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Re City Not Prepared For Climate Change (NOW, January 11). Thank you for this article, which mainly address es climate adaptation. But as a country we also need to decrease our greenhouse gas emissions. PM Harper says long-delayed regulations in the oil and gas sector will be announced “over the next couple of years.” Given all the ridings there are in Toronto, your city will play a key role in determining Canada’s longterm climate mitigation plans in the federal election. Carbon fee and dividend is a mechanism for pricing carbon that levies a tax upstream at the wellhead or mine where fossil fuels are produced, or for imports at the point of entry into our economy. It’s a market-based solution which, in comparison to regulation and cap and trade, would barely grow government size. By returning the revenue from carbon fees to citizens, it would impose a minimal tax burden. Which carbon price would you choose, Toronto? Cathy Orlando Citizens Climate Lobby Sudbury

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Toronto cannot foot the bill for cleanup after damage done by the recent ice storm and July flood, says Mayor Rob Ford. Why don’t we the people of Toronto pay for the cleanup? I would gladly donate $50 for the purpose. Rudolf Manook Toronto

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Re Ford: No More Years (NOW, January 19-25) How did Ford deliver on garbage privatization? There are no proven savings. It’s all a seven-year projection, and a shaky one at that. Pri vatization hasn’t proved any cheaper than public collection in Hamilton, which has both. And on unions? Their wages went up. Ford just claims they went up less than they would have under another mayor. He calls this a “saving.” Sure. John Willow From nowtoronto.com

Dishing on downtown elites

Is NOW Magazine for Toronto or is it for a small, select elite who live in the Centre of the Universe? I was shocked to see Victoria Park and O’Connor referred to as “a drive to the end of the universe” in Fresh Dish (NOW, January 9-15). Please be sensitive and respect the diversity of all neighbourhoods. If you persist in this downtown-centric vision of the city, those of us who live further east, west and north may be forced to vote for Rob Ford in protest. Enough already! Edith Fraser Toronto

Who cares what the Yanks think?

Eliminating foreign jurors from Giller voting, as Susan G. Cole suggests in her criticism of U.S. author Gary Shteyngart (NOW, January 10), is definitely not the answer. We as a country just need to stop overreacting and have a little more confidence in ourselves every time a big, bad American says something about our culture that we don’t like. It seems to me that our literary rep

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Most of your film reviewers’ Year In Review top 10 picks (NOW, Decem ber 26, 2013-January 1, 2014) were movies that involved watching peo ple suffer. Sounds like sadism to me. Too bad none of the cheerfully en tertaining movies of the year ap pealed to them. George Goldberg Toronto

The really pig problem with Rob Ford cover

I care about pigs. I can’t stand pluto crats. You confuse these two categor ies on your year-end cover of Rob Ford (NOW, December 26, 2013-January 1, 2014). This is a problem. Pigs are among Hogtown’s most marginalized groups. Thousands are violently killed at Quality Meat Packers every day. Take a walk to Tecumseth and Niagara and you’ll hear them scream. Rob Ford does violence to Toron to’s most marginalized groups. By voting against community develop ment and public health grants, by arguing against affordable housing and homeless shelters, by using ra cist, sexist, homophobic and trans phobic rhetoric, he makes the city less safe. If you can’t distinguish between Sus domestica and Rob Ford, and you can’t connect the forms of vio lence done to Toronto’s most mar ginalized groups, then in 2014, as in 2013, your work toward social trans formation will flounder. David Regan 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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Neil Young calls Canada out on tar sands When Neil Young first heard about the plight of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), he was halfway between San Francisco and northern Alberta in an electric car, making a movie about CO2 and clean transportation. “This was a 6,500-pound vehicle,” said Young, speaking at a press con ference at Massey Hall on Sunday, January 12. “We were making the point that you didn’t need oil. You didn’t need fossil fuels. There are other ways to get around.” Young was speaking ahead of his Honour The Treaties concert, part of a concert tour in support of the ACFN, which is taking on the feds and oil companies, including Shell Canada, over the recently federally approved Jackpine Mine expansion, the pro posed Pierre River Mine (another Shell project) and other sites. The rock god didn’t mince words. He took shots at the Harper govern ment, calling it a “very poor imita tion of the George Bush administra tion [and] an embarrassment to

many Canadians.” He also implicated ordinary Cana dians in oil sands expansion and this country’s treatment of First Nations, saying, “We made a deal with these people. We are breaking our promise. The blood of these people will be on Canada’s hands.” Young added that the death of First Nations people will be “fast and horrific” if tar sands development is allowed to continue. He described his visit to the tar sands as horrifying. He said he experi enced “this unbelievable smell and toxicity in my throat” that started 25 miles from the hub of the extraction industry in Fort McMurray and got more intense as he got closer. Young’s son, who has cerebral pal sy, wore a protective mask during the trip. Young concluded by urging Cana dians to do their research and find out what’s going on with the tar sands and to think about their grandchil dren and their grandchildren’s grand children, not just immediate job issues. “Try to look forward,” he said. “Try to come up with alternatives to a dirty future based on fossil fuels. De velop a way out. There is a door that could open up into the sunshine.” SARAH GREENE

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It’s 2010 and the war on the streetcar all over again. Although the TTC is in the midst of putting 204 new streetcars on the road, the mayor’s brother/campaign chair was busy during last week’s cold snap reviving the Fords’ anti-trolley shtick after 61 of the 200 in the TTC’s fleet were temporarily stalled by the cold. Doug said that if he had his way, they’d all be replaced by extra-long buses on downtown routes – even though buses cost more to operate and you’d need more of them to carry the load streetcars handle. The Fords believe every penny should be sunk into underground transit. Not that subways are immune to extreme weather: think flash floods and broken watermains.

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LIBS OFF & RUNNING The minority Libs aren’t waiting until the legislature reconvenes next month to start electioneering. The party’s campaign co-chair, Deb Matthews, launched the Grits’ new online ad over the weekend. It closely resembles last November’s “Never stop” ad that showed Wynne running, the pastoral hills of rural Ontario in the background. Insiders say that one played to favourable reviews. The message this time: “The power of being positive.”

Jobs lost by the Canadian economy in December, raising the national unemployment rate to 7.2 per cent. So much for the HarperCons’ talk of economic recovery. On that front, the feds’ claims have been a smokescreen. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, proportionally fewer Canadians are in the labour force today than were at the height of the 2008 recession. Of those who’ve come off the unemployment rolls since 2009, only one in five actually found a job. The other four stopped looking.

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David Suzuki throws his weight behind 350’s call for the University of Toronto endowment fund to stop investing in fossil fuel corps. The local enviro group points out that U of T divested from Big Tobacco and companies supporting apartheid in the past.

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Rob Ford won’t be taking the city to court over council’s decision to strip him of his powers, backing away from one threat he made during Crackgate. He says he’s tapped out, having spent half a mil for lawyers fighting various legal issues. Sure. No word on the other threat – to sue his own staffers who talked to cops about his crack, drinking and escorts exploits.

Stop, thief! Seems the Downtown Yonge BIA’s recent abandoned bike cleanup effort snagged a cycle or two that actually belonged to people. The BIA, which has been actively tidying the famous strip, collects bikes left out for three months, and it’s for a good cause. Unclaimed bikes are donated to Charlie’s Free Wheels, which teaches bike repair skills to marginalized youth. In fact, the BIA won the 2013 Charlie’s Freewheels Supporter Of The Year Award. But sometimes the road to good intentions can be hell for cyclists.

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York U’s decision to let a student out of in-class group work because of his religious beliefs is equated with Taliban theocracy by the man who would be PM. “We did not send soldiers to Afghanistan to protect the rights of women only to see those same rights eroded here at home,” huffed Pete. The student ended up participating in the class after all. Yup, that’s our justice minister.

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CITY HALL

A MATTER OF INTEGRITY

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Did her decision not to investigate the Rob Ford crack scandal undermine public confidence in T.O.’s accountability watchdog? By BEN SPURR

ob Ford’s tenure atop city government has been a trying one for our civic institutions. The police, the courts and council have all been dragged into difficult and unpreced ented territory by the mayor’s disturbing behaviour. But according to veteran ethical government crusa der Duff Conacher, one institution that has been tried and found badly wanting is the office of the integrity commissioner. Part of the commissioner’s job is to foster an “ethi cal and accountable culture at City Hall” and enforce council’s code of conduct. Conacher says that when it comes to Ford, Commissioner Janet Leiper has been unable or unwilling to do that job. After nearly two decades of fighting for greater ac countability in federal politics as the head of Democ racy Watch, Conacher is now seeking to strengthen the integrity regime that governs Toronto and all other Ontario municipalities. “The whole system should be changed,” Conacher says in a phone interview. In November, as the mayor’s crack cocaine scandal roiled at City Hall, council asked Leiper to review his behaviour, including the infamous drug video, his re fusal to cooperate with the subsequent police investi gation and his relationship with accused drug peddler Alexander “Sandro” Lisi. A month later, Leiper ruled that no further investi gation was warranted, in part because Ford had al ready apologized and his conduct had been debated at the November meeting. That response wasn’t good enough for Conacher. If the office of the integrity commissioner fails to disci pline behaviour as egregious as Ford’s, how effective can it be? Ontario’s current accountability system is a patch work. Each municipality drafts its own code of con duct for council members and appoints its own integ rity commissioner, if they appoint one at all. Conacher wants Queen’s Park to create a new power ful integrity position that would have jurisdiction over all Ontario municipalities under a single, uni form code of conduct. Instead of simply making a recommendation to councillors who then have final say over whether an offending member should face any penalty, the prov

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“When you have tough cases like Rob Ford, who’s seemingly not shamed by anything, what’s a reprimand going to do?”

incial commissioner should have the power to hand out punishment on his or her own, says Conacher. And while under Ontario’s current system a repri mand or a 90-day suspension of pay are the only ex plicitly allowable penalties for a breach of the code, Conacher thinks there should be a sliding scale of punishment depending on the severity of the miscon duct, up to and including suspension from council. Last month, Conacher petitioned Leiper to revisit her decision on Ford. Unsurprisingly, she declined. He now says he plans to take the issue to court and ask for a judicial review of her ruling. (On Friday, January 10, the Globe and Mail reported that Leiper received another complaint about Ford, this time about allegations in court documents that he used city staffers to run personal errands. It’s not yet known if she’ll investigate.) John Mascarin, a municipal lawyer recently ap pointed integrity commissioner for two small muni cipalities in Simcoe County, agrees that the penalties for violating codes of conduct need to be beefed up. Often a simple council reprimand can effectively shame a politician into behaving, he says, “But then you have the really tough cases like a Rob Ford, who’s seemingly not shamed by anything. What’s a repri mand going to do? What’s suspension of pay going to do for someone who’s a very wealthy individual?”

Breaking the code

The preamble of Toronto council’s code of conduct states that all members: “ should be committed to performing their functions with integrity and to avoiding the improper use of the influence of their office, and conflicts of interest, both apparent and real”; “are expected to perform their duties in office and arrange their private affairs in a manner that promotes p ublic confidence and will bear close public scrutiny”; “shall seek to serve the public interest by upholding both the letter and the spirit of the laws of the Federal Parliament and Ontario Legislature, and the laws and policies adopted by City Council.”

Mascarin suggests that measures similar to those council took against Ford in November, which included cutting his office budget and removing his authority to appoint committee chairs, should be explicitly spelled out as penalties for violating codes of conduct. He also concurs with Conacher that councillors shouldn’t be voting on whether to discipline one of their own. But he says giving a provincially appointed commis sioner power over city councillors would go against the recent legislative trend that has seen Canadian municipalities gain more autonomy from provinces. “It would be a pretty hard sell to the municipal sec tor,” he says. Andrew Sancton, a professor of political science at Western University, argues that adequate measures are already in place to deal with misbehaving council members. He points out that where violations are po tentially criminal, they can be investigated by the po lice. If the misconduct is particularly grievous, as a last resort the provincial legislature has the authority to give council the power to boot a member, an idea that was floated at the height of the Ford crack scandal. But most of the time, Sancton says, voters should be the ones judging the transgressions of politicians. “I just think many of these kind of things are best settled at election time,” Sancton says. “What’s wrong with letting the people of Toronto decide whether Mayor Ford’s conduct has been acceptable or not?” Whether the province will take up Conacher’s push for reform remains to be seen. “The ministry carefully considers all suggestions of changes to legislation that we receive,” says May Nazar, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing. “We are currently reviewing the Munici pal Act and the Municipal Conflict Of Interest Act. It is important that we take the time to engage with muni cipalities and the public on any potential changes to determine what would best benefit the residents of Ontario’s cities and towns.” For her part, Leiper doesn’t believe that deciding not to investigate Ford’s crack scandal has under mined public confidence in the effectiveness of her office. “If I were of that view, I would have advised city council accordingly,” she writes in an email to NOW. She also denies that her decision not to pursue the case was in any way influenced by her last high-pro file run-in with Ford. Her recommendation on his im proper solicitation of donations for his football foun dation helped launch the conflict of interest case that nearly threw him out of office but was eventually de termined to have been incorrect by the Ontario Div isional Court in January 2013. Councillor Gord Perks supports Leiper’s work and says she’s done a tremendous job in a role created only nine years ago that did not come with a road map. Although he shares their frustration with the may or’s “disaster” of a term, Perks feels that Conacher and others who have sought a legislative or legal solution to the Ford problem are looking for the easy way out. Instead of asking how the law can be used to tame To ronto’s rogue leader, he says they should be asking how Ford got elected four years ago despite his ob vious flaws. “He was known to be a liar, to have problems with substance abuse and public behaviour, to be a homo phobe. And nevertheless he got more votes than any body else,” Perks says. “That doesn’t speak to a prob lem with our accountability and integrity mechanisms; that speaks to there being something in Toronto’s pol itics where enough people are willing to accept that behaviour from a politician in exchange for some thing else he was offering. “The right question is, what has our society and eco nomy done to alienate people to the point where they thought in 2010 that the upside of Rob Ford was worth the downside? That’s the real issue that people should turn their minds to, not to whether or not we need new provincial legislation on the integrity commis sioner.” 3 bens@nowtoronto.com | @BenSpurr

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Number one: rebuild our aged electrical network and move to automated “smart grid” technology to allow power to be moved where it’s needed when it’s needed. Think “load shedding” – shutting off non-essential functions like air conditioners to help conserve power – and using solar to fill the gaps.

To substantially reduce the risk of limbs falling on wires and knocking out the network, up to 25 per cent of the tree canopy would have to be pruned. But thinning the canopy to that extent would end up increasing the effects of climate change and add to peak electrical use, further straining the system. A compromise: increase the forestry budget to allow for better inspection and timely pruning of trees rather than today’s roughly six-month wait.

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Toronto pumps sewage to treatment plants from many low-lying areas, so you can imagine what a longer-term lack of electrical power might mean. But even if we can get water purified and pumped up to our high reservoirs, and then via gravity to taps in houses and lowrises, what happens to the hundreds of thousands of apartment and condo dwellers who live above the seventh floor and rely on electrical pumps for water? Many highrises have backup power, but often not enough to sustain pressure, and certainly not for extended periods. More crisis planning needs to done to ensure that vulnerable people, seniors and those with disabilities, can get water in emergencies.

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SITUATION CRITICAL

Toronto was lucky. Unlike the 1998 ice storm that hit mostly eastern Ontario and Quebec, or the 2003 blackout, this one didn’t knock out power altogether. While many hospitals, emergency services and other critical operations have backup power, those systems aren’t designed to run for days, which means we could be at risk in larger storms. The answer: localized power generation both through standby generators and green power sources that aren’t reliant on the grid.

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$106 MILLION

Estimated cost to Toronto of December’s ice storm.

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Estimated cost of debris cleanup.

SEWER STORM

Hundreds of millions of dollars are needed to expand sewers to prevent the basement flooding that occurs after extreme rainstorms or winter thaws. Toronto has large underground storage tanks, but they’re not large enough to handle huge volumes. More money must be put back in the budget to plant trees and create porous pavement to absorb runoff. Many such projects were recently axed due to the lack of funding caused by council’s plan to reduce annual water rate increases to 3 per cent from the current 9 per cent.

Number of fire stations without power for extended periods.

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LEARNED FROM THE ICE APOCALYPSE – AND WHAT CITY GOVERNMENT COULD BE DOING TO SHELTER US FROM THE NEXT BIG ONE By ADAM GIAMBRONE

WATER HOLE

The water and sewage system is T.O.’s largest user of power, way bigger than the next-biggest – the TTC. The F.J. Horgan Water Treatment Plant, the city’s newest, was out of commission for a time during the storm. A number of pumping stations in Scarborough were also affected. More serious sewage issues were averted this time, but it wouldn’t take much more than we experienced to put us over the tipping point. News flash: with normal usage, the city has about 48 hours’ worth of stored water. We need a system of diesel-powered backup pumps that could maintain minimal pressure throughout the system for essential services like firefighting and water filtration.

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Toronto began a program of undergrounding wires back in the 1970s, believe it or not. That program was suspended, however, due to its perceived high cost – up to $5,000 per house at the time. Undergrounding wouldn’t solve all weather-related hydro problems, like flooding of existing underground vaults. But burying wires when opportunities arise would mitigate the effects of severe weather. The major street redesign done on St. Clair during construction of the streetcar right of way, for example, kept transit operational.

Storms of various kinds can also test the road network. Cities like Saskatoon are looking at thawing technology like that used on many of Toronto’s downtown’s sidewalks to keep roads clear of ice. While it’s not planet-friendly, the tech could be used in a limited way to make sure problem areas on large arterials with bus routes stay navigable. The bigger problem, however, is identifying how to prevent the flooding and washing out of key arteries during deluges like last summer’s.

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More attention needs to be paid to reinforcing our basic infrastructure. Without such preparation we put the economic well-being of the city at risk. But even if billions are spent on storm prevention, people need more education about how to survive without power and water for a few days. Few people know that an assumption of two to three days of food and water self-sufficiency is built into a good emergency preparedness plan.

2,351

Calls to the fire department about wires down.

168

Number of TCH buildings without power at the height of the storm and its aftermath. That’s 19,400 units and 50,000 residents.

MASSING TRANSIT

The critical service in any extreme weather event is transportation. Minimal TTC service during and after severe storms is essential not only for getting people to work but, as was the case last month, for getting those without power to warming centres. The TTC learned from past crises, most notably 1999’s snowstorm, when the army was called in, and has an extensive extreme weather plan, including applying glycol (a de-icer) to outdoor subway power lines. The ice storm showed that generators can keep subway stations operable to ensure a skeletal transit system during large-scale power outages. But tweaks are required. Subway trains are parked in the tunnels in extreme weather to make sure they start. In the future, some streetcars could be stored underground at the Spadina station and in the Union-to-Queens Quay tunnels to keep them operable in bad weather. The new streetcars set for arrival this summer will offer better reliability in cold weather; specially designed block heaters and periodic nighttime running would keep older streetcars up and running.

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Meanwhile, John Tory searches for the path to victory. Does it exist? It’s not clear to his strategists, including one-time Ford heavy hitters and at least one prominent Conservative number cruncher. They’re going through polls with a fine-tooth comb to figure this out. Not an easy task for a guy who’s wearing the “three-time-loser” label on his forehead owing to his hat trick of election defeats. And every day he waits, questions about his indecisiveness grow. Don’t hold your breath. If the ex-PC-leader-turned-radio-talkshow-host is getting into the mayoral race – and it looks like he will – it probably won’t be till after a widely expected provincial election in the spring, in which future public transit and how we pay for it will be a huge issue if the Toronto and Region Board of Trade has anything to say about it, a plus for Tory’s business backers. But if the Libs can’t sell dedicated revenue tools to the electorate in the face of populist PC and NDP opposition, then what? Tory’s prospects dim considerably, his cred as a bottom-line conservative taking a hit. As the former head of CivicAction, Tory’s been an active promoter of a designated taxes to pay for transit. TBoT may be on board with that, but the hardcore Fordists Tory needs to attract to take him over the top in 2014 may read it as just another tax-andspend liberal move – small-l in his case.

Mayor’s solo creep at Muzik nightclub is a worrisome sign for someone who’s supposed to be keeping his nose clean By ENZO DiMATTEO Rob Ford was spotted clubbing on the weekend, making an appearance at Muzik, the popular disco to the stars at the Exhibition grounds January 11. It didn’t take long, of course, for photos of the mayor embracing female fans to start making the rounds on social media. Only this time he didn’t appear to be intoxicated. Why should we care? Doug Ford quickly rose to his bro’s defence, saying Rob was on a campaign stop, had his energy drink and split. It’s the youth – they love him. Just another midnight glad-handing session. Uh-huh. Except Muzik has come up before in discussions about the mayor’s past party episodes, as has his relationship to the club’s owner, the supplier of booze at the last Ford fest. And, more to the point, the club was the beneficiary of a sole-source extension of its existing 20-year lease pushed by none other than Ford ally and Exhibition Place board of gover

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nors chair Mark Grimes. But a hitch caused city staff to intervene and stall the move. Ford didn’t jump in and scream corruption, as he’s wont to do in such matters – as he did to great effect on his way to stopping the gravy train in 2010 when the city sole-sourced a 20- year lease to Boardwalk Pub owner George Foulidis. But that’s not the story Twitter was in the mood to talk about Sunday amid the post-Muzik buzz. Was Rob drinking? How did he get home that night? Has he installed that breathalyzer in his SUV, the one his mom said he would when she promised CP24 viewers back in November that Robbie was on the straight and narrow? There’s no reason to disbelieve Doug’s version of events in the absence of evidence to the contrary. What the Twitter tempest seems to affirm is that Ford’s celebrity status remains intact for now.

It’s a problem for his political foes that all the world is Ford’s stage. The American media don’t seem to have gotten over their hang-up, and neither has the local press. The Star, Sun and Post all published stories about Ford’s Muzik visit. As one operative of a rival mayoral camp barked to me over the phone recently: “The guy farts and you guys write about it.” Not exactly. Members of the City Hall press gallery did take some heat for asking the mayor whether he’d imbibed at Muzik. But that’s a legit question giv en Ford’s declaration, after he blamed his crack-smoking on “drunken stupors,” that he’s sworn off the bottle.” His visit to the club is a worrisome sign that the mayor may be flirting with disaster again after keeping his nose clean in recent months, report edly taking up a physical fitness regimen and seeking occasional spiritual guidance at a certain church in the Jane-Finch area on Sundays. But alcoholism is tricky. And Ford, from what we know of his bouts of public drunkenness, is a classic case of someone who drinks to inebriation or blacking out. The last time he was clean and sober for any length of time was in 2010, when he went six months, give or take, without falling off the wagon. But he hasn’t put 90 days together since. And his outbursts during the Monday, January 13, emergency meeting of council to debate ice storm relief suggest his stress level is rising. As anyone familiar with the demands of a 12-step program will tell you, going clean is hard to do. You’re bound to fall down a few times. 3

Stintz: 2014’s susan fish? If Tory’s playing the long game, Karen Stintz has no such option now that the other conservative in the race, former Scarborough councillor David Soknacki, is taking clear aim at her reversal on the LRT in favour of a subway extension in Scarborough. Soknacki promises to undo the deal if he wins. The Liberal crew around Stintz who helped chor eograph Dalton McGuinty’s election wins, Don Guy and David Gene, figure there’s still time. There’s a base to work from. Stintz’s early numbers are respectable, consistently hovering in the mid-teens. But the TTC chair’s public absence during the ice storm was a missed opportunity to grow support. It’s early, but there’s a pall hanging over Stintz: that she may be 2014’s Susan Fish, the Red Tory who was forced to drop out of the 1991 mayoral contest for lack of resources after the business and development community put their money on eventual winner June Rowlands. Back then it was to stop a guy named Jack Layton from becoming mayor. This time it may be the late NDP leader’s wife, Olivia Chow. Talk about synchronicity. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo

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On January 4, the Toronto Star pub lished a Ken Gallinger advice column headlined Transgender Man’s Ogling Behaviour Unacceptable. In it, the paper’s resident ethicist re sponded to a letter from an unnamed “senior woman” who describes an inci dent in which a “‘man’ claiming to be transgender, who had not yet begun physical treatments, was permitted by our local Y to use the women’s locker room.” The person, she said, “was not courteous and stared at me while I struggled out of a wet bathing suit. He was naked, had an erection and play fully asked, ‘Do you come here often?’” Gallinger’s assessment was rea sonably intelligent and sympathetic, making it clear that “transgender women, regardless of their status re garding surgical intervention, have the absolute right to use the women’s change room” but also that “the fact that a person is transgender doesn’t mean they can’t also be a jerk.” There was an obvious problem with the headline, which misidenti

fied the individual in question as a trans man rather than a trans wo man. But the Star, to its credit, amended it online and issued a cor rection in January 7’s paper. There was also, however, a somewhat less obvious and much more serious problem: there’s a fairly good chance that the letter itself may have been an ideologically motivated fabrication. As explained by U.S.-based trans news site the TransAdvocate, the sensational epi sode recounted in the letter is far more consistent with a number of hoax stor ies credulously reported in American media over the years than it is with any incident known to have actually taken place anywhere. The TransAdvocate’s Cristan Wil liams took the additional step of phoning “every Toronto YMCA with a pool,” but no one she spoke to had heard of any situation like the one described in the letter. (It should be noted, however, that the Star’s reader ship extends beyond Toronto’s bor ders, and the anonymous letter-writ

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er makes no reference to her local Y being in the city.) In an email to the TransAdvocate, Gallinger wrote, “It is, of course, not possible for me to substantiate most of the stories I’m told, and frankly I don’t try – my general policy is to deal with issues as they are presented….” That is, as an ethics columnist, his role is to evaluate quandaries in the ab stract, independent from any particu lar truth value they might have. One question, then, is whether Gal linger and other advice columnists should assume more responsibility with respect to reader letters that re inforce negative stereotypes or (as is quite possibly the case here) propagate baseless fear-mongering. To what de gree should conventional journalistic standards apply to advice columns? Gallinger, a freelancer who lives in the Parry Sound area, was a minister of the United Church through mid2012. He’s been writing the Star’s Eth ically Speaking column on a regular basis for the past eight years. He tells me in an email that he’s submitted a follow-up piece “address ing many of the same questions you’re interested in,” but declines to be interviewed until it’s published. Kathy English, the Star’s public editor (who investigates errors and other lapses of standards), says she’s aware of the TransAdvocate post and is looking into it. As for the broader issue concerning the duties of advice columnists, she agrees that there are “interesting questions, to be sure.” In a 2011 article, Gallinger weighed in on the distinction between report ers and opinion columnists. “Both inquire, investigate and unearth facts,” he wrote. “But at day’s end, re porters report; columnists reflect, argue and opine. This doesn’t mean columnists have unfettered free dom. We are expected to base our opining on facts – and those facts must be accurate. Sloppy research, prejudicial presuppositions and bad data are as unacceptable in opinion columns as in front page news.” 3 jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Sheng-Xiang & Band play the Performing Taiwan fest.

Festivals this week DANCE WEEKEND ’14 Dance Ontario festival with performances by 26 companies. $10 min. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. danceontario.ca. Jan 17 to 19 Toronto Design Offsite Festival

Exhibitions and events mark Toronto Design Week at venues across the city. todesignoffsite.com. Jan 20 to 26 Performing Taiwan Festival of current Taiwanese arts and culture featuring indie rock, folk, theatre, dance, a uthors and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre and other venues. performingtaiwan.com. Jan 22 to 25

continuing Mozart@258 Festival Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents works by Mozart. Various prices. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. tso.ca. To Jan 23 Next Stage Theatre Festival Indie theatre ranging from musicals to political dramas. $10-$15. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-9661062, fringetoronto.com/nextstage-festival. To Jan 19

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Daily events appear by date, then alphabetically by the name of the event. r indicates kid-friendly events indicates queer-friendly events

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All listings are free. Send to: listings@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Daily Events, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, including participants, time, price, venue, address and contact phone number (or e-mail or website if no phone available). Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, January 16

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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.

Events

Bouncing Back To Calm Wellness educator

Isabelle Moreau discusses stress manage-

ment. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

The Earthy Reality Behind The Ethereality Talk on the history of the ballerina from the court of Louis XIV to the present day by columnist Deidre Kelly. 2 pm. $10. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416-463-3405.

InterAccess 30th Anniversary Mecha Kucha Anniversary celebration with speakers

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. Knit A Bit... Or A Lot Join a group to knit and create with fibre. 5-7 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park. 416-396-3975. Nonviolence 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.

