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Enzo DiMatteo’s piece on Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (NOW, April 24-30) was confined to his own limited experience of the man. He says several books were written about Carter, but makes no mention of Carter’s spiritual autobiography, Eye Of The Hurricane: My Path From Darkness To Freedom (2011), which we wrote together. Carter was the world’s best-known and foremost advocate for the wrongly convicted. He had other qualities aside from being temperamental, such as warmth, humour, generosity, idealism and incredible perseverance. Carter appears in a film currently playing at Hot Docs, David And Me, about David McCallum from Brooklyn, a prisoner for 28 years. More than anything, Carter was an inspiration. Ken Klonsky Vancouver Editor’s note: Ken Klonsky is director of media relations for Innocence International.
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I am writing to you to express my concern about the expression “a Polish death camp” used in the headline My Pilgrimage To A Polish Death Camp (NOW, April 24-30). Using the words “Polish death camp” is very harmful to Poland and Polish people. I believe you would agree that it might leave doubt in minds of Canadian readers, especially young people, as to who established and operated those camps. As Poland was the first country to be attacked by Nazi Germany and Poles were the first prisoners of most the concentration camps where nearly all the Polish Jews were murdered, the use of “Polish camp” is offensive to Polish people as well as to Polish Canadians. The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council issued a decision in 2004 in which it is stated clearly that “the use of terms ‘Polish ghetto for Jews’ or ‘Polish camp’... constitutes an unfair and improper presentation of news.” Only through solid information
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When we talked to cover subject Avril Lavigne before she made her third straight appearance at the always unpredictable MuchMusic Video Awards, she was a cocky pop princess married to Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley. Now she’s a cocky pop queen married to Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger, which might explain the ludicrous heat she’s receiving for her Hello Kitty video. Loathing Nickleback is so hip, after all. On the vid, Lavigne spouts nonsensical Japanese, performing in front of young Japanese women backup singers whose facial expression and dress are identical. The reaction online has been vicious, with Billboard leading the charge. The venerable music mag
called the girls creepily expressionless and trashed Lavigne for using women of colour as accessories. Never mind that the criticism isn’t coming out of Japan, where Lavigne has a healthy fan base. My question is, why does everybody else get away with using all kinds of women as accessories in music videos? Just turn on BET or MTV. I’m not just talking about hiphop. In just about every genre, the guys are fully clothed while the women are half-naked. That’s called objectification. Black backup singers have been used for decades to improve the sound of white performers with
much poorer vocal chops. And creepily expressionless? I remember when British pop sensation Robert Palmer sang Addicted To Love in front of four identical-looking women pretending to play guitars. The shit did not hit his fan. He was considered über-cool. Do you think that’s because he’s a guy? Don’t get me wrong. I don’t love cultural appropriation, and by the way, I think Nickelback suck, too. But before you unload on Lavigne, have a look at the bigger picture – literally. Female representation in music videos has been pathetic for decades. Spread the criticism around, why doncha.
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The Cochrane Collaboration concluded that in high doses marijuana may cause psychosis, although the link between marijuana use and schizophrenia is still controversial. So what is marijuana good for? As a family physician who has spent the last 10 years of her career providing care to drug users, I feel NOW’s investigative journalists might be better off exploring the question of why the Harper government has chosen to increase access to marijuana despite the lack of evidence or regulation to ensure patient safety. Susan Woolhouse Toronto
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Kudos on The Marijuana Issue and your support of the 420 rally at YongeDundas Square (NOW, April 17-23). Toronto has a thriving cannabis culture with a hardworking group of activists at its centre. While I really do love that you have dedicated an entire issue to help us celebrate 420, I would also love to see you honour cannabis activists in Toronto like Matt Mernagh, Chris and Erin Goodwin, Puff Mama and countless others by bringing “best marijuana activist” back to your Best Of Toronto issue. Tracy Curley Toronto
A vote for Ford is bad citizenship
Re Face-To-Face With Ford Nation (NOW, April 24-30). Jonathan Goldsbie writes that “Much as we like to persuade ourselves otherwise, political preference can be as subjective as any cultural taste.” Political preference has externalities. Michael Bublé’s popularity has no effect on my wellbeing, but Rob Ford’s ignorance, incompetence and failed leadership hurt all Torontonians and to some degree all residents of the GTA, Ontario and even Canada. The people who voted for him bear responsibility for that. It’s not a matter of bad taste. It’s a matter of bad citizenship. Grant Heaslip From nowtoronto.com
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I’d like your reviewer Julia LeConte to know her Toronto bias is loud and clear. Why the comment “recorded this album on Vancouver Island, of all places” in her Kim Churchill review (NOW, March 27-April 2)? Is LeConte at all familiar with the vibrant music scene there? There are world-class musicians such as the Bills, plus the Island is lucky to have one of Canada’s best folk music festivals, the Vancouver Island MusicFest, in Courtenay. Its artistic director, Doug Cox, is also a fabulous musician who plays dobro and has recorded a number of albums and toured worldwide. Ms. LeConte, get thee to the Island and experience it for yourself! Katie Stewart Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.
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About 75 cyclists of all ages participated in the annual Blessing Of The Bikes at Trinity St. Paul’s on Sunday, April 27. Live music and free bike safety checks provided a heart-warming start to the spring cycling season.
The Devin Cuddy Band rocked Daniels Spectrum in a benefit for the Regent Park School of Music on Monday, April 28. The school has provided music education for kids in priority neighbourhoods including Parkdale, JaneFinch and Lawrence Heights since 1999.
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The Board of Health wants to study design guidelines for residential towers near highways after a recent report showed elevated levels of nitrogen oxides and other contaminants from vehicle emissions along major thoroughfares. Separate studies have identified South Riverdale and Etobicoke-Lakeshore as particular hot spots. Some say T.O. should follow Halton Region’s lead and mandate an assessment if a development is within 150 metres of a highway or 30 metres of a major arterial. Full story at nowtoronto.com
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Who Rick Mercer, lovable provocateur What Recipient of 2014’s DAREarts Leadership Cultural Award, presented at Kool Haus on April 24. Why “Rick Mercer finds what’s the best in all of us, especially our kids,” says DAREarts founder Marilyn Field.
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another ford fiasco Former TCH head Gene Jones – the “turnaround specialist” with the hyped U.S. resumé hired by Rob Ford to sell off social housing – proved in the end to be way out of his depth By ENZO DiMATTEO
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he unceremonious dumping of Gene Jones as president and CEO of Toronto Community Housing last Friday, April 25, is not exactly the MFP computer leasing scandal of a few years back, but it’s pretty darn close. Jones’s tenure has proved to be a very expensive mess for the city and the housing corporation. Aside from the $200,000 handshake he received, there’s the $1.6 million more in buyouts to get rid of people he didn’t like. And potential millions more in legal costs from the mass firings under his watch. Word is, the departure of former chief operating officer Kathleen Llewellyn-Thomas after only four months on the job was more than professional. City Ombudsman Fiona Crean’s report on Jones’s dictatorial running of the organization, which sounded the death knell for his tenure, has been described as scathing for what it says about Jones’s management style. But it’s worse than that. It documents missing records, questionable hirings, firings and promotions, po-
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tential conflicts of interest and a TCH board kept in the dark about it all. In another life Mayor Rob Ford would have called it corruption or a cover-up. Except Jones was Ford’s guy, so when the axe fell the mayor resorted to doing what he always does when his best-laid plans have failed. He tried to rewrite the story, going on Toronto Sun scribe Joe War mington’s late-night radio show on Newstalk 1010 to exalt Jones’s perfor mance and call for Crean’s head. The mayor wasn’t about to state what had become obvious to most people – that Jones thought he could run the social housing provider like his private fiefdom and fire anyone who got in his way, which is pretty much what he did, with the mayor’s blessing. Ford had big plans for Jones. Ostensibly, he was hired in 2012 to clean house on the pretext that TCH was rotten to the core, part of that fictitious gravy flowing through the entire city and its various departments. See city auditor Jeff Griffiths’s manufactured spending-scandal crisis at TCH shortly after RoFo took office, which led to the mass resignation of the TCH board.
The real scheme was to privatize and sell off TCH piece by piece. Remember that voucher system under which social housing recipients could be housed in privately owned apartments that the mayor talked about during the 2010 election? The sell-off was averted after Ford was politically weakened by various other scandals, and he soon realized that selling off TCH meant pissing off a fair chunk of his electoral base in Ford Nation. Crucially, the city would need the province’s approval to unload its stock, and the hoped-for PC government never materialized. After that things quickly changed for Jones. He went from architect of change to empire builder and master of symbolic gestures, showing up for ribbon-cutting ceremonies and on the doorstep of tenants whose leaky pipes needed fixing. Problem with that was that there were another 50,000 people on the waiting list for repairs. What was needed was systemic change, not a Mr. Fix-it. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say chronic neglect has put residents’ lives at risk, according to some TCH board members. Jones ran roughshod over the
Much was made of Jones’s work in Detroit, but there are more housing units in some wards in T.O. than in all of Motown. rules, chopping off the heads of those who didn’t toe the line so that others in senior management would learn not to question him. Think Sun Tzu and The Art Of War. That’s how one former senior exec at TCH described Jones’s management style. In the end it wasn’t just Jones’s twisted methods, what Crean characterized as “abject failure of leadership from the top,” that got him removed. Or the fact that he came to TCH with decidedly American corporate experience and little regard for Canadian employment laws or standards. Jones was simply out of his depth. He really had no experience when it
came to running an organization as large and complicated as TCH. We got an inkling of that when the board sent him to management school in February after news first started filtering out about the disorder at TCH. The turmoil caused by massive turnover at the public housing provider meant that repairs were often delayed or not done at all. Councillors report having to reapply several times for repair work at TCH buildings in their wards, even when there was money in the budget to cover it. Jones also seemed to play favourites. His promise to fund repairs for residents who came forward with information on criminal activity in their neighbourhood was just the tip of the iceberg. Somewhat lost amid last week’s coverage was Crean’s report released in March about TCH’s failure to keep her office notified of evictions in volving seniors despite a directive by council requiring TCH to do so after the highly publicized death of Alan Gosling in 2009. Jones certainly wasn’t saving TCH any money, asking the cash-strapped organization to drop $2 million last October on office renos and complaining to the board that his digs were too small. His resumé notes that he was a “turnaround specialist” at public housing agencies in the U.S. It’s unclear to what extent he led “transformational change” – the words used in a TCH release announcing his hiring – south of the border. Much was made of Jones’s work with the Detroit Housing Commission, but there are more public housing units in some wards in Toronto than there are in all of Motown. Jones was hired in Detroit to manage the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Housing Choice Voucher program, essentially a rental assistance program, as well as neighbourhood revitalization efforts. From the start there was confusion between what Ford wanted and what the TCH board was looking for with his hiring. It wasn’t wholesale changes that they wanted. In fact, it was made clear when Jones was hired that there would “not be a massive restructuring of the company,” according to TCH board chair Bud Purves. Not all the blame can be laid at Jones’s feet. Senior levels of government have abandoned social housing. Some councillors suggest that it may be time to consider going back to pre-amalgamation days and breaking TCH into smaller, more manageable pieces. The irony may be that the guy brought in to take the city out of the social housing business may end up being the best argument for a more responsive public provider. It’s been a head-spinning couple of years for an organization that only a year before Jones took over was named one of the top 100 employers in the country. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo
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Wayne Harrison (left), John Beechey and Local 9176 president Ken Heatherton in the strike hut they built at Crown Holdings.
