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Bravo to Sabrina Maddeaux. Awesome write-up on the redesigning of temporary space facilities (NOW, January 23-29). The reality is there’s still a long way to go on more positive architecture for helping (does society even remember this long-forgotten human word?) those in need. But rethinking how we design transient spaces like hospitals, hotels and prisons is a great start. The humanity and compassion (two more forgotten words) behind the plans highlighted brought me to tears. Alyze Scott Toronto

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Total darkness and silence are prerequisites for healthy sleep. Bridgepoint Health aims to “provide rehabilitation and restorative care.” How does its CEO, Marian Walsh, propose to provide total darkness to the patient in that room with a view on the cover of your Design issue? Ewa Jarmicka Toronto

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As much as I appreciate letter-writer Andrew van Velzen’s sensitivity to the people of Hiroshima, characterizing someone who is concerned about the destruction of an environmentally vital part of Canada for quick profit as jumping on an “anti-oil bandwagon” (NOW, January 23-29) is idiotic. I don’t know him, but Neil Young strikes me as the kind of person who thinks a long time before speaking out. Get a grip, Andrew. Katy Zei Toronto

A TTC tale for book lovers

Just read Carla Gillis’s A DIY TTC Public Library (NOW, January 23-29). There are other “read it and leave it” kinds of initiatives out there – bookcrossing. com is the best known and organized of them. They aren’t just public transit programs, though. As a librarian, I think it’s a great idea. I used to think about leaving baby’s board books on the subway for mums to read to their children. I always kept a couple with me when I was out with my daughter, and they often saved the day – or at least the trip! Monika Croydon Toronto

Hockey and anti-gay stereotypes

In response to Julia LeConte’s Putting Our Pride On Ice (NOW, January 16-22). I’m sure that a certain level of inflammatory response was to be expected from the typical hockey fan. I’d like to think I’m not one of them. I’d like to keep the ad hominem minimal, and will concede that LeConte is perfectly entitled to her opinion of the sport, but her understanding of the subject is quite lacking. She claims that the NHL is “not immigrant-friendly, gay-friendly or girl- friendly.” This was published roughly six days after the NHL became a You Can Play affiliate, making the league the first to have an official LGBT supporter and sponsor on every team’s roster. In fact, hockey is widely regarded as a sport with a high support for gay athletes. I would know: I play in amateur leagues around the city, as well as with the Toronto Gay Hockey Association, an organization that was founded two decades ago to give gay players a safe place to play, and which exists now for predominantly social reasons. Erich Zimm 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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At unofficial mayoral launch, her cheeky playfulness was under wraps, the tight script a bit too obvious By ENZO DiMATTEO

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The scene was set: her portrait at centre stage, the shot from her book cover that doesn’t seem to be the essence of her at all sits under a beam of heavenly light. Soft folk faves plays on the sound system. At NDP MP Olivia Chow’s official book launch on January 22, intended as the prelude to her mayoral bid, no detail was left to chance. And why would it be? A lovely cocoon had been woven for the 200 or so who filled Trinity-St. Paul’s Church. The choice of venue was no accident either, emphasizing the little- known fact that faith has played a large part in Chow’s life and career. This is one of a number of revelations in her autobiography, My Journey. Among the others we’ve already heard about: Chow’s abusive opera-singer father, and relationships that followed with abusive boyfriends. And others we haven’t: she led her neighbourhood gang; and she still has the waterbed she and late husband NDP leader Jack Layton bought back in the 70s. The proceedings had a reverential feel at times. The 20-somethings sitting behind me snapping selfies on their cellphones and posting on social media (“Hashtag Olivia Chow,” came the gentle oftrepeated reminder from the MC) didn’t need prompting. Every word

that spilled from Chow’s mouth was eaten up. And her every attempt at humour, awkward or no, elicited laughs. The line that formed afterwards for signed copies of her book stretched in a semi-circle right around the inside of the church, out the main doors to the foyer and back in again. In addition to these committed worshippers, some, including a few council lefties, came to gauge the reception to Chow’s unofficial mayoral campaign launch. They weren’t disappointed. The broad outlines of her campaign were hard to miss. The immigrant-roots narrative that taught her the value of a dollar will be central, the ballot question going something like this: Who will voters trust – someone who says he’ll spend wisely but was born with a silver spoon in his mouth (see Rob Ford and John Tory) or someone who was brought up watching every penny? For her handlers, however, those who’ve reportedly coalesced around her (Chow hasn’t officially declared), there’s still some work to do. What’s her vision? Is it that she can bring a badly divided city together? Maybe a little roughing up of that image thing would help. There

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What has happened to the Jewish community that historically put social justice and human rights at the top of its agenda? By Bernie M. Farber

had to think long and hard about writing a piece on my impressions of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s trip to Israel. After all, when I merely posted a few articles about the trip, some mildly critical, to my Facebook page, the avalanche of comments, emails and telephone calls taking me to task took my breath away. So let me begin with a simple statement: Stephen Harper’s giant hug of the Jewish state is welcome and historic. The PM spoke with uncharacteristic passion about his support of Israel as a bastion of democracy in an otherwise very difficult area of the world. Coming from leaders outside of Israel, these statements are vital and carry an important and necessary credibility. Many Canadian Jews were ecstatic. They revelled in Harper’s unconditional love. In fact, Harper’s support for Israel as a key policy objective has led many in the Jewish community to the Conservative party. His Israel sojourn is the talk of synagogues and Jewish gatherings. With more than 200 individuals joining the PM on his trip as part of a taxpayer-funded cheering section (among them many rabbis and communal leaders), stoking the positive feelings was not difficult. But, alas, murmurs in dark corners began to turn into full-throated criticisms in Israel as well as back home in Canada. For example, in Israel’s left-leaning and well-read Haaretz newspaper, columnist Barak Ravid acknowledged that Harper’s speech to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) included “important and correct things” but also “completely ignored the occupation or settlements, expressed only weak support for the establishment of a Palestinian state and

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even granted Israel the right of a veto on this matter.” Harper’s speech, Ravid warned, “will be remembered mostly for the things he did not say and for the truths he chose to sweep under the carpet. This is not how a true friend behaves.” To be sure, others pointedly defended the PM. Writing in the right-leaning Jerusalem Post (Israelis love their politics and their newspapers), guest columnist and my old personal friend David Weinberg noted that Harper’s speech “articulated a moral worldview and an approach of principle that calls out the hypocrisies, and shames the injustices, of what passes today as ‘politically correct’ policy regarding Israel.” In Canada, reaction was mixed at best. The Globe and Mail was critical of Harper’s refusal to speak candidly on the building of yet more Jewish housing in the Occupied Territories. The Toronto Star, like the Globe, also acknowledged Harper’s necessary support of Israel as “a prosperous, advanced, stable nation in a region fraught with turmoil where human rights and the rule of law are more aspirations than realities.” Yet, it singled out Harper for using the trip more as a photo op – a “million-dollar” photo op, for those who believe Conservative MP Mark Adler’s “joke” at Judaism’s holiest site – rather than a serious foray into advancing peace in the troubled region. Adler wanted to be photographed at the Western Wall with Harper and told handlers trying to exclude him, “It’s the re-election! This is the million-dollar shot.” In my view, the Ottawa Citizen’s Andrew Cohen, a moderate and progressive academic, got it right. He noted that Harper talks about “sophistication in our policy with Israel. Yet he fills Canada’s of-

ficial delegation with evangelical Christians, a score of rabbis (many Orthodox) and prominent Canadian Jews who support the Conservatives – as if they speak for all Canadian Jews. They don’t.” Even the more Tory-friendly Jonathan Kay wondered in the National Post if even the large Zionist community in Canada might find “the Tories’ Israel zeal to be disturbingly manic.” I fully believe that Harper’s love for Israel is genuine. However, I also understand why many Canadians believe that my community is simply single- mindedly supportive, enthusiastic or even rapturous when it comes to our PM and his support of Israel. Others wonder what has happened to the Jewish community that had social justice and human rights as part of its historical agenda. Still more now see our community becoming so increasingly parochial that we take little, if any, interest in anything Canadian. Indeed, even our newly minted advocacy arm, the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, has omitted Canada from its name. I get these views, but even when they come from well-intentioned friends, they are wrong. My community is far more diverse than those fortunate enough to be handpicked to fly with the prime minister to Israel and back. Given the myriad feelings this trip has evoked, the changing nature of Canadian Jewry and our deeply held sacred values, it behooves us to do some real soul- searching and honestly assess our role as the Canadian Jewish community. 3 news@nowtoronto.com Bernie M. Farber is senior vice-president of Gemini Power Corporation, where he works in partnership with First Nations building sustainable industries on reserves. He is the former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress, a writer and human rights advocate.

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were few flashes of the cheeky playfulness familiar to those who’ve met Chow in social settings. Of course, she’s playing a different game now, vying for one of the most important jobs in the land, and it’s important to project a serious image, especially to a nervous Bay Street (which opposed Layton back in 91 when he ran for mayor) and to voters north of Bloor who may only know her as the widow of the late NDP leader. As with any candidate who seems outwardly to have everything going for her, the danger is that she’ll try to control too much. And that’s how it felt at the book launch at times. Chow delivered her best lines while recounting the activist side of her ample resumé and the political victories, large and small, that she helped win when representing Trinity-Spadina on council. Like the time they played a Simpsons episode during a council debate on the Adams Mine. “Politicians want us to be cynical so we leave things alone.” When it was time to depart from the script, Chow couldn’t always segue smoothly. To wit: when Sook- Yin Lee, who was doing the Q&A honours, asked what one word Chow would use to describe herself, the answer was “Oh.” And that’s where that part of the conversation ended. Some have remarked on how guarded, how uncharacteristically impersonal, Chow has seemed in one-on-ones. But she isn’t the same woman she was when she left for Ottawa almost a decade ago; it’s easy to forget it’s been that long. Her personal travails since then have included her health battles first with thyroid cancer and recently with shingles. And, of course, the death of her life partner, Layton. She says the pain of that experience has taught her to live in the moment. “I don’t look at my past. I don’t project that I can’t have those experiences any more. This is the thing about living in the moment: you don’t remember anything.” Very Zen, but it’s a strangely detached thing to say about a person who loomed so large in her life. Perhaps the experience is too raw to speak about. I’d add a hashtag: #Olivia Chow philosopher politician. enzom@nowtoronto.com @enzodimatteo

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SELECTED CAPITAL BUDGET HIGHLIGHTS

Fire Services $422 million Toronto Employment & Social Services $1.1 billion (The province funds 80 per cent)

Government and Internal Services (includes legal, clerks staff and 311) $707 million

Parks, Forestry & Recreation $409 million

TTC $1.7 billion

Toronto Police Service $1.08 billion Children’s Services $420 million

Transportation Services $336 million

$237 million 300 new buses (2014 to 2017)

$14.5 million Initial planning for Scarborough subway extension

Shelter, Support & Housing Administration $644 million

$7.3 million Completion of second subway platform and concourse improvements at Union Station $7.5 million Construction of new Festival Plaza at Exhibition Place

Debt charges $428 million

$3.25 million 10 new specialized fire trucks that will serve densely populated areas, the growing numbers of high-rise towers and special public events $6.93 million Division of Toronto Centre for the Arts’ main auditorium into two smaller venues $6.1 million Substantial completion of new Scarborough Civic Centre Library Source: City of Toronto Compiled by JONATHAN GOLDSBIE

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In an election year, the political wrangling is about boosting re-election chances, not securing our fiscal future BY ADAM GIAMBRONE As budget debates go, 2014’s, which is slated for two days of debate this week, will be especially sensitive – and not just because Rob Ford intends to disrupt the proceedings. With an election just eight months away, behind-thescenes negotiations have been going on for months. Little of that, however, has to do with the city’s long-term fiscal plan. The wrangling has been about how to juggle the cuts needed to keep taxes as low as possible in order to boost councillors’ re-election chances. Here are three misconceptions to keep in mind as council ponders the bottom line.

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MYTH 1 TORONTO IS BROKE BECAUSE THERE’S A SPENDING PROBLEM. Many on the right like to repeat the “spending problem” slogan as if it were a given. It helps justify cuts. But in reality, regular inflation, which is running at 1.5 per cent, adds upwards of $150 million in costs every year. In addition, there’s the added financial pressure of things like insurance costs for staff and diesel fuel for TTC vehicles, whose price increases typically outpace the rate of inflation. The city purchases well over 120 million litres of diesel a year. The fact that costs are up 5 to 10 cents a litre can alone add $6 to $12 million to the city budget. The fact that tax increases are often in the 2 to 3 per cent range shows that the city is actually in constant budget reduction mode. Toronto has never run a deficit. It’s required by law to maintain a balanced budget. What debt the city does have is the result of borrowing for large capital projects or major repairs. Despite that debt, it has managed to maintain an AA to AA+ credit rating, which is higher than the province’s and just a little shy of the top score. This allows T.O. to pay a record low interest rate (4.5 to 5.4 per cent) on its debt.

MYTH 2 ALL THE NEW BUILDING MYTH 3 LOTS OF MONEY IS AND INCREASED PROPERTY SQUIRRELLED AWAY IN RESERVE VALUES WILL BRING IN ENOUGH FUNDS. MONEY TO SOLVE THE PERENNIAL BUDGET CRISIS. Reality check: property tax assessment isn’t growing as fast as you’d think, despite all the cranes in the air. New construction has added only $25 to $35 million in new taxes, roughly the equivalent of a 1 per cent acrossthe-board tax increase. And, alas, while it would seem logical that with property values rising the city should be rolling in dough, the system is designed to prevent that. Under Current Value Assessment (CVA), the annual appreciation of a property’s value doesn’t necessarily lead to higher taxes. Total assessment growth jumped about 60 per cent, from $274 billion to $422 billion between 2004 and 2012. However, once MPAC (Municipal Property Assessment Corporation) reassessments are factored into the equation, true growth in property value is closer to 12 per cent, or just over an average 1.5 per cent a year. In addition, while there are more residential buildings, in many cases these have replaced industrial or commercial properties that typically had higher tax rates, meaning a shiny new building replacing an ugly old factory doesn’t necessarily bring a tax benefit. Higher-taxed industrial assessment has fallen by 17 per cent as our manufacturing base shrinks. Today only 4 per cent of property taxes come from industrial uses, and 60 per cent from residential. In the good old days, our large industrial and commercial base paid its bills, but thanks to Mike Harris, Toronto can only increase taxes on these classes in a limited way. Over time, the burden on residential property owners has grown disproportionately: properties classed as residential pay 45 per cent of property taxes, a total of just under $3.9 billion a year, funding just under 40 per cent of the budget.

Every year we’re able to solve last-minute budget problems by uncovering a previously unknown reserve fund. The pre-amalgamation cities put away billions, but that money is almost all gone now, spent to avoid needed tax increases through the first decade of amalgamation. Unlike the federal and provincial governments, which borrow in emergencies, the city cannot borrow for noncapital expenses and in crises needs to rely on provincial and federal reserves or funds. See the ice storm debacle. Our barely sufficient reserves cannot continue to fund tax freezes. After 20 years of politicians promising to find fat in government, there are no great pools of gravy to solve budget problems and Rob Ford’s failure to produce them is the proof in the pudding.

THE BOTTOM LINE While this year’s budget will be unremarkable in that there will be few cuts to services, the long-term problem is that despite a growing economy, Toronto’s finances, while stable, are not secure. The state-of-good-repair backlog for roads, subsidized TCHC housing, parks and other services will necessitate more borrowing, and the associated yearly payments will become increasingly onerous. Alternatively, we could have a discussion, perhaps during the election this year, about reducing the quality or quantity of city services that would lower the costs of those services. However, this won’t happen, because even right-wing politicians know that residents value their services so we need to stop fooling ourselves. 3 news@nowtoronto.com

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ated an opportunity. The hard work is ahead of us.” But it’s also true that television audiences have also dropped significantly, with TFC viewership on Sportsnet down 29 per cent. TFC paid about $10 million for each player, the largest amount in Major League Soccer history. TFC’s payroll has vaulted into the largest in the league, with the team set to pay out over $34 million in 2014, twice their 2012 profit. But after six years without a playoff berth By JOSHUA KLOKE and terrible 2013 season, fans left in droves. The stands were around half-filled for last year’s as the overtly confident head of a once largely suffering fans. final home game. Some season ticket holders faceless conglomerate. “These fans, for seven years, have been unexpressed their dismay with the team’s ongoing The St. Louis-born Leiweke has done what believable,” he said at the press conference. futility, among them former mayor David MilBrian Burke, former GM of the Toronto Maple “They taught us all what it truly means to be a ler, a season ticket holder and driving force beLeafs, was never able to do: put a media-savvy passionate fan of TFC. This is a payback to them hind the construction of TFC’s BMO Field. He face on the company. His affability with reportoday. They earned it, they deserve it, and this made a public point of returning his tickets and ters is a polar opposite to Burke’s chippy, defenis full credit to you and your seven years’ worth issuing a public letter decrying the managesive approach. of patience.” ment instability at the top and MLSE’s plans to A big deal for fans? That’s what Leiweke Leiweke’s trademark bragexpand the facility and install artificial turf. would have us believe in television ad gadocio was absent in an Miller sounds way more optimistic about campaigns that show stereotyped interview with TSN later. a soced d ar aw MLSE is ue ag the team these days. “The signings are brilBritons spitting their tea and pints over “We haven’t done anyLe r o aj ise by M liant,” he tells NOW. “It’s like 2007 all over the news. The ad is attempting to inthing yet. We’ve crecer franch tes to convo l ci n u co again, only better. Credit has to go to Mr. trigue a town that’s mostly hockeySoccer; city ion to the construcE .8 mill Lieweke, and the MLSE board, for aiming mad. tribute $9 adium. MLS st t n o fr er at far higher than ever seemed possible, But the deal is just as notable for ion toward ill tion of a w m $8 te ntribu amfan poll, e and succeeding.” MLSE’s new majority owners, lin n o agrees to co also purchases the n After an am’s d 0 media giants Rogers and Bell, nces the te u the costs an r the stadium for $1 o n an kE ic continued on page 18 œ S ML fo y oping a n which have an 80 per cent stake in ing rights ronto FC, h the compan . h To ly , ic e al h ic w am , an n n rg millio MLSE after buying up the Ontario ontreal develop o Bank of M name will sells to the million. Teachers’ Pension Plan’s controlling for $27 a share for $1.32 billion in 2012. ason with tive augural se in s it an K ff n consecu o e s th Rogers and Bell’s purchase of MLSE efAfter seve TFC kick icially opener to ff e o m FC o T h e s, th fectively cornered the sports market – the 2-0 loss to ng season a si 1-0 loss in ns, Jerd lo io an it s is d u two own all-sports channels TSN and ewest acq s City Wizar ur straight goaln - s h sa it g il u radley. ro ve B o n l u . Fo s Scarb d Michae Sportsnet and affiliated sports radio staChivas USA llow before a 3-1 TFC trade rio, a n Defoe an sa ai o R m e D fo e s n tions – which is why the Competition hite, to less losse born Dway ainst the C fan favouri o victory ag ri Bureau and CRTC both initially raised leading scorer and . sa o 12 R ay e D M on ulls. cago Fire ork Red B concerns before approving the deal. goals by is h the New Y g n ti . to celebra Before Rogers and Bell came along, f a cheque had taken e signing o th g n MLSE planned to launch its own netki ic eke mim s Tim Leiw work to carry its teams’ games. In his MLSE hire t. The forn e d si re p d a in 2013 autobiography, former MLSE schutz as CEO an tos Lagun CEO of An 6-2 to San president Richard Peddie, who precedns sident and io re wns the TFC loses p p o r h am e ic h m h C w ACAF nt Group, e st ed Leiweke, frankly admitted that withe m b the CONC n ’s ringing ai b rt FC Ente mental in mi-final, T out the specialty channels they developed urwas instru League se to ary 2007. y, u e ax n th al Ja G in r in S fa and purchased, including the soccer-focused ham to ML showing so nt. ck e B id Dav . name GolTV, MLSE’s teams wouldn’t be worth what they are today. eal the Montr tory over ic v a* * * 0 st 1ty ’s p TFC alf-em a nearly h According to Leiweke, the Defoe and Bradley ith w , n Impact in so a s the se moves were made first and foremost for longdium close 17th place in in am te e th league. the 19-team

MLSE boss Tim Leiweke’s first big gamble firmly positions him as the confident face of a once faceless conglomerate – but will it bring the fans back to Toronto’s troubled soccer franchise? Ever since Tim Leiweke took over operations last June of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, diehard Toronto sports fans have been waiting for a big splash – the kind of game-changing move he was known for while serving as head of Anschutz Entertainment Group, owner of some of the hottest, most successful sports properties in Los Angeles. Leiweke has certainly brought some Hollywood pizzazz from La-La Land to the front office of Canada’s pre-eminent sports company. MLSE owns the Maple Leafs hockey team, but its multi-billion-dollar holdings also include the NBA Raptors, Major League Soccer’s Toronto FC, as well as ownership of the Air Canada Centre and three television networks: Leafs TV, NBA TV Canada and GolTV Canada. At Real Sports Bar and Grill on January 13, Leiweke unveiled his first “bloody big deal,” at least that’s what MLSE’s newspaper advertising campaigns dubbed the signing of English footballer Jermain Defoe to Toronto FC. American Michael Bradley was also signed, but Defoe, a striker from the English Premier League, is the centrepiece tapped to revive the fortunes of MLSE’s troubled soccer franchise after a disastrous 2013 season. The international soccer stars entered from behind a curtain on the makeshift stage, beaming million-dollar smiles as the Red Patch Boys, Toronto FC’s most loyal supporters, sang jubilantly, welcoming the stars with chants of “This is your house,” a turn on their traditional “This is our house.” It was a jubilant and hopeful scene, a rarity in the TFC camp of late. Leiweke tried to make it clear that bringing such talent to Toronto was the work of many. But few doubt that these moves were the new CEO’s brainchild. And with the acquisition of a giant, marketable star in Defoe, who’s seemingly happy to be making a living playing in Toronto, Leiweke has firmly asserted himself

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However, Duncan Fletcher, a longtime TFC fan and manager of Waking The Red fan site, sees the Defoe and Bradley signings more as a desperate attempt to win fans back than a reward for their loyalty. He points out that MLSE capitalized on the team’s popularity by hiking ticket prices aggressively each of the last five years before declining attendance and public pressure forced the company to roll back prices to 2007 levels last year. “That wasn’t enough to stop the bleeding,” says Fletcher, “so now they’ve had to go all out.” Cary Kaplan, president of sports marketing firm Cos-

fares continue to rise year after year. The report that went before the board Tuesday notes that the timed system, which is standard in many Canadian cities, has been “requested frequently by customers to aid them in making stopover transit trips.” It would also be easier on transit operators, who are tasked with enforcing the current continuous-ride transfer system. Santokie’s concerns about equity are backed by recent research conducted by the city. Citing information collected by the Fair Fare Coalition, a 2013 report by Toronto Public Health noted that “the cost of public transit limits [poorer residents’] access to essential programs and services (e.g., doctors’ appointments, food

mos Sports, thinks Leiweke has figured out a formula to get TFC fans excited again, at least in the short term. “Hope sells tickets. They’ve been the least successful team in the history of Major League Soccer. But they’ve maintained a fan base because of the passion of the market.” Throughout the team’s seven-year existence, groups of organized fans such as Original 109 and SG111 have garnered reputations for their ability to generate an energetic atmosphere. Toronto’s African, Latin and Caribbean communities are visibly represented by the Tribal Rhythm Nation in Section 118. The sheer passion of fans at BMO Field is no surprise to Tim Morgan, director of publicity and promo-

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tions at the Toronto Soccer Association. “It may not garner attention like some other sports, but it has always been integral within our communities.” How bringing players with celebrity status into Toronto FC’s locker room will affect team chemistry remains to be seen. Televised broadcasts of the Real Sports press conference repeatedly showed Scar borough-born TFC all-time leading scorer Dwayne De Rosario, who left TFC in 2011 amid publicly disastrous contract negotiations and returned unceremoniously after TFC picked him up recently, sitting expressionless in the crowd. Joshua Kloke is a contributor to NOW’s music section. He has followed TFC since their inception and was terribly saddened when Torsten Frings announced his retirement.

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Thursday, January 30

Benefits

Party 4 Truth (2014 Modern Knowledge Tour) Musical performances by the Ancient Order, Stanley and One Eyed Johhny & the Illuminati. 8:30 pm. $20. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. modernknowledge2014.com.

Events

Bone Health Seminar on nutrition strategies. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129. Can We Afford FORD More Years? Discussion on the class-composition of Ford Nation. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. Nonviolence As Political Action Lecture on women’s self-empowerment by Jill Carr-Harris, a development worker in India. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. facebook.com/events/ 461799973939598. Party For Truth Speakers include Ron Hell yer, Richard Dolan and Dan Hicks plus performances and DJs. 8 pm. $20. Lee’s Palace, 529 Bloor W. modernknowledge2014.com. Patents And Progress: What To Do About Corrupt Medical Research Practices Lec-

ture by philosophy professor James R Brown. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. facebook.com/ events/383637285105695. Poetics Fictions Panel discussion with four filmmakers whose work is rooted in drama. 7 pm. Free. Liaison of Independent Filmmakers, 1137 Dupont. lift.on.ca.

Rally For More TTC Service And Lower Fees

Watch the city council meeting about the TTC, talk to riders and rally for more funding. Today and tomorrow 10 am. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. ttcriders.ca.

Religious Accommodation And Its Limits

Professor Richard Moon talks about the recent controversy at York University. 7 pm. Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. Silent Partners Water Series Presentations on urban landscapes and flooding, and Asian carp and the Great Lakes. 6 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register 416-533-1635.

Social Enterprise Toronto Conference 2014

Bus tour of GTA social enterprises and a conference. Today and tomorrow. Learning Enrichment Fdn, 116 Industry. Pre-register socialenterprisetoronto.com.

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Festivals this week Great Digital Film Festival Fan favourite sci-fi, action and cult films

in digital format. $6. Scotiabank Theatre (259 Richmond W), Cineplex Cinemas Mississauga (309 Rathburn W). cineplex.com/digitalfilmfest. Jan 31 to Feb 6 Spotlight On Israeli Culture Festival of contemporary Israeli art, film, photography, video, theatre, dance and music. Various prices and venues across the GTA. spotlightonisraeliculture.com. Feb 1 to Mar 31 Toronto Tea Festival Tastings, seminars, tea sommeliers, Q&As, music, art and more. $10-$25. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. teafestivaltoronto.com. Feb 1 and 2 Winterlicious Culinary festival with participating restaurants offering special prix-fixe menus for brunch, lunch and dinner. toronto.ca/ winterlicious. Jan 31 to Feb 13

Post-Katrina Talk by urban historian M Christine Boyer. 7:30 pm. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

Friday, January 31

Benefits

Grand Night (Stephen Lewis Fdn) Gala presentation of the Nightwood Theatre production Free Outgoing, a talkback with the playwright and cast, raffle and more. 6:30 pm. $75. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. torontoislandgranniesinspirit.weebly.com.

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Chinese Lunar New Year’s Food Tour Foodie

tour with culinary historian Shirley Lum. Today and tomorrow 10 am-1:30 pm. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35. Lucky Moose Statue, 393 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. Immunization And The Flu Shot Health talk. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. 416-603-6475. rOff Leash Safety Course Learn what you need to know to keep your dog safe in an offleash environment. 6 pm. $10.75/family. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca.

The Turkish Summer: Insights And Lessons From The Gezi Park Resistance Panel discussion with political science prof Anna Agathangelou, environmental studies prof Murat Ucoglu and others. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. The Year Of The Horse Celebrate Chinese New Year with 500-year-old technology. 5-7 pm. Free. Parker Gallery, 244 Queen E. 647248-1596.

Saturday, February 1

Benefits

Guilty Pleasures (Toronto Fashion Incubator) Designer fashion shows, beauty touch-ups, a silent auction, brunch, shopping and more. 11 am-4 pm. $49/brunch. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. fashionincubator.com. Mid Winter Take The Sun Celebration

(Global Sunrise Project/Canadian Voice of Women for Peace) Music, dance, games, a silent auction, raffle and more. 7:30 pm. $15, stu $10. Beaches Recreation Centre, 6 Williamson. vowpeace.org. Pipe Organ Benefit Concert (Metropolitan United Church) Performances by the Bach Children’s Chorus, pianist Eleanor Daley and others. 7:30 pm. $20, under 18 free. Metropolitan United Church, Queen and Church. metrounited.org.

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Anokhi Gala Annual award show celebrating

the Bollywood film industry. 6 pm. $15-$55. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’. anokhimedia.com/11thanniversaryevent/tickets. Architecture As A Vessel Of Memories Talk and slide presentation on post-disaster architecture with Katsuhiiro Miyamoto. 2 pm. Free. Japan Fdn, 131 Bloor W. jftor.org. #Artlive Vogue Ball The World Stage performance series kicks off with a night of live art and performances. 8 pm. $10. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage.

rChinatown’s 2014 Chinese New Year Celebration Miniature clay dim sum demo, a Chi-

nese windmill, paper lantern-making, darts and more. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free. Chinatown Centre (222 Spadina) and Dragon City Mall (280 Spadina). chinatownbia/com. Coldest Day Of The Year Ride Celebrate winter cycling with a group ride from Queen’s Park to Dufferin Grove for skating and a campfire. Noon. Free. Queen’s Park at Hoskin. cycleto.ca/bike-winter.

The Collaborative Economy: How Sharing Is Powering A Sustainable Future Talk on

how the collaborative economy can transform our cities, with GridTO editor Edward Keenan and Collaborative Lab chief strategy officer April Rinne. 5:30 pm. $20. MaRS Centre Auditorium, 101 College. marsdd.com.

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In An Age Of Individualism Discussion. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. DJ Skate Nights Cherry Bomb On Ice outdoor skating party. 8 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Exploring Forgiveness Symposium presented in collaboration with the Modern Times Stage Co production. Panel discussions Forgiveness On Stage (6 pm) and Forgiveness In Religion (7 pm). Free. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. The Really Really Free Market Community space for sharing clothes, toys, music, furniture, artisan goods, services and more. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Campbell Park, S of Dupont, W of Lansdowne. rrfmarket.blogspot.ca. Soup Stock Workshop Learn to make chicken and veggie stocks. 1-4 pm. $55. West End Food Co-op, 1229 Queen W. Pre-register westendfood.coop. rTotsapalooza Literary/arts party for kids two to seven with The Gruffalo author Julia Donaldson, indie-pop group the Bicycles and more. 10 am & 2 pm. $15, child $12. Revival, 783 College. smallprinttoronto.org. rYear Of The Horse Chinese New Year celebration with a lion dance, kung fu demos, classical Chinese music and dance. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Sunday, February 2 Conference Of The Birds Oral storytelling

and traditional Persian music based on the 12th-century Sufi poem. 3 pm. $20. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. musideum.com.

Dragonframe Workshop

Introductory workshop on the stop-motion capture software. Pre-register. 11 am-5 pm. $90. Toronto Animated Image Society, unit B, 1411 Dufferin. tais.ca. Dreams Matter Conference on dreams incubation for health, problem solving and creativity. 10:30 am-5 pm. $75, stu/ srs $55. Metro Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. Preregister dreamsmatter. eventbrite.ca.

How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives Lec-

ture by researcher Ted Sargent.

10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. rNature In Winter Guided hike. 11:30 am & 1 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289. Poetry Recitation Contest Poets and poetry lovers recite classic, pre-1975 poems from memory for prizes. 3 pm. Free. Turorina, 109 Niagara. therotarydial.ca/poetry-karaoke. 5Queer Salsa Classes Ten-week beginner, intermediate and advanced classes. 2, 3 & 4 pm. $90, stu $45. U of T Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. Pre-register lgbtdance.club@utoronto.ca. Shoresh Food Conference Local educators, farmers, foodies, activists, rabbis and students explore the interplay between food, Jewish tradition and contemporary life. 9:30 am-6 pm. $108, stu/srs $36. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. Pre-register shoresh.ca. The Sky Above Illustrated lecture by astronomy professor Paul Delaney. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Bldg, rm 003, 73 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org. rToronto Reptile Expo Live reptile displays, products and interactive educational tables for all ages. 9 am-4 pm. $10, srs/child $5. Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. reptileexpo.ca. Urban Wilderness Poetry Workshop Hunt the wild woods and the heart of the city for poetic inspiration with poet Anita Lahey. 1-4 pm. $20. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. Pre-register highparknaturecentre.com.

Using Algorithmic Thinking To Help Solve Problems Demonstration on using algorith-

mic thinking to help scientists understand a feature recently discovered on a moon of Jupiter. 3 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, JJR Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org.

rWorld Wetlands Day: What Lies Beneath The Ice? Celebrate wetland wildlife and learn

where wetland creatures go in winter. 10 am-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

Monday, February 3 Defining Greatness: Director Steven Spielberg Film clips and a lecture by critic Shlomo Schwartzberg. 7 pm. $11, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org.

Exile And Belonging: Stories Of Immigrant Experience Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Lady Of The House, Lady Of Two Lands: Women In Ancient Egypt Soc for the Study of

Egyptian antiquities lecture. 7 pm. $35. U of T, 4 Bancroft. thessea.org. Penelope – Faithful Wife Of Odysseus Lecture by prof Adriana Brook. 2 pm. Free. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. 4 16-393-7657. Staging Sustainability International conference and trade show on how the future of the arts and the future of the planet are entwined, with speakers including Simon Brault of National Theatre School of Canada and Australian artist/ecological design guru Tanja Beer. Today and tomorrow. Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen W), MaRS Discovery Centre (101 College), 99 Sudbury. s ustainablepractice.org.

Tuesday, February 4 Developing Skillsets For The 21st Century

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Gardner, internet strategist Jesse Hirsh and others. 6:30 pm. Free (tickets required). Rogers Communications Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre, 80 Gould. Pre-register bit.ly/1j5yPip.

THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: MODERN MASTERPIECES FROM THE GUGGENHEIM COLLECTION Talk by

AGO interpretive planner for the exhibition David Wistow. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-3955639.

HEALTH IN AFRICA THROUGH CANADIAN EYES

Presentation by young Canadians who have returned from internships with the African Medical and Research Fdn. 6 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. eventbrite.ca. rLEARN TO SKATE Outdoor skating classes for all ages run through Mar 2014. Various times and prices. Harbourfront Centre Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com/learntoskate.

LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP: AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSUMER & DEBTOR RIGHTS Presentation by lawyer Victor Kasowski. 6 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. torontopubliclibrary.ca/moneymatters.

MY PRAIRIE HOME – WITH RAE SPOON & FILMMAKERS Screening of the Chelase McMullan

film about transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon, with appearances by Spoon and the director. 6:30 pm. $42-$10. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. OCCUPY ECONOMICS Workshop on the economics of the neoliberal state. 6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca.