Friday, January 17 Art Of The Female Orgasm All-gen-

ders workshop with Ducky Doolittle. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416-504-7934. rArt’s Birthday New Adventures in Sound Art celebrates international art with performances, sound installations, birthday cake and more. To Jan 19. Free-$5. Artscape Wychwood Barns NAISA Studio, 601 Christie. naisa.ca/art.

Brampton Fair’s Got Talent Contest Top 10

talent contest performances, cocktails and a buffet dinner. 6:30 pm. $25. Peel Jr Farmer’s Hall, Brampton Fair Grounds, 12942 Heart Lake (Caledon). 905-840-2077. Culture Talks: Living Archive Film curator Lauren Howes talks about her Berlin-Toronto projects. 5:30 pm. Free. Goethe-Institut, 100 University. goethe.de/toronto.

Going Nowhere Fast: Life Was Much Easier When Apple And Blackberry Were Just Fruits Discussion, kirtan chanting and a vegan dinner. 6:30 pm. $7. Bhakti Lounge-Heart of Yoga, 117 Dundas E. 647-261-7499. Old Time Country Dance All-ages dancing with instruction and a live caller. 7 pm. $10, fam $25. Fairlawn Avenue United Church, 28 Fairlawn. sheryl@ fairlawnavenueunited.ca.

Quietly Into Disaster, A Plea For Survival Film screening and

talk by Angela Bischoff of Ontario Clean Air Alliance. 7 pm. $4 or pwyc. OISE, rm 2-214, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca.

Permanent Resident Voting In Municipal Elections Open dialogue on facilitating the

Toronto RV Show

Consumer show featuring all types, sizes and models of

civic participation of newcomers. 9:30 amnoon. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. Pre-register 416-392-5617.

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recreational vehicles. Today 10 am-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Jan 19, 11 am-5 pm. $6$12. International Centre, 6900 Airport (Mississauga). rvshowtoronto.ca. Toronto Swing Dance Society All styles of swing music. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. Total Wedding Show Fashions, services, destinations and more. Today 5-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm. $15, kids free. International Centre, 4141 Living Arts (Mississauga). totalweddingshow.com. Visual Artists Show & Sale Receive and share friendly feedback on your artwork. 7 pm. Free. Art Cave, 155 Lamb. eastendarts.ca.

Saturday, January 18 Bed Bugs: Politics And Science Of The Resurgence Toronto Entomologists’ Assoc illus-

trated talk. 1:15 pm. Free. Victoria University, rm 206, 140 Charles W. ontarioinsects.org. Best Of The West Dundas West food crawl and guided tour. 12:30 pm. $75. Bathurst and Dundas. Pre-register suzanne@ savourtoronto.com. Le Chien Noir: Salon Des Arts View and create collage art while listening to music. 1 pm. Free. City Art Collage Gallery, 230 Queen E. cityartproject.ca.

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Tuesday, January 21 Biological Urbanism Exhibition tour with

environmental design chair Bruce Hinds. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite [at] OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. terreform.org.

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

Olivia Chow’s life so far

Local MP Olivia Chow isn’t ready to reveal plans for her future – especially when it comes to the 2014 mayoralty campaign – but she mines her past with surprising candour in her new memoir, My Journey (HarperCollins). Chow launches the book on Wednesday (January 22), 7 pm, at Trinity-St. Paul’s United Church (427 Bloor West). This is a free ticketed event. Reserve at 416-462-1104. oliviachowbooklaunch@gmail.com.

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While we’re getting juiced to topple Rob Ford in 2014, close to half a million immigrants with permanent residency status don’t currently DJ Skate Nights Footprints On Ice outdoor skating party. 8 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Get To Know Your DSLR Camera Photography workshop. 1-4 pm. $80. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register rom.on.ca. International Burlesque Expo Performances by World Famous Bob, April March, Great Canadian Burlesque and others plus a brunch. Today and tomorrow 7:30 pm (brunch 12:30 pm, at Round, 52 Augusta). Shows $30$50, brunch $30. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. girlesque14.eventbrite.com. rMonster Jam Freestyle champion Cam McQueen, custom-designed trucks, a racing competition, party in the pit and more. Today 7 pm; tomorrow 2 pm. $23-$133 kids $15. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. monsterjamcanada.ca. NUDE Loft Party Young local artists showcase their talent in a raw environment. 8 pm. $20. Storys Building, 11 Duncan. inktickets.com. 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.

5Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps

The LGBT precision colour guard holds an open rehearsal for people interested in marching in the 2014 Toronto World Pride Parade. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. Free. Church Street Public School, 83 Alexander. r otctoronto.com. So Ya Wanna Be A Beekeeper Urban beekeeping workshop. 2-4 pm. $10. Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace, 862 Richmond W. Preregister bentomiso.com/events. rStaying Alive – Family Nature Walk Guided walk to learn how chipmunks, chickadees, squirrels, owls and insects survive winter. 1-2:30 pm. $2-$5. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. 3D Printing For Total Beginners Learn the basics of digital fabrication and design your own 3D printable items. 1-4 pm. $49. Hot Pop Factory, 215 Spadina. Pre-register hotpopfactory.com/workshops. Toronto Salsa Practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30 & 5:30 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. Toronto Travel Expo Get expert advice and learn about deals. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. t ravelexpo. ca. 5Violet Wand Workshop Learn how to use violet wands safely and effectively in BDSM erotic play. 3-6 pm. $10. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Conversation Between David Cronenberg And Piers Handling Discussion on creativity

and the generation of ideas, and relationships among technology, art, cinema, architecture, design and city landscapes. 7 pm. Free. OCAD U Auditorium, 100 McCaul. ocadu.ca. rLearn To Skate Outdoor skating classes for all ages. Various times and prices. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register harbourfrontcentre.com/learntoskate. Occupy Economics Workshop on monopolistic competition and determination of prices and wages. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. info@occupyeconomics.ca. The Power Of Pursuing Your Dream Seminar on pursuing a dream or career or personal goal. 7 pm. $12. Aangen Community Centre, 868 Dovercourt. Pre-register aangen.com.

have the right to vote in the municipal election. Open up the dialogue on fostering civic participation for newcomers today (Thursday, January 16) from 9:30 am to noon at the 519 Church Community Centre. Free. Pre-register 416-392-5617.

Waterfront ideas

Share your vision for the future of Ontario Place and the proposed urban park and waterfront trail at the shuttered former amusement park on the lakeshore Wednesday (January 22) at 6 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre North bldg, room 104. 255 Front West. 416-212-2161. Carthy Gallery. Noon-5 pm. Free. Koffler Centre School of the Arts, 4588 Bathurst. Preregister vmoreno@kofflerarts.org. An Enchanted Evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm. Free w/donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234.

55th Anniversary Of The Triumph Of The Cuban Revolution Live music, poetry, a talk

by the Cuban consul general and more. 5 pm. Free. Casa Maíz, 1280 Finch W. torontoforumoncuba@rogers.com. rThe Little Yellow School Bus All-ages puppet show performed by B-AM Children’s Entertainment. 3 pm. $15. Metropolis Factory, 50 Edwin. p uppetallsorts.com. rSamba Drumming Members of Samba Squad lead a workshop for adults and kids. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Drum Artz, 27 Primrose. 416-538-6342, drumartz.com. Sex For Survivors Workshop with Ducky Doolittle. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. 416-504-7934, comeasyouare.com.

A ‘Test Your Limits’ Odyssey: The South Pole

Cardiac transplant surgeon Heather Ross talks about her adventure with a transplant patient. 10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. Toronto Western Waterfront Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Bathurst and Front. 416-5932656. rWinter Fun Day Wintery activities include taffy pulling and marshmallow roasting.

Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana & South Africa Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 48 King W. atcadventure. com.

Veg 101: Sustainable Healthy Eating Made Easy Talk by Toronto Vegetarian Association Olivia Chow launches her memoir January 22.

11 am-3 pm. Free. Colborne Lodge, High Park. toronto.ca/museum-events.

Monday, January 20 Chanting Join in chanting for peace, happiness and spiritual growth. 7 pm. Free. Tao Sangha Toronto Healing Centre, 375 Jane. 416-925-7575. Moving Through Our Fundamental Weakness Through Spiritual Practice Seminar on

SGI Buddhism. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-654-3211.

The Power Of Nonviolence Martin Luther King

Day forum with talks on nonviolent action in India, nonviolence in South Sudan and nonviolent action for environmental justice in Aamjiwnaang and on Line 9. 7 pm. Free. Friends Meeting House, 60 Lowther. 416-731-6605, peaceworks@primus.ca. Race And Work Good Jobs for All forum, with speakers including Grace-Edward Galabuzi and Deena Ladd, celebrating Martin Luther King’s birthday. 6:30-9 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. communications@ labourcouncil.ca.

director David Alexander. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. 416-395-5440.

Wednesday, January 22

Benefits

WHISTLEBLOWER FUNDRAISER (Trainers who were fired from and sued by MarineLand) Music by DJ Adam Khan, a silent art auction and more. 7 pm. $20 or pwyc. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

Events

Biological Urbanism Exhibition tour

with photographers Jill Chen and Kevin Hewitt. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite [at] OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. terreform.org. CBC Connects A weekly live show lets you connect with CBC personalities. Noon-1 pm. Free. CBC Broadcasting Centre Atrium, 250 Front W. cbc.ca. Freestyle Farm Urban homestead presentation

Take the Staying Alive nature walk in High Park on January 18.

and hands-on workshop with urban farmers Jill Chen and Kevin Hewitt. 6:30 pm. Free. Preregister OCAD U, 100 McCaul, onsite@ocadu. ca. Hart House Art Tours Tour of the Canadian art collection. Free. Info Hub, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-2452. Olivia Chow Launching her memoir, My Journey, with performances by Shukri Dualeh and Jaydahmann. 7 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. Tickets available at Another Story (315 Roncesvalles, 416-4621104) or oliviachowbooklaunch@gmail.com. Opera Talks: Verdi Opera Canada editor Wayne Gooding talks about the Canadian Opera Company’s upcoming production of Verdi’s A Masked Ball. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5639.

Parents: Are You Properly Protected?

Workshop for parents on different types of life insurance. 7:30 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. Pre-register 416-392-0511 ext 225. Your Park, Your Ideas Share your ideas for the proposed urban park and waterfront trail at Ontario Place. 6 pm. Free. Metro Convention Centre North Bldg, rm 104, 255 Front W. 416-212-2161.

upcoming Thursday, January 23

Benefits

The Big Give (Look Good, Feel Better) Benefit gala with food, drinks and a raffle. 7 pm. $70. Ripleys Aquarium, 288 Bremner. lgfb.ca.

Events

Charles Stankievech The artist talks about

his Counterintelligence exhibit. 6 pm. Free. Hart House Music Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. Community Quilt Group Explore historic and modern quilting techniques, make friends and improve your sewing skills. 6-8 pm. Free. Gibson House, 5172 Yonge. 416-395-7432.

The Dynamic Duo For Fighting Heart Disease Talk on how vitamin C and lysine can

reduce heart attacks. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Interior Design Show Exhibition of international and Canadian design innovation. To Jan 26. Metro Convention Centre, North Bldg, 255 Front W. interiordesignshow.com. Turning Digital Into Dollars Canadian Journalism Foundation panel discussion on putting resources into digital, with Toronto Star publisher John Cruickshank, La Presse editorial pages editor André Pratte and others. 6:30 pm. $30, stu $15. TMX Broadcast Centre, Exchange Tower, 130 King W. Pre-register at cjf-fjc.ca/content/j-talks. 3

Sunday, January 19 Classical Animation On Paper 101 Workshop

on timing, facial expressions, movement flow and more. Pre-register. 11 am-5 pm. $80. Toronto Animated Image Society, unit B, 1411 Dufferin. tais.ca. Contemporary Art Bus Tour Bus tour to visit exhibitions at the Koffler Gallery, Art Gallery of York, Blackwood Gallery and Doris Mc-

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SCREW YOU, POLAR VORTEX Beat the coldest winter in recent memory with layers upon layers of Canadian-designed knitwear

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The week’s news, views and sales Big-box stores be damned If your New Year’s resolution is to shop local and sustainable, you’re in luck! The Leslieville Flea Market moves indoors to the Distillery District’s Fermenting Cellar (28 Distillery) on Sunday (January 19) from 10 am to 5 pm, and also operates February 23, March 16 and April 20. Peruse unique vintage finds from over 70 local collectors and makers. Vendors include She’s Crafty, Cast and Crown and Son of a Woodcutter. leslievilleflea.com

Brides, brides, brides It’s that time of year again. You’re either getting married or really fucking sick of your newly engaged friends’ Facebook statuses. If you’re in the former camp, check out over 350 wedding retailers and service providers at the Total Wedding Show Friday through Sunday (January 17-19) at the International Centre (6900 Airport). Tickets are $15 at totalweddingshow.com.

The swaggiest swag bag Local beauty brand Elizabeth Grant Skin Care and its charitable division, EG Cares, host The Big Give fundraiser on January 23 at Ripley’s Aquarium (288 Bremner). Eat, drink and leave with a can’tlive-without swag bag valued at over $500. (Last year each bag weighed over 4.5 kilos!) Tickets are $70 at dothebiggive.com and 100 per cent of proceeds benefit Look Good Feel Better, which addresses the appearance-related effects of all cancers impacting women.

1. Sherman cowl ($79, Dylanium Knits,, dylaniumknits.com). 2. Winter Seafoam knitted toque ($69, Headmistress, loveheadmistress.com).

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3. Paper People Clothing Stella dress ($169, Fresh Collective, 274 Augusta, 416-966-0123, and others, freshcollective.com).

5. Line Knitwear Scenester jacket ($299, Body Blue,, 199 Danforth, 416-778-7601, and other, bodyblue.ca).

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4. John & Jenn by Line Bren sweater ($135, TNT,, 87 Avenue Rd, 416-975-1960, and other, tntfashion.ca).

The Zippo Hand Warmer keeps the classic lighter shape but replaces the flame with a flameless, smokeless, odourless burner head that’ll keep your hands warm for 12 hours. $28 from Mountain Equipment Co-op, ALEXANDER JOO mec.ca

Fashion Crimes (322½ Queen West, 416-592-9001, fashioncrimes.ca), a downtown fixture for 30 years and a prom favourite, will soon close its doors. Until then, score some unbelievable deals. Take 50 per cent off already reduced sale items and grab earrings for $5, necklaces for $10 and bracelets for $5 and $10. The store pops up again in early spring, with a new location near Trinity Bellwoods and a renewed focus on bespoke designs. 3

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Whose enemy

are you? Are you anyone’s adversary or obstructionist or least favourite person? Answer honestly, please. Don’t be in denial. Next question: Do you derive anything useful from playing this oppositional role? If your answer is yes, that’s fine. I won’t try to talk you out of it. Continue to reap the benefits of being someone’s obstacle. But if, on the other hand, you get little value out of this negative relationship, now would be a good time to change it. You have more power than usual to free yourself from being an antagonist.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 You Taur-

store of the week Trend Trunk trendtrunk.com

The holiday credit card bills are in, and it turns out you overestimated your wealth by a few cashmere sweaters, a killer pair of heels and one very large bottle of Moët, the memory of which is somewhat fuzzy. Who doesn’t need some quick moolah this time of year? Enter Trend Trunk, a Canadian online fashion marketplace where you can cash in your closet and keep 80 per cent of the price you set (traditional consignment stores typically split sales 50-50). Trend Trunk manages the payment and shipping, so unlike Kijiji and Craigslist, there’s no awkward meet-up with strangers who may or may not be serial killers. Trend Trunk picks: The site recently launched its app for Apple and Android, which makes it even easier to sell your preloved items, keep track of sales and shop others’ closets on the go. Look for: Trend Trunk’s Closets & Causes program, which allows sellers to donate up to 100 per cent of their net sale proceeds to any charity in Canada. Bonus: you get a tax receipt for the donated value. 3

wewant… The Freeze Clinic’s Signature Treatment Cold has gotten a bad rap lately – it causes power outages and makes streetcars even less reliable than normal. But cold – cold laser therapy specifically – can work wonders for your skin. The Freeze Clinic’s Signature Treatment harnesses the power of cold laser, diamond microdermabrasion, micro-current therapy, oxygen infusion and hydrating rosewater to deliver one of the best facials in the city. In addition to glowing skin and smaller pores, the regimen treats eczema, sun damage, acne scars and a variety of other skin conditions. The whole thing is painless and requires zero downtime. Each treatment finishes with a customized cocktail of serums from local all-natural beauty brand Consonant, important because after a deep exfoliation the last thing you want is to fill your skin with harsh chemicals and synthetics. Winter special $175 (regular price $205), 808 Danforth, 647-700-5880, thefreezeclinic.ca

uses are customarily more grounded than the rest of us. But this week, I’m wondering if you will be tempted to escape the laws of gravity and rebel against the call of duty. I suspect that your dreams, at least, will feature uninhibited forays into the wild blue yonder. While you’re sleeping you may float weightlessly in an interplanetary spaceship, become an eagle and soar over forests, wear a futuristic jet pack on your back and zip through the sky, sail across the Serengeti Plains in a hot-air balloon, or have a picnic on a cloud with a feast of cotton candy and sponge cake and mint tea. Would you consider bringing this kind of fun into your waking life?

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 What part

of your life is too small, and you want to make it bigger? Is there a situation that’s overly intense and dramatic, and you wish you could feel more light-hearted about it, less oppressed? Are you on a quest that has become claustrophobic, and you’d love to find a way to make it more spacious and relaxed? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Gemini, there’s good news. Very soon now, you will have a close encounter with the magic you need to open what has been closed and expand what has been narrow. Be alert for it. Be crafty as you gather it in and harness it for your use.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 In her poem Catch A Body, Ilse Bendorf says she dislikes the advice “Don’t ever tell anybody anything.” On the other hand, “Tell everyone everything” isn’t the right approach, either, she says. Judging from your astrological omens, Cancerian, I surmise that you’re wavering between those two extremes. You’re tempted to think you’ve got to do one or the other. Should you cultivate the power that comes from being silent, and keep people guessing about your true feelings? Or should you seek greater intimacy but risk giving away your power by confessing all your inner thoughts? I suggest you take a middle path. Tell the vivid truth, but carefully and incrementally. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 If a substance has been burned, it can’t be burned again. There’s no flammable stuff left to feed a fire. That’s simple physics. Now as for the question of whether a person can be burned more than once – we’re speaking metaphorically here – the answer is, unfortunately, yes. Some folks don’t learn from their mistakes and don’t have enough emotional intelligence

to avoid the bullies and manipulators who burn them again in the future. But I’m confident that you aren’t one of these types, Leo, or that at least you won’t be in the coming days. You may have been burned before, but you won’t be burned this time.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 “People who

don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year,” said author Peter Drucker. “People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.” In general I agree with that assessment. But I think it needs to be altered for your situation in the coming months. Here’s the adjusted version of the formula: Virgos who don’t take risks in 2014 will make an average of 3.1 big mistakes. Virgos who do take risks in 2014 will make, at most, a half a big mistake.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 “You know what the greatest tragedy is in the whole world?” asks novelist Terry Pratchett. “It’s all the people who never find out what it is they really want to do or what it is they’re really good at. It’s all the people who never get to know what it is that they can really be.” If that description applies to you even a little, Libra – if you’re still not completely sure what you’re good at it and what you want to do – the coming months will be prime time to fix that problem. Start now! How? Open your mind to the possibility that you don’t know yourself as well as you someday will. Take vocational tests. Ask smart people you trust to tell you what they think about your special aptitudes and unique qualities. And one more thing: Be wildly honest with yourself about what excites you. Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 In his book Schottenfreude: German Words For The Human Condition, Ben Schott dreams up new compound German words for use in English. Here’s one that would serve you well in the coming week: Fingerspitzentanz, meaning “fingertips-dance.” Schott says it refers to “tiny triumphs of nimble-fingered dexterity.” His examples: fastening a bracelet, tightening a miniscule screw, unknotting, removing a recalcitrant sticker in one unbroken peel, rolling a joint, identifying an object by touch alone, slipping something off a high shelf. Both literally and metaphorically speaking, Scorpio, you now have an abundance of this capacity. Everything about you is more agile and deft and limber than usual. You’ll be a master of Fingerspitzentanz.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21

The four elements that compose cocaine are the same as those that make up TNT, caffeine and nylon: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen. The combinations and proportions of elements are different in each substance, of course. But the point, for our purposes, is that the same raw materials lead to different results. I foresee a similar drama unfolding in your own life, Sagittarius. How you assemble the ingredi-

ents you currently have at your disposal could produce either a rough and ragged high, a volatile risk, a pleasant stimulation or a useful resource. Which will it be?

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Metaphorically speaking, you have recently come into possession of some new seeds. They are robust. They are hardy. They have the potential to grow into big, strong blooms. So when should you plant them, metaphorically speaking? I’m going to suggest that you wait a while longer. It wouldn’t be bad for them if you sowed them right now, but I think their long-term vitality will be even greater if you postpone the planting for at least a week. Two weeks might be better. Trust your intuition. Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 The

Flemish artist Jan van Eyck (1385- 1441) was renowned for his innovative mastery of oil painting. He signed many of his works not just with his name but also with his motto: Als ick kan. Its idiomatic translation is “The best I can do.” What he meant was that he had pushed his talent and craft to the limit, and then stopped and relaxed, content that he had given all he could. I invite you to have a similar attitude as you wrap up the projects you’re currently involved in, Aquarius. Summon all your passion and intelligence as you create the most excellent outcome possible, but also know when to quit. Don’t try too hard; just try hard.

Pisces Feb 19 | Mar 20 It’s an excel-

lent time to rise up and revolt against conventional wisdom. I urge you to immunize yourself against trendy groupthink as you outwit and outmaneuver the status quo. Have fun and activate your playful spirit to the max as you create workarounds to the way things have always been done. At the same time, Pisces, stay acutely attuned to your compassion and common sense. Don’t be a quarrelsome intransigent. Don’t be rebellious just to please your ego. If you follow these guidelines, you will be able to pull off a graceful insurrection that both soothes and stimulates your soul.

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BURN ONE DOWN: GREENER FIRE LOGS Between cold snaps and power outages, people are buying up fire logs in record numbers.

Compressed logs are supposed to burn cleaner and greener than regular wood, but do they all?

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Love the sight, sound and smell of a roaring old-fashioned fire? Well, I hate to break it to you, but you’re sucking up way more lung- and heart-damaging fine particulate matter (PM) than health authorities recommend. Home fires can get so smoggy that the city of Montreal is outlawing them in all homes by 2020. SCORE: N

They had me at “enviro.” These guys are made entirely of waxed cardboard leftover from the grocery/restaurant biz (diverting over a 150 million pounds from landfill by 2011). They’re third-party tested to emit up to 80 per cent less carbon monoxide and 30 to 40 per cent less PM than plain firewood. Only problem is you’re still burning petroleum since most cardboard waxes are petrol-based. SCORE: NN

America’s largest fire log maker ditched the petroleum wax in 2007 but now uses petrol wax in their 3-pound logs. You’re better off with 5-pound logs made with soy- or pine-based “biowax,” recycled sawdust and ground tree nut shells. The company says it recycles 50,000 tons of commercial wood waste and agricultural biomass every year. These logs puff out up to 75 per cent less carbon monoxide and 80 per cent less PM than cordwood. SCORE: NNN

Similar to Duraflame, but the company bumps up its green cred (add an N) by planting a tree through Tree Canada’s urban and rural reforestation program for every case sold. It’s made of recycled sawdust and ground nut shells, but, oddly, there’s no claim the wax it also contains is “natural” like Duraflame’s (so subtract an N). Emits up to 80 per cent less carbon monoxide and up to 75 per cent less PM than cordwood. SCORE: NNN

Made of old coffee grounds and “all natural-based waxes,” these guys actually divert 5.4 million kilos of coffee waste from landfills every year. Tested to emit up to 80 per cent less carbon monoxide, up to 75 per cent less PM and up to 66 per cent less creosote than cordwood fires. Kind of disappointed there’s no coffee aroma, but it makes a decent fire. SCORE: NNNN

on his Make It Right website says closed-cell spray foam is the best of all insulation: “It wins on all counts – energy efficiency, indoor air quality and environmentally.” Well, he may have the first factor right. Spray foam is made of either polyicynene or polyurethane. Both supereffective insulators, yes, but CBC’s Marketplace chronicled the horrors that can happen when it’s not properly installed. Namely, “A strong, unpleasant fishy smell from off-gassing that has driven some people from their homes, some complaining of difficulty breathing and other health problems.” The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that spray polyurethane foam is highly effective, but notes that its key ingredient, isocyanates, and other SPF chems can trigger asthma, lung damage and skin and eye irritation in those exposed to vapours, aerosols and dust before and after installation. Says the EPA: “Individuals with a history of skin conditions, respiratory allergies, asthma or prior isocyanate sensitization should carefully review product information when considering the use of SPF products.” Then there’s what’s called the B-side of the foam –the polyol blend that often has some soy, sugar or other “biobased” components. The EPA says the proprietary blend of chems may include amine catalysts that can cause blurry vision (halo effect), flame retardants (including persistent and/or toxic ones like TCPP, TEP and TCDP) and hormone-disrupting surfactants, not to mention planet-harming blowing agents.

WALLTITE Eco, the stuff Holmes endorses, is Greenguard-certified for indoor air quality, and it’s the first closedcell spray polyurethane insulation to obtain EcoLogo certification, meaning it’s free of shunned PBDE flame retardants and ozone-depleting blowing agents and contains 5 per cent recycled content. But the blowing agent can still be a greenhouse gas (just a lesser one), and the company doesn’t publicly disclose what flame retardant it uses instead of PBDE. Regardless, you’d have to remove your drywall entirely to use it properly. Blown-in cellulose (recycled newspaper often made flame retardant with borax or ammonium sulphate) is most commonly recommended to fill empty wall cavities and irregular spaces. Its insulation value isn’t quite as high, though it’s better than blown-in fibreglass, and its dust – an irritant rather than a carcinogen – should be fine as long as it’s sealed behind a wall. Naturally non-toxic, non-flammable, rodent-proof, soundproof AirKrete (a “cementitious foam”) is favoured by those with chemical sensitivities (and by Neil Young, who built it into his recording studio), but all insulation options should be weighed with care. I recommend doing more digging at BuildingGreen.com before you decide what’s right for you; you can buy the org’s thorough insulation guide for $129 – well worth it. Research your installer, too, and get written guarantees on removal in case it all goes wrong. At the end of the day, you want to make sure you’re warm and healthy without throwing cash to the wind.

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As conservative pundits huff and puff about the validity of climate change in the face of frigid winds, let’s weigh the merits of a more rational winter debate, shall we? Is all that cold air seeping into your home a sign that you need more insulation? If the chilly gusts in your abode aren’t coming from cracks around doors and windrows, you might con-

sider padding your place with an extra cushion of insulation. The blown-in/ spray-in type is really the only way to go with existing walls. But what insulation to choose? If you listen to spray polyurethane foam salesmen, SPF insulation is the greenest product this side of St. Paddy’s Day. It’s got lots of high-profile supporters, too, including Mike Holmes, who

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You’re hungry and you’ve got 10 bucks – or less. Where do you go? Finding a fabulous meal isn’t a challenge when dining high on the hog. But who needs foie gras and filet mignon when there’s fried chicken bao, Sri Lankan stir-fries and Haligonian donair? We put together complete meals – many of them three-course – for under a tenner, and get change back to boot. While we’re at it, our resident mixologist, Sarah Parniak, chips in with pointers on how to find booze bargains, whether out on the town or holed up at home. The gravy train leaves NOW!