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crack a beer, crack a case of labour rights violations A lengthy strike in Toronto, a four-year battle for the right to unionize in Turkey and a CEO who won’t say a word By CYNTHIA McQUEEN
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he next time you open a can of beer, remember that can was probably made by a “scab.” Crown Holdings is the primary producer of beer cans in southern Ontario, and their 120 employees have been on strike for eight months. The U.S.-based international company produces 5 million cans per day at the plant on Fenmar Drive, primarily for Molson and Labatt. Crown wants a two-tier wage sys tem that would permanently pay new hires $9 an hour, or 42 per cent less than existing employees. That was the starting wage 28 years ago, according to many veteran employees. For context, 28 years ago a two-four of beer cost about $15. As a result of Crown’s unmoving stance on the new hire system, United Steelworkers Local 9176 went on strike in September 2013. Ken Heatherton is president of the local and has worked at Crown since 1985. According to him, “the majority of the plant” is ready for retirement or at least approaching the 30-year mark, so if Crown implements a twotier system, new hires are left in the lurch without knowledge transfer or secure older allies. Under the current system, new hires start at 80 per cent of the full wage and work their way up over three years to the full $24 per hour. Local 9176 VP Calvin Gillard has worked at the plant for 16 years and questions why “Crown’s going after a 40-year contract” when the company’s
income doubled from $282 million in 2011 to $557 million in 2012. Gillard is concerned because many employees are close to retiring, so if the company comes back with a buyout option, other employees could be subject to a bizarre section of Cana dian labour law. By law, if the union reaches an agreement and only a fraction of the 120 employees go back to work, the rest “won’t receive unem ployment.” In response to NOW’s questions about this oddity in Employment Insurance eligibility, Jordan Sinclair of Human Resources and Skills Devel opment Canada sent an email saying EI regulations define “end of work stoppage” as when, “in comparison to pre-strike levels, 85 per cent of a company’s workforce has returned to work and the level of production activity reaches 85 per cent.” Of course, some employees will have started working at other jobs during the strike. The only exceptions for employees to access EI if a company doesn’t rehire 85 per cent are “a discontinuance of business; a permanent restructuring of activity; an act of God; a change in economic or market conditions or technologies,” the email says. These are all amorphous conditions, and Sinclair offered no clarity on these points. The timing couldn’t be worse as far as Local 9176 chief steward Wayne Harrison is concerned. In his 30 years with Crown Holdings, they’ve always renegotiated their contract in the
summer, when the plant is operating at full capacity. This time the company came to them in September, when production had slowed down. “I’m hoping when the weather gets better and there’s a demand for our product, they’re going to be willing to come back to the table,” he says. Since NOW’s first meeting at the hut workers built in front of Crown, some workers attended a shareholders’ meeting in Philadelphia on April 24, where CEO John Conway – who got a pay bump of $12.14 million in 2012 – took the unpopular step of having shareholders write down their questions. Joe Drexler, USW’s head of campaigns, says Conway refused to hear
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questions for the same reason that he deferred answering any: Conway didn’t want shareholders and the board to hear the union’s concerns. “There was a complete lack of transparency,” he says. “It was like sitting in [President Vladimir] Putin’s Russia.” NOW contacted Conway’s office by telephone and email seeking comment, but no one from the company acknowledged these requests. Crown Holdings doesn’t only operate in Canada. The company has 21,900 employees at 149 plants in 41 countries. Four activists were fired from Crown BevCan in Turkey recently after a fouryear fight for their labour rights. “We started organizing in 2010,” says Eyüp Özer over the phone from Istanbul. Özer is international secretary of DÌSK/Birlesik Metal, which Crown workers there will soon join. Two weeks ago, Turkey’s Supreme Court ruled that Crown’s workers had the majority they neededs to unionize, he says. While this is a huge victory, the four fired labour rights activists will not likely see justice for years. In the meantime, before the ruling, other labour rights violations have landed BevCan in court. In one instance, a manager allegedly physically threatened an employee. The union reached out to CocaCola, Crown’s biggest client in Europe. And, then, irony of ironies, Coca-Cola asked for an independent audit at Crown BevCan in Turkey and, after reading the report, determined there were indeed “labour rights violations,” at which Özer chuckles because Coca-Cola is historically a massive labour rights violator across the globe. On the bright side, Özer and his fellow unionists will be at the bargaining table within a month. Here in Toronto, all the workers want is to get back to the table. Perhaps Crown employees should start praying for “an act of god.” 3 cynthiam@nowtoronto.com | @c ynthiajmcqueen
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Getting crafty about beer Rogers Centre takes flak over lack of local suds choices at Jays games By DAN GRANT
sponsorships and corporate dollars afford “a level of exclusivity.” This year the ball park decided to brand the games with Budweiser. Some history to put Beeston’s comments in context: When European mega-brewer Interbrew purchased Labatt in 1995, the goal was to get North American distribution for its portfolio – most notably Stella Artois. Controlled then by two Belgian aristocrats, the mega-brewer also picked up a controlling interest in the Blue Jays as part of its Canadian acquisition. Today, after mergers and acquisitions including one with the maker of Budweiser, Interbrew has become AnheuserBusch InBev, the world’s largest beer company. Although ABI no longer has an ownership interest in the Jays, it’s still a major sponsor of the team. The now Brazilian-Belgian conglomerate provides most of the stadium’s suds. Budweiser’s public relations firm gave me a number for Labatt’s communications people. That took me to the voice mail for someone who was on maternity leave until some time in 2015. I finally got an email through to someone who could reply to my five questions about Steam Whistle’s dismissal. “Best to direct your questions to the Blue Jays on this one” was her reply. My follow-up was duly ignored. I’ve lived most of my life in southern Ontario, so I’m not surprised when a Toronto professional sports franchise brushes off media and fans (even those who have supportively donned blue polyester since Roy Howell occupied third base). Considering that Interbrew stripped Jays fans of hope and the team of its dignity by slashing 40 per cent of the club’s payroll two years after it won backto-back World Series championships, its reluctance to comment is predictable. “Steam Whistle would absolutely love to have our beer back in the Rogers Centre someday,” says Taylor. As for Cacace, he’s also looking to the future, appealing to fans to support his petition in greater numbers. “I see it happening,” he declares while fist-pumping in tribute to Jays outfielder Melky Cabrera’s third homer of the young season. “The craft beer movement is just getting too big to be ignored.” The petition is available online at change.org and had 2,002 signatures at the time of writing. 3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto
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He’s bitter, to be sure. He’s indignant and he’s frustrated, but Phil Cacace still made his way to the Blue Jays’ home opener on April 4. When news spread in March that the Rogers Centre’s only Canadian-owned beer supplier was no longer welcome, Cacace launched an online petition imploring the Jays to show some love for local brewers. A few weeks into his campaign to shame Canada’s lone major league baseball franchise for cutting ties with craft beer, Cacace remains deeply loyal to the his home team. “I feel like it’s my birthright to cheer for the Jays,” says Cacace. “I was dry,” he recalls of watching that game. “Before and after, I was at Steam Whistle, but I didn’t buy a drink at the game.” Since opening Tallboys Craft Beer House in 2012, Cacace has been passionate about pairing this province’s brews – 70 labels, all Ontario-crafted – with baseball. He organizes two beer league softball clubs and sponsors Pitch Talks, “TED Talks with grass stains” in support of the Jays Care Foundation, which helps kids play ball. Inside Tallboys’ 838 Bloor West location, Jays games fill the screens, and sometimes you can even hear the audio over Cacace barking about Jays pitcher Drew Hutchison’s disappointing start or Yankees’ pitcher CC Sabathia’s waistline. The man is not a casual fan. “Deep down, it’s so infuriating. This is a team that should be an example to other businesses. People wear their colours everywhere. They should be leaders. Where’s the support from the Jays to us as a city?” he asks, refer-
ring to the Jays’ dropping Steam Whistle. The petition generated write-ups and radio play, TV and Twitter fame while directing some unflattering at tention toward the Blue Jays. “I feel responsible for CBC asking [Jays president and CEO Paul] Beeston, point blank about it,” the 29-year-old barman boasts. That may be the most interesting development. Less than two weeks before the start of the regular season, Steam Whistle was informed it could keep its kegs on the other side of Bremner Boulevard. A Rogers Centre rookie in 2013 (after years of tryouts), the neighbourhood brewery, which had occupied a lone concession on the 100 level, had done something so heinous, committed a crime so egregious, that it couldn’t – just could not – return for 2014. What was Steam Whistle’s offence? The brewery’s communications director, Sybil Taylor, confesses that it “tweeted a couple of times in the first week of the 2013 season” in reply to fans asking where to find Steam Whistle inside the cavernous 50,000-seat stadium. The brewer was “told by the Rogers Centre to cease that activity,” and it did. Steam Whistle’s contract forbade it to advertise any sort of association with the ball club. The company was aware of this but thought it had clearance from “some junior staff at the Dome that social media was fair game.” So why did it take Rogers 11 months to inform Steam Whistle that it was being evicted? Was it really just about the tweets? A message left for the Jays’ communications department by NOW went unanswered. Beeston’s wandering reply to CBC Radio Metro Morning host Matt Galloway might offer a more plausible explanation. The Jays CEO told Galloway that
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t’s not fashionable to use the word nowadays, even in the party he devoted his life to, but former NDP MP Dan Heap, who died Friday, April 25, was a socialist. For over three decades, his no-nonsense share-the-wealth theology and pacifism elevated activism and gave texture to the social change cause in this city – a legacy that endures to this day. As an ordained Anglican priest, in the Social Gospel tradition, he had an urgent mission to build the kingdom of God on earth, and he and his wife, Alice Heap, who died in 2012, crafted out of this a way to live with extraordinary meaning. The bicycle-riding theist with the oversized glasses and an ever-present
