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1. Anyone but Ford A look at some of the 2014 mayoral hopefuls whose names are not Rob Ford.

2. No more years Why it’s likely Rob Ford will end up a footnote in the 2014 race for mayor.

3. Toronto plays itself From Last Night to... ugh... Chloe, we look at some of the more prominent examples of Hogtown on the big screen.

4. Chew on this Some tasty trends you’ll be talking about in 2014.

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THE WEEK IN TWEETS A new Ford may run for council! Mikey Ford! Who?

“That Mikey Ford is a real person and not a spoof Twitter account might be the most unlikely thing about the entire Ford family imbroglio.” @RICHARDWARNICA

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This Mess The local SST-style punk rock band plays the Silver Dollar with Tight Nuns and Practice Wife. 9 pm. $5.

­ wesomest hip-hop DJ spins at a the Hoxton. 10 pm. $15. TW.

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INDIGENOUS WAYS TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS A workshop for

Jake Bugg shows teen spirit, Jan 14

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+neil young, diana krall An absolute legend (Young) and one in the making (Krall) share a bill at – where else? – Massey Hall. 8 pm. $55-$250. Sold out.

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berg and his muse, Mortensen, talk (7 pm) before a screening (9 pm, $12) of their film A ­History Of Violence at the Lightbox. 416-599-TIFF.

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disclosure The British house duo (brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence) bring one of 2013’s top albums (Settle) to the ­Danforth Music Hall. Doors 7 pm. $46.25-$53.50. TM. jake bugg One of the best ­artists to emerge from the UK last year, the teenage singer/ songwriter is playing the Sound Academy already. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $29.50. LN, RT, SS.

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of the Welsh singer/songwriter, which is good incentive to head out to Le Bon’s show at the Drake. Doors 8 pm. $12.50.

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Neutral Milk Hotel Expect reverent swooning when the indie rock institution’s classic lineup reunites. Kool Haus.

Doors 7:30 pm, all ages. $35.50. RT, SS, TF. And Jan 20.

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(sans Kim Deal) bring their new EP (EP1) to Massey Hall. 7 pm, all ages. $44.50-$79.50. LN, RTH, TM. the ugly one Theatre Smash’s acclaimed production of ­Marius von Mayenburg’s play about consumerist culture ­returns to the ­Tarragon Extra Space. To Feb 16. 8 pm. $21$53. 416-531-1827.

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sewn imaginary worlds are on view at the Textile Museum. To Apr 13. $6-$15, Wed 5-8 pm pwyc. 416-599-5321. +pacamambo Ken Gass ­directs the English-language premiere of Wajdi Mouawad’s (Scorched) play about a lost girl. 8 pm. To Feb 2 at the Citadel. Pwyc-$36. 416-504-7529.

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Andrews­brings his brass ­brilliance to the Phoenix for a night of jazz-funk-hip-hop fusion. 8 pm. $45.65. RT, SS, TM. this is it Sasha Singer-Wilson’s play about a marriage opens at the lemonTree. 8 pm. To Jan 25.

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Fiennes’s film about the affair between novelist Charles ­Dickens (Fiennes) and Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones) opens on screens today.

Yuck The English noise-poppers play the Garrison with Elsa. Doors 9 pm. $15. RT, SS, TF.

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Wavelength & NeXT Present: The Class Of 2014 Del Bel, Fresh Snow, MASS, Anamai and DJ Debt Load receive top honours at the Silver Dollar.

Doors 9 pm. $6. ­wavelengthtoronto.com.

the musical of musicals, the musical! The musical told in the individual styles of five well-known ­composers continues, to Jan 12. 2 and 8 pm. $19-$79. 416-872-1212.

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Stars Indie 88 throws a party with the orch-poppers, and July Talk opening. Lee’s Palace.

10 pm. Sold out. +cosÌ fan tutte Atom ­Egoyan’s production of the Mozart comedy opens tonight at the Four Seasons Centre.

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Why Matisse Matters

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Scary Spring Breakers

Regarding Glenn Sumi’s Top 10 Movies of 2013 (NOW, December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014).

Kids, by writer Harmony Korine, was a true cautionary tale fuelled by brilliant Chloë Sevigny and Leo Fitzpatrick performances, whereas Korine’s Spring Breakers, number 10 on Sumi’s list, was nothing more than exploitive trash, albeit with a great James Franco performance, as always, and a great cameo by hip-hop artist Dangeruss.

I liked the film – don’t get me wrong. But I have children.

And I am appalled at the fact that this movie is available to any preteen at the Toronto Public Library who may have access to their parents’ library card. The future is scary. Lol. Stephen Wilson Toronto

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Rob Ford not only one politicizing ice storm

Given that the article in the year-end edition about the ice storm stated that either the mayor or the premier could’ve declared a state of emer-

NOW’s record reviews have changed greatly over time. And not always for the better. Recent writing in the section has really made me wonder.

Rave reviews for Beyoncé? Seriously, who cares (NOW, December 17, 2013)? In the past, NOW couldn’t be bothered to cover most mainstream artists. What happened?

But that’s not nearly as foul as what I read in your pages recently.

Porky Ford cover was terribly disappointing

Let me preface by saying that I’m a huge fan of NOW Magazine and have been a faithful reader since you launched back in the 80s. Thursdays are always a bit brighter knowing I can pick up the latest issue and get all the news I need to read.

So it pains me to say that your Ralph Steadman cover of Rob Ford (NOW, December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014) disappoints me terribly. I would have thought NOW was above portraying the mayor as a pig. I expected more from you.

I will continue to be a fan, but it’s kind of like discovering that the person you really look up to can be a bit of an asshole.

Let’s be better in 2014.

James Wood Toronto

On the other hand, where can I buy a copy?

A cover story on the 25 Best Toronto Movies Ever (NOW, January 2-8), but no room for Bollywood/Hollywood and ravishing star Lisa Ray?!

Thanks to this homegrown goddess, T.O. never looked so good!

Ed Vitunski Mississauga

I was dismayed to read Norm Wilner’s reviews of American Hustle (NOW, December 19-25, 2013) and Nebraska (NOW, November 21-27) before that. Once again I was reminded of how far down in my opinion your critics have sunk. If I had made the mistake of taking NW’s reviews of these two amazing movies seriously, I would have missed two of the best film experiences in recent memory.

I’m a good writer and would be glad to provide a second opinion, for free, on any film reviewed by NW. Your readers deserve better.

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Your reviewer [said] the artist she was reviewing was using the word “bitch” as a term of female empowerment. What?

There is no context in which that notion works. It’s completely and utterly offensive.

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urgency.” Which statement is true?

Whether or not bureaucrats thought that 300,000 households without power and all that goes with it is a pretty major detail. We need to know just how engaged with reality these people are.

Ryan Faulds Toronto

“ If folks felt Rob Ford was ‘playing politics’ with the ice storm, why not go over his head and ask the premier to declare a state of emergency? ” gency (NOW, January 2-8), why are you riding so hard on Rob Ford and not Kathleen Wynne?

If folks felt Ford was “playing politics,” why not go over his head and ask the premier to declare the SOE? Is it possible that Wynne didn’t want to be seen as playing politics either? The games people play....

Conrad Bess Mississauga

City ’crats in a state over storm emergency

After writing that “the mayor was reportedly urged to declare an emergency by senior city bureaucrats,” Enzo DiMatteo states that “the city’s top bureaucrats didn’t seem to think the situation warranted that level of

I’m a frequent reader of NOW but had never picked up a copy of the Year In Review issue. I just discovered the cover illustration by Ralph Steadman, and it is quite possible that it’ll go down in press history.

There should be posters sold of it. I’d pay a solid amount of cash to get a professional print of that NOW cover. I admire the boldness to print it. Peace and love.

Catherine Jeffery Toronto

Detox trade-offs

I’m addicted to Ecoholic, but two points on Ranking Detox Strategies (NOW, January 2-8). Avoiding the “dirty dozen... like apples... and potatoes” means flying in California organic and not buying locally produced all-year-round apples and potatoes.

Not a great trade-off.

Second, daily exercise circumvents the elephant in the room – car driving. We need to do a lot more transportation under our own power and a lot less sitting behind the wheel.

Ian Scott Toronto

Sage advice from Brezsny

All right, somebody’s got to say it: your astrology column is amazing. I never miss a week. The advice is always sage and timely. Kudos, Robert Brezsny!

Ihor Kit Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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Toshi (left) and Takeshi get cheeky at the ninth annual New Year’s Day Toronto Polar Bear Dip for Habitat for Humanity at Sunnyside Beach. Brrr.

Chief Bill Blair’s year-end sitdowns with the city’s major dailies elicited at least one shocker. The chief, it turns out, believes “it was never appropriate” for police union lawyers to vet the notes of officers under investigation by the province’s civilian watchdog Special Investigations Unit. That’s quite the revelation given the many conflicts between Blair and former SIU director Ian Scott over police duty to cooperate fully in SIU probes, including on the subject of lawyers clearing officers’ notes before they’re provided to the SIU.

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When Rob Ford registered to run for mayor last week, it served as another reminder that, no, he is not over. Not by a long shot, boyo! With this in mind, it’s a bit disconcerting to see Gawker praising him as one of the its heroes of 2013. Of course it’s not real praise. Not “Gee, this hamburger tastes amazing” praise.

But of course, Rob Ford’s not a real hero. And so he’s every bit deserving of this kind of ironic inverted admiration.

CYCLE PA After another year of little progress on Toronto’s bike lane network – only 2.4 kilometres of new bike lanes, most of that for a single lane on Shaw – it could be time to declare the cycling plan officially dead, says advocacy group Cycle Toronto. This year’s addition brings us up to a grand total of 114 kilometres of on-road bike paths, a long way from the 495-kilometre target that council endorsed in the 2001 Toronto Bike Plan, which was to be completed by 2011. At the rate we’re going, it’ll take 158 years to finish, according to Jared Kolb, who says we should set a new target that’s reachable in our lifetime.

from the archives | August 30, 2012

We talked to Tatiana Maslany when she came to TIFF as the star of the small Canadian film Picture Day. We knew she’d be huge – she’d already won the b ­ reakout performance award at S­undance for 2009’s Grown Up Movie Star – but we didn’t think she’d blow up this fast. She’s copped a Golden Globe nom for her six-character performance in the TV show Orphan Black and finds out ­Sunday (January 12) if she’ll take home the prize. Don’t a ­ ssume she’ll lose. The foreign press just loves newcomers.

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The opposition is already running scared. Rumours abound that the PM is trying to buy the NDP MP off with an appointment to keep her from running against his buddy Rob Ford in the 2014 mayoral race. Not gonna happen, says Chow.

Frosty prose

New year, new terms entering the ­lexicon, among them “frost quake,” aka ice quake or cryoseism. According to Wikipedia, it’s “a sudden cracking in ­frozen soil or rock.” Aka that loud bang on your roof.

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Ford: No More Years Why it’s likely Rob Ford will end up a footnote in the 2014 race for mayor By ENZO DiMATTEO For Rob Ford, it’s the easy promises that are no sweat to keep.

So right on cue Thursday mor­ ning, January 2, he registered to run for mayor, the first to officially en­ ter the race, as he’s said for months he would be. For a guy who’s the in­ cumbent, supposed to be biding his time to see how the field pans out, Ford has gotten in way too early. But when your term has been one scan­ dal after another and you need to raise cash as soon as possible, a fast start is important.

In a brief scrum with reporters, he vowed to fight the big fight. As ex­pect­ed, he called the reports of escorts and coke and hanging with gang­bangers and drug dealers per­ sonal attacks. Then he declared that he’s the best thing Toronto has seen since sliced bread.

Physically, the mayor in name only since he’s been stripped of his powers, looks better. He seems to have found some personal peace, at least for the time being, from his demons, the ones that have caused him to show up around town in “drunken stupors” and led, it seems, to more than a few crack-smoking binges.

Still, a full 10 months before the actual October 27 vote, his chances of a repeat victory look a long shot.

Too many things would have to break his way, among them John Tory and Olivia Chow deciding not

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to run, and right now they’re 95 per cent certain to go.

The perfect storm that carried Ford into office last time may strike again, extreme weather events being increasingly frequent.

But after the three years we’ve been through, most folks who vot­ed for him last time (not the hard­core Ford Nationalists who suffer from par­tisan brainitis) have probably reached the point of exhaustion.

Having Ford for mayor has been like having an alcoholic father: most are just gassed from the emotional roller coaster ride if they aren’t turned off family life altogether.

Ford says he’s ready to take on all comers, that he’s up for the gruelling schedule, to go toe-to-toe in 200 de­ bates. He sounds like he’s still coach­ ing high school football, like he can keep plodding along, pounding the ball slowly, monotonously down the field despite all the fumbling and rolling in the muck on his watch.

It’s more likely he’ll end up a foot­ note. That’s not just the assessment of Ford’s council opponents, but of some who worked on his 2010 run and are not so quietly working be­ hind the scenes prepping Tory’s bid.

Chief among them is Nick Kouvalis, the architect of Ford’s 2010 win. You heard that right. John Capobianco, another influential Ford supporter in 2010, has jumped ship to Tory as well. continued on page 18 œ

“If I put one of the PM’s lackeys into chains and tickle him until he cries, is it a violent act?”

6 questions for the PM on prostitution By TERRI-JEAN BEDFORD New prostitution laws may be on the way thanks to last month’s decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, but much will now depend on the sexual orientation of the prime minister – namely, his orientation on whether or not to restrict what consenting adults do in private.

The PM and his former justice minister, Rob Nichol­ son, insisted the laws were constitutional. Now 15 judges, including those in the lower courts, have put to rest the government’s feckless handling of the file and unanimously declared prostitution laws null and void.

Not that we need laws, but the PM has a year to come up with new ones. Since Stephen Harper has a majority and runs a tight ship, he’s the one on the spot. That means he’ll tell you – yes, you – what you can and cannot do in private and what happens if you break whatever new laws he brings in.

I have six questions for him to consider.

1

What is a sex act?

Is it a sex act when a man gets an erection and in­ serts his penis into a woman or another man? Is orgasm an issue here? Is it a sex act if a registered mas­ seuse massages a naked man, without touching his genitals, and he has an erection? What if the masseuse is not registered? Say it’s me. Is it a sex act if I give a naked man a massage while he is fully restrained and I don’t touch his genitals? What if another man is watching and masturbating while watching all this?

I could go on. I think you get the idea.

2

What is a prostitute or a sex worker?

Is a woman a prostitute or sex worker if she has sexual intercourse with a man in gratitude for a favour, such as home repairs? What if she just gets a promissory note in return for sex? What if a man pays his wife or girlfriend for sex? What if he pays her to hold his hand or to let him masturbate in front of her while she verbally humiliates him by calling him a lackey of the prime minister?

3

What is a bawdy house?

Is it a bawdy house if a woman, almost daily, stays home and has sexual intercourse for mo­ ney or some other form of payment? What if a man pays to just look at her as she washes dishes? Is it a bawdy house when in this home or place of business there is no genital touching? What if all customers are fully clothed?

Is it a bawdy house if the woman sets up a dungeon with bondage and discipline equipment and rents the room to others who are not involved in any financial transaction – such as married couples?

4

What is an indecent act?

Under the old laws, indecency was loosely de­ fined as something that violated community standards. Can the prime minister be more specific?

The courts struck down the old laws par­tially be­ cause they were too vague. So it is important for the PM to be clear. I look forward to his lists and explana­ tions.

5

What is violence?

As a dominatrix, I enjoy controlling and punish­ ing men. As a dominatrix, I have never been charged with assault or unlawful confinement, de­ spite significant acts of restraining, whipping, spank­ ing, tickling and pinch­ing of clients. Is paying to get whipped by me, where no injury results, more violent or more abhorrent than being blindsided by a 300-pound lineman whose job it is to play football?

If I put one of the PM’s lackeys into chains and tickle him until he cries, is it as violent as one of those wrest­ ling or mixed martial arts shows that are so popular?

6

What is a conservative?

Here’s what I think a conservative stands for: he believes government should respect the privacy of citi­zens; he respects the rights of consent­ing citizens to privacy in the bedroom or dungeon; he believes these freedoms should extend to all segments of soci­ ety; and he believes government should refrain from imposing arbitrary moral judgments on citi­zens.

I think people should be free to decide about prosti­ tution for themselves. I also know that prostitution is going on all over the place under Harper’s govern­ ment, and that wo­men – get ready for this – are ac­ tually often asking criminals to protect them from the authorities under the laws the prime minister has fought to retain.

The PM’s handling of this issue to date has been a blow against safety for women and in favour of organ­ ized crime. Going forward, he really must define his sex­ ual orientation if he is serious about doing his job. 3 news@nowtoronto.com Terri-Jean Bedford is a sex worker who was part of the challenge launched in 2010 that saw prostitution laws ­declared unconstitutional by the ­Supreme Court of Canada last month.

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future waterfront

Why Richard Florida is dead wrong about Island airport expansion We need to open the lens a little wider to see the true devastation extending the runway at Billy Bishop would cause on the lakefront

By KEN GREENBERG From south Etobi­ coke to the Scarbor­ ough Bluffs and be­ yond, what is emer­ging all along the Toronto water­ front is one of the most remarkable transformations of its kind in North America or anywhere.

The revitalization of a band of stra­ tegically located obsolescent lands is providing notable new and improved places for the public to enjoy: parks and trails, a linked series of neigh­ bourhoods, places to live and work and places of recreation, repose and natural beauty.

It’s “cottage country” in the heart of the city for the many hundreds of thousands who can’t afford Muskoka or a plane ticket to more exotic resort destinations.

It’s also where Toronto is reinvent­ ing itself for the 21st century, adjust­ ing to the city’s new southern face.

Our waterfront is materializing not as a singular project but the collect­ ive work of generations of Toronto­ nians, supported by the cumulative investments of all three levels of gov­ ernment and the private sector.

Its future contours are just start­ ing to be visible as the many pieces

fall into place along its length – from the promise of a revived Ontario Place/ Exhibition Place, including the newly announced park, to the Music Gar­ den shaped by Yoyo Ma and the Queens Quay Greenway currently under construction, to Sugar Beach and Sherbourne Common in the heart of the new East Bayfront neigh­ bourhood, with George Brown Col­ lege and $2.6 billion of private invest­ ment in progress – making it one of the largest such revitalization efforts in the world.

The rub: this entire band of water­ front is on the flight path of and bi­ sected by the overburdened “land path” leading to Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport.

And unlike the other cities where a close-by airport is somewhat re­ moved from the core, Billy Bishop sits right on Toronto Harbour, the heart and focal point of this entire blue edge, framed by the most active

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and populous areas of the waterfront and the gateway to our unique treas­ ure, the Toronto Islands.

The key to the waterfront’s future success? No one activity can be allowed to dominate the others. This equilibrium breaks down when a sin­gle element is exag­ gerated or over-scaled to the point that its impacts impair other uses and activities.

That is what the proposed expan­ sion of the airport, extending the runway by 400 metres to allow jets, would do.

Richard Florida understood the is­ sue of balance when we worked to­ gether to fend off two previous threats to the waterfront: the illadvised­attempt to remove parkland and replace the city’s approved plan for the Lower Don Lands with a “life­ style” shopping centre, Ferris wheel and luxury marina; and the pro­ posed mega-casino resort complex whose preferred waterfront location was Exhibition Place.

It was clear, given their adverse impacts, that these temptations to sac­rifice long-term benefits for illu­ sory short-term gain made little sense.

But Florida argues in a recent arti­ cle in the Toronto Star that airports contribute to local economies and that the benefits of expansion out­ weigh the potential costs. We should “bring on the jets” at Billy Bishop.

I can only assume that he has ser­ iously underestimated the impacts of Porter Airlines’ proposal. I want to open the lens a little wider to

damage done by overreli­ ance on ur­ban highways when we pushed them through the hearts of our cities, eviscerating neighbourhoods and creat­ ing new barriers? And how Toronto famously reversed course, rejecting the proposed Spadina Ex­ pressway, Crosstown Expressway and Scarborough Expressway to our lasting credit and bene­fit?

What Porter CEO Robert Deluce is proposing is not an incremental en­ largement of the airport but a pro­ found change in its nature, a virtual doubling of air traffic and then some.

A comparison has been made with the volumes at Ottawa International Airport. It’s important to understand what this would mean both physi­cal­ ly and operationally.

The airport’s current 2 million an­ nual passengers already cause severe vehicular and pedestrian congestion in the Bathurst Quay neighbourhood as lines of taxis wait on the east side of Little Norway Park and buses pick up and drop off passengers.

Conflicts intensify dramatically in the morning and afternoon rush hours, when students and other lo­ cals enter and exit the Harbourfront School and Community Centre, which have al­ready become an island surround­ed by traffic.

Many more fuel trucks to supply large new jet fuel storage tanks would also be added to the traffic mix.

Along with large increases in traf­ fic of all kinds – cars, buses, taxis, ser­ vice vehicles – and pressures for ad­ ditional parking, extension of the

look at the big picture and what’s at stake.

New York is one of the cities cited in Florida’s article, and it’s an apt an­ alogy.

New York City has been steadily ­turning over its river and seaside edges to mag­nificent public uses, ringing the island of Manhattan with an accessible waterfront from Hud­ son River Park, which replaces the West Side High­way, to the Battery at the southern tip, and now the new East River Espla­nade and over the Brooklyn Bridge to the enormously popular, still ex­pand­ing Brooklyn Bridge Park. And all of it surrounds NYC’s own “blue room,” New York Harbor, includ­ Unlike other downtown ing Governors Island, airports, Billy ­B ishop sits Staten Island and Liberty right on Toronto Harbour, the State Park.

A new study released heart of our entire blue edge.

by TD Economics in De­ cember entitled The Greening Of run­way would require the building New York City: Lessons From The Big of vertical walls to protect Bathurst Apple looks specifically at the eco­ Quay from jet thrust, blocking views nomic value of such green spaces, of the lake and islands. arguing that rehabilitation for public But the effects of airport expan­ uses is an effective urban develop­ sion are not just local; the ripples for ment strategy. land, water and the atmosphere It notes that New York is hailed as would be felt from south Etobicoke to one of the greenest cities in the U.S., the Bluffs the result of strong leadership that On the water side, airport expan­ views the environment not as a cost sion would shrink and engulf our but as an economic opportunity. own “blue room,” a sheltered historic In Florida’s Star article, there’s a harbour used and enjoyed by boaters telling quote from a source who says in kayaks, canoes, sailboats, excur­ airports are to 21st century cities sion boats and ferries. what highways were to the 20th in David McKeown, Toronto’s medic­ terms of expanding communica­ al officer of health, has made intion. depth studies of the environmental Need we remind ourselves of the continued on page 17 œ

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Extreme weather

Think the recent ice storm and this week’s cold snap are anomalies? Think again. Extreme weather events are no longer oncein-100-​years occurrences in the big smoke. Toronto has experienced three superstorms in the last 12 years alone. we track a decade of climate change in t.o.

2000 Wettest summer in 53 years,

22; warmest June on record with 41 days of temps above 31°C (normal is 14); August­19 storm washed out Finch Ave­nue bridge. (Cost to the city: $47 million; cost in insurance claims: $600 million.)

2009 A record no-​snow November

2006 Record one-​day power demand because of the heat; record year for major storms, with 23 tornadoes across Ontario.

2012 Toronto’s earliest-ever official

red alert ­ with 13 per cent more precipitation than normal.

2001 Driest growing season in 34 years; first-ever heat alert; 14 nights with temps above 20°C (normal is five nights).

2002 Warmest summer in 63 years; fifth-coldest spring on recor; driest August at Pearson International Airport since 1937.

2007 Second-least snow cover ever,

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• Less snow and more rain in winter.

• 26 Fewer snow days per year, nine less in December.

• 80 Per cent more rain in July.

• 50 Per cent more rain in August, leading to extreme rainstorm events.

• 3.8°C Average expected increase in summer temperatures.

• 5.7°C Average expected increase in winter temperatures.

2013 July deluge drops 126 milli-

Why a Toronto-specific c ­ limate change study?

metres of rain in two hours, flooding subway stations and highways and knocking out power to 50,000 households. (Cost to the city: $65 million; cost in insurance claims: $850 million.) Ice-​mageddon leaves almost a million people without hydro before Christmas, some for up to 10 days. The costs are still being tallied.

• The washout of the Finch Avenue bridge in 2005 caused city officials to think about developing a climate change adaptation strategy. The thinking there: the city is investing billions in infrastructure improvements to public transit, roads, energy and public works. We’d better make sure they’re strong enough to withstand extreme weather events and avoid costly repairs.

• It’ll save us money in the long run. Payouts from Canadian insurance companies for damage caused by natural disasters – including those related to weather and water – have doubled every five years since 1983.

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Why Richard Florida is dead wrong about Island airport expansion

I do use Billy Bishop airport. I can even walk there. I recognize how con­ venient it is for travellers like me, but that does not justify its expansion. I œcontinued from page 15 accept it at its current size with the and health impacts of such a dramat­ proviso that we now set about repair­ ic change. In November he issued a ing the environment around it and heath impact assessment detailing solving the problems it is already signi­f­i­cant negative effects on cli­ cre­ating, not exponentially multiply­ mate change, water and air quality, ing them. noise levels, health care costs, tour­ By any measure, airport expan­ ism, recreation, cultural activi­ties, sion represents a drastic shift. Its community services, community negative impacts are not “surmount­ character and feelings of safety and able,” nor can they be solved by a well-being. com­bination of technological fixes.

The critical point he makes is that The expansion of the airport and the it’s a mistake to narrowly consider introduction of jets runs the very the many individual negative im­ real risk of undoing and setting back pacts of airport expansion in isola­ decades of efforts, going back to Da­ tion. Rather, we must look at their vid Crombie’s Royal Commission and cumulative impact on a setting al­ the Waterfront Regeneration Trust, ready under pressure. Expansion of including the current excellent work current levels of activity at Billy Bish­ of Waterfront Toronto. The overall op risks pushing local problems over aim of that work has been to reclaim the edge and undermining the whole the water’s edge as an area that is waterfront’s ability to perform ex­ “clean, green, accessible to all and treme­ly important roles for the city contributes to economic in economic, social and environmen­ prosperity and vi­tality tal terms. of the city as a whole,” in Politically, once the die is cast on Mc­Keown’s expansion, the words. city relinquishes In the effective control end it comes over these impacts to down to the issue of bal­ the federally appointed ance.

Port Authority, which Waterfront Periodically, every can then saddle the great city has to make countdown city with the legal obli­ strategic decisions, ir­ 800 hectares Area gation to deal with re­ revocable choices that tapped for waterfront percussions. And open­ come around only ­development. ing that door would once.

300 hectares Water­ unleash an unstop­ Now is the time to front land designated for pable momentum to reaffirm the great and parks and open spaces. keep escalating air traf­ generous waterfront 55 hectares Contami­ fic and its collateral ef­ vision unanimously nated industrial land fects. adopted by city council ­reclaimed for develop­ The stated goal of in 2003, not to aban­ ment in the East Bayfront airport expansion is to don or undermine our and West Don Lands. offer jet service to west­ project. Airport expan­ $1.9 billion Gross output ern Canadian cities, sion, whatever its for the Canadian econ­ California, Florida and merits in terms of con­ omy generated since the Caribbean. This venience for a particu­ 2001 by waterfront pro­ would of course not be lar group of busi­ness jects. limited to one carrier. travellers, should not 40,000 Jobs that will be WestJet and Air Can­ trump the larger public created on the water­ ada, among others, good.

3 front once projects are Ken Greenberg is an architect, want in on the act; completed. urban designer, teacher, writer, West­Jet has already an­ 34,000 Trees that will be former director of urban denounced its intention sign and architecture for the planted. city of Toronto, and ­principal of to seek slots to fly its 17 New or improved Greenberg Consultants. expanded fleet of 737 parks. news@nowtoronto.com jets into Billy Bishop.

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Then there’s the x factor: the ongoing police investigation into the mayor and his alleged drug dealer, Alexander Lisi. Word on the street is that police may be closer to pulling the trigger on charges against Ford.

There’s a campaign slogan that smells like it was written on a napkin in a drunken stupor at one of those 905 Italian restaurants the mayor likes to frequent.

“Ford more years.” Really? That may work for the hardcore 20 per cent of Ford’s support. But Rofo will need 40 per cent of the vote to win.

Incumbency has its advantages, of course. The mayor won’t have to spend tens of thousands of dollars putting his name out there. His notoriety has taken care of that. And being the co-owner of a printing business means Ford could issue a million bucks’ worth of literature and nobody would know. Robocalls will give him further reach.

But political campaigns are won by people, and Ford has no campaign team to speak of. No message track. No competent people who can marshal forces on the ground. People forget that before Kouvalis came along to work miracles in 2010, Ford had gone through three campaign mana­gers. There’ll be no Ford slate to strike fear into the hearts of challengers.

I mean, when the news of the day is that the son of Ford’s elder sister Kathy may be dispatched to hold onto brother Doug Ford’s Ward 2 seat in the event that he opts to run provincially in a widely expected spring election, you know the pickin’s are slimmer than slim.

There are questions about money, too. The joke is that Rob blew it all on hookers and coke, and that may not be far from the truth.

There’s still the Ford family fortune to draw on, but Ford couldn’t raise the bread last time either. He managed about $300K, but back then there were lists of Conservative and Liberal voters to target. And he still had to borrow from Doug and the company. Until, that is, the tide shifted and polls showed he was on his way to victory.

That’s when the Bay Street cash started flowing thanks to Ralph Lean and his connections at the mayor-making money machine at Cassels Brock. This time the bulk of the corporate cash will be split between Tory, who’ll take the lion’s share if he runs, and the already declared Karen Stintz and David Soknacki. Ford will be picking up the crumbs.

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There’s no telling what effect the crack tape will have on Ford’s campaign if it ever gets released. For some it will confirm negative impres­sions; for others, it won’t mean a thing. But it’s safe to say that overall it’ll do more to hurt than help Ford’s re-election chances. He ran on a law-and-order agenda, after all. “What’s he doing fraternizing with gangbangers?” is not an inappropriate question.

Even more problematic for Ford is the prospect of criminal charges stemming from his involvement in efforts to retrieve the video. We know that bribery was involved.

And talk of the likelihood of charges has been on the increase. The Crown attorney’s office has reportedly been involved in discussions on that front with the police.

It’s hard to know what to believe. Charges are a tricky political proposi­tion for the police. Whether it’s neces­sary to go that route may depend on where we are a few months from now when the dust has settled on a provincial election and anybody who’s go­ing to get into the mayoral race has done so. Charges or no, for Ford it’s the fourth quarter and a long 100 yards to go. 3

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When you’re flying by the seat of your pants, you’re bound to get ass-burn.

There’s still a reluctance on the part of the so-called “soft” Ford supporters to see the mayor for what he is.

For those supporters, the truth about Ford – that he wouldn’t think twice about backing over you in his SUV (I’m speaking politically here) – is still unbelievable.

