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1. Ford Nation’s last followers Graeme Phillips catches RoFo supporters’ ridiculous responses to pointed questions on video, including a comparison of the mayor to Arnold Schwarzenegger.

2. Last temptation of Ford We know Ford nationals come in all shapes and sizes, but now they come in openly homophobic and racist stripes, too.

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4. Unequal access to abortion Yep, that’s Canada we’re talking about. New Brunswick’s restrictive regulations might as well be from the Dark Ages.

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Foot of Leslie. +only lovers left alive It’s opening weekend for Jim ­Jarmusch’s stylish tale of a vampire couple (Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston).

Shani Mootoo joins solid lit lineup at Brigantine Room, May 7

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­ ocumentary festival in North d America kicks off tonight and runs to May 4. Various locations. $6.20-$19.25. hotdocs.ca.

Bambitchell Sharlene ­Bamboat and Alexis Mitchell’s savvy Silent Citizen installation probing changing immigration requirements is at Chinatown Centre Mall to Apr 26. imagesfestival.com.

Boy George Culture Club ­singer and club DJ performs his first original music in 18 years.

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by NOW’s Susan G Cole. 6:30 pm. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. $19.25. hotdocs.ca.

James Blunt The popular ­English singer/songwriter brings his soft rock to the ­Danforth Music Hall. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $49.50-$69.50.

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From 10:30 am. Free. Meet at Toronto Music Garden pavilion stage. janeswalk.org.

Bun B Texas rapper comes to the Hoxton. Doors 8 pm. $15.

C54, RT, SS, TW. shedot festival gala Elvira Kurt, Lauren Ash, Naomi Snie­ ckus and others play comedy fest gala. Opera House. 7:30 pm. $35. shedotfestival.com.

pepper’s adaptation of the Somerset Maugham novel continues at the Young Centre.

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FORBIDDEN CITY Spectacular show of treasures from the Chinese palace are on view at the ROM to Sep 1. $24.50-$27. rom.on.ca.

pher launches her rape-related memoir, One Hour In Paris, with a performance by comedian Elvira Kurt and live music.

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EMA Head to the Horseshoe to catch the American singer/ songwriter’s riveting style of mangled pop. Doors 8:30 pm. $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

F­ orward Sideways Like A Crab author reads with Heather O’Neill and Alexi Zentner at the Brigantine Room. 7:30 pm.

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climate action Talks by Green Party MP Bruce Hyer, author Linda McQuaig and more. 7 pm. Free. Metro Hall, rm 308. electoralalliance.ca.

Angel Haze Head to the ­Hoxton to catch the Detroitborn rapper playing material from her recent Dirty Gold LP. Doors 8 pm. $15. TW.

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Aretha Franklin Queen of soul hits Roy Thomson Hall. 8 pm. $59.50-$199.50. RTH. Fashion arts toronto Arts and fashion ­extravaganza continues to Apr 26 at Daniels Spectrum. $30-$45. fashionarttoronto.ca.

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Contact The month-long ­photography festival goes up in galleries and on billboards around town. ­scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

May Day: Honour Our Communities Rally for legal status for all immigrants on International Workers’ Day. 5:30 pm. Free. Allan Gardens. toronto.nooneisillegal.org.

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APR 24 THE CONNECTION BETWEEN NUTITION & OSTEOPOROSIS Want stronger bones? Discover the connection between nutrition and osteoporosis. There’s more to strong bones then just drinking milk. Learn which factors play a role in keeping our bones strong. Is it Vitamin D? Calcium? Vitamin K? Learn how to meet your vitamin and mineral needs and design a meal plan to support & strengthen your bones today. You will be provided with a list of the foods most important for bone health and a recipe for desserts for strong bones. Andria Barrett is a Culinary Nutritionist spreading the message about the “power of food”. She teaches cooking classes across the GTA and at The Big Carrot.

MAY 1 FIRST AID WITH HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE Be prepared for medical emergencies at home with the right homeopathic medicines which can quickly alleviate pain, reduce inflammation and speed healing, gently and safely.

Homeopath Maria Ringo will introduce you to remedies every family needs to have on hand in case of accidents or injuries. Learn how to confidently apply specific medicines to actual situations. Receive handouts and samples to help start a kit for yourself! Maria Ringo B.GS, DHMHS, CCH is in private family practice at North Toronto Homeopathic Medicine & Wellness (www.NTHM.ca) MAY 8 GLUTEN FREE? GOOD GRIEF! If you are someone that lives with Celiac disease or has any sensitivity to gluten then this night is for you! Learn more about gluten and Celiac disease and how to find safe and delicious food to eat. You can live with a gluten sensitivity; take the grief out of gluten...for good! Cecile Gough, Registered Nurse and Hypnosis practitioner will also demo self hypnosis to help you live the life you’ve always dreamed of.

MAY 15 HEALING ANXIETY, PANIC ATTACKS & IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME, DRUG FREE Have you had to deal with anxiety or panic attacks? Do you or someone you know have Irritable Bowel Syndrome? Would you like to heal from it naturally and drug free? It is possible with the right help to do that. Philip Ames is a registered professional counselor since 1973 and has been in private practice since 1990. He overcame anxiety and panic attacks and now is a specialist helping others heal. www.philipames.com. Kate McMurray, CNP is a holistic nutritionist at The Big Carrot.

MAY 22 THE ABC’S OF CHOOSING HEALTHY BODY CARE PRODUCTS Everyday, we are bombarded by new, sometimes confusing, information about ingredients in personal care products. Add to that the increasing number of new natural products coming on the market and you might wonder how anyone can keep up with what is truly safe and healthy. Join us for an informative evening to learn the basics of body care products and take the mystery out of label reading. Yana, with 13 years experience at the Big Carrot, is Manager of the Body Care Department and a talented makeup artist. Meadow, a buyer in the department for 5 years, has a passion for standards and an understanding of market trends.

MAY 29 CELEBRATE FAIR-TRADE FORTNIGHT - COFFEE & CO-OPS BREWING, TASTING AND LEARNING Planet Bean’s resident coffee expert, Elijah Lederman, will lead a class on how to brew a great cup of coffee using any brew method, including French Press, Aeropress and Filter Drip. The class will explore how variables effect flavour extraction and how to control them. Taste samples from each method and discuss how they impact the flavour. Elijah will answer all of your coffee related questions and help you create a great recipe for your preferred brew method. Additionally, Planet Bean’s cooperative expert Bill Barrett will lead a rousing discussion about the role and social impact of cooperatives in the global coffee industry.

email letters@nowtoronto.com Marijuana 101 for dummies

Re 42 Heady Facts You Should Know About Marijuana (NOW, April 17-23).

Marijuana has not been shown to make you smarter (fact 22). The research showing that cannabinoids can be used to stimulate the growth of brain cells in mice is interesting, but it is hardly the same as a study of the comparative intelligence of pot smokers vs non-smokers (or of the same people before and after becoming pot smokers). At best, you are jumping the gun.

And marijuana is not actually good for your lungs (fact 38). It’s true and quite remarkable that smoking pot (unlike smoking tobacco) doesn’t increase your risk of lung cancer, but it doesn’t decrease it either.

Inhaling smoke of whatever type is still not good for you. Your lungs get dirty and become less capable of oxygenating blood, and the risk of emphysema increases. That is why I recommend that people who use marijuana should prepare it as a tea rather than smoking it.

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David Palter Toronto

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Come on now, where the heck is Peter Tosh in your Top 5 Pot Ambassadors (NOW, April 17-23)? He was far more of a pot activist than Bob Marley. And where was Paul McCartney? The Beatle spent nine days in jail in Japan for 8 ounces of weed in the 1980s. Replace celebrity pop tarts Miley Cyrus and Rihanna with true pot activists.

Natasha Emery Toronto

I agree with every word of Andrew Mitrovica’s article about the media coverage of Jim Flaherty’s death (NOW, April 17-23).

For days after the announcement I kept scanning news coverage looking for someone to stay anything remotely objective about Flaherty’s politics.

Journalists seem way too chummy with those they are supposed to be reporting on.

Paul Clement Toronto

Did HarperCons spin Flaherty’s death?

I was very pleased to see that NOW has not joined in on the unthinking hagiography of the very ordinary Conservative foot soldier Jim Flaherty.

If we needed proof of Flaherty’s status, just look at the fact that his successor is the redoubtable Harper lackey Joe Oliver.

Again the Conservative spin doctors have made a pumped-up PR score to the detriment of honest discourse in Canadian society .

Thanks to NOW for keeping a sense of perspective.

Brian Young Toronto

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Re Hard Pill To Swallow by Cynthia McQueen (NOW, April 17-23).

In 2013, a close relative was admitted to a Toronto rehab hospital where she was asked to sign a consent form in order to be administered Tamiflu during an influenza outbreak.

After a few days of taking this medication she began to hallucinate, experienced convulsions and had a seizure.

She was rushed to the emergency ward at an acute care hospital, where she was given a powerful antipsychotic (olanzapine) that stopped the symptoms.

The consent form she had signed stated that “rare cases of transient neuropsychiatric events (including anxiety, delusions and delirium) have been reported among persons taking Tamiflu, predominantly among children and adolescents and primarily in Japan.”

Ted Turner Toronto

Where’s enviro fallout in jets equation?

John McLeod does a great job outlining the issues involved in expanding

the Island airport to allow jets (NOW, April 3-​9). But what about the environment?

The Toronto Islands are critical to wildlife. What impact would larger planes have on the delicate lakeshore ecosystem? Wind and water patterns could be affected.

And how about the countless migrating bird species and monarch but­terflies?

I feel that the city and Porter CEO Robert Deluce are too eager to push the expansion through, no doubt for huge personal profit, while disregard­ ing the greater good of the citizens of Toronto and the environment.

Claire Ihasz Toronto

Breaking our Ford habit

I’m a long-time reader of NOW, which I believe is an important part of Toronto’s information landscape.

In the last few weeks I realized that my anger at Rob Ford and his constant missteps, embarrassments and outright bad behavior had led me to a kind of addiction to him.

Every day I checked an online for­ um predicting when he would be arrested. Every time a news article popped up about him online I would zoom to it, ignoring more important and globally interesting stories, feeding my addiction.

I realized this was making me an­ grier and less productive, so I decided that any time I felt an urge to read about, talk about or post something about him I would seek information about another mayoral candidate.

Please spend more time talking about the other candidates. As a city, we need to unhook, butt out and put down the pipe of our collective Ford addiction.

Kiersten Tough Toronto

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On the crisis in Ukraine (NOW, April 17-​23), it’s hard to know where to be­ gin. I could start with perestroika, but maybe it is best to begin closer to re­ cent events. And those starting to get into the pockets of government ministers.

Deals and laws unfavorable to ordinary people are signed and passed on a weekly basis. The richest black earth, as well as once-public natural springs, are leased out to foreign companies.

People are disillusioned about the EU and the “help” it will bring. (The West had a quicker reaction to the shooting of stray dogs by governmental order during the Sochi Olympics.)

And now less than 10 per cent of the populations of Luhansk and Donetsk is begging for Russian protection, taking away from the real problem.

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face-to-face with ford nation Like fans at a pop concert, Ford Nationals band together against the haters at campaign launch By ­Jonathan goldsbie

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he man who identified himself as the Ford family’s former postman had an LED ticker on his chest.

“ROB FORD IS OUR MAN, IF HE CAN’T DO IT NO ONE CAN,” it slowly, but repeatedly revealed. Also in its electronic repertoire, as observed by another journalist: “KISS ME I’M FORD­ISH.” The display was certainly eye-​ catching, but in the context of Mayor Rob Ford’s April 17 campaign launch party, neither the message nor the me­dium seemed terribly out of place.

Another gentleman, who had previously attempted to run his dog for city council (to protest the decision to fill a vacancy by appointment instead of by-​election), clutched two hand­fuls of chocolate eggs as he approached NOW’s videographer and me while bawking like a chicken.

Not every remaining Ford support­ er is a character, to be sure, but a disproportionate number of them are.

For better or for worse, Olivia Chow and John Tory’s respective launches did not have a man clad head to toe in various man­i­festations of the Ca­ nadian flag. But, then, neither did they have a full-​size fire truck of questionable provenance parked off in a corner and decorated with banners touting the imagined achievements of the candidate.

In Rob Ford’s orbit, the outlandish becomes acceptable and even valued and integrated. He is an entrenched, formalized cause for those whose frustrations and desires might not otherwise benefit from a unifying theme.

Last summer, upon visiting the Scar­borough Ford Fest, I wrote that many who feel disenfranchised not just by the political es­tablishment, but by the entire social hierarchy have found in him a vehicle for asserting their right to shape the world in which they live.

Since then, it has only become more difficult to examine Ford Nation – those who still, despite everything, believe that Ford is both fit for office and uniquely suited to it – without falling into the traps of eth­no­ graphy, exoticization and other­ing.

There are clearly fundamental differences of understanding at play, dis­parate conceptions of principles, tenets or even facts that most of us would consider settled.

In February, erst­while Science Guy and ardent evo­lutionist Bill Nye took on the founder of Petersburg, Kentucky’s, Creation Museum in a high-​ profile debate. BuzzFeed dispatched staffer Matt Stopera to turn it into viral content, and he achieved a particular feat of provocation and empowerment by asking attendees to share questions they would like to pose to the other side.

Once you’ve heard all the usual lines in support of insupportable ar­ guments (How can there be life if there is no God? Who will watch tax dollars if there is no Ford?), it can be tricky to push further.

I spoke to approximately 10 Ford adherents, submitting my queries in this order: If you could ask Rob Ford one question, what would you want to know? What’s the best thing he’s done so far? Has he done anything that’s been disappointing to you?

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ganized an April 17 rally that attracted over 500 protesters.

When the clinic announced it would close, Beirne and her group became involved in the fight to get it funded. Planned Parenthood and Morgentaler clinics are provincially funded in almost every other province in Canada.

For Beirne and her group, “this is an accessibility problem, not a pro-​life or pro-​choice debate,” she says. “We do have law; we just need the access.”

Micki Landa, a women’s rights activist who first took up the cause in the 60s, and thousands of others joined rallies across Canada to support equal access to abortion.

“I can’t believe we still have to fight for these rights in Canada,” Landa said at a rally in Toronto the same day.

Considering that most Canadians don’t know the price of health care in our country, the true cost is shocking.

In Halifax, an abortion at hospital “costs $1,800,” said Simone Leibovitch, manager of the Fredericton Morgentaler Clinic. Her clinic charges between

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$700 and $​800, offering partial and full subsidies for those who can’t afford the procedure. The clinic’s motto, after all, is, “Every mother a willing mother, every child a wanted child.”

This makes it cost-​beneficial for the province to fund facilities like the Morgentaler Clinic.

Asked about the range of people she’s seen come through in her seven years as manager, Leibovitch says, “It’s everyone. It’s young women.

It’s old women. It’s women that have their tubes tied or with husbands that have vasectomies.

Birth control is far from perfect.

“Nobody gets pregnant to have an abortion,” she says. “Shit happens!”

If the clinic closes, the only facility in New Brunswick offering abortions outside of hospitals will be gone. Currently, 50 per cent of women from PEI who seek an abortion go there.

“That’s going to be a crisis for all kinds of peo­ ple,” said Michelle Robidoux of the Ontario Coalition for Abortion Clinics at the Toronto rally.

“That’s a huge chunk of services just gone. We need an expansion of services now.”

Robidoux turned the issue on its ear with an astute example: “If a woman who’s pregnant and wants to have the baby in New Brunswick is told she has to have the consent of two doctors to do that, it would be a no-​brainer.

“It’s punitive, it’s paternalistic, it’s against the Canada Health Act,” she said of the regulation.

About 100 protesters lined Yonge Street at YongeDun­das Square on Thursday, holding coat hangers and signs that read, “Rona Ambrose enforce the Canada Health Act,” “Honk for choice” and “Thou shalt not mess with women’s reproductive rights – Fallopians” (a play on a Biblical reference).

For Robidoux, the most inspiring part of the day was the number of young women who came to the rally.

“This is their time now to really take this and run with it and win it for women right across the country,” she says.

In New Brunswick the next steps in­clude writing MPs, organizing more rallies and forging cross-provincial partnerships.

Beirne says, “We’re very certain we will achieve what we want eventually, and we’re going to keep fighting for what we think we deserve. We’re definitely not going let this go now that we’ve got things started.”

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Simone Leibovitch, Morgentaler Clinic manager

Canadian women are still fighting for abortion rights, because at least one province is far behind the times By cynthia mcqueen

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t’s not surprising that access to abortion is restrictive when you live in a place led by a man whose father is a Christian minister.

However, when that place is New Brunswick and the man in question is your premier, David Alward –​well, now, there’s a surprise.

Under a provincial regulation enacted in 1984, a woman needs notes from two doctors stating that an abortion is “medically required,” and insurance only covers the procedure if it’s performed in a hospital by an obstetrics and gynecology specialist.

This is not the case in any other province.

Premier Alward did not reply to multiple calls and emails for comment.

When NOW contacted federal Minister of Health Rona Ambrose seeking her comments, we received an email reiterating that the federal government long ago downloaded health care to the provinces.

“If citizens of New Brunswick are concerned, they must contact their provincial government, responsible for making these decisions,” writes Ambrose’s communications person. The response made no mention of the regulation that contradicts the Canada Health Act. Under the Canada Health Act, abortions are an essential service covered by health insurance. So from a legal standpoint, New Brunswick is in vio-

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lation of the Canada Health Act, according to Kim Stanton, legal di­rector of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund.

“Can you think of any other medical proce­ dure that requires two doctors’ permission?” she asks in an interview. “It’s a procedure that’s legal in Canada. Why should a woman have to go through these hoops?”

That’s why Henry Morgentaler, a pioneer in the abortion rights movement in Canada, opened a private clinic in Fredericton 20 years ago. Approximately 60 per cent of the province’s abortions have been performed there, and it supplies $10,000 annually to help some of its 600 to 700 patients pay for the procedure.

The clinic has offered pro-​rated and even pro bono procedures for women in an under-­serviced area. Some patients travel from Nova Scotia, a 10hour drive from Sydney, or PEI. Due to lack of funding, the Morgentaler Cli­nic will shut its doors in June. Morgentaler had previously funded the clinic himself, and since it wasn’t run on a for-​profit model, the fa­cil­ity had been operating at a deficit for some time..

Abortions in clinics throughout Canada are funded under the provincial health care plan.

The New Brunswick clinic’s closure has sparked national protests by women’s rights activists.

One young woman has roused the fervour of a new generation of feminists: Sorcha Beirne, a 16-​ year-​old high school student in Fredericton, or-

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What would you want him to do in the next four years if he gets re-elected? Do your family and friends feel the same way about Ford that you do?

Clear and unsurprising themes emerged from answers to the first four. (Ford’s persisting champions most frequently cite his budget wran­gling and care for their hard-​ earned money as his top qualities, and are disappointed by but willing to forgive his, uh, extracurriculars.)

But the last opened up little, narrow windows into lives outside of Fordstock, outside talk of tax dollars and scheming councillors.

Do your friends and family feel the same way?

A man from Brampton who had earlier equated marijuana use to crack use: “No. Everybody has their own opinion. We don’t argue about it.

You know, but I just think that, I dunno – breath of fresh air. He’s real. He may not be perfect – he’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination.”

A woman with a nose stud who wants Ford to lower gas and electricity bills: “Not all of them. But I have been a champion for him all along. I don’t care. Like, he’s my number-one guy.”

One of the brothers who owns Steak Queen, who compares Ford’s magnet­ism to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s: “Probably not, I think it’s more of a new generation than old generation. My parents don’t know Rob Ford as much as I do.”

The aforementioned clucking gen­ tleman: “No, my family and friends, they’re totally ... Like, I’m a political junkie. I get up at 4 am and I read all the papers. So they haven’t got a clue.”

And others: “One hundred per cent.” “Yes. Oh yeah.” “They feel the same way, that Rob Ford deserves another chance of being re-elected.”

Each word is a pointillist dot filling in a corner of a canvas splashed with the family and social dy­namics surrounding a particular life. There’s a glimpse of how these people situate themselves in relation to others and of the common thread tying them to­gether.

Most of the people who love Rob Ford are very aware that there are many others who do not. And like fans at a pop concert, they band to­ gether at Ford events in both a collective embrace of their idol and a welcome escape from the haters. I don’t, and can’t, understand it any more than I can get into the heads of those who’d hold up Michael Bublé as the epitome of music. Much as we like to persuade ourselves other­wise, political preference can be as subjec­ tive as any cultural taste.

Darting through the hall to grab my recorder as the speeches began, I crossed paths and made eye contact with a cousin of mine decked out in a Ford Nation shirt. He was volunteering.

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Earlier this month, the CBC announced it will slash 675 jobs in the wake of a $130 million budget shortfall. The public broadcaster blames gov­ernment funding cuts, declining ad sales and the loss of Hockey Night In Canada to Rogers for the layoffs.

The CBC is “underfunded and over-​tasked,” says Michael Hennessy, president of the Canadian Media Production Association.

Its annual parliamentary appropri­ ation of $913 million makes the CBC, on a per capita basis, one of the most poorly funded public broadcasters in the Western world. It also faces unique challenges like operating in five time zones and in two official and eight aboriginal languages.

“As long as they have to be everything to everybody” without government support, “they’re just doomed to a slow death,” says Hennessy.

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Canada.” The Harper Conservatives not only ignored that advice but ac­ tual­ly slashed the broadcaster’s bud­ get.

While Harper has proven he’s no fan of the CBC, to be fair, kicking the corporation in the teeth is a biparti­ san tradition that goes back decades to Brian Mulroney, but Jean Chretien did the most damage.

If anything, the fact that parties on both sides of the aisle seem united in their disdain for the CBC proves

icians don’t tend to like criticism,” he says.

According to Morrison, one of the big problems with the CBC is that its board of directors and pres­ident are government-​appoint­ed.

“There’s a can­cer at the top, and that is the politi­cal patronage system of its gov­er­nance,” he says. “It does not ensure that the best and the brightest are there.”

Current CBC president Hubert Lacroix was a corporate lawyer with little experience in broadcasting or managing a large enterprise before his appointment, notes Morrison.

According to former head of CBC English broadcasting Richard Stursberg, who served under Lacroix for two years before he was sacked in 2010, Lacroix is no exception.

“It’s interesting if you look back over all the presidents. I don’t think any of them had a media background,” says Stursberg. “I don’t think most of them had ever run anything bigger than a bath.”

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board, which is supposed to provide direction for the corporation, he adds. If you have no media background, it’s “hard to make a sensible judgment” about how to run the show, he says.

This is the third time in the last five years that the CBC has been forced to reduce staff – 2,000 posi­ tions in all since 2009.

It’s set aside $33.5 million for severance pay to cover the latest layoffs.

While that figure sounds substantial, it’s too little to finance buyouts or early retirement incentives. That means the most junior employees – the young ones most comfortable with changing technology – will be the first to go.

It’s a very sad situation, says Marc-​ Philippe Laurin, president of the CBC branch of the Canadian Media Guild, the union that represents most of the corporation’s employees outside of Quebec.

“They’re losing all their new blood,”

the organization becomes “inwardlooking” when it should be “outwardlooking to be successful.”

While the CBC scrambles to keep jobs, cuts aren’t the only way it’s patching the $130-​million hole.

Sports are out; plans for a station in London, Ontario, were scrapped; newscast mergers were announced in Calgary and Edmonton, Thunder Bay and Sudbury; and late-night TV news across the North is gone. Dra­ mas like Arctic Air and Cracked, and cooking shows Best Recipes Ever and In The Kitchen With Stefano Faita have also been chopped.

The problem isn’t just funding.

Over the years, while the CBC’s coffers have shrunk, its mandate has expanded. Two years ago, during a Ca­na­dian Radio-​Television and Tele­ com­munications Commission licen­ sing renewal, the corporation agreed to produce more original programming. However, neither the CRTC nor Parliament provided more money to do that.

Ironically, the loss of HNIC, which seems terrible, is actually a bit of a lifeline, says Morrison.

While hockey was a big draw for ratings and advertising, the expense of purchasing the rights from the NHL didn’t leave a lot of room for pro­fits.

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It’s a scenario that’s played out many times at the CBC over threeplus decades of aus­ter­ity.

Ian Cooper, who spent 37 years at the Corp work­ing mostly in news, says it always seemed like a noose was tightening.

Back in the mid-​80s, when CBC Windsor faced the axe, senior staff felt they deserved to take over the jobs “that us young guys had in the newsroom,” says Cooper. Those senior employees launched an action through the union that dragged on for more than a year. People watched their tongues because they didn’t know who their allies were, says Coop­­er. “It was a stressful time.”

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Still, the consensus seems to be that on its current trajectory, the CBC is head­ed for disaster.

“It’s on a knife’s edge right now,” says Laurin. “We’re not talking about cuts to the bone – this is in the marrow, this is now sucking the marrow out of the bone. If that continues, the CBC will be facing a very, very dark time.”

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Rubin “Hurricane” Carter: 1937-2014 Life after prison for boxer immortalized in Jewison film was more complicated than Hollywood-scripted stories By ENZO DiMATTEO

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he last time I spoke with Rubin “Hurricane” Carter, I got a taste of his famous temper.

It was 2002, and I’d called to ask about Mumia AbuJamal, the former Black Panther and black nationalist who was then serving a life term on death row in the U.S. for the murder of Philadelphia cop Daniel Faulk­ner in 1981. More questions were being asked about Abu-Jamal’s pro­fessed in­nocence, even among hardcore Mumiaphiles here in Toron­to.

But Carter continued to believe in him. He slammed the phone down.

That’s not difficult to understand, given Carter’s pro-Panther sympathies and the fact that he himself had spent almost 20 years behind bars in New Jersey, for a time on death row, convicted not once but twice of three murders. A federal court judge set aside the convictions in 1985, ruling the prosecution had been racially motivated. The Hurricane was a stubborn customer.

That streak served him well in the boxing ring, where Carter was a fearsome fighter, and later outside it as an effective, pioneering advocate for the wrongly convicted. But it also alienated him from a good many friends who worked to free him from prison and others who ded­icated

themselves to his fight for others who’d been wrongly convict­ed. The Hurricane was a force of nature. And like a force of nature, he was unpredictable.

After he’d been diagnosed with pros­tate cancer and told last year there was nothing more the doctors could do, some among those he’d become estranged from made overtures to reconcile their differences.

Carter wasn’t interested. He died at his Toronto home on Easter Sunday, cared for by John Artis, who was convicted with Carter and paroled in 1981. Carter was 76.

There will be no funeral service to remember him and his good work. It was Carter’s dying wish that he be cre­mated immediately after his death. For him there was never any looking back.

If there were an epitaph to be written on a gravestone, says his friend Artis, it would simply read, “Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter was enough.”

Artis dropped his job in Virginia and moved here to become Carter’s full-time caregiver a year ago. He says, “For Rubin, there were no regrets.”

Carter’s awards and other memo­ rabilia will go to Tufts University near Boston, where a scholarship has been established in his name for underprivileged young people inter-

ested in pursuing a career in law.

Bob Dylan’s Hurricane was inspired by Carter’s 1974 autobiogra­ phy, The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender To Number 45472, and by the protests that sprang up after the book’s publication. When he was released from prison 10 years later, Car­ter became a prominent – and perhaps unlikely – hero of the civil rights movement south of the border. Most of his teen years had been spent in and out of prison, including a four-year stretch for assault and robbery in Rahway State Prison, New Jersey’s oldest, most notorious reformatory.

He became a pro boxer after a stint in the Army, and used his interna­ tional notoriety in the ring to speak out against police brutality during the riots breaking out across the U.S. in the 1960s. Artis believes that comments Carter made about taking up arms against the state – “He was joking” – made him a target of police.

He was a contemporary of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Muhammad Ali and Jesse Jackson, and symbolized in particular the ra­cist justice system that too often bends the rules to incarcerate young black men.

Several books were written about Carter’s life, and Canadian director Norman Jewison’s The Hurricane, star­ring Denzel Washington, came out in 1999. Carter attended the world premiere at the former York Theatre on Eglin­ton East.

After the final credits, he stood up to acknowledge the crowd. In the glow of a spotlight, the familiar grin shone from underneath his trademark broad-rimmed hat. He wasn’t always comfortable with celebrity.

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CAIRO – When Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird landed in Cairo last week, Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy had been in Egypt’s infamous Tora Prison for over three months.

Although a judge recently ordered proper care for his fractured arm, his mobility remains limited and his renewed request for transfer to a hospital at the April 22 hearing was denied.

Baird met with his Egyptian counterpart to discuss concerns about Fahmy’s medical needs and spoke with his family about the importance of a timely trial, but he did not call for his release, unlike the U.S. and Australian governments that have advocated for the release of Australian Peter Greste and Egyptian Baher Mohamed arrested with Fahmy.

Together they are accused of “spreading false news” and “belonging to a terrorist group” after reporting on the military ouster of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president Mo­hamed Morsi last year.

Fahmy, now the most outspoken of the three on trial, called out to the media from his steel-​caged prisoner’s box about the in­justice of the trial during a recess in Tuesday’s hearing.

The prosecution presented the core of its case, showing interviews with and photos of student activists, Muslim Brotherhood members and leftists from b-​roll footage of the Cairo demonstrations interspersed with audio from unintelligible phone calls.

Fahmy expressed frustration with the Arabic translation in the courtroom, saying it was not correct. “They are translating the answers, not the questions,” he said, explaining that the prosecution is making Al Jazeera journalists look responsible for how people responded to their questions.

“This evidence was against journalism,” he said wryly.

The prosecution gave little expla­ nation of its evidence.

Shouting questions over a line of police while the accused yell back answers has been the only way for the media to communicate with those on trial.

Fahmy has called for someone to answer for the time they’ve spent in prison. “Our innocence is not enough,” he cried out when all three accused were again denied bail on Ap­ril 10.

Throughout the trial, prosecutors

have struggled to connect the Al Ja­ zeera journalists with the Brotherhood. Adel Fahmy notes that his brother Mohamed was supportive of the anti-​Morsi protests the military saw as justification for the July 3 coup led by General Abdel Fattah el-​Sisi.

And now the Brotherhood label is being applied too broadly. According to the Center for Economic and Social Rights in Egypt, connection to the Bro­therhood has been used to justify the killing of more than 1,400 people and, according to the Egyptian ministry of the in­terior, the jailing of at least 16,000 since July. The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a local human rights group, says that number is closer to 20,000, yet Baird ignored human rights violations during his visit.

Judges pass mass death sentences, deny that abuse has taken place and deprive prisoners of the ability to defend themselves, while deeming irrelevant “evidence” legitimate proof. Still, the theatre of the absurd is lost on many Egyptians.

On the streets of Cairo, people accuse Fahmy and his Al Jazeera colleagues of being part of an unlikely coalition of foreign journalists and Is­ lamists working together to desta­bil­ize the country.

Such beliefs have not only thwarted the national discussion started by the 2011 uprising but have also become politically instrumental in Gen­ eral el-​Sisi’s march to the presi­dency.

“Al Jazeera. Fuck them!” says Mo­ ham­mad Sadiq, a businessman standing inside his small, cluttered rug shop in Cairo. He believes only Sisi can help the country’s stagnating economy and bring peace to the region. “The January [2011] revolution is a part of history. We need a strong leader,” he says.

Now those desperate to relegate the revolution to history while turning back the clock are the ones holding the keys to Fahmy’s cell.

During a haphazard press conference at the end of the March 25 hearing, Fahmy was overcome with emotion. “Why isn’t the Canadian gov­ern­ment taking a stronger stand?” he yelled to reporters. “We don’t know what they’re waiting for.”

The case has been adjourned until May 3, and no bail has been granted.3 Jesse Rosenfeld is a freelance journalist currently based in Cairo. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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Algonquin Island Bridge Environmental Assessment Notice of Public Event #2 The City of Toronto is recommending two options of either major rehabilitation or replacement of the Algonquin Island Bridge. These two short listed options are being considered at the bridge’s existing location. Join us for a public event to learn more, speak with the project team, and be part of a conversation to select the best option.

