BIG TIME RUSH, CODY SIMPSON

Molson Amphitheatre 6 pm, $29.50$69.50. TM. September 8.

GORDON LIGHTFOOT Massey Hall 8 pm, $45-$85. RTH, TM. November 14 to 17.

AQUILA UPSTAIRS Bang Howdy (blues/R&B)

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CAMERON HOUSE Corin Raymond 6 pm. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situation C’EST WHAT Tim Magwood 9 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Hey Amy & the Countrymen (folk/pop) 10 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Dave Borins (alt country) 10

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EMMET RAY BAR Box Full of Cash 9 pm. ETON HOUSE Keith Jolie (blues/roots) 7 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Indie Love

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Radio Fighter/Lover, Arizona Lily & Kevin Myles Wilson 9 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Ron Hynes 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL Hicks and Dawe. LOU DAWG’S Call In Sick Friday Thursdays! Mike C (acoustic blues/funk/soul/ska) 10 pm. LULA LOUNGE Wazimbo & Orchestra Marrabenta de Toronto 9 pm. NAUGHTY NADZ Back Alley Ringers Blues Band 9 pm. PRESS CLUB G Mark Weston (acoustic/folk rock) 10 pm. THE SISTER Chelsea & the Cityscape. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

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‘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 LOUNGE Weekend Startup Nights & Weekends (pop/rock) doors 11 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Run With the Kittens, Kether, Sis Alaistar, the Wilderness of Manitoba doors 9 pm. EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS The Swamp Yankees, Brad Filatree Band, Grand Canyon doors 9 pm. EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS Hard-Pressed To Print: Benefit for the inPrint Artist Collective Kendal Thompson, Harbour Sharks, CrownA?Thornz. THE GREAT HALL Claps & Slaps Tour Black Milk, Nat Turner, J Pinder. See preview, page 50. HARD ROCK CAFE Hotel Royal doors 7 pm. HORSESHOE Unchained, Faint Reflection, Tracking Nicely, Talk in Blue 8:30 pm. LEE’S PALACE Rebel Rebel, Long Range Hustle, Eden Culture 8:30 pm. LOLA Nelson S (Melting Pot).

MARKHAM THEATRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Jukebox Hits Live Freddy Vette & the

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PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Yelawolf doors 8

pm, all ages. Cancelled, refunds at point of purchase. RIVOLI Music Box Charity Fundraiser Everything That’s Fly’s & Matt York 8:30 pm. THE ROVERS PUB Arjun & Dave (rock/pop/hiphop) 10 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Duke Buzzy, Babylon Warchild, Grandfather Mantis, Mindbender.

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Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. SUPERMARKET The Ethers, the Birthday Cakes, Sean Pinchin 9:30 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Druckfarben &

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THE WILSON 96 Blair Harvey & the Poor Darlin’s (roots/rock) 9 pm.

DOUBLE DOUBLE LAND An Evening With The Canadian Romantic performance and book launch Robert Dayton 8 pm. EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THE-

ATRE Cosi Fan Tutte U of T Faculty of Music Opera Division (Mozart’s opera) 7:30 pm.

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Five Clarinets, Four Hands Richard Thomson, Stephen Pierre, Lydia Wong, Mark Duggan 12:10 to 1 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE The

Accordion And All Its Charms Jelena Milojevic (accordion) noon-1 pm. GATE 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Denise Leslie Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. HART HOUSE ARBOR ROOM The Apeiron Strings Collective Hart House Chamber Strings, Gavin Slate, Alanna J Brown, Darrelle London, the MacHams, Mike Celia and Sarah Loucks 8 pm. METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH Noon At Met James Bailey (organ) 12:15 to 12:45 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. ON CUE Open Mic 9 pm. REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). REX Alan Hetherington (samba) 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain (piano) 6:30 pm.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC KOERNER HALL Kabaret At Koerner Max Raabe & Palast Orchester 8 pm.

TRANE STUDIO Piano Series Hilario Duran Trio (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

YORK UNIVERSITY ACCOLADE EAST BLDG MARTIN FAMILY LOUNGE Music Media Concert Fine Arts Showcase Student Orchestra 7:30 pm.

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THE CENTRAL DJ Battle 9:30 pm. CHEVAL Brand’d DJ PG-13 (house/hip-hop/

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COBRA LOUNGE Stefano Noferini 10 pm. CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS CC Diemond Bash DJs CC

& Matty Dee (rock/punkparty/metal). DETOUR BAR Roundabout Alicia Hush, Nathan Barato, Zaid Edghaim doors 9 pm. GOODHANDY’S Ladyplus Parties DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 THE HOXTON Bingo Players doors 10 pm. INSOMNIA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). LEE’S PALACE DANCE CAVE Transvision DJ Shannon (rock/dance) 10 pm. SUTRA TIKI BAR The Bridge DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). UNIT BAR Loose Joints DJ Numeric (soul/funk/ hip-hop/disco/R&B) 10 pm.

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Lee’s Palace Wednesday March 21

SAUL WILLIAMS

THE INBREDS

SPOEK MATHAMBO, CADENCE WEAPON AND MORE

PASSION PIT

NIGHTBOX

The Great Hall Friday March 23

NICOLAS JAAR

LITTLE GIRLS, Rituals & more - Parts & Labour (presented by Hand Drawn Dracula)

presents LA BELLE PROVINCE NIGHT

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT THE DEARS

SHAKURA SAIDA, Harrison Kennedy, Suzy Vinnick and more - Annex Wreckroom (presented by DAWG FM) 14 BANDS - 2 FLOORS - Monster Truck, Caveman, The Apache Relay & more El Mocambo (presented by Dine Alone Records) CLOUD NOTHINGS, PS I Love You & more Lee’s Palace (presented by Windish Agency) T. MILLS - Opera House (presented by Live Nation) TYVEK, Bare Wires & The Soupcans - Parts & Labour SATURDAY, MARCH 24 THE TREWS w/Poor Young Things - Queen Elizabeth Theatre (presented by Live Nation)

Lee’s Palace Saturday March 24

Fairmont Royal York Hotel Saturday March 24

EMBRACE PRESENTS

HOUSSE DE RACKET, LIGHT FIRES, GRAHMZILLA

WHALETOOTH, SANDMAN VIPER COMMAND AND SNAILHOUSE

Rich Aucoin, The Sheepdogs, Dan Mangan, Treble Charger, The Pack A.D. & Young Empires

THE POSTELLES, DIRTY MAGS, INDIAN HANDCRAFTS, WILDLIFE Lee’s Palace Thursday March 22

I CALL FIVES - Hard Luck (All Ages)

BEAR HANDS, Paper Lions, Dinosaur Bones, Sheezer and more - Sneaky Dees (presented by Young Lions Music Club)

The Music Gallery Thursday March 22

BUZZ FACTOR SHOWCASE W/ TRIBES

DPRYDE, TFHOUSE & more - Annex Wreckroom (presented by Hustle Girl)

FRIDAY, MARCH 23 PERFORMANCES BY:

Wrongbar Friday March 23

AUDIO BLOOD SHOWCASE w/ NASH, The Love Machine, Ben Caplan & The Casual Smokers & more - Sneaky Dees

JOHN K. SAMSON

& THE PROVINCIAL BAND W/ WAKE OWL AND SHOTGUN JIMMIE

FANFARLO – Virgin Mobile Mod Club (presented by Live Nation) CHILDISH GAMBINO w/ Danny Brown Sound Academy (presented by Live Nation) DALLAS SMITH, The Stellas, Stacey McKitrick and more - Cadillac (presented by KX96FM) THE SUICIDE OF WESTERN CULTURE, Ninette & The Goldfish & more - The Piston MISTEUR VALAIRE, Special Guests “XXX” & more - El Mocambo (presented by M for Montreal)

Wrong Bar Saturday March 24

El Mocambo Thursday March 22

JOHNNY REID presented by

PROUD FM PRESENTS

DRAGONETTE

W/YOUNG EMPIRES & ERIC SOLOMON

& MORE

The Great Hall Thursday March 22

TREBLE CHARGER W/ TEENAGE KICKS, TWIN ATLANTIC AND MORE

THE RUBBERBANDITS, Gentleman Hall and more - Sneaky Dees (presented by We Got the Movement) MULTIPLE NIGHTS MARCH 21 – 24 WINTERSLEEP, Two Hours Traffic, Monster Truck, The Pack AD, Jordan Cook, Zeus, Eight and a Half & more - Horseshoe Tavern MARCH 21 – 24 BASSWEEK w/Andy C: Alive, Jack Beats & more - Various Venues

*Wristbands only show

MARCH 22 – 24

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Wednesday March 21

Revival Friday March 23

The Hoxton Friday March 23

Phoenix Concert Theatre Wednesday March 21

The Artist Selects Series hosted and curated by SHAD, JUNIOR BOYS and BRENDAN CANNING - Garrison (presented by Redbull Music Academy)

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Friday, March 9 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Graffitti Park 9:30 pm. AQUILA UPSTAIRS The Roulettes 9:30 pm. BAR ITALIA Shugga (funk/soul/R&B/top 40). BOVINE SEX CLUB Bootleg Glory, Corners, the

BLACK MILK HIP-HOP

Detroit MC/producer brings musicianship to the rap game By ANUPA MISTRY

Stone Sparrows, DJ Vania.

CADILLAC LOUNGE Malachi Crunch. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN The Rattlesnake Choir (roots)

10 pm, Jeremy Fisher & Jim Bryson 7 to 9 pm. DEVIL’S CELLAR The House of Haunt, Rackula, the Pre-Nods, Blind Cats, DMB (psychobilly/ punk) doors 8 pm, all ages. ETON HOUSE Hurricane Cove (rock) 9 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Freeman Dre & the Kitchen party, Broken Bricks, Tangi Ropars 9 pm. THE GARRISON Christian D & the Hangovers (rock) 9 pm. GRAFFITI’S Paul Martin Rocks For Sick Kids 5 to 7 pm. HORSESHOE Daylight for Deadeyes, the Goodluck Foundation, 1977, the Stormalongs 9 pm. KORNERSTONES Radio Play (top 40) 9:30 pm. LEE’S PALACE Loud Speakers, Antz One, T City & seT, L the 12th Letter. THE LOADED DOG Moonshine 8:30 pm.

MASSEY HALL Arden doors 7 pm. ñJann RIVOLI Sara Kamin, the Pigott Brothers, Amy Campbell 8:30 pm. ñ SILVER DOLLAR The One-Look Donnybrook, Skirt Chasers, Mittenz, Wilmott Red doors 9 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Lighthouse doors 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Mena Hardy & Shotgun Revolutionaries (Southern rock) 10 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

CAMERON HOUSE Celebrity Auction To Benefit Jadea Kelly’s New CD Jadea Kelly, ñ Shakura S’Aida, Paul Reddick, Protest the Hero and others 10 pm.

THE CENTRAL Emilio Fuentes (acoustic folk

rock/pop) 9 pm, Taylor Abrahamse (singer/ songwriter) 6 pm. EL MOCAMBO Woodshed Orchestra, Del Ber, Alannah Gurr doors 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Fried Angels (blues/R&B/funk) 9 pm. GROSSMAN’S The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues). HABITS GASTROPUB Austin & Jimini 9 pm. HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE The Little Naturals w/ Jon Knight (blues) 8 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Really Randy! Celebrating The Music (& Sardonic Humour) Of Randy Newman Lori Cullen, Michael Jerome Brown, Michael Johnston, Treasa Levasseur, David Matheson, George Koller, Jory Nash and others 8:30 pm. LOLA Hayley Carro 8 pm, Jam Danny Beerio 3 pm. LOU DAWG’S Gotta Groove Fridays Jeff Eager (Motown/funk/soul/blues) 10 pm.

LOWER OSSINGTON THEATRE GREEN DOOR CABARET Peggy Mahon & Danny McErlain 8 pm. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Dance Party Jorge Maza & Tipica Toronto, DJ Suave 10 pm.

MANCHESTER ARMS Bash For Ernest Lee 8 pm. PRESS CLUB Great Aunt Ida, Christopher

Dignan 10 pm. See preview, page 54. ñ REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

THE ROVERS PUB Seasick Sailors (Celtic Canadian folk) 10 pm.

BLACK MILK AND NAT TURNER with J PINDER and DIAZ at the Great Hall (1087 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, March 8), 10 pm. $15. PDR, RT, SS.

Immediately after answering the phone, 28-year-old producer/rapper Black Milk starts laughing his ass off. It dissipates tension and is warm and contagious, but I have ask, between giggles, what’s so funny? “Oh, because I answered with ‘Yeah, this me,’” he says self-deprecatingly in a Midwestern Detroit twang before chuckling some more. If this were any other producer – a job that involves holing up day and night perfecting perfectionism – the laughter might seem an awkward tic, nervousness brought on by the glare outside the cave. But Black Milk, who entered rap as a teenage hobbyist emcee and went professional in 2002, is just in good spirits, even though it’s raining in New York City, the fourth stop on his first cross-continent tour. He’s excited about returning to Toronto, which he salutes for being an outpost of Motor City rap fans. “I’ve never had a bad show in Toronto. I don’t want to jinx myself,” he laughs. “I know cats appreciate Detroit hip-hop up there. That’s one of the first places word spread when we, Slum Village, Dilla were making music. And early in the game – the late 90s, early 2000s.” Around that time, before his 2005 rapping/producing debut, Sound Of The City, Black Milk honed his style – neck-snapping drums and curious, soulful samples – with the group B.R. Gunna, and Slum Village and affiliates. He’s released three solo records since, most recently 2010’s Album Of The Year (Fat Beats), and served as beat-maker for multiple collaborative projects. High-profile 2011 records Random Axe, with rappers10:42 Sean Price and 3/4/12 PM Guilty Simpson, and the

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Black & Brown EP featuring squawky spitter Danny Brown, made it feel like Black Milk’s most acclaimed year yet, though he doesn’t necessarily agree. “It felt like I took a step back last year because I was producing,” he explains before admitting good-naturedly, “but I can’t lie: I’m better at beats. I get it in as an emcee, too, but my strength is really in beats, because I studied music in and out. All that stuff, music theory, my brain just absorbs.” He idolizes greats from back in the day, especially when it comes to live performance: P. Funk and George Clinton, James Brown, Fela Kuti, Prince. “Of course, back then it was nothing but live music,” he concedes. “I don’t want to sound pretentious or like I’m trying to downplay hip-hop, but as a musician myself, in order to incorporate some of that [style of] performance I had to bring in a band.” Performing with a keyboardist, bassist and drummer gives the Claps And Slaps Tour an atypical rap show vibe, he says. “Those three cats and me just get up there and rock out. It’s a lot of live musicianship going on, onstage jam sessions. It makes tracks feel bigger, and we can extend and flip a song.” He’s elusive about a forthcoming solo record since he’s got more pressing commitments on the horizon: an R&B EP with singer Melanie Rutherford and some rap instrumental projects to be released later this year. Downplaying his drive with another laugh, he insists the latter will be “a twist on the concept – not just a stack of beats.” 3

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Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

AlliAnce FrAnçAise Downtown Quand La

Ville Nous Habite Patricia Cano, Louis Simao and Carlos Bernardo (cabaret chanson) 7:30 pm. Dominion on Queen Steve Hall Group (jazz) 8 pm.

eDwArD Johnson BuilDing mAcmillAn theAtre Cosi Fan Tutte U of T Faculty of Music

Opera Division (Mozart’s opera) 7:30 pm. gAte 403 John Deehan Jazz Band 9 pm, Robert David & Bang Howdy 5 to 8 pm. glenn goulD stuDio Vivaldi Four Seasons Sinfonia Toronto, Jeonghwan Yoon, Calum MacLeod 8 pm. lulA lounge Friday Jazz Series Alithea Cameron (jazz) doors 7 pm. music gAllery Emergents II Ina Henning & Marc-Olivier Lamontagne 8 pm. olD mill inn Fridays To Sing About Yvette Tollar, David Restivo, Mike Downes 7:30 pm. Quotes Fridays At Five The Canadian Jazz Quartet & Russ Little 5 to 8 pm. rex Kevin Breit Trio 9:45 pm, Chris Gale Trio 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. rocco’s Plum tomAto Andy De Campos 6 to 9 pm. roy thomson hAll What Makes It Great? Vivaldi Four Seasons Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Jennifer Koh (violin) 7:30 pm.

royAl conservAtory oF music Koerner hAll Kabaret At Koerner Max Raabe & Palast Orchester 8 pm.

somewhere there stuDio Leftover Daylight

Series Dan Loughrin, Slipper Orchestra, Scott Good, Arnd Jurgensen, Brian Lahaie and others 8 pm. trAne stuDio Arecibo (Latin jazz) 8:30 pm. trAnzAc The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

Annex wrecKroom 90s Party Fawn BC & Caff 10 pm.

BeAver Cub Camp DJs Scooter & Shane McKinnon doors 11 pm.

BloKe & 4th Friday Night Chris Laroque. cAstro’s lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/

funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm. coBrA lounge The Fix Fridays Mkutz. crAwForD Phazed/Red Out DJ Aphillyaded & Daddy Maysr, Freeza Chin & DJ Shai (reggae/ dancehall/hip-hop). DrAKe hotel lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. emmet rAy BAr DJ Funky Flavours 10 pm. Fly Grapefruit DJs Shane Percy, Aural 10 pm.5 FootworK Thank You Volume Three Addy, Jonathan Rosa, Casualties of Sound doors 10 pm. gooDhAnDy’s Where’s The Love? ACT Fundraiser DJs Rolls Royce, Blackcat & Sumation doors 10 pm.5 the greAt hAll Album release party Serum, David Boomah, DemolitionMan, Marcus Visionary, Everfresh & Lush doors 10 pm. henhouse That Time Of The Month (all-female R&B, soul & disco dance party) 10 pm. insomniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays Mickey D (house/breaks). lee’s PAlAce DAnce cAve Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod/Britpop) 10 pm. levAcK BlocK BAcK room DJ Rad McCool (hip-hop). levAcK BlocK Front room DJ Nerdvana. mAnA BAr DJ Trambo (reggaeton/hip-hop/ Latin urban). PArts & lABour White Girl DJs Patrick McGuire, Josh McIntyre & Ghetto Gold Matt (hip-hop) 10 pm. screen lounge Feature Fridays DJ J-Class (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/house) 10:30 pm. suPermArKet Props DJs Rich Medina, Akalepse 10 pm. thomPson hotel The Bellboy Did It. virgin moBile moD cluB Come Out And Play Matt Medley (anthems/dance/90s) doors 10 pm. wrongBAr Egyptian Lover doors 10 pm.

Dc music theAtre Metal As F$#% Fest 25 Caym, Desertion, Axecess, Through the Black, Mind of the Machine (metal) 8 pm, all ages. Dominion on Queen Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 4:30 to 8 pm. DouBle DouBle lAnD Y33BA release party Your 33 Black Angels, HotKid, the Disraelis, Planet Creature, Beliefs, DJs A&K, DJs Richie & Cal 9 pm. DrAKe hotel unDergrounD Young Prisms, Boy Friend doors 8 pm. eton house Cold Shot (Stevie Ray Vaughn tribute) 9 pm. Full oF BeAns coFFee Sorry Cousins 4 to 5:30 pm. the greAt hAll Ashleigh Semkiw, DJ Al Bundy 8 pm. hArD rocK cAFe CD release Automan.ca 10 pm. horseshoe Album launch The Junction, Goddamn Robots, Trevor James 9:30 pm. Kornerstones Carmella Long (rock/R&B) 9:30 pm. lee’s PAlAce Morre, Ashes at Dawn, Strawman 9:30 pm. mAssey hAll Jann Arden doors 7 pm.

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the music hAll Pyx Lax doors 7 pm. revivAl When Love Is Not Enough benefit for

Jennifer Ashleigh Children’s Charity Standing on Stars 5-9 pm. rex Two Piano Duo John Stetch & Jan Jarczyk 9:45 pm, Justin Bacchus (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm, Brunch Matinee Danny Marks (pop) noon.

richmonD hill centre For the PerForming Arts Frankie Avalon 8 pm. rivoli Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, Robin

Dell’Unto doors 8 pm. the rovers PuB Dirty Maria (Latin) 10 pm. the sister The Hook Up, Evil Eyes. smooth monKey Cross-Eyed Mary (60s & 70s pop rock) 10 pm. sneAKy Dee’s Take Me to the Pilot all ages. sounD AcADemy M.O.P. (Mash Out Posse), Smif-N-Wessun, DJ Lord Finesse, DJ Switches (hip-hop) 10:30 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s The Bear Band w/ David Bacha (R&B/rock) 4 to 8 pm. southsiDe Johnny’s Taxi (rock/top 40/dance) 10 pm. trAnzAc CD release Paper Beat Scissors. tryst Ska Noel. vAPor centrAl ZZBRA Moka Only, Evil Ebenezer (hip-hop). virgin moBile moD cluB Kiosk.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

AQuilA uPstAirs Clela Errington 9:30 pm. cADillAc lounge Mary & Micky (country)

3:30 pm.

cAmeron house Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 6 to 8 pm.

cAmeron house Front room Sue & Dwight

3:30 pm.

cAstro’s lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shout-

er) 4:30 pm.

DAKotA tAvern Big Tobacco & the Pickers, Kayla Howran & the Fellas (country) 10 pm. gAte 403 Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm. glADstone hotel meloDy BAr Country Saturdays Whitney Rose (country) 9 pm. grossmAn’s Chloe Watkinson & the Crossroads 10 pm. highwAy 61 southern BArBeQue The 24th Street Wailers (blues) 8 pm. hirut Fine ethioPiAn cuisine Country Jam Murray Powell (eclectic) 2 to 6 pm. hugh’s room Steve Forbert 8:30 pm. the locAl Chris Staig and the Marquee Players 10 pm, Arthur Renwick 5 pm. lolA Take with Audio 8 pm. lou DAwg’s Goodtimes Don Campbell (acoustic blues/rock) 10 pm, Southern Brunch & Live Blues Mark Bird Stafford noon to 3 pm.

Saturday, March 10

lower ossington theAtre green Door cABAret Ali Garrison & Mark Rainey 8 pm. lulA lounge Salsa Saturday Conjunto Lacalu,

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Press cluB Staggy Townsend & Tanya Phil-

Girls, DJ Sir ian Blurton. ñ cADillAc lounge Double O Soul.

reBAs cAFé & gAllery Open Mic Saturdays

AlleycAtz Graffitti Park 9:30 pm. Bovine sex cluB Carole Pope, Army cAmeron house Tarantula 10 pm. cAmeron house BAcK room Silver Bullet. the centrAl The Living Satellites (alternative/indie/rock) 6 pm.

cherry colA’s rocK n’ rollA Bend Sinñister.

DJ Gio doors 7 pm.

ipovich (acoustic/folkrock) 10 pm.

The Just Us Band 1 to 4 pm.

relish New Music Night Jerry Leger (singer/ songwriter) 9:30 pm.

royAl conservAtory oF music Koerner hAll Angélique Kidjo 8 pm. ñ trAnzAc southern cross Jamzac (folk) 3

pm.