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beard was no warm-and-fuzzy. He was stubborn to a magnificent degree. He ran federally in Spadina in 1968 and lost. And a few years later made a provincial bid, again without success. Despite the fact that he was an Upper Canada College graduate, he worked for years in a box factory, believing, like many socialists of his generation, that to represent the working class you had to share their life struggles. In his early campaigns, he branded himself a “worker-priest.” In 1972 he was elected to city council in the old Ward 6, and in 1981 took the federal seat for Spadina. Pierre Trudeau had appointed former MP Peter Stollery to the Senate to make way for the PM’s lieutenant Jim Coutts in that riding, but Heap neatly foiled that plan. One long-time NDPer quipped at the time that the PM elevated Stollery just so Heap would have to buy a new suit. Fashion was definitely not his thing. The lesson of this political obstinacy was clear: identify your base and just keep organizing his heart out on every matter you care about. He served in the House until 1993, and never forgot he was there at the behest of the grassroots. Dan Heap deepened the way I saw politics. I worked on his campaigns and served on the Ward 6 NDP executive, but all that seemed less important than what I learned sitting in the living room of his house on Wales Avenue in Kensington Market. He and Alice built the riding association along parish lines – in the best sense. If someone needed consolation af ter a loss, care for a sick loved one, babysitting or baby clothes, the Heaps took to their prodigious Rolodex to find a communal solution. Their grand but definitely unstylish Victorian house harboured those without shelter and fed the hungry. Socialism in one riding. Once, they asked to borrow the beloved Volkswagen van I shared with my partner to go out of town. We would never have refused. That was how things worked in the Heap soviet. Too bad the van’s aging generator blew on the trip. By the same token, though, their political organizing was hardcore ruthless. Alice would soften the blow by serving lasagna. But once in the circle, expectations were high. Both were deadly serious about changing the world, and so you darned well better phone the list they’d given you or set up that meeting, because the poor of the planet couldn’t wait, and wars were raging. Dan – or Don, as Alice called him and he preferred – wasn’t a politico of rhetorical flourishes; he had a slow, deliberate way of talking, with eyes that hyper-focused on his listener. He was an impatient man forced to patience. Sometimes, as all who worked with him knew, he couldn’t avoid storms of temper. It’s daunting to think the issues we face today are the same ones he tackled so ferociously. As Immigration critic, he pushed for justice. As a pacifist, he opposed
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I knew Dan for 30 years and was always impressed with his ability to slice through BS. Whether as an MP advocating for refugee rights, a fellow arrestee blockading Bay Street or pouring blood on the steps of the legislature to protest Jim Flaherty’s killer cuts under the Harris regime, he was always searching for new ways to transform our social institutions. Both he and his wife, Alice, never failed to listen to those far younger and less experienced than they. It only came up accidentally in conversation once that Dan had joined marchers responding to Dr. King’s call to go to Selma in 1965. In our last conversation, he said Canada would never be a worthy nation if it did not deal honestly with its ongoing colonial crimes against First Nations. He was a real truth-seeker. Matthew Behrens, Homes Not Bombs
First time I voted for a winning candidate was for Dan Heap, and I was thrilled because Dan Heap was the real deal. He believed in the Social Gospel of the common good. He fought for the rights of those on the margins. Dan Heap walked the walk, and countless young activists followed.” Andrew Cash, Davenport NDP MP
Dan Heap was absolutely fierce in his commitments – sometimes to the point of being frightening in his dedication. Dan insisted on taking these values into the public square and never giving up. We may not always win – and sometimes we don’t even win very much at all – but Dan reminded us that if we don’t try we will surely lose every time. Dan’s lifetime of engagement started with a simple but thoroughly radical proposition formed out of his Christian (and decidedly Anglican) faith that every single person matters. Michael Shapcott, director of housing and innovation, the Wellesley Institute
In the early days there were few politi cians we could rely on. Dan was one of them. He often challenged us to reach beyond our “issue” to take on other causes. He left us better because of his work and example. Reverend Brent Hawkes, senior pastor, Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto
Dan Heap was a man of faith and action. He lived a life based on the principles of social justice. I will forever be indebted to him for inspiring me to get involved in politics and make a difference.
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Olivia Chow, former Trinity-Spadina NDP MP
U.S. militarism and Canadian participation in the Western war machine, campaigning to end NATO flights over Innu territory in Labrador – a major issue in the 80s. He was part of a group in the party urging Canada to leave NATO, an issue the NDP has not dealt with well (though Jack Layton, in grand Heap style, brilliantly opposed this country’s intervention in Afghanistan). A co-founder of Homes Not Hostels and the Toronto Disaster Relief Com mittee, Heap was arrested in 2000 with two others attempting an act of conscience: removing the sword from the cross outside St. Paul’s Anglican Church, to push the Church to oppose unjust wars. It’s no accident that Olivia Chow, once his constituency assistant, hailed him this week as her mentor. She and Layton built on the social base Heap
Once, he asked to borrow our beloved VW van. We would never have refused. That was how things worked in the Heap soviet. created in the Spadina area. They occupied that space between activism and parliamentary efficacy that the Anglican priest so deftly pioneered. If you listen closely to Chow today, you can hear echoes of the Heap influence, as in her inspired speech a few months back at the Bain Co-op anniversary where she celebrated communities that made a habit of sharing. At party conventions, Heap always supported resolutions in favour of what used to be called social ownership – the belief that the resources of the country should be used for the public good. It feels like an antiquated notion these days, when the conservative ethos has constrained so much of our thinking, and NDP strategists heed U.S. Democratic Party theorists and tap populist anxieties rather than sticking to egalitarian basics. This is purported to be a dexterous and necessary way to expand the party’s vote share beyond its core base, and it either works (see Nova Scotia) or it doesn’t (see also Nova Scotia). I don’t know how the former MP would have viewed all this. For the last several years, he tragically lacked the capacity to weigh these developments because of his Alzheimer’s, and we are all the worse for it. But his sad passing has left lots of us out here wishing there were more Heap-ism in our politics and in our everyday affairs. A life of meaning and a shared mission – there’s no greater bequest than that. 3 Ellie Kirzner is a contributing editor at NOW Magazine. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto A funeral mass and memorial service with a sing-song to follow will be held at the Church of the Holy Trinity (10 Trinity Square) on Sunday (May 4) at 2 pm.
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A little like her namesake, Julia Butterfly Hill – who got her middle name when a butterfly alighted on her finger and stayed there for a very long time – sat atop a redwood named Luna for two years in an act of civil disobedience. Her treetop protest successfully stopped clear-cutting by the Pacific Lumber Company in part of California in 1999. Not just one 1,500-yearold, 150-foot-tall California redwood, but an entire grove of ancient redwoods for 200 feet around was saved from destruction by Hill and her ground team. It’s no surprise that she sees but terflies’ pollinating work as a metaphor for her current mission in Toronto. She and teacher Mark Morey are giving inspirational talks in support of the PINE Project, an initiative that promotes reconnection with nature for children and their families. I attended one of these talks at the University of Toronto’s OISE auditorium on Earth Day, April 22. Hill says her “big awakening” happened while she lived in Luna. “I realized that the world and the external landscape are the mirrors,” she says. They reflect “the wounds that exist within us first.” She believes that every issue in our lives “is a symptom of the disease of disconnection.” She speaks loudly. Her voice is deep and barky and makes no concession to the microphone she’s using. She might still be talking from the top of that tree. The
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power of natural interconnectedness comes from the redwoods themselves. “These trees grow to be 200 to 300 feet tall, and sometimes the roots only go 6 or 7 feet deep. How do they stand? They weave their roots together. They hold each other up.” A year after she left Luna, someone sawed through two-thirds of the base of the tree. An expert on redwoods believed the damage was irre versible and expected most of the tree to die. That hasn’t been the case. Thirteen years later, there is no significant damage. “Luna is covered in completely new green growth all the way around the tree every spring.” How did Luna survive? “I went back, and I noticed that when certain younger tree sprouts from the same root system were going through their growth spurts, they became stunted. And as I was sitting there meditating with the forest that day, I realized those trees were actually sending water and nu trients to Luna.” If chaos theorists are right, hypo thesizing that one small change can have huge impacts – that the flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause a hurricane on the other side of the world – there’s no reason to fear that Hill’s words won’t have an effect. There must have been 300 people of all ages at the talk, who will tell people who will tell people, and so the circle expands. It’s the butterfly effect. 3 Robert Priest is the author of Rosa Rose (Wolsak & Wynn), which contains a poem about Julia Butterfly Hill. news@nowtoronto. com | @nowtoronto
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waveforms her voice makes on my recording device are four times the size of those made by Morey, her cospeaker. You might think, from her Californian accent, that she’s a bit New Agey. But she’s not flakey. She urges those in attendance to do their best to occu py “the edge.” There’s definitely a bit of a wounded tree spirit about her. She speaks of being a sensitive child with a violent upbringing and how that made her unfeeling and unloving. There’s something shattered and remade about her. That’s not surprising when you discover that her activism, which she calls “holistic health practice,” began after a steering wheel pierced her skull in a car crash. “It woke me up to the importance of the moment and doing whatever I could to make a positive impact on the future. The steering wheel in my head, both figuratively and literally, steered me in a new direction in my life.” That’s not to say she doesn’t also get off a few well-turned zingers, my favourite being “Don’t watch the tele vision. Go out into the community and tell a vision.” Both she and Morey do this ably, telling the vision of a powerful new healing energy arising from those who reconnect with nature, especially children. The best imagery for the healing
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Asked by a skeptical reporter why she thinks she could persuade the province to chip in for TTC operating funds, mayoral candidate Olivia Chow said, “Well, because it’s right. It’s just, and the people of Toronto deserve no less.” Indeed, when it comes to transit funding, the simplest solution – having the provincial and federal governments pay their fair share – is almost certainly the correct one. But it’s also deeply unsatisfying, since making an appeal to Queen’s Park and Ottawa’s sense of moral responsibility toward Toronto is not an especially reliable source of anything. Far more intriguing, however, is that Chow looks to be laying the foundation for a future in which such an explanation does not come across as eye-rollingly absurd. In a speech to the Toronto Region Board of Trade on Tuesday, April 29, Chow repeated a statistic so striking
that it properly calls into question Toronto’s masochistic relationship with the other levels of government. The TTC’s daily ridership, she observed, is greater than the populations of nine of Canada’s provinces and territories. Only British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec and, of course, Ontario are larger. “We and our fellow urban dwellers are the face of Canada,” Chow said. “And we – in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Winnipeg and Montreal, Halifax, Mississauga – deserve to be heard when we speak about an urban agenda. Because an urban agenda is a Canadian agenda, too.” She continued by listing various projects (“a highway in Manitoba ... a harbour in Atlantic Canada”) that taxes from large cities help fund. She then turned it around and stated the plain fact that the money we pay to the federal government should be available to assist our own needs as well.