Date: Thursday, May 1, 2014 Time: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: Algonquin Island Association Clubhouse (18 Wyandot Avenue) Background The Algonquin Island Bridge is the only fixed access for pedestrians, bicycles and service vehicles between Algonquin Island and Ward’s Island. It is currently in a deteriorated condition. The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate an option that ensures this link between Algonquin and Ward’s Islands is maintained while accommodating all users and essential vehicles.

The Process The study is being carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Environmental Assessment Act and will provide opportunities for public input at key stages.

We would like to hear from you This is the second of two public meetings for this study. The first meeting was held on December 5, 2013 to receive feedback on preliminary options to either upgrade or replace the bridge with a consideration of also changing its location. We are now asking for your feedback and input into the selection of a preferred option.

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At Treblinka, jagged stones inscribed with names of lost Jewish communities point dagger-like accusing fingers heavenward By BERNIE M. FARBER

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It’s a place I was afraid to visit. Even the trees, I was told, cry at Treblinka.

The death camp established by the Nazis during the Second World War in occupied Poland was the site of the murder of nearly 800,000 Jews, amongst them my half-​brothers Sho­ lom, 13, and Yitzchak, eight.

As Jews around the world remember the Holocaust on Monday (April 28), my thoughts are with my father’s family, all but him were murdered in the gas chambers at Treblinka.

A few years ago I travelled to Poland on business and finally decided to pay my respects.

Both boys lived with my father and his first wife, along with 750 other Jewish inhabitants, in the small Polish village of Bocki.

After the outbreak of the war, the Nazis gathered the Jews of Bocki in a small ghetto and, on November 11, 1942, began the liquidation of the region.

My father, as fate would have it, had slipped under the ghetto fence that evening with two other men to steal food for their families. He returned to the wailing of sirens and the barking of dogs. He was ensnared in the roundup and placed with other men in a separate cattle car heading to Treblinka. Not knowing the fate of his family, he jumped from the moving train and stole back into the now empty ghetto to find his family gone – on their way to death, on their way to Treblinka.

On a cold day in February 2007, I

find myself in a car on a narrow, icy road once soaked with the blood of my father’s entire family: five brothers and sisters, his parents, cousins and his first wife and children.

Treblinka, about 100 kilometres east of Warsaw, is hard to find.

Though my driver, Czarek, knows these roads well, he has difficulty locating the obscured turnoff leading to a twisting path into the forest. I am told this is the way the Nazis want­ed it.

Unlike the other concentration camps, which were originally built as labour camps, Treblinka had only one function – to gas the Jews of eastern Poland.

One tiny sign at the foot of the path points the way past a small private house that’s been converted into the Muzeum Walki I Meczenstwa,

Unlike other Nazi concentration camps, Treblinka had only one ­function.

Museum of Fighting and Martyrdom. Its one room holds pictures of Treblinka during the war, camp artifacts and panels explaining the layout of the area. The camp itself is a 1-kilometre walk along an un­tended trail.

The groundskeeper gives us a small map and sends us on our way.

Czarek and I are the only visitors.

We begin our slow trek. To our left, single stone columns represent the now torn-​up railway line that brought the cattle cars filled with Jews to slaughter.

At his trial, Franz Stangl, comman­ dant of Treblinka, was asked how many people could be killed in one day.

“According to my estimation, a trans­port of 30 freight cars with 3,000 people was liquidated in three hours,” he declared, adding, “I have done nothing to anybody that was not my duty. My conscience is clear.”

As I sit on a small bench, a small ray of sunshine looks out tentatively from the grey sky as if God is sneaking a quick peek. I look up to see the monument erected in the middle of what was once the camp. It resembles one of Judaism’s most holy icons, Jerusalem’s Western Wall.

Eerily surrounding it as far as the eye can see are jagged stones pointing dagger-​like accusing fingers heavenward. Each is inscribed with the name of a lost Polish Jewish community.

I walk toward the stone that memorializes my father’s village, and as the ray of sun slowly recedes back into the grey sky, I recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. As is our custom, I place a small pebble upon the gravestone as a witness to the memory of the Jews of Bocki. 3 Bernie M. Farber is a writer and human rights ­advocate and former CEO of the Canadian Jewish Congress. news@nowtoronto.com

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him in the Association in Defence of the Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC), recalls his sense of humour about AIDWYC’s fights. The two liked to compare themselves to the “Who are those guys?” posse in Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid. “There will never be another Rubin Carter,” says Lockyer. “His attitude was ‘You’re never going to knock me down.’”

But the reality of life after prison was, like the man, more complicated than the Hollywood-scripted stories.

Carter said after his release that if he’d learned anything from his time behind bars, it was “that bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.” It became the mantra of his many speeches.

No one comes out of two decades in prison, large chunks of that time in solitary confinement, unscathed.

The man the authorities blamed for something he never did could never forget, even if he did forgive. He struggled with alcoholism for many years.

Dylan’s song says he could have been “the champion of the world,”

but it wasn’t quite like that. In Car­ ter’s title fight with Joey Giardello in 1964, unlike the fight in Jewison’s movie, he wasn’t robbed by the judges. The Hur­ricane lost a unanimous decision. He admitted as much years later, when Giardello sued the film’s producers, claiming that key fight scenes had been “deliberately fab­ ricated” to pump the narrative that the decision had been racist. The suit was settled out of court.

For Carter there would also be a break with the commune of friends from Toronto who helped rescue him from prison. Carter was married for a time to the group’s leader, Lisa Peters.

The circumstances that led to his split with the commune in the early 90s have never been completely revealed.

Peters would not talk about it with me when I appeared on the group’s doorstep in Kleinburg after the 2000 release of James Hirsch’s book Hurricane: The Miraculous Journey Of Rubin Carter.

In public, Carter was always grateful to “the Cana­dians.” But it’s also true that he felt im­prisoned by the group’s rules, which forbade contact with the outside world. Out of one prison, into another.

Carter described the group dyna­ mic in Hirsch’s book as “learned help­lessness. The only thing that mat­tered was to be depen­dent on that house, to learn to never be separated from the group.”

He served as AIDWYC’s executive di­rector from 1993 to 2005, bringing

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public attention to a number of highprofile cases. But his leadership of that organization ended when Car­ter blasted its board of directors publicly for failing to object strenuously enough to the appointment to the bench of former Guy Paul Morin pros­ecutor Susan MacLean. Morin’s 1984 murder conviction, overturned on DNA evidence, had been AIDWYC’s founding case.

“Nowadays the fashionable moral-

ity is to move on whenever a malfea­ sance occurs,” Carter said then.

Says AIDWYC’s Win Wahrer. “We would have happily taken him back.”

There was no reconciliation, even when AIDWYC members learned that Carter was in financial difficulty and offered to hold a fundraiser to formally thank the Hurricane.

Recently, Carter had taken up with Innocence International and the cause of David McCallum, who was

convicted at the age of 16 of kidnapping and murdering Nathan Blenner in 1985. Appealing to New York authorities to review the case, Carter wrote in the New York Daily News in February that, “To live in a world where truth matters and justice really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all.”

That would be a better epitaph to remember Carter by.

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Thursday, April 24

Benefits

Annual Book Sale (Fairlawn United Church)

Used books, music and DVDs. Today 6-9 pm; tomorrow noon-9 pm; Apr 26, 10 am-1 pm.

Free. 28 Fairlawn. ­fairlawnchurch.ca.

Comic Vision (Foundation Fighting Blindness) Stand-up comedy tour with Rebecca Kohler, Graham Chittenden and others. 6:30 pm. $300. Carlu, 444 Yonge. ­comicvision.ca.

Fine Wine Auction (Canadian Opera Co) Cocktail reception and auction. 6 pm. $100. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-8231.

Get Lit (Start2Finish Reading & Running Club) Singer Damian Abraham, reporter Robyn Doolittle, Olympian Perdita Felicien and others read from books that inspired them. 6 pm. $100, under 25 $60. Neubacher Shor Contemporary, 5B Brock. getlit.ca.

Sparkle Party (Sheena’s Place) Food, a silent auction, prizes and music by DJ Starting from Scratch. 7-11 pm. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. ­sparkleparty.myevent.com.

Events

Can A Lac Meganic Tragedy Happen In Toronto? Talk by city councillor Mary Frageda­ kis. 7 pm. Free. Danforth Mennonite Church.

2174 Danforth. info@­eastendnotar.org.

Compensation For Rana Plaza Victims And Their Families Rally to demand that the

Children’s Place pay the $8 million it owes.

Noon-1:30 pm. Free. King and York. nbusic@­ workersunitedunion.ca.

The Connection Between Nutrition & Osteoporosis Lecture. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

HIV Non-Disclosure And Sexual Assault: What Does Consent Really Mean? Panel dis-

cussion on the criminalization of HIV non-disclosure as sexual assault, with human rights litigator Joanna Birenbaum and others. 6:30 pm. Free. The Cat’s Eye, Goldring Centre, 160 Charles W. ­aidslaw.ca.

I FAT I Arts & Fashion Week Multi-arts stage for cutting-edge fashion design and art, featuring designs by Pedram Karimi, Martin Lim, and others. To Apr 26, 7 pm. $45, adv $35, stu $30, full week pass $100. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­fashionarttoronto.ca.

Infinity And Nothingness: Reading Leopardi Bilingual readings of excerpts from the

Zibaldone and Canti. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Instit, 496 Huron. 416-921-3802.

Lara Almarcegui Talk by the Spanish-born, Rotterdam-based artist. 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $8. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

Let’s Grow Food: Seed Starting Workshop.

5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net.

Managing Our Power Grid: The Key To Getting Green Energy Onlne Presentation by

Shiv Kumar. 6:30 pm. Free. North York Civic Centre, 5100 Yonge. m ­ eetup.com.

The Motorcycle In Art Lecture on the work of artist Mike Nelson by Robin Peck. 7:30 pm. $15. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. thepowerplant.org.

Toronto High Park Bicycle Club The volunteer-based bicycle club holds a sign-up night for summer activities. 7-9 pm. Free. Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor W. t­ orontohpbc.ca.

Toronto, “The Meeting Place:” The Indi­g­en­ ous Environmental History Presentation

by York U’s Jon Johnson. 7 pm. Free. ­Spa­dina ­Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416-393-7666.

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NOW’s Ecoholic, Adria Vasil, hits the Green Living Show.

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

Golden Picket

Barrick Gold is not just one of the most powerful mining corporation, but also the largest transgressor when it comes to human rights. Its corporate social responsibility spin touts work with local communities, but meanwhile Barrick is guilty the world over of robbing indigenous people of their land, safe drinking water and general security. Join Protest Barrick at the company’s annual general meeting at the Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front West, on Wednesday (April 30) at 11 am to tell shareholders: “Gold is a toxic asset.

Invest in life!” Free. protestbarrick. net.

Hormonal Goop

Just what am I putting in my body?

Adria Vasil helps answer those ques-

Friday, April 25

Benefits

Fuck Winter Let’s Dance (Youth Line) Music

by DJs John Caffrey, Carma and Zehra plus performances by Nikki Chin and Fay Slift. 9:30 pm. $10-$20. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. ­gladstonehotel.com.

Muhtadi Benefit (Muhtadi Int’l Drumming Festival) Rhythm, drums and dancing with Beyond Sound Empijah, Joaquin Nunez Hidalgo and others. 6:30 pm. $25 adv. Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. ­muhtadidrumfest.com.

PULP: Paper Art Party (Street Haven at the Crossroads) Interactive art show with music

by Lemon Bucket Orkestra and others, dancing and conversation. 9 pm. $25, stu $15.

Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. ­pulpartparty.ca.

Shakesbeers Showdown (local women’s shelters) Shakespearean theatre companies compete in improvised performances fuelled by beer. 9 pm. $10. May Cafe, 876 Dundas W. ­spurofthemomentshakespeare.weebly.com.

Try A Night In Gulu (Gainline Africa) Interactive activities, dancing and more support sports development in post-conflict African communities. 8 pm. $20-$25. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. ­passporttogulu.com.

Events

rThe Babytime Show Seminars, a diaper

crawl, stage performances, Dora the Exporer and more. To Apr 27, 10 am-6 pm. $16, grandparents $10, under 12 free. International Centre, 6900 Airport. ­babytimeshows.ca.

Balcony And Container Gardening Talk by gardener Elizabeth Stewart. 7 pm. Free (nonmembers require photo ID). West End YMCA, 931 College. westendtalks.­worddpress.com.

Docs Change People, People Change The World Hot Docs film festival talk on the im-

pact of documentaries on our knowledge and beliefs. 4 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. ­hotdocs.ca.

Green Living Show Green tech displays, an eco fashion market, yoga pavilion, electric vehicles and more. To Apr 27. $7-$16. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd. ­greenlivingshow.ca.

tions. She’s hosting an interactive game-show-style presentation called What’s In This Stuff Anyway? about the hidden hormone disruptors in everyday products. She shares DIY and kitchen-cupboard alternatives and recipes that let you steer clear of toxins.

Sunday (April 27), 3 pm, on the Health and Wellness Stage at the Green Living Show, Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’ Boulevard. $18, stu/srs $14.

The show runs April 25 to 27. greenlivingshow.ca.

Life-changing lit

Books have the power to change lives, and at the sixth Get Lit, a sextet of prominent Canadians read from a book that’s inspired them. Fucked Up’s Damian Abraham, investigative re­ porter and Crazy Town author Robyn Doolittle, Olympian Perdita Felicien Bldg, 376 Bathurst. ­realescapegame.ca.

SHine Cabaret Comedy, poetry, music, dance and more. Today and tomorrow at 8:10 pm. $15-$20. DANZoN Studio, 2480 Dundas W, suite 104. 647-701-0736.

Spring Psychic Fair Psychic, tarot and palm readers, clairvoyants, healers, lectures, demos and more. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-9 pm; Apr 27, 10 am-6 pm. $15, under 12 free.

Queen Elizabeth Bldg, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes’ Blvd. ­­fspsychicfairs.com.

Swing Dance Dancing to all styles of swing music. 7:30 pm. $15. Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontoswing­dancesociety.ca.

TOJam Three-day event with game makers working individually and in teams to create video games. To Apr 27. Free. George Brown School of Design, 341 King E. ­tojam.ca.

Why Forests Matter Talks and discussion about why forests matter, with author Andrew Westoll, Dan Kraus of the Nature Conservancy of Canada and others. 7 pm. $12, adv $8. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibiton Place.

1-800-465-8005.

WWE Live! Wrestling with superstars including Daniel Bryan, Alberto Del Rio and the Bella Twins. 7:30 pm. $20 and up. Richo Coliseum, Exhibition Place. t­ icketmaster.ca.

Saturday, April 26

Benefits

rCOBA Dance & Drum-A-Thon (Collective of

Black Artist’s Children’s Programs) Classes in hip-hop, Caribbean, Bollywood, jazz, African and more. 9 am-6 pm. $5/class, all day $25.

COBA Studio, 585 Dundas E. ­cobainc.com.

Mars Hotel (SickKids) The Grateful Dead ­tribute band performs. 9 pm. $20 adv. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. eventbrite.ca.

Events

Abuse: Survival Stories – The Magnificent Force Of Perseverance Testimonials from

Moat Fortress: Garrison Common Under Water Lost rivers walk. 6:45 pm. Free. King

abuse survivors, spoken word poetry and a group exercise. 11 am. Free. Victoria Village Library, 184 Sloane. abusesurvivalstories.com.

All-Day Dance Join in hip-hop, salsa, line dancing and other beginner classes using a barter system for payment. 11 am-7 pm. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. Register ­tradeschool.coop/toronto.

Peacemaking Workshop on integrating prac-

Behind The Vermillion Walls: Courtly Life In The Inner Palace Symposium in conjunc-

and Strachan. 416-593-2656.

tices in your life that help conflict resolution.

10 am-5 pm. $75. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Pre-register at ­pineproject.org.

Real Escape Game Find clues and crack codes and puzzles to find your way out of a room in this live-action gaming experience. Foundery

tion with the Fobidden City exhibition. 10 am-3 pm. $70. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. rBio Beats Sleepover Kids’ sleepover party with a DJ dance party, IMAX film, exercises and more. 5 pm-9 am Apr 27. $64. Ontario

and CBC’s Amanda Lang are among the participants, with delicious healthy eats served up by celebrity chef Jo Lusted. Thursday (April 24), 6 pm, at Neubacher Shor Contempo­ rary, 5 Brock. Admission of $100 (under 25 $60) benefits the Running & Reading Club, an after-school ­program for underprivileged kids. getlit.ca.

Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000, ­ontariosciencecentre.ca/sleepovers. rBook Bash Keep Toronto Reading celebration with children’s authors, illustrators, storytellers and musicians. 12:30 pm. Free.

Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View.

416-393-7610.

Bug-Rearing Day Toronto Entomologists’ Assoc presentation. 1 pm. Free. Toronto Zoo Admin Bldg, 361A Old Finch. ­ontarioinsects.org.

Clothing Repairathon

Bring two to three items of clothing to be repaired by volunteers. 8:30 am12:30 pm. Free.

Wychwood Barns, 601 ­Christie. ­repairathon.com.

Defend Jobs And ­Services Socialist

May Day celebration with speakers including OCAP’s John Clarke and Sharon Anderson from Put Food in the Budget plus entertainment. 7 pm. $10, unwaged $5 or pwyc. Free Times Café, 320 College. ­socialistaction.ca.

5Dog Play Vs Pup Play Role play workshop. 3-6 pm. $10. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Dominic Nahr & Peter Wieben The artists talk about their work. 2 pm. Free. O’Born Contemporary, 131 Ossington. 416-4139555.

Fair Trade Fair & Cafe Fair trade clothing, decor, food and more plus films and discussions on global economic justice. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Donway Covenant United Church, 230 the Donway W. 416-444-8444.

rFort York Community Cleanup Day Help with

spring cleaning of the Garrison Common. 10 am-noon.

Free. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907.

From Chernobyl To Fukushima To Toronto Screening of the film Chernobyl

To Fukushima plus talks by Greenpeace campaigner Shawn-Patrick Stensil and professor Alex Belyakov. 3 pm. Free. St Vladimir Insti-

Fay Slift joins the party at Fuck Winter Let’s Dance, April 25 at the Gladstone.

Greening Your Grounds: Getting Started

Workshop on the latest trends in residential landscaping. 10:30-11:30 am. Free. Gerrard Ashdale Library, 1432 Gerrard E. Pre-register ­trcastewardshipevents.ca.

Indie Wedding Show More than 40 artisans showcase their unique wedding products and services. 10 am-4 pm. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042, ­theweddingco.com.

Jewellery, Gem And Mineral Show Precious and semi-precious gems, minerals, fossils, tools, demos and more. Today 4-9 pm; tomorrow 10 am-7 pm; Apr 28, 10am-5 pm. $7, under 15 free. Don Mills Civitan Arena, 1030 Don Mills. ­torontogemshow.com.

Looking At Canada Photographical Historical Soc of Canada symposium, with speakers including travel photographer Blake Chorley and curator Andrea Kunard. 10 am-4 pm. $10, stu $5. Art Gallery of Ontario Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. phsc.ca.

Mississauga Rattlesnake Workshop Workshop for people who share habitat with rattlesnakes near their homes and cottages.

10 am-2:30 pm. $5. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. Pre-register 416-392-5968.

Orienteering Family nature walk in the park employing a compass and map. 1:30-3 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. ­highparknaturecentre.com.

Retrofitting Vintage Homes For Energy

Workshop. 10 am-noon. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. ­green13toronto.org.

Spring Awakening Seminar on floral arranging and making a spring bouquet. 1-4:30 pm. $60. Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park.

Pre-register 416-586-8080. rSpring Into Parkdale Street festival with entertainment, buskers, a kids’ zone and more. 10 am-6 pm. Free. Queen from Dufferin to Roncesvalles. ­parkdalevillagebia.com.

Spring Wellness Fair Meet professionals from the natural health field. 11 am-3 pm.

Free. Karma Co-op, 739 Palmerston. ­manager@karmacoop.org.

Toronto Union Station Transport Action Ontario annual general meeting (10 am) and talk on the progress of the Union Station revitalization (1:30 pm). Free. Metro Hall, rm 308/9, 55 John. 416-504-3934.

Westwood Sailing Club Open House Learn about sailing albacores, lasers and catamarans. 1-3 pm. Free. 12 Regatta (E of Cherry Beach). 416-461-2870, ­westwoodsailing.ca.

Sunday, April 27

Benefits

Run/Walk In Sunnybrook Park (Pediatric Oncology Group) Fundraising 5K run or walk and kids 1K walk. 9:30 am. $35, under 12 $10, under 5 free. Sunnybrook Park, Leslie N of Eglinton. ­cadillacfairviewrun.ca.

Events

rBarns Birthday Bash

Celebrate the 100th birthday of the Wychwood Carhouse with circus performances, live music and food. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. ­artscapestreetparty.ca.

Bike Blessing Ministers bless bikes and riders for safety. Noon-1 pm. Free.

Trinity-St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-922-4954, ­trinitystpauls.ca.

Bird Walks At Tommy Thompson Park Guided

nature walk. 8 am. Free (bring binoculars).

Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. 416-6616600 ext 5770.

Challenging The Leadership Of The Canadian Labour Congress Forum with social justice activist Hassan Husseini. 2 pm. Free. Cecil Community Centre, 58 Cecil. ­workersassembly.ca.

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swap of gently worn items. Noon-4 pm (dropoff 11:15 am). $5. Arts Market, 846 College. info@­artsmarket.ca.

rCommemoration Of The Battle Of York

Musket-firing demos, an 1812-era drill, Georgian-era cooking and more. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907.

Contemporary Art Bus Tour Visit exhibitions at the Koffler Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, Art Gallery of York U and DMG. Noon-5 pm. Free. Koffler Centre, 4588 Bathurst. 416736-2100 ext 44021.

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup Help spring clean at Tommy Thompsom Park. 10 am. Free. Foot of Leslie. ­torontourbanfishing. com.

Broadview. ­riverdalehistoricalsociety.com.

Spring Equinox Ghost Walk Walk exploring haunted Yorkville, U of T and Queen’s Park.

6:30-9 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, child $15 (includes snacks). Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

True Stories Told Live Five people tell true stories without notes. 8 pm. Free. The Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. truestoriestoronto.com.

What To Expect When You’re Retiring: ­Embracing Longevity Talk by author Jill

O’Donnell. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416-395-5660.

Wednesday, April 30

Benefits

Art Auction (Gilda’s Club) Live auction of original artwork. 6:30-9:30 pm. $35, adv $25.

Help uncover plants in a restoration site.

Gilda’s Club, 24 Cecil. 416-214-9898 ext 246.

10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Grenadier Cafe, 200 Parkside. highparknature.org.

5Lights! Camera! Auction!

(Inside Out Film Festival) Improv:Tranzaction WorkThe launch party for the shop on improvised music. 1, annual LGBT film fest fea2:30 & 4 pm. $24. Tranzac, tures a silent auction, DJ 292 Brunswick. Pre-register Craig Dominic and more. rebeccacampbell@sympatHot Docs North America’s lar7:30 pm. $10 sugg. Burico.ca. gest documentary film festival, roughes Building, 603 The Juggler’s Children: featuring Canadian and interShaking Up The Family Tree national films plus a conference. Queen W. ­insideout.ca/ event/­launch-party-2014.

Science journalist Carolyn Various venues. h ­ otdocs.ca.

Teresa Toten/Ronald DeiAbraham talks about her disApr 24 to May 4 bert/Rachel Manley/ coveries using DNA in genealShyam Selvadurai (World ogy. 10:10-11 am. Free. St Literacy Canada) the authClement’s Church Hall, 70 St Tangled Art + Disability Festiors read and talk about their Clements. 416-483-6664. val Performances by Krip-Hop work. Doors 6:30 pm. $60.

Now We See It! Bus tour of Nation, Workman Arts, Split Park Hyatt, 4 ­Avenue Rd. public art in the downtown Bitches, Les Productions des 416-977-0008, worldlit.ca. led by Betty Ann Jordan. pieds de mains and others. Free- Used Book Sale (Regis Col2-4:30 pm. $40. Gladstone $25. Various venues. lege) Gently used paperHotel, 1214 Queen W. Pre­abilitiesartsfestival.org. backs and hard covers in all register kimful@akimbo.ca.

To May 23 categories. To May 3, 10 Phenomenal Cosmic am-7 pm. Free admission.

Power!... Itty-Bitty Living Regis College, 100 Wellesley W. ­regiscollege.

Space Sci fi/fantasy/horror writers’ workshop ca/booksale. on story and setting. 11 am-2 pm. $60. Bakka High Park Restoration Site Maintenance

Festivals this week

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Phoenix Books, 84 Harbord. c­ hiseries.ticketleap.com.

Sandford Fleming And Annie Hall Trail Of Don River Lost rivers walk. 2 pm. Free. Castle

Frank subway. 416-593-2656. rSpring Awakening Families paint terracotta pots inspired by spring. 11 am-4 pm. $2.

Gardiner Museum, 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080.

r10,000 Trees For The Rouge Habitat ­Restoration Tree planting event. 9 am-4 pm.

Free. Bus to site leaves from the plaza at 500 Copper Creek (Markham). Pre-register publicoutreach@10000trees.com.

Monday, April 28 Chanting Join in chanting for peace, happi-

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

416-925-7575.

David Lynch In Nayman’s Terms Film clips and a talk by critic Adam Nayman. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416924-6211.

Mo Mondays Motivational event that’s a cross between open-mic comedy and TED talks. 5:30-9 pm. $20, adv $10. Hard Rock Café, 279 Yonge. momondays.com.

This Is Not A Toy Curators’ Tour Guided tour of the exhibit led by curators John Wee Tom and Sara Nickleson. 6:30 pm. $25. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

Toronto 3D Printers Meetup Meet 3D experts, enthusiasts and newbies. 6:30 pm. Free.

Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577.

What Is Karma, And How Can We Make Use Of It Buddhist seminar. 6:30 pm. Free. Lillian

Events

Alain De Botton And John Armstrong: Art Therapy Talk by author Botton and phil-

osopher/art historian Armstrong. 7 pm. $15, stu $10. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

Confront Barrick Gold! Protest of Barrick’s annual general meeting, with musical performances and speeches from witnessses to their abuse. 11 am. Free. 255 Front W. ­facebook.com/events/748797478486104.

A Fair Country: Truth Or Tall Tale? Conversation with John Ralston Saul. 7 pm. Free.

Church of the Redeemer, 162 Bloor W. ­theredeemer.ca.

5Generations Of Queer Tour the exhibition with artist/professor Richard Fung. 6:30 pm.

Free. Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite.

Let’s Grow Food: Mead Making Workshop.

5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net.

Marx And Modern Macroeconomics

­ ccupy Economics workshop. 6:30-8:30 pm.

O Free. Steelworers Hall, 25 Cecil. ­occupyeconomics.ca.

Single Dads, Separated Dads, Divorced Dads Q&A and support group meeting. 7 pm.

Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626.

3D Printing For Total Beginners Workshop on the basics of digital fabrication. 6:30-9:30 pm. $49-$132 (eventbrite.ca). Hot Pop Factory, 215 Spadina. Pre-register ­hotpopfactory.com/ workshops.

H Smith Library, 239 College. sgicanada.org.

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Thursday, May 1

rCatch The Rhythm! International Dance

Day celebration with performances by Motus O Dance Theatre and others, participatory dancing, a yoga dance class and more for all ages. 11 am-1:30 pm. Free. Yonge­-Dundas Square. cda-acd.ca.

Fast And Effective Website Creation Basics seminar for small businesses. 10-11:30 am.

Free. City Hall, Committee Rm 3, 100 Queen W. Pre-register 416-395-7416.

Hunger, Human Experimentation And The Legacy Of Residential Schools Presentation

by historian Ian Mosby. 6:30 pm. Free. Anntte Library, 145 Annette. 416-393-7508.

Regent Park: After The Mix Discussion on the redevelopment of the community. 2 pm.

Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-3937692.

The Shirriff Marmalade Company Riverdale Historical Soc presentation by author Sarah Hood. 6 pm. $5. St Matthew’s Clubhouse, 450

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AGO first Thursdays Art talks, pop-up per-

formances, music and more with art-rock band the Darcys, art historian John Armstrong and more. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

May Day: Honour Our Communities Rally for status for all on International Workers’ Day. 5:30 pm. Free. Starts at Allan Gardens, Carlton and Jarvis. toronto.nooneisillegal.org.

May Day: Setting The Stage For Change Political and cultural evening with speakers, live music, poetry, dance, food and refreshments.

6:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ­facebook.com/events/552706151493689/ MSolidarity City – May Day Rally Grassroots organizations rally to mark International Workers’ Day for migrant and workers’ rights and in support of indigenous people’s struggles. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. mayworks.ca.

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A beginner’s guide to latex By sabrina maddeaux

“Just pretend you’re rolling on a condom,” Pippa Stevenson, the designer behind Pippa Latex, laughs as I attempt to squirm my way into one of her skintight creations. She’s on her knees, inching the rubber dress up my naked body in the tiny bathroom of her studio apartment. My ass is squarely in her face, and I feel a lot like a sausage being stuffed into a casing three sizes too small.

Before I know it, the dress is up over my hips and it fits my body like a glove.

The thick rubber packs the support of a serious push-up bra.

I dust away the white powder streaked across my legs (Stevenson coated the dress’s interior with baby powder to help it slide up my body) as she wipes down the dress with latex rubber polish to enhance the shine. By the time she’s done, I think this might be a material I could get used to.

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parties, now graces the runways of high-end labels like Maison Martin Margiela, Marc Jacobs and Balenciaga. People are more curious than ever as pop stars like Rihanna and Katy Perry sport the stretchy stuff.

A latex virgin myself, I decided to visit a few of Toronto’s talented latex designers to give their creations a test drive and seek guidance for rookie rubber wearers.

The first rule of latex club? Start small.

“Just experiment,” advises Stevenson. “I’ve been getting a lot of orders for high-waisted skirts and mini shorts.

They’re great entry pieces.”

Ashley Davies and Mina Smart, the designers behind House of Etiquette, also recommend separates or accessories that can easily mix and match with non-latex pieces in your wardrobe.

“You can always pair a skirt with a crop top,” says Davies. “Whatever you do, don’t dive in head first and get a catsuit . Work your way up.”

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Always use a dressing aide

Pippa Latex

Stevenson used baby powder, but Davies and Smart prefer silicone-based lube.

“It can’t be oil-based.

Latex is oil-based, so an oil-based lube actually causes the clothing to disintegrate,” explains Smart.

They decide to start me off with a pleated high-waisted skirt. Davies coats the inside of the skirt with lube and instructs me on how to get dressed.

“Latex is like a Chinese finger trap: the harder you pull, the tighter it gets.

You want to wiggle into it.”

I perform my own awkward version of the twist and, lo and behold, it goes on relatively easily.

Davies says darker is better for beginners.

“Start with black latex,” she says.

“The lighter you go, the more mainte­ nance there is, because latex ­reacts

with metal. Metal jewellery or even fresh tattoos can stain latex.”

I’m starting to get the hang of things by the time I arrive at Ego Assassin’s studio. Designers Slinka, a former fetish model, and James Hagarty assure me you don’t have to be a size zero to look good in their wares.

“A big butt looks fantastic in latex, because the material’s tension suspends it very nicely,” Slinka laughs.

They dress me in a pencil skirt and use Armor All to polish it to an ultrahigh sheen.

It’s here I learn one of the best things about latex: easy washing.

“When you take it off, just wash it in the sink. You don’t even need soap unless you spill something on it,” explains Slinka. “Then just keep it out of the sunlight and avoid oils.”

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The latex pieces you get from indie designers are of a much higher quality than the latex lingerie sold at sex shops, which often isn’t built to last.

Clothing-grade latex can sometimes be worn by those with latex allergies.

“It’s refined and cured to the point that most of the allergy-causing proteins become inert,” explains Hagarty. “We have a few clients who thought they would never be able to wear it but are now very happy latex aficionados.”

Trying on latex in the safety of a designer’s studio is one thing, but what’s it like to wear this stuff in public? To find out, I wore a Pippa Latex dress to an industry event.

I was able to wiggle the dress on in less than five minutes at home. This is when I learned that latex is a magnet for cat hair. If you’re a pet owner, I suggest not putting the garment on until right before you walk out the door.

At the party, I got lots of looks and lots of compliments. People felt compelled to touch me, and a friend told me I was “really sticky to hug.”