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NOW march 8-14 2012

thurs april 5 @ sounD acaDemy

wed april 4 @ opera house $ 16.50

advance • 9:00pm Doors

the naked nada pr esents

22.50 advance

and famous surf with

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

an horse

sunDay april 15

rasputina trampled lee’s palace • $20 advance

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

saturday

thurs march 29 @ lee’s palace $

36.50 advance • 8:30pm Doors • 19+

psychedelic furs fri april 6 @ moD club • $18.50 adv • all-ages • 6:00pm w i th

BurninG loVe

saturDay april 14 @ lee’s palace

by lucero cancer turtles april 14 horseshoe • 15.50 adv

22.50 advance • 8:30pm Doors • 19+

sunDay april 29 the phoenix

bats

kina the wooden grannis sky all-ages • $18.50 advance

j roddy Walston & the Business

touche amore friday april 20 opera house • $15.50 advance

& low

thursday april 19 massey hall

all-ages / tickets $59.50 - $69.50 advance on sale now @ the roy thompson hall box office massey hall box office & masseyhall.com

weDnesDay april 25

sunparlour players

weDnesDay may 2 @ moD club • $18.50 advance

spiritualized $ 27.00

advance • 8:00pm Doors • 19+

thurs july 19 @ sounD acaDemy

beirut all-ages / licenseD • $ 35.00 aDvance ga $ 50.00 aDvance vip (19+)

march 8-14 2012 NOW

@ the phoenix

advance • limiteD seateD show (400) • 7:30pm Doors

thursDay april 26 @ horseshoe

boxer rebellion supersuckers thursday may 17

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

saturDay may 5 @ the phoenix

$34.00

$ 23.50

saturDay may 12

justin cults ron townes phoenix concert theatre • $ 20.00 advance

mon april 23

sexsmith

opera house

$ 18.50

advance • 8:30 doors

Nashville Bloodshot RecoRds alt couNtRy

earle w/ TrisTen

thursDay july 21 @ the phoenix

best coast $ 18.50

advance • 8:00pm Doors • 19+

weDnesDay august 1 @ the phoenix connecticut • 4aD • $ 20.00 advance • 8:00pm Doors • 19+

advance • 8:30pm Doors • 19+

nashville pussy friDay june 9 @ the phoenix

arts & crafts • $15.00 advance

tues may 8 the phoenix

neon

indian w/ lemonade

friDay may 18 & sat may 19 queen elizabeth theatre

scrappy happiness tour • $29.50 advance + ff (reserved seating)

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

march 28

the horSeShoe

brooklyn • $12.00 advance

tHurSday march 8 • $5.00

unchaineD faint reflection tracking nicely talk in Blue Saturday march 10 $10.00

• cd releaSe

thE

junction goddamn robots trevor James

mon march 12 • no cover shoeless mondays

DeaD Jack pine Grayl mike cavanagh reagle Beagle BanD Wed march 14 • $4.00 door

daLLas sutherLand common cycle slaves to Groove dolly

friday march 9 $7.00

• indie rock

dayLight For deadeyes the goodLucK Foundation 1977 the stormaLongs Hosted by Bookie (18th year)

tueSday march 13

uk brit pop buzz band

Quints Last stand vista vision morning parade cuLture reJect Fri march 16 • $12.00 adv St. patrick’S day Weekend! Montreal via kingSton iriSh celtic punk

class assassins teenage X

Sat march 17 • $10.00 door

mon march 19 • Sold out!

mary margaret o’hara and tons of special guests!

tueSday april 10 $ lee’S palace • 15.00 advance

shabazz palaces Saturday $april 21 lee’S palace • 15.00 advance

Born gold + magical cloud + moon King

WedneSday march 21 • cmF $6.00 @ door or Free W/ WriStBand

bright Light sociaL hour the ascot royals to tell • Gloryhound beLLa cLava • dan Kosub + the crass Lads

Sat march 31 • $16.50 adv

mar 25 - wedding present aPr 14 - cancEr Bats apr 16 - white denim

W/ living

With lions

WedneSday

april 11

lee’S palace

$ 17.50

advance

lee’S palace • $ 13.50 advance

tyler Bryant

the cribs

tueSday april 17 annex WreckrooM • $16.50 adv

friday april 20 horSeShoe • $12.50 advance

acacia good strain olD war lionheart + no braGGinG riGhts

belle brigade + family of the year

tHurS may 3 @ mod cluB • $ 18.50 adv • all-ages • 6pm

thurSday may 3

Saturday may 5

defeater & balance and composure

Saturday may 12

xiu islands heaven xiu dirty beaches horSeShoe • $11.50 advance

the garriSon • $11.50 advance

future Bear in

lee’S palace • $ 13.50 advance

thurSday may 15

lee’S palace • $ 15.00 advance

active child balam acab W/

thurSday may 17 lee’S palace • $14.50 advance

rat scabies & brian James play the damned

Saturday may 26

joe puG horSeShoe tavern • $11.50 adv

maps & atlases young prisms FLatFoot 56 gavin mcinnes may 16

horSeShoe • $11.50 adv

sat march 10 @ the drake • $10.00 adv

tueSday

march 13 garriSon • 13.50 adv $

thurs march 29 @ hard luck • 10.50 adv

tues march 20 @ drake hotel • 10.00 adv

w/ hypnophonics

book launch for how to piss in public

friday april 6 @ the drake • $13.50 adv

sunday april 8 @ the drake • $11.50 adv

saturday april 7 @ the drake • $10.50 adv

sunday april 15 @ garrison • $11.50 adv

hunx & his punx perfume genius monstEr trucK • PacK ad tim fite milagres disappears zeus • eight and a half andrew jackson jihad horse feathers sleepy sun wintersleep • two hours traffic sunday april 1 @ the drake • $10.50 adv

lost in the trees poor moon

fri march 23 • $15.00 adv • cMf arts & crafts Showcase

sun april 15 @ horseshoe • $10.50 adv

tues april 24 @ hard luck • $10.50 adv

sun april 29 @ horseshoe • $10.50 adv

Sat march 24 • $15.00 advance • cMf featuring

W/ joyce manor

mon april 23 @ horseshoe • $10.00 adv

416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010

Fri march 9 • $10.00 door

antz one & set morre lt.thecity 12th letter

Sun march 11 • $ 10.00 door

warner music showcase

with

WedneSday

thurS march 22 • $13.50 advance • cMf featuring

horseshoetavern.com 370 Queen Street WeSt / Spadina

tHurS march 8 • $ 6.00 door

no king for countrymen loud SpeakerS With reBel reBel long range hustle eDen culture Sat march 10 • $10.00

ashes at dawn modified sTartheslinger hood internet strawman blouse + doldrums w/

sat march 31 @ silver dollar • $11.50 adv

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

with

supported Jeff beck tour

Plants & animals la dispute

lee’S palace • $15.00 advance

grimes

nite jewel

comeback kid

may 14

FraiL Fragment morning thieves fleece elves

with

Friday march 30 @ mod cluB • $ 17.50 adv • all-ages

monday

tHurSday march 15 • $5.00

34 th aniv martian awareness Ball featuring

chairlift

Sunday april 1

all-ageS

friday may 4 @ the garrison • $15.00 adv

hanni el khatib eleanor friedberger with sundelles

with hospitality

sat may 19 @ the drake • $15.50 advance

sat may 17 @ sneaky dee’s • $10.00 adv

rocky Votolato cheap girls

WED. may 2 friday

the drake • $ 13.50 advance

alcoholic faith mission

WedneSday march 14

friday march 16

white riBBon campaign funDraiser

hey $ 15.00

advance • vancouver

chicken salaD atom anD the volumes my frienDs Big heaD Western Walk

ocean!

Saturday march 17

Sun march 18 • $20 @ door

serbian rock

france/nyc g u i ta r v i r t u o S o !

tHurS march 15 • $6.00 door

tribute to

eKV Vrati unatrag

for additional details visit ekatarinavelika.com

tueS march 20 • $6.00 door

rum runner rough Boys Killapse The horned

With aiden

knight

stEPhanE WrEmBEl mar 21 - cmf • reason • rkers mar 30 - bedlam pillow fight s/o - youth lag • joy form

lee’s palace canaDian music fest

dance cave & lee’s palace will be open until 4:00am friday & saturday during cmf

thurS march 22 friday march 23 Saturday march 24 $ 10.00 at the door

dirTy mags indian handcraFTs wildliFe TriBes

WindiSh agency • $ 15.00 adv

the

17.50 computer magic advance cloud nothinGs caveman ps i love you Big scary reunion show

inbreds

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

leespalace.com 529 bloor Street WeSt / bathurSt NOW march 8-14 2012

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

C’EST WHAT The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad

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

FRIDAY MARCH 9 /12

COME OUT AND PLAY

ANTHEMS,DANCE,90s/2012 doors @ ten

MATT MEDLEY & friends SATURDAY MARCH 10 /12 Ethan Kath of

ELOS ARMA BEASTMODE doors @ ten

MARCH

8 10 17 20 23

Druckfarben & Dave Barret Trio KIOSK MIRATEC The Saw Doctors Nneka

jazz) 3 pm.

CHALKERS PUB Juno Send-Off Fern Lindzon, George Koller, Bill McBirnie & Mark Segger 6 to 9 pm. CUPPA CAFE Scott Metcalfe Trio 2 to 5 pm.

EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THEATRE Cosi Fan Tutte U of T Faculty of Music

Opera Division (Mozart’s opera) 7:30 pm. GALLERY STUDIO CAFE The Birth Of The Cool Steve Koven Trio 7:30 pm. GATE 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO Peter Eötvös, New Music Concerts Ensemble 8 pm. NAISA SPACE NAISA Sound Bash Family Concert MiMo (children’s) noon. OLD MILL INN Jazz Masters Mike Downes, Robi Botos, Ethan Ardelli 7:30 pm. REX Laura Hubert Band (jazzy pop) 3:30 pm. SOMEWHERE THERE STUDIO Rob’s Collision Colin Anthony, Parmela Attariwala, Michael Herring, Germaine Liu and others 8 pm. TRANE STUDIO The Singer’s Jazz Series Maureen Murray, Julie McGregor, Laura Marks, Norm Amadio, Dunkin Hopkins 8 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ANNEX WRECKROOM DJ Rick Toxic (club hits/

party anthems) 10 pm. BIZUNE GALLERY Tokyo Cybermonster 13 Robotica, Decoded Feedback, DJs ZeusTM2, Dreamstate7, Lady fuSionEX 10 pm. THE CENTRAL Rodrigo Wilde Presents 9:30 pm. CRAWFORD Cadence Conference/I Know You Care Shan Dub, Boots Boogie (MC Battle). CZEHOSKI KNOWN I.James.Jones.

DISGRACELAND Everyone’s A DJ DJ Matt Blair

(novice & veteran DJs play 20-min sets) 9 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE DJ Dougie Boom doors

10 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR DJ Chris Cruz (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm.

FLY DJ LeoMeo, DJ Jeremy Khamkeo.5 THE FLYING BEAVER PUBARET Girl Party Kelly

doors 9 pm.

FOOTWORK Social Experiment Art Department, Tone of Arc, Nitin doors 10 ñ pm. See cover story, page 44. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Beats ‘n Brunch DJ Triple-X (70s disco/80s new wave/ Brit pop/00s electro). GOODHANDY’S The Definitions DJ Blackcat (R&B/reggae/house/hip-hop/soca/old&new school) doors 10 pm.5 INSOMNIA Sense Saturdays DJ Charles (deep house). LEE’S PALACE DANCE CAVE Full On Alternative DJ Mr Pete (alternative) 10 pm. LEVACK BLOCK BACK ROOM DJs Dougie Boom & Cryo. LEVACK BLOCK FRONT ROOM DJs RSNST & Crew. MOROCO CHOCOLAT Void Music Adam Khan, Haf (deep house/techno) 8 pm. NEU+RAL Fixion DJ Dwight (alt/electronic). NOCTURNE Synthicide DJ Lazarus, Saucy Miso & Hangedman (synthpop/electropop) 10 pm. OPERA HOUSE Make It Funky 7 Year Anniversary Party A Skillz, KJ Sawka, DJ Slynk, DJ DBoom, Farbsie Funk, Mickey D doors 9 pm. PARTS & LABOUR No No Pony DJs Suzie Boo & Magnum PI (90s hip-hop/Elvis) 9 pm. THE RED LIGHT Strictly Business DJ Serious, DJ Numeric (classic hip-hop) 10 pm. RIVOLI UPSTAIRS Bump N’ Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes & Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/disco/ Latin/hip-hop/boogie) doors 10 pm. SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJs John Kong, MC Abs. THOMPSON HOTEL Suite Saturdays. TOWN TALK Unfinished Business 2012 Soundclash Outcast, Soul Survival, Killamari, SuperGold, Klymaxx, Rudeboy, Kevlartone, Don Rankin, TubzM16 and others doors 9:30 pm. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB UK Underground MRK, Tigerblood, Bingo Bob, Elos Arma (indie/electro/dubstep/rock) doors 10 pm. WRONGBAR Slowed Sinden, Torro Torro doors 10 pm.

Sunday, March 11

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POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

CADILLAC LOUNGE Whiskey Jack 4 pm. C’EST WHAT Double Down (drum & bass) 6 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am to 3 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Dani Nash (rockabilly) 9 pm. THE GARRISON Crosswires #3 The Cuba-

dors, Mandeverest, Watershed Hour, DJ ñ Andrew ‘Mentalfloss’ McCallum doors 9 pm.

LEE’S PALACE Universal Music Showcase.

FOLK-POP

GREAT AUNT IDA Ida Nilsen embraces her fun side By CARLA GILLIS

GREAT AUNT IDA and CHRISTOPHER DIGNAN at the Press Club (850 Dundas West), Friday (March 9), 10 pm. Free.

Great Aunt Ida’s stellar third album, Nuclearize Me (Zunior), is so focused and thoughtfully arranged that it sounds like singer/songwriter Ida Nilsen spent the five years since her last one honing her craft in concentrated contemplation. Turns out that wasn’t the case. “Honestly, [the delay] was because I just wasn’t into it,” says Nilsen, who relocated to Toronto from Vancouver in 2007. “I have to work harder to survive here than I did in Vancouver, and I spend a lot of days off downloading free TV shows and eating ice cream.” She also knew, however, that she had the best bunch of songs she’d ever written. Assured, keenly observed folk-pop tunes fuelled by her delicate vocals and smart songwriting. She eventually took them to Ottawa to record with Dave Draves. “I wanted the record to be more fun than my previous ones. To use some takes that were more spirited and less perfect. To lose a little control. Embrace some guilty pleasures.” Read the full Q&A at nowtoronto.com/music. music@nowtoronto.com, twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

THE LOADED DOG Jessica Mondello & Mark

Ripp (acoustic pop) 4 to 8 pm. MAGPIE CAFE Heavy Generator (reggae) 9 pm. RIVOLI Hundred Faces, Mara & the Marigold doors 8:30 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

AQUILA UPSTAIRS The McDale’s Open Mic 8:30 pm, Junction Jam The New Mynah Birds (mostly blues) 3:30 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Kevin Quain 9 pm, Joanne Mackell (folk) 6 pm.

CLOAK & DAGGER PUB Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 9 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN The Beauties 10 pm, Blue-

grass Brunch 11 am to 3 pm. EPIC LOUNGE Iya Ire (Afro-Cuban drum and dance) 5 to 8 pm. FIONN MACCOOL’S ESPLANADE That Choir Ceilidh’s, the Done Me Wrongs 8 pm. continued on page 56 œ

LOUNGE LIVE AT THE

FRIDAY, MARCH �

SAX AND TRAXX WITH DJ PHAT ALBERT & ROB CHRISTIAN Doors open at 6:00pm for dinner SATURDAY, MARCH ��

BIRTH OF COOL WITH KEN SKINNER Pianist, OWEN “SOUND” TENNYSON on drums

and LEE SABA HUTCHISON on bass and friends Dinner and Jazz . Dinner from at 6:00 pm, show starts at 8:30 pm. SUNDAY, MARCH ��

BRUNCH JAM

No cover • 10:30am–3:30pm Live music & Toronto’s best brunch

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

MARCH 8-14 2012 NOW

THE DAKOTA TAVERN THU. 8 Xo.Ex.Oh’s Great Lakes Brewing’s Project-X Intl. Women’s Day Cel. 6:30 pm FRI. 9

Steve Hall Group 9 pm

SAT. 10 Ronnie Hayward Trio 4 pm • Firecracker Burlesque 2nd Anniversary Show! 9 pm SUN. 11

Rockabilly Brunch feat. The Cosmotones 11:30 am

TUE. 13

Hot Club of Corktown “TO’s Best Django Jam” 8:30 pm

WED. 14

Corktown Uke Jam 8:30 pm

UPCOMING St. Pat’s Day Sat. Mar. 17: Shane McShane & The Shenanigans feat. David Newland, Jay Moonah & Steve McNie 7:30 pm

416-368-6893 • dominiononqueen.com

WhiTE GirL

rap from 1993-2012 housTon/aTLanTa/ny/La dJs paTrick, Josh & GhETTo GoLd maTT saTurday march 10

no no pony

GinuWinE’s ‘pony’ hourLy

hip hop / ELvis / EvEryThinG friday march 16

ThE Zodiacs prEsEnT

piscEs

oLd schooL hip hop / r&b W/ diEGo bros saTurday march 17

sT. paTrick’s day parTy

biTch crafT cominG soon: thursday March 22

LITTLE GIRLS • RITUALS DUSTED • ARMY GIRLS

w/DJ misty

dylan goes eleCtriC w/BurnInG CanDy

w/DJ Vania

fri Mar 9

Bootleg glory

w/Corners, The sTone sparrows w/DJ sir Ian Blurton

Sat Mar 10

Carole PoPe

Friday March 23

TYVEK • BARE WIRES Friday March 30

sMithFits Fri april 6

MarK sultan www.partsandlabour.ca

w/army GIrls

Mon Mar 12

Flash lightnin' tueS Mar 13 The pink & Black attack present

Blind Cats

w/Celery Troff, freDDy fuCkup Wed Mar 14

Gutterbird productions presents

goliath

w/mInD of The maChIne, unnameD 542 Queen St W • 416 504 4239 bovinesexclub.com • bovinebooking@gmail.com

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

$3.25 BREAKFAST • MON - FRI 11AM- 4PM ThuRSDAY MARch 8

recordbreaker FRiDAY MARch 9

ROB DYER

+ FRIENDS DANCE PARTY

Thu 8 It Came from Brooklyn Old skool hip hop &

beats all the way from Brooklyn...

Fri 9 Get By frIday

w/Mantis & pals - 2 turntables, all jams, all night...

SaT 10 luCky BItChes

Ultra-fun, glam-positive, mega dance party...

Sun 11 Brass faCts trIvIa

Toronto’s best quiz night, followed by:

unlImIted sunday

Soul, dancehall, hip hop and beyond...

Mon 12 ICe and yo

The low-down from the lovely locals...

TueS 13 deadlIest snatCh Pastimes and diversions throughout the eve...

Wed 14 humBlemanIa Live

performance by Luke Lalonde, vinyl from the vaults of Humble Empire...

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

TAKE ME TO THE PILOT INNER CITY ELEGANCE CRASHING CARS TO TELL THE TALE • FREQUENCIES EVERY SATuRDAY

#shake a TaiL 60’s pop & soul SuNDAY MARch 11

KUNDALINI VIbES LIgHTSWEETCRUDE NEw STEMS EVERY MoNDAY

#Legends oF karaoke EVERY TuESDAY

#mFoy

EVERY WEDNESDAY

#whaT’s poppin’ 80’s/90’s hip hop party upcoming

MAR 16 SWIFT ONES MAR 22-25 CANADIAN mUSIC FEST MAR 31 ARTIST LIFE FINAL SHOW

RATTLESNAKE CHOIR 10pm BIG TOBACCO

10pm

Sat Mar 10 486 spadina ave. @ college www.silverdollarroom.com

Saturday Supper Club Blues! mar 10 • • • • • • • • • • • • 7pm

jack dekeyzer

HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH H thu mar 8 The round table presents H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H fri mar 9 H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H fri mar 16 Live reggae Dance Party H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H w/ H H sat H H H H mar 17 H H H H H H H H H H H HigH lonesome Wednesday • 9:30pm H H H H H H H H big city bluegrass H H H featuring members of H H the foggy hogtown boys H H & the creaking tree H H string quartet H H H H H H H H CMW Triple Header H H at the silver Dollar H H H H Next Wave southern H H u.s. Garage rock H H H H H H H H H H thu mar 22 w/ H H H H H H H H H H H H H H fri mar 23 w/ H H H H H H H H H H sat mar 24 w/ H H H H H H H at The Comfort Zone • fri mar 23 H H H H “side stage Circus” H H with Texas Goth-Blues Legend H H H H H H H H H H H H H H sat mar 31 Oakland, Ca, Garage Wildcat H H H H H H H H H H (Nashville.TE) H H tickets @ rotate This, soundscapes H H H H fri aPr 13 Their last show ever... H H H H H H H H sat aPr 14 san francisco Barrage rock H H H H H H H H tickets @ rotate This, soundscapes H H sat aPr 21 montreal Punk-a-billy hero H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H H tickets @ rotate This, soundscapes H H thu aPr 26 Chicago Garage 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

DUKE BUZZY, Babylon Warchild Grandfather Mantis, MINDBENDER SKIRT CHASERS The One Look Donneybrook

Sun Mar 11

& THE PICKERS

11-3pm BLUEGRASS

BRUNCH

THE BEAUTIES Mon Mar 12 MARIACHI MONDAYS 10pm

MILL STREET PRESENTS

MEXICAN FOOD & DRINK SPECIALSFAMILIES ARE WELCOME!