But if there’s something bigger working against Ford in 2014, it’s our need to see the light at the end of the tunnel. The need for hope instead of negativity.

The thirst for a more positive outlook than the us-versus-them malaise that’s characterized the Ford years.

His rivals are already picking up on the theme of optimism, talking about looking beyond the distrac­tions and drama and getting on with making the city great.

Internal poll­ing by those working behind the scenes on a Tory campaign show Ford’s support at 20 per cent, which is a far cry from the 30-plus per cent we’ve been seeing in public surveys by Forum and others.

Ford’s numbers post-ice-storm – a disaster from many per­spec­tives but Ford’s personal best per­formance of 2013 – may enjoy a slight uptick. But his handling of the storm is also a double-edged sword. The storm taught many that investment in public services is just as important as holding the line on spending.

The kicker: Ford’s numbers will go down, not up, when the debates be­gin. That’s because unlike last time, when there were five stock answers he kept refrying, there’s a record he’ll have to defend.

The man who rode into office declaring an end to the “gravy train” at City Hall will have some ’splaining to do about his prolonged absences from work, his hanging with alleged drug dealer Lisi in city parks swilling vodka when average folk, the forklift drivers and factory workers who helped put him in office, were hard at work trying to provide for their families.

Yes, Ford delivered on privatized garbage and the sky didn’t fall. Yes, he delivered on union contracts.

But s/he who defines the ballot box question wins.

And if that question is “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” how many among the majority who voted for Ford last time will be able to answer in the affirmative?

Back in 2010, Ford had another advantage. He was the “change” candidate, the outsider despite being a career politician. He was something more, too: the anti-politician poli­tician. He doesn’t have that going for him this time.

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Thursday, January 9

Events

rAllan Gardens Christmas Flower Show Open daily 10 am-5 pm to Jan 12. Free. Allan Gardens Conservatory, Sherbourne and Gerrard. 416-392-7288.

Dental Health In Early Egypt Lecture. 7 pm.

Free. U of T, 5 Bancroft. sseatoronto@yahoo. ca.

Yiddish Vinkl Dine Magazine editor-in-chief Sara Waxman speaks in Yiddish about Jewish traditions and food. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. ­yiddishvinkl.com.

Friday, January 10 Indigenous Ways To Build Relationships

Workshop for urban aboriginal women and youth. 12:30-4:30 pm. $125. Native Women’s Resource Centre, 191 Gerrard E. Pre-register guestli.st/207273.

Scholars’ Colloquium Day Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities presentations of short scholarly papers. 9 am-5 pm. Free. U of T, 5 Bancroft. sseatoronto@yahoo.ca.

Sir John A’s 199th Birthday Party Period costumes and a dinner celebrate the life and times of John A Macdonald. 6:30 m. $90, stu $40. Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. eventbrite.ca.

Treehouse Talks Short talks by three expert speakers on diverse topics. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. treehousetalks. com.

Saturday, January 11

Benefits

Les Miserables (Casey House/Covenant House/Ernestine’s/Franciscan Missionary ­Sisters for Africa/Theatre 20) Fundraising ­performance of the musical starring Colm ­Wilkinson and Ramin Karimloo. 7:30 pm. $59$200. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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Anti-Semitism From A Personal Perspective

Humanist Assoc talk by Martin Klein. 1:30 pm.

Free. OISE, rm 3-311, 252 Bloor W. humanist. toronto.on.ca.

DJ Skate Nights SLOWED On Ice outdoor skating party. 8 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rHockey Day In Toronto The Ryerson Rams men’s hockey team face off against the Waterloo Warriors, and the women’s team play the Toronto Varsity Blues. 2:30-5 pm. $12, stu $10, child free. Mattamy Athletic Centre, 50 Carlton. mattamyathleticcentre.ca.

Prophet Muhammad’s Birthday Screening

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Festivals this week

Milton Film Festival Films include

Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves and Paul Saltzman’s The Last White Knight. $11$16, stu $5, pass $69. Milton Centre for the Arts, 1010 Main E (Milton). ­miltoncentreforthearts.ca.

Jan 11 and 12 Mozart@258 Festival Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents a selection of works by Mozart. Various prices. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. tso.ca.

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Next Stage Theatre Festival Theatre

r­ anging from musicals to political dramas. $10-$15. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. fringetoronto.com/nextstage-festival.

To Jan 19 Top Ten Film Festival Screenings of a voted-upon list of the year’s 10 best ­Canadian features and shorts plus Q&As. $10. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.

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

Fight AIDS in Africa

As the AIDS crisis deepens in Africa, the Stephen Lewis Foundation continues its unique grassroots work in com­mu­nities all over the continent.

The foundation’s Grandmothers Campaign collaborates with local organizations to help elders who’ve become the sole caregivers for children whose parents have died of the disease. Support this essential foundation at the African Jazz In January fundraiser, where Sophia Perlman, Bruce Cassidy and others perform at Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas West, on Thursday, January 16. 8:30 pm, $45, adv $40. 416-​531-​6604.

of the History Channel’s Biography: Muhammad The Prophet and a potluck. 6 pm. Free.

Noor Cultural Centre Auditorium, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Pyramids: The Mountains Of The Pharaoh

environmental initiatives that are changing our schools and their students. 10:30 am.

Free. Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside. highparknature.org.

Exploring Ideas About Gender Participatory talk with speaker Sunny Drake. 10:30 am. Free. Don Heights Unitarian Congregation, 18 Wynford. 416-444-8839. rResearch Live! Kids three to six help researchers learn how children think about the world and learn from each other. 1-4:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities annual symposium, with presentations of short scholarly papers, a book sale and more.

Today 9 am-5 pm; tomorrow 11 am-4 pm. $90, stu $45, Sun free. 647-520-4339, ­sseatoronto@yahoo.ca.

Screen Test Screenings of videos by Tom Sherman, Marisa Hoicka and others, and a talk by curator Zach Pearl. Screenings 2 & 3:30 pm, curator’s talk 3 pm. Free. Vtape, 401 Richmond W. 416-351-1317.

Toronto International Boat Show Boating activities, boat rides, wakeboarding, boathandling demos, celebrities, an indoor lake, seminars and more. To Jan 19. $18, srs $15, passes avail. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’. torontoboatshow.com.

Sunday, January 12

Benefits

Work It Out for SHE (Shaping Her Esteem)

Participants of all ages shake it in a Zumba class and pump iron in a 60-minute fitness class. 11-4 pm. Min $20 donation. Argonaut Rowing Club, 1225 Lake Shore W. ­shapingheresteem.com.

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Art: Society’s Mirror Presentation by art

educator Barbara Isherwood. 2 pm. Free.

Knox College, rm 4, 59 St George. ulyssean. on.ca.

Classical Animation On Paper 101 Basics workshop on timing, facial expressions, movement flow and more. 11 am-5 pm. $80.

Toronto Animated Image Society, unit B, 1411 Dufferin. Pre-register tais.ca.

Eco-Schools And Environmental Stewards, The Next Generation Discussion on

Monday, January 13 Chanting Join in chanting for peace, happi-

ness and spiritual growth. 7 pm. Free. Tao Sangha Toronto Healing Centre, 375 Jane.

416-925-7575.

Science On Tap: Revealing A Piece Of The Stem Cell Puzzle Scientist

Jacob Hanna ­discusses his groundbreaking stem cell research. 7:30 pm. $25. Beer Academy, 75 Victoria. weizmann.ca/ sot2014.

A Warm Winter Menu From The Scottish Kitchen Seminar with chef John Higgins. 6:30 pm. Free. Victorinox Swiss Army, 95A Bloor W. Preregister 416-929-9889.

Buskers for justice

Local musicians Daniel Williston and Duff MacDonald busk in support of Salvadoran refugee José Figueroa, a father of three who’s lived in BC for 15 years. The government wants to deport him, saying he’s a terrorist because he was a student leader in 80s El Salvador. Outside the C ­ anadian Border Services Agency ­offices at 1 Front West on Wednesday (January 15), from 1 to 3 pm. Donations appreciated.

Sophia​ Perlman boosts the Stephen Lewis​ Foundation January 16.

The Gen-​next of eco activism A discussion on the environmental ini­ tiatives that are changing our schools and raising the next generation of the

planet’s eco-stewards happens Sunday (January 12), 10:30 am, at High Park’s Howard Park Tennis Club, 430 Parkside. Free. highparknature.org.

Tuesday, January 14

Events

BIG3 DIY Video Workshop Learn how to get

the most out of online marketing. 10 am-5 pm. $149. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register big3videoagency.com.

Contemporary Canadian Architecture Talk by architectural science professor Marco Polo.

7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5639.

Deadly Dangers Of Misusing Medication

David Carmichael of RxISK.org speaks about prescription and over-the-counter drugs. 7 pm. Free. The Ossington, 61 Ossington. ­facebook.com/events/175519245989262.

Junior Gardeners/Gardens I Have Loved

Bring Your Own Book Discussion on books

to be read and a book swap. 6 pm. Free. Riverdale Library, 370 Broadview. 416-393-7720.

Green Drinks Toronto Meet other environmentally minded folk for discussion. 6-8:30 pm. Free. Grace O’Malley’s, 14 Duncan. ­greendrinks.org.

Social Justice Open Studio Brainstorming session for creatives who centre their work in anti-oppression and social justice. 6:30-8 pm.

Free. Bento Miso, 862 Richmond W. ­bentomiso.com.

upcoming

Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc talk.

7:30 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. rLearn To Skate Outdoor skating classes for all ages run through Mar 2014 at various times and prices. Harbourfront Centre Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/learntoskate.

Magic Morocco Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free.

Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. ­atcadventure.com.

Thursday, January 16

Wednesday, January 15

ers including new media practitioners Paulette Phillips, Geoffrey Shea and Camille Turner. 6:30 pm. Drake Underground, 1150 Queen E. interaccess.org.

Is The “Modern” Passe? Walk-around conversation on the exhibition Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism with professor Mark Cheethan. 7 pm. Free. U of T Art Centre, 15 King’s College Circle. utac.utoronto.ca.

Non-violence In Iran Lecture by political science professor Ramin Jahanbegloo. 6 pm.

Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.

Pop His Rocket All-genders workshop with Ducky Doolittle. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Preregister 416-504-7934.

Benefits

Buskers For Justice (We Are José Cam-

paign) Musicians and actors including Daniel Williston and Duff MacDonald busk for permanent residency status for Salvadoran refugee José Figueroa. 1-3 pm. Free (donations appreciated). Canadian Border Services Agency, 1 Front W. facebook.com/events/ 208243179361613.

Creative Science Sundays: Music & Techno­logy Fun Labs Youth 14 and up

learn the basics of DJ scratching and create electronic music compositions. 1 & 3 pm.

Benefits

African Jazz In January (Stephen Lewis

Fdn Grandmothers Campaign) Performances by Bruce Cassidy, Sophia Perlman and others. 8:30 pm. $45, adv $40. Hugh’s Room, 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

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Pantone, the world’s leading authority on colour, announced Radiant Orchid as the 2014 colour of the year, saying it “inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health.” Pink and purple hues not quite your thing? We say forget the experts and wear what you want. Great style, after all, is about colouring outside the lines.

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In case the holidays didn’t completely wipe out your hard-earned savings, Montreal-based Ssense (ssense.com) is clearing out its fall 2013 designer collections with discounts of up to 70 per cent. The sale lasts as long as the product does and includes Canadian labels like Rad Hourani and Denis Gagnon, so get shopping!

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Canada’s most famous fashion journalist, Jeanne Beker, is one of 90 new appointees to the Order of Canada. She receives the country’s highest civilian honours alongside fellow homegrown design heroes Douglas Coupland, Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu.

It really is about who you know Toronto Fashion Incubator members get a jump-start on their 2014 career goals at the TFI’s Meet & Mingle Night on January 21, 6:30 pm, at the org’s 285 Manitoba headquarters. Faceto-face networking counts for a lot in this business, so pre-register at 416-9717117 ext 21. Not a member? Become one for $140, students $75, at fashionincubator.com.

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ARIES Mar 21 | Apr 19 You can blame it on the coming full moon. You can blame it on the gorgeous storm or the epic dream or the haunting song or the suffering you’re struggling to vanquish. All I ask is that you don’t blame it on the alcohol. Okay? If you’re going to do wild and brave and unexpected things, make sure they are rooted in your vigorous response to primal rhythms, not in a drunken surrender to weakness or ignorance. I’m all for you losing your oppressive self-control, but not the healthy kind of selfcontrol.

TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 When is the

last time you did an experiment? I’m not talking about scientific tests and trials that take place in a laboratory.

I’m referring to real-life experiments, like when you try out an unfamiliar experience to see if it appeals to you or when you instigate a change in your routine to attract unpredictable blessings into your sphere. Now would be an excellent time to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like that. You’re overdue to have your eyes opened, your limits stretched and your mind blown.

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the edge off the darkness you have been wrestling with, I offer you these lines from a poem by Kay Ryan: “The day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection.” In other words, Gemini, whatever has disappeared from your life will probably return later in a new form. The wrong turns you made may lead you to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want? Or would you prefer that the lost things stay lost, the dead things stay dead? Make a decision soon.

CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for,” says the writer Malidoma Somé in his book Water And Spirit. “We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies you want most by refining your skill at asking for them.

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22 Julia Morgan (18721957) was the first woman licensed as an architect in California. She designed over 700 buildings in the course of her brilliant career and thrived both financially and artistically. One key to her success was her humility. “Don’t ever turn down a job because it’s beneath you,” she advised. That’s a helpful message for you to hear, Leo. It applies to the work-related opportunities you may be invited to take on, as well as the tasks that your friends, associates and loved ones ask you to consider. You can’t possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22 One of

Beethoven’s music teachers said, “As a composer, he is hopeless.” When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” I’m sure there was a person like that in your past – someone who disparaged and discouraged you. But I’m happy to report that 2014 will be the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s curse. If you have not yet launched your holy crusade, begin now.

LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22 As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) loved math. But his father, who home-schooled him, forced him to forgo math and concentrate on studying the humanities.

Blaise rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he locked himself in his room for days and immersed himself in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he had figured out on his own some of Euclid’s fundamental theorems about geometry. Eventually, he became a noted mathematician. I see the coming weeks as prime time to do something like the young Pascal did: seal yourself away from other people’s opinions about who you’re supposed to be and explore the themes that will be crucial for the person you are becoming.

SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21 In 1609, English sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America and came upon what we now call Coney Island. Back then it was a barren spit of sand whose main inhabitants were rabbits. But it was eventually turned into a dazzling resort – an “extravagant playground,” according to the documentary film Coney Island. By the early 20th century, there were three sprawling amusement parks packed into its two square miles of land, plus “a forest of glittering electric towers, historical displays, freak shows, a simulated trip to the moon, the largest herd of elephants in the world and panoramas showing the Creation, the End of the World, and Hell.” I mention this, Scorpio, because 2014 could feature your very own Henry Hudson moment: a time when you will discover virgin territory that will ultimately become an extravagant playground.

Psychologists say it’s black on yellow.

Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They activate a readiness to respond. According to my reading of the astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence. Actually wearing yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18 I’m guess-

ing that in a metaphorical sense, you’ve been swallowed by a whale.

Now you’re biding your time in the beast’s belly. Here’s my prediction: you will be like the Biblical Jonah, who underwent a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually expelled him, allowing him to return to his life safe and sound – and your story will have the same outcome.

What should you do in the meantime?

Here’s the advice that Dan Albergotti gives in his poem Things To Do In The Belly Of The Whale. “Count the ribs,” he says. “Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practise smoke signals. Call old friends. Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach.

Review each of your life’s 10 million choices. Find the evidence of those before you. Listen for the sound of your heart. Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait.”

PISCES Feb 19| Mar 20 How do you like your tests? Short, intense and dramatic? Or leisurely, drawn-out and lowpressure? Here’s another question: Do you prefer to pick out the tests you take, making sure they’re good fits for the precise lessons you want to master? Or do you find it more exciting and adventurous to let fate determine what unpredictable tests get sent your way? Ruminate about these matters, Pisces. You’re due for a nice big test sometime soon, and it’s in your interest to help shape and define how everything unfolds.

Homework: Imagine that one of your heroes comes to you and says, “Teach me the most important things you know.” What do you say? FreeWillAstrology.com.

SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21 “If

men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows,” said 19thcentury social reformer Henry Ward Beecher. That might be an accurate assessment for most people, but I don’t think it will be true for you Sagittarians in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be working even better than usual.

Your instinctual inclinations are likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19 Can you guess what combination of colours makes the most vivid visual impact?

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PLANET GOODWILL No GPS restaurant directions or angry birds here, just a feelgood app with 365 ways to “share the love.” Tap into simple daily actions that won’t alter your itinerary but may pull you out of your comfort zone. Some are goofy, many are green.

Either way, you’ll be prompted to join this force for good as it “spreads radical kindness,” fosters compassion and saves “yo mama” Earth, all with a revolutionary joie de vivre. $2.99.

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iVEGGIEGARDEN There’s no quicker way to connect to the earth than to, well, dig in it. A little tricky when the ground is frozen, granted, but there’s no harm in getting a head start on planning for your ultra-local backyard bounty.

There are apps for troubleshooting urban chickens, picking out bee-friendly or companion plants, moon gardening in line with the lunar cycles, you name it. iVeggieGarden is one of the most well-rounded, with growing info for over 500 varieties, mostly eco disease- and pestcontrol tips (just ignore pesticide mentions), and it handily lets you track ’n’ snap your own garden. $.99.

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HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING VEGETARIAN Whether weighing karma, colonic well-being or carbon footprints, we could all use more meat-free meals (the planet included). This app based on the bestselling cookbook by Mark Bittman has more than 2,000 vegan and vegetarian recipes – minus the dead trees (cookbooks rarely have recycled content). Slow down to thoroughly savour each bite, and send a little gratitude to the sun, rain, soil and calloused hands that made it all possible. Since mindful eating has actually been tied to weight loss, you may be tackling two resolutions in one. (Yep, there are apps for that.) $4.99.

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MEDITATING ON THE NEW YEAR It’s the first morning of the new year and I’m lying in bed shaking off the bubbly cobwebs of last night’s impromptu kitchenparty countdown. Every year right about now I join the chorus of North Americans committing to some sort of personal betterment. I’ve tried more winter cycling (sorry, I gave up below -10°C), breaking up with my laptop (ended up marrying my smartphone instead). Should

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I renew the same old fearfuelled vows that swell membership rolls at gyms and wellness centres? Get fit, eat healthier, detox. Sure, but it’s not quite... enough.

Lying there with a gauzy haze of white light filtering through the window, I ask myself on loop, “What… do… I… want?”

Two words keep seeping in: more love. Hmm. Really? I’ve got that nailed, don’t I? Loving part-

ner, loving family, loving tribe of friends. But the phrase keeps coming back, all aglow like Michael Landon in Highway To Heaven about to walk into the frame dressed up as Buddha.

Wait, that’s it.

I throw off the sheets and proclaim to my startled partner of 16 years: 2014 is the year of love! He looks a little bewildered but game. “Good idea!”

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BUDDHIFY Designed to bring mindfulness to busy urbanites, this mobile meditation app has an easy, affable approach to quieting your mind and cueing your awareness to the present without the spacey New Age music or higher price tags of other apps. Bonus: mindfulness tends to boost earth-friendly decision-making. (See article below.) All you have to do is tell Buddhify whether you’re at your desk, in a park, in transit, at the gym or just plain sitting in silence. $1.99.

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ecoholic pick granted withers and eventually dies, right? Our relationships, our bodies, our planet. What, then, is the antidote to that disconnection that creeps in and lets us treat ourselves and our environment like shit? Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, in his recent book, Love Letter To The Earth, says it all comes down to mindfulness, and being truly present in the here and now, without judgment.

That means getting quiet and being more aware of everything around us and inside us. Take it all in with more compassion, gratitude and, yeah, love: the trees outside your window, the breath filling your lungs, the guy strumming in the subway, the fresh lake water in your glass.

It may sound far out, but the whole mindfulness concept is no longer just the notion of temple dwellers and hippies. It’s turning up in Fortune 500 boardrooms and lunchrooms and on psych 100 curricula. JWT, one of the world’s largest marketing agencies, named mindful living one of the top 10 trends shaping our world.

Says the JWT agency’s trend-

spotting blog, “Consumers are developing a quasi-Zen desire to experience everything in a more present, conscious way. Once the domain of the spiritual set, mindful living is filtering into the mainstream, with more people drawn to the idea of shutting out distractions and focusing on the moment.”

If that’s true and mindful living sticks around longer than the decade-long resurgence of skinny jeans, then enviros, CEOs and politicians alike better get on board. As Hanh says, “Mindfulness is a truly healing balm that can help put an end to our sense of alienation and help us heal both ourselves and the planet.”

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nature notes ORIGINAL CHEERIOS GO GMO-FREE After 40,000 consumer Facebook posts demanding Cheerios dump its GMOs, General Mills has now started manufacturing its original Cheerios formula without genetically modified corn or sugar. “This is a huge victory for the non-GMO movement,” says John W. Roulac, co-founder of GMO Inside, the coalition behind the social media campaign. The change won’t apply to Honey Nut Cheerios or other General Mills cereals. Said the company in a statement: “The widespread use of GM seed in crops such as corn, soy or beet sugar would make reliably moving to nonGMO ingredients difficult, if not impossible.” Activists, however, note: General Mills offers more GMO-free options in Europe.

QUEBEC AND CALI KICK OFF CARBON TRADING Quebec has now officially hitched its cap-and-trade wagon to California’s. The two regions started regulating major greenhouse gas emitters last year, but with the systems linked up, Quebec polluters can now buy credits from California. Cali and Quebec are the only two members of the Western Climate Initiative (WCI) actually moving forward with the scheme. Ontario, still technically a member of the WCI, is apparently waiting for a few more glaciers to melt before it rolls up its sleeves on this one.

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style. And the other day I saw something about selenium, an antioxidant that’s supposed to work some sort of magic.

What else should we be doing?

One thing people should get through their heads: if you’re sick, stay home. If your bosses are jerks about it, make them understand that it’s in everyone’s best interest if you stay away. If they don’t get it, make sure you cough on their stuff first.

Just say no to the flu

A shot isn’t the only way to boost your immunity By ELIZABETH BROMSTEIN It’s that time of year. You can run. You can hide. You can do your damnedest.

But despite your best efforts, some asshat is going to show up at the office

with a cold or flu and cough all over the coffee machine, and you are going to get sick.

It’s also the time you start hearing

What the experts say “We’re vitamin D-deficient. Should you get a cold or flu, you need antioxidants to defend yourself against free radicals and protect healthy tissues. Eat a colourful diet of fruits and vegetables, as well as vitamins A, C and E. Zinc is very helpful. As soon as you’ve got symptoms of a cold, crush three or four cloves of garlic, make a paste with a tiny amount of honey, put about an eighth of a teaspoon on the back of your tongue, wash it down with one whole glass of water, and the symptoms will ease within 10 minutes. Take it again when those symptoms return. You’ll be taking it at longer and longer intervals until finally you’re better. Garlic has potent antibacterial, antiviral and antifungal properties. A lot of people are selenium-deficient, but if you take a multivitamin you get enough.”

AILEEN BURFORD-MASON, immunologist, nutritionist, Toronto “Because your immune system is composed of cells – and cells have metabolic requirements in order to make energy and get rid of waste – a certain level of vitamins is needed. But does your immune system get an additional benefit from levels of these compounds that are above that basal function? I haven’t seen a lot of persuasive evidence to support that idea. Get a flu shot. There is evidence that the influenza vaccine provides protective immunity to influenza infection with a very low side-effect rate.”

MARC JENKINS, McKnight University professor, department of microbiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis “I make a flu tonic, an immune booster drink: one lemon, four cloves of garlic, 2 teaspoons of ginger, a little bit of cayenne pepper, some powdered turmeric and apple cider vinegar. My patients drink that throughout the day. I make sure all of my patients are taking probiotics. Naturopathic doctors consider Boiron’s Oscillococcinum nature’s number-one flu remedy. We commonly prescribe it when the early signs of flu symptoms come on. Sugar weakens the immune system almost immediately after consumption, and the effect lasts for a few hours. Fruits and vegetables that are high in vitamin C are excellent, but stay away from processed and packaged simple sugars.”

SARA CELIK, naturopath, Toronto “Get plenty of rest. Being overtired weakens your immune system. Eat a proper balanced diet. Frequent hand-

washing is a way to prevent infection.

Try to avoid stressful situations. Get lots of exercise. There’s a cold and flu season, in part, because in northern climates we get less vitamin D. Expose yourself to the sun as much as possible.

There’s some scientific evidence that taking vitamin D supplements helps boost your immune system, but I don’t

and reading about nutrients, herbs and superfoods that are supposed to boost your immunity.

Garlic is one that never goes out of see a lot of evidence of a direct correlation between garlic and boosted immunity. One reason garlic could help is that if you eat a lot of it, people are less inclined to get close to you. Get the flu shot. We’re getting a bit of a spike in flu, especially H1N1.”

GREG ARMSTRONG, professor of medical microbiology, University of Calgary “Three TCM methods [can boost immunity]: acupressure, herbs and ex-

ercise. For the acupressure, I suggest two points: Li 4, a point between the thumb and the index finger. Massage it using the opposite hand. You can find the exact location of St 36, a point below the kneecap, on the internet. Using a circular motion, massage each point for two minutes once or twice a day. Research indicates that both of these points improve immune function. For herbs, try ginseng and astragalus. The exercises I sug-

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Stay Cafeteria owners Tao Zhang and Jianing Hu (below) produce Asian fusion plates including egg pudding served in eggshells (left), baked ­marshmallow toast and braised beef brisket in homemade bone broth with ­noodles, sided with a century egg.

Fun with fusion Stay Cafeteria does Asian dishes with a ton of creative twists By Steven Davey and bare light bulbs, while self-taught chef Hu takes credit for the idiosyncra­ tic East-meets-West carte.

Braised beef brisket brings a large bowl of deeply flavoured bone broth brimming with al dente ramen-style wheat noodles, baby bok choy and chopped Italian tomatoes, an inadvertent homage to the Spadina of Swit­ zer’s and Swatow. Teriyaki eel baked with mozzarella cheese on rice (both $10) sounds like a home-ec experiment gone wrong, but the eel’s aggres­ sively oily sweetness balanced with the famously mild cheese make a surprisingly tasty combo.

Hu’s steamed pork, chive and water­cress dumplings ($7/dozen) are almost a meal in themselves, the minced pig as juicy as someone’s nonna’s meatballs, their wrappers

STAY CAFETERIA (388 Spadina, at Baldwin, 416-901-1510) Complete meals for $20 per person, including tax, tip and an iced tea. Average main $9. Open Wednesday to Monday noon to 11 pm. Closed Tuesday. Reservations accepted. Unlicensed.

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Toronto has long had a fascination with fusion cuisine. Look no further than Susur Lee, who virtually invent­ ed the collision of French technique with Asian ingredients at Lotus et al.

Fast forward three decades to the perpetual chaos of Chinatown and Tao Zhang and Jianing Hu’s twomonth-old Stay Cafeteria. Former George Brown architecture student Zhang is responsible for the stylishly anonymous room’s exposed brick

like wontons by way of lasagna. But cold Korean-style noodles dressed with shredded chicken thigh, carrot and a pickled egg ($8) just seems silly in the dead of winter, especially when served with an ice-cold mug of oolong tea mixed with fresh watermelon juice ($5). Tropical heat wave, no problem.

Sadly, chef wouldn’t tell us what’s in the super-crispy batter that coats her incomparable popcorn chicken ($7), but we’re guessing graham crackers. Either that or ginger snaps. And a baseball-sized

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Desserts are just as meta.

A rame­kin of what the menu

euphemistical­ly calls “cheese pudding” turns out to be cheesecake filling, while “baked marshmallow toast” (both $5) borders on s’mores. Hu pulls out all the stops with her cerebral “egg pudding in an egg shell” ($8), a halfdozen egg shells full of eggy vanilla custard served in a ceramic white dish shaped like an egg carton.

Like the bossa nova cover version of John Denver’s Take Me Home, Country Roads by JapaneseBrazilian guitarist Lisa Ono currently wafting over the cafeteria’s sound system, it’s a finish that’s both off the wall and oddly comforting. stevend@nowtoronto. com | @­stevendaveynow

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Birds of a feather A cousin to Yakitori Bar on Baldwin, Windup Bird Cafe (382 College, at ­Borden, 647-349-6373, windupbird. ca, @­WindUpBirdCafe, rating: NNN) takes its name from the popular Haruki Murakami novel, fitting for a beanery that fancies itself a “space that revolves around the literary and culinary arts.”

Co-owner/chef Yumiko Kobayashi designed the casually elegant room, a jumble of distressed lumber and tufted leatherette banquettes, all as colourful as her exquisitely composed plates. At dinner, there’s gluten-free tuna gratin with avocado ($8) and deconstructed beef tongue bourguignon ($17). A sizeable starter of spicy Thai-style coconut soup laced with shaved artisanal bacon ($8) makes an impressive main at lunch when paired with grilled pita toasts.

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tartar sauce, a bed of brown basmati rice and teenage arugula underneath ($15). Everything on the baked vegetable loaf sandwich board ($14), from the Ace Bakery raisin bread to the cucumber relish and the cut-glass goblet of house-made pickles, is bound to impress except for the star of the show: a dense and dry wedge of lentils and well-meaning root vegetables more suited for a hamburger bun and a heap o’ toppings.

Both come with what Kobayashi calls “three-kind salad” – more arugula with roasted sweet peppers and local beets, sundry beans and edamame, all in a barely there vinaigrette – and an antique teacup of curried butternut squash soup. We’ll return if only for the cream-swirled Americanos ($2.60) made with custom-roasted ­Ezra’s Pound beans and sided with complimentary housebaked baby biscotti. Nice touch, SD that.

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It used to take a drive to the end of the universe – Victoria Park and O’Connor Drive – to visit the Sultan of Samosas, but now that the Readers Poll-winning bakery has opened a second outlet on the ground floor of a newly erected Regent Park condo (1 Oak, at Parliament, 416-9339330, sultanof­samosas.com), foodies won’t have to travel as far afield to get their fix. They’ll also be happy to know that all 10 varieties of Indo turnover are available, including our favourite – pierogi!

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Watch for the dynamic crew behind North of Brooklyn (650½ Queen West, at Palmerston, 647-352-5700, northof­ brooklyn.com, @­northofbrooklyn) to open a second New York-style pizzeria in the space directly below Woody’s on Church. A late February launch is s­ keded.

“We wanted a central location that works for delivery but has foot traffic as well,” says Brooklyn honcho Josh Spatz.

Anything new on the menu? Pizza tacos, perhaps? “We’re thinking salad.”