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This much isn’t new. Canada’s stronger big-city mayors have been hammering at the same points for years. What distinguishes Chow’s approach is that she refashions this story of anti-urban inequity into a message aimed largely at the working class, and immigrants in particular. “Our city alone has more people than Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New foundland and the territories combined. More people pass by Valerie’s bakery every day than visit our most beautiful mountains,” she said, referring to an anecdote she’d shared about a woman working in a bakery near Jane and Wilson who was dismayed by the quality of the local bus service. Much as she’s playing for the same authenticity-seeking voters who threw in with Rob Ford last time – those who support candidates they believe care about their interests, whether it’s Ford or Jack Layton – she’s trying to redirect their resentment toward more productive goals. That is: there are things that are unfair. There are people screwing you over and not giving you what you deserve, but the injustice isn’t rooted in an internal struggle between factions of Torontonians, it’s a hegemony enforced from the outside. If the history of Canada is a history of convoluted, overlapping regional grievances, perhaps it’s no surprise that there’s a situation where cities are both powerful and ignored, influential and marginalized. Stoking a constituency’s sense of entitlement is hardly a risky move in politics, but empowerment is impor tant. Cultivating an urban pride that stretches across landscapes, neighbourhoods and economic brackets is a key step in building a movement that achieves meaningful recognition and results. “So as your new mayor, in my first meeting with the premier, I will ask this,” Chow said: “‘Why does the pro vince help pay GO Transit operating costs, but not TTC operating costs?’” To which we can easily imagine PC leader Tim Hudak laughing in her face. But even Liberal premier Kathleen Wynne and NDP leader Andrea Horwath would let out a nervous chuckle, since, like Chow, they’re on a constant quest for the exact balance of populism and intellectualism that will win the most votes. Their populism, however, is often counter to Toronto’s interests. “No one in London or Sudbury is going to be expected to pay for specific projects in Toronto,” Wynne emphasized in her own Board of Trade speech two weeks earlier. She didn’t feel the need to explicate the opposite – but no one in Toronto would ask her to. Contrast with Chow: “When the Arctic needs a highway, our taxes and those generated by cities like us help build it. As we should.” It’s not a complaint. It’s an awareness of a shared obligation. 3 jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie
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Lakeshorts International Short Film Festival Films from the arts community in
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up performances, music and more with rock band the Darcys, art historian John Armstrong and others. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net. Art As Therapy With John Armstrong The art historian lead a workshop in conjunction with the exhibition Art As Therapy. 2-5 pm. $70. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. Pre-register 416-979-6608, ago.net.
Collecting And Curating Photographs: Between Private And Public Collections
Symposium for collectors, curators and scholars. To May 3. Rogers Communication Centre, Eaton Lecture Theatre, 80 Gould. Pre-register ryerson.ca/ric/lectures/symposium14.html.
Community Bicycle Network Open House
The org celebrates with info on events and partnerships. Noon-9 pm. Free. 761 Queen W. 416-504-2918, communitybicylenetwork.org. First Aid With Homeopathic Medicine Seminar. 7 pm. Free (first come first served basis). Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. Infant Sleep Workshop Interactive seminar for new parents. 6:30-8 pm. $10. Baby on the Hip, 969 Queen E. Pre-register info@ babyonthehip.ca. 5Kink 101 Experienced BDSM players and educators host. 10 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. blackeagletoronto.com.
Let’s Grow Food: Beginner Garden Design
Workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net.
Looting In Egypt Then And Now – Robbery, Re-Use And Recycling From Antiquity To Today Presentation by Egyptologist Monica
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Art Of The Danforth Festival of public art with large-scale installations throughout the neigbourhood. Free. Danforth from Greenwood to Woodbine. artofthedanforth.com. May 2 to 11 For The Love Of Comedy Screenings of comedy films from 1914 to 1964. $50-$65, wknd pass $150. Carlton Cinema, 20 Carlton. 416-785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com. May 2 to 4 Jane’s Walk Urban walks and storytelling in various neighourhoods pay tribute to urban thinker, writer and activist Jane Jacobs and promote walkable cities. Free. janeswalk.net. May 2 to 4
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and sale. To May 8. Milk Glass Co, 1247 Dundas W. colourfuldichotomy.com. Musical Charity Event (MedLife mobile medical clinics in Peru) Performances by Shannon Kelly, the Otterboxers and Quarter Step Down. 8:30 pm. $10. 3030 3030 Dundas W. 3030dundaswest.com. Right To Play Ball (Right to Play) Gala fundraiser with comedian Russell Peters, an auction and more. 9 pm. $175. Shangri-La Hotel, 188 University. therighttoplayball.ca. Used Book Sale (Regis College) Gently used paperbacks and hardcovers. To May 3, 10 am-7 pm. Free admission. Regis College, 100 Wellesley W. regiscollege.ca/booksale.
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Festivals this week
Contact Toronto’s month-long photog-
raphy festival features exhibitions, public installations, workshops, portfolio reviews, talks and more. Most shows free. Various venues. contactphoto.com. May 1 to 31
Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & TransHanna. 7 pm. $30, adv $20, stu $15. Arts and Letters Club, 15 Elm. e ventbrite.ca. Market 707 Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. 3-7 pm. Free. 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/market_707. 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/.
NoJets TO General Meeting Recap of last
city council meeting and talk on growing the campaign. 6:30-8:30 pm. Pwyc. St Clement’s Anglican Church, 70 St Clements. nojetsto.ca. Opera Connect Dramatic soprano Sondra Radvanovsky talks about her career with CBC Radio’s Brent Bambury. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
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mission Art New Adventures in Sound Art presents performances, installations, radio broadcasts, artist talks and the Radio Without Boundaries Conference. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. deepwireless.ca. May 1 to 31 Mayworks Festival of working people and the arts with film, video, theatre, cabaret, poetry, forums, workshops and more. Various prices, many events free. Various venues. mayworks.ca. May 1 to 15
SheDot Festival Stand-up, sketch, improv, workshops and more to celebrate funny femmes from T.O. and abroad. $12-$15, pass $30, gala $35. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. shedotfestival.com. May 1 to 4 Toronto Jewish Film Festival Screenings of more than 90 films from 15 countries plus talks and more. $13, opening night $20, stu/srs $9, wkday mats $8. Various cinemas. 416-324-9121, tjff.com. May 1 to 11
tation For Action On Climate Change Talks by Green Party MP Bruce Hyer, author Linda McQuaig and others. 7 pm. Free. Metro Hall, rm 308, 55 John. electoralalliance.ca. Provenance And Prejudice Discussion on how notions of origin, globalization and authenticity affect our patterns of consumption. 7 pm. $20. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. consciousconsumption.ca. 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. This Is Not Your Nonno’s Grappa! Lecture and tasting. 6:30 pm. Free. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. Pre-register 416-921-3802.
Friday, May 2
Benefits
Rosetta Trio (Raven Trust) Benefit concert
for Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs. 8 pm. $15, stu $10. 80 Gladstone. raventrust.com. Spring Bazaar (Central Eglinton Community Centre) Pop-up show with vintage goods, jewellery, cosmetics, books and more. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. c entraleglinton.com.