Latex doesn’t breathe, so things got a little heated under the dress’s bodice, but no one noticed, and I didn’t leave any sweat puddles on the floor.

After several carbonated drinks and a hot dog, my gut didn’t burst through my dress like the Kool-Aid Man, so I declared the night a success.

As I peeled the thick black rubber off my body back at home, I found myself disappointed to part with the dress. Like a second skin, latex has grown on me.

See more of Pippa Latex and House of Etiquette’s designs on the Fashion Art Toronto (FAT) runway Friday night (April 25) at Daniels Spectrum, (585 Dundas East). Pippa Latex shows at 8:35 pm and House of Etiquette at 10:10 pm. $45, stu $30 at the door or $35 online at ­fashionarttoronto.ca.

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The Toronto Fashion Incubator’s (TFI) New Labels Fashion Design Competition is one of the best events in town to spot and support new designers. On May 5 at 8 pm, at One King West (1 King West), enjoy an open bar, fancy-schmancy party and fashion show ­featuring the competition’s finalists, emceed by Jeanne Beker. Tickets ($75-$150) at ­fashionincubator.com.

Grow Op As the weather warms up, it’s a great time for an exhibition that explores the relationship between landscape and space. Check out the second ­annual Grow Op exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West, 416-531-4635, ­gladstonehotel.com), Thursday to Sunday (April 24 to 27), for an alternative take on landscape and urban design ($10). Don’t miss the Equinosh feast on Saturday (April 26), 5 to 8 pm, in the hotel ballroom, with dishes from the likes of Jamie Kennedy and Mario Paz celebrating the diversity of local agriculture ($10, sampling tickets $5).

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279 Augusta, 416-533-6632, modelcitizentoronto.com Hip indie boutique Model Citizen has undergone some changes in recent years.

First, owner Julian Finkel moved the store from Dundas West to Ken­sington Market in 2008. Now he plans to make the formerly unisex store almost entirely menswear-­focused.

Finkel found that the new Kensington location of Model Citizen, known for carrying cool local labels, wasn’t ­attracting as many female customers. “I have a good reputation with the guys, but most women in Kensington tend to be looking for cute vintage finds. That’s not my stock,” he says.

Not only are a lot of Model Citizen’s fashions designed by Canadians, but many of them are also made in Cana­da. “Even some of the fabrics are milled in Toronto, and the quality is excel­lent,” boasts Finkel.

Model Citizen picks In-house Model Citizen jewellery with brass and silver anchor pendants ($85 and $125 respec­tively), tie bars ($75 and $95) and money clips ($95 and $125). Finkel also recommends saddle-weight made-in-Toronto leather goods by Terence­& Vincent, including “the most beautiful backpack” he’s ever seen ($600).

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Go Green Spring-clean harsh chemicals and unsustainable goods out of your life at the Green Living Show, Friday to Sunday (April 25 to 27) at the Direct Energy Centre (100 Princes’). From tasty treats at the Gluten-Free Garage pop-up to eco-friendly fashion finds, this is the place to learn how to live a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. $18, stu/srs $14; online $16, stu/srs $12 at ­greenlivingshow.ca.

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What was that?

Ways to make memory last By elizabeth bromstein I’ve always been kind of scatter­ brained, but now that I have a kid and work one full-​time and two part-​time jobs, it’s so much worse. I forget things I’ve read, what movies I’ve seen, what I ate for breakfast, what I’m supposed to do, people’s names and….

What was I talking about?

Memory is pretty im­ port­ant for, you know,

getting through life – doing your job, doing well in school, from learning new things to remembering to put on your pants.

Good news: research out of New Zealand’s Auckland University ac­tual­ ly shows that, in moderation, alcohol may improve short-​term memory.

Yay. It’s also been shown to stave off dementia and cognitive de­ cline. Other things that may help recover your recall in­ clude green tea, exercise and (possibly) smelling rosemary.

There’s also the method of loci, or the mem­ ory palace: you visual­ize a build­ ing with sev­ eral rooms furnished with objects, attach the things you want to remem­ ber to the objects and recall them as you mentally walk through the rooms. (Oh, just google it!)

What the experts say “The more imagery you incorporate into your learning experience, the more vivid the associations. Our brains latch onto things that are vivid and i­maginative. Things like repetition are helpful, within reason. Research shows that in some cases repetition can actually hinder memory.

For a technique I call ‘intelligent repetition,’ you repeat things but vary the context. You don’t always use the same exact words, or you change the context slightly. We retain conceptual information better that way.

We know from animal studies that two surefire ways to enhance and im­ prove memory are sugar and coffee.”

MICHAEL YASSA, assistant professor of neurobiology and behaviour, ­University of California, Irvine “We found that a drink with green tea extract enhances connectivity from the right parietal cortex to the frontal cortex during working memory processing, compared to a control drink without green tea extract.

Interestingly, the enhanced par­i­ etal-​frontal coupling induced by green tea extract correlated with im­ provement in subjects’ task perform­ ance. These findings might provide a mechanism at the neural system level for the putative beneficial effect of green tea on cognitive functioning.”

ANDRÉ SCHMIDT, department of psy­ chiatry, University of Basel, Switzer­ land

gests that regular physical activity is beneficial across your lifespan. For example, studies have shown that physical activity among children pro­ motes learning and cognitive per­ formance.”

TERESA LIU-​AMBROSE, associate ­professor, Canada Research Chair, de­ partment of physical therapy, aging, mobility, Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute and University of British ­Columbia

“I focus on the concept of learning ­efficiency. Memory improvement implies something for nothing: ‘Take this pill and you’ll be able to remember the entire dictionary in a few minutes.’

That’s not how learning works. You become a more efficient learner by practising retrieval and distributing your practice. Retrieval practice means that instead of re-reading material, we test ourselves. Thus, [trying to recall] the French word that means ‘dandelion’ is more effective than simply re­-studying ‘dandelion/pissenlit.’

Distributed study means spreading learning over time. Thus, four 15-​min­ ute study sessions result in greater learning of that French vocabulary than one 60-​minute session. Avoid distrac­ tion. Good sleep, good diet and exercise are all healthy things to do but have ­little direct connection with memory.”

BENNETT SCHWARTZ, professor of psychology, Florida International ­University, Miami

“The most important way to improve memory or prevent memory loss is to get regular, restful and long-​enough sleep, eight hours optimum. Practise sleep hygiene techniques such as going to bed at the same time every night in a quiet darkened room. Do not read or watch TV in bed, because the body will become too hot and will miss the perfect temperature at which it drops off peacefully into a deep sleep. Regular exercise and a healthy diet are also key for restful sleep.

Boost memory and brain function with the herb ginkgo biloba and acetyl-​L-​carnitine, which supports acetylcholine, the primary neurotransmitter for memory and thought, and increases blood flow to the brain and nerve cell membranes.”

ZORANA ROSE, naturopath, Toronto

“We found that in older women with memory complaints and difficulties, walking at a moderate pace twice a week for approximately 40 minutes leads to improvements in memory as well as increased volume in the hippocampus.

The hippocampus is a brain struc­ ture critical for memory that typically shrinks with age. Shrinkage is asso­ ciated with impaired memory and greater risk for dementia. Evidence sug­

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

LET THE SUN SHINE IN: the solar technology guide

This weekend’s Green Living Show (April 25-27 at the Direct Energy Centre) is the perfect place to peruse all things eco under the sun, from organic sundresses and natural sunblock to solar bonds and, naturally, solar tech.

SOLAR LANTERNS

Set up some earth-loving mood lighting in your yard or balcony with entrylevel solar tech. No outdoor plug necessary, no ugly wires (except for those lighting features that are corded to a solar panel). They’re usually paired with LED bulbs to keep the home fires burning for years. This one’s from Home Hardware.

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SOLAR CHARGERS

Powering your gadgets with the sun’s rays can be super-handy if you’re adventure-travelling or deep-woods camping and still need your devices.

But be aware that it can take days of direct light to top up some chargers.

Daytech Solar Charger 5000, for instance, needs 24 to 40 hours of direct sunlight to load up its internal battery.

Powertraveller and Goal Zero have a broader range of well-reviewed solar chargers – the smaller the devices powered, the shorter the charge time.

At home you can charge ’em all via wall plug or USB and save ’em for emergencies like the next blackout.

SOLAR SHINGLES

Can a person have a crush on a roofing product? I know my heart skips a beat when I see these thin, beautiful solar shingles sitting flush against a rooftop.

They can be hand-nailed by a roofer, and there are no dangly wires to hide.

Perfect for those who aren’t particularly hot for the conventional solar panel look. Plus, these Dow Powerhouse solar shingles, which have a corner on the market right now, come with a 20-year warranty. They do cost more per square foot than run-of-themill panels.

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SOLAR HOT WATER

Used to be you’d get more bang for your buck with solar hot-water heating (solar thermal) over solar electric panels (PV). But since the price of PV panels has nosedived over the years, solar thermal is no longer quite as sexy. Still, Mike Holm at Boss Solar tells me he actually turns off his gas-fired water tank between late March and late October. That’s impressive. For about $7,500-$8,000 installed, a North American-made system (like the Thermo Dynamics system pictured here) has about a 16-year return on investment (that’s with zero incentives from the feds or province). Pair it with a highefficiency water heater and you’ll have the last laugh while enjoying a hot shower.

NATURE NOTES #GOTMILKWEED? Monarchs aren’t doing so hot. The number of butterflies overwintering in Mexico hit an all-time low this year.

Scientists say the growing use of the herbicide Roundup on GMO corn and soy is choking out milkweed, the only North American plant on which monarchs lay their eggs. The David Suzuki Foundation is asking us to help plant a milkweed corridor through Toronto as part of its Homegrown National Park Project. During April, you can order milkweed directly from the foundation (davidsuzuki.org). Or lobby your local garden centre to be a butterfly hero and start stocking the plant.

MOSS GRAFFITI STARTER KIT Tired of looking at a drab wall, shed or surface? Want to inject more green into your life without investing big bucks in a living wall? This moss graffiti kit becomes a sort of “living paint” when water is added. Give it time and TLC and you’ve got avant-garde air-cleaning art.

Moss letter tiles are available, too. Can you spell L.O.V.E. in sphagnum? $16 from sproutguerrilla.com and The Green Living Show.

H&M AND ZARA GO DEFORESTATION-FREE RAYON Two of the world’s biggest clothing brands have promised to stop axing ancient and endangered forests for rayon and viscose. Enviro org Canopy says endangered forests from Indonesia to the northern boreal are being denuded to make rayon, viscose,

modal and lyocell. Last year an estimated 70 million trees were cut for fabric production, a number projected to double in the next 20 years.

Says Canopy’s Nicole Ryecroft, “These clothing sector leaders are showing that being stylish doesn’t have to cost the earth.”

FASHION REVOLUTION DAY One year after the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, in which 1,133 people lost their lives, conscious fashionistas on both side of the pond will wear their clothes inside out on Thursday (April 24) to mark Fashion Revolution Day, a campaign that began in the UK but has since spread to North America. Be-

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SOLAR PV PANELS

As greening economies the world over duke it out over the solar PV market, prices have inevitably plummeted.

Given the cash you get back for giving to the grid in this province, solar PV currently offers the best return on investment. For an urban-sized system it’ll cost you about $4,000 a kilowatt installed, and you’ll earn about $400 per kilowatt per year (that’s a speedy 10-year payback period) as long as you keep voting in a government that supports the microFIT feed-in tariff program. Best to stick with North America- or European-made panels. The one pictured above is made in Ontario.

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What I Bought

A creative approach to condo shopping and ­design What to do when you grow tired of Liberty Village’s faux-community feel but lack the patience to wait for the neighbourhood to mature? If you’re Ryan Fisher, owner of Distrikt 461 group (SPiN Toronto, 2nd Floor Events, Desmond & Beatrice Bakeshop), you move a little west to the border of Parkdale and Roncesvalles.

“The area has a nice vibe. There are lots of smiles and genuine people with self-awareness,” says Fisher. “There’s respect for the people who have been here forever, while younger families move in to assimilate and fill in the gaps.”

He ended up finding his perfect place in the Robert Watson Lofts. A creative guy by nature, Fisher wasted no time gutting the space and completely reimagining the suite with the same pair who designed SPiN and 2nd Floor Events, Emil Teleki and Jessica Nakanishi.

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Location Eastern and St. Lawrence Starting price $200,000s Unit styles Studios to three-bedroom-plus-den suites and penthouses (350 to 2,000 square feet) Features River City boasts not one, but two fitness rooms and a rare outdoor pool. The building also fronts on River Square – a green space to host community events and farmers’ markets. Breathe easy: the condo is LEED Gold certified and the first carbon neutral development in Canada.

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Fill empty corners with plants or trees that complement the building’s green aesthetic.

These don’t have to be your mother’s houseplants. Check out places like Sacred Seed (2 Dundonald, 416-928-6811, sacredseed.com) for more exotic options.

Every unit is equipped with a natural gas hookup in the kitchen and for a built-in barbecue outside. Put a large, family-style dining table where the floor plan calls for the living room and entertain indoors and out without being cut off from your guests.

The den is the first part of your condo guests will see upon entering, which could be a little awkward if you don’t keep a tidy work area.

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What to do with all that extra nothingness? Add drama by hanging largescale pieces of art, or use mirrors to focus interest at a lower level.

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They built a new kitchen, stripped the floors, totally redesigned the layout of the master bedroom and opened up the kitchen ceiling to reveal the unit’s raw underbelly.

“You probably can’t find an area that I didn’t change.

Well, other than the brick,” says Fisher.

His favourite parts of the loft? The antique light fixtures and his unique bathroom without a door. “You can use the second bathroom if you’re shy!”

Original condo budget $700,000 Unit price $700,000 in 2011 Wish list “I was very specific about the fact that I wanted an old-brick loft with high ceilings. Lots and lots of brick. If I could drape myself in brick, I would.”

Number of properties seen Six to eight places. “I knew what I wanted. It took me about 30 seconds in each place to know if it was or wasn’t for me.”

What he got A 1,465-squarefoot, two-bedroom loft spread over two floors. Fisher has since opened up the second bedroom so it isn’t cut off from the rest of the unit. “There was so much potential with the high ceilings, brick and overall raw elements. I was excited to make it my own unique urban cave.”

What he says about the neighbourhood “I love this area. It’s got the best of everything: tree-lined streets, cafés, restaurants and parks. It’s also close enough to the core that it’s convenient, but removed enough that you feel like it’s still an escape.”

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 If for some inexplic-

able reason you are not simmering with new ideas about how you could drum up more money, I don’t know what to tell you – except that maybe your mother lied to you about exactly when you were born.

The astrological omens are virtually unequivocal: If you are a true Aries, you are now being invited, teased and even tugged to increase your cash flow and bolster your financial know-how. If you can’t ferret out at least one opportunity to get richer quicker, you might really be a Pisces or Taurus. And my name is Jay Z.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 You remind me of a garden plot that has recently been plowed and rained on. Now the sun is out.

The air is warm. Your dirt is wet and fertile. The feeling is a bit unsettled because the stuff that was below ground got churned up to the top. Instead of a flat surface, you’ve got furrows. But the overall mood is expectant. Blithe magic is in the air. Soon it will be time to grow new life. Oh, but just one thing is missing: the seeds have yet to be sewn. That’s going to happen very soon. Right?

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Here’s an excerpt

from Celestial Music, a poem by Louise Gluck: “I’m like the child who buries / her head in the pillow / so as not to see, the child who tells herself / that light causes sadness.” One of your main assignments in the coming weeks, Gemini, is not to be like that child. It’s true that gazing at what the light reveals may shatter an illusion or two, but the illumination you

will be blessed with will ultimately be more v­ aluable than gold.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Would you like to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections and get more of the support you need to fulfill your dreams? You are entering the Season of Networking, so now would indeed be an excellent time to gather clues on how best to accomplish all that good stuff. To get you started in your quest, here’s advice from Dale Carnegie: “You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Does Jamaican sprinter

book The Dictionary Of Obscure Sorrows, John Koenig coins new words that convey experiences our language has not previously accounted for. One that may apply to you sometime soon is “trumspringa,” which he defines as “the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin.”

To be overtaken by trumspringa doesn’t necessarily mean you will literally run away and be a shepherd. In fact, giving yourself the luxury of considering such wild possibilities may be a healing release that allows you to be at peace with the life you are actually living.

Usain Bolt run faster than any person alive? As far as we know, yes. He holds three world records and has won six Olympic gold medals. Even when he’s a bit off his game, he’s the best. At the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, he set the alltime mark for the 100-metre race – 9.69 seconds – despite the fact that one of his shoelaces was untied and he slowed down to celebrate before reaching the finish line. Like you, Bolt is a Leo. I’m making him both your role model and your anti-role model for the foreseeable future. You have the power to achieve something approaching his levels of excellence in your own field – especially if you double-check to make sure your shoelace is never untied and especially if you don’t celebrate victory before it’s won.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 “The supreme pleasure we can know, Freud said, and the model for all pleasure, orgasmic pleasure, comes when an excess tension built up, confined, compacted is abruptly released.” That’s an observation by philosopher Alphonso Lingis. I bring it to your attention, Libra, because I expect that you will soon be able to harvest a psychospiritual version of that supreme pleasure.

You have been gathering and storing up raw materials for soul-making, and now the time has come to express them with a creative splash. Are you ready to purge your emotional backlog? Are you brave enough to go in search of cathartic epiphanies? What has been dark will yield light.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 In his unpublished

turning points that might possibly erupt

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 The potential

in the coming days will not become actual turning points unless you work hard to activate them. They will be subtle and brief, so you will have to be very alert to notice them at all, and you will have to move quickly before they fade away.

Here’s another complication: these incipient turning points probably won’t resemble any turning points you’ve seen before.

They may come in the form of a lucky ­accident, a blessed mistake, a happy breakdown, a strange healing, a wicked gift or a perfect weakness.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 If you happen to be an athlete, the coming week will not be a good time to head-butt a ­referee or take performance-enhancing drugs. If you hate to drive your car anywhere but in the fast lane, you will be wise to try the slower lanes for a while. If you are habitually inclined to skip steps, take short cuts and look for loopholes, I advise you to instead try being thorough, methodical and by-the-book. Catch my drift? In this phase of your astrological cycle, you will have a better chance at producing successful results if you are more prudent than usual. What?! A ­careful, discreet, strategic, judicious ­Sagittarius? Sure! Why not?

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 My inter-

pretation of this week’s astrological data might sound eccentric, even weird.

But you know what? Sometimes life is – or at least should be – downright unpredictable. After much meditation, I’ve concluded that the most important message you can send to the universe is to fly a pair of underpants from the top of a flagpole. You heard me. Take down the flag that’s up there and run the skivvies right up to the top. Whose underpants should you use? Those belonging to someone you adore, of course. And what is the deeper meaning behind this

apparently irrational act? What exactly is life asking from you? Just this: stop making so much sense all the time – especially when it comes to cultivating your love and expressing your passion.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 You need to

take some time out to explore the deeper mysteries of snuggling, cuddling and nuzzling. In my opinion, that is your sacred duty. It’s your raison d’être, your ne plus ultra, your sine qua non. You’ve got to nurture your somatic wisdom with what we in the consciousness industry refer to as yummy warm fuzzy wonder love. At the very least, you should engage in some prolonged hugging with a creature you feel close to.

Tender physical touch isn’t just a luxury; it’s a necessity.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Your body contains about four octillion atoms. That’s four with 27 zeroes after it. Believe it or not, 200 billion of that total were once inside the body of Martin Luther King Jr. For that matter, an average of 200 billion atoms of everyone who has ever lived and died is part of you. I am not making this up. (See the mathematical analysis here: tinyurl.com/AtomsFromEveryone.) As far as your immediate future is concerned, Pisces, I’m particularly interested in that legacy from King. If any of his skills as a great communicator are alive within you, you will be smart to call on them. Now is a time for you to express high-minded truths in ways that heal schisms, bridge gaps and promote unity. Just proceed on the assumption that it is your job to express the truth with extra clarity, candour and grace.

Homework: Some people ask, “What would Jesus do?”

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Susur Lee’s dumplings (right and below) are done just right, and his deluxe desserts will satisfy that sweet tooth.

Let’s get Luckee Susur Lee concocts some upscale Cantonese at the Soho Met By Steven Davey International Airport this summer, the second on the 66th floor of the World Trade Center in New York City later next year. So much for having peaked.

And now Susur’s doing dim sum at the Soho Met. Lee’s relationship with the Metropolitan Hotel is a long one, its owner, Henry Wu, his not-so-secret and deep-pocketed partner. His beanery in Singapore is in one of the resort chain’s properties. So when Wu sold the Met on Chestnut Street behind City Hall and its celebrated Lai Wah Heen – once Toronto’s pre-eminent, if pricey, dim sum restaurant – last year, the time was ripe the Soho to claim the crown. Enter the dragon!

Once an anodyne sea of taupe, the former 120-seat Sen5es has been reimagined by long-time design partners Brenda Bent and Karen Gable.

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Alongside his regular gig as a judge on TV’s Top Chef, the Hong Kongborn wunderkind’s Bent on Dundas West has just been named the 12th hottest resto in town by NOW. His flagship Lee and its adjacent Lounge on the King West nightclub strip are currently undergoing major renovations, and he’s about to launch two new operations, the first at Pearson

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antique watercolours hanging on the walls from their days at Sam the Chinese Food Man on Yonge back in the 70s.

At dinner, Lee’s upscale Cantonese carte includes the likes of General Tao beef ($19) and wok-fried green beans ($12), but it’s his weekend dim sum brunch that has local foodies in a full-on feeding frenzy.

Lee has never been one for convention. He’s been known to put foie gras on practically everything. But for the most part, dim sum at Luckee sticks close to tradition.

It begins with a complimentar y Beijing-style cucumber salad in a sweet ’n’ fiery Sichuan vinaigrette and a pot of white

Chinese tea ($3.50 per person). Four dipping sauces also show up: housemade soy sauce with slivered Thai bird chilies, salty Sriracha-like hot sauce, store-bought Dijon mustard and a green scallion oil that needs a serious whack of raw garlic.

His classic har gow stuffed with plump shrimp and creamy egg whites are the equal of those at Lee’s beloved Ding Tai Fung in Markham, while his minced chicken and shrimp sui mai (both $6 for four) get un-

expectedly spiked with orange peel.

Standard-issue yu gow dumplings with flaky cod and deep-fried wu gok made with mung bean flour and stuffed with gently curried chicken may as well be the work of the Dim Sum King rather than an internationally renown chef; ditto for skinny spring rolls laced with spinach (all $5 for two).

Lee hits his stride with open-faced dumplings brimming with buttery lobster and asparagus (long xia gow, $8 for two), and spicy Swatow-style chicken finished with pickled celery ($5 for two). Don’t miss his golden cubes of house-made tofu studded with fresh corn kernels ($5 for three), each bite a symphony of contrasting textures.

We still can’t figure out how Lee’s impossibly delicate steamed spinach dumplings ($4 for three) manage to get to table without falling apart. And there’s nothing wrong with his fried vegetarian turnip cakes ($5 for four) that a little Chinese sausage couldn’t fix. Chef continued on page 38 œ

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We were sufficiently wowed back in 2005 to give the beige-on-beige hotel dining room a 5N-review, but each subsequent visit to its daily noontime spread impressed in exponentially decreasing amounts, so much so that after a particularly appalling and expensive lunch two years ago, we gave up on the joint. A recent return trip suggests the Heen is back on track.

The room’s just as yawn-inducing as we remember, the music piped in from the elevators, and the servers as formal and unsmiling as ever.

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But lotus-leaf bundles thick with mushy sticky rice and unidentified seafood ($6.50 for two) are overly fishy, and extremely short pork spare ribs ($5) are mostly gristle and bone.

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However, Lee’s chicken cheung fun rolls ($8 for three) are a revelation, their alternating layers of soft, cool noodles, caramelized onion and hot deep-fried rice paper recalling nothing so much as the crunch of a Coffee Crisp chocolate bar. With their sweet outer shell, deep-fried bao stuffed with gorgeously braised beef and shiitake mushrooms ($6 for three) could double as dessert, even though bitesized spirals of sponge cake in chocolate ganache ($4 for three) do the job admirably.

Dim sum at Luckee doesn’t come cheap. The most inexpensive glass of wine is 11 bucks a pop, and a bottle of Pétrus goes for $2,300. Service is scattered – one minute overly attentive,

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924 Kingston Rd, at Lawlor, 416-6994444, thebeechtreepub.ca, @TheBeechTreePub Taking his culinary cues from UK gastro-pub heavyweights Heston Blumenthal and Marco Pierre White, first-time restaurateur Robert Maxwell’s 34-seat upper Beach bistro isn’t out to reinvent the wheel. Those who value substance over surface flash are bound to be impressed. Best: to start, ex-Opus sous Jamie Newman’s Pringle-like fingerling potato crisps with buttermilk dip; creamed cauliflower and stinky Stilton on toast dressed with curly English parsley; grilled double-thick Mennonite pork chops with flageolet beans and roasted Brussels sprouts; halves of roasted Moroccan-style chicken with spicy du Puys lentils and red harissa; substantial brisket cheeseburgers on house-baked brioche; flourless chocolate cake with Maldon sea salt and unsweetened crème fraîche. Complete dinners for $45 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $20/$13 brunch. Open for dinner Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 11 pm, Sunday 5 to 9 pm. Brunch Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

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606 King W, at Portland, 416-363-8388, valdezrestaurant.com, @thevaldezTO This shotgun space in a converted warehouse will be familar to anyone who ever visited the 606 and Cheval nightclubs.

And while the party vibe hangs on, original Origin chef and Top Chef Canada contestant Steve Gonzalez’s Latin American street food breathes new life into an old room. Best: made-to-order guacamole with yucca, plantain and taro chips; bite-sized empanadas stuffed with minced chorizo and cubed potato with spicy chili pepper dip; a vegan ceviche of “compressed” melon tossed with slippery strips of seaweed; Peruvian chaufa fried rice tossed with shredded duck confit, freshly shelled edamame and salty tobiko fish roe, the lot garnished with the crunchy bits scraped off the flat-top; salted watermelon and pineapple popsicle; deep-fried wonton pasteles stuffed with cream cheese and sided with quince jam.

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Tipped off by a piece in the New York Times a few weeks ago, I mixed myself a Jungle Bird. How could anything containing rum, Campari and pineapple juice possibly disappoint? Purportedly best with funky blackstrap rum (of which Ontario has none), you can up the funk factor with blackstrap molasses, but good cane sugar syrup is far easier on the palate. Try one and officially share my addiction.

1½ oz dark rum (Gosling’s, Havana Club 7 or El Dorado 8) ¾ oz Campari 1½ oz fresh pineapple juice ½ oz fresh lime juice ¼ – ½ oz cane sugar syrup (1:1 can sugar to water), or try blackstrap molasses syrup if you dig strong flavours Shake all ingredients well and strain into a cocktail glass over a large ice cube. Garnish with pineapple fronds, maybe a mini umbrella.

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County Cocktail & Snack Bar 798 Queen East, 416-781-4743, thecountygeneral.ca/cocktail High-profile openings like Carbon Bar, Boots & Bourbon and the recently announced La Carnita in the Beaches have been garnering the east end a lot of attention.

Whether that statement elicits an emphatic “Finally!” or an exaggerated eye roll is beside the point, because it all boils down to rudimentary economics: supply and demand, baby.

And demand there is. Carlo Catallo’s invitingly chilled-out County Cocktail & Snack Bar took about five seconds to become Riverside’s spot du jour.

Carrying on the County General’s legacy, the Riverdale location’s back bar is adrift in bottles of brown. Rum, which is shaping up to be the next “it” spirit, dominates. Over 20 kinds are available here, from Diplomatico Reserva to El Dorado Single Barrel.

The list of libations mixed by manager Veronica Saye (formerly of the Harbord Room and Home of the Brave) is pared down and delicious.

“It’s a very approachable and sessionable list,” she ­explains. “Few of the drinks have more than four ingredients right now. I wanted to keep it simple.”

Ah, a woman after my own liver.

Try the Belafonte (bourbon, Amaro Montenegro,

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The eighth annual Terroir Hospitality Symposium on May 12 is fast approaching, so save the date. This year’s Terroir, at Acadian Court (401 Bay), takes the theme Growing Idea, and speakers include culinary demigods David Chang and Daniel Boulud and Joe Beef’s David MacMillan and Frédéric Morin. ­Expect insights into Swedish cuisine from high-profile Nordic chefs Fia Gul-

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sweet vermouth, Fernet Branca and cherry-masalachai bitters, $14), smooth and spicy sipping for spirits lovers, and the Town Tart (rum, spiced raisin syrup, fresh lemon and ginger beer, $12), a riff on the crazy-popular Dark ’N’ Stormy.

Though simplicity defines the County’s cocktails, Saye’s house-made sodas – including cream soda and celery – are far from basic. Her root beer, which has over 15 ingredients, took a ton of research and multiple ­batches to perfect.

Finished with a spritz from a vintage siphon, the sodas are kid-friendly, mind­fully catering to the ’hood. Adults can add a shot of suggested spirit (rum and egg cream or Fernet and root beer) for a whimsical treat. Try a shot of amaro with your soda for a refreshing soft cocktail.

This summer you’ll find me putting back a few celery sodas doctored with Cynar on the County Cocktail’s side patio. Even though I live west, the CC and the evolution of Riverside make the bike ride east well worthwhile.

Access One step at entrance, washrooms on main floor.

Hours Bar open Sunday to Wednesday 11 am to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 11 am to close. Closed some ­holidays.

Le Trou Du Diable La Morsure

Rating NNN Why I’m no Khaleesihead (Game Of Thrones, meh), but the dragon on the bottle totally roped me in. The contents are almost as good as the label – this AmericanIPA-style bière forte from Quebec strikes a balance between caramel and resinous fruit.

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Muskoka Detour

Rating NNNN Why If and when summer arrives, I plan on taking every Detour I stumble across. At only 4.3 per cent ABV, ­Muskoka’s full-flavour session IPA is a refreshing alternative to the malty water that drives the “light” category.

Price 6 x 355 ml/$13.65 Availability LCBO 375345

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Rating NNNN Why If you dig hops as much as hatchet-­ wielding shit disturber and queen of temperance Carrie Nation loathed booze, then this one’s for you. Originally a limited release under GLB’s Tank Ten label, My Bitter Wife is back by popular demand. Citrusy resin and ­prolonged thirst-sustaining hops – mmmm.

Price 650 ml/$5.95 Availability LCBO 345579

liksson and Magnus Ek, a collaborative lunchtime buffet by Cana­dian and American kitchens, and a series of talks and workshops on topics like female chefs (Amanda Cohen of NYC’s Dirt Candy), the history of craft beer (master cicerone Mirella Amato), and wine and local terroir. $229 at ­terroirsymposium.com.

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SHAPESHIFTER at the Garrison, Wednesday, April 16. Rating: NNNN

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“We weren’t actually too sure if anyone was going to come tonight,” said Shapeshifter frontman P Digsss, early in the drum ’n’ bass band’s fevered set.

To be honest, neither was I. Shapeshifter are enormous in Australasia and parts of Europe, but how many Torontonians would turn up for a New Zealand d ’n’ b group?

As it turns out, a lot. By the time Digsss & co. emerged at around 11:15 for their Canadian debut, the Garrison was full. And when they launched into their massive 2009 hit, Dutchies, the room started dancing and didn’t let up.

Devin Abrams, Sam Trevethick and Nick Robinson were working up a sweat, too, passionately hunched over their synths and samplers when they weren’t playing keys, guitar and bass respectively. It’s too bad a synth set-up

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was blocking our view of the furiously drumming Darren Mathiassen.

Digsss’s deep, velvety vocals lend the band heaps of soul, but dub, reggae and jazz also bubbled to the surface. In fact, most of the guys studied jazz in university, which Abrams flaunted in the second half of the set with a couple JULIA LECONTE of excellent sax solos.

GHOST at the Phoenix, Thursday, April 17. Rating: NNN

Partway through Ghost’s show at the Phoenix, while singer Papa Emeritus was addressing the crowd between songs, a loud static crunch came from the guitar of one of the unnamed ghouls. In his face paint and pope hat, Papa turned to look, and then joked about how it sounded like one of his old records.