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25 great meals under 10 bucks Banh Mi Boys Steamed bao ($3.49), kimchi fries ($5.99) $9.48

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The perpetual lineups at both of these insanely popular Saigon sub shops – with a twist! – attest that somebody must be doing something right. We’re guessing it’s the visionary steamed bao stuffed with correctly battered southern-style fried chicken dressed with gently pickled carrot and crunchy cukes ($3.49), a few squirts of Sriracha and some chopped jalapeño for heat. Or maybe it’s the legendary kimchi fries smothered in sweetly pulled pork, chopped scallion and squiggles of house aioli ($5.99). Sounds like the recipe for a third. “Down the road, but first we’re launching an entirely new concept,” says head Boy David Chau. To be called Lucky Red, the imminent resto promises a mix of the signature dishes with a more Cantonese card to reflect its funky Spadina and Dundas digs. “It’s going to be mostly bao, but bao like we’ve never done them before. We’re aiming for a late February opening, but it’ll likely be closer to mid-March.” Monday to Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday 11 am to 9 pm, Sunday noon to 7 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free. 399 Yonge, at Gerrard, 416-977-0303; 392 Queen W, at Spadina, 416-363-0588, banhmiboys.com, @BanhMiBoys

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Though dinner at Scott Vivian and Rachelle Caldwell’s celebrated snout-to-tail beastro runs well into three figures, their takeout three-course Beastwich lunch special can be had every Friday for all of a tenner. Each week, this veritable Value Meal salutes a different city, Mexico’s Veracruz the subject of our recent visit. That translated as a sub-sized bun from the same Vietnamese bakery that supplies the Banh Mi Boys stuffed prodigiously with slowbraised ’n’ shredded chicken thigh, black olives and creamy sheep’s feta. Sides of curried kale thick with black beans and Caldwell’s tres-leches cherry cobbler likewise impress, the lot boxed up to go. On Friday, Jan 24, the couple pay tribute to Buffalo, New York, with – what else? – a roast beef Beastwich on weck. Get there early as these wicked ’wichs regularly sell out by 1 pm.

Dundas west of Bathurst might be home to some of the hottest expense-account boîtes in town, but this family-run Portuguese hot table is certainly one of the most inexpensive on this now fashionable stretch of real estate. And tastiest, too. If it’s Monday, then it’s old-school filet of sole and fiery pasta al forno (both $9). Tuesday means roast chicken ($10), while Wednesday calls for very meaty lasagna in house-made tomato sauce. Ricotta-stuffed cannelloni shine on Thursday, and Friday can only be fish ’n’ chips (all $9 with sides of garlicky grilled zucchini and non-designer greens in a plain ol’ vinaigrette). Be warned that Brasiliano is almost always packed to the gills, so you might be required to share a booth, a small price to pay for a nosh of this calibre.

Beastwich $10

Lunch Friday from noon. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washroom on same floor. 96 Tecumseth, at Whitaker, 647-352-6000, thebeastrestaurant. com, @BeastRestaurant

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Lasagna special $9

Monday to Friday 6 am to 6 pm, Saturday 7 am to 4 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free. 849 Dundas W, at Euclid, 416-603-6607

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Tamal Special ($6.99), shot of tequila ($3) $9.99 Carlos Rios’s midtown cantina has it twice as difficult as every other Mexican resto in town. Not only is everything on his regional carte made from scratch, but it’s unusually health-conscious, too, a rarity in the land of rendered pork fat. “To be honest, I don’t know how to do it any other way,” says Rios. Lucky us! Alongside the obligatory student-friendly burritos, quesadillas and tacos, we get tamales made with house-ground corn laced with boneless chicken, carrot and coriander. The vegan version substitutes mushroom, onion and ancho chilies for the bird. Side them traditionally with short grain rice studded with real peas ’n’ carrots as well as lard-free refried pinto beans, or alternatively with fresh cactus salad spiked with one of four house-made salsas (both $6.99). Come in right on the money with the addition of a $3 shot of tequila. Before we start a stampede, note that subsequent belts are 5 bucks a pop and require the purchase of food. Monday to Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday noon to 9 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. 565 Yonge, at Wellesley, 647-748-6666, comoencasa.ca

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Square Peg $10

Hot turkey sandwich ($3.75), milkshake, pie à la mode (both $1.50) $6.75

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Nova Scotian-style donair ($6.25), caraway fries ($2.95) $9.20 When we first wrote about Neil Dominey’s Halifax-style donair shop two years ago, we set off an unintentional Twitter fatwa. Seems some took offence to our description of the love-it-or-leave-it gyro-like wrap’s “sickly sweet white sauce made with evaporated milk and garlic salt.” We’ll go with “an acquired taste” this time around, one that’s generally acquired after the ninth beer kicks in. That’s when a grilled pita stuffed with ground paprika-spiked beef and dressed with ripe tomato, Spanish onion and that contentious sauce ($6.25), along with a side of fries tossed with caraway seeds ($2.95), makes perfect sense. “Everyone seems to like them,” says Dominey of the spicy spuds. “Me? I can’t stand them!” Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 8 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. 1246 Danforth, at Greenwood, 416-769-1432, thefuzzbox.ca

Diners still in original nick are a dying breed, sadly, and David and Eda Chan’s more than 80-year-old eatery is one of the last. From the six wobbly stools, the three lumpy booths and the tinny AM radio playing hits of the 50s and 60s slightly off-station, Gale’s is a true trip back in time. The prices are stuck way back then as well. Cheeseburgers might seem a little small when compared to the incredible hulks served most everywhere else these days but, hey, they’re $1.35 each. Buy two! A milkshake made with actual milk and ice cream served in a tall sodafountain glass with a bendy straw goes for $1.50, as does a slice of house-baked cherry pie à la mode. And where else are you going to find a classic hot turkey sandwich for $3.75, tax included? Sure, the bird was frozen, from No Frills and never free-ranged in the Caledon Hills, but it’s roasted fresh daily, unusually moist and plentiful. The fries and mixed peas ’n’ carrots come straight from that same freezer, the gravy tastes canned, the sliced tomatoes will never be in season and the bread’s unapologetic-

ally white, sourced as it has been from the get-go from the Weston Bakery down the street. In a word: perfection. Monday to Friday 10:30 am to 6 pm, Saturday noon to 5 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: five steps at door, tiny washroom on same floor. 539 Eastern, at Carlaw

The 519 Community Centre’s cheekily named first-floor café gets a lot of deserved love for providing marginalized street youth with entry-level restaurant jobs, but the grub it pumps out in its kitchen demands just as much respect, none more so than chef Jason Becker and crew’s weekday $10 four-course Square Peg lunch bento. Never the same twice, the lacquered box the day we visit sees crostini dressed with housemade headcheese and apricot jam next to a slice of puff-pastry pizza finished with duck confit, arugula and crumbled blue cheese. As dazzling to the eye as it is to the tongue, the exceptional execution continues with braised beef tongue in horseradish crème fraiche and retro banana cake updated à la minute with salted caramel and tempered chocolate. If only all social initiatives were this delicious! Tuesday to Friday 11:30 am to 3:30 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. 519 Church, at Dundonald, 416-355-6781, fabarnak.com, @fabarnakresto

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Empanada ($4.50), avocado salad ($5.50) $10

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When Irene Morales opened in the Market back in 1991, Kensington was a no-go zone where only the fiscally challenged went to shop. Not any more! Today, discerning foodies pack the low-budget Chilean café for her signature oversized turnovers stuffed with combos like shredded beef, black olives, raisins and hard-boiled egg or wilted spinach, mushrooms, red peppers and nutty basil pesto (both $4.50). They side them with avocado salads finished with thin slices of not terribly ripe tomato, the occasional bit of broccoli and a terrific coriander vinaigrette ($5.50), a far cry from when she first set up shop in an outlaw sidewalk food cart. Has the neighbourhood changed since way back then? “There are too many restaurants,” says Morales. “I liked it better when there was just us, the egg lady and Amadeu’s!”

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Coconut shrimp and grilled pork chop on rice ($8.25), crab and avocado spring roll ($1.75) $10

Daily 11 am to 11 pm; 11 am to 10 pm (Queen). No reservations. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. 695 Yonge, at Charles, 416-966-2424; 546 Church, at Wellesley, 416-413-1053; 252 Carlton, at Parliament, 416-923-7979; 355½ Yonge, at Elm, 416-694-3278; 212 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-977-8778, gingercuisine.ca, gingerone.ca

Govinda’s

In the 15 years since it first opened, this bare-bones panAsian eatery has grown into a family-run chain with five locations, no surprise when all of $3.75 gets you one of the best grilled chicken banh mi in the city. Our standing order combines a faux crab and avocado salad roll ($1.75) and a substantial plate heaped with sweet rice, stir-fried choy, five tail-on coconut shrimp and a great honkin’ pork chop ($8.25). The latter’s description might be a bit of a stretch – it’s pork and it’s chopped – but the spicing and execution are right on the mark. Spring Rolls, eat your heart out!

Monday to Saturday 9 am to 8 pm, Sunday 11 am to 6 pm. Closed holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: four steps at door, washrooms in basement. 245 Augusta, at Baldwin, 416-977-0056, jumboempanadas.com

All-you-can-eat buffet $10 Don’t let this unusually eco-minded Indian restaurant’s location in the Hari Krishna Temple put you off your feed. Heck, we’ve seen more religious proselytizing in our local pizzeria. No, here the message of transcendental love is sent via an all-you-can-eat vegetarian buffet ($10, students $8, children under 12 $5). There are sesamescented carrot and broccoli stir-fries, curries of onion and squash, and koftalike meatballs in sweet Italian-style tomato sauce. Pakoras thick with spinach, bowls of creamy lentil soup and house-baked chapattis as well as fruit salad in syrup complete a typical spread, all served with nary a waft of incense. Monday to Saturday noon to 2:30 pm and 6 to 8:30 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: 10 steps at door, washrooms in basement. 243 Avenue Rd, at Roxborough, 1-888-218-1040, govindas.ca, @govindastoronto

Ka Ka Lucky Pork ribs on rice $8

When it comes to holes-in-the-wall, none come much holier than this Chinatown East mainstay. Like King’s Noodle and the new New Hong Fatt on the west side and Ho Ho in Agincourt, Lucky’s focus is strictly Chinese barbecue, whether lacquered free-range chicken or fluorescent cuttlefish. But nothing holds a candle to the kitchen’s roasted pork ribs ($6.50 small/$8 large), a massive plate of plain ol’ white rice piled with gorgeously fatty pig and steamed broccoli. Sided with a pot of steaming tea and a ramekin of salty hoisin, they’re our guiltiest of guilty pleasures. Daily 9 am to 10:30 pm. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. 349 Broadview, at Gerrard E, 416-461-3811

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Chicken pot pie with beet and potato salads $9.75 Long before Patichou and the Five Thieves, Christian and Linda Boniteau’s très chic café was the Rosedale set’s patisserie of choice. Why, it’s believed that the two first introduced waspy Toronto to the concept of the croissant. Forty years later, the fare is as fantastically French as ever. Six dollars gets you a selection of salads like classic haricots verts with cauliflower and curried chicken with strawberries, while diehard Leafs fans can still get

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a three-egg breakfast with home fries, tomatoes, bacon or sausage, toast or croissant and coffee or tea next to an autographed photo of Johnny Bower for $9. Those of a less nostalgic bent won’t want to miss Gourmet’s $8 meal deal of textbook cheesy quiche or retro chicken pot pie sided with a heap o’ sweetly pickled beets and an avocado stuffed with creamy Russian potato salad and dressed with baby shrimp, even if the latter extravagance requires an additional buck-75.

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Chicken pita lunch special ($7.45 Thursday) $7.45

There might be dozens of Greek restaurants that serve gyros with fries on the side, but only this east-side institution and its recently launched uptown offshoot put the fries inside the wraps. See for yourself Thursdays when the daily lunch special finds a freshly grilled pita duly stuffed with fries as well as tender broiled chicken, tomato and thick tzatziki. It includes a second grilled pita, this one cut into slices spread with tangy kalamata tapenade. You also get a very good lettuce-free Greek salad and a tall glass of ginger ale – hold the ice – all for $7.45. With prices like these, it’s hard not to fall in love with the Danforth all over again. Lunch daily 11:30 am to 3 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement; barrier-free, washrooms in basement (Yonge). 445 Danforth, at Logan, 416-778-4861; 2311 Yonge, at Eglinton, 416-483-5555, messini.ca, @messinigyros

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Although you’re never going to see it in the pages of Architectural Digest – unless plastic tablecloths and fluorescent light fixtures suddenly come back into fashion – this lowrent Somali café’s short walletfriendly menu is more than worthy of attention. We’re particularly partial to chef Syed Bari’s Chicken Steak ($10), a riot of deboned legs and thighs that have been marinated in garlic, coriander and cardamom, then deliciously charred on the grill. Curried potatoes (with green chilies), tomato salad (with green chilies) and creamy house-made hot sauce (with green chilies) kick them up several notches. You also get small bowls of buttery goat’s head soup, styrofoam cups of spicy chai and stacks of housebaked chapattis so rich they could pass for East Indian croissants though completely dairy-free. Some feat that! Daily noon to 11 pm. Reservations accepted. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: short step at door, washrooms in basement. 183 Dundas E, at Jarvis, 416-943-0330

Old Bleu Cafe

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Just a block east of St. Mike’s, Gong Zan Shen’s Old Bleu Café draws most of its lunchtime custom from the immediate neighbourhood. That, and a certain alternative weekly. The main attraction’s his multiculti Hot Lunch Box special ($4.05 small/$5.15 medium/$7.74 large). Monday there’s a choice of either gently jerked chicken or garlicky pork meatballs in old-school tomato sauce. Tuesday, curried lemongrass chicken thighs face off against slowbraised flank steak in fivespice powder. Wednesday means Caribbean-style jerk pork or curried beef, while Thursday goes Continental with pork Provençal or chorizo ’n’ chicken à la Basque. Opt for the larger any day and get both mains. All come with designer greens in a Moroccan-inspired cumin vinaigrette, creamy rotini salad, rice and a few stray florets of steamed al dente broccoli. And Friday? “I freestyle,” laughs former Parisian restaurateur Shen. “I cook whatever I feel like, but usually it’s pasta.”

We wouldn’t know from personal experience, but they say it helps to be drunk or seriously hung-over to truly appreciate this late-night Korean cantina’s celebrated gam ja tang pork bone soup ($7.08). The redemptive ritual begins with mugs of steaming barley tea and bowls of sticky short-grain rice. House-made banchan follow – sour pickled mung beans, a creamy cabbage slaw of sorts, sugar-brined potatoes and two types of kimchee, one incendiary, the other not so much. All play second fiddle to the soup, a great stone bowl of slow-braised shank in blazing hot pepper broth festooned with slippery rice vermicelli, chopped raw scallion and a dusting of toasted white sesame seeds. If you’re really hardcore, you suck the pig knuckle to get every last morsel of obscenely fatty meat. Or so we’re told….

Lunch special $7.74

Monday to Friday 7:30 am to 4 pm. Lunch daily from 11 am. Closed weekends, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: Small bump at door, no washrooms. 73 Queen E, at Church, 416-861-0819, oldbleucafe.com

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Pork bone soup $7.08

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If any restaurant deserves a plaque from the historical board for its contribution to the arts both culinary and otherwise, it’s this venerable Queen West bistro. No less a superstar than Susur Lee got his start here flipping lean ’n’ mean burgers back in the 80s. The bargains continue to this day, especially at lunch, when chef Eric Pozzo’s two-course pasta prix fixe lists for $8.95 ($13.95 dinner). It starts with a generous plate of al dente vermicelli swirled with Woolwich Dairy goat cheese, toasted pine nuts and trendily wilted kale, a shaving of parmigiano and a chopping of garlic to finish. A warm slab of house-baked focaccia and an optional plate of buttery olive oil swirled with fruity balsamic vinegar complete the deal. “We bake the bread every single morning and every single afternoon,” sighs long-time owner Mary Jackman. “It’s a lot of work, but people seem to love it!” Lunch daily noon to 4 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. 373 Queen W, at Peter, 416-593-0917, peterpanbistro.wordpress.com, @peterpanbistro

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With the possible exception of New York Subway,openings, which has Restaurant nothing do with the Big Apple reviews &tofoodie news from and doesn’t sell submarine sandT.O’s food & drink scene. wiches, has there ever been a resnowtoronto.com/ taurant as confusing as Qian He? Thenewsletters sign over the door says Qian He Golden Wheat Cake Room (“Branch 001”), but there are no pastries for sale that I can see. And other than a half-dozen varieties of house-made frozen dumplings, the only thing on the menu is something called Chinese Traditional Style Pork Pie ($2.99 tax-inclusive), which isn’t a pie at all but more of a northern Chinese spin on a burrito. Since affable owner/chef Fan Xiao Feng speaks little English, you order by raising the required number of fingers. Using a thin dowel, he rolls out a small ball of dough into a 10-inch circle, then fries it in a little vegetable oil until if puffs up like some mutant tortilla crepe. Using a spatula, he spreads the flatbread with a mix of hoisin sauce and sesame oil before pointing at a bottle of Sriracha hot sauce. You nod yes, of course. There’s also Heinz hot dog mustard for those who like that sort of thing. Pizzeria Via Mercanti He then layers the flapjack with Lunch special slices of lean smoked pork, a $10 handful of raw onion and a garden’s worth of lightly pickled vegWhen NOW surveyed the local pizza scene in these very pages exactly one gies like still-crunchy bean year ago, ex-Queen Margherita pizzaiolo Romolo Salvati’s remarkable sprouts, carrots, daikon and coridouble-decker pie came out on top, quite the accomplishment considering ander stalk. Rolled into burritothe high-stakes competition. esque bundles, each weighs The Neapolitan chef ups the ante at weekday lunch with his incomparable slightly more than a pound and pizza ’n’ salad combo ($10). The 8-inch take on his benchmark wood-oven can easily feed two. Margherita comes properly floppy of crust, appropriately chewy and And because of all those marvelcharred and dressed with minimal sauce, a modicum of mozzarell’ and a lous nitrates, they last forever in fresh basil leaf or two. the fridge! The salad’s an exercise in classic simplicity as well, a mix of ripped roDaily 9 am to 10 pm. No reservations. maine, ripe tomato and radicchio splashed with white balsamic vinaigrette. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: six steps We wouldn’t have it any other way.

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Now in its 15th year, Richard Moore’s four-location chain of casual Caribbean self-serve cafeterias won’t win any awards for their generic food-court decor, but their daily $4.99 lunch special warrants every online rave. We’re not ordinarily fans of industrial-strength jerk chicken, but Moore’s nutty southern-fried version has us dancing in the streets: three large boneless pieces of crisply battered breast and thigh coupled with regulation rice ’n’ peas in oxtail gravy and not overly creamy coleslaw. And no meal at the Ritz is complete without a pair of flaky gizzada tarts ($2.50) and a super-sticky coconut drop ($2), dental work be damned. Lunch daily 11 am to 3 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, not washrooms. 211 Yonge, at Shuter, 647-351-7489; 450 Yonge, at College, 416-934-1480; 762 Yonge, at Bloor, 416-694-7489; 32 Eglinton W, at Yonge, 647-352-7489, ritzcaribbeanfoods.ca

Rose Psam

Saffron Spice Kitchen Kothu roti ($5) with soup or salad ($3) $8

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Banh mi ($3), iced coffee ($3), jello cake ($2) $8 Though she’s moved her Saigonstyle sub shop into a slightly fancier storefront around the corner from its original location, Rose Psam’s superb banh mi are as ridiculously inexpensive as ever. Three loonies are all it takes to snag her top-of-the-line Extra Deluxe, a flaky Parisian-style bun piled with all manner of housemade cold cuts – pork, pork, pork and ham – and garnished with pickled daikon, fresh coriander and Sriracha. Washed down with an iced Vietnamese coffee ($3) and a slice of coconut jello cake ($2), it’s one of the best meal deals around. Has Rose been to the Banh Mi Boys? “I know their parents so I went right after they opened,” says the ever-bubbly Psam. “I like what they’re doing, but it’s too expensive for me!” Daily 9 am to 8 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: two steps at door, no washrooms. 601 Gerrard East, at Broadview, 416-406-9906

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There’s more to Sri Lankan cuisine than rice and spice, and this recent four-seat addition to the wall-to-wall burger bacchanal that is Queen and Spadina proves it. Some may recognize co-owner/chef Esther Joseph from Esther’s Soup Kitchen in Cumberland Terrace, where her health-conscious carte has been a favourite of the cashstrapped for nearly 20 years. Deep downtown, the specialty of the house is kothu roti – think choppedup house-baked paratha flatbread mixed with either curried chicken, lamb or scrambled eggs and a whack o’ slivered cabbage, carrots and mushrooms detonated with enough hot green chilies to melt down a nuclear reactor ($5 small). Side it with a made-to-order baby spinach salad or a bowl of mulligatawny soup for another $3 and you’re laughing. Monday to Friday 11 am to 10 pm, Saturday 11 am to 9 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, counter seating, no washrooms. 459 Queen W, at Cameron, 416-203-0222, saffronspicekitchen.com

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Yes, we’re well aware that this funky Koreatown cantina is actually an El Salvadorean eatery, but that didn’t stop you lot from naming it the best Mexican restaurant in town in NOW’s annual Readers Poll several years running. So, it ain’t Grand Electric. But does GE offer crisply grilled house-made tortillas brimming with slow-braised goat ($3.30 for two) or deep-fried tostadas showered with diced avocado, ripe tomato, shredded iceberg lettuce and crumbles of mild feta-like queso ($3.30), not to mention mashed bean ’n’ squash pupusas paired with pickled onion relish ($2.90) and two spectacular hot sauces? We think not. Monday to Saturday noon to 9 pm, Sunday 2 to 9 pm. No reservations. Licensed. Cash only. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. 690 Bloor W, at Clinton, 416-538-9747

Wide Open's Mackenzie (left) and Alyssa keep the cheap cocktails flowing.

Schnitzel Queen Since scoring a recent 5N review in NOW, this tiny Regent Park takeaway has been regularly slammed, and never more so than at lunch. “People come in with the picture ripped out of the paper and point at the schnitzel sandwich!” says owner/ chef Karl Hubsch. Those of us who’ve been coming here since platform shoes were first in fashion prefer our beautifully battered and deep-fried pig as a plate (all $9.99) sided with creamy pickle ’n’ potato salad, Mitteleuropean sauerkraut and maybe a little mushroom gravy. As well as chicken and pork, there’s also now a vegetarian version made with Edam cheese, but Hubsch draws the line at veal. “I feel sorry for those poor baby cows.”

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Cod fritter ($1.25), pizza slice ($2.75) and an egg tart ($1.25) $5.25 Regulars swear by the salt-cod fritters ($1.25), pizza slices ($2.75) and basic veal sandwiches ($4.50) from João and Maria Caetano’s pair of west-side bakeries, but only their Portuguese egg tarts (pastel de nata $1.25) inspire devotional websites. And for good reason. Simple yet surprisingly complex, these fabulously flaky confections sport ambrosial egg-custard fillings the equal to Proust’s fabled madeleines in buttery puff pastry shells so brilliantly caramelized they could only have been finished with a blowtorch. They also come in coconut and chocolate versions ($1.50). But why settle for just one? Like just about everything here, the more you buy, the cheaper they get!

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Monday to Saturday 6 am to 8 pm, Sunday 7 am to 6 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, no washrooms (114 Ossington); one step at door, no washrooms (951 Ossington). 114 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-537-2914; 951 Ossington, at Manchester, 416-535-1455, veneziabakery.ca 3

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BARGAIN BOOZING

Suspended in the post-festive red zone better known as Broke January? You’re not alone, friends. Penny-pinching, however, doesn’t mean less drinking, but rather more strategic drinking. Whether you’re trudging the streets in search of warmth or barricaded at home in a blanket cocoon, here are some bargain booze suggestions.

Going out Wide Open, all the time Wedged between Richmond and Adelaide on Spadina, Wide Open (139a Spadina, wideopenbar.ca) might be downtown’s best bar for your buck. The atmosphere in this tiny joint is raucous, the bartenders are big fun, and the booze is ludicrously cheap. Regular prices are modest to begin with, but it’s daily specials like Thursday’s Happy Hour – when all drinks are $2.50 between 5 and 8 pm – that make Wide Open a precious booze trove.

$3 shots: for cheap thrills, imminent warmth and immediate gratification Boots ’n’ Bourbon (725 Queen East, 647-348-0880) serves $3 bourbon shots all day, every day. AAA (138 Adelaide East, 416-850-2726, tripleabar.ca) has $3 tequila shots daily, and Insomnia (563 Bloor West, 416-

588-3907, insomniacafe.com) boasts $3 shot specials like vodka on Sundays, Jäger on Wednesdays and Jameson on Fridays and Saturdays. Honourable mention: Prohibition Gastrohouse (696 Queen East, 416-406-2669, myprohibition.com) offers premium pours like Talisker 10, Woodford Reserve and Hendrick’s for $5 from 4 to 7 pm and 10 pm to midnight every day.

Half-price bottles of wine Enjoy half-price bottles of vino at Porzia (1314 Queen West, 647-342-5776, porzia.ca) and Union (72 Ossington, 416-850-0093, union72.ca) on Mondays, the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West, 416-531-4635, gladstonehotel.com) on Tuesdays and Czehoski (678 Queen West, 416-366-6787, czehoski.com) on Wednesdays, keeping you covered until you’re Hump Day home free.

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Going out com) offers a $5 daily special on rotating pints, and The Office (117 John, 416-977-1900, t heofficepub. ca) pours $5 craft pints (there are eight options on offer) from open to close on Mondays and Wednesdays. Don’t forget to hit up Bar Hop (391 King West, 647-352-7476, barhopbar.com) for Session Sundays, where you pay just $5 for select pints of Ontario craft brew.

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Cheap cocktails Cheap craft cocktails are like unicorns in this town, but you can find $8 – an unbeatable price – Negronis and Manhattans on tap at Montauk (765 Dundas West, barmontauk.com), while Fynn’s of Temple Bar (489 King West, 416586-1331, fynnstemplebar.com) pours $6 cocktails, from Vespers to pomegranate margaritas, on Thursdays between 5 and 11 pm.

Montauk owner Dustin Keating pours wallet-friendly cocktails on Dundas West.

Staying in Mulled wine Re-gift yourself a cheapo bottle of wine by turning it into a seasonal ambrosia. Simmer a handful of spices like star anise, cinnamon, citrus peel and cloves with raw sugar and a splash of wine for five minutes to infuse flavours, then add the rest of the bottle, stir and remove from heat.

BYOB cocktail party Want to host a cocktail party without maxing out your third credit card? Make a list of necessary booze and have each of your pals bring a bottle with the promise that you’ll play bartender for the evening. Best part: as host, you get to keep the leftovers.

Cheap and cheerful wines Crisp and fruity, Argento Pinot Grigio (750 ml/$9.95, LCBO 620492) is a safe everyday white for under 10 bones, while Luccarelli Primitivo (750 ml/ $10.45, LCBO 253856) is a big red for minimal dough.

regular price ($26.95) till February 2. Drop less than $10 on some sugar, an orange and a bottle of Angostura bitters and you’ve got yourself 13 oldfashioneds for under $40 – an impossible-tobeat $3 per 2-ounce cocktail.

Bargain beer

Whisky for less If you’re seeking a smooth dram for great value, pick up Alberta Springs 10 Year Old Canadian Whisky (750 ml/ $24.45, LCBO 6361) or Gibson’s Finest 12 Year Old Whisky (750 ml/$27.95, LCBO 3558). Four Roses Bourbon (750 ml/$24.95, LCBO 256222) is two bucks off

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Find yourself blasting through craft beer at home? Grabbing growlers straight from local breweries or brew pubs like the Granite (245 Eglinton East, 416-322-0723, granitebrewery.ca), Indie Ale House (2876 Dundas

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West, 416-760-9691, indiealehouse.com), Bellwoods (124 Ossington, 416535-4586, bellwoodsbrewery.com) and Mill Street Brew Pub (21 Tank House Lane, 416681-0338, millstreetbrewpub.ca) might be the way to go. Sixtyfour ounces can run you $10 to $15, depending on the brew (plus jug deposits, starting at $4). If you’re really cash-strapped and flavour is a non-issue, you can crush a six of PBR (6x355 ml/$9, LCBO 921478) for cheaper than usual until February 2. 3

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RAE SPOON, HIDDEN CAMERAS, WEAVES AND B.A. JOHNSTON as part of LONG WINTER at the Great Hall, Friday, January 10.