A couple of blocks north, Get Melted (600 Church, at Gloucester, 647-350-6358, getmelted.ca, @­getmelted1) bills itself as “Canada’s first gourmet grilled cheese and cannabis consumption café.”

That would explain the heavily tinted windows. Behind them, the seriously baked can expect sandwiches like the Elvis, with cheddar, peanut butter and bacon, and grilled ’n’ glazed doughnuts dressed SD with fried Brie.

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130 Dundas W, at Bay, 416-492-5292, @dondon_izakaya Kaiseki Sakura’s Daisuke Izutsu resurfaces in a sprawling secondstorey room – once home to the legendary Sai Woo – with a contemporary card of Japanese-style tapas geared to the afterwork cocktail crowd. Minimal shouting, occasional drumming. Best: Hoppeta-Yaki, a mound of garlicky mashed potatoes thick

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890 yonge st (n. of davenport) www.crownanddragon.com

51B Winchester, at Parliament, 647748-2121, kingyotoronto.ca, @Kingyotoronto This laid-back Cabbagetown izakaya proves you don’t need the full-bore frat-boy party vibe of Guu and the like to have a good time. Where else can you enjoy shareable plates that are as much fun for the tongue as they are for the eye while a kitschy Japanese sci-fi movie unspools over the bar? Best: rice-paperwrapped salad rolls stuffed with barbecued cha shu pork, cucumber and lettuce splashed with house-made teriyaki sauce and sweet kewpie mayo; tataki-style seared albacore tuna dressed with ponzu jelly and deep-fried garlic chips; cold al dente ramen noodles tossed with salty cod roe, barbecued pork, bitter radicchio and strips of both seaweed and scrambled egg; hamachi yellowtail carpaccio over organic

mesclun, slivered red radish and daikon sprouts in a sesame-wasabi vinaigrette.

Complete dinners for $40 per person, including tax, tip and a cocktail. Average main $11. Open nightly 5:30 to 11:30 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNN

Teppan Kenta

24 Wellesley W, at St Nicholas, 647-3450905, teppankenta.com Ex-Guu chef Kenta Taniguchi trades his gong for a teppanyaki griddle at this difficult-to-find izakaya (hint: it’s around the back of the condo and across from Northbound Leather). And while the snackable carte and bare-bones room might look like you-know-Guu, it’s noticeably less noisy.

Best: to start, old-school guacamole made tableside; double-fried chicken wings splashed with mirin and lemon juice; blood-red slices of barely seared Angus strip loin brushed with sweet soy sauce; ebi cheese, an offbeat mix of home fries, fava beans and grilled shrimp in molten mozzarella cheese sauce; Hiroshima-style okonomiyaki omelettes layered with shrimp, squid, pork belly and dried bonito flakes that literally dance on the surface; cheesy chan-pote potato pizza with “spicy fish innards;” to finish (what else?), French toast. Complete dinners for $35 per person, including tax, tip and an imported beer. Average main $8.

Open for dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 pm to midnight. Closed Monday, holidays.

Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN 3

Critics’ Pick NNNNN Rare perfection NNNN Outstanding, almost flawless NNN Recommended, worthy of repeat visits NN Adequate N You’d do better with a TV dinner

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where to drink right now

WHAT we’re DRINKING TONIGHT

Ungava gin

If you don’t feel Canadian in this weather, you’re numb or dumb – both states that call for a patriotic drink like Ungava gin. Infused with botanicals native to the Canadian tundra (including cloudberry, rosehip and Nordic juniper), Ungava’s available at select spots in T.O., so shake off wintery agoraphobia and seek good times at fine bars like the Miller Tavern (31 Bay, 416-366-5544, ­themiller.ca) and Osteria dei Ganzi (504 Jarvis, 647-348-6520, ­ganzi.ca).

Boots ’n’ Bourbon’s Rob Dvorchik (left) and Adrian Stein

Winter whites

Hell’s freezing over – and so are we. Time for a crisp glass of white to complement those light January meals you’ve resolved to eat, cool your wool-swaddled toes and send you off to a dreamland of summer orchards and jungles dripping with fruit.

Boots ’n’ Bourbon

725 Queen East, 647-348-0880, @BootsBourbon It’s a new year, time to come clean about a deep, dark secret: my first bartending gig was in a country bar. This entailed wearing a hat while slinging cases of Molson Stock, slamming 100 Alabamas a night and having some of the most fun ever behind the stick.

So even though I’m not a fan of the music, country is close to my heart, and I reckon it’s about damn time ­Toronto got its own boot-stomping, beer-swilling western joint: Boots ’n’ Bourbon.

Leave it to seasoned bar owners Matt Pettit and Matt Coulter (Rock Lobster), Nav Sangha (the Great Hall, Wrongbar) and Mike Homewood and Mike Strong (Kee to Bala) to spot a viable niche and run with it. They’ve transformed the former Riverside Public House into a pseudo-saloon that feels like a giant countrified pub, complete with plenty of leather and wood.

More refined than the rugged breed of small-town country bar where I earned my stripes, B ’n’ B’s got the fundamental trimmings: live music (Thursday to Saturday), comfort food (like beer-can chicken and chili) and a back bar stacked with whiskey. Line dancing and a mechanical bull will become fixtures in the near future.

Friendly, be-hatted bartenders push themed cocktails by bar manager ­Adrian Stein and Rock Lobster’s Robin Wynne across the horseshoe bar. The Stampeder ($12), a massive, spruced-up boilermaker made with Molson Stock Ale, blackstrap molasses, ginger maple syrup, ginger ale and ­lime, with a shot of Crown Royal ­balanced on top, and the General Lee ($10), a generously garnished Caesar made with beef jerky bourbon and ­hickory bitters, should chip away at your sobriety. If not, you can always opt for $3 bourbon shots and tallboys of Coors Banquet ($6.25).

It’s exciting to watch the evolution of Toronto’s bar scene as it beckons new demographics and seeps into ­different neighbourhoods. I know I’m not the only one sick of indulging the tired east side/west side rift, so here’s hoping a bit of the West in the east is a two-step in a new direction.

Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 am to close, Monday and Tuesday 5 pm to close.

Accessibility: Entrance barrier-free, washrooms downstairs.

tasting notes Drinker, heal thyself

Drinking’s good for you – at least it can be. Apothecary Cocktails: Restorative Drinks From Yesterday And Today ($23.99, Fair Winds) by Warren Bobrow explores 75 boozy remedies new and old to cure all your aches, sniffles and woes. Great for home bartenders and history geeks with a short attention span.

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Rabl Kittmansberg Grüner ­Veltliner 2011

Rating: NNN Why I’ve rarely met a grüner that I didn’t like, and this wine didn’t let me down. Melon and mineral mingle with bright citrus and floral aromas, and suddenly winter is far, far away.

Price 750 ml/$14.95 Availability Vintages 346007

Kim Crawford ñ Sauvignon Blanc 2013

Flat Rock Cellars ñ Twisted 2012

Rating: NNNN Why Most of us are familiar with this wellloved Kiwi white – you’ve seen the billboards, it’s basically a celebrity. The 2013 vintage, the best in years, is all passion fruit and gooseberry, with spring shoots pushing through bright acidity.

Price 750 ml/$19.95 Availability LCBO 35386

Rating: NNNN Why Running the gamut of fruit, floral and mineral, this local blend of Riesling, Gewürtztraminer and Chardonnay doesn’t have a boring drop in its bottle.

Price 750 ml/$16.95 Availability Vintages 1578

Events, openings & closings, new releases and more

Icewine’s hot

Drink up Ontario’s nectar during the Niagara Icewine Festival, running ­Friday (January 10) to January 26 ­(niagarawinefestival.com). Attend the Icewine Gala, sign up for wine and cheese seminars or grab a discovery pass online ($40) to sample wines with pairings from participating ­wineries including Trius­, Pilliteri, Reif, Inniskillin and the Ice House.

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the scene Shows that rocked Toronto last week

MIMICO as part of FEAST IN THE EAST at Gerrard Art Space, Saturday, January 4.

Rating: NNN When the Feast In The East concert series started in the spring of 2011, it seemed like a cheeky response to the perception that the west end was becoming too expensive to support the vibrant underground live music scene it had been known for. Thirty-three shows later, it’s proven there’s an undeniably strong young artistic community establishing itself on the other side of the Don Valley. The event has changed locations a few times since it launched, but the overall concept has remained constant: DIY venue, great local bands and free food.

Pairing the hypnotic droning space rock of headliners Mimico with the angular post-punk of openers Bella Akira and New Fries was an odd aesthetic choice, but loud volume in a small space meant no one was in danger of nodding off. Combining ele-

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ments of chugging Krautrock with sludgy hard rock riffing and chilly goth atmospherics for a sound that’s familiar but not derivative, Mimico seemed charmingly unsure of how to respond to applause.

Musically, though, they came across much more assertive than on their reBENJAMIN BOLES cordings.

THE SILVER HEARTS at

Tranzac, Saturday, January ñ 4.

Rating: NNNN Saturday’s Silver Hearts show at Tranzac was a triumphantly fun set performed to a packed crowd. So packed, in fact, that one audience member cleared away tables for a dance floor.

Listening to the band’s albums, you could easily lose sight of the fact that Silver Hearts are a musical freight train live, barrelling at you with their strange concoction of blues, folk, ragtime, jazz and Tin Pan Alley peppered with creepy saw solos, and sometimes sounding like you’re at a wake.

SNOWBLINK and DOOMSQUAD as part of FIRST THURSDAYS: LONG WINTER TAKEOVER at the AGO, Thursday, January 2. Rating: NNN

The two marquee music performances at First Thursdays: Long Winter Takeover were a study in contrasts.

Toronto indie pop duo Snowblink (backed by four other musicians) appeared in a black-walled room under bright lights, singer Daniela Gesundheit ethereal in a long forest-green velvet dress, playing an antlered guitar. There was a helluva lot of reverb in the sky-high space, but it suited their dreamy space-folk vibe. “It’s like we’re all in a really nice shower together,” Gesundheit said.

Montreal sibling trio Doomsquad were decidedly less inviting, playing behind toxic green lights and a chicken wire installation they made themselves. Percussive instruments injected light into the band’s shadowy experimentation. A flautist lent levity to the Darth Vader-style vocal distortion, and an engaging didgeridoo sequence made the swoony waves of seasick reverberating noise more accessible.

A strong beat often added shape to the psychedelic squalls and dense feedback. Challenging, yes, especially by set’s end, but never JULIA LECONTE staid.

They don’t take themselves too seriously (one song was a soliloquy on the erotic life of Wookies), but they aren’t just kitschy either: this is tear-in-your-beer bar music at its best.

Fronted by (the very tall) Trevor “Tiny” Davis, the Silver Hearts took turns singing the tunes: accordionist Kelly Pineault sang Danny, and harmonica player Patrick Walsh took lead on my personal favourite, Whiskey Talkin’. And good news: the band plans to make a new record (its first in eight SARAH GREENE years) this year.

LISA BOZIKOVIC, CHRIS CUMMINGS, RYAN DRIVER, SIMONE SCHMIDT, THOM GILL and ALEX LUKASHEVSKY as part of TORONTO DOES TORONTO at Holy Oak, Sunday, January 5. Rating: NNN

It was hard not to spend much of Toronto Does Toronto thinking about when Jennifer Castle might release her

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follow-up to 2011’s Castlemusic. Two of the night’s performers, Lisa Bozi­ kovic and Alex Lukashevsky, chose to cover Castle songs, testament to the blues-folk singer/songwriter’s influential powers.

But there were other highlights, too.

Thom Gill stunned the loud talkers into silence with his soul-jazz interpretation of Ronley Teper’s Single Girl; Simone­Schmidt and Doug Paisley made a powerhouse duo covering deep cuts by Crash Vegas and Handsome Ned; and Chris Cummings’s (formerly Mantler) rendition of Double Suicide, by Sandro Perri, with airy backup vocals by Ryan Driver, helped give the night momentum.

Maybe the bleak weather was to blame, but songs with depressing subject matter – two about ending your life – featured prominently. Gill’s choice of closer, a chordally colourful reimagining of John Southworth’s One Winter Rose, warmed us up enough to deal with the sleet pinging against Carla Gillis Holy Oak’s windows.

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clubs&concerts hot Long Winter Volume Three w/ Rae Spoon, Isla Craig, BA Johnston, Princess ­Century, Weaves, Doug Tielli, ­Bizzarh, Ronley Teper and others The Great Hall (1087 Queen West), ­tonight (Friday, January 10) Cold-season music-andmore series.

Jus Moni, Ayo Leilani, Shi Wisdom, DJs Theesatisfaction The Steady Cafe & Bar (1051 Bloor West), Friday (January 10) Black Weirdo: The Party.

The Great Sabatini, ­Godstopper, Demonic ­Possessor, Wakeless The 460 (460 Spadina), Friday (January 10) Mathy Montreal sludge metal.

Wavelength & NEXT Present The Class of 2014 w/ Del Bel, Fresh Snow, MASS, Anamai, DJ Debt Load Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (January 11) Indie rock extravaganza.

Gino Washington, BB Guns, Honeyrunners, Two Times, Pins & Needles Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday

­(January 11) Detroit soul-R&B legend.

Neil Young, Diana Krall Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Sunday ­(January 12) See preview, page 32.

Toy, Spires, Beliefs Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (January 14) English psychedelic rock.

Disclosure, Vic Mensa, Samo Sound boy Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Tuesday (January 14) Brotherly deep house duo.

Mutual Benefit Drake Hotel (1150 Queen West), ­Wednesday (January 15) See preview, page 36.

Darkside, Highwater Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), ­Wednesday (January 15) See preview, page 34.

Pixies, Fidlar Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Wednesday (January 15) See preview, page 32.

Singer/Songwriter

Jake Bugg

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Only 19, Jake Bugg is already polarizing critics with his second album, Shangri La (Mercury), released a mere year after his UK-chart-topping self-titled debut. Some don’t buy the Nottingham native’s Bob Dylan-meets-Oasis shtick, while others feel he’s doing for folk rock what Amy Winehouse and Adele did for soul.

Few can dispute that, besides talent, he’s got luck on his side. He worked with superstar producer Rick Rubin on his latest (and, yes, slightly more rock and roll) effort, and last year he snagged nominations for Brit Awards, the Mercury Prize and the NME Awards.

Find out if Bugg’s aesthetic works as well on this side of the pond when he plays Sound Academy on Tuesday, with the Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. and the Skins in the opening slots.

Tuesday (January 14), doors 7 pm, all ages, at Sound Academy (11 ­Polson). $29.50. LN, RT, SS.

Just Announced Bryce Jardine, the Northern Empties, DJ Nova Trucker Fridays 3030 Dundas West 9 pm. January 17.

Ashley Wallbridge & Bass Khelph Maison Mercer 10 pm, $15. WT. January 17.

Jeru the Damaja, Theodore McGruff, Megadon, Major Charges, Edweird, Klee Magor, Big STretch, the Demon Slayer and others, Hard

Luck Bar doors 9:30 pm, $20. PDR. landmineent.ticketleap.com. January 17.

Shawn Clarke, Mellowkotzen, Michael Flynn, Ukeouza, Braden Mitchell Cameron House 9 pm. January 18.

1976 & Bearbabes Horseshoe doors 8:30

pm, $10. HS, RT, SS, TF. January 22.

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Sheng-Xiang & Band Glenn Gould Studio 8 pm, free. performingtaiwan.com. January 23.

Poppy Seed & the Love Explosion, the Green Ray, George Westerholm CD release party Bovine Sex Club. January 24.

The DoneFors, Emma-Lee, Sean Pinchin, Jadea Kellyand others CD

release Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $20, adv $15.

January 24.

Jessica Stewart Few The Local 9 pm.

January 25.

Birds of Bellwoods Habits Gastropub 9 pm, $10. January 25 and February 22.

Andrew Ivens, Carry Quigley, Amy Moodie, Tara Litvack, Robin Claxton, Jeff Deegan, Patrick Power

Neil Young Tribute Night Measure 8 pm, $15. onthisharvestmoon.bpt.me/. January 26.

Kevin Myles Wilson The Local 9 pm.

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The Marks, Krystal Jessup Only Café 8 pm, pwyc. January 30.

The Folk, the Medicine Hat 3030 Dundas West 9 pm, $5. January 30.

Skullians, Plan 37, Bourbon DK, the Ready’s, Big Brother, Sarah & the Rippers Skullians 3rd Album Fundraiser PeeWee’s Band House 9 pm, all ages, $10 or pwyc. January 31.

Rich Kidd, Tona, Adam Bomb, DJ Nana, DJ Soundbwoy, DJ Wristpect, DJ Mensa Naturally Born Strangers:

Pop-Up Shop & Concert Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 9 pm, $10. January 31.

Watershed Hour, Meeko Cheech, Drugs in Japan, Old Major Encore Studios 9 pm, $5. February 1.

Bach Children’s Chorus, the Northern Lights Barbershop Chorus, the Metropolitan Choir, Eleanor Daley, Patricia Wright Benefit for 1930s historic pipe or-

gan Metropolitan United Church 7:30 pm, $20. February 1.

Dave Gunning Acoustic Harvest St Nicholas Anglican Church doors 7:30 pm, $25, adv $22. acousticharvest.ca. February 1.

Steve Poltz C’est What. February 5.

The Beverleys In-store performance Sonic Boom Kensington 2 pm, free. February 8.

House of David Gang NuFunk Bob

Marley Tribute Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $10$15. nufunk.ca. February 8.

Gary Craig, Maury Lafoy, Bryden Baird, David Matheson, Kurt Swinghammer, Lori Cullen, Alana Bridgewater, Lily Frost & David Wall The Way To San Jose: The Music Of Burt Bacharach Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25, adv $22.50. February 22.

The Beverleys, Greys, Wish, Mexican Slang EP release Sneaky Dee’s February 28.

The Two Koreas T2K10: 10th Anniversary Spectacular The Piston March 6.

Abandon All Ships Virgin Mobile Mod Club. March 8.

Billy Joel Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $50.50-$146.50. LN, TM. March 9.

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Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics.

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How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, January 9 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Tonic Soul.

Horseshoe Asperger’s Fundraiser Urban Jive,

Disclaimers, Bluemaze, Punkabillie Blue 8:20 pm.

Lee’s Palace Sludgehammer, McSon, 9 pm.

The Local Erika Werry & the Alphabet (rock) 9 pm.

Mélange Open Stage Lee Van Leer 9 pm.

Pauper’s Pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm.

Rivoli David Newberry, Rachael Cardiello & the Warm Electric Winter, the Marwells doors 9:30 pm.

Silver Dollar Tight Nuns, This Mess, Practice Wife, Make No Gains, Denim Skeletons (punk rock) doors 8 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

Wise Guys Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.

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Friday, January 10 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

Blue Goose Tavern The Diamond Drapes (50s rock & roll Teddy Boy style) 9 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Untameable Ronnie

Hayward (rockabilly) 5 to 7 pm.

The 460 The Great Sabatini, Godstopper, Demonic Possessor, Wakeless doors 8:30 pm.

The Garrison The Cameron Brothers Band, Kirty, Stonetrotter 9 pm.

The Great Hall Long Winter Volume Three Rae Spoon, Isla Craig, BA Johnston, Princess Century, Doug Tielli, Weaves, Derek Was D-Sisive, Absolut, Sydanie, Bizzarh, Ronley Teper & the Lipliners, New Zebra Kid, Bespoken.

Hard Luck Bar Death Before Dishonor, ­Betrayal, Seeker (hardcore) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Horseshoe The DGB, Hairy Holler, Bonwit Teller, Gladheart, Shaky Knees 9:20 pm.

Lee’s Palace The Colour, Altobeelays.

Linsmore Tavern The Clearing (indie pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Seven44 Coda (Led Zeppelin tribute).

Shangri-La Hotel Daniella Watters 9 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s EP release Wildheart, Rynheart, the Mohrs, the Strangers (rock) 8 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Michael Shatte (rock) 10 pm.

The Steady Cafe & Bar Black Weirdo: The Party Jus Moni, Ayo Leilani, Shi ­Wisdom, DJs TheeSatisfaction.

3030 Dundas West OH16 Soul Presents ­Sandra Bouza & Redbrick, DJ General Eclectic (soul) 9 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Mimi OZ the Rooster, Clela

Errington, Dante Matas 8:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Allison Murrell & Garrett Morgan 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s The Swinging Blackjack 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine The Daniel Barnes Groove Trio (world/jazz) 8 pm.

Hugh’s Room Sweet Baby James: James Taylor Tribute Cary Cooper, Terry Lufts, Brian MacMillan, the Watch, Liam Titcomb, Kat Goldman, Allison Lupton, Ian Bell, 2ish, Michael Wrycraft 8:30 pm.

Lou Dawg’s Acoustic Blues Mike Costantini, Pat Wright (blues/funk/rock/soul).

Lula Lounge Cuba Libre Friday Changui ­Havana & Santos Lee 10:30 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9:30 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists Quartet (gypsy bop).

The Rex The Jivebombers (eight-piece blues combo) 6:30 pm.

Silver Dollar Patti Cake, Suitcase Sam & the Suits, House of Haunt, the Wicked Tenants (country-blues/cowboy-jazz) doors 9 pm.

3 Windows Open Jam Dano & Miss Jaye 9 pm to 1 am.

Yellow Cup Cafe Azalea (alt country) 8 pm, all ages.

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Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm,

Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro CD release Neil Swainson Don Thompson 9 pm.

Lula Lounge World Jazz Friday Ault Sisters (jazz) 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star Mark Eisenman 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

The Bier Markt Daniella Watters 7 pm.

Cavern Bar & Bistro Open Mic 9 pm.

Free Times Cafe Songwriters Circle Of Jerks

8:30 pm.

Lou Dawg’s North Of Nashville Ty Owens (country).

Temple Sinai Congregation Songs Of

S­ ephardim And Their Neighbours Judith ­Cohen 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Mimi OZ the Rooster, Sarah Greene 10 pm.

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Jazz/Classical/Experimental

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Shannon ­McDonough Variety Night.

Gate 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Jazzforia w/ Claire Riley 5 to 8 pm.

Jane Mallett Theatre Music Toronto The St. Lawrence Quartet 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro CD release Neil Swainson Don Thompson 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Yasgurs Farm (jazz/rock) 8:30 pm.

The Rex Jim Hillman’s Teresina Quartet 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Rooster Coffee House Sam Dickinson, Rob Christian, Gram Whitty, Lee Clarke (jazz) 5 to 7 pm, Ewen Farncombe Trio (jazz) 3 to 5 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Crawford Twisted Thursdays DJ Law (video dance party).

Disgraceland A Hard Days Night DJ Nick

Harris (rock/hip-hop favourites) 10 pm.

Goodhandy’s T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 Handlebar DJ Strawberry Sandwiches 10 pm.

Lula Lounge Yasgurs Farm (soul/jazz/rock) 8:30 pm.

Midpoint Nintendo Thursdays (80s Vs 90s).

Rivoli DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop).

WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (70s/80s) 10 pm.

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Pixies Alt-Rock

Neil Young Folk Rock

Neil, we’ve got you covered By Carla Gillis

NEIL YOUNG and DIANA KRALL at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Sunday (January 12), 7:30 pm. $95-$250. RTH, TM. Sold out.

Neil Young will show his political side when he plays Massey Hall on Sunday. The Honour The Treaties benefit concert raises money for the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s legal battle against oil corporations and the Cana­dian ­government, whose tar sands projects and mine expansions threaten traditional lands and ecosystems.

The neoclassical venue and serious context probably won’t inspire boisterous air-guitaring from the crowd, though plenty of fans will be humming every note and working out the chords in their minds. Young’s accessible, beloved ­discography, after all, is one of the most covered in popular music.

We rounded up a few local musicians to find out which of Young’s songs they most enjoy playing.

“I was actually playing Out On The Weekend in my kitchen this morning,” says Octoberman’s Marc Morrissette, “so that would be my answer today, but it might change tomorrow since there are so, so many. I love that line ‘The woman I’m thinking of, she loved me all up, but I’m so down today.’ The only Neil Young cover I’ve ever performed publicly was Albuquerque, quite a few years ago. It has a good line about getting some breakfast. Only Neil could pull that off.”

“I think I have to go with Revolution Blues, from Neil’s 1974 album, On The Beach, which is my favourite album,” says Larry Cariou, lead singer for tribute act the Neil Young’uns. “The driving beat is the first thing that appeals to me. And I love the lyrics. Some might say they’re bleak, and considering they’re fashioned around Neil’s chance meeting with Charles Manson in the mid-60s, they’d be right. But the final verse gives me chills when I sing it. It’s just an overall emotional experience.”

“I’ve never played any Neil songs during my shows, but I’ve certainly played a lot in my kitchen,” says Afie Jur­vanen, aka Bahamas. “I think Harvest Moon is probably my favourite. Every line is so simple and beautiful, and the whole song is delivered with such patience. It’s like he’s in no rush to tell someone his heart’s desire. Pretty heavy stuff.”

“Usually when I cover Neil Young it’s for a ­wedding, in which case it’s Unknown Legend or Harvest Moon to get the silver foxes dancing,” says Simone Schmidt of the Highest Order, Fiver and One Hundred Dollars.

“But I sang Winterlong with [Neil Young and Crazy Horse tribute band] Horsey Craze in the spring, and that was a lot of fun.”

Schmidt’s song Black Gold, from One Hundred Dollars’ Songs Of Man album, was actually written in hopes that Young might cover it someday. The timing couldn’t be better – the song tells the story of a conflicted Alberta oil sands worker lured by big money but losing the things that really matter to him.

Hey, Neil, are you listening?

3 carlag@nowtoronto.com | @carlagillis

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Down a key member, inspiration still flows as vet rockers release a series of new EPs By Kevin Ritchie THE PIXIES with FIDLAR at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Wednesday (January 15), 7 pm, all ages. $44.50-$79.50. LN, RTH, TM. A few things have changed since the Pixies helped define the alt-rock sound of the early 90s with their screeching, stripped-down dynamics.

“We were touring around in a cloud of marijuana smoke. It felt like a Cheech and Chong movie,” frontman Black Francis (aka Charles Thompson IV) recalled in a phone interview last November. “Now, it’s a very tight ship.

It’s very blue-collar in some ways.”

Drummer David Lovering puts it this way, “‘Older and wiser’ just means that you’re so old that you’ll do whatever it takes to make things easier on yourself.”

Other things do not change. For ­example, the odd bit of turmoil. After releasing five albums in five years, infighting led Thompson to infamously quit the band via fax in 1993. In 2004, he and Lovering reunited with bassist Kim Deal and guitarist Joey Santiago and embarked on a successful tour that solidified the Pixies’ influential status for a new generation.

Then, in a surprise move last year, Deal walked out. Upset but undeterred, they recruited Kim Shattuck of the Muffs and then fired her in November – reportedly for stage diving. “I get the feeling they’re more introverted people than I am,” she later told NME. Paz Lenchantin of A Perfect ­Circle and Zwan is now on bass.

“We haven’t really replaced Kim [Deal],” insists Thompson. “We’re just working without her at the moment, for better or for worse. It is what is it.”

A female presence has long been essential to the Pixies sound, which often whips up manic energy from contrasting extremes. “When she left, we didn’t know what to do,” recounts Lovering. “Should we quit? Should we get a guy to play bass? What is the Pixies’ sound but that feminine side and what it offers? So we’re continuing with that.”

Free from a label deal, the band is releasing the results of fresh recording sessions in Wales with producer Gil Norton as a series of EPs. Twenty-two years after the release of their last album, they surprised fans by uploading a four-track EP online last summer. The second one came this month.

The new material is highly polished. Thompson describes Norton – who has worked on three Pixies albums – as a “tidy” and “particular” producer who builds songs from the drums up, as opposed to convening jam sessions to capture the magic. “It’s more about constructing a facsimile,” he explains.

To get the band in a headspace to record again, Norton told them to ­ima­gine returning to Earth after a 20-year absence. The psychological trick worked, but Thompson insists nothing motivates him as effectively as a looming deadline.

“I don’t need inspiration. I have it,” he says. “I might not be in the mood to do something today versus another day, but it doesn’t mean the main ­motivating factor – the inspiration – disappears. It’s somewhere in there.

You just have to start and the game begins.”

3 music@nowtoronto.com

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(salsa/merengue/reggaeton/top 40s) 10 pm.

Wrongbar Big Ticket DJ Law, K Cut, DJ Mel Boogie (hip-hop) 10 pm.

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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Saturday, January 11 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

ANDY POOLHALL DJ Dalia & Lucie Tic (hip-hop/

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

The Central The Dirty Fix 11 pm, Sliding

Cabin Nightclub The Legendary Groove

The Danforth Music Hall Rupaul’s Drag

R&B/dance) 10 pm.

­Fridays Spence Diamonds & Mista Jiggz (R&B/funk/soul/hip-hop/house).

Castro’s Lounge Record Party DJ ‘I Hate You Rob’ (soul/funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly/ power pop) 10 pm.

Club 120 breakandenter: Format Function, Measure Divide, Greg Gow, Mike Gibbs, ­Martin Fazekas (techno) 10 pm.

Disgraceland This Is Music DJ Shawn ­McDonald 10 pm.

Fly Pop Fridays DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 Handlebar HugLife DJs Totally OK (dance party).

The Hoxton

Skratch Bastid doors 10 pm. ñ OhSo Nightclub Faded Fridays DJ Wikked &

DJ Cirius (hip-hop/R&B/reggae).

La Perla HERtoronto DJs Cozmic Cat, John Caffery, OMGBLOG.COM (house/disco) doors 10:30 pm.

Rivoli DJ Stu (rock & roll).

WAYLA Bar Video Dance Party DJ Truewind

Sideways 10 pm.

Race: Battle Of The Seasons 9:30 pm.5

El Mocambo Reggae 4 The Weekend The

New Kingston, Inword, DJs Meccacity Sound (roots/rock/reggae) doors 9 pm.

Global Village Backpackers aBabe Saturdays The Royal Streets, the Namedroppers, Superstack doors 9:30 pm.

Handlebar Silent Movie Type, Sky of Sound, Hurricane & Able, Low Hanging Lights 10 pm.

Horseshoe Gino Washington, the BB Guns, the Honeyrunners, the Two Times, Pins & Needles doors 8 pm.

Hot Box Puff Lounge Maintenance Request Form (one-man-band pop/punk/doo-wop/ rockabilly) 7 pm.

Lee’s Palace CD release Frenemy, Ooh Baby Gimme Mores, Kiz & Legin, Arcana (punk).

Linsmore Tavern Mr Pharmacist (Fleetwood Mac tribute) 9:30 pm.

The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

Rockpile Zepology (Zeppelin tribute).

Silver Dollar Wavelength & NeXT Present: The Class Of 2014 – A New IndieRock Honour Roll Del Bel, Fresh Snow, MASS, Anamai, DJ Debt Load doors 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Jeff G & the Four Heads (rock) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

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Blue Goose Tavern Danny B’s House Party

The Danny B Band (blues harp) 3 to 6 pm.