The moment stood out because there isn’t a lot of spontaneity at a Ghost show. Songs sound exactly like they do on record: soaring vocals re-

ARMIN VAN BUUREN at the Metro Toronto Convention

ñCentre, Saturday, April 19.

Rating: NNNN Dutch trance producer Armin van Buuren was all smiles inside his gigantic DJ booth, holding court for five hours. Amid astounding amounts of pyro and ever-changing imagery, he hypnotized the crowd with his uplifting, progressive trance, often busting out live vocalists and musicians. Canadian singer Trevor Guthrie, who emerged for This Is What It Feels Like, was a highlight and provided the best singalong – even if the song drips with schmaltz.

Van Buuren’s earnest and almost too saccharine music isn’t subtle in the least. At one point, he mimed “reeling in” the dance duos on his left and right, pulling them toward the centre where they made a formation that resembled an 80s workout video. Super-cheesy, right? But then the bass kicked in and his admirers went nuts. Obviously, he knows his audience.

If you’re a big-room dance fan, the spectacle was impressive. In addition to the musicians, singers, dancers and Cirque du Soleil-style trampoline artists, the extremely well-run event had efficient security and food and drink lines, ample bathrooms and good accessibility to TTC and cabs. The Convention Centre’s industrial look even worked to its advantage, especially when van Buuren brought out a scary-looking drummer for a brief few minutes of edgy, JL Prodigy-like aggression. plete with choirs despite the absence of backup singers; crisp and epic guitar riffs and body-rattling bass despite the absence of amps. There is little banter, just standard “How are you doing, To-

ronto?” queries in Papa’s comical accent, which is more Transylvanian than Swedish. Still, mixed with visuals that evoke an evil midnight mass, it’s all hugely satisfying.

The satanic Swedish six-piece got the best tunes from their excellent 2010 debut, Opus Eponymous, out early, as young fans tried desperately to mosh to not-very-mosh-friendly Ritual, Prime Mover and Elizabeth. Material from 2013’s Infestissumam made up the show’s latter half, many hitting harder live than on record, including Year Zero and Ghuleh/Zombie Queen.

That cover of Here Comes The Sun CARLA GILLIS needs to go, though.

S. CAREY at the Garrison, Saturday, April 19. Rating: NN

As S. Carey, Bon Iver percussionist Sean Carey channels the rhythms and shapes of the natural landscapes he loves into an amalgam of Americana, pop and jazz. It’s very much a produced sound, and the Wisconsin-based musician’s newly released second album, Range Of Light, is full of delicate details and textures that give the music life.

Perhaps aware that the sound of

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babbling brooks doesn’t translate well on small club stages, Carey and his four-piece band used projections to allude to the music’s nature inspiration. Arrangements flirted heavily with Sigur Rós’s brand of glacial postrock and gave the bandleader a few opportunities to wild out on drums.

Carey is a dusky, heartfelt, ultimately limited singer who works with what he’s got, but his melodies weren’t strong enough to give the expansive sound a grounded centre, and attempts to recreate the Brian Wilson­esque harmonies fell flat.

They had more to work with during a cover of Björk’s Unravel but overrode the ballad’s precise phrasing with a showy vocal interpretation by opener Casey Dienel (aka White Hinterland). An unfocused, unnecessary bass-and-vocals rendition of the jazz standard I Fall In Love Too Easily followed in the encore.

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tickets BOY GEORGE Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Thursday (April 24) Culture Club singer anew.

IGGY AZALEA Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (April 25) See preview, page 44.

ARETHA FRANKLIN Roy Thomson Hall (60 Simcoe), Friday (April 25) Powerhouse soul/R&B legend.

LEE PARADISE, LIDO PIMIENTA & MAS AYA, JAY HOLY, B-17 Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (April 25) See preview, page 48.

SURINAM, LAURA BARRETT, HSY AND OTHERS Smiling Buddha (961 College), Friday (April 25) Girls Rock Camp volunteers play campers’ songs.

G27 CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Bloor Street United Church (300 Bloor West), Friday (April 25) Michael Occhipinti, Mozart and more.

WEAVES, HSY, BIZZARH, NEW FRIES Cinecycle (129 Spadina), Saturday (April 26) Sludge-pop EP release.

PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART, FEAR OF MEN, ABLE BODY Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (April 26) See preview, page 45.

PIERRE BENSUSAN St. Stephen-in-the-Fields Church (103 Bellevue), Sunday (April 27) French-Algerian world-folk guitarist.

ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT, LEDISI Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Monday (April 28) Jazz/R&B pianist extraordinaire.

JAMES BLUNT Phoenix Concert Theatre (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday and Wednesday (April 28 and 29) Soft-pop balladeer.

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THE KNIFE

After a seven-year absence, The Knife returned last year with fourth album Shaking The Habitual, remarkable for its length – double CD, triple LP – its focus on feminist and queer theory and its dissonance. It’s arguably also the mysterious synth-pop duo’s most personal.

Musically, the Swedish sibling duo of Karin Dreijer Andersson and Olof Dreijer aimed to escape pop conventions, going instead for deranged vocals, electro-acoustic squall, percussive insanity and techno-leaning sonic excursions.

Apparently the live version is utterly bananas, a kitschy 80s-inspired circus with backup musicians, singers and dancers. It’s taken a while for the show to get to Toronto – don’t miss out.

Friday (April 25) at the Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), doors 7:30 pm. $35. RT, SS, TF.

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BELLA CLAVA, MAD ANTHONY, THE MERCY NOW, THE LYING CHEATS Record release Horseshoe $10. May 2.

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ANGEL OLSEN, PROMISED LAND SOUND Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $13.50.

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BRODY DALLE, KENNEDY CULT, THE BOX TIGER CMW Horseshoe $20. May 7.

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OFF!, CEREBRAL BALLZY CMW Lee’s Palace $20. cmw.net. May 10.

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SWORN ENEMY, SILENCE THE MESSENGER Rancho Relaxo 8 pm, $10. TF. May 23.

THE ACORN, JIM BRYSON, ANDREW VINCENT, ANDY SHAUF, EVENING HYMNS, CHRIS PAGE, ANDY SWAN & THE FLAPS Kelp Records

20th Anniversary Party Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $12. HS, RT, SS, TF. May 29.

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Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, $20$30. PDR, TG. May 31.

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SUBHUMANS Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 19.

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THE WYTCHES Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. RT, SS, TF. July 21.

TEMPLES Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $20.50.

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ED SHEERAN Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $tba. TM. September 18.

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OVERKILL, PRONG Opera House 7:30 pm, $30. TF. September 23.

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Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.

Thursday, April 24 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Blush.

THE CENTRAL Gatwitch Live – A Lose To Win

Fundraiser KOKIRI, Will Hunter Band, Hunting Owls, Grady Kelneck doors 9 pm.

C’EST WHAT Clockwise, James Clark Institute doors 8:30 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Young Rival.

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Boy George doors 7 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND The Panic Sequence Release Party Nightbox doors 10 pm.

THE GARRISON The Earth Messengers, Blastronaut, Gillian Nicola & Her Radio Interference doors 9 pm.

THE GREAT HALL SoundStill Presents The Medicine Hat, Union Duke, Juice, YUKA doors 8 pm.

THE HIDEOUT Covered in Paint (rock) 10 pm.

HORSESHOE Record release Catl, Bloodshot Bill, Mad Ones 9 pm. See album review, page 51.

HY’S STEAKHOUSE Daniella Watters 7 pm.

KENSINGTON LODGE Jam Derek Mok 7 pm.

LEE’S PALACE David J, Army’s Army, Ariel 9:30 pm.

ORBIT ROOM Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan tribute) 10 pm.

PARTS & LABOUR DOWNSTAIRS Live Karaoke Good Enough (rock/punk/R&B/top 40) 10 pm.

PAUPER’S PUB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm.

PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Band of Skulls, Sacco doors 8 pm. See Band of Skulls album review, page 51.

THE PISTON Canvas, Snoqualmie, Coronado doors 8:30 pm.

PRESS CLUB Good Enough (rock) 10 pm.

RIVOLI The Lifts, Pray for Minge, Gingerale & the Monowhales, Discover Atlantic doors 8 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Record release Autumn Stones, Bravery Cat, Ben Kunder, Roman Walte 9 pm.

THE SISTER Plaid Party & Open Mic Veronica Johnny, Plaid on Flannel 8 pm.

SMILING BUDDHA S.M., Stüka, New Positions, Smother (shoegaze/noise) 9 pm.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm.

TATTOO NICE Complaints Department, Most People, Phoenix Pagliacci, Ought, DJ Johnny Hockin 8 pm. See Ought album review, page 51.

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At long last, polarizing Aussie rapper releases her studio debut

By JULIA LECONTE IGGY AZALEA at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (April 25), doors 7 pm, all ages. $25. LN.

Iggy Azalea is a polarizing figure.

As if being a white female rapper weren’t difficult enough, Azalea (real name Amethyst Amelia Kelly) is Australian and raps with a heavy Southern twang that belies her native accent.

Her long-delayed debut album, The New Classic, out last week on Universal/Def Jam, meshes her aggressively spat rhymes with catchy hooks and poppy electronic production. There’s a sharpness to her beats that you’ll either find edgy or grating.

At this point, Iggy Azalea the personality overshadows Iggy Azalea the artist. She shot the world’s first “shoppable” music video (with FKi and Diplo, for Montreal’s SSENSE clothing retailer); she’s a front-row figure at Fashion Weeks; she’s appeared in splashy Vogue articles and GQ shoots (the latter with her boyfriend, Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Nick Young); she is, unfairly, written about in the context of her body rather than her art. Google her and you get headlines like “Iggy Azalea showcases her famous curves as she strips down to animal-print bikini.”

The hope is, though, that The New Classic will shift the conversation back to the music. Certainly her newest single, Fancy, complete with radio-friendly, Charli XCX-sung chorus and Clueless-inspired video, is doing its bit.

“To be honest, there have been so many potential release dates that have changed. But in hindsight, it allowed me time to reflect on songs I wrote last year and make choices on my final album track listings,” Azalea says over email. “I’m happy with The New Classic, and it’s amazing to finally have it out there. My fans have been so patient.”

They’re not the only ones. Azalea’s story is near-fairy-tale, but her success hasn’t come overnight. As a kid in Mullumbimby, Australia, she fell in love with American rap – Tupac Shakur and Missy Elliott in particular. Her delivery combines the influence of the latter and that of

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After dropping out of high school to clean houses and hotel rooms with her mom, she saved enough cash for a ticket to the U.S., leaving Australia before she turned 16. She never went back – on a permanent basis anyhow.

“I just knew in my heart I had to be in America. There wasn’t much thought – it was just necessary. So I got on that plane.”

A lot of rappers start from the bottom, but very few are completely on their own in a totally new country.

“It’s important to trust your inner voice and stay true to that,” she says. “Keeping your independence when you have so many opinions thrown at you is tough, especially when some are from people who have been doing this for a long time. I know that my choices are my own, and I have always done well by sticking to that mentality.”

Whatever stick-to-itiveness she was blessed with, it’s got her this far.

The New Classic is her first studio release – after a tumultuous ride with various labels, including a near-miss with Interscope in the U.S. and finally landing with Def Jam – but the emcee has already released a smattering of mixtapes and EPs, the best of which are on this record.

Is it a classic? Probably not. But it’s catchy (Change Your Life), motivational (Work) and surprising (employing Jamaican dancehall superstar Mavado on Lady Patra).

Azalea comes to the Danforth Music Hall on Friday – the same venue she played two years ago, which shows how long this album’s been in the works. Since then she’s cut her teeth opening for the world’s biggest artists, but her takeaways haven’t necessarily been tips for her live show. And for an artist who’s as much a persona as she is a rapper – at least for now – maybe that’s a good thing.

“It’s always inspiring to work so closely with people you have respect for. I have learned the importance of hard work, but also not to get lost in the scene. Nas and Beyoncé work hard but also keep personal time aside for those they love. I think this is the key to a successful career.” julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

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THE LOCAL GEST Jeff Barnes & Noah Zacharin (blues/folk) 8 pm.

THE LOCAL Sean Conway (roots) 9 pm.

LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

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By Samantha Edwards

THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART with Fear of Men and Ablebody at the Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Saturday (April 26), 9 pm. $13. RT, SS.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have always been in the vanguard of indie pop. But their latest album, Days Of Abandon, has finally earned frontman Kip Berman the specific type of indie cred he’s coveted since he first started the band over five years ago.

“As far as indie genres go, with the exception of riot grrl, indie pop has the greatest representation of female lead singers and songwriters,” Berman says from his home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

“I could wax poetic about how that’s really important, but then the record would’ve just been me singing 10 songs in a row. My reality could never live up to my ideal.”

So with this in mind, Berman enlisted the vocal talents of Jen Goma, the musician behind the dreamy cadence of A Sunny Day in Glasgow, for the Brooklyn-based band’s third album.

The pairing is delightful. Berman’s characteristically sweet lilt is balanced

by Goma’s equally soft backing vocals, a dynamic that gives the Pains a refreshing sound. Also new to the lineup is Beirut’s Kelly Pratt, recruited for his expertise in horn arrangements and synth programming.

“Instead of turning the guitar up as loud as it can go and adding more of it, they brought out some different sounds.” Berman says. “It’s not all distortion pedal.”

With Berman’s foot off the fuzz, the guitar melodies sound lighter and more buoyant, which was definitely

his intention.

“Each record is a new challenge. I never try to do the same thing over and over again. If people want to listen to the last record, they can just put it on again.”

One thing Berman has no interest in changing up is the album length. For the third time now, a Pains record wraps up neatly at 10 songs, a time span that first came about out of necessity and then became the ideal.

“There’s this mistaken idea where everyone thinks it’s so difficult to create music. It isn’t. It’s difficult to edit music.”

Berman isn’t afraid to take the knife to his own creations.

“If you can’t get your point across in 10 songs, well, you’re doing something wrong.”

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Press Club Garage Baby (punk rock) 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9 pm.

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De Sotos Jam Anthony Abbatangeli (jazz/ blues) 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

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The Jazz Bistro Beverly Taft Meets The Nathan Hiltz Orchestra 9 pm.

Kama Thursdays At Five Dave Caldwell & Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Steve Koven Trio 7:30 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Andrew McAnsh Group ­(experimental jazz) 9 pm.

Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

The Rex Ingrid Jensen w/ Mike Webster 9:30 pm, Ross Wooldridge Trio 6:30 pm.

The Whippoorwill A Little Rambunctious Michael Louis Johnson (jazz/swing) 10 pm.

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EFS Untitled Simon Jain doors 10 pm.

The Painted Lady Bouffant Babies Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/hiphop) 9 pm.

WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.

Friday, April 25 Adelaide Hall Daley (R&B/soul) 9 pm.

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

Amsterdam Bicycle Club Odd Soul (funk/ soul/R&B/Motown) 10:30 pm.

Me As a Woman, Slender Loris, Trunkfeather 9:30 pm.

Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla WePlayWithBoobies.com High Heels Lo Fi, Halfway 2 Sanity, Hayley Stark doors 9 pm.

The Danforth Music Hall The New Classic Iggy Azalea (rap) doors 7 pm, all ages. See preview, page 44.

Drake Hotel Underground Say Hi, Big Scary doors 8 pm.

The Garrison Record release Future History, Donalyn & Ro doors 9 pm.

Glenn Gould Studio Big Sugar (acoustic ­reggae/rock) doors 7:30 pm.

The Great Hall PULP: Paper Art Party Lemon Bucket Okestra (Balkan klezmer party punk band) doors 9 pm.

The Grocery Together Again The CeeDees 7:30 pm.

Grossman’s Beggars Banquet (Rolling Stones tribute ) 10 pm.

Hard Luck Bar Night Seeker.

Harlem Madette (soul) 7:30 pm.

Harlem West Mboya Nicholson 7:30 to 11 pm.

The Hideout The Disco Rebels (rock) 11 pm, Rockyard (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Record release Teenage Kicks, Poor Young Things, the Christian Punk Band doors 9 pm.

Hy’s Steakhouse Daniella Watters 7 pm.

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Lola The Johnson Group 8 pm.

Lou Dawg’s Pat Wright, Mike Constantini, Jeff Eager (acoustic soul/blues/rock) 10 pm.

Magpie Taproom Album release Lightmares, Walk North, Dead Broke, Ancient Peoples

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Sneaky Dee’s CD release The Gentlemen Thieves, the Dakota, the Mackinaws, Trial N Dagger doors 9 pm.

The Storefront Theatre Album release Tin Star Orphans, Local 164 8:30 pm.

Tattoo Kastle, Sol X (hip-hop/R&B) doors 9 pm.

Unicorn Pub Cover Alls 10 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Parkdale Funk 2 CD release party KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, the Airplane Boys, D-Sisive, DJ Grouch, Dylan Murray doors 9 pm. See album review, page 51.

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Adelaide Hall Muhtadi International Drum-

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Bar Radio Graham Nicolas (roots) 9 pm.

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

The Central Upstairs Johnny Coull 7 to 9 pm.

Dora Keogh Paul Reddick Band (rocking blues) 10 pm.

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Handlebar The Art Of The West (hip-hop dance party) 10 pm.

Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm.

The Painted Lady DJ Frank Phantastik Johnson 10 pm.

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The Jazz Bistro Beverly Taft Meets The Nathan Hiltz Orchestra 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Guaracha y Son (jazz) 8 pm.

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Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Lara Solnicki Trio 7:30 pm.

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“We try to stay busy,” a sleepy Daniel Lee says after it’s pointed out that his newest band, Lee Paradise, is the fifth musical project he’s got on the go.

He’s getting ready to tour Europe with Phèdre and continues to write and perform with Hooded Fang, Hut and Tonka & Puma. Given his hectic schedule, it’s not surprising that he can’t say for certain if Friday’s release show for Lee Paradise’s debut album, Water Palace Kingdom, will be both the first and last gig for the new project.

“Hopefully there will be more. We just needed to do this show before the Phèdre tour because Pleasance and Not Unlike put out the record and we needed something to kick it off. But I don’t really know what’s happening after that.”

Lee wrote and recorded the album while recovering

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Semi-Finals My Hollow, the Parallax, Psycho Mad Sally, Shotgun Cure, Sanituarium 8 pm.

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The Hideout The Soul Kicks (rock) 10 pm.

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Magpie Taproom Triple Arcade, Huge Cosmic, Newsmen, Dangerband (rock/pop) doors 9 pm.

May Cafe Ride To Conquer Cancer benefit Pins and Needles, Nhapitapi, Caroline de Klerk doors 6 pm.

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from a nasty flu he’d picked up on tour with Hooded Fang. There’s a woozy, feverish quality to the songs, and the stripped-down arrangements keep the focus on the chugging post-punk rhythms and leave plenty of room for Lee to experiment with his vocals.

“I was feeling kind of out of it, so I needed to escape for a while by focusing on something. I set some guidelines of trying to write this many songs and record them in a week. Sometimes if your head is all over the place, you need something to take your mind off things.”

Lee set up some sonic para­meters to help define the project. Instead of being built from guitar chord progressions, the tunes are framed around repeti­tive bass lines and simple drumbeats, with synth ornamentation providing atmosphere. That aesthetic choice also had a practical purpose.

“Part of why I kept the instrumentation that way was so other people could learn [the songs] really quickly and they’d only take three instruments to play.” benjaminb@nowtoronto.com | @benjaminboles

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Rockpile Absolute Journey (Journey tribute) doors 8 pm, all ages.

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Smiling Buddha Steve Adamyk Band, Sonic Avenues, Pink Wine, Brat Kings doors 9 pm.

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

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C’est What Lotus Wright doors 2:30 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Daniels Spectrum COBA Studio COBA Dance & Drum-a-thon 9 am to 6 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Jim McDonald 1 to 4 pm.

Habits Gastropub Birds of Bellwoods (folk) 9 pm.

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The Korner Pub Azalea (alt country) 7 pm, all ages.

Lee’s Palace Dildoniks, The Addington Coun-

ty Revue, the 92 Blue Jays, the Kerouacs (blues/folk) 8 pm.

The Local Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

Lula Lounge Orquesta Fantasia (salsa) 10:30 pm.

Musideum Soozimusic Soozi Schlanger, Tony Quarrington (folk) 8 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Music Of The Mediterranean Stars 9:30 pm.

Tranzac main hall The Boxcar Boys, the

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Tranzac Southern Cross Joe Hall 6:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

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

Harlem West Madette (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Heliconian Hall Musicians in Ordinary, John Edwards (Italian lute music) 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Beverly Taft Meets The Nathan Hiltz Orchestra 9 pm.

Massey Hall Jazz At Massey Hall: Brad ­Mehldau Trio 8 pm.

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Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Neil Swainson & Don Thompson Duo 7:30 pm.

Paintbox Bistro Junior Jazz Jam Autorickshaw 10 am.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Jon Foster Group (experimental jazz) 9:30 pm.

The Rex Nick Teehan Group 7 pm, Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall TD Jazz: Celebrating Dinah & Sarah Terri

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St George’s Anglican Church Broadway On Yonge The Yorkminstrels Show Choir 2 pm.

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Firecracker, McEvoy (roots/electro samba/ cumbia/reggae) 10 pm.

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The Central Upstairs DJs Ben Gilpin, Dave Nolan, Andrew Goucher, Muller, Ste Coghlan, Rowan Cuddy (deep house/tech-house/techno).

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

Club 120 Crush Party DJ Jared Sweato doors 10 pm.5 CODA Duke Dumont, Jimmy Edgar doors 10 pm.

Crawford Ice Cold Dranks DJs Ry-Fi & FBomb 9 pm.

Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm.

Disgraceland Loud And Proud DJ Dave (metal/hardcore).

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Drake Hotel Underground Itzsoweezee Tom Wrecks, Demiggs doors 11 pm.

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Embassy Bar Mötorhome Elaine & Christina (pop/punk/glam/soul/rock) 10 pm to 2 am.

The Garrison Turning Point A Man Called Warwick, Paulo Superfly doors 10 pm.

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Lou Dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hi-hop) 10 pm.

Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm.

The Piston Fast Times Brendan Canning (80s dance party) 10 pm.

Rivoli Footprints DJ Jason Palma, DJ General Eclectic (dancefloor jazz) doors 10 pm.

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

Ryze Legends Volume One Todd Terry, Andy Roberts, Yogi vs Phat Albert 10 pm.

The Savoy Mad City (R&B/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm.

Silver Dollar The Factory DJs Frankie Bones, Defunk, Richard Brooks, Skank Honto (­Warhol dance party) 9 pm.

Smiling Buddha After-School Special Family DJs Andycapp & Liam Crockard (forward-thinking dance music) 10 pm.

Sneaky Dee’s Shake-A-Tail.

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Handlebar CD release Clara Engel, Totenbaum Träger, Babel.

TheHideout Unplugged Scott Barrager (rock) 10 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm.

Lola Peter Matheson 3 to 7 pm.

OrbitRoom Horshack (classic rock/bangers) 10 pm.

The Painted Lady Punk Sunday Sid’s Kids 8 pm.

Rivoli Fallon, Tremor, the Mike Butlin Band, Villainest (rock/blues/R&B) doors 8 pm.

TheSister Taxi Chain (roots/Celtic/soul) 5 to 7:30 pm.

Tattoo Landmark Showcase Festival Joel ­Martin, Subject ID, Earthbound, Local Bears, Pierre Pharaoh, Giliath PAW, Spoila Ranks & D’Anise Marie, the Goatbox Rebel and others.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

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Campbell House Museum The Listening Party Ventanas (flamenco/Balkan/Sephardic music) doors 7 pm.

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Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full Of Beans Sundays Will Gillespie (singer/songwriter/folk/ roots) 2 to 4 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic Family Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

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Harlem Words Sound Power Open Mic & Community Networking Forum 7 pm.

Hugh’s Room David Rotundo 8:30 pm.

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Lula Lounge Sunday Brunch Jorge Maza Group (salsa) 11 am.

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Habits Gastropub Charcoal Sketch Cabaret (musical theatre) 8 pm.

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The Hideout Big Otter Creek (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday Boot to the Head,

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The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (Cana-Cajun blues) 8 pm.

Roxton Molahsiz w/ L.A. Barlow (folk/soul) 10 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Monday 9 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Edward Johnson Building Evan Lamberton Quartet 7 pm.

The Rex Rex Hotel Orchestra 8:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm.

Seven44 GTA Swing Band (classic big-band jazz) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

The Yukon The Parkdale Organization (jazz organ trio) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon

(retro­70s/80s) 10 pm.

Handlebar Secret Meeting Moon McMullen & Barbapoppa (vinyl) 9 pm.

Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, April 29 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Tavern Party Of One 10th Anniversary Residency Peter Elkas, Jailmate. ñDakota The Danforth Music Hall James Blunt, Oh Honey doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop) 9:30 pm.

The Hideout The World Is Yours (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite

Fireball Grant, the Treble, Stan Simon, RM & the Honest Heart 9 pm.

Opera House Blessthefall, Silverstein, Aminty Affliction, Secrets, Heartist doors 6 pm, all ages.

Orbit Room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm.

The Painted Lady Ababe Music Showcase Ramsay Almighty, Dog Bus, Courage My Love, John Orpheus 9 pm.

Silver Dollar Alex Bleeker & the Freaks, the Auras, Tess Parks & the Good People (indie rock) 8 pm.

Smiling Buddha Sly Why, Banned Books, Junior Bob, Mirapolis, Pseudopod, This Is Me As a Woman (math rock/experimental) 8 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House The Sinners Choir (roots/

Americana) 10 pm, Cindy Doire 8 pm, Sarah Burton 6 pm.

The Central Outrageous TO Open Mic 9 pm.

C’est What Mimi Oz doors 8:30 pm.

Dora Keogh Unplugged David Baxter (roots/ country) 8 pm.

The Duke Live.com Open Jam Frank Wilks 8:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room CD release The Andrew Collins Trio 8:30 pm. See album review, page 51.

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Caddell, Cassius Pereira, Kenny Neal Jr 8 pm. ­Temiseva 10 pm.

RelishBar&Grill Jordan Glick Usual Suspects 7 pm.

751 Open Mic The Stoopids 10 pm.

Tranzac Tiki Room Toronto Folk Singers Club 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Legendary Ladies Shannon Butcher Quartet noon to 1 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Togni Trio 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Small World Asian Music Series Autorickshaw (Indian/jazz) 8 pm.

Rasputin Vodka Bar Linda Carone (vintage jazz & blues) 7:30 to 9:30 pm.

The Rex Brad Cheesman 9:30 pm, Carissa Neufeld 6:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Carol Oya (jazz vocalist) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa DJ Frank Bischun 8:30 pm.

Drake Hotel Underground And 5, 6, 7, 8: A

Musical Theatre Dance Party DJs Sharron Matthews, Justin Bott, Derrick Chua 8:30 pm.

Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Rivoli The Dirties DVD Release Party Jay McCarrol, DJ Luke Lalonde doors 8 pm.

Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

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Wednesday, April 30 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Black Swan Acoustic Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Curzon Tony Carpino.

The Danforth Music Hall James Blunt, Oh Honey doors 7 pm, all ages.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm.

The Hideout Pat Wright (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Everglo, Jimmy Bowskill Band, Steve Costello, Jenn Fiorentino (alt rock) 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Luke McMaster 8:30 pm.

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

Orbit Room LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 10 pm.

Rivoli Indie Night Lucky Widmore, Superquest, Heavy Earth, Autopilot doors 8 pm.

Smiling Buddha The Ar-Kaics, Meanwood (garage rock) 9 pm.

Unicorn Pub Open Jam 10 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron.

Bar Radio Rye & Fairytails (bluegrass/Celtic)

9 pm.

Dominion on Queen Corktown Ukulele Jam 8 pm.

Johnny Jackson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 pm.

The Local Mr Rick’s Café Americana Mr Rick,

Steve Briggs (hillbilly swing guitar) 9 pm.

Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm.

Press Club Kyle Stephens, Alyson McNamara & Mackenzie Jordan (country/folk) 10 pm.

The Queen’s Legs Open Mic Skip Pickering 9:30 pm.

Rasputin Vodka Bar Acoustic Jam/Open Mic Taylor Abrahamse (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm.

Rock ’N Horse Saloon Mike Butler (new country) 9:45 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Fabiano Credidio, Mike Scarlett & Chris Trapper 8 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/jazz).

Chalkers Pub Girls Night Out: Lisa Particelli’s

GNOJAZZ Jam Session 8 pm.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret Duff MacDonald (jazz standards/music theatre) 7 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Maureen Kennedy Quartet 9

pm, First Responders Fundraiser 8 pm.

Mezzetta Kieran Overs & Rudy Smith 9 pm.

The Painted Lady Jazz Rock Jam Wayne Cass, Great Bob Scott, Richard Underhill, Mike Pellarin 9 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s (instrumental jazz/funk/fusion) 7:30 pm.

The Rex Eli Bennett Quartet 9:30 pm, Morgan Childs Trio 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Beaver Punk Rock Bingo DJ James Satan Bass 9 to 11 pm.

Club 120 Open-mic Comedy DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 Crawford Connected Reggae Party.

Handlebar Greasy Listening (all-vinyl rarities) 9 pm.

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album reviews album of the week FUTURE Honest (Sony)

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Rating: NNNNN Two years after his acclaimed debut, Pluto, launched Atlanta emcee Future into the mainstream, the scratchy-voiced prince of Auto-Tune returns. Except this time with less overt vocal processing – partly because Future’s voice has improved, and partly because it’s started to imitate that computerized sound.

His pipes sound simultaneously like a wounded animal and sneakers squeaking on a waxed floor, and yet his vocals are imbued with unquestionable humanity; you won’t find anyone else as convincing serenading his sweetheart as he is pushing dope. It’s a relief, then, that the skittery electro-warped beats – not quite as outer-spacetastic as Pluto’s – never steal the shine from his perfectly

Rap IGGY AZALEA The New Classic

(Mercury/Island Def Jam) Rating: NNN Iggy Azalea is a 23-year-old American South-via-Australia rapper whose geographically ambiguous flow tends to rankle detractors. Her debut album won’t necessarily convert the haters.

On Don’t Need Y’All, she cops Drake’s downtempo vibe to painfully derivative effect. Country-influenced 100 sees her stilted flow overpowered by a hook from Atlanta-based production crew Watch the Duck. Impossible Is Nothing suffers from lack of emotion in a song entirely dependent on it.

But, despite Azalea’s nimble delivery sometimes lapsing into the mechanical, there are moments on The New Classic when she sounds ready for prime time. On Goddess, she’s impassioned, snarling at critics with the self-aware confidence of a veteran. Fancy features an irresistible four-chord progression and a charming hook by Charli XCX. Azalea is commanding here – cheekily trumpeting high-class living with a wink and a Kanye shrug.

That Azalea is comfortable with a variety of production styles ensures she won’t have trouble selling iTunes singles, but she won’t become the artist she clearly aspires to be until she homes in on one or two of them.

Top track: Fancy Iggy Azalea plays the Danforth Music Hall on Friday (April 25).

JORDAN SOWUNMI

Pop/Rock BAND OF SKULLS Himalayan

(Psychocollective) Rating: NNN Band of Skulls make music that’s as suited to dingy underground clubs as it is to a Twilight film soundtrack or a Miracle Whip commercial. In fact, the English trio’s rock ’n’ roll, which ranges from moody slow

imperfect crooning.

At 18 tracks, Honest doesn’t feel bloated. Future takes his time on slow, sensitive jams: triumphant and refreshingly humble on Blood, Sweat, Tears; infatuated on I Be U; and sincere on I Won, where he salvages the otherwise backward Kanye collab from full-on sexism.

But for every tender ballad, there’s a classic Future banger in which he yelps the hook over and over, lest you forget it, on top of harsh beats: Covered N Money, My Momma (“ain’t raised no ho”), and most emphatically, Sh!t, which finds Future – at full vocal and energetic tilt – taking on lesser-thans of every variety.

Top track: Blood, Sweat, Tears Future plays the Sound Academy July 11.

JULIA LeCONTE burners to epic anthems, has appeared in all three places.

On their third album, Band of Skulls stretch even further. Sultry-sounding Cold Sweat features bassist/singer Emma Richardson’s vocals haunted by reverb, and Hoochie Coochie is all arena rock with a hint of glam. Then there’s Toreador, with its midway-point guitar solo that could be difficulty-level “hard” in Guitar Hero.