8pm MARIACHI FUEGO 10pm THE SURE THINGS

Tue Mar 13 10pm THE WEBER BROS. Wed Mar 14 10pm HOT ROCK feat. members of FLASH LIGHTNIN’ & THE BEAUTIES playing all Rolling Stones

249 OSSINGTON AVE (just north of Dundas) 416-850-4579 · thedakotatavern.com

MITTENZ, WILMOTT REDD

FRIENDLYNESS AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS YUKA, DJ Jersus

INFECTAFUNK

Heavy Metal For Girls PowerRods

crazy strings

NeXt @ CmW 2012

SATuRDAY MARch 10 (EARLY)

THE OSSINGTON

FISHER & JIM BRYSON 10pm DAVE BORINS 7-9pm JEREMY FISHER & JIM BRYSON

Fri Mar 9

friday march 9

aLL-GirL dJs pLay Loud rap

thu Mar 8

7-9pm JEREMY

Thu Mar 8

ON 500 QUEEN EAST

LAST YEAR’S MEN Topanga,

The Modern Superstitions, Huddle, The Archives, Reversing Falls, Sandman Viper Command July Talk, The Pow Wows, Patti Cake, The Wilderness, Jesuslesfilles, Drunk Woman, Cheap Speakers The Mercy Now, Little City, Devin Therriault, The Lost Babies, Revolvers, Rebel Rebel CATL’s

JOHNNY DOWD, Nick Doubleyou & The B Squad Brave Little Toaster, Cowgirl Choir

HUNX & HIS PUNX w/ Heavy Cream

ANAGRAM THE DIRTY GHOSTS

thu mar 8 | 8:30pm | $10

mUSic box chaRiTy FUNDRaiSER raising money to help provide children with equal Opportunities for growth and development through musical education.

maTT yoRk & EvERyThiNg ThaT’S Fly w/

fri mar 9 | 8:30pm | $10

SaRa kamiN ThE pigoTT bRoThERS amy campbEll

DJ GRANDTHEFT

AV PARTY DOORS @11Pm_$10

sun mar 11 | 8:30pm | $8

mOn mar 12 | drs 8:30pm | pWYC ($5)

KATiE HERZiG w/ ANDY DAViS + mELiSSA BEL

michaEl bERNaRD FiTzgERalD w/

RobiN DEll’UNTo

hUNDRED FacES maRa & ThE maRigolD DaWN & maRRa mc DEbRa DigiovaNNi NathaN MaciNtoSh, DarreN FroSt Laurie eLLiott JohN haStiNgS, DoM Pare KriSteeN VoN hageN & More!

alTDoTcomEDyloUNgE.com tues mar 13 | drs 8:30pm | pWYC ($5) ThE hEaDliNE SERiES mc laURiE EllioTT Feat. ShoeLeSS w/SPec. gueStS: toNy ho NewSDeSK with roN SParKS

SkETchcomEDyloUNgE.com Wed mar 14 | 7pm | $5

Static Zine Launch featuring..

caRNival mooN Ruby Spirit & Wazu indie music Trivia thu mar 15 | 8pm | $10

BLODDSHOT BILL

THE OOOHH BABY GIMME MORES

COMING SOON

WHITE MYSTERY

DOORS @11Pm_FREE

BANG THE PARTY

sat mar 10 | 8pm | $10

ThE cockSURE laDS

w/ The Modern Superstitions

wEEKEND STARTUP

w/ NiGHTS AND wEEKENDS

w/pavlov’S DogS haND bEllS

Mar 20 Rivoli DaNcES 3 MarCh 21-24 caNaDiaN mUSic WEEk Mar 30 Spooky RUbiN 332 QUEEN ST. W. | 416.596.1908 | rivoli.ca

w/ ANDY CAPP + JEREmY GLENN

DOORS @11Pm_$10 DOORS @7Pm_$12 ADV

DRAKE TRiViA

DOORS @8Pm_$2 92BPm PRESENTS:

DABRYE DOORS @miDNiGHT_$10

iNViSiBLE CiTY PRESENTS:

KON (KON & AmiR) DOORS @miDNiGHT_$10 THEDRAKEHOTEL.CA/EVENTS TwiTTER.COm/THEDRAKEHOTEL 1150 QUEEN ST w TORONTO 416.531.5042

NOW march 8-14 2012

clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 54

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Sunday Family

Acoustic Brunch (bluegrass) 9 am to 2 pm. Gladstone Hotel art Bar Old Time Jam 2 to 5:30 pm. Hirut Fine etHiopian Cuisine Eucalyptus (calypso) 8 pm. tHe loCal Jack Marks’ Lost Wages (country/ folk ) 10 pm, Chris Coole (banjo) 5 pm. lola Nick Yaksich 3 pm.

lower ossinGton tHeatre Green door CaBaret Alison Smyth 3 pm. lula lounGe Sunday Family Salsa Brunch Cuban Son doors 11 am.

918 BatHurst Centre For Culture & tHe arts Music For Meditation Heaven & Earth,

Sangit Surabhi, the Pavaka Ensemble 1 pm. on Cue The Funky Monkeys (salsa/flamenco guitar) 8 to 10 pm. poGue MaHone Sandy MacIntyre & Steeped in Tradition (Celtic ceilidh) 4 to 8 pm. press CluB Staggy Townsend (country rock) 10 pm. reBas CaFé & Gallery Sunday Matinee Brian Blain (blues/folk/country) 1 to 4 pm. relisH Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 10:30 pm. superMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm. trane studio An Evening To Honour Brian Gladstone Tony Quarrington, John Jackson, D’Arcy Wickham, Glen Hornblast, Howard Gladstone, Danny Marks and others doors 6:30 pm. tHe wilson 96 Beefknuckle Sunday Supper Show (blues/roots) 6 to 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

Carlu Stuggart Chamber Choir & Choir 21 3

pm.

edward JoHnson BuildinG MaCMillan tHeatre Cosi Fan Tutte U of T Faculty of Music

Opera Division (Mozart’s opera) 2:30 pm. Gate 403 Jorges Gavidia Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm, Courtney Quebec Desloges Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

rex Random Access 9:30 pm, Julia Cleveland 7 pm, Bohemian Swing 3:30 pm, Brunch Matinee Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. rosedale HeiGHts sCHool oF tHe arts Mooredale Youth Orchestras 3 pm.

royal Conservatory oF MusiC koerner Hall Takács Quartet w/ Joyce Yang (chamber music) 3 pm.

soMewHere tHere studio CCMC Paul Dutton, John Kamevaar, John Oswald, ñ Michael Snow, Jack Vorvis, Andy Yue, Germaine Liu and Tomasz Krakowiak 8 pm, Aldcroft/Liu Residency Ken Aldcroft, Germaine Liu 5 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

Bovine sex CluB Bring Your Own DJ. Castro’s lounGe Watch This Sound 9 pm. CrawFord The Lost Levels Video Game Music. GraFFiti’s Black Metal Brunch DJ Murder

Mike (black metal) 11 am. insoMnia Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. lee’s palaCe danCe Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro 70s/80s) 10 pm. lou dawG’s Soulful Sundays DJ eMan (funk/ soul/old school hip-hop) 9 pm.

Monday, March 12 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

Bovine sex CluB Flash Lightnin’. CadillaC lounGe The Calrizians. Castro’s lounGe Rockabilly Mondays 9 pm. drake Hotel Katie Herzig, Melissa Bel doors 7 pm.

HarleM Open Jam Night Carolyn T (R&B/

soul/jazz/Motown/Latin) 8 pm. HorsesHoe Shoeless Monday Dead Jack Pine, Grayl, Mike Cavanagh, Reagle Beagle Band 8:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross This Is Awesome! (indie lounge music) 7 pm.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

CaMeron House Rucksack Willies 6 pm. PtHe Ceili CottaGe St Patrick’s Shenanigans

CeiliGrass Boys (bluegrass) 7:30 pm. dakota tavern The Sure Things (country rock) 10 pm, Mariachi Monday Mariachi Fuego 8 pm. HiGHway 61 soutHern BarBeque Chris Chambers (blues) 7 pm.

tHe loCal Hamstrung Stringband 9:30 pm. old niCk The Sun Harmonic (folk) 7:30 pm. press CluB Domestic Bliss Mondays Secret

Heights w/ Molly Babin & Dave Nardi (roots rock) 10 pm. trane studio NuBlue Mondays Son Roberts & Larry Kurtz 8 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm. tHe wilson 96 Jordan John w/ Prakash John & Al Cross (blues/soul) 9 pm.

york university aCColade east BldG sterlinG BeCkwitH studio World Music Festival

Bloke & 4tH Swank Tom Wrecks. CrawFord Drink & Destroy Dan Arget (rock &

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

GoodHandy’s Ladyplus T-Girl Lust DJ Todd

edward JoHnson BuildinG walter Hall

Voice Recital Monica Whicher & Russell Braun 7:30 pm. eMMet ray Bar Shafton Thomas Group (jazz) 9 pm. Gate 403 Richard Whiteman & Laura Hubert Jazz Band 9 pm, Denis Schingh (solo piano) 5 to 8 pm. old Mill inn Havana Nights Luis Mario Ochoa, Hilario Duran, Jane Bunnett, Larry Kramer (Latin jazz) doors 7 pm. rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

royal Conservatory oF MusiC koerner Hall The King’s Singers 8 pm. soMewHere tHere studio Gone Fishing Bob

Vespaziani, Meiko Ando & Robin Howell, Mike Gennaro & Michael Keith 8 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

alleyCatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. CrawFord Mix Fix Mondays DJ Shan Dub & DJ Boots.

insoMnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Elis Dean. roCkwood Mashup Mondays Crunch (house/hip-hop/club anthems).

tHoMpson Hotel Blacklist. waterFalls The Lion’s Den (reggae).

Tuesday, March 13 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

air Canada Centre Hedley, Classified,

Anjulie, Kay doors 6 pm, all ages. ñ Bovine sex CluB Blind Cats, Celery Troff, Freddy Fuckup.

noise) doors 8:30 pm. See preview, page ñ 42.

HorsesHoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Morning Parade, Quints Last Stand, Vista Vision, Culture Reject 8:30 pm. opera House The Head and the Heart, Drew Grow and the Pastors Wives, Black Girls (indie folk rock) 8 pm. pHoenix ConCert tHeatre Mindless Self Indulgence, Hyro Da Hero doors 7 pm, all ages.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

annex wreCkrooM Drummers In Exile (drum & dance circle) 8:30 pm.

CaMeron House Jay Aymar (country) 6 pm. Castro’s lounGe blueVenus (acoustic singer/

songwriter ) 10 pm. C’est wHat Justin Dubé 3 pm. Cloak & daGGer puB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. dakota tavern The Weber Brothers 10 pm. Gate 403 Julian Fauth Blues Night 9 pm. HuGH’s rooM JP Cormier (final show), the Elliott Brothers (folk) 8:30 pm. tHe loCal Jordan Faye, Larry Roland. press CluB Toast N’ Jam Open Jam Gord Zubrecki Band 10 pm. tHe rusty nail Open Stage Jam Chad Campbell 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

alleyCatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. aquila Sounds Different (experimental music/soundscape) 8:30 pm. atelier roseMarie uMetsu Beethoven: The Middle Sonatas CD release Stewart Goodyear (piano) 6:30 pm. CHalkers puB Robi Botos (solo piano) 7:30 pm. doMinion on queen Hot Club Of CorkTown Wayne Nakamura (Django jam) 8:30 pm. Gallery 345 Les Amis Concerts Rivka Golani, Stephan Sylvestre (piano, violin) 8 pm. Gate 403 Luke Vajsar (guitar, vocal) 5 to 8 pm. MarkHaM tHeatre For tHe perForMinG arts Scrap Art Music (percussion) 7 pm.

march 8-14 2012 NOW

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

World Music Chorus 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

CaMeron House Friendly Rich 10 pm. tHe Central Jam Night Dr Keys 9:30 pm. tHe Garrison EMA, Nü Sensae (guitar

rex Rex Jazz Jam Marika Galea 9:30 pm, Worst Pop Band Ever (jazz ) 6:30 to 8:30 pm. soMewHere tHere studio Zoe Alexis-Abrams 8 pm. superMarket The Ambient Ping: The Return Of The DreamSTATE DRONE CYCLE Part Three Jim Field, Spacenoiz doors 8 pm. ten restaurant & wine Bar Don Breithaupt, Chris Smith 9 pm. trane studio Damien Villeneuve (piano) 8 pm.

roll).

Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insoMnia She’s Got The Funk DJ Shannon (rock/dance). reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. sneaky dee’s MFOY late eve.

Wednesday, March 14 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

air Canada Centre The Black Keys, Arc-

eMMet ray Bar Peter Boyd (blues) 9 pm. Gate 403 Brian Cober & Aslan Gotov Blues

Duo 5 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar March Break Lunch & Kid Rock The Space Chums 11 am to 4 pm. tHe Hideout Jamgrass The Unseen Strangers 10:30 pm. HiGHway 61 soutHern BarBeque Sean Pinchin (blues) 7 pm. Hirut Fine etHiopian Cuisine Gary 17’s Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan 7:30 pm. HuGH’s rooM Strunz & Farah. tHe loCal Greg Cockerill (folk rock/American/ roots). lula lounGe CD release Samantha Haggard & the Haggard (folk) doors 7 pm. MarkHaM tHeatre For tHe perForMinG arts GoldiRocks Rockin’ Family Musical Judy

& David (family musical) 11 am, 2 & 7 pm. trane studio Liberty Wednesdays Noah Zacharin (folk) 8 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/ExpErimEntal

tHe Central Shannon Graham & her Storytellers (jazz) 10 pm.

tic Monkeys doors 6:30 pm. See preview, page 42. aquila The Groovies, Jay Pennell & Allan Silverman (pop/folk) 9:30 pm. Bovine sex CluB Goliath, Mind of the Machine, Unnamed. CadillaC lounGe The Neil Young’uns. CrawFord Mustache Rides John Smith, Rising Crust. HorsesHoe Slaves to the Groove, Dolly 9 pm. lola Jammin’ Johnny Bootz 8 pm. rivoli Static Zine #3 Launch The Ruby Spirit, WAZU, Carnival Moon & Trivia 7 pm. superMarket Wednesdays Go Pop Jean-Paul De Roover, Craig Stickland, the Franklin Electric, Marlboro doors 8:30 pm.

Combo Royale 9 pm. Hotel oCHo Twosomes & Threeways: For The Love Of The Riff Lesley Young & John McKayClements doors 7:30 pm. Mezzetta Ted Quinlan & Mike Downes 9 pm. nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm. rex Andrew Scott 9:30 pm, Trevor Falls Collective 6:30 pm. soMewHere tHere studio Dreamdance Brenda Joy Lem, Kurt Huggins, Michael Lynn, Rod Campbell, Colin Anthony 8 pm.

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alleyCatz CitySoul (swinging blues/vintage R&B) 8:30 pm.

CaMeron House Kirsten Scholte 6 pm. Castro’s lounGe Smokey Folk (bluegrass) 9 pm. dakota tavern Hot Rock! Flash Lightnin’ &

the Beauties (all Rolling Stones music) 10 pm.

doMinion on queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm.

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album reviews album of the week

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So Is The Sea (independent) Rating: NNNN This new teaser EP from 1977, aka Toronto singer/songwriter Julie Kendall, is a day-brightening five-song slice soaked in a warm reverb haze. Take a listen and feel the March chill fade and the gentle spring breezes on the horizon. The former Bellevue keyboardist writes simple tunes built on strong melodies and 60s-pop ambience, with just enough psychedelic touches to skirt saccharine overload. The slight lyrics are weaker but often work in a direct and open Best Coast kind of way. Poetic crypticism or wry literariness would undermine the chill mood. Bellevue members back up the tunes, including Brent Hough, Kendall’s husband, whose high-in-the-mix surf-rock guitar works well against her soft, pretty vocal harmonies and pulsating organ lines. The full album, Seaforth, is due out later this year. Top track: So Is The Sea 1977 plays the Horseshoe on Friday (March 9). CARLA GILLIS

Pop/Rock

WZRD (Universal) Rating: NN

Emo-rapper Kid Cudi went on an angry Twitter rampage recently because he believes his label is under-promoting his new alt-rock duo project, WZRD. But despite the label’s apparent lack of confidence, the self-titled debut has actually had a pretty good first week on the charts. Just don’t expect the good sales to last once people actually hear the thing. These directionless, half-baked jams may show a young artist trying to find himself and mature, but he sure isn’t there yet. To be fair, these hip-hop-influenced stoner rock grooves are marginally better than Lil Wayne’s ill-advised foray into hard rock, but that’s not saying much. Cudi just isn’t enough of a singer or guitarist to pull this off, and his overly earnest confessional lyrics make you feel like you’re sneaking a peek at an awkward teenager’s diary. Though less rock-inspired tracks like The Dream Time Machine reveal he’s still got something worth paying attention to, overall he seems to be running away from what we actually like about Kid Cudi. Top track: The Dream Time Machine BENJAMIN BOLES

NITE JEWEL One Second Of Love (Secretly Canadian) Rating: NNN Ramona Gonzalez has completely dumped all the woozy lo-fi trappings of her early work in favour of a glossy, sharply focused sound on her new Nite Jewel album. Her vibe has always had an element of 80s synth funk, but that aspect is no longer buried in the mix, making this her most accessible offering yet. There’s still a drifty, dreamy quality, but now it’s somewhere between Kate Bush and Sade rather than the off-kilter experimental pop she was known for.

One Second Of Love sees her shedding her more self-indulgent qualities in favour of tightly constructed songs, which is mostly a good thing. However, she may have gone a little too far toward conventional pop, and not all of it rings true. The slinky R&B groove of a song like Autograph is pleasurable enough, but Gonzalez isn’t really an athletic singer, and the performance feels lifeless as a result. The magic of the studio means she can construct a take that makes her sound like a real soul singer, but it shouldn’t feel like that’s what she did. Top track: This Story BB

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On My Mind (File Under: Music) Rating: NNNN How you feel about Bend Sinister will depend on your tolerance for anthems. On their new five-song EP, the Vancouver four-piece completely blows the roof off the place, and in the best way possible. We’re not talking formulaic radio rock. The smart songs at times verge on prog rock (check out the jaw-dropping drumming on The Road Divided, for example), and are fuelled more by elegant piano or woozy organ than big fuzz guitars (though we get those, too). But it’s singer/keyboardist Dan Moxon who will leave your jaw on the floor. His

burly image and shy demeanour belie hugely emotional, dynamic and soulful vocals that evoke a powerhouse James Mercer (or, dare I say, Adam Levine). They’re energetic and mighty – and his memorable melodies sail through the songs’ tornado-like twists and turns in a blink. It’s rare, startling and appreciated when an indie rock singer lays himself on the line so completely. Top track: The Road Divided Bend Sinister play Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla on Saturday (March 10). CG

CHAINS OF LOVE Strange Grey Days (Dine

Alone) Rating: NNN Chains of Love began as a recording project concocted by Vancouver-based engineer/studio owner Felix Fung and guitarist Clint Lofkrantz as a throwback girl group. That it was preconceived may distress rock purists, but that approach allowed them to put together a crack six-piece team of local talents to suit the style. And the group’s debut EP nails the 60s vibe in both production and execution. Lead singer Nathalia Pizarro has the kind of big, character-filled voice that soul singers envy, but that’s only one successful element. Harmonies from co-vocalist Rebecca Marie Law Gray call to mind any number of classic girl groups, while warm organs, loud Motown bass lines and rough fuzz guitars mix nostalgia with a bit of modern, lo-fi psychedelia. You can hardly call it original, but they’ve definitely done their homework. Top track: Lately Chains of Love play the El Mocambo March 23 and the Horseshoe March 24 as part of CMW, and April 13 at the Great Hall. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

BISHOP MOROCCO Old Boys (Arts & Crafts) Rating: NNN Four years ago, Toronto boys Bishop

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Morocco released their self-titled debut as a duo. Their latest EP reflects their expansion into a quartet: parts, layers and themes are denser on these six tracks. An icy riff heralds a gloomy bass line on opening track Bleeds. It’s immediately reminiscent of Interpol, which is to say it sounds like Joy Division, and Bishop Morocco roll with this pastiche while maintaining a unique, dreamy sensibility through sweet, distanced vocals. The title track’s wonky, ear-bending guitar lines coalesce into a candied palette, building to a melodic zenith before dropping out abruptly for the robotic malaise of Colonial Man. A bleary procession of synths warm up A Fine Line, a blank dirge about loneliness. Adamantly nostalgic, though sometimes a bit too bored-sounding, Old Boys’ spacey mix of airy Britpop and bleak new-wave bounce stays grounded in 2012 thanks to Bishop Morocco’s propensity for power melodies. Top track: track Old Boys Bishop Morocco play Wrongbar tonight (Thursday, March 8). ANUPA MISTRY

DZ DEATHRAYS No Sleep (Dine Alone) Rating: NN Brisbane, Australia’s DZ Deathrays are set to play five shows at CMW, and if they’re hoping to endear themselves to Canadian audiences, they already have one big thing going for them: they sound exactly like Death from Above 1979. To be fair, most rock duos inevitably get compared to those recently reunited Toronto thrash-poppers, but the likeness heard on this five-song EP is impossible to ignore. They mix noisy fuzz riffs and danceable melodies, while singer/guitarist Shane Parsons adopts the same vocal register as Sebastien Grainger. The song Blue Blood even grabs its riff wholesale from DFA1979’s Turn It Out. This isn’t a resemblance; it’s a straight rip. And while it’s a sound we like, now that the real Death from Above are back together, there’s no void needing filling. Top track: No Sleep DZ Deathrays play the Bovine Sex Club on March 21, Sound Academy and Wrongbar on March 22, and the El Mocambo on March 23 and 24, all as part of CMW. RT

Folk/Jazz

ERIC CHENAUX Guitar & Voice (Constella-

tion) Rating: NNN It would be forgivable to think the instrumentals on Eric Chenaux’s fourth solo album for Constellation are played on violins. In fact, they’re bowed guitar processed by re-amplification and re-recording until they sound like a small orchestra tuning in an echo chamber. The album is a spatial experience. On excellent opener Amazing Backgrounds, jarring distortion buzzes in centre field before giving way to a pastoral, gentle ballad with ringing-out chords. Simple/Frontal is angular and sideways, while Dull Lights (White Or Grey) is moody, patient and jazzy. Chenaux’s nylon-string guitar lines shape-shift to fill in for bass, piano, banjo, theremin and electric guitar. Though he calls all the songs ballads, the instrumentals often sound like primers or exploration. I prefer the four tunes with lyrics, since his soft, sweeping vocal melodies give structure to the chords. Top track: Amazing Backgrounds SARAH GREENE

R&B

ESTELLE All Of Me (Homeschool/Atlantic)

Rating: NNN English singer Estelle has a distinct ability to project a relaxed confidence no matter the mood or musical style. Whether tackling R&B, reggae, rap or pop, her voice swoops and glides with such pitch-perfect, unrestrained ease, it’s hard to doubt her intentions. Best known for hooky pop hit American Boy, she owns the mid-tempo on her longdelayed third LP, with the glistening 80s synth-funk-style Cold Crush (produced by Toronto duo Book & Bronze), the lovelorn lament Thank You and the lushly glamorous Break My Heart. If dialogue skits backed by light, jazzy percussion aren’t a blunt enough nod to The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, Estelle states her affinity for that landmark work with a shout-out over Speak Ya Mind’s boom-bap beat. Although All Of Me shares that record’s fervour, it lacks its cohesiveness due to a few forgettable pop turns, namely ho-hum hype track International (Serious) with R&B heartthrobs Chris Brown and Trey Songz, and the cluttered, exasperating soul clapper Do My Thang, a duet with label mate Janelle Monáe. Top track: Break My Heart KEVIN RITCHIE

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of Arc in a mock stained glass rosetta window. Each piece of the window is a video screen showing Joan as she’s been cinematically portrayed, starting with The Passion Of Joan Of Arc by Carl Theodor Dreyer and radiating outward to Milla Jovovich’s stint as Joan in 1999’s The Messenger. The structure elegantly demonstrates cin-