Cameron House Songwriters Unite Kat Goldman (folk/pop) 8 pm, Big Tobacco & the Pickers (country) 6 to 8 pm.

Castro’s Lounge Big Rude Jake (blues shouter) 4:30 pm.

Communication Art Gallery Mirra Kardonne’s Depicted In Human Form Photo Exhibit Ilana Waniuk & Suhashini Arulanan-

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JANUARY 14

SOUND ACADEMY DOORS 7PM SHOW 8PM / RT, SS / ALL AGES

THURSDAY JANUARY 16 & FRIDAY JANUARY 17 Presented by LIVE NATION

CODY SIMPSON

dam, Nilan Perera, Amy Medvick 6-9 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Drake Hotel Kevin Devine, Box Tiger (singer/songwriter) doors 8 pm.

Free Times Cafe Mimi Oz 8:30 pm.

Gate 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm, Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm.

Grossman’s The Swinging Blackjack 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room Joanna Chapman-Smith (jazzy folk-pop) 8:30 pm.

Kehillat Eytz Chaim Azalea (alt country) 10:30 am, all ages.

The Local Jake Chisholm (blues) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Salsa Saturday Jorge Maza y ­Tipica, Soul to Soul 10:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Fern Lindzon Trio 6 to 9 pm.

Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro CD release Neil Swainson Don Thompson 9 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano

Masters Star Brigham Phillips 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

Paintbox Bistro African Rhythms Randy Weston (solo jazz piano) 8 & 9:15 pm.

The Rex Dave Young Quintet 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, Angela Morris 3:30 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall Mozart Symphony 39 Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Andy Poolhall BreaksToTheFuture DJ Mark Grimace, DJ Marty McFly & Jemes St Bass (breakbeats/house/disco/funk) 10 pm.

BassLine Music Bar Future Perfect Synergy: The Return Marcus Visionary, MC JD, Everybodies Daddy, MC P, DJ Tranzit, DJ Tenshin (drum n’ bass) 9 pm.

Black Eagle Trade DJs Scooter & David Picard 10 pm.5 The Central Upstairs DJ Nick, DJs Kzar, Session & Clay (reggae/ska/rocksteady/northern soul) 9 pm.

Cinema Nightclub Kryoman.

Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm.

Club 120 Diva Face Off DJ Johnny B Goode doors 10 pm.5 Harbourfront Centre SLOWED On Ice: DJ Skate Night 8 to 11 pm.

The Hoxton Moguai 10 pm.

Lou Dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hi-hop).

Rivoli DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club).

Sneaky Dee’s Shake A Tail (60s pop/soul) 11 pm.

3030 Dundas West Open Mind DJ Corey Dawkins (soca/dancehall/hip-hop) 10 pm.

WAYLA Bar Debauchury DJ Deko-Ze 10 pm.

Sunday, January 12 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Free Times Cafe Canadian Idol School 7 pm.

Massey Hall Honor The Treaties Tour: Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation ñ Legal Defense Fund benefit Neil Young, Diana Krall 8 pm. See preview, page 32.

Paradise Bar & Billiards Terry Logan Trio 4

SATURDAY JANUARY 18 & SUNDAY JANUARY 19

BURLESQUE All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change Saturday, 3rd without notice. TicketMay prices subject to applicable fees.

DANFORTH MUSIC HALL On Sale Tomorrow at 10am DOORS 8PM SHOW 9PM • ALL AGES

THE STRYPES

MON JAN 20 • LEE’S PALACE

TONY DEKKER (OF GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS) 2 SHOWS! FRI JAN 24 • HELICONIAN HALL

NEW POLITICS

w/ Magic Man, Sleeper Agent TUE JAN 28 • THE OPERA HOUSE

BUCKCHERRY

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FRIDAY JANUARY 24

OZMOZIS PRESENTS 10PM – 4AM SATURDAY JANUARY 25 & SUNDAY JANUARY 26

LANDMARK EVENTS 722 COLLEGE STREET

themodclub.com

to 7:30 pm.

The Rex Joe Bowden Experience 9:30 pm, ­Lester McLean Trio (funk/soul/R&B) 7 pm, Mr Rick’s Tin Pan Alley 3:30 pm.

Village Vinyl Sunday Session Gen Gorman (pop/rock) 2 to 5 pm.

Darkside Electronic

Electro-blues experiment thrives on improvisation

By Benjamin Boles

darkside with highwater at Lee’s ­ alace (529 Bloor West), Wednesday P (January 15), 8 pm. $25. RT, SS, TF.

Darkside’s Dave Harrington is finishing up a couple of remixes in his Brooklyn apartment that he plans to play later as part of a DJ set. This shouldn’t be a surprising way for half of a critically ­acclaimed electronic duo to spend an afternoon, but for Harrington it’s a novelty. He’s still adjusting to the new DJ-focused world he was thrown into after accepting a gig playing guitar in Nicolas Jaar’s touring band.

“I had a history as an upright jazz bass player and an experimental

tinker­er and keyboard player in indie rock bands, but I’d never DJed before meeting Nico three years ago. I didn’t even know Daft Punk very well, ­although I did like some of Thomas Bangalter’s solo stuff.”

The chemistry onstage with Jaar eventually spilled over into hotel room jam sessions, gradually evolving into the experimental ambient blues of Darkside’s 2013 debut album, Psychic.

There’s obvious common ground with Jaar’s solo work, but at the core there’s a very different approach, beyond just song titles and writing credits.

“On a fundamental level, Darkside songs are built on and around the ­guitar. There are ideas that may have come out of playing in Nico’s live band, but there are guitarist signposts all throughout Darkside’s show that I need to hit as well. It’s just a different set of concerns that we’re still figuring out every night.”

That unpredictability is what defines the project in many ways. While Darkside are heavily rooted in electronic music, both Harrington and Jaar are coming at it from the perspective of live musicians.

“The overlap in our backgrounds is ultimately improvised music in its many manifestations, from rock to jazz. The live show changes every time we do it. We’re not a band that you go and see and we sound like the record.

This is more like the unseen and unheard other half of the record.”

3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Cadillac Lounge The Danny B Blues Band

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Lara

7:30 pm.

­Mondays 9 pm.

The Cage 292 Jam Phill Hood 10 pm.

Caven’s Alley Bar The Pepper Shakers

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band w/

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

THE OSSINGTON

­(country twang) 8 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Grossman’s The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

The Local David Celia (folk/rock) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Family Cuban Brunch (11 am).

Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sundays Open Mic 9 pm.

Rose & Crown Music City North Open Mic 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Terra Hazelton 9 pm, Jay MacDonald Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Kitch Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

The Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensembles 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

THU 9 COOL SPINNINGS Our top DJs spin their personal pre-weekend favourites...

FRI 10 GET BY FRIDAY w/DJs Hajah Bug & Mantis… Hip hop, soul, RnB, dancehall, Manjah music to move you...

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Axis Gallery & Grill Derek Downham 10 pm.

Castro’s Lounge The Tom Waits Apprecia-

Gate 403 Derek Gray Quartet 9 pm, Joel Hartt

Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Syrinx Concert The Pamina Quartet 3 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Young Artist Brunch Lorenzo Polese Duo (sax & piano) 12:30 pm.

Morgans on the Danforth Jazzy Sundays!

Shannon Butcher 2 to 5 pm.

The Rex Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Roy Thomson Hall Mozart Symphony 39 Toronto Symphony Orchestra 3 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church Anything Goes: The Cole Porter Songbook Talisker Players (chamber music) 3 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Bovine Sex Club Metal Health 9 pm.

The Red Light 80s Dance Party At The Red Light 9 pm.

Monday, January 13 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Castro’s Lounge Rockabilly Mondays The

Cosmotones 9 pm.

Drake Hotel Connan Mockasin (psych pop) doors 8 pm.

Handlebar Mimi Oz, Phoebe Novak, Jonathan Wood Vincent 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday Dick Rodan Band, When Earth Sleeps 9:15 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor,

­Cynthia Marie 9:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Open Stage Monday Jessica Bundy 7:30 pm.

Grossman’s No Band Required.

Hawaii Bar Will Gillespie (singer/songwriter/ folk/roots) 9:30 pm.

The Local Evans & Dennett (oldtime/bluegrass).

Lou Dawg’s Ryerson Open Mic Don Campbell.

Magic Oven Queen E Magic Mondays Open Jam Shahi Teruko (soul/R&B/jazz/funk) 9 pm.

The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (New Orleans blues) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, January 14 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul tion Congregation 8:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground A Great Big World doors 8 pm.

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe Toy, Spires, Beliefs

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Sound Academy Jake Bugg, Albert Hammond Jr, the Skins doors 7 pm, all ages.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

The Duke Live.com Open Jam Jon Long 8:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe S.A.C. Toronto Open Mike

thu Jan 9

SyntheSexer dJs arp2600 & digitS electronic dance party

Fri Jan 10 Sat Jan 11 tues Jan 14 Wed Jan 15

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and thematically. The indie folk songs are both happy and sad; hopeful while not getting their hopes up. They eschew classic pop structure but never lose the listener by straying too far from a well-worn songwriting path.

After making six digital albums between 2009 and 2011, Lee wrote and recorded Love’s Crushing Diamond – his most polished offering to date – in three different cities: Austin, St. Louis and Boston.

“If I’m bored for a couple of months, it means I’m in the wrong spot,” he says. “I try to search for inspiration all the time, and I’ve made a correlation at this point that if I’m ­inspired, then I’m fulfilled and happy. So the easiest way to make that happen is to immerse myself in a totally new ­situation.”

Lucky for Lee, who’s been Brooklyn-based since Sep­ tember, the travelling life continues: he tours North America and Europe over the next few months.

“One of the big themes of the r­ ecord is the idea of suchness – where you’re completely focused on the moment without the implications of the moment. And it’s almost ­impossible to do that if you have preconceived notions or if you’ve walked down the same street a hundred times; then it’s hard to notice the details.”

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album reviews ANGEL HAZE Dirty Gold (Universal

Republic) Rating: NN Listening to Angel Haze’s debut album often feels like sitting in on a therapy session with the 22-year-old rapper. Each account of her upbringing, romantic relationships and religious views is full of personal details and a hard-won wisdom that she delivers with unwavering confidence and cathartic fervour.

The New York City-based MC has made a name with searing freestyles about sexual abuse and her mother’s disapproval of her pansexuality – a subject she revisits in Black Dahlia. Hers is a voice atypical in the American mainstream, so it’s disappointing that she relies on self-help clichés (unnecessarily reiterated in spokenword interludes) and cleancut pop production.

Haze’s rapid, self-excoriating rhymes have drawn comparisons to Eminem, but her flows and punchlines, though potent, aren’t inventive enough to overcome the album’s bland commercialism.

Perhaps by co-opting the bythe-book pop-rock sound – Bruno Marsesque hooks, reverby percussion and alt-rock riffs – Haze is positioning herself as a top 40 infiltrator, which is fine, but she’s also diluted her uniqueness.

Top track: A Tribe Called Red KEVIN RITCHIE

album of the week SHARON JONES AND THE DAP-KINGS Give The People What

They Want (Daptone) Rating: NNN Soul revival is flying high, and current unlikely poster boy Charles Bradley is enjoying lots of the spotlight right now.

Actually, though, Bradley started out opening for 50-something Georgia native Sharon Jones, who like Bradley found success late-ish in life.

On her fifth album, Jones continues her reign as the feel-good, funky diva du jour.

Stranger To My Happiness comes alive with deep brass beats and female backup vocals straight outta 60s Motown. Most numbers hinge on classic soul themes of tempestuous love and 20/20 hindsight, exemplified by the succinct, dead-on Making Up And Breaking Up (And Making Up And Breaking Up Over Again).

Throughout, the Dap-Kings remain essential to the throwback sound, amplifying the genre’s staple brass section with congas and timpani.

Still, the singer’s star quality is the most powerful element. Her raw, raspy voice suggests a life tough-lived, and part of Jones’s appeal is her no-nonsense realness. The album is missing an emotional, drawnout, heartbreaking ballad, but inspirational anthems like Retreat! find her sassing as loud and proud as ever.

Top track: Retreat!

JULIA LECONTE

Hip-hop ELAQUENT Green Apples And

Oranges (Urbnet) Rating: NNN Guelph beatsmith Elaquent has been getting attention over the last couple of years for his understated instrumental hip-hop, which sits somewhere between traditional boom-bap vibes and more contemporary left-field sounds. On his new eightsong EP, he continues to explore themes familiar to fans of his 2012 debut LP, The Scenic Route, with some minor refinements.

This time around the drums are less

B.O.B Underground Luxury (At-

lantic) Rating: NN At least B.o.B’s downtempo 2010 radio hit, Airplanes, matched its melodramatic lyrics. Similarly, in 2012, So Good’s jaunty piano jibed with its upbeat joie de vivre. You might hate them for being the most pop-radio form of pop-radio rap, but at least these songs made sense.

The opening track on the Georgia rapper’s third album, however, is perplexing to the point of hilarity. It’s a rap ballad, and the lovingly drawled out lyrics – “It’s just so many women, it’s just so many chains, it’s just so many watches, it’s just too many things... I want” are belted out over violin strains that wouldn’t be out of place on the Love Actually soundtrack.

It doesn’t get much better. His subpar wordplay is easily out-rapped and out-sung by guests like Future and 2 Chainz. Saving the disc from complete disaster are a few catchy, albeit unoriginal, tunes. Headband’s stuttery whistle beat could have been ripped from a Tyga CD, but it’s wa-a-a-y better than the “harder,” electro-informed production on Paper Route, for example.

Top track: Headband JL wonky, but the intentionally sloppy bits that remain seem to stand out more starkly, which is occasionally distracting – or maybe the novelty of unquantized electronic drums is just wearing off. On the other hand, his keyboard melodies and slinky synth lines feel sexier and smoother, and give a futuristic edge that counters his throwback tendencies. Instrumental hip-hop often sounds too loungey, but Elaquent balances that chill-out compilation feel with enough weirdness to keep things interesting.

Top track: Alone At Last Elaquent plays the Garrison February 16.

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Pop/Rock TOY Join The Dots (Heavenly/Sony)

Rating: NNN London psychedelic pop band Toy’s 2012 self-titled debut made a big impression, and many credit it with setting off a small psych rock revival in the UK. Their sound is an intoxicating blend of 70s Krautrock, 60s British psychedelia, NYC proto-punk, some 80s post-punk and a healthy dose of 90s shoegaze. On their follow-up, they have taken the if-it’s-not-broke approach: it should satisfy fans, but it’s harder to get excited about.

Things kick off promisingly with the robotic, chugging, instrumental groove of

Conductor, which dissolves into washes of filtered guitar noise reminiscent of the Jesus and Mary Chain’s wall of fuzz. But their music is best when the reference points span such a wide range that you stop picking them out and the album seems to exist outside of time and trends.

While they’re great at the dreamy soundscapes, Toy are not as strong with fractured pop songs, and the vocals could still use some work.

Top track: Endlessly Toy play the Horseshoe Tuesday (January 14).

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profile (22 minutes), and garage fans who have developed an affinity for simplistic and unyielding three-chord melodies may consider Purnell’s effort nothing to write home about. But for many, Sugar In My Pocket will serve as an excellent soundtrack for emotional catharsis, heartbreaking or otherwise.

Top track: Hey Now JOSHUA KLOKE

ARIEL PINK Early Live Recordings

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN High

Hopes (Columbia) Rating: NNN High Hopes is a patchwork of Bruce Springsteen’s loose scraps of Americana, like that stars-and-stripes flag that disenfranchised veterans on The Simpsons stitch together out of old clothes.

The title track opens with a skiffling Bo Diddley beat that explodes into a singalong zydeco chorus. American Skin (41 Shots), written about the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, gains bonus resonance post-Trayvon Martin. There is, no joke, a Tom Waitsian cover of Suicide’s Dream Baby Dream.

If your beef with the E Street Band is that they don’t have enough guitar solos that sound like an old 14.4k modem crapping out, well… enter Tom Morello, whose trick bag of effects pedals gives Springsteen and Co. the jittery relevance they need to connect with a modern audience.

There’s not much new here, but Springsteen has always traded on a maudlin permanent nostalgia that only works because it’s so fucking earnest that it blasts through our attempts to be cynical about it.

Top track: American Skin (41 Shots) JOHN SEMLEY

(Human Ear) Rating: NNN On these tracks performed live in the late 1990s and early 2000s before Ariel Pink’s well-known Haunted Graffiti series, the listener gets a compelling look inside the artist’s wonderfully weird brain. From the 36 songs, recovered from burnt CD-Rs and old 8-track cassettes, we can try to determine how the L.A. avant-garde artist went from obscurity to Animal Collective golden boy to the fully formed singer/songwriter behind 2012’s fantastically obscure pop album Mature Themes.

Plenty of the tunes feature the noisy rapture associated with Pink’s early stuff, but there are also glimpses of his pop sensibilities, especially on the heartbreakingly saccharine Crusades, which showcases his softer, less abrasive side.

Although disjointed and lacking structure – which is the beauty/burden of comps – it’s a pleasant enough listen that’ll keep appetites whetted until Pink releases another full-length.

Top track: Crusades SAMANTHA EDWARDS

Punk SOUPCANS Parasite Brain (Tele-

THE YOUNGER LOVERS Sugar In My Pocket (Southpaw) Rating: NNN Few experiences lend themselves to hit songs like heartbreak. And from the sounds of this tightly wound, garageinfluenced power pop effort, Brontez Purnell, aka the Younger Lovers, must have undergone serious torment.

Purnell’s emotions are often buried under upbeat, ice-cream-shop melodies, making the true, desperate meanings difficult to discern. He runs the gamut of post-breakup feelings without taking a breath. There are angry, stomping anthems like Say Yeah, and unrelenting slow jams like Ballad Of Two Stubborn Men. The lo-fi recording process benefits his overall aesthetic – songs like Hey Now, for example, maintain a raw edge.

The whole record wraps up in the time it might take to stalk an ex’s Facebook

phone Explosion/JKSK) Rating: NNN If you prefer your punk to sound like an anguished swamp monster emerging from a primordial bog, staggering and bewildered and incoherent and not just a little frightening, give Toronto’s Soupcans a try.

Their latest EP is speedy and noisy (Lost Drugs, Weedopolis 2029, No Teeth) but also slowed-down druggy and downtuned creepy (Crimes Of The Future, Pt. II).

Dissonance, brevity and aggression are the consistents.

The “avant garbagé” three-piece throw in some welcome twists: the abrupt tempo switches in the title track make it memorable; No Teeth has inspired punched-in-the-gut vocals; Crimes Of The Future trades in speed for something super-heavy and foreboding.

Things get fun again on Lost Drugs and straight-up hardcore closer 2 Much. All in all, a committed effort sure to either induce a headache or make you long for your mosh pit days.

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MIKE FORD

Don’t let the cold keep you holed up at home. The city’s stages are sizzling with electric theatre, comedy and dance shows that’ll heat you up until spring. Here are some of the season’s best bets.

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theatre playwright interview Nicolas Billon

His aim is true

In his Next Stage Fest show Rifles, playwright Nicolas Billon targets political apathy, a subject he’s dramatized before in his Governor General’s Award-winning Fault Lines trilogy By GLENN SUMI RIFLES by Nicolas Billon, directed by Michael Wheeler, with Kate Hennig, Ben Sanders, Cyrus Lane and Barbara Gordon. Presented by Praxis Theatre and Next Stage at the Factory Mainspace (125 Bathurst). January 9 and 16 at 5 pm, January 11 at 2:30 pm, January 12, 15 and 18 at 7 pm, January 13 at 9:15 pm, January 19 at 9:30 pm. $15. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

Nicolas Billon is a political playwright, but he doesn’t want that to scare you away.

In fact, he’s the first to be suspicious of didactic or heavy-handed theatre.

“I have no patience when I go see a play and feel I’m being hammered over the head,” says the soft-spoken writer. “I immediately lose interest. If I see another play about how not all Arabs are terrorists, or how gay people are this or that...” he pauses. “I know! I totally agree! I’m on board! And you know what? A theatre audience also knows this. It’s too easy to preach to the choir. It’s much more interesting to explore the grey areas.”

His plays – among them the monologuedriven trilogy of Greenland, Iceland and Faroe Islands, which under the title Fault Lines recently won him the Governor General’s Award for drama – revel in shades of complex grey.

Greenland deals with a family torn apart by a fatal accident; Iceland looks at how the lives of three Toronto strangers are linked through the economic collapse; and Faroe Islands takes on armchair activism.

Billon sees a similarity between this last play and his newest one, Rifles, which premieres this week at the Next Stage Festival. An adaptation of Brecht’s 1937 play Señora Carrar’s Rifles, it’s set during the Spanish Civil War, where a mother struggles to keep her two sons from fighting after her husband has been killed.

“One of the themes of Faroe Islands is the idea that if you sign an online petition you’re suddenly an activist, which drives me crazy,” says Billon in the quiet-between-Christmasand-New Year’s lounge of the Toronto Writers’ Centre, where he gets most of his work done.

“Rifles suggests that to be an activist you actually need to act.”

Brecht’s in-your-face style and Billon’s subtle, nuanced writing might seem an unlikely pair-

ing. That’s what Billon told director Michael Wheeler when the latter approached him about adapting the play.

“I said I wasn’t his guy,” he says, chuckling.

“Brecht and I aren’t a good match. But Michael told me to read the play, and it was very different from his other stuff. You can still hear his axe grinding, but it’s muted. And that was intriguing.”

Another selling point was the Spanish Civil War setting, because his literary hero George Orwell fought in it and chronicled his experiences in the classic Homage To Catalonia.

“I asked Michael if we could somehow bring Orwell into the play, and it turns out there’s a wounded soldier in the Brecht play. We’ve made him Or well, who was in fact wounded, and here he becomes an obser ver and witness.”

If Rifles pans out, Billon would like to develop the work into a longer piece, with a prequel or sequel dealing with Homage To Catalonia.

Billon let me read an early version of his script, and there’s a line of dialogue that refers to 2 + 2 = 5. Aha, I thought: a reference to Orwell’s classic about a totalitarian dystopia, 1984.

“Nope, it’s Brecht!” cries out Billon, his eyes widening. “When I saw it I almost fell off my chair. It made me think maybe Orwell had read or seen the play. The expression itself was probably not coined by Orwell or Brecht, but to see it in the context of fascism is eerie.”

Billon, who grew up in Montreal and came to Toronto in 2006 to join the Soulpepper Academy, has adapted classics before.

He penned a clever version of Molière’s The Sicilian for the Fringe Festival a few years ago, and his stylish spin on Marivaux’s The Game Of Love & Chance was mounted by Canadian Stage and Montreal’s Centaur Theatre.

“It’s nice to work on a comedy every now and then,” he says, smiling. “I don’t always want to be doing heavy and dark pieces. But these were still political; they’re all about class. There are very few experiences as satisfying as being in an audience that’s laughing.”

One character who got lots of laughs – albeit dark, sardonic, half-guilty laughs – was Halim, the slimy, sexist, opportunistic realtor played to perfection by Kawa Ada in Billon’s Iceland.

Billon credits Ada for earning that reaction.

And he also says director Ravi Jain realized early on that audiences needed to agree with Halim more or they’d turn against him.

When Billon donated $5,000 of his Governor General’s Award prize to the Theatre Centre, he says he was acknowledging Jain’s contribution to all three Fault Lines plays. Jain is a director in residence at the Theatre Centre.

“Meeting him was a life-changing experience,” says Billon. “We did a workshop together with Complicité and immediately got along. I don’t think anyone doesn’t get along with Ravi; he’s one of the most affable people I know.

“I also saw his Hamlet, and while it was by no means perfect – he’d say the same thing – he was doing something compelling.

I hadn’t seen that kind of ballsiness onstage in a while. I knew I had to work with him.”

Filming on The Elephant Song, Billon’s adaptation of his first play, has just finished, with Xavier Dolan, Bruce Greenwood and Catherine Keener in the cast.

And productions of his play Butcher and his opera October – about Quebec’s October crisis – are in the works.

He and Praxis Theatre artistic producer Aislinn Rose were married on Christmas Eve day in a casual 20-minute ceremony followed by a diner breakfast. Rifles marks their first collaboration as writer and producer. Will they be working together more?

“I think we’ve agreed that it’s not something we’ll do on a regular basis,” he says. “Sometimes working on this, we’ve had to ask each other what hat we’re wearing: producer, writer or spouse.”

And they’ve agreed to keep their private and public lives separate – which has worked surprisingly well up until now.

“After we got married,” he says, “some people in the community admitted they didn’t even know we were going out.”

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ANUSREE ROY

Actor, Free Outgoing; writer, Sultans Of The Street

Here are the people onstage and behind the scenes you’ll be discussing during intermission. ­Remember their names.

The work of the awardwinning Roy, both as actor or playwright, is at the top of most theatregoers’ lists.

This winter, in the North American premiere of Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Free Outgoing, she plays a conservative Indian mother dealing with the viral video of her daughter having sex. She’s also scripted Sultans Of The Street, about a quartet of children trying to escape a life of begging in Kol­ kata, India. Free Outgoing, a Nightwood production, runs January 28 to February 16 at Factory Theatre; 416-504-9971. Young People’s Theatre presents Sultans from April 28 to May 15. 416-862-2222.

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KYLE JAMES ABRAHAM ADOMIAN Choreographer, The Radio Show

RAVI JAIN

Co-writer/performer/director, A Brimful Of Asha; co-director, Sea Sick The effervescent Jain sparks any production in which he’s involved. The show he created with his mother about her attempts to get him married, A Brimful Of Asha, returns as part of the Soulpepper season from March 19 to 22 at the Young Centre; 416- 866-8666. He’s also co-directing, with Franco Boni, Alanna Mitchell’s Sea Sick, a solo performance about how the state of the world’s oceans affects us all. Playing March 19 to 23, it’s sure to be one of the season highlights at the Theatre Centre’s new home. 416-538-0988

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Who better to kick off Harbourfront’s World Stage series than Abraham, the dance sensation whose rise in the contemporary scene has been as quick and confident as his choreography. The Radio Show draws on his upbringing in Pittsburgh and the now-defunct urban radio stations that introduced him to Motown and hip-hop. It’s also partly inspired by the story of his father’s diagnosis with Alzheimer’s. Expect a non-narrative piece full of bold, fierce movement and emotional honesty, typical of his work with his Abraham.In. Motion company. And don’t be surprised if the score has you wanting to display your own moves after the show. February 5 to 8 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. 416-973-4000.

Stand-up, improv and sketch comic Adomian is one of the funniest men on the planet, equally adept at sketch, stand-up, improv and celebrity impressions. His weekend of sets at the Comedy Bar includes an improvised show featuring some local troopers and his hilariously campy Sheriff of Naughtyham character (don’t worry, Adomian’s totally out), two stand-up sets and hosting Sunday Night Live with the Sketchersons. The intimate club, with its comedy-savvy audience, is the perfect venue for his highly personal and razor-sharp act. Friday to Sunday (January 10 to 12) at the Comedy Bar. ­comedybar.ca.

ALLEGRA FULTON Actor, The Carousel

Fulton always impresses with her incisive craft and expressive honesty. She shone a few years ago in Jennifer Tremblay’s The List, about a woman imprisoned by life’s ordinary events. Nightwood presents Tremblay’s follow-up to that play, The Carousel, in which the same character, driving to visit her dying mother, relives moments that she hopes will lead to a reconciliation between the generations.

Sure to be potent theatre.

At Berkeley Street Theatre from March 10 to 29. 416368-3110.

SERGIO TRUJILLO Director, Arrabal

Toronto-raised Trujillo has a ton of impressive credits, including Jerome Robbins’ Broadway and Fosse (as a dancer) and Jersey Boys and Memphis (as a choreographer). Now he helms Arrabal, about a girl digging into the history of her father, who was “disappeared” by the Argentine military junta. In the manner of Tony winner Contact, Arrabal tells its story through movement and music, with a book by John Weidman (who wrote Contact), music by Brokeback Mountain composer Gustavo Santaolalla and choreography by Julio Zurita. With performers and musicians from Buenos Aires, the home of tango, you can expect the temperature to rise at the show’s world premiere at the Panasonic, February 4 to April 20.

416-872-1212.

KEVIN O’DAY and ROBERT­ GLUMBEK Dancer/choreographers, The Four Seasons

Veteran dancer/choreographers O’Day and Glumbek aren’t letting age stand in the way of expressing themselves. They’ve each had terrific careers in modern and ballet companies, and their riveting 2010 piece Full Bloom – which they created and performed with Luches Huddleston Jr. – was a revelation, demonstrating that solid technique and life experience add layers of meaning and drama to a performance. Now they’re back in a series of duets that, as that title suggests, reflect on the cycle of life. Not to be missed. Part of the DanceWorks season, March 6 to 8 at the Enwave. 416-9734000.

ALAN DILWORTH

Director, The Country Wife and Minotaur Talented director Dilworth (Passion Play, La Ronde) is able to tease out a script’s nuances and give actors a positive, creative atmosphere. Lucky that the graduating students at George Brown Theatre get to collaborate with him on one of the best Restoration comedies, The Country Wife, from February 5 to 15 at the Young Centre; 416-866-8666. Dilworth then tackles Kevin Dyer’s Minotaur, in which a young boy whose soldier father is fighting abroad finds himself transformed into the mythical hero Theseus, who must fight the monstrous Minotaur to save his parent’s life. It plays at Young People’s Theatre from March 24 to April 13. 416-8622222.

KYRA HARPER

Actor, Pacamambo; director, Afterplay Harper’s an emotionally resonant artist whose work we see too rarely on local stages. She’s back performing in Wajdi Mouawad’s (Scorched) Paca­mambo, playing the wise grandmother of a young girl filled with rage and denial. The season premiere for Ken Gass’s Canadian Rep Theatre, it plays at the Citadel from January 18 to February 2; 416-504-7529. Then Harper takes to the director’s chair for Brian Friel’s Afterplay, in which two characters from Chekhov meet in a new scenario that explores their unfulfilled lives. At Campbell House Museum from February 19 to March 2.

ATOM EGOYAN Director, Così Fan Tutte

Egoyan, of course, is best known as one of the country’s premiere film ­directors. But last season’s remount of his Salome for the Canadian Opera Company reminded us how effective he can be on a large canvas, creating dramatic, visceral music theatre. His new COC commission pairs him with Mozart’s comedy about two couples and sexual infidelity. Don’t expect a frothy version from Egoyan. Beneath the gorgeous melodies sung by some of the world’s best singers, look for psychological complexity and dark truths about the human condition. January 18 to February 21 at the Four Seasons Centre. 416-363-8231.

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winter stage preview theatre director interview Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu

whether to return to perform a ritual burial ceremony.

Caught in the fever dream of the title, the confused Simon goes on an inner historic and cultural journey, looking not only at his background but also at what he’s repressed.