(They actually have a song in the video game.)

Even at their grittiest, Band of Skulls are polished, primped and ready for mass consumption. Formed 10 years ago, they’ve long been ready for their close-up.

But if they keep on like this, they’ll be just as prepared to look like tiny ants from the nosebleeds at a sold-out stadium show.

Top track: Asleep At The Wheel Band of Skulls play the Phoenix Thursday (April 24).

SAMANTHA EDWARDS

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Shrink Dust (Flemish Eye/Sub Pop) Rating: With each album, Calgary producer/musician Chad VanGaalen plunges deeper into his weird world, where quivering, tender melodies and soft acoustic guitar share space with grotesque imagery, chaotic noise and lonely thoughts on life and death, evil and love. The balance used to be weighted toward the folk side, but noise has taken over more and more, in-

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cluding on fifth album Shrink Dust, which is full of cosmic-country aluminium pedal steel experiments.

The songs are still there, though, even more so than on 2011’s Diaper Island, whose aggressive second half kind of lost the plot. Shrink Dust doesn’t give us a clear heart-tugger à la Willow Tree from 2008’s revered Soft Airplane, but each of the 12 songs – partly a score to a sci-fi film he’s making (which he describes as “like Bob and Doug McKenzie in space”) – is evocative and memorable.

It’s also got more intimate, less harsh production values, like VanGaalen’s very nearby, reporting from his planet.

Top track: Weighed Sin Chad VanGaalen plays Lee’s Palace on May 24.

CARLA GILLIS

Folk ANDREW COLLINS TRIO A Play

On Words (independent) Rating: NNN Since the release of 2012’s Cats And Dogs, local mandolin man Andrew Collins has solidified his trio lineup, with James McEleney on bass and mandocello and Mike Mezzatesta on guitar, mandolin and mandola. It’s a smaller, steadier sound with lots of genre variety: folk, bluegrass, jazz, classical. Third song Vivace From Concerto In D Minor is borrowed straight from Bach.

They also add vocals and lyrics, at least on some of the cover songs. Collins’s rough, rustic cover of Nick Drake’s One Of These Things First is a grower (he plays mandocello on it), and trad song Little Satchel (sung with Sofia Harwell) makes a good closer. The instrumental originals (six out of 10 of the songs) tend to be sunny and bright, but it gets interesting when the band sounds like it will unravel on Bill Evans cover Interplay.

Top track: One Of These Things First The Andrew Collins Trio play Hugh’s Room Tuesday (April 29).

SARAH GREENE

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More Than Any Other Day (Constellation) Rating: NNNN Even though none of the members are Canadian, Ought are very much a product of Montreal’s politically active DIY music scene, and their debut LP is heavily influenced by the charged atmosphere that took over the city during the 2012 “Printemps D’Erable” student strike and mass street protests. Claustrophobic post-punk riffs and frantic stream-of-consciousness ranting reflect the tension and earnest idealism of that historic moment, although Tim Beeler’s lyrics are more poetic than didactic.

Ought’s sound is both familiar and esoteric, often evoking something between Talking Heads and Gang of Four, with nods to first-wave emo bands like Cap’n Jazz.

However, unlike many post-punk revival acts, Ought don’t cram those references into a pop-friendly package, instead embracing awkward weirdness and dissonance. Even when they get quiet and contemplative, there’s a raw urgency that keeps the energy visceral.

Top track: The Weather Song Ought play Tattoo Thursday (April 24).

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DAMON ALBARN Everyday Robots (Warner/Parlophone) Rating: NN As he often did on Blur’s early albums, Damon Albarn uses the occasion of his debut solo LP to satirize middle-class life.

Right off the top, the eclectic Britpop maestro zeroes in on the pervasiveness of technology by envisioning mobile-phoneaddicted hordes “swimming in lingo” in a perpetual, dehumanizing stasis.

Elsewhere the album is full of reflective autobiographical detail, so presumably he counts himself among those hordes. On Lonely Press Play, he sings droopingly of technology as compulsive self-therapy.

Later, on You And Me, he alludes to past drug use.

Not all of Everyday Robots is woe-begone. The mood perks up on the cutesy African-influenced ditty Mr. Tembo, and Brian Eno provides the uplifting hook on closer Heavy Seas Of Love. Throughout, sputtering rhythms, steel pan and samples courtesy of producer Richard Russell offset Albarn’s lilting dreariness.

Though deftly orchestrated, Everyday Robots feels deflated and aimless, and the nature-versus-technology theme frequently results in clichés. Call him the quirky curmudgeon.

Top track: Heavy Seas Of Love KEVIN RITCHIE

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This Shakin’ House (independent) Rating: NNNN When Toronto blues punks Catl went on hiatus last year following the departure of drummer Andrew Moszynski, it looked like it was the end of the project. Instead, Sarah Kirkpatrick moved from organ to drums, returning Catl to the drums-andguitar duo format they had before she joined the band.

While the minimalist instrumentation is closer to the original concept, the feel has changed in subtle ways. Maybe because both members now play standing

up rather than seated, their raw, primitive blues rhythms seem more dance-floor-focused. Frontman Jamie Fleming’s vocals sound more confident, but he also steps aside to let Kirkpatrick sing lead on many songs, her soulful twang balancing his raspy hollering. The overdubs are few and far between, but tasteful use of chugging harmonica adds a pleasing, chunky quality to the grooves.

This Shakin’ House is easily their most accessible and melodic album yet, with Catl’s basic formula intact.

Old fans should enjoy it as much as new ones.

Top track: Resistance Place Catl play the Horseshoe Thursday (April 24).

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Funk KC ROBERTS & THE LIVE REVOLUTION Parkdale Funk 2:

Sides (independent) Rating: NNN Late last year, local funk seven-piece KC Roberts & the Live Revolution gave their loyal Toronto fan base a generous double-CD helping of their unique funk-rock-hip-hop-jazz blend. (Actually it was made possible by crowdfunding, so it’s as much a gift from fans to band.)

KCLR believers will appreciate so much funky goodness (over two hours), but a tighter album would garner more new ones. Standout tracks like the jubilant, record-scratching Hanging From A Jet Plane Wheel, featuring D-Sisive, get lost among songs that don’t work quite so well – like Fire Burning, which evokes bad turnof-the-millennium punk rock.

The group really does try everything here – nodding at drum ’n’ bass on Get Back To The Middle and going electronic on Daisy D. These aren’t their strongest tunes, but the experimentation is impressively ballsy.

The core members’ – and 40(!) guests’ – musicianship brings the album to life, but ultimately it begs to be heard live: Roberts does a guitar solo in the countrified The Grip that I, at least, need to see to believe.

Top track: Hanging From A Jet Plane Wheel KC Roberts & the Live Revolution play the Mod Club on Friday (April 25). JL

WALK OFF THE EARTH W/ HEAD OF THE HERD, TREVOR GUTHRIE, TYLER SHAW, BRETT KISSEL & MORE

Wednesday May 7 | Phoenix Concert Theatre Tickets available at cmw.net and Ticketmaster NOW APRIL 24-30 2014

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Brit writer Caryl Churchill gets a quartet of productions at Playwright Project By JON KAPLAN THE PLAYWRIGHT PROJECT 2014: CARYL CHURCHILL Presented by Bad Joe, Cart/Horse Theatre, Circlesnake Productions and Neoteny Theatre at the Downstage (798 Danforth). Runs in rep through May 4. $10-$15, festival passes $15-$45. Schedule and tickets at playwrightproject.com.

You can get a good dose of Shakespeare or George Bernard Shaw at the Stratford or Shaw festivals, but productions of several plays by the same writer in a short period of time are a rarity in Toronto theatre.

That’s one of the reasons the Playwright Project appeared on the local scene two years ago, mounting seven plays by Tennessee Williams put on by seven companies in seven days. Project director Alex Johnson and her associates followed up last year with a septet of Sam Shepard scripts.

This year the mini-festival reaches across the Atlantic to mount work by British playwright Caryl Churchill, and reshapes its manner of presentation.

“Last year the festival was really big in terms of its workers, but it became unwieldy,” says curator Matthew Gorman, who’s also directing A Number, one of the productions. “This year we’re intentionally smaller, relying on four companies, and rather than rotate to different venues each night, all four will be in rep at the Downstage.”

The benefit of fewer productions in a single venue is that companies can concentrate on the work without worrying about moving after every performance.

“In the past, companies had to build a touring show they’d truck off at the end of the night. Now they can relax and play around with the script, knowing they’re going to be on the same stage for the next show.”

As in previous years, the focus is on one-act plays rather than longer works. Gorman’s Cart/Horse Theatre offers A Number, in which a father confronts several versions of his cloned son. Vinegar Tom, mounted by Neoteny Theatre, uses 17th century British witchcraft trials to examine male attitudes toward women.

Three More Sleepless Nights, presented by Bad Joe, looks at three interrelated couples at the start of the Thatcher era, while the most recent play, Circlesnake Theatre’s Drunk Enough To Say I Love You, comments on the multifaceted connection between the United States (Sam) and other nations (Guy, the fellow he seduces) through a male couple’s troubled relationship.

“We chose the playwright first, and Churchill’s work fascinates me,” admits Gorman. “One of the joys of a project like this is taking writers people think they know well and showing their other sides. Churchill’s best known for plays like Cloud 9 and Top Girls, but she has a body of 46 published works, including radio plays.

“In some ways she’s the perfect ivory-tower playwright; she’s not a public persona, as some writers are.

There’s a political intent to a lot of her work, but she’s never come out and said much about her own beliefs.

She’s been labelled a feminist and someone who espouses liberation of various sorts, but that’s based on her plays.

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Matt Gorman enjoys showing sides of a writer that people don’t know.

“What I like about Churchill’s plays is that we know she has feelings about these things, but they don’t get in the way of what her characters feel.”

After selecting a writer came choosing the directors and tailoring the shows to their strengths.

“People read and read, emailed each other and camped out at the Reference Library to dig through the plays,” smiles Gorman. “There’s so much variety in her work, and I wanted people to care about the scripts they chose.”

As one of the directors, he’s come to realize the importance of paying close attention to Churchill’s language.

“While her characters often speak colloquially, there’s also a rhythmic stylization and a sense that the sound of the words is as important as their meaning. Each show has a pulse that you have to observe.

“As a director, you can tell the actors to try various things, but it always comes back to the metre that Churchill puts on the page. She’s a lot smarter than you are, and she’ll get her way in the end.”

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ADMISSIONS by Tanisha Taitt (Teenage Graceland). A Grade 12 student makes a disturbing revelation while being tutored by her friend.

Apr 24-27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 and 7 pm. $20, stu/srs $17. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw, Silver Studio. eventbrite.ca.

BINGO: THE MUSICAL by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg (Encore). Love blooms and friends reunite amidst fierce competition at a bingo hall. Opens Apr 24 and runs to May 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm (and May 4), mat Apr 27 at 2 pm. $30-$32.50. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. encoreshows.com.

BLITHE SPIRIT by Noel Coward (The Village Players). The spirit of his first wife pesters a man and his new spouse. Opens Apr 25 and runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $20, stu/srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. villageplayers.net.

COLD COMFORT by Owen McCafferty (Fly on the Wall Theatre). A man returns to Belfast after 15 years to resolve issues with his dead father. Opens Apr 24 and runs to May 4, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20, Sun rush $13. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. 416531-1827, flyonthewalltheatre.ca.

DRUNK ENOUGH TO SAY I LOVE YOU by Caryl Churchill (Circlesnake Productions/Playwright Project 2014). Two men are in a tense affair in this allegorical play about the seduction of Britain by the U.S (see story, this page). Opens Apr 24 and runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10-$15, passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com.

EASTER by August Strindberg (Naught, a Theatre Company). The changing of the seasons unsettles a family consumed with pride and shame. Opens Apr 25 and runs to May 3, ThuSat 8 pm. $18, stu $12. The Box, 89 Niagara. naughttheatre.wordpress.com.

HÄNSEL & GRETEL by Englebert Humperdinck (Metro Youth Opera). The Brothers Grimm fairy tale gets an urban twist. Apr 25-27, FriSat 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $28, srs $23, yth $18. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. metroyouthopera.ca.

THE LAST CONFESSION by Roger Crane (Mirvish).

This thriller explores the mystery shrouding the sudden death of Pope John Paul I in 1978.

Previews to Apr 26. Opens Apr 27 and runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $35-$119. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

LES PRÉCIEUSES RIDICULES by Molière (Théâtre français de Toronto). The satirist takes aim at the ladies of the French bourgeoisie. Previews to Apr 24. Opens Apr 25 and runs to May 10, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2:30 pm, May 3 & 10 at 3:30 pm. $28-$57 Wed pwyc, ltd Sat rush $20; gala $125. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-534-6604, theatrefrancais.com.

THE LION KING by Elton John, Tim Rice and Roger Allers (Mirvish). The musical based on the Disney film returns. Opens Apr 30 and runs to Jun 15, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6:30 pm, mat Sun 1 pm, Sat (and select Wed) 1:30 pm. $35-$155. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

THE MEMO by Václav Havel (Thought for Food).

An employee goes on an absurd quest to decode a message in an invented language. Previews to Apr 24. Opens Apr 25 and runs to May 10, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $25, preview $12.50. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. thought4food.ca.

THE MYTH OF EUROPA (Toronto Masque Theatre). The Greek myth is explored through a Baroque cantata by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair and a new work by James Rolfe and Steven Heighton. Apr 25-26, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $20$45. Trinity St. Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-410-4561, torontomasquetheatre.com.

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by Vern Thiessen (Soulpepper). W Somerset Maugham’s novel is adapted for the stage in a tale of loss, lust, obsession and the pursuit of beauty. Opens Apr 24 and runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $23-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

OL’ BLUE EYES: A TRIBUTE TO FRANK SINATRA

(TrypTych). Live musicians, a choir and soloists present a musical and historical journey. Apr 26-27 at 7:30 pm. $10-$30. Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2737 Bayview. tryptych.org.

PAPER SONG by Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull (Young People’s Theatre/Concrete Theatre).

This play for ages 5 and up blends a Japanese folk tale about a crane with the story of a young mouse and her grandfather. Previews Apr 29. Opens Apr 30 and runs to May 11, see website for schedule. $17-$22. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

PERSEE by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera Atelier). Perseus fights to rescue princess Andromeda in this retelling of the classical myth. Opens Apr 26 and runs to May 3, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $38-$166.

Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. operaatelier.com.

ROBERTO DEVEREUX by Gaetano Donizetti (Canadian Opera Company). Jealousy and intrigue run through Queen Elizabeth’s court when her love interest falls for the Duchess of Nottingham. Opens Apr 25 and runs to May 18: Apr 25, 29, May 3 and 15 at 7:30 pm, May 10 at 4:30 pm, May 18 at 2:30 pm. $12-$332.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

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WINTER AND SUMMER (Poculi Ludique Societas). Two Dutch plays from the early 15th century are staged. Apr 25-27, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, srs $15, stu $10. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, plspls.ca.

THREE MORE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS by Caryl Churchill (Bad Joe/Playwright Project 2014).

Two ill-fated couples explore human relationships (see story, this page). Opens Apr 24 and runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10$15, passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com.

UNEMPLOYMENT UNANIMOUS – A 12-STEP PROGRAM FOR MILLENNIALS (Project Boomerang).

This collective work looks at the work and life issues facing the generation born after 1980.

Apr 25-26, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu/srs $10.

Mixed Company Theatre, 157 Carlton. 416515-8080, projectboomerang.bpt.me.

VITALS by Rosamund Small (Outside the March). A Toronto paramedic deals with life, death and bureaucracy in this show based on interviews with EMS workers. Opens Apr 29 and runs to May 18, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm, Apr 30 at 1:30 pm. $25-$30.

Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-5047529, outsidethemarch.ca.

WE WILL ROCK YOU by Ben Elton and Queen (Mirvish). Teens rebel in a futuristic world where live music is banned. Opens Apr 29 and runs to May 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $32-$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

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HACKERLOVE by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). This theatrical fantasy imagines a queer love affair between two characters in the WikiLeaks scandal. Previews Apr 30. Opens

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Crazy Smooth, aka Yvon Soglo, was inspired to dance by the 80s flick Breakin’.

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Buonastella (left) and Gilmour have tightened Death Married My Daughter.

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Bringing urban dance to the theatre By GLENN SUMI BBOYIZM: MUSIC CREATES OPPORTUNITY choreography by Crazy Smooth. Presented

by Harbourfront NextSteps and DanceWorks at the Enwave Theatre (231 Queens Quay West), Friday-Saturday (April 25-26), 8 pm. $18.75-$37.25. 416-973-4000.

Street dancing and b-boying are more popular than ever thanks to reality TV shows and those slick Step Up sequels. That’s fine, says one of Canada’s leading urban dance choreographers, but there’s a lot more to the art form than a clip on So You Think You Can Dance.

“The film phenomenon is great in that it exposes people to the dance,” says Crazy Smooth, aka Yvon Soglo, whose troupe Bboyizm rolls into town this weekend for two shows. “But there’s a difference between a two- or three-minute routine and the kind of show we do, which is about an hour, in a theatre, no intermission. It’s not just about backflips and head spins. It goes deeper, makes you feel something, makes you reflect.”

Crazy Smooth and Bboyizm shook up Canada’s contemporary dance scene several years ago with the fulllength b-boy show IZM, which toured the country, earned raves, sold out shows and was nominated for a Dora Award.

Now they’re back with Music Creates Opportunity, expanding the vocabulary of that first show to include not just b-boying but also rocking, house dance and pantsula, a street dance form from Soweto, South Africa.

“I noticed how for street dancers, music is at the base of everything,” says the Gatineau-based choreographer on the phone from the troupe’s latest stop, Kitchener. “But the same piece of music makes everyone move in a different way. You’ll have a different interpretation or take on it.”

This kind of open-minded philosophy informs the company, whose motto is “Dance to express, not to impress.” That might seem antithetical

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to the strutting and grandstanding involved in battles and jams, but Soglo sets me straight.

“Sometimes a battle is not a confrontation – you’re just trying to keep the energy of a circle going, keep the party alive,” he says. “The nature of this dance form is a social gathering, of people coming together. Bboyizm is all about trying to express yourself fully and be true to yourself. Whether what you’re feeling is anger or happiness, let it out and be pure with your intentions.”

When I ask how he got his nickname, he laughs.

“It was given to me by another dancer, T-Swift, a legendary b-boy from Montreal,” he says.

After a battle, T-Swift, aka Technical Swift, asked him what his b-boy name was, and Soglo told him he didn’t have one.

“So we practised, and afterwards he said, ‘I’m gonna call you Crazy because you move really fast, like the Energizer Bunny. And I’m gonna call you Smooth because even though you make mistakes sometimes, you really can’t tell because your transitions are so good.’”

Crazy Smooth was heavily into basketball and soccer before a friend’s copy of the 1984 film Breakin’ changed his life by showing him a kind of dance he could see himself doing.

Is this particular dance form harder on the body than others?

“I can’t speak for other dances because I haven’t trained in ballet or contemporary,” he says. “But I think anything where there’s repetitive movement, whether dance or sport or typing on a keyboard, produces wear and tear on the body. But I know bboys dancing in their 50s, still doing backflips.

“It’s all in how you take care of yourself, maintaining your body and soul.”

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Seven talented actors + three movement-based scripts = a full evening of entertaining theatre, sometimes thoughtful, sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious.

That’s the math for the shows presented by the Independent Creators Cooperative, made up of Ahuri Theatre, Play It Again Productions and ZOU Theatre, whose members all have a strong basis in physical theatre.

There’s lots to admire in the three shows, beginning with the delightful Ralph + Lina, written by director Michele Smith and performers Dan Watson and Christina Serra.

Based on Serra’s grandparents, the show follows the growing romance in Italy of Ralph and Lina. He proposes and she accepts, but the Second World War intervenes; Ralph disappears for seven years, first to fight and then interred in a labour camp. Lina is forced to accept another’s proposal just before Ralph returns. Her solution to wedding the partner she prefers involves a trip to Canada.

Watson and Serra play the commedia-style slapstick and quick changes with zest and vibrant energy.

Death Married My Daughter, created by performers Danya Buonastella and Nina Gilmour with directors Smith and Dean Gilmour, has grown since

last summer’s Fringe. This version is tighter, more succinct and has an added drop of acid along with its humour, which is perfectly fine given that the two characters are bouffon figures, dark-edged clowns who tease and send up viewers while entertaining them.

You’ll know them both: Shakespeare’s Ophelia and Desdemona, back from the dead to bring closure to their unhappy lives. Targeting men in general and patriarchy in particular, they skewer their respective plays and do the same, literally, to some boy dolls, intentionally objectify themselves for the male gaze and satirize right-wing commentators like Ann Coulter.

High-pressure office workers, upper and middle management, are the sometimes sympathetic targets of Business As Usual, devised and performed by Viktor Lukawski, Adam

Paolozza and Nicolas Di Gaetano.

Set in a corporation where everyone works far more than eight hours a day, the acrobatic action looks at a succession of suicides in a world where anger and tension are relieved by aggression, one-upmanship and lines of coke. If those things don’t work, there’s always the short walk off a high ledge to bring release.

Balancing mimed sections done to uptempo music with sharp-edged dialogue, the three actors convincingly evoke the workers’ stress. The action, though, feels repetitive until the last third, where the boss – who turns out to be a big baby – tells his two workers, both named Johnson, to call their wives and explain they won’t be home until Christmas.

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You might expect the stage adaptation of a novel to tighten the book’s themes and emphasize its visual and/or drama­tic appeal. That’s not the case with Lindsay Cochrane’s clunky take on Yann Martel’s 2010 novel, Beatrice & Virgil. What was disappointing on the page is unbearably dull onstage.

Damien Atkins plays Henry, a ­Martel-like novelist whose ambitious follow-up to his critically acclaimed bestseller (Martel wrote the massive hit Life Of Pi) is rejected by his publishers. After giving up writing, Henry and his pregnant wife move to an unnamed city where he meets a mysterious taxidermist (Pierre Brault), also named Henry, who seeks his help on a script he’s penning about a donkey and a monkey.

Early in the book, Henry #1 questions the ethical and moral implications of depicting the Holocaust with anything but straight facts. That ­prepares us for Henry #2’s allegory ­involving those eponymous animals with the names from Dante. For some reason Cochrane has dispensed with this, instead using tired symbols to telegraph the work’s obvious mystery.

Also left under-explored is the idea of taxidermy, a clever metaphor for both the role of the artist and, as the book progresses, something more ­sinister.

Director Sarah Garton Stanley and a talented team of designers have heightened the play’s self-referential quality, using a set (by Amy Keith) that at key moments reveals another set behind it.

But they overuse this device, and Ken Mackenzie’s projections and toylike replicas of the two animals are ­distracting and ineffective.

So is Atkins’s strained, tiresome ­narration from the podium.

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May 1 and runs to May 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $19-$30, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

The Road To Mecca by Athol Fugard (Soulpepper). A South African widow turns her property into an eccentric art installation. Previews Apr 30-May 3. Opens May 5 and runs to May 28, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed & Sat 2 pm. $23$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, ­soulpepper.ca.

Sultans Of The Street by Anusree Roy (Young People’s Theatre). Four kids from different social classes are trapped in a world of begging on the streets of Kolkata, India. Previews Apr 28-30. Opens May 1 and runs to May 15, see website for schedule. $15-$24. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, ­youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

One-nighters

And 5, 6, 7, 8... A Musical Theatre Dance Party (Acting Up Stage Co/Theatre 20/Angel-

walk Theatre). DJs, dance-along/sing-along video, prizes and more. Apr 29, 8:30 to 11:30 pm. Free (RSVP to ari@actingupstage.com).

Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

The Ballad Of _____ B by Francisco-Fernando Granados (Harbourfront Centre HATCH). This performance installation explores the queerness of the imagination. Apr 26 at 8 pm. $12$15. 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Broadway On Yonge (The Yorkminstrels Show Choir). This revue features Broadway selections, old favourites and more. Apr 26 at 2 pm. $15, srs/child $10. St George’s Anglican Church, 5350 Yonge. ­stgeorgestoronto.ca.

COC Fine Wine Auction (Canadian Opera Co).

This fundraiser includes cocktails and the wine auction. Apr 24 at 6 pm. $100. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

The Company We Keep: Meet Bobby (Theatre 20). Stars of T20’s production of Company and a guest host perform. Apr 27 at 7 pm. $25.

Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. ­theatre20.com.

The Joy And Angst Cabaret (Carolyn Taylor/ Andrea Ridgley). Creative works of childhood joy and angst with Vivek Shraya, Karen Campos, Gavin Crawford and others. Apr 27 at 8 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. ­buddiesinbadtimes.com.

Mean Girls And Sharron’s Party (Sharron Matthews). Cabaret star Matthews performs.

Apr 25 at 9 pm. $20-$25. The Flying Beaver Pubaret, 488 Parliament. pubaret.com.

Puppet Allsorts: Soli & Rob Sing With The Bug Buddies (Toronto Puppetry Collective).

Alistair Ant Productions perform an all-ages puppet show. Apr 27 at 3 pm. $15. Metropolis Factory, 50 Edwin. p ­ uppetallsorts.com.

The Roustabout Revue (Esther De Ville/Jaws).

This vaudeville spectacular features circus arts, burlesque and more. Apr 24 at 8 pm. $15$30. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. lula.ca.

Shakesbeers Showdown (Spur-of-the-Moment-Shakespeare Collective). Shakespearean companies compete in improvised performances to prove who’s best at the Bard. Apr 25 at 9 pm. $10. May Cafe, 876 Dundas W. spurofthe­momentshakespeare.weebly.com.

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Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh (Precisely Peter Productions). The hostess from hell humiliates and dominates her guests. Runs to May 3, TueSat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $29.50, srs $25.

Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, ­artsboxoffice.ca.

Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Jun 1, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59.

100A Ossington. ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel (Factory Theatre/Canada’s National Arts Centre). A novelist meets a taxidermist who wants to write a play (see review, page 54). Runs to May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and May 3 & 10) at 2 pm. $30-$45, ltd pwyc Sun. 125 Bathurst.

416-504-9971, ­factorytheatre.ca. N (GS) Belleville by Amy Herzog (Company Theatre/Canadian Stage). In this blend of mystery and psychological drama, Herzog pinpoints the growing cracks in the relationship of a young American couple living in Paris.

Though the climax isn’t as explosive as it might be, Allan Hawco and Christine Horne play off each other beautifully. Runs to May 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 1:30 pm, Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (GS)

Business As Usual by Viktor Lukawski, Adam Paolozza and Nicolas Di Gaetano (ZOU Thea­ tre Company/Independent Creators Cooperative). Success and excess take a once-thriving corporation off the rails (see review, page 53).

Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times. $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, ­3shows.ca. NNN (GS) Cock by Mike Bartlett (Studio 180 Theatre).

This Cock is a bit of a tease. Barlett’s look at sex, relationships and the fluidity around sexual labels is very timely, but a bit more weight and substance to the characters would have given it a tougher punch. Still, Joel Greenberg’s direction is sharp and vivid on John Thompson’s evocative set – which brings to mind a fighting ring – and the actors are excellent.

Runs to Apr 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$35, ltd Sun pwyc. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-872-1212, ­studio180theatre.com. NNN (GS) Death Married My Daughter by Danya Buonastella, Dean Gilmour, Nina Gilmour and Michele Smith (Play it Again Productions/ Independent Creators Cooperative). Man is put on trial when Ophelia and Desdemona are resurrected (see review, page 53). Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times. $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK) Dinner With Goebbels by Mark Leith (act2­ studio WORKS). This political satire features an imagined meeting of Joseph Goebbels, Karl

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Garon, plus a performance by the Chimera Project’s Company B. Apr 26 at 8:08 pm. $10.

Collective Space, 221 Sterling, unit 5. ­series808.ca.

Opening Spanish Dance Company and Harbourñ front NextSteps present a celebration of Latin Album Kate Hilliard presents and perAmerican songs in flamenco and a look at forms her choreography about favourite ñ things that come and go in life. Apr 24-27, Thusongs and the personal stories that accomDe Idas Y Vueltas Esmeralda Enrique

pany them with Luke Garwood and Andrya Duff. Apr 24-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-3648011, ­citadeltoronto.com.

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Harbourfront NextSteps present choreographer/ dancer Yvon Soglo (Crazy Smooth) exploring the street dance tradition (see story, page 53). Apr 25-26, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $18.75-$37.25. ­Enwave ­Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Esmeralda ­Enrique’s De Idas Y Vueltas heats up Harbourfront.

COBA Dance And Drumathon ­Collective of

Black Artists presents its company funder with classes in hip-hop, Caribbean, dancehall, Bollywood, jazz and African­dance. Apr 26 from 9 am to 6 pm. $5-$25. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, suite 130. ­cobainc.com.

Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $23-$45. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

International Dance Day The ñ Canadian Dance As-

sembly presents a lunch-hour celebration featuring Jasmyn Fyffe Dance, Motus O, Dance Migration and others.

Apr 29 from 11 am to 2 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. cda-acd.ca.

Muhtadi International Drumming Festival XV Bene-

fit presents a night of rhythm, drums and dancing to support the free festival in June. Apr 25 at 6:30 pm. $25. Adelaide Hall, 250 Adelaide W. ­muhtadidrumfest.com.

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Arrabal A sultry mix of passion and politics,

this new dance-theatre piece isn’t where it could be dramatically, but the music, movement and heart still make it an entertaining show. The young Arrabal (Micaela Spina) immerses herself in the tango clubs of Buenos Aires and learns what happened to her father, Rodolfo (co-choreographer Julio Zurita), who was disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dance sequences smoulder and ignite, and the music is electric and catchy. But the storytelling needs work. Runs to May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS)

Kickstart: 6 Choreographers Pushing Boundaries Canasian Dance Festival presents

new commissions by rising choreographers Bageshree Vaze, Emily Law, Michael Caldwell, Natalie Tin Yin Gan, Robert Abubo and Ziyian Kwan. Runs to Apr 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/ srs $22. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. c­ anasiandance.com.

Off Canvas Momentum Dance Toronto presents a contemporary dance performance that seeks to bring art to life on the stage.

Runs to Apr 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$30. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. momentumdancetoronto.com. 3

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Rove and Edward Bernays. Runs to Apr 27, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $22. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. act2studio.ca.

THE GIGLI CONCERT by Tom Murphy (Soulpepper). It takes a while to warm to Murphy’s play about an Irish building contractor who hires an English therapist to help him sing like Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. But Stuart Hughes and Diego Matamoros bring out the rich complexity of the characters. It’s a shame that the script lacks the passion found in the Gigli recordings used between scenes. At times the play feels like a dramatized Oliver Sacks case study. Runs to May 16, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane.

416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. NNN (GS) A GOD IN NEED OF HELP by Sean Dixon (Tarragon Theatre). In 1606, Catholics transporting a holy painting are attacked by Protestants and attribute their escape to a miracle. Runs to May 25, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm.

$21-$53, 8 pm, Apr 26 pwyc. 30 Bridgman.

416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love. Runs to May 10, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 11 pm. $49.

100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, ticketwise.ca.

HERCULES by George Frideric Handel (Canadian Opera Co). Director Peter Sellars’s staging moves the classical action to the present, with Hercules as an American general fighting a Middle Eastern war and suffering from PTSD. Despite the work’s title, the central characters are the women: Alice Coote as his jealous wife Dejanira, and Lucy Crowe as Iole, a princess who is spoils of war – and both give excellent performances. Great Handel, moving and superbly musical. Runs to Apr 30, Thu & Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $12-$332. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca. NNNN (JK) IN HIS NAME by Robert Tsonos (The Canadian History Project). Frenchmen fight native warriors in Ville Marie in 1660. Runs to Apr 27, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Array Space, 155

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A NUMBER by Caryl Churchill (Cart/Horse Theatre/Playwright Project 2014). This thriller looks at fathers and sons (see story, page 52).

Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10$15, passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com.

A ONE NIGHT STAND WITH SHAW (Never Wrestle With Pigs). The collective presents short, lesser-known plays by GB Shaw. Runs to Apr 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. secureaseat.com.