SIGALIT LANDAU’S “THE WORK OF A BRIDGE MAKER” The Israeli artist speaks about her

work, and the political and environmental issues of her native country. 7 pm. Free. Ryerson School of Image Arts, 122 Bond. facebook. com/converge.ryerson. TAX TIPS FOR 2013 & 2014 Seminar with 78 Tax Tips For Canadians For Dummies co-author Brian Quinlan. 6:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, February 5 BEAT THE WINTER BLAHS: HOW TO BE HAPPIER

Talk on positive psychology. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-3955660. BEES, POLLINATORS AND INSECT WONDERS Lecture. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite [at] OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. terreform.org. COFFEE & GRANTS Grant-writing workshop for artists. 1:30-3 pm. Free. Melanie’s Bistro, 1870 Danforth. Pre-register eastendarts.ca. FOODSHARE TALKS Book club discussion on Frances Moore Lappé’s book Diet For A Small Planet. 7 pm. Free. FoodShare, 90 Croatia. foodshare.net. LABOUR POLICY Talk on jobs as a policy focus by Gordon Bateman. 12:15 pm. Free. Munk School, rm 108N, 1 Devonshire. events. utoronto.ca.

LAST WEDNESDAYS Art-focused events at the galleries and shops happen the last Wed of the month. 5-8 pm. Free. 401 Richmond W. 401richmond.net. MEMORY AND AGING Talk on cognitive disorder assessment and memory intervention programs. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

5RAINBOW HEALTH ONTARIO CONFERENCE

Conference focused on LGBT health and wellness, with workshops, talks on research and programs, networking and more. To Feb 7. Toronto Hilton, 145 Richmond W. rainbowhealthontario.ca/conference.

RECONCILING HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC APOLOGY AND FORGIVENESS

Panel discussion on the Komagata Maru, Africville and more. 6:30 pm. Free. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House. harthouse.ca. REVEAL ME BURLESQUE (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com. THERE ARE NO HOUSE PLANTS Etobicoke Horticultural Soc talk and flower show. 8 pm. Free. Lambton Kingsway Jr Middle School, 525 Prince Edward. gardenontario.org.

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Thursday, February 6

Benefits

BOOK LOVER’S BALL (Toronto Public Library)

Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and dinner with Canadian authors Jason Mott, Steven Galloway, Kamal Al-Solaylee and Suzanne Collins. 6 pm. $750. Fairmont Royal York, 100 Front W. bookloversball.ca. SINGLES BOWLING MIXER (Riverdale Housing Animation Program) Fundraiser for singles ages 30 to 45. 7:15 pm. $20. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. justidateevents@gmail.com. WINTER SOIREE (OneFamily Fund) Get-together for young professionals with performances and DJ dancing. 7 pm. UpTown Loft, 2464 Yonge. onefamilyfund.ca.

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AGO FIRST THURSDAYS: LONG WINTER TAKEOVER Art conversations, pop-up perform-

ances, music and more. 7 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

HELP DECIDE THE FUTURE OF THE GARDINER EXPRESSWAY EAST Public meeting on the results

of the evaluation and alternative solutions for the future. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. gardinereastpublicmeetingfeb6. eventbrite.ca.

PEGGY MASON – BUILDING PEACE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: REFLECTIONS OVER 30 YEARS Science

for Peace lecture by Canada’s former ambassador for disarmament. 7 pm. Free. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca.

WOMEN IN NIQAB SPEAK: A STUDY OF THE NIQAB IN CANADA Presentation by Canadian

Council of Muslim Women director Alia Hogben and others. Noon-1:30 pm. Free (bring lunch). OISE, rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W. cwse@ utoronto.ca. 3

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PARTY FOR WORLD STAGE

Celebrate the arrival of some of the best stage troupes from around the world at the #artlive Vogue Ball, kicking off the World Stage Festival at Harbourfront Centre’s Brigantine Room. See live art and performances, and dance to DJ John Caffrey’s excellent playlist. And guess what? Just $10. 8 pm. SaturJohn Caffery DJs the #artlive Vogue Ball February 1.

day (February 1), 235 Queens Quay West, harbourfrontcentre.com/worldstage.

IT’S FREEZING – LET’S GO FOR A BIKE RIDE

It’s the most wonderful time of the year for cyclists – the annual Coldest Day Of The Year Ride. What better way to glide into icy February than to celebrate coldweather riding? The fun starts in Queen’s Park Saturday (February 1) at high noon and ends at Dufferin Grove

Park, where skating and a warm campfire await. We checked the forecast and it’s not going to be all that bad temp-wise: -2C° with some flurries. So saddle up. Should be pictureperfect. cycleto.ca/bike-winter.

PUT THIS IN YOUR PIPE ORGAN

Metropolitan United Church, known for its 54-bell carillon – besides it’s many good works in the downtown core, of course – needs six figures to refurbish its world-famous organ, which was the largest in the country when it was installed by Casavant Frères in 1930. You can help by attending a benefit concert Saturday (February 1), featuring performances by the Bach Children’s Chorus and pianist Eleanor Daley, among others. 7:30 pm. $20, free if you’re under 18. 56 Queen East. metunited.org.

black history month events Saturday, February 1 ALICE MAURICE ON WITHIN OUR GATES The Eng-

lish professor discusses the controversy surrounding the pioneering African-American silent film Within Our Gates. 2 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 50 King W. tiff.net. CHRISTINA BATTLE Battle’s video installation Dearfield, Colorado focuses on an AfricanAmerican agricultural community destroyed in the Dust Bowl. To Feb 15. Gallery 44, 401 Richmond W. 416-979-3941. JON BLAK Wedge Curatorial Projects photo exhibition. Feb 1-28, reception 7-10 pm, launch party 10 pm-1 am Feb 1, panel 2-5 pm Feb 2. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. DAVID BURNETT Exhibition of photos of Bob Marley runs to Feb 23. Analogue Gallery, 673 Queen W. 416-901-8001.

BUILDING BLACK/BLK KEN AND BARBIE: THE DISIDENTIFICATION PERFORMANCE/BLACK FUTURE MONTH 3014 Opening reception for a trio of

exhibitions featuring work by Ekow Nimako (Building Black), Rose-Ann Marie Bailey (Blk Ken And Barbie) and others. 6-11 pm (show runs to Feb 28). Free. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. regentparkarts.ca, 416-392-1038. DRUMMING WITH AMMA OFORI Family drumming. 2 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. JÉRÔME HAVRE An installation of sewn creatures, part of Fictions And Legends, references the artist’s Caribbean heritage. To Apr 13. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. Textile Museum, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

MEMBERZ REGGAE BAND African Heritage Month Kickoff. 9 pm. $6. Magic Oven, 360 Queen E. 416-703-3555. ONTARIO BLACK HISTORY SOCIETY EXHIBITION

Feb 1-Apr 19. Market Gallery, 95 Front E. 416392-7604. STORYTELLING WITH RITA COX Family storytelling. 10:30 am. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

TRACING YOUR AFRICAN HERITAGE IN THE BRIT-

ISH WEST INDIES Genealogy workshop. 1-5 pm. $40. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register torontofamilyhistory.org. EUCALYPTUS Calypso music. 7 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. pm. Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha. nuuc.ca.

Tuesday, February 4 JEANETTE KONG Screening of The

Chiney Shop and discussion with the filmmaker. 7 pm. Free. Swansea Library, 95 Lavinia. 416-393-7695.

Sunday, February 2 NJACKO BACKO & KALIMBA KALIMBA Musical performance. 2

our are perceived as aberrant or disruptive. 1 pm. Free. York U Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/laps/lundy. UNDERGROUND ALPHABET RAILROAD Play by James Valitchka and Elle Reyes about the right to education. Runs to Feb 10, see website for times. $16, child $8. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. bit.ly/1i7DE7R. WORDZ IN MOTION Explore words and sounds with poet Motion. 1:30 pm. Free. Gerrard/Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. 416-393-7717.

Kenny Robinson performs February 5.

Monday, February 3 BLACK HISTORY MONTH TALENT SHOWCASE Open-mic talent show. 6:30

pm. Free. C Cafe, 300 City Centre (Mississauga). mississaugaartscouncil.com.

POLES APART? THE “GREAT BLACK NORTH” IN CANADA & SWEDEN Poet George Elliott Clarke

talks about the North being so associated with light-skinned peoples that people of col-

MAS BY OTHER MEANS Conversation

between Carnival and contemporary art, with artist Marion Griffith and scholar Christopher Innes. 3:30 pm. Free. York U, Kaneff Tower rm 519, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/agyu. STEEL PAN EXPERIENCE Explore the history and evolution of steel pan with musician Joy LappsLewis. 10:30 am. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. WHEN MOSES WOKE Film screening and discussion with filmmaker Seth-Adrian Harris. 1:30 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, February 5 DRUMMING FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Drumming demo with Thomas Muhtadi. 4:30 pm. Free. Eatonville Library, 430 Burnhamthorpe. 416-394-5270.

rDUB ME WITH POETRY – MICHAEL ST GEORGE

Children eight to 10 are introduced to dub poetry. 1 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 40 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. KENNY ROBINSON Performance by the comedian. 7 pm. Free. Main Library, 137 Main. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

RECONCILING HISTORICAL INJUSTICES AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC APOLOGY AND FORGIVENESS

Panel discussion on Africville and more. 6:30 pm. Free. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. STORYTELLING WITH RITA COX Hear African and Caribbean stories. 1 pm. Free. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Thursday, February 6 CELEBRATING OUR MEN IN DANCE dance Im-

mersion showcases artists of African descent, including BaKari I Lindsay and Shawn Byfield. To Feb 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 1 pm. $18$30. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, danceimmersion.ca. 3

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What do you get when you mix cute dogs and studly bachelors? One of the year’s best fundraisers. Support the fourth annual Paws for the Cause #PawsParty going down February 12 at 8 pm at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst). This year’s edition auctions off Toronto’s most stylish bachelors for a Valentine’s Day date. All proceeds benefit the Paws for the Cause scholarship for a veterinary student at the University of Guelph, as well as the university’s Pet Trust Fund. Tickets are $69 at pawsforthecause.ca.

Food in, money out Toss away those New Year’s resolutions and indulge to your heart’s content at the Toronto Fashion Incubator’s 10th annual Guilty Pleasures sale on Saturday (February 1). Grab the Drake Hotel’s (1150 Queen West) Winterlicious brunch while you browse the wares of over 40 local apparel, accessory and jewellery designers from 11 am ($49), or drop by for free when shopping opens to the public from 2 to 4 pm. Call the Drake’s special events team at 416531-5042 for brunch tickets.

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Not just another wedding show Wedding planning season continues with the Perfect For Gathering Here Today wedding expo on Sunday (February 2) from 11 am to 6 pm at 2nd Floor Events (461 King West). It’s the modern downtown bride’s alternative to classic (and dare we say mindnumbing?) wedding shows, and features local florists, photographers, caterers, wedding consultants and more. The best part? Entrance is free, because god knows weddings cost enough already. Sign up at eventbrite.ca/e/perfect-for-gatheringhere-today-tickets-10088421741.

1. Shakespeare bow ($60, Bay Cooper, baycooper.com) 2. Black silk and Star Trek bow tie ($71.06, Etsy shop Handsome and Lace, etsy.com/ca/shop/handsomeandlace) 3. Dion Neckwear bow tie ($75, Harry Rosen, 82 Bloor West, 416-972-0556, and others, harryrosen.com) 4. Custom origami silk bow tie (price upon request, Breeyn McCarney, breeyn.com) 5. Philip Sparks bow tie ($15, 162 Ossington, 647-348-1827, philipsparks.com)

Now that’s how you do it Long-time Canadian fashion industry supporter Mary Symons was honoured last week with a Lifetime Achievement Award by Fashion Group International Toronto. A fixture of Toronto’s society scene, the fabulously fiery redhead has served as FGI’s district director, board chair of the Toronto Fashion Incubator and on Ryerson’s school of fashion program advisory council. She now sits on the Bata Shoe Museum board, runs her own luxury PR firm and generally makes everyone else look like slackers by comparison. 3

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Smaller than a clutch but big enough to carry all the crap floating around the bottom of your purse, wallet pouches are the messy girl’s key to keeping a bag organized. Stash your cash, receipts, drugs, whatever in one of these little wonders and – voila – you can actually find things again. Falconwright is a two-woman operation that hand-makes and screen prints all its products right here in Toronto. The fall 2013 collection is inspired by “spirit animals,” and the prints are so quirky you’ll want to ditch the big purse altogether and carry your pouch around solo. $48, falconwright.com 3 NOW JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5 2014

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Toronto doesn’t have a particularly good track record when it comes to supporting small boutiques stocked with Canadian designers. The city has seen the likes of Magnolia, UPC Boutique and Jacflash come and go. Now another hopeful enters the fray. Style Faux Pas is a petite but expertly curated 600-square-foot space with a focus on Toronto and Vancouver designers, mixed with a choice few from the U.S. Owner and stylist Alisha Hanif, a former buyer for Hudson Bay’s The Room, approaches fashion with an inclusive message. She doesn’t believe in “style faux pas” and encourages customers to mix and match to create their own individual looks. Let’s hope Torontonians respond by supporting her boutique and the local talent it stocks. Style Faux Pas picks The shop’s small size allows for a level of service that’s hard to find these days. Hanif specializes in client styling, personal shopping and image consulting. There’s zero intimidation factor here; Style Faux Pas is a judgment-free zone. Look for Quality and affordable pieces by Toronto designers Christopher Bates, Jessica Jensen and Fredrick Prince. Hanif makes a point of stocking eco-friendly and sweatshopfree items, so read the labels and feel good about your purchases. Hours Monday to Saturday 10 am to 6 pm. 3

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 On my 15th birth-

day, I finally figured out that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow’s milk. My health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the last few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I’ve been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honoured for a long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be broken.

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Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it’s important to approach them with extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition. Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 I’m a big fan of

logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing. The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be. Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your dreams and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies and see yourself as a mythic hero in life’s divine drama. Moral of the story: both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Sorry, Cancerian, you won’t be able to transform lead into gold any time soon. You won’t suddenly acquire the wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists. Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy

someone who has always resisted your charms. That’s the bad news. The good news is this: if you focus on performing less spectacular magic, you could accomplish minor miracles. For example, you might diminish an adversary’s ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated. And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Cosmopolitan maga-

zine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one’s sex life. Here’s an example: “Take a few of your favourite erotically appealing flavour combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy treats all over your lover’s body.” That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend that you don’t follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It’s true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren’t advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 You are not as

broken as you may think you are. Your wounds aren’t as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will attempt to prove it to you – and not just in some mild, half-hearted way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But here’s my question, Virgo: will you be so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called A Sword In A Cloud Of Light. I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don’t want to get too intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: the cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration. Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 Every autumn,

the bird species known as the Clark’s nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn’t as prodigious as that, but it’s far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you draw on the wisdom gained from past events – especially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 Can you

imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don’t try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 per cent.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 It’s a favourable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect

lots of inside information. I won’t call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it’s fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use – because right now is also a favourable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help and inside information.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Extravagant

wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as 4 feet above a woman’s head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here’s a second-best option: make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic licence to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 One of your anti-

role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem’s tune Love The Way You Lie. Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine, on psychological, spiritual and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: “You’re just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that’s all right because I like the way it hurts / You’re just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that’s all right, because I love the way you lie.” To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that.

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Cold-weather comrades, let us not fear the slippery streets! But before you ready your path to the great outdoors, don’t just reach for any old ice melter. They’re fraught with false claims and ecologically dodgy side effects. TE ST L

ROAD SALT All basic ice melters rely on one simple ingredient that sounds perfectly benign in a “pass the salt, honey” kind of way, but isn’t so welcome by those who know the effects of road salt runoff on fresh water. All that salt can and does make groundwater undrinkable and is bad news for the freshwater fish that have to swim it in. I don’t care how Canadian the salt itself is, it ain’t green. And it loses its efficacy below -15°C. $3.50/10 kg. SCORE: N

PERFECTLY NATURAL ECO ICE MELTER Sounds like the greenest thing since Al Gore, but this product, also called Alaskan Natural Ice Melter, is just basic rock salt blended with potassium chloride (see Groundworks) and a little limestone for traction. They say it’s safer for kids and pets and won’t harm vegetation because there’s less salt in it, but better than pure salt? Not by much. $8/5 kg at Home Depot, Lowe’s. SCORE: NN

SIFTO SAFE STEP NATURE’S POWER This one’s a greener though less effective pick than Sifto’s Enviro-Guard, which is mostly rock salt blended with other salts, a dash of urea (an eco no-no – see Alaskan Pet-Friendly) and silica. Nature’s Power is still a salt, but it’s 100 per cent magnesium chloride hexahydrate from Utah that’s been shown in road tests to be less corrosive to concrete and plants than sodium chloride or calcium chloride. Both Nature’s Power and Enviro-Guard still warn that they should be kept away from water and sewers. $13.99/22 lb at Canadian Tire. SCORE: NN

ALASKAN PET-FRIENDLY This one’s totally salt-free for a change and, yes, for the most part it’s kind to dogs’ paws and less corrosive than salt because it’s made with urea (the melter) and mineral zeolite (which sucks up melted water). The big “but” here: urea converts to ammonia, and then to nitrates, which can be toxic to fish and create suffocating algae blooms downstream. Yeesh. $14.99/3.5 kg at Home Hardware. SCORE: NN

SAFE PAW It’s got a mysterious propriety formula, but a call to the company finds them relatively transparent. Their “modified amide with glycol admixture” is actually a modified urea in a polypropylene glycol base. Lab tweaks seem to have eliminated urea’s water-polluting effect (vouched for by New York state’s Department of Environmental Conservation). As well, toxicological tests Walmart asked them to do prove the stuff isn’t hazardous if swallowed. Now, this ain’t a natural product and the PPG is fossil-fuel-derived, but it’s pretty benign compared to propylene glycol. It may burn your grass, though. $16.99/3.72 kg at Pet Valu. SCORE: NNN

ORGANIC MELT ICE REMOVER I used to give this one brownie points for cutting back on salt content by mixing in “beet juice.” Well, turns out it’s only 3 per cent sugar beet extract (watered down molasses) and 97 per cent salt, so CBC Marketplace and I gave it a greenwash award for misleading marketing. However, since the sugar brine does make it more effective in colder temps, Toronto’s now using this stuff on certain roads. And when it’s really frigid you can use less of it than you would salt. Use this stuff sparingly if you want to be greener – and keep pet paws away. $10.99/10 kg at Big Carrot. SCORE: NNN

GROUNDWORKS NATURAL ICE MELTER This BC company’s “fertilizer-based” ice melter is made “primarily” from potassium salts mined in Saskatchewan. Yes, potassium is a plant nutrient, but too much of a good thing can also damage plants (heard of fertilizer burn?) and waterways. Potassium melters are often considered poor performers at low temps, but these guys say their product has been third-party tested and is effective to -23°C. $15/22 lb at Home Hardware. SCORE: NNN

ECOTRACTION and GREEN GRIP Both these brands consist of high-traction volcanic rock (zeolite), which gives an excellent slip-free surface, as does Natura’s Traction Aid Green Grip. No need for a chemistry degree here – these are totally safe for kids, pets, lawns and gardens and can actually help protect your lawn from dogpee burn. Just don’t expect them to melt ice. That’s not their job. Shovelling remains mandatory. $11.29/10 kg at Canadian Tire, Shoppers Drug Mart, Ecoexistence. SCORE: NNNN

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There’s nothing cuter than children’s clothing, except when it’s laced with harmful compounds. In a report released a couple of weeks ago, A Little Story About The Monsters In Your Closet, Greenpeace International revealed the results of testing on 82 children’s garments sold by bigname brands in 25 countries. Wearables from American Apparel, Disney, Gap, H&M, Adidas, Nike and Puma were found to contain, among other chemicals, hormone-disrupting nonylphenol ethoxylates and phthalates banned from children’s toys. This report is the latest move in Greenpeace’s Detox clothing campaign, which is pressuring manufacturers to clean up their act in factories and in finished products. To check out the full report, complete with pics of chem-laced kids’ clothes, head to greenpeace.org.

FRANKENFISH ’N PIPELINE FIGHT

It’s been a busy January for the good lawyers over at Ecojustice. Last week, they filed a lawsuit against the feds on behalf of the Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society after Environment Canada gave the green light to plans to breed GMO salmon eggs in PEI – in an entirely closed-door process. The groups say the government broke its own laws by failing to assess the invasiveness of the frankenfish, putting wild salmon at risk. It was Ecojustice’s second high-profile legal action of the month. The other, on behalf of ForestEthics Advocacy, Living Oceans and the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, is looking for a court order to prevent cabinet from relying on what the orgs say is a “flawed” report from a joint review panel that gave its thumbs-up to the Northern Gateway pipeline in December. With environmentalist voices increasingly locked out of decision-making at the federal level, the courts, say enviros, may be the only hope.

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Isshin chef Masafumi preps miso ramen; tan-tan ramen with pork belly scores; poutine’s got curried gravy; tender Takoyaki (inset) is a hit.

Dishin’ Isshin Ramen joint on College is hangover heaven By STEVEN DAVEY RAMEN ISSHIN (421 College, at Bathurst, 416-3674013, ramenisshin.com) Complete meals for $18 per person, including tax, tip and a mug of green tea. Average main $10. Open Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 2 am, Sunday 11:30 am to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN

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A couple of doors down from Sneaky Dee’s and open till 2 am weekends, Ramen Isshin is ideally situated for late-night carbloading. What better way to kill a hangover before it even kicks in than with chef Koji Zenimaru’s signature tan-tan ramen ($10.25), a large ceramic bowl of al dente house-made noodles in long-simmered tonkotsu

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KINTON RAMEN

51 Baldwin, at Beverley, 647-7488900; 668 Bloor W, at Manning, 416551-8177, kintonramen.com, @KintonRamen The lineups perpetually blocking the sidewalk in front of this Guu offshot attest to the quality of this uncharacteristically complex pork-based broth. Perfectly chewy house-made noodles and unorthodox toppings like blowtorched pork belly, grated Swiss cheese and raw garlic only up the ante. Sunday to Thursday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 11:30 pm (Baldwin); Sunday to

broth, spiked with smoky miso tare and finished with garlic chives, wilted bok choy and both nuggets of minced pork and fatty slices of blow-torched cha shu pork belly? Chef suggests you add the black sesame seeds that give the soup its name halfway through to “enhance your experience,” but most add them right off the top. His roasted garlic ramen ($8.95) finds that same creamy pork broth now augmented with rich house-made shoyu and dressed with raw scallions, bamboo shoots, toasted seaweed, more pork belly and halves of partially poached eggs marinated in sweet

mirin. A generous splash of garlic oil makes an after-dinner shot of mouthwash de rigueur. Of the eight varieties of ramen available, two are not only vegetarian, but vegan to boot, our favourite the fat-free version simply layered with shoots, seaweed and meaty sautéed mushrooms ($9.80). We prefer to add a side of cha shu ($2) because we roll that way. Unlike nearly every other ramen resto around, the short lineup of starters is not to be ignored, no surprise when you learn that Zenimaru’s also in charge of the kitchen at the wildly creative Kingyo in Cabbagetown. Nuggets of crisply battered and unusually moist chicken karage sided with lemony mayo ($4.80) almost make us forgive steaming mugs of green tea ($1) complete with tea bags. Though the menu insists that chef’s irreverent take on poutine ($5.20) comes

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190 University, at Adelaide W, 647-253-8000, momofuku.com/toronto/noodle-bar-to, @momofuku While dinner upstairs at Daisho or Shoto runs well into the high three figures, dining in New York celebu-chef David Chang’s entry-level noodle noshery can be done for practically peanuts, and never more so than during Winterlicious, through February 13, when a signature

steamed bao, a bowl of smoked local chicken ramen and a Milk Bar compost cookie go for all of 15 bucks at lunch. Lunch daily 11:30 am to 3 pm, dinner nightly 5 to 11 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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91 Dundas E, at Church, 647-7481717, santouka.co.jp/en You’ll likely wait longer in line at peak feeding times for a seat at one of this Hokkaido-based import’s long communal tables than it takes to actually eat, so speedy the kitchen. Resist the rush and zone out Zen-like over bowls of al dente mein in gorgeous broth optionally re-

KENZO RAMEN

138 Dundas W, at Elizabeth, 416205-1155; 522 Yonge, at Maitland, 647340-2112; 372 Bloor W, at Walmer, 416921-6787; 4860 Yonge, at Elmhurst, 647-345-1871; 4860 Yonge, at Elmhurst, 647-345-1871; 720 Burnamthorpe, at Mavis, 905-766-4136, kenzoramen.ca Like virtually everything else incredibly cool, Toronto has had Japanese noodle houses since the 80s. Konnichiwa, anyone? But it was only after this North York Japorean noodle joint reinvented itself downtown five years ago that the local ramen bar was raised. We blame the creamy tonkotsu, an outrageously rich soup that’s been likened to liquefied pork chops.

Daily 11 am to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, holidays (Burnhamthorpe). No reservations. Licensed.

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261 Queen W, at Duncan, 416596-8080, touhenboku.ca, @touhenbokuRamen Though it doesn’t look that different from almost every other ramen house in town – cramped seating, frenzied staff and a constant queue out the door – this no-frills noshery is the only one that features chicken-based broths instead of the usual pork, the secret weapon schmaltz (aka chicken fat). Keep this in mind the next time you come down with a cold or the flu. Touhenboku does takeout! Daily 11 am to midnight. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free. SD

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It takes three visits to newly launched Lucullus(31 Elm, at Yonge, 416-7921886, lucullusbakery.com, rating: NN) to eventually score a six-pack of the Richmond Hill-based bakery’s celebrated egg tarts ($1.65 each), such is the demand. But after all that, they’re not all that. Compared to the terrific Portuguese egg tarts found at Venezia on Ossington these Chinese-style pastries taste like something’s missing. We’re guessing butter. How else to explain their too-crumbly crusts and overly bland custard fillings? The signature pineapple buns ($1.55) are just as distressing, their sweet fruit topping reduced to powder. And who makes sponge cake ($1.20 slice) with chocolate that recalls Nestlé’s Quik? The savoury buns perplex as well, the exception an off-the wall combo of curried beef and hard-boiled egg in a sugar donut ($1.85) that could be like the love child of Tim Horton and the Patty Queen – so wrong it’s right. Instead of barbecued char siu pork like we used to get at the sadly gone Yung Sing on Baldwin, we get shredded pork and the odd bit of Spanish onion in a saccharine sauce not that far from ketchup. Students at nearby Ryerson will approve once they find the place. There are others stuffed with shredded chicken or canned tuna or “luncheon” meat. The white-bread buns themselves would be more at home wrapped around hot dogs. Perhaps that explains those stuffed with wieners (all $1.65). With our a sandwich of nicely grilled Angus sirloin dressed with caramelized red onions on ($6.95), we switch out house-baked white for house-baked white littered with fancy flax seeds. Another two bucks brings a side of what the menu calls Russian borscht ($4.95 à la carte). ’Scuse us, but we understood borscht to be a beet soup and not beef trimmings in a sweet gravy thick with barley, carrots, cabbage and a honkin’ whack of corn on the cob. No bad thing, but it ain’t Steven Davey borscht.

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12 Clinton, 416-531-5833, themonarchtavern.com

35 Elm, 647-347-2712, queenandbeaverpub.ca

Snuggled in the labyrinth of residential streets between Dundas and College west of Bathurst, the Monarch is one of the city’s oldest functioning bars, founded in 1927. Upstairs (open all day, every day) overlooks another Toronto icon, Bitondo’s Pizzeria, and the Monarch invites you to grab a Bitondo’s calzone or a sandwich from San Francesco’s next door and plant yourself at their bar for the liquid portion of your lunch. The back bar’s loaded with a whisk(e)y arsenal, and the 14 taps plus a cask pour local brews from Bellwood’s, Spearhead, Northwinds and Silversmith. There’s WiFi for a working aperitif hour and a pool table, pinball machine and darts for kicks. Hours Daily 11 am to 2 am Accessibility Up a full flight of stairs; washrooms on same floor.

Tidy and comfortable, with a Brit vibe, the Queen and Beaver can accommodate a successful business lunch or a free afternoon with a Scotch and a stack of complimentary newspapers from the entrance sideboard. On weekends the downstairs dining area (complete with wood-burning oven) opens for brunch and lunch, where you can kill a few hours over Mary Tudors (a bloody Mary spiked with Sriracha and horseradish), Pimm’s cups or Q&B G&Ts (with house-made tonic), all $10. Might as well check out the Q&B’s sister pub, the Oxley (121 Yorkville, 647-348-1300, t heoxley.com), too. Hours Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 1 am, Saturday 10 am to 1 am, Sunday 10 am to midnight. Accessibility Stairs to the entrance and dining room and another flight to the second-floor lounge. Washrooms on second floor.

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54 Dundas East, 416-977-4667, imperialpub.com The Imperial Pub’s second floor Library Lounge has been fuelling Torontonians since the mid-1940s, attracting everyone from Ryerson students to families and long-time regulars. This is where you go to sink into worn leather couches and leaf through dog-eared romance novellas while jazz-era oldies play from a 70-year-old jukebox – more or less a perfect winter’s day. The no-nonsense service and ancient carpet are as much a part of the charm as the cold beer and (free!) freshly popped corn. In the clement months there’s a big, sunny patio out back made for whiling away the afternoon. Hours Daily 11 am to close. Accessibility On the second floor; one small step to the door, then up a flight of stairs to the Library.

tasting notes

Absolut Elyx

Elyx, the premium vodka from iconic Swedish brand Absolut, separates a true vodka experience from the painted pretenders (next thing you know, they’ll invent Nutella taco and marshmallow fluff-filled cronut vodkas). Copper distillation enhances purity and lends Elyx its characteristic silkiness, making it ideal for cocktails or straight sipping. Try it in a Harrington and you’ll catch my drift: 1½ oz Absolut Elyx ¼ oz Cointreau ⅛ oz Green Chartreuse Stir ingredients over ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with orange zest.

Stout

In light of the persistently awful polar vortex, fortification via this hefty style of porter seems like a no-brainer. Black Magic ñ Woman Stout

Rating: NNNN Why: Bewitching aromas of tangerine peel, molasses, prunes and chocolate coax you into your first sip of Hornbeer’s Russian Imperial Stout. A blast of chocolatey espresso languishes into a bitter finish, disappearing in a puff of smoke. Delicious, full-bodied and just a little evil, she’ll sneak up on you at 10 per cent abv. Price: 500 ml/$7.05 Availability: LCBO 343913; de-listed but there’s still plenty on shelves.

Spearhead Belgian Stout

Rating: NN Why: Maybe my fondness for Spearhead’s Hawaiian Style Pale Ale set the bar too high. Chalk it up to tough love, but despite being chocolatey and fruity with a notable dose of smoke, this so-so stout isn’t as exciting as it could be. Availability: On tap at 3030 Dundas West, the Monarch Tavern and the Saint Tavern.

Muskoka Winter ñ Beard Double Chocolate Cranberry Stout

Rating: NNNN Why: Muskoka’s beloved seasonal, flavoured with dark chocolate and Ontario cranberries and cellar-aged for 14 months, leaves your lips redolent of Black Forest cake. Like any rich treat, it’s best in small doses – it’s no coincidence this bottle’s designed for sharing. Price: 750 ml/$13.95 Availability: LCBO 222315; de-listed, small quantities still available around town.

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Launch party for Harry Porter

Speaking of the merits of drinking dark (see bottles feature, this page), Great Lakes Brewery (greatlakesbeer.com) is hosting a porter party at the Loose Moose (146 Front West, 416-977-8840, theloosemoose.ca) on February 6 at 7 pm to celebrate the LCBO release of Harry Porter and the Bourbon Soaked Vanilla Bean ($5.95). Featuring six versions of Harry Porter via tap, cask and can, the launch is open to the public. I think you know what you’re doing the first Thursday in February.

CAFÉ PAMENAR (307 Augusta, 647-352-3627, cafepamenar.ca) The popular Kensington coffee joint recently added a full bar from 11 am to close. Beers from Dieu de Ciel!, inexpensive wines and spiked Americanos for all! Hours Monday to Friday 8 am to midnight, Saturday and Sunday 9 am to midnight; full bar service from 11 am. Accessibility Small step at the entrance; washrooms downstairs. TEQUILA BOOKWORM (512 Queen West, 416-5042334, tequilabookworm.blogspot.ca) Grab a pint of craft beer or cider and read, work (WiFi available) or people-watch all afternoon. Hours Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 2 am, Tuesday to Friday noon to 2 am, Monday 5 pm to 2 am. Accessibility Entrance barrier-free, washrooms downstairs.

WHAT we’re DRINKING TONIGHT

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More than 70 bars across the province will participate in Beau’s month-long winter beer fest, FeBREWary, tapping a different beer from their Wild Oat series every week. Keep an eye out for St. Luke’s Verse Gruit Ale (with lavender, thyme and rosemary) and Mission Accomplished, an American IPA. Participating bars include 3030 Dundas West, The Dock Ellis, Monarch Tavern, Victory Café and the Whippoorwill. check out beaus.ca/febrewary.