That journey is a literal one for the character and the audience as they follow Simon through the rooms of Campbell House Museum as he tries to reconcile past and present.

The show grew out of a SummerWorks production, Dancing To A White Boy Song, that writer Motion and conceiver/ director Mumbi Tind­yebwa Otu presented years ago.

“We wanted to look at the African immigrant experience, about it being a dance you do to a different cultural beat,” says Otu. “Initially we thought it would be a black/white discussion, but it turned out to be more about a cultural disconnect and what it means to be the other.

“With Nightmare Dream, we’re continuing the discussion, with the addition of a larger historic framework that influences Simon’s thoughts and attitudes.”

The current show began for Otu as a series of images. One was of a row of white women dressed in white and carrying black children, along with a single old black woman also with a black child. Another was of a drowning man struggling to save himself.

That led to some thoughts about devising a series of visual installations. Otu thought that a historic building like Campbell House would enhance the metaphor of the other.

“Simon, after all, feels connected to the West; he’s made his home here. It’s his own culture that has become, for him, the other. The show looks at history from his perspective, who he is in various historical contexts and physical spaces.”

First presented last year during Black History Month, the show made striking use of Campbell House, with its Georgian architecture and link to colonial culture. The current run, again presented by ift theatre and Newface Entertainment, is part of Obsidian Theatre’s Presentation Series.

Otu and Motion, in fact, met at Obsidian; the former was an apprentice director and the latter playwright in residence.

The various rooms influenced the kind of scenes that make up the production, explains Otu. The front parlour, for example, becomes the setting for an afternoon tea for Simon and a queen who controls a large empire and doesn’t want to give up the benefits provided by the various native populations she rules.

Nightmare Dream blends music, song and dance along with text that draws in part from African writers of various periods.

“I see the expression of character as a multidisciplinary concept,” notes the director. “It’s not just a matter of using words, but also sound and movement. That’s part of the spiritual nature of being human. Not only are song and dance part of traditional African ritual and expression, but working non-​verbally allows us to explore Simon’s psychology more deeply.”

Though Simon was originally from South Africa, his birthplace is now unnamed.

“That’s an important part of the African immigrant experience,” he says. “People start to identify as African rather than being from a specific nation. Members of the African community see themselves as part of a larger picture, and the historical context of the play offers one aspect of that picture.”

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NIGHTMARE DREAM by Motion, conceived and directed by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu, with Peter Bailey, Neema Bickersteth, Jane Miller, Joshua Browne and Rodney Diverlus. Presented by ift theatre, Newface Entertainment and Obsidian at Campbell House (160 Queen West). Opens tonight (Thursday, January 9) and runs to January 26 (see website for performance times). $18-​$35. nightmare-​dream.com.

Every immigrant has to question where home is – whether it’s one’s country of origin or a new land.

That question strikes Simon Dube, the central figure in Nightmare Dream, in a visceral fashion. An immigrant to Canada, where he’s doing grad work in African studies, he learns of his father’s death back in Africa and must decide

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Trafficking in Tremblay Long-time Michel Tremblay champion is thrilled to introduce new generations of theatregoers to the Montreal master By JON KAPLAN MANON, SANDRA AND THE VIRGIN MARY by Michel Tremblay, translated and directed by John Van Burek, with Richard McMillan and Irene Poole. Presented by Pleiades Theatre at Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). Previews from Saturday (January 11), opens Wednesday (January 15) and runs to February 2, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday and Sunday 2:30 pm. $32-$37, under 30 $27-$31, limited rush Tuesday-Thursday $20, Sunday pwyc, previews $20.

416-975-8555.

A deeply religious woman and a promiscuous transvestite would seem worlds apart. But in Michel Tremblay’s Manon, Sandra And The Virgin Mary, their lives and desires are inextricably linked.

Pleiades Theatre’s John Van Burek, who translated and directed the play in 1979 – it was then called Damnée Manon, Sacrée Sandra – revives this eastend Montreal tale to introduce theatregoers to the writer whom Van Burek considers Canada’s best playwright.

“No one brings the same range, scope, longevity, depth and poetic imagination to the stage that Michel does,” says the former artistic director of Théâtre Français de Toronto, which introduced many of Tremblay’s scripts to local audiences. Van Burek’s also translated a number of the plays into English.

“There’s an incredible vividness to his plays that holds up,” he continues. “When the Tarragon did a production of The Real World several years ago, viewers who didn’t know his work were gobsmacked by the power of the writing.”

Van Burek’s always been drawn to

Manon, Sandra, which he considers “the most beautiful and poetic” of Tremblay’s works, one that presents the two characters through paired monologues.

“He’s built the play around the ideas of the sacred and the profane, which sounds abstract, but the lyricism he uses turns it into a piece of musical geometry.

Neither of the characters, both of them minor characters in other Tremblay plays [Manon in Forever Yours, Marie-Lou; Sandra in Hosanna and Saint Carmen Of The Main], is what you expect when you first meet them.”

The devout Manon lives her solitary life largely secluded in her dead parents’ house, never having moved far from where she was born. Drag queen Sandra, her neighbour, inhabits an ever-chan ward to her next fuck.

“Michel takes those two seemingly opposite characters and shows the complexity beneath each of them,” explains Van Burek. “In comparison to their appearances in earlier plays, where they were factotums or catalysts for the action of others, here they become fully fleshed-out creations.

“Manon has grown up in a t hreaten ing environment, frightened by the world, and she finds comfort in religion. But now she finds the carpet pulled out from under her. In a ter-

NO ONE ELSE BRINGS SUCH RANGE, SCOPE, DEPTH AND POETIC IMAGINATION.

rible moment of distress and anxiety, all she believes in crumbles. It’s then that we discover the real nature of her relationship with God.” Even more surprising is the sensual Sandra, who’s concocted a protective world from the various women she plays and the bitchiness she spews at everyone.

“Beneath the surface, she’s on a spiritual quest.

Sandra, like Manon, is looking for some kind of certitude and reassurance that goes beyond the different fictional solaces they’ve both created.”

A play like Manon, Sandra is proof to Van Burek that Tremblay’s works are important beyond the political and social context for which they were hailed in the 1960s and 70s.

“Now that context has fallen by the wayside, and we have some amazingly good plays. Twenty years from now, 50 years, they’ll still be just as wonderful, and that only happens when there’s a poet at work.”

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comedy interview Debra DiGiovanni

Stand-up Debra DiGiovanni isn’t afraid to get bitter and dirty in her Late Bloomer Tour By JORDAN BIMM Debra DiGiovanni: THE LATE BLOOMER TOUR presented by Just For Laughs at the ­ inter Garden (189 Yonge). January 24 at 7 pm. $39.50. 1-855-622-2787, hahaha.com/ W debradigiovanni.

Debra DiGiovanni is a late bloomer.

After 13 years on the stand-up circuit doing everything from small clubs to Much Music’s Video On Trial and NBC’s Last Comic Standing, she’s made the move to L.A. and landed a headlining Canadian tour sponsored by Just For Laughs.

“I have a twin sister who’s married and has children,” says DiGiovanni over the phone. “She’s like an adult wo­man, and I’m over here in my 40s still living like a teenager. I go to bed too late, spend most of my time in bars, I never know where I am. But I’m not a weirdo; I’m just a late bloom­er.”

The title of her tour reflects the fact that many people approaching middle age are resisting the life pattern (car, ­career, marriage, house, kids) promoted by their baby boomer parents, and like DiGiovanni are craft­ing new definitions of success in their own time.

For example, last Feburary she de­ cided to move to L.A., where she’s been ­sharing an apartment with her first roommate in years while trying to break into the American comedy scene.

The shift was scary, she admits, but necessary to keep from getting com­ placent here.

“It was like completely starting over, because in the States they pretend that Canada just doesn’t exist,” she says. “I began going to stand-up shows to make connections, and peo­ple asked me, ‘So, did you just start doing comedy?’ It was kinda cute.”

Comedy didn’t become DiGiovanni’s passion until she was well into her 20s. Out of high school, her dream was to be a fashion illustrator, and if she hadn’t started stand-up, she says she probably would have become an art teacher.

“I didn’t start comedy until I was 28. But unlike ballet or sports, you can start doing comedy later in life, and it’s okay. Growing old isn’t a det­riment to being funny.”

Her story about finding her calling and the culture shock of her recent move south provides most of the material for her show, which she’s been finetuning this fall during a string of Canadian university dates. (“I’ll never say no to schools, because it keeps you fresh. If the kids don’t get your references, you know it’s time to update.”)

Still, with the tour fast approaching, she admits to being nervous.

“I’m overwhelmed and terrified – it’s scary! We spend so much time as nameless, faceless comics, but this time it’s my name on the ticket; people will be coming to see me. It’s like planning a party – I’m scared no one will show up.”

While VOT has secured DiGiovanni a younger audience than most comics her age, she says her approach to comedy is always evolving.

“When I started, my act was very up and very happy, but the bitterness of the world has snuck in along the way,” she says. “I’m definitely dirtier now.

That comes with confidence and age. There’s resentment and anger in there, too. I’ve still got my happy persona, but if people think I’m still talking about my cat, they’re wrong.”

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THe WeDDinG SinGer Music by Matthew Sklar Lyrics by Chad Beguelin Book by Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy Directed by Luke Brown

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choreographer interview Michael Greyeyes

Soldier’s boy

Choreographer draws on his Cree background and experience making the film Passchendaele for his new dance/theatre piece about war By KATHLEEN SMITH A SOLDIER’S TALE directed and choreographed by Michael Greyeyes, written by Tara Beagan, with Louis Laberge-Côté, Keith Barker, Michael Caldwell, Kate Holden, Tamara Podemski, Nancy Latoszewski, PJ Prudat, Jamie Maczko, Daniel McArthur and Ana Groppler. Presented by Signal Theatre and DanceWorks at the Fleck Dance Theatre (207 Queens Quay West). February 20 to 22, 8 pm, matinee Thursday 3 pm. $18.75-$37.25. 416-973-4000, danceworks.ca.

The recent rash of suicides among Canadian armed forces veterans has raised public awareness of the cost of war on military personnel returning from combat.

So Michael Greyeyes’s new full-length show, A Soldier’s Tale, is certainly timely.

Greyeyes’s awareness of military culture goes back to his early years growing up in Saskatchewan as the son of a native armed forces veteran.

“Within my culture veterans are very much recognized for their service,” says Greyeyes, who is Plains Cree. “At our gatherings and powwows and round dances they are always honoured with songs.”

His latent interest in military matters intensified when he was cast in Paul Gross’s 2008 World War I film, Passchendaele.

“The experience was absolutely unforgettable,” he recalls. “It involved a great deal of research. Paul gave us books and asked us to immerse ourselves in the lives of soldiers, so I became really empathetic about what they went through and interested in what happened to them afterwards.”

Greyeyes, who has a long history in dance and theatre as a performer and is currently also a professor of

devised theatre and movement practice at York University, started Signal Theatre in 2010 to create hybrid, intercultural works.

With A Soldier’s Tale he hopes to challenge the often stilted paradigm of separate episodic text and movement seen in many dance-theatre productions. In the new work both disciplines are continuously in play: song, text, folk dance and contemporary movement vocabularies blend seamlessly. (Before the production opens, you can see an excerpt February 6 at the COC’s free noon-hour performance series at the Four Seasons Centre.)

The work explores in two distinct acts the fallout of battle on individual warriors. The first is very much from an indigenous perspective, says Greyeyes.

“It’s called Soldier Boy, and it tells the story of a WWII soldier who brings the war home with him, and the destruction that is wreaked on his life and that of his family.”

Greyeyes and his collaborator, playwright Tara Beagan, have placed the second act in 21st century Iraq; it’s loosely based on the story of Private Lori Piestewa, a Hopi American soldier who was the first female casualty of the recent conflict.

“I wanted act two to be set in the contemporary era,” he says, “so we could examine the idea that, for soldiers, time periods don’t matter, the locale doesn’t matter, the reasons that we’re fighting don’t matter. For them, the horrors of war remain the same.”

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Book your tickets now Major Tom should be a winner when it hits the Enwave, February 26 to March 1.

Here’s a handy list to help you keep track of all the winter openings in theatre, dance and comedy Compiled by Katarina ristic

THEATRE January

Next Stage Theatre Festival See this week’s

Theatre Listings for individual show listings for Fatherly, Jack Your Body, Killer Busines – The Musical, A Misfortune, On The Other Side Of The World, Polar Opposites, Release The Stars, Rifles, Scheherazade and Stencilboy And Other Portraits. Runs to Jan 19. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. ­fringetoronto.com.

Seven Days by Ron Rutberg (Teatron Theatre).

Runs to Jan 19. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre.com.

The Keith Richards One Woman Show by Deanna Jones and Cole Lewis (Suitcase in Point Theatre Company). Runs to Jan 25. Fixt Point, 1550 Queen W. ­suitcaseinpoint.com.

The Lover by Harold Pinter (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective, 163 Sterling, unit 5). Runs to Jan 25. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

The Wedding Singer by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy (Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House). Runs to Jan 25. uofttix.ca.

As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Rarely Pure Theatre). Runs to Jan 26. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. ­secureaseat.com.

Nightmare Dream by Motion (IFT Theatre/ Newface Entertainment/Obsidian Theatre).

Runs to Jan 26. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. nightmare-dream.com.

Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and ClaudeMichel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). Runs to Feb 2. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. ­mirvish.com.

Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary by Michel Tremblay (Pleiades Theatre). Runs to Feb 2. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Flesh And Other Fragments Of Love by Evelyne de la Chenelière (Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman). Runs to Feb 16. 416-531-1827.

The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg (Theatre Smash/Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman).

Runs to Feb 16. tarragontheatre.com.

Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington).

Runs to Feb 23. ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

The Beauty Queen Of Leenane by Martin McDonagh (Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E). Jan 16 to Feb 1. redsandcastletheatre.com.

The House Of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca (Victoria College Drama Society).

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Jan 16-18. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

Pith! by Stewart Lemoine (The Theatre Department). Jan 16 to Feb 2. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. t­ hetheatredepartment.com.

This Is It by Sasha Singer-Wilson (the blood projects). Jan 16 to 25. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina (lower unit). b ­ loodprojects.com.

The Way Back To Thursday by Rob Kempson (Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). Jan 16 to Feb 8. p ­ assemuraille.on.ca.

A Conversation with Edith Head by Paddy Calistro and Susan Claassen (Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design). Jan 17-19. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. b ­ uddiesinbadtimes.com.

The... Musician. An Etude by Vladimir Koro­ lenko (Toronto Laboratory Theatre). Jan 17 to 26. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. ­themusician.bpt.me.

Così Fan Tutte by Mozart (Canadian Opera Co). Jan 18 to Feb 21. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

Pacamambo by Wajdi Mouawad (Canadian Rep Theatre). Jan 18 to Feb 2. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. ­canadianrep.ca.

London Road by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork (Canadian Stage). Jan 19 to Feb 9. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. c­ anadianstage.com.

Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Acting Up Stage Company). Jan 21 to Feb 9. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­actingupstage.com.

Arlecchino Allegro (Toronto Masque Theatre). Jan 23-25. Enoch Turner Schoolhouse, 106 Trinity. toronto­masquetheatre.com.

Cabaret by Christopher Isherwood, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington). Jan 23 to Feb 23. 416915-6747, lower­ossingtontheatre.com.

Idiot’s Delight by Robert E Sherwood (Soulpepper). Jan 23 to Mar 1. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­soulpepper.ca.

The Princess And The Pea by Dave B Harris and Sue Plyte (Nags Players). Jan 23 to Feb 1.

Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ­nagsplayers.com.

The Lady’s Not For Burning by Christopher Fry (Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley). Jan 24 to Feb 8. alumnaetheatre.com.

The Long Game by Brad Lepp (Driftwood Theatre). Workshop reading. Jan 25. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. d ­ riftwoodtheatre.com.

Tanya Tagaq (Theatre Centre Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Performance Series). Jan 26.

The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988,

­theatrecentre.org.

Free Outgoing by Anupama Chandrasekhar (Nightwood). Jan 28 to Feb 16. Factory Thea­ tre, 125 Bathurst. ­nightwoodtheatre.net.

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Lyric Hammersmith/Vestuport/Mirvish). Jan 28 to Mar 9. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, ­mirvish.com.

Of Mice And Morro And Jasp by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee (U.N.I.T. Productions). Jan 28 to Feb 8. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, ­morroandjasp.com.

Ravenscroft by Don Nigro (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective, 163 Sterling, unit 5). Jan 29 to Feb 8. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

This Clement World by Cynthia Hopkins (Theatre Centre Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Performance Series). Jan 29 to Feb 2. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. ­theatrecentre.org.

Scotland Road by Jeffrey Hatcher (Amicus Productions). Jan 30 to Feb 8. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. a ­ micusproductions.ca.

Le Nozze Di Figaro by WA Mozart (Opera by Request). Jan 31. College Street United Church, 454 College. operabyrequest.ca.

Sweet Charity: The Musical Adventures of a Girl Who Just Wants to be Loved by Neil

Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields (UC Follies Theatre). Jan 31 to Feb 8. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca.

Swell Broad/The Homemaker by Brooke Banning/Laura Anne Harris (Convection Productions/Peanut Butter People). Jan 31 to Feb 9. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. ­peanutbutterpeople.com.

Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Alborn (Down n’ Out Productions).

Jan 31 to Feb 12. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. campbellhouse­museum.ca.

february The #Artlive Vogue Ball (Harbourfront

Centre, 235 Queens Quay W). World Stage 2014 launch party. Feb 1. 416-973-4000.

Tapestry Songbook (Tapestry New Opera). Feb 1. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 316. ­tapestryopera.com.

Hippolyte Et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau (VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert). Feb 2. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. s­ tlc. com.

A Masked Ball (Un ballo in maschera)

by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Feb 2 to 22. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

Tribes by Nina Raine (Theatrefront/Canadian Stage/Theatre Aquarius). Feb 2 to Mar 2.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com.

Arrabal by Gustavo Santaolalla and John Weidman (Mirvish). Feb 4 to Apr 20. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. m ­ irvish.com.

Cerulean Blue by Drew Hayden Taylor (Ryerson Theatre School). Feb 5 to 12. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. ­ryersontheatre.ca.

The Country Wife by William Wycherley (George Brown Theatre School). Feb 5 to 15.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­youngcentre.ca.

Labour by Eric and Ryan Welch (Coyote Collective). Feb 5 to 9. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. ­coyotecollective.wordpress.com.

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow by John Patrick Shanley (JR Theatre Company). Feb 7 to 16. The Box, 89 Niagara. ­dreamer.bpt.me.

Dib & Dob And The Journey Home by David S Craig & Robert Morgan (Theatre Direct/Roseneath Theatre). Feb 8. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. ­theatredirect.ca.

The Life Is Sweet Project by Ashley Gibson (Angelwalk Theatre). Feb 10. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. ­angelwalk.ca.

The Norman Conquests by Alan Ayckbourn (Soulpepper). Remount of the fall show. Feb 10 to Mar 8. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. ­soulpepper.ca.

Bachelorette by Leslye Headland (Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E). Feb 11 to 17. ­redsandcastletheatre.com. n00b by Christopher Duthie (Vertigo Theatre/ YPT). Feb 11 to 20. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. y­ oungpeoplestheatre.ca.

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell (Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton). Feb 12 to 16.

905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca.

The Daisy Theatre (Ronnie Burkett Theatre of Marionettes). Feb 12 to 23. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. ­factorytheatre.ca.

Rhubarb Festival (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander). Feb 12 to 23. 416-9758555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com/rhubarb.

U of T Drama Festival Feb 12 to 15. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House. ­uofttix.ca.

Untitled Feminist Show (Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company/Harbourfront World Stage).

Feb 12 to 15. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

An Israeli Love Story by Pnina Gary (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Feb 13 to 16. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-7330545, ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

Same Same But Different by Anita Majumdar (Alberta Theatre Projects/Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson). Feb 14 to Mar 8. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca.

Forgiveness (Modern Times Stage Company/ Dreamwalker Dance Productions/Bora Bora Dance & Visual Theatre/Don*Gnu/Laboratoriet). Feb 15 to Mar 2. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. moderntimesstage.­wordpress.com.

Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective, 163 Sterling, unit 5). Feb 18 to Mar 1. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

Cher menteur (Dear Liar: A Comedy of Letters) by Jerome Kilty (Théâtre français de To-

ronto). Feb 19 to Mar 1. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. ­theatrefrancais.com.

Handle With Care by Jason Odell Williams (Teatron). Feb 19 to Mar 9. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. t­ eatrontheatre.com.

Nude With Violin by Noel Coward (East Side Players). Feb 20 to Mar 8. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. eastsideplayers.ca.

The Intergalactic Nemesis II by Jason Neulander (Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton). Feb 21. r­ osetheatre.ca.

Theatre On A Theme: Love by Drew O’Hara (Everybody to the Theatre Company). Feb 23.

Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. ­everybodytothetheatrecompany.com.

Letters To Saint Rita by Michael Ripley (Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E). Feb 25 to Mar 2. ­redsandcastletheatre.com.

Lungs by Duncan Macmillan (Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman). Feb 25 to Mar 30. 416-5311827, ­tarragontheatre.com.

The Two Worlds of Charlie F. by Owen Sheers (Mirvish). Feb 25 to Mar 9. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. ­mirvish.com.

Marry Me A Little by Stephen Sondheim (Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman). Feb 26 to Apr 6. t­ arragontheatre.com.

Major Tom by Victoria Melody (Harbourfront World Stage). Feb 26 to Mar 1. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

A Beautiful View by Daniel MacIvor (Volcano Theatre/BeMe Theatre). Feb 27 to Mar 9. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. v­ olcano.ca.

Panamerican Routes/Rutas Panamericanas (Aluna Theatre). Feb 27 to Mar 9. Dan-

iels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­alunatheatre.ca.

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald (Hart House

Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle). Feb 28 to Mar 8.

416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

march 6 Essential Questions by Priscila Uppal (Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst). Mar 1 to 30. 416504-9971, ­factorytheatre.ca.

The Wanderers by Kawa Ada (Cahoots Theatre Company). Mar 1 to 23. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. c­ ahoots.ca.

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Presentation House Theatre). Mar 4 to 30. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

1979 Is Going: The Musical by Sharon Kashani (Victoria College Drama Society). Mar 6-8.

Isabel­Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. ­uofttix.ca.

American Idiot by Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day (Mirvish). Mar 11 to 16. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. ­mirvish.com.

The Carousel by Jennifer Tremblay (Nightwood Theatre). Mar 11 to 30. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. ­nightwoodtheatre.net.

New Ideas Festival (Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley). Mar 12 to 30. ­alumnaetheatre.com.

New Jerusalem by David Ives (Harold Green Jewish Theatre). Mar 15 to Apr 13. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-7330545, ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

A Brimful Of Asha by Ravi Jain (Why Not Theatre/Soulpepper). Mar 19 to 22. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. y­ oungcentre.ca.

Into The Woods by James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim (Trinity College Dramatic Society).

Mar 19 to 22. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-9788849, u ­ ofttix.ca.

Sea Sick by Alanna Mitchell (Theatre Centre Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Performance Series). Mar Of Mice And Morro And Jasp returns home ­January 28 to February 8 at the Factory.

This week 19 to 23. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W, Black Box Theatre. ­theatrecentre.org.

The Joy Luck Club based on the novel by Amy Tan (Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton).

Mar 20. r­ osetheatre.ca.

Stiffelio by Giuseppe Verdi (VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert). Mar 23. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, stlc.com.

Minotaur by Kevin Dyer (YPT/Polka Theatre).

Mar 24 to Apr 13. Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. y­ oungpeoplestheatre.ca.

Rain: A Tribute To The Beatles (Mirvish). Mar 25 to 30. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. ­mirvish.com.

Chicago by Fred Ebb, Bob Fosse and John Kander (Mirvish). Mar 26 to 30. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. ­mirvish.com.

Me Talking To Myself In The Future by Marie Brassard (Infrarouge). Mar 26 to Apr 6.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander.

416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Trudeau And The FLQ: The History Of The Village Of The Small Huts, 1968-1972 by Mi-

chael Hollingsworth (VideoCabaret/Soulpepper). Mar 27 to May 3. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

The Gigli Concert by Tom Murphy (Soulpepper). Mar 28 to May 16. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, youngcentre.ca.

Conte D’Amour (Markus Öhrn/Institutet/Nya Rampen/Harbourfront World Stage). Apr 1 to 5. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

dance January

DanceWeekend ‘14 (Dance Ontario/Harbourfront NextSteps). Jan 17-19. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­danceontario.ca.

Heartbeat Of Home (Mirvish). Jan 21 to Mar 2. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-8721212, ­mirvish.com.

february The Radio Show (Kyle Abraham/Abraham.In.

Motion/Harbourfront World Stage). Feb 5 to 8. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Celebrating Our Men In Dance (Harbourfront NextSteps/dance Immersion). Feb 6-8.

Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, ­danceimmersion.ca.

Risky Business And Rebel Yells (Dance Matters). Feb 8-9. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble. ­dancematters.ca/tix.

Fresh Blood (The Chimera Project/Harbourfront NextSteps). Feb 11-12. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Malcolm (Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie).

Feb 19 to 23. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. ­colemanlemieux.com.

Henderson/Castle (Toronto Dance Theatre).

Feb 20 to Mar 1. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tdt.org.

A Soldier’s Tale (DanceWorks, Signal Theatre and Harbourfront NextSteps). Feb 20-22.

Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Electro/Acoustic (The Art of Time Ensem-

ble). Feb 21-22. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. ­artoftimeensemble.com.

Watch Her/A Month In The Country (The National Ballet of Canada). Feb 26 to Mar 2.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. ­national.ballet.ca.

Older & Reckless – Edition 31: All Duets

(­MOonhORsE Dance Theatre). Feb 28 to Mar 2. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. ­moonhorsedance.com.

Romeo & Juliet (Ballet Jörgen). Feb 28 to Mar 1. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca.

march The Four Seasons (Harbourfront NextSteps/

DanceWorks). Mar 6-8. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

Choreographic Works (Ryerson Theatre School). Mar 7 to 15. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. r­ yersontheatre.ca.

Swan Lake (The National Ballet of Canada).

Mar 8 to 16. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595.

New Directions In Indian Dance (Kalanidhi Fine Arts/Harbourfront NextSteps). Mar 1316. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Eunoia (Fujiwara Dance Inventions/Harbourfront World Stage). Mar 19 to 22. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Circle Of Bricks: Rhythms Of Kathak Dance

(Rina Singha/Harbourfront NextSteps). Mar 20-22. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Latitude (Only Human Dance Collective). Mar 20-22. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. ­uofttix.ca.

Gimme One Riddim (Harbourfront NextSteps/ Jasmyn Fyffe and Natasha Powell). Mar 27-29.

Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Dichterliebe: The Poet’s LIfe (Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie). Mar27-28. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. c­ olemanlemieux.com.

U Of T Festival Of Dance (U of T Dance Coalition). Mar 28-29. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. ­harthouse.ca/festivalofdance.

He:She (Peggy Baker Dance Projects). Mar 28 to Apr 6. Betty Oliphant Theatre, 404 Jarvis. ­brownpapertickets.com.

Open Art Surgery (Harbourfront NextSteps/ Breakin’ Convention). Mar 29. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

comedy January WE CAN BE HEROES Second City’s latest revue.

To Feb 1. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

THE EMERGENCY MONOLOGUES Morgan Jones Phillips’s solo show. Jan 16. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. ­emergencymonologues.com. ron white Stand-up by Texas comic. Jan 16. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. masseyhall.com.

Colin Kane Stand-up. Jan 16 to 19.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Dustin Chafin Stand-up. Jan 22 to 25, Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

CRAIG FERGUSON: HOT AND GRUMPY Just for Laughs presents the Scottish comic. Jan 23.

Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. ­masseyhall.com.

DEBRA DIGIOVANNI – THE LATE BLOOMER TOUR Just for Laughs presents the comic in a live show. Jan 24. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. ticketmaster.ca.

JIM BELUSHI & THE CHICAGO BOARD OF COMEDY Jan 24 at Living Arts Centre (4141 Living

Arts, Mississauga). ­livingartscentre.ca. And Jan 29 at Flato Markham Theatre (171 Town Centre Blvd). 905-305-7469.

ALL BLACK COMEDY REVUE Monthly show w/ host Kenny Robinson. Jan 26. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com. queer as fuck Character, sketch and storytelling from LGBTQ and queer-positive comics. Jan 29. The Steady Cafe & Bar, 1051 Bloor W. 416-536-4162.

Tom Simmons Stand-up. Jan 29 to 31. Yuk Yuk’s 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com.

GLOBEHEAD 2014 Bad Dog Theatre presents the shortform battle. Jan 31 to Feb 22. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. b ­ addogtheatre.com.

JIM BREUER Stand-up. Jan 31. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. r­ osetheatre.ca.

february HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present a monthly sci fi-inspired improv comedy show.

Feb 5 and Mar 5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com.

WEIRD AL KARAOKE Feb 7. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. c­ omedybar.ca.

GIRLS NIGHT ON Female sketch comedy conglomerate. Feb 8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S ON TOUR presents Kristeen von Hagen. Feb 13. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. ­rosetheatre.ca.

BRENT BUTT Paul Mercs Concerts presents Butt in a stand-up show. Feb 15. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. ticketmaster.ca. mark forward Fifteenth year anniversary of stand-up. Feb 15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

THE RYAN AND AMY SHOW Sketch comedy duo. Feb 21-22. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

march Toronto Sketch COmedy Festival Mar 6 to 16. Various venues. ­torontosketchfest.com.

YUK YUK’S ON TOUR presents Graham Chittenden. Mar 20. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. ­rosetheatre.ca.

Danny Bhoy: Dear Epson Just for Laughs presents the comic live. Mar 21. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. ­masseyhall.com.

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How to find a listing

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-​Nighters are one-​offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK).

The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Theater Opening Anything Goes: The Cole Porter Songbook (Talisker Players). This musical revue features Porter’s hits of the 1930s-40s. Jan 12-14, Sun 3 pm, Tue 8 pm. $15-$35. ­Trinity St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. ­taliskerplayers.ca.

As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Rarely Pure Theatre). The tale of spontaneous love and friendships is set in a winter wonderland. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. s­ ecureaseat.com.

The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (Dreamtheatre). A young couple’s romance is tested by their meddling parents in this musical. Opens Jan 15 and runs to Jan 18, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. St Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst. d ­ reamtheatreproductions.com.

Fatherly by Sam S Mullins (Mullins/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Mullins performs his solo show about fathers, sons, baseball and more. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $10, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Antechamber. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Flesh And Other Fragments Of Love by Evelyne de la Chenelière (Tarragon Theatre). The discovery of a drowned body off the Irish coast leads a vacationing couple to examine their marriage. Previews to Jan 14. Opens Jan 15 and runs to Feb 16, TueSat 8 pm, mats Sun (and some Sat) 2:30 pm. $48-$53, stu/srs $27-$45, previews $21$25, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, t­ arragontheatre.com.