RABBIT HOLE by David Lindsay-Abaire (Alumnae Theatre Co). A couple searches for comfort after an accident turns their world upsidedown. Runs to Apr 26, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $20. 70 Berkeley. 416-364-4170, alumnaetheatre.com.

RALPH + LINA by Michele Smith, Dan Watson and Christina Serra (Ahuri Theatre/Independent Creators Cooperative). Two Italian lovers struggle to stay together in the face of WWII, forced immigration and old age (see review, page 53). Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times. $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK)

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ret/Soulpepper). This instalment of Hollingsworth’s epic Canadian history series looks at the 1970 October Crisis, which saw Quebec separatists kidnap a diplomat and cabinet minister and Pierre Trudeau declare martial law. It features the company’s trademark colourful, rapid-fire, Brechtian approach to recounting (and lampooning) our past. Mac Fyfe’s spot-on Trudeau steals the show. Runs to May 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri & Mon 1 pm, Wed 1:30 pm. $25-$55. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Ln. 416-8668666, videocab.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) VINEGAR TOM by Caryl Churchill (Neoteny Theatre/Playwright Project 2014). This dark comedy looks at how witch hunts target old, poor and unconventional women (see story, page 52). Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10-$15, passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com.

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN by Mel Brooks, Irving Berlin and Thomas Meehan (Curtain Call Players). The doctor’s grandson inherits the family castle and repeats the old experiments in this musical comedy based on the film. Runs to Apr 25, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $26. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. curtaincallplayers.com.

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SOLICITING TEMPTATION by Erin Shields (Tarragon Theatre). In this look at child prostitution set in an unnamed third-world country, a white, middle-aged businessman buys the services of a young woman – possibly a child.

The performances by Derek Boyes and Miriam Fernandes generate some theatrical and sexual tension, but the writing, though engaging and poetic in places, doesn’t come together for a fully convincing dramatic experience.

Runs to May 4, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $27-$53, rush $13. 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. tarragontheatre.com. NNN (JK) THE SOUND OF MUSIC by Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse (Lower Ossington Theatre). An aspiring nun leaves the order to govern the children of an Austrian officer in this musical. Runs to May 3, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun 3:30 pm. $39$69. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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Thursday, April 24 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Arthur Simeon, Colin O’Brien, Sandra ñ Battaglini and host Josh Williams. To Apr 27,

Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BEERPROV: THE DRAFT Jim Robinson presents young improvisers competing in a series of elimination games. 9:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com.

COMIC VISION 2014 The Foundation Fighting Blindness presents a comedy fundraiser gala w/ Rebecca Kohler, Graham Chittenden and host Steve Patterson. 6:30 pm. $300. Carlu, 444 Yonge. comicvision.ca.

FAMILY SLIDES Underground Cafe presents comics showing family slides & telling stories w/ Helder Brum, Patrick Hakeem, Zabrina Chevannes, Candice Gregoris, hosts Phil Luzi & Sandra Battaglini and others.

9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125.

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8:30 pm. $20. 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 24.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

show w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. k­ itchbar.com.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Nick Flanagan, Eddie Della Siepe, Camille Cote, Melissa Story, Merv Hartlen, Brian Ward, Tommy Fitz, host Sara Hennessey and others.

9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. l­aughsabbath.com.

THE RECEPTION Comedy Bar presents the sketch group w/ guests the Templeton Philharmonic and musician Clara Venice. 8 pm. $5.

945 Bloor W. c­ omedybar.ca.

SHAKESPEARE FORGIVE US V We Happy Few presents an improvised play in the style of the Bard plus stand-up by Alex Crawford and live music. 8 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­comedybar.ca.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS Second City’s funniest revue in ages draws on our anxiety about the schizophrenic weather, our cracksmoking mayor and the urban/suburban split in surprising and inventive ways. Director Chris Earle has a great ear and sharp sense of drama and he knows how to get the best from his stellar cast, who shine – especially in two contrasting sketches about young dudes (played by the women) and middle-aged women (played by the men). Don’t miss it.

Limited run, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, ­secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS)

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TORONTO COMEDY BRAWL: GAUNTLET QUALIFYING ROUNDS Empire Comedy Live presents

amateur comedians competing for $1,000. To Apr 30, Mon-Thu 8 pm. $5. Johnny Jackson, 587 College. ­empirecomedylive.com.

YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Laurie Elliott. To Apr 26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, plus FriSat 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, ­yukyuks.com.

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Monday, April 28

amateurs each week w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti and Blayne Smith. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

Toronto Comedy Brawl: Gauntlet Qualifying Rounds See Thu 24.

200% VODKA Black Swan Comedy presents a

weekly show by the BSC Rep Company. 8 pm.

Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, ­blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, April 29 THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros and lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews.

8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

GET SOME: SKETCH COMEDY Comedy Bar presents new weekly sketches w/ members of Picnicface, the Sketchersons, Tony Ho and others. To Apr 29, 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

IMPROV DROP-IN Black Swan Comedy presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. b ­ lackswancomedy.com.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 24.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Cafe, 60 Cecil. f­ acebook.com/­skinofmynuts.

ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Mark Little, Rebecca Kohler, Mike Rita, ñ ñ Graham Kay, Adrienne Fish, Eric Andrews,

Barry Taylor, Tim Golden, MC Ali Hassan and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

GET HAPPY! Smiling Buddha presents a weekly open mic w/ hosts Scott Barkley & Scott Topo­ linsky. 8 pm. Free. 961 College. facebook.com/­ smilingbuddhaTO. IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents a weekly show. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com.

MIXED COMPANY Alan Kliffer presents Degrassi­actors paired with improvisers, featuring Paula Brancati, Sam Earle, Adamo Ruggiero, Linda Kash, Theresa Pavlinek, David Gale and others. 8 pm. $12. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES ­Imperial Pub pre-

sents host Danny Polishchuk & guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. ­imperialcomedy.com.

WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive com-

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petitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 24.

SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents

Wednesday, April 30

one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly ­comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Toronto Comedy Brawl: Gauntlet Qualifying Rounds See Thu 24.

TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly

headliner Jason Laurans, Kenny Molotov, Billy Wiegand, Dr Ron, Adam David, Hoodo Hersi, Kivork and host Lamar Williams. 8:30 pm. $6.

2335 Yonge. absolutecomedy.ca.

THE CARNEGIE HALL SHOW RETURNS! The National Theatre of the World presents the improv variety show w/ Naomi Snieckus, Matt Baram and Chris Gibbs. 8 pm. $18-$20, stu $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W, Underground. ­thecarnegiehallshow.bpt.me.

ELEPHANT EMPIRE Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe performing fast-paced sketch and a one-act play. To May 28, Wednesdays 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

120 WEDNESDAYS OPEN MIC Club 120 presents comics and novelty performers w/ TS comedian Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm. Free.

120 Church. club120.ca.

OUTRAGEOUS! WITH ROBERT KELLER Yuk Yuk’s presents queer stand-up w/ headliner Gavin Crawford, Ted Morris, Ian Lynch and host Robert Keller, plus music by Keller & DJ Johnnie Walker. 8:30 pm. $15. 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Chris Robinson and headliner Ben Bankas. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

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show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free. ­Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440.

THE VIDEO GAME SHOW Bad

Dog Theatre Epic Wednesdays presents improv inspired by classic and current console games.

8 pm. $12, stu $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­baddogtheatre. com.

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Friday, April 25 Absolute Comedy See Thu 24.

BEERPROV Jim Robinson presents the

monthly improv competition w/ Ronald ñ Pederson, Jim Annan, Carly Heffernan, Alice

Moran, Alex Tindal and others. 10:30 pm. $20.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­beerprov.com.

BURN The Realest Sh*t I Ever Wrote presents uncensored comedy. 9 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. p ­ uffmama.ca.

CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

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KICKSTART 6 CHOREOGRAPHERS PUSHING BOUNDARIES

Zabrina Chevannes Kevin MacDonald, Tommy Fitz, Winston Spear, Lee Anne Stewart, host Scott McCrickard and others. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560.

THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents Darren Springer, Burns & Gallo, Beggar’s Canyon, Vest of Friends, host Jess Beaulieu and others. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/­TheJokeboxComedyLounge.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 24.

WAYNE BRADY: IT’S MY LINE TOUR Just for Laughs presents the acting, singing and dancing comic in a live show. 7:30 pm. $35.50$55.50. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-8724255, ­masseyhall.com.

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Saturday, April 26 Absolute Comedy See Thu 24.

COMEDY @ CAM’S Cam’s Place presents a

stand-up Pro/Am show w/ host Matt Holmes.

10 pm. Free. 2655 Yonge. 416-488-3976.

THE LONGFORM IMPROV SHOWCASE Comedy Bar presents Bamboo Kids Club, Burns & Gallo, Duo Dad and others w/ host Matt Folliott. 7 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880.

REEFER CREW MADNESS High on Trees presents a comedy show & buffet. 8 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. p ­ uffmama.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 24.

THE UNSUNG SEQUEL Special Features Musical Improv Troupe presents a monthly show w/ an improvised musical sequel to your favourite movies. 8 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. ­specialfeaturesimprov.wordpress.com.

Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 24.

April 23 — 26, 2014, 8:00 PM DANCEMAKERS CENTRE FOR CREATION

9 Trinity Street, Studio 313, Toronto (in the Historic Distillery District)

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Sunday, April 27 Absolute Comedy See Thu 24.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT Ein-

William Yong, Dancer

Stein presents six contestants competing for a spot on Yuk Yuk’s Tuesday Night Show. 8 pm.

Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

MAD LAUGHS AND A SONG Madison Avenue Pub presents a weekly open mic comedy show

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Owen Kydd, Apr 30-May 30. Brookfield Place, 181 Bay. 416-777-6480.

CHINATOWN CENTRE MALL Installation: Bambitchell, to Apr 28. 222 Spadina, lower level. imagesfestival.com.

CIRCUIT GALLERY @ PREFIX Photos: Donald Weber and Dima Gavrysh, to May 3. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357.

CCORKIN GALLERY Photos: Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann, reception 5-7 pm Apr 29, May 1-31. 7 Tank House Lane.

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of Ontario (317 Dundas West) to May 4. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 416-979-6648. Rating: NNNN

Bruce Nauman is one of contemporary art’s elder statesman, which is funny when you think how his videos and performances electrified the art world in the 60s and 70s. A laconic conceptual cowboy (he hails from Indiana and lives on a ranch), he’s known for video, sculptural and neon works that use puns, slapstick and dark humour to generate fields of semantic unease.

Words On Paper digs into the AGO’s permanent collection, focusing on Nauman’s use of language.

The anarchic engine of his work, wordplay may shift a single letter to overturn intended meanings in unexpectedly skewed ways.

His etching Violins/Violence plays the image of European high culture against its ominous homonym.

WAR/RAW, a study for one of his neon sign pieces, underscores the strange resonance between both meanings.

Among the video works included is Nauman’s Good Boy Bad Boy, in which two announcers on separate monitors, a black male and a white female, conjugate a list of contrasting word pairs in stentorian newscaster style. “I have fun, you have fun, we have fun, this is fun,” followed by “I am bored, you are bored, we are bored, this is boring.” The repeated antonyms speaks to an unease located somewhere between the frankness of the underlying language and the sheer blandness of its presentation.

Nauman enjoys using the subtle, often absurd contradictions found in language to break the surface tension of contemporary culture. But as with all things worth paying attention to, nothing is ever as it seems at first, second or even fourth glance.

Nauman shows how bald statements

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Bruce Nauman’s works require you to Pay Attention Motherfuckers.

often go awry, how pure statements of feeling or truth often signify their opposite, and that meaning in general is no easy business.

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WHICH IS PRETTY CLOSE. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Bruce Nauman, to May 4. Monitor 10: video from SAVAC, 7 pm Apr 24 ($10, stu $5). Alain de Botton talk 7-8:30 pm Apr 30 ($15, stu $10).

Light My Fire: Five Propositions About Portraits, to Apr 30. Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins, to May 25. Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, to Jul 20 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). $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 Camilla Singh, to Jun

16. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-7365169.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Communicating Vessels, to May 11. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga (Mississauga). 905-828-3789.

CCITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE This Is Not A Toy, to May 18, curator’s tour 6:30 pm Apr 28 ($16, stu/srs $13). Emerging Designer Competition, to May 19. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

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Please submit all listings by Wednesday, May 14 at 5 pm to listings@nowtoronto.com or by fax to 416-364-1166.

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Photos: Stacey Tyrell, Apr 26-May 17, reception 3-6 pm Apr 26. 1520 Queen W. 416-821-3060.

GLADSTONE HOTEL Textiles: Hard Twist 2014 , to Apr 27. Grow Op, Apr 24-27, reception 7-10 pm Apr 25, Equinosh food event Apr 26 ($10). Vernal Pool group show, Apr 24-27, reception 7-10 pm Apr 25. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

CKOFFLER GALLERY Installation: Adad Hannah, Apr 24-Jun 8, reception 6-9 pm Apr 24. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw.

647-925-0643.

CMILES NADAL JCC Photos: Rafael Goldchain, Apr 25-May 20. 750 Spadina. 416924-6211.

CNICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Gordon Parks, Apr 24-May 24, reception 6-8 pm Apr 24. 451 King W. 416-205-9000.

CO’BORN CONTEMPORARY Photos: Dominic Nahr, Apr 25-May 31, reception 6-9 pm Apr 25, artist’s talk 2-4 pm Apr 26 (RSVP). 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555.

PAUL PETRO Painting/video: Sadko Hadzihasanovic and Darryl Nepinak, to Apr 26.

980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

PROPELLER Gwen Tooth and Laurie McGugan, to May 4, reception 7-10 pm Apr 24. 984 Queen W. 416-504-7142.

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His etching Pay Attention Motherfuckers says it best, in bold etched letters that are, of course, reversed. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Glam North: Doris McCarthy And Her New Contemporaries, to Apr 26. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Ron Thom And The Allied Arts, to Apr 27. Spring Awakening floral installations, Apr 25-27. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-5868080.

JUSTINA M. BARNICKE David Buchan, to May 3. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION

Mary Pratt, to Apr 27. Changing Tides: Contemporary Art Of Newfoundland And Labrador, to Jun 1. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121.

CMOCCA Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART The Matchbox Gallery: A Retrospective, to Oct 1. $5, stu/srs $3.

207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571.

OAKVILLE GALLERIES The Talking Cure; Olia Mishchenko, to May 11. Gairloch Gdns, 1306 Lakeshore E; Centennial Sq, 120 Navy (Oakville). 905-844-4402.

Wednesday, April 30 7:30pm 235 Queens Quay West Toronto

Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 ifoa.org

POWER PLANT Mike Nelson, to May 19, Robin Peck talk 7:30 pm (Brigantine Rm, $15) Apr 24, Lisa Deanne Smith talk 2 pm Apr 27. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA From Geisha To Diva: The Kimonos Of Ichimaru, to May 25.

Telling Stories, to Sep 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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Through The Body: Lens-Based Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists; Archiving Public Sex, Apr 29-Jun 28. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

VARLEY ART GALLERY Colour, In Theory, to May 4, talk 7-8:30 pm ($10) Apr 30. $5, stu/srs $4.

216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511.

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Voice. It’s something writers crave, something that makes their work unique and recognizable. And Miriam Toews has it.

Hers has an irresistible tragi-comic

timbre that’s particularly effective when dealing with personal pain and death, the subjects of her new novel, All My Puny Sorrows.

Beautiful, brilliant, talented concert pianist Yoli wants to die. Her younger sister Elf, a writer who considers herself ordinary by comparison, desperately wants her to live and tries hard to change Yoli’s perspective.

Thing is, you can’t talk someone out of depression.

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ONDJAKI/MIRIAM TOEWS/EVIE WYLD Reading. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/yth under 25 ñ free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay

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Miriam Toews

Toews expertly depicts Yoli’s struggle and Elf’s sad helplessness. Their conversations exquisitely convey both their connectedness and the terrible gulf between them.

But they aren’t the only vivid characters here. Their mother, a woman with impressive emotional reserves who’s already weathered her husThere The Night He Died. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register torontopubliclibrary.ca.

TERESA TOTEN/RONALD DEIBERT/RACHEL MANLEY/SHYAM SELVADURAI Reading. Doors 6:30

band’s suicide, is remarkably irreverent given that she’s a Mennonite.

Toews has mined the richness of that community before.

The book pursues the theme of the redemptive power of art as Elf tries to finish a manuscript she carries around in a plastic bag, while Yoli remains uninspired by the gorgeous music she can toss off almost effortlessly. And Toews is plainly mindful of the ways the medical establishment discriminates against the mentally ill: Yoli gets little sympathy from hospital staff.

But it’s Toews’s way of lightening the darkness that makes this novel so compelling. Elf is flat-out funny even if she is in a permanent state of distress over her sister’s condition.

Very few writers have this much SUSAN G. COLE control over tone.

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pm. $60. Park Hyatt, 4 Avenue. 416-977-0008, worldlit.ca.

Toews reads from All My Puny Sorrows on Wednesday (April 30) at Harbourfront. See Readings, this page.

RAY ROBERTSON Reading from his novel I Was

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IN PERSON Give Elaine Lui credit. She could have been lazy and made her first book a spinoff of her outrageously successful Lainey Gossip blog, but instead she decided to write a memoir. Actually, Listen To The Squawking Chicken: When Mother Knows Best, What’s A Daughter To Do? A Memoir (Sort Of), from Random House ($27.95) is a tribute to her Hong Kong-born mom, who was one tough cookie. Fortunately, Lui’s as funny on the page as she is online. She talks about the book at Indigo Manulife on May 4. See ListSGC ings at nowtoronto.com.

new books. 7:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. quattrobooks.ca.

SANDRA GULLAND Reading from her novel The Shadow Queen. 12:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-395557.

KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER Talking about her novel All The Broken Things. 7 pm. Free. Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. 416-393-7697.

ROBIN PHILPOT Launching Rwanda & The New Scramble For Africa. 7:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Saturday, April 26 LAURA CALDER Signing copies of her new cook-

book, Paris Express. 7 pm. Free. Chapters, 2901 Bayview. chapters.indigo.ca.

APRILL ATKINS CAMERON Launching her Song & Dance Girl collection. 1 pm. Free. Drake General Store, 1144 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

MEG HOWARD Signing. 1-4 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. chapters.indigo.ca.

NANCY RUNSTEDLER Signing copies of Pay It Forward Kids: Small Acts, Big Change. 6:308:30 pm. Free. Mabel’s Fables, 662 Mt Pleasant. 416-322-0438.

Sunday, April 27 DRAFT 9.5 Poetry by Mark Abley, Ayelet Tsabari, Christopher Doda & others. 3 pm. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. draftreadings.wordpress.com.

SHYAM SELVADURAI/NICOLE LUNDRIGAN/ MARY KIM/SONAL CHAMPSEE Reading. ñ 4-7 pm. Free. 3030 Dundas W. junctionwrites@gmail.com.

GEORGE STERN Launching his memoir Van-

ished Boyhood with a film screening and moderated dialogue. 11 am. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211.

ELSA THON Talking about the film If Only It Were Fiction, based on her memoir. 7 pm.

Free. Beth Radom Congregation, 18 Reiner. bethradom.com.

Monday, April 28 LAURIE DAVID Talking about her new book, The Family Cooks. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Tuesday, April 29 CARTOONING DEGREE ZERO Descant launch with readings by Andy Verboom, Maurice Vellekoop, Rachel Richey and others. 7 pm.

Free. Handlebar, 159 Augusta. descant.ca.

5TOM CHO Launching Look Who’s Morphing with a performance and conversation. 6:30 pm. Free. Story Planet, 1165 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/632385316809098.

CAMILLA GIBB: FINDING STORIES Gibb talks about the places and people who have inspired her novels. 7 pm. Free. Queen/ Saulter Library, 765 Queen E. 416-393-7723.

CATHERINE OWEN Launching her poetry collection Designated Mourner. 7 pm. Free. Piston, 937 Bloor W. ecwpress.com.

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Wednesday, April 30 LILLY BARNES/CAROLE GIANGRANDE/ELIZABETH GREENE/LISA DE NIKOLITIS Book launch with

An agency of the Government of Ontario.

readings and music. 6-8:30 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. inanna.ca.

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Tom Hiddleston is amused by my voice recorder.

I’ve sat down with him in a quiet room at the Intercontinental in the middle of a busy Toronto Film Festival press day, and he’s intrigued by the boxy digital device I’ve pulled out of my bag.

“I’ve done your job actually, recently,” he says. “I interviewed Natalie Portman for something. It was, like, an hour-long chat, and I had to transcribe it the next day – and I was like, ‘Jesus!’”

Don’t you have people for that? I ask him jokingly.

He shakes his head and laughs.

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REVIEW ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Jim Jarmusch) Rating: NNNN Powered by droning guitars and a heroin-chic cinematic palette, Jim Jarmusch’s tale of a vampire couple in decaying Detroit has the texture and vibe of every Velvet Underground song ever recorded – but of course that’s also its central metaphor.

Adam (Tom Hiddleston) lives like a recluse in a shabby Motown manse, making music he swears he’ll never release; Eve (Tilda Swinton) is his fashion-plate partner, just back from hanging out in Tangiers with a guy she calls Kit Marlowe (John Hurt).

They pick up deliveries of “the good stuff” and swan around in elegant decadence until Eve’s wild-child sister (Mia Wasikowska) gets in from L.A. and fucks up their perfect ennui.

It doesn’t explode the vampire genre – I’m not even sure it takes place within the genre, really. But it’s a deeply pleasurable film, with bone-dry wit and languid pacing that recall the Jarmusch of Mystery Train and Dead Man. The entire cast is having a ball, and Adam’s music is pretty good, NW too.

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out. In recent years, Hiddleston has become not just a movie star but a full-on heartthrob thanks to his breakout portrayal of the emotionally volatile Loki of the Marvel universe.

The unassuming English actor’s magnetism has been evident since his very first feature in 2007, Joanna Hogg’s terrific British drama Unrelated, but when Kenneth Branagh cast him in Thor, Hiddleston was catapulted to a new level of stardom.

Strong work followed: within the space of a month, Hiddleston delivered very different but equally memorable performances in Joss Whedon’s billion-dollar blockbuster The Avengers and Terence Davies’s The Deep Blue Sea. (Post-TIFF, Hiddleston was cast opposite Jessica Chastain and Charlie Hunnam in Guillermo del Toro’s Crimson Peak, currently wrapping up its Toronto shoot.)

But right now he’s kicking back in Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, in which he plays Adam, a louche Detroit-dwelling vampire in a centuries-long relationship with Tilda Swinton’s formidable Eve. Hiddleston had a ball building his character’s deep, thoughtful backstory with his collaborators.

“Jim and Tilda and I met for about two weeks, six weeks before we shot,” he says. “We sat around a table every day and talked about poetry and music and science and literature and nature. We read each other Rumi and talked about Einstein’s theory of entanglement and Hamlet and the

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“It was just an amazing time of sharing all the things that we loved, filling ourselves up with so many references that we were then happy to drop, because we knew what we were talking about. You see only a third of what we came up with, you know.”

Next there was the physical aspect of the characters. The actor quickly credits Jarmusch with the frazzled, unkempt hairstyles that distinguish the movie’s undead.

“He was very keen on that,” Hiddleston says. “Hair was one of the first things we talked about. He wanted them to look like strange creatures with a feral beauty – they were sensitive and refined and sophisticated and artistic, but they were not human. They were vampires.”

All that preparation and research paid off in a performance – and a movie – that defies classification and is filled with moments of weird, unexpected comedy.

“I was simply trying to play it truthfully, but also understanding that if Jim laughed, it was good,” he says. “That kind of deadpan humour – or any humour – still always comes from the truth. You’re playing these high stakes for real, but you’re playing them to such a degree that there’s an oddness to it which is funny, I hope.”

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Blue Ruin’s greatest asset is its leanness.

A bony, hard-edged thriller, writer/ director/DP Jeremy Saulnier’s allAmerican revenge story explores the consequences of getting caught in the tit-for-tat algebra of retribution. Macon Blair stars as Dwight, a scruffy itinerant living out of his beat-up blue car.

The pitiable yet resourceful Dwight’s immediately likeable under his tangle of facial hair and scuzzy clothes.

Careful to parcel out information (and later, big-deal plot twists) without lapsing into murkiness, Saulnier reveals that a criminal recently released from prison killed someone close to Dwight.

When Dwight returns to his Virginia hometown, his payback plan is instantly complicated when friends and family are dragged into an expanding network of murder and vengeance.

Beyond its clockwork pacing, carefully fashioned compositions and knack for neatly reversing its cat-and-mouse, predator/prey dynamics (often within the same scene), Blue Ruin works nicely as a commentary on gun (and hunting) culture in America. Saulnier creates (or just presents) a world where access to firearms seems to lead unavoidably to a mounting body count.

As the corpses pile up, Blue Ruin plays like an ever-expanding Mexican Standoff, death met with death in a sprawling network of violence that implicates a whole gun-crazy nation.

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Macon Blair is out for blood in razor-sharp Blue Ruin.

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from external and internal forces before coming through to the other side as a weary veteran of the scene. The difference here is that Alice Cooper Super Duper Alice Cooper (Sam Dunn, started as a band and became a solo Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen). 89 act when frontman Vincent Furnier minutes. Screens Monday (April 28), 9 pm, ­assumed the mantle of “Alice Cooper” at Scotiabank as part of Hot Docs, as a character. followed by Q&A with Cooper As before, Sam Dunn and and the filmmakers (simulScot McFadyen have For more cast nationally). Also basically made a radio Tuesday (April 29), 9:50 documentary illustrat, pm, and May 3, 11 am, ed with relevant see pullout at the Bloor. See Hot ­archival footage and supplement and Docs pullout. Rating: animated photo NNN ­collages. (This isn’t a dig, just an explanaScreening across Cantion of their process.) ada Monday night as This time they’ve this year’s Hot Docs Live! brought on Regi­nald presentation (and arrivHarkema as co-director ing on VOD first thing and co-editor; I suspect Tuesday), Super Duper he’s responsible for the DAN Alice Cooper is the extensive use of clips HARMON latest feature-length from John Barrymore’s ­behind-the-musician 1920 turn as Dr. Jekyll + ­exploration from the �� REVIEWS and Mr. Hyde to drive guys at Banger Films. home the metaphor of If you’ve seen Iron Furnier’s slowly being Maiden: Flight 666 or Rush: Beyond overtaken by the Alice Cooper persona The Lighted Stage, you know exactly – though the footage of him at the what to expect – a loving portrait of an height of his ­cocaine addiction does act that struggled to find its voice, dethat pretty well on its own. veloped a following and risked fracture Norman Wilner

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On the ropes A FIGHTING MAN (Damian Lee). 89 minutes. Opens Friday (April 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating:

NN A Fighting Man is what you get when you toss every boxing movie cliché into the ring and let ’em battle it out.

Sailor (Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell) is a middle-aged welder who’s fought 63 matches without being knocked out. His cocky opponent is young up-and-comer King (Izaak Smith).

A lot’s at stake for both men. Sailor’s feisty Irish immigrant mom (Sheila McCarthy) has cancer, and the prize money could make her wish to visit the Old Country come true. He’s also battling his inner demons: memories of his abusive dad, a mysterious tragedy involving a woman named Diane (Famke Janssen). King, meanwhile, has a junkie mom, a porn-career past and a pregnant wife.

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ing the fight as the two men spar and punch and director Damian Lee’s camera tracks around the roaring crowd, finding actors – hey, is that James Caan? Lou Gossett Jr.? Adam Beach?

– and filling in their characters’ backstories.

The device becomes tiresome long before 10 minutes have gone by, let alone 10 rounds, but the fight sequences are competent and the actors have their moments. McCarthy adds freshness to her wisdom-dispensing ma, and look for a tense, understated scene between Janssen and Arlene Duncan set in a bar. It’s a knockout.

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Dominic Purcell puts up a good fight but is done in by clichés.

Dull moves BRICK MANSIONS (Camille Delamarre). 90 minutes. Opens Friday (April 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

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THE RAILWAY MAN (Jonathan Teplitzky).

108 minutes. Opens Friday (April 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64.

Rating: NN

A true story of overcoming trauma, The Railway Man begins with its protagonist on the floor, muttering. By the end, he’s upright and speaking coherently. The hundred minutes between dutifully chronicle the arduous process of getting on his feet, yet fail to capture the drama or psychological complexity involved.

While serving in the British Army in Southeast Asia during World War II, Eric Lomax was taken prisoner by the Japanese, put to forced labour, beaten and tortured. The Railway Man begins years later, when the endearing yet

damaged Eric (Colin Firth) meets Patti (Nicole Kidman), the nurse who will become his wife and oversee his recovery. Their romance lasts some minutes; thereafter we’re treated to fumblingly structured flashbacks and Eric’s present-tense journey east to confront – and eventually befriend – his chief torturer, a fascinating development that’s barely explored.

Technicolour greens and blues add an initially inviting old-fashioned air, but the tone is stiflingly solemn.

Hushed conversations and ostensibly terrifying scenes are all accompanied by the same fussy score, yet the film never finds its rhythm.

Firth is betrayed by his character’s paucity of depth, while Kidman’s interest in the role is simply baffling. Her character is strictly utilitarian, the tormented hero’s helpmeet, like Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound but without JOSÉ TEODORO any personality.

Amaury Nolasco (centre) delivers a stronger turn than Danny Trejo and Gina Carano.

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Pale Blood In The Blood (John Stockwell). 108 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (April 25). For venues and times, see Movies, page 64. Rating: NN Gina Carano has a very particular set of skills acquired over a long career as a mixed martial arts fighter. Unfortunately, acting isn’t one of them.

Carano is an entirely effective action hero, but she struggles to deliver dialogue or inhabit a character. Steven Soderbergh worked around this in Haywire by casting her as a woman of few words, and her supporting role in Fast & Furious 6 was similarly tailored to her strengths. But in John Stockwell’s In The Blood, she’s saddled with long speeches and a complex backstory that are entirely beyond her capa­bilities.

Carano plays Ava, a recovering addict honeymooning in an unnamed island nation (actually Puerto Rico) with her new husband (Cam Gigandet).

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When he disappears after a zip-lining accident, Ava must punch, kick, stab and shoot her way through the underworld – all with the same raised-eyebrow, clenched-jaw expression – in ­order to find him.

Problem is, the plot of In The Blood takes a good 45 minutes to get rolling as Stockwell indulges in elaborate ziplining sequences with the same indifference to pacing or plot that undermined Into The Blue and Blue Crush.

Danny Trejo and Luis Guzmán give similarly noncommittal performances in key supporting roles; only Prison Break’s Amaury Nolasco seems to be making an effort, and he doesn’t have nearly enough screen time to matter.

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The 2004 French action film District B13 brought parkour to the movies and introduced one of its founders, the aerodynamic David Belle.

In the remake, Brick Mansions, Belle reprises his role, which is to say he ricochets through windows and across rooftops, sustaining the impact of massive leaps and bouncing further as if the earth were his trampoline. The parkour theatrics make for an exhilarating opening, but the movie soon comes to a screeching halt because it can’t seem to focus on the guy who does all the fun stuff.

Instead, the late (and less agile) Paul Walker appears in a retread of his performance in The Fast And The Furious as Damien, an undercover cop who requires the guidance of Belle’s Lino to infiltrate a fortified ghetto (think Escape From New York). They must disarm a nuke that somehow made its way into the hands of local crime boss Tremaine – an embarrassing turn by RZA, never much of an actor and here a marshmallow of a villain.

Amidst the derivative action, poor acting and Luc Besson’s atrocious screenplay lurks a heavy-handed classconscious message. When the movie takes a swing at gentrification, it dislocates a shoulder in the process.

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The late Paul Walker isn’t very agile in derivative Brick Mansions.

also opening The Other Woman (D: Nick Cassavetes, 109 min) Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton star in a romantic comedy about three women who are all ­involved with the same man. It’s directed by Nick Cassavetes, who helmed The Notebook, but this doesn’t look like it’ll require kleenex.

The Quiet Ones (D: John Pogue, 98 min) A professor and his students conduct an experiment on a young woman and discover more than they ­expected in this horror flick.

Leslie Mann gets a whipped cream fix in The Other Woman.