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ema’s self-memorialization and creation of layer after layer of alternative parallel narratives. Pan, an installation on two large screens that form the final segment of the show, consists of three clips from Ken Russell’s Altered States, Kubrick’s 2001 and Gaspar Noé’s Enter The Void painstakingly “braided” together. The result resembles a hallucinogenic near-death experience rendered in supersaturated colour and sound, a maelstrom where notions of the void and transcendence blur into each other with no clear distinction between them. This bleeding of the human into the technological, of the horrific into the sublime, almost marks Richardson as an old-school Romantic. His investigation of images tests the limits of our cultural and perceptual boundaries, which he breaks apart and reconfigures with disturbing precision. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416640-7591. THE POWER PLANT Power Ball: Quarter-Life Crisis, Mar 14 ($165). $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 Dare To Wear Love, to May 6. Perpetual Motion: Material Re-use In The Spirit Of Thrift, Utility And Beauty, Mar 10-Sep 3. Portable Mosques: The Sacred Space Of The Prayer Rug, to Sep 3. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE ‘Photography Collected Us’: The Malcolmson Collection, to Mar 10. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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252 Bloor W, second fl. 416-978-2080. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Drawing/sculpture/ video: Paulette Phillips and Kelly Mark, to Mar 17. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. DRAKE HOTEL Queen West Gallery Tour, Mar 10 doors 11:45 am ($25, two for $45). 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. EDWARD DAY GALLERY Sculpture: Shayne Dark, to Mar 24. 952 Queen W. 416-9216540. GALLERY TPW Video/sound installation: Linda Duvall, to Mar 31. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. GLADSTONE HOTEL OCADU alumni group show, to Mar 30, reception 6:3-9:30 pm Mar 9. Painting: Marcus Patching, to Mar 19. Best In Show group show, to Mar 31. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Photos: Beyond Imaginings: Eight Artists Encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt, to Jun 1. Constructed

View; LOOK out group shows; jewellery/ installation/photos: Karen Konzuk, Michelle Bellemare, Scott Carruthers and Jesse Louttit, to Apr 15. Architecture: Big Enough?, to Jul 8. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. KATZMAN KAMEN GALLERY 12:02 Blue Republic (Anna Passakas and Radoslaw Kudlinski), Mar 9-Apr 7, opening 5 to 8 pm Mar 9. 80 Spadina #406. 416-504-9515. MERCER UNION Installation: Annie MacDonell and Pierre Leguillon, to Mar 10. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519. NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Sculpture: Martin Ouellette and Edgar Ameti, Mar 8-31, reception 7-11 pm Mar 8. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683. OCADU Matthew Barnes, Mar 8 artist’s talk 6 pm. Art & Struggle, Mar 8 conference from 1 pm-9 pm, conference 9:30 am-8 pm Mar 9 (Register artandstruggle@gmail. com). The Art Of The Figure student show, Mar 12-22. Photo Faculty & Friends Silent Auction, to Mar 9. 100 McCaul. 416-9776000, webspace.ocad.ca/~ocaduphoto. PEAK GALLERY Painting: Dariusz Krzeminski, to Mar 10. 23 Morrow. 416-537-8108. 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: Arnaud Maggs, Mar 8-Apr 14, reception 7 pm Mar 8. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. TORONTO FREE GALLERY Performance/ Installation: Lee Hassall, Mar 14-17. 1277 Bloor W. 416-913-0461. TRINITY SQUARE VIDEO Installation: Jenn E Norton, Mar 10-Apr 7, reception 2 pm Mar 10. 401 Richmond W #376. 416-593-1332. WARC Video: Mieke Bal, to Mar 17. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

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as a thinker, lesbian activist Sarah Schulman runs the gamut from exhilarating to irritating. But that’s what makes her so interesting. The prolific author’s latest book looks at New York’s art scene in the context of a queer community devastated by AIDS. Gone in the now hopelessly gentrified Big Apple are the rad-

ical artists who revelled in porn, outrageousness and the sensibility she says is required of artmakers. These days, creators play it safe and suck up to institutions, while queers in general deny their history and identity. It’s a beautifully written screed (not a bad word in my books), but it does have its limitations. Most of her commentary applies only to the U.S. Note her observation that theatre is susceptible to commercial values because of its close relationship with movie stars. Her assumption that institutions don’t play well with others doesn’t apply here.

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Harbourfront honours Irving Layton March 14.

His outsized talent and charisma made Irving Layton a major influence in Canada’s literary landscape in his lifetime – a rarity among poets. The Harbourfront Reading Series honours the 100th anniversary of his birth with a huge celebration featuring some of our most gifted writers. Hear his praises sung by Rosemary Sullivan, Margaret Atwood, Robert Priest and many more on Wednesday (March 14) at the Lakeside Terrace. See Readings, this page.

For one thing, ours are public, not private, and they tend to take seriously their role in our identitychallenged culture. Thus, the Canada Council honoured queer artist Colin Campbell when he was very much alive, and in death Will Munro got a full retrospective courtesy of York University. The ideologue in Schulman loves to equate queer authenticity with marginalization. Her easy dismissal of those promoting gay marriage, for example, ignores the basic cruelty of discrimination. And she can’t ima-

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The Next One To Fall. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. ROBERT DAYTON The visual artist launches his book The Canadian Romantic. 8 pm. $7. Double Double Land, 209 Augusta. moustacheedpainless@yahoo.com. FRED WAH/HOA NGUYEN Poetry readings. 7:30 pm. Free. St Stephens-in-the-Field, 103 Bellevue. tnsow.com.

Friday, March 9 YVES ENGLER Launch for Lester Pearson’s Peacekeeping: The Truth May Hurt. 7 pm. $4 or pwyc. OISE, 252 Bloor W, rm 2-212. 416535-8779.

Saturday, March 10 CHANDNI DESAI Poetry reading. 7 pm. Pwyc.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

Sunday, March 11 POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition. 7 pm. $5. The Drake, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. SARAH SCHULMAN The lesbian novelist/playwright/activist discusses her book The Gentrification Of The Mind. 7:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. typebooks.ca.

Zoe Whittall interviews Schulman on Sunday (March 11) at the Gladstone. See Readings, this page.

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THE CAMPBELL HOUSE STORY by Alex Dault (Single Thread). At the Campbell House Museum (160 Queen West). To March 17. $20. totix.ca. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNN

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With its roots in history and romantic comedy, The Campbell House Story is a piece of storytelling that involves the audience in the action. Playwright Alex Dault wrote it to be staged in Campbell House Museum, which was built by one of its central characters, William Campbell, chief justice of Upper Canada in the 1820s. We meet Campbell (Thomas Gough), his wife, Hanna (Jennie Ryan), and grandson, Will (Brandon Crone), named for his older relative. The narrative revolves around a decisive moment in Canadian history: the pillaging of journalist William Lyon Mackenzie’s (Andrew Perun) print shop by a group of the elite Family Compact. Charges and counter-charges, both in court and in the Campbells’ social world, drive the plot, which also involves the manipulative Samuel Jarvis (Carter Hayden), a member of that

Alex Furber (left) horses around with Joey (Brad Cook) in superb War Horse.

Steed sensation WAR HORSE based on the novel by

Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (National Theatre of Great Britain/ Mirvish). At the Princess of Wales (300 King West). To September 30. $35-$130. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNNNN

You’ve heard a variation on the story before: boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc. But you’ve never seen a miracle of stagecraft like War Horse. Thanks to the artistry of South Africa’s Handspring Puppet Company, you quickly forget that the stars – the horses, of course – are puppets, each manipulated by three actors. Even when they’re not front and centre, the animals are constantly flicking their tails, swinging their heads, breathing.

That’s not the only technical achievement. In the design by Rae Smith, lit by Paule Constable, projections contribute to spectacular scenes, sometimes realistic, as in the battlefields, and other times abstract, as in devastating splashes of blood. It all unfolds to Adrian Sutton’s hugely compelling music, with interludes of English songs led by Melanie Doane. Oh, right, there’s a narrative. When his father, Ted (Brad Rudy), overpays for a foal, putting the family farm in peril, Albert (Alex Furber) is left to care for the horse he calls Joey, eventually training him to pull a plow. As tolling bells announce the onset of the First World War, Ted brazenly sells Joey to the British cavalry, prompting Albert to sign up for the army so he can find the animal. The second act, which focuses on

the war-is-hell theme, makes a point of humanizing the enemy: a German officer (Patrick Galligan) deserts because he can’t bear the way the horses are treated when they’re hauling wagons through the muck. A sequence in which German and British soldiers vie to free a horse from barbed wire takes no sides. The performances are strong, especially from Furber as the boy determined to rescue Joey, and Tamara Bernier Evans as his stoic mother. Though the love story between boy and animal is compelling enough, it’s the underlying anti-war theme that gives War Horse its emotional weight. We are all animals in war. Actually, animals may be better communicators. Me? I wept at the magic theatre can SUSAN G. COLE create.

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Dalal Badr (left) and Richard Lee provide Neverending fun.

THE NEVERENDING STORY by David

Craig, from Michael Ende’s novel (Roseneath/Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). To March 17. $10-$20. 416862-2222. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NNNN

If you want to show children that books can be magical, take them to see The Neverending Story, David Craig’s adaptation of Michael Ende’s classic. Set in the imaginary land of Fantastica, a world of stories, and also in our own world, it brings together Atreyu, a young hero from Fantastica, and Bastian, a human boy who becomes

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day’s 1 per cent, and Healy (Leah Holder), a maid in the Campbell household. The audience becomes the jury in the suit that Jarvis brings against Will, rendering a verdict after we literally follow the building of the case through several rooms in Campbell House. Dault cleverly stages that evidence as dramatic flashbacks, and director Lee Wilson smoothly moves the play from testimony in the courtroom to reenactment in the candlelit Campbell home. Crone grows believably from drunken reprobate to fervent believer in justice, while Gough hits the right note of sober responsibility as judge and paterfamilias. Perun makes a passionate Mackenzie, prone to speechifying given half a chance. A romance between Will and Healy imbues this piece of history with humanity; Holder’s maid is a pert figure out of period comedy, more intelligent and forward-thinking than those around her expect of an impoverished Irishwoman. There may be too much plot for a 75-minute show, but this blend of history and theatre is both informative JON KAPLAN and entertaining.

The Roseneath Theatre production, presented by Young People’s Theatre, goes straight to the heart of the tale’s

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Brandon Crone (left), Leah Holder and Andy Perun light up historic Campbell House.

enchantment while also acknowledging Bastian’s unhappy everyday life. Finding a copy of a book called The Neverending Story, he starts to read about Atreyu’s quest to save Fantastica from the growing shadow of the Nothing. Increasingly drawn into the story, Bastian eventually helps Atreyu fulfill his mission, despite the efforts of the villainous werewolf Gmork, who straddles both worlds. Director Craig has assembled a strong cast, most playing multiple roles, to help conjure the magic of the story. Adamo Ruggiero and a crossdressing Natasha Greenblatt make good foils as Atreyu and Bastian, the latter first doubting the story’s reality

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and later accepting his part in it. The show’s simple design, with colourful, evocative costumes by Lori Hickling, Rick Sacks’s suggestive sound design and a set by Glenn Davidson that makes great use of white and black curtains to create landscapes and help define characters, suits a work about the importance of imagination. For the Nothing, signified by the black curtains, is a world without imagination, and it’s clearly a place where no one would choose to live. For all its entertainment value, this fine theatrical version of The Neverending Story also instructs: in keeping our imaginations active, we also invigJON KAPLAN orate our lives.

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Opening BABAR (Little Red Theatre). This play for ages three and up looks at the the adventures of an elephant king and his family. Opens Mar 12 and runs to Mar 15, Mon-Thu 1:30 pm. $11, child $9. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. 416-533-8848. CATS by Andrew Lloyd Webber (Living Arts Centre). Felines frolic at the Jellicle Ball in this popular musical. Mar 13-14, Tue-Wed 7 pm. $60-$90, child $36. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. COSI FAN TUTTE by WA Mozart (U of T Faculty of Music Opera Division). Two young soldiers wager on the fidelity of their finacées in this comic opera. Mar 8-11, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $20. Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, MacMillan Theatre. 416-408-0208. DISNEY ON ICE: DARE TO DREAM (Feld Entertainment). This ice show features scenes from Tangled, The Princess And The Frog and Cinderella. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 18, Wed-Sat 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 11 am & 3 pm. $15-$90. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 416870-8000, ticketmaster.ca. DYING HARD adapted from interviews by Elliot Leyton (A Vagrant Theatre/the Theatre Elusive). A mine destroys the health of residents of a small Newfoundland community in this play based on a true story. Opens Mar 13 and runs to Mar 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $25, stu $20. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-5311827, tickets.tarragontheatre.com. THE F WORD by Jennifer Phillips (Centre for Women’s Studies in Education/360 Productions). This new play of female-focused vignettes launches in celebration of International Women’s Day. Mar 8-11, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$45 (totix.ca). Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, 360productionsinc.com. FIRESIDE CULTURE WEEK (Parkdale Village BIA). This celebration features music, art, dance, magic, poetry, spoken word and more in various Parkdale venues. Opens Mar 12 and runs to Mar 17, see website for schedule. Free. Queen W from Dufferin to Roncesvalles. 416536-6918, parkdalevillagebia.com. FRANCES AND MARYBETH by Neale Kimmel ((bracket) Theatre). A woman seeks to forget her heartbreak by planning a double-date night with her sister in this comedy. Opens Mar 8 and runs to Mar 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20, Sun pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. francesandmarybeth.com. THE GIFT (FADO Performance Art). Lee Hassall gathers impressions and objects from the neighbourhood, culminating in a performance/installation. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 16, Wed-Thu 6 to 8 pm (work in progress and artist talk), Fri 8 pm (performance). Pwyc$10. Toronto Free Gallery, 1277 Bloor W. performanceart.ca. A LADYLIKE MURDER by Joseph Trefler and Aviva Phillip-Muller (Victoria College Drama Society). A woman struggles for autonomy and love in the restrictive society of 1890s Ontario. Mar 8-10, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416-

978-8849, uofttix.ca.

LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach (Lower Ossington Theatre). A sassy sorority girl gets in to law school in this musical based on the 2001 film. Opens Mar 9 and runs to Mar 31, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. NEW IDEAS FESTIVAL (Alumnae Theatre). The annual showcase of new writing, works-in-progress and experimental theatre features plays and staged readings with works by Donna Langevin, Megan Coles, Kelly DuMar, Gerry McBride, Stacy Gardner, Radha Menon, Cassidy Sadler, Diane Forrest, Jordan Mechano and others. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Apr 1, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm (staged readings Sat at noon). $15, pass $35, Sat readings pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-3644170, alumnaetheatre.com. RHINOCEROS (UTS Department of Humanities). A man resists conformity as citizens of Toronto turn into rhinos in this adaptation of Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist play. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 24, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. U of T Scarborough Campus, 1265 Military Trail, Leigha Lee Browne Theatre. rhinoceros.eventbrite.ca. STAGE DOOR by Edna Ferber and George S Kaufman (Theatre Erindale). Aspiring female actors share dreams and disappointments in a boarding house in Depression-era NYC. Previews Mar 8. Opens Mar 9 and runs to Mar 18, Thu 7:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat (and Mar 18) 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Erindale Studio Theatre, 3359 Mississauga Rd N. 905569-4369, theatreerindale.com. TALES FROM THE FLIPSIDE (Carlos Bulosan Theatre). The showcase for Filipino-Canadian playwrights and artists features works by Darrel Gamotin, Meesha Albano and others, visual art and more. Mar 8-11, performances Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm (see website for other events). Pwyc. Kapisanan Philippine Centre, 167 Augusta. carlosbulosan.wordpress.com.

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COMEDY PREVIEW

Adorbs Forbes Actor adds universal physicality to Second City shtick By GLENN SUMI

Alastair Forbes says taking the piss out of yourself is essential to comedy.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER written and performed by Ashley Comeau, Jason DeRosse, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Inessa Frantowski and Carly Heffernan, directed by Chris Earle. Presented by the Second City (51 Mercer). Now in previews, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm (no show March 8), late show Saturday 10:30 pm, Sunday 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 416-343-0011.

alastair forbes remembers seeing Jim Carrey in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. It changed his life. “That was a seminal moment,” says the Second City actor, who was a teen at the time. “I learned at a very young age that it could be funny to talk like a pompous ass.”

That skill has certainly worked for him – at least onstage. In a few years, he’s emerged as one of the most watchable comics around. At 6-foot4 and 160 pounds, he stands out. And like Carrey, he knows how to twist his lanky body into amusing shapes. “I did clown training with a troupe who’d studied at Ecole Jacques Lecoq,” he says, referring to the legendary Paris institution. “And one of the actors told me a story about doing a fiveminute turn in front of the class, about 100 people from 30 different countries. He said if you could make them laugh, you could make the whole world laugh.” Certainly Forbes made Second City

audiences laugh in his inaugural mainstage outing, Dreams Really Do Come True! (And Other Lies), where he played, among other characters, a geeky guy on a first date and a Toronto bike cop wearing too-tight spandex shorts. “The middle-aged ladies in the audience laughed the hardest at the cop,” he admits. “They’d be constantly staring at my junk.” With that upper-crust name (no relation to Malcolm) and classic straightman look, Forbes could be a Bay Street drone. Which works in his favour. “My default is the high-status buffoon,” he says. “I love playing that guy who thinks he’s super-smart but everyone knows is so dumb.” That comes from growing up in a large family and often being the butt of jokes. Like the time his sister convinced him to put Nair with suntan lotion on his legs. “I learned at a young age to be able to take the piss out of yourself, which is so essential to comedy.” He won’t talk much about the new show, except to say it’s darker and more satiric. And will there be any mayor bits? “We’ve worked on three or four Rob Ford premises, but so far nothing’s stuck,” he says. “Everyone knows he’s an idiot – so what do we do, show that he’s an idiot?” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

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(Robert Drayton). Multidisciplinary entertainer/writer Drayton gives a musical performance and shaves his moustache at this book launch. Mar 8 at 8 pm. $7. Double Double Land, 209 Augusta. doubledoubleland.com. FAR FRom thE hEARt by Joan Chandler (Sheatre). A woman’s outfit sparks reactions at a party in this participatory theatre presentation. Mar 8 at 3 pm. Free. York University Accolade E Bldg, 4700 Keele. sheatre.com. i Am not nEil Young, thE musiCAl by Don Lamoreux and Frank Wilks (Don Lamoreux/ Dogfish Production). This autobiographical solo show looks at the highs and lows of rock and roll tours. Mar 9 at 9:30 pm. $20. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-698-0018, iamnotneilyoung.ca.

JudY & dAvid’s ‘goldiRoCks’ – thE RoCkin’ FAmilY musiCAl (Markham Theatre for the

Performing Arts). The duo perform an all-ages musical based on a fairy tale. Mar 14 at 11 am, 2 and 7 pm. $29-$34, stu $25. 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. ouR FACEs, ouR voiCEs (Noor Cultural Centre). A dramatic presentation entitled Unspoken Words will be followed by commentary in this International Women’s Day event. Mar 8 at 7 pm. Free. 123 Wynford. 416-444-7148, noorculturalcentre.ca.

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(Single Thread Theatre Company). This walking-tour play of one of Toronto’s oldest buildings takes the audience back to 1827 and the politics of the time (see review, page 60). Runs to Mar 17, Tue-Sun 7 and 9 pm. $20 (totix.ca). Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. singlethread.ca. nnn (JK)

CAn i REAllY dAtE A guY Who WEARs A YARmulkE? by Amy Holson-Schwartz (TEATRON

Theatre). A secular PhD candidate meets a religious Zionist doctor in this romantic comedy. Runs to Mar 11, Thu 8 pm, Sat 8:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $31-$48, stu/srs $26-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. 416-733-0545, teatrontheatre.com. dAni giRl by Christopher Dimond and Michael Kooman (Talk is Free Theatre/ Show One Productions). This cute and touching musical follows Dani (Gabi Epstein), an inquisitive nine-year old with cancer, as she uses the power of play to escape her drab hospital room and search for a meaning behind her illness. Catchy songs, clever lyrics, and lots of sci-fi humour keep this show upbeat and hopeful. Runs to Mar 11, Wed-Mon 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $33. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, tift.ca. nnnn (Jordan Bimm) FoRBiddEn BRoAdWAY by Gerard Alessandri (Civic Light Opera Company). This musical revue salutes and spoofs big musicals. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com. FREE As inJuns by Tara Beagan (Native Earth Performing Arts). This poetic drama looks at blood ties, entitlement, inheritance and legacy (see review, page 63). Runs to Mar 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $10-$20. Buddies

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in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, nativeearth.ca. nn (GS) 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 (includes meal). 343 Evans. fpp.org. thE gREEn dooR CABAREt sERiEs (Lower Ossington Theatre). This series features cabaret performances by Joel Hartt, Randy Vancourt, Kelly Holiff and others. Runs to Apr 7, Fri-Sat 8 pm, some Sun 3 pm (see website for exact dates and performers). $20-$30. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com/cabaret. thE hAppY WomAn by Rose Cullis (Nightwood Theatre). This darkly comic play looks at how a middle-class family suppresses truth to maintain a happy veneer. Runs to Mar 24, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed 1:30 pm, Sat 2 pm. $22-$46. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net. high liFE by Lee MacDougall (Soulpepper). Four addicts plan the perfect ATM heist, but things go comically wrong in MacDougall’s award-winning play, which balances the laughs with a dark and dangerous streak. Director Stuart Hughes knows how to guide the testosterone-filled piece and delivers an entertaining production with the help of a strong ensemble. 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. nnnn (JK) kniCkERs (A BRiEF ComEdY) by Sarah Quick (Class Act Dinner Theatre). A small town seeks economic growth in the designer underwear business in this dinner theatre comedy. Runs to Apr 29, see website for schedule. $54-$65. 104 Consumers, Whitby. class-act.ca. thE lonEsomE WEst by Martin McDonagh (Toronto Irish Players). A young priest tries to resolve violent disputes between two brothers following their father’s death. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat. $20, stu/srs $18. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. torontoirishplayers.com. long dAY’s JouRnEY into night by Eugene O’Neill (Soulpepper). O’Neill’s classic American tragedy examines a family whose members lose themselves in alcohol and drugs to forget the desperation of their lives. The actors expertly convey the play’s love/hate relationships, but a little respite from the constant barrage of pain would be welcome in the first half, something the cast delivers in the second. 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. nnnn (JK) thE lost sAgAs oF tJoRvi thE FlACCid by Jiv Parasram (Pandemic Theatre). This farcical tale of an insecure Viking warlord explores society’s obsession with power and libido. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10-$15. Unit 102 Studio, 376 Dufferin. pandemictheatre.ca.