Rating: NNNN Long Winter is beginning to feel like a mini Nuit Blanche. So much happens in so many different spaces, and an endless flow of bodies floats from room to room to see it all. Amidst the gorgeous smell of Christmas trees (actually an “Xmas tree installation” by Chris Foster), Rae Spoon played tunes from their latest release. Solo, Spoon sounded like a full band and demonstrated the same self-assurance they have in smaller spaces. Later, Toronto’s Hidden Cameras brought nine musicians onstage to preview their new album, Age. The collective liveliness contrasted with lead singer Joel Gibb’s sombre baritone vocals, making for an engaging show. Down in the restaurant, a topless B.A. Johnston made sure everyone could get up close and personal as he flailed through the crowd and jumped on the bar. Meanwhile, the Conversation Room’s white walls changed colour

with reflective light. Sadly, it had the worst sightlines, but the masses didn’t seem to mind. They packed in all night, especially for Weaves’ 12:30 am set. JULIA LECONTE

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Silver Dollar, Saturday, January 11. Rating: NNNN

Considering the diversity of independent bands on display at the Silver Dollar, it would be easy to wax poetic about Toronto being one of the world’s great music cities. The packed house was already aware of this, of course, and the bands let their music – clichéd as it sounds – do the talking. Del Bel’s jazzy set took time to get going but eventually built toward a climactic finish. Easily the most endearing act of the evening, they’ve honed their craft with precision. While the beauty of Del Bel’s music lies in its subtleties, thrashing punk rockers MASS bludgeoned the crowd with a driving set. Eschewing crowd interaction, the Ottawa expat fourpiece polarized with their relentlessness. If you could hang on tight, their Hot Water Music-esque vibe was

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Perfect NNNN = Great NNN = Good NN = Bad N = Horrible

DJ BAMBII, THEESATISFACTION, JUSMONI and AYO LEILANI as part of BLACK WEIRDO: THE PARTY at the Steady Café, Friday, January 10. Rating: NNN

A crucial misstep at Black Weirdo: The Party, hosted by Catherine HarrisWhite – one half of Seattle alt hip-hop/R&B duo THEESatisfaction – was pushing back live performances until just before 1:30 am. Of course, it’s hard to blame DJs White and DJ Bambii (Toronto’s Kirsten Azan) for not relinquishing their spinning powers; those in attendance were lost in a blur of hiphop and R&B classics. After six successful Black Weirdo nights in Seattle, Oakland and Brooklyn, White knows how to make a party pop, even if this one was confusing. (The performers and DJs could have been introduced and hyped a lot more formally.) The pre-performance highlight of the night was the collective bounce when Bambii dropped Queen Bey’s Flawless. When they finally did appear, singers JusMoni and Ayo Leilani were both solid, so it was a shame they played to a half-full venue as people left to catch the TTC. Those who stuck around were treated to JusMoni’s sultry, longingfilled soundtrack for cuffing season, while Leilani made the case for headHOLLY MACKENZIE lining an evening solo. plenty powerful. Well past midnight, the crowd was good and liquored up for recent NOW cover stars Fresh Snow. Curiosity abounded and, as per the night’s running theme, the band shut up and rose to the occasion. Inspiringly cinematic, the instrumental rockers explored haunting sonic depths and overwhelming highs – all the while dancing between genres and tags with abandon. JOSHUA KLOKE

NEIL YOUNG AND DIANA KRALL at Massey Hall, Sunday, January 12.

Rating: NNNNN The atmosphere was charged at Mas-

sey Hall on Sunday night. Outside the storied venue, members of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation drummed and chanted as a crowd and police gathered. The point was to draw attention to Honour the Treaties – an org battling oil sand corporations and the Canadian government, which are allegedly ignoring Treaty 8 promises while wreaking irreparable damage on ACFN lands. Inside, Diana Krall tickled the ivories ahead of a short silent film of aerial shots of the oil sands’ extent and destruction. But the political focus instantly gave way to a musical one the moment Neil Young appeared. He

made a show of throwing away his set list and then delivered From Hank To Hendrix, On The Way Home and Helpless on acoustic guitar. At ease and conversational throughout the formidable neartwo-hour solo set of deep cuts and “hits,” Young recalled the 70s Yorkville folk scene and gave brief histories of the pianos and guitars he wandered between onstage. Mellow On My Mind, on banjo, was the liveliest; Southern Man the most riveting; A Man Needs A Maid the most awesomely strange (ominous synth juxtaposed with elegant grand piano); and a cover of Phil Ochs’s Changes the most moving. A few barbs got through. In Pocahontas, Young changed “Marlon Brando, Pocahontas and me” to “Stephen Harper, Pocahontas and me” and sang of broken treaties. He also alluded to upcoming renos at Massey, where he recorded his legendary 1971 live album (which NOW chose as best Toronto record of all time). “Don’t let them change this place,” he said. CARLA GILLIS NOW JANUARY 16-22 2014

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Maple Blues Awards MON. JAN. 20 2014 7PM KOERNER HALL Join us for the seventeenth annual all-star blues concert, awards event, and after party! Performers include MonkeyJunk, The 24th Street Wailers, Charlie A’Court, David Vest, Little Miss Higgins, and the Maple Blues Band, with hosts Dawn Tyler Watson and JW-Jones. Presented in partnership with the Toronto Blues Society.

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Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), tonight (Thursday, January 16) See preview, page 42. Psyche Tongues, Wicked Witches, Rival Boys, Love Banshee Horseshoe (370 Queen West), t onight (Thursday, January 16) Psychy, metally local garage rock. Silent shout & NeXt Present The Class of 2014 w/ Jef Barbara, Bizzarh, Lido Pimienta, Nyssa, Twist Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (January 17) See Lido Pimienta preview, page 39.

Yuck, Elsa The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (January 17) See preview, page 46. Skream, Alex metric, Destructo & Holloh The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (January 17) Pre-eminent dubstep producer. Art Department, AME, Nitin, Jonathan Rosa CODA (794 Bathurst), Saturday (January 18) Toronto techno/house duo. Stars, July Talk Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Saturday (January 18) Soft-focus indie pop.

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Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromatix, the Brain The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Monday (January 20) Texas psychobilly trio. Cate Le Bon, Kevin Morby Drake Hotel Underground (1150 Queen West), Tuesday (January 21) See preview, page 40. Weekend, Nothing The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Tuesday (January 21) San Francisco shoegaze.

SAT., FEB. 1, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL Malian singer Diawara’s “well-crafted songs are often light and breezy, but her soulful voice... can stop you in your tracks.” (TIME) Presented in association with Batuki Music and Small World Music.

Mavis Staples FRI., FEB. 7, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL Mavis Staples has blazed a rhythm & blues trail while staying true to her gospel roots. She has influenced artists from Bob Dylan to Prince, who dubbed her “the epitome of soul.”

Just Announced Trust, the Darcys, Lowell Red Bull Sound Select Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $3. January 23.

Slyde, We’re Doomed, Hell Storm Celebrating 5 Years Of Slyde Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla 9 pm, $5. January 24.

Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi SAT., FEB. 8, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL Fabio Biondi creates a program called The Windy Seasons inspired by The Four Seasons. “Europa Galante are acknowledged as the world’s best.” (Gramophone)

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Cai.ro, Army Girls, Adaline, Highs Big Smoke Festival: Beers and Bands

The Garrison 9 pm. BP, SS. bigsmokefest.com. January 24.

Basecamp, Wolf J McFarlane, Kashka, Warm Myth Big Smoke Festival: Beers And Bands The Garrison 9 pm. BP, SS. bigsmokefest.com. January 25.

Osoyoos, Human Bodies, the Nursery Bovine Sex Club doors 9 pm, $5.

January 30.

Random Order CD release party Virgin

obile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $20, adv $18. M eventbee.com/v/randomorder. January 30.

Culture Shock, Abbas Hasan, Priya, DJ Fizza, DJ Amita Anokhi’s

11th Anniversary Event Queen Elizabeth Theatre 8 pm awards, after party 10 pm, $20$54.50. TM. anokhimedia.com/ 11thanniversaryevent. February 1. Daft Punk Tribute Adelaide Hall doors 9 pm, $25. NT, RT, SS. February 1. Brazilian Girls The Hoxton doors 8 pm, $20. TW. February 2.

The Pretty Reckless, Heaven’s Basement, the Letter Black, Crobot Phoenix Concert Theatre 7:30 pm, all ages, $24.50-$50. LN, RT, SS. February 5.

The Pinecones CD release The Piston. February 6.

A Tribe Called Red, Lido Pimientia Hillside Inside St George’s Church 10 pm,

all ages, $22. TB. hillsidefestival.ca. February 7.

Timber Timbre, Tanya Tagaq Hill-

side Inside St George’s Church 2 pm, all ages, $28. TB. hillsidefestival.ca. February 8.

Anenon & Lina Allemano’s Titanium Riot Jazz Avant Series Music Gallery doors 7 pm, $20, adv $15. SS. February 8.

Fern Lindzon, Chris Gale, George Koller, Nick Fraser Jazz

At The Bookstore release The Jazz Bistro 7 pm. February 11. Holy Ghost! DJ set The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $10. TW. February 14.

The Golden Dogs w/ members of Sloan, Zeus, the Elwins, the Bicycles, Meligrove Band, Fresh Snow, and others Kinks 50th Anniver-

sary Tribute Show Silver Dollar 9:30 pm, $10. February 15. Kanye West Yeezus Tour Copps Coliseum LN. February 18. Dead Meadow Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $15.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. February 20.

Solids, Crusades, Neon Windbreaker Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. February 20.

Cauldron, Chainbreaker, Manacle Sneaky Dee’s 9 pm, $10. February 21. The Fratellis Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $17. TW. March 1.

Mayday Air Canada Centre 8 pm, all ages,

$68-$328. ACC, LN. March 20. Childish Gambino Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$55. LN, RT, SS. March 24 and 25. James Vincent McMorrow The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages,

$24.50. RT, SS, TM. April 2.

Black Lips, Natural Child Phoenix

Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $19. RT, SS, TF. April 22. Chromeo, Oliver Come Alive Tour The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm. TM. May 2.

Tom Wilson, Lee Harvey Osmond, Harlan Pepper, Dan Griffin, Douglas Cameron, Hemingway Corner, Brent Titcomb, Cat Clyde and others Borrowed Tunes: The Music Of Neil Young Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $32, adv $30. May 2.

Bombay Bicycle Club, Royal Canoe The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $25. LN, TM. May 3. Valdy Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $28, adv $26. May 22.

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Most of us with a predilection for indie rock have at one time or another been obsessed with In The Aeroplane Over The Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel’s second album. It came out 16 years ago but gets rediscovered yearly by undergrads besotted with Jeff Mangum’s surreal and visceral lyrics (possibly about Anne Frank), heart-snagging melodies, go-for-broke vocal and acoustic guitar delivery and the whimsical touches of accordion and brass. Aeroplane was the sixth-bestselling vinyl album of 2008. Perhaps its undying popularity and influence are what have finally coaxed Mangum, Scott Spillane, Julian Koster and Jeremy Barnes back together for the first time since 1998. (That absence and Mangum’s famed reclusiveness have, of course, only made the Athens, Georgia, band all the more mythic.) At Mangum’s solo shows at TrinitySt. Paul’s in 2011, the crowd lost it continuously. If you were able to snag a ticket for either Kool Haus show, get ready for rapturous swooning – quite possibly your own. Sunday and Monday (January 19 and 20), doors 7:30 pm, all ages, at Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East). $35.50. RT, SS, TF.

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Lido Pimienta’s gig calendar gives a pretty clear picture of how resistant she is to categorization. Sure, most musicians claim their sound transcends genres, but how many are literally playing with punk bands one night, rocking a dance party the next and making an appearance at an experimental folk music event a few days later? “It’s not okay to have to become the thing that other people want you to be,” Pimienta states firmly, as if admonishing a child. “My whole thing is about defending my freedom. “You can put me wherever. I’m not going to be scared. I used to be, but now I know that I don’t have to please anyone. If I’m having a good time, it’s going to show, and then everyone else is going to have a good time.” Pimienta got an early start as a musician, giving her first performance when she was only 11 in Colombia. After moving to London, Ontario, in 2005, she stumbled upon that city’s noise scene, which helped launch her solo career. “It opened my mind to this other realm of music, and other ways to approach experimental music. Because of where I’m from, there’s a tendency to pigeonhole me: you’re Latin, so you’re supposed to sound like this, because you are the Other. So it was great to be in this group of freaks where my weird voice was embraced.” That avant-garde influence was mashed up with crisp electronic pop textures on her 2010 debut solo album, Color. It was a great showcase of that “weird” voice (“haunting” would be a better term) and led to successful tours of South America. It also got her lumped in with the nu-cumbia scene, a label she fiercely resisted. Her upcoming sophomore album, La Papessa, should dispel some of those preconceptions. Less overtly pop than Color, it better represents the unpredictable raw energy of her live performances, and somehow manages to defy categorization even more than her impressive debut. 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

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Welsh singer/songwriter Cate Le Bon’s latest fulllength, Mug Museum, is delicately elegant. Her voice, most often compared to Nico’s, is comforting and friendly – just right for a rainy afternoon. When Le Bon answers the phone outside a New Orleans tour stop, she sounds like an extension of the persona on her jangly, 60s-inspired sleepy pop. “I’ve actually just woken up,” she confesses with a giggle. “When you called, I realized I wouldn’t have to help with load-in.” But it’s not all laughs. Peel away the cozy, charming layers of Mug Museum and you’ll find tales of pain and disillusionment. Pensively, Le Bon details how she wrote the record in the wake of her maternal grandmother’s death. “It’s not meant to be morbid, but there was a period of reflecting on who I was,” she says. “I had to figure

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Ew, the Taste & Gold Pony (pop) 10 pm. HORSESHOE Psyche Tongues, Wicked Witches, Rival Boys, Love Banshee 9 pm. LEE’S PALACE Big Name Actors, Araza, Vorasek. MÉLANGE Open Stage Lee Van Leer 9 pm. PAUPER’S PUB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. RIVOLI Steve Lewin. SAVING GIGI Gasp Gasp With The Holy Gasp: A Monthly Happening The Holy Gasp, Moves (surf/punk/power pop/psychedelic/tropicalia) 8 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Astro Junk, Newsmen, Fanette 8 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Cody Simpson, Plug in Stereo doors 5 pm, all ages.

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out if my role was worth something in this chain of females in my family.” Le Bon’s reflections quickly turned so intensely introspective that she began to question the meaning of her existence. “I was thinking about my own age. There were periods when I stopped and thought, ‘Well, my god, this could just be it [for my career]. Everything I see now could be it.’” What ultimately helped Le Bon come to terms with her loss and her role as a critically acclaimed singer was playing the album live. Now midway through an extensive North American and European tour, she seeks a balance between a persona her fans can enjoy and a woman who’s still finding her own path. “I’ve always been very cagey,” she says about sharing such personal songs. “I like to think I write them in a way that they can be applied to many different things. Otherwise, I keep things very close.” music@nowtoronto.com

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RIVOLI DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop). WAYLA BAR Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (70s/80s) 10 pm.

Friday, January 17 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BELLJAR CAFE Corey Isenor 9 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM BisonSound,

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DC MUSIC THEATRE Metal Showcase Will of the Ancients, the Divided Line, Black Eve, Full Give, My Dear Dilema, Searching for the Surface doors 7 pm, all ages. EL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS Headstock Inseverance, Sister Hyde Show. EL MOCAMBO UPSTAIRS CD release party Humbabas. THE GARRISON Yuck, Elsa doors 9 pm. See preview, page 46.

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Don’t let the name fool you. Trombone Shorty, born Troy Andrews, is also an expert trumpeter, vocalist and producer, seasoned backing musician, philanthropist, actor (he played himself in the last season of HBO’s post-Katrina series, Treme), and, most notably, bandleader in Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue. On their latest album, September’s Say That To Say This, Shorty is equal parts jazz, hip-hop and funk, with heavy doses of both rock and R&B, evokingLenny Kravitz here and Prince there. The album’s greatest coup, however, involved Andrews’s last-minute decision to include a cover of Be My Lady, by New Orleans 60s/70s funk band the Meters. That’s not all, though – he convinced the band, who hadn’t been together in the studio since 1977, to record the track with him. Over the phone, in a charmingly strong accent, Andrews talks about his record and his hometown, “N’Awlins.”

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What inspired you to try to get the Meters to play with you? I was riding around New Orleans in the car with my cousin – we always listen to old New Orleans music to see what inspires us. My album still needed a medium-tempo ballad, and we came up to Be My Lady. I said I was going to record it and attempt to get the original Meters on it, because if I couldn’t get them I wasn’t going to do it. My cousin told me it wouldn’t happen. So how did you convince them to reunite? I had to call each and every one of them individually, because there’s no manager for the Meters. They’ve seen me grow up. They know what their music means to me, and they’re really happy for where I am in my career. There’s a mutual respect between musicians – that’s probably what convinced them. Would they ever perform it with you? That might be pushing it… but I think we could make it happen. Maybe five dates around the United States. And we could share the stage with them or I could play with their band – either way, I’d love to play with them onstage.

What was it like working with your co-producer, Raphael Saadiq, on Say That To Say This? I grew up listening to his music on the radio. My mom, my sisters and everybody loved his music. He’s a great songwriter, great producer and, more importantly to me, he’s a great musician, so we were able to push each other in different directions musically. Without his even putting on his producer’s hat we were able to jam a lot in the studio, because he approaches some things differently than we, coming from New Orleans, do. It was a learning experience for me and my band. He had a big impact on our sound just in that small amount of time we spent together. “There’s no place like home” is a cliché, but your home is one of the world’s best music cities. It’s important that I spend [enough time] at home, because there are things happening there musically. We have a bunch of young musicians coming up who are inspired by what we’re doing, but they’re creating their own lane, and that inspires me. I want to continue to be a part of that, so I have to go back and listen and play with other people’s bands and check out where it’s going and hope to have some type of input. I don’t want to lose that connection. If I don’t go back and be a part of it, my music might JULIA LECONTE drastically change.

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The Jazz Bistro Horace Silver Tribute Dave

Genesis: Selling England By The Pound

Young Quintet 9 pm. Latinada Payadora Tango Ensemble 9 pm. Lula Lounge World Jazz Fridays Roland Hunter Trio 8 pm. Music Gallery Emergents II Ensemble Paramirabo, Christopher Willes 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star Richard Whiteman 7:30 to 10:30 pm. The Rex Kiki Misumi Sextet 9:45 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.

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Cabin Nightclub The Legendary Groove Fridays Spence Diamonds & Mista Jiggz (R&B/ funk/soul/hip-hop/house ). Crawford BeastDJ. Disgraceland Dr Velvet (rockabilly/50s/R&B and more on wax) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Stuck On Stupid DJ Fase & Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. Fly Pop Fridays DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Just The Tip (Of The Weekend) DJ Secret Agent 8 pm. Handlebar Fuzz Nugs (60s rarities dance party). The Hoxton Skream, Alex Metric, Destructo & Holloh doors 10 pm. Kool Haus Winter Wonderland DJ White Bwoy. Li’ly Some Like It Deep. Maison Mercer Ashley Wallbridge & Bass Khelph 10 pm. Nyood The Return Of Wristpect (hip-hop/R&B/house/EDM/mashups). OhSo Nightclub Faded Fridays DJ Wikked & DJ Cirius (hip-hop/R&B/reggae). Rivoli Dub Connection Soundsystem DCS Crew, Vintage Rockers, UK Dub & Digital doors 10 pm.

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Rivoli pool lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/

dancehall) 10 pm. Wrongbar Dancing In Outer Space Detroit Swindle, Toronto Hustle, Jeff Button (deep house) 10 pm.

Saturday, January 18 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Lady Kane. Black Swan Saturday Sessions Open Stage

and Jam Brian Gladstone 2 pm. El Mocambo Upstairs Konvikshum, Limitless. Get Fresh Co Yxung Toronto Lxrds Cipher DillanPonders, Jimmy B, SeT, Raheem, Terrell Morris, Tray, X.Zavier, Devontee and others 8 pm, all ages. Global Village Backpackers aBabe Saturdays Bad River, I Hate Todd, Hot Peach doors 9:30 pm. Hard Luck Bar City Lights, So Many Ways, July, We Were Sharks, Rosewater (pop punk/ post-hardcore) doors 7 pm, all ages. Horseshoe Two Way Monologues Presents Brothers of North, South of Bloor, Trevor James, Patrick Grant & the Flesh Vignette 9:30 pm. Lee’s Palace Indie 88 Power Party Stars, July Talk. Linsmore Tavern A Band (tribute to the Band) 9:30 pm. The Local Chris Staig & the Marquee Players (rock n roll) 9 pm. Measure Gatwich Live Lose To Win Fundraiser beau, the Dead Projectionists, Pyro, Giovanna Galuppo doors 8:30 pm. The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

Rockpile Michael Schenker all ages. ñ Saving Gigi Ossington Rippers, Brent Randall

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Silver Dollar Wavelength & NeXT Present: The Class Of 2014 – A New Indieñ Rock Honour Red Mass, Dirty Frigs, Dilly Dally, Crhymes, Cellphone doors 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s The Lineup (rock/blues) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

3030 Dundas West The Big Soul Show In The JunctionTO The Intentions, DJ OH16 9 pm.

Tranzac Family rock concert OOZAKAZOO, Ken Whiteley doors 2 pm, all ages.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Great Canadian Girlesque Expo doors 7:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Blue Goose Tavern Danny B’s House Party The Danny B Band (blues harp) 3 to 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room Shawn Clarke,

Mellowkotzen, Michael Flynn, Ukecouza, Braeden Mitchell 9 pm. Cameron House Sean Conway (country/ blues/western swing) 10 pm, the Silver Hearts 8 pm. C’est What The Boxcar Boys (old-time/folk) doors 2 pm. Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. Flato Markham Theatre Amanda Martinez (soulful Latin jazz/Mexican folk) 8 pm. Free Times Cafe I Woke Up Like This Nathan Carrol 8:30 pm. Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Jim McDonald 1 to 4 pm. Gate 403 Bill Heffernan 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s Beggars Banquet 10 pm. Habits Gastropub Art & Woodhouse (folk) 9 pm. Harlem Daneilla Watters 7 pm. Hugh’s Room Way We Feel: A Cele bration Of The Music Of Gordon Lightfoot Lori Cullen, Kevin Fox, Layah Jane & Ollie Johnson, James Keelaghan, Jacob Moon, Jory Nash, Justin Rutledge, Trent Severn and others 8:30 pm. Lou Dawg’s Jeff Eager (acoustic blues/funk/ rock/soul). Lula Lounge Salsa Saturday Orquesta Fantasia, DJ Kruz (salsa) 10:30 pm. Round Pedro Sá Moraes, DJ General Eclectic, DJ Firecracker (samba/MPB/funk/Latin/reggae/Afrobeat) doors 8 pm. St Nicholas Anglican Church Acoustic Harvest David Bradstreet, Mira Meikle doors 7:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Local 164 (old time music) 10 pm, Ilios’ Solar Panel 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alliance Française Downtown Jazz en tête-a-tête Shalom Supreme 7:30 pm.

T.O. Music N Getting Wyrd

One of the biggest challenges for indie musicians is getting their music into the hands of fans and record stores, which is why there will be much rejoicing all over the country when Weird Canada’s Wyrd Distro launches on February 15. The not-forprofit online store will carry physical releases and “ephemera” from emerging Canadian musicians and act as a one-stop shop for consumers and record stores. To celebrate, free parties will take place in every province and territory, and a commemorative Wyrd Distro mixtape in cassette and digital form will be available opening weekend. Keep your eye on weirdcanada.com for more details.

baby, it’s coda inside The club at 794 Bathurst, formerly

the Annex Wreckroom, has been in flux for the last few months due to a change in management, but finally some confirmed news is trickling in. The venue is now called CODA and has been remodelled and upgraded with a powerful sound system. Footwork’s previous owners are operating the space, with Art Department headlining the inaugural session on Saturday (January 18). The goal: to make CODA T.O.’s “temple of sound.” codatoronto. com.

Tattoo Rocks no More In other live music venue news, Tattoo Rock Parlour at 567 Queen West is getting a makeover of its own. Now branded Tattoo Queen West, it will see fewer rock acts blazing across its stage. Recently hired talent buyer/booker Justin Kwan instead appears to be focusing more on R&B and hip-hop. Soulful

Chalkers Pub Boom for Rent 6 to 9 pm. Gate 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

Hot Box Puff Lounge Wilson McLeish Quartet. The Jazz Bistro Horace Silver Tribute Dave

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Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star Bruce Harvey 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Paintbox Bistro Kelly Jefferson & Kelsley Grant Sextet 8 & 9:45 pm. The Rex Tim Ries & East Gypsy Band 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, Misissauga Big Band 3:30 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Once Upon A Time... Young People’s Concert Toronto Symphony Orchestra 1:30 & 3:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Ballet Lounge All Vinyl Everything Agile &

Mista Jiggz (hip-hop/R&B/house/reggae/ disco/funk/soul/breaks) doors 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar REWORK January Edition Spooloops, Kilowatts v Sketi, Ben Marchal (house/deep house) 10 pm. Bunda Lounge Solid Garage Nick Holder, Groove Institute (Afro/Latin/deep/party) doors 10 pm. Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm. CODA The Inaugural Session Art Department, AME, Nitin, Jonathan Rosa. Crawford Still Fly DJ D-Wiz (bangers/hiphop/R&B/eggae). Disgraceland Sweet Sweat DJ Bronson (dance/electro/Brit pop) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Racks & Bands DJs Vanity Muscles & Johnny Hockin doors 10 pm. Grasslands Root Down DJ Fish (hip-hop/ soul/indie) 9 pm. Handlebar Erin Bolton, Big Frasier, Falcon Jane 10 pm. Harbourfront Centre Footprints On Ice: DJ Skate Night 8 to 11 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Nite Flights DJs Dreamchimney & FrankWaxman (soul/jazz/disco) 10 pm. The Hoxton Borgeous doors 10 pm. Palais Royale Singles Dance (70s to present) 8 pm, 35+ crowd.

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THE CAGE 292 Jam Phill Hood 10 pm. CAMERON HOUSE The Double Cuts (western swing) 10 pm.

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When London-based Yuck began writing the follow-up to their fantastic 2011 record, the 90s revivalist indie rockers were anxious. After all, failing to live up to a widely acclaimed debut effort is such a common occurrence, there’s a term for it: the sophomore slump. Add the departure of lead lyricist/vocalist Daniel Blumberg and, as newly appointed frontman Max Bloom puts it, “It was the most difficult possible second album. “It definitely got to me at times. It’s a weird kind of period because we’re in transition, and that’s not behind the scenes. Everyone can see it,” Bloom says over Skype from London, UK, just days before they start their first North American tour sans Blumberg. The singer’s decision to leave Yuck to pursue a solo project was made over a long period of time, says Bloom, who’s played in bands with Blumberg since they were teenagers. “I know him better than anyone. I know when he’s getting tired of something. He’s a very creative person, and music is just one of the things he wants to do, as opposed to me: I have tunnel vision toward the band.”

Bloom and the remaining members, drummer Jonny Rogoff and bassist Mariko Doi, started fresh for Glow & Behold (released last October on Fat Possum), ditching Bloom’s parents’ house as HQ for a proper recording studio in the wilderness of upstate New York. The change of scenery (and the help of producer Chris Coady, who’s worked with Beach House and Smith Westerns) proved a winning formula. Glow & Behold furthers their woozy sound without completely reinventing it: think inspiration from Flaming Lips rather than Sonic Youth. Along with the lineup, their liveshow attitude has also changed. Known for their deadpan delivery – the type of bored demeanour only veteran shoegazers can really pull off – Yuck now have a more energetic presence, Bloom says. In fact, he’s even enjoying the spotlight. “The first few shows were kind of like having a heart attack onstage,” he says. “But things feel a lot fresher than on previous tours. You have to like the attention, because if you’re onstage and you’re not enjoying it, then it’s not fun for anyone to watch, and it’s not fun for the people onstage with you. It’s very different now. It’s a lot more fun.”

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mene Hoffman (singer/songwriter) 2 to 4pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL BALLROOM Acoustic Family Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. GROSSMAN’S The National Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Way We Feel: A Celebration Of The Music Of Gordon Lightfoot Lori Cullen, Kevin Fox, Layah Jane & Ollie Johnson, James Keelaghan, Jacob Moon, Jory Nash, Justin Rutledge, Trent Severn and others 8:30 pm. THE LOCAL David Celia (folk/rock) 9 pm. 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. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Kickback Jimmy 10 pm, Copper Lassie 7:30 pm, Quebecois Jam 1 pm, Alaniaris 3 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

FLATO MARKHAM THEATRE Sheng Cai, Jazz. FM91 Youth Big Band 2 pm.