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Beach Spring Studio Tour Self-guided tour of 14 artist and craft studios in the Beach. To May 4. Free. Details at beachstudiotour.ca. CCONTACT Festival Launch Party to kick off the photo fest. 7-10 pm. Free. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. CContact Festival Launch After-Party
Dance party wth old school and new school DJs. 10 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. Dr Sketchy’s Cabaret Life Drawing Life drawing with Kassandra Love. 7-10 pm. $10. Round Venue, 152A Augusta. drsketchy.com. Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with a Party Of The Century theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.
south Etobicoke and international shorts. $35, stu $15, pass $85, gala $60. Assembly Hall, 1 Colonel Samuel Smith Park. lakeshorts.ca. May 2 to 3 rSpring Toad Festival Wetland festival with an outdoor exhibit, lessons on tracking wildlife, froggy games, kids’ activities and more. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929. May 3 to 4
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Hot Docs North America’s largest documentary festival featuring Canadian and international films plus a conference and market. Various venues. h otdocs.ca. To May 4 Tangled Art + Disability Festival Performances by Krip-Hop Nation, Workman Arts, Split Bitches, Les Productions des pieds de mains and others. Free-$25. Various venues. abilitiesartsfestival.org. To May 23 International No Pants Day Protest May holiday that celebrates not taking yourself seriously. Noon. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. nopantssociety.com. A Magical Journey Through The Chakras
Bio-energy healing seminar with bio-energy trainer Michael D’Alton. 6 pm. Free. Best Western Primrose Hotel, 111 Carlton. Pre-register energyseminartoronto.eventbrite.ca.
Sexuality And Sexual Expression In LongTerm Care Homes Talk by Baycrest psychiatrist Kenneth Schwartz. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Auditorium, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7168. The Tar & Feathering Party An installation party kicks off the Danforth Festival. 9 pm. Free. 1803 Danforth. artofthedanforth.com.
Saturday, May 3
Benefits
Acupuncture For A Cause (Groundswell
Community Justice Trust Fund) Fundraiser for community initiatives. 10 am-6 pm. $30 suggested donation. 1110 Sheppard E, suite 402. Pre-register bit.ly/1gs4WmR. rAfternoon Family Fun (Bazou 5) Performances by Soli & Rob, Marni’s Move-N-Music and Njacko Backo. 3-5 pm. $10 or pwyc. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Civil Liberties 50th Anniversary Gala (Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc) Performance by Arraymusic Ensemble, Axé Capoeira Toronto,
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Champion Mindfulness In Education Meeting on finding the right mindfulness program. 2-5 pm. Free. OISE, rm 4-422, 252 Bloor W. discovermindfulness.ca.
Feedback Loops: Specculative Fiction Writing Workshop with sci-fi writer Karl
Schroeder. 10:30 am-2:30 pm. $100. Harbourfont Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4760, info@ifoa.org. Global Marijuana March The annual march for medical and recreational cannabis supporters. Gather at noon, march at 2 pm. Free. Starts behind the Queen’s Park Legislative Bldg, see website for route and details. globalmarijuanamarch.ca.
Incremental Strategies For Vertical Neighbourhoods Design workshop and lecture on
the evolution of Thorncliffe Park by architect Filipe Balestra. 9:30 am-5 pm. $15, stu $10. Ryerson U, 325 Church. eventbrite.ca. Intro to Bellydance Workshop with Yasmina Ramzy. 2:30-3:30 pm. Free. Arabesque, 1 Gloucester, suite 107. a rabesquedance.ca.
rMay The Force Be With You Star Wars cele-
bration for kids seven and up, with activities, games and more. 2 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710. rMother’s Day Crafts Learn to dye fabric using natural dyes and make an item for mom. 11 am-5 pm. $5. Tollkeepers Cottage Museum, 750 Davenport. tollkeeperscottage.ca. 5The New Wave Info session for people 19 or older interested in learning more about the leather community. 5-8 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. blackeagletoronto.com.
rOntario Model Soldiers’ Society Show And Sale Casting and painting demos, dis-
plays of figures, dioramas and toy soldiers for sale. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907. rROM Revealed Self-guided behind-thescenes tours, learning labs, a colloquium, family activities and more. Today and tomorrow. Free (reserve for tours). Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.
The Search For A Jewish Horror Film: Golems, Dybbuks And Other Movie Monsters
Talk by film scholar Mikel Koven. 7:45 pm. Free. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. rSkateboarding Picnic A skateboard and BMX jam, prizes, food trucks and more. Today and tomorrow Noon-8 pm. Free. Ashbridges Bay Skatepark, Coxwell and Lake Shore. 416598-4192, hogtownextreme.com.
Spring Awakening – Unravel The Mysteries Of Mulching And Pruning Workshop. 1:303:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. A Tribute To Norman Bethune Commemorating the 75th anniversary of Bethune’s death with professor Adrian Shubert, MP Carolyn Bennett and other speakers. 2-4 pm. Free. Frontier College, 35 Jackes. Pre-register mroberts@frontiercollege.ca.
Walking The Don: 200 Years Of Change Along The River Walking tour. 11 am. Free.
Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.
Journalists And Editors In 19th Century Toronto Walking tour. 10 am-noon. Free.
Sunday, May 4
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Toronto Mandarin MS Walk (Multiple
Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. 416-392-6915.
Namsa Leuba talk about their work in the exhibition Material Self: Performing The Other Within. 11:30 pm. Free. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.
Benefits
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Canada’s largest and oldest labour arts festival, Mayworks, kicks off with a rally marking International Worker’s Day. May Day unites people’s struggles for self-determination and liberation. Show your solidarity with grassroots organizations working for the collective creation of a just world, for migrant workers’ rights and in support of indigenous people’s struggles. City Hall, Queen and Bay, Thursday (May 1), 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Free. m ayworks.ca.
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Hopefully you’re not too fried from walk in support of child and youth mental health and well-being. Woodbine Park, Coxwell and Lake Shore E. 1-800-268-2302, walksokidscantalk.com.
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All In A Mother’s Day Historic cooking and Victorian lifestyle workshop. 12:30-3:30 pm. $20. Mackenzie House, 82 Bond. Pre-register 416-392-6915. All Quiet On The Waterfront: Noise Pollution And Urban Development In Toronto
Guided discussion on the impact of waterfront projects including the Gardiner Expressway and Toronto Island airport. 10:30 amnoon. Free. Meet at the Music Garden pavilion stage, 479 Queens Quay W. janeswalk.org. Brains, Words & Voices Poetry recitation contest with pre-1975 poems recited from memory before an audience for a cash prize. 6:30 pm. Turotino, 109 Niagara, buzzer #007. therotarydial.ca/brainswordsandvoices.
A Creative Canadian Life: A Reminiscence
the 420 celebrations, because it’s time to burn one down again for the Global Marijuana March. Herb, the lovable green-plush marijuana mascot, helps lead the annual march for medical and recreational cannabis access. Gather at noon behind the Queen’s Park Legislature on Saturday (May 3) at 2 pm. Free. globalmarijuanamarch.ca.
TIE ONE ON FOR THE HOMELESS For over three decades, Homes First has been finding safe living spaces for homeless people. Its work is far from done. Help keep the org going strong by supporting the Tie One On funder Wednesday (May 7) from 6 to 9 pm.
Talk by filmmaker/novelist Paul Almond. 10:10-11 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664. DJ & Collectors Vintage Record Sale Disco, rock, Afro, Jazz, Latin, electro and more. 10 am-4 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. rDownsview Reptile Expo Live reptiles and amphibians, demos, talks by experts, vendors and more. 9 am-4 pm. $5-$10, under 5 free. Downsview Park, 40 Carl Hall. r eptileexpo.ca.
CHidden Image: Photography + Abstraction Panel discussion with artists including Laurie Kang and Jim Verburg. 2 pm. Free. Drake Hotel Underground, 1150 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. In The Footsteps Of The Taylors Walking tour of East York. 1 pm. Free. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819.
International Family Visibility Day Picnic
Parachute games, giant bubbles, cooperative games and more. Bring food appropriate to
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Damian Rogers and others. 8 pm. $30, adv $25. Trinity St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. ccla.org. Cn Tower Climb (World Wildlife Fdn) Climb the famous 1,776 steps and help save species and habitat. Pledges. CN Tower, 301 Front W. Pre-register at wwf.ca/cntower. Fundraising Concert (Bazou 5) Performances by Afrafranto, Drumhand and Njacko Backo. 9 pm. $20 or pwyc. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. May Sale (Humbercrest United Church) Collectibles, giftware, paintings, jewellery books, DVDs, sports equipment, clothing and more. 8:30 am-12:30 pm. 0.25. Humbercrest United Church, 16 Baby Point. h umbercrest.ca. Spring Into Action (Sunnybrook Hospital Fdn) Two, five and 10K walk or run for diabetes. 9 am-2 pm. Donation. Sunnybrook Park, Leslie and Eglinton. insideoutstudio.ca/events.
Bid on Chris Hatfield’s tie and support Homes First, May 7.
Hear live music and bid on ties donated by celebs including Chris Hatfield, Reese Witherspoon and Margaret Atwood. $50 at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst). t ieoneonto.com. your family. 11 am-3 pm. Christie Pits Park. Pre-register lgtbqpn.ca/IFVD. Pathways To Intimacy Workshop on creating healthy relationships. 10 am-6 pm. $75, adv $60. Arcadia Artists’ Co-op, 680 Queens Quay W. Pre-register ontario-office@hai.org. CPictures From Paradise Panel discussion with curator Melanie Archer and others. 6 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. ProfTalks Ten award-winning Canadian and American professors including Joe Schwarcz and Diana K McDonald lecture on literature, history, music, art, science and more. 9:30 am4:15 pm. $239. Metro Convention Centre, 222 Bremner. proftalks.ca. Sand Dune Conservation Illustrated talk by ecologist Patrick Donnelly. 2:30 pm. Free. Northrop Frye Bldg, rm 103, 73 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org. rSharing Dance Day Dance and musical continued on page 27 œ
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performances by Ballet Creole, Samba Squad and others plus ballet, hip-hop and Bollywood classes. 2-4 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. sharingdance.ca. Then And Now Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. 2 pm. Free. In front of the ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.
The Walls Are Alive With The Sound Of Mad
People Theatrical walking tour about the CAMH patient-built wall. Noon. Free. SW Corner, Queen West at Shaw. janeswalk.org. MWomen’s Labour History Walking tour. 10-11:30 am. Free. NW corner College and Spadina. m ayworks.ca.