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KEEP ON KEEPIN’ ON D: Alan Hicks Ninety-three-year-old jazz legend Clark Terry mentors blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin and an unlikely bond occurs.

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Tolerance, identity and nationalism collide over migration issues on the island of Cyprus, one of the easiest entry points to Europe.

D: Jos de Putter A poetic look at apes past their prime. A former movie star, a brilliant scientist and a fragile, injured senior reflect on days gone by.

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PIPELINE D: Vitaly Mansky Cross seven borders and even more social classes as cameras follow the route of a Russian natural gas pipeline.

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KUNG FU ELLIOT D: Matthew Bauckman, Jaret Belliveau Elliot “White Lightning” Scott wants to become Canada’s first action hero “by any means necessary.”

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Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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ABOUT LAST NIGHT (Steve Pink) stars motormouth Kevin Hart in an update of the 1986 rom-com, an adaptation of wordsmith David Mamet’s provocative play Sexual Perversity In Chicago. Hart is working with real material thanks to the two degrees of separation from Mamet.

His comedic talents get structure and purpose, and he has enough room to put his own stamp on the original’s acidic dialogue. This may be watered-down Mamet, but for Hart it’s 80 proof. 98 min. NNN (RS) Interchange 30

about his father and his own art. The script veers from fuzzy (will Jake and Iggy connect?) to icky (possible chemistry between Jake and Carmen), and Leif is too repulsive to care much about. But Sheila McCarthy is terrific as usual as Jake’s mom, and Rendall (Victoria Day) is a major talent. Give this guy the script he deserves. 101 min. NN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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. It’s being compared to Goodfellas and Boogie Nights, but really it’s an incoherent, overacted mess. 138 min. NN (NW) Interchange 30 AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (John

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Wells) stars an awesome Meryl Streep as the drug-addled matriarch of a family that’s gathered after the patriarch disappears. This adaptation of Tracy Letts’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play has its flaws – the family rot borders on parody, the music is awful, and it’s still too stagy – but it’s extremely entertaining. 121 min.

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AUTHORS ANONYMOUS (Ellie Kanner) is a comedy about a group of unpublished writers. 95 min.

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Bateman) casts director/star Bateman as Hayes) hasn’t got one of Guy Trilby, a 40-yearnowtoronto.com those godawful Canold cipher with a photoadian scripts, but it’s graphic memory who pretty weak. Ailing badenters a children’s spelling bee thanks to a boy author Leif Roulette (Nicholas Camploophole in the rules and uses grown-up bell) has convinced his aspiring writer son head games to cut a path through regionJake (Mark Rendall) to help him finish a al contests straight to the finals – all the book about the Algonquin Park cabin the while keeping his motive a secret even family used to love. When Leif dies, Jake from his sponsor and occasional bed partreluctantly decides to finish the project, ner Jenny (Kathryn Hahn). It’s a great setbut as he’s writing at the cabin, his dad’s up, and a fine role for Bateman, who shifts secret family – Carmen (Victoria Sanchez) his characteristic exasperation into someand her son, Iggy (Michael Levinson) – desthing uglier and more venal. But as the cend, forcing Jake to deal with his feelings plot nears its payoff and Guy’s reasons are

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Garrett Ryan and Annalise Basso play scared siblings in Oculus. revealed, the movie grows softer and less complex in a way that seems calculated and unconvincing. Some stories would be much more satisfying if they let their asshole stay an asshole. 89 min. NNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

BEARS (Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey) is this year’s Disneynature documentary release, and the most shamelessly contrived one yet, taking gorgeous wildlife photography of Alaskan brown bears and editing it into a fictionalized, ridiculously anthropomorphic narrative about a mother and her cubs avoiding perils while foraging for seafood in the Arctic wilderness.

More than previous projects, this one is aimed at very small children, with editors working overtime to create conflict through the juxtaposition of footage and John C. Reilly’s narration alternating from calm, informative description to goofy imagined dialogue for the animal characters. (“I didn’t want that clam anyway.”) That said, there are few things more adorable than brown bear cubs falling asleep next to their mother, so if that’s all you want from a movie called Bears, this one certainly delivers. 77 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Yuval Adler) is a tense cat-and-mouse thriller set in the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. An Arab teenager (Sadhi Marei) is thrust into a world of deception and betrayal when he’s enlisted as an informant by Israel’s secret service. It’s the same plot as Hany Abu-Assad’s Omar, but the execution is very different: where Omar played out entirely from the perspective of its protagonist, Bethlehem gives equal time to the teenager and the Shin Bet agent who runs him (Tsahi Halevi); where Omar took its time to develop its central character, Bethlehem builds a more complex narrative of constant danger. There’s also a deeper sense of Shin Bet as an organization – not surprising, since director and co-writer Adler is a veteran of Shin Bet. If you’ve seen Omar, Bethlehem will play as a fascinating mirror image. If you haven’t, it stands just fine on its own. Subtitled. 99 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square

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THE BOOK THIEF (Brian Percival) reframes the Second World War as a coming-of-age

story about a young German girl (Monsieur Lazhar’s Sophie Nélisse). Director Percival has helmed a lot of Downton Abbey episodes, and it shows in film’s odd propriety. A movie about the Holocaust can’t be afraid of confronting its own message. 131 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

BRICK MANSIONS (Camille Delamarre) 90 min. See review, page 62. NN (RS) Opens Apr 25 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER ñCAPTAIN

(Anthony Russo, Joe Russo) is a super-powered riff on Three Days Of The Condor, with Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) branded an enemy of the people and forced to work with friends old (Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, Cobie Smulders’s Maria Hill) and new (Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson) to clear his name and save the world from a conspiracy that dates back to the Second World War. No, it won’t make any sense if you haven’t seen the first Captain America and The Avengers (at least). But it has a charismatic hero, inspired action choreography and Robert Redford. Also, it’s really funny.

Some subtitles. 136 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hardliving, womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid-1980s after being diagnosed with HIV. McConaughey shed 47 pounds for the role and is almost unrecognizable, but his charm and passion shine through, and he gets strong support from Jared Leto and Jennifer Garner. 117 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

DIVERGENT (Neil Burger) is the latest at-

tempt to launch the next Hunger Games, and the first to nakedly mimic that franchise with another post-apocalyptic tale of a young woman fighting to save her people from an elaborate political conspiracy. The problem is that it takes nearly two hours to start, spending all its time on dull world-building and endless training

sequences in which self-doubting Tris (Shailene Woodley) learns to fight, shoot and climb things after joining the Dauntless, a police caste in future Chicago. Eventually, Tris qualifies as a Dauntless, along with her battle coach/love interest Four (Theo James), just in time to be swept up in an Erudite coup against Abnegation.

Once that actually gets going, Woodley comes to life and so does the movie, delivering a couple of effective action sequences and some good moments for Ashley Judd as Tris’s mother and Kate Winslet as a snooty Erudite villain. But it’s a long way to go for the payoff, and I can’t say I care about following these characters into a sequel. 140 min. NN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Richard Shepard) stars Jude Law as a foulmouthed, cocky (just listen to his hilarious, ribald opening monologue), middle-aged safecracker who’s released from prison after 12 years and goes looking for the money that’s owed him.

There’s also the matter of reconnecting with his daughter (Game Of Thrones’s Emilia Clarke, unrecognizable), who grew up in his absence and wants nothing to do with him. Law delivers a ferocious comic performance with layers of pain, hurt and guilt bubbling beneath his raucous, bulging-veined exterior. Director Shepard (The Matador) matches the manicdepressive energy of Law’s Dom. The film’s filled with bold colours, big, clear chapter titles and a couple of marvellously fun set pieces. The supporting actors are good but don’t have much to do. Richard E. Grant’s role as Dom’s nattily dressed best friend is essentially a series of nervous reaction shots. But Law is feckin’ brilliant. 94 min. NNNN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

DRAFT DAY (Ivan Reitman) borrows its

plays from 2011’s Moneyball; it’s built around the business of recruiting players and shaping a winning team. Kevin Costner stars as Sonny Weaver, the worn-out GM of the Cleveland Browns, who approaches the NFL draft as the unpopular figurehead of a desperate team. Moneyball took a novel approach by exploring the numbers you see on the back of a Fleer card and whittling baseball down to a mathematical equation. Draft Day is much more old-fashioned. Gut instinct trumps whatever stats the professionals can conjure up, and in the end the nicest guys get their payday while the popular folks are exposed for the douchebags they really are. Sonny may be looking beyond

statistics, but Draft Day plays entirely by the numbers. 110 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

baroness accompanied by gigolos. The story, which climaxes with apparent murder, is inherently captivating, but the execution suffers from an excessively leisurely pace, over-used stills and mostly superfluous interviews with the subjects’ descendants. It’s worth seeing, but the tale could have been better conveyed in a long-form magazine piece or a well-structured book. 120 min. NNN (José Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre

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Alex Pettyfer and Gabriella Wilde are appealing leads, but Bruce Greenwood and Robert Patrick almost save the movie with great performances as their dads. 103 min. NN (Andrew Parker) Interchange 30

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(Arie Posin) is an absorbing, affecting tale of grief and love. Five years after her husband drowns on a trip to Mexico, the middle-aged Nikki (Annette Bening) meets Tom (Ed Harris), an artist who looks freakishly like him. She doesn’t mention the resemblance to Tom, who’s mending his own broken heart, and hides him from her daughter and friends, but her romantic fantasy can’t last forever.

The script, co-written by director Posin, is layered and smarter than its soap opera potential, suggesting much about how we see what we want to see in people. And the actors are astonishing. Bening makes you feel every step of Nikki’s impossible journey to reclaim the past, while Harris brings vulnerability and depth to Tom, who’s got secrets of his own. A smart romance for grown-ups. 92 min. NNNN (GS) Varsity

A FIGHTING MAN (Damian Lee) 89 min.

See review, page 62. NN (GS) Opens Apr 25 at Carlton Cinema

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Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier to construct a compelling portrait of an artist who refused to be seen. Unknown to the world until co-director Maloof happened to acquire her negatives at auction, Maier’s raw, poetic street photography portrays a distinctive view of the everyday. Here the photographs are not just art but breadcrumbs leading to an enigmatic personality. In interviews, some who (barely) knew her describe Maier as Mary Poppins-like while others report a nastier side that includes physical abuse.

Maybe the biggest mystery of all is why she took so many photos and then hid them from sight; since the negatives were never processed, even Maier never saw her own work. The consistently intriguing doc reveals facets of a woman who was eccentric, abrasive, soulful and mentally unhinged. Maier may still be an enigma, but the film does a remarkable job of developing those riddles into a fascinating picture. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine) plumbs

strange history for juicy soap opera narrative, whisking us back to the remote Galapagos island of Floreana in the 1930s, when a handful of European eccentrics attempted to escape civilization and wound up becoming precursors for a season of Survivor. The islanders included a Nietzsche-fixated German physician and his younger MS-afflicted lover, another German couple expecting their first child and an imperious self-described French

(Sebastián Lelio) stars Berlin Film festival best actress Paulina García as a smart 50-something Chilean divorcée yearning for sex and adventure. A central theme is how offspring and past relationships impinge on new relationships, but as essential is candid glimpse of middle-aged sexuality so rare in movies, it takes your breath away. Subtitled. 109 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square

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(Wes Anderson) recounts the entirely fictional tale of Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), the unflappable concierge of the eponymous mountaintop manse in the European country of Zubrowka, and his training of the young lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) in the ways of service and life. It is a story filled with intrigue and love and war and murder and betrayal and a fairly novel prison break, and if I was to say anything further about what director/co-writer Anderson does with Willem Dafoe as a sort of human bulldog you wouldn’t believe me. Anderson doesn’t even nod toward realism, as he did in Moonrise Kingdom; he simply builds this magnificent playhouse, populates it with actors he knows and trusts – among them Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton – and runs riot. And when moments of genuine emotion pierce that perfectly constructed artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. That’s just how he works. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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tino) stars Toni Servillo as 60-something journalist Jep, who wrote a bestselling novel 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 writer-director Sorrentino’s vivid imagination: over-the-top bashes, an artist performing beside Roman ruins, a moneygrubbing doctor injecting botox in public.

Garish party sequences collide with serene images of Rome’s ancient art; beautiful inspirational music meets club bangers. Sure, it’s self-indulgent, but Sorrentino is the kind of director you want to indulge. Just let the damn thing wash over you. Subtitled. 142 min. NNNNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (Michael Tiddes) is a

horror spoof sequel starring Marlon Wayans and Jaime Pressly as a couple whose new abode contains a bunch of creepy/funny surprises familiar to anyone who’s seen recent haunted house flicks.

Wayans’s Malcolm falls in lust with the rosy-cheeked doll from The Conjuring and finds home movies in the attic straight out of Sinister, and his daughter begins acting strange after opening up a box from The Possession. The minimal plot lurches awkwardly from one set piece to another, but Wayans and Gabriel Iglesias as his neighbour have fun sending up ethnic stereotypes, and Missi Pyle and Hayes MacArthur demonstrate crack comic timing channelling Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson’s groovy Conjuring ghostbusters.

Pyle takes her role so seriously she’s positively demented. 86 min. NN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney

Park 16, Grande - Steeles, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (Randall Wallace) is a terrible movie and a cynical attempt to fleece Christian moviegoers out of their money. No one involved seems to believe in this horrendously hokey tale of a preacher (Greg Kinnear) dealing with his son’s post-appendicitis tale of seeing heaven. From the script and performances to the direction and cinematography, it’s a rare example of a film that gets nothing right. 99 min. N (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 HER (Spike Jonze) is essentially a

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story about how technology can facilitate a relationship over impossible distances and what happens when one partner evolves more quickly than the other. In the end, it’s a movie as beholden to Annie Hall as it is to 2001, and don’t think that isn’t the strangest sentence I’ve written this year. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30

HOLD FAST (Justin Simms) is an adaptation of Kevin Major’s 1978 book, in which troubled 14-year-old Michael (newcomer Avery Ash) runs away to the Newfoundland wilderness with his cousin (Douglas Sullivan) in tow. It certainly looks great, but Major’s novel is a largely internal narrative, dealing with Michael’s emotional confusion and slow process of self-discovery. Very little actually happens, and neither screenwriter Rosemary House nor director Simms (Down To The Dirt) have shaped the material into something that feels even the least bit cinematic. Neither of the young leads are particularly gifted at the whole acting thing: Ash is uncertain at best and Sullivan just plain bad. If you’re going to bring a beloved children’s classic to the screen, you should at least cast child actors capable of delivering their lines in a convincing manner. 93 min.

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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 folk songs that somehow manage to reflect precisely what his character is feeling. 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.

105 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ñJODOROWSKY’S DUNE

(Frank Pavich) examines surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed mid-70s adaptation of Dune, which was too big to succeed. With a cast that included Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and a Salvador Dali robot and a run time between 12 and 20 hours, it was too out-there for any Hollywood studio to drop $15 million on.

The hardest sell was the filmmaker himself. In this document of the conception and ultimate unravelling of Jodorowsky’s spiritual sci-fi epic, he describes his Dune as “the coming of a god.” He’s apparently very serious about this. And why shouldn’t he be? Pavich’s film is a testament to the power of motion pictures as metaphysical experience. Even if Jodorowsky’s movie never got made, his wide-eyed belief in the medium is refreshing in an age when cinema’s possibilities feel frustratingly limited. Even if we can’t see his Dune, we can still believe in it. 90 min. NNNN (John Semley) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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in Paris. As they fuss and fight across the City of Light, we come to understand their dynamic: she’s tired of him, and he’ll do anything to hold on to her. This should be the start of an interesting character study, or at least a drama worthy of powerhouse performers Duncan and Broadbent. But neither screenwriter Hanif Kureishi nor director Michell seems interested in going that way, and the actors can’t settle on a tone. Le Week-End feels like a stage play that’s been awkwardly translated to the screen. It certainly can’t compete with last year’s Before Midnight, which told a very similar story with considerably more empathy and skill. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

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(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) feels like a quantum step up for both CG animation and movies based on marketing pitches. Lord and Miller, whose 2009 adaptation of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs was similarly ambitious in its use of CG storytelling, have created a sprawling 3D fantasy universe designed to mimic stop-motion animation. They’ve also folded every heroic quest narrative into the story of an ordinary construction worker (voiced by Moneyball’s Chris Pratt) who might be the one person who can save the universe from the evil plans of the sinister Lord Business (Will Ferrell). Kids will be thrilled by the non-stop activity and insane creative leaps, while grown-ups will also appreciate those leaps – especially one toward the end – and delight in how the voice actors are enjoying themselves as much as the audience. Sweet, funny, preposterously complex and uniquely ridiculous. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE LUNCHBOX

TUTTE LIVE is a live high-def broadcast of

Mozart’s comic opera, starring Isabel Leonard and Danielle de Niese. Subtitled.

245 min.

Apr 26, 12:55 pm, at Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge

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(Tom Berninger) is billed as a documentary about the National, but it’s really a study of the Berninger brothers and their fractured relationship. Matt is the successful one, fronting a popular and well-regarded band, while documentarian Tom – who’s nine years younger – is the fuck-up determined to make something of himself, even if he doesn’t fully understand how.

Though he’s credited as director and shares editorial credit with producer Carin Besser – who’s also Matt’s wife – Mistaken For Strangers has clearly been constructed after the fact by a number of editorial consultants, including executive producer (and two-time Oscar nominee) Marshall Curry. I don’t point this out to take anything away from the finished doc, which is really clever in its deconstruction of the Berninger brothers’ emotional dynamic. I just have trouble believing that Tom did the deconstructing himself. 75 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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(George Clooney) is a Second World War caper picture in which director/co-writer Clooney and a band of charming character actors portray art experts roaming around Europe to retrieve sculptures and paintings seized by the Nazis from Jewish collectors. The earnest and clever script makes some very good points about the importance of art while telling an involving story about characters we come to adore. Some subtitles. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, SilverCity Mississauga

(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. Ila (Nimrat Kaur) prepares home-cooked lunches for her neglectful husband, which are sent through Mumbai’s dabbawalla delivery MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (Rob Minkoff) system to the wrong recipient, Mr. Fernanyanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling des (Irrfan Khan), a standoffish accountcartoon from the 60s into the new era of ant who’s ready to hide away in retire3D animation. The genius dog and his ment. A sense of their personal lives is adopted son visit textbook figures like conveyed by suggestion, like the scents of Marie Antoinette, King Tut the ingredients in a and Leonardo Da Vinci satisfying dish. while giving history a zany There’s romance, EXPANDED REVIEWS spin. The father-son story comedy and melonowtoronto.com is a strained framework for drama, but Batra detheir lighthearted, rib-tickploys them gently, ling episodic adventures, building a moving, sincere film around his which retain the cartoons’ fun and hucharacters. It’s an assured, affecting picmour. 92 min. NNN (RS) ture of loneliness and longing amidst Canada Square, Interchange 30 modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) MUPPETS MOST WANTED (James Bobin) Varsity uses The Great Muppet Caper as its template, plunging the Muppets into a world MEETINGS WITH A YOUNG POET (Rudy of international intrigue and mistaken Barichello) unfolds over a 24-year period, identity when they embark on a European chronicling a hypothetical friendship betour just as Constantine, the world’s most tween author Samuel Beckett and fictiondangerous frog, impersonates Kermit to al Montreal poet Paul Susser, who also use the troupe as cover for a series of encounters a seductive actor aiming to museum heists. (Kermit, mistaken for cast herself against gender in Krapp’s Last Constantine, is sent to a Russian gulag run Tape. Among the film’s quotation-spoutby Tina Fey.) It’s less a movie than an exing pedants, none is duller and more precuse for a series of Muppet Show sketches tentious than the protagonist. Yet Stephen and celebrity cameos, and it lacks the McHattie’s endlessly watchable as Beckheart Jason Segel brought to the previous ett, a shock of grey nesting atop his wizpicture. (It also lacks Segel himself, though ened face, eyebrows flaring like an old his character’s Muppet brother, Walter, is chair losing its stuffing, a distant gaze, a still around.) Returning director Bobin gravelly voice slipping supplely between compensates with a faster pace and more French and Irish-hued English. A highlight: anarchic Muppety energy, which makes Beckett childishly swinging his feet off the for a pretty fun movie. It’s just not as enback of a wagon traversing a cemetery. If joyable as the last one. 108 min. NNN (NW) only we could luxuriate exclusively in such Colossus, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, lovely incidentals. 87 min. NN (José Yonge & Dundas 24 Teodoro) Canada Square MUSCLE SHOALS (Greg Camalier) is about the musically inclined backTHE METROPOLITAN OPERA: COSÌ FAN

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Johnny Depp’s Transcendence didn’t make a dent in last weekend’s box office, but it’s worth a look. water town in Alabama that has seen everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Rolling Stones come through to produce hits by working with Rick Hall, of FAME Studios, arguably the backbone of the Muscle Shoals music industry. The interviews are woven together like music, composing a film with storytelling rhythms that strikes emotional chords. 111 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

NEED FOR SPEED (Scott Waugh) dazzles

with money shots of obscenely expensive cars tearing down highways, earning video-game bonus points whenever police cruisers spin out. Director Waugh opts for real stunt work, getting dangerously close to the twisted metal, over CGI. Unfortunately, plot and character are a hindrance in a movie that stalls whenever it tries to tell a story. 131 min. NN (RS) Grande - Steeles, Queensway

ñNOAH

(Darren Aronofsky) has rock monsters, a villain, a barbarian army and all sorts of other stuff that wasn’t in the original text. But what director and cowriter Aronofsky has done, in a surprisingly textured and mature way, is acknowledge that the story is in fact only a story.

He plays it absolutely straight; even a hint of irony would bring the whole thing down in a heap. That’s why casting Russell Crowe as Noah makes sense; he’s immune to irony, and can’t help but engage fully with the role of a patriarch wrestling with concepts and responsibilities well beyond his pay grade. After the Flood, Aronofsky shuts out the spectacle to focus, intensely, on the people in the boat: Noah, his wife (Jennifer Connelly), their sons and a young woman (Emma Watson) who’s become part of their line, sitting in silence among sleeping beasts as the screams of the dying filter through the walls. At that point, Noah essentially becomes a taut survival drama; it could be taking place 6,000 years in the past or 6,000 years in the future. The point is that the story is alive and relevant and intriguing. 138 min.

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inventive, intense picture with surprisingly fleshed-out characters, a truly subversive message about American se-

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curity theatre and a refreshing sense of play. Yeah, it’s a little easy to figure out who the villain killing passengers on air marshal Liam Neeson’s plane is, but so what? Go ahead, strap yourself in. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Colossus, Scotiabank Theatre

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME I (Lars von

Trier) sheds light on nothing except von Trier’s misogyny. Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) recounts her hypersexual adventures to asexual bachelor Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård) after he finds her half dead in the street. To every sordid tale, he responds with stunningly cerebral detachment. Some of it is very funny, though not necessarily intentionally – like the laughably bad Shia LeBeouf as Joe’s main squeeze. But where does Joe’s unbridled sexuality come from? From early abuse?

No, and nothing else explains her predilections. In short, she kinda liked her first orgasm and, poof, she was a nymphomaniac. Women are like that, doncha know. Volume I covers Joe’s sexual adventures through to her fear that she’s losing the ability to feel anything physically at all. In Volume II, she seeks to deal with her numbness. Her coping mechanism shows von Trier at his most clichéd. He’s considered a groundbreaking taboo-buster, but self-abnegating, oversexed women who go to the depths of degradation are a pornographic staple in old-news works like The Story Of O. Ho hum. 117 min. NN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II (Lars von

Trier) See Nymphomaniac: Volume I above. 120 min. NN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Mike Flanagan) feels like a response to the diminishing returns of the Paranormal Activity series, with most of the action confined to a suburban home where a family falls under the sway of something awful - in this case, a centuries-old mirror that may or may not be haunted. Brenton Thwaites and Doctor Who fan favourite Karen Gillan are adult siblings who blame the mirror for the deaths of their parents (played in flashback by Rory Cochrane and Katee Sackhoff) 11 years earlier – or at least one of them does, and is determined to prove it scientifically. Naturally, things don’t go well at all, and before too long our heroes are reliving their previous encounter, which unfolds in a parallel narrative. Oculus may not do anything especially new – in fact, its vibe is strangely similar to that of last year’s Mama – but it’s cleverly writ-

ten, and the actors are all much better than they need to be. 105 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(Jim Jarmusch) 123 min. See interview and review, page 60.

(NW) Opens Apr 25 at Varsity

THE OTHER WOMAN (Nick Cassavetes) 109 min. See Also Opening, page 62.

Opens Apr 25 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Mark Levinson) chronicles the buildup to the maiden operation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the long-belated validation of the Higgs boson theory. This pop science doc is smart and commendably accessible, but works too hard to milk suspense from the scientists’ anticipation anxiety. 99 min.

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ñPHILOMENA

(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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE QUIET ONES (John Pogue) 98 min. See

Also Opening, page 62.

Opens Apr 25 at 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE RAID 2 (Gareth Huw Evans) expands

the graphic, visceral action of Evans’s breakout 2011 thriller into a more ambitious riff on Infernal Affairs and The Departed, with hero cop Rama (Iko Uwais) ordered to infiltrate an Indonesian crime

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small time (Joel Surnow) stars Christo-

pher Meloni as Al, co-owner of a used car lot where he and his partner (Breaking Bad’s wily Dean Norris) make pliable customers offers they should probably refuse but somehow can’t. The film opens with the duo extorting a car thief to make a sale. When Al’s 18-year-old son (Toronto native Devon Bostick) decides to skip college and join his dad’s hustle, small time shifts into a father-son bonding tale that isn’t as canned and syrupy as it could have been. Surnow lends genuine warmth and charm to his often cold-hearted characters. Though some of the gags and drama feel artificial, the movie works because the talented cast sells it so well. 95 min.

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Stalingrad (Fedor Bondarchuk) finds the Russian director of 9th Company pulling out all the stops in his latest tale of underdog heroes making a stand in the face of overwhelming odds. If you’re looking for a larger historical perspective, you’re in the wrong place. But if you want to see people get shot in the throat in IMAX 3D, this is the prestige picture for you. Subtitled. 131 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

aging, who obsessively attempts to paint a Vermeer with his own hand in order to figure out what optic technology the Dutch master might have used. Thanks to Penn & Teller’s inexhaustible charm in front of and behind the camera and ­Jenison’s endearing case of OCD, the resulting film is a comic delight that marvels at the intersections between art and science, painting and cinema, and illusionists and documentarians. 80 min. NNNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It

(Mike Clattenburg) plays very much like the boys’ cult TV series, with the same loose mock-doc style and plot lines involving selling stolen urine for drug tests and attempting to prevent the legalization of marijuana because it would cut into Ricky, Julian and Bubbles’s homegrown businesses. Thankfully, the new movie feels more like a celebration than a retread.

There’s an undeniable sweetness to the gang’s relationships, a refreshingly unCanadian brashness to their humour, which leaves an oft-overlooked darker sour aftertaste. It’s what made the Trailer Park Boys an unexpected hit in the first place that somehow continues to resonate over a decade later. 95 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex

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Transcendence (Wally Pfister) has a

ñ12 Years a Slave

premise that could be the stuff of grand sci-fi inquiry or the latest iteration of The Lawnmower Man, so it’s a little frustrating to see it settle for the middle ground of a ticking-clock thriller in which scientists debate the ethics of interfacing consciousness with computers and Johnny Depp’s digitized face makes grand statements about upgrading humanity after his assassinated visionary, Will Caster, is uploaded to a supercomputer. Pfister’s directorial debut cross-pollinates everything from Colossus: The Forbin Project to Demon Seed, with maybe a little of James Cameron and Edgar Wright’s post-punk sensibility in there, too. But it doesn’t quite capture the doomed love at the heart of the story: Will’s widow (Rebecca Hall) repeatedly avoids the question of whether that really is her husband who’s taken up residence on her iPad. 117 min.

NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus,

(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) SilverCity Mississauga

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin

­ 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 plays the story as a cartoon, rushing alongside Belfort through the increasingly Dionysian universe he creates around himself, but three hours of spectacular excess proves exhausting. 180 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre 3

Stress Position (A.J. Bond) opens with a family to root out corrupt cops or something. It doesn’t really matter; in no time at all Rama’s battling every thug and ­assassin in Jakarta in an epic series of ­battles. As before, Evans builds an entire aesthetic around the hammer scene in Oldboy, with brutal pummellings paying off in gruesome comic punchlines. It’s all about the smashy-smashy, and on that level it certainly delivers. But at two and a half hours, The Raid 2 proves as exhausting an experience as its predecessor. It’s a blunt instrument that just keeps pounding after everything’s turned to powder.

Subtitled. 148 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, ­Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)

108 min. See review, page 62. NN (José Teodoro) Opens Apr 25 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Varsity

Ride Along (Tim Story) is a buddy cop flick in which Ice Cube pays homage to himself by citing It Was a Good Day, his classic track about going 24 hours without police harassment. Now Cube plays a detective with an iron fist who shakes down ex-cons for information and threatens frame-ups. This rich opportunity to say something meaningful is instead played for cheap laughs. 100 min. NN (RS) Interchange 30 Rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a t­ ropical fruit smoothie that won’t stop spinning in the blender. The 3D animated sequel about a pack of blue macaws dancing their way from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon jungle presents a relentless rush of bright colours impeccably choreographed to samba, R&B and show tunes.

Amidst all the revelry, the busy plot and characters garner as much attention as the wheels on a carnival truck. Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway barely register in their return voicing of Blu and Jewel, who along with their offspring take off for the Amazon to find more of their kind and learn how to live in the wild. All the details get caught up in the airborne vortex of colour and music, propelled into the allconsuming void that steals away all your energy and emotion and leaves you drained and confused before the final tune is sung. 101 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas,

couple of really gripping scenes establishing a rock-solid premise – filmmaker Bond and his actor friend David Amito bet each other $10,000 that Amito will be able to resist a week of Guantanamo Bay-style incarceration – and then slowly lets it slide away through bad storytelling choices and inconsistent behaviour. Bond’s script also gets overly precious about whether what we’re seeing is real or fictional, introducing a producer (Marguerite Moreau) whose ethical and dramatic concerns are designed to anticipate our own. This winds up feeling like a very awkward ­attempt to add self-awareness to a project that’s only just realized it desperately needs some. 79 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

HSG

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May 29

Super Duper Alice Cooper (Reginald Harkema, Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn) is a simulcast of this doc about musician Cooper, including a live satellite Q&A with the filmmakers and Cooper from the Hot Docs Festival. See review, page 62. 86 min.

NNN (NW) Apr 28, 9 pm, at Scotiabank Theatre, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24; and Apr 29, 9:50 pm, at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (see pullout supplement) 3 Days to Kill (McG) tries to recapture

the lightning-in-a-bottle success of Taken with another middle-aged action hero beating up ethnic caricatures in Paris – here, Kevin Costner stepping in for Liam Neeson – but the formula just doesn’t work this time around. Some subtitles.