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(Beth Tzedec Congregation). This Purimthemed musical features ABBA songs and an original story. Runs to Mar 11, Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10-$36. 1700 Bathurst. 416-781-3511. thE nEvEREnding stoRY based on a novel by Michael Ende, adapted by David S Craig (Roseneath Theatre). A bullied boy seeks refuge in books and is drawn into an epic adventure (see review, page 60). Runs to Mar 17, see website for schedule. $10-$20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-8622222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. nnnn (JK) thE night oF thE iguAnA by Tennessee Williams (Hart House Theatre). Sexual tension and soul searching surround a defrocked minister as he leads female tourists around 1940s Mexico. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat

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Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, harthousetheatre.ca. pApRikA FEstivAl (Tarragon Theatre). This festival presents new works by emerging artists, alumni and more, including works by Evan Vipond, Rosamund Small, Josh Korngut, the Creators’ Unit and more. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat from 8 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $5, Occupy Paprika $20. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, paprikafestival.com. 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 25, Sun 1 pm (and Mar 11, 13-15 and 17 at 1 pm). $29.50$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. pottEd pottER by Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner (Starvox Entertainment/Potted Productions). This unauthorized sprint through all seven Harry Potter books in 70 minutes was a hit in England and likely will be in North America, too. The strength of the show, though, isn’t the parody of the books – that’s mildly entertaining – but rather the strong comic chemistry between creator/performers Clarkson and Turner. Runs to Mar 25, daily at various times, see website for details. $29.95-$99.95. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 1-800-461-3333, mirvish.com. nnn (JK) thE RulEs by Chuck Mee (University College Drama Program). Scenarios explore societal norms and what it means to be ‘civilized’. Runs to Mar 18, Tue-Sat 8 pm, plus Mar 16 at 11 pm and Mar 18 at 2 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St George. uc.utoronto.ca/content/view/1135/2946/. sEEds by Annabel Soutar (Crow’s Theatre/ Porte Parole). By combining investigative journalism, documentary and theatre, Soutar dramatizes her own investigation into the famous Monsanto v. Percy Schmeiser legal battle over genetically modified seeds and farmers’ rights. Dialogue lifted directly from interviews with a plethora of stakeholders creates an air of realism, but the jumbled set and some extraneous scenes need to go. Runs to Mar 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15$35. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, crowstheatre.com. nnn (Jordan Bimm) thE smAll Room At thE top oF thE stAiRs by Carole Fréchette (Tarragon Theatre). A woman debates entering her husband’s secret room. Runs to Apr 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$51. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. this WidE night by Chloë Moss (Mermaid Parade). Two women just out of prison try to survive and connect with the outside world. Runs to Mar 17, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Mar 12), Sun 2:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, Sun pwyc. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-8459411, redsandcastletheatre.com. WAR hoRsE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Stafford (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 (see review, page 60). Runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats SatSun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nnnnn (Susan G Cole) ZERo houR by Jim Brochu (Lia and Danna Matthow). Writer and actor Jim Brochu’s solo show about Zero Mostel draws an immensely sympathetic portrait of a man who acted so he could paint. Brochu instills passion into an occasionally sentimental performance of unbridled, lovingly hokey humour. Runs to Mar 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat 2 pm, Sun 3 pm. $59-$69.50. Bathurst Street Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 1-855-985-2787, zerohourshow.com. nnn (Naomi Skwarna) 3

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No Free ride FREE AS INJUNS by Tara Beagan (Native Earth). At Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). To March 18. $10-$20. 416-9758555. See Continuing, page 62. Rating: NN

Despite one character’s constant clanging of a cowbell to signify daybreak, Tara Beagan’s free as injuns never rouses itself to life. It feels more like a workshop than a full production. Loosely inspired by Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy-tinged Desire Under The Elms, the play’s set on an American farm owned by aging patriarch Ephraim Cabot (Jerry Franken), whose marriage to a “half-breed” young woman named Be (PJ Prudat) upsets his three sons, each born to a different non-white woman. Most affected is Even (James Cade), who still carries on conversations with his dead part-aboriginal mother (voiced by Yvette Nolan, former artistic director of Native Earth) and soon begins an affair with his new step-mom. Beagan is clearly concerned with issues of land and legacy – and fittingly, the strongest part of this production is Andy Moro’s set, which

PJ Prudat and James Cade can’t free themselves from play’s clunky symbols.

consists of wooden planks, real-looking earth and an overarching elm tree. Having the play performed in the round adds a sense of intimacy. But both script and Ruth Madoc Jones’s direction are weighed down by clunky symbols and poetry that falls flat, whether it’s Ephraim’s amplified voice and sudden stroke or the recorded dialogue of a prostitute (Lisa Codrington) and Even’s mom. An image that unfurls in the final scene should carry lots of weight, but

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the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents various pieces performed by Ballet Jörgen. Mar 14 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. ClASSICAl ANd CoNtEmpoRARy BAllEt Ballet Jörgen presents a dance showcase featuring works by Canadian choreographers. Mar 9-10, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $22-$69. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416-978-8849, balletjorgen.ca. ExodUS Harbourfront NextSteps and Ballet Creole present a farewell to contemporary dancer Almond Small, principal dancer for OMO Dance Company, with works by Debbie

Wilson, Patrick Parson, Gabby Kamino and more. Mar 8-10, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $35-$45, stu/ srs $20-$25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, balletcreole.org. FREqUENCy tiger princess dance projects presents choreography by Yvonne Ng about a voyage through diversity and different social spheres. Opens Mar 8 and runs to Mar 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/ srs $17. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416504-7529, princessproductions.ca. INtERloCk Jasmyn Fyffe Dance Company and DanceWorks CoWorks present a mixed program with choreography by Jasmyn Fyffe, Karen Kaeja, Kyra Jean Green and Patrizia Gianforcaro. Opens Mar 14 and runs to Mar 17, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-204-

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it registers as merely confusing. There are hints about systemic racism here – talk about native people taking jobs, laws about land rights and marriage – yet they’re not fully integrated into the play. And while Ash Knight and John Ng do some fine work as Even’s slacker brothers, Prudat and Cade lack any chemistry, making their characters’ desire seem more like a plot point than a dramatic inevitability.

Rhythm oF thE dANCE The National Dance Company of Ireland presents music and dance derived from all areas of Irish life. Mar 9-10, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $54-$59, stu $39. Markham Theatre for the Performing Arts, 171 Town Centre Blvd. 905-305-7469. thE SlEEpING BEAUty The National Ballet of Canada presents the Tchaikovsky classic fairy-tale ballet by Marius Pepita, later adapted by Rudolf Nureyev and re-staged by Karen Kain. Opens Mar 10 and runs to Mar 18, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Thu, Sat-Sun and Tue 2 pm. $25-$234. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-3459595, national.ballet.ca.

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Keesha Brownie, Pat MacDonald and host Nathan Macintosh. To Mar 11, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. COMEDY THURSDAYS The Starving Artist presents a weekly showcase w/ host Natasha Henderson. 9 pm. Free. 584 Lansdowne. 647-342-5058, starvingartistbar.com. GIGGLES @ THE GROOVE The Groove Bar presents open-mic for International Women’s Day w/ host Zabrina Chevannes. 9:30 pm. Free. 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917. GRINDR: THE MUSICAL The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents Trevor Boris in a comedy show that’s not a musical. 7 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. GUILTY OF BEING FUNNY presents weekly stand-up w/ hosts Andrew Fox and Jamie O’Connor. 10 pm. Free. Hot Wings, 563 Queen W. 416-359-8860. THE IMPROV SHOW Comedy Bar presents Rob Baker, Kayla Lorette, Lauren Ash, Kerry Griffin, Carmine Lucarelli, Jerry Schaefer and Leslie Seiler. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. LAUNCHPAD COMEDY presents a weekly show. 8:30 pm. Free. White Swan, 836 Danforth. 416-463-8089. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly improvised soap opera. 8 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. STONER COMEDY Hot Box Cafe presents a weekly show w/ host Jillian Thomas. 7 pm. $5. 191A Baldwin. hotboxcafe.ca. THE 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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Ballet Jörgen Canada, passionately follows the daughter of the fallen Russian Tsar through St. Petersburg ballrooms, revolutions, captivity, and into the heart of a tragic mystery.

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sents amateur comedians competing for $1,000. Nine comics per night. To Apr 5, Mon-Thu 8 pm. $5. Crown & Tiger, 414 College. torontocomedybrawl.com. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Lou Dinos. To Mar 11, Thu-Sun 8 pm, plus Fri-Sat 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Trixx w/ Dylan Mandlsohn and Martha Chaves. To Mar 10, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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News Café presents improv with Athletic Robot. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-4612668, comedyonthedanforth.com. EVERYONE’S A WINNER Second City presents a comedy benefit in support of the Canadian Women’s Hockey League w/ Sean Cullen, Tim Steeves, the Imponderables, Laurie Elliott, Ron Sparks, Falcon Poweder, Punch in the Box, Fraser Young, host Harry Doupe and others. 11 pm. $20. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. IAN HARVIE The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the FTM transgender comedian. To Mar 10, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. JO KOY Just for Laughs presents the JFL festival regular in a live show. 7:30 pm. $33.50. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. ticketmaster.ca.

LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER Second City presents its latest revue of sketches, ñ songs and improvisations (see story, page 61).

Now in previews, Tue-Sat 8 pm, plus Sat 10:30 pm (no show Mar 8), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents weekly improv, sketch, stand-up and music. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. scnakedfridays@ gmail.com. THE NO NAME COMEDY SHOW The Bar with No Name presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9:30 pm. Free. 1651 Bloor W. 416-997-6045. TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle Wellesley presents stand-up w/ Tim Dorsch, Desiree Lavoy, Christina Walkinshaw, Mark DeBonis, Sandra Battaglini, Graham Kay, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 8. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 8.

Saturday, March 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 8. THE EPIC NERD SHOW PRESENTS: COMICCON’S LATE NIGHT DRUNKEN VARIETY PARTY Empire Comedy Live presents Andrew

Ivimey, Craig Fay, Wordburglar and others. 10:30 pm. $5, free w/ ComicCon pass. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. empirecomedylive.com. IAN HARVIE See Fri 9. ILLUSIONOID Comedy Bar presents a live podcast recording featuring Paul Bates, Nug Nahrgang and others. Doors 9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. illusionoid.com. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Fri 9. THE RETURN OF MONKEY TOAST Comedy Bar presents the improvised talk show w/ the Monkey Toast Players and host Ron Tite. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. THE SAL & SANDY SHOW Underground Comedy Club presents Jack Dani, Deb Robinson, Candice Gregoris, Catherine McCormick, Sarah Donaldson and hosts Sal Feldman & Sandy Frigginelli. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761. SMASH HIT Opening Night Theatre presents a weekly improvised musical. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Augusta House, 152 Augusta. openingnighttheatre.com.

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forming to raise money and awareness. 8:30 pm. $10, stu $5. John Candy Box Theatre, 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents unscripted comedy battles. Undercard warmup event at 7 pm, main event at 8 pm. $12, stu $10 (for one or both shows). Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre. com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 8. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 8.

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Monday, March 12 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Darren Frost, Nathan Macintosh, Laurie Elliott, Kristeen Von Hagen, Dom Pare, MC Debra DiGiovanni and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEANS & WIENERS COMEDY Gladstone Hotel presents up and coming comics. 8 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W, Art Bar. gladstonehotel.com. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. BLAIR STREETER presents weekly open-mic stand-up comedy. 9 pm. Free. Naughty Nadz, 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a show w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. THE SECOND CITY GOES BOOM! Second City presents family-friendly entertainment with comedy and games for everyone. To Mar 14, Mon-Wed noon. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

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sents unscripted comedy based on secrets from the audience w/ Aurora Browne, Chris Besler and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com.

Tuesday, March 13 BAD DOG ACADEMY TUESDAYS Bad Dog Theatre presents a workshop presentation from Taylor White’s class and Kris Siddiqi’s PLAY! 8 pm. Wheel Of Improv, w/ Natasha Boomer. 9:30 pm. $5-$7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. EAST SIDE REPRESENTS Red Sandcastle Theatre presents a monthly comedy revue w/ Lisa Brooke, Fiona Carver, Candice Gregoris, Sarah Carver, Precious Chong, Kelly Fanson, token male Pete Zedlacher, host Sandra Battaglini and others. 8 pm. $10. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411. I HEART JOKES The Central presents weekly comedy w/ host Evan Desmarais. 7 pm. $5. 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment and British Teeth present comedy w/ British Teeth, Mark Edwards, Touch My Steretype and host Marco Bernardi. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impulsiveent.com. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Fri 9. THE SECOND CITY GOES BOOM! See Mon 12. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE presents The Headliner Series w/ Shoeless, Good Game, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Laurie Elliott and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.

TORONTO COMEDY BRAWL: GAUNTLET QUALIFYING ROUNDS See Thu 8. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, and stand-up Amateur Night at 9:30 pm. $4. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, March 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ Nathan Macintosh, Alex Brovedani, Asfar Ali, Kenny Molotov, Maddox Campbell, Magdalena and host Matt Falk. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS Joel Buxton, Adrian Sawyer and DJ Demers present weekly stand-up. 9 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. EGG ZEPPELIN Bad Dog Theatre presents Kris Siddiqi and Marcel St Pierre cooking up unscripted comedy, live music and actual bacon w/ guest Anand Rajaram. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. LIVE WRONG AND PROSPER See Fri 9. THE SECOND CITY GOES BOOM! See Mon 12. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ Morgan George and host Mike Kellett. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. TORONTO COMEDY BRAWL: GAUNTLET QUALIFYING ROUNDS See Thu 8. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents

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Taylor made B.C.-born actor tries to keep his cool while others monitor box-office action By NORMAN WILNER JOHN CARTER directed by Andrew Stan-

ton, written by Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon based on the novel A Princess Of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs, with Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins, Ciarán Hinds, Mark Strong and Willem Dafoe. A Walt Disney Pictures release. 132 minutes. Opens Friday (March 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

taylor kitsch knows everybody’s talking about John Carter’s uncertain box-office prospects. He doesn’t care. “They’re just trying to fabricate something that’s not fuckin’ there, you know?” says the BC-born actor who broke out as noble failure Tim Riggins on the Friday Night Lights TV series and now finds himself starring in two massive studio event pictures, John Carter and Battleship

(coming in May). “It’s disheartening. You just wanna be like, ‘Go open yourself to it and you’ll be more than happy with the film.’ But I think people just wanna disillusion themselves with fuckin’ negativity and shit. And it sucks, to be honest with you, dude.” John Carter has its problems, but it’s not all that hard to enjoy. It’s harder to sell, which is the problem those industry-watchers have fixed upon. “I think it’s easy and lazy to be negative,” Kitsch says. “It takes a lot more work to actually fucking get in there and figure out what the movie’s about. And that’s a

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disappointing thing, that part of it.” As Kitsch tells it, the budget was the furthest thing from anyone’s mind while they were making the movie. “Story first,” he says with the same conviction he brings to his characters. “You know, the more you give me to dive into, the more fulfilling it’s gonna be. And then when you sit down with [Andrew] Stanton and work off Willem Dafoe, you’re gonna get something pretty great.” Even if Dafoe is... well, I’ll let Kitsch explain the work involved in turning the actor into a 7-foot, six-limbed Martian chieftain. “Willem Dafoe was on stilts in grey pyjamas and a head-cam,” he says. “I mean, every time Tars Tarkas is onscreen, that’s Willem in the middle of the Utah desert on a dry lake bed on stilts.” There’s a great deal of digital enhancement at work in John Carter, and it was ultimately Kitsch’s job to sell us on the reality of the spectacle. “If I don’t believe it, certainly you won’t either,” he says. “It’s just that much more energy and work; you’ve gotta make sure you’re in the moment.” Kitsch says director Stanton, who made the Pixar classics Finding Nemo and WALL*E, surprised and challenged him from their very first meeting. “He didn’t talk once about a budget, about who’s doing the effects – anything,” he says. “It was like, ‘I’m looking to play, and to cast a great young actor to come in here and breathe life

into my childhood dream.’ As an actor, when you hear that, that’s just music, you know? Because god knows how many meetings you fuckin’ take where it’s just, ‘Then we’re gonna make this explode, and this one’s gonna look so sweet, and you’re just gonna be there.’” Battleship is an equally massive effects actioner that reunites Kitsch with director Peter Berg, who cast him in the Friday Night Lights pilot. “It’s a huge film,” Kitsch says, laughing. “There’s just – it’s insane. [And] to reconnect with him five, six years later was a great time.” He’s also top-lining Oliver Stone’s Savages, which opens July 6. “I can’t wait to see it,” he says. “I’m better now for the jobs I’ve done, you know? Probably the most exciting thing this year [for me] is my growth as an actor as these different characters – I mean, they couldn’t be more different, you know? From Chon in Savages to John Carter – literally, they’re unrecognizable [from each other].” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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(Andrew Stanton) Rating: NNN Andrew Stanton tries a little too hard to turn Edgar Rice Burroughs’s simple adventure story about a Civil War veteran (Taylor Kitsch) transported to Mars into the next massive SF epic. When it’s just the basic story of a broken man reinventing himself as a hero – and falling in love with a Martian princess (Lynn Collins) – John Carter is pretty entertaining stuff. But whenever it lurches into grandiose space-opera mode it feels rushed and overstuffed, with characters barking exposition at one another while moving to the next crisis. The pacing is problematic – we don’t really need three prologues and two endings – and WALL*E director Stanton’s transition from animation to live action isn’t quite as elegant as his Pixar colleague Brad Bird’s was with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. He wants to give his supporting characters moments to pop, but those sequences just wind up contributing to the chaos of the second half. Still, when he pulls off a nice scene between Kitsch and Collins, or a snarky look from Willem Dafoe’s motion-captured Tars NW Tarkas, you end up rooting for the movie all over again. NOW MARCH 8-14 2012

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Ewan McGregor gets nasty with Blunt and praises Plummer By NORMAN WILNER SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN directed by Lasse Hallström, written by Simon Beaufoy from the novel by Paul Torday, with Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristin Scott Thomas and Amr Waked. An Alliance Films release. 112 minutes. Opens Friday (March 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

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it’s the middle of the toronto Film Festival, and Ewan McGregor is having a good day. His new comedy, Salmon Fishing In The Yemen – a bit of fluff that casts him as a snippy salmon expert who falls for Emily Blunt’s diplomatic administrator while they’re both working with a Yemeni sheik on a pet pro-

been moved to the side so passersby on Bloor can see directly into the auditorium through a glass wall – a design flourish restored from the theatre’s early days as a live performance venue. The main seating area has been completely reworked, eliminating the wings to the left and right of the central block of seats; the seats themselves have been replaced with cushioned recliners. (The balcony seats are unchanged, but they’ve been reupholstered to match the ones downstairs.) In the projection booth, the original 35mm rigs are now accompanied by a shiny new Christie digital unit. The sound has been upgraded to a Dolby 7.1 digital surround package. And as the new name implies, the programming will be about 80 per cent documentaries. On Monday and Tuesday (March 12

ject – has just had its world premiere to a packed and appreciative house. At the premiere, the film was compared repeatedly to the classic Ealing Studios comedies of the 50s – movies that often featured Alec Guinness or Peter Sellers, whose arch attitude McGregor’s character seems to channel at various points in this picture.

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and 13), the theatre holds free 7 pm open-house screenings of Lucy Walker’s Oscar-nominated Waste Land. The invitation-only grand opening follows the next day, and the Bloor officially opens for business March 16 with exclusive runs of Being Elmo:

A Puppeteer’s Journey and Corman’s World: The Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel – not exactly alienating arthouse fodder. “The documentary community in Toronto is definitely a little bit more educated,” explains director of pro-

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“It’s true that it’s got that flavour,” McGregor says, looking far younger than his 40 years, “and I’m very pleased that it does, because I love those films. When I was a kid I was much happier watching old movies than kids’ TV, and I ended up watching all the old Ealing comedies.” McGregor says he particularly enjoyed working on Salmon Fishing after a string of emotionally taxing pictures that included The Ghost Writer and Beginners because of his quick friendship with co-star Blunt. “I mean, actors are always sitting in these rooms saying, ‘We had a lovely time,’” he acknowledges, “but we really did have a lovely time. Right off the bat we got on like a house on fire. It’s quite difficult to do any work with her, because we just laugh too much. Too much laughter.” McGregor says their ease with one another helped in the early scenes where his and Blunt’s characters openly despise one another. “There was a complete safety in being nasty to one another,” he says with that toothy grin. “She just thinks he’s such an idiot. Every time he walks out of a scene, she’s laughing; she’s smiling because she thinks he’s such a twat. Because you’re safe with someone you like and are friends with, it’s easier to do that stuff.” McGregor brings up his Beginners co-star Christopher Plummer as an example of another great working relationship. “He plays,” he says about the eventual Oscar winner. “He’s living the scenes with you. And I fell in love with him, you know. He was my dad. It was difficult to play those scenes where he was getting sicker and sicker, because I really loved him.” 3

Whimsy and geopolitical metaphor collide and then wobble away dazed in this light comedy about a stuffy salmon expert (Ewan McGregor) and a troubled administrator (Emily Blunt) drawn to each other while working to stock the river of a wealthy Yemeni sheik (Amr Waked) with Atlantic salmon. No, seriously. The actors are appealing – McGregor channelling Guinness and Sellers circa 1956, Blunt just being her lovely, flinty self. But they can’t quite overcome the artificiality of Simon Beaufoy’s script, which solves each new plot complication mere moments after said complication is introduced. There’s broad-strokes storytelling, but this is just silly. Hallström seems content to keep cranking out calculating, utterly undistinguished middlebrow fare. I suppose that’s only a problem if you think about how this film compares to genuinely great works like My Life As A Dog and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. NW

gramming Robin Smith, “so you wanna throw something in that’s kind of challenging for them – but not so challenging that it’s going to distance the general audience. And you want to get some fictional programming in that’s going to appeal to the doc crowd. So that’s gonna be an interesting mix going forward.” The documentary focus isn’t absolute, however. The Bloor’s new management is intent on retaining elements of its old programming slate. “Rue Morgue and Toronto After Dark have approached us about potentially coming back and doing series,” Smith says. “We’re having discussions with the Rocky Horror Picture Show people as well, except I’m a little concerned about their throwing stuff at the screen.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

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Jennifer Westfeldt, the co-star and cowriter of 2001â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kissing Jessica Stein, makes her directorial debut with this entirely okay comedy about two longtime pals (Westfeldt and Parks And Recreationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s invaluable Adam Scott) who impulsively decide to have a baby together without any romantic entanglements, only to find their friendship getting complicated anyway. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the same set-up that drove No Strings Attached and Friends With Benefits, but without the condoms. As with Kissing Jessica Stein, the first half of Westfeldtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s script is stronger than the second â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s far better establishing characters and situations than wrapping them up â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and she still has that weird obsession with writing scenes where people tell her sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beautiful. But the actors are appealing and talented enough to make it work. Scott is terrific, his ironic detachment slowly sliding away into selfknowledge as his character gradually comes into focus. And Jon Hamm takes a sardonic supporting role and makes it into a complex human being, just as he did in Bridesmaids. Speaking of Bridesmaids, that filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-stars, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph and Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd, are here, too, playing various friends and onlookers. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much to do, but they keep things moving along nicely.