Monday, May 5 David Lynch In Nayman’s Terms Film clips &
talk by critic Adam Nayman. 7 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. mnjcc.org. MThe Struggle For Economic Justice May Day celebration with a performance by Nomanzland and a panel discussion on the $14 minimum wage campaign and more. 6:30 pm. Free. York Woods Library, 1785 Finch W. mayworks.ca. Trampoline Hall Mini-lectures curated by Erica Kopyto, hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.
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Benefits
Jammin’ At The Rex (Shakarongo Arts & Youth Academy in Zambia) Benefit concert. 6 pm. $50, stu $10. Rex, 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. Karyn L Freedman (Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape) Launching her memoir One Hour In Paris: A True Story Of Rape And Recovery with comedian Elvira Kurt and live music. 7:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/events/775214982498141. Shake It Up! (Essential Tremor Toronto) Performances by classical violinist Moshe Hammer. 8 pm. $60. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. eventbrite.ca.
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Don Valley Art Club Spring show Reception May 7, 7-9 pm. To May 18. Free. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. donvalleyartclub.com. Filled With Nature: Exploring The Environmental History Of Downtown Toronto
Presentation. 7 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Heart of Toronto Guided ROM walk exploring the city halls and more. 6 pm. Free. Doors of City Hall, Queen and Bay. rom.on.ca. KRRNY And The Royal Yorkers United Empire Loyalists presentation. 7:30 pm. Free. St David’s Towers Community Room, 51 Donlands. uelgovsimcoe.org. Meditation Class for the experienced or for newbs. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ralphthornton.org. The Monkey Queen Storyteller Diana Tso retells the ancient Chinese myth of the Monkey King. 2 pm. Free. Spadina Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416-393-7666.
Myths And Truths About Genetic Heredity In Cancer Café Scientifique discussion. 6-8 pm. Free (reserve on eventbrite.ca). Duke of York Pub, 39 Prince Arthur. Pre-register info@ oicr.on.ca.
1001 Great Gardening Tips – 100 At A Time
Etobicoke Horticultural Soc talk. 8-9:30 pm. Free. Lambton Kingsway Jr Middle School, 525 Prince Edward. g ardenontario.org.
Single Dads, Separated Dads, Divorced Dads Q&A and support group meeting. 7 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626.
Springtime On The Farm: Sensational Sheep’s Milk Cheeses & Great Goats Cheese
and wine tasting. 7-8:30 pm. $45. All the Best, 1101 Yonge. Pre-register allthebestfinefoods. com. Tell Me Something Good Sexy storytelling slam. 8 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. CTony Beck The artist discusses his approach to wildlife photography. 6:30 pm. Free. St Paul’s United Church, 300 Bloor W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. The Walrus Talks Human Rights Discussion on the state of human rights in Canada and the world, with poet Mustafa Ahmed, journalist/musician Wab Kinew and others. 7 pm. $20, stu $12. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. walrustalkshumanrights.eventbrite.ca.
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Dance class and dancing with Bees Knees. 7:15 pm. $15, stu/srs $10, under 14 $5. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. volunteerwbca@gmail.com. Cool Nordic Best of Nordic design, architecture cuisine, music by Norweigian singer Marie Munroe and more. 10 pm. Spoke Club, 600 King W. emb-norway.ca. Don Quichotte Canadian Opera Co talk. 7-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.
Thursday, May 8
rBoogie At The Barns: The Charleston
Expedition Cruises: Antarctica, Galapagos & More Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. atcadventure.com.
CStories And Pictures Lecture by art writ-
ers James Estrin and Cheryl Newman. 6 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. Web Junkie Rendezvous With Madness presents a film screening and panel discussion as part of Mental Health Week. 7 pm. $12. Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin. w ebjunkierwm. eventbrite.ca.
Wednesday, May 7
Benefits
Double Up! (Art Gallery of Mississauga) Gala
auction of art by David Blackwood, Lila Lewis Irving, Ed Pien, Tazeen Qayyum and many others plus music and fashion. 6 pm. $75. Art Gallery of Mississauga, 300 City Centre. artgalleryofmississauga.com. Tie One On (Homes First) Live music and an auction of ties by celebrities including Chris Hadfield, Reese Witherspoon and Margaret Atwood. 6-9 pm. $50. The Hoxton, 69 Bathurst. tieoneonto.com. Ultimate Food Challenge (Daily Bread Food Bank) Chefs Donna Dooher and Daniel Mezzolo compete for best dish before a panel of judges. 6 pm. $150. Corus Quay, 25 Dockside. ultimatefoodchallenge.com.
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rCelebrate Mom Mother’s Day activities for kids of all ages. 4-6 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5125. Chinatown: Then And Now Historic walk with author Arlene Chan. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Spadina & Dundas W. heritagetoronto.org/
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For The Love Of Lobster (St Felix Centre) Gala Maritime lobster supper with live East Coast music, games, a silent auction and more. 6 pm. $150. 131 McCaul. stfelixcentre.ca.
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MFood, Land And Colonialism Screening of Cass Gardiner’s film the Edible Indian and poetry by feminist activist Ghadeer Malek. 6 pm. $10 or pwyc. Friends House, 60 Lowther. mayworks.ca. Gluten Free? Good Grief! Seminar on learning to live with gluten sensitivity. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. 5Helen Lenskyj Talking about her book Sexual Diversity And The Sochi Olympics: No More Rainbows. 2 pm. Free. Eatonville Library, 430 Burnhamthorpe. Pre-register 416-394-5270. Let’s Grow Food: Intermediate Garden Design Workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding
scale). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net. Love Art Fair Event to educate the public on owning art, with original paintings, prints, sculptures and photographs. Thu & Sun 11 am-6 pm (Thu gala 6-9 pm), Fri-Sat 11 am-7 pm. To May 11. $12, stu/srs $10, under 12 free. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. loveartfair.com/toronto.
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The Perception & Reality Of “Imported Conflict” In Canada Panel discussion with
lawyer John Monahan, diaspora studies professor Rima Berns-McGown and others. 7 pm. $5. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. noorculturalcentre.ca.
Solo Travel: 6 Things You Absolutely Must Travel author/blogger Janice Waugh
shares her knowledge. 7-8 pm. Free. Spadina Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416-393-7666. Spring Birding Two-part workshop and guided hike. Today 7-9 pm; May 11, 7:30-9:30 am. $45, adv $40. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. Teen Talent Night Stand-up comedy, poetry, music and more from youth 12 to 19. 6 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416395-5710. 3
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3. Trout Rainwear Humboldt rain jacket ($535, troutrainwear.com)
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5. Smythe Spring Watch jacket ($495, Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor West, 416-9222333, and others, holtrenfrew.com)
Indie jewellery shop Elle Hardware (695 Queen West, 416-360-0333, ellehardware.com) is donating 10 per cent of May sales to Rethink Breast Cancer, which supports young adults affected by breast cancer through education and research. We suggest local designer Liana Marie’s elegant Kensington necklace ($124.99) and Orelia’s Crystal Pave stud earrings ($24.99). 3
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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “Dear Astrologer:
We Aries people have an intense fire burning inside us. It’s an honour and a privilege. We’re lucky to be animated with such a generous share of the big energy that gives life to all of nature. But sometimes the fire gets too wild and strong for us. We can’t manage it. It gets out of our control. That’s how I’m feeling lately. These beloved flames that normally move me and excite me are now the very thing that’s making me crazy. What to do? – Aries.” Dear Aries: Learn from what firefighters do to fight forest fires. They use digging tools to create wide strips of dirt around the fire, removing all the flammable brush and wood debris. When the fire reaches this path, it’s deprived of fuel. Close your eyes and visualize that scene.
Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 “My personal
philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.” So said Taurus-born Edwin Land, the man who invented the Polaroid camera. I have a feeling these might be useful words for you to live by between your birthday in 2014 and your birthday in 2015. In the coming 12 months, you will have the potential of homing in on a dream that will fuel your passions for years. It may seem to be nearly impossible, but that’s exactly what will excite you about it so much – and keep you going for as long as it takes to actually accomplish.
Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 I wish there was a way you could play around with con-
struction equipment for a few hours. I’d love it if you could get behind the wheel of a bulldozer and flatten a small hill. It would be good for you to use an excavator to destroy a decrepit old shed or clear some land of stumps and dead trees. Metaphorically speaking, that’s the kind of work you need to do in your inner landscape: move around big, heavy stuff; demolish outworn structures; reshape the real estate to make way for new building projects.
Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 In the Transformers movies, Optimus Prime is a giant extraterrestrial warrior robot. His body contains an array of weapons that he uses for righteous causes, like protecting Earth’s creatures. His character is voiced by actor Peter Cullen. Cullen has also worked extensively for another entertainment franchise, Winnie the Pooh. He does the vocals for Eeyore, a gloomy donkey who writes poetry and has a pink ribbon tied in a bow on his tail. Let’s make Cullen your role model for now. I’m hoping this will inspire you to get the Eeyore side of your personality to work together with the Optimus Prime part of you. What’s that you say? You don’t have an Optimus Prime part of you? Well, that’s what Eeyore might say, but I say different. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Do you finally under-
stand that you don’t have to imitate the stress-addled workaholics and selfwounding overachievers in order to be as proficient as they are? Are you coming to see that if you want to fix, heal, and
Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 The U.S. military change the world around you, you have to fix, heal, and change yourself? Is it becoming clear that if you hope to gain more power to shape the institutions you’re part of, you’ve got to strengthen your power over yourself? Are you ready to see that if you’d like to reach the next level of success, you must dissolve some of your fears of success?
Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 “Beauty is the
purgation of superfluities,” said Michelangelo. Do you agree? Could you make your life more marvellous by giving up some of your trivial pursuits? Would you become more attractive if you got rid of one of your unimportant desires? Is it possible you’d experience more lyrical grace if you sloughed off your irrelevant worries? I suggest you meditate on questions like these, Virgo. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, experiencing beauty is not a luxury right now, but rather a necessity. For the sake of your mental, physical, and spiritual health, you need to be in its presence as much as possible.
Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 I’m pretty sure God wants you to be rich. Or at least richer. And I know for a fact that I want you to be richer. What about you? Do you want to be wealthier? Or at least a bit more flush? Or would you rather dodge the spiritual tests you’d have to face if you became a money magnet? Would you prefer to go about your daily affairs without having to deal with the increased responsibilities and obligations that would
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come with a bigger income? I suspect you will soon receive fresh evidence about these matters. How you respond will determine whether or not you’ll be able to take advantage of new financial opportunities that are becoming available. budget this year is $633 billion. In comparison, the United Nations’ peacekeeping budget is $7.8 billion. So my country will spend 81 times more to wage war than the UN will spend to make peace. I would prefer it if the ratio were reversed, but my opinion carries no weight. It’s possible, though, that I might be able to convince you Scorpios, at least in the short run, to place a greater emphasis on cultivating cooperation and harmony than on being swept up in aggression and conflict. You might be tempted to get riled up over and over again in the coming weeks, but I think that would lead you astray from living the good life.
Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 Actor Mat-
thew McConaughey prides himself on his willingness to learn from his mistakes and failures. A few years ago he collected and read all the negative reviews that critics had ever written about his work in films. It was “an interesting kind of experiment,” he told Yahoo News. “There was some really good constructive criticism.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, now would be an excellent time for you to try an experiment comparable to McConaughey’s. Be brave!
Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “Dear Oracle: I might be hallucinating, but recently I swear my pet iguana has been getting turned on whenever I disrobe in front of it. My naked body seems to incite it to strut around and make guttural hissing sounds and basically act like it’s doing a mating dance. Is it me, or is the planets? I
think my iguana is a Capricorn like me. Captivating Capricorn.” Dear Capricorn: Only on rare occasions have I seen you Capricorns exude such high levels of animal magnetism as you are now. Be careful where you point that stuff! I won’t be shocked if a wide variety of creatures finds you extra alluring.
Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 “Eat like you
love yourself,” advises author Tara Stiles. “Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” Those four prescriptions should be top priorities for you, Aquarius. Right now, you can’t afford to treat your beautiful organism with even a hint of carelessness. You need to upgrade the respect and compassion and reverence you give yourself. So please, breathe like you love yourself. Sleep and dream like you love yourself. Think like you love yourself. Make love like you love yourself.
Pisces Feb 19 | Mar 20 If blindfolded, most people can’t tell the difference between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. But I bet you could, at least this week. Odds are good that you will also be adept at distinguishing between genuine promises and fake ones. And you will always know when people are fooling themselves. No one will be able to trick you into believing in hype, lies or nonsense. Why? Because these days you are unusually perceptive and sensitive and discerning. This might on occasion be a problem, of course, since you won’t be able to enjoy the comfort and consolation that illusions can offer. But mostly it will be an asset, providing you with a huge tactical advantage and lots of good material for jokes. Homework: Think of the last person you cursed, if only with a hateful thought if not an actual spell. Now send them a free-hearted blessing. freewillastrology.com
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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL
WIPE ’N’ SWIPE: the dirt on cleaning cloths
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They’re not über-greenly upcycled from torn-up Ts like old-fashioned rags, but today’s polyester/nylon/polyamide cleaning cloths promise to get your house spic ’n’ span with plain water and no chemical spritzing. So how do they measure up?
ENJO
I know plenty of people who love their Enjo cloths (and no doubt they’ll loudly protest this ranking). But these Austrian-made products are outlandishly priced out of most people’s budget – especially since the cleaning process requires two items per room. You need to buy a fleecy wet glove ($49) and a drying wipe ($36) for kitchen and bathroom, plus a kitchen scrub ($35) and dust glove ($49). My take: you’ll need less elbow grease with a basic sponge and natural cleaning cream for scummy tubs, and cleaning cloths for everything else. $35-$49.
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NORWEX
With their army of “consultants,” these guys are like the Avon of synthetic microfibre cleaning cloths. To keep cloths from harbouring bacteria, Norwex famously embeds them with antibacterial microsilver rather than controversial nano-silver (a smaller particle). The company insists its cloths don’t leach silver (a pesticide) into waterways. But microfibre cloths have been shown to remove 99.9 per cent of bacteria from surfaces with or without silver, thanks to their weave. Norwex has separate cloths for kitchens, “regular” cleaning, windows and stainless steel surfaces, plus dusting mitts. All effective, except it gets pricey and annoying to keep track of which is which. Made in China (though “made fairly”). $16.
E-CLOTH
Thankfully, E-Cloth has ditched the antibacterial nano silver in most of its microfibre cloths. Very similar to Norwex (both do the job well with just water), except these European cloths are made in Korea instead of China. And as with Norwex, there are now way too many cloths for separate functions (stovetop, stainless steel, polishing, electronics, bathroom, shower), which is a bit of a cash grab, though the added scrubbing corner on the kitchen cloths makes them a better multi-use performer in my opinion. $8.
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These are awesome for a one-cloth, streak-free shine on surfaces like stainless steel, glass or buffing up a sink. Again, no cleaners required. The company, which makes the cloths in the U.S., claims they can be used on heavyduty surfaces like cars, too, but I haven’t tried that. My mom likes these for dusting. My mother-in-law’s a big fan, too. However, they’re far less durable then other cloths and tend to get balled up after half a year of launder ing, so we’re docking a point. $6.
A family favourite – and it’s made in Canada (in BC)! My mom’s had hers for over five years and swears it holds up best over time. (Just boil it now and then, like with other microfibre cloths.) Love that you’re not expected to buy five different cloths for different functions; Blue Wonder’s Classic Cloth will do windows, glass, stovetops, pots and pans, cars, electronics, chrome, sinks – you name it. More scrubby than the Wipe & Glow, and way more durable. $25.
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GREENfind OF THE WEEK
TORONTO TOOL LIBRARY Ever pine for a power saw? Wish you could just borrow garden shears or a soldering iron off a friend? Enter the Toronto Tool Library. These guys don’t just offer a fabulously extensive tool library to anyone with a membership (at $50, it’s way less than the cost of a new power drill); you can also book workshop space, super-cool birthday parties (3D printing party, anyone?) or sign up for affordable workshops on woodworking, laser cutting or railingplanter-box building. The whole thing was dreamt up by the non-profit Institute for a Resource-Based Economy, designed to “challenge people’s perceptions of ownership and our relationship to the Earth’s resources.” Eastenders can access kitchen tools, too, for an extra $25 (thekitchenlibrary.ca). torontotoollibrary.com
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to have, like when we first found out that Nalgene and Sigg reusable water canisters contained hormone-disrupting BPA, despite claims to the contrary. Now we should probably talk about borax. Greenies and homesteaders have been concocting their own do-it-yourself recipes from the mineral for eons. I’ve previously recommended borax in this column and my Ecoholic books in recipes for DIY laundry and dishwasher detergent and natural pest control. Borax, aka sodium borate/tetraborate, is mostly mined in California or Turkey. Mining isn’t considered a green activity, but the California borax operation has been called “perhaps the most cleanly operated mine in the U.S.” Should we worry about coming in contact with the stuff? It can definitely be an irritant to skin, eyes and lungs, but what about bigger concerns? Borax has been to date cleared of ties to cancer. But animal studies on its reproductive impacts haven’t been so kind to borates like borax and boric acid. As such, both borax and boric acid (what you get when you mix borax with a mineral acid such as hydrochloric acid) have been classified by the
European Union as reproductive toxins since 2010. They’re now on the list of Substances for Very High Concern under Europea’s REACH system (Regulation on Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals). They have to come with the warning “May damage fertility. May damage the unborn child.” Still, the EU said consumer exposure to low doses of borates in cleaning products falls below levels of concern, so these products shouldn’t be restricted. The EU didn’t say as much for medicinal and building material uses. However, the European Commission has since labelled boric acid a category 1 endocrine disruptor, which means at least one study in living organisms has found it messes with hormones in
some way, and it is prioritized for further study. The whole thing, not surprisingly, has thrown the North American green industry on the defensive. On this side of the pond, boric acid is still marketed without warning labels as a natural insecticide. It’s used in insulation and mattresses as a natural flame retardant, and Canada allows borax and boric acid in personal care items at concentrations of up to 5 per cent. You’ll find it in some vaginal
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At the busy Me Va Ma, manager Ariel Daniel holds the chicken breast plate with seasonal vegetables, and the staff work on an impressive assembly line.
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Cheekily described on its front window as “the hummus institute of North America,” Ezra Braves’s stellar S. Lefkowitz (913 Dundas West, at Bellwoods, 647346-8448, slefkowitz.com, @hummuslefkowitz, rating: NNNNz) is downtown’s first café dedicated to the humble chickpea dip. You’ll find the garlicky stuff deliciously spread onto plates and splashed with French organic olive oil infused with house-ground za’atar ($6 small/$7.50 large) or gussied up with spicy minced beef ($7/$8.90), warm mixed olives ($6.50/$8) or chopped up hardboiled egg ($7/$8, all with pita). There are great slabs of wild Pacific sardines finished with harissa oil and Spanish onion over retro iceberg lettuce ($7), and blocks of mild Macedonian feta aromatically layered with fresh mint ($6). None the worse for wear, a side of cherry tomatoes in more of that
ME VA ME (240 Queen West, at John, 416-546-3770, mevamekitchenexpress.ca, @lovemevame) Complete meals for $18 per person, including tax, tip and a soda. Average main $10. Open daily 11 am to 11 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: three steps at door, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNN Z
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Tuck into sardines with onions or kale salad at S. Lefkowitz.
terrific olive oil look like they could’ve been cut in half using that two-plate trick that made the rounds on Facebook a couple of weeks back. But the simple words “green salad” fail to do justice to the magnificence that is local redleaf kale, baby watercress and arugula micro-sprouts in lemony apple cider vinaigrette (both $5/$7). Unfortunately the service isn’t as polished as the grub. They take your order at table, then deliver it on a large plastic cafeteria tray, but you have to settle the bill at the counter – no inconvenience in a near-empty resto on a Wednesday afternoon, a bloody pain on the weekend when the lineup out the door rivals Saving Gigi’s down the block. And while they’re made daily to Braves’s specifications, pitas out of a plastic bag are never as palatable as those straight from the SD oven.