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Our city was born feisty and free-thinking. The first mayor of Toronto was crusading rebel journalist William Lyon Mackenzie, who wouldn’t accept colonial rule quietly no matter how much the powers that be wanted to shut him up. Even though our current mayor is an embarrassment, the people of this city, pretty much since Mackenzie’s time, have been creative stars, bucking authority, thinking free and inspiring each other and the world. This issue of NOW celebrates Toronto’s real legacy and its ongoing identity as a thriving municipality known for its diversity, its advocacy for inclusiveness and community and the richness of its cultural expression. That’s the spirit that gave birth to NOW Magazine over 30 years ago. It’s why we proudly claim the tagline Think Free. And it’s why we mark the launch of our exciting new subway distribution with this special Think Free issue. It’s a good time to remember that this free kind of thinking has really paid off over time, despite whatever crazy politics are happening. When NOW started publishing over 30 years ago, the police force had just conducted one of the most infamous in fringements on civil rights in Canadian history, the shameful bathhouse raids targeting Toronto’s gay commu nity in 1981. But community action has changed all that. Toronto went on to become a pioneer in embracing same-sex marriage rights, and the City Hall that was once okay with attacking lesbians and gays now carries out weddings – great for tourism and the local economy. That’s Thinking Free, and we see other examples every day that are citizen-directed, not led from the top down. Toronto is celebrated as a city of neighbourhoods, but it wasn’t that page 34 long ago that developers hoped to level them in the interests of cinder block high-rises. Community activists said no, with thriving downtown ’hoods the enduring result. A great city has never been a plug-and-play proposition. The active engagement of our magnificent citizenry and a

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free-thinking media are both critical to the Toronto we love and the lives we lead. We at NOW have been and remain committed to covering and being a part of that conversation. This is no burden, but a life-affirming pleasure. And so is the fact that NOW has al ways been free. Free is fun for everyone. We love that. Since before the internet existed, NOW has been known for giving away high-quality ideas and information. We think our readers’ investment of their time in our offerings – each week in the paper and every day online – is price enough, and we only hope to keep earning your continued engagement. Toronto, let’s not hang our heads as our chief magistrate shames us. Let’s affirm our successful tradition of an engaged citizenry that will not settle for less than excellence. A city this great deserves nothing but the best and never settles for anything less. As Toronto’s and the continent’s leading alt weekly, that’s what we strive to be. We hope you find some inspiration in this week’s roundup of some of the many Torontonians who are challenging us to embrace new thinking. And let’s revel, too, in the fact that even in the blast of this winter, there are still lots of free ways to have a good time, and some great deals, too (check out the offers on page 42), in this fun and fabulous city we share. 3

We were sardines for the first three weeks, 38 men squeezed into a 10-by 3-metre can, marinating in sweat. Then, finally, on September 4, they allowed us a half-hour of exercise. To be released into that ocean of sunlight, that vast periwinkle sky, that choir of crows – we couldn’t stop running, round and round the yard. Some of the others had flip-flops from their families, but Tarek [cellmate Loubani] and I were barefoot – we barely had pen and paper and soap from our weekly 10 minutes with the embassy. We ran and ran, not caring that the concrete was griddle hot, a molten ice rink. Four blisters the size of toonies, puffed like pancakes, bloomed on our soles. That night, it was our turn to give a lecture to our cellmates. Tarek described working as an ER doctor in London’s Vic and Gaza’s Al Shifa. He didn’t mention his ongoing experiments with quad copters (researching alternative methods for delivering blood samples) and 3D printers (manufacturing medical implements), his radical sideways uses of new technologies that could potentially ease the brutality of the Israeli blockade. Sometimes you have to keep it simple. I talked about the four films I’ve made that are, ironically, set in prisons, joking that that’s the Canadian way – first we make the films, then we do the field research. I didn’t mention that the four are queer love stories. Sometimes you have to keep it simple. Tarek decided that we should end with a song. Neither of us can sing. He decided it should be Que Sera Sera. We were shaky on the verses but got the whole cell singing the refrain. He explained it as a parable of fortitude, of survival, of resistance. What will be, will be. Inshallah, shallah. Songs can let meanings fly free, beyond Doris, out the bars. For Tarek, it perhaps served as a secret serenade to his inner geek. For me, it perhaps subbed as a coded campy coming-out ballad. Songs can let meanings fly free, beyond Doris, out the bars.

In the days and weeks that followed, whenever I was sitting alone, feeling blue, crushed perhaps by another extension of our detention without charges, one of the others, Masry or Ala or Ahmed, would throw a comforting arm around my shoulder and say, “Oh John, que sera sera.” We are now free, and eight of the others are, too. But 28 remain behind bars, held without charges. So do 600 others arrested on the same day. So do thousands more, for the simple crime of protesting the infamy of General Sisi’s restoration of military dictatorship. So is Mohamed Fahmy, the Canadian journalist arrested on December 29 and locked up in solitary close to our former sardine can. I wish I could tell him that freedom is sometimes blisters on your soles, but the Cairo winter is probably too cold for running barefoot on concrete. I wish I could tell him that freedom is sometimes an arm around a shoulder and someone quoting Doris, but he’s probably not allowed any contact with Ala, Masry, Ahmed.

“To be released into that ocean of sunlight, the periwinkle sky, the crows’ choir – we couldn’t stop running around the yard. ” It took thousands of you, singing as hard as you could, to win us our freedom. We need to sing again, for Mohamed, for all the others, today. It took thousands of you, raising your voices as loud as you could, to win us our freedom. You were brilliant. We need to sing/write/march again, for Mohamed. It’s extremely urgent – the prosecutor seems determined to make an example of him. Read up on his case, then email Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird at bairdj@parl.gc.ca or tweet @HonJohnBaird. Today. news@nowtoronto.com

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freedom from police racial profiling I can’t say enough about the dangers of racial profiling, and I can’t believe we allow this practice to continue in our city. A disproportionate number of young people of colour, black- and brown-skinned in particular, are stopped by officers for no apparent reason. Police call this an “engagement” strategy. But even those who cooperate become “known to police,” forever doomed to police scrutiny and societal suspicion, our private information part of an evergrowing police database. It’s worse for those who decide not to cooperate. We’re rewarded with the ever-present threat of police harassment, detainment and criminalization. This is the unfortunate Catch-22 many young people face. It’s a form of racism by our public institutions, and should be illegal. Successful cities are international cities where people are truly free and diversity is embraced. Toronto needs more than nice-sounding slogans, crafty language to market our wares or a story well told to make us feel better. In a few years, more than 50 per cent of the population will be non-white, and this shouldn’t be feared, as I believe it is in some quarters. To be focused on fears is to miss a tremendous opportunity to learn from each other. If Toronto is to become what it can and must be, we have to be in this thing together. True freedom means respecting our differences. As a start, then, let’s commit ourselves to eliminating dangerous practices that sow mistrust and create second-class citizenship. news@nowtoronto.com Cutty Duncan is a community organizer with the campaign to Stop Police Carding (stoppolicecarding.com).

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As the father of a five-month-old, I can already see the power of television. Whenever the TV is on, my son cranes his head to look at the bright moving objects on the screen, no matter where we place him in the room. We are naturally curious animals, and we get easily distracted. It’s getting harder to exercise our freedom to avoid the continued “advertization” of our lives – whether via TV ads or digital billboards beside busy freeways. I cut my civic advocacy teeth at City Hall more than a decade ago by questioning the design proposed for garbage bins. Street furniture may not be the sexiest issue, but at its core lies one of the most important pillars of our society: freedom of expression. At the time, council wanted to ban posters on lampposts while at the same time allowing advertising on garbage bins. (Remember those thin steel waste bins that seemed to get dented by the wind?) This was really saying that local advertising – dog walkers, local plays, political protests – in the form of posters was visual clutter, but ads for real estate agents, energy drinks and fast food were perfectly fine. Luckily, the poster restrictions never

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“Drive along the Gardiner Expressway and massive billboards – some of them playing loops of filmed adverts – scream at you. ”

I’m among the lucky ones who’ve won the so-called “birth lottery” by being born here in Canada. People who choose to live in our city should get the same consideration Yet, in our current system, some 400,000 permanent residents in Toronto do not enjoy the right to vote in munici-

happened and advertising on street furniture is restricted to transit shelters and a few info pillars. But I’m still very concerned about the advertization of our public spaces. Drive along the Gardiner Expressway and massive billboards – some of them playing loops of filmed adverts – scream at you. Council is considering allowing these to appear at intersections all over town. And the TTC seems willing to sell almost any free space on the walls, turnstiles or floors of subway stations. When you pick up a magazine or turn on a TV, there’s a tacit understanding that you’ll have to put up with some form of advertising. But you have a choice to flip the page or channel. When you’re in a public place, it’s very difficult to not look at ads. Our local government and transit authority have decided that for you. Taking the fight to City Hall about ad encroachment into the public realm is not an easy task, but victories over this onslaught of advertising can be won. (See scenic.to for more.) news@nowtoronto.com Matthew Blackett is publisher and creative director of Spacing Media.

pal (or provincial or federal) elections, despite the fact they contribute to the tax base and use city services.

We allow people who don’t reside in Toronto but own property here to vote, so why a restriction on actual residents? Some say this is as it should be: voting should be reserved for citizens who are supposedly more committed to Canada. They argue that restricting the rights of

breaking free of our tar sands addiction Addiction is the enemy of freedom. Just look at how an addiction to oil has disrupted our climate and poisoned our politics. Super-storms, floods, droughts and wildfires – it’s only going to get worse as we pump more heat-trapping gases into the atmosphere, leading to a kind of weather on steroids that tears ecosystems apart. There are only three things we can do in response to this threat: reduce the amount of fossil fuels we burn to limit how bad it gets, build more resilient communities to try to adapt to those changes that can’t be avoided, and suffer. The more we do of the first two, the less we’ll do of the last. Unfortunately, Canada’s current policy

non-citizens creates incentives for residents to seek citizenship. I disagree. Denying these people a vote does not create an incentive to naturalize. Despite our relatively generous citizenship regime, there are still barriers that make it difficult for some to attain citizenship despite a strong commitment

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And they have tried to chill dissent by labelling as “radicals” anyone who dares express concern about digging deeper holes, and putting oil in leaky pipelines or exploding trains. Decentralized, democratically controlled energy systems that rely on free power from the sun, wind and waves, however, are threatening to those who have grown rich and powerful selling the buried sunlight contained in oil, coal or gas. That’s why oil companies and the Harpergovernment have spent tens of millions of dollars on those omnipresent ad campaigns to tell us that we have no choice. It’s time to break free. Our scientists tell us we have the technology to affordably meet our energy needs without frying the planet. Think of it as history’s greatest reno job, and we get to live in a beautiful home and still have awesome neighbours like polar bears and caribou when we’re done. news@nowtoronto.com Keith Stewart leads Greenpeace Canada’s climate and energy campaign.

The dream of every Torontonian, save maybe the purveyors of overly large, overly powerful, toxically fuelled motor vehicles, is to be able to move more freely in and around our town, whatever their personal mobility preference might be. This city is becoming ever more congested by design, intentionally growing up and sprawling further out, but the amount of space we have to transport ourselves and our goods is finite. The previous century’s status quo is no longer viable. Some would still have us believe that the construction of more roads is the answer to handling more highway-capable vehicles. But the reality is that smaller two-, three- and smaller four-wheeled vehicles better designed for in-town, point-to-point jobs and journeys are the only real solution. Of course, the best are human-powered vehicles. Any time we walk or cycle to a destination, we all benefit. Despite current local roadblocks in the mayor’s office and the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, the use of such transportation modes continues to grow. In fact, a recent late-summer rush-hour count actually found more bicycles heading west

to the country. These including literacy challenges making it hard to learn English or French, which is part of the requirement for citizenship. Without the franchise, the needs of non-citizen residents get ignored. The fact that these individuals often come from minority communities compounds

along College than motor vehicles. Still, for many of us such options can prove unsuitable due to distance, weather and load-capability limitations. Improved TTC service beyond the decades- away promise of an addi tional three subway stops in Scarborough could address such needs. But the main issue remains the impact the struggling (dying) Canadian auto industry continues to have on our urban transportation model. For more than half a century, the auto industry’s marketing push for even larger, more expensive motor vehicles has driven our version of the North American mobility system. Disincentives to driving, such as legislating urban-access road tolls and parking fees based on vehicle size, are one solution. But we could also easily introduce a secondary product line of urban vehicles that would be licensed for city (no highway driving) only. Thankfully, we in 21st-century Toronto are still free to think outside the rolling metal box, aren’t we?

liberating our municipal elections Weeks ago, I hopped into a small car with two friends and drove 14 hours to Minneapolis. We weren’t travelling for business, a wedding or a sports game. We visited the Twin City to see an election. More specifically, we wanted to witness a municipal election that uses ranked ballots and runoff voting. What we saw surpassed all our expectations. In Minneapolis, no one was distracted by discussions about “vote-splitting” or “strategic voting.” The campaigns were friendly and informative. And on election day the citizens chose a female mayor, a 46-per-cent-female council and their first Somali, Latino and Hmong councillors. It was inspiring to see, a breath of fresh air. Meanwhile here in Toronto, we’re entering yet another municipal election year that’s guaranteed to feed public cynicism and apathy toward our political system. Many candidates, for both mayor and council, will be politely asked to drop out of the race to avoid “splitting the vote.” Many of these so-called “spoilers” are youth, women and people of colour. Voters will be told to vote strategically, making decisions based on their calculator rather than their heart. Negative campaigns will be rife with personal attacks. And at the end of the process, half of our new council will likely be made up of politicians who “won” their seats with less than 50 per cent of the vote (i.e., most voters didn’t want them in office). We need to liberate our elections. Anyone should be free to run as a candidate without being accused of being a spoiler. And every voter should be free to cast a ballot without having to calculate the benefits of a strategic vote. And, of course, a candidate should not be able to “win” a seat without the backing of a majority. The prescription is simple: ranked ballots. I’ve seen it in action. Each winner requires 50 per cent to win. There is no strategic voting or votesplitting. And candidates tend to act more posi-

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appears to be trying to maximize suffering. I recently got hold of some internal correspondence showing that the oil industry is balking at paying more than 25 cents per barrel to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the tar sands. That token sum would only have reduced projected emissions growth by about 5 per cent, but even that was too much, and the whole thing has been put on hold. Meanwhile, our elected representatives – at the oil industry’s request – have gutted our environmental laws. All so they can fast-track new tar sands mines and pipelines. The feds have closed labs and libraries so there won’t be any inconvenient scientific findings.

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another problem: our system is thus less representative of the people that make up our city. Toronto’s municipal politics hasn’t always been the subject of late night comedy monologues and international news coverage. It’s the level of government that most effects our every-

day lives. A more inclusive city lends greater legitimacy to our government, something we seem to be in need of at the moment. news@nowtoronto.com Cara Faith Zwibel is director of the Fundamental Freedoms Program of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association.

tive and friendly toward each other. Our city council has already asked permission from the Ontario Government to use ranked ballots in future elections. The decision now lies with Kathleen Wynne, Andrea Horwath and Tim Hudak. Which one of them will stand up for democracy? Toronto’s voters deserve more. Let’s make sure that 2014 is the last negative, alienating and demoralizing election we have. Learn more at 123Toronto.ca. news@nowtoronto Dave Meslin is a Toronto-based community choreographer and creative activist whose interests include democratic renewal (pigeonhat.ca).

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Who says you can’t get something for nothing? Over the next month you can attend over 300 talks, performances, music shows, workshops and activist events without paying a cent. We list them all for you here. Plus, no-cover comedy and music shows in the clubs – don’t jus sit there, order a drink – and ongoing TV show tapings, museum freebies and more. Compiled by JULIA HOECKE and LESLEY McALLISTER

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BONE HEALTH Seminar on nutrition strategies. 7 pm. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Can We Afford FORD More Years? Talk on the class-composition of Ford Nation. 7 pm. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. b eitzatoun.org. End Of Night Live reading of Jason Freure’s dark and poetic new play. 8 pm. Hart House Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle. facebook.com/events/252313844942527 Nonviolence As Political Action Lecture by Jill Carr-Harris, development worker in India on women’s self-empowerment. 7 pm. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. patents And Progress: What To Do About Corrupt Medical Research Practices Lecture by professor James R Brown. 7 pm. University College, rm 179, 15

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King’s College Circle. facebook.com/events/ 383637285105695. Poetics Fictions Panel discussion with four filmmakers whose work is rooted in drama. 7 pm. Liaison of Independent Filmmakers, 1137 Dupont. lift.on.ca. Public Journal The art, culture and ideas mag launches its new issue. 6-8 pm. Northwood Café, 815 Bloor W. publicjournal.ca. RELIGIOUS ACCOMMODATION AND ITS LIMITS Professor Richard Moon talks about the recent controversy at York University. 7 pm. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca. Silent Partners Water Series Conservation Council of Ontario presentations on urban landscapes and flooding, and Asian carp and the Great Lakes. 6 pm. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register 416-533-1635. Tour De France Trio Arkel with Les Allt & Erica Goodman. Noon to 1 pm. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. What We Have Learned From New Orleans Post-Katrina Talk by urban historian M Christine Boyer. 7:30 pm. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357. continued on page 36 œ

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Free screenings are big in the summer – NOW’s Norman Wilner hosts the Harbourfront Free Flicks series in July and August – but not so much during the cold season. If you’re looking for no-cost entertainment on a daily or weekly basis, your best bet is probably checking out DVDs from the library. Actually, the various branches of the Toronto Public Library (torontopubliclibrary.ca) do offer some no-cost screenings. February 11 at Jane and Dundas, Green 13 presents Rob Stewart’s documentary Revolution at 6:15 pm, followed by a discussion. February 15 at 2:30 pm, Cedarbrae marks Black History Month with a 2:30 pm showing of Lee Daniels’ The Butler. March 20 at Fairview, The Boxing Girls Of Kabul screens at 6 pm. A number of branches have March Break movies scheduled for 2 pm on March 14 (titles to be announced, but sure to be family-friendly). You can also search “film club” at torontopubliclibrary. ca to see if your local branch has one. Harbourfront’s Kuumba festival has a substantial film component built around the theme of black identity. Sudz Sutherland’s Home Again and Hubert Davis’s Invisible City screen February 7 at 8 pm and 10:30 pm respectively,

Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman’s Soundtrack For A Revolution plays February 8 at 2 pm, and two programs of short films screen February 9 at 1 pm and 2:30 pm. If you’re after a more esoteric experience, TIFF Cinematheque’s monthly Free Screen offers programming audiences won’t see anywhere else. On February 18, 6:30 pm, the series leaps into the avant-garde with Tempo Não Para (Time Doesn’t Stop), a selection of film and video works that address the concept of chronology. And Canadian filmmaker David Rimmer is celebrated with a twonight retrospective March 22 and 23 at 7 pm, with Rimmer present for post-screening discussions. And once again, TIFF throws the Lightbox doors open in March for Bell Free Weekend: on March 15 and 16, all regular programming in the building is free of charge, along with special workshops and family-oriented screenings, courtesy of the aforementioned telecommunications corporation. Check tiff.net for further details next month. And of course there’s always the lure of advance screenings of brand-new studio releases. NOW frequently partners with distributors to offer promotional passes, so keep an eye out for those in these pages.

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Robyn Davidson is a free spirit in the truest sense. The Australian travel writer never imagined she’d become a bestselling author. She really just wanted to go on journeys that pushed her limits. She’d always been a radical, becoming a member of the Push, a left-wing intellectual subculture in Sydney, after leaving high school and later living with radical biologists. But her dream was to cross the desert from Alice Springs to the west coast on her own, by camel. Alone? Across the desert? With a bunch of animals? Everyone

from her family to camel farmers discouraged the preposterous plan, but she eventually made the trek, with her dog and four camels in tow. Photographer Rick Smolan met her three times along the way to shoot photos for National Geographic, and Davidson

reluctantly agreed to write an article to accompany them. The piece eventually became the book Tracks, which she wrote while staying in London with Doris Lessing – a free thinker herself. Tracks won the inaugural Thomas Cook Travel Book Award in 1980. In John Curran’s film

Tracks, a cinematographic marvel, Mia Wasikowska is riveting as the intrepid hiker. Groove on the gorgeous images as this unique character treks across the shimmering desert. Screens Tuesday (February 4) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Free, 9:15 pm. bloorcinema.com.

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Friday, January 31 AFTERFUNK and DJ OH16 Album release. 9 pm. 3030 Dundas W. 3030dundaswest.com. COMEDY @ CAM’S Stand-up showcase with host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Cam’s Place, 2655 Yonge. 416-4883976. Immunization And The Flu Shot Health talk. 1-2:30 pm. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. 416-603-6475. GARY SHTEYNGART Talking about his new memoir, Little Failure, with the Globe And Mail’s Ian Brown. 6:30 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. The Turkish Summer: Insights And Lessons From The Gezi Park Resistance Panel discussion with political science professor Anna Agathangelou, environmental studies prof Murat Ucoglu and others. 7 pm. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. The Year Of The Horse Celebrate Chinese New Year with 500-year-old technology. 5-7 pm. Parker Gallery, 244 Queen E. 647248-1596.

Saturday, February 1 B Alice Maurice On Within

Our Gates The English professor discusses the controversy surrounding the pioneering African-American silent film Within Our Gates. 2 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 50 King W. tiff.net. Architecture As A Vessel Of Memories Talk and slide presentation on post-disaster architecture with Katsuhiiro Miyamoto. 2 pm. Japan Foundation, 131 Bloor W. jftor.org.

B Jon Blak Wedge Curatorial Projects photo exhibition. Feb 1-28, reception 7 pm, launch party 10 pm Feb 1, panel 2-5 pm Feb 2. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. B David Burnett Exhibition of

photos of Bob Marley runs to Feb 23. Analogue Gallery, 673 Queen W. 416901-8001.

B building black/blk ken and barbie: the dis-identification performance/black future month 3014 Opening reception for a trio of exhibitions featuring work by Rose-Ann Marie Bailey (Blk Ken And Barbie), Ekow Nimako (Building Black) and others. 6-11 pm (show runs to Feb 28). Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E.

regentparkarts.ca, 416-392-1038. rCHINATOWN’S 2014 CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION Miniature clay dim sum demo, paper lantern-making and more. Today and tomorrow noon-5 pm. Chinatown Centre (222 Spadina) and Dragon City Mall (280 Spadina). chinatownbia/com. rChinese Zodiac Face Painting Kids celebrate Chinese New Year and get their faces decoreated with zodiac symbols. 1-2 pm. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Coldest Day Of The Year Ride Celebrate winter cycling with a group ride from Queen’s Park to Dufferin Grove for skating and a campfire. Noon. Queen’s Park at Hoskin. cycleto.ca/bike-winter. DJ Skate Nights Cherry Bomb On Ice outdoor skating party. 8 pm. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. B Drumming With Amma Ofori Family drumming. 2 pm. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. EXPLORING FORGIVENESS Symposium presented in collaboration with the Modern Times Stage Co production. Panel discussions Forgiveness On Stage (6 pm) and Forgiveness In Religion (7 pm). Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. n oorculturalcentre.ca. Gianna Patriarca/Judie Oron/ Mary Milne Readings. 1:30-4:30 pm. Portobello, 995 Bay. 416-926-1800.

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ciety Exhibition Feb 1-Apr 19. Market Gallery, 95 Front E. 416-3927604. PHOENIX POETRY WORKSHOP Read your poem for feedback and provide feedback to others. 2:30 pm. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca. The Really Really Free Market Community space for sharing clothes, music, furniture, toys, artisan goods, services and more. 10 am-4 pm. Campbell Park, S of Dupont, W of Lansdowne. rrfmarket.blogspot.ca. B Storytelling With Rita Cox Celebrate Black History Month with family storytelling. 10:30 am. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. rYear Of The Horse Chinese New Year celebration with a lion dance, kung fu demos, music and dance. 2 pm. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Sunday, February 2 An Enchanted Evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm. Donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. B Eucalyptus The group performs calypso music. 7 pm. Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine, 2050 Danforth. 416-467-4915. How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives Lecture by researcher Ted Sargent. 10:10 am. St Clement’s Church, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. B njacko backo & kalimba kalimba Musical performance. 2 pm. Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 79 Hiawatha. nuuc.ca. Poetry Recitation Contest Poets and poetry lovers recite classic, pre-1975 poems from memory for a prize. 3 pm. Turorina, 109 Niagara. therotarydial.ca/poetry-karaoke. The Sky Above Illustrated lecture by astronomy professor Paul Delaney. 2:30 pm. Northrop Frye Bldg, rm 003, 73 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org. Ayelet Tsabari Meet the author of The Best Place On Earth. 7:30 pm. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. Pre-register saynifc@eventbrite.ca. Using Algorithmic Thinking To Help Solve Problems Demonstration on using algorithmic thinking to help scientists understand a feature recently discovered on a moon of Jupiter. 3 pm. Medical Sciences Bldg, JJR Macleod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Circle. royalcanadianinstitute.org.

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Monday, February 3 Adam Abbas Reading and open mic. 7:30 pm. Amsterdam Bicycle Club, 54 the Esplanade. l izzieviolet. wordpress.com. B Black History Month Talent Showcase Open-mic. 6:30 pm. C Cafe, 300 City Centre (Mississauga). mississaugaartscouncil.com. chanting Join in chanting for peace, happiness and spiritual growth. Mondays 7 pm. Tao Sangha Toronto Healing Centre, 375 Jane. 416-925-7575. Edmund Ironside Ale House Theatre Company presents a reading of a forgotten play by William Shakespeare. 7 pm. Woodlot, 293 Palmerston. alehousetheatre.com. EXILE AND BELONGING: STORIES OF IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Mystic Drumz Workshop Hands-on drumming workshop for teens. 7 pm. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710. PENELOPE – FAITHFUL WIFE OF ODYSSEUS Lecture by prof Adriana Brook. 2 pm. Deer Park Library, 40 St Clair E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Poles Apart? The “Great Black North” In Canada & Sweden Poet George Elliott Clarke talks about the North being so associ-

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It’s hard not to picture yourself lounging on a beach blanket or lying in the grass when you think of free concerts. Summer is the perfect time for that, sure. But even in the dead of frigid winter, there are free musical options aplenty. If you really want to embrace the cold (and all the snow and ice that come with it this year), DJ Skate Nights every Friday night are giving the Harbourfront rink a solid edge over the classic downtown elegance of Nathan Phillips Square. Why? Legit DJs (like DJ Dalia and DJ Numeric) spin hip-hop and dance tunes that keep you warmer than hot cocoa or, ahem, specialty coffees. If you’re the indoor winter type (we can’t blame you – it’s February already), no-cover monthly showcases like Dave Bookman’s Horseshoe staple, Bookie’s New Music Night (the first Tuesday of every month), become even more appealing in the darker months. Luring acts from across the country and inter-

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nationally, it’s no amateur hour. The Tuesday (February 4) edition alone brings California glam-metallers Dirty Penny and Toronto indierock four-piece the Bright Skies. One-off performances also pepper the season: local all-female punk trio the Beverleys play a Sonic Boom in-store on February 8, while Michael Occhipinti & Shine On pay tribute to a beloved Beatle in The Universe Of John Lennon on February 19 at the Four Seasons Centre. And, aside from four paid gigs, Winterfolk Blues & Roots Festival brings (almost) 150 free shows to five stages on the Danforth from February 14 to 16. Of course, in February we celebrate our rich, complicated, beautiful black history with city- wide events. Check out Njacko Backo & Kalimba Kalimba at the Neighbourhood Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Sunday (February 2) or calypso-loving Eucalyptus at Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine the same day (and on all of the other Sundays in February).

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ated with light-skinned peoples that people of colour are perceived as aberrant or disruptive. 1 pm. York U Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/laps/lundy. The St Royals Soul, Motown and R&B show. Doors 10 pm. ) Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. Shoeless Monday The Ketamine Girls and Wolves in Timbre perform. Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen W. horseshoetavern.com. B Wordz In Motion Join poet Motion to explore words and sounds. 1:30 pm. Gerrard/ Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Tuesday, February 4 Bookie’s New Music Night Art & Woodhouse, the Bright Skies, the Red Sands and Dirty Penny play. Horseshoe Tavern, 370 Queen W. horseshoetavern.com. Classy Drunk Stand-up comedy show. 8 pm. Emmet Ray Bar, 924 College. 416-7924497. Developing Skillsets For The 21st Century Panel discussion with Wikimedia director Sue Gardner, internet strategist Jesse Hirsh and others. 6:30 pm. Rogers Communications Centre, 80 Gould. Pre-register bit. ly/1j5yPip. The Great Upheaval: Modern Masterpieces From The Guggenheim Collection Talk by AGO interpretive planner for the exhibition David Wistow. 7 pm. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Preregister 416-395-5639. Health In Africa Through Canadian Eyes Presentation by young Canadians who have returned from internships with the African Medical and Research Fdn. 6 pm. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. eventbrite.ca. B Jeanette Kong – Meet The Maker Screening of Kong’s film The Chiney Shop and discussion with the filmmaker. 7 pm. Swansea Library, 95 Lavinia. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Look Before You Leap: An Introduction To Consumer & Debtor Rights Talk by lawyer Victor Kasowski. 6 pm. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. torontopulbiclibrary.ca/moneymatters. B Mas By Other Means Conversation between Carnival and contemporary art, with visual artist Marion Griffith and scholar Christopher Innes. 3:30 pm. York U, Kaneff Tower rm 519, 4700 Keele. yorku.ca/agyu. Occupy Economics Workshop on the economics of the neoliberal state. 6:30 pm. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. occupyeconomics.ca. Sigalit Landau’s “The Work Of A Bridge Maker” The Israeli artist speaks about her work and the political and environmental issues of her native country. 7 pm. Ryerson School of Image Arts, 122 Bond. facebook.com/converge.ryerson. B Steel Pan Experience Explore the history and evolution of steel pan with musician Joy Lapps-Lewis. 10:30 am. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. t orontopubliclibrary.ca. Tax Tips For 2013 & 2014 Seminar with 78 Tax Tips For Canadians For Dummies co-aucontinued on page 38 œ

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Wednesday, February 5 B Mahlikah Aweri/Kanwal Rahim/Banoo Zan Women Of Colour Poetry Salon. 6:30 pm. Urban Gallery, 400 Queen E. facebook. com/events/679462418770945. Beat The Winter Blahs: How To Be Happier Talk on positive psychology. 7 pm. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5660. Bees, Pollinators And Insect Wonders Lecture. 6:30 pm. Onsite [at] OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. terreform.org. B Drumming For Black History Month Drumming demo with Thomas Muhtadi. 4:30 pm. Eatonville Library, 430 Burnhamthorpe. 416394-5270. BrDub Me With Poetry – Michael St George Children eight to 10 are introduced to dub poetry. 1 pm. Barbara Frum Library, 40 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Labour Policy Talk on jobs as a policy focus by Gordon Bateman. 12:15 pm. Munk School, rm 108N, 1 Devonshire. events.utoronto.ca. Reconciling Historical Injustices And The Role Of Public Apology And Forgiveness Panel discussion on the Komagata Maru, Africville and more. 6:30 pm. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. B Kenny Robinson The comedian performs. 7 pm. Main Library, 137 Main. 416-393-7700. B Reconciling Historical Injustices And The Role Of Public Apology And Forgiveness Panel discussion on Africville and more. 6:30 pm. Hart House East Common Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. Siren’s Comedy Open-mic standup with Andrew Barr and host Marc Hallworth. 8:30 pm. Celt’s Pub, 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. B Storytelling With Rita Cox Listen to African and Caribbean stories. 1 pm. Sanderson Library, 327 Bathurst. torontopubliclibrary.ca. There Are No House Plants Etobicoke Horti-

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B blk ken and barbie: the disidentification performance Talk and discussion with artist RoseAnn Marie Bailey. 2-5 pm. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. regentparkarts.ca. rFrozen Waters Nature and heritage hike exploring the ecology and history of the Don River. 10 amnoon. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca. rVAUGHAN WINTERFEST Outdoor entertainment, horse-drawn wagon rides, floor curling, face painting and more. 10 am-3:30 pm. Vellore Village Community Centre, 1 Villa Royale. vaughan.ca.

cultural Soc talk and flower competition/show. 8 pm. Lambton Kingsway Jr Middle School, 525 Prince Edward. gardenontario.org.

Thursday, February 6 BEGINNING THE JOURNEY: THE CHARMS AND CHALLENGES OF HISTORICAL FICTION Author Marina Endicott discusses what’s required to imagine a past world. 7 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Help Decide The Future Of The Gardiner Expressway East Public meeting on the results of the evaluation and alternative solutions for the future. 6:30 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. LIVING A HEART-HEALTHY LIFESTYLE Seminar on natural therapies with Rahim Kanji. 7 pm. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Peggy Mason – Building Peace In The 21st Century: Reflections Over 30 Years Science for Peace lecture by Canada’s former ambassador for disarmament Peggy Mason. 7 pm. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. Money 101: Personal Financial Management For Teens Teens learn how to manage their income, savings, expenses and budget. 6 pm. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. Pre-register 416-394-5247. A Soldier’s Tale Preview of a dance work by Michael Greyeyes. Noon. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. Women In Niqab Speak: A Study Of The Niqab In Canada Presentation by Canadian Council of Muslim Women director Alia Hogben. Noon-1:30 pm. (bring lunch). OISE, rm 2-227, 252 Bloor W. cwse@ utoronto.ca.

Friday, February 7 Stephen Collis/Margaret Christakos/Michael Boughn/ Paul Dutton Poetry readings and performance. 8 pm. Hart House Debates Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. The Endless Need To Begin – Re: Turning To The Canadian Long Oem Colloquium with talks by Stephen Collis, Margaret Christakos, Michael Boughn and others. 1:30-4 pm. Jackman Humanities Bldg, rm 100, 170 St George. facebook.com/ events/602260896513498.

Saturday, February 8 Babble (Babel) Performance art event with Margaret Dragu, Christine Brault, Pam Patterson and Leena Raudvee. To Feb 10. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. wiaprojects.com. B Beatboxing Exercises and vocal games. 10 am. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. 416-3968943, torontopubliclibrary.ca. The Beverleys In-store performance. 2 pm. Sonic Boom Kensington, 201 Augusta. sonicboommusic.com. DJ Skate Nights Soca On Ice outdoor skating party. 8 pm. HarbourAFTER DEGRASSI Live taping of the show on Tuesdays. No tickets, just line up on the day of the show. MUCH, 299 Queen W. mtv.ca/degrassi/after_degrassi.jhtml. art gallery of ontario Visit the temporary and permanent galleries for free every Wed from 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago.net. cbc connects Weekly live show that lets you connect with your favourite CBC personalities. Noon-1 pm.

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Forget the rumour that the performing arts are elitist and expensive. There’s plenty of free stuff around, from open mics and improv sets to unstaged readings of plays-in-progress. One of the best deals in town is the free noontime concert series in the Four Seasons Centre’s Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre. This winter, check out concerts by soprano Tracy Dahl, bass-baritone Thomas Allen (both currently in the Canadian Opera Company’s Così Fan Tutte) and dance events with choreographer Michael Greyeyes, Ballet Jörgen and Ballet Brass, among other great artists and troupes. Pack a lunch for the hour-long performances – but eat quietly and get there early. Spots are on a first-come, first-served basis. coc.ca. If stand-up comedy’s your thing, free up your Monday and Tuesday evenings. Cheap Laughs Monday, the Comedy Cabaret, Imperial Comedy Show and Office Pub Comedy happen on Monday, while The Firestarter, The Skin Of My Nuts and Tuesday Headliner Series Comedy take place on Tuesday. Other free shows happen at the Lower Ossington Theatre and Betty’s, home to Brian Coughlin’s star-studded Corktown Comedy. front Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Look Before You Leap Presentation on the most common and basic legal rights of consumers and debtors. 2 pm. Brentwood Library, 36 Brentwood N. 416-394-5247. B Njacko Backo The performer shares music and stories from Cameroon. 1:30 pm. Davenport Library, 1246 Shaw. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

B Kenny Robinson The comic performs a show suitable for ages 13 and up. 2 pm. Maria A Schuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000. Barbara Frum Atrium, CBC Broacast Centre, 250 Front W. cbc.ca. CITYLINE Program with information on gardening, cooking, entertaining, health and more with host Tracy Moore tapes Mon to Fri. Free, reservations required. 33 Dundas E. cityline.ca/be-in-the-audience. Community Quilt Group Explore historic and contemporary quilting techniques and meet new friends while you improve your sewing skills. 6-8 pm. Gibson House, 5172

Check out NOW’s weekly listings for comic lineups and venues. Some of the funniest nights in the city happen after Second City mainstage shows, when the cast improvises, joined by some impressive alumni and guests (in the past couple of years I’ve seen 30 Rock’s Jack McBrayer and This Hour’s Shaun Majumder), to generate ideas for their next shows. Call 416-343-0011 for times. Most of the mid-sized theatres have free reading weeks of works-in-progress. And remember to bookmark Harbourfront’s website (harbourfrontcentre.com) for its free events in every genre. If you’ve always wanted to see more modern dance, Toronto Dance Theatre makes it easy for you with its The Process Revealed nights, usually on the Monday before a show premieres. They include excerpts and a talk by the creators/artists. The event for their winter show Henderson/ Castle: voyager happens February 10. tdt.org. Finally, we don’t have Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert, but we do have George Stroumboulopoulos and Rick Mercer. Tickets to their shows are free but must be reserved way ahead of time at cbc.ca. (Apparently Mercer Report tickets are sold out through 2015.)