Jack Your Body by Emily Law and Ashley Perez (Mix Mix Dance Collective/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Issues of race, gender and social status are examined in this work that explores underground social dances. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

The Keith Richards One Woman Show by Deanna Jones and Cole Lewis (Suitcase in Point Theatre Co). Jones takes a trip through Keith’s life, from boyhood to Toronto drug bust. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Jan 22). $15. Fixt Point, 1550 Queen W. 416-587-4346, ­suitcaseinpoint.com.

The Lover by Harold Pinter (Sterling Studio Theatre). A suburban couple try to liven up their marriage with a lover and a prostitute. Previews Jan 14. Opens Jan 15 and runs to Jan 25, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20, preview $15. 163 Sterling, unit 5. ­sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary by Michel Tremblay (Pleiades Theatre).

Pious Manon and worldly Sandra reveal themselves in monologues about the Virgin Mary (see story, page 42). Previews Jan 11-14. Opens Jan 15 and runs to Feb 2, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$37, previews/rush $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

The Melville Boys by Norm Foster (Theatre Scarborough). A guys’ getaway changea when the brothers meet two sisters. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Jan 12, 25 at 2 pm. $20. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. ­theatrescarborough.com.

A Misfortune by Wade Bogert-O’Brien, Scott Christian and Kevin Michael Shea (Common Descent/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A married woman and a young lawyer take a walk in this musical about small moments and big decisions. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Nightmare Dream by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu and Motion (IFT Theatre/Newface Entertainment/Obsidian Theatre). Returning for his father’s funeral, an African

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The Ugly One, starring Hardee T. Lineham, ­returns to the Tarragon Extra Space this week.

comedy listings How to find a listing

Comedy listings appear chronologically, and alphabetically by title or venue.

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-​364-​1166 or mail to Comedy, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, producer, comics (host/headliner/sketch troupe members), brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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immigrant in Canada is haunted by his disconnection to his traditional culture (see story, page 43). Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 26, TueSat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $18-$35. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. nightmare-dream.com.

On The Other Side of the World by Brenley Charkow (Harley Dog Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Adapted from memoirs, this drama looks at Jews in 1930s Europe who sought refuge in China. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Scheherazade by Johnnie Walker (Nobody’s Business Theatre/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A brave woman faces a brutal king who kills his brides after every wedding night in this darkly erotic satire. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg (Theatre Smash/Tarragon Theatre). A man enjoys his new beauty until his plastic surgeon offers his face to others in this black comedy. Previews to Jan 12. Opens Jan 14 and runs to Feb 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $48-$53, stu/srs $27-$45, previews $21-$25, rush $13. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridg­man, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, ­tarragontheatre.com.

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Unintentionally Depressing Children’s Tales by Erin Fleck (Videofag). Workshop

presentation of a play featuring shadow puppetry, projections and stop-motion storytelling. Mostly floor seating; bring a blanket. Jan 13-15, Mon-Wed 8 pm. $10 or pwyc. 187 Augusta. ­videofag.com.

A Wake For Lost Time (Elephants in the Room Creation Group). This 24-hour performance experiment looks at how time passes through bodies. Jan 10-11, Fri 7:30-10:30 pm, Sat 11:30 am-1:45 pm and 3:30-7:30 pm. Free. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-833-4922.

The Wedding Singer by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy (Hart House Theatre). An entertainer finds love in this musical based on the Adam Sandler film. Opens Jan 10 and runs to Jan 25, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Jan 25 at 2 pm. $28, srs $17, stu $10-$15. 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca.

Willow Quartet by Joan Burrows (The Village Players). A violinist helps a divided family find harmony. Opens Jan 10 and runs to Feb 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Jan 15), mat Jan 19 & 26 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. ­villageplayers.net.

Previewing The... Musician. An Etude based on a book

by Vladimir Korolenko (Toronto Laboratory Theatre). A boy born without sight learns to communicate through music. Previews Jan 11-12. Opens Jan 17 and runs to Jan 26, see website for times. $20-$25. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. ­themusician.bpt.me.

Pith! by Stewart Lemoine (The Theatre Department). A sailor leads a widow on an exotic jungle adventure without leaving the living room. Previews Jan 15. Opens Jan 16 and runs to Feb 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20,

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Tue pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson.

416-504-7529, ­thetheatredepartment.com.

This Is It by Sasha Singer-Wilson (the blood projects). A couple looks at their marriage in this exploration of intimacy, commitment and trust. Previews Jan 15. Opens Jan 16 and runs to Jan 25, Thu-Sun 8 pm, late show Jan 24 at 11 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, preview $15, Sun mat pwyc. lemon­Tree Studio, 196 Spadina (lower unit). b ­ loodprojects.com.

One-Nighters Bounce – An Informal Ball For The Theatre Centre (The Theatre Centre). Artists, food and

tours of the new building are part of this event to support the New Live Arts Hub & Incubator.

Jan 11 at 7 pm. $250. 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, ­theatrecentre.org.

Toronto Monologue Slam: Season Premiere (TMS). Up-and-coming actors perform in front of a panel of judges. Jan 11, doors 5:30 pm. $10-$15. Rize Studios, 21R Atlantic, upstairs. ­toslam.com.

Continuing Avenue Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and transitions to adulthood in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Feb 23, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm (no shows Feb 1-13). $49-$59. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, lowerossington­theatre.com.

Killer Business – The Musical by Rob Torr, Ken MacDougall and Saul Segal (Torrent Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). The production of a run-of-the-mill musical gets a jolt when a dead body turns up on stage. Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). This 25th-anniversary production of the popular musical is dominated by Ramin Karimloo, whose ex-con Jean Valjean grows in complexity and depth and delivers some transcendent moments, even if he’s too young to pull off the final scenes.

He’s surrounded by lots of talent and a handsome production that’s majestic yet intimate, with stirring new orchestrations that add extra fire to this dramatic musical. Runs to Feb 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm (see website for exceptions/extra shows). $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. ­mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) Little Shop Of Horrors by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Lower Ossington Theatre).

A flower shop clerk raises a plant that feeds on human blood in this musical. Runs to Jan 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossington­theatre.com.

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The Musical of Musicals, The Musical!

by Joanne Bogart and Eric Rockwell (Mirñ vish). The same story – ingenue can’t pay the

mortgage – is told through the musical styles of Sondheim, Rogers & Hammerstein, Jerry Herman, Kandor & Ebb and Andrew Lloyd Webber in these loving and very funny sendups sure to please genre fans. The cast is excellent: villain Mark Cassius oozes creepiness, ingenue Dana Jean Phoenix relishes clichés and Adrian Marchuk conveys the earnestness required of his cut-out character. Biggest fun is Paula Wolfson, whose impressive vocal

range conveys the ego of Herman’s divas and the ennui of Sondheim’s world-weary women.

Too bad the space is so big – this cabaret-style piece needs more intimacy. Runs to Jan 12, see website for times. $19-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, ­mirvish.com.

NNNN (Susan G Cole) Polar Opposites by Nicole Ratjen (TiltHAUS/ Next Stage Theatre Festival). This play about two polar bears trapped on a melting iceberg features comedy, tragedy, table tennis and mask theatre. Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $10, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Antechamber. 416-9661062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Release The Stars: The Ballad Of Randy And Evi Quaid by Amanda Barker and Daniel Krolik

(God is in the Dairy/Next Stage Theatre Festival). A celebrity couple flee from U.S. media and stage an artsy cabaret in Canada. Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Rifles by Nicolas Billon (Praxis Theatre/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Not wishing to suffer more loss, a Spanish Civil War widow tries to keep her sons out of the conflict. (See cover story, page 38). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Main­space. 416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

Seven Days by Ron Rutberg (Teatron Theatre).

A family reunion reveals the story of a couple who fought for the establishment of Israel, then moved to the United States. Runs to Jan 19, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge, Studio Theatre. ­teatrontheatre.com.

Stencilboy And Other Portraits by Susanna Fournier (Paradigm Productions/Next Stage Theatre Festival). Wanting to be immortalized in art, a woman is caught between a graffiti artist and a once-famous painter. Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, passes $48$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio.

416-966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

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dance listings Opening Arkemy The Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents excerpts from a new work by choreographers Ofilio Portillo and Apolonia Velasquez. Jan 9 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

Jack Your Body Mix Mix Dance Collective and the Next Stage Theatre Festival present an exploration of race, gender, class and the evolution of underground dances from the 70s to the 90s. Opens Jan 9 and runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. ­fringetoronto.com.

Toronto Tango Marathon presents daytime and evening milongas. Jan 10-12, FriSun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun from noon to 6 pm. $15-$25. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W (Sat events at Dovercourt House, 805 Bloor W). ­torontotangomarathon.com.

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ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Andy Hendrickson w/ Colin O’Brien, Steph Tolev and host Matt Davis. To Jan 12, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

COMICAL: VOLUME 15 Comedy Bar presents stand-up w/ headliner John Hastings, Garrett Jamieson, Steph Tolev, Marito Lopez, Kyle Lucey and host Michael Flamank.

9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

FAST FOOD FOLLIES Unit 102 Actors Company presents a satirical look at the world of fast food in a longform sketch show w/ Luis Fernandes, Jesse Ryder Hughes and others. To Jan 11, Thu-Sat 9 pm. $10-$15. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. ­unit102tix@gmail.com.

WE CAN BE HEROES Second City’s latest revue – inspired by the idea that our society’s quickly going to hell – is one of its sharpest in a while. Newcomer Connor Thompson scores big laughs playing everything from a literal bat man to a blind lifeguard, while Craig Brown channels his inner Chaplin as a balding man having a terrible day. Even the less successful sketches are sharply directed, and the set and musical design help enhance the scenes. Not to be missed. To Feb 1, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri and Sun 7:30 pm, Sat 7:30 & 10 pm. $24-$29, stu $15.

51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com.

NNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Keith Pedro. To Jan 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm (& Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com.

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Friday, January 10 Absolute Comedy See Thu 9.

THE BONG-A-LONG SHOW The Underground

Comedy Club presents Mark DeBonis, Aisha Alfa, Precious Chong and hosts Sandra Batta­ glini & Phil Luzi. 9:30 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761.

CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, ­comedybar.ca.

Fast Food Follies See Thu 9.

FEAR AND LOATHING ON THE DANFORTH The Groove Bar presents Adam David, Moe Ismail, Kris Bonaparte, Paul Thompson, Mike Rita and host Adrian Sawyer. 9 pm. $10. 1952 Danforth. 647-350-1917.

NAUGHTYHAM: AN IMPROVISED ROBIN HOOD TALE Empire Comedy Live preñ sents a show w/ guest James Adomian.

10:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­empirecomedylive.com.

RICHARD RYDER The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the comic/PROUD FM host in a live show. 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. ­brownpapertickets.com/event/545702.

TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2 Fox & Fiddle Wellesley presents stand-up w/ Jy Harris, Arthur Simeon, Alex Nussbaum, Ted Morris, Nick Flanagan, DJ Demers, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, t­ exascomedymassacre2. com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 9.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 9.

Saturday, January 11 Absolute Comedy See Thu 9.

CRACK ME UP COMEDY GALA presents

Marc Trinidad, K Trevor Wilson, Sandra ñ Battaglini, Pat MacDonald and host Trixx. 9 pm. $22-$32. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. ­crackmeupcomedy.com.

DYKES OF HAZARD COMEDY HOUR The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents diverse ñ underground comics w/ Zabrina Chevannes, Dawn Whitwell, Eric Lingenfelter, host Kristen Becker and others. 7 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. ­brownpapertickets.com/ event/545578.

DYLAN GOTT & JOHN HASTINGS CD RECORDING Tallboys presents Gott and ñ Hastings w/ Ben Beauchemin, Ryan Kukec

and host Jordan Foisy. 9 pm. $5. 838 Bloor W. 416-535-7486.

Fast Food Follies See Thu 9.

JAMES ADOMIAN Empire Comedy Live presents the actor/comic in a live standup show. 8 and 10:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. e ­ mpirecomedylive.com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 9.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 9.

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HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT CONTEST Ein-Stein presents host Blair Streeter and

5 contestants competing for a spot in the Feb 9 finals. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

STEAMY CREAMY COMEDY S.O.M.N. presents a weekly show. 6:30 pm. Free. Cafe Pamenar, 307 Augusta. facebook.com/­steamycreamy.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE Empire Comedy Live presents the weekly Sketchersons show w/ guest host James Adomian. 9 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. e ­ mpirecomedylive.com.

TALES FROM WRESTLING PAST Yuk Yuk’s presents WWE’s Hardcore Legend Mick Foley (aka Cactus Jack). Opening set by Terry Clement. 8 pm. $22.13. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, ­yukyuks.com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 9.

Monday, January 13 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Rebecca Kohler, John Hastings, Jeff Leeson, Nick Flanagan, Tim Nasiopoulous, Alex Brovedani, Cleve Jones, Aisha Alfa, MC Mark Forward and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562.

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Tuesday, January 14 LES IMPROBABLES Supermarket presents a biweekly show with competitive improv en français. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416-8400501, ­ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com.

MEGA CRAZY CRAZY FRENZY! The Garrison presents stand-up w/ Matthew Surina, Vanessa Purdy, Jason Gracey, Jon McCurley, hosts Matt Collins & Jeremy Woodcock and others.

9 pm. Free. 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 9.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every week. $4/show. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, January 15 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/

headliner Matt Davis, Aaron Weingott, Jason Gracey, Allen Yiu, Joel West, Sebastian Fazio, Merv Hartlen and host Brendan McKeigan.

8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. a ­ bsolutecomedy.ca.

MULLET’S NIGHT SHOW Jean-Paul Mullet presents a comedy variety show w/ Robin Archer, 2-Man No-Show, Sandra Battaglini, Alissa Vox Raw and others. 10 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. ­memullet.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Tim McDonald and headliner Bruce Douglas. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

SUNDOWN Bad Dog Theatre and Sex T-Rex present unscripted shows in the style of gritty western films. To Jan 29, Wednesdays 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

We Can Be Heroes See Thu 9.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Colin Kane.

To Jan 19, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.

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Canada (55 Centre) to April 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6, Wednesday 5-8 pm pwyc.

416-599-5321. Rating: NNNN

Fictions And Legends, a contemporary textile show curated by Sarah Quinton, pairs Toronto’s Heather Goodchild and Montreal’s Jérôme Havre, two artists who construct strange and wonderful imaginary worlds. They draw on a variety of themes and narratives – the Bible and Greek mythology, human-animal hybrids and the natural world, interpretations of gender, race and culture – but the heart of their work is the act of sewing.

In her installations and dioramas, Goodchild invents a 19th century of spiritualist cults and Shakeresque industriousness, a female-dominated realm of hard work and mysterious rites. It all comes to life through the artist’s own busy seamstress hands as she practises the labour-intensive techniques of quilting, sewing and rug-hooking.

Her revival tent painted with churchy motifs and Biblical texts encloses a series of rooms: three small chapels house hooked rugs with surreal imagery of wings, flames and headless creatures; in others rooms, sculpted metre-high long-haired female acolytes with mask-like porcelain faces enact two scenes, one of a shared secret and another of a ritual

in which a standing figure in ceremonial regalia threatens a kneeling one with a stick while others look on.

Havre, a Frenchman of Caribbean descent, suspends his amazing dollsized sewn figures from the ceiling in a room painted with colourful swirling camo-like patterns. Pieced together from tiny bits of cloth, his grimacing miniature monsters – a centaur, a two-headed man, a woman without a torso – with thick lips and nappy hair twirl gracefully on their strings to a soothing audio track of birdsong.

Though their patchwork skin and tight, painful-looking stitching give them a straining, wounded quality, they’re survivors, full of spirit and vitality. Blurry photos of zoo enclosures suggest our desire to confine and display scary creatures we see as other.

Tonal tics THE DESPERATES by Greg Kearney (Cormorant), 317 pages, $21.95 paper.

Rating: NNN Greg Kearney’s debut novel – he’s a skilled short story writer, winner of a ReLit Award for his Pretty collection – definitely has the right title.

The characters in The Desperates, set in 1998, are all in life situations that are bordering on or actually hopeless.

Joel, new to T.O. and just 19, already considers himself a failure. He’s dropped out of university – a huge disappointment to Teresa, his mother – and wants to be a spoken word artist even though he tends to seize up on-

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS

4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre, to Apr 13, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Jan 15. Ancestry And Artistry: Maya Textiles From Guatemala, to Jan 12.

Telling Stories, to Apr 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

U OF T ART CENTRE Framing Narratives: Renaissance To Modernism, to Mar 8. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Moving Side And Forward: A Journey Through The Collection of York U; Excavations, to Jan 12. $5, stu/srs $4.

216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511.

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Art & Extinction, panel 7-8:30 pm Jan 15 (Frank Restaurant, talk $8-$12, w/ dinner $110). The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces From The Guggenheim, to Mar 2 ($25, stu $16.50). Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, Part 2, to Apr 30. Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

DESIGN EXCHANGE 100% TobeUs: 100 Cars, to Feb 9 (todesignoffsite.com). 234 Bay. 416363-6121.

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY You Cannot Kill What Is Already Dead, to Jan 25. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

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ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO A Bird’s Eye View On

stage. Just coming out, he gloms onto older guys, seeking intimate relationships with all the wrong people.

He hooks up briefly with Edmund, who’s retired from his job – from life in general, actually, and is still recovering from his lover’s death from AIDS. After rejecting Joel, Edmund gets involved with young street hustler Binny, who leads him on a drug-fuelled sexual adventure.

Joel, meanwhile, has been summoned home to Kenora, where Teresa is dying of cancer and his emotionally guarded father, Hugh, is

Photos: Erin Riley, Jan 14-Mar 8, reception 6:30 pm Jan 14. 24 Spadina Rd. 416922-2014.

ANGELL Steve Driscoll, Jan 10-Feb 8, reception 6-9 pm Jan 10. 12 Ossington.

416-530-0444.

GALLERY 44 Installation: Christina Battle, Kristie MacDonald and Alexis Dirks, Jan 10-Feb 15, reception 6-8 pm Jan 10.

401 Richmond W. 416-979-3941.

GALLERY 1313 The Eco Art Exhibit, to Jan 19, reception 8 pm Jan 9. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

GALLERY TPW Performance: Jenn Goodwin, Jan 10-12, performance/reception 6-10 pm Jan 10 (2-6 pm Jan 11-12). 1256 Dundas W. 416-645-1066.

GLADSTONE HOTEL The Elora Tarot, to Jan 12, reception 7-10 pm Jan 11. Photos: Ali J Eisner, to Jan 19, reception 7-9 pm Jan 9. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

HASHTAG GALLERY Painting/collage: Ben Sellick, to Jan 19, reception 7-11:30 pm Jan 9. 801 Dundas W. 416-861-1866.

KOFFLER GALLERY We’re In The Library group show, to Jan 19, tour 2 pm, panel 3 pm Jan 12. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643.

MERCER UNION Photos: Geoffrey Farmer, to Jan 14. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519.

MKG127 Adam David Brown, Jan 11-Feb 8, reception 2-5 pm Jan 11. 1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

GARDINER MUSEUM Animal Stories, to Jan 12.

$12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Karine Giboulo, to Jan 26. David McEown and Ben Barak, Jan 10-Mar 15. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES Sonny Assu (Centennial, 120 Navy); A Noble Line (Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore E), to Feb 16. (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE BioART, to Feb 2. $20, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Raja Deen Dayal, to Jan 12. BIG, to Jan 26. Carbon 14: Climate Is Culture, to Feb 2. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri

barely managing.

Kearney knows how to create vivid characters. Joel’s neediness is palpable, making him truly insufferable.

Edmund’s so lost, he can’t connect with anybody. And Teresa, the volatile mum who can turn on a dime from fiercely protective to downright cruel when it comes to Joel, confronts her illness with startling ferocity.

But Kearney doesn’t totally succeed when it comes to tone. He wants to make us laugh at the appalling aspects of the narrative, but (this might just be a matter of taste or sensibility) I didn’t find much of it funny.

Binny’s sexual predilections – he’s a bottom who could end up dead – are actually distressing, and terminal cancer is, well, a downer.

In the end, the book has more heart than humour, regardless of Kearney’s SUSAN G. COLE intentions.

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Painting: Bobby Mathieson, Jan 9-Feb 8, reception 6-9 pm Jan 9. 5 Brock. 416546-3683.

O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Romanticism Now, Jan 11-25, reception 2-5 pm Jan 11. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555.

OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Installation: Guillaume Brisson-Darveau and Pascaline Knight, Jan 10-Feb 15, reception 6:30-8:30 pm Jan 10. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-504-8238.

ROBERT KANANAJ GALLERY Painting: Richard Rizzo and Andro Grdinic, Jan 9-Feb 8, reception 4-7 pm Jan 9. 1267 Bloor W. 416-289-8855.

WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Video: Sidewalk Screening group show, to Feb 1 (4 pm-4 am daily), party 9 pm-2 am Jan 11 (Cinecycle, 129 Spadina). 594B Dundas W. 647-856-2445.

YYZ Nobuo Kubota and Randi Nygard, reception/performance 8-10 pm Jan 10, Jan 11-Mar 8, Nygard tour 1 pm Jan 11.

401 Richmond W. 416-598-4546.

READINGS THIS WEEK Ishmael Beah, former child soldier, signs his debut novel January 11.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition featuring Janice Lee. 8 pm. $5.

Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. torontopoetryslam.com.

Saturday, January 11 ISHMAEL BEAH Signing copies of his novel, Radiance Of Tomorrow. 2 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Sunday, January 12 SUNDAY POETRY Poetry, music, theatre and video plus an open mic. Noon-3 pm. Free.

Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-5352384.

Tuesday, January 14 Thursday, January 9 TOSCA RENO The fitness expert signs copies of her new book, The Start Here Diet. 7 pm.

Free. Chapters Queensway, 1950 the Queensway. chapters.indigo.ca.

Friday, January 10 BRIAN CLEMENT Launching his sci-fi conspiracy thriller, The Final Transmission. 8 pm.

Free. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. 416-504-7335, facebook.com/ events/485774208207512.

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Book launch. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

Wednesday, January 15 BEN KAPLAN Launching his book Feet, Don’t Fail Me Now: The Rogue’s Guide To Running The Marathon. 7 pm. Free. Samuel J Moore, 1087 Queen W. 416-897-8348.

BRENT PILKEY The author talks about using his experiences as a police officer to write crime novels. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660.

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FIENNES AND DANDY Actor/director wasn’t interested in a typical biopic of Dickens

By NORMAN WILNER

Ralph Fiennes and Felicity Jones get hot and bothered as Dickens and his mistress, Nelly Ternan.

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Ralph Fiennes, written by Abi Morgan from the book by Claire Tomalin, with Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas and Joanna Scanlan. A Mongrel Media release. 111 minutes. Opens January 17.

Outwardly, at least, Ralph Fiennes is a very calm man.

In the flurry of the Toronto Film Festival, he’s sitting quietly in a hotel suite on a rainy day. We’re speaking about Charles Dickens, whom Fiennes plays in his new film, The Invisible Woman, and as we do he leans in close, as though he’s about to share a secret about a man who’s been dead for nearly a century and a half.

“There’s so much darkness in Dickens,” Fiennes says in a hushed voice, steely despite the softness of his delivery. “It’s in descriptions as much as in characters; there’s these sort of layers of shadow and uncertainty in certain situations [and] characters that are quite disturbing. I think there was a sort of fury in the creative energy in Dickens.”

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REVIEW THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (Ralph Fiennes) Rating: NNNN On its face, The Invisible Woman seems like a safe project for Ralph Fiennes’s directorial follow-up to 2011’s Coriolanus. It’s a conventional drama about the relationship between Charles Dickens (Fiennes)

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and Nelly Ternan (Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones), the young woman who became his mistress.

But while all the trappings of the proper British period piece are in place, this is a much more experimental treatment of the story than you might expect, with a complex consideration of all the characters – including Dickens’s

wife, Catherine (The Thick Of It’s Joanna Scanlan, almost unrecognizable) – and an editorial style that lingers on uncomfortable silences and repressed impulses.

Fiennes and Jones are terrific, but the actor/director gets excellent work from pretty much everyone, including his English Patient co-star, NW Kristin Scott Thomas.

esteemed English novelist, whose relationship with Felicity Jones’s Nelly Ternan makes up the bulk of Fiennes’s biographical drama.

The actor’s directorial follow-up to Coriolanus, it seems to have been made by a different artist entirely. Its quiet, observant tone is a radical departure from the visceral, immediate fury of Fiennes’s take on Shakespeare.

“I think I came away from Coriolanus wanting to experience something much more... I suppose you might say classic,” he says. “I’m actually quite interested in films where the frame becomes a strong dramatic structure, if you like, so it was a deliberate choice. In fact, one of the scenes I’m most proud of in Coriolanus is a single still frame of Jessica Chastain getting onto the bed with the figure of Coriolanus in the foreground.”

That small moment – a pause in the frenzy – gave its characters the space to reveal themselves to one another.

The Invisible Woman aims to do that in every scene, exploring the intense connection between Dickens and Ternan.

“At one point in the working on it,” he says, “it became clear to me that this is the story of how Ellen Ternan became the mistress of Charles Dickens. It’s not the story of her life with [him]; that’s sort of where we leave her.”

Casting himself as Dickens gave Fiennes the opportunity to dive into the author’s work – with which he was almost entirely unfamiliar. (He’s only appeared in one adaptation of the author’s work, last year’s Great Expectations.)

“Well, I had seen staged productions,” he says. “Nicholas Nickleby [in] the famous Trevor Nunn production, and the films, and bits of BBC series.

But I only read Little Dorrit, which I had liked, in fact, but I just hadn’t gone to a bookshelf or a bookshop and pulled out Dickens. When I was in school, I did my English A-levels, and Dickens wasn’t on the syllabus.”

Fiennes threw himself into Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Our Mutual Friend, and came out with that sense of Dickens’s creative fury we were talking about – and how the author chased away the darkness with a fervour that proved irresistible to Ternan even as it endangered her social standing.

“People talked about his energy when he was in the room, his aliveness,” he says. “I think there’s a boyishness in Dickens which is there alongside. Dickens is the sort of man who goes, ‘This is this, we’re gonna do that.’

He just makes sure it happens, and then... not much introspection, not much self-awareness.”

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Found voices GABRIELLE (Louise Archambault). 104 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (January 11). For venues and times, see Movies, page 54. Rating: NNN

Meryl Streep (left) and Juliette Lewis put the fun in August: Osage’s dysfunctional family.

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by John Wells, written by Tracy Letts from his play, with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts and Benedict Cumberbatch.

121 minutes. An eOne release. Opens ­Friday (January 10). For venues and times, see Movies, page 54. Rating: NNNN

This perfectly constructed slice of Oklahoma Gothic about a family that convenes when the alcoholic patriarch disappears comes perilously close to parody. You can buy the many variations on family rot and the heightened reality onstage (Tracy Letts wrote the screenplay based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play), but all the revelations become almost too much when they’re in your face on the screen.

Director John Wells’s attempts to open up the piece by plunking characters outside a strip mall or in a backyard do nothing to disguise its

staginess. Swelling orchestral elements in Gustavo Santaolalla’s score are clunky – there’s enough going on without music hammering it home.

And there’s really no one to root for.

But Wells’s cast is so good that they make the thing believable. Meryl Streep is a knockout as drug-addled matriarch Violet and, though you couldn’t say she matches her, Julia Roberts definitely holds her own as Barbara, the daughter with the troubled marriage living with the guilt of having moved as far away from the family home as she can get.

The rest of the cast – Juliette Lewis and Julianne Nicholson as Barbara’s sisters, Benedict Cumberbatch as the family loser, Abigail Breslin, Chris Cooper and Margo Martindale – are also impressive, especially Martindale as Violet’s sister.

Streep’s performance will doubtless divide audiences. Haters will see it as one of those turns in which the

Divine lets it all hang out in ­fascinating doc.

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Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary about oversized drag pop culture icon Divine lives up to its fabulous title.

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The film opens with the world premiere of John Waters’s Hairspray, which brought them both mainstream attention after years of making renegade cult films like Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos (famous for its final shot of Divine eating fresh dog poo) and Polyester.

Schwarz flashes back to Divine’s frustrating childhood as Harris Glenn Milstead in Baltimore, where he was

technique is so obvious you’re too busy admiring it to grasp the character she’s playing.

Fans like me will see another tour de force in which Streep flaunts her gobsmacking chops.

There’s always an element of a Streep performance that becomes its signature. Her trick this time out is to significantly lower the pitch of her voice, a feat as difficult as her regular specialty – maintaining an accent.

At the end of the spectacular dinner sequence, the movie’s centrepiece, Roberts makes the inspired choice of lowering her own voice to suggest that, unless she makes some smart choices, Barbara could easily turn into her mom.

For all its deep flaws, August: Osage County is extremely entertaining. Sit back and enjoy the ride.

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constantly bullied and ran up huge bills on his parents’ credit cards to throw lavish parties.

Then came the life-changing meeting with fellow queer rebel Waters, who gave him the famous name, got him to channel his inner rage into his performances and introduced him to an underground of creative misfits and drug-takers. San Francisco and then Manhattan beckoned, along with a recording career, celebrity and the promise of crossover success playing a male character on the sitcom Married With Children.

Interviews with Waters, various co-stars (including Mink Stole, Tab Hunter and Lisa Jane Persky), photographer Greg Gorman and journalist Michael Musto help create a picture of a complex man and artist, while fascinating archival footage documents Divine’s huge talent on a theatre or nightclub stage.

Some context from a cultural critic ­– Camille Paglia, say – or a young filmmaker might have helped. But this is great fun. Bring on the Divine retrospective and/or biopic pronto.

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After landing a nomination in the Oscars’ foreign-language-film race three years in a row, Canada is going to have to take a seat in the bleachers at the upcoming ceremony. Our latest submission, Gabrielle, failed to make the short list, which won’t surprise anyone who sees it.

The gentle and charming romance follows a mentally challenged 22-yearold exploring love and sex for the first time. Quebec writer/director Louise ­Archambault handles the slightly provocative subject with a touch so sensitive and safe that at times it borders on timid. The most daring feat is the casting of Gabrielle Marion-­Rivard, a remarkable actor whose authentic performance in the title role is aided by the fact that she has Williams syndrome, a developmental disorder that manifests itself physically and mentally.

Her Gabrielle is an excitable spirit who expresses herself in a community choir, where her romance with a similarly disabled young man (Alexandre Landry) is stifled by the practical con-

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Iced Berg Lone Survivor (Peter Berg). 122 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (January 10). For venues and times, see Movies, page 54. Rating: N

Actor-turned-director Peter Berg is a military fetishist plain and simple. If someone’s wearing a uniform in one of his movies, that person (usually a white guy) is noble, good and right.