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freshdish Openings, closings, events and other news from T.O.’s food and drink scene This weekend marks the last-ever brunch service at Davy Love’s Bristol Yard (146 Christie, at Pendrith, 647-716-6583, @BristolYardie). Fans of the insanely popular and extremely tiny café will be relieved to learn that the Britpop DJ plans to relaunch the Yard as Bristol & Bombay in a yet-to-be-specified location in time for the World Cup come June. “It’ll be much larger and more of a pub, but with the exact same brunch,” says Love, adding that
he’s also introducing what he calls a “British-Indian curry house element” to his UK-centric carte.
Noodle news Toronto’s obsession with ramen continues. Famed for its creamy tonkotsu-style pork broth, Kenzo (671 Queen West, at Bathurst, 647-4982922, k enzoramen.ca) has just launched its seventh location, while Sansotei (650 Yonge, at Irwin, 647748-3833, sansotei.com) has opened outpost number two. Not to be outdone, Guu spinoff Kinton has a third ramenya at 402 Queen West in the
works for later this spring, and Touhenboku has announced it will be opening a second noodle resto at Yonge and Eglinton as early as next month.
Cream dreams To celebrate both its 30th anniversary and Dutch Liberation Day, Dutch Dreams (36 Vaughan, at St. Clair West, 416-656-6959, dutchdreams.ca, @dutchdreams) holds a street party in front of its recently relocated storefront on Monday (May 5). Show up between 4 and 8 pm and get a free scoop of ice cream. SD
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come with a choice of salad – go for the house greens with beets and carrots in lemony vinaigrette – and side, the grilled peppers and green beans a far superior option to refined white basmati rice or prefab frozen fries. You can buy just about all of the components separately to go as well. Grab a half dozen laffa ($1.45 each), a 16-ounce tub of hummus and another of spicy matbucha tomato ’n’ peppers (both $7.45), some labneh yogurt-cheese balls dusted with za’atar ($4.95 for five) and a pound of chicken shawarma ($14.95) sliced from the spit and you’ve got yourself an instant party! 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com | @stevendaveynow
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980 Queen E, at Carlaw, 416-5245209, skinandbonesto.com, @skinandbonesto Ex-Enoteca Sociale partner Daniel Clarke’s stylish Leslieville wine bar might be more at home on King West, but its moderately priced brunch menu and supplementary all-you-can-eat buffet – buy any main and the buffet’s an additional 3 bucks – fits this brunchiest of nabes like a glove. Best: gluten-free porchetta Bennys with sous-vide poached eggs in hollandaise over cheesy polenta; buttermilk fried chicken with Asian apple slaw; sides of triple-cooked potato wedges with house-made ranch dressing; for the rug rats, peanut butter ’n’ jelly French toast; from the buffet, house-baked cinnamon buns, cheese puffs and palmiers; housecured bresaola and salami; granola with high-fat yogurt with syrup-poached pears. Complete brunches for $30 per person, including tax, tip and a mimosa. Average main $15. Open for brunch Sunday 10 am to 2 pm; dinner Sunday to Thursday 5 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 5 pm to 1 am. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN
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mention his outpost in Singapore and the upcoming projects at the airport and One World Trade Center, New York City – superstar chef Susur Lee turns his visionary hand to dim sum with spectacular results. Best: cheung fun rice rolls stuffed with poached chicken, caramelized onion and crunchy deep-fried rice paper; dumplings of buttery lobster and asparagus, or spicy Swatowstyle chicken with pickled celery; classic har gow stuffed with plump shrimp; minced chicken ’n’ shrimp sui mai spiked with orange peel; deep-fried cubes of house-made tofu studded with fresh corn; braised beef and shiitake mushrooms bao; to finish, bite-sized spirals of sponge cake in chocolate ganache. Complete dim sum meals for $35 per person, including tax, tip and tea. Open for dim sum Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm; à la carte dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5:30 to 11 pm. Bar menu daily 3 pm to 1 am. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNNN
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Margarita Thursdays, and $10.99 Jugs of Amsterdam Blonde every Sunday! Tortilla Flats is also famous for their ‘Margarona’ (available in both single and double size); Not only pleasing to the palette, but flashy as well! With friendly staff and a welcoming environment, suitable for both large groups or even single friends, Tortilla Flats will cater attentively to all your Tex-Mex needs.
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Campari Spritz
I’ll never be that dude wearing flip-flops during spring thaw or that girl skipping around in Daisy Dukes mid-March, but I will indignantly camp out on a patio when spring’s barely out of the gate, shades on my face and a Campari Spritz in hand. Leave the layers in your closet – the more you drink, the warmer you get.
1 oz Campari 3-4 oz prosecco splash of sparkling water Build ingredients in your favourite glass over ice. Garnish with an orange wedge or an olive. Down first round while flipping off the cold breeze and prepare to shuffle from one sun patch to the next.
Apéritifs
Keep these palatable pre-dinner drinks around for prolonged and classy afternoon drinking sessions.
David Greig preps the low-alcohol Diplomatico at Cocktail Bar.
Impressive Suppressors Back in January, we predicted that low-alcohol cocktails – coined Suppressors by Atlanta bartender Greg Best – would become a big thing this year. The antithesis of standard “ Revivers” (which have a profoundly opposite effect after two or four), Suppressors give you the option of preserving your wits while still enjoying a few good tipples. In anticipation of day-drinking season, bars across T.O. are offering cocktails that taste great without kicking your ass and sucker-punching your liver. Consistently ahead of the curve, Sandy De Almeida was one of the first bartenders in the city to get serious about Suppressors. Try her No Country For Old Men (Carpano Antica, Fernet Branca, Pernod and lemon juice, $12) at the Drake (1150 Queen West, 416-531-5042, thedrakehotel.ca), where a section of the cocktail list is reserved for aperitifs and low-proof cocktails. Complex and nutty sherry, with its big flavour and low proof, is becoming the choice base for satisfying restrained cocktails. At Parkdale’s Geraldine (1564 Queen West, 647-352-8815, geraldinetoronto.com), bar manager Michael Mooney mixes up the Mayflower (fino sherry, blanco rum, apricot liqueur, Peychaud’s bitters and orange blossom water, $13). Haul ass eastward to the County Cocktail (798
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Toast the (alleged) arrival of summer sunshine with Mill Street’s Summer Seasonal Sampler. Hitting LCBO shelves the first week of May, the six-pack includes 100th Meridian Organic Amber Lager, Belgian Cherry IPA (a British-style IPA that sees the world through fruity Belgian beer-tinted glasses) and Mill Street Palomar Ale (a Mexican-style midamber flavoured with chipotle and lime).
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Queen East, 416-781-4743, thecountygeneral.ca/ cocktail) for Veronica Saye’s house-made sodas with your choice of spirit. Select your own Suppressor by subbing softer amaro in place of hard liquor for a damn fine alcopop. Try the Cynar and celery soda combo ($10) that I can’t shut up about. Bar Isabel’s (797 College, 416-532-2222, barisabel.com, @barisabel797) Michael Webster keeps it España, showcasing sherry in cocktails that won’t cut your evening (or memory) short. Check the Maria From Sevilla (La Guita Manzanilla sherry, Torres 5 Year brandy, Amaro CioCiaro, honey and demerara syrup, lime, Angostura and Sexy Landlord bitters, lemon oil, $15). At Cocktail Bar (923 Dundas West, 416-792-7511,hoofcocktailbar.com) David Greig and Jen Agg’s Diplomatico (Carpano Bianco, housemade grapefruit amaro, Branca Menta and soda, $10) fits into one of my favourite class of beverages – pink drinks – and tastes like a glorious face-plant into Elysian Fields. So refreshing and chain-drinkable, you can throw caution to the winds and have at least three.
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Speakeasy goes big
Speakeasy 21 (21 Adelaide West, 416-6010210, speakeasy21.com, @speakeasy21), a gigantic cocktail bar (how’s that for an oxymoron?) with an equally gigantic patio in the works, is now open in the financial district. Cocktails have officially invaded every nook of the city, including Scotiabank Plaza.
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SAM SMITH at Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Wednesday, April 23.
Rating: NNN British singer Sam Smith’s aching falsetto helped propel Disclosure’s hit Latch up the UK charts, and now the 21-year-old is poised to eclipse the dance duo’s popularity – in North America anyway – as a singer of top40-friendly pop ballads. Last Wednesday, Smith made his Canadian debut promoting his upcoming In The Lonely Hour LP. From the moment he stepped onstage, the packed crowd giddily sang along, shrieked and revelled in his feel-good success story. There’s no denying Smith’s vocal talent, but as a performer he sometimes seemed guarded and stiff. He’s never been in a relationship, he explained, so his songs are primarily about unrequited love and longing. For example, I’ve Told You Now is about getting drunk and telling your partner too much too soon, and he sang it with warmth and humility. Smith’s affinity for gospel and quavering R&B runs recalls Mary J. Blige and George Michael, but unlike them, he rarely seemed to lose himself in the
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material. That changed toward the set’s end, however, with captivating renditions of torchy singles Lay Me KEVIN RITCHIE Down and Stay With Me.
BOY GEORGE at Danforth Music Hall, Thursday, April 24.
Rating: NNN Eighties pop icon Boy George has weathered high-profile scandals that eclipsed his status as one of pop’s singular voices. He’s released his first album of original material in 18 years, so the focus is back on the music. And judging from the excited crowd that greeted him and his eight-piece band on Thursday, his fans couldn’t be happier. Nice And Slow, off the new album, summed up the vibe of the 90-minute set’s first hour – a mix of his dub and reggae new material and equally laidback covers of George Harrison, Yoko Ono and Lou Reed. George’s husky voice has retained its depth and poignancy, and has taken on a weary gravitas with age. He sounded good, but was frequently thrown by technical issues onstage. The band provided tight, unhurried support, yet as the mellow rhythms