Seeding Of Eden Permaculture GTA forum on cultivating the Toronto Seed Library and growing a movement for seed freedom, with workshops and a potluck. 2-10 pm. 160 Bartley. torontoseedlibrary@gmail. com. B Stories With J Nichole Noel Enjoy interactive stories with the author and storyteller. 2 pm. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. 416395-5980, torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Toronto Urban Book Expo – Tube Celebrate the urban fiction scene with authors, talks, books and

Yonge. 416-395-7432. Gardiner museum of ceramic art Third Fridays of the month from 4 to 9 pm you can explore this museum devoted to ceramic art. 111 Queens Pk. 416-586-8080, gardinermuseum.on.ca. GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS TONIGHT Join the live audience. Tapings Mon to Thu from 3 to 6 pm. Free, reservations required. CBC Building, 25 John. Pre-register at cbc.ca/strombo/tickets.

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EXILE AND BELONGING: STORIES OF IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. 416-3937746. Ian Hamilton Launching his new mystery novel, The Two Sisters Of Borneo. 7 pm. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. THE PROCESS REVEALED: HENDERSON/CASTLE Toronto Dance Theatre presents a sneak peek at the new show and talk with TDT Artistic Director Christopher House, choreographer Ame Henderson and musician Jennifer Castle. Feb 10 at 7 pm. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tdt.org. WHEN WEARABLE TECH MEETS ARTS Talk by Sonic Wear founder Loretta Faveri and a performance by dancer Denise Mireau. 7 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Tuesday, February 11 the art of song Concert by Paul Appleby, Anne Larlee. Noon to 1 pm. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. B Calypso Party! Jump up with Roger Gibbs and Shak-Shak. 6:30 pm. Annette Library, 145 Annette. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Kenny Robinson: A Hysterical Look At Black History Comedy based on Canadian black history with a twist. 2 pm. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Michael St George – Dub/ Drums Poetry, music-drumming and inspiration. 2 pm. Woodside Square Library, 1571 Sandhurst Circle. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Wednesday, February 12 art gallery of ontario Visit the temporary and permanent galleries for free every Wed from 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago.net. B Beatboxing 101 Rhythm workshop with Eddy Daoriginalone. 10:30 am. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Caribbean Folk Songs & Calypso Music and stories tracing the roots of calypso. 1:30 pm. Humberwood Library, 850 Humberwood. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

After Snowden: What Now For An Open And Free Internet? Lecture by Ron Deibert. 10:10 am. St Clement’s Church, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. THE ANNEX FLEA Alternative Valentine’s shopping experience. 10 am-4 pm. Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst. annexflea.com. Barry Brown Reading from his book Humanity: The World Before

COMMUNITY (LOVE) CREATES CHANGE Group art show with poetry reading by Nicholas Power (Thu 7 pm), peformance by artist Leena Raudvee (Fri 4 pm), artist talk by Patrick Moore (Sat 11 am), and artist talk & tour by

GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE Continuous screenings of past programs Mon to Fri, 9 am to 5 pm. CBC, 250 Front W. 416-205-5574, cbc.ca/museum. MARILYN DENIS SHOW Live taping of the daytime talk show Mon to Fri at 10 pm. Audience must arrive by 9 am. Free, tickets required. CTV, 299 Queen W. marilyn.ca/tickets. museum and arts pass The Toronto Public Library branches offer a pass for a family (2 adults and up to 5

children) for many museums and cultural venues. Quantities are limited. Rules and conditions apply. torontopubliclibrary.ca/museumarts-passes. power plant See exhibitions every day with no admission. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734949. saturday writers Writing workshop. 9:30 am-11 am. High Park Library, 228 Roncesvalles. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Winter is back with a vengeance, but that doesn’t mean you can’t stop to smell the flowers. Keeping Torontonians sane through the winter for a century, the smells and colours of exotic plants and flowers at Allan Gardens Conservatory (Gerrard and Sherbourne) are natural wonders only heightened by cold and snow. If you crave a speedy nature fix, there are tons of monster hills to toboggan, but probably none beats the blast and skyline backdrop of Riverdale Park (Broadview south of Danforth). Skating, that other quintessential outdoor winter activity, doesn’t have to be done at Greenwood Park skating rink (Gerrard and Alton) or Harbourfront (love the music), though those are great venues. Colonel Samuel Smith Park in Etobicoke has a skating trail. The mind-clearing sliding and swooshing doesn’t have to stop there. Our golf courses, usually off limits to anyone but club-wielders in funky shorts most of the year, are great for cross-country skiing. There are five in the city that are both scenic and not overly challenging for the novice skier. If you like watching birdies, there’s no better place than the Leslie Spit, aka Tommy ThompRebecca Singh (Sat 4 pm). To Feb 15. MacKendrick Community Gallery, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. atthebarns.org. High Altitude “Big Bang”: Formation Period Archaeology Of The Lake Titicaca Basin, Bolivia Lecture. 5:10 pm. Sanford Fleming Bldg, SF1105, 10 King’s College Rd. a iatoronto.ca. B MLK Was Here: Readings And Reflections On Dr Martin Luther King Jr’s 1967 Lost Massey Lectures Speakers talk on drawing new meaning from King’s work and pushing the agenda for peace and justice. 6:30 pm. Hart House Great Hall, 7 Hart House Circle. events.utoronto.ca. THE SOCIAL Join the audience and hear about fashion, food and tips for everyday living. Live taping Mon to Fri at 1 pm. Audience must be in attendance at noon. Free, reservations required. CTV, 299 Queen W. ctv.ca/thesocial/tickets.aspx. STEVEN AND CHRIS Be a member of the live audience for this lifestyle program. Live tapings Mon, Tue & Thur at 10:15 am, Wed at 9 & 12:15 pm. Free. CBC Building, 25 John. cbc.ca/stevenandchris/tickets.

son Park (foot of Leslie), our accidental paradise and one of the most important bird sanctuaries in North America. If simply enjoying the wild is your thing, the ravines are an easy choice. The Don Valley even has an outdoor exhibit under its bridges courtesy of up-and-coming artists. More formal art lovers are in luck, too. We’re home to one of the best collections of public artworks anywhere, and they’re not just anchoring condo developments, although those can be interesting, too. Out of breath yet? We haven’t even talked trees. For huggers, there are some notable swaths: High Park’s oak savannah; the Don’s Crothers Woods and Mount Pleasant Cemetery, one of our most intact forests. For urban explorers who like to plot a direction, there are Discovery Walks, self-guided tours that to lead you on educational journeys through outdoor habitats from the Old Mill marshes in the west end to the western Beach (www.toronto.ca). Looking for something farther off the beaten trail? The industrial strength of the port lands and Cherry Beach is chill, too, even if the water is off limits.

MURDER AND MAYHEM Readings by crime writers Howard Shrier, Nate Hendley, Dorothy McIntosh, Jen J Danna and Sharon A Crawford. 6:30 pm. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Music And Stories Of The Caribbean Roger Gibbs performs traditional songs, retro and contemporary calypsos. 10:30 am. Alderwood Library, 2 Orianna. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Occupy Love Conscious Activism Documentary Series presents the screening of the Velcrow Ripper film on alternative systems of economics. 6:30 pm. Hart House Debates Rm, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. TORONTO CELEBRATES CANADA READS Meet some of this year’s nominated authors and champions. 7 pm. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. WALK TORONTO Talk by the city’s chief planner, Jennifer Keesmaat, on the subject of walking to school. 7-9 pm. University of Toronto Schools Auditorium, 371 Bloor W. Pre-register walktoronto.ca.

Thursday, February 13 Constitution And Strategy: Understanding Canadian Power In The World Science for Peace lecture by professor Irvin Studin. 7 pm. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. Devastation Of Our Urban Canopy – Toronto’s Trees Threatened Forum on the effects of extreme weather on trees and how the city can protect this natural resource. 7:30 pm. Lawrence Park Community Church, 2180 Bayview. forourgrandchildren.ca. HOLY HORMONES: HOW THE THYROID AFFECTS YOUR SEX DRIVE AND FERTILITY Seminar. 7 pm. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. HOW TO BAN A BOOK IN 10 EASY STEPS Freedom To Read Week talk by librarian Kara Miley. 2 pm. Downsview Library, 2793 Keele. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Ian Keteku Slam poetry performance. 1:30 pm. Amesbury Park Library, 1565 Lawrence W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. continued on page 40 œ

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B Family Motel Film screening. 6 pm. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. 416-395-5750. 5NO MORE RAINBOWS: SEXUAL DIVERSITY AND THE SOCHI 2014 OLYMPICS Talk by Helen Jefferson Lenskyj. 1 pm. City Hall Library, Queen & Bay. torontopubliclibrary.ca. NEUTRINO HUNTERS: THE THRILLING CHASE FOR A GHOSTLY PARTICLE Talk by author/profes sor Jay Jayawardhana. 6:30 pm. Ref erence Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. songs of the sea Concert by Sir Thomas Allen and Rachel Andrist. Noon. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca.

Friday, February 14 Strawberry Ceremony Rally followed by a community feast in honour of missing and murdered in digenous women and those who have died violent deaths by colonial ism. 12:30 pm. Rally at Police Head quarters (40 College), feast at 519 Church Community Centre. womenscentre.sa.utoronto.ca. BrUnderground To Upper Canada Discussion for kids nine to 13 on slavery in North America and the Underground Railroad. 10 am. Eatonville Library, 430 Burnham thorpe. torontopubliclibrary.ca. WINTERFOLK XII Blues and roots festival, with performances by Lynn Miles, Ron Hynes, Jack De Keyzer and others. Various prices and venues on the Danfoth. To Feb 16. winterfolk.com.

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Panel discussion with artists in the Afrocentric group exhibition including Ola Ojo, Jordan Clarke and Hillina Sei fe. 2-5 pm. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dun das E. regentparkarts.ca. B The Butler Screening of the film starring Forest Whitaker and Oprah Winfrey. 2:30 pm. Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham. torontopubliclibrary.ca. ethical investment event Green 13 info session on renewable energy private cooperative bonds with a representative from Bulldog Power and more. 10 am-2 pm. An nette Library, 145 Annette. torontopubliclibrary.ca. DJ Skate Nights Yes Yes Valen tines outdoor skating party. 8 pm. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. Wavelength Music Festival: Fourteen Carl Didur and Weird Canada performance. 4 pm, all ages. June Records, 662 College. wavelengthtoronto.com.

Sunday, February 16 An Enchanted Evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetar ian meal. 6-8 pm. Donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. The Genetic Game Of Thrones Learn how honey bees and others social insects evolved and adapted. 3

pm. Medical Sciences Bldg, JJR Mac leod Auditorium, 1 King’s College Cir cle. r oyalcanadianinstitute.org. rHarbourKIDS Skating Festival On-ice performances, concerts, theatre, outdoor skating, interactive activities and more. To Feb 17. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Playing With Passion Tafel musik violinist Juia Wedman gives a talk and performance about JS Bach. 10:10 am. St Clement’s Church, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. Wavelength Music Festival: Fourteen – The Toronto Music Moment Evelyn Mukwe deya & Memory Makuri perform. 3 pm, all ages. Sonic Boom, 782 Bath urst. wavelengthtoronto.com. rWild Tracks Nature and herit age hike exploring the ecology and history of the Don River. 10 am-noon. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw.evergreen.ca.

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Family Day by competing in family teams to create works of art. 10 am5:30 pm. Artisans at Work, 2071 Dan forth. Pre-register eastendarts.ca. rFamily Day On Toronto’s Waterfront Sports demos, Inuit art, arts and crafts, skating and more. 10 am-6 pm. Queens Quay W. waterfrontbia.com. rGreat Canadian Chill (Sears Canada Charitable Fdn/Cancer Clinic at SickKids benefit) Urban polar bear dip in a custom-built icy pool, live entertainment, DJs, kids’ activities, food and more. 10 am. Dip registra tion extra $25. Yonge-Dundas Square. thechill.ca.

Tuesday, February 18 the free screen: tempo nao para (time doesn’t stop) Screening of the Robert Frank film. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. B Monestime A photo exhibit cele brating the 50th anniversary of the election of Canada’s first black mayor, Saint Firmin Monestime, opens today with guest speakers and continues to Feb 23. 7-9 pm. City Hall, 100 Queen W. facebook.com/fkzotoronto. QUEEN ELIZABETH II IN CANADA Carolyn Harris talks about the attitudes of Canadians toward the Queen. 6:30 pm. Kennedy/Eglinton Library, 2380 Eglinton E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Planning Your Retirement Seminar on retirement saving strat egies and sources of retirement in come. 6:30 pm. Lillian H Smith Li brary, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. BrStay Driven Kids eight and up join Duane Gibson and learn how hip-hop can inspire them. 1:30 pm. Malvern Library, 30 Sewells. torontopubliclibrary.ca. VACCINES REVEALED: HOW ARE THEY MADE AND HOW DO THEY WORK? Talk. 6:45 pm. Eatonville Li brary, 430 Burnhamthorpe. 416-3945270. B Working For Freedom: The Story Of Josiah Henson Talk by author Rona Arato. 7:30 pm. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Thursday, February 20 B Bob Marley – The Making Of A Legend Film screening and dis cussion. 6:30 pm. York Woods Li brary, 1785 Finch W. torontopublic library.ca. B Breaking Barriers – Artistic Entrepreneurship Talk by digital artist Lamin Martin. 6:30 pm. Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B The Great Black North Anthology A night of poetry readings. 6:30 pm. Downsview Library, 2793 Keele. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Dwayne Morgan Spoken word celebration. 6 pm. Kennedy/Eglinton Library, 2380 Eglinton E. torontopub liclibrary.ca. Telling Stories That Drive People To Action Lunch and learn. Noon-1 pm. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. heather@ socialinnovation.ca.

Friday, February 21 Culture Talks Claudia Schmid talks about her filmic artist portraits. 5:30 pm. Goethe-Institut, 100 Univer sity. goethe.de/toronto. Defend The Postal Service! Defeat The Attack On The Public Sector! Toronto Socialist Ac tion rally with CUPW president Denis Lemelin. 7 pm. OISE, rm 2-214, 252 Bloor W. socialistaction.ca.

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DJ Skate Nights Outdoor skating party with DJ Starting from Scratch. 8 pm. Harbourfront Centre Ice Rink, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. rIcefest Ice scuptures, an icecarving competition and more. To Feb 23. Bloor-Yorkville. bloor-york ville.com. B Kenny Robinson The comic performs. 2 pm. Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd. t orontopubliclibrary.ca. B Music And Stories From The Caribbean Songs and stories tracing the Caribbean folk roots of calypso. 10:30 am. Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston. 416-396-8939. Wednesday, February 19 B Shaun Boothe And Live B Calypso With Roger Gibbs Your Legacy: An Exploration Music and storytelling. 2 pm. Guild Of Black Cultural Icons The wood Library, 123 Guildwood Pkwy. hip-hop artist discusses issues of torontopubliclibrary.ca. race, media, black history and the Finding Your Place In Space importance of living a legacy. 2 pm. And Time Get a cosmic perspective Cedarbrae Library, 545 Markham Rd. on life, the universe and everything. torontopubliclibrary.ca. 7 pm. Brentwood Library, 36 Brent B the state of blackness wood N. 416-394-5247. OCAD U and the Ontario Arts Council shine on: the universe of present this one-day interdisciplinary john lennon Concert by Michael conference on black artistic produc Occhipinti. 5:30 to 6:30 pm. Four tion and teaching. 2-7 pm. Harbour Seasons Centre for the Performing front Centre, 235 Queen Quay W. Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphithe Register at thestateofblackness.com. atre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. Toronto Park Summit Park ad vocates explore cre ative ways volun teers and partners can transform parks into the heart of their communities. 1-5:30 pm. Daniels Spec trum, 585 Dundas E. Pre-register parkpeople.ca. 5Totally outRIGHT! Four-week leadership program First 20 people for gay/bi/queer

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Visual art is one of Toronto’s biggest freebies. Galleries rarely charge admission, and when it comes to art openings, you not only get to see some heady exhibits, you get face time with artists and can even score snacks and drinks. Most galleries are open Tuesday or Wednesday through Saturday, and you can make an afternoon of it by taking in a bunch of shows in the same neighbourhood. Here are some of our favourite itineraries: There’s one-stop viewing at 401 Richmond, home to Gallery 44, Open Studio, A Space, Prefix, Abbozzo, Red Head, WARC, YYZ and Vtape with its fun screening room. Angell, Paul Petro, Propeller, Katharine Mulherin, Gladstone, Stephen Bulger, Clint Roenisch and General Hardware are just a few of the art spaces on or near Queen West from Shaw to Parkdale. On Dundas near Ossington, check out Gallery TPW, LE Gallery, Cooper Cole and Loop. On Tecumseth south of Queen find Diaz, Susan Hobbs, Georgia Scherman and Birch. Cheap storefronts and industrial spaces have made guys 18 to 29. 10 am-5 pm. Pre-regis ter actoronto.org/to.

Sunday, February 23 B Black History Month Reading Austin Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, Camille A Isaacs and Orville Lloyd Douglas. 4 pm. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032. TORONTO CAMP EXPO Find the best summer camp and programs for your teens and kids. Roy Thom son Hall, 60 Simcoe. ourkids.net.

Monday, February 24 Ask The Vet & Ask The Groomer Have your pet questions an swered by a vet and get advice on basic grooming techniques. 5:30 pm. PawsWay, 245 Queens Quay W. pawsway.ca. B George Elliott Clarke Read ing from his work and talking about what it’s like to be our city’s poet laure ate. 1 pm. City Hall Library, Queen and Bay. torontopubliclibrary.ca. EXILE AND BELONGING: STORIES OF IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE Class with Sanja Ivanov. 6:30 pm. Lil lian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. ANNA QUINDLEN Dis cussing her novel, Still Life With Bread Crumbs, with the Globe And Mail’s Johanna Schneller. 7 pm. Reference Li brary, 789 Yonge. torontopub liclibrary.ca.

Bloor and Lansdowne a hot art nabe, with Scrap Metal, Mercer Union, Robert Kananaj, Daniel Faria and Arsenal/Division. Don’t forget our museums. They do offer some free access. Visit the Art Gallery of Ontario gratis Wednesdays from 6 to 8:30 pm (prices are discounted for ticketed exhibits), and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art on the third Friday of the month from 4 to 9 pm. Lakeside contemporary art mecca the Power Plant is now free all the time, with an upcoming show of narrative installations by Britain’s Mike Nelson and Sunday Scene talks by local luminaries. And remember the excellent photography, craft and art exhibits next door at Harbourfront’s York Quay Centre. There’s never an admission charge to the cutting-edge shows at university galleries Ryerson Image Centre, U of T Art Centre, Justina M. Barnicke, Doris McCarthy, Blackwood and Art Gallery of York U. Look for free buses that take you to receptions at the more far-flung locations or on Sunday tours.

Tuesday, February 25 Dance Through Time Ballet Jör gen performs excerpts of classical and contemporary ballets. Noon to 1 pm. Four Seasons Centre for the Per forming Arts Richard Bradshaw Am phitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. B Dances Of Madagascar Tsingory Dance perform the dance and music of the island of Madagas car. 2 pm. North York Public Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Within Reason: Justice, City Building & The OMB Panel discus sion with lawyer Cynthia MacDoug all, architect Steve Diamond and MPP Rosario Marchese. 6:30 pm. Ryerson U, the PIT, ARC 202, 325 Church. withinreason.eventbrite.ca.

Wednesday, February 26 BURNING BOOKS/CREATING DARKNESS Writer Alanna Mitchell talks about burning, banning and violence against truth. 7 pm. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. B Caribbean Stories And Music Hear music and stories tracing the folk roots of calypso. 1:30 pm. Oakwood Library, 341 Oakwood. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Gagliano’s La Dafne Concert by Capella In tima and Toronto Continuo Collective. Noon. Four Seasons

Centre for the Performing Arts Ri chard Bradshaw Amphitheatre, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. B The Great Black North Anthology Poetry by Kevan An thony Cameron, Ian Keteku, Andrea Thomson and others. 6 pm. River dale Library, 370 Broadview. toron topubliclibrary.ca. Last Wednesdays Art-focused events at the galleries and shops happen the last Wednesday of the month. 5-8 pm. 401 Richmond W. 401richmond.net. MAKING A LIVING MAKING ART: PROTECTING YOUR CREATIVE RIGHTS Workshop for artists. Noon-3 pm. Pinewood Toronto Stu dios, 225 Commissioners. Pre-regis ter eastendarts.ca.

Thursday, February 27 Economics Of The Golden Commons Lecture by Earthsharing Canada president Frank de Jong. 7 pm. University College, rm 179, 15 King’s College Circle. scienceforpeace.ca. Jan Jongert The Rotterdam architect talks about his sustain able designs. 6:30 pm. Ryerson Uni versity, the Pit (ARC 200), 325 Church. ryerson.ca. EDWARD SNOWDEN: WHAT HE SHOULD MEAN TO YOU Talk by investigative reporter Andrew Mitrovica. 6:30 pm. Deer Park Li brary, 40 St Clair E. torontopub liclibrary.ca. 3

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CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY Russell Roy hosts a weekly open-mic comedy show. 9:30 pm. PJ O’Briens Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. ELVIS MONDAYS Great live bands every Monday from 9 pm. Free. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Weekly show. 9:30 pm. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com. Manic Mondays DJ Shannon plays retro 70s & 80s. 10 pm. Dance Cave, 529 Bloor W, 2nd flr. 416-532-1598. OFFICE PUB COMEDY Pros and amateurs perform each week hosted by Cassandra Sansosti and Blayne Smith. 8 pm. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900. Open Stage Monday 7:30 pm. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. freetimescafe.com.

CARLO BERARDINUCCI BAND Every Wednesday. 8:30 pm. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865. hardcore wednesdays Hardcore and house music by DJ Dynamic. 10 pm. Bassline Music Bar, 865 Bloor W. 416-732-7513. Open Mic Night Hosted by El Faron. 8 pm. Aspetta Caffe, 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693. Pressure Drop DJ Vania every Wednesday. 10 pm. Disgraceland, 965 Bloor W. 647-347-5263. Spirits Comedy One of the longest-running comedy shows in North America. 9 pm. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

Tuesday all dressed tuesdays DJ Caff spins funk, soul, new Jack swing, rock and reggae. 10 pm. Toby’s Famous, 411 College. tobyspub.com. THE FIRESTARTER Weekly comedy with host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Fox & Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369. FOUNTAIN ABBEY Weekly stand-up comedy with hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. The Fountain, 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS Vandad Kardar hosts a weekly open mic. 9:30 pm. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/skinofmynuts. Tornado DJs Karen, Ian and Alison play rock, mashups, hip-hop, stoner and electro music. 10 pm. Disgraceland, 965 Bloor W. disgraceland.ca. TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Danny Polishchuk hosts a weekly show. 9:30 pm. ImperialPub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com.

Thursday A Hard Days Night DJ Nick Harris every Thursday. 10 pm. Disgraceland, 965 Bloor W. 647-347-5263. Nintendo Thursdays 80s Vs 90s music. Midpoint, 1180 Queen W. themidpoint.ca. Open Jam Host Jon Long. 10 pm. Wise Guys, 2301 Danforth. 416-6942005. Open Mic Night Host El Faron. 8 pm. Aspetta Caffe, 207 Augusta. 416725-0693. Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard plays 70s and 80s music. 10 pm. WAYLABar, 996 Queen E. waylabar. com. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Bunitall plays R&B and hip-hop. 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. Skip Tracer Rock and top 40 music. 9:30 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lakeshore W. 416-521-6302. Throwback Thursdays 90s rap and hip-hop. Doors 10 pm. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. clintons.ca. Transvision DJ Shannon plays alt rock, indie, electro and retro. Dance Cave, 529 Bloor W, 2nd flr, 416-5321598.

Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation play every Friday. 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416977-4667. The Legendary Groove Fridays Spence Diamonds & Mista Jiggz play R&B, funk, soul, hip-hop and house. Cabin Nightclub, 559 College. 559college.com. MISTURA FINA QUARTET Every week from 10:30 pm. Touché, 669 College. 416-516-9009. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu plays rock & roll. 332 Queen W. 416596-1908.

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Saturday The Bear Band Rock and blues. 4 to 8 pm. Southside Johnny’s 3653 Lakeshore W. 416-521-6302. Red Rocket COMEDY Joel West presents a weekly show. 8 pm. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. redrocketcoffee.com. Saturday Sessions Open Stage and Jam Brian Gladstone hosts this event every Sat. 2 pm. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-4690537. Shake, Rattle, Roll 60s rock, pop and soul. Doors 10 pm. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541. The Tavares/Botos Jazz & Latin Trio 8 pm till midnight. Paul’s Churrasco, 839 College. 416-532-2777.

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Sunday Duane Forrest Jazz, soul and bossa nova from 7:30 pm. KANJI, 1346 Queen W. kanjitoronto.com. Metal Health Live music night with host Aurielle St Cyr. 9 pm.Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. bovinesexclub.com. Pat Perez & John Dickie Live R&B music. 3 to 7 pm. Linsmore Tavern, 1298 Danforth. linsmoretavern. com. Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix Open jam. 9:30 pm. Southside Johnny’s, 3653 Lakeshore W. 416521-6302. STEAMY CREAMY COMEDY Weekly comedy show. 8 pm. Cafe Pamenar, 307 Augusta. facebook. com/steamycreamy.

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If you were able to get into the Arts & Crafts-curated, Red Bull-sponsored showcase held at the too-small Drake Underground, lucky you. Dozens waited in sub-zero temperatures along Queen West only to be turned away when the venue hit capacity early on. But once you navigated the clusterfuck of lines, the packed subterranean event was a fun, hot mess. Latest A&C signee Lowell opened the night with a quick and dirty set that showed she has serious potential to outshine the country’s other synthdriven alt-poppers. Next up were the Darcys, sounding as emotionally charged as ever. While their instrumental breakdowns show prowess, the crowd responded best to funkier songs like the highly swayable 747s. Finally, Trust. Robert Alfons appeared backlit by Rainbow Brite LED lights that blinked, flashed and pulsated along with the gothic electronic beats and the artist’s dark baritone. Even without Maya Postepski (who’s

drumming for Austra full-time), and even when we only see his silhouette jumping across the stage clutching a microphone, Alfons can command a SAMANTHA EDWARDS room.

KAYTRANADA and SANGO at the Hoxton, Friday, January 24. Rating: NNN The unusually frigid temperatures and blowing snow didn’t deter fans of Montreal DJ/producer Kaytranada and Seattle’s Sango from shivering in the long line to get into the Hoxton. Though the two originally hail from opposite coasts, their recording collaborations have proven that they share plenty of common ground. They also complement each other as DJs, both opting to bounce back and forth between uptempo remixes and slow hiphop rhythms, walking that line between Friday-night accessibility and deeper flavours. Sango’s opening set showed his knack for balancing aggressive club bangers with a subtly soulful undercurrent. He played a lot of his own productions, full of booming 808 kick drums and rolling hi-hats. Kaytranada also relied heavily on his own remixes and original tracks, bring-

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JAY Z at the Air Canada Centre, Monday, January 27. Rating: NNN Hip-hop has embraced its creative and emotional sides as of late. Artists like Kanye West and Drake have expanded our notions of the genre. But reigning king Jay Z still radiates masculinity and, appropriately, he appeared at the ACC on Monday night clad in monochromatic black with gold jewellery, on a set of giant, industrial, Rubik’s Cube-like scaffolding that held four backing musicians – including producer Timbaland playing DJ – and flanked by two massive screens. In an era of multi-stage, complicated moving sets and elaborate routines, Jay Z is refreshingly no-frills. Not many artists could pull off marching from stage right to stage left for an entire two-hour concert – even if it does get a little ho-hum. He’s touring his latest album, Magna Carta, but mostly featured his greatest hits: 99 Problems, Dirt Off Your Shoulder, Run This Town, his Drake collaboration Pound Cake, his Kanye duets No Church In The Wild and Niggas In Paris. There were a few high-speed a cappella verses, but mainly his delivery was as no-nonsense as his stage moves. And, at times, he struggled to get his lyrics out. He half-heartedly faked a final exit at 10:20, but quickly re-emerged for what’s becoming a rap show staple: fan acknowledgment hour (actually 20 minutes). Finally, he launched into a – literally – breathless trio of hits: Empire State Of Mind, Izzo (H.O.V.A.) and Hard Knock Life. Priceless, because you remember exactly what you were doing in 2009, 2001 and 1998 JULIA LECONTE when those songs came out. ing the tempo up and delving into house vibes here and there. However, while the night was a great showcase of their studio skills, you couldn’t help but get the sense that they’re both producers first and DJs second. BENJAMIN BOLES

AKUA with INVASIONS and LANGUAGE ARTS at the Silver Dollar, Friday, January 24. Rating: NNN Montreal’s Akua took the stage just

soulful R&B to a full room that just hours before had featured raucous rock bands and their failed stage dives. Akua’s smooth, layered vocals – think TLC and Mya – are laid overtop experimental synth electronics. It’s a common device that she subverts into something fresh and cool. Earlier, Invasions took shots onstage before plunging into their westernmeets-surf-rock ditties. The local fivepiece obviously love a cinematic buildup, filling each song with a climax and superfluous trumpet solos. The crowd was clearly feeling it. Toronto was also repped by Language Arts, led by singer/guitarist Kristen Cudmore. Her after 1 am – the last vocals are usually act of Dan Burke’s the strongest elefinal instalment of ment of the art the Class Of 2014, a pop band’s sound, series showcasing but Cudmore’s the most promising voice lost some of pupils in Canadian inits idiosyncratic die. charm in the live setat the Silver Dollar, Armed with a keyting. However, she January 24. board, slick backing tracks, pulled it together for the killer pipes and her bandmate’s title track of their upcoming pulsating drum pad, Akua brought her SE LP, Wunderkind. MIKE FORD

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When Leanne Simpson published her debut short story collection, Islands Of Decolonial Love, last October through Winnipeg’s ARP, she also teamed up with a handful of musicians to help transform the stories into spoken word and musical compositions. Collaborators on the album version of Islands Of Decolonial Love include A Tribe Called Red, Sarah Decarlo, Melody McKiver, Cris Derksen, Sean Conway, Nick Ferrio and Tara Williamson. The last three will perform with Simpson tonight at the Music Gallery, and play sets of their own. Nominated as one of the 10 best indigenous albums of 2013 by RPM.fm, Islands is available on cassette and digitally at arpbooks.org/islands. On it, Simpson explores the lives of contemporary indigenous characters and c ommunities, especially from her own Nishnaabeg nation. The event is part of the Catalyst Café Performance Series presented by the Music Gallery and Native Women in the Arts. Tonight (Thursday, January 30), doors 7 pm, at the Music Gallery (197 John). $15. musicgallery. org.

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(1197 Dundas West), Friday (January 31), doors 9 pm. $10. RT, SS, TSW.

In the gory video for PUPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s song Reservoir, the energetic Toronto band endure increasingly disturbing onstage injuries as they pogo their way through the high-octane pop-punk anthem. While none of the members have been impaled by cymbals in real life (yet), theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve spilled enough blood onstage to be a little nervous about the very real possibility of getting teeth knocked out on their upcoming UK tour far away from their Canadian dentists. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There have been a lot of real injuries,â&#x20AC;? admits singer/guitarist Stefan Babcock as we sip coffee. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I smashed the headstock of my guitar into my head in Victoria and ripped my face open, and that was not great. I sprained my ankle in the middle of a show in Whistler and had to just keep duct-taping it up every night until we got home and I could recover. You get beaned in the face with microphones all the time at venues where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no

stage. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re learning, though: I used to play barefoot, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve stepped on enough broken glass by now that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve stopped doing that.â&#x20AC;? Originally known as Topanga, PUP played shows continually for three years before releasing their self-titled debut album last fall. Their goal was to become a tight live act before committing it to disc. Not only did that strategy pay off â&#x20AC;&#x201C; their album successfully captures their raw energy â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but it also helped them build a dedicated fan base long before signing with L.A. punk label SideOneDummy and getting write-ups in NME. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d book these little weekend tours and try to play three markets each week,â&#x20AC;? explains Babcock. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first run of them were terrible, playing to three or four people. Granted, we werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a great live band at that time, but each time weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d hit Montreal or Ottawa, a few more people would come to see us. It was a really slow build.â&#x20AC;? Guitarist Steve Sladkowski interjects: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of it was learning how to take care of our bodies on tour. You

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Facebook was set aflame last week when local DJ Kirsten Azan posted a question on the event page for a show at Kensington venue Double Double Land called Awesome Tapes From Africa Returns, named after the L.A.-based blog and record label that collects obscure music by African musicians and uploads it to the internet. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Are any of the DJs actually African?â&#x20AC;? Azan asked. The answer was no, which prompted a passionate debate about cultural appropriation, colonialism and racism in hundreds of posts and quickly led to some major ugliness. By Thursday morning, the day before the event, organizer Daniel Vila cancelled it, saying he was â&#x20AC;&#x153;appalled by the racist, sexist and violent comments.â&#x20AC;? In lieu, he plans to host a community talk in the coming weeks. But that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped the conversation â&#x20AC;&#x201C; clearly one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needed airing for a long time.

canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out and get drunk every night and treat yourselves like shit.â&#x20AC;? That groundwork is paying off in the music press, and the band has a busy year of full-fledged international touring ahead, not to mention unexpected new opportunities like appearing on Jian Ghomeshiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radio show. But as much as those things impress their parents, they speak much more passionately about the all-ages punk scene they came out of, which has been struggling as key venues close. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no Big Bop any more. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no central place that on a regular basis gives a band that Sundayafternoon slot for all the kids to come down to,â&#x20AC;? Sladkowski says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That space created this community and a whole generation of kids from Toronto who wanted to be in bands,â&#x20AC;? Babcock continues wistfully. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is the only reason I play music now: because I got to go to shows when I was 15 and 16, so I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important for us to give back to that community [by playing all-ages shows] as much as we can.â&#x20AC;? 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

CHILLY GONZALES, GRAMMY WINNER Canadians didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make much of a showing at the Grammys on Sunday night, January 26, though Toronto-reared, Cologne-based musician Chilly Gonzales was named as one of the many collaborators on album of the year, Daft Punkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Random Access Memories. The busy pianist, solo artist and producer played piano on it â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for just one minute, though it was culled from a six-hour session, and he was one of the only instrumental contributors the French duo named on the nomination.