GATE 403 Brown-Talsky Jazz Quintet 9 pm,

Joanne Morra & the France St Trio 5 to 8 pm. GROSSMAN’S New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. THE JAZZ BISTRO Young Artist Brunch Nick Arseneau Duo 12:30 pm. KANJI Duane Forrest (jazz/soul/bossa nova) 7:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Jazz By 3 Lara Solnicki, Fern Lindzon & Sinal Aberto w/ Luanda Jones 7 pm. MORGANS ON THE DANFORTH Jazzy Sundays! Laura Hubert, Peter Hill 2 to 5 pm. MUSIC GALLERY From Atlantic Shores Motion Ensemble 8 pm. THE REX Marito Marques (world/jazz/funk) 9:30 pm, Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

ROYAL CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC MAZZOLENI HALL Mazzoleni Masters Barry Shiffman 2 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Monk’s Music

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DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

BASSLINE MUSIC BAR Monkey Biznuss: Last Bass Music Party DJ Decibel (glitch/bass). BOVINE SEX CLUB Metal Health 9 pm.

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

Monday, January 20

8:30 pm.

The Local Massey-Harris (singer/songwriter)

9 pm.

Lou Dawg’s Tangled Up In The Blues Chris

Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Caddell, Cassius Pereira & Kenny Neal Jr. Old Nick Live Forum Jennifer Brewer 9:30 pm.

Sister Hyde, Tony Malone, Alex Pulec, Michael Ursini, Slime doors 9 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The St Royals (soul) doors 10:30 pm. Horseshoe Shoeless Mondays Broken Lyre, the Mandevilles, the Drop Offs. The Hoxton Reverend Horton Heat, Nekromatix, the Brain doors 8 pm. Kool Haus Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power doors 7:30 pm, all ages. Lee’s Palace The Strypes (R&B/blues) doors 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

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Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/

jazz) 8:30 pm. Gate 403 David Rubel Music 5 to 8 pm. Jane Mallett Theatre Music Toronto Marc-André Hamelin (piano) 8 pm. The Rex Jacam Manricks w/ Clarence Penn 9:30 pm, Christian Overton 6:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Mazzoleni Hall Discovery Series: Joaquin Valdepeñas Conducts 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross The Ken McDon-

Folk/Blues/Country/World

ald Quartet (jazz) 10 pm, Karl Silveira 7:30 pm.

Maloney 6 pm. Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Gary Larocca 9:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Open Stage Monday Jeff Kahl (folk/pop) 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.

BassLine Music Bar Open Decks. Bloke & 4th Swank Tuesdays. Disgraceland Tornado DJs Karen, Ian and

Cameron House Sinner’s Choir 10 pm, Pat

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Maple Blues Awards

Monkeyjunk, the 24th Street Wailers, Charlie A’Court, David Vest, the Maple Blues Band, Little Miss Higgins 7 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band w/ Terra Hazelton 9 pm, Ken McDonald Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro York University Student Showcase Harry Vetro Quartet 8 pm. Kitch Luke Vajsar (solo bass). Lola The Big 3 (old jazz) 6 to 9 pm. QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE We Still Dare To Dream – The Oratorio Waleed Abdulhamid, Sharon Riley, Suba Sankaran, David Wall, Faith Chorale & the U of T Gospel Choir 7:30 pm. The Rex Jacam Manricks w/ Clarence Penn 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alison (rock/mashups/hip-hop/stoner/ electro) 10 pm. Goodhandy’s T-Girl Strippers DJ Todd Klinck.5 Monarch Tavern BYO Vinyl Nite (pop/rock/ hip-hop/soul) 9 pm. Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

Wednesday, January 22 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Curzon Tony Carpino. Horseshoe Performing Taiwan 1976 & Bearbabes (Taiwan indie rock) doors ñ 8:30 pm.

Lee’s Palace Johnny Flynn, the Melodic (folk rock) doors 8 pm.

The Loaded Dog Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 9 pm.

The Local Jimmy Byron (rock n roll) 9 pm. Rivoli CAPACOA Showcase The Walkervilles, Sarah Slean, the Once, Bobby ñ Bazini, the Seasons 8:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross This Is Awesome!

(indie lounge duo plays Pet Sounds in its entirety) 10 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron. Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam

8 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 10 pm. The Hole in the Wall Poppa K & Olesh (Ri-

chard Keelan, Alex Maksymiw) (folk/roots). Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm. On Cue Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 8 pm.

Silver Dollar Crazy Strings (bluegrass). ñ Tranzac Tiki Room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 7:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Lisa Particelli’s GNOJAZZ Jam Session 8 pm. Gate 403 Felix Wong Jazz Trio 9 pm, Chelsea McBride Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Christopher Willes & Grex (jazz/vocal) 7:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro The Soul Nannies 8, 9:30 & 11 pm. Lula Lounge Ron Davis’ Symphronica, David Buchbinder’s Odessa/Havana doors 7 pm. Princess Margaret Hospital Atrium Jazz In The Atrium Bill McBirnie Duo w/ Bernie Senensky noon. The Rex Vaughan Misener Quartet w/ Lorne Lofsky 9:30 pm, the Cookers 6:30 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Masterworks Toronto Symphony Orchestra 8 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Trevor Giancola (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

BassLine Music Bar Happy Hardcore Wednesday DJ DTM (hardcore) 10 pm.

Brassaii Les Nuits DJ Undercover. Crawford Connected Reggae Party. Crocodile Rock 911 Wednesdays DJ Perry

(top 40/dance) 9 pm. Disgraceland Pressure Drop DJ Vania (rock/ post punk/old skool beats) 10 pm. Handlebar Greasy Listening Sonic Boom DJs. Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (live guitar soundtracks). 3

Venue Index

Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. Alliance Française Downtown 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. Annie’s Bar & Grill 372 Queen E. 416-366-3366. Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. Axis Gallery & Grill 3048 Dundas W. 416-604-3333. Ballet Lounge 227 Ossington. 647-352-8253. BassLine Music Bar 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513. Belljar Cafe 2072 Dundas W. 416-535-0777. Black Bear Pub 1125 O’Connor. 416-752-5182. Black Swan 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. Bloke & 4th 401 King W. 416-477-1490. Blue Goose Tavern 1 Blue Goose. 416-255-2442. Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239. Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730. Bunda Lounge 1108 Dundas W. Cabin Nightclub 559 College. Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717. The Cage 292 292 College. Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811. Cavern Bar & Bistro 76 Church. C’est What 67 Front E. 416-867-9499. Chalkers Pub 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531. Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. CODA Crawford 718 College. 416-530-1633. Creatures Creating 822 Dundas W. 647-709-8337. Crocodile Rock 240 Adelaide W. 416-599-9751. Curzon 1192 Queen E. 416-850-3650. Dakota Tavern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579. DC Music Theatre 360 Munster. 416-234-0222. Disgraceland 965 Bloor W. 647-347-5263. Dominion on Queen 500 Queen E. 416-368-6893. Dora Keogh 141 Danforth. 416-778-1804. Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. The Duke Live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302. EFS 647 King W. 416-477-5460. El Mocambo 464 Spadina. 647-748-6969. Flato Markham Theatre 171 Town Centre Blvd (Markham). 905-305-7469. Fly 8 Gloucester. 416-410-5426. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231. Free Times Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078. Full of Beans Coffee 1348 Dundas W. 647-347-4161. The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. Get Fresh Co 498 Queen W. 647-341-8000. Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Global Village Backpackers 460 King W. 416-703-8540. Goodhandy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. Grasslands 478 Queen W. 416-504-5127. Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000. Habits Gastropub 928 College. 416-533-7272. Handlebar 159 Augusta. 647-748-7433. Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Hard Luck Bar 772a Dundas W. Harlem 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920. Hawaii Bar 989 Dovercourt. 416-786-7880. The Hole in the Wall 2867A Dundas W. 647-350-3564. Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. Hot Box Puff Lounge 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990. The Hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. Hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

Imperial Pub 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667. Jane Mallett Theatre 27 Front E. 416-366-7723. The Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299. Kama 214 King W. 416-599-5262. Kanji 1346 Queen W. 416-536-8448. Kitch 229 Geary. 647-350-4555. Kool Haus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045. Latinada 1671 Bloor W. 416-913-9716. Lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. Li’ly 656 College. 416-532-0419. Linsmore Tavern 1298 Danforth. 416-466-5130. The Loaded Dog 1921 Lawrence E. 416-901-0662. The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. Lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645. Lou Dawg’s 589 King W. 647-347-3294. Lou Dawg’s Ryerson 76 Gerrard E. 647-349-3294. Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307. Magic Oven Queen E 360 Queen E. 416-703-3555. Maison Mercer 15 Mercer. 416-341-8777. Measure 296 Brunswick. 416-477-5645. Mélange 172 Main. 416-686-6485. Midpoint 1180 Queen W. 647-895-4171. Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833. Morgans on the Danforth 1282 Danforth. 416-461-3020. Music Gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. Nyood 1096 Queen W. 416-466-1888. OhSo Nightclub 137 Peter. 416-477-1474. Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641. Old Nick 123 Danforth. 416-461-5546. On Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417. Paintbox Bistro 555 Dundas E. 647-748-0555. The Painted Lady 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239. Palais Royale 1601 Lake Shore W. 416-533-3553. Pauper’s Pub 539 Bloor W. 416-530-1331. Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251. Princess Margaret Hospital 610 University. 416-946-4501. queen elizabeth theatre 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293. The Red Light 1185 Dundas W. 416-533-6667. Relish Bar & Grill 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664. Reposado 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474. Reservoir Lounge 52 Wellington E. 416-955-0887. Revival 783 College. 416-535-7888. The Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. Rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699. The Rockpile East 2787A Eglinton E. Rooster Coffee House 343 King E. 416-995-1530. Rose & Crown 2335 Yonge. 416-487-7673. Round 152A Augusta. 416-451-6346. Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255. Royal Conservatory of Music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208. Saving Gigi 859 Bloor W. 416-531-1538. The Savoy 1166 Queen W. 416-499-9386. Seven44 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931. Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909. Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lake Shore W. 416-521-6302. St Nicholas Anglican Church 1512 Kingston Rd. 416-691-0449. Storys building 11 Duncan. 416-367-5151. 3030 Dundas West 3030 Dundas W. 416-769-5736. 3 Windows 372 Queen E. 416-366-3366. Toby’s Famous 411 College. 416-868-6297. Touché 669 College. 416-516-9009. Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. Two-Bite Saloon 840 Bloor W. 416-536-8682. Virgin Mobile Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663. WAYLA Bar 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. Wise Guys 2301 Danforth. 416-694-2005. Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, January 21 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Axis Gallery & Grill Derek Downham 10 pm. Cameron House Back Room Rock a Billy. C’est What Thunderfunk (funk) doors 8:30 pm. Creatures Creating I Can See You CD launch

Frank Horvat Band 7:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground Cate Le Bon, Kevin Morby doors 8 pm. See ñ preview, page 40. Flato Markham Theatre Jukebox Hits Live

Freddy Vette & the Flames (50s rock & roll show) 2 pm. The Garrison Weekend, Nothing, Sensei doors 8:30 pm. Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm. Horseshoe Bookie’s New Music Night Erika Werry, Hands & Teeth, the High Dials, Alan Snoddy. Rivoli Spookey Ruben’s Dizzy Playground Spooken Ruben Band, the Bicycles, Pick A Piper (live music and comedy) doors 9 pm.

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Open Jam Jaye Smith-Baxter, Dano Murray, Jim Nielsen, Jeremy Bard 9 pm. Cameron House Friendly Rich 10 pm, Sarah Jane Scouten 6 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge Memphis Tuesdays Young Running (country) doors 10 pm. The Duke Live.com Open Jam Jon Long 8:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Best Of The Open Stage 8:30 pm. Gate 403 Blues Night Danny Marks & Alec Fraser 9 pm. Hugh’s Room East Gipsy Band w/ Tim Ries

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album reviews Folk

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Strong Feelings (No Quarter) Rating: NNNN Doug Paisley is one of the finest, fastest pickers in Toronto. But the singer/songwriter refrains from letting his fingers fly all over his third album. Instead, front and centre are the songs themselves: concise, minimalist downtempo country, replete instead asks honest questions about her AGAINST ME! Transgender with Garth Hudson’s warm, whirring organ own fate. (“Don’t all the best burn out, Dysphoria Blues (Total Treble) lines and stories about relationship regrets, so bright and so fast?”) Rating: NNNNN uncertainties and quiet satisfactions. Unconditional Love blends Spring“You’ve got no cunt in your strut,” snarls All 10 are thoughtful and gentle, presteen esque hooks with career-defining Laura Jane Grace in the rumsented with little embellishment and zero clarity, and True Trans Soul bling title track of the Florida pretense. Paisley recognizes the added Rebel displays increased conpunks’ sixth full-length. The value of female backup vocals. In the past, fidence from a singer who lead singer of Against Me! has he’s duetted with Jennifer Castle, Leslie was once often fragile. Free never shied away from proFeist and Simone Schmidt, among others. of misguided anger but with vocative lyrics, but instead of Here, the job goes to Mary Margaret healthy amounts of traderallying against the revolving O’Hara, whose high and flitting phrasing mark anxiety and angular world, Grace looks inward and and melodies add a nice touch of unriffs, Grace’s expression is employs conviction unheard predictability here and there. powerful. Since she embraced since their 2002 debut, RePaisley’s own softly earnest voice the person she’s hidden since inventing Axl Rose. brings to mind Don Williams, the saxchildhood, Against Me!’s intimate mesHere Grace, who in 2012 announced touched What’s Up Is Down Eric Clapton, sage is now louder than the shrillest she is transgender, steps away from beand the superb It’s Not Too Late (To Say screams of their past. ing the voice of an anarchist scene and RCM_NOW_contests_1-5bw_Jan16_Fatoumata__V 14-01-10 6:54 PM Page 1Goodbye) Dire Straits. But all very vaguely. Top track: Dead Friend JOSHUA KLOKE Paisley’s sound is his own. Top track: It’s Not Too Late (To Say Goodbye) CARLA GILLIS

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South (File Under Music) Rating: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings’ eighth album sounds relaxed and real. The folk rock supergroup (fronted in turn by Colin Linden, Stephen Fearing and Tom Wilson) are onto something good. They got the idea to make a more acoustic album while jamming at festival merch tents. Though they’ve dropped electric guitar (there are lots of sliding dobro and mandolin flourishes filling in), they’ve maintained their rhythm section, so you can still dance to this record. The album mines go-to country clichés like driving and women (“Put your sugar down on my front seat, cuz you truly know what’s good for me,” Wilson implores in the opening track, North), but for the most part the songwriting is diverse and mature. Fearing’s falsetto recalls 50s ballads, while Linden’s tunes often sound like Tom Petty. There’s a great version of I’m Still Loving You, as well as a Willie P. Bennett cover (a nod to the band’s namesake). Standout Summertime’s Over is a mid-tempo nostalgic number about empty bottles and an end to suntanning. Top track: Summertime’s Over SARAH GREENE

COEUR DE PIRATE Trauma (Dare to Care) Rating: NNN Quebecoise singer/songwriter Béatrice

Martin, aka Coeur de Pirate, knows her way around a cover song (check out her slow-burn take on The Weeknd’s Wicked Games for proof), so deciding to interpret a dozen classic and contemporary compositions for her first all-English release (which doubles as the soundtrack to the fifth season of Trauma, a popular Quebec TV drama) was a clever – if gutsy – move. The sparse, almost spooky take on Bill Withers’s classic Ain’t No Sunshine sets the tone immediately – it’s impossible not to recognize that instantly familiar melody, yet Martin manages to draw out its inherent melancholy. The modern selections are well chosen, too – a bare-bones piano ballad version of Amy Winehouse’s You Know I’m No Good captures the spirit of the original while maintaining Martin’s distinctive chanson stamp. The relentlessly spartan production, featuring little more than acoustic guitar and piano, works well with Martin’s girlish croon but ends up making every track sound similar – ultimately an odd choice for such a diverse array of covers. Top track: You Know I’m No Good TABASSUM SIDDIQUI

the cornerstone of Montreal’s venerable Constellation Records. Long gone are their sparse ballads and “busted waltzes.” SMZ have struck out definitively into screeching, tightly wound post-metal. Take Away These Early Grave Blues proves Menuck’s long-standing claim that SMZ are above all else a punk band, something they used to demonstrate mostly through ethic and temperament. Their newfound heaviness may divide listeners – who may also have less use for them now that Godspeed is back – but SMZ’s attention to the dynamics of their buzz-saw strings and Menuck’s yelping, sometimes grating vocals are admirable. More than just another post-whatever crescendo generator, SMZ remain committed to nuance and subtlety while no less committed to getting louder. Top track: What We Loved Was Not Enough JOHN SEMLEY

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Age (EvilEvil) Rating: The Hidden Cameras are not the same indie pop band they were five years ago. Since the release of Origin: Orphan in 2009, Toronto’s eccentric orchestra – led by glittery shaman Joel Gibb – sounds younger, edgier, cooler. Appropriately, Age is Gibb’s coming-of-age story, weaving a narrative that shows an experimental side of the frontman we’ve never seen before. Opener Skin & Leather sounds like their typical fare at first (cue the melodic backing choir and boisterous string section), but a newfound urgency takes the song from cutesy to call to arms. Likewise, on Gay Goth Scene, which Gibb wrote 10 years ago at his mother’s house, the razorsharp violins are dulled only by his even sharper tongue. Like any growth spurt, Age contains the obligatory awkward phases, like the reggae-inflected Afterparty. But the Hidden Cameras have always taken risks, and this time the payoffs are much bigger. Top track: Ordinary Over You The Hidden Cameras play Lee’s Palace February 15. SAMANTHA EDWARDS

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Fuck Off Get Free We Pour Light On Everything (Constellation) Rating: NNNN Originally a spinoff group founded by core Godspeed You! Black Emperor members Efrim Menuck, Thierry Amar and Sophie Trudeau, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (SMZ for brevity) emerged during Godspeed’s seven-year hiatus as

Brothers And Sisters Of The Eternal Son (Secretly Canadian) Rating: On Damien Jurado’s 11th album, a sequel to 2012’s Maraqopa, the prolific singer/ songwriter pulls from the diverse bag of tricks he’s deployed since his late-90s debut. Sure, stripped-down, acoustic versions of the songs could’ve worked, but with help from producer Richard Swift, they’re fleshed out into psychedelic dreams dappled with field recordings, Latin guitar and Jurado’s serene vocals, raising existential questions that don’t quite get answered. Even tunes that start out with straightforward strumming and tapping (Silver Timothy) end up dizzy with electronic effects. Some songs downright surprise, like Suns In Our Mind, near-triumphant in its harmonies and peppy drums. Jurado’s narratives are filled with characters – Silver Donna, Silver Malcolm, Silver Katherine (also the names of songs) – and yet Eternal Son is a solitary journey. “Do not disturb me / let me be,” he says on the delicately plucked Silver Joy, the most achingly pretty of the bunch. Top track: Jericho Road JULIA LECONTE

WARPAINT (Rough Trade)

Rating: NNN On the follow-up to their hugely hyped 2010 debut, the four women of L.A.-based Warpaint cast the same mysterious spell that makes their dreamy alt-rock sound alluring and dreary in equal parts. Their self-titled release finds the band in a sexier mindset, a decision guitarist/ vocalist Theresa Wayman says was intentional. Group vocals are delicately laid over cool bass lines and drums to dazed, harmonic effect. At times, these harmonies come off as cultish, especially on Disco//Very, an all-keyboards-and-drummachines track that sounds like the girls are ganging up on the whimsical lovesick subjects from the rest of the album. Overall, Warpaint’s brand of sex is not the spontaneous, voracious kind of the act itself. It’s the reflective aftermath: lying in bed, drinking a glass of water, staring at the ceiling. At times, this sense of vulnerability in the music can grow stagnant and forgettable, but it’s usually pleasurable in the moment. Top track: CC Warpaint play the Danforth Music Hall March 25. SE

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art

Works by Bobby Mathieson, such as Capital, crackle with tension.

PAINTING

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Images can’t be tamed

Pure Goldfinch THE GOLDFINCH by Donna Tartt (Little Brown), 872 pages, $33 cloth. Rating: NNNNN

Mathieson plays with dualities By DAVID JAGER

BOBBY MATHIESON at Neubacher Shor Contemporary (5 Brock), to February 8. 416-546-3683 . Rating: NNNN

The image and its double is at the heart of Bobby Mathieson’s show Dual, or rather the image and its shadow. His paintings are studies in contradiction, canvases crackling with so much surface tension as to be almost hostile. Culled from film and pop culture, the subjects tug uncomfortably at memory. Their rendering in a deft but smeary impasto keeps them balanced on the knife edge of recognition. Part of their dramatic power comes from Mathieson’s intense contrasts of light and dark. His subjects pop, like blurred echoes of baroque and mannerist heroes, from fields of dark umber, black and battleship grey. They don’t meet the eye so much as writhe before it. At times they glow like photo negatives, incandescent figures burning against deep fields of black. Even so, they’re in no hurry to be recognized. Mathieson’s subjects remain strictly impassive under their savage vibrancy. You can’t help but look at them and feel lonely. I kept being reminded of screens playing to empty rooms. His immersion in movie culture (Mathieson attended the Vancouver Film School) is in evidence everywhere. Find The Beatle, which features Mick Jagger in his quarter-moon-emblazoned wizard hat, is obviously taken from the shambolic Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request (whose cover featured hidden images of the Fab Four). The title, however, is only a clue; the painting reduces the

cover to a decaying fragment that still radiates some strange, totemic power. Sometimes the reference is even more wilfully obscure. Aberdeen may or may not be a painting of a Scotsman wearing a Daniel Johnston Tshirt. Capital, with its blade-wielding

Sable Collection, Jan 17-Feb 22, reception 6-9 pm Jan 17. 1069 Bathurst. 647-3485110. BAU-XI PHOTO Chris Shepherd, to Jan 28. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. DIVISION GALLERY Porcelain: Breaking Tradition group show, Jan 16-Feb 15, reception 6-9 pm Jan 16. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Genviève Cadieux, Jan 16-Feb 15, reception 6-8 pm Jan 16. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972. ERIC ARTHUR GALLERY Almost Everything group show, Jan 16-Feb 14, reception 7-9 pm Jan 16. 230 College. 416-978-5038. GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Painting: Alex Bierk, Jan 16-Feb 15, reception 6-9

warrior, appears to be taken from a swords-and-sandals epic. Even so, you’ll remain intrigued. Mathieson explores the contemporary media image as a wilderness, a rough, glowing terrain in no danger of being tamed. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO The Great Upheaval: Modern Master-

pieces From The Guggenheim, to Mar 2 ($25, stu $16.50). Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, 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. ART GALLERY OF YORK U The Centre For Incidental Activisms (CIA) #2, to Mar 2. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BLACKWOOD GALLERY Ahmet Ögüt, to Mar 2. 3359 Mississauga N. 905-828-3789. DESIGN EXCHANGE 100% TobeUs: 100 Cars, to Feb 9 (free, todesignoffsite.com). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY You Cannot Kill What Is Already Dead, to Jan 25. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. McMICHAEL Karine Giboulo, to Jan 26. David McEown and Ben Barak, to Mar 15, reception 1-3 pm Jan 19. Mary Pratt, Jan 18Apr 27. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington

MUST-SEE SHOWS BARBARA EDWARDS CONTEMPORARY Jared

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pm Jan 16. 1520 Queen W. 416-821-3060.

HUNTCLUB LeuWebb Projects, Jan 20-26

(todesignoffsite.com). 709 College. JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Painting: Ben Reeves, Jan 16-Feb 15, reception 6:30-8:30 pm Jan 16. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125. KATHARINE MULHERIN Painting: Krisjanis Kaktins-Gorsline, Jan 16-Feb 23, reception 6-9 pm Jan 16. 1082/1086 Queen W. 416993-6510. KOFFLER GALLERY We’re In The Library group show, to Jan 19. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 647-925-0643. LE GALLERY Takashi Iwasaki, Mitsuo Kimura and Shogo Okada, to Jan 25. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. LOOP GALLERY Mary Catherine Newcomb and

(Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

ROM BIG, to Jan 26. Carbon 14: Climate Is Cul-

ture, to Feb 2. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year, to Mar 23 ($21, stu/srs $18.50). $15, stu/ srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Pierre Tremblay – Black Star Subject; Robert Burley, Phil Bergerson and Elisa Julia Gilmour, Jan 22-Apr 13, reception 6-8 pm Jan 22. 33 Gould. 416-9795164. TEXTILE MUSEUM Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre; 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.

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Complete art listings at nowtoronto.com/art/listings Sheryl Dudley, to Jan 26. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. PAUL PETRO Andre Ethier and Ron Giii, Jan 17-Feb 15, reception 7-10 pm Jan 17. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. SMASH FURNITURE TO DO opening party, Jan 22-23 8 pm-midnight (torontodesignoffsite. com). 2880 Dundas W. 416-762-3113. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX David Cronenberg: Evolution, to Jan 19 ($15, stu $12, Tue $5). 350 King W. 416-599-8433. VERSO GALLERY Sculpture: Libby Hague, Jan 18-Feb 9, reception 4-6 pm Jan 18. 1160 Queen W. 416-605-6894. VTAPE The Curatorial Incubator: Screen Test, to Feb 7. 401 Richmond W #452. 416-3511317. WARC Tracings: W5 Collective, Jan 18-Feb 15, reception 2-4 pm Jan 18. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

Don’t be daunted by The Goldfinch’s doorstop length. Donna Tartt’s novel – among many reviewers’ 2013 top 10 picks and currently number 2 on the New York Times bestseller list – is a rich, exquisitely written rumination on grief and art and where the two intersect. Thirteen-year-old Theo and his mother are on their way to meet his school principal when they make a detour to the museum to see her favourite painting, Carel Fabritius’s Goldfinch. When a terrorist’s bomb explodes, Theo encounters a dying man who gives him a ring and an address to which he should deliver it and tells him to “save” the painting. Unable to find his mother, who it turns out was killed in the explosion, the boy heads home with the artwork. The ring leads him to Hobie, an antiques refurbisher in Greenwich Village who winds up employing him (the details on antique restoration are

stunning), but not before Theo, now without a guardian, his father long gone, is shunted from home to home, his treasure always in tow and becoming more of a burden with each passing day. Tartt’s vivid prose evokes vibrant New York City and soulless Las Vegas, and the plot takes as many twists as the streets of Amsterdam, where the story reaches its climax. The characters are fully developed. Theo, who’s hardly an innocent – he’s already a skilled thief when we meet him – develops a serious drug dependency and eventually gets way too deep into an antiques scam. But we’re hooked by his terrible grief and his obsessions – with a girl he encountered in the museum and with the stolen treasure. Lucien Reeve, who may know what Theo’s up to, is all slime, and budding criminal Boris, the best friend and nemesis Theo meets in Vegas, jumps right off the page and into your face, funny, daring and wholly loving of his much less reckless pal. In the end, though, as mesmerizing as the action is, The Goldfinch is as much a meditation on the life-changing power of art. SUSAN G. COLE Read it. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

IN PERSON

We’re all preoccupied with Canada’s hopes for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but that doesn’t mean we have to forget our Summer Games heroes. They include multiple-medal-winning rower Silken Laumann, famous for, after what was supposed to be a careerending injury, taking the bronze medal in the single scull in 1992. She talks about and signs her memoir, Unsinkable ($29.99, HarperCollins), at Indigo Manulife on SGC Tuesday (January 21). See Readings, this page.

READINGS THIS WEEK

5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, January 16

7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom, 1214 Queen W. tinars.ca.

MARIATU KAMARA The author talks about her

MARK LESLIE/KATE MADDISON/MARGARET MOORE Genre fiction reading and an open

Sunday, January 19

Tuesday, January 21

book The Bite Of The Mango. 1 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710.

SUZANNE F CHARRON Talking about her biog-

raphy Wolf Man Joe LaFlamme: Tamer Untamed. 2 pm. Free. Moose Factory, 22 Grange. scrivenerpress.com.

CHERIE DIMALINE/TERRI FAVRO/LOIS LORIMER/ HOA NGUYEN Poetry. 6 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub,

539 Bloor W. plasticinepoetry.com. VICTORIA GRANT Reading erotic poetry from her book Forty-Seven Kisses. 6 pm. Dazzling Lounge, 291 King W. 416-506-8886. MAT LAPORTE/FENN STEWART Talking about their writing at a salon-style event. 4-7 pm. Free. BookThug HQ, 260 Ryding. bookthug.ca. SUNDAY POETRY Poetry, music, theatre and video plus an open mic. Noon-3 pm. Free. Ellington’s Cafe, 805 St Clair W. 416-535-2384.