117 min. NN (NW) SilverCity Mississauga

300: Rise of an Empire (Noam Murro) has all the posturing, preening and startstop carnage of the first movie, but this time the action sequences are straight out of video game narratives. The resulting spastic Athenian boogaloo is like watching someone play an Xbox war game while constantly shouting “Did you see that awesome hit, bro?” 102 min. N (NW) Colossus, Interchange 30, Scotiabank ­Theatre

ñTim’s Vermeer

(Teller) may have art historians in a huff. The revelatory documentary on the magic behind ­Johannes Vermeer’s paintings comes to you courtesy of Vegas headliners Penn & ­Teller. The illusionists, known for breaking down tricks, are the ideal hosts for a film that deconstructs the 17th-century painter’s craft and hypothesizes how he so ­meticulously recreated lifelike light and details. The filmmakers follow their good friend Tim Jenison, an inventor of 3D im-

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QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 BEARS (G) Thu 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20 Fri 12:20, 2:10, 4:15, 6:20, 8:30, 10:35 Sat 11:00, 12:00, 2:10, 4:10, 6:20, 8:30, 10:35 Sun 1:40, 4:05, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:00, 1:40, 4:05, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Wed 1:05, 1:40, 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:25 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:30, 4:50, 5:55, 7:40, 8:20, 10:30, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 1:00, 2:00, 3:30, 4:50, 5:55, 7:40, 8:20, 10:30, 10:40 Sun 12:25, 2:00, 2:50, 4:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:15, 2:50, 4:20, 5:15, 7:15, 7:40, 9:50, 10:05 Wed 3:10, 3:50, 5:20, 6:00, 7:40, 10:05, 10:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:20, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 3:00, 4:30, 6:20, 7:40, 9:40, 10:50 Sat 11:50, 1:10, 3:00, 4:30, 6:20, 7:40, 9:40, 10:50 Sun 11:50, 1:10, 3:00, 4:20, 6:20, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:10, 3:15, 4:20, 6:50, 7:30, 10:15, 10:35 Wed 1:15, 3:10, 4:20, 6:50, 7:30, 10:35 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:00, 9:50 Fri 12:20, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 3:20, 6:55, 10:15 Mon 2:10, 5:45 Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:50, 8:10 DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 8:30, 9:15 Fri 12:40, 3:50, 5:20, 6:30, 8:10, 9:10, 11:00 Sat 12:40, 2:30, 3:50, 5:20, 6:30, 8:10, 9:10, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 2:30, 3:40, 5:20, 6:20, 8:10, 8:55, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:05, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:20, 8:50, 8:55 Wed 1:05, 2:45, 3:40, 6:20, 8:50, 8:55 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri 12:35, 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sun 11:30, 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (PG) Sat 11:00 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: COSÌ FAN TUTTE LIVE Sat 12:55 MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) Thu 12:15, 3:10, 9:25 Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 NEED FOR SPEED 3D (PG) Thu 7:05 NOAH (14A) Thu 12:25, 3:35, 6:00, 9:15, 9:55 Fri 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sat 12:45, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 11:50, 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 Mon-Tue 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:20 OCULUS (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 4:50, 8:00, 10:35 MonWed 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 10:05 Fri 12:20, 2:30, 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Sat 11:50, 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Sun 11:40, 1:00, 2:20, 4:00, 5:05, 7:00, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:20, 3:30, 5:05, 6:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:30 Wed 2:10, 3:30, 5:00, 6:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:30 THE PRINCESS BRIDE Thu 7:30 Sun 12:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 Fri 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 SUPER DUPER ALICE COOPER Mon 9:00 TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:40, 6:50, 7:00, 9:10, 9:40 Fri 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:15 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:15 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 2:40, 4:20, 6:00, 7:30, 9:20, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 7:10, 9:20, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:00, 5:00, 7:10, 8:10, 10:10 Wed 1:20, 4:15, 5:00, 7:10, 8:10, 10:10

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 12:50 3:45 6:40 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (14A) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:05 9:45 FriWed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:00 4:05 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:05 NOAH (14A) Thu 6:35, 9:25 OCULUS (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:20

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The Other Woman Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:05, 9:30 Rio 2 (G) 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 Transcendence (PG) Thu 12:55 3:50 6:45 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40

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

Bad Words (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:45, 10:20 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Sat-Sun 12:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:10 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 4:00, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:15 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:45 The Other Woman 7:15, 9:50 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat, 4:15 Rio 2 (G) Sat-Sun 12:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 7:45, 10:15 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:30 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:40

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

Brick Mansions (PG) Fri 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 MonWed 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Thu 3:30 mat, 6:30 Sat-Sun 12:40 mat Draft Day (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30 Sat 7:30 Sun 1:00, 4:40, 7:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:10 6:50 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 6:45, 10:00 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Oculus (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 The Other Woman Thu 9:40 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 The Railway Man (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Rio 2 (G) Sat-Sun 1:05 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 The Royal Opera House: A Winter’s Tale Mon 12:40 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sat 10:25 Sun-Wed 10:05 Transcendence: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu-Fri 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Sat 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:00

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri 12:55, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 11:10, 1:20, 3:50, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Wed 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40 Fri 2:00, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 SunTue 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Divergent (PG) Thu 3:40, 9:55 Draft Day (PG) Thu 12:45, 7:20 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Sat 12:30, 7:05, 10:10 Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 Mon 12:40, 3:55, 7:05 Oculus (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri 1:05, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 The Other Woman Thu 9:45 Fri 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:20, 7:15, 9:50 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 6:55 Sat 11:05, 1:30, 4:20, 6:55 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Super Duper Alice Cooper Mon 9:00 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sat 9:40 Sun, Tue-Wed 9:20 Mon 10:05 Transcendence (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10 7:00 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

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

Bears (G) Thu 12:50, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20,

10:45 Sun-Wed 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 12:55 3:25 4:05 7:15 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 9:30, 10:20 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:55, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Draft Day (PG) Thu 12:45, 6:40 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 Noah (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Oculus (14A) 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 The Other Woman Thu 9:15 Fri 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:40 Sun-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25 The Quiet Ones (14A) 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:00 mat Rio 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 12:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:55, 10:25 Transcendence (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 FriWed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00

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

Bears (G) Thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri, Tue 4:05, 6:15, 8:20, 10:20 Sat 12:05, 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 3:30, 5:35, 7:40, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:45, 7:45 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 11:20, 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:50 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:15 Draft Day (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:45 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 1:20, 3:35, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Sun 1:10, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:40 Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:40 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 Noah (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:00, 6:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Oculus (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:25 The Other Woman Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:55 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri, Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:20 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 5:00, 8:15 Rio 2 (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:30 Fri, Tue 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Transcendence (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55

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

Bears (G) Thu 2:05, 4:10, 6:15, 8:20, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 Sat 11:30, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Draft Day (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Sat 3:35, 7:00, 10:20 Oculus (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:15, 7:30, 10:10 The Other Woman Thu 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Rio 2 (G) 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Rio 2 3D (G) 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:50 mat Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Wed 10:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 3:55, 7:35, 10:30

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

2 States (PG) Thu 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Fri 1:05, 4:10, 7:25, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Mon 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Bears (G) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55 Fri 1:50, 3:55, 6:05, 8:10, 10:15 Sat 11:45, 1:50, 3:55, 6:05, 8:10, 10:15 Sun 11:55, 2:00, 4:05, 6:15, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:15, 8:30 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:10 Fri 3:35, 6:40, 9:55 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:35, 9:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:30, 7:40, 10:50 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Divergent (PG) Thu 3:45, 10:10 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35

Sat 3:25, 6:35, 9:45 Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:25 Mon-Tue 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 Wed 6:55, 10:10 Draft Day (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 9:45 Sat 9:40 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Fri 1:35 mat Sat 1:40 mat Sun 1:20 mat Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 5:30, 9:00 Fri, Sun 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:40 Oculus (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 11:55, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25 Mon 3:50, 6:25 Tue-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:25 The Other Woman Thu 9:30 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:40 Sun 2:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 The Princess Bride Thu 7:30 Sun 12:45 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 2:30, 5:50, 9:25 Rio 2 (G) Thu 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Fri 1:45, 4:25, 7:05 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:25, 7:05 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:00 Mon-Tue 4:25, 7:00 Wed 3:45, 7:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu-Fri 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:05, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 MonWed 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Super Duper Alice Cooper Mon 9:00 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:05, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:50, 5:40, 7:40, 8:45, 10:30 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 10:05

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

2 States (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 6:30 Bhoothnath Returns (PG) Thu 3:30 Kaanchi: The Unbreakable 3:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat Maan Karate (PG) Thu-Fri 4:00, 7:15 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:30 Mon-Wed 7:15 Naan Sigappu Manithan Thu 4:00, 10:30 Sat-Wed 4:15 Tenaliraman 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat Vaayai Moodi Pesavum Fri-Wed 10:30 Yennamo Yedho Mon-Wed 4:00

GTA Regions Mississauga

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

Bears (G) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 6:40, 9:15 Fri 2:00, 4:05, 6:10, 8:15, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:05, 6:10, 8:15, 10:20 Sun 12:00, 2:00, 4:05, 6:10, 8:15, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:35, 4:45, 6:50, 9:15 Wed 4:45, 6:50, 9:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon 1:20, 4:30, 7:15, 10:20 Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Fri 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Sat 11:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Sun 12:05, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:15, 8:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Fri, Sun 4:30, 10:30 Sat 4:30, 10:10 MonWed 3:55, 10:00 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:15, 4:15, 5:20, 7:25, 10:30 Fri 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Mon 1:00, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Tue-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:25, 10:30 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:35 Sat 12:40, 7:10, 10:25 Mon, Wed 1:05, 4:10, 10:25 Tue 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Draft Day (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:35, 9:55 FriSun 1:30, 3:45, 6:05, 8:25, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:30, 8:00, 10:15 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 11:45, 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00 The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Noah (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:25 Sat 4:00, 7:15, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Wed 3:50, 7:15, 10:20 Oculus (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Sun 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:50 Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:25 The Other Woman Thu 9:00 Fri 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10 The Princess Bride Thu 7:30 Sun 12:45 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Transcendence (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:35, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 MonWed 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Transcendence: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:40, 7:35 Sat 1:40, 7:30 Mon 1:15, 7:05 Tue-Wed 1:15, 7:00

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 Bears (G) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:00, 5:10, 7:10, 9:35 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:10, 7:10, 9:20 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00 SunWed 1:35, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 Sat 11:55, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:45 Sun 11:55, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 MonWed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 2:05, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 4:00, 7:00, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Disco Singh (PG) Thu, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Divergent (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Fri-Sat 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Sun, Tue-Wed 3:20, 6:35, 9:35 Mon 3:20 Draft Day (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:25 God’s Not Dead (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:40, 5:50, 8:00, 10:10 Fri-Sat 10:25 Sun-Wed 10:10 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 Fri 1:25, 3:50, 6:25, 9:40 Sat 12:25, 3:50, 6:25, 9:40 Sun 12:25, 3:50, 6:25, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:25, 3:50, 6:25, 9:25 Jatt James Bond Fri 3:25, 6:40, 10:05 Sat 12:05, 3:25, 6:40, 10:05 Sun 12:05, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Tue 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Wed 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 Noah (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Oculus (14A) Thu 1:45, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 The Other Woman Fri 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:30 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri 2:40, 5:25, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 Wed 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:20 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 3:40, 6:55, 10:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:55, 6:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:55, 6:30 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Fri 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:55 Sat 12:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:55 Sun 12:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Super Duper Alice Cooper Mon 9:00 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Fri 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 MonWed 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 Transcendence: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 2:15, 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Sat 1:15, 4:15, 6:45, 9:45

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

Bad Words (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:10 Fri 5:00, 7:50, 10:00 Sat 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 Sun 2:10, 4:35, 7:20, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:05 Dallas Buyers Club (18A) Thu 4:55, 7:30 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:45, 9:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:30, 5:20, 7:00, 7:45 Fri 4:30, 5:15, 6:50, 7:35, 9:10, 10:05 Sat 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:10 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 3:20, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 5:20, 6:55, 7:45 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:35 Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25 Oculus (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Fri 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:40 Fri 6:50, 9:55 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:55, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:35 3 Days to Kill (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20 Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu, MonWed 5:30, 8:00 Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 2:15, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 12 Years a Slave (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:35 Fri 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20

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

300: Rise of an Empire (18A) Thu 9:20 Bears (G) Thu 4:10, 6:15, 8:20 Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:00, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Sat 11:45, 1:45, 4:00, 6:10, 8:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:20, 8:30 Brick Mansions (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Divergent (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Sat 12:40, 7:05, 10:15 Mon 3:30, 6:40, 9:55 Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Draft Day (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Sat, Tue-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Mon 3:55, 6:30 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Sun 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:15 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:00, 9:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:15, 5:30, 7:55, 10:00 Sun 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:35, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 2:55, 5:25, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Ice Age: The Meltdown (PG) Sat 11:00

The Metropolitan Opera: Così fan tutte Live Sat 12:55 Muppets Most Wanted (G) Thu 4:00, 6:35 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:35 Mon-Wed 3:35 Noah (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:45, 4:05, 7:20, 10:25 Sun 4:05, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Non-Stop (PG) Thu 4:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:15, 9:00 Oculus (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:35 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 The Other Woman Thu 9:30 Fri 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:35 Sat 11:10, 12:00, 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:35 Sun 1:40, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 7:00, 7:55, 9:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:50, 4:35, 6:35, 7:30, 9:25, 10:15 The Princess Bride Thu 7:30 Sun 12:45 The Quiet Ones (14A) Fri 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:10, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 The Raid 2: Berandal (18A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 10:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 8:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:25 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:05 Super Duper Alice Cooper Mon 9:00 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sun 9:45 Mon-Wed 9:05 Transcendence: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40

Interchange 30 (AMC)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323 2 States (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:30 Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:50, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 3:00, 6:30 300: Rise of an Empire (18A) Fri 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20 MonWed 4:40, 7:20 About Last Night (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30 American Hustle (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10 Fri 6:45, 9:35 Sat 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:45 August: Osage County (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:20 Endless Love (PG) 5:10, 7:40 Fri 9:55 Sat 2:40 mat, 9:55 Sun 12:15, 2:40 mat, 7:45 Sun only 12:15 2:40 5:10 7:45 Frozen (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30 Fri 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Sat 2:30, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:40, 7:15 Gravity (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Sat 2:15, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Sun 12:05, 2:15, 4:30, 7:00 Her (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15 Fri 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:20 The LEGO Movie 3D (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15 Fri 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25 The Monuments Men (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:30 Fri 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:35 Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:05 Fri 4:35, 7:00, 9:05 Sat 2:25, 4:35, 7:00, 9:05 Sun 12:15, 2:25, 4:35, 7:00 Philomena (PG) 5:00, 7:25 Fri 9:45 Sat 2:55 mat, 9:45 Sun 12:50, 2:55 mat Ride Along (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:45 Fri 4:55, 7:15, 9:25 Sat 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:25 Sun 12:20, 2:35, 4:55, 7:40

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Bears (G) Thu 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 7:10, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 Draft Day (PG) 9:45 Thu 1:15 mat, 4:10, 7:05 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 1:05, 6:55 FriWed 3:50, 9:40 Le Week-End (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 6:55 Noah (14A) Thu 3:50, 9:40 The Other Woman Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Mon 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Rio 2 (G) 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Transcendence (PG) 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30

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

Bears (G) 7:55, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:35 mat, 5:45 Tue 3:35 mat, 5:45 Brick Mansions (PG) 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10 mat, 5:30 Tue 5:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:10, 10:15 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:50 mat Tue 3:50 mat Divergent (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:20 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 7:45, 10:05 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Tue 4:55, 7:25, 9:50 Need for Speed 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 10:10 Noah (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:05 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Tue 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 The Other Woman 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:10 mat, 4:50 Tue 4:50 Rio 2 (G) Thu 7:05, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:05 Tue 4:05 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat, 4:20 Tue 4:20 Transcendence (PG) Thu 7:05, 9:55 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Tue 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 3

NOW April 24-30 2014

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indie&rep film complete festivals, independent and

repertory schedules

How to find a listing

Sandra Oh takes a shortcut in apocalypse dramedy Last Night.

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

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) How to place a listing

All listings are free. Send to: movies@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-3641168 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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the royal

608 College. 416-466-4400. theroyal.to

Thu 24 – The Husband (2014) D: Bruce Mac-

festivals hot docs canadian international documentary ­festival

bloor hot docs cinema, 506 bloor w; fox theatre, 2236 queen e; hart house, 7 hart house; isabel bader theatre, 93 charles W; the regent, 555 mt pleasant; revue theatre, 400 roncesvalles; royal cinema, 608 college; royal ontario museum, 100 queen’s pk; scotiabank theatre, 259 richmond W; victoria college burwash quad, 140 charles w; tiff bell lightbox, 350 king w. ­ hotdocs.ca.

thu 24-may 4 – North America’s largest documentary festival, conference and market. For listings, see pull-out section in this week’s paper.

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. ­bigpicturecinema.com

thu 24-wed 30 – Check website for schedule.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema 506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. ­bloorcinema.com

Thu 24-may 4 – Hot Docs Film Festival. See listings in pull-out section. ­hotdocs.ca.

Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 26 – Still Life (2006) D: Zhangke Jia. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox reitman square, 350 king w.

416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 24-may 4 – Hot Docs Film Festival.

See listings in pull-out section. ñ ­hotdocs.ca.

Thu 24 – Lucía (1968) D: Humberto Solas. 6 pm. Hausu (1977) D: Nobuhiko Obayashi.

9:30 pm. fri 25 – Contact Photography Festival and Hot Docs present A Dress Rehearsal For An Execution (2013) D: Bahman Tavoosi, the role of documentary photography as art form and social commentary. 8:30 pm. ­scotiabankcontactphoto.com. sat 26-wed 30 – Check website for schedule.

Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. ­foxtheatre.ca

Thu 24 – Tim’s Vermeer (2014) D: Teller. 7 pm.

Le Week-End (2013) D: Roger Michell. 9 pm.

Fri 25 – The Great Beauty (2013) D: Paolo Sorrentino. 6:45 pm. The Monuments Men (2014) D: George Clooney. 9:30 pm. sat 26-sun 27 – Mr Peabody And Sherman (2014) D: Rob Minkoff. 2 pm. The Monuments Men. 4 & 9:30 pm. The Great Beauty.

6:45 pm. mon 28 – The Great Beauty. 6:45 pm.

The Wind Rises (2013) D: Hayao Miyazaki. 9:30 pm.

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April 24-30 2014 NOW

sun 27 – Unpopular Arts presents When I Was A Kid: Rookie Of The Year (1973) D: Larry Elikann. 2 pm. $8. Bad Words. 4 & 9:30 pm. The Great Beauty. 6:45 pm. mon 28 – Bad Words. 7 pm. The Great Beauty. 9 pm. tue 29 – A Series Of Unfortunate Effects (2011) D: Chris Mayhew. 7 pm. Bad Words.

9:30 pm. wed 30 – Billy Wilder Double Bill: Ace In The Hole (1951). 7 pm. Double Indemnity (1944). 9:15 pm.

A cool Canuck double bill HIGHWAY 61 (Bruce McDonald)

ñand LAST NIGHT (Don McKellar) Rating: NNNNN

Reel Canada has designated Tuesday (April 29) National Canadian Film Day. The non-profit organization dedicated to engaging students with Canadian cinema has mounted a tongue-slightly-in-cheek campaign to guilt people into catching a homegrown picture as “a lighthearted intervention for our national consciousness.” Sounds good to me.

In Toronto, the Royal marks the occasion with a really great double bill. At 7 pm, Bruce McDonald’s Highway 61, a road-trip comedy starring Valerie Buhagiar and Don McKellar, gets a rare theatrical screening, followed at 9:15 pm by McKellar’s directorial debut, Last Night, recently declared the quintessential Toronto movie in the pages of this very magazine.

These are two fascinating films to watch back to back. Made at either tue 29-wed 30 – The Wind Rises. 6:45 pm.

The Great Beauty. 9:15 pm.

GRAHAM SPRY THEATRE

CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 24-wed 30 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 24-fri 25 AND mon 28-wed 30 – Highlights of current programming.

ontario science centre 770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ­ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 24 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The

­ uman Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The H Butterflies. 2 pm. fri 25 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. sat 26-sun 27 – Flight Of The Butterflies. 11 am. Great White Shark. Noon & 2 pm. Jeru-

end of the 90s, they have very different sensibilities. Highway 61 saw McDonald modestly expanding his scope, recombining the punk elements of his breakthrough, Roadkill, into something slightly more commercial (and a lot weirder) with co-writer/star McKellar.

Seven years later, McKellar struck out on his own as a filmmaker, delivering Last Night, an instant classic. An apocalypse dramedy set in a mostly civil Toronto, the film

comments on Canadian identity and Canadian cinema in almost every scene. (David Cronenberg has never seemed more reassuring.)

Both McDonald and McKellar will be in attendance, which should make for some interesting conversation about the state of Canadian cinema now versus then.

See listings, this page. For a complete list of participating theatres and showtimes, visit canadianfilmday.ca. Norman Wilner

Travel ­Highway 61 with Don McKellar and Valerie ­Buhagiar.

salem. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. mon 28 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. tue 29 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The ­Human Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. wed 30 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm.

atu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. mon 28 – The Essential Silent Films: The Birth Of A Nation (1915) D: DW Grifith, with score by Reg Hartt. 7 pm. tue 29 – Adolf Hitler’s 1934 Nuremberg Rally. 7 pm. World War Two Propaganda Cartoon Festival. 9:30 pm. wed 30 – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) D: Milos Forman. 7 pm.

reg hartt’s ­cineforum

revue cinema

463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

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Thu 24 – Book Revue: The Maltese ­Falcon (1941) D: John Huston. 6:45 pm. ñ Particle Fever­(2013) D: Mark Levinson.

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Sorrentino. 6:45 pm. Bad Words (2013) D: Jason Bateman. 9:30 pm. sat 26 – Bad Words. 4:15 & 9:30 pm. The Great Beauty. 6:45 pm.

Donald. 7 pm. Kid Cannabis (2014) D: John Stockwell. 9 pm. fri 25 – Hot Docs Film Festival. See listings in pull-out section. ­hotdocs.ca. 2, 7 & 9:45 pm. sat 26-Sun 27 – The Lego Movie (2014) D: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. 2 pm. The Husband. 4 pm. Hot Docs Film Festival. See listings in pull-out section. ­hotdocs.ca. mon 28 – Closed. tue 29 – National Canadian Film Day presents two films: Highway 61 (1991) D: Bruce MacDonald. 7 pm. Last Night (1998) D: Don McKellar. 9 pm. wed 30 – The Husband. 7 pm. Alan Partridge (2013) D: Declan Lowney. 9 pm.

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Casa Loma presents The P­ ellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, ­casaloma.org.

The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. hhof.com. thu 24-may 9 – The Goethe-Institut presents Looking At The Big Sky, 14 short videos by students from German art schools. Tue 1-6 pm, Wed & Thu 3-7 pm, Sat 11 am-2 pm.

Free. 100 University Ave, North Tower. goethe.de/toronto. thu 24 – Toronto Public Library presents ­Saving Mr. Banks (2013) D: John Lee Hancock. 2 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre) presents Monitor 10: South Asian Experimental Film And Video. 7 pm. $10, stu $5. Art Gallery of Ontario, Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas W. ­savac.net.

WILDsound Toronto Feedback Film Festival presents international short films. 7-9 pm.

Pwyc (RSVP for seats). Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. wildsound.ca. thu 24-sun 27 – Toronto Camera Club presents Tanzania D: Pat Zuest, North Of 60: Canada’s Sub-arctic D: Garry Revesz and other shorts by club members. Thu and Fri 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10, srs $8. 587 Mt Pleasant. ­torontocameraclub.com. sat 26 – Smithkraft Productions presents Truth Be Told, a documentary about growing up in the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion. The screening will take place at a Queen West art gallery venue to be disclosed by RSVP. 2 & 4 pm. RSVP at h ­ ereliesthetruth.com. sun 27 – Bad Movie Night Toronto presents Never Too Young To Die (1986) D: Gil Bettman. 7:30 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. ­explodingzebra.com/badmovieto. tue 29 – Keep Toronto Reading Film Series War On Film presents Fog Of War (2011) D: Les Norris. 1:30 pm. Free. Maria A S ­ hchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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As good as any prison movie I’ve seen, Riot In Cell Block 11 is tight, fast, unsentimental and non-exploitative. Made with near-documentary realism, it’s a blunt call for penal reform, but the message never impedes the action.

Fed up with guards’ brutality, overcrowding, enforced idleness, bad food and a host of other things, the cons riot. Led by career criminal Dunn (Neville Brand) and psychopathic Carnie (Leo Gordon), they take hostages and present their demands. Though the warden (Emile Meyer) is reasonable and reform-minded, the negotiator from the governor’s office is not. The situation worsens.

saga filled with light comedy and serious heartbreak. The third part, Cesar, has been announced.

In 1920s Marseilles, Fanny (Victoire Bélézy), who sells shellfish by the quay, and Marius (Raphaël Personnaz), who works in his father’s bar across the street, have been friends since childhood. Now, at 18, they’re in love. Fanny knows it, but Marius keeps pretending otherwise, unwilling to commit because his real consuming passion is to become a sailor and see the world.

At the same time, Fanny has com­ pelling practical reasons to marry her other suitor, the older, rich Panisse (Jean-Pierre Darroussin). Her mother (Marie-Anne Chazel) would be happy with either match, but Marius’s father (director Daniel Auteuil) favours his son.

Personnaz and Bélézy make very ­appealing young lovers, and Auteuil, Darroussin and Chazel give finely tuned performances that merge comedy and drama and contribute much to the

Director Don Siegel, best known for Dirty Harry and Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, uses his dynamic sense of rhythm and composition to keep events vivid and tense. He’s helped by the Folsom Prison locations and the real inmates who serve as extras.

Along with a highly informative new commentary, the ­extras feature excerpts from Siegel’s autobiography read by his son and a print essay by di­ rector Sam Peckinpah, who worked as a gofer on the picture.

Producer Walter Wanger, who’d done prison time, wrote a 1954 article on penal reform, reprinted here.

EXTRAS New commentary, reading from Siegel’s autobiography, audio appreciation of Siegel, radio doc on prisons, essay booklet. English audio and subtitles. movies’ sense of community. Marius and Fanny’s troubles are public knowledge, so personal and familial reputations are on the line.

Picturesque settings and beautiful Mediterranean light create an almost fairy-tale charm that suggests all will be well in the end, even when the story says otherwise.

EXTRAS French audio. English subtitles.

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Vikings (2013) Swords, sex and scheming feature in a Viking hero’s rise to the throne in this TV series.

Grudge Match (2013) Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro star as ex-boxers lured back into the ring to settle an old score.

Labor Day (2013) A depressed single mother (Kate Winslet) brings an escaped convict (Josh Brolin) into her home.

30 Days Of Night (2007) Vampires attack an Alaskan town in the depths of winter.

If your taste runs to crime/horror thrillers with a nasty attitude laced with black comedy and a little gore, Big Bad Wolves will be your cup of tea.

A detective (Lior Ashkenazi) gets suspended when a video that shows him beating a suspected child murderer (Rotem Keinan) goes viral. ­Lacking solid evidence, he decides to abduct and torture the suspect into confessing. At the same time, the murdered girl’s father (Tzahi Grad)

comes up with the same plan.

Considerable humour springs from their attempts, but never at the expense of the brutal action. Their mishaps always remain believable.

The cast play the thriller straight, ­letting the comedy handle itself. Grad is chilling as a man gone quietly insane, and veteran Israeli comedian Doval’e Glickman is shocking as a benign grandfather with an unusual skill set.

The making-of doc follows the usual format, focusing on the cast and the working methods of the two directors.

EXTRAS Making-of doc. Hebrew, ­English audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

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Bay, 2013) D: Cody ­Calahan, w/ Michelle Mylett, Cody Ray Thompson. Rating: NN; DVD package: N Antisocial’s weird and original climax makes it acceptable couch fodder for genre fans.

But until then, it comes off as a routine low-budget zombie flick.

Five university students are setting up for a New Year’s Eve house party when a massive worldwide epidemic breaks out, turning people into homicidal maniacs. After they barricade themselves in, it’s a matter of who gets infected next and how they die.

We’re in that house for a long time, but director Cody Calahan has a master’s eye for keeping the visuals interesting, partly by bringing in the outside world via the social media that are ­central to the plot and the theme that drives it.

The making-of doc supplies a little information, but Calahan’s shared ­commentary with cinematographer Jeff Maher disappears in the mix any time the movie is anything but dead quiet. Instead of straining your ears, double-bill this with David Cronenberg’s Videodrome, a much weirder movie based on a similar idea.

EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc.

English audio. No subtitles.

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I asked if it was safe and legal, and he said yes. After some snooping, I learned that he is using a webcam service for chats with men who offer “tips” for sexual viewing. I suppose this is technically safe and legal, but because I’m unfamiliar with the technology involved, I don’t know if he is putting himself at risk emotionally or if screenshots can be captured that can affect his future career, relationships, etc. I’m a long-time follower of your column, podcast and books, and I hope that someday my son and I will be as close as you and your mother were. So tell me, Dan: what would Judy Savage do?

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Employment Deal Webcamming – aka camwhoring – is widely regarded as the safest form of sex work. Webcammers aren’t in the same room with their clients (unlike strippers, lap dancers, escorts, foot-fetish-party girls, pro doms, etc), and cammers have the ability to instantly block creepy, rude or abusive viewers. But there are risks, WORRIED, chief among them how easily viewers can take screengrabs and record videos of a cammer’s sessions. So if your son is planning on a career as a teacher or a cop or a politician, it’s possible that pics and videos could come back to haunt him.

But with so many young people out there swapping dirty pics and videos (and so many old people doing it, too), and with so many students camming their way through college (getting naked online is arguably less of a risk to someone’s future prospects than crushing student-loan debt), a time when everyone will have a few incriminating images circulating online is quickly coming. And at that point – which will likely coincide with your son’s entry into the workforce – a few stray dirty pics, videos or GIFs won’t be the career-ending scandal they are today.

Now here’s what Judy Savage, my late mom, would’ve said if she’d discovered that one of her four kids was camwhoring to pay college expenses: “You’re an adult, and I can’t tell you what to do.

You are going to make your own choices and you’re going to make your own mistakes. But you do have to listen to my concerns. You owe me that.” Hesitating to hear Mom out would result in a sin-

gle raised eyebrow – a move that had a paralyzing effect on me and my siblings – and then Mom asking if we would rather talk about her four C-section scars instead.

We always chose to hear her out.

So have a conversation with your son, WORRIED, but first familiarize yourself with the technology and the phenomenon that is camming. The New York Times wrote a great story on the risks and rewards of camming (“Intimacy on the Web, With a Crowd,” September 21, 2013), and the first episode of HBO’s Real Sex reboot, Sex//Now, focuses on camming. Checking out both might help you have a more informed, less freaked conversation with your son about how he’s paying for his booze, cigarettes, and pot.

Snoresville sex My fiancée and I have a lovely GGG r elationship. Recently we discovered a

shared fantasy of unconscious sex – basically, one of us would be unconscious while the other would do whatever they like. Both of us are interested in both roles. Our question is how we go about fulfilling this fantasy. Are there safe ways to put each other to sleep?

GGG To ZZZ Try C-SPAN. If C-SPAN doesn’t work, try golf – playing it, watching it, reading about it. If golf doesn’t work, try Ambien.

Panties in a knot I’m a girl in my mid-20s living in a

large city. After listening to some of your older podcasts, I decided to hop on Craigslist to see if there were any boys who might like to buy my used undies. I posted a few ads and got tons of responses. Money has been tight, so why not? I met up with a guy and exchanged a pair for $50. Score! I went home and replied to a few more and met another guy the next morning for another $50.

Both guys seemed nice, and I felt exhilarated after I walked away. But once I got home, I was extremely paranoid about the risk of being followed. I was up most of the night and constantly looking out the windows to make sure no one was there. My boyfriend is okay with me doing this; he just wants me to be safe about it. I think I was pretty safe. I set up a separate email account, and I met them in public in the daytime. My boyfriend offered to go with me to meet these guys and hang back where he wouldn’t be seen. I’m fine with this, but we work different schedules, so it’s not realistic. And I don’t think having someone with me would ease my concern about being followed home. I looked into the sites that allow you to sell the goods online and mail them, but those don’t really work for me. You have to pay to use all of those sites. You also have to pay to set up a PO box and have a way to accept payments. (PayPal also displays some of

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your personal info.) I don’t really have a lot of time to dedicate to selling my panties. I just want to do it every once in a while for some spare cash. So is there anything else I could do to feel a little safer? Will this paranoid feeling go away after a few interactions? Or is my brain trying to tell me that I’m not cut out for this kind of thing? And exactly how dangerous is this?

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Exciting Salaciousness There are thousands of women out there selling their used panties online, and you never read about one being stalked or murdered by a collector, PANTIES, but the news is full of stories of women being murdered by their boyfriends and husbands. I don’t mean to downplay the risks – or play fast and loose with the math (there are tens of millions of women with boyfriends and husbands) – and most women who sell their panties online aren’t meeting their customers face-toface. But if you don’t want to go the website route, here’s how you can sell your panties in person more safely: Get the Uber app on your phone and order a car after you make a sale. Having a driver drop you a mile away will cost you $5 or $10, PANTIES, but the peace of mind will be worth the price.

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