SAY CHEESE Toronto Raptors shooting guard DeMar DeRozan sprained his left foot/ankle on Saturday, January 25, against the L.A. Clippers. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge bummer for the Rapsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; captain and leading scorer, especially this close to what could be his first all-star game. On the bright side, he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t travel to Brooklyn to play the Nets, which allowed him to stay in Toronto with his fiancĂŠe and baby daughter to take in the king of BKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ACC show on Monday night. Jay Z smiled big as he posed for snaps with baby Diar. Aww, Blue Ivy must be turning him into a softie.

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YUNA at Tattoo (567 Queen West), tonight (Thursday, January 30), doors 8 pm. $17. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL Malian singer Diawaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;well-crafted songs are often light and breezy, but her soulful voice... can stop you in your tracks.â&#x20AC;? (TIME) Presented in association with Batuki Music and Small World Music.

Mavis Staples FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;the epitome of soul.â&#x20AC;?

In Kuala Lampur, Yuna canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really walk around her beloved night markets any more. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because in the singer/songwriterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s native Malaysia, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a massive star. In her second home in L.A. (she splits her time between the two continents), thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not the case quite yet, but the relaxing setting does provide the artist with a good sanctuary in which to reflect on fame. On the song Lights And Camera from her latest album, Octoberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ÂNocturnal (Verve), she examines the lonelier side of the spotlight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to write about fame,â&#x20AC;? she says over the phone from her California home. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think a lot of famous people are struggling with themselves, caught between reality and fantasy.â&#x20AC;? Yuna has worked with her share of bigname producers (that guy

Pharrell W Â illiams, for one), but this particular song was one of two Nocturnal collaborations with Robin Hannibal, the producer and songwriter who makes up one half of both Rhye (with Toronto-born Mike Milosh) and Quadron (with whom Yuna has toured). â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you were to give that music to another artist, they would probably write about dancing in the club. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different with me and Robin. When you work with someone, you have to inspire each other. He brings out the writer in me.â&#x20AC;? Hannibalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deft hand with electronica and R&B appealed to Yuna, and those influences flow freely throughout the record. But she also subtly weaves traditional Malaysian sounds into what becomes a sparkling collection of soulful pop-folk. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to categorize, but sonically and thematically, it represents an artistic progression. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m cool with any critique about my music, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s weird how people think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really pop. To me, this album showcased my maturity in that I grew as an artist â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not to say that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s polished, but everything is there. I took my time. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really happy that I get to bring a lÂittle bit of my identity into it.â&#x20AC;? 3 julial@nowtoronto.com @julialeconte

Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2014 8PM KOERNER HALL Fabio Biondi creates a program called The Windy Seasons inspired by The Four Seasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Europa Galante are acknowledged as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best.â&#x20AC;? (Gramophone)

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Nursery (progressive/shoegaze/indie) doors 9 pm.

C’est What Muscle Souls (alt Brit pop) doors

8:30 pm.

Crocodile Rock Sonic Parade 10 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk) doors

11 pm.

HANDLEBAR Chobo, McNair & Clark,

Robotix 10 pm. ñStrange The Hideout The Dying Arts, Duck Duck Goose, Rocket Horse doors 9 pm. ñ Holy Oak Cafe Bliss Glass, Triple Gangers & Dollabiin$z (pop) 10 pm.

Horseshoe West Hammock, GT Harris & the

Gunslingers, Dewey Truman, Delmar Junction. Lee’s Palace Party For Truth Ancient Order, Stanley, New Country Rehab. Linsmore Tavern James Clark Institute (indie pop) 9:30 pm. Lula Lounge The Sweet Trifecta Part X The Back 40, the Tres Bien Ensemble, Run with the Kittens (pop/rock/alternative) 9 pm. Mélange Open Stage Lee Van Leer 9 pm. Only Café The Marks, Krystal Jessup (rock/ folk/experimental/blues/soul/pop) 8 pm. Pauper’s Pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. The Piston Black Lady Soul, Giraffe, Big Name Actors, Mumbai Standstill 9 pm. Rivoli Morgan Cameron Ross, An drew Austin, Jesse Gold doors 9 pm. Silver Dollar David McFarlane, Shattervox, Bryce Jardine, Greg Fowler 8 pm. Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. Tattoo Rock Parlour Yuna doors 8 pm. See preview, page 48. Virgin Mobile Mod Club CD release party Random Order (alt-rock/reggae/ska) doors 8 pm.

9:30 pm, The Beautiful And The Damned (poetry & music cabaret) 6 pm.

Edward Johnson Building MacMillan Theatre Encounters gamUT Ensemble (five miniature operas) 5 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Bossa Tres (Gypsy swing) 9 pm. The Flying Beaver Pubaret Sing-A-Long Joe

the Piano Guy 10 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Tour De France Trio Arkel w/ Les Allt & Erica Goodman noon to 1 pm. Gallery 345 Christian Vachon, Frederic Lacroix (violin, piano) 8 pm. Gate 403 Root Down Trio 9 pm, Justine Camp bell Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Jane Mallett Theatre Music Toronto The Alcan Quartet 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro Mike Francis Quartet 9 pm. Kama Thursdays At Five Tara Davidson, William Carn 5 to 8 pm. Monarch Tavern Luanda Jones (Brazilian jazz). Press Club The Spanish Waiter Brian Cram (classical/Latin) 10 pm. The Rex Mike Rud Quintet w/ David Braid 9:45 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Clinton’s Throwback Thursdays (90s rap/hiphop) doors 10 pm. Crawford Twisted Thursdays DJ Law (video dance party). Dance Cave Transvision DJ Shannon (alt/ indie/electro/retro). Disgraceland A Hard Days Night DJ Nick Harris (rock/hip-hop favourites) 10 pm. EFS Untitled DJ Soundbwoy doors 10 pm. Goodhandy’s T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 Midpoint Nintendo Thursdays (80s vs 90s). The Painted Lady Bangs & Blush 10 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop). Round Archi-Textures Hans Ohm, LeeLee Mishi, Purrpelle, Lumberjockey, Kalu (techno/ bass/trance/DnB/downtempo) 9 pm.

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

Friday, January 31 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Lady Kane. Creatures Creating Live streaming to West

Coast The Frank Horvat Band midnight, Live streaming to Asia and Australia The Frank Horvat Band 8 am. Crema Coffee Co !DO! 6 to 9 pm, all ages. The Danforth Music Hall Shad doors 7 pm, all ages. Drake Hotel Underground Party Machine doors 10 pm. The Garrison Pup, Grounders (punk rock) doors 9 pm. See preview, page 46. Hickory House Divide & Rule Modern Warfare Soundclash Mystic Sound Vs Exile 1 Vs Twin Star Intl Vs Cumtraxx Sound. The Hideout Stone the Radio, Rockyard (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Canadian Shield, the Retrievers, Kerouacs, Ballroom Babies, Sons of Revelry. The Hoxton Yellow Year Tour Prefuse 73, Nosaj Thing, Falty DL doors 10 pm. The Hoxton Get Home Safely Dom Kennedy, Skeme (rap) doors 7 pm. Linsmore Tavern Avery Stone (pop) 9:30 pm. Living Arts Centre Hammerson Hall Bare naked Ladies, Ladies of the Canyon 7:30 pm. Lola Blood Orange (Toronto rock band) 8 pm. PeeWee’s Band House Skullians 3rd Album Fundraiser Skullians, Plan 37, Bourbon DK, the Ready’s, Big Brother, Sarah & the Rippers 9 pm, all ages. Phoenix Concert Theatre AFI, Youth Code doors 8 pm, all ages. PJ O’Brien Irish Pub The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 10 pm. Placebo Space CD launch The Real Sun (acoustic soul) doors 8:30 pm. Press Club Garage Baby (garage punk) 10 pm. Ricky Ricardos Album release Jeff Eager, Divas of Rock doors 8 pm. Rivoli For Esme Ivory Hours, Stacey, Air Marshal Landing doors 8:30 pm. Silver Dollar Another City, Hormoans, Goodnight Sunrise, Wolfcow doors 9 pm.

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The Sister Joe Lapinski Band, Silent Five. Sneaky Dee’s Fade Chromatic, Ready the Prince,

Navy Skies, Volume Academy doors 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s Freedom Train (rock/ top 40) 10 pm. Theatre Passe Muraille CD release party Running Red Lights, Valery Gore, John Pippus (indie/pop/folk) doors 9:30 pm. 3030 Dundas West Album release Afterfunk, DJ OH16 9 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Naturally Born Strangers: Pop-Up Shop & Concert Rich Kidd, Tona, Adam Bomb, DJ Nana, DJ Sound bwoy, DJ Wristpect, DJ Mensa (hip-hop/rap) doors 9 pm. See preview, page 50.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Nick Teehan 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm.

Cameron House Back Room CD release The Exide. Dakota Tavern Big Tobacco & the Pickers

(country) 10 pm, Single & Video release party Catl. doors 6 pm. Dominion on Queen Sonic Blues BBQ DB Buxton 9 pm. Free Times Cafe Chris Lowry & Bill Gillian 8:30 pm. Grossman’s Frankie Foo 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Garnet Rogers 8:30 pm. Lou Dawg’s Acoustic Blues Mike Costantini, Pat Wright (blues/funk/rock/soul). Lula Lounge Cuba Libre Fridays Changui Havana (salsa) 10:30 pm. Reposado The Reposadists Quartet (gypsy bop). The Rex The Jivebombers (eight-piece blues combo) 6:30 pm. 3 Windows Open Jam Dano & Miss Jaye 9 pm to 1 am. Tranzac Southern Cross The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Jenni Walls (cabaret) 7 pm.

Gallery 345 Contrasts Emily Rho, Aaron

Schwebel, James Shields (piano, violin, clarinet) 7:30 pm. Gate 403 Andre Brewster Jazz Quartet 9 pm, Christopher Simmons Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Max Forster & Joshua Smiley (jazz) 9 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Hirut Hoot

Cabaret 9 pm.

Imperial Pub Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation (big band classics) 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro Mike Francis Quartet 9 pm. Lula Lounge World Jazz Fridays Sundar Viswanathan Trio 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star John Sherwood 7:30 to 10:30 pm. The Rex Mike Rud Quintet w/ David Braid 9:45 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Classic Albums Live: The Beatles, Abbey Road 8 pm. Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross The Ryan Driver Quartet (indie powerpop) 10 pm, Dust ‘the Quietest Big Band Ever’ 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Aria Complex Reload Andrew Oddesey, Scotty Scratch, Armani.

BassLine Music Bar Let There Be House

J ohnny Lopez, Dirty Dale, Jeff Graham (house) 10 pm. Brassaii Love Me Till I’m Me Again Geoff Brown 10 pm. Cabin Nightclub The Legendary Groove Fridays Spence Diamonds & Mista Jiggz (R&B/funk/soul/hip-hop/house ). CODA Scuba w/ Robag Wruhme, Jamie Kidd & Jeff Button doors 10 pm. Crawford Nightcap Friday DJ Kobe’J. Crocodile Rock DJ CrocRock. Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm. Disgraceland This Is Music DJ Shawn Mac Donald 10 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. Emmet Ray Bar DJ Ariel (hip-hop/soul) 10 pm. Fly Pop Fridays DJ Sumation doors 10 pm.5 Handlebar The Art Of Dance. Henhouse Regretro: One-Year Anniversary DJ Party McFly, DJ Wei Back DJ Case of Base (80s pop jams/90s club bangers/old school hiphop/anthems) 10 pm. continued on page 52 œ

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Mic Night El Faron 8 pm. Bar Radio Patrick Brealey & Miranda Mulholland. Cameron House Back Room Ozere, Rye &

Fairytales, the Unseen Strangers (bluegrass) 7:30 pm. Cameron House Harlan Pepper 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm. Cavern Bar & Bistro Open Mic 9 pm. Free Times Cafe Steven Pulver 8:30 pm. Grossman’s The Responsible 10 pm. Habits Gastropub Cody McMillan & the Soft Shoe Shufflers (folk) 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Kevin Clark, Alex Pangman & Her Alleycats 8:30 pm. The Local Kevin Myles Wilson (folk/ rock) 9 pm. Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm, HiWay 5 4 pm. Lou Dawg’s North Of Nashville Ty Owens (country). Music Gallery Native Women In The Arts Catalayst Café Performance Series Leanne Simpson, Tara Williamson, Sean Conway, Nick Ferrio 8 to 10 pm. 3030 Dundas West The Folk, the Medicine Hat 9 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Emilyn Stam 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. Wise Guys Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.

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The Central Tassels & Tabletop (burlesque) NOW January 30 - February 5 2014

HIP-HOP

NATURALLY BORN STRANGERS Three local rappers join forces to celebrate non-conformity By HOLLY MACKENZIE

NATURALLY BORN STRANGERS at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Friday (January 31), doors 9 pm. $10. LI.

When Toronto apparel company TheLegendsLeague’s founder and head designer Bryan Espiritu wanted a musical component that embodied the spirit of his clothing line, he approached Rich Kidd, Tona and Adam Bomb, three of the GTA’s finest and most prolific emcees, hailing from Mississauga, Scarborough and Toronto. Thus, Naturally Born Strangers. But these three guys have already been rapping circles around each other for years. The NBS mixtape (available via Audiomack) dropped in December, and it all

RICH KIDD

Furiously energetic and intensely charismatic, Kidd regularly wears emcee, producer and director hats. Powerful audio/visuals that connect with his audience and slick and gritty production combine with emotional lyrics to kick you in the gut. Check out this track: confessional banger I’d Be Lying.

comes together on Friday in a pop-up shop/show at the Mod Club. In a mission statement, the trio explain that NBS “represents those born and raised differently who don’t associate themselves with common communal circles” and make “a proclamation of pride in the power of being disliked, unwanted or obscure, weird or foreign to the norm.” A manifesto for non-conformity if we’ve ever heard one. With the Rich Kidd-produced mixtape receiving major hype (both critical and mass) and their TheLegendsLeague line adorning every urban hipster west of Yonge, the group is redefining what it means to be different while simultaneously shedding any lingering element of obscurity. Check out this track: Parkdale party anthem Jameson Ave.

ADAM BOMB

Bomb’s cleverly crafted rhymes will stay with you long after he’s finished delivering them solo at rap battles and en masse with collectives like Freedom Writers. Real, raw and often tackling vital subject matter, he doesn’t pull any punches. Check out this track: head-nodding reality check Real Shit.

TONA

His hip-hop connections run deep. Bomb and Tona are linked through Freedom Writers, and Tona has credited Kidd with keeping him motivated and inspired throughout the production of his 2013 release, Silverspring Crescent. Layered and versatile with a distinctive voice and easy flow. Check out this track: house party staple Weed And Alcohol. music@nowtoronto.com

Friday may 9 @massey hall

tuesday

febsound 18 all-ages • $39.50 - $54.50 advance

aCademy all-ages

sunday march 30 kool haus • $ 26.50 advance

all ages • $49.50 - $69.50 adv + $1 Charity Fee

3 days | 3 stages | 44 artists

ARTIST LINEUP TO BE ANNOUNCED ON FRIDAY FEBRUARY 14

JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5 2014 NOW

concerts at

leespalace.com

Original Live Music @ 8:30pm horseshoetAvern.com street West / spadina Fridays & Saturdays @ 9:00pm 370 Queen artist Bookings Front Bar 12:00pm - 2:00am 416-598-0720 or craig@horseshoetavern.com

529 Bloor street West / Bathurst

Artist Bookings

416-598-0720 or ben@leespalace.com thurs

jan 30

PARTY FOR TRUTH

with Hon. Paul Hellyer (MoD Canada), riCHarD Dolan, Dan DiCks

aNCiENt order stanley one eyed johnny

$20.00

@Door

fri

adv

the standstills mOhRS

$7.00

$10.00

feb 08

house of david GanG messenjah Meccacity SOund

adv

thursday • no cover

adv

thurs

$6.00 @Door

feb 13

tues fEb 11 @ 794 bAthurst $22.50 adv • All-Ages • Doors 6:00pm

no cover

the ketAmine giRlS wolves in timbre

fri

feb 07

tues

feb 11

$10.00

@Door

canadian shield feb aRt & the retrieverS 04 wOOdhOuSe the bright skies feb kEROUaCS BaLLrOOM BaBieS the red SandS 08 SOnS OF reveLry dirty penny feb FreSh Breath Band feb the soul twist 01 motivators 05 modern navy skies ends by you AnAmAifevers hEaVy wEightS feb feb 10 brass band 06 julian taylor band all early Beatles set!

no cover

friday

sat

feb 15 $15.00

adv

saturday

CD release monday • no cover

sat

$13.50

adv

$13.50 adv

thurs

mon

fri

$12.50

$15.50

$10.00 @Door

sat

wed

$10.00 @Door

$5.00 @Door

adv

feb 08

wild feAthers

feb 14

sun

NO COVER

with StUDENt i.D.

tues fEbRUaRy 11 @the phoenix • $ 27.50 advance

feb 02 $12.00

adv

chuck coles

Big sexy love songs set!

sAturDAy maRCh 1 @lee’s pAlAce • $ 25.50 advance

big business o brother friDAy maRCh 21 @the phoenix • $ 26.50 advance

like moths to flames stray from the path & more!

mon fEb 24 @moD club • $20.50 adv

no cover

tues

@Door

LOve tapper SecOnd paSS tROVE

thurs

feb 03

$7.00

$26.50 adv

$10.50

mon

jan 30

jan 31

feb 22

feb 01

weSt haMMOck gt harris & the gunslingers 5.00 dewey truMan @Door deLMar junctiOn

thurs

fri

sat

feb 06

alternative rock dance club 2nd floor of lee’s palace 10:00pm — 2:30am

$18.00

@Door

sat

@Door

feb 14

$8.00

fri

jan 31

fri

feb 07

sAturDAy maRCh 15

moD club • $16.50 adv • All-Ages

sunDAy maRCh 23 operA house • $ 19.00 adv

fri fEbRUaRy 28 @the phoenix • $ 24.50 adv • All-Ages • Doors 6:30pm

DEafhEaVEN + iNtRONaUt + thE kiNDRiD thursDAy maRCh 27 the phoenix • $ 29.50 advance

sAturDAy maRCh 29

sAturDAy apRil 5 @moD club

weD apRil 9 @operA house • $ 20.50 adv

julie ruin

with trash talk

$23.50 advance • All-Ages

lee’s pAlAce • $ 20.00 advance

with SCREamiNg fEmalES

big black delta roman remains

with blOUSE

apRil 10

friDAy march 8 • $ 14.50 adv

10 yearS march 25 • $ 15.00 adv

the darcy’s april 10 • $ 20.00 adv

the jezabels

february 21

apRil 22

the phoenix

advance

$ 19.00

fEbRUaRy 1 • $ 12.50 advance

lee’s pAlAce $ 16.50

tues

operA house $ 20.50

friDAy may 2 @phoenix concert theAtre • $ 28.50 advance

adv

sAturDAy fEbRUaRy 22 @horseshoe • $ 13.50 advance

advance

sunDAy maRCh 2 $ lee’s pAlAce • 15.00 adv

feAt. bUSDRiVER NOCaNDO & more!

sAt fEbRUaRy 1 $ silver DollAr • 12.00 adv

may 18 • $ 17.50 advance

tuesDAy maRCh 4 lee’s pAlAce • $ 21.50 adv

thurs feb 20 @ silver dollar • $10.00 adv

maria taylor

weD fEbRUaRy 26 horseshoe • $ 12.50 adv

monday march 3 horseshoe • $ 15.50 advance

liGhtninG malcolm + ross neilson

fEbRUaRy 23 • $ 13.50 adv

lost in the trees Betty whO apRil 19 • $ 13.50 advance

tOgEthER pangea fEbRUaRy 19 •

$ 13.50

advance

saturday march 8 horseshoe • $ 15.00 advance

friDAy maRCh 14 $ horseshoe • 15.00 adv

tRiSh RObb + bEamS maRCh 3 @silver DollAr • $ 10.00 adv

sat may 3 @ great hall • $18.50 adv

• horseshoe tavern • february 18 • $12.50 adv

wooden sky nicole atkins march 27 • $13.50 adv

march 6 • $13.50 advance march 7 • $11.50 adv

lake street dive SLeepy Sun fleshtones april 11 • $10.50 adv

may 3 • $15.00 advance

maRCh 23 • $ 12.00 advance

apRil 19 • $ 15.00 advance

march 22 • $17.50 adv

march 28 • $15.00 adv

fEbRUaRy 18 • $ 10.50 adv

apRil 15 • $ 10.00 advance

chico no face + sam coffey & the iron lungs

fEbRUaRy 9 • $ 11.50 advance

• horseshoe tavern •

may 11 • $16.50 advance

• horseshoe tavern •

march 12 • $15.00 advance march 15 • $12.50 adv

islAnds march 19 • $10.00 adv

houndmouth

• horseshoe tavern •

NOW january 30 - february 5 2014

clubs&concerts œcontinued from page 49

Media Bar & Lounge Faded Fridays DJ Wikked, MC Crazy Chris (hip-hop/R&B/reggae). Monarch Tavern Bad News DJ Night (all-vinyl soul/garage/rockabilly dance party) 9 pm. Northwood Feenin’ Friday DJ Caff (R&B/ hip-hop/new jack swing/slow jams) 10 pm. OhSo Nightclub Faded Fridays DJ Wikked & DJ Cirius (hip-hop/R&B/reggae). The Piston Shindig! (early R&R/R&B/soul) 10 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm. WAYLA Bar Crown Jewels: A Tribute To Grace Jones DJ Aural (Brit pop) 10 pm.

Saturday, February 1 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Adelaide Hall Daft Punk Tribute (electronic dance) doors 9 pm. Alleycatz Graffitti Park. Black Swan Saturday Sessions Open Stage And Jam Brian Gladstone 2 pm. Bovine Sex Club Covers Night III This Machine Kills Teethmarks, Ayahuasca in Chains, Danzig’s Bricks doors 9 pm. Cameron House Dodge Fiasco (rock) 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm. The Danforth Music Hall Lord Huron, Night Moves doors 8 pm, all ages. Dominion on Queen The Diamond Drapes (50s rock & roll Teddy Boy style) 9 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Lanterns on the Lake (indie) 8 pm. See album review, page 55. Encore Studios Watershed Hour, Meeko Cheech, Drugs in Japan, Old Major (grunge/loud) 9 pm. Gerrard Art Space Feast In The East 34 Holiday Rambler, Clara Engel, Moonwood 8 pm, all ages. The Hideout The Beggars, Bernadette Connors (rock) 10 pm.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 30

RANDOM ORDER ALBUM RELEASE

FRIDAY JANUARY 31

NATURALLY BORN STRANGERS

The (REAL) biggest nights in music, T.dot-style

Five gig recommendations, inspired by the Grammys Hey there, Grammy viewer! Did you tune in last Sunday in hopes that the “biggest night in music” would help you discover new and exciting artists, only to see the stage hogged by old-timers like Chicago and advertising entities like human pop-up ad Bruno Mars? Have no fear. This Grammy-inspired guide to the week’s shows might tickle your fancy. DID YOU ENJOY: Paul and Ringo reminding the world that everyone’s two favourite Beatles are dead? Then check out Hamilton’s Harlan Pepper, whose name invokes a time when the Fab Four were bigger than Jesus, even if their energetic banjo rock does not. T onight (Thursday, January 30) at the Cameron House (408 Queen West), 10 pm. thecameron.com.

DID YOU ENJOY: Daft Punk but thought their set (and outfits) was just a little too shiny and clean? Prefuse 73 will bring some electronic abrasion and grime back into your ear. Bonus: no crazy hats. (With Nosaj Thing and Falty DL.) Friday(January 31) at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst), 10 pm. $16.50. TW.

Cameron House Back Room

collective concerts presents

solids

Thursday, February 20

Doors: 9:00 pm / Show: 9:45 pm The Silver Dollar 19+ $10 RT/SS O n s ale n ow. C h e c k o u t c o l l e c t i ve c o n c e r t s .c o m f o r m o r e inf o.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7

TogeTher PAngeA

WINGSPAN SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8 • 10PM-4AM

BELOW ZERO

Tuesday, February 18

Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 8:30 pm The Drake Hotel 19+ $10.50 RT/SS

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9

BELLY DANCE January 30 - February 5 2014 NOW

Aum Center Yoga Bliss Tribal Trance Kai & Yahserah Soleil 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Blue Goose Tavern Danny B’s House Party The Danny B Band (blues harp) 3 to 6 pm.

Win TickeTs!

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 1 • 10PM-4AM

Folk/Blues/Country/ World

DID YOU ENJOY: Taylor Swift thrashing around like the girl in Jaws while pantomiming playing a piano? Go see hometown folk heroes the Strumbellas, who come with a 100 per cent guarantee to actually be playing their instruments while thrashing about the stage. Wednesdays in February (5, 12, 19 and 26) at the Dakota Tavern (249 Ossington), 8pm. Stephen du Manoir $12-$15. TF.

PHOSPHORESCENT

themodclub.com

Mobile Mod Club Phosphorescent doors 7 pm. ñVirgin

DID YOU ENJOY: Macklemore cleaning up the rap awards, since what you felt the genre needed was a song about cheap coats and second-hand shirts? Then you probably actually WON’T like Pusha T. He buys his shirts new and pays good money for his outerwear. Pusha T will scare the shit out of you. Sunday (February 2), at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), 8 pm, all ages. $29.50-$38.50. TM.

PRESENTED BY COLLECTIVE CONCERTS

722 COLLEGE STREET

DID YOU ENJOY: Kendrick Lamar and Imagine Dragons crashing their songs together without rhyme or reason? Catch Brazilian Girls, who have been successfully mixing styles like electronic and tango onand-off-again since 2003. Sunday (February 2) at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst), doors 8 pm. $20. TW.

SAT FEB 1 • 7PM

BOUNDBYSOUND

Horseshoe The Soul Motivators, the Heavy Weights Brass Band, Julian Taylor Band doors 9 pm. Hot Box Puff Lounge Rock The Hotbox (freestyle competition). Lee’s Palace The Balconies, Say Yes doors 9 pm. BMagic Oven Queen E African Heritage Month Kickoff The Memberz Reggae Band 9 pm. PJ O’Brien Irish Pub The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 10 pm. Portobello Allan Fraser & Marianne Girard, Roger Zuraw, Glen Gary 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Anokhi’s 11th Anniversary Event Culture Shock, Abbas Hasan, Priya, DJ Fizza, DJ Amita 8 pm awards, after party 10 pm. Rancho Relaxo Ocean Noise, Marriage, Creature Speak (indie rock). Revival 90s House Music Tribute Party DJs Barbara Tucker, Gene King, Dave Campbell, Mitch Winthrop, Groove Institute doors 10 pm, Totsapalooza 6 Julia Donaldson, the Bicycles, Movement Lab & the Gruffalo 10 am & 2 pm. The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Rivoli Dear Love The Rathburns, Falls, Fossil Hill doors 9 pm. Silver Dollar Bass Drum of Death, Chico No Face, Sam Coffey & the Iron Lungs doors 9 pm. The Sister JP Wasson Band. Sound Academy Panic! at the Disco, X Ambassadors doors 7 pm, all ages. Southside Johnny’s Kat House (rock/top 40) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Heavy Ethics 10 pm.

Visit nowtoronto.com/contests to enter! One entry per household.

David Newberry (folk rock). C’est What The Boxcar Boys (old-time/folk) doors 2 pm Dakota Tavern The Rizdales 10 pm, Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Flato Markham Theatre Roseanne Cash (country/ ñ pop/folk) 8 pm. Grossman’s Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic (blues/country/swing) 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Fathead 8:30 pm. Lou Dawg’s Jeff Eager (acoustic blues/funk/rock/soul). Lula Lounge Son Ache (salsa) 10:30 pm. Massey Hall Acoustic Evening Lyle Lovett, John Hiatt 8 pm.

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Conservatory of Music

ñKoerner Hall

Concert For Mali Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyate 8 pm. St Nicholas Anglican Church Acoustic Harvest Dave Gunning doors 7:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Abigail Lapell (singer/songwriter) 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub Lucian Gray Quartet 6 to 9 pm. Eden United Church Festival Of Friends Benefit Concert Mississauga Festival Choir 8 pm.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Maggie’s Mish

Mash Variety Show 7 pm. Gallery 345 Ugly Beauties CD release Marilyn Lerner, Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser (piano, cello, percussion) 8 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro Mike Francis Quartet 9 pm. Metropolitan United Church Benefit for 1930s historic pipe organ Bach Children’s Chorus, the Northern Lights Barbershop Chorus, the Metropolitan Choir, Eleanor Daley, Patricia Wright 7:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Solo Piano Masters Star Mark Eisenman 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Paintbox Bistro Maria Farihna, Andre Valerio, Kieran Overs, Allison Au, Ethan Ardelli (jazz) 8 & 9:45 pm.

The Rex Hotfoot Orchestra 9:45 pm, Nick eehan Group 7 pm, Swing Shift Big Band T 3:30 pm. Rosedale United Church Scots Wha’ Hae: Robert Burns Day Concert Allison Arends, Robert Missen, Melody McShane 8 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Belugagrads Concert Raffi (family concert) 1 and 4 pm.

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Hall The Glenn Gould School Vocal Showcase 7:30 pm.

Seven44 Climax Jazz Band (traditional jazz) 4 to 7 pm.

St Thomas’s Anglican Church Three Choral

Recitals Pro Coro Canada 7:30 pm, Vancouver Chamber Choir 5 pm, Elmer Iseler Singers 3 pm. Victoria Chapel Musikalischer Spab Scaramella (chamber music) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Andy Poolhall Major Rager Billionaire, Mickey D, O-God, Terror Tone (house/trap/ reggae/hip-hop/remixes) 10 pm. Baltic Avenue Homework: Dance Music From The Future Goin’ Steady DJs doors 10 pm. BassLine Music Bar RVREST Finale Dript, Chunk, Riotboys, Apeireon (house/trap/R&B) 10 pm. BELLJAR CAFE von LIPTOV Benjamin Boles, Vokode, Jennifer Loveless 9 pm. Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm. Crocodile Rock DJ CrocRock. Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Disgraceland In Between Days DJ Demanda, Chakashawn (80s) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Never Forgive Action DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia (classic hip-hop/ R&B) 11 pm. DrakeHotelLounge DJ Dougie Boom doors 10 pm.

Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre Brrrrr! Winter Music Festival Wolfgang ñ Gartner, Bass Jackers, Felix Cartal, Henrix, Joe

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Kitch Luke Vajsar (solo bass). The Rex Humber College Student Jazz Ensem-

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Hugh’s Room JP Cormier, Adrien AuCoin (folk) 8:30 pm.

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album reviews band hits a middle ground between former quirks and a new appreciation for serious electronics. In fact, when they revert back to the old formula of a strippeddown guitar/bass/drum set-up, like on It’s Not Serious, it feels flat and incomplete without the extra noise. Papini’s vocals seem scaled back, too – there’s less energetic chattiness and more silent resignation. Well, no one said growing up was easy. Top track: Nightingale SAMANTHA EDWARDS

Electronic Metal SKULL FIST Chasing The Dream

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ALEJANDRA RIBERA La Boca

(Pheromone) Rating: NNN Every now and then a singer comes along with such an unusual approach to her voice that the Canadian folk scene stops in its tracks to make space for something they didn’t know they were missing. Darkly theatrical and deep-voiced, Toronto-raised, Montreal- and Paris-based trilingual (English, French and Spanish) singer Alejandra Ribera is such a performer. For her second album, she waited three years to work with her producer of choice, Jean Massicotte, who also worked with the late singer Lhasa de Sela. And judging from the warm magic of the rhythms and textures captured –

including piano, marimba and bagpipes – that was a good call. But despite the presence of roots-pop single I Want – whose chorus is anthemic, full of longing and will likely play on radios everywhere soon – Ribera sometimes comes across as a stronger interpreter than a writer. For example: check out her slow and moody version of the Proclaimer’s hit song 500 Miles. A great original, though? Un Cygne La Nuit (a bilingual duet with French singer Arthur H). Her direct, pure voice contrasts nicely with his grittiness and sexy french accent. Top track: I Want Alejandra Ribera plays the Royal Theatre April 11. SARAH GREENE

An anxious mood comes through clearly but doesn’t quite go anywhere, kind of like a protagonist who seems the same at the end of a book as at the beginning. Top track: Picture Show Lanterns on the Lake play the Drake Underground on Saturday (February 1). CARLA GILLIS

Pop/Rock LANTERNS ON THE LAKE Until The Colours Run (PIAS) Rating: NNN Lanterns on the Lake’s second album is like a dreamscape, shimmering with soft tremolo guitars, big, reverby drums and dense orchestration. Hazel Wilde softly sings about hardships and uncertainty, and you believe her, especially once you learn that the band was in financial trouble while making the album. Until The Colours Run begins intensely with Elodie, a rhythmically arresting song that gives way to light drum tapping and Wilde’s plaintive coo. From there the Newcastle-Upon-Tyne band coasts along in a beautiful but ultimately unmemorable way. The languid songs surge and settle but lack strong melodies, aside from Picture Show, also striking for its storm sounds.