Monday, January 20 DAMIAN ROGERS/FENN STEWART/ERIC SCHMALTZ Reading. 7:30 pm. Free. Magpie,

831 Dundas W. lionatnight.com. KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER Celebrating the launch of her book All The Broken Things.

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mic. 7:15 pm. $5. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. nightoutwithauthors.blogspot.com.

SILKEN LAUMANN The Olympian talks about her memoir, Unsinkable. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Wednesday, January 22 LUCILE BARKER/WILL OF PEACE Open stage

poetry and music. 7 pm. Pwyc (min $5). Queen Gallery, 382 Queen E. facebook.com/ events/640152476027528. OLIVIA CHOW Launching her memoir, My Journey, with performances by Shukri Dualeh and Jaydahmann. 7 pm. Free. Trinity-St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. Get tickets at Another Story (315 Roncesvalles, 416-4621104) or oliviachowbooklaunch@gmail.com. CHI TA-WEI/SHIH SHU-CHING Reading as part of the Performing Taiwan Festival. 2 pm. Free. Robarts Library, East Asian Library, 130 St George. performingtaiwan.com. 5WINTER SNOW BALL Night of queer poetry, performance and music hosted by Philip Cairns. 7 pm. Free. Urban Gallery, 40 Queen E. urbangallery.ca. 3 books@nowtoronto.com

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with PACAMAMBO’S KYRA HARPER AND MICHELLE POLAK • Reviews of remaining NEXT STAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL SHOWS • Scenes on JAMES ADOMIAN • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

THEATRE PREVIEW

Child’s play Dealing with death, decomposition and a dog named Growl By JON KAPLAN PACAMAMBO by Wajdi Mouawad, trans-

DAVID LAURENCE

lated by Shelley Tepperman, directed by Ken Gass, with Kyra Harper, Amy Keating, Michelle Polak and Karen Robinson. Presented by Canadian Rep at the Citadel (304 Parliament). Previews Saturday and Sunday (January 18 and 19) at 8 pm, opens Tuesday (January 21) and runs to February 2, Wednesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees January 26, February 1 and 2 at 2:30 pm. $24-$36, Sunday matinee pwyc, previews $15. 416-504-7529.

This is the first time I’ve interviewed a talking dog and a decomposing grandmother. They both make sense in the magical world of Wajdi Mouawad’s Pacamambo, which launches former Factory Theatre artistic director Ken Gass’s Canadian Rep Theatre. It’s the story of Julie, who takes her dog, Growl, and her just-deceased grandmother, Marie-Marie, to a basement locker. The 11-year-old demands that Death come to explain why her beloved relative has been taken from her. Three weeks later, a psychiatrist questions the girl about her actions and hears a strange tale that looks at life and death from a child’s point of view. “The play is the way Mouawad explains a complex idea to young people,” explains Michelle Polak, who plays Growl. “It’s aimed at audiences nine to 99 and follows Julie’s journey as she discovers her own version of the truth. At times she’s childlike, at others she’s on the cusp of a rite of passage. “As a mother, I appreciate how he captures the world of wonder and hope that any child inhabits. We’re all born with those qualities, but as we grow older, it’s challenging to hold on to them.” “Pacamambo” is a place of illumination, a land in the sky where everyone will finally meet and find equality and happiness. But the concept isn’t something the psychiatrist can understand. “Instead, it’s the grandmother who understands the truth,” says Kyra Harper, who plays the part. “But though she knows she will die, it happens too soon for her. Marie-Marie’s biggest fear is leaving Julie before she’s able to fully prepare her granddaughter for a lifelong journey that will eventually also take her to Pacamambo.

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“Her watchfulness over the course of the play, though she’s on a different plane of being, nudges Julie gently along the road with the help of Growl.” It’s through Julie’s storytelling that the audience gets a strong idea of Marie-Marie, notes Polak. “There’s an unspoken blood link between the two,” she says. “Both look at the world from an angle that most people don’t have. Like a cubist work of art, the play examines its subject from different perspectives, so that what is real or true keeps shifting.” This isn’t the first time Polak has played a dog. Early in her career she made a strong impression as a sensual devil hound in Gertrude Stein’s Doctor Faustus Lights The Lights. “Growl is quite different, nicer and more loyal, although he has his own opinions and isn’t completely subservient to either his mistress or her grandmother,” smiles the actor. “I’ve had a vision of playing a dog onstage again, and since I was cast I’ve been watching how they move and react to humans in their world. He’s the one who’s able to bridge the gap between Marie-Marie and Julie, and the humour with which he’s presented will help young audiences get into the play.” Mouawad – author of the acclaimed play Scorched, which was made into the Oscar-nominated film Incendies – uses theatrical magic to make the play work for viewers of any age, agrees Harper. “Even though the subject matter is difficult for a child, the writing doesn’t shy away from or whitewash it. In the play I’m a decomposing corpse, and if you say that as a fact, a child will believe it. In the theatre, so will an adult. You need no more than a good imagination to bring anything to life.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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Kyra Harper (top) and Michelle Polak look at death from a child’s point of view.

theatre listings 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.

Opening A CONVERSATION WITH EDITH HEAD by Paddy Calistro and Susan Claassen (Canadian Alliance of Film & Television Costume Arts & Design). Claassen plays the legendary Hollywood costume designer telling stories about her life and the film industry. Jan 17-19, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $40. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. COSÌ FAN TUTTE by WA Mozart (Canadian Opera Company). Two soldiers wager on the fidelity of their fiancées in this comic opera. Opens Jan 18 and runs to Feb 21, see website for schedule. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416363-8231, coc.ca. DARK LADY: THE MUSICAL by Justin Ruttan (Lionheart Productions Coeur de Lion). A drag performer navigates through being cheated on, finding new love and, ultimately, herself. Opens Jan 22 and runs to Jan 25, Wed-Sat 7 pm. $10, stu $5. Glendon Campus Theatre, 2275 Bayview. 416-487-6822, coeurdelionproductions@gmail.com. GIRLESQUE EXPO 2014 (Great Canadian Burlesque). This burlesque showcase features Ruby Joule, Bettina May, World Famous Bob, the Mansfield Brothers, Tanya Cheex and others. $25-$50. Jan 18-19, Sat-Sun 7:30 pm, at Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College); Sun brunch show, doors 12:30 pm, at Round (152 Augusta). girlesque14.eventbrite.com. THE HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA by Federico Garcia Lorca (Victoria College Drama Society). A widow imposes an 8-year mourning period on her daughters, who rebel against her strict control. Jan 16-18, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca. THE... MUSICIAN. AN ETUDE based on a book by Vladimir Korolenko (Toronto Laboratory Theatre). A boy born without sight learns to communicate through music. Opens Jan 17 and runs to Jan 26, see website for schedule. $20-$25. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. themusician.bpt.me. PACAMAMBO by Wajdi Mouawad (Canadian Rep Theatre). A missing girl is found with her grandmother’s body in this play for all ages about kids and death (see story, this page). Previews Jan 18-19, Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm. Opens Jan 21 and runs to Feb 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $24-$36, preview $15, Sun mat pwyc. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416504-7529, canadianrep.ca. continued on page 52 œ

choices could be tweaked: an introduc tory MC bit feels tacked on, and intri guing sound clips from dance innova tors could be better introduced and used throughout (not just for the 90s).

theatre festival reviews

Best of Next Stage

JORDAN BIMM

Stars struck

From a Chekhovian musical and a clever examination of C-list celebrities to an energetic dance show, here are the productions you can’t miss

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by Amanda Barker and Daniel Krolik (God Is in the Dairy/Next Stage). Factory Studio. January 17 at 7:15 pm, January 18 at 2:45 pm, January 19 at 5:15 pm. Rating: NNNN

Raise a glass to A Misfortune’s Kaylee Harwood (left), Réjean Cournoyer, Trish Lindström and Adam Brazier.

NEXT STAGE THEATRE FESTIVAL through January 19 at the Factory Theatre (125 Bathurst). $10-$15. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com/next-stage.

On target RIFLES by Nicolas Billon, adapted

from Bertolt Brecht (Praxis/Next Stage). At Factory Mainspace. January 16 at 5 pm, January 18 at 7 pm, January 19 at 9:30 pm. Rating: NNNN

Adapted from a 1937 Brecht play, Rifles has the feel of classical Greek tragedy. Set in a fishing village during the Spanish Civil War, it focuses on the Carrar family, led by Señora Carrar (Kate Hennig), who, after her husband is killed opposing Franco’s forces, re fuses to let her sons fight. Under Michael Wheeler’s taut direc tion, the debate between neutrality and participation is an exciting one, with Hennig and Cyrus Lane, playing a relative in the militia, powerful repre sentatives of the two sides of a life- and-death discussion. Another character, a British soldier fighting in the International Brigade, is not yet fully part of this world, but a longer version of what is now an hour-

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long play will likely incorporate him JON KAPLAN into the action.

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Terrific tales

A MISFORTUNE by Scott Christian, Kevin Shea and Wade Bogert- O’Brien (Common Descent/Next Stage). At Factory Studio. January 16 at 10 pm, January 18 at 4:45 pm, January 19 at 7:15 pm. Rating: NNNN

SCHEHERAZADE by Johnnie Walker (Nobody’s Business/Next Stage). At Factory Studio. January 16 at 5:15 pm, January 17 and 19 at 9:15 pm, January 18 at 6:45 pm. Rating: NNNN

As Margaret Atwood does in her updated myths, Johnnie Walker brings lots of biting humour and satire to his reworking of the Scheherazade tale. The title character (Lindsey Clark) uses her storytelling skills to save the lives of the village women whom the king, Shahriyar (Steven McCarthy), is butchering. Walker sets up this central tale nicely – with vivid flashbacks cle verly directed by Morgan Norwich – and also critiques weddings, arts fund ing and class and gender imbalances. It’s all great fun, energized by fresh performances by Clark and McCarthy as well as Heather Marie Annis, who delivers a sharp turn as Sheherazade’s sister Dunyazade, and Kat Letwin, who brings raucous comic chops to a var iety of characters. The piece could be trimmed without losing the wit and GLENN SUMI style.

nnnnn = Standing ovation

nnnn = Sustained applause

In the fine chamber musical A Misfortune, inspired by a Chekhov short story, Sofya (Trish Lindström), wife of the older, conservative Andrey (Réjean Cournoyer), is romantically pursued by Ivan (Jordan Till), a family friend. She asserts she’s never been more than friendly, but Andrey believes differently. At a party that includes these three as well as a warring couple, Masha (Kaylee Harwood) and Pavel (Adam Brazier), various viewpoints on love and relationships are laid out. Sharply directed by Evan Tsitsias, the excellent cast and clever writing – the party is structured around a series of toasts alternately

nnn = Recommended, memorable scenes

Daniel Krolik and Amanda Barker saddle up for Release The Stars.

sincere and ironic – deliver a nuanced quintet of character sketches, ending on a believably touching, bittersweet JK note.

Jack’d up JACK YOUR BODY by Emily Law and Ashley Perez (Mix Mix Dance Collective/Next Stage). Factory Mainspace. January 16 at 9:30 pm, January 17 at 5 pm, January 18 at 2:30 pm, January 19 at 7:30 pm. Rating: NNNN

Mix Mix Dance Collective’s visually stunning show chronicles the evolution of various styles of street dance, beginning with vogue, waacking and the house scene in the early 90s, and then moving backwards through time to hip-hop in the 80s, disco in the 70s, and ending with some 60s funk. On one level it’s a thoughtful his tory of American urban dance in the second half of the 20th century; on an other it’s an infectious blast of bodies, rhythm and colour that will make you question the convention of sitting through theatre performances. Attention to period fashion as well as a solid selection of tracks by local DJ Andy Capp give the show an authentic feel. That said, some formatting

nn = Seriously flawed

n = Get out the hook

This funny, poignant look at the drama surrounding veteran character actor Randy Quaid (Daniel Krolik) and his bombastic artist wife, Evi (Amanda Barker), dishes on their paranoid conspiracy theories and minor rebellion against the Hollywood system, but also explores much more personal themes of loyalty, compassion and connection rather than simply hamming up some juicy tabloid headlines. The show actually made headlines at the 2012 Fringe when the real couple showed up unannounced at the final performance, and for this remount Barker and Krolik have updated the script with amusing asides recounting how director Jack Grinhaus told the performers backstage 10 minutes be fore curtain, “They’re here.” In addition to these bits, the story also tacks between the Quaids and a touching brother/sister narrative that tempers the zany comedy with Klee JB 3 nex-grade tragedy.

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Lindsey Clark finds herself in wedding bell hell in Scheherazade.

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Pith! by Stewart Lemoine (The Theatre De-

partment). A sailor leads a widow on an exotic jungle adventure without leaving the living room. Opens Jan 16 and runs to Feb 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20, Tue pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, 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. Opens Jan 16 and runs to Jan 25, ThuSun 8 pm, late show Jan 24 at 11 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, Sun mat pwyc. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina (lower unit). b loodprojects.com. The Way Back To Thursday by Rob Kempson (Theatre Passe Muraille). A boy and his grandmother bond over movies, but grow apart as he gets older (see Q&A, page 53). Previews Jan 16-18. Opens Jan 21 and runs to Feb 8, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

Previewing

London Road by Alecky Blythe and Adam

Cork (Canadian Stage). This documentary musical is based on interviews with Ipswich residents about the 2006 murders in their town (see Q&A, page 53). Previews Jan 19-22, Sun 2 pm, Tue-Wed 8 pm. Opens Jan 23 and runs to Feb 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $24-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, c anadianstage.com. Once On This Island by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Acting Up Stage Company). A peasant girl rescues and falls in love with a rich man in this family musical. Previews Jan 21-23. Opens Jan 24 and runs to Feb 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$50. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Ada Slaight Hall. 1-800-838-3006, actingupstage.com.

One-Nighters

Puppet Allsorts: The Little Yellow School Bus (Toronto Puppetry Collective). B-AM

hildren’s Entertainment perform an all-ages C puppet show. Jan 19 at 3 pm. $15. Metropolis Factory, 50 Edwin. puppetallsorts.com.

When We Are Dead by Larissa Diakiw (Gasp Gasp). A snowstorm traps Anna in her childhood home with a man she hooked up with at her dad’s funeral. Jan 16 at 8 pm. $6. Saving Gigi, 859 Bloor W. 416-531-1538.

Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

Ronald Pederson takes a Pith! this week.

Continuing

As You Like It by William Shakespeare (Rarely Pure Theatre). The tale of spontaneous love and friendships is set in a winter wonderland. Runs to Jan 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. secureaseat.com. 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. The Fantasticks by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt (Dreamtheatre). A young couple’s love is tested by their meddling parents in this musical. Runs to Jan 18, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. St Michael’s College School, 1515 Bathurst. dreamtheatreproductions.com. Fatherly by Sam S Mullins (Sam S Mullins/ Next Stage). Mullins performs his solo show about fathers, sons, America, baseball and more. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $10, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Antechamber. fringetoronto.com. NN (GS) 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. Runs to Feb 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and some Sat) 2:30 pm. $48-$53, stu/srs $27-$45, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. Jack Your Body by Emily Law and Ashley Perez (Mix Mix Dance Collective/ Next Stage). Race, gender and class are examined in this dance work (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) The Keith Richards One Woman Show by Deanna Jones and Cole Lewis (Suitcase in Point Theatre Company). Jones takes a trip through Keith’s life, from boyhood to Toronto

Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary by

Michel Tremblay (Pleiades Theatre). Pious Manon and worldly Sandra reveal themselves in parallel monologues about their fascination with the Virgin Mary. Runs to Feb 2, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$37, rush $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. The Melville Boys by Norm Foster (Theatre Scarborough). Two brothers meet two sisters in this comedy. Runs to Jan 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Jan 25 at 2 pm (no eve show). $20. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. A Misfortune by Scott Christian, Wade Bogert-O’Brien and Kevin Michael Shea (Common Descent/Next Stage). This musical looks at small moments and big decisions (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. NNNN (JK) Nightmare Dream by Mumbi Tindyebwa Otu and Motion (IFT Theatre/Newface Entertainment/Obsidian Theatre). Preparing to return for his dad’s funeral, an African immigrant in Canada is haunted by his disconnection to his culture (see review, this page). Runs to Jan 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm (no shows Jan 23-24). $18-$30. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. nightmare-dream.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) On The Other Side of the World by Brenley Charkow (Harley Dog/Next Stage). Adapted from memoirs, this drama looks at Jews in 1930s Europe who sought refuge in China. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. fringetoronto.com. NNN (JK) Polar Opposites by Nicole Ratjen (TiltHAUS/ Next Stage). Two polar bears are trapped on a melting iceberg in this play featuring comedy, tragedy, table tennis and mask theatre. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $10, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Antechamber. fringetoronto.com. NNN (JK)

drug bust. Runs to Jan 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Jan 22). $15. Fixt Point, 1550 Queen W. 416587-4346, suitcaseinpoint.com. Killer Business – The Musical by Rob Torr, Ken MacDougall and Saul Segal (Torrent Productions/Next Stage). The production of a run-of-the-mill musical gets a jolt when a dead body turns up on stage. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. 416966-1062, fringetoronto.com. NN (GS) 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. $35-$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) The Lover by Harold Pinter (Sterling Studio Theatre Collective). A suburban couple try to liven up their marriage with a lover and a prostitute. Runs to Jan 25, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20, preview $15. Sterling Studio Theatre, 163

Release The Stars: The Ballad Of Randy And Evi Quaid by Amanda Barker ñ and Daniel Krolik (God is in the Dairy/Next Stage). A celebrity couple flee from U.S. media and stage a cabaret in Canada (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for

schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) Rifles by Nicolas Billon (Praxis/Next Stage). Not wishing to suffer more loss, a widow tries to keep her sons out of the Spanish Civil War (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Mainspace. fringetoronto.com. NNNN (JK) Scheherazade by Johnnie Walker (Nobody’s Business/Next Stage). A brave woman faces a king who kills his brides after every wedding night (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. fringetoronto.com. NNNN (GS) Seven Days by Ron Rutberg (Teatron Theatre). A family reunion at the matriarch’s death reveals the story of a couple who fought for the establishment of Israel, then moved to the U.S. Runs to Jan 19, Tue-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $26-$48. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. teatrontheatre.com. Stencilboy And Other Portraits by Susanna Fournier (Paradigm Productions/Next Stage). Desperate to be immortalized in art, a woman is caught between a graffiti artist and a once-famous painter. (See review at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15, pass $48-$88. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. fringetoronto.com. NNN (JK) 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 comedy. Runs to Feb 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $48-$53, stu/srs $27$45, rush $13. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. The Wedding Singer by Matthew Sklar, Chad Beguelin and Tim Herlihy (Hart House Theatre). A man finds love in this musical based on the Adam Sandler film. Runs to Jan 25, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Jan 25 at 2 pm. $28, srs/stu $10-$17. 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca. Willow Quartet by Joan Burrows (The Village Players). A violinist helps a divided family find harmony. Runs to Feb 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. 416-767-7702, villageplayers.net. 3

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site-specific history

Peter Bailey and Neema Bickersteth revel in the richness of Nightmare Dream.

Dream drama NIGHTMARE DREAM by Motion (ift

Theatre/Newface Entertainment). At Campbell House Museum (160 Queen West). To January 26. $15-$30. brownpapertickets.com. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNN

Ever since audiences first got a peek at this stunning site-specific meditation on African history performed inside the beautiful Georgian-era Campbell House Museum last February during Black History Month, people have been clamouring for a remount. Nightmare Dream was first conceived as the 2011 SummerWorks show Dancing To A White Boy Song. Since then, creator/director Mumbi Tindyebwa and playwright Motion have developed and enriched their core story – in which Simon (Peter Bailey), a Canadian PhD student with African roots, has a revelatory dream on the eve of travelling to Africa to bury his father – into a riveting combination of dramatic scenes, symbolic movement and song. As Simon’s eye-opening dream progresses, the audience is led through different rooms of the sprawling colonial mansion, where Simon interacts with ghosts from different moments in African history. We see him struggle with an ancient death ritual in the basement, then awkwardly address his African

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nnnnn = Standing ovation

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studies class in the foyer, and share a lavish feast with a 19th-century Upper Canada businessman (Joshua Browne) in the opulent dining room, among many other vignettes that trace African encounters with the “other,” from ancient times through the colonial era and postwar independence to the present. Together, the scenes stir anxious feelings about our modern separation from an authentic relationship to history and tradition. (In a funny yet starkly revealing moment, Simon finds only white authors listed on his African history class’s syllabus.) Tindyebwa and Motion are calling on us to explore deep cultural connections for our-

nnn = Recommended, memorable scenes

selves, and to move past received his tories of Africa that paint too simple a picture of colonial-era relations and independence movements. The entire show is a feast for the senses beyond sight and sound. One scene takes place in a very cold cellar next to a real roaring fire, where the viewers are offered mugs of fragrant tea. The use of temperature and smell is subtle yet incredibly innovative and effective. Due to the intimate nature of the space, audiences are capped at 25 people per show, which means this unique, powerful and thought-provoking piece will probably sell out JORDAN BIMM fast.

nn = Seriously flawed

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musical Q&As

January 17–19

If you think musicals are all about big budgets, hydraulic sets and brassy tunes, two shows this week should set you straight. Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork’s London Road uses music to tell the story of how the people in a small community reacted to the violent deaths of several prostitutes, while Rob Kempson’s The Way Back To Thursday is a two-hander chronicling the relationship between a gay man and his grandmother. See listings, page 52. by GLENN SUMI

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All-time favourite musical? Into The Woods, a fairy tale for grownups. It delights my imagination and wrenches my heart. London Road deals with the real-life murders of prostitutes and the trial of the killer. Did you worry it might be exploitative? The show centres on the people who lived on the same street as the murderer, and on how the events of December 2006 affected their lives and sense of community. It’s composed of verbatim interviews that were given willingly, and they cover a broad spectrum of points of view, including those of some of the prostitutes who worked in Ipswich at that time. So, no, it’s not exploitative. About those verbatim interviews: what did that require in rehearsal? We were each given an MP3 player with recordings of the people we’re representing, and, headphones on, we essentially practised mimicking, finding each person’s intonations, rhythms and vocal range. The goal is to represent them exactly. What’s the key to a good British accent? There are many different dialects, but

in general the sound is more forward in the mouth than it is in Canadian dialects, the lips are more active and the jaw more relaxed. Think of puckering up for a kiss and placing the sound behind the upper front teeth. Everyone plays lots of characters. What kind of shorthand do you use to delineate each one? I’ve associated each character with a different animal and gesture as a shorthand to enter their physical life, and I repeat a key phrase of theirs to key into their accent, voice placement, tonal quality and pitch. Favourite lyric in the show? “Can’t use the word ‘semen’ at lunchtime and I can’t use it at six o’clock / I can use it at 10 o’clock but I can’t use it before teatime.”

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All-time favourite musical? I love so many shows for so many different reasons. But if I had to choose, I’d pick William Finn’s Elegies. It represents some of the best songwriting for the theatre. You’ve written this new show’s music and lyrics and you’re co-starring. Have you felt overwhelmed wearing so many hats? I didn’t originally intend to be in the show, but over the six years of devel opment it just ended up that way. However, my team has been amazing about helping me leave the writer hat behind during rehearsals unless absolutely needed. Your show deals partly with a young man and his grandmother’s love of old movies. What’s your favourite old movie? I don’t watch a lot of movies – old or new – because I see so much theatre. The show was heavily inspired by the movie Giant, though. It’s definitely my favourite of the Golden Age.

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You’re also an educator. Who do you want to reach with this show? I hope that people see this show with members of their family, particularly those from different generations. I think it’s about maintaining family relationships over time, and the unconditional love that can come with them. Favourite lyric in the show? It’s a toss-up between “I’m here to reclaim the love that I’ve missed with you” (if we want sentimental) or “I’ve learned that dildos are rough” (because it’s so poetic). 3 NOW january 16-22 2014

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Thursday, January 16 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Matt

Davis w/ Nick Carter and host Brendan McKeigan. To Jan 19, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 and 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. THE EMERGENCY MONOLOGUES Morgan Jones Phillips presents a storytelling/stand-up show about being a paramedic in the big city. 8 pm. $20 (RSVP: morganjonesphillips@gmail.com).

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Cameron House, 408 Queen W, Back Room. emergencymonologues.com. HOOPS, THERE IT IS! MonkeyBoy Comedy presents stand-up w/ Mike Rita, Ryan Horwood, Christina Walkinshaw, Ryan Long, Mark DeBonis, Rob Pue and Todd Downey. 9 pm. Free. Hoops Bar & Grill, 458 Yonge. 416-929-3324. JIM N’ ME The Joy Of Camping presents a show about two folk musicians travelling across Ontario. 8 pm. $10. 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833.

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Laugh Sabbath presents a live comedy recording w/ Nick Flanagan, Zabrina Chevannes, Tom Henry and host Glenn Macaulay. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. THAT’S COLD ComedyLounge.ca presents Patrick Hakeem, Blair Streeter, Big Norm and host Kris Bonaparte. 8:30 pm. $10-$15. Vogue Supper Club, 42 Mowat. comedylounge.ca. THE VEST SHOW IN TOWN Comedy Bar presents a variety show w/ Vest of Friends. 10 pm. Pwyc. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. 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

FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents

Hitch a ride to the Comedy Bar January 22 to catch improv hit Sundown. 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 Colin Kane. To Jan 19, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S ON TOUR Rose Theatre presents Oh Canada w/ Winston Spear. 8 pm. $25. 1 Theatre Lane, Studio 2, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

Young, Candice Gregoris, Phil Luzi, Kurtis Conner and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Tango Palace, 1156 Queen E. 416-465-8085.

I WOKE UP LIKE DIS: A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT CABARET Free Times Cafe presents Nathan

Carroll, Colleen Dauncey, Mikaela MacGillivray and Noah Malcolm singing Beyoncé, Ja Rule, Ashanti, Joni Mitchell and Ryan Adams. 8 pm. $5-$10. 320 College. 416-967-1078. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 16. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 16.

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and 5 contestants competing for a spot in the Feb 9 finals. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. einstein.ca. STEAMY CREAMY COMEDY S.O.M.N. presents a weekly show. 8 pm. Free. Cafe Pamenar, 307 Augusta. facebook.com/steamycreamy. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 16. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 16.

Absolute Comedy See Thu 16. CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly

improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. ñ 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. THE NIGHT IS YOUNG Comedy Bar presents a live late show w/ Ali Hassan, Ben ñ Miner, Michael Flamank, Derek Forgie, host Dean Young and banter man Andy Itwaru. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. c omedybar.ca. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 16. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 16.

Saturday, January 18 Absolute Comedy See Thu 16. HIPSTER JOKES The Leslieville 7 present a com-

edic take on the city’s hipster scene, w/ Dean

Absolute Comedy See Thu 16. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT CONTEST Ein-Stein presents host Tim Golden

Monday, January 20 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents

Dave Merheje, Mike Rita, Kristeen Von Hagen, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Barry Taylor, Tim Nasiopoulos, Todd Graham, Evany Rosen and MC John Hastings. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell

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stand-up w/ hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com. 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.

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Hi-Hat Recordings and Indie88FM present a live music and comedy variety show w/ Jef Farquharson, Bryan O’Gorman, OT Biggs and others. 9 pm. $8-$10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. spookeyruben.net. TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Imperial Pub presents host Danny Polishchuk and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-9774667, imperialcomedy.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 16. 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. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, January 22 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/

headliner Brendan McKeigan, Brian Jansen, Maneesh Jay, Rebecca Gillis, Sean McKiernan, Thomas Calnan and host TRIXX. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Meg MacKay and headliner Lauren Mitchell. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SUNDOWN Bad Dog Theatre and Sex TRex 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. b addogtheatre.com. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 16. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Dustin Chafin. To Jan 25, Wed-Sat 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

dance listings Opening The Colours Of Kathak The Free Concert

Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre presents a performance demonstration about the classical dance from India by Infusion Dance artistic director Parul Gupta. Jan 21 at noon. Free. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. DanceWeekend ’14 Dance Ontario and Harbourfront NextSteps present various genres performed by hundreds of dancers and troupes, including COBA, Gadfly, Typecaste, Ritmo Flamenco and others, plus a gala to present the Dance Ontario Lifetime Achievement Award to Nadia Potts. Jan 17-19, Fri 7 to 10 pm, Sat 1 to 6:30 pm, Sun 1 to 5 pm (gala from 7:30 pm). $10 min donation, gala $25. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, danceontario.ca. Heartbeat Of Home Mirvish presents Irish, Latin and Afro-Cuban dancers and musicians in a music and dance show. Previews Jan 2125, opens Jan 26 and runs to Mar 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. Shen Yun Performing Arts Living Arts Centre presents classical Chinese theatrical dance and music inspired by myths and legends. Jan 16-19, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $50-$150. 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905306-6000, livingartscentre.ca.