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TIM AND ERIC’S BILLION DOLLAR MOVIE

It’s a little baggy in the middle, but this silly feature from TV cult ﬁgures Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim will occasionally make you laugh uncontrollably.

A SEPARATION

This superbly written and acted Oscar winner (best foreign-language ﬁlm) about a middle-class Tehran couple’s attempt to split opens a fascinating window on class and religion in modern Iran.

THE IRON LADY

Meryl Streep broke her Oscar losing streak to win her third statuette for this impeccable turn as Britain’s long-serving PM. The movie’s all over the place politically, but Streep, hair and all, is fantastic.

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A front-runner at tonight’s Genie Awards, Philippe Falardeau’s Oscarnominated ﬁlm takes an unsentimental look at a teacher who helps a class of traumatized kids heal.

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ACT OF VALOR (Mouse McCoy, Scott Waugh) is a generic B-movie about an elite military team racing to stop a terrorist operation cast with “actual Navy SEALs” who may be able to swing heavy ordnance around, but cannot deliver a single line of dialogue convincingly. You’d be surprised how much that matters. Some subtitles. 110 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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 walleyed 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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

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as good as its performances. Glenn Close plays an uptight butler working in a luxurious 19th-century Dublin hotel, whose big secret is that he’s actually a she. When she meets another woman (Janet McTeer) living comfortably as a man, her life takes a turn. Close’s performance is rock solid, especially physically, while McTeer’s charm and charisma leap off the screen. Too bad the script doesn’t travel to some more interesting places about gender and sexuality in a repressed era. 113 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (Mike Mitchell) places the

Chipmunks on a desert island, where they’re accompanied by former SNL player Jenny Slate and series villain David Cross. Preschoolers might enjoy the slapstick in this castaway comedy, but others will find this high-pitched squeakquel unbearable. 87 min. N (Phil Brown) Coliseum Mississauga, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30

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stylistic experiment pulled off with panache. A 1920s silent film star (Jean Dujardin) and fan and aspiring star (Bérénice Bejo) meet cute, and soon her career is taking off (she’s dubbed the “it girl” of talkies) as his falls into decline. Filming in gorgeous black-and-white, director Hazanavicius lovingly embraces all the tropes of silent cinema (iris shots, titles), sharpening the familiar narrative with a slight edge

that should satisfy contemporary tastes. Oscar wins include picture, director and actor. 100 min. NNNN (GS) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BIG MIRACLE (Ken Kwapis) tells the true story of trapped whales in Alaska that became a national media sensation when people from both sides of the political spectrum teamed up to save them. This decent animal-in-danger tale cleverly uses a comedic cast to bring levity to the schmaltz, saving it from becoming Free Willy On Ice. 107 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) finds writer/director Vallée (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria) playing out a complex, time-jumping narrative involving a presentday Montreal father (Kevin Parent) in the throes of a mid-life crisis and the mother (Vanessa Paradis) of a Down syndrome child in 1969 Paris. Some people are going to hate it; I found it bracing, daring and entirely invigorating. Stay for the closing credits. Subtitled. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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(Roman Polanski) turns Yasmina Reza’s play God Of Carnage into a vividly cinematic endurance test, as two sets of parents (Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly, and Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz) face off in a Brooklyn apartment over a fight between their sons. Not necessarily something you’d call a holiday delight, but a damn fine little picture. 79 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Josh Trank) is an ingenious, resourceful feature that applies the found-footage principle to a very unlikely genre, using the gimmick brilliantly to ground its more outsized activity in a believable, even mundane reality. Go see it and marvel. 84 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Interchange 30, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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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 terrific as a ferocious warrior undone by his own integrity. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

A DANGEROUS METHOD (David Cronen-

berg) 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) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

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(Alexander Payne) stars George Clooney as a Hawaiian lawyer trying to cope with his wife’s impending death from a brain injury, figure out how to relate to his two young daughters (Shailene Woodley and Amara Miller) and digest the revelation that she was cheating on him before her accident. It’s sort of a comedy. Clooney’s textured performance pulls uneasy laughs out of the misery, and the kids are terrific at the complicated emotional turns. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity

DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (Chris Renaud, Kyle Balda) follows a young boy’s attempt to plant trees in a filthy town where even fresh air is for sale. Soon he meets a crusty hermit who ruined the formerly lush forest despite warnings from the Lorax, who speaks for the trees. Yep, this is latest feature-length Dr. Suess adaptation that transforms the masterful author’s succinct writing into souped-up 3-D CGI spectacle. Those who grew up on the book will find the added pop culture references and songs distracting, but the breezy comedy should please kids. Seuss won’t roll over in his grave – maybe just shudder slightly. 94 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, 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, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE

(Stephen Daldry) takes some of the edge off Jonathan Safran Foer’s 2005 novel about a socially challenged boy trying to solve a mystery left behind by the father who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center, but the core story is compelling, Thomas Horn is an appealing hero and director Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader) is surprisingly restrained and less patronizing than usual. 129 min. NNN (NW) Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

PORTRAIT IN BLACK AND WHITE ñFAMILY

(Julia Ivanova) tackles an emotionally absorbing subject filled with layers of complexity. In a modest house in a small Ukrainian town, Olga Nenya raises over 20 children, among them 16 black children who were abandoned by their mothers because of their race. There’s tension with the outside community – ignorant neighbours, tsk-tsking health inspectors – but also bickering within the family, as the hardworking yet hardline Nenya gushes over her nogood biological son while standing in the way of another’s talent for soccer or a daughter’s desire to move to Italy. Is Nenya a saint – or a matriarchal monster? As director Ivanova’s camera captures them over three years, your opinion of the family members will change. Among other things, this powerful doc gives a fascinating glimpse of post-Soviet-era life. A scene in which one of Nenya’s children describes his treatment in a psych institution is so full of horrific details, it could not be made up. Subtitled. 92 min. NNNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema

THE FLOWERS OF WAR (Zhang Yimou) is what happens when someone tries to a make an upbeat movie about the Rape of Nanking – something that won’t bum people out like Lu Chuan’s grim, mesmerizing City Of Life And Death. The result is a film that feels consistently calculated and fraudulent, breaking its own back trying to pull a happy ending out of a brutal historical reality. It’s too well produced to write off completely, but it’s not good at all – even Christian Bale, who’s usually rock-solid as a flawed hero, winds up on the broad side of Zhang’s melodramatic sensibility. On the upside, six months from now no one will remember he’s in this. Some subtitles. 141 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

Footloose (Craig Brewer) is a slavish re-

make of a movie that wasn’t all that good to begin with. Kenny Wormald steps into Kevin Bacon’s dancing shoes as Ren, a twinkle-toed teen from Boston who moves to a Southern city where partying’s outlawed. Wormald (a charmless actor but a very capable dancer) sticks to Bacon’s old moves, which aren’t exactly a thrill in the age of Step Up and How She Move. 113 min. N (RS) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

FrieNds With Kids (Jennifer Westfeldt)

107 min. See review, page 67. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 9 at Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24.

Ghost rider: spirit oF VeNGeaNce

(Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor) finds Nicolas Cage importing the plot of last year’s Drive Angry into a superhero sequel, as accursed biker Johnny Blaze is charged with protecting a boy (Fergus Riordan) at the centre of an apocalypse prophecy. Pairing the reliably outsized Cage with makers of the Crank films and Gamer must have seemed like a great idea, but the chemistry’s all wrong – they’re incompatible variants of crazy. 96 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town

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(David Fincher) is a taut thriller adapted from the Swedish bestseller and film. Daniel Craig has lots of charisma as a disgraced journalist investigating the disappearance of an industrialist’s niece, and Rooney Mara rocks as his troubled, tattooed research assistant. But this is another unnecessary English-language remake. 158 min. NNN (SGC) Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(George Miller) continues the CGI saga of Mumble the tap-dancing penguin – voiced again by Elijah Wood – by giving him a son who doesn’t want to dance. But that becomes a secondary issue once a glacial catastrophe separates them from the rest of their Antarctic colony. It sounds crazy, and yet it all builds to a spectacular and even moving payoff. It’s incredible that a movie this objectively nuts can reach for that sort of profundity and achieve it. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

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

I AM BRUCE LEE (Pete McCormack) is a documentary about iconic action star Lee, featuring rare archival footage and interviews with people like Kobe Bryant, Mickey Rourke and others. 90 min. Mar 8, 7 pm, at Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview IN DARKNESS (Agnieszka Holland) tells the

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true story about a sewer inspector (Robert Wieckiewicz) in Lvov who hid a dozen Jews underground during the Nazi occupation. Long – and a lot to take – but the actors are excellent and the important story is told with deep conviction. Subtitled. 145 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Regent Theatre, Varsity

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, Cumberland 4, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 JOHN CARTER (Andrew Stanton) 132 min. See interview and review, page 65. NNN (NW) Opens Mar 9 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, 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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LOVE (Doze Niu) is a glossy and predictable Taiwanese spin on Love Actually that weaves together several mini-rom-coms about a few extended families. Director Niu balances the competing stories well and gets strong performances, but his trite attempt at crafting a big-screen Hallmark card is only mildly entertaining. Subtitled. 127 min. NN (Phil Brown) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24 IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL ñMISSION:

(Brad Bird) puts genius animator Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) in the driver’s seat for a bracing adventure that sends Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt and his team racing around the Eastern hemisphere to stop a madman from triggering a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. The movie zips through its paces with marvellous craftsmanship; the action scenes are only incoherent when they need to be, the characters are sharply and simply defined, and the locations are attractively photographed and smartly used. Some subtitles. 133 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

ñMONSIEUR LAZHAR

(Brad Peyton) is a sequel to Journey To The Center Of The Earth that swaps out Brendan Fraser for Dwayne Johnson, sending him and step-son Josh Hutcherson off to find Jules Verne’s impossible island. The premise becomes a frame for absurdist concepts in this anything-goes funhouse disguised as an adventure movie, and that’s not a bad thing at all. 96 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

LE CORSAIRE: BOLSHOI BALLET LIVE is a live

MY WEEK WITH MARILYN (Simon Curtis) is

broadcast of the romantic ballet by the legendary Russian company. 315 min. Mar 11, 1 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Grande Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

LET THE BULLETS FLY (Jiang Wen) is a witty comedy about a bandit who poses as the new governor of a small town and gets into complicated power games with its resident crime lord. Lots of elaborate lying ensues, along with body doubles, faked kidnappings and deaths and a gang war in the dark with everyone in the same mask. For nonChinese speakers, the constant, rapid-fire dialogue keeps the eyes glued to the subtitles, which sometimes go by too quickly to read fully and spoil much of the fun. Subtitled. 132 min. NNN (AD) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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

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as star-struck by its subject as its narrator is. It’s based on the memoirs of Colin Clark, who barely registers as a character. As for Marilyn Monroe (an excellent Michelle Williams), the film acknowledges the void

between her public persona and private life but it does very little to fill it. 101 min. NN (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cumberland 4, Humber Cinema

ñNORWEGIAN WOOD

(Tran Anh Hung) is simple, spare and beautiful, much like the Beatles song that serves as its melancholy trigger. Writer/director Tran’s adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s 1987 novel is more interested in capturing the delicate alchemy of a young man’s romantic confusion than relating a narrative. You don’t watch it so much as sink into it. It’s the late 1960s, and Watanabe (Kenichi Matsuyama) is a student whose best friend, Kizuki (Kengo Kora), is dating Naoko (Babel’s Rinko Kikuchi). Kizuki’s departure brings Watanabe and Naoko together, sending her into an inconsolable depression and eventually leading Watanabe to the sunny Midori (Kiko Mizuhara). Tran isn’t after big emotional moments; revelations come delicately, or even casually, filtered through the older Watanabe’s memory of himself and the others. This is, above all, the tale of a callow young man edging closer and closer to understanding the way the world works – and coming to regret the choices he didn’t make. Subtitled. 133 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4

THE ODDS (Simon Davidson) is a bad knock-

off of Rian Johnson’s high school film noir Brick, with all the whodunnit clichés but none of the cool. Tyler Johnston stars as Desson, a 17-year-old smooth operator who still attends classroom detentions and drinks rum and coke instead of the gumshoe’s typical bourbon (among the film’s few nice touches). Desson works among teenage bookies and card sharks to profit from his peers. After a friend ends up dead, he goes on the prowl for the murderer among his classmates. The Odds deals a losing hand because it takes its preposterous premise far too seriously – at least Brick was a bit tongue-in-cheek. Certainly urban high schools have their fair share of enterprising young offenders, but these boys seem like they walked off the set of Degrassi with too much allowance to burn. 92 min. N (RS) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

(Nuri Bilge Ceylan) is to police procedurals like Law & Order as Haywire is to a Jason Bourne movie; it’s the contemplative, considered alternative to structured genre filmmaking. A brooding, considered examination of the gruelling process by which justice may begin to be served, the film follows a group of men searching for evidence of foul play in the countryside. Like David Fincher’s Zodiac and Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective, this is a patient, thoughtful procedural that’s less about the investigation than the investigators. If you’ve been conditioned by years of cookie-cutter television to need a resolution in 45 minutes, it’ll have you climbing the walls. But if you’re open to other possibilities, there’s some great stuff going on here. Subtitled. 157 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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ñPina 3D

(Wim Wenders) doesn’t reveal a lot about dance great Pina Bausch – she died right before shooting was set to begin – but it does capture the essence of her art through excerpts from her richly dramatic works and unconventional interviews with her dancers. Director Wenders uses 3-D technology effectively, getting visceral effects from Bausch’s complex choreography. Subtitled. 104 min. nnnn (GS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñProject X

(Nima Nourizadeh) puts a found-footage spin on the teen-comedy genre, dropping us into the middle of a high school zero’s birthday party that spirals disastrously – and spectacularly – out of control. The long hand-held takes serve to define the characters beyond their cliché origins of Shy One (Thomas Mann), Horndog (Oliver Cooper) and Nerd (Jonathan Daniel Brown), and director Nourizadeh escalates the mayhem in a manner that feels both thrilling and terrifying. It’s not for everybody, but if you ever wondered what Risky Business would have felt like without the glossy cinematography and Tangerine Dream score, you’ll be very pleasantly surprised. 88 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ramPart (Oren Moverman) confirms that director Moverman has Woody Harrelson’s number. The actor scored an Oscar nom for his role in Moverman’s The Messenger, and he’s riveting, too, as Dave Brown, a dirty cop who’s being set up by his department to deflect media attention from a scandal. Or maybe not – the film is so confusing, it’s hard to know if Dave is getting shafted or sinking into the depths of paranoia; the higher-ups (Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi) might just be trying to get him under control. But if you’re into

acting chops, Rampart’s got it going on. Alongside Harrelson, there are great performances by Ben Foster as a street person who knows too much, Brie Larson as Dave’s alienated daughter and Robin Wright as a lawyer who may be in on the conspiracy. If there is one. 108 min. nnn (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

Safe HouSe (Daniel Espinosa) is an okay

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 Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Salmon fiSHing in tHe Yemen (Lasse Hallström) 112 min. See interview and review, page 66, and Q&A with Hallström at nowtoronto.com/movies. nn (NW) Opens Mar 9 at Varsity. tHe Secret WorlD of arriettY (Hiro-

masa Yonebayashi) is a charmless Japanese animated adaptation of British novel The Borrowers dubbed with an American voice cast. The tale of pixie-sized Arrietty and her relationship with a sickly human boy takes our patience for granted, with narrative rhythms as flat as the hand-drawn cartoons and voice actors who can’t liven up the proceedings. 94 min. nn (RS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

ña SeParation

(Asghar Farhadi) is one of the strongest films of the year. A middle-class Tehran couple (Peyman Moadi and Leila Hatami) attempt to separate, and in their stubbornness and lack of communication irrevocably affect the lives of those around them, including their precocious 11-year-old daughter (Sarina Farhadi), the husband’s Alzheimer’s-stricken father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) and a devout cleaning woman (Sareh Bayat). Writer/director Farhadi has created a complex, gripping mystery that sheds light on modern Iran’s religious and class differences, not to mention its circuitous legal system. But above all it’s a human and moral drama that plays with your sympathies and poses questions of innocence and guilt while providing no pat answers. Superbly acted and crafted, with an ending that will provoke arguments, A Separation – winner of the best foreign-language movie Oscar – is a great film that will haunt you. Subtitled. 123 min. nnnnn (GS) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre, Varsity

SHame (Steve McQueen) is the study of a

successful New York suit (Michael Fassbender) who’s a slave to his sexual compulsions. Fassbender lays himself bare in every way imaginable, but the forceful visual sensibility that worked so well in McQueen’s abstract film Hunger isn’t suited to the more human-scale story here. Shame’s set pieces feel like showy flourishes rather than grace notes that clarify and amplify the drama. 99 min. nnn (NW) Carlton Cinema

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) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

aleicHem: laugHing in tHe DarkneSS ñSHolem

is a bio of the groundbreaking Yiddish writer – best known for the source material on which Fiddler On The Roof is based, who almost singlehandedly elevated Yiddish from vernacular to vehicle for artistic expression. Tapping the expertise of Yiddishists and members of the writer’s family, Dorman traces the ways the writer’s tales – all of them tinged with humour – reflect the dramatic political and intellectual changes Jews living in the shtetl faced. Zionists vied with socialists, once closed and remote communities were forced to engage with the outside world, and eventually anti-Semitism forced them into a new diaspora. Dorman has amassed a ton of archival images of Sholem Aleichem’s life and the world of the shtetl, as well as superb material documenting the first wave of Jewish immigrants in New York City, where the writer died. An important doc for anyone who cares about literature. 93 min. nnnn (SGC) Empire Theatres at Empress Walk

Silent HouSe (Chris Kentis, Laura Lau) 86 min. See review, page 67. nn (NW) Opens Mar 9 at 401 & Morningside, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge. SnoW (Rohan Fernando) is a bog-standard drama about a young woman finding her way back from a devastating trauma that’s lucky enough to be built around a terrific central performance. Kalista Zackhariyas plays a shell-shocked Sri Lankan woman who comes to live in Halifax after the 2004 tsunami wipes out her home and family. Nothing happens that we haven’t seen in dozens of other low-budget character studies, but Zackhariyas holds the screen with an electricity that makes even the most rote material feel full of potential. Some subtitles. 86 min. nnn (NW) Canada Square

Star WarS: ePiSoDe i – tHe PHantom menace 3D (George Lucas) is still the same

dreadful, pointless, noisy, uncomfortably racist contraption it was in 1999, only now it’s in 3-D. Six-year-olds might like it, but six-yearolds can watch it at home without the stupid glasses. 132 min. nn (NW) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Scotiabank Theatre

tHiS meanS War (McG) is a romantic comedy

about a California product tester (Reese Witherspoon) who falls for two CIA agents (Chris Pine, Tom Hardy) while unaware of their covert status – or their friendship. The script is nonsensical even for an outsized action movie, with characters actively endangering each other for a cheap laugh. 98 min. n (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

a tHouSanD WorDS (Brian Robbins) 91

min. See Also Opening, page 67. Opens Mar 9 at 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

tim anD eric’S Billion Dollar movie (Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim) finds the stars of Tim And Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! jumping to the big screen with a comedy that lands the bright-eyed idiots in a rundown shopping mall after blowing a billion dollars on the eponymous disaster. The structure of a feature film works against Heidecker and Wareheim’s episodic sensibility, bogging the midsection down in ideas that don’t quite pay off, like Eric’s crush on a middle-aged shopkeeper (Twink Caplan). But the elements that do work – like the scabby sidekick played by John C. Reilly or a gangster subplot straight out of an 80s movie – will make you laugh so hard you’ll risk convulsions. 93 min. nnn (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Tomas Alfredson) is a sleek, expertly acted adaptation of John le Carré’s thriller about a retired British intelligence operative on the hunt for a Soviet mole within MI-6. The remarkable cast includes Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Mark Strong, Tom Hardy and the invaluable Benedict Cumberbatch. 127 min. nnnn (NW) Cumberland 4, Kennedy Commons 20 continued on page 72

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not your typical Perry movie. Missing are the juvenile gags, the combustible, circuslike shouting matches (there are still a few, but not as many as we’re used to) and Madea, Perry’s pistol-packing, smack-talking mammy alter ego. His attempt to be taken seriously results in a schmaltzy, joyless melodrama that lacks edge and loses its grip with Perry’s audience. The director plays the bland Wesley Deeds, a CEO from a wealthy family whose charitable eye falls on a janitor (Thandie Newton) living in a minivan with her precocious six-year-old daughter. Newton turns in a ferocious performance, but even she can’t save Good Deeds from being predictable and overly earnest. 111 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

UNdefeaTed (Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin) is an Oscar-winning football doc that comes across at times like any other crowd-pleasing underdog sports movie. There’s even a subplot that echoes The Blind Side. But these hardened inner-city kids are far more authentic than anything Hollywood can write, giving the film a raw emotional weight that fiction can rarely conjure up. Memphis high school football team the Manassas Tigers has many fatherless players, some who know a bit too much about the prison system. With intimate access, the directors focus on how some of these kids go from careless and rowdy to mature and promising. However, the only covers three players and their coach, whose stories have Oscar gold written all over them. That leaves you wondering whether the more tragic tales were left on the bench for the sake of a winning, feel-good movie. 113 min. NNN (RS) Cumberland 4 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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

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The Vow (Michael Sucsy) is a silly romance that’ll quickly evaporate from your memory. That’s appropriate, because it’s about two married boho Chicagoans (Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum) whose lives are upturned when an accident causes her to lose all memories of him. The only suspense comes from location-spotting, since Toronto stands in for the Windy City more than a few times. 104 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(David Wain) stars Paul Rudd and Jennifer Aniston as a Manhattan couple who lose their condo and head south in search of a fresh start, winding up at a commune outside Atlanta. It’s hysterically funny, which would be enough to make it a must-see film right about now, but it’s also a very smart film about insecurity, vanity and the appeal of simplicity in the technological age. Director and cowriter Wain (Role Models) orchestrates the mounting craziness like a master, building jokes on top of one another like he’s out to set a record for callbacks in a feature film. And pretty much everything he sets up pays off. My face actually hurt from laughing afterward, and I cannot remember the last time that’s happened. 98 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

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) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Regent Theatre