HOSPITALITY Trouble (Merge) Rating: NNN On NYC trio Hospitality’s sophomore fulllength, they switch gears from the cutesy indie pop of their 2012 self-titled effort to full-on emotional drama. Lead vocalist and chief songwriter Amber Papini isn’t wondering about 20-something hardships any more; her plight is more existential. On Inauguration, she asks, “Is this my life? Is this my fate?” Her crisis unfolds within a volley of instruments new to the group’s repertoire: drum machines, keyboards, even synthesizers. The songs work best when the

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Rating: NNN San Francisco garage three-piece Pow! envision a post-apocalyptic world where cheap taco joints have been replaced by high-end cafés. Ostensibly a eulogy for an affordable San Fran, it’s a sentiment likeminded folks in our fair city may relate to as well. Considering the gravity of the subject, it’s odd that Pow! produce so little angry, punk-like furor. Their message is delivered with a foreboding groove – less urgent but a hell of a lot creepier. Vertical Slum builds a spacey, engulfing trance, and haunting album closer Fire Hose’s pummelling synth-driven rhythms would’ve suited A Clockwork Orange perfectly. Garage rock is often stripped down to a formula: bratty kids playing quickly and poorly for sheer, visceral pleasure. Pow! abstain from that, choosing instead penetrating two-minute warning signs. Top track: @ The Station JOSHUA KLOKE

(Shred’s Not Dead) that they set themselves apart. Also, the production’s great: crisp and balanced; it’d be easy for Slaughter’s vocals to be jarring, but they sit just right in the mix. Top track: Hour To Live Skull Fist play an album release show at the Virgin Mobile Mod Club on March 7. CG

(NoiseArt) Rating: NNN Jackie Slaughter is a force of nature. Recently recovered from a broken neck in a skateboarding accident, the singer/guitarist for Toronto power metal band Skull Fist shrieks higher than Mark Slaughter (no relation, as far as I know) one moment and dishes out speedy, virtuosic riffs the next. The four-piece – which also includes guitarist Jonny Nesta, bassist Casey Slade and temporary drummer Chris Steve – borrows liberally from traditional metal and hard rock, and the nine whiplashinducing songs on their second album soar with blazing guitarmonies, passionate performances and relentless energy. Taken all at once, they definitely blur together, and the lyrics are predictably formulaic – about fighting to live life on your own terms, a worthy focus if only the clichés were done away with. It’s when Skull Fist break out into swift time changes, odd chord progressions (Call Of The Wild) and proggy surprises

ACTRESS Ghettoville (Ninja Tune)

Rating: NNN Depending on how you interpret the mysterious press release, this might be the final musical statement by Actress (aka UK electronic music producer Darren Cunningham). If it is the end, the oppressive mood suggests Cunningham isn’t feeling very cheerful these days: Ghettoville sounds more like the soundtrack to a mental breakdown than something you’d even consider putting on at a party. No one was expecting dance floor fillers, but this is particularly dark. Most of the tracks are slow, stumbling hip-hop beats constructed out of samples of scraping and scratching sounds, covered in a haze of hissing noise, with creepy bells providing vague hints of melody. Every drum sample sounds like it’s been pitched down to the point where the digital grains are audible, and the whole thing could have been mixed down onto a muddy old tape deck. It’s a masterpiece of uneasy listening but would be a lot more digestible had it been trimmed to a manageable length. Top track: Birdcage BENJAMIN BOLES

DROWNERS (Frenchkiss) Rating: NN

Named after Suede’s Britpop-defining single, four-piece New York band Drowners have released a self-titled debut that’s actually more evocative of the Smiths and the Strokes, with its jangly guitar riffs, punchy hooks and morning-after ruminations on boozing and breakups. The slight warble in singer Matt Hitt’s voice even seems to be angling for Julian Casablancas’s ability to move from dispassionate to flirtatious to snarling within a few bars. But nowhere in this briskly paced album’s 12 songs do you ever feel like last night’s party has seeped into the studio, much less your stereo speakers. Drowners prove themselves competent in making a tight indie rock album full of enjoyable melodies, but their strict adherence to formula and professionalism is undermining and can be dull. The pulverizing Bar Chat and erudite A Button On Your Blouse showcase Hitt at his most charming, but in the end Drowners are missing that ineffable ingredient that could help them transcend their influences. Top track: Bar Chat KEVIN RITCHIE NOW JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5 2014

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more than 30 artists don’t stray far from cloth as the stuff of everyday life – shirts, linens, underwear – what we live in and have to work with. Fiona Kirkwood, from Durban, South Africa, uses salvaged synthetic fibres like nylon rope, bits of plastic, electrical wire, pull-tabs from soda cans – elements that recall the hardscrabble scavenging life of a township. Woven into tapestries of sizzling electric colour, they speak of a vibrancy and inventiveness born of

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pieces From The Guggenheim, to Mar 2 ($25, stu $16.50). Artsy Games Organizing, Feb 1-Mar 21 (Community Gallery). 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, reception 6-9 pm, Performance Bus from OCAD Feb 5. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778. DESIGN EXCHANGE 100% TobeUs: 100 Cars, to Feb 9 (free). 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE CounterIntelligence, to Mar 16. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART David McEown and Ben Barak, to Mar 15. Mary Pratt, to Apr 27. Changing Tides: Contemporary Art Of Newfoundland And Labrador, to Jun 1. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905893-1121. POWER PLANT Mike Nelson, reception 8-11 pm Jan 31, Feb 1-May 19, panel 7:30 pm ($15) Feb 5. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

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both tradition and necessity. Valerie Knapp and Meghan Macdonald take a more muted approach. They use the quiet palette of vintage Canadian needlepoint and embroidery and bits of scrap fabric to pull the viewer into clever exercises in nostalgia; it’s like coming across the neatly folded work of your Maritime grandmother. Other artists use their craftiness to deliver punchy contrasts. David Woodward’s series of tighty whities, All I Am Is What I’ve Felt, juxtaposes blunt ironic statements with commercial logos (for Oh Henry and Fisherman’s Friend), injecting a bit of cranky punk rock DIY sentiment through its neat stitching. Marie De Sousa’s boxing gloves made from adult diapers (aptly named Depends) suggest an attitude to adult incontinence that’s defiantly cheeky. For Confiscation Garments, Miriam Grenville sews plastic guns safely inside a series of aprons, each embroidered with a mother’s imagined admonition to their child. “What did I say would happen if you kept pointing it at your brother?” says one. Each piece is a neat parable of motherly concern and care pitted against a looming background of violence. Some artists are standouts for being unclassifiable. Silky Shoemaker contributes Phoenix, a figure in sequined harlequin tights that forgoes easy whimsy for exuberant outsider weirdness, transforming the twee into the compelling. It’s reminiscent of the imposing creature-from-analternate-dimension quality of Nick Cave’s fabric sound suits. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

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Verbatim musical inspired by killings scales new heights By GLENN SUMI

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group leader Ron (George Masswohl) heading a neighbourhood meeting, and it’s followed by a scene in which Julie (Fiona Reid) introduces us to an initiative to help beautify the sullied district with a flowerpot competition. The episodes that follow – conversations in pubs, cafés, private homes and public areas, as the police and then journalists descend on the area – expand the world of the piece, each scene given a musical character that matches the text: gossipy, lyrical, hopeful. All of this sets us up for the powerful second half, in which Blythe and Cork lead us to examine the class system, the arbitrary nature of crime (the use of a raffle beautifully integrated into one scene) and the idea of forgiveness and redemption. There’s as much pathos and anger as there is humour. In one scene, three prostitutes discuss how the murders have affected them; in another, Julie admits she would shake the murderer’s hand for clearing the streets of those women; and in a hilarious sequence, a journalist (Damien Atkins)

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Taking a trip along London Road will change your idea of what heights musicals can scale. Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork’s documentary musical is inspired by the murders of five prostitutes in the mid-aughts in the Suffolk, England town of Ipswich. Since the women are dead and the killer – whose apprehension and trial are covered in the show – is in jail, the book and lyrics are drawn from interviews with the neighbouring residents. Their statements – repeated verbatim, with “ums,” “ahs,” non sequiturs and contradictions included – form the spine of the show. And while the style takes some time to get used to, especially in the first half, the payoff is remarkable, amounting to a rich portrait of humanity in all its complexity. The opening sequence features

stumbles repeatedly in a segment because he can’t say the word “semen” for a daytime broadcast. Director Jackie Maxwell’s production works beautifully in the Bluma Appel, Judith Bowden’s set – dominated by three pivoting screens – evokes the feel of the working-class neighbourhood, and Kevin Lamotte’s lighting captures everything from alleyway gloom to optimistic morning. The performances are revelatory, from the pit to the stage. Each actor plays about 10 roles, altering their character physically and vocally to bring this complex story to life with dignity and truth. Don’t miss this. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com | @glennsumi

son Theatre School). A blues band encounters various misfortunes in this comedy. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 12, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $tba. Abrams Studio Theatre, 46 Gerrard E. 416-979-5118, ryersontheatre.ca. THE CHILDREN’S HOUR by Lillian Hellman (Encore Entertainment). A girl starts a malicious rumour about two women at an all-girls school. Opens Jan 30 and runs to Feb 9, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $28-$30. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. encoreshows.com. THE COUNTRY WIFE by William Wycherley (George Brown Theatre School). A politician is caught between private shame and public scandal in this social comedy. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 15, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 1:30 pm (and Feb 12). $18, srs $12 stu $7. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. FREE OUTGOING by Anupama Chandrasekhar (Nightwood Theatre). A teen sex video goes viral in this play about the battle between technology and traditional values in India (see story, page 59). Opens Jan 30 and runs to Feb 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$45. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, nightwoodtheatre.net. GENESIS & OTHER STORIES by Rosamund Small (Aim for the Tangent Theatre). The story of Adam and Eve is set in 1965 America. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 15, Wed-Fri 8 pm, Sat 7 and 9 pm. $10-$15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, totix.ca. IDIOT’S DELIGHT by Robert E Sherwood (Soulpepper). Countesses, arms dealers, lovers, revolutionaries and others spend a fateful weekend in a Swiss hotel on the eve of WWII. Opens Jan 30 and runs to Mar 1, see website for schedule. $23-$74, rush $5$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, youngcentre.ca. JESUS HOPPED THE ‘A’ TRAIN by Stephen Adly Guirgis (Unit 102 Actors Co). This play examines the judicial system and asks whether redemption is possible. Opens Jan 31 and runs to Feb 15, WedSat 8 pm (and Feb 11), mat Sun Feb 9. $20,

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mat pwyc. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. unit102theatre.com. LABOUR by Eric and Ryan Welch (Coyote Collective). The Welch brothers use their experience of working in warehouses to explore the lives of burnt-out day labourers. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 9, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, mat pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, coyotecollective.wordpress.com. MADELEINE ROBIN KNOWN AS ROXANE by Grace Smith (Theatre Double Take). A woman tells her side of a bizarre love triangle in this imagined sequel to Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 9, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. lemonTree Studio, 196 Spadina. roxane.eventbrite.ca. A MASKED BALL (UN BALLO IN MASCHERA) by Giuseppe Verdi (Canadian Opera Company). Verdi’s tale of forbidden passion is set in the American south of the 1960s. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Feb 22, see website for schedule. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. coc.ca. METAMORPHOSIS by Franz Kafka (Lyric Hammersmith/Vestuport/Mirvish). A family’s life is turned upside down when their son turns into a giant insect. Previews to Feb 1. Opens Feb 2 and runs to Mar 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $25-$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. mirvish.com. MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL by TS Eliot (Trinity College Dramatic Society). Archbishop Thomas Becket clashes with King Henry II in 12th-century England. Jan 30-Feb 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10. Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. THE PORTKEY (Centre for Indigenous Theatre). Storyweaving presentation about theatrical portals found through the character of the trickster. Jan 31-Feb 1 at 8 pm. $10/pwyc. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. indigenoustheatre.com. RAVENSCROFT by Don Nigro (Sterling Studio Theatre). A brilliant detective looks for the truth about a mysterious death and about himself in this dark comedy. Opens Jan 30 and runs to Feb 8, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $20. 163 Sterling, unit 5. sterlingstudiotheatre.com. SCOTLAND ROAD by Jeffrey Hatcher (Amicus Productions). A young woman in 19th-century continued on page 60 œ

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Sex, lies and viral video Play looks at how an online scandal affects a Tamil family By JON KAPLAN FREE OUTGOING by Anupama Chandrasekhar, directed by Kelly Thornton, with Anusree Roy, Sanjay Talwar, Ash Knight, Andrew Lawrie, Ellora Patnaik and Asha Vijayasingham. Presented by Nightwood at Factory Theatre Mainspace (125 Bathurst). Opens tonight (January 30) and runs to February 16, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2 pm. $25-$45. 416-504-9971.

We often don’t think about how much electronic media shape our lives. In Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Free Outgoing, a Tamil family in Chennai, India, discovers the repercussions of the single click of a “Send” button. Andrew Lawrie’s older brother tries to keep the family together in Free Outgoing.

Deepa, the family’s teenage daughter, has had sex with her boyfriend, who’s sent a video of it to a friend who then starts spreading it to others. When it goes viral, the family’s lives are irremediably changed. “This takes place in a conservative society where a woman’s virtue is prominent,” says Andrew Lawrie, who plays Deepa’s older brother, Sharan. “Anything that tarnishes her image causes an uproar, a backlash, and that’s what the family faces, not just from their local community but a wider one as well. If you don’t obey the role you’ve been given, you’re likely to be shunned.” At first their widowed mother, Malini, refuses to believe her daughter would have sex with a fellow student, even when Deepa’s principal suspends her for misbehaving in an empty classroom; neither adult is yet aware of the video. Malini, a part-time accountant and saleswoman, blames the boy, the school, society in general. “Malini’s a strong-willed, stubborn woman living in a culture that requires you have a man to stand by you in a situation like this,” explains Lawrie. “She’s fighting a losing battle because she can’t counter society’s beliefs, and Sharan, at 16, isn’t yet able to be her defender. “I’d forgotten how complicated and utterly energetic a teen can be,” smiles the 23-year-old Lawrie, a Ryerson grad who’s returning next summer to Stratford. “Sharan’s expected to take over his father’s role in this crisis, but he’s not yet up to it and that makes him angry, as does the fact that he feels the repercussions of what his sister has done. “By the end of the play he’s started to rise to the role, but you can still see the helpless child in

him every once in a while.” Though we meet Malini’s business associate, the principal, the boyfriend’s father and a seemingly solicitous neighbour, Deepa surprisingly never appears. Instead, she spends her time locked in her bedroom as others discuss her action and her future. “That’s a clever choice on the playwright’s part,” notes Lawrie. “It’s interesting where your imagination goes, for you’re also left wondering what the other characters see when they watch the video. “I don’t necessarily want her to be present onstage. Deepa’s a figure of rebellion against tradition, an active participant in the video in a culture where a woman doesn’t choose to do something like this. She’s defined by her actions, and we don’t need to see her face.” Free Outgoing makes an ironic point not just about the universality of social media, but also about the intrusiveness of the news media in our lives. “In an interview, a newswoman tries to put a spin on the story to hook an audience. At the forefront of her questions is the idea of teen sex, not the person who’s being examined. There’s no thought about why Deepa took part: love, curiosity, the desire to be free from an oppressive society. All the reporter’s looking for is an enticement to get viewers to watch. “Along with the video going viral, that ‘news’ angle further blurs the line between the public and the private, suggesting that whatever used to be intimate and personal has now become something for anyone to investigate.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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clothing is found on an iceberg 75 years after the sinking of the Titanic in this psychodrama. Opens Jan 30 and runs to Feb 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Feb 8) at 2 pm. $22, srs $20, stu $18. Papermill Theatre, 67 Pottery. 416-8606176, amicusproductions.ca. Shine Cabaret (Crowning Monkey). Clown, poetry, music and more with Christel Bartelse, Alex Eddington, Lukas Stark and others. Jan 31-Feb 1 at 8:10 pm. $15-$20. DANZoN Studio, 2480 Dundas W, suite 104. 647-701-0736, facebook.com/events/579791235425320. Sweet Charity by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman and Dorothy Fields (UC Follies Theatre Co). A dancer seeks true love in 60s NYC. Opens Jan 31 and runs to Feb 8, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat Feb 1 at 6 pm, Feb 8 at 2 and 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $12. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House Circle. 416978-8849, uofttix.ca. Swell Broad/The Homemaker by Brooke Banning/Laura Anne Harris (Convection Productions/Peanut Butter People). Harris directs a play about an unlikely meetup and performs her solo cabaret in this double bill. Opens Jan 31 and runs to Feb 9, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $20, stu $15. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. brownpapertickets.com/event/546366. Tuesdays With Morrie by Jeffrey Hatcher and Mitch Alborn (Down n’ Out Productions). A man reunites with his former professor, who is battling Lou Gehrig’s disease. Opens Jan 31 and runs to Feb 12, daily at 6 pm (no shows Feb 7-8), mat Sun 2 pm. $65 (Winterlicious dinner show), Sun pwyc (show only). Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227, campbellhousemuseum.ca. bUnderground Alphabet Railroad by James Valitchka and Elle Reyes (Child & Teen Drama Program & Production Co). Kids from various countries meet the children of slaves in their town. Opens Feb 3 and runs to Feb 10, see website for times. $16, child $8. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. bit.ly/1i7DE7R.

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EDMUND IRONSIDE by William Shakespeare (Ale House Theatre Co). Reading of a forgotten play by the Bard. Feb 3 at 7 pm. Free. Woodlot, 293 Palmerston. alehousetheatre.com. Encounters (U of T Opera/Faculty of Music). Performance of five mini operas based on librettos by Michael Patrick Albano. Jan 30 at 5 pm. Free. Edward Johnson Bldg, 80 Queen’s Park, MacMillan Theatre. 416-978-5776. End Of Night by Jason Freure (Hart House Players). Live reading of Freure’s dark and poetic new play. Jan 30 at 8 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle, Debates Room. facebook.com/events/252313844942527. Grand Night (Toronto Island Grannies in Spirit/Nightwood Theatre). A special presentation of the play Free Outgoing is part of this funder for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Jan 31 at 6:30 pm. $75. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst. torontoislandgranniesinspirit.weebly.com. Hippolyte Et Aricie by Jean-Philippe Rameau (VOICEBOX: Opera in Concert). A woman falls in love with her stepson in this opera based on Greek mythology. Feb 2 at 2:30 pm. $52-$73. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. stlc.com. Jeni Walls As Jeni Walls A Cabaret (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Walls sings and tells stories with a live band. Jan 31 at 7 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. bpt.me/event/550357. Les Muses Orphelines by Michel Marc Bouchard (Théâtre la Tangente). Staged reading in French. Jan 31 at 7:30 pm. $10-$15. Alliance Française, 24 Spadina. alliance-francaise.ca. QueerCab (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Open-mic night for youth. Feb 5 at 8 pm. Pwyc. 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. Scots Wha’ Hae (Bobolink Entertainment). Robbie Burns Day songs and poems with host RH Thomson. Feb 1 at 8 pm. Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough. 416-854-5426. Tapestry Songbook (Tapestry New Opera). Emerging opera stars perform a showcase of excerpts. Feb 1 at 7:30 pm. $25. Ernest Balmer Studio, 9 Trinity, ste 316. tapestryopera.com.

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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 Beauty Queen Of Leenane by Martin McDonagh (Red Sandcastle Theatre). A lonely fortysomething woman deals with her mother’s meddling in this darkly comic Irish play. Runs to Feb 1, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com. Cabaret by Christopher Isherwood, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Lower Ossington Theatre). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Runs to Feb 23, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. Così Fan Tutte by WA Mozart (Canadian Opera Company). Taking the subtitle (The with Daniel (Chris Sams), a lightskinned member of the aristocratic Beauxhommes whom she rescues after a storm and nurses back to health. When Daniel returns to his privileged life, Ti Moune goes to find him, believing that her love will triumph over stuffy tradition. Overseeing everything are a quartet of gods who dance, sing and – in one of the more intriguing sequences – give us a primer on French colonization of this tropical island. Lynn Ahrens’s book feels a tad earnest, and the story takes a while to heat up, but Stephen Flaherty’s tunes

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School For Lovers) of Mozart’s comic opera about love literally, director Atom Egoyan sets the action in a school where two young couples learn about the inconsistencies of affection. The singing and acting are generally strong and Debra Hanson’s attractive design makes striking use of butterflies, but Egoyan’s concept is cool, often confusing and doesn’t get to the story’s heart. Runs to Feb 21, see website for schedule. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNN (JK) Flesh And Other Fragments Of Love by Evelyne de la Chenelière (Tarragon Theatre). A troubled married couple find the body of a drowned woman during their vacation in Ireland; as they concoct her history, each is drawn to the woman. In a production that could use a shot of passion, Nicole Underhay as the drowned woman is ironically the most animated of the trio, though there are moments of striking poetry and intriguing staging as well. 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. NNN (JK) The Lady’s Not For Burning by Christopher Fry (Alumnae Theatre). A suicidal soldier falls for a woman accused of witchcraft in 1400s England in this romantic comedy. Runs to Feb 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, Sun pwyc. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com. Les Miserables by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg (Cameron Mackintosh/Mirvish). This 25th-anniversary production of the popular musical is dominated by Ramin Karimloo, whose ex-con Jean Valjean grows in complexity and depth and delivers some transcendent moments, even if he’s too young to pull off the final scenes. He’s surrounded by lots of talent and a handsome production that’s majestic yet intimate, with stirring new orchestrations that add extra fire to this dramatic musical. Runs to Feb 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $35$130. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) London Road by Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork (Canadian Stage). This documentary musical is based on interviews with Ipswich residents following the 2006 murders in their town (see review, page 58). Runs to Feb 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, SatSun 2 pm. $24-$99. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNNN (JK) Manon, Sandra and the Virgin Mary by Michel Tremblay (Pleiades Theatre). Monologues by repressed Christian Manon (Irene Poole) and hyper-sexual queer Sandra (Richard McMillan) intertwine to bring us deeper truths about both characters. John Van Burek stages the piece with minimalist simplicity. Teresa Przybylski’s set and Itai Erdal’s sometimes lurid light design bring the characters’ connections into focus. Poole doesn’t quite convey the simmering sexuality the role demands, but McMillan is riveting as Sandra. Runs to Feb 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$37, rush $20.

are infectiously enjoyable, and Marc Kimelman’s Afro-inspired choreography is at times thrilling. The scene in which Ti Moune walks through a forest is enchanting. Michael Laird’s sound design is particularly effective in Nigel Shawn Williams’s staging, at times evoking the windswept feel of being on an actual island. It’s a shame not all the performers are of the same calibre. Duncan’s soulful, powerful voice is worth the price of admission, and Sabryn Rock stands out both in the chorus and as Daniel’s fiancée, Andrea. Daren A. Herbert, so good in Acting Up Stage’s A Craigslist Cantata and Parade, demonstrates complete authority as Papa Ge, the god of death. But Blackman, while an excellent dancer, doesn’t connect emotionally to Ti Moune’s songs or dialogue, leaving a big gap in the centre of what should be an involving, bittersweet story of starcrossed love. And it’s unfortunate that the redcheeked masks worn by a group of gods are the same sported by the sadistic Jigsaw killer in the Saw movies. GLENN SUMI

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Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNN (Susan G Cole) Of Mice And Morro And Jasp by Heather Marie Annis and Amy Lee (U.N.I.T. Productions). The clown sisters take on John Steinbeck’s Depression-era tale of migrant workers seeking their dreams. Runs to Feb 8, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Thu 1 pm, Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. 416-504-9971, morroandjasp.com. bOnce 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 (see review, page 60). Runs to Feb 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$50. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Ada Slaight Hall. a ctingupstage.com. NNN (GS) Pacamambo by Wajdi Mouawad (Canadian Rep Theatre). A missing girl is found with her grandma’s body in this play about kids and death (see review, this page). Runs to Feb 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $24-$36, Sun mat pwyc. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. canadianrep.ca. NNNN (JK) Pith! by Stewart Lemoine (The Theatre Department). An itinerant sailor takes a stoic widow and her maid on an imaginative trip to the darkest heart of Ecuador in this saucy, slightly off-kilter comedy. Director Ron Jenkins paces the show perfectly, and he and actors Ron Pederson, Daniela Vlaskalic and Amy Matysio provide both charm and laughter in this unusual version of armchair travel. Runs to Feb 2, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. thetheatredepartment.com. NNNN (JK) This Clement World by Cynthia Hopkins (Theatre Centre Carbon 14: Climate is Culture Performance Series). This cross-disciplinary work fuses music, film and performance to look at the global climate crisis. Runs to Feb 2, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$30. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W, Black Box. theatrecentre.org. The Ugly One by Marius von Mayenburg (Theatre Smash/Tarragon Theatre). Von Mayenburg’s satire on beauty, temptation and conformity concerns an ugly inventor (David Jansen) whose plastic surgery changes his life for the better... until others start resembling him. The themes might be blunt, but Ashlie Corcoran’s production is razor sharp, with evocative sets and sound heightening the drama. Look for a clever use of apples and for richly nuanced performances by Jansen, Hardee T Lineham and Naomi Wright. Runs to Feb 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $48-$53, stu/srs $27-$45, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (GS) The Way Back To Thursday by Rob Kempson (Theatre Passe Muraille). A boy and his grandma bond over movies, but grow apart as he gets older (see review, this page). Runs to Feb 8, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$32.50, mat pwyc. 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, passemuraille.on.ca. NNNN (JK) 3

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Remember that pop tune that goes “You always hurt the one you love?” It’s the emotional through line of Rob Kempson’s engaging song cycle The Way Back To Thursday, a journey through some 30 years of memories for Cameron (Kempson), a gay man whose coming out isn’t complete until he opens up to the person closest to him, Grandma (Astrid Van Wieren). Given a simple but effective staging by director Briana Brown, the show blends moments of subtle comedy with poignant episodes that reveal the love between the pair. The music, orchestrated and music-directed by Scott Christian, who performs on piano with cellist Samuel Bisson, constantly changes style and emotion. Kempson knows how to play cleverly with lyrics,

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translated by Shelley Tepperman (Canadian Rep). At the Citadel (304 Parliament). Runs to February 2. $24-$36. 416-504-7529. See Continuing, this page. Rating: NNNN

One of the most difficult jobs that an adult faces is explaining death to a child. Wajdi Mouawad takes a poetic, fairy-tale stab at it with Pacamambo, whose central character, the young Julie (Amy Keating), is at a sleepover with her grandmother Marie Marie (Kyra Harper), when the old woman dies. Refusing to accept the loss, Julie, accompanied by her dog, Growl (Michelle Polak), takes her grandma’s body to the basement and demands that Death account for taking away the person she loved most. Discovered nearly three weeks later, Julie is questioned by a psychiatrist (Karen Robinson) who can’t understand her motives. Using Shelley Tepperman’s English translation of the original French, director Ken Gass’s shimmering, sometimes dreamlike production expertly contrasts the adult’s world of reason and too, subtly shifting words to give lines a rich meaning. It begins when Cameron is in Vancouver, a filmmaker who’s just broken up with his boyfriend and wondering how his aging grandmother in Toronto is doing. We then travel back through the years, beginning with Grandma singing a touching, hopeful lullaby to the just-born boy. Their main connection as Cameron gets older are their Thursday film nights, where they both idolize the dashing, charming Rock Hudson. Gran keeps saying how much Cameron is like the film star; only when Cameron googles Hudson Make a date to see Rob Kempson on Thursday... or any other day.

logic and the child’s realm of instinct and spirit. As Julie explains her actions to the psychiatrist, we’re drawn into her universe, one inspired by Marie Marie’s tale of Pacamambo, an enchanted land where everyone is equal and intertwined with everyone else. It’s a touching, highly theatrical hour, culminating in Julie’s confrontation of the elegant Death, not as unsympathetic a figure as one might assume. The cast is first-rate: Keating’s initially sullen, antagonistic Julie, unafraid to challenge both real and imaginary figures of authority; Harper’s caring Marie Marie, sympathetic even as she becomes a decomposing corpse; and Robinson as the psychiatrist and the seductive, smart Death. Mouawad’s intended audience includes those as young as nine as well as adults, and it’s Growl who provides a child’s way into the show. Polak’s winning performance, complete with doggy movements, a rough human voice and a bark and growl that would prick up the ears of other canines in the area, is both comic and endearing. Growl’s heartbeat grounds Julie as much as the inspiring but sometimes sad lessons she learns: that Paca mambo is a place of unifying love, and that if you accept life, you must also acJON KAPLAN cept death. for a class project does he realize that the star’s gay… and does that mean that Cameron is, too? Angst follows as Cameron struggles and then comes out to his parents but just can’t tell his grandmother. His fear cuts him off, in several senses, from his heart, and the result is pain for both. Despite the show’s strengths, there are moments that could be expanded and figures who could be more fleshed out. Kempson makes a believable, effervescent child as well as a moody teen and young adult. Van Wieren gives heart and style to every one of her songs, from that gentle lullaby to rocking numbers in which she proves her chops and show-business flair. The film world that Cameron and Grandma love so much ties together a loving relationship, one that comes full circle by the end despite its uncomfortable secrets and bumpy JON KAPLAN stretches.

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Thursday, January 30 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Jason Blanchard w/ David Andrew Brent and host DeAnne Smith. To Feb 2, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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LAUGHS Comedy Bar presents a comedy competition w/ Pat Thornton, Fraser Young, Sara Hennessey, James Hartnett, Alex Pavone, Rhiannon Archer, host Tim Gilbert and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com. WE CAN BE HEROES Second City’s latest revue – inspired by the idea that our society’s quickly going to hell – is one of its sharpest in a while. Newcomer Connor Thompson scores big laughs playing everything from a literal bat man to a blind lifeguard, while Craig Brown channels his inner Chaplin as a balding man having a terrible day. Even the less successful sketches are sharply directed, and the set and musical design help enhance the scenes. Not to be missed. To Feb 1, Thu 8 pm, Fri 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 Tom Simmons. To Feb 2, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, January 31 Absolute Comedy See Thu 30. ASIANS! EAST VS SOUTH Fade To Brown Com-

edy presents an ethnic mashup comedy night w/ Nicholas Reynoldson, Ernie Vicente, Amish Patel, JJ Lieberman and Anto Man-Ming Chan. 7:30 pm. $10. The LOT Comedy Club, 100 Ossington. 416-915-6747, fadetobrown.bpt.me. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 10:30 pm. $24. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents a stand-up showcase w/ host Matt Holmes. 9 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. camsplace.net. GLOBEHEAD 2014: PRELIMS Bad Dog Theatre presents the annual shortform battle royale w/ the Sufferettes, Hawkins, Tony Ho and others. To Feb 8, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $12, stu $10, pass $40. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. HIRUT HOOT: THE CURLING SHOW Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents Justin Laite, Dylan Gott, Kevin MacDonald, Arthur Simeon, George Westerholm, Gilson Lubin, Lee-Anne Stewart and host Scott McCrickard. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560. THE IMPROV GONG SHOW Imperial Pub presents audience-controlled laughs w/ Allan Turner, Amy J Lester, Ben Ball, William Nishri, Isaac Luy and others. 9 pm. $5. 54 Dundas E. imperialpub.com. JIM BREUER Rose Theatre presents the comic in a live show. 8 pm. $35-$49. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents DJ Demers, Peter Anthony, Plum Thunder, Jape, host Ben Miner and others. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/TheJokeboxComedyLounge. PREMIUM COMEDY Comedy Lounge presents Jay Martin, Anthony Englebrecht, Marito Lopez and Aisha Alfa. 9 pm. $10-$15. Up-Town Wine Bar, 473 Cosburn. comedylounge.ca. SKINPROV WhiteRhino Comedy presents 10 hot men bringing the laughs and taking off

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their clothes. 9 pm. $10. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. 647-898-5324. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Main Event, a weekly pro headliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416637-7427. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 30. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 30.

Saturday, February 1 Absolute Comedy See Thu 30. Globehead 2014: Prelims See Fri 31. I’VE BEEN MEANING TO MAKE IT OUT TO ONE OF YOUR SHOWS The LOT Comedy

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ham w/ Kathleen Phillips-Locke, Ron Sparks, Diana Bailey, Jeremy Woodcock and host Tim Gilbert. 10 pm. $10. 100 Ossington. 416-9156747, lotcomedy.com. MONKEY TOAST The Tite Group presents the improvised talk show w/ motivational speaker Mike Lipkin, the Monkey Toast Players and host Ron Tite. 8 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. monkeytoast.com. Red Rocket Comedy presents a weekly show w/ host Joel West. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. redrocketcoffee.com. S&P + FALCON POWDER Comedy Bar presents longform improv. 10 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. We Can Be Heroes See Thu 30. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 30.

Sunday, February 2 Absolute Comedy See Thu 30. STEAMY CREAMY COMEDY S.O.M.N. presents a

weekly show. 8 pm. Free. Cafe Pamenar, 307 Augusta. facebook.com/steamycreamy. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 30.

Monday, February 3 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Eric Andrews, Bryan Hatt, Steph Tolev, Alex Nussbaum, Tim Gilbert, Dan Bingham, Kathleen Magee, Ben Stevenson, MC Andrew Johnston and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562.

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Wednesday, February 5 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am night w/ headliner DeAnne Smith, Aaron ñ Kinnersly, Adam Jamal, Amish Patel, Brendan

Pinto, Megan Myke, Sebastian Fazio and host Aaron Power. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present sci fi-inspired improv w/ Ron Sparks & Scott McCrickard and sketch from Two Weird Ladies. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. improvdandies.wordpress.com. bKenny Robinson Main Library presents a performance by the comedian. 7 pm. Free. 137 Main. torontopubliclibrary.ca. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a tall tales competition w/ Helder Brum, William Nishri, Sherryl Cowden, Erin Rogers, host Paul Belini and others. 7 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com. PINK COLLAR COMEDY TOUR The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents stand-up w/ Erin Judge, Carrie Gravenson, K aytlin Bailey and Abbi Crutchfield. 9 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. pubaret. com. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Marc Hallworth and headliner Andrew Barr. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of North America’s longest-running comedy shows. Wednesdays 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001. Spring 2014 Mainstage Revue See Tue 4. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

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CLASSY DRUNK Blayne Smith and Troy Stark present headliner Ryan Horwood, Rebecca Reeds, Cleve Jones, Alex Wood, Rhiannon Archer and Hunter Collins. 8 pm. Free. Emmet Ray Bar, 924 College. theemmetray.com. THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros & lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369. FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents stand-up with 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. SPRING 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE Second City presents previews of its upcoming collection of sketches, songs and improvisations. Indefinite run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri 7:30 pm, SatSun 7:30 & 10 pm. $25-$29. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents comedy styled as a 70s cable access show w/ Rebecca Kohler, Evany Rosen, Steve Patrick Adams, Laura DiLabio, hosts Steph Kaliner & Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 61 Ossington. theossington.com. TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Imperial Pub presents host Danny Polishchuk and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-9774667, imperialcomedy.com.

resents Heidi Foss. To Feb p 9, Wed-Sun 8 pm (and FriSat 10:30 pm). $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com. 3

books memoir

No failure this LITTLE FAILURE by Gary Shteyngart

(Random House), 347 pages, $32 cloth. Rating: NNNN

Let me say this about the man who last month said CanLit sucks because it’s government-subsidized: Gary Shteyngart sure as hell can write. And he does it with candour and wit. He mines his fascinating life – his family emigrated to America from the Soviet Union in the late 70s when he was five – with uncommon fearlessness. His memories of the Soviet Union are hazy, but he solves that problem by writing these sections as just glimpses of architecture, for example, of the seasons and of playing in the square. The Jewish community in Queens greets the oppressed refugees warmly, but at his Jewish school he’s mercilessly taunted and finally finds his social identity as the class clown, and his personal identity as a compulsive writer. The two come together in a particularly moving sequence when a teacher asks him to read a story he’s written to the class. The kids are rapt. But school isn’t his only problem. He’s got his own private bully at home.