Continuing Jack Your Body Mix Mix Dance Collective and the Next Stage Theatre Festival ñ present an exploration of race, gender, class

and the evolution of underground dances from the 70s to the 90s (see review, page 51). Runs to Jan 19, see website for schedule. $15. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 3

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TIFF Cinematheque adds to the winter chills by screening the best movies based on creepy Stephen King tales By NORMAN WILNER

KINGDOM OF FEAR: STEPHEN KING ON SCREEN at TIFF Cinematheque (350 King West) from Saturday (January 18) to April 5. See Indie & Rep Film, page 67. tiff.net. Rating: NNN

There was a time when Stephen King movies came out every six weeks or so, as producers harvested the author’s rich, pulpy novels for one project after another. Some were great, some were terrible. And some of each are playing down at the Lightbox on Saturday nights this winter. Running weekly at 10 pm through April 5, Kingdom Of Fear: Stephen King On Screen – curated by Twitch’s Todd Brown – is by no means a complete retrospective, leaving out key King adaptations like David Cronenberg’s austere take on The Dead Zone, Mary Lambert’s grim version of Pet Sematary and Fraser C. Heston’s goony but strangely compelling Needful Things. (Yes, TIFF did just screen The Dead Zone in its Cronenberg retrospective, but its absence here still feels weird.) Kingdom Of Fear lines up the movies people think of when they think of Stephen King movies: Brian De Palma’s Carrie (March 8), Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (March 15), Frank Darabont’s The Shawshank Redemption (February 8), Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me (February 15) and Misery (March 1). There are the movies that have their moments but don’t quite feel right, like John Carpenter’s slick Christine (February 1), which is crippled by the removal of

King’s multiple points of view and by a key misunderstanding of the source of the story’s malevolence. And despite Ian McKellen’s terrific performance as a Nazi war criminal discovered by a budding sociopath (Brad Renfro), Bryan Singer’s Apt Pupil (April 5) isn’t brave enough to follow through on its premise. These films are intriguing, but they just don’t satisfy. No late-night King festival would be complete without the author’s own cinematic efforts. Released in 1982, Creepshow (March 22) was his first project explicitly written for the screen. It’s an anthology created in tribute to the gory glories of EC Comics, whose pages had fuelled Little Steve’s imagination. Framed and lit to look like a cheap comic, Creepshow tells four stories in which bad people – played by Ed Harris, Leslie Nielsen and E.G. Marshall among others – get their gruesome comeuppance, and a fifth in which a hayseed farmer (King himself) pokes a meteor he really, really shouldn’t. It’s all directed with great enthusiasm by King’s good buddy George A. Romero, with spectacular monster effects by Tom Savini, the director’s collaborator on Dawn Of The Dead. There’s also King’s own gleefully stupid Maximum Overdrive (February 22), which he wrote and directed for producer Dino De Laurentiis in 1986. It’s terrible, though not as terrible as Firestarter, Mark L. Lester’s dull-ass 1984 film of King’s expansive book about a pyrokinetic child (played by a clearly confused Drew Barrymore) whose wild talent makes her the target of a demented gov-

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ernment assassin (George C. Scott, in a role he never should have been offered). I don’t understand why it’s in here, and why Brown chose to kick off the series with it on Saturday (January 18). On the other hand, I’m really glad to see Lewis Teague’s ferocious 1983 adaptation of Cujo pop up the following week (January 25); it’s a great exploitation picture, a straight-up siege thriller about a woman (Dee Wallace) and her young son (Danny Pintauro) trapped in a stalled Pinto by a rabid St. Bernard. Teague’s use of negative space is amazing, always leaving just enough room in the frame for the beast to burst into view. Being trapped in a theatre with it is a very, very different experience from watching it at home. Frank Darabont’s adaptation of The Mist (March 29) tries for the same mercilessness and initially works. The first hour nails the slow-burn panic of King’s novella about a handful of Mainers trapped in a supermarket by an inexplicable invasion of monstrous beasts, with Thomas Jane and Andre Braugher nicely matched as neighbours whose antagonism explodes under pressure and Marcia Gay Harden doing a great job of underplaying the religious mania of her villainous character. But then there’s Darabont’s awful ending, which betrays King’s themes and basically sells out the whole movie. I know some people liked it, but they’re wrong. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision

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STRANGER BY THE LAKE (Alain Guiraudie). 100 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (January 17) at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 65. Rating:

NNNNN Stark and seductive, serene and unnerving, lucid and mysterious, Alain Guiraudie’s Stranger By The Lake is a sublime balance of contrasts. There is no music, few close-ups and one single evocative setting. Nothing feels severe, yet everything has been quietly stripped down – including the characters, all of them men, nearly all of them frequenters of a secluded nude beach and the adjoining woods used for cruising. Handsome, amiable Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps) goes to the lake to

sunbathe, chat, swim, have sex. One evening, in a magnificent sustained point-of-view shot, Franck, unseen amidst the tress, witnesses a murder. This doesn’t appear to discourage him from returning the next day, or even from flirting with the killer. We know he’s not averse to danger – he doesn’t fuss over condoms. But psychology or motives are not discussed. As in the fiction of Marguerite Duras or, for that matter, Hitchcock, eros and death are entwined without rational explanation. Exquisite geometries abound: the gazes of men seeking lovers; the re curring images of parked cars or bare bodies reclining on the pebbled shore. Immaculately crafted, sexually explicit without seeming lewd, Stranger extends an invitation that’s hard to refuse. Don’t be afraid. Dip a toe in. The JOSÉ TEODORO water’s fine.

Passionate Egyptian activists Khalid Abdalla (left) and Ahmed Hassan argue and organize in The Square. Stranger By The Lake shimmers seductively.

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Ideas meet activism in ambitious doc The Square By SUSAN G. COLE THE SQUARE (Jehane Noujaim). 108 minutes. Sub-

titled. A Participant Media release. Opens Friday (January 17) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Times, page 65. Rating: NNNN

Democracy doesn’t come gift-wrapped. That sounds obvious, but when hundreds of thousands of dissidents of all stripes set up camp in Tahrir Square in 2011 and toppled long-time strongman Hosni Mubarak, you could forgive the demonstrators for thinking that democracy was just around the corner. Jehane Noujaim and her crew follow three activists during those magical months before Mubarak resigned and beyond – when they tasted bitter political disappointment – in this intellectually exhilarating documentary. Well-known actor Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner); Magdy Ashour, a member of the Muslim brotherhood; and ebullient young Ahmed Hassan argue, organize and revel in the fact that, at its peak, thousands are streaming into the demonstrations every five seconds. Aerial shots of the crowds are spectacular. Two elements make this film exceptional. One is the way in which Noujaim captures the very complicated political situation. Before Mubarak resigns, people from all parties and leanings gather in the square, united in their passion for freedom. In the run-up to the election, everything changes. The Muslim Brotherhood hijack the campaign, and the activists – even member Ashour – feel the choice

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between the army and the Brotherhood leaves them losing, not gaining, real options. The arguments and conversations, the imaginings of the forward-looking activists are scintillating. And these politicos can be self-critical, too. At one point, Abdalla allows that maybe the radicals’ problem is they don’t know how to compromise and can only criticize. They know what they want but have no plan for getting it. The second key to the doc’s success is Noujaim’s willingness to stay with her subjects even during the most harrowing moments. After Mubarak resigns and before the elections, when the army is in control, the demonstrators are forced to tear down their encampment in Tahrir. When they realize that without their presence in the square, they’re impotent, they move back in, which is when the army swoops down in full force. It’s only because of the crew’s fearlessness that the film contains a devastating sequence in which an army tank bulldozes and kills a demonstrator. There are some things missing – most notably the sexual violence women experienced in the square at the hands of their so-called political brethren. It’s not a minor omission – and if taken on would have added another level of complexity – but the film is already ambitious. Noujaim approaches a subject that is often simplified and reduced with uncommon nuance. And she shows real vision in getting down to Tahrir at the beginning of one of the world’s most spectacular political events. 3

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Arctic chill Arctic Defenders (John Walker). 90 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (January 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: NNN In 1968, working a summer job on a supply ship, Montreal teenager and aspiring filmmaker John Walker visited Resolute Bay in what is now Nunavut. He never forgot the experience. In 2012, Walker – now a documentary filmmaker (A Drummer’s Dream) – returned to Resolute Bay to make Arctic Defenders. The project was commissioned to catch up with the native peoples there who were forcibly relocated in the 1950s by the government to bolster Canada’s sovereignty

in the Arctic and then virtually abandoned. Much of the film is a grim recounting of the injustices visited upon the Inuit of Resolute Bay, who have long memories and aren’t shy about sharing stories of the deception, bad faith and institutional racism the Canadian authorities employed at the time. But just as I thought its title was chosen out of sarcasm, Arctic Defenders reveals that the people who ended up there refused to simply wither away, instead establishing a community with a bruised but unbroken sense of self-worth. And if Walker’s movie gets a little strident in itemizing their entirely understandable grievances, well, they’ve earned the right to be heard. Norman Wilner John Walker’s (top) experiences in Nunavut as a 16-year-old inspired him to make this doc.

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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) 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 Dick-

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in the torture room, debating whether or not to assist the madman in his inquiries. But where Prisoners went screaming off the rails in its final half-hour, Big Bad Wolves starts showing its structural cracks much, much earlier. Directors Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado, who made the effective horror pastiche Rabies in 2010, are ultimately much more interested in depictingbloodshed than in consider ing its moral implications. And the image of two Israelis debating the merits of torturing a captive is made slightly less effective when one of those Israelis is styled and dressed as a doppelgänger for Dick Cheney. Ashkenazi’s uncanny resemblance to Steve Carell is a little distracting, too. Though I’d love to see Carell take on a role like this someday.

while Prisoners was still in production, but it feels like a bizarro version of Denis Villeneuve’s hot-button morality tale. Once again, a parent (Tzahi Grad) driven over the edge by the abduction of his daughter kidnaps the prime suspect (Rotem Keinan) and tortures him to get to the truth. The variation here is that the cop (Lior Ashkenazi) obsessed with the case is also chained up

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The Nut Job (Peter Lepeniotis). 83 minutes. Opens Friday (January 17). For venues and times, see Movies, page 60. Rating: N

Despite a celebrity voice cast who should know better (including Will Arnett and Liam Neeson), The Nut Job might be the new low point for CGI movies about anthropomorphized animals, a genre not exactly known for its high standards. The nonsensical plot interweaves a human bank heist and animal nut heist; the message about the importance of friendship is dull; and even in a preview screening for families, all the chuckles came out of pity. This Canadian/South Korean co-production is the first feature-length film from ToonBox Entertainment, and with any luck it will be the last. They obviously can’t deliver the glossy production values of the Hollywood competition, never mind the heart, humour and intelligence of a first-rate Pixar movie. When a CGI Psy wanders into the end credits to perform Gangnam Style, it tells you both how much time the filmmakers wasted making the movie and how desperate they were to pull in anything like entertainment. PHIL BROWN

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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

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(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 ALL IS LOST (J.C. Chandor) may not ceaseless string of cameos (Drake, Kanye, break new cinematic ground for the Jim Carrey, Tina Fey, Liam Neeson, a minosurvival thriller in the way Gravity does, taur, Will Smith, etc) strain, coming across but it doesn’t have to; it’s just one hell of a as desperate to please. That there’s good movie, starring (plenty) more of the same Robert Redford as a isn’t necessarily a bad sailor trying to steer thing, especially for his damaged boat to EXPANDED REVIEWS Anchorman diehards. Like rescue. Chandor’s its predecessor, Anchornowtoronto.com intimate, immediate man 2 is most itself when direction puts us right its stars goof around with there with him for every second of it. 106 one another. It’s a shame the film expends min. NNNN (NW) so much energy and calls in so many Interchange 30 favours trying to imitate the original – a film that at its best seemed to be making AMERICAN HUSTLE (David O. Russell) is it up as it went along. 118 min. NNN (JS) nominally a story about the barely re401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colimembered 1978 Abscam sting, in which seum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, the FBI used a small-time con artist to Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town snare politicians on bribery and corruption Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, charges. But the plot is incidental to the Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, shouting. Director/co-writer Russell has SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge fully embraced the notion that drama only & Dundas 24 exists when characters are yelling at one another in mid-shots. Everybody races ARCTIC DEFENDERS (John Walker) 90 min. around shouting about their ambitions See review, page 56. NNN (NW) and desires, and whoever shouts the Opens Jan 17 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema loudest is the person with whom we’re

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(John Wells) is a perfectly constructed slice of Oklahoma Gothic about a family that convenes when the alcoholic patriarch disappears. It’s 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 are almost too much when they’re in your face on the screen. Still, Wells’s cast is so good, 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 her rage-fuelled daughter Barbara. 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. For all its deep flaws (terrible music, some clunky staginess), August: Osage County is extremely entertaining. Sit back and enjoy the ride. 121 min. NNNN (SGC) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

BIG BAD WOLVES (Aharon Keshales, Navot Papushado) 110 min. See review, page 58. NN (NW) Opens Jan 17 at Yonge & Dundas 24

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 cen-

tres 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. NNNN (SGC) Interchange 30, Mt Pleasant

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, Regent 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, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, woman-

izing 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) SilverCity Mississauga

DEVIL’S DUE (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett) 89 min. See Also Opening, page 58. Opens Jan 17 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñENOUGH SAID

(Nicole Holofcener) is an alt romantic dramedy about a masseuse (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) who can’t reveal to her glamorous new client (Catherine Keener) that she’s dating the woman’s ex (James Gandolfini). It has all the qualities that make writer/director Holofcener so good: a great cast, complicated relationships and smart writing. Louis-Dreyfus is surprisingly nuanced as the needy Eva, and fuhgeddabout The Sopranos – Gandolfini has a lovable charm continued on page 62 œ

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as the schleppy ex. The always watchable Toni Collette is on board as Eva’s best friend. As in Please Give, Holofcener displays a clear eye for relationships between parents and teens, never using the kids as mere devices. And though she has taken a bit of the edge off the proceedings, her dialogue is as sly as ever. 93 min. NNNN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

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 EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO doesn’t reach the (Hideaki Anno, Mahiro heights of a Lion King Maeda, Masayuki , Kaor Beauty And The zuya Tsurumaki) is an EXPANDED REVIEWS Beast, it’s entertaining anime sequel, set 14 nowtoronto.com enough, despite a lopyears after the previous sided narrative and the installment, about savlack of a compelling viling humanity. 95 min. lain. Orphaned princesses Anna (voiced by Jan 16, 7:30 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel) have Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity grown up apart (but in the same castle) Fairview; opens Jan 16 at Yonge & Dundas since childhood, ever since Elsa’s power to 24 turn everything to ice nearly got Anna 47 RONIN (Carl Rinsch) is a great big stupid killed. But when Elsa ascends the throne, epic set in a fantastical Japan populated her gift reveals itself, and she flees to icy by monsters and witches. Keanu Reeves isolation in the mountains, followed by stars as an orphaned warrior who joins a Anna, loner outdoorsman Kristoff (Jonaband of masterless samurai on a mission than Groff) and happy-go-lucky snowman of vengeance. Somehow, it’s staggeringly Olaf (Josh Gad). It’s basically The Snow dull. It’s impossible to tell what director Queen mixed with Wicked, but the creRinsch’s original conception might have ators were smart enough to cast one of been; the movie’s been overhauled in the latter’s stars (Menzel) and a host of post-production, its opening movement other Broadway belters. The songs are dechopped up and voiced over by an anrivative but effective, but only Olaf’s hilonymous British actor, the better to exarious ditty about wanting to experience plain what we’re about to see. Even the summer is destined for classic status. And action sequences have the dreary feel of Gad’s Olaf is the most entertaining sideobligation. Best to seek out Kenji Mizokick since Timon and Pumbaa. 102 min. guchi’s or Hiroshi Inagaki’s adaptation of NNN (GS) the story; they may not have swirling 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, smoke dragons or bird-headed monks, but

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GABRIELLE (Louise Archambault) isn’t aiming to push buttons. This gentle, charming romance about a mentally challenged 22-year-old exploring love and sex handles slightly provocative subject matter with a touch so sensitive that at times the film borders on timid. Gabrielle MarionRivard (who actually has Williams syndrome) delivers a winning performance as the title character, a choir singer whose romance with a similarly handicapped young man (Alexandre Landry) is stifled by the practical concerns of everyone around them. While offering an emotionally sincere (if slight) portrait of life with disability, Archambault gets caught up in rousing, overtly metaphorical choir numbers. They culminate in a grand appearance by Quebecois legend Robert Charlebois, who ushers in a resolution to satisfy an audience’s sweet tooth. Subtitled. 104 min. NNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(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) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(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) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, 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 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 Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(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 (which means more charismatic Liam Hemsworth), and director Lawrence keeps the violence offscreen instead of sanitizing it. Katniss and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are having trouble faking the love relationship that made them co-winners of the 74th Hunger Games, the arena spectacle in which a male and female from 12 districts fight to the death until there’s one person standing. But they’re sparking revolution against the wealthy 1 per cent, so baddie President Snow dreams up a new tourney in which the winners of the previous 24 games have to go into the ring. Who cares about plot holes in a fantasy? This is highly entertaining, and Lawrence is red hot in all ways. 145 min. NNNN (SGC) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñI AM DIVINE

(Jeffrey Schwarz) chronicles the life and work of oversized drag star Divine, who rose to fame making renegade cult films with John Waters and then became a recording artist, nightclub mainstay and cultural icon before dying, in 1988, of a heart attack. Schwarz flashes back to Divine’s frustrating childhood in Baltimore, where he was constantly bullied. Then came the life-changing meeting with 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. Then fame beckoned. Interviews with Waters, various co-stars and friends help create a picture of a complex man and artist, while fascinating archival footage documents Divine’s huge talent

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on a theatre or nightclub stage. Some context from a less biased cultural critic or a young filmmaker might have helped. But this is great fun. Bring on the Divine retrospective and/or biopic pronto. 90 min. NNNN (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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 their performances into something much more than folk scene clichés. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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( Justin Chadwick) features a knockout performance by Idris Elba, who skilfully portrays Nelson Mandela’s transformation from arrogant barrister without a cause to inspiring leader willing to sacrifice everything in his quest for his people’s freedom. The film leaves out Mandela’s childhood entirely and ends when he’s released after 27 years in prison. But streamlining all these events forces the writer into clichés, and telling the story in chronological order strikes me as lazy. The politics are confusing: you’re never sure who’s fighting whom or why, especially when the conflict is between blacks. And the context of activist wife Winnie’s promotion of violence against black collaborators is never made clear, even though the political tension between the rage-driven Winnie and the reconciliation-oriented Nelson is a focal point. The script does pay

attention to Mandela’s reputation as a young womanizer and gives credence to the idea that the sainted Madiba knocked his first wife around. Long Walk To Freedom can’t be called pure hagiography. But Elba’s the essential element. 141 min. NNN (SGC) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24

Muscle 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

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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) Coliseum Mississauga, Interchange 30

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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 in a comedy that pays out as rarely as a slot machine. 110 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga Lone Survivor (Peter Berg) turns an ctual 2005 incident in which four Navy a SEALs were stuck in the mountains of Afghanistan when a mission went sour into an endless action sequence meant to celebrate brotherhood, honour and shooting people in the head. Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch all commit fully to the project, barking their increasingly incoherent dialogue with conviction, but there’s nothing else to Lone Survivor at all; writer-director Berg lacks 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, and that’s what he does. The most uncomfortable element of the movie, though? Watching the closing montage of the real soldiers who lost their lives in the action and realizing how many of them were black or Latino, when the military of Lone

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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

PERSISTENCE OF VISION (Kevin Schreck)

serves as an oral history of Canadian animator Richard Williams’s doomed passion project, The Thief And The Cobbler, interviewing a number of his surviving collaborators and using archival footage of the master animator (who refused to participate in the doc) to detail the project’s slow, excruciating death. Animation buffs can feast on the fascinating behind-thescenes footage and the stories about an inspired artist trying to push the boundaries of his chosen art form. But as Schreck’s documentary goes on, it also becomes clear that Williams was so focused on creating bravura sequences that he never considered how they might fit together. And thanks to Persistence Of Vision’s structure, we get to figure that out well before Williams does, making an 82-minute movie feel a bit longer than it might have otherwise. 83 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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 treatPHILOMENA (Stephen Frears) tells ment, this doc gives Winton something the true story of journalist Martin more akin to a Heritage Minute, complete Sixsmith’s attempt to help an Irish with kitschy re-enactwoman, Philomena Lee, ments. 97 min. NNN track down the son she (RS) was forced to give up EXPANDED REVIEWS Kingsway Theatre five decades earlier. It’s nowtoronto.com an odd but effective NIGHT TRAIN TO LIScombination of investiBON (Bille August) is a gative drama and buddy dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several picture, as the devout, working-class Lee very talented actors in two stories separ(Judi Dench) and the privileged, cynical ated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a Sixsmith (Steve Coogan, who also cofew nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as wrote and co-produced the film) find an optometrist with whom his character common ground in the search for her son. becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reaDirector Frears lays it on a little thick in son to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN the glimpses of the young Philomena at a (NW) home for wayward mothers, but the rest Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre of the story is handled far more elegantly, framing the historical blemish of baby THE NUT JOB (Peter Lepeniotis) 83 min. trafficking through an immediate, perSee review, page 58. N (Phil Brown) sonal lens. It’s a tribute to both actors that Opens Jan 17 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Dench’s performance doesn’t feel like a Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, naked Oscar bid, nor does she totally Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborobliterate Coogan’s fine supporting turn. ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton 98 min. NNNN (NW) Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Canada Square, Eglinton Town Centre, Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, QueensSquare, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow way, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24 RIDE ALONG (Tim Story) 100 min. See Also Opening, page 58. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED Opens Jan 17 at 401 & Morningside, CanONES (Christopher Landon) is better than ada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum the last film in the found-footage franScarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, chise, but it’s still not very memorable – or Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainparticularly scary. At least the setting’s bow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, different. Instead of the huge, sprawling Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, suburban homes of the first few flicks, the SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale action takes place in and around a crowded apartment building in an L.A. barrio. RUSH (Ron Howard) chronicles the Strange noises are emanating from beongoing rivalry in the mid-70s beneath teenager Jesse’s (Andrew Jacobs) tween two wildly different Formula One apartment, and soon he, his sister Marisol racers: the cold, cerebral Austrian Niki (Gabrielle Walsh) and his camcorderLauda (Daniel Brühl) and the wildly chariswielding friend Hector (Jorge Diaz) investimatic English playboy James Hunt (Chris gate their creepy neighbour’s pad, leading Hemsworth). Director Howard and superb to lots of running up and down stairs and screenwriter Peter Morgan contrast their opening doors that should definitely stay stories effectively, getting even non-fans shut. The The Blair Witch Project shakyintrigued by the politics of commercial cam approach might make your stomach endorsements and the psychology of churn, but director/writer Landon makes competition. 123 min. NNNN (GS) good use of humour to cut the tension. An Kingsway Theatre electronic Simon game (Simon says?) stands in for a Ouija board, and a gang SAVING MR. BANKS (John Lee Hancock) subplot pays off in explosive ways. The covers the last several months of the 20acting, too, is decent, with Jacobs’s transplus years that Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, formation particularly convincing. But who’s terrific) spent convincing author P.L. style and plot points seem lifted from far Travers (Emma Thompson) to sell him the more effective films and the ending prorights to Mary Poppins. Charming Walt vides fewer answers than questions. 84 gets the prickly author in a room with min. NN (GS) composers Robert and Richard Sherman 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carl(B.J. Novak and Jason Schwartzman), who ton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress try to win her over with their cheery Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum tunes, but unfortunately, she has daddy Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, issues. The narrative moves between 1961 Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, L.A. and Travers’s childhood in Australia Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainwhere the alcoholic father she loves (Colin bow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverFarrell) dies. The older Travers is portrayed City Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 as an old lonely prune who only lightens

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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, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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 disappears 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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñTHOR: THE DARK WORLD

(Alan Taylor) is a very silly movie for all its 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

ñ12 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, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Interchange 30, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Haifaa Al-Mansour) tracks 10-year-old schoolgirl Wadjda (Waad Mohammed), who enters a Koran study contest so she can buy a bicycle 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

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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Fri, Tue-Wed 7:00 Sun 4:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu, Sun 7:00 Fri 4:30

SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

47 RONIN 3D (PG) Thu 9:00 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:20 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri 9:45 Sat 10:10 Sun 10:05 Mon-Wed 9:40 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:35 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:30 Fri 1:20 Sat 12:05 Sun 12:20 MonWed 1:50 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:30 Fri 4:15, 6:55 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:40 Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:40 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50 HER (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 Sat 4:35, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Mon 1:40, 4:30, 10:15 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 6:00, 9:30 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 3:25, 7:00, 10:25 Sun 2:20, 5:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:15, 5:45, 9:20 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:15, 5:10, 8:05, 10:40 Sat 12:25, 2:55, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 1:40, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 THE NUT JOB 3D (PG) Fri 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 9:55 Sat 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:40 Sun 12:10, 2:55, 5:10, 7:45, 9:55 Mon 3:15, 7:20, 10:20 Tue-Wed 3:10, 5:25, 7:40, 9:50 THE NUT JOB (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00 Sat 12:15, 2:25 Sun 12:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:15, 5:00, 8:45 Fri 2:00, 6:15, 10:10 Sat 2:00, 6:00, 10:00 Sun 2:10, 6:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:30, 5:15, 9:00

Metro

West End HUMBER CINEMAS (I) 2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu-Fri, Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 FROZEN (G) Thu 3:45, 7:00 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 9:30 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) 3:45, 7:00, 9:30 SatSun, Tue 1:00 mat THE NUT JOB (PG) Fri, Wed 3:15, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Tue 1:15, 3:15, 6:30, 10:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 4:15, 8:00 Fri, Wed 6:20, 8:30 Sat-Tue 2:00, 6:20, 8:30

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Thu 3:40 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:00 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 1:00 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 1:35, 9:35 Fri-Wed 8:45 GOOD VIBRATIONS (14A) Fri-Wed 9:00 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Fri-Wed 3:15, 7:00 MUSCLE SHOALS (PG) Thu 7:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 7:00 NEBRASKA (PG) Thu 5:55 Fri-Wed 11:00 NICKY’S FAMILY (PG) Thu 12:00, 5:45 Fri-Wed 11:30, 5:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 3:40 Fri-Wed 3:15 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 12:00, 7:55 Fri-Wed 5:10 RUSH (14A) Thu 1:35, 9:35 Fri-Sat 10:45

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 47 RONIN 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:35 Fri, Tue 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:55 Sat 5:00, 8:00, 10:55 Sun 4:40, 7:45, 10:40 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:40 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 FriSat, Tue 12:30, 2:30, 3:50, 6:30, 7:05, 10:30 Sun-Mon 12:15, 2:30, 3:35, 6:30, 6:50, 9:45, 10:10 Wed 2:30, 3:50, 6:30, 6:50, 9:45, 10:10 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sat, Tue 2:05, 5:10, 8:05, 10:55 SunMon, Wed 1:50, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 6:35, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Sun-Mon 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Wed 12:55, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 DEVIL’S DUE (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri, Tue 1:05, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 1:05, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 SunMon, Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (PG) Thu 7:30 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:30 Fri, Tue 11:50 Sat 3:55 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:10 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 4:10, 7:20 SunMon, Wed 3:55, 7:05 GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Thu 9:50 HER (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:35, 7:10, 10:45 Fri, Tue 11:50, 3:20, 6:55, 10:35 Sat 11:45, 3:20, 6:55, 10:35 Sun, Wed 1:55, 5:30, 9:00 Mon 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 11:55, 6:45, 10:25 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:45, 8:30 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 9:40 Fri, Tue 1:35, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 11:05, 1:35, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15, 11:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:30, 1:45, 3:00, 4:15, 4:45, 6:00, 7:15, 7:45, 8:45, 10:00, 10:30 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 10:25 Fri, Tue 1:45, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:00, 4:25, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:20 THE NUT JOB 3D (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:05 Sun-Mon 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 9:50 Wed 3:20, 7:35, 9:50 THE NUT JOB (PG) Fri, Tue 12:40 Sat 11:00, 12:40 Sun-Mon 12:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:10, 8:20, 10:45 Sat 11:15, 1:25, 3:40, 6:10, 8:20, 10:45 Sun, Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:50, 8:05, 10:25 Mon 1:15, 8:05, 10:25 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 12:15, 4:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:10 SunMon, Wed 4:35 RIDE ALONG (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Mon 12:10, 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Wed 2:35, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:50 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 9:40 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 12:05, 2:30, 6:25, 10:20 Fri, Tue 12:00, 1:15, 2:20, 5:30, 6:20, 9:30, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 12:20, 1:15, 5:30, 6:20, 9:30, 10:20 Sun 1:15, 2:05, 5:15, 6:05, 9:15, 10:05 Mon 1:15, 2:15, 3:30, 5:15, 9:15, 10:15 Wed 12:35, 1:15, 4:50, 5:15, 8:50, 9:15