ñwasTe laNd

(Lucy Walker, Karen Harley, João Jardim) tracks Brazil’s prime artistic export, Vik Muniz, who collaborates with garbage pickers to create astonishing pieces and changes his subjects’ sense of themselves. Except that they all have to return to work in the landfill. Still, it’s a moving testimony to the power of art. 98 min. NNNN (SGC) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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. Ramsay vividly captures her nervous breakdown through a non-linear narrative as she struggles with memories of her son (Ezra Miller as a teen, Jasper Newell as a child, both excellent) and the repercussions of his actions. Disturbing, fascinating and enigmatic. 112 min. NNNN (Phil Brown) Varsity

william shakesPeare’s TwelfTh NiGhT

is a broadcast of Stratford’s splashy 2011 production of the classic comedy directed by Des McAnuff and starring Brian Dennehy, Andrea Runge and Stephen Ouimette. 171 min. Mar 10, 12:45 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

ñThe womaN iN black

(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) Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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

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ProjECT X (18A) thu 1:00, 2:00, 3:15, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:20 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 sat-sun 1:10, 3:00, 3:40, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 A sEPArATIon (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 sILEnT housE (14A) Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 sTAr WArs: EPIsodE I – ThE PhAnToM MEnACE 3d thu 2:50, 6:00, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 TyLEr PErry’s good dEEds (PG) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 WAndErLusT thu 1:40 4:20 7:10 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 WILLIAM shAkEsPEArE’s TWELfTh nIghT sat 12:45 WILLy WonkA And ThE ChoCoLATE fACTory Wed 7:00

tiFF Bell ligHtBox (i) 350 king st W, 416-599-8433

Bloor Hot Docs cinema ()

LET ThE buLLETs fLy (14A) 9:00 thu 12:15, 3:15 mat, 6:00 MonsIEur LAzhAr (PG) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-sun, tue-Wed 1:15, 6:00 mon 6:00 onCE uPon A TIME In AnAToLIA (PG) thu-sun, tue-Wed 12:00, 6:15 mon 6:15 PInA 3d (G) thu 12:45, 3:30, 9:15 Fri-sun, tue-Wed 3:30, 8:45 mon 8:45 TIM And ErIC’s bILLIon doLLAr MoVIE (18A) thu-sun, tue-Wed 3:45, 9:30 mon 9:30

WAsTE LAnd mon-tue 7:00

varsity (ce)

Downtown 506 Bloor st. W., 416-637-3123

carlton cinema (i) 20 carlton, 416-494-9371

ACT of VALor (14A) thu 1:35, 4:05, 6:40, 9:05 Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:45 ALbErT nobbs (14A) 1:25, 6:45 CAfé dE fLorE (14A) thu 4:00, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:30, 6:55 ChronICLE (14A) thu 1:30, 6:55 CorIoLAnus thu 3:55, 9:10 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 1:40, 7:25 Fri-sun, tueWed 1:40, 7:20 mon 1:40 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) Fri-Wed 1:35, 6:40 fAMILy PorTrAIT In bLACk And WhITE Fri-Wed 4:30, 9:10 ThE fLoWErs of WAr Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:25 goon (18A) thu 1:20 4:10 7:20 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:10, 7:25, 9:40 In dArknEss (14A) Fri-sun, tue-Wed 3:50, 9:30 mon 3:50 My WEEk WITh MArILyn (14A) Fri-Wed 4:05, 9:05 ProjECT X (18A) thu 1:50 3:50 7:15 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:15, 9:15 sAfE housE (14A) thu 1:55, 4:25, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Wed 7:05, 9:35 ThE sECrET WorLd of ArrIETTy (G) Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:25 shAME (18A) thu 4:20, 9:45 ToronTo fILM soCIETy mon 7:30 ThE VoW (PG) thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 WAndErLusT 1:45, 4:15, 7:10, 9:20 WhITE WATEr bLACk goLd Fri-Wed 1:20, 7:00

cumBerlanD 4 (aa) 159 cumBerlanD ave, 416-646-0444

ThE Iron LAdy (PG) Fri-sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:30 My WEEk WITh MArILyn (14A) thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:30 norWEgIAn Wood (14A) thu, sun-Wed 2:10, 5:10, 8:10 Fri-sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 TInkEr TAILor soLdIEr sPy (14A) thu, sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:50 Fri-sat 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 undEfEATEd (PG) thu, sun-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:00 Fri-sat 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

rainBoW market square (i) market square, 80 Front st e, 416-494-9371

ThE ArTIsT (PG) 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25 Fri 11:30 late ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:05 Fri 11:05 late gonE (14A) thu 1:20, 7:30 john CArTEr (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 ProjECT X (18A) 1:00, 3:15, 5:20, 7:25, 9:30 Fri 11:20 late sAfE housE (14A) thu 3:30, 9:40 WAndErLusT thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 Fri 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20, 11:25 sat-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20

scotiaBank tHeatre (ce) 259 ricHmonD st W, 416-368-5600

ChronICLE (14A) 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 A dAngErous METhod (14A) thu 1:20, 3:40, 9:30 Fri, mon-tue 1:10, 3:40, 6:10, 8:45 sat 6:10, 8:45 sun 2:30, 6:10, 8:45 Wed 1:10, 3:40, 9:30 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 1:00 3:50 6:30 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 ThE fLoWErs of WAr thu 2:30, 5:40, 8:50 ghosT rIdEr: sPIrIT of VEngEAnCE 3d (14A) thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-sat, mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 sun 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 goon (18A) thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 ThE grEy (14A) thu 1:50 4:40 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 hugo 3d (PG) thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:20, 9:00 I AM bruCE LEE thu 7:00 LE CorsAIrE: boLshoI bALLET LIVE sun 1:00 MIssIon: IMPossIbLE – ghosT ProToCoL: ThE IMAX EXPErIEnCE (PG) thu 1:10 4:00 6:50 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50

55 Bloor st W, 416-961-6304 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 12:40 3:30 6:20 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) 12:20, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 frIEnds WITh kIds Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 hugo 3d (PG) thu 12:20 3:15 6:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:15, 6:10, 9:40 In dArknEss (14A) thu 12:25, 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 MonsIEur LAzhAr (PG) thu 1:20 4:00 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 6:40, 9:10 sALMon fIshIng In ThE yEMEn Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 A sEPArATIon (14A) thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 WE nEEd To TALk AbouT kEVIn (14A) thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, sun-tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 sat 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:50, 3:40, 9:20 WILLIAM shAkEsPEArE’s TWELfTh nIghT sat 12:45

VIP SCREENINGS

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:35 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35 frIEnds WITh kIds Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 MonsIEur LAzhAr (PG) thu 12:35, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 sALMon fIshIng In ThE yEMEn Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 A sEPArATIon (14A) 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:45

yonge & DunDas 24 (amc) 10 DunDas st e, 416-335-5323

ACT of VALor (14A) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 sat-sun 11:50 mat ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri, mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 sat-sun 11:20, 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) thu 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Fri, mon-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 sat-sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, mon-Wed 12:15, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 sat-sun 11:00, 11:45, 1:30, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX: An IMAX 3d EXPErIEnCE (G) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 frIEnds WITh kIds Fri, mon-Wed 1:20, 2:15, 3:45, 4:45, 6:15, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 sat-sun 10:45, 11:30, 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 4:45, 6:15, 7:15, 9:00, 10:00 ThE gIrL WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 3:20 Fri, mon-Wed 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 sat-sun 11:50, 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 gonE (14A) thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 10:40 Fri, mon-Wed 3:55, 9:20 sat-sun 10:45, 3:55, 9:20 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) thu 2:05, 4:45, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Wed 7:10, 9:55 john CArTEr (PG) Fri, mon-tue 2:15, 6:00, 8:30, 9:15 satsun 11:15, 2:45, 6:00, 8:30, 9:15 Wed 2:15, 6:00, 9:15 john CArTEr 3d (PG) 12:15, 3:15, 3:45, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 sat-sun 11:45 mat john CArTEr: An IMAX 3d EXPErIEnCE (PG) thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd (PG) thu 6:00 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 3:35, 8:35 Fri, mon-Wed 1:20, 3:50 sat-sun 10:35, 1:20, 3:50

kAhAAnI 3:20, 6:45, 10:15 sat-sun 11:40 mat London, PArIs, nEW york (PG) thu 3:35, 6:10, 8:40 FriWed 2:00, 7:00 LoVE thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, mon-Wed 6:20 sat-sun 1:00, 6:20 ThE odds thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 PrAy for jAPAn Wed 7:00 rAMPArT thu 2:15, 4:50, 8:15, 10:45 Fri-Wed 5:55, 8:25, 10:45 sAfE housE (14A) 3:15, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 thu 2:00 mat, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45 sat-sun 10:30, 12:15, 1:15 mat ThE sECrET WorLd of ArrIETTy (G) thu 3:45, 6:15, 8:45 Fri, mon-Wed 1:30, 3:45 sat-sun 10:45, 1:15, 3:45 shErLoCk hoLMEs: A gAME of shAdoWs (PG) 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 sat-sun 10:30 mat ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) thu 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 4:30, 6:05, 9:30 satsun 10:35, 11:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:05, 9:30 A ThousAnd Words (PG) 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 sat-sun 10:30 mat ThE VoW (PG) thu 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 sat-sun 10:30, 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 ThE WoMAn In bLACk (14A) 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20 satsun 11:45 mat

midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

ThE ArTIsT (PG) 4:00, 6:30 Fri 9:15 sat-sun 1:30 mat, 9:15 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) 4:10, 6:50 Fri 9:35 sat-sun 1:40 mat, 9:35 ghosT rIdEr: sPIrIT of VEngEAnCE (14A) thu 4:30, 7:20 gonE (14A) 4:45, 7:30 Fri 9:45 sat-sun 1:20 mat, 9:45 goon (18A) 4:30, 7:20 Fri 9:40 sat-sun 2:00 mat, 9:40 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) 4:20, 6:40 Fri 9:10 sat-sun 1:45 mat, 9:10 My WEEk WITh MArILyn (14A) 4:40, 7:00 Fri 9:20 satsun 1:15 mat, 9:20 ThE sECrET WorLd of ArrIETTy (G) 4:15, 6:45 Fri 9:00 sat-sun 1:50 mat, 9:00 snoW thu 4:50, 7:10 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) 4:50, 7:10 Fri 9:30 sat-sun 2:10 mat, 9:30

mt Pleasant (i)

675 mt Pleasant rD, 416-489-8484 ThE gIrL WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) Fri 9:25 sat 9:30 sun, tue 7:00 hugo (PG) thu, Wed 7:00 Fri 6:50 sat 4:00, 6:50 sun 4:15

regent tHeatre (i) 551 mt Pleasant rD, 416-480-9884

In dArknEss (14A) Fri-sat 9:30 sun, tue-Wed 7:00 WAr horsE (PG) thu 7:00 Fri 6:45 sat 3:45, 6:45 sun 4:00

silvercity yonge (ce) 2300 yonge st, 416-544-1236

ACT of VALor (14A) thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Fri-sat, mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 sun 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) thu 1:10 Fri-Wed 12:40 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) thu 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 FriWed 1:10, 4:00, 6:30, 9:10 goon (18A) thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 9:55 john CArTEr 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd (PG) thu 1:00 FriWed 12:50 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 3:40 6:40 9:10 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 LE CorsAIrE: boLshoI bALLET LIVE sun 1:00 ProjECT X (18A) thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 sAfE housE (14A) thu 1:40 4:30 7:20 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 sILEnT housE (14A) 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 sun only 2:00 4:30 7:30 10:10 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 ThE VoW (PG) thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Fri, mon-tue 1:20, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 sat 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 sun 1:20, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 4:30, 9:50 WAndErLusT thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-tue 1:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 WILLIAM shAkEsPEArE’s TWELfTh nIghT sat 12:45

Metro

West end HumBer cinema (i) 2442 Bloor st. West, 416-232-1939

dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:30 EXTrEMELy Loud & InCrEdIbLy CLosE (PG) thu 4:30 ThE gIrL WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) thu 9:00 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) thu 2:30, 7:00 My WEEk WITh MArILyn (14A) thu 12:30

kingsWay tHeatre (i) 3030 Bloor st W, 416-232-1939

ThE AdVEnTurEs of TInTIn (PG) Fri-Wed 11:00 ThE ArTIsT (PG) 7:00 thu 1:00 mat, 9:00 CArnAgE (14A) thu 5:00 A dAngErous METhod (14A) Fri-Wed 5:00 ThE gIrL WITh ThE drAgon TATToo (18A) Fri-Wed 8:55 hugo (PG) 2:50 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00

queensWay (ce)

1025 tHe queensWay, qeW & islington, 416-503-0424 ACT of VALor (14A) 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 ChronICLE (14A) thu 1:55, 4:20, 9:10 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 1:15 4:10 7:15 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) thu 1:40, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 FriWed 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 9:55 Fri, sun-Wed 1:15, 3:35, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45 sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:35, 6:00, 8:25, 10:45 frIEnds WITh kIds Fri-tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Wed 3:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 ghosT rIdEr: sPIrIT of VEngEAnCE 3d (14A) thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 gonE (14A) thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Fri, mon-Wed 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 sat 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 sun 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 goon (18A) thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:15, 5:45, 8:30, 10:50 I AM bruCE LEE thu 7:00 In dArknEss (14A) thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 john CArTEr (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 john CArTEr 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd (PG) thu 2:10 FriWed 12:20 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 LE CorsAIrE: boLshoI bALLET LIVE sun 1:00 ProjECT X (18A) thu 1:25, 2:55, 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 7:35, 9:40, 10:00 Fri, mon-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 sAfE housE (14A) thu 1:05 4:05 7:05 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:45 ThE sECrET WorLd of ArrIETTy (G) thu 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:35 shrEk (G) sat 11:00 sILEnT housE (14A) Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 ThIs MEAns WAr (14A) thu 1:10 4:15 6:55 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 A ThousAnd Words (PG) Fri, sun-tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 sat 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:25 ThE VoW (PG) thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 WAndErLusT thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 WILLIAM shAkEsPEArE’s TWELfTh nIghT sat 12:45 WILLy WonkA And ThE ChoCoLATE fACTory Wed 7:00 ThE WoMAn In bLACk (14A) thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-sat, mon-tue 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 sun 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 2:55, 10:35

rainBoW WooDBine (i)

WooDBine centre, 500 rexDale BlvD, 416-213-1998 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 ghosT rIdEr: sPIrIT of VEngEAnCE (14A) 4:05, 9:30 thu 1:05 mat, 7:10 goon (18A) thu 1:30, 3:50, 7:20, 9:25

john CArTEr (PG) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 12:55 3:55 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:50, 9:20 ProjECT X (18A) 1:20, 4:00, 7:25, 9:40 sAfE housE (14A) thu 1:10 4:10 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:35 sILEnT housE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 7:15, 9:45 A ThousAnd Words (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:50, 4:55, 7:10, 9:25 TyLEr PErry’s good dEEds (PG) 1:15, 6:55 thu 4:10, 9:25 WAndErLusT thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45

east end BeacH cinemas (aa) 1651 queen st e, 416-699-5971

ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 satWed 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 6:50, 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:00 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) sat-Wed 12:30 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) thu 6:30, 9:00 Fri 3:50, 6:20, 8:40 sat-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 goon (18A) thu 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 sat-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 7:30, 10:05 john CArTEr 3d (PG) Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 sat-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd (PG) Fri 3:40, 6:30 sat-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 6:30 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 6:40, 9:10 sAfE housE (14A) thu 7:10, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 satWed 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:10

north york emPire tHeatres at emPress Walk (et) 5095 yonge st, 416-223-9550

ALVIn And ThE ChIPMunks: ChIPWrECkEd (G) monWed 1:45, 4:10 ThE dEsCEndAnTs (14A) thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 sat-sun 1:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 mon-Wed 6:20, 9:00 fooTLoosE (PG) mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50 ghosT rIdEr: sPIrIT of VEngEAnCE (14A) thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Wed 9:30 gonE (14A) thu 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Fri-Wed 10:00 goon (18A) 9:20 thu 4:20, 7:00 hAPPy fEET TWo (PG) mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30 ThE Iron LAdy (PG) thu 3:50, 6:30 Fri 4:00, 6:50 sat-sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:50 mon-Wed 6:50 john CArTEr 3d (PG) Fri 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:45, 9:40, 10:40 sat-sun 12:45, 1:50, 3:40, 4:50, 6:40, 7:45, 9:40, 10:40 monWed 12:30, 1:50, 3:40, 4:55, 6:40, 7:45, 9:40, 10:40 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd (PG) sat-sun 1:30 mon-Wed 1:00 journEy 2: ThE MysTErIous IsLAnd 3d (PG) thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-sun 4:10, 7:00 mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 ProjECT X (18A) thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 5:00, 8:00, 10:20 sat-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 8:00, 10:20 sAfE housE (14A) thu 3:40, 6:20, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 sat-sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 ThE sECrET WorLd of ArrIETTy (G) thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:30, 7:20 sat-sun 2:10, 4:30, 7:20 mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:20 shoLEM ALEIChEM: LAughIng In ThE dArknEss thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 sat-sun 12:55, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 mon-Wed 6:30, 9:10 A ThousAnd Words (PG) 7:10, 9:50 Fri 4:20 sat-sun 1:40 mat, 4:20

granDe - yonge (ce) 4861 yonge st, 416-590-9974

ACT of VALor (14A) thu 4:20 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 thu-Fri, sun no 1:30 ThE ArTIsT (PG) thu 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 sat-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:20 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX (G) thu-Fri 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 satWed 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 dr. sEuss’ ThE LorAX 3d (G) thu-Fri 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 satWed 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 continued on page 74 œ

NOW march 8-14 2012

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friendS WitH kidS Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 sat-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Hugo 3d (PG) Thu 3:30 6:30 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 Thu-Fri no 12:10 in dArkneSS (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:40, 9:55 Le corSAire: BoLSHoi BALLet Live sun 1:00 A SepArAtion (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 sat-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 SiLent HouSe (14A) Fri 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 sat-Wed 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 tHe voW (PG) 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 mon-Wed 1:50 mat Thu 3:50 7:25 9:50 sun only 1:50 7:10 9:50 WAnderLuSt Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 sat-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 WiLLiAm SHAkeSpeAre’S tWeLftH nigHt sat 12:45

silverCiTy FairvieW (Ce)

FairvieW mall, 1800 shePPard ave e, 416-644-7746 Act of vALor (14A) Thu 1:50 4:40 7:25 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx (G) Thu 2:30 Fri, sun-Wed 1:15 sat 11:00, 1:15 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx 3d (G) Thu 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:20 gHoSt rider: Spirit of vengeAnce (14A) Thu 10:10 goon (18A) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 i Am Bruce Lee Thu 7:00 JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) Thu 2:00 FriWed 12:20 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 proJect x (18A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 SHrek (G) sat 11:00 SiLent HouSe (14A) Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:40 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Wed 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 tHe voW (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:25, 9:50 WAnderLuSt Thu 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fri, sun-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 sat 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Wed 4:20, 10:00 WiLLiAm SHAkeSpeAre’S tWeLftH nigHt sat 12:45 WiLLy WonkA And tHe cHocoLAte fActory Wed 7:00

silverCiTy yorkdale (Ce) 3401 duFFerin sT, 416-787-4432

Act of vALor (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx (G) Thu 2:50 Fri-Wed 1:05 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx 3d (G) Thu 5:10, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 gHoSt rider: Spirit of vengeAnce 3d (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 gone (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) Thu 2:20 FriWed 12:30 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:20 proJect x (18A) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-sun 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 mon-Wed 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 A tHouSAnd WordS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15 tyLer perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 tHe voW (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:40 mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00

scarborough 401 & morningside (Ce) 785 milner ave, sCarborough, 416-281-2226

Act of vALor (14A) Thu 5:25, 8:00 Fri 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 sat-Wed 11:55, 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx (G) Thu 5:00, 7:20 Fri 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 sat-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx 3d (G) Thu 4:45, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 sat-Wed 11:45, 1:50, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 gone (14A) Thu 5:55, 8:25 goon (18A) Thu 5:45, 8:10 JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 sat-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:10, 10:15 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) sat-Wed 12:00 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:50 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 sat-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 proJect x (18A) Thu 6:10, 8:20 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 sat-Wed 1:30, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:40 Fri 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 satWed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 SiLent HouSe (14A) Fri 3:45, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 sat-Wed 1:25, 3:45, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 A tHouSAnd WordS (PG) Fri 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:25 satWed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:25 tyLer perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 sat-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 tHe voW (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:15 Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 sat-Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 WAnderLuSt Thu 5:35, 7:55

march 8-14 2012 NOW

gone (14A) Thu 4:55, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-sat, mon-Wed 2:10, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 sun 2:10, 7:50, 10:20 goon (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 i Am Bruce Lee Thu 7:00 JoHn cArter (PG) 2:30, 6:00, 9:10 sat 11:20 mat JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 JoHn cArter: An imAx 3d experience (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) Fri, sun-Wed 12:50 sat 11:15, 1:40 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:10, 8:50 Fri, sun-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 sat 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Le corSAire: BoLSHoi BALLet Live sun 1:00 miSSion: impoSSiBLe – gHoSt protocoL (PG) Thu 3:40, 9:55 proJect x (18A) Thu 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:40, 10:15 FriWed 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 8:10, 9:50, 10:40 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 SHrek (G) sat 11:00 SiLent HouSe (14A) 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:35 sat only 1:55 5:10 7:45 10:35 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 A tHouSAnd WordS (PG) Fri, mon-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 10:00 sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 tyLer perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:35 tHe voW (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 WAnderLuSt Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:05, 7:05, 9:40 tHe WomAn in BLAck (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:45, 10:05 Fri 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 sat, mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10 sun 4:35, 7:25, 10:10

Coliseum sCarborough (Ce) sCarborough ToWn CenTre, 416-290-5217

gone (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:15 Fri, Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:45 sat 5:35, 8:05, 10:45 sun 2:10, 7:55, 10:20 mon, Wed 2:10, 5:10, 7:55, 10:20 goon (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 JoHn cArter (PG) Fri, Tue 12:30, 3:35, 6:45, 10:00 sat 11:20, 2:35, 6:45, 10:00 sun-mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri-sat, Tue 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:40 sun-mon, Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) Thu 1:00 Frisat, Tue 12:40 sun-mon, Wed 1:05 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 Fri-sat, Tue 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 sun-mon, Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Le corSAire: BoLSHoi BALLet Live sun 1:00 proJect x (18A) Thu 1:50, 2:30, 4:20, 5:00, 7:00, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-sat, Tue 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30, 11:00 sun-mon, Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-sat, Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 sun-mon, Wed 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 tHe Secret WorLd of Arrietty (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10 Fri-sat, Tue 12:50 sun-mon, Wed 1:20 SHrek (G) sat 11:00 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-sat, Tue 12:35, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:50 sun 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 mon, Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 A tHouSAnd WordS (PG) Fri, Tue 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 sat 11:45, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 sun-mon, Wed 1:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 tyLer perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Fri, Tue 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 sat 11:15, 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 sun-mon, Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 unofficiALLy yourS Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:35, 10:15 tHe voW (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:55 Fri-sat, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 sun-mon, Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 WAnderLuSt Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-sat, Tue 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 sun-mon, Wed 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 WiLLiAm SHAkeSpeAre’S tWeLftH nigHt sat 12:45

eglinTon ToWn CenTre (Ce) 1901 eglinTon ave e, 416-752-4494

Act of vALor (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 tHe ArtiSt (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:25 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 sat-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx 3d (G) Thu 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, sun-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 sat 10:50, 1:15, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 friendS WitH kidS Fri 2:20, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 sat-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 gHoSt rider: Spirit of vengeAnce 3d (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:45 gone (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Fri-Tue 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Wed 5:30, 10:35 goon (18A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 i Am Bruce Lee Thu 7:00 JoHn cArter (PG) Fri 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 sat-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 JoHn cArter 3d (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd (PG) Fri, sun-Wed 12:30 sat 12:10 Journey 2: tHe mySteriouS iSLAnd 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, sun-Wed 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 sat 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:05 proJect x (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 SAfe HouSe (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:55, 10:00 tHe Secret WorLd of Arrietty (G) Thu 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:05 SHrek (G) sat 11:00 SiLent HouSe (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:25, 10:40 tHiS meAnS WAr (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 A tHouSAnd WordS (PG) Fri 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 sat-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 tyLer perry’S good deedS (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 tHe voW (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri, sun-Wed 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 sat 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 WAnderLuSt Thu 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 sun-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 WiLLy WonkA And tHe cHocoLAte fActory Wed 7:00 tHe WomAn in BLAck (14A) Thu 4:50, 9:40

kennedy Commons 20 (amC) kennedy rd & 401, 416-335-5323

Act of vALor (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 ALBert noBBS (14A) Thu 1:50, 7:45 tHe ArtiSt (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 Fri-Wed 11:05, 1:40, 4:05, 6:35, 9:05 cHAAr din ki cHAndni Fri-Wed 11:45, 3:00, 6:30, 9:50 contrABAnd (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 tHe deScendAntS (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 FriWed 11:20, 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx (G) Thu 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 FriWed 11:30, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 dr. SeuSS’ tHe LorAx 3d (G) Thu 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Fri-Wed 11:00, 1:35, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 ek mAin Aur ekk tu (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 extremeLy Loud & incrediBLy cLoSe (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 tHe fLoWerS of WAr Thu 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 Fri-Wed 11:25, 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 friendS WitH kidS Fri-Wed 11:20, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 gHoSt rider: Spirit of vengeAnce 3d (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:50, 10:15 tHe girL WitH tHe drAgon tAttoo (18A) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 11:30, 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Hugo 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 10:40, 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 in dArkneSS (14A) Thu 2:10, 5:40, 9:00 tHe iron LAdy (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Wed 11:10, 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 kAHAAni Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:25 London, pAriS, neW york (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-sun, Tue-Wed 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 mon 11:15, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40

Eddie Murphy and Kerry Washington hope A Thousand Words adds up at box office. Love Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 A SepArAtion (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 SiLent HouSe (14A) Fri-Wed 11:15, 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 StAr WArS: epiSode i – tHe pHAntom menAce 3d Thu 2:10, 7:30 Fri-Wed 10:40, 4:15, 7:15 tinker tAiLor SoLdier Spy (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 underWorLd: AWAkening 3d (18A) Thu 5:15, 10:25 WAr HorSe (PG) Thu 4:30, 10:20

Woodside Cinemas (i) 1571 sandhursT CirCle, 416-299-3456

Jodi BreAkerS (PG) Thu-Fri, mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30 sat-sun 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 kAdHALiL SodHAppuvAdHu yeppAdi Thu 7:00, 10:00 mASSi 7:00, 10:00 sat-sun 4:00 mat tere nAAL Love Ho gAyA (G) 6:45, 9:30 sat-sun 4:15

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and Portrait of actor John Wayne stands where he filmed The Quiet Man.

Diluted Irish opener DREAMING THE QUIET MAN (Sé Merry Doyle) Rating: NN We associate Stagecoach director John Ford with the forbidding landscape of Monument Valley, not the rolling hills of Ireland. Sé Merry Doyle’s Dreaming The Quiet Man is a trifling documentary that aims to reclaim the great American director as a Gaelic bhoyo by blood: he was born with the Irish name John Martin Feeney. The Toronto Irish Film Festival’s opening-night film recounts Ford’s return to Ireland during the making of 1952’s The Quiet Man. Irish locals and historians all insist on Ford’s affection for his parents’ native land, How to find a listing

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festivals human rights watch film festival tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. hrw.org.

tHu 8-fRI 9 – Festival of films focused on social issues including the struggle of ñ refugees, sex trafficking and bullying. $12, stu $5.

tHu 8 – Granito: How To Nail A Dictator (2011)

D: Pamela Yates. 8 pm. fRI 9 – Closing night: The Island President (2011) D: Jon Shenk 8 pm.

toronto irish film festival tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w. torontoirishfilmfest.com.

fRI 9-SAt 10 – The best of Irish cinema. Opening night gala $20, others $15. fRI 9 – Opening night gala: Dreaming The Quiet Man (2011) D: Sé Merry Doyle. 7 pm. SAt 10 – Emerging Filmmakers Spotlight: Diaspora (2012) D: Barbara Deignan, and aLIVE

but true or false, this emphasis speaks more to the filmmaker’s objectives than to his subject. The Quiet Man star Maureen O’Hara provides amusing insights into how difficult Ford could be, while The Last Picture Show director Peter Bogdanovich recalls how much he despised discussing his work – meaning he’d probably disapprove of this documentary. Everyone ends up debating the merits of The Quiet Man and its individual scenes, but what we should be watching is The Quiet Man itself, not a supplement that might qualify as a DVD extra instead of a feature. Screens Friday (March 9) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI From The Divid Flats (2012) D: Eleanor McGrath. Noon. Music Program: Little Red and other videos by Cathy Davey, and Hot Press: The Write Stuff (2011). 2:15 pm. Comedy Program: Sensation (2010) D: Tom Hall. 4 pm. Drama Program: Parked (2010) D: Darragh Byrne. 8 pm.

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Four Nights Of A Dreamer (1971) D: Robert Bresson. 5 pm. Only Yesterday (1991) D: Isao Takahata. 7:30 pm. MON 12 – Ponyo (2008) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 10:30 am. Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind. 2 pm. Goethe Films: 24 Hours Berlin – A Day In The Life, Part One (2008), a real-time documentary. 6:30 pm. $10. tuE 13 – My Neighbor Totoro (1988) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 10:30 am. Princess Mononoke (1997) D: Hayao Miyakazi. 2 pm. Castle In The Sky. 2 pm. A Woman’s Secret, and High Green Wall. 6:30 pm. Johnny Guitar (1954) D: Nicholas Ray. 6:30 pm. Whisper Of The Heart (1995) D: Yoshifumi Kondo. 8:45 pm. wED 14 – Whisper Of The Heart. 10:30 am. My Neighbor Totoro. 2 pm (dubbed) & 6:30 pm (subtitled). Goethe Films: 24 Hours Berlin – A Day In The Life, Part Two (2008), a real-time documentary of a day in the life of the German capital. 6:30 pm. $10.

fox theatre

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

tHu 8 – Hugo 3D (2011) D: Martin Scorsese.

6:45 pm. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) D: Tomas Alfredson. 9:15 pm. fRI 9 – The Artist (2011) D: Michel Hazanavicius. 7 pm. The Descendants (2011) D: Alexander Payne. 9:15 pm. SAt 10-SuN 11 – Beauty And The Beast 3D (1991) D: Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise. 2 pm. The Descendants. 4 & 9:15 pm. The Artist. 7 pm. MON 12-tuE 13 – Beauty And The Beast 3D. 2 pm. The Artist. 4 & 7 pm. The Descendants. 9:15 pm. wED 14 – .Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) D: Brad Peyton. 1 pm. The Artist. 4 & 9:15 pm. The Descendants. 7 pm.

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SAt 10 – Zabriskie Point (1970) D: Michelangelo Antonioni. 3 pm. Free.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433. tiff.net

tHu 8-MAR 23 – Occupy Wall St. Newsreels by

Jem Cohen. Screened daily from noon to 10 pm in the atrium. tHu 8 – Une Femme Douce (1969) D: Robert Bresson. 6 pm. Human Rights Watch Film Festival. See listings, this page. 8 pm. fRI 9 – Human Rights Watch Film Festival. See listings, this page. 8 pm. SAt 10 – Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind (1984) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 10:30 am. Une Femme Douce. 4 pm. Castle In The Sky (1986) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 7 pm. The Wicker Man (2006) D: Neil LaBute. 10 pm. SuN 11 – Nicholas Ray X 2: A Woman’s Secret (1949), and High Green Wall (1954). 1 pm.

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

tHu 8 – Oxygene (2007) D: Jean Michel Jarre. 7

pm.

SAt 10 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003). 5 pm. Key 56 (2011) D: Alexandre Hamel. 7 pm. Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 8 pm. SuN 11 – Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom. 5 pm. What I Learned From LSD (2011) D: Reg Hartt. 7 pm. MON 12 – Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D FW Murnau and soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A. 7 pm. tuE 13 – The Darkside Of Oz: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming and soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon. 7 pm. wED 14 – The Rite Of Caligari: The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) D: Robert Wiene with soundtrack of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite Of Spring. 7 pm.

revue cinema

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

tHu 8 – A Dangerous Method (2011) D: David

Cronenberg, 7 pm. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (2011) D: David Fincher. 9 pm. fRI 9 – Hugo (2011) D: Martin Scorsese. 7 pm. The Artist (2011) D: Michel Hazanavicius. 9:30 pm. SAt 10 – Hugo. 1:30 & 7 pm. The Artist. 4 & 9 pm. SuN 11 – Hugo. 1:30 & 6:45 pm. Scarlett Empress (1934) D: Josef von Sternberg. 4 pm. The Artist. 9:15 pm. MON 12 – Hugo. 1:30 & 6:45 pm. The Artist. 4 & 9:15 pm. tuE 13 – Hugo.1:30 & 9 pm. The Artist. 4 & 7 pm.

tHu 8 – Miss Representation (2011) D: Jennifer Siebel Newsom. 6:45 pm. Family Portrait In Black And White (2011) D: Julia Ivanova. 9:30 pm. fRI 9-SAt 10 – A Dangerous Method (2011) D: David Cronenberg. 7 pm. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011) D: David Fincher. 9:15 pm. SuN 11 – A Dangerous Method. 4:30 pm. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 7 pm. tuE 13-wED 14 – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. 7 pm. A Dangerous Method. 9:30 pm.

toronto underground cinema 186 sPadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

tHu 8-wED 14 – See website for schedule.

other films tHu 8-wED 14 –

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. tHu 8-APR 7 – VTape and WARC present A Long History Of Madness (2011) D: Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. Screened daily at 11 am and 2 pm. 401 Richmond W, suite 452. 416-351-1317, vtape.org. tHu 8 – Toronto Climate Campaign presents Sisters On The Planet (2011) D: Shannon Hart. 7 pm. Pwyc. Discussion with an Oxfam speaker to follow about the fight against climate change. Friends’ House, 60 Lowther. torontoclimatecampaign.org. Hart House Conscious Activism Docs series presents Miss Representation (2011) D: Jennifer Siebel Newom. Discussion to follow. 5 pm. Free. Hart House Library, 7 Hart House, U of T. RSVP http://uoft.me/missrep. Israeli Apartheid Week presents Izkor: Slaves of Memory (1991) D: Eyal Sivan. 7 pm. Free. Ryerson U, Oakham House, 63 Gould. toronto.apartheidweek.org.

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tHu 8-wED 29 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

tHu 8-fRI 9 – 8th Fire: Part Two. MON 12-wED 14 – 8th Fire: Part Three.

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

tHu 8 -wED 14 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. wED 14 – Wanted! Doctor On Horseback (1996). 4 pm. Free.

tHu 8-fRI 9 – Rocky Mountain Express. 11 am

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

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

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

tHu 12-13– Waste Land (2010) D: Lucy Walker, Karen Harley and João Jardim. 7 ñ pm. Free, tickets available from noon to 5 pm

camera bar

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ontario science centre

at the box office on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Pina (2011) D: Wim Wenders. 9 pm.

repertory schedules

bloor hot docs cinema

506 bloor w. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

wED 14 – Hugo. 1:30 pm. The Artist. 4 & 7 pm.

Celebrating the Best of Irish Cinema

March 9 & 10, 2012 at TIFF Bell Lightbox proudly sponsored by

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

& 2 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. Tornado Alley. 1 pm. SAt 10 – 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 11 – 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 12-wED 14 – 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 8 – Newlyweds (2011) D: Edward Burns. 1 & 9 pm. Midnight In Paris (2011) D: Woody Allen. 3 pm. How To Die In Oregon (2011) D: Peter Richardson. 5 pm. Pink Ribbons, Inc. (2011) D: Léa Pol. 7 pm. fri 9 – Monsters And Martians Fridays: The Wasp Woman (1959) D: Roger Corman, and Attack Of The Giant Leeches (1959) D: Bernard L Kowalski. 9 & 11 pm. SAt 10 – Super Punch Saturdays: For Y’ur Height Only (1981) D: Eddie Nicart, and The Incredible Kids (1988) D: Chu Huang Chen. 9 & 11 pm. SuN 11-wED 14 – Check website for schedule.

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FRI 9 – The Consulate General of France presents Les Demoiselles de Rochefort ñ (1967) D: Jacques Demy. 7 pm. Free. Innis

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(Sony, 2011) D: Pedro Almodóvar, w/ Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: NNN The Skin I Live In plays like Pedro Almodóvar’s take on Georges Franju’s Eyes Without A Face. It has the same outwardly respectable mad doctor running illicit skin grafts on a captive young woman, the same dead wife and a slightly different dead daughter. But where Franju goes for surrealist poetry and the shock of the bizarre in an ordinary setting, Almodóvar, as always, builds his own melodramatic, stylized world to explore the heart’s unexpected desires. His movie goes places that Franju’s barely hints at. The elegant camerawork and setting for Antonio Banderas’s calm, controlled mad doctor contrast with the horror of his experiments and the emotional roller coaster of his victim, played by Elena Anaya, who undergoes extremes of anguish, despair, yearning and a bizarre acceptance. She carries it off beautifully. The extras interview runs an hour and a quarter and covers Almodóvar’s early life and work. He’s funny and

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Anatomy Of A Murder is on the short list of great legal dramas, up there with To Kill A Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men and Inherit The Wind. The case is plausible and ordinary – a guy murders the man who raped his wife – but has enough ambiguity and surprising turns to keep the outcome in doubt. The characters make the show. Ben Gazzara, the defendant, is a creep. Lee Remick, his wife, is a drunk party girl. There are disturbing undercurrents all through their interactions. Neither can be trusted. Defence lawyer James Stewart has a weak case at best, and so falls back on his folksy James Stewart is persona and Murderously good in classic legal drama. courtroom theatrics. The

Fast-paced lunacy, romance and a sharp jab to the upper class make My Man Godfrey one of the all-time great screwball comedies. In the depths of the Depression, Irene, a New York socialite (Carol Lombard), hires Godfrey, a hobo (William Powell), as her family’s butler. The family is nuts. Irene is a childish airhead locked in perpetual battle with her vicious, scheming sister (Alice Brady). Their mother (Gail Patrick) babbles drivel and keeps a freeloader (Mischa Auer). Father (Eugene Pallette), a businessman on the verge of bankruptcy, can’t cope with any of it. Godfrey buttles as best he can and fends off both daughters. Nobody does imperturbable like William Powell. You always know what he’s thinking but never see him working to convey it. He’s the perfect foil for Lombard’s overblown histrionics. This reissue is part of Universal’s 100th anniversary series, which also includes Charade, All Quiet On The Western Front, The Deer Hunter and Sullivan’s Travels. They’re all great movies, but many of them share the same brief extras package: an eightminute doc on Carl Laemmle, who founded the studio and shepherded it through Hollywood’s golden years, and another on Lew Wasserman, who brought it into the modern era. Their tone is worshipful, but the information is sound. EXTRAS Laemmle doc, Wasserman doc. English audio. English SDH, French, Spanish subtitles.

Footloose (Paramount, 2011) D: Craig Brewer, w/ Kenny Wormald, Julianne Hough. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN Rent the original. The stories are identical – a teen moves to a small town where dancing is banned – and so are much of the dialogue and visuals, but the 1984 version has more charismatic actors giving better performances, stronger storytelling and considerable visual grace. Kenny Wormald, Dennis Quaid and Julianne Hough are adequate as the teen, the minister and his wild-child daughter, but the kids lack the exuberance of the original’s Kevin Bacon and

prosecution has the brilliant, reptilian George C. Scott. The minor characters get their moments to shine, too, and though the film runs almost three hours, Otto Preminger moves things along so smoothly that it feels much shorter. Three new interviews effectively address the movie, title sequence and, in particular, Duke Ellington’s atmospheric score. There’s also a good unfinished doc containing much archival footage from the shoot. EXTRAS Critical interviews on the movie, the score and titles, production doc, essay booklet. B&w. English audio and subtitles.

Lori Singer or the multiple shades of sorrow that John Lithgow brings to the minister. This Footloose changes and bungles several of the original’s high points. The heroine’s bad-girl gesture lacks any sense of danger; the bus race between hero and villain lacks the loopy humour of the original’s tractor race; and the montage of comic sidekick Willard learning to dance is interrupted by dialogue. You can hit the commentary and listen to writer-director Craig Brewer gush about everything, but the dance doc is much more fun. EXTRAS Director commentary, adaptation doc, cast doc, dance doc, more. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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Am I doomed to abuse? I’m a gay man In my late 20s who has

been trying to deal with an attraction to young boys since I hit puberty. I know that what I feel is wrong and wish to Christ that I could have a normally wired brain. I have never abused a child; I do not look at child pornography. But I need to speak to a therapist because I can’t get through this on my own. Bottom line is I’m afraid. Seriously afraid. I don’t know what my legal rights are and I don’t know how to go about getting more information without incriminating myself. I’m sure there are more people than just me who need to talk about this. My problem is that I’m not financially stable enough to afford to see someone for more than a few sessions. I just can’t keep saying I’m fine, and I can’t let healthy relationships fall apart because I’m unable to talk to anyone about my problem. Can’t Wish It Away I shared your letter with Dr. James Cantor, a psychologist, associate professor at the University of Toronto and editor-in-chief of Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment. (Follow Dr. Cantor on Twitter @JamesCantorPhD.) The first thing he said, CWIA, was that you deserved praise – he called you “an ace” – for making it this far without having committed an offence. But accessing the support you need to get through the next six or seven decades of life without sexually abusing a child – support the culture should provide to men and women like you in order to protect children – isn’t going to be easy, Dr. Cantor said, particularly if you live in the United States. “Other countries have created programs to help people like CWIA,” said Dr. Cantor. “Germany has Prevention Project Dunkelfeld, which includes a hospital-based clinic and anonymous hotlines that people who are attracted to children can call when they need to talk to someone, vent or debrief. In Canada, we have the Circles of Support and Accountability – groups of volunteers who provide assistance and social

support and who, in turn, receive support and supervision from professionals.” But Canada funds these programs only for people who have committed a sexual offence. The Circles program isn’t open to “gold-star pedophiles,” my term for men and women who have successfully struggled against their attraction to children without any support or credit. (Yes, credit. Someone who is burdened with an attraction to children – no one chooses to be sexually attracted to children – and successfully battled that attraction all of his adult life deserves credit for his strength, self-control and moral sense.) Sadly, in the United States, we’ve taken steps that make it harder for pedophiles to get the support they need to avoid offending. “One of the recent regulations in the United States is mandatory reporting,” said Dr. Cantor. “These regulations vary by region, but in general, if a client has children or provides care to children and admits to experiencing a sexual attraction to children – any children – the therapist is required to report the client to the authorities, regardless of whether any abuse was actually occurring.” The goal is to protect children, of course, and that is a goal I fully support as a parent and a human being. But broad mandatory reporting policies have an unintended consequence: People like CWIA – people who need help to avoid acting on their attraction to children – are cut off from mental health professionals who can give them the tools, insight and support they need. Mandatory reporting policies designed to protect children may be making children less safe. “The situation is not completely hopeless, however,” said Dr. Cantor. “Therapists with training and experience working with people attracted to children are keenly aware of the delicate legal situation that both they and their clients are in. A good therapist – a licensed therapist, please – will begin the very first session by outlining exactly what they must report and what they may not report.”

her that I am happy and not being abused? Only Kinky

So long as there is no specific child in specific danger – so long as you don’t have children (please don’t), CWIA, and don’t work with children (please don’t) – your therapist is required to keep whatever information you share confidential. “CWIA should ask questions about confidentiality before disclosing anything to a therapist,” said Dr. Cantor. “He can ask these questions over the phone before making an appointment or even revealing his name.” To find a therapist, CWIA, you can contact, anonymously, the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (http://atsa.com/request-referral). “Although that group is primarily about services to persons who have already committed an offence,” said Dr. Cantor, “the professionals in their referral network are able and willing to help people in CWIA’s situation as well.” Even the few sessions you can afford will help, CWIA.

Sorry, OK, but you made your private life your daughter’s business. You don’t have to tell your daughter the whole truth (leave out the leather belt), but you will have to tell her that what she witnessed – you behaving as your boyfriend’s sub – was consensual role-play, not abuse. Tell her it was never your intent to involve her or anyone else in your sex play, you thought your role-play was so subtle that no one else would ever pick up on it, and you’re sorry to have to burden her with this info. But you’re in a consensual D/S relationship, and what she has interpreted as abuse is just an elaborate, consensual game that you both enjoy. Promise to dial it way, way back from now on. But you will have to come clean with, and come out to, your daughter– if only to exonerate your boyfriend, who isn’t an abuser and shouldn’t have to live with that stigma.

Judged by my daughter

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I’m a happy 50-somethIng straIght

female sub in a D/S relationship. My Dom is my boyfriend; we present as a regular couple. We decided to take a break for several months because of some trust issues. We are now back together. While we were on our break, my adult daughter from my first marriage told me that she was happy we split up because she viewed his behaviour toward me as abusive. She based this on my generally deferring to his wishes. In other words, I was behaving as his sub. She believes that I am a brainwashed abused woman who cannot break free of her abuser. She won’t have anything to do with him, believing that he is not a good man. If I want to see her and the grandkids, I visit alone. There is no way I am going to tell her we are D/S, because my private life is none of her business. Also, I don’t think that picturing Grandma getting spanked with a leather belt is an image she would want seared in her brain. What can I say to her to reassure

awesome advIce to heartbroken, the

woman who agreed to have a MFF threesome on the condition that her husband not engage in PIV intercourse with their third. You told her husband that his inability to respect his wife’s ground rules had probably screwed him out of any opportunity to have PIV sex with other women in the future. I’m in a non-monogamous marriage. We started off with MFF threesomes, but I gave my husband the “no penis in her vagina” rule. He followed it to a T until I gave him the go-ahead. Now we both screw other people. If my husband had messed up the first time, though, we never would have gotten this far. Woman Over Wisconsin Thanks for sharing, WOW. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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