Opening Arrabal Mirvish and BASE Entertainment

present a dance-theatre show about the underground world of tango clubs in 1970s Argentina. Previews Feb 4-12, opens Feb 13 and runs to Apr 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, m irvish.com. bThe Radio Show Kyle Abraham/ Abraham.In.Motion and Harbourfront World Stage present an original work about identity and communication that links the

abrupt closing of an urban radio station with the effects of Alzheimer’s on a family. Opens Feb 5 and runs to Feb 8, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $39. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Continuing Heartbeat Of Home Mirvish presents Latin and Afro-Cuban performers ñIrish, in a music and dance show. 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. 3

Shteyngart is interviewed by Ian Brown at the Reference Library on Friday (January 31). See Readings, this page. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

BUY the book While we’re thinking free this week (see page 29), consider the potent punk band Pussy Riot, two of whose members were recently liberated as part of Putin’s Olympics amnesty from the Russian prisons where they were incarcerated for playing God’s Shit in a church. Russian authorities had tried to make the court proceedings into a show trial, but the media-savvy band were already videoing themselves, and the media that descended on the courthouse were sympathetic to the band. Included among the observers was journalist Masha Gessen, author of Words Will Break Cement: The Passion Of Pussy Riot ($18, Riverhead). Drawing on interviews with band members and their families, Gessen chronicles how Pussy Riot became a cause célèbre. A great SGC companion piece to the dynamic doc Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer.

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His father consistently demeans him and slaps him around, and his mother, too, can be unkind, dishing out the silent treatment when she’s upset. She’s the one who gives him the name Little Failure. Both parents have trouble adjusting to the U.S.; it’s years before they’ll get a TV or let their son go to McDonald’s. Shteyngart’s life changes dramati cally at Stuyvesant High School, for science nerds, where he learns the meaning of diversity: suddenly he has black friends. He also realizes soon enough that he’s not a math whiz and that writing is his passion. The rest of the books deals with getting the other things he needs: a love life (he tends to choose badly), separation from his family, control of his alcoholism and, most essential, psychoanalysis. We know the ending (memoirs are like that), but Shteyngart’s willingness to laugh at his flaws makes Little Failure both raw and surprisingly soulful. For more on the CanLit controversy, see nowtoronto.com/books/story. cfm?content=196181. But please don’t tell me I have no sense of humour; he SUSAN G. COLE wasn’t kidding.

magazine launches its new issue. 6-8 pm. Free. Northwood Café, 815 Bloor W. publicjournal.ca.

Friday, January 31 Gary Shteyngart Talking about his memoir, Little Failure, with the Globe And ñ Mail’s Ian Brown. 6:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. t orontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saturday, February 1 Gianna Patriarca/Judie Oron/Mary Milne Reading. 1:30-4:30 pm. Free. Porto-

Ayelet Tsabari Evening with the author of

The Best Place On Earth. 7:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. Pre-register saynifc@eventbrite.ca.

Monday, February 3 Adam Abbas Reading and open mic. 7:30 pm. Free. Amsterdam Bicycle Club, 54 the Esplanade. lizzieviolet.wordpress.com.

Tuesday, February 4 Arnold Zageris Launching his photography book On The Labrador. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Abbozzo Gallery, 401 Richmond W. abozzogallery.com.

bello, 995 Bay. 416-926-1800.

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Sunday, February 2

Mahlikah Aweri/Kanwal Rahim/BÄnoo Zan Women of Colour Poetry Salon. 6:30 pm.

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.

Free. Urban Gallery, 400 Queen E. facebook. com/events/679462418770945. books@nowtoronto.com

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Director’s fascinating doc plays with impermanence, the reciprocal gaze... and a very watchable primate By NORMAN WILNER VISITORS directed by Godfrey Reggio. A filmswelike

release. 87 minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

There has never been a movie like Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors. Shot in highresolution blackand-white and scored, like Reggio’s landmark Qatsi trilogy, by Philip Glass, Visitors is a series of high-definition HD images – mostly people’s faces appearing to stare back at the viewer – in 72 methodically paced shots.

It’s almost more of an art installation than a movie, but the effect it produces is remarkable. “This is a contemplative film,” Reggio says, the day after Visitors premieres at the Toronto Film Festival. “It’s a gift given to you. We’re [culturally] on speed, in rush hour, and this thing is really trying to slow you down. It can become a deprogramming experience. It takes a while, and it can make you uncomfortable.” Casting Visitors was an exercise in randomness, Reggio says. He didn’t have a specific type in mind for any of the scenes, just threw his door open and filmed anyone who would sit down for him. “Many of these people were volunteers,” Reggio explains. “Some were picked up off a line of migrants looking for work, some were [professional] extras. We just filmed as many people as possible and, reviewing the footage, we found the subjects who were most articulate.”

REVIEW VISITORS (Godfrey Reggio) Rating: NNNN Godfrey Reggio’s first feature project since 2002’s Naqoyqatsi is unlike any of his previous films. It’s not a documentary exactly, but a kind of essay film, constructed entirely of images of people (and one endlessly watchable primate) and places drifting across the screen in sumptuous black-and-white, all set to an alternately calm and propulsive Philip Glass score. The flow of images is designed to be open to interpretation, but it seemed to me that Reggio is exploring every permutation of his chosen title, including a slow-motion recreation of a roomful of people reacting to some sort of off-screen event – perhaps they’re not rooting for the home team. It’s a thrilling commentary on impermanence. None of us is here forever, after all. But that’s just my take. You’re free to make of Reggio’s art what you will. That’s what it’s there for.

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And then there was the lowland gorilla, Triska, who was filmed at the Bronx Zoo. Her surroundings were digitally removed in post-production and replaced with the same deep black background used with the film’s other subjects. “The gorilla is the adult in the room, the real person,” Reggio says. “We haven’t seen ourselves until we’ve seen ourselves through the eyes of an animal. If you go to the zoo, you’re looking at a gorilla. If you take away the background, then it’s looking at you. It changes everything.” Like the human subjects, Triska watched images on a video screen while Reggio’s camera recorded her through a one-way mirror. In the finished film, the characters seem to be watching us. “It’s about the reciprocal gaze,” Reggio explains. “Not only are we looking at the screen, but the screen is looking back at us. You’re looking directly into the eyes of another person, [and] this person is looking into your eyes, but you’re both looking at a screen. The audience – you – are the subject of this film.” No two people respond to it the same way. “There’s a Latin expression, ‘One receives according to one’s vessel,’” Reggio explains. “You don’t want everyone to have the same experience, because then it’s like advertising. It’s like you’re making a film about Coca-Cola.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision

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minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NN

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Imogen Poots and Zac Efron get stuck in a dud.

Paolo’s passion Italian director’s Oscar-nominated satire The Great Beauty lives up to its title By SUSAN G. COLE THE GREAT BEAUTY directed by

Paolo Sorrentino, written by Sorrentino and Umberto Contarello, with Toni Servillo and Carlo Verdone. 142 minutes. Subtitled. A Mongrel release. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

When I ask Italian auteur Paolo Sorrentino at the end of our interview during TIFF 2013 what question he wished I’d asked him, he doesn’t hesitate. “The best question is no question at all.” Weird. Suddenly, he sounds like one of those surly artistes who only spit out monosyllabic answers. But I’ve just spent 30 minutes with him, and he’s been engaging and thoughtful, speaking mostly through an interpreter on a vast range of subjects. (Now that I think of it, is there a single monosyllabic word in Italian?) The topics vary precisely because The Great Beauty, his gorgeous pic about contemporary Roman society, takes on so much – corruption, religion, aging, art – as his main character, Jep, roams the streets and the clubs. Just that short de-

scription gives you whiffs of Fellini’s La Dolce Vita. It, too, has themes of alienation and decadence and an episodic style – stuff just keeps happening. Go ahead, compare Sorrentino to the Italian icon. “He’s one of my favourites, a master in revealing life,” says Sorrentino. “I am afraid, though, that the film will appear like an imitation, in which case it could fail.” I don’t think so. It took the Golden Globe for best foreign film and has just copped an Oscar nom in the same category. Among Sorrentino’s many targets is Rome’s arts community, seemingly less and less interested in authentic emotion. A bitingly satiric sequence features a performance artist banging her head against a tree while Roman ruins loom in the background; the visual arts have obviously gone downhill since ancient times. “There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart,” he says. “These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?” He himself shows plenty of passion in his commentary about reli-

gion, both in the film and in person. A sequence in the film features an inspirational saint whose devotion leads her to climb hundreds of stairs in a local church. “Religion in Italy has been changing since the new pope has come into the Vatican. My representation of religion, the saint and the [corrupt] cardinal, reflects what Pope Francisco is saying: the true beauty of the religion is in conflict with the old Church. “And I included the botox sequence” – in which clients take a number and line up around the block for injections – “because beauty has become a new religion.” As in Il Divo and The Consequences Of Love, Sorrentino works with his muse Toni Servillo, who expertly conveys dissolute journalist Jep’s world-weariness. “As an actor, his most important quality is that he tries to do something new with every film. It’s like I’m working with a new actor every time. More important than his acting qualities, we have a friendship. Even when the work is heavy, we both keep a sense of irony and humour.” The film’s almost awkward title is not a phrase anyone would use in everyday language. “That’s true,” he allows, “but it reflects the spirit of the movie. Everything can be beautiful – vulgarity, corruption, squalor, the people at parties who snort cocaine. “Even in the emptiness, Toni Servillo’s jaded there is beauty.” 3 journalist goes in search of beauty.

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Sure, this gorgeous, sweeping indictment of contemporary Roman society under Berlusconi is self-indulgent – and its perspective is decidedly male – but Paolo Sorrentino is the kind of director you want to indulge. Toni Servillo stars as 60-something journalist Jep, who wrote a bestselling novel when he was in his 20s but hasn’t written a thing that matters since. Instead, he’s immersed himself in all things shallow: the party circuit, pseudo-intellectual confabs with the rich and famous, meaningless sex. Shades of La Dolce Vita. Jep reflects on his empty life in a series of spectacular vignettes that come tumbling out of cinematographer Luca Bigazzi and Sorrentino’s vivid imagination: over-the-top bashes, an artist performing beside Roman ruins, a money-grubbing doctor injecting botox in public and a ton more. Garish party sequences collide with serene images of Rome’s ancient art; beautiful, inspirational music meets club bangers. Just let the damn thing SGC wash over you.

That Awkward Moment starts as a frothy rom-com about three New York City bros (Zac Efron, Michael B. Jordan and Miles Teller) who swear off proper relationships and immediately find themselves bedding women with real romantic potential. And then, well, it shits the bed. You can feel it happen. You can sense the precise moment when That Awkward Moment stops being a light comedy and reveals itself as something cold and alien that bears no relation to actual human experience. At a key moment, writer/director Tom Gormican proposes that the unforgivably cruel actions of a certain character are not only not that big a deal but fixable. And he’s so very, very wrong. What happens isn’t an act of abuse or anything – it’s more like considered neglect – but no matter how charming Efron, Jordan and Teller try to be, there’s just no coming back from it. Which is a shame, because the movie Gormican thinks he’s making seems like it’d be fun, with engaging performances by Jordan, Teller and Mackenzie Davis (soon to be seen in The F Word), some nicely complex work by Imogen Poots and mostly competent acting from Efron. NORMAN WILNER Pity it’s all for nothing.

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Wheel deal 12 O’Clock Boys (Lotfy Nathan). 76 minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NNNN

It’s reductive but not inaccurate to say Lotfy Nathan’s documentary 12 O’Clock Boys plays like a dirt bike version of the fourth season of The Wire. For two years, Nathan followed a Baltimore kid named Pug who dreams of joining the packs of stunt riders. Pointing their front wheels skyward like the hands of a clock (hence the name 12 O’Clock Boys), they dazzle the neighbourhood kids with their sustained wheelies and total disregard for the police. There’s just one drawback: Pug develops his skills (on a pokey quad bike) to the exclusion of his studies, his family life and pretty much everything else, pitting him against his exhausted mother, his overworked teachers and a whole lot of other obstacles. In Nathan’s gorgeous slow-motion shots of the 12 O’Clock Boys riding for the camera, we see the glory to which Pug aspires. In the rest of the movie, we see the life that’s really waitNorman Wilner ing for him. Pug just wants to ride his bike.

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AT MIDDLETON (Adam Rodgers). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies page 68. Rating: NNN

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Two parent-kid combos – a motherdaughter and father-son – get way more than they bargain for when they head to a small Connecticut town for interviews at Middleton College. Buttoned-down heart surgeon George (Andy Garcia) is pushing his son Conrad (Spencer Lofranco) to get excited about the school, while freespirited Edith (Vera Farmiga) can’t figure out why Audrey (real-life sister Taissa Farmiga) is considering just this one institution. Soon George and Edith have broken

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away from the official tour – leaving the kids to spark an uneasy friendship – and form an unlikely bond that makes them question everything about their comfortable lives. There are way too many plot holes and improbable events in director and co-writer Adam Rodgers’s script. Audrey should have known the key piece of information about the prof she’s obsessed with. The likelihood of two parents blowing a joint in a dorm room with some friendly students is nil. And the stakes would be a lot higher if we knew more about these people’s lives back home. But the performances are very engaging – Farmiga is especially winning as the near ditzy dame who tries to pull George out of his shell – and the parent-child tensions feel authentic. This is an innocuous trifle. Just don’t expect the earth to move. SUSAN G. COLE

Ambitious feature debut takes on a painful period with style and smarts By NORMAN WILNER and directed by Jeff Barnaby with Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs, Glen Gould, Brandon Oakes and Mark Anthony Krupa. An Entertainment One release. 88 minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68.

Jeff Barnaby’s been making short films for a decade and he’s enjoyed some success on the festival circuit. But the Mi’kmaq writer/director has found himself in the national spotlight with his first feature, Rhymes For Young Ghouls, which was lauded at the Toronto Film Festival and selected for TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten. For a first feature, the texture of Rhymes For Young Ghouls is striking. The story of teenager Aila (Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs) growing up on a reserve in northern Quebec in the late 70s, it feels like a collection of short stories brought to the screen. “My screenplays are very dense, and I’ve gotten compliments and com-

REVIEW RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS (Jeff Barnaby) Rating: NNN Rhymes For Young Ghouls is a genre experiment disguised as a coming-of-age story. Jeff Barnaby’s magic-realist drama takes place on a native reserve in late-70s Quebec, where teenager Aila (Kawennáhere Devery Jacobs) strives to find her own identity as an artist and an individual while her community tries to separate itself from the institutionalized oppression of government overseers. The finished film doesn’t quite live up to writer/director Barnaby’s considerable ambition. A number of the supporting actors don’t seem to understand the tone he’s after, including The Wild Hunt’s Mark Antony Krupa. But when Aila’s dead mother shows up for a casual conversation and the movie simply accepts that these things happen, it feels like a new creative voice is making itself heard for the first time. NW

Rhymes For Young Ghouls is at times frighteningly good.

plaints in terms of how much they resemble novels rather than screenplays,” Barnaby says. “I had a producer refer to one of my screenplays as Finnegans Wake. They’re like, ‘It shouldn’t take two days to read a screenplay!’ But I think it all starts, for me, with the way the word is written on the page. If you can capture your readers early, they’ll envision it almost the same way you do.” The era in which Rhymes is set was not particularly great for Canada’s First Nation peoples, and Barnaby doesn’t sugarcoat his characters’ poverty and substance abuse. “Traditionally, your reaction to that is ‘Oh, how horrible!’ But my [interpretation] is, they do it because they like it. They do it because they have a good time doing it. So I wasn’t gonna treat it all maudlin and dystopic; it was gonna be fun. But at the end of the day, I had enough faith in the audience for them to realize that [the characters] are masking a pain they don’t even know how to articulate.” It’s a pain, he says, that still resonates. “You can say, ‘Well, there’s no more residential schools,’ but all they’re doing is transferring that [institutional] indifference into different things, like the Education Act [being] stacked against native people, or poverty or health issues,” he says. “There’s just this wilful ignorance there, and it’s strange. I don’t know how Canada interprets native people, but it doesn’t seem like they interpret them as being human.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @wilnervision

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in 1935’s Curly Top to the purity of Margaret O’Brien’s work in Meet Me In St. Louis just nine years later. From there, Cousins expands globally to consider child actors’ performA STORY OF CHILDREN AND ances in key films from FILM (Mark Cousins). the UK, India, Aus101 minutes. Some tralia and China, subtitles. Opens among others. Friday (January It’s an intel31). For lectual exervenues and cise more times, see than an Movies, emotional page 68. one, and Rating: Cousins’s NNN enthusiasm In A Story for squeezOf Chiling in just dren And one more exIntriguing doc Film, Mark ample of a looks at the depictCousins folgiven reaction ion of children in lows his epic film over the years. means he winds up documentary The repeating his points Story Of Film: An Odysmore than once. But those sey with a smaller, more intimpoints are pretty intriguing, and if ate project exploring the depiction of nothing else, you’ll children in motion pictures from the come away having silent era to the present day. been introduced Using home video footage of his to two or three young niece and nephew at play as a movies you’d contrast, Cousins flips through dozens otherwise never of film clips from a century of cinema have discovered. to see how filmmakers have shaped NORMAN WILNER the performances of child actors for the screen. His thesis is established with a brilmore online liant cut from Shirley Temple’s careQ&A with director Mark Cousins at fully composed theatre-kid adorability nowtoronto.com/movies

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Labored Day Labor Day (Jason Reitman). 111 minutes. Opens Friday (January 31). For venues and times, see Movies, page 68. Rating: NN

After the barbed comedies Thank You For Smoking, Juno and Up In The Air, Jason Reitman obviously wants to be taken seriously as an artist. It isn’t working out too well. Young Adult was an undercooked muddle of potentially intriguing ideas, and now here’s Labor Day, a ludicrous coming-of-age drama about a teenage boy (Gattlin Griffith) who spends a life-changing holiday weekend in 1987 with his depressed mother (Kate Winslet) sheltering an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) who’s kinda-sorta holding them hostage. The “kinda-sorta” is a bit of a stick-

ing point. Reitman’s not interested in creating a sense of real danger as much as he is in remaking The Bridges Of Madison County, a story of a lonely woman rediscovering love at the hands of an imposing stranger. Sure, he’s forced himself into her home, but he’s fixing that squeaky door and teaching her son how to throw a ball! And wait until you taste his peach pie! Brolin very nearly sells his impossible character as a misunderstood man trying desperately to be decent, and Griffith is appropriately hesitant and watchful. But Winslet settles for another of the mannered, Important Actor performances she’s been giving in movies like The Reader and Revolutionary Road, and Reitman doesn’t do anything Norman Wilner to snap her out of it. Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin form an unlikely pair in Labor Day.

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In 2000’s Always A Bridesmaid, autobiographical documentarian Nina Davenport explored the heartache of never catching a marriage proposal. In First Comes Love, an unflinching sequel of sorts, Davenport tackles the anxieties of being a single 41-year-old who has her heart set on being a mother. Concerned about her “rapidly diminishing ovarian reserve,” she begins the complicated journey toward single parenthood by wrangling an unenthusiastic gay friend to be a sperm donor and her BFF to be a supportive partner. Davenport interviews

friends and family for opinions on her venture, which includes injecting ample hormones and then sperm into her body. Some are sympathetic but few are truly committed for the long haul. On the other hand, some can be cruel. Davenport’s practical father suggests that his “dilettante” daughter have an abortion instead of trying to raise a baby on her meagre income as a filmmaker. For at least the first hour, Davenport’s diary film effectively mines all the issues and distress that surface when facing such monumental decisions. Then comes the baby, and the film completely loses direction, reduced to ogling and only briefly addressing some of the challenges of raising a child. It makes perfect sense, though. Davenport stops being a filmmaker and becomes a parent. RADHEYAN

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DEVIL’S KNOT (Atom Egoyan) dully dramatizes the prosecution of teens Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. for the murders of three young boys – a true story previously chronicled in three Paradise Lost documentaries and West Of Memphis. Egoyan must have seen the project as a chance to revisit the themes of The Sweet Hereafter, another film about a community ravaged by the inexplicable death of its children. But he does absolutely nothing with that opportunity, instead following an outside investigator (Colin Firth) attempting to help defence attorneys build an alternate theory of the crimes. The script shifts clumsily between multiple perspectives – most histrionically that of Reese Witherspoon’s distraught mother – while lazily teasing potential theories of the crime that weren’t fully explored until after the trial. The cast is tonally all over the place and the whole thing is framed, cut and scored like cheap TV. I’ve never seen a movie shot by Paul Sarossy that looked this bad. 114 min. NN (NW) Varsity

Pierre Deladonchamps goes cruising in the atmospheric psychological thriller Stranger By The Lake.

Playing this week 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, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Adam McKay) contains plenty more of the same. It isn’t necessarily a bad thing, especially for Anchorman diehards. Like its predecessor, the movie is most itself when its stars goof around, so it’s a shame that it expends so much energy trying to imitate the original, which at its best seemed to be making it up as it went along. 118 min. NNN (JS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn) plays its intriguing premise for maximum impact, offering former Indonesian death squad leader Anwar Congo and his associates the chance to re-enact their crimes onscreen, filtered through the tropes of musicals or thrillers or any other genre they might choose. It burns itself into you. Subtitled. 115 min. NNNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

AT MIDDLETON (Adam Rodgers) 100 min. See review, page 66. NNN (SGC) Opens Jan 31 at Carlton Cinema AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (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

AMERICAN HUSTLE (David O. Russell) is

nominally a story about the barely remembered 1978 Abscam sting, in which the FBI used a small-time con artist to snare politicians on bribery and corruption charges. But the plot is incidental to the shouting. Director/co-writer Russell has fully embraced the notion that drama only exists when characters are yelling at one another in mid-shots. Everybody races around shouting about their ambitions and desires, and whoever shouts the loudest is the person with whom we’re supposed to sympathize. Some people love this strategy; I find it exhausting and pointless – especially in the second half,

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Sure, you may be identifying with the title walking to the theatre, but this sweet animated musical inspired by the Snow Queen tale will warm you up with its clever story and catchy tunes.

Chris Pine plays the resourceful hero of Tom Clancy’s spy franchise in this competent thriller co-starring Keira Knightley and Kenneth Branagh, who also directs.

Ralph Fiennes plays novelist Charles Dickens in this absorbing drama about his relationship with the young Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), who became his mistress.

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Clio Barnard’s masterful pic about a boy (Conner Chapman) who scavenges for scrap metal in a bleak northern England town is a great blend of drama and social commentary.

a relationship; she joins the band, they get married and have a daughter. And it all goes to hell. Heldenbergh and Baetens are both fantastic, pushing themselves to uncomfortable places and letting us understand when they make terrible choices: a scene where Didier breaks down onstage is excruciating, as is Elise’s different but equally understandable loss of control during a hospital sequence. It’s heavy going – really, seriously heavy – but it’s worth it. Subtitled. 111 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(Jonah Bekhor, Zach Math) chronicles the quest of Siggi Hjartarson, proprietor of the Iceland Phallological Museum, as he tries to secure the donation of a human penis. Directors Bekhor and Math treat their subject with precisely the right amount of respect, acknowledging Hjartarson’s commitment while still allowing us to enjoy the ridiculous carvings he sells in the gift shop. The parade of eccentrics is fascinating – Tom Mitchell, an affably insane American intent on donating his member before he dies, seems like a lost Will Ferrell improv character – and the story expands in a really interesting fashion. (Oh, grow up.) Some subtitles. 75 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

FIRST COMES LOVE (Nina Davenport) 105 min. See review, page 67. NNN (RS) Opens Jan 31 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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epic set in a fantastical Japan populated by monsters and witches. Keanu Reeves stars as an orphaned warrior who joins a band of masterless samurai on a mission of vengeance. Somehow, it’s staggeringly dull. It’s impossible to tell what director Rinsch’s original conception might have been; the movie’s been overhauled in post-production, its opening movement chopped up and voiced over by an anonymous British actor, the better to explain what we’re about to see. Even the action sequences have the dreary feel of obligation. Best to seek out Kenji Mizoguchi’s or Hiroshi Inagaki’s adaptation of the story; they may not have swirling smoke dragons or bird-headed monks, but they work their own magic. 118 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

FROZEN (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee) is an entertaining Disney animated musical about two Nordic princesses, one who’s holed herself up in icy isolation and the other who wants to track her down. It’s basically The Snow Queen mixed with Wicked. The songs are derivative but effective. Look for a hilarious ditty by Josh Gad’s scene-stealing happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf, the best sidekick since Timon and Pumbaa. 102 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 GABRIELLE (Louise Archambault) is a gentle, charming and rather slight romance about the titular mentally challenged 22-year-old exploring love and sex for the first time. Gabrielle Marion-Rivard (who actually has Williams syndrome) delivers a continued on page 70 œ

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winning performance in a film that offers a sincere portrait of life with disability. Too bad the film feels distracted by rousing, overtly metaphorical choir numbers that culminate in a grand appearance by Quebecois legend Robert Charlebois. Subtitled. 104 min. NNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

GRAVITY (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) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Yonge & Dundas 24

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. Some subtitles. 161 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, 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 THE GREAT BEAUTY (Paolo Sorrensecond instalment of the franchise, which, tino) 142 min. See interview and unlike many actors’ releases following Osreview, page 64. NNNNN (SGC) car wins, is not total crap. It’s much better Opens Jan 31 at TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity than Part 1: the script doesn’t need much set-up, there’s more focus on the relationHER (Spike Jonze) is set in the very ship between Katniss (Lawrence) and Gale near future, in a Los Angeles where (which means more charismatic Liam emotionally withdrawn Hemsworth), and director Theodore Twombley Lawrence keeps the vio(Joaquin Phoenix) lence offscreen instead of installs an operating EXPANDED REVIEWS sanitizing it. Katniss and system on his PC nowtoronto.com Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) that’s basically an are having trouble faking artificial intelligence the love relationship that made them co– and winds up falling in love with it. Of winners of the 74th Hunger Games, the course he’s drawn to it, or her (as voiced arena spectacle in which a male and fewith perfect, perky opacity by Scarlett Jomale from 12 districts fight to the death hansson). Why wouldn’t he be? She’s peruntil there’s one person standing. But fect for him. She just doesn’t, you know, they’re sparking revolution against the exist in the physical realm. Her is as widewealthy 1 per cent, so baddie President open and genuine as writer-director Snow dreams up a new tourney in which Jonze’s adaptation of Where The Wild the winners of the previous 24 games Things Are, though not as emotionally have to go into the ring. Who cares about raw. It’s a movie where people process plot holes in a fantasy? This is highly entheir feelings rather than release them, tertaining, and Lawrence is red hot in all essentially about how technology can ways. 145 min. NNNN (SGC) facilitate a relationship over impossible Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coldistances and what happens when one ossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town partner evolves more quickly than the Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre other. In the end, it’s a movie as beholden to Annie Hall as it is to 2001, and don’t I, FRANKENSTEIN (Stuart Beattie) always think that isn’t the strangest sentence I’ve seems to be 30 seconds away from makwritten this year. 125 min. NNNN (NW) ing sense. If it could just slow down for a Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress breath, if something could just not exWalk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton plode in this scene, if the gargoyles and Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queenthe demons could sheathe their killing sway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, swords and let somebody finish a freaking SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity sentence, then maybe a decent movie might emerge. But that’s not the kind of THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG picture I, Frankenstein is. It might have (Peter Jackson) is another two hours and been at one point, before it was hacked

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(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) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

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(Ralph Fiennes) seems like a safe project for a follow-up to 2011’s Coriolanus. It’s a conventional drama about the relationship between Charles Dickens (director Fiennes) and Nelly Ternan (Love Crazy’s Felicity Jones), the young woman who became his mistress. But while all the trappings of the proper British period piece are in place, this is a much more experimental treatment of the story than you might expect, with a complex consideration of all the characters – including Dickens’s wife, Catherine (Joanna Scanlan) – and an editorial style that lingers on uncomfortable silences and repressed impulses. Fiennes and Jones are terrific, but the actor/director gets excellent work out of pretty much everyone, including his English Patient co-star, Kristin Scott Thomas. 111 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Regent Theatre, Varsity

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (Kenneth Branagh) is a proudly square espionage thriller that satisfies on that basic spymovie level – the one where people race through city squares shouting technobabble into jacket mics while a clock ticks down to an unspecified disaster. The plot itself never makes too much sense – an initial attempt on hero Chris Pine’s life, while nicely conceived and executed, is forgotten maybe three seconds after it happens – and the scenes between Pine and Keira Knightley are painfully stiff, compounded further by her laboured American accent. Director Branagh can’t stop hamming it up as the Russian baddie, glowering and snarling in scenes that don’t call for that level of intensity. In fairness, it’s not his fault. That’s exactly how Tom Clancy would have written it. Some subtitles. 105 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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review, page 67. NN (NW) Opens Jan 31 at 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, 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 Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

Lee Daniels’ The Butler (Lee Daniels) is

one big black history lesson featuring great performances by Oprah Winfrey, David Oyelowo and especially Forest Whitaker as a White House butler. But don’t expect anything like the director’s disturbing Precious or The Paperboy. Daniels is decidedly domesticated here, aiming to teach and please. 132 min. NNN (SGC) Yonge & Dundas 24

Linsanity (Evan Jackson Leong) is a doc

tracking what happened to Jeremy Lin before he rocketed from obscurity to bona fide NBA stardom in a matter of days in 2012. Unfortunately, Lin himself lacks warmth and humour, but the film hits its stride once he hits his. 89 min. NNN (Julia LeConte) Kingsway Theatre

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 Survivor is depicted as almost entirely white. Some subtitles. 122 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

The Nut Job (Peter Lepeniotis) might be the new low point for CGI movies about anthropomorphized animals. The nonsensical plot interweaves a human bank heist and animal nut heist. Despite an impressive celebrity voice cast (including Will Arnett and Liam Neeson), this Canadian/ South Korean co-production can’t deliver the glossy production values of the Hollywood competition, never mind the heart and wit of a Pixar film. When a CGI Psy wanders into the end credits to perform Gangnam Style, it tells you how much time the filmmakers wasted making the movie and how desperate they were to pull in anything like entertainment. 83 min. N (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queens way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (Christopher Landon) is better than

the last film in the found-footage franchise, but it’s still not very memorable – or scary. In an L.A. barrio, strange noises are emanating from beneath teenager Jesse’s

apartment, and soon he, his sister and his camcorder-wielding friend investigate their neighbour’s pad, leading to lots of running up and down stairs and opening doors that should definitely stay shut. Style and plot points seem lifted from far more effective films and the ending provides fewer answers than questions. 84 min. NN (GS) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

The Past (Asghar Farhadi) sees the pleasant soapiness that greased A Separation, director Farhadi’s Academy Award winner, reach full froth. Ali Mosaffa plays Ahmad, an Iranian who returns to a Paris suburb to finalize his divorce so his wife (Bérénice Bejo) can marry another man (Tahar Rahim). Ahmad’s desire to fix things ends up fissuring his ex-wife’s family dynamic, exposing lies on top of lies. Mr. Fixit’s nobility is never undermined, his insistence that everyone unburden themselves of their secrets offered as the solution to, and never the cause of, the problems of those around him. Farhadi may be heavyhandedly rooting for the cathartic power of the truth, but his melodrama is so overwrought and shot through with nasty misogyny (all the female characters feel like caricatures of 19th-century Viennese

from a movie that pairs Ice Cube with Kevin Hart as future in-laws in arms. Cube scowls, Hart gabs incessantly. Reduced to a growling bear and a yapping parakeet, the two get no assist from a screenplay as nuanced as a parking ticket. 100 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

hysterics) that everything about it rings false. 130 min. NN (JS) Varsity

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(Stephen Frears) is an odd but effective combination of investigative drama and buddy picture, as a devout, working-class woman (Judi Dench) and a privileged, cynical journalist (Steve Coogan, who also co-wrote and coproduced the film) find common ground in the search for the son she was forced to give up. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

Saving Mr. Banks (John Lee Hancock) covers the last several months of the 20plus years that Walt Disney (Tom Hanks, who’s terrific) spent convincing author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson) to sell him the rights to Mary Poppins. The film sheds little light on the creative process, and its portrayal of Travers is insultingly paternalistic. It’s all about burnishing Disney’s personal reputation. 125 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

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naby) 88 min. See interview and review, page 66. NNN (NW) Opens Jan 31 at Yonge & Dundas 24

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Night Train to Lisbon (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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ñThe Selfish Giant

(Clio Barnard) takes its name from Oscar Wilde’s religious parable, but its real ancestry lies in director Barnard’s previous work, 2010’s The Arbor. Like that experimental documentary, her new feature is set on a miserable housing estate in Bradford, in northern England, where impoverished families grind through miserable lives. Thrown out of school for his violent outbursts and disrespectful behaviour, young Arbor (Conner Chapman) pulls his friend Swifty (Shaun Thomas) into scavenging metal for a local junkyard owner (Sean Gilder). Working with a mixture of seasoned character actors and non-professional kids, Barnard creates a sense of a much larger community filtering in and out of Arbor and Swifty’s world. It’s a compelling show-don’t-tell strategy, blending drama and social commentary in manner worthy of Ken Loach at his peak. Go and see this. It’s fantastic. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Jehane Noujaim) is an exhilarating doc that follows three activists during the Cairo demonstrations that toppled Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak and their aftermath. Director Noujaim and her crew fearlessly capture the activists’ arguments, violence and bitter disappointment, approaching a subject

that is often simplified and reduced with uncommon nuance. Oscar-nominated for best doc. Subtitled. 108 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

A Story of Children and Film (Mark Cousins) 101 min. See review, page 66, and Q&A with director Cousins at nowtoronto.com/movies. NNN (NW) Opens Jan 31 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

ñStranger by the Lake

(Alain Guiraudie) is a seductively stark thriller. Everything has been stripped down, including the characters, nearly all of them frequenters of a secluded nude beach and the adjoining woods used for cruising. Handsome, amiable Franck goes to the lake to sunbathe, chat, swim, have sex. One evening he witnesses a murder, but this doesn’t appear to discourage him from returning the next day or even from flirting with the killer. Psychology or motives are not discussed. As in the fiction of Duras or Hitchcock, eros and death are entwined without rational explanation. Exquisitely crafted, sexually explicit without seeming lewd, Stranger By The Lake extends an invitation that’s hard to refuse. Don’t be afraid. Dip a toe in. The water’s fine. Subtitled. 100 min. NNNNN (José Teodoro) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Alan aylor) is a very silly movie for all its T self-seriousness, which is why it works. Once again, Tom Hiddleston steals the picture as the unpredictable Loki, though Kat Dennings comes awfully close to stealing it herself as Jane Foster’s scrappy sidekick. Some subtitles. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

Three Night Stand (Pat Kiely) 92 min. See review, page 76. NN (NW) Opens Feb 1 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 76)

ñ12 O’Clock Boys

(Lotfy Nathan) 76 min. See review, page 64. NNNN

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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, Coliseum Scarborough, Interchange 30, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñVisitors

(Godfrey Reggio) 87 min. See interview and review, page 63, and additional interviews at nowtoronto. com/movies. NNNN (NW) Opens Jan 31 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