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 FriWed 9:20 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20 DEVIL’S DUE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 7:15, 9:40 FROZEN (G) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 THE NUT JOB (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:15 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:05, 6:45 RIDE ALONG (14A) Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Thu 9:40 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 12:45, 4:20, 8:00 Fri-Wed 3:10, 8:45 continued on page 66 œ

SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600

47 RONIN 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:20, 11:00 Sat 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:20, 11:00 Sun 2:45, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 8:05, 10:35 DEVIL’S DUE (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:10, 3:25, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 1:00, 3:25, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Wed 1:25, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:55 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 Mon 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Tue 1:30, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Wed 1:35, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55 HER (14A) Thu 1:10, 1:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 12:25, 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 1:10,

NOW JANUARY 16-22 2014

movie times œcontinued from page 65

East End Beach Cinemas (AA) 1651 Queen St E, 416-699-1327

American Hustle (14A) Thu 7:15, 10:10 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:30 Fri 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:45 Frozen (G) Thu 6:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:30 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 9:15 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) 7:45, 10:30 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat, 5:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:20 Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:30, 10:15 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:30, 8:45 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:30, 8:45 The Nut Job (PG) Sat-Sun 12:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) 8:00 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat, 4:15

North York Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk (CE) 5095 Yonge St., 416-847-0087

American Hustle (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 12:20, 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:55, 10:10 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Frozen (G) Sat-Sun 12:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30 Sun 4:00, 6:40 Her (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 MonWed 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 5:10, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 5:10, 9:20 Tue-Wed 5:10, 9:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 7:05, 10:15 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Sat 12:10 Mon 5:10 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:20, 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:45 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 9:50 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 3:30 Nebraska (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 3:10, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 The Nut Job (PG) Sat-Sun 12:50 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 9:45 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45 Fri-Sat 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sun, Tue-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:35 Mon 3:30, 9:35 12 Years a Slave (14A) 3:45, 6:50, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:30, 9:30 Fri 5:40, 9:40 Sat 1:40, 5:40, 9:40 Sun 1:10, 5:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 5:20, 9:30

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:40 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:30, 9:40 FriSat 12:50, 3:50, 7:20, 10:25 Sun-Tue 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Wed 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:55, 10:05 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (PG) Thu 7:30 Frozen (G) Thu 1:20 Fri 2:15 Sat 11:40 Sun-Wed 1:35 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:15, 7:00 Fri 5:00, 7:40 Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:40 Sun-Wed 4:20, 7:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Fri 3:15, 6:45, 10:10 Sat 11:50, 3:15, 6:45, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:50, 8:20 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 SunWed 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55 The Nut Job (PG) Fri-Sat 12:40 Sun-Tue 12:50 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 12:30, 4:50, 9:35 Fri-Sat 10:20 Sun-Wed 9:45 Ride Along (14A) Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 9:45 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:10, 2:40, 6:20, 10:00 Fri 2:40, 6:30, 10:15 Sat 11:05, 2:40, 6:30, 10:15 SunWed 1:10, 5:00, 8:45

SilverCity Yorkdale (CE) 3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 9:30

january 16-22 2014 NOW

Devil’s Due (14A) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55 Frozen (G) Thu 1:00 Fri 12:50 Sat 11:05, 12:00 Sun 12:40 Mon-Wed 12:45 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:35 Fri 3:35, 6:45 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 Sun-Wed 3:25, 6:10 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:20 Her (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:55, 6:30, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 2:55, 6:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:30, 6:30, 10:05 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Fri 9:30 Sat 10:10 Sun-Wed 9:00 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Fri 1:45, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 SunWed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 Sun-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:10 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 6:45 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 1:05 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:30 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu, Sun-Tue 2:30, 6:25, 10:15 Fri 1:30, 6:40, 10:35 Sat 2:40, 6:40, 10:35 Wed 1:30, 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 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 American Hustle (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:00 Devil’s Due (14A) Fri, Tue 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 1:15, 3:40, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sun 1:15, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:10 Frozen (G) Thu 5:00 Sat 12:15 Sun 12:20 Frozen 3D (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:25 Fri, Tue 4:20, 8:00 Sat 2:50, 5:20, 8:00 Sun 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:10 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:15, 6:55, 10:20 Sat 12:05, 3:30, 6:55, 10:20 Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:00, 8:05 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 11:15, 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:40 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 5:20, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:20 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:00 The Nut Job (PG) Sat 11:05, 12:00 Sun 12:10 Mon, Wed 5:05 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 6:10, 8:20 Fri, Tue 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 3:50, 6:00, 8:05, 10:15 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Ride Along (14A) Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 11:20, 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:50 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:55 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:30 Sun 10:00 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 8:25 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 6:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:45 Fri, Tue 4:30, 8:20 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:30, 8:20

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sat, MonWed 1:25, 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 4:20, 7:25, 10:25 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 FriWed 9:55 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 6:10 August: Osage County (14A) Thu-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Devil’s Due (14A) Fri-Sat 1:05, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 SunWed 3:00, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (PG) Thu 7:30 Frozen (G) 1:30 Sat 11:45 mat Frozen 3D (G) 4:15, 7:00 Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:30 6:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:35, 6:15, 9:50 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 2:35, 9:30 Fri-Wed 10:15 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 10:20 Fri, SunWed 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 3:15, 5:35, 7:55 The Nut Job (PG) 1:00 Sat 11:25 mat Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Sun 2:05, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Ride Along (14A) 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:35 mat The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 9:45 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 2:25 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:10 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:45 5:45 9:40 FriWed 1:45, 5:40, 9:35

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:25 Mon-Wed 9:35 Captain Phillips (14A) Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun-Wed 9:20 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:50 Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat 1:50, 6:00, 9:50 Sun 1:45, 5:30, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 8:30 Frozen (G) Sat 11:15, 12:15 Sun 12:10 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:40 Fri-Sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:55 Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:55 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 9:40 Her (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:55, 10:25 Fri 3:10, 6:40, 10:15 Sat 11:40, 3:10, 6:40, 10:15 Sun 11:45, 3:15, 6:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 6:35, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:40, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 12:25, 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:45 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 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, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 1:40, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Sat 1:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Sun 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 2:30, 6:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 3:05, 5:25, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:40 The Nut Job (PG) Fri, Sun 12:45 Sat 11:05, 11:50, 12:45 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:25, 3:40, 5:55, 8:20, 10:40 Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Philomena (PG) Thu 4:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:55 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 6:45 Sat 3:50, 6:45 Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20 MonWed 3:30, 6:25 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:55, 7:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:15, 9:30 Fri-Sat 2:20, 6:15, 10:15 Sun 12:50, 4:45, 8:45 Mon-Wed 4:40, 8:40

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sat 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 FriSat 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 6:55 Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 10:25 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Fri 1:05, 3:45, 6:35, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:35, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:35, 9:25 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri 1:00, 2:40, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 12:25, 2:40, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sun 12:25, 2:40, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:40, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Dhoom 3 (PG) Fri-Sat 3:00, 6:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:40, 10:15 Dhoom: 3 The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:55, 6:25, 10:00 Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo (PG) Thu 7:30 Frozen (G) Thu 1:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:50 Sat-Sun 11:55, 12:20 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 7:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:55 Sat-Sun 2:50, 5:20, 7:55 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 9:50 Her (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:35 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:45, 8:30 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:45, 8:15 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 9:35 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Fri 3:15, 6:25, 9:50 Sat 12:05, 3:15, 6:25, 9:50 Sun 12:05, 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:25, 9:35 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 9:40 Karle Pyaar Karle Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:55 SunWed 1:05, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:20 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 SunWed 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 The Nut Job (PG) 1:10 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 Fri 1:10, 2:20, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Sat 12:10, 2:20, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 12:10, 2:20, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:20, 4:35, 7:10, 9:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 10:25 Fri 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 9:05 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 1:00 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 6:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:00, 2:00, 6:00, 9:45 Fri-Sat 2:15, 6:00, 10:00 Sun-Wed 2:15, 6:00, 9:45

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

Woodside Cinemas (I) 1571 Sandhurst Circle, 416-299-3456

Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 3:30 Jilla Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:45, 10:40 Veeram Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:30, 10:45

GTA Regions Mississauga

Coliseum Mississauga (CE) Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:35, 3:35, 6:50, 9:40 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:40 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:05, 7:20, 10:40 Sun, Tue 12:05, 3:10, 6:35, 9:55 Mon 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:15 Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Frozen (G) Thu 1:30 Fri 12:15 Sat 11:45 Sun, Tue 12:30 Mon 1:05 Wed 1:10 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 3:20, 6:40 SatSun, Tue 3:20, 6:30 Mon, Wed 3:40, 6:30 Gravity (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 11:15 mat The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 5:00, 9:00 Fri 12:00, 3:30, 7:10, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 3:30, 7:10, 10:45 Sun, Tue 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 3:00, 7:00, 10:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:10, 10:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:45 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:45 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 The Nut Job (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:15 Wed 3:15 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon, Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:35, 6:50, 9:45 FriWed 9:20 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:35, 9:25 Fri 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Mon, Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Tue 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323

SilverCity Mississauga (CE) Hwy 5, east of Hwy 403, 905-569-3373

August: Osage County (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 10:10 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 The Book Thief (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:35 Fri 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 MonWed 4:55, 7:50 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20 Fri 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:40 Delivery Man (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:00 Fri 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:45 Fri 10:05 Sat 10:25 Sun 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:30 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:45, 4:25, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15 Last Vegas (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:40 Ride Along (14A) Fri 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 1:25, 2:20, 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 8:00, 9:40, 10:30 Sun 1:25, 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:45, 5:40, 7:00, 8:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30 Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:45 Sat 1:55, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:55 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:50 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 MonWed 4:40, 7:35 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Sat-Sun 1:20 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:00 Fri 5:20, 7:40 Sat-Sun 3:30, 5:40, 7:50 Mon-Wed 5:20

North Colossus (CE) Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

47 Ronin 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 4:15, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 American Hustle (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:25, 6:10, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 FriSun 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:25, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Frozen (G) Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 11:10, 11:50 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:05 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Sat 2:25, 5:10, 7:40 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:40, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:25, 8:40 Grudge Match (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 4:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:15, 9:35 Her (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:25, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:05, 9:55

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 6:00, 9:30 Fri, Sun 2:30, 6:20, 9:50 Sat 11:15, 2:30, 6:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:30, 9:10 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:55, 10:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Sat 12:00, 3:40, 6:55, 10:05 Sun 12:35, 4:40, 7:50 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:45, 9:25 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 9:55 Fri, Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 12:20, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (14A) Thu 9:15 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 MonWed 3:40, 6:10, 8:25 The Nut Job (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Ride Along (14A) Thu 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40 Fri-Sun 1:05, 7:20 Mon-Wed 6:55 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:20 Fri-Sun 10:35 Mon-Wed 8:30 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:30 Sat 11:05, 1:10, 3:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:45 Walking With Dinosaurs 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:00 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:50, 5:00, 6:00, 9:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:15, 9:00

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 All Is Lost (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri 5:00 Sat 2:30, 4:30 Sun 2:30, 5:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:40 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) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Fri 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sat 2:50, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Sun 2:50, 5:05, 7:15 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 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu, Sun 6:30 Fri-Sat 5:30, 9:00 MonWed 4:20 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 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 7:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Justin Bieber’s Believe (PG) Thu 4:30 Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri 4:30, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 2:05, 4:30, 7:35, 9:40 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

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 American Hustle (14A) Thu-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Mon 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 August: Osage County (14A) 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:30 Frozen (G) Thu 1:20 4:05 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 Her (14A) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:50 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Thu 9:15 The Nut Job (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Ride Along (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 12:45, 4:20, 8:00 Fri-Wed 9:00

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

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thu 16 – Muscle Shoals (2013) D: Greg “Freddy” Camalier. 3:30 & 9 pm. Let The Fire Burn (2013) D: Jason Osder. 7:30 pm. fri 17-wed 22 – Check website for schedule.

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2: E astern Promises (2007). 6:30 pm. The Fly (1986). Introduced by NOW’s Norm Wilner. 9 pm. fri 17 – The Free Screen: Cocksucker Blues (1972) D: Robert Frank. 6:30 pm. Free. Videodrome (1983) D: David Cronenberg. 9 pm. sat 18 – The Free Screen: Up, Up, Little Smoke: Pull My Daisy (1959) D: Robert Frank and

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Thu 16 – Persistence Of Vision (2012) D: Kevin Schreck. 3:45 pm. I Am Divine (2013) D: Jeffrey Schwarz. 9:15 pm. fri 17 – Amnesty International Toronto presents the Films For Change series, featuring the documentary The Square (2013) D: Jehane Noujaim, about Egyptian activists and the power of social media. 3:45 & 6:30 pm. $11. ai.aito.ca. Arctic Defenders (2013) D: John Walker. 9 pm. sat 18 – Opera At The Bloor: Screening of Opera National De Paris live performance of Aida (2013) D: Olivier Py. 1:30 pm. $12-$15. EKRAN Polish Films presents Walesa.Man Of Hope D: Andrzej Wajda. 6 pm. ekran.ca. The Square. 9:15 pm. sun 19 – Arctic Defenders. 12:30 pm. The Square. 3 pm. On The Bowery (1956) D: Lionel Rogosin, and The Perfect Team: The Making Of “On The Bowery” (2009) D: Michael Rogosin. 5:30 pm. mon 20 – The Square. 4 pm. From Nothing, Something: A Documentary On The Creative Process (2013) D: Tim Cawley. 6:30 pm. On The B owery, and The Perfect Team: The Making Of “On The Bowery”. 8:45 pm. Tue 21 – The Square. 4 & 9 pm. Arctic Defenders. 6:30 pm. Wed 22 – The Square. 4 & 6:30 pm. Arctic Defenders. 8:45 pm.

Swiss-born photographer Robert Frank arrived in the U.S. during an era of ostensible optimism, but The Americans, his seminal 1958 photoessay portrait of his adopted country, was at once wildly alive with discovery and reeling with postwar disillusionment. The work’s roughhewn beauty, restless gaze and arresting critique foreshadowed Frank’s transition to cinema. It was already almost a road movie. Hold Still – Keep Going, the latest in TIFF Cinematheque’s Free Screen series, offers a rare opportunity to sample Frank’s lesser-known but formidable filmography. The 28-minute Pull My Daisy (1959) features lively appearances by Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso and playfully nattering narration by Jack Kerouac. Beat cred aside, this inventive inaugural effort is more a curiosity than a definitive statement. More rewarding are the bracing personal works accompanying Daisy in a shorts program. Conversations In Vermont (1969) and Life Dances On (1980) both deal with Frank’s children, one of whom perished in a plane crash, while the other spent his life struggling with mental illness. Other highlights include several experimental videos and Frank’s first feature, the fiction-documentary

hybrid Me And My Brother (1965-68). But the hot ticket is unquestionably Cocksucker Blues (1972), his notorious all-access documentary about the Rolling Stones on tour in North America. It’s the best rock ’n’ roll movie that no one’s seen, apart from seldom-circulated samizdat VHS copies. Hotel rooms become sites of vandalism and intravenous drug use; a private jet becomes a petri dish for venereal disease, hosting orgiastic hijinks that aren’t entirely discernible from acts of sexual assault; in the greenroom there’s always someone doing a bump; during a road trip in the rural South, Frank’s camera notices a handmade “Repent now” sign that everyone else appropriately ignores. Offstage Olympian hedonism aside, the musical performances are electrifying, especially a medley of Uptight and Satisfaction featuring a dancing Stevie Wonder. Much of Cocksucker is captured in gorgeously grainy black-and-white, while the occasional lapses into colour find Frank at his most expressionistic, rendering a spotlit prancing Jagger as a radioactive red blur. Catch Cocksucker for its prurient pleasures, and return for the rest of the series’ less sensationalistic films. Don’t miss this chance to explore the cinematic output of this singular figure in modern art. JOSÉ TEODORO

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Dallas Buyers Club, with Matthew McConaughey, hits the Fox and Revue this week.

other shorts. 4:30 pm. Free. David Cronenberg X 2: Existenz (1999). 1 pm. Scanners (1981). 7 pm. Firestarter (1984) D: Mark L Lester. 10 pm. sun 19 – Reel Talk: Contemporary World Cinema. 10 am. David Cronenberg X 2: The Fly (1986). 1 pm. The Free Screen – Home Improvements: Videos From Mabou (196568) D: Robert Frank. 4:30 pm. Free. Dead Ringers (1988). 7 pm. mon 20 – Me And My Brother (196568, re-edited 1997) D: Robert Frank. 9 pm. tue 21-wed 22 – Check website for schedule.

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Thu 16 – All Is Lost (2013) D: JC Chandor. 7

pm. The Book Thief (2013) D: Brian Percival. 9:15 pm. fri 17 – Philomena (2013) D: Stephen Frears. 7 pm. Dallas Buyers Club (2013) D: Jean-Marc Vallée. 9 pm. sat 18-sun 19 – Thor: The Dark World 3D (2013) D: Alan Taylor. 2 pm. Dallas Buyers Club. 4:15 & 9 pm. Philomena. 7 pm. mon 20-tue 21 – Philomena. 7 pm. Dallas Buyers Club. 9 pm. wed 22 – Dallas Buyers Club. 7 pm. Philomena. 9:15 pm.

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thu 16-wed 22 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 16-wed 22 – Holiday season and winter preview.

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2 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Sat 18-sun 19 – Great White Shark. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. mon 20 -wed 22 – 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 18-sun 19 – The Darkside Of Oz: The izard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming, with W Pink Floyd’s Darkside Of The Moon as the soundtrack. 7 pm.

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

Thu 16 – About Time (2013) D: Richard Curtis. 6:45 pm. The Book Thief (2013) D: Brian Percival. 9:15 pm. fri 17 – Dallas Buyers Club (2013) D: Jean-Marc Vallée. 7 pm. Captain Phillips (2013) D: Paul Greengrass. 9:15 pm sat 18-sun 19 – Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 3D (2009) D: Chris Miller and Phil Lord. 2 pm. Dallas Buyers Club. 4 & 7 pm. Captain Phillips. 9:15 pm. mon 20-tue 21 – Dallas Buyers Club. 7 pm. Captain Phillips. 9:15 pm. wed 22 – Captain Phillips. 6:45 pm. Dallas Buyers Club. 9:15 pm.

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Thu 16 – MS. 45 (1981) D: Abel Ferrara. 7 pm. Girl Most Likely (2012) D: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. 9 pm. fri 17 – European Union Film Festival: The Consul Of Bordeaux (2011) D: Francisco Manso and Joao Correa. 6:30 pm. $10. eutorontofilmfest.ca. Empire Of Dirt (2013) D: Peter Stebbings. 9 pm. The Room (2003)

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D: Tommy Wiseau. 11:30 pm. sat 18 – Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009) D: Chris Miller and Phil Lord. 2 pm. European Union Film Festival X 2: Oh Boy (2012) D: Jan Ole Gerster. 6 pm. Volare: The Great Story Of Domenico Modugno (2013) D: Riccardo Milani. 8 pm. $10 per screening. eutorontofilmfest.ca. sun 19 – Ernestine & Celestine (2011) D: Stéphanie Aubier, Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner. 2 pm. The Hunt (2012) D: Thomas Vinterberg. 7 pm. Empire Of Dirt. 9:15 pm. mon 20-tue 21 – The Hunt. 7 pm. Empire Of Dirt. 9:15 pm. wed 22 – Haunter (2013) D: Vincenzo Natali. 7 pm. Shorts Not Pants: El Ataque: De Los Cimneastas Expanoles (Spanish sci-fi shorts). 9 pm.

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The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 9 am-10 pm. 301 Front W. 416-8686937, cntower.ca. Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 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. hhof.com. fri 17 – Socialist Action presents Quietly Into Disaster, A Plea For Survival D: Marcin El, an anti-nuclear film. Talk by Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance, to follow. 7 pm. $4 donation or pwyc. OISE, Rm 2-214, 252 Bloor W. s ocialistaction.ca. sat 18 – Independent feature film William’s Lullaby (2013) D: Nicholas Arnold, an examination of grief, how children cope with it, depression and the father/son relationship. 7 pm. Q&A to follow. $15. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. w illiamslullaby.com. sun 19 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival’s Chai Tea & A Movie presents Zaytoun (2012) D: Eran Riklis. Tea 4 pm, film 5 pm. $15. City Playhouse Theatre, 1000 New Westminster, Vaughan. tjff.com. Toronto Film Society Sunday Matinee Film Buffs Series presents The Unfaithful (1947) D: Vincent Sherman, and Please Murder Me (1956) D: Peter Godfrey. 2 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. torontofilmsociety.com. Toronto Jewish Film Society presents Margaret (2011) D: Kenneth Lonergan. 4 & 7:30 pm. $15, 18-35 $10. MNJCC Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org/tjfs2014. tue 21 – The Japan Foundation presents Dojoji (1976) D: Kihachiro Kawamoto. Japanese w/ s-t. 6:30 pm. Free. 131 Bloor W, 2nd fl. RSVP at jftor.org/whatson/rsvp.php. 3

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What are you in it for, the emotion or the spectacle? If you’re after that combination of horror and heartbreak, go for the original Carrie. But the remake pulls off a far grander eye-popping finale. Not that the new version lacks feeling. The tale of high school outcast Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), who turns disastrously telekinetic

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and Tony Danza as his father. As well as starring, Gordon-Levitt writes and directs. How he handles all those chores gets its own extras doc. So do the project’s genesis, casting, visual style and music, all brief and

informative. Check out the promo spots. They’re imaginative and funny. EXTRAS Five making-of docs, four promo spots. English, French audio and subtitles.

when puberty hits, and her repressive religious maniac mother (Julianne Moore) is too powerful for that. And Moretz and Moore make the most of their love-hate relationship. But director Kimberly Peirce stretches the story out by spending time on the minor characters and Carrie’s development of her powers. The latter changes her motivation at the climax from uncontrolled rage to incontrol hate – a big difference. None of this is bad, but it weakens the impact. So does Peirce’s ordinary visual style, which comes nowhere near the grace of the original’s director, Brian De Palma, though you’ll see a nod to his work here and there. On her commentary, Peirce spends some time explaining the supporting

characters and why their stories are worth developing. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of interviews, fire stunt footage, telekinesis gag, alternate ending. English, French, Spanish audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Freezer (Anchor Bay, 2014) D: Mikael Salomon, w/ Dylan McDermott, Yuliya Snigir. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: N This is the wrong time of year to release a movie set entirely in an industrial freezer, but if you can get past that

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Free Ride (2013) Anna Paquin stars as a Florida single mom who goes into the drug trade to provide a better life for her two daughters.

Blue Jasmine (2013) Cate Blanchett just won a Golden Globe for her performance in Woody Allen’s tale of a former socialite coping with reduced circumstances.

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ON NETFLIX Darkness (2002) A move to a country house spells supernatural disaster for a teen girl and her parents.

and a couple of clunky plot moves, this snappy little thriller makes an okay time-waster. A guy wakes up in a walk-in freezer, imprisoned by a trio of Russian mobsters – brains, brawn and babe – who think he’s stolen their 8 million bucks. He claims he’s the wrong guy. His only link to the outside is a cop on the other end of a found cellphone. A string of clever escape attempts, fights, murders, a mystery to solve and surprise revelations keep the action lively, helped along by director Mikael Salomon’s restless camera and creative use of space. When all else fails, the sight of our hero slowly freezing to death keeps the tension up. American Horror Story’s Dylan McDermott plays the quip-ready action hero a little too broadly, and the rest of the cast provide energy but only generic menace. They all do cold very well, but that’s not acting. Salomon kept the set chilly, which is all you’ll learn in the promo-clip extras set. EXTRAS Making-of doc, three director and cast interviews. English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Jobs (Universal/ Remstar, 2013) D: Joshua Michael Stern, w/ Ashton Kutcher, Josh Gad. Rating: N; DVD package: N However interesting Apple founder Steve Jobs the man might have been, Jobs the movie bites the dead donkey. The story lurches episodically from Jobs’s pre-Apple hippie days through the company’s startup in his parents’ garage (the best sequence), its rise, Jobs’s boardroom battles, his eventual ouster and return, and climaxes with the introduction of the iPod. From beginning to end, Jobs is all hero shots and anthemic rock (with occasional teary tinkling), its jockmovietriumphalism geared to the under-12 set. But catch the man we’re supposed to adore. This Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher) is mean-spirited and selfcentred, only relating to people insofar as they serve his interests. He sees the commercial potential in somebody else’s invention, realizes the general public wants user-friendly computers and keeps the company geniuses working hard by feeding their own dreams back to them in marketing-speak. We see him do no inventing. Kutcher catches Jobs’s tics, notably his dorky walk, but never gives a sense of an actual human being inside the mannerisms. In keeping with the spirit of the movie, the making-of doc is a contentfree two-minute promo. EXTRAS Making-of doc. English, French audio and subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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over the holidays. One of my wife’s nephews recently came out as gay, which is no problem at all for us, but it created friction in his immediate family. We were at a big extended- family dinner together, and after we sat down I made a point of smiling warmly in his direction to let him know that my wife and I were allies. He responded with the Hot Steamy Eye-Fuck. And not just once – every time I looked at that end of the table, I got the HSEF. Mind you, he’s a recently out of the closet 19-year-old and I’m a 42-year-old straight guy who’s married to his aunt. Maybe he was bored or perhaps trying to cause trouble. Is there a look that says, “I’m not interested,” or better yet, “Knock it the fuck off”? We haven’t seen him since, but we will run into him again eventually and want to be supportive without encouraging bad behaviour. Unnerving Nephew Crosses Line The next time you want to tell a horny 19-year-old gay relative that you’re an ally, UNCL, use your words, e.g., “If you need someone in your corner, kiddo, you can count on us.” Because a warm smile from an uncle is likely to be misinterpreted as an invitation to fuck your (closeted and dying for cock) uncle or fuck with your (well-meaning but patronizing) uncle. Likewise, the best way to communicate “knock it off” is by using your words, not your eyes.

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How on earth do you stick your hand in a guy’s underpants – how do you go under a guy’s underwear – without actually touching the guy’s cock? Anyway, your new boyfriend did have a physical reaction when you were fooling around: his dick got hard. He didn’t have the same over-the-top reaction to your bizarre moves that other guys had in the past, GAY, but getting an erection when a girl sticks her hand in your underpants is a pretty good indication that a guy isn’t gay. It’s also possible that he wanted to pant, writhe and beg, but he restrained himself because you had banned “anything below the belt” and your great new boyfriend didn’t want you to feel pressured to go further than you were comfortable with.

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women, a fantasy both of us shared. My biggest fantasy, however, is to be with two men. I’ve brought it up with my BF, but he just doesn’t find men attractive and isn’t into it. Now a former fling of mine (male) told me that he finds my BF attractive and would love to be with both of us. The two sexiest men I’ve ever known together with me would be an absolute wet dream come true! I feel like my BF is a little nervous about being with another man because (a) he has performance anxiety and/or (b) he’s not comfortable exploring his sexuality (he grew up in a small town and was teased a lot about being gay because he was in theatre). If he could get past his insecurities, I feel like he might enjoy himself. Should I just give up this dream? Wishes He Were A Little Bi Your boyfriend isn’t bi, WHWALB, he’s not even heteroflexible, and he’s made it clear that he’s turned off by the idea of a threesome with another male. Even if you could talk him into it, arranging a threesome with a dude who has expressed a sexual interest in your boyfriend would be disrespectful and potentially disastrous. Drop it. Dan speaks with New York Times columnist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz on the true demographics of gays in the U.S.: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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