Plus, he probably has really awesome biceps.

Berg’s post-9/11 thriller The Kingdom celebrated the righteousness of Americans going to the Middle East and killing everyone who looked at them funny; 2012’s preposterous Battleship included a number of actual military veterans in order to milk their service for a teaspoon of gravitas in the middle of a screeching sci-fi ­actioner.

Lone Survivor turns an actual 2005 incident – four Navy SEALs were stuck

Gabrielle Marion-Rivard’s ­authentic performance adds depth to gentle film.

cerns of those around them.

The film doesn’t shy away from the challenges of living with disability, but it also refuses to allow such struggles to run their course. While it offers an emotionally sincere, if slight, portrait of a subject most movies would rather ignore, Gabrielle’s story gets sidetracked by overtly metaphorical musical numbers that culminate with a grand appearance by Quebecois legend Robert Charlebois.

In the absence of much to chew on, Archambault serves up a musical with crowd-pleasing beats and a candycoated resolution to satisfy the sweet RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI tooth. in the mountains of A ­ fghanistan when a mission went sour – into an endless action sequence meant to celebrate brotherhood, honour and shooting people in the head.

If you want to watch a quartet of actors fire guns and fall off cliffs while wearing bloody prosthetics, this is the movie for you. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch all commit fully to the project and bark their incoherent dialogue with con­ viction.

But there’s nothing else. Berg doesn’t have the patience for the political details of a Black Hawk Down or the psychological insights of a Jarhead.

He just wants to celebrate the nobility of the U.S. military in the bloodiest way possible.

The most uncomfortable element of the movie, though? The closing montage of the real soldiers who lost their lives in the action shows that many of them were black or Latino, when the military of Lone Survivor is depicted as NORMAN WILNER almost entirely white.

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), Andrew Dowler (AD) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 57.

ñAll Is Lost

(J.C. Chandor) may not break new cinematic ground for the survival thriller in the way Gravity does, but it doesn’t have to; it’s just one hell of a good movie, starring Robert Redford as a sailor trying to steer his damaged boat to rescue. Chandor’s intimate, immediate ­direction puts us right there with him for every second of it. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

American Hustle (David O. Russell) is nominally a story about the barely remembered 1978 Abscam sting, in which the FBI used a small-time con artist to snare politicians on bribery and corruption charges. But the plot is incidental to the shouting. Director/co-writer Russell has fully embraced the notion that drama only exists when characters are yelling at one another in mid-shots. Everybody races around shouting about their ambitions and desires, and whoever shouts the loudest is the person with whom we’re supposed to sympathize. Some people love this strategy; I find it exhausting and pointless – especially in the second half, when scenes seem to exist because ­Russell had noticed Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence’s characters hadn’t yelled at each other in a while. American Hustle is being compared to Goodfellas (because crime) and Boogie Nights (because sideboob, I guess). Let’s throttle back on that and see it as what it is: an incoherent, overacted mess. 138 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, ­Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, ­Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, ­ Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, ­Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues

(Adam McKay) is beset by its own selfconsciously epic quality. McKay and Will Ferrell’s script unfolds like a remix of the original. The recycling of old gags and ceaseless string of cameos (Drake, Kanye, Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, a minotaur, Will Smith, etc) strain, coming across as desperate to please. That there’s (plenty) more of the same isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially for Anchorman diehards. Like its predecessor, Anchorman 2 is most itself when its stars goof around with one another. It’s a shame the film ­expends so much energy and calls in so many favours trying to imitate the original

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(John Wells) 121 min. See review, page 52.

(SGC) Opens Jan 10 at Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queens­ way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

The Best Man Holiday (Malcolm D. Lee) is like the Christmas dinner that starts off with laughs and high spirits but keeps dragging along until you can’t hold down the eggnog. Set during one holiday weekend, this sequel to 1999’s The Best Man has the typical sex, secrets and scandals, followed by a rah-rah football game, a shamelessly dour cameo by the grim ­reaper and a climactic visit from the stork.

There’s enough material to last until ­Easter. 120 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30

ñBlue Is the Warmest Color

­(Abdellatif Kechiche) tracks university art student Emma’s (Léa Seydoux) multi-year relationship with high schooler Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos). The buzz surrounding this Palme d’Or winner centres on the protracted sex scenes, but Blue is actually a unique, in-your-face, brilliantly acted exploration of intimacy in general and of what happens when two lovers’ professional aspirations differ. Subtitled.

179 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñBlue Jasmine

(Woody Allen) stars Cate Blanchett as the emotionally unhinged wife of a corporate sleazebag (Alec Baldwin) who moves to San Francisco to live with her sister (Sally Hawkins) when he’s busted. Expect Oscar to come calling on the amazing Blanchett. 98 min.

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The Book Thief (Brian Percival) reframes the Second World War as a coming-of-age story about a young German girl (Monsieur Lazhar’s Sophie Nélisse). Director Percival has helmed a lot of Downton ­Abbey episodes, and it shows in film’s odd propriety. A movie about the Holocaust can’t be afraid of confronting its own ­message. 131 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass) stars Tom Hanks in a fantastic performance as the eponymous skipper of a commercial vessel hijacked by Somali pirates in 2009.

The rest of the film is far more problematic, with director Greengrass applying the tense, jangled docudrama aesthetic of United 93 to another true-life hostage crisis. Some subtitles. 134 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant

ñDallas Buyers Club

(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid-1980s after

being diagnosed with HIV. McConaughey shed 47 pounds for the role and is almost unrecognizable, but his charm and passion shine through, and he gets strong support from Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. Expect major acting nominations come awards season. 117 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Delivery Man (Ken Scott) finds Quebec

writer/director Scott remaking his 2011 comedy Starbuck for the American market, with Vince Vaughn replacing Patrick Huard and the action moved from Montreal to Brooklyn. It’s exactly the same movie, but it holds up okay. 105 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo

(Hideaki Anno, Mahiro Maeda, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki) is an anime sequel, set 14 years after the previous instalment, about saving humanity. 95 min.

Jan 11, 12:55 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24

47 Ronin (Carl Rinsch) is a great big stupid epic set in a fantastical Japan populated by monsters and witches. Keanu Reeves stars as an orphaned warrior who joins a band of masterless samurai on a mission of vengeance. Somehow, it’s staggeringly dull. It’s impossible to tell what director Rinsch’s original conception might have been; the movie’s been overhauled in post-production, its opening movement chopped up and voiced over by an anonymous British actor, the better to explain what we’re about to see. Even the

action sequences have the dreary feel of obligation. Best to seek out Kenji Mizoguchi’s or Hiroshi Inagaki’s adaptation of the story; they may not have swirling smoke dragons or bird-headed monks, but they work their own magic. 118 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, ­Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee) feels like

a throwback to the classic golden period of Disney animated musicals, and while it doesn’t reach the heights of a Lion King or Beauty And The Beast, it’s entertaining enough, despite a lopsided narrative and the lack of a compelling villain. Orphaned princesses Anna (voiced by Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) have grown up apart (but in the same castle) since childhood, ever since Elsa’s power to turn everything to ice nearly got Anna killed.

But when Elsa ascends the throne, her gift reveals itself, and she flees to icy isolation in the mountains, followed by Anna, loner outdoorsman Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf (Josh Gad). It’s basically The Snow Queen mixed with Wicked, but the creators were smart enough to cast one of the latter’s stars (Menzel) and a host of other Broadway belters. The songs are derivative but effective, but only Olaf’s hilarious ditty about wanting to experience summer is destined for classic status. And Gad’s Olaf is the most entertaining sidekick since ­Timon and Pumbaa. 102 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas,

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Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) 104 min.

See review, page 52. NNN (RS) Opens Jan 10 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñGood Vibrations

(Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn) is a manic, joyous dramatization of the story of Terri Hooley, a man so in love with music that he dedicated himself to spreading it, and changed the culture of 1970s Belfast as a result. It’s more or less an Irish version of 24 Hour Party People; consider that an endorsement. 101 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñGravity

(Alfonso Cuarón) plays as both an immediate, nail-biting thriller and a stunning technological accomplishment, following two astronauts ­(Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded in Earth orbit and cut off from mission control. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

Grudge Match (Peter Segal) pits Sylves-

ter Stallone against Robert De Niro in a Rocky vs. Raging Bull scenario no one thought they’d care to see. Old boxing foes Razor Sharp and Kid McDonnen have some saggy personal drama between them, which despite the latter’s efforts never really feels convincing. With enough provocation, they’re coerced back into the

think that isn’t the strangest sentence I’ve written this year. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

(Peter Jackson) is another two hours and 40 minutes of Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) and his dwarf allies encountering giant spiders and orcs and elves and more orcs (or possibly the same orcs again) and a soupçon of political treachery on the way to the mountain where the dragon Smaug lies sleeping in his plundered gold.

You may ask yourself why this isn’t the end of it. There isn’t enough story for three Hobbit movies, so Jackson’s had to invent new characters and new subplots – fan service to Tolkien diehards who need to actually see the rise of Sauron (also irrelevant to the story of The Hobbit), or to Jackson himself, whose swooping camera movements and elaborate single-take action sequences are starting to feel a little creaky and self-indulgent. Of course, making a nine-hour movie out of a short novel is pretty self-indulgent in itself.

Some subtitles. 161 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñTHE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE

Oscar Isaac deserves all the accolades for his soulful performance in Inside Llewyn Davis. ring to settle the score with fists that have calcified for 30 years. While Stallone and De Niro still have no difficulty mustering a decent right hook, it’s the punchlines they have some trouble landing – though the Rocky riffs should amuse. That leaves Alan Arkin’s trainer and Kevin Hart’s promoter to do most of the comedic heavy lifting.

But given how familiar their gimmicks are, most of the jokes are as old as a jab thrown in 1983. 113 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñHER

(Spike Jonze) is set in the very near future, in a Los Angeles where emotionally withdrawn Theodore Twombley (Joaquin Phoenix) installs an operating system on his PC that’s basically an artificial intelligence – and winds up falling in love with it. Of course he’s drawn to it, or her (as voiced with perfect, perky opacity

by Scarlett Johansson). Why wouldn’t he be? She’s perfect for him. She just doesn’t, you know, exist in the physical realm. Her is as wide-open and genuine as writerdirector Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are, though not as emotionally raw. It’s a movie where people process their feelings rather than release them, essentially about how technology can facilitate a relationship over impossible distances and what happens when one partner evolves more quickly than the other. In the end, it’s a movie as beholden to Annie Hall as it is to 2001, and don’t

their performances into something much more than folk scene clichés. 105 min.

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JUSTIN BIEBER’S BELIEVE (Jon M. Chu) s a sequel of sorts to Never Say Never, which chronicled the Stratford, Ontario, musician’s rise to fame using lots of home movie footage, his fateful YouTube videos and candid interviews with his family and friends. Now, at 18, the Biebs is bigger than ever (literally – he’s shot up and bulked up), his guard is up in interviews, and there’s little at stake. Apart from a watchable section about his Believe tour’s dancer auditions and a frightening bit about fans swarming his limo, this feels like a 90-minute promotional video about the concert. Yeah, I believe... I just wasted my time. 92 min. N (GS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24 LAST VEGAS (Jon Turteltaub) stars veterans Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline in a bachelor party comedy that sets up gags as familiar as the routine in a seniors home. Even the jokes have bunions. Yet the four Oscar winners are so good at playing against each other, you can’t help wondering why they finally decided to do so now n a comedy that pays out as rarely as a slot machine. 110 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga

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LONE SURVIVOR (Peter Berg) 122 min. See review, page 52. N (NW) Opens Jan 10 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

(Francis Lawrence) proves the Oscar curse can be beaten. Best-actress winner Jennifer Lawrence is a knockout in this second instalment of the franchise, which, unlike many actors’ releases following Oscar wins, is not total crap. It’s much better than Part 1: the script doesn’t need much set-up, there’s more focus on the relationship between Katniss (Lawrence) and Gale MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (which means more charismatic Liam (Justin Chadwick) features a knockout Hemsworth), and director Lawrence keeps performance by Idris Elba, who skilfully the violence offscreen instead of sanitizportrays Nelson Mandela’s transformation ing it. Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) from arrogant barrister without a cause to are having trouble faking the love relationinspiring leader willing to sacrifice everyship that made them co-winners of the thing in his quest for his people’s freedom.

74th Hunger Games, the arena spectacle The film leaves out Mandela’s childhood in which a male and female from 12 disentirely and ends when he’s released after tricts fight to the death until there’s one 27 years in prison. But streamlining all person standing. But they’re sparking these events forces the writer into clichés, revolution against the wealthy 1 per cent, and telling the story in chronological order so baddie President Snow dreams up a strikes me as lazy. The politics are confusnew tourney in which the winners of the ing: you’re never sure who’s fighting previous 24 games have to go into the whom or why, especially when the conflict ring. Who cares about plot holes in a is between blacks. And the context of acfantasy? This is highly entertaining, and tivist wife Winnie’s promotion of violence Lawrence is red hot in all ways. 145 min. against black collaborators is never made NNNN (SGC) clear, even though the political tension be401 & Morningside, tween the rage-driven Beach Cinemas, CanWinnie and the reconciliaada Square, Carlton tion-oriented Nelson is a EXPANDED REVIEWS Cinema, Coliseum focal point. The script does nowtoronto.com Mississauga, Colipay attention to Mandela’s seum Scarborough, reputation as a young Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town womanizer and gives credence to the idea Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, that the sainted Madiba knocked his first Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiawife around. Long Walk To Freedom can’t bank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity be called pure hagiography. But Elba’s the Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale essential element.

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ñINSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS

(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) plays as comedy, musical and drama all at once, with the tone steered by Oscar Isaac’s soulful interpretations of traditional folk songs that somehow manage to reflect precisely what his character, itinerant troubadour Llewyn Davis, is feeling in the moment. Beautifully realized and packed with delightful incidents – the recording of Please Mr. Kennedy is probably the most satisfying three minutes you’ll spend in a movie theatre this year – Inside Llewyn Davis understands its characters in a way few movies do, giving Isaac and co-stars Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Adam Driver and F. Murray Abraham room to detail

ñMUSCLE SHOALS

(Greg Camalier) is about the musically inclined backwater town in Alabama that has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits. They’re among the many who speak affectionately here about their time with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry. The interviews are woven together like music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. Soul aficionados will savour every beat. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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Nebraska (Alexander Payne) is a blackand-white road movie about a Montana speaker salesman (Will Forte) who gets to know his remote, alcoholic father (Bruce Dern) as the pair drive to Lincoln to cure the older man’s obsession with a sweepstakes. It lacks the highs and lows of The Descendants and Sideways, feeling much more like director Payne’s 2002 drama About Schmidt: a slow, deliberate roll through a series of modest incidents that inform our understanding of its central character. Problem is, Nebraska never surprises. Road movies are by definition formulaic, but there’s a predictability to the way Bob Nelson’s screenplay trickles out details and shading that feel more calculated than they should. This isn’t to say that Nebraska is bad, but it’s awfully safe and contrived – not what we’ve come to expect from Payne. 115 min.

NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre Nicky’s Family (Matej Minac) covers the heroics of “Britain’s Schindler� Sir Nicholas Winton, who masterminded the evacuation of almost 700 Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust. Instead of Spielberg treatment, this doc gives Winton something more akin to a Heritage Minute, complete with kitschy re-enactments. 97 min. NNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre Night Train to Lisbon (Bille August) is a

dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as

an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (Christopher Landon) is better than

the last film in the found-footage franchise, but it’s still not very memorable – or particularly scary. At least the setting’s different. Instead of the huge, sprawling suburban homes of the first few flicks, the action takes place in and around a crowded apartment building in an L.A. barrio.

Strange noises are emanating from beneath teenager Jesse’s (Andrew Jacobs) apartment, and soon he, his sister Marisol (Gabrielle Walsh) and his camcorderwielding friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) investigate their creepy neighbour’s pad, leading to lots of running up and down stairs and opening doors that should definitely stay shut. The The Blair Witch Project shakycam approach might make your stomach churn, but director/writer Landon makes good use of humour to cut the tension. An electronic Simon game (Simon says?) stands in for a Ouija board, and a gang subplot pays off in explosive ways. The acting, too, is decent, with Jacobs’s transformation particularly convincing. But style and plot points seem lifted from far more effective films and the ending ­provides fewer answers than questions.

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(Stephen Frears) tells the true story of journalist Martin Sixsmith’s attempt to help an Irish woman, Philomena Lee, track down the son she was forced to give up five decades earlier. It’s an odd but effective combination of investigative drama and buddy picture, as the devout, working-class Lee (Judi Dench) and the privileged, cynical Sixsmith (Steve Coogan, who also cowrote and co-produced the film) find common ground in the search for her son.

Director Frears lays it on a little thick in the glimpses of the young Philomena at a home for wayward mothers, but the rest of the story is handled far more elegantly, framing the historical blemish of baby trafficking through an immediate, personal lens. It’s a tribute to both actors that Dench’s performance doesn’t feel like a naked Oscar bid, nor does she totally obliterate Coogan’s fine supporting turn. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Queens­ way, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Prisoners (Denis Villeneuve) stars Hugh Jackman as a Pennsylvania contractor who reacts to his daughter’s abduction by grabbing the most likely suspect (Paul Dano) and trying to beat the truth out of him. Jackman’s convincing, but Villeneuve’s unable to keep Prisoners from collapsing into overwrought, mildly preposterous contrivance. 153 min. NNN (NW) Interchange 30

ĂąRush

(Ron Howard) chronicles the ongoing rivalry in the mid-70s between two wildly different Formula One racers: the cold, cerebral Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Brßhl) and the wildly charismatic English playboy James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth). Director Howard and superb screenwriter Peter Morgan contrast their stories effectively, getting even non-fans intrigued by the politics of commercial ­endorsements and the psychology of competition. 123 min. NNNN (GS) Kingsway Theatre

Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock) covers the last several months of the 20plus years that Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, who’s terrific) spent convincing author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to sell him the rights to Mary Poppins. Charming Walt gets the prickly author in a room with composers Robert and Richard Sherman (B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman), who try to win her over with their cheery tunes, but unfortunately, she has daddy issues. The narrative moves between 1961 L.A. and Travers’s childhood in Australia where the alcoholic father she loves (Colin Farrell) dies. The older Travers is portrayed as an old lonely prune who only lightens up after she’s been in Disney’s orbit. I don’t expect a Disney pic to highlight Travers’s lesbian love life or her very serious spiritual pursuits, but this rendering is insulting. It’s is all about burnishing Disney’s personal reputation. 125 min. NN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Leonardo DiCaprio toasts all the Wolf Of Wall Street naysayers, like our own Norman Wilner.

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Ben Stiller) finds the director/star trying for something a little more substantial than he has in movies like Zoolander and Tropic Thunder, using James Thurber’s short story about a daydreamer to explore loneliness and the need for human connection in the increasingly disconnected digital age. Stiller’s Mitty is a photo archivist at Life Magazine who after decades of simple competence launches himself on a global adventure in search of a missing image for the final issue. The movie dis-

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appears into Walter’s imagination for a series of clever set pieces, but the real world is always more important, Stuart Dryburgh’s cinematography growing more and more beautiful as the film progresses. The narrative’s a little bumpy – the story basically stops and backs up over itself so it can have a third act – but Stiller’s ambition and low-key charisma will hold you. He’s picking at something really meaningful here, and even if his movie doesn’t totally get there, the journey is the thing. 114 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ĂąThor: The Dark World

(Alan ­ aylor) is a very silly movie for all its T self-seriousness, which is why it works.

Once again, Tom Hiddleston steals the picture as the unpredictable Loki, though Kat Dennings comes awfully close to stealing it herself as Jane Foster’s scrappy sidekick.

Some subtitles. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

Ăą12 Years a Slave

(Steve McQueen) is a stunning adaptation of the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free ­American sold into slavery in 1841. ­Chiwetel Ejiofor is a revelation as Northup, and ­McQueen directs with a total lack of sentiment, crafting each sequence with a merciless forward momentum that compensates for the episodic nature of the narrative. One of the best films of the year. 133 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas

(Tyler Perry) is easily the most enjoyable Perry movie in years. This time around the writer/director/producer/star holds back on the emotional suds (up to a point) and looks to have a jolly old time. He throws his vulgar mammy Madea into the ­Alabama backwoods for the Christmas holiday, which turns out to be ripe new

scenery for her to chew on with her rambling, freestyle gags. 105 min. NNN (RS) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, SilverCity Yorkdale

V For Vendetta (James McTeigue) is a merely okay adaptation of an outstanding graphic novel about a man’s quest for personal vengeance, government overthrow and human growth in a near-future fascist England. The film works best when it’s using images directly from its source. Hugo Weaving looks dashing in cape and Guy Fawkes mask, and it’s a treat to watch revered public institutions blowing up. But the story plods badly, the characters are paper thin and the acting nothing special. Big dramatic moments are handled with all the panache of a low-rent TV series. Those who’ve noticed the Wachowski brothers’ writing credit and expect an effects orgy will be let down.

Those who like the idea should buy the graphic novel. 132 min. NN (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ĂąVic + Flo Saw A Bear

(Denis CôtÊ) feels similar to CôtÊ’s 2011 drama Curling, focusing on characters who’ve r­ emoved themselves from the world. Here, it’s 61-year-old ex-con Victoria (Pierrette Robitaille), who moves into an infirm uncle’s shuttered cabin in the middle of nowhere with her younger lover, Florence (Romane Bohringer). But the past won’t stay past, and before too long Vic and Flo’s domestic bubble is compromised, then shattered by outside forces. We never find out what crime Vic was jailed for or how precisely she and Flo met, and I’m not entirely sure they ever see that bear. It doesn’t really matter.

What’s important is what happens in front of us, how relationships are formed and challenged by outside events, and what happens next. I didn’t mind doing a little work to figure it all out, and Robitaille and Bohringer make it well worth the effort.

Subtitled. 95 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

ĂąWadjda

(Haifaa Al-Mansour) tracks 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), who enters a Koran study contest so she can buy a bicycle

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I AM DIVINE Fri 4:00, 8:45 Sat 7:00 Sun 1:00, 9:15 Mon 8:45 Tue 9:15 Wed 6:30 MORE THAN HONEY Thu 9:30 PERSISTENCE OF VISION Fri, Mon 6:30 Sat 1:00 Sun 3:30 Wed 4:00

with the winnings. The premise is sly enough – females aren’t allowed to drive in ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia – and Mohammed is appealing as the young heroine, but Al-Mansour’s depiction of everyday Saudi life is what counts here.

Subtitled. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale) is a lesson on the late Cretaceous period, with an eye for accuracy, for the iCarly generation. Dinosaurs turn their migration into a child-friendly adventure while dishing out lines like “You are about to get served.” The educational mandate doesn’t get much of an assist from the attempts at thrills, gags and romance, which are so old and decayed they’re fossilized. 87 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 WATERMARK (Jennifer Baichwal,

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Edward Burtynsky) feels very much like a continuation of Manufactured Landscapes, collaborators Baichwal and Burtynsky’s previous work, once again exploring the effects of human industry on the natural world – in this case, our oceans and rivers. Baichwal’s contemplative approach meshes nicely with Burtynsky’s fondness for finding geometric patterns in gargantuan constructions like dams and aquifers, and producer-cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier captures some splendid high-definition images.

(Watermark may set a record for the most helicopter shots in a Canadian production.) Baichwal and Burtynsky cushion their potentially grim ecological message with philosophical digressions and moments of unexpected whimsy, which seems like an awfully good idea right now.

Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

TIFF 2013 – and interviews with the likes of old pros Norm Crosby, Jack Carter and Shelley Berman are fascinating. 90 min.

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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (Martin

Scorsese) is another sprawling look at the inner workings of a massive criminal enterprise, like Goodfellas and Casino; here, it’s the stock frauds and swindles of rich prick Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio).

Scorsese’s prior kicks at this particular can are shot through with real consequence, but the worst thing that can happen to Belfort is that he might face a little jail time for the his white-collar crimes, which are so complex that the movie can’t even engage with them. Since the stakes are so low – and since Belfort is so unlikeable – Scorsese plays the story as a cartoon, treating the ludicrous corporate culture of Belfort’s company, Stratton Oakmont, like a bacchanal and rushing alongside him through the increasingly Dionysian universe he creates around himself. But the movie doesn’t know when to quit, and three hours of spectacular excess proves exhausting. 180 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity 3

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47 RONIN (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat, MonWed 4:15, 9:20 Sun 4:15 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu 1:20 6:35 Fri-Wed 1:20, 6:40 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 1:35 4:05 6:55 9:25 FriWed 1:35, 4:05, 6:55, 9:35 GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Thu 4:10, 9:35 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) 1:30, 4:50, 8:10 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 1:10, 6:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 8:00 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 4:15, 9:45 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 1:50 4:25 7:05 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:00, 7:05, 9:15 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:25, 6:50 Sun 1:25 TORONTO FILM SOCIETY Mon 7:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

47 RONIN (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45 47 RONIN 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:00, 3:55, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 8:10, 10:45 Sat-Sun 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45 MonWed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 HER (14A) Fri 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:25, 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:05, 4:55, 6:45, 8:35, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:45, 6:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:30, 9:55 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:50 4:10 7:30 10:45 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:30, 10:45 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:45, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:40, 9:10 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 2:45, 3:20, 6:10, 9:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:40, 2:40, 3:50, 6:00, 7:10, 9:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 2:30, 3:50, 5:50, 6:50, 9:00, 10:00 Wed 2:30, 3:20, 5:50, 9:00, 10:00 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:40, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:30 Wed 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:45, 10:30 THOR: THE DARK WORLD (PG) Thu 1:50 Fri-Sun 2:30 MonWed 2:10 THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:45, 10:35 Fri-Sun 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:10, 1:40, 2:20, 5:00, 5:45, 6:20, 8:55, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:50, 1:30, 2:20, 4:50, 5:25, 6:20, 8:40, 9:30, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:30, 2:20, 4:50, 5:25, 6:20, 8:40, 9:20, 10:20 Wed 1:30, 2:20, 4:50, 5:25, 8:40, 9:20, 10:20

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (R) Thu 12:30, 4:15, 8:30 Fri 2:30 Sat, Tue-Wed 4:00, 8:10 Sun 4:00, 9:00 Mon 7:10 GABRIELLE (14A) Fri 12:00, 2:30, 6:10, 8:40 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 6:30, 8:40 Sun, Tue-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 6:10, 8:45 Mon 6:10, 8:45 GOOD VIBRATIONS (14A) Fri 12:05 Sat, Tue-Wed 1:30 Sun 1:30, 8:10 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Fri 12:10, 1:00, 2:40, 4:10, 5:20, 7:00, 9:05, 10:00 Sat 12:10, 1:00, 2:40, 3:30, 5:00, 6:10, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 3:30, 5:00, 6:40, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Mon 6:00, 7:10, 9:30 Tue 12:10, 1:00, 2:40, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:05, 10:00 Wed 12:10, 1:00, 2:40, 4:30, 5:00, 6:30, 7:15, 9:05, 10:00 VIC + FLO SAW A BEAR (14A) Thu 9:00 Fri 3:30 WATERMARK (G) Fri 6:30 Sat 12:00 WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY (14A) Thu 6:30

(CE) RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) VARSITY 55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:55, 9:25 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:00, 7:10 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 8:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 12:50 3:35 7:00 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:35, 7:00, 9:00 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:50 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) 12:45, 4:30, 8:15

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:40, 7:05, 10:20 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 HER (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 1:30, 1:55, 4:00, 4:25, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:35, 2:05, 4:10, 4:50, 6:55, 7:35, 9:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:30, 1:55, 4:05, 4:30, 6:35, 7:10, 9:05, 10:30 MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:35, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:35 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 FriSun 11:55, 4:05, 7:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 6:40, 9:50

VIP SCREENINGS

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:35, 9:35 HER (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:25 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:35, 6:25, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 10:10 Wed 1:00, 3:30, 6:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 2:00 Fri-Sun 11:55, 2:30, 6:15, 9:10 Mon-Tue 2:00, 6:20, 9:15 Wed 2:00, 9:15

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Sun 12:55, 3:45 Mon 1:45 Tue 4:15 Wed 4:45, 7:00 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:40, 7:15, 9:20, 10:30 Fri-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 5:40, 6:45, 9:20, 10:15 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Fri-Wed 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 6:10, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:05, 6:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:05, 6:10, 9:30 DHOOM 3 (PG) 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:45 mat, 5:45 DHOOM: 3 THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:45, 5:45, 9:50 EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO Sat 12:55 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35 Sat-Sun 12:55 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu, Sat-Sun 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 GRAVITY 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 GRAVITY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 2:40, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:05 mat JUSTIN BIEBER’S BELIEVE (PG) Thu 1:35, 3:55, 6:15, 8:45 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (PG) Thu 12:55 MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM (14A) Thu-Fri 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:25, 9:35 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 1:40, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:20 Fri 1:40, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 1:40, 2:45, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:40, 2:25, 4:15, 5:15, 6:45, 7:45, 9:10, 10:15 PERSONAL TAILOR (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:40 Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:35 PHILOMENA (PG) 7:15, 9:45 PULP FICTION Fri 1:30, 7:30 Sat 3:00 Sun 6:45 Mon 4:20, 10:20 Tue 9:55 Wed 1:45, 9:50 RESERVOIR DOGS (R) Thu 5:10 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:40 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:20, 6:15, 9:15 Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:00 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 1:45 4:30 7:25 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 THE SUSPECT Fri-Wed 2:20, 6:50, 9:50 SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS Tue 7:00 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 6:40, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:55 V FOR VENDETTA (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:15 Fri 4:40, 10:30 Sat 7:00 Sun 9:50 Mon 7:30 Tue 1:30 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 2:35 Sat-Sun 12:10 WALKING WITH DINOSAURS 3D (PG) 4:55 Sat-Sun 2:35 mat

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:50 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 4:20, 7:00 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00 GIRL, BOY, BAKLA, TOMBOY (PG) Fri 3:20, 5:50, 8:20 SatSun 1:00, 3:40, 6:10, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:15 Fri 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:20, 8:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50 JUSTIN BIEBER’S BELIEVE (PG) Thu 6:50 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 SatSun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30 continued on page 58 œ

WHEN JEWS WERE FUNNY (Alan Zweig) is

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:00, 8:10 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:25, 6:00 Philomena (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:30 Fri 3:10, 6:20, 8:40 SatSun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:15 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 4:30

Mt Pleasant (I)

675 Mt Pleasant Rd, 416-489-8484 Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Wed 7:00 Fri 9:35 Sat 4:15, 9:35 Sun 4:30 Captain Phillips (14A) Fri-Sat 6:45 Sun, Tue 7:00

Regent Theatre (I) 551 Mt Pleasant Rd, 416-480-9884

Muscle Shoals (PG) Fri 9:05 Sat 4:30, 9:05 Sun, Tue 7:00 Night Train to Lisbon (14A) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

SilverCity Yonge (CE) 2300 Yonge St, 416-544-1236

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 10:25 Sat 10:45 Sun 10:05 Mon-Wed 9:00 An Affair to Remember Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 Fri 1:00, 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:35, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 August: Osage County (14A) Fri 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Frozen (G) Thu 1:50 Fri 2:30 Sat-Sun 12:10 Mon-Wed 1:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri 5:00, 8:00 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 8:10 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:30 Her (14A) Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 10:30 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:25, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:10, 6:00, 9:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 1:30, 5:20, 9:10 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 9:35 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 2:30, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:15, 10:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Fri 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 Sat 2:30, 6:30, 10:20 Sun 2:00, 6:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:15, 5:00, 8:45

Metro

West End Humber Cinemas (I) 2442 Bloor St. West, 416-769-2442

American Hustle (14A) Thu, Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:40 Frozen (G) Thu 4:00, 7:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:45, 7:00 Mon 1:00, 7:00 Wed 3:45, 7:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 Wed 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 9:30 Sun 9:25 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 9:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Fri-Tue 12:20, 4:15, 8:00 Wed 4:15, 8:00

Kingsway Theatre (I) 3030 Bloor St W, 416-232-1939

The Book Thief (PG) 3:40 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu 1:35 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 9:35 Muscle Shoals (PG) 7:35 Nebraska (PG) 5:55 Nicky’s Family (PG) Thu 12:00 Fri-Wed 12:00, 5:45 Night Train to Lisbon (14A) 3:40 Philomena (PG) 12:00, 7:55 Rush (14A) Thu 1:35 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:35, 9:35 Wadjda (PG) Thu 5:45

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Queensway (CE)

1025 The Queensway, QEW & Islington, 416-503-0424 47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:45 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55 Sat 11:20, 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 An Affair to Remember Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:35, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:20, 7:35, 10:45 Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri 2:20, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sat 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 8:05, 11:00 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 August: Osage County (14A) Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 11:40, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Tue 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 3:45, 7:00, 9:55 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Sat 12:55 Frozen (G) Thu 1:55 Fri 1:25 Sat 11:00 Sun-Wed 1:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Fri 4:05, 7:25 Sat 1:25, 4:05, 7:25 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:15 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri-Sat 10:00 Sun-Wed 9:50 Her (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:55, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:05, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:00, 3:35, 7:10, 10:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 2:00 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Sun-Wed 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 2:05, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:20, 11:00 Sat 2:55, 5:35, 8:20, 11:00 Sun-Wed 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:25 Fri 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 10:25 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Fri 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon 2:20, 5:00, 6:35, 10:10 Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Wed 2:20, 4:40, 6:35, 10:10 Philomena (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:25, 9:00 Fri 12:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Sun 4:00, 6:35, 9:30 Mon, Wed 12:15, 4:00, 9:30 Tue 12:15, 4:00, 6:35, 9:30 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 FriSat 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 Sun-Mon 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Tue-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 6:50, 10:45 Fri 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 V For Vendetta (14A) Thu, Mon 7:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 1:10 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:05 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:45, 6:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:30, 6:25, 10:20

Rainbow Woodbine (I)

Woodbine Centre, 500 Rexdale Blvd, 416-213-1998 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:00 3:45 6:40 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:20 3:55 6:45 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 Frozen (G) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:40 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) 12:50, 4:00, 7:15 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 9:40 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) 12:45, 4:20, 8:00

East End Beach Cinemas (AA) 1651 Queen St E, 416-699-1327

American Hustle (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:40 Fri 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:10 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:15 August: Osage County (14A) 6:45, 9:30 Fri 3:45 mat Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45 mat Frozen (G) 6:30 Fri 3:15 mat Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:15 mat The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) 7:00, 10:30 Fri 3:30 mat Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:30 mat The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Wed 9:15 Lone Survivor (14A) 7:30, 10:20 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat, 4:30 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 8:00, 9:00 Fri 4:15, 8:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 4:15, 8:00 Mon-Wed 8:00

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:50, 9:55 Fri 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 August: Osage County (14A) Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 MonWed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Frozen (G) Sat-Sun 12:15 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:15, 6:45 Fri-Wed 3:55, 6:50 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:35 Her (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

The film might be overblown, but Amy Adams is superb in con-artist flick American Hustle.

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:20, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 3:30, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:05, 10:15 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 3:10, 6:30, 9:20 Fri 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:20, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:15 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 3:25, 6:55, 10:05 Fri 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:55, 10:00 Mon-Tue 3:35, 6:55, 10:00 Wed 3:35, 10:00 Nebraska (PG) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 10:15 Sun-Wed 9:45 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 3:45, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 4:20 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu-Fri 5:40, 9:40 Sat 1:40, 5:40, 9:40 Sun 1:40, 5:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 9:30

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:25, 7:15, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 An Affair to Remember Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 FriSat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Tue 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:15 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Fri 1:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Sun 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Mon-Tue 12:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 12:35, 4:10, 9:50 August: Osage County (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Sat 12:55 Frozen (G) Thu-Fri 1:50 Sat 11:10 Sun-Wed 1:20 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:45, 7:25 Fri 4:45, 7:30 Sat 1:50, 4:45, 7:30 Sun-Tue 4:15, 7:00 Wed 4:15, 7:05 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 7:05, 9:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:10, 6:45, 10:10 Fri 1:10, 3:45, 7:15, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 3:45, 7:15, 10:40 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 10:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 SunWed 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 12:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Sat 3:05, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Sun-Wed 12:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 10:15 Sun-Wed 9:45 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 12:50 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:40 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 12:55, 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Fri 1:40, 3:10, 6:50, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 3:10, 6:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:10, 2:40, 6:20, 10:00

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Sun 1:45, 4:35, 7:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45 Sun 12:20, 3:15, 6:10, 9:00 Mon 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45 Frozen (G) 1:00 Fri 12:00 mat Sat 11:05, 12:00 mat Sun 12:00, 12:40 mat Sat only 11:05 12:00 Sun only 12:00 12:40 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:35 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 Sun 3:25, 6:10 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 9:20 Sat 10:10 Sun 8:55 Her (14A) Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 3:30, 7:00 Mon-Wed 2:15, 6:30, 10:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 9:05 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:05 Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:45 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Fri 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sun 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Sat 7:20, 10:10 Sun 7:20 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:05 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 9:15 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 12:50 Fri-Sun 12:15 Mon-Wed 1:05 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:40 FriSun 2:30, 4:55 Mon-Wed 4:30 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 2:15, 6:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 2:40, 6:40, 10:35 Sun 2:30, 6:25 Mon-Wed 2:30, 6:25, 10:15

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:30 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 American Hustle (14A) Fri, Tue 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:15 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:00 Frozen (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00 Sat 11:15, 12:15 Sun 12:15 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 5:40, 8:25 Fri, Tue 4:25, 8:00 Sat 2:45, 5:20, 8:00 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:25 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 5:15, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:10

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:00, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 8:25 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 10:30 Sun 10:10 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:35 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:05 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Fri, Tue 6:00, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 3:50, 5:55, 8:00, 10:05 Mon, Wed 6:10, 8:20 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:55 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 8:30 Mon, Wed 8:25 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Sat 11:20, 1:35 Sun 1:35 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 6:10 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:10 Sat-Sun 3:55, 6:10 Mon, Wed 6:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:30, 8:20 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:30, 8:20 Mon, Wed 7:45

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:25, 7:15, 10:25 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 FriWed 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Sat 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 August: Osage County (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Sat 12:55 Frozen (G) Thu 1:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30 Sat 11:05, 1:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri-Wed 4:15, 7:00 Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Wed 9:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30, 6:15, 9:50 Sat 11:00, 2:30, 6:15, 9:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 9:45 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:35, 7:00, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:35, 6:00, 9:30 Sat 11:10, 2:35, 6:00, 9:30 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:35, 10:30 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20 Fri-Wed 9:45 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 9:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 2:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:25 Sat 12:00, 2:25 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:50 7:10 FriWed 4:45, 7:10 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon, Wed 1:45, 5:45, 9:40 Tue 5:45, 9:40

Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 12:35, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 An Affair to Remember Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 Fri 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Sat 12:10, 3:25, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Tue 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 11:25, 2:15, 5:05, 8:00, 10:50 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:15 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 4:45, 8:40 Fri 3:00, 6:40, 10:25 Sat 1:50, 6:00, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 5:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 9:00 Frozen (G) Thu 2:20 Fri 2:05 Sat 11:15, 11:55 Sun 12:00 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri 4:45, 7:20 Sat 2:30, 5:15, 7:50 Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:50 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 10:25 Fri 10:15 Sat 9:50 Sun-Wed 10:00 Her (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sun 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri 3:30, 7:10, 10:50 Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:10, 10:50 Sun 11:45, 3:15, 6:50, 10:25 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 4:00 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:15, 7:05, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 6:35, 9:50 MonWed 6:35, 9:50 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Fri 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:35, 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:35 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu, MonWed 3:30, 6:55, 10:25 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 11:40, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55 Sun 11:50, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 3:40, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 1:25, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:35, 6:45, 10:30 Tue 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Philomena (PG) Thu 2:30, 9:55 Fri 4:35, 9:55 Sat 4:35, 10:25 Sun 4:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 10:10 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 5:00, 8:00 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 Sun, Tue 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Mon 3:45, 9:20 Wed 3:45, 9:40 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 10:05 V For Vendetta (14A) Thu, Mon 7:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Fri 12:50 Sat 12:15 Sun 12:20 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:30 Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 Sat 11:20, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25 Sun 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:15, 8:10 Fri-Sat 2:25, 6:25, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 4:45, 8:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 8:45

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Biriyani Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:30 Endrendrum Punnagai Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Jilla Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:45, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:30 Veeram Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 An Affair to Remember Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu, Mon-Tue 12:35, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Fri 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:35 Sat 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:35 Sun 11:50, 2:55, 6:35, 9:45 Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:40, 3:55, 4:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Frozen (G) 1:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) ThuTue 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Wed 12:50, 5:00, 9:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 Fri 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:10, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 3:30, 7:10, 10:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 Fri 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Sun 11:30, 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 Fri 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:40 Sat 11:45, 3:15, 7:05, 10:40 Sun 11:40, 3:15, 7:05, 10:25 Wed 12:30, 3:35, 7:05, 10:25 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:35 Sun 4:15, 6:45, 9:35 Mon 1:50, 4:15, 10:15 Wed 1:50, 4:15, 9:35 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu

1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 12:35, 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 11:30, 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 12:40, 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:35, 6:50, 9:45 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 10:15 Fri 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 Sun 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:30, 6:35, 9:25 Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 1:20, 6:40 V For Vendetta (14A) Thu, Mon 7:30

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 12:35, 3:55, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 FriSat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 SunWed 1:25, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 August: Osage County (14A) Fri 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sat 12:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sun 12:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Dhoom: 3 The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:55, 6:25, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:55, 6:25, 10:00 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo Sat 12:55 Frozen (G) Thu 2:00 Fri-Wed 1:50 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 4:20, 7:05 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15 Fri 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 MonWed 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Her (14A) Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 12:25, 4:10, 7:00, 10:05 Sun 12:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 3:10, 6:35, 10:20 Sun-Wed 3:10, 6:35, 10:05 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:55, 8:20 Fri-Sat 9:50 Sun-Wed 9:35 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:20, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:30 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun-Wed 9:05 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 9:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:00 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 3:25, 5:40, 7:55 Fri-Wed 4:40, 6:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 Sun 12:15, 2:00, 6:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:00, 6:00, 9:45

4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri, Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 Sat 12:55, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 August: Osage County (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 Frozen (G) Fri, Sun 1:30 Sat 11:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:10, 6:35, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:05 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:40, 6:50, 9:10 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:40, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 6:50, 9:10 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Her (14A) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:40 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 6:00, 9:15 Fri, Sun 2:50, 6:10, 9:35 Sat 11:25, 2:50, 6:10, 9:35 Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Sat 12:15, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 4:30, 8:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 3:40 6:55 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:35 mat Sun 12:40 mat Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 4:35, 6:55, 9:30 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 9:15 Sat-Sun 9:50 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 3:40, 5:50, 7:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:00 Puss in Boots (G) Sat 11:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 MonWed 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas (14A) Thu 9:20 V For Vendetta (14A) Thu, Mon 7:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Fri 1:45 Sat 12:25 Sun 12:35

Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 6:40 Sat-Sun 2:45, 5:05, 7:35 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 2:00, 5:00, 6:00, 9:00, 10:00 Mon 3:45, 5:00, 9:00, 10:05 Tue-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 8:00, 9:00

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30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 All Is Lost (PG) 5:00, 7:30 Sat only 2:30 7:30 Sun only 2:30 5:00 The Best Man Holiday (14A) 4:50, 7:20 Fri 9:55 Sat 2:15 mat, 9:55 Sun 2:15 mat Blue Jasmine (14A) Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 2:50, 5:05, 7:15 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Captain Phillips (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15 Fri 6:30, 9:30 Sat 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 4:00, 7:15 Delivery Man (PG) Thu 4:30 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:30 Fri 5:30, 9:00 Sat 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Sun 2:00, 6:30 Elysium (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:45 Ender’s Game (PG) 4:45, 7:15 Fri 9:50 Sat 2:15 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:15 mat The Family (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Free Birds (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35 Fri 4:50, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:30 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:00 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Fri 4:30, 10:00 Sat 2:00, 5:00, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 7:30 Mon-Wed 4:30 Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 Philomena (PG) 5:00, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat 2:55 mat, 9:45 Sun 2:55 mat Prisoners (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:25 Fri 6:25, 9:25 Sat 3:15, 6:25, 9:25 Sun 3:55, 6:55 12 Years a Slave (14A) 7:00 Fri 9:50 Sat 4:10, 9:50 Sun 4:10 Wadjda (PG) 5:10, 7:30 Fri 9:40 Sat 3:00 mat, 9:40 Sun 3:00 mat

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Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 American Hustle (14A) 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 August: Osage County (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Mon 3:40, 6:45, 9:30

Frozen (G) 1:20, 4:05, 7:00 Her (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Wed 9:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 9:25 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) 12:45, 4:20, 8:00

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

47 Ronin 3D (PG) 7:15, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat, 4:25 Tue 4:25 American Hustle (14A) Thu 6:55, 10:15 Fri 7:00, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Sun 12:10, 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:10, 10:15 Tue 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri 7:30, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:50 Tue 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 Frozen (G) Sat-Sun 12:00 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:40 Sat-Sun 2:35, 5:05, 7:40 Tue 5:05, 7:40 Grudge Match (14A) 7:10, 9:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 10:15 Fri 7:00, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 4:30, 7:55 Mon, Wed 7:55 Tue 4:30, 7:55 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 9:45 FriSat 10:25 Sun-Wed 10:15 Lone Survivor (14A) Fri 7:25, 10:20 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:25, 10:15 Tue 4:20, 7:25, 10:15 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 7:45 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:00 mat, 5:10 Tue 5:10 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) 7:05, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat, 4:10 Tue 4:10 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 7:25, 10:10 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Sat-Sun 12:15 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Sat-Sun 2:40, 4:55 Tue 4:55 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 7:30 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:50 Sat-Sun 12:10, 4:00, 7:50 Tue 4:00, 7:50 3

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and How to find a listing

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

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641166 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), ­language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

festivals milton film festival

milton centre for the arts, mattamy theatre, 1010 main e (milton). ­miltonfilmfest.com

sat 11-sun 12 – $11-$16, stu $5, festival pass

$69.

sat 11 – Blancanieves (2012) D: Pablo Berger.

11 am. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) D: Colin Trevorrow. 1:45 pm. The Last White Knight (2013) D: Paul Saltzman. Director in atten­dance. 4 pm. The Hunt (2012) D: Thomas Vinterberg. 8:30 pm. sun 12 – Frances Ha (2012) D: Noah Baumbach. 11 am. Kumare (2012) D: Vikram Gandhi. 1:30 pm. Laurence Anyways (2013) D: Xavier Dolan. 3:45 pm. English Vinglish (2012) D: Gauri ­Shinde. 8 pm.

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

thu 9 – A Touch Of Sin (2013) D: Zhangke Jia. 3 pm. Muscle Shoals ñ (2013) D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier. 7:30 pm. fri 10-wed 15 – Check website for schedule.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 9 – Hot Docs Doc Soup presents A

Fragile Trust (2013) D: Samantha Grant. 6:45 pm. $15. h ­ otdocs.ca.

More Than Honey (2012) D: Markus Imhoof. 9:30 pm. fri 10 – I Am Divine (2013) D: Jeffrey Schwarz. 4 & 8:45 pm. Persistence Of Vision (2012) D: Kevin Schreck. 6:30 pm. sat 11 – Persistence Of Vision. 1 pm. I Am Divine. 7 pm. Red Queen Productions presents

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Derby Crazy Love D: Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott, about women’s roller derby. 3:30 pm. $12. Pink Flamingos (1972) D: John Waters. 9 pm. sun 12 – I Am Divine. 1 & 9:15 pm. Persistence Of Vision. 3:30 pm. Liaison of ­Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) Round-Up 2013 screening. 6 pm. lift.ca. mon 13 – Persistence Of Vision. 6:30 pm. I Am Divine. 8:45 pm.

Tue 14 – TVO presents the documentary Redesign My Brain. 6 pm. $10. I Am Divine.

9:15 pm.

Wed 15 – Persistence Of Vision. 4 pm. I Am Divine. 6:30 pm. Pink Flamingos. 8:45 pm.

repertory schedules

Animation buffs will feast on images like this in Persistence Of Vision.

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Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 11 – Mr Hulot’s Holiday (1953) D: Jacques Tati, and short film The Age Of Invention. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox

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

thu 9-fri 10 – Check website for schedule. sat 11 – Shivers (1975) D: David Cronenberg.

6:30 pm.

sun 12 – Naked Lunch (1991) D: David Cronenberg. 6:30 pm. ñ mon 13-wed 15 – Check website for sched-

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Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

Thu 9 – Enough Said (2013) D: Nicole Holofcener. 7 pm. About Time (2013) D: ñ Richard Curtis. 9 pm. fri 10 – The Book Thief (2013) D: Brian Percival. 7 pm. Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) D: Francis Lawrence. 9:30 pm. sat 11 – Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

1 & 9:30 pm. The Book Thief. 4 & 7 pm. sun 12 – Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 1 & 9:15 pm. Book Thief. 4 & 6:45 pm. mon 13 – The Book Thief. 6:45 pm. Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 9:15 pm. tue 14 – Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 6:45 pm. The Book Thief. 9:30 pm. wed 15 – The Book Thief. 6:45 pm. All Is Lost (2013) D: JC Chandor.

9:15 pm.

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GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 9-wed 15 –

Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm.

Free. thu 9-wed 15 – Holiday season and winter preview.

Rise and fall of an animation epic PERSISTENCE OF VISION (Kevin Schreck) Rating: NNN Once upon a time in England, Cana­ dian animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) set out to make a feature that would change how people thought about the for­ mat forever. It never happened.

Instead, the project was taken away from him and completed by others, to be released in various versions around the world as Arabian Knight, The Thief And The Cobbler and The Princess And The

ontario science centre 770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 9-fri 10 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2

pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm.

Sat 11-sun 12 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon & 4 pm.

Under The Sea. 2 pm. mon 13 -wed 15 – Great White Shark. 11 am & 2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm.

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

sat 11-sun 12 – The Darkside Of Oz: The ­ izard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, with W soundtrack to Pink Floyd’s Darkside Of The Moon. 7 pm.

Enough Said, with James Gandolfini, plays the Revue and Fox Cinemas.

revue cinema

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

Thu 9 – Enough Said (2013) D: Nicole Holofcener. 7 pm. Dion Conflict presents ñ New Year’s Evil (1980) D: Emmett Alston. 9 pm.

fri 10 – The Book Thief (2013) D: Brian Per­

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Cobbler. You do not want to see any of them.

Kevin Schreck’s Persistence Of Vision serves as an oral history of the doomed project. The director inter­views a number of Williams’s collaborators and uses archival footage of Williams (who refused to participate in the doc) to sketch out the cartoon film’s slow, excruciating death.

Animation buffs can feast on the fascinating behind-the-scenes footage and the stories of an inspired artist t­ rying to push the cival. 7 pm. Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) D: Francis Lawrence. 9:30 pm. sat 11-sun 12 – Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 1 & 9:30 pm. The Book Thief. 4 & 7 pm. mon 13 – The Book Thief. 6:45 pm. Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 9:15 pm. tue 14 – Hunger Games: Catching Fire. 6:30 pm. The Book Thief. 9:30 pm. wed 15 – The Book Thief. 6:45 pm. About Time(2013) D: Richard Curtis. 9:15 pm.

the royal 608 College. 416-466-4400. theroyal.to

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Girl Most Likely. 7 pm. Ms. 45. 9 pm. mon 13-tue 14 – Girl Most Likely. 7 pm. Ms. 45.

9 pm. wed 15 – IP Man: The Final Fight (2013) D: Herman Yau. 7 pm. The Fast And The Furious (2001) D: Rob Cohen. 9 pm.

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Casa Loma presents The P­ ellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, ­casaloma.org.

The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top of and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. h ­ hof.com. sat 11 – The Noor Cultural Centre presents Muhammad The Prophet, a History channel biography in celebration of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. 6 pm. Free. 123 Wynford. ­noorculturalcentre.ca. mon 13 – Toronto Film Society Monday Night Film Buff Series presents Appointment In Honduras (1953) D: Jacques Tourneur, and Simba (1955) D: Brian Desmond Hurst. 7 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. ­torontofilmsociety.com.

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Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries And Mentors ñ Of Ricky Jay

(Mongrel, 2012) D: Molly Bernstein. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNNN Ricky Jay can do things with playing cards and other objects that look impossible, and, as numerous eyewitnesses attest, he can do them live, up close and on request in any setting with no apparent preparation. He is the world’s leading exponent of sleight-​of-​hand and a superb storyteller. Also an author, historian, collector and occasional movie actor.

In the interview that structures the movie, Jay covers his career, the roots of his fascination with magic and its psychologies, philosophies and training methods. These are presented through the stories of the remarkable men he knew and studied with and enhanced by ample footage and photos of Jay, his mentors and friends.

In the end, a portrait emerges of an entire way of life that is richer and more complex than the mere acquisition of card tricks.

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EXTRAS Interviews and performances with Jay, Martin, Paul Thomas Anderson, David Mamet and others. English audio. No subtitles.

The Following (WB, 2013) ­Creator: Kevin Williamson, w/ Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy.

Rating: NNN; DVD/BR package: NNN

The Following never hits the loony heights of 24, but it rides the same one-​damn-​thing-​after-​another rails, with non-​stop shootouts, murders, ­abductions, rescues, punch-​ups and torture.

You’ll have to do some heavy lifting, though, if you want to suspend your disbelief. The driving premise is flat-​out preposterous: a serial killer on death row, working with nothing

but a few face-​to-​face meetings and some internet chat, enlists a handful of cult­ies eager to kill and die for his silly obsession with the beauty of death.

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Elysium (2013) Matt Damon and Jodie ­Foster star in a futuristic thriller that pits 1 per-­ ​centers on an orbiting space station against the populace of a ruined Earth.

Riddick (2013) Vin Diesel returns as the intergalactic criminal to battle monsters and mercenaries on a hellish world.

Fay Grim (2006) In Hal Hartley’s oddball take on the screwball comedy, a housewife is coerced into the spy business in search of her missing ­husband’s notebooks.

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lett, the main abductees) and a ­romantic triangle involving his main minions.

Purefoy does well enough with the standard Vincent Price-​Anthony Hopkins charming menace but only gets really scary toward the season’s end, when his self-​control starts to dissolve. Frightening in a different way, the always excellent Kevin Bacon brings powerful truth to the bleak ­inner life of the hero, a physically and emotionally damaged ex-​FBI agent.

Series creator Kevin Williamson (the Scream franchise) and producer/ director Marcos Siega rattle through infor­mative nuts-​and-​bolts commentaries on the pilot and season finale episodes. Elsewhere, cast members try to explain their characters.

EXTRAS Pilot and season finale ­commentaries, Williamson doc, cast and characters doc, more. English, Spanish audio. English, French, ­Spanish subtitles.

Touchy Feely (VSC, 2013) D: Lynn Shelton, w/ Josh Pais, Ellen Page. ­Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN Touchy Feely kicks off from an engag­ ingly wacky premise but doesn’t fly too far as comedy or drama due to

writer/director Lynn Shelton’s commitment to confining the action within the bounds of everyday life. Personally, I get enough of that when I get out of bed.

A massage therapist (Rosemary DeWitt) develops an uncontrollable aversion to touching and being touched. At the same time, her stuck-​ in-​a-​rut dentist brother (Josh Pais) gets a boost for his failing practice when he develops a healing touch.

He doesn’t notice that his daughter ­(Ellen Page) yearns to escape to ­university.

The first-​rate cast make the most of their characters, particularly Pais, who raises a few chuckles with his wooden physicality. But the story gets weaker as it goes along, until there’s nothing left but a whiny ballad to signal the onset of growth and change.

In the extras, Pais, Shelton and others give articulate accounts of their individual and collective processes.

EXTRAS Shelton, Pais, DeWitt commentary, cast and crew interviews, deleted scenes, outtakes, more. ­English audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

Zombie Night

(VSC, 2013) D: John Gulager, w/ Daryl Hannah, Anthony Michael Hall. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NN Zombie Night brings enough energy, skill and gore to its basic Night Of The Living Dead story to provide light entertainment on a chilly night.

When the dead start walking and chomping, one suburban family tries to defend their home, while another struggles to come together and find temporary shelter.

The structure keeps the action flowing, and director John Gulager makes the most of it with a restless camera, pounding score and close-​up, messy, traumatizing zombie-​killing, done more with blunt instruments than with guns.

Daryl Hannah and Anthony ­Michael Hall as one set of parents do solid character work even while running and screaming, and it’s a treat to see former Partridge Family mom Shirley Jones taking big bites from her near and dear ones.

The extras are more funny than ­informative, and very short.

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By Dan Savage

Lost in trans-lation Is there a term that is preferred to

“ transgendered”? I recently wrote an article that described a MTF person I know as transgendered. The article was positive about transgendered persons I have known (she is one of many). Upon seeing a draft prior to publication, this person flipped out so hard that I felt compelled to cut off all contact with her.

I also killed the article. One of her complaints was that I used the word “transgendered” to describe her, and she identifies as something other than that. I feel like an old fart even asking, but have you heard of this? What is the new term if it’s not okay to say “transgendered” any more?

Confused In Straightland

“Let’s assume CIS got the subject’s identity right (versus ‘genderqueer’ or ‘agender’) and is being respectful,” said Shadi Petosky, a writer, a trans woman and the co-founder of PUNY Entertainment. “Even if CIS showed her respect, CIS isn’t showing respect for the English language.” Transgender is an adjective like blue or tall, Petosky pointed out. It’s not a noun or verb. So the correct term is “transgender man,” “transgender woman” or “transgender person,” not “transgendered man.”

“It might help if CIS thinks about the adjectives ‘gay’ or ‘black,’” said Petosky.

“You’re a gay man or you’re gay. You’re not ‘gayed.’ The president is a black man.

He’s not a blacked man. Only an ignorant

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person or a bigot would get ‘gayed/ blacked’ wrong. And to say that Dan Savage is ‘a gay’ or Barak Obama is ‘a black’ sounds homophobic or racist because it dehumanizes. Trans people want dignity, CIS, so if you are saying ‘transgender’ or ‘trans’ outside of ‘they’re transgender,’ you have to put man, woman or person (or human) after it. Because that is what we are.”

If all you got wrong was that one thing, CIS, and your transgender friend blew up at you, well, that’s unfortunate. (We’re both giving you the benefit of the doubt, CIS, and assuming that “transgendered” was the only issue.) You were trying to do right by your friend, her anger was misplaced, an opportunity to educate a wellmeaning ally was lost, a friendship was nuked, and a transgender angel didn’t get her wings that day.

But let’s zoom out for a second. Trans folks have an awful lot to be angry about, CIS, from absolutely staggering levels of anti-trans violence to discrimination against trans people in employment to a lack of access to basic health care. But at times, righteous trans anger seems to get directed at whoever is nearest at hand, however well-intentioned or otherwise supportive that person might be. (Cough, cough.) But blowing up at you was easier than blowing up at, say, high-profile antitrans bigot Bill O’Reilly because you were in the room and O’Reilly wasn’t.

But Petosky would like you – and glittery me – to keep that misdirected anger in perspective. “People mostly seem to be

fascinated by trans people right after we come out,” said Petosky. “If CIS’s friend recently came out, then he was dealing with a person who is probably going through a lot of trauma and anxiety.

When I transitioned, I thought I was going to lose my business, kill my dating chances and end up homeless. Many trans people do. People called me ‘he’ most of the time in those early months. My selfimage was in shambles. I lashed out at some gay friends for saying things that were less than supportive. Gay men were actually some of the worst because they could be – they can be – sarcastic about stuff I was really sensitive about. It’s not like we trans people have no sense of who the real bad guys are. We’re just getting tons of shit thrown at us all at once and want some minor wins. We’re just trying to feel safe close to home first.”

So something about your article rubbed your trans friend the wrong way – maybe it was the way you brandished her as proof of your own high-mindedness? – and she suddenly felt less safe around you and blew up. Hopefully you two will be able to patch things up once the glitter has settled.

On a related note: Media Matters for America has extensively covered the outrageous and damaging anti-trans bigotry that Fox News routinely spews into American homes, hotels, airports and waiting rooms. (These two posts at MediaMatters.com will bring you up to speed: Experts: Fox News’ Coverage Contributes To Violence, Discrimination Against Trans-

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gender Community and Fox News’ Transphobia Problem.) Far be it from me to give the trans-rights movement marching orders… but… if a coalition of queer and trans-rights groups came together and called for a big ­demonstration outside the Fox News studios in midtown Manhattan, I would be there along with tons of other gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. How about it?

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I’m a 37-year-old straight male and

I ’ve never had a girlfriend. I lost my virginity when I was 25 and proceeded to have sex with dozens of women over the next five years, but none lasted more than a night or two. Over the next few years, I dated with the goal of finding a relationship, not sex, and found ­neither, then a few years of depression.

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She Moved On For two years, I pined for a guy I couldn’t have, certain I would never get over him. So I called him one day and asked him to have lunch. The plan: throw myself at him and convince him to leave his boyfriend for me. Failing that, convince him to resume cheating on his boyfriend with me. But five minutes into lunch, I realized I wasn’t attracted to him any more. It wasn’t that I couldn’t get over him during those two years, SMO, but that my ego wouldn’t let me get over being dumped. With that realization, the spell broke. We ate our sandwiches and said our good-byes.

Maybe you’ll have the same spell-breaking experience when you run into this woman in a professional setting? If not, keep trying the gym, movies, dating, etc, until the spell breaks or your life ends, whichever comes first.

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