Whitewash (Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais)

stars Thomas Haden Church as Bruce, an alcoholic who mows down a straggler with his mini-plow, ditches the body and hightails it deep into the woods in a violent snowstorm. The mini-plow gets jammed, stranding him in the middle of nowhere, and as time wears on it seems he doesn’t care to be anywhere else. Through flashbacks we learn that Bruce and his victim (Marc Labrèche) have a bit of a history, clues to some of his headscratching, incriminating decisions. HossDesmarais skilfully teases out these bits of information, stretching out a thin and not entirely convincing story to make it seem more compelling than it really is. He has talent for creating atmosphere and visualizing the main character’s disintegration, but this might have been better as a short film. At feature length, Whitewash feels as tiresome as the weather. 90 min. NN (RS) Yonge & Dundas 24

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corsese) is another sprawling look at the S 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 Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity 3

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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

West End

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 12:55, 2:30, 4:05, 6:30, 7:15, 9:50, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:30, 4:15, 7:00, 7:45, 10:30, 10:55 Sun 1:00, 2:45, 4:15, 6:45, 7:20, 10:15, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 2:45, 4:05, 6:45, 7:20, 10:15, 10:30 Wed 1:05, 2:45, 4:05, 6:45, 7:20, 10:15, 10:30 ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 Fri 10:30 Sat 10:35 Sun-Wed 10:15 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:00, 4:15, 6:00, 7:05, 9:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 12:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Tue 12:55, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 BOLSHOI BALLET: LOST ILLUSIONS Sun 12:55 DEVIL’S DUE (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 8:15, 10:40 Fri-Wed 9:30 FROZEN (G) Thu 2:20 Fri 12:00 Sat 12:05 Sun 11:50 MonWed 2:15 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 5:00, 7:35 Fri-Sat 2:40, 5:15, 7:55 Sun 2:15, 4:55, 7:35 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:35 FROZEN SING-ALONG Fri 1:20, 4:00 Sat 11:00, 1:20, 4:00 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:20 HER (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:35, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:20 Sun 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 Mon-Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:45, 9:35 Wed 12:35, 3:40, 10:25 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 5:15, 9:00 Fri-Sat 3:40, 7:15, 10:50 Sun-Wed 4:20, 8:20 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG) Fri-Sat 12:10 Sun 12:30 Mon-Wed 12:45 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 6:40, 10:00 Sun-Tue 6:30, 9:50 Wed 6:35, 9:50 I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:10, 4:00, 5:35, 7:00, 8:05, 9:30, 10:35 Fri 12:05, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 11:50, 3:25, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40 Sun-Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Wed 12:55, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 4:40, 7:25, 7:30, 10:10, 10:15 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 8:00, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 11:40, 2:00, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 8:00, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:30, 4:40, 7:15, 7:25, 10:00, 10:05 MonTue 1:30, 2:00, 4:30, 4:40, 7:15, 7:25, 10:00, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 2:00, 4:30, 4:40, 7:15, 7:25, 10:00 LABOR DAY (PG) Fri 1:40, 3:00, 4:25, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:10 Sat 11:05, 12:00, 1:40, 3:00, 4:25, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:10, 9:00, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:30, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:10, 9:00, 9:55 Wed 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:10, 9:00, 9:55 THE LAND BEFORE TIME (PG) Sat 11:00 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Fri 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 11:00, 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: FALSTAFF - ENCORE Wed 6:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: CORIOLANUS Thu 7:00 THE NUT JOB 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:10 Sun-Wed 4:30, 6:50 THE NUT JOB (PG) Thu 2:10 Fri 12:00 Sat 11:55 Sun-Wed 1:45 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A) Thu 10:15 RIDE ALONG (14A) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:50, 10:25 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 5:30, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 12:10, 2:00, 2:40, 5:10, 5:45, 7:40, 10:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:40, 4:45, 5:10, 7:40, 8:30, 10:10 12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7:00, 10:05 FriSat 12:25, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 6:40, 8:00, 10:40 Fri 12:00, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 9:00, 10:25 Sat 11:30, 12:30, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 9:00, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 12:45, 4:00, 4:45, 8:00, 8:45 Mon-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 4:45, 8:00, 8:45

HUMBER CINEMAS (I)

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Wed 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Tue 3:15, 6:30, 9:20

DEVIL’S DUE (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:55, 9:15 Fri-Wed 9:25 FROZEN (G) 1:15, 4:15, 6:40 I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG) Thu 1:05 4:00 7:00 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:45, 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 6:55, 9:40 LABOR DAY (PG) Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 4:05, 6:50, 9:30 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Wed 9:20 THE NUT JOB (PG) 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:05 Thu 9:10 RIDE ALONG (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:35 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 9:00

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 BLUE JASMINE (14A) Fri 9:35 Sat 4:15, 9:35 Sun 2:10 Wed 7:00 CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (14A) Thu, Tue 7:00 Fri-Sat 6:45 Sun 4:30

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Thu, Sat, Wed 7:00 Fri 6:45 Sun 4:30 THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (PG) Fri 9:15 Sat 4:30 Sun 2:15 Tue 7:00

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

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 FriSat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 MonWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 BOLSHOI BALLET: LOST ILLUSIONS Sun 12:55 FROZEN (G) Thu 1:25 Fri 1:15 Sat-Wed 12:30 FROZEN 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri 3:40, 6:20 Sat 2:50, 5:15, 7:40 Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:00 HER (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 9:00 THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG) Thu 8:50 Fri 9:35 Sat 10:05 Sun-Wed 8:30 I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:10 Wed 12:35, 2:55, 9:10 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 LABOR DAY (PG) Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:30 LONE SURVIVOR (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: FALSTAFF - ENCORE Wed 6:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: CORIOLANUS Thu 7:00 THE NUT JOB 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:40 Fri 4:20, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:45 Sun 4:10, 6:30, 8:40 Mon-Tue 4:10, 6:35, 8:40 Wed 4:10, 6:30 THE NUT JOB (PG) Thu-Fri 1:40 Sat 12:50 Sun-Wed 1:30 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (14A) Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 9:30 Wed 3:50, 7:10, 9:35 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 1:15, 4:55, 8:40 Fri-Sat 2:10, 6:00, 9:50 Sun-Wed 12:50, 4:30, 8:20

Metro

2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-1327

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A) 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-

JANUARY 30 - FEBRUARY 5 2014 NOW

Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat August: Osage County (14A) 6:45, 9:30 Fri 3:45 mat Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45 mat I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) 7:30, 9:45 Fri 4:30 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat, 4:30 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:15 FriWed 9:30 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 9:30 The Nut Job 3D (PG) 7:15 Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat, 4:45 The Nut Job (PG) Sat-Sun 12:15 That Awkward Moment (14A) 7:45, 10:15 Fri 5:20 SatSun 12:30, 3:00 mat, 5:20 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) 8:00 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat, 4:15

North York

4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 SunWed 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 1:30, 6:20, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:30, 6:25, 10:15 Sat 2:30, 6:25, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:50, 4:45, 9:00

Scarborough 401 & Morningside (CE) 785 Milner Ave, Scarborough, 416-281-2226

American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, MonWed 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 4:05, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions Sun 12:55 Frozen (G) Sat 12:50 Sun 12:50, 3:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 6:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:20 Sun 6:20 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat Her (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:55 Fri-Wed 9:10 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 9:10 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) 4:00, 6:30, 9:05 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat I, Frankenstein: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:15, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 10:05 Sun 7:30, 10:05 Wed 4:45 Labor Day (PG) 4:20, 7:05, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff - Encore Wed 6:30 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Thu 7:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Tue 4:10, 6:35 Wed 4:10 The Nut Job (PG) Sat-Sun 1:50 Wed 7:30 Philomena (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 That Awkward Moment (14A) 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:20 mat 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Fri-Tue 9:00 Wed 9:45 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:40, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:30, 5:00, 8:50

American Hustle (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 10:25 Sun 9:20 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 5:50, 8:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 9:40 Sun 9:30 Mon, Wed 8:20 Frozen (G) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:20, 7:50 Sat 11:20, 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:00 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:15, 6:45, 10:10 Sat 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Sun 6:30, 9:45 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Sat 11:45 Sun 3:00 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 5:15, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:20, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 2:35, 5:30, 8:10, 10:25 Sun 2:35, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:25 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:40 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:50 Labor Day (PG) Fri, Tue 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:05 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 5:35, 8:25 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:25 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:20 Sat 2:25, 5:00, 7:20 Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:15 Mon, Wed 6:10 The Nut Job (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05 Sat 11:05, 12:00 Sun 12:50 Ride Along (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:45 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:20 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri, Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 12:45, 3:05, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:10 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 7:35 Fri, Tue 4:30, 8:20 Sat 12:40, 4:30, 8:20 Sun 12:45, 4:40, 8:20 Mon, Wed 7:40

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Coliseum Scarborough (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746

Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 Fri 10:00 Sat 12:10, 10:00 Sun-Wed 9:45 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 FriSat 9:50 Sun-Wed 9:30 Frozen (G) Thu 1:50 Fri 1:40 Sat 12:00, 1:40 Sun-Wed 1:10 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:40, 7:30 Fri-Sat 4:20, 7:10 Sun-Wed 3:55, 6:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 10:05 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:50, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Labor Day (PG) Fri 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sun-Tue 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 5:20, 7:45 Sat 3:00, 5:20, 7:45 Sun-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:35 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 2:10 Fri 2:50 Sat 11:30 Sun-Wed 12:45 Ride Along (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:55 Fri 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:05, 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Sun-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 5:25, 9:20

American Hustle (14A) Thu 10:15 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 9:45 Sat 11:15, 9:55 Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions Sun 12:55 Bride for Rent (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 2:20 5:20 7:50 10:20 Fri-Wed 2:35, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20, 10:25 Fri-Wed 10:05 Frozen (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30 Sat 11:10, 4:30 Frozen 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 4:15, 7:00 Sat 1:45, 7:15 Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 9:45 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 7:15, 10:45 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:55 Sun 1:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:35 Labor Day (PG) Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:50, 3:55, 6:55, 10:20 Sun 3:55, 6:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 10:20 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Thu 7:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu, Sat 3:15, 5:35, 7:55 Fri, SunWed 3:25, 5:35, 7:55 The Nut Job (PG) 1:00 Ride Along (14A) Thu 2:15 4:50 7:30 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 11:45 mat That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:25, 8:00, 10:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Mon, Wed 3:35, 6:50, 9:50 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) 1:45, 5:40, 9:35 Sat only 1:40 5:40 9:35

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

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

Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 1:40, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Sun-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 9:55 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 9:30 Frozen (G) Thu 1:05 Fri 1:15 Sat 11:05 Sun-Wed 1:20 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:50, 6:45 Fri 4:15, 7:15 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25 Sun-Wed 4:10, 6:55 Frozen Sing-Along Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:30 Sat 12:00, 2:50 Her (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sat 10:10 SunWed 9:40 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 9:30 Sun-Wed 10:10 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 SunWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Labor Day (PG) Fri 1:35, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Fri 6:40, 9:45 Sat 6:30, 9:25 Sun-Wed 7:00, 10:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:00, 9:20 Fri 3:45, 6:15 Sat 2:00, 4:20, 7:00 Sun-Wed 3:20, 5:35, 7:50 The Nut Job (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 11:30, 12:00 Ride Along (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Fri 2:20,

Eglinton Town Centre (CE) 1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

American Hustle (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:20, 7:35, 10:45 Sun 11:50, 3:00, 6:15, 9:30 MonWed 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Wed 10:25 Dhoom 3 (PG) Thu 5:30, 9:30 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 10:00 Frozen (G) Thu 2:10 Sat-Sun 12:15 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:55, 7:25 Fri-Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45 MonWed 5:10, 7:40 Frozen Sing-Along Fri 2:55, 5:25, 7:55 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 7:55 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50 Her (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 10:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri 2:30, 6:25, 10:00 Sat 3:10, 6:40, 10:15 Sun 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 6:00, 9:25 Fri 12:30, 3:45, 7:05, 10:35 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 FriSat 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 11:45, 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25,

10:05 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:10 Jai Ho (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:55, 7:15, 10:35 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Labor Day (PG) Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 1:55, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Le Hobbit: La désolation de Smaug (PG) Sat 11:40 Sun 11:45 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 2:30 Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 11:30, 12:30 Philomena (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:50, 9:20 Ride Along (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 MonWed 4:55, 7:25, 10:00 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 3:05 That Awkward Moment (14A) 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 FriSun 12:40, 3:05 mat The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 4:45, 8:40 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:45, 8:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 8:45

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

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GTA Regions Mississauga

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

Akira (14A) Fri 2:00 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Fri 1:45, 4:50, 7:55, 11:15 Sat 1:10, 4:25, 7:50, 11:15 Sun-Wed 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:35 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 10:05 Fri-Sat 10:40 Sun-Wed 9:50 Batman Sat 9:35 Wed 1:00 Battlestar Galactica Sun 12:30 Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (PG) Fri 7:15 Mon 5:30 Tue 2:00 Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions Sun 12:55 Brazil (14A) Mon 12:00 Wed 9:50 The Dark Knight (14A) Sat 11:59 Wed 3:35 The Fisher King Mon 2:45 Tue 4:00 Wed 7:00 Flash Gordon Sun 7:30 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:35, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 2:40, 5:30, 8:40, 11:40 Sat 11:40, 2:40, 5:30, 8:40, 11:40 Sun 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 9:55 Frozen (G) Thu 1:10 Fri 1:50 Sat 11:10, 1:50 Sun-Wed 12:20 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:40 Fri-Sat 4:30, 7:05, 10:00 Sun-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 Frozen Sing-Along Fri 2:30, 5:10, 7:45 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:15 Ghost in the Shell Fri 4:40 Gravity (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25, 10:50 Sat 11:20, 1:40, 3:55, 6:10, 8:25, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 5:00, 8:30, 12:00 Sun-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Fri 1:30 Sat 1:00 Sun-Wed 12:00 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Fri 1:35, 4:45, 8:10, 11:30 Sat 12:50, 4:40, 8:10, 11:30 Sun-Wed 12:05, 3:35, 6:50, 10:15 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 I, Frankenstein: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Iron Man (PG) Sat 4:15 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:15, 11:50 Sat 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 9:15, 11:50 Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:50, 7:30, 10:25 Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:25 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (R) Mon 7:30 Logan’s Run (14A) Sun 10:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Fri 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:20 Sat 12:20, 3:30, 7:15, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Marvel’s the Avengers (PG) Sat 6:50 Monty Python And The Holy Grail (14A) Fri 11:59 Tue 12:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Fri-Sat 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Sun-Wed 5:30, 7:45, 10:10 The Nut Job (PG) Thu, Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:15 Fri 3:00 Sat 12:30, 3:00 Wed 12:40, 3:15 On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (PG) Tue 7:00 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Fri 3:40, 5:50, 8:15, 11:00 Sat 11:30, 1:30, 3:40, 5:50, 8:15, 11:00 Sun-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:45 Planet of the Apes Fri 9:20 Sun 5:10 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 9:30 Snatch (14A) Mon 9:45 Spider-Man (PG) Sat 1:45 Superman (G) Sat 11:00 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri 3:05, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Tue 12:40, 3:05, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Thunderball (PG) Tue 9:50 Tron Sun 3:00

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 American Hustle (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Fri 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:40, 4:10, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 12:40, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri 3:20, 6:10, 9:10 Sat 12:10, 3:20, 6:10, 9:10 Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:10, 8:55 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:10, 8:55 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 8:05, 10:40 Sun-Wed 8:05, 10:25 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri-Sat 9:15 Sun-Wed 9:00 Frozen (G) Thu 1:00 Fri-Wed 1:35 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:10 Fri-Wed 4:00, 6:30 Frozen Sing-Along Fri, Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:05, 5:35 SatSun 12:30, 3:05, 5:35 Wed 3:05, 5:35 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Her (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 5:05, 8:45 Sun-Wed 5:05, 8:30 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Sat 10:10 Sun-Wed 9:55 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:35, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 I, Frankenstein: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 1:25, 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Sat 12:05, 1:25, 4:30, 6:55, 9:40 Sun 12:05, 1:25, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:30, 6:55, 9:25 Jai Ho (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:35, 10:30 Fri 3:35, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 3:35, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 9:45 Labor Day (PG) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 National Theatre Live: Coriolanus Thu 7:00 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:45, 7:35 The Nut Job (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:10, 2:30 SatSun 11:55, 2:30 Wed 2:30 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 9:45 Ride Along (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:30 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri 1:05, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:20, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:30 Sun 12:20, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:15, 5:00, 8:45 Fri-Sat 1:15, 5:00, 9:00

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

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

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

American Hustle (14A) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:50 Fri 6:35, 9:20 Sat 1:05, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 Sun 3:45, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Bolshoi Ballet: Lost Illusions Sun 12:55 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:25, 7:10, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 47 Ronin (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Sun 1:15, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:15 Frozen (G) Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 11:15, 1:45 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 3:30, 6:00 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:05 Sat 4:20, 7:05 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 Frozen Sing-Along Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:05, 7:25 Sat 11:45, 1:20, 4:05, 7:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:35 Gravity 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:25, 8:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:25, 8:45 Gravity: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri, Sun 2:10, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 Sat 12:00, 2:10, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:20 Her (14A) Thu 4:05, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sun 10:15 Mon-Wed 9:05 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 9:10 Fri-Sun 4:10, 8:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:50 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 12:10 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:55, 10:00 Sun 12:35, 5:00, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 8:20

I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 3:20, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 1:30, 4:35, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:15, 9:40 I, Frankenstein: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Sun 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:15, 8:55 Labor Day (PG) Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:30 The Land Before Time (PG) Sat 11:00 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Fri 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:10, 8:25 Fri-Sun 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00, 8:10 The Nut Job (PG) Fri, Sun 1:00 Sat 11:30, 1:00 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 4:45, 9:40 Fri 10:45 Sat 10:05 Sun 10:30 Mon-Wed 8:40 Ride Along (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:25, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Saving Mr. Banks (PG) Thu 6:55 Fri-Sun 4:15 Mon-Wed 3:50 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Thu 8:30 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 MonWed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:45 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 5:00, 8:15, 9:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:45, 8:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:30

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 The Best Man Holiday (14A) 4:50, 7:20 Fri-Sat 2:15 mat, 9:55 Sun 2:15 mat Blue Jasmine (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:45 Fri-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-Sat 4:00, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 4:00, 7:15 Ender’s Game (PG) 4:45, 7:15 Fri-Sat 2:15 mat, 9:50 Sun 2:15 mat The Family (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:10 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:35 Sun 2:20, 5:10, 7:35 Free Birds (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35 Fri-Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:00, 9:30 Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:00 Grudge Match (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:30 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:05 Inside Llewyn Davis (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30 The Invisible Woman (PG) 4:55, 7:25 Fri-Sat 2:25 mat, 9:55 Sun 2:25 mat Jai Ho (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:45 Fri-Sat 3:00, 6:20, 9:25 Sun 3:00, 6:45 Last Vegas (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:25 Fri-Sat 2:05, 4:30, 7:35, 9:40 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:35 Philomena (PG) 5:00, 7:25 Fri-Sat 2:55 mat, 9:45 Sun 2:55 mat Prisoners (14A) Thu 6:50 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG) Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:45 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30 12 Years a Slave (14A) 7:00 Fri-Sat 4:10, 9:50 Sun 4:10 Wadjda (PG) Thu 4:40

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 FriWed 3:45, 9:15 August: Osage County (14A) 9:30 Thu 3:40 mat Frozen (G) 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 I, Frankenstein (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:41 Fri-Wed 9:35 Labor Day (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:55, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Mon 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu 9:25 The Nut Job (PG) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00 Thu 9:15 Philomena (PG) Thu 1:00 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:00, 6:45 Ride Along (14A) 1:05, 3:55, 7:10, 9:45 That Awkward Moment (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:15, 9:40

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

American Hustle (14A) Thu 12:15, 3:25, 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:05, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:20, 7:05, 10:15 Tue 3:20, 7:05, 10:15 Devil’s Due (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:00, 8:00, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 9:55 Sat-Sun, Tue 10:05 Frozen (G) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:00 Frozen 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 7:25 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:20 SatSun, Tue 4:00, 7:30 Gravity (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:55, 6:45, 9:50 Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 9:45 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:30, 7:55 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (PG) 8:00 Sat-Sun 12:55 mat, 4:30 Tue 4:30 I, Frankenstein 3D (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:45, 10:15 Tue 5:30, 7:45, 10:15 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Tue 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Labor Day (PG) 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat, 4:10 Tue 4:10 Lone Survivor (14A) Thu, Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:10, 10:05 Tue 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 The Nut Job 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:30 Sat-Sun 3:00, 5:15, 7:30 Tue 5:15, 7:30 The Nut Job (PG) Thu, Sat-Sun 12:30 Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (14A) Thu 10:05 That Awkward Moment (14A) 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:40 mat, 5:05 Tue 5:05 The Wolf of Wall Street (18A) Thu 12:00, 2:15, 6:05, 9:55 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:50 Sat-Sun 2:15, 6:05, 9:55 Tue 6:05, 9:55 3

NOW january 30 - February 5 2014

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festivals the great digital film festival

scotiabank theatre, 259 richmond w (ST), cineplex cinemas mississauga, 309 rathburn w (CM). cineplex.com/digitalfilmfest

fri 31-thu 6 – Fan favourite sci-fi, action and

cult films in digital format. $6. Screening times the same at both theatres. fri 31 – Akira (1988) D: Katsuhiro Otomo. 2 pm. Ghost In The Shell (1995) D: Mamoru Oshii. 4:40 pm. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) D: Stephen Herek. 7:15 pm. Planet Of The Apes (1968) D: Franklin J Schaffner. 9:20 pm. Monty Python And The Holy Grail (1975) D: Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones. 11:59 pm. sat 1 – Superman: The Movie (1978) D: Richard Donner. 11 am. Spider-man (2002) D: Sam Raimi. 1:45 pm. Ironman (2008) D: Jon Favreau. 4:15 pm. The Avengers (2012) D: Joss Whedon. 6:50 pm. Batman (1989) D: Tim Burton. 9:35 pm. The Dark Knight (2008) D: Christopher Nolan. 11:59 pm. sun 2 – Battlestar Galactica (1978) D: Richard A Colla and Alan J Levi. 12:30 pm. Tron (1982) D: Steven Lisberger. 3 pm. Planet Of The Apes. 5:10 pm. Flash Gordon (1980) D: Mike Hodges. 7:30 pm. Logan’s Run (1976) D: Michael Anderson. 10 pm. mon 3 – Brazil (1985) D: Terry Gilliam. Noon. The Fisher King (1991) D: Terry Gilliam. 2:45 pm. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. 5:30 pm. Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels (1998) D: Guy Ritchie. 7:30 pm. Snatch (2000) D: Guy Ritchie. 9:45 pm. tue 4 – Monty Python And The Holy Grail. Noon. Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure. 2 pm. The Fisher King. 4 pm. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) D: Peter R Hunt. 7 pm. Thunderball (1965) D: Terence Young. 9:50 pm. wed 5 – Batman. 1 pm. The Dark Knight. 3:35 pm. The Fisher King. 7 pm. Brazil. 9:50 pm.

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Three Night Stand wobbles THREE NIGHT STAND (Pat Kiely) Rating: NN Three Night Stand is a messy movie, and for a while that feels like a strength. It’s about emotions and loyalties and longing, and that stuff is nothing if not messy, right? Actor-turned-director Pat Kiely’s follow-up to Who Is KK Downey? sets itself up as a bedroom farce, with appealing Montreal couple Carl and Sue (Sam Huntington and Meaghan Rath, of the American Being Human series) driving to a chalet in the Laurentians for what’s supposed to be a big romantic weekend. There’s just one problem: Carl and Sue’s relation-

ship isn’t as sturdy as it looks. Oh, and the chalet is owned by Carl’s ex, Robyn (Emmanuelle Chriqui), whom Carl has never quite got over. Things get really uncomfortable really quickly – Carl literally vomits at the sight of Robyn – and just when Three Night Stand seems poised to delve into this

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Caught By Wireless, At The Crossroads Of Life, and The Black Viper (all films 1908). 2 pm. Grandma’s Boy (1922) D: Fred Newmeyer. 5 pm. Pepi, Luci & Bom (1980) D: Pedro Almodóvar. 7 pm. The Films Of Aditya Shankar. 9 pm. wed 5 – The History Of Animation From Before Gertie The Dinosaur Until Now, Part One. 2 pm. My Lady Of Whims (1925) D: Dallas M Fitzgerald. 5 pm. East Of Eden (1955) D: Elia Kazan. 7 pm.

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Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 9 am-10 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. Casa Loma presents The P ellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top of and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. h hof.com. sun 2 – Cinema Politica Danforth presents Valentine Road (2013) D: Marta Cunningham, a film on LGBT issues. Discussion to follow. 7:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. cinemapolitica.org. mon 3 – Toronto Film Society Winter Screening Series presents Sing Baby Sing (1936) D: Sidney Lanfield, and Higher And Higher (1943) D: Tim Whelan. 7 pm. $15. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-970-6011, torontofilmsociety.com. mon 3-tue 4 – The Seventh Art Live Directors Series presents Andrew Bujalski and screening of two of his films. Mon: Funny Ha Ha (2002); Tue: Mutual Appreciation (2005). Doors 7 pm. $15, two nights $21. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. t heseventhart.org. 3

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(Criterion, 1992) D: Terence Davies, w/ Leigh McCormack, Marjorie Yates. Rating: NNNNN; DVD and Blu-ray package: NNNNN

Leigh McCormack (center) basks in the magic in The Long Day Closes.

About Time (Univer-

House Of Whipcord

An immensely charming cast and a smart, well-used gimmick make About Time delightful light entertainment. Time travel, the gimmick, is a rare genetic endowment activated by thought. Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) is the latest in a long line of fathers and sons who can revisit any time in their own lives and tweak things if they like. Tim uses it to try to get together with Mary (Rachel McAdams), whom he loves. Sometimes the trick works, sometimes not, and there are unforeseen consequences. Gleeson and McAdams are perfect as the sweet, funny and made-foreach-other pair. The supporting actors have well-defined characters and big moments to strut them, with Bill Nighy and Lydia Wilson leading the parade as Tim’s father and sister. Gleeson, Nighy, Wilson and other cast members join director Richard Curtis (Love Actually) in a cheery, chatty commentary. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc, director doc, bloopers, more. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

The Comeback (Kino,

sal, 2013) D: Richard Curtis, w/ Domhnall Gleeson, Rachel McAdams. Rating: NNNN; Bluray package: NNN

(Kino, 1974) D: Pete Walker, w/ Barbara Markham, Patrick Barr. Rating: NNNN; DVD package: NNN

1978) D: Walker, w/ Jack Jones, Pamela Stephenson. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

Die Screaming Marianne (Kino, 1971)

D: Walker, w/ Susan George, Barry Evans. Rating: NN; DVD package: NNN

Through the 1970s, producer/director Pete Walker churned out a string of generally reviled sex-and-violence shockers, but the three gathered here offer solid junk entertainment. One of them, House Of Whipcord, is as fine a piece of grim trash as you’re likely to find. A young model (Penny Irving) is hijacked into a private prison run by a blind ex-judge (Patrick Barr) and his exwarden lover (Barbara Markham), who believe they’re imposing moral law. Whipping, hanging and escape attempts add up to an oppressive atmosphere of institutional rigidity intended

The Long Day Closes, Terence Davies’s portrait of himself as an 11-year-old boy in mid-50s workingclass Liverpool, is pure audiovisual poetry. Every shot is emotionally resonant and alive with texture. Life for Bud (Leigh McCormack) consists of a loving home with mother (Marjorie Yates) and teen siblings, movies where he finds beauty, and church, the site of awe and terror. Bud is often alone, always watching the life around him and thinking or dreaming.

to mask sadism, lesbianism, incest and homicidal mania. Little of the action is graphic, but the veteran cast suggest worlds of depravity with the hint of a smile. Markham gets most of the big scenes, but Sheila Keith chills to the bone as head guard. Keith shows up again as a sinister housekeeper to steal the show in The Comeback, a stylish woman-in-peril flick in which a guy (pop singer Jack Jones playing a pop singer) faces the unseen dangers of things going bump in the night and a masked maniac is hacking up his closest associates. Die Screaming Marianne starts brilliantly with a girl (Susan George) on the run from her murderous, incestuous family accidentally marrying the wrong guy, but founders in an exposition quagmire until the not particularly shocking climax. Walker, cameraman Peter Jessop and a couple of academics deliver a trio of excellent commentaries and interviews that cover the moral panic then gripping England, the censors, the state of the English film industry, Walker’s financing and working methods, cast and crew. EXTRAS (all titles) Commentary, interview. English audio. No subtitles.

He doesn’t articulate his thoughts, but McCormack’s performance, the camera movement, music and snippets of movie dialogue make his interior landscape clear. In the commentary and extended interview, Davies is explicit about recreating his memory of the past, not the past itself. He also has much to say about his life, working methods and philosophy of film. Taken with the producer and production designer interviews, the extras constitute a detailed portrait of the movie. EXTRAS Commentary, TV interview, production designer interview, producer interview, essay booklet. English audio and subtitles.

Violet & Daisy starts as an action comedy: a couple of teenage girls in nuns’ habits – hired killers – coolly blow away half a dozen kidnappers. Then it turns into a warm-hearted drama when they find their next target calmly waiting for them, ready to die. And then it yo-yos between those two modes until the end. Away from work, Violet (Alexis

Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) are very girly – BFFs, pop-star- and clothes-obsessed and solemnly talking about their “professionalism.” But they collapse into dithering incompetence in the face of their target’s (James Gandolfini) warmth. There are no extras to spend time on, so double-bill this with In Bruges, an equally unusual but very different comedy-drama about hired killers out of their depth. EXTRAS English, French audio. English subtitles. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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“ woman of a certain age” who started reading your column to broaden my horizons. As a result, some curiosities peeped their heads over the boundaries of my once happily repressed existence. I summoned the courage to join an online BDSM dating site. I got a response almost immediately from a man who decided to fill me in on how things worked. He proceeded to tell me my name would henceforth be Sub, advised me that he was to be addressed as His Majesty King Something and ordered me to phone him. This was too much, too fast, and too weird. I gave him what I thought was a plausible excuse for my decision not to proceed, to avoid hurting his feelings. He wouldn’t take no for an answer. I tried blocking him, but he seemed to have several identities on the same site. I deactivated my account. So now I’m in a bit of a quandary as to where to seek out other options – preferably options that are safer and not so ritualistically restrictive. Fear Of Flying “When folks first decide to explore a curiosity in kink or BDSM, one of the things I let them know is that this loose band of variegated kinky types – the kink community – is NOT a utopia of ultimate sexual enlightenment,” said Mollena Williams, a kinky author, activist and blogger. “The kink community is a microcosm of the broader society, from the lowest common denominator to the crème de la crème.” Sadly, FOF, it sounds like one of your first interactions was with a LowCom, not a CrèmeDe. “I wish I could say her experience is unique,” said Williams. “But it is not. The same creeps, jerks and assholes on standard dating sites are on BDSM-centric sites. And some will utilize the trappings of consensual kink to nonconsensually slime people.” What Williams means by “slime,” FOF, is “manipulate, intimidate and potentially abuse.” Creepy assholes like His Majesty King Something will seek out younger and/or less experienced subs like you, because older and/or more experienced subs are more likely to recognize his behaviour for the red-flag sliminess it is – and older and/or more experienced subs would tell him to fuck off without feeling obligated to spare his feelings. So what can you do? “Block the trolls,” said Williams, “and seek out the awesome folks who are also hanging out at sites like FetLife.com, ALT.com, iTaboo. com and BDSMfriendbook.com. A kinkfriendly profile on a non-kink site is another option. I met my current domi nant partner on OkCupid because my profile reveals that I happen to be a big old pervert. That caught his eye. Kinky folks are everywhere!” You also have offline options, FOF. “She can find local events by checking out Caryl’s BDSM Page (drkdesyre.com) or by joining FetLife and searching events in her area,” said Williams. “She can attend munches, which are nonsexual social meet-and-greets, and classes are good places to meet people who are experienced.” Getting to know kinksters face-to-face doesn’t offer 100 per cent protection from creeps, “but it’s a great way to get feedback, recommendations and ever-important warnings. Essentially, dating in the kink world is no different than dating in the default world.

Either your technique and style are both lousy – maybe every fibre of your being is (subconsciously) screaming, “I hate this role” during a scene – or your girlfriend is one of those BDSM switches who has a difficult time submitting to someone she knows, loves, wakes up next to every morning, gets into arguments with about bills, etc. It might be better if she subbed for someone else, GUOB, while continuing to dominate you.

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Kinks are getting pricey DSM. I’m happy to do lighter stuff, but B I am not interested in squeezing into an uncomfortable corset and using a flogger on him. It doesn’t turn me on. So I gave him permission to visit a pro. It seemed like a good idea at the time. The pressure was off me, he was getting what he needed, our relationship and sex life improved. But I had no idea how much pros cost! He’s been spending hundreds of dollars each month on his kinks! He’s been going to see a pro twice a month and spends $200-plus on each visit! I was shocked! I expected he’d go a few times a year and that these “sessions” would cost $100 a pop. We’re supposed to be saving to buy a home! He spent more going to his pro in December than he did on Christmas! I asked him to cut back and go see someone cheaper, and he became angry and defensive. He accused me of going back on our agreement. I know he reads your

I’m a 30-year-old bi girl and have

been with my girlfriend for nearly 10 years. We discovered a love of BDSM together and have had lots of fun exploring. Until now. I am a natural sub, but my girlfriend asked to switch and for me to dominate her. I have tried to do this half a dozen times, but afterward – or sometimes during a scene – she tells me it isn’t working. She says it’s not about my actions, but about my “tone.” Hearing this kills my ladyboner, and the scene fizzles and dies. It’s gotten to the point where I’m wondering if I should bother any more if I can never get my “tone” right. I want to please her, and that usually keeps me trying over and over, but… I don’t know. I feel guilty and depressed because I can’t seem to return the pleasure she gave me when our roles were reversed. Giving Up On BDSM

column. Please help! What is a reasonable number of times to see a pro? What is a reasonable rate? What about a couple’s budget and plans for the future? He Spent More Than I Thought Two hundred dollars a session – $200 an hour – isn’t an unreasonable rate when you consider a professional dom’s overheard and fixed costs. Corsets, floggers, bondage gear and dungeon spaces do not come cheap. But unless money is no object and/or you’re single, blowing $400+ a month on visits to a pro dom is unreasonable and unfair. That’s $4,800+ a year, which could go a long way toward the down payment on a house. Since there aren’t many pro doms out there who work for $100 an hour – or many partners as understanding as you – your husband should think about cutting way the fuck back, getting a second job or winning the lottery. But here’s something for you to think about, HSMTIT: You say all those sessions with a professional dominant have improved your relationship and your sex life. If your husband were spending $100 a week to see a shrink – $5,200 a year – and you were seeing those kinds of results, would you o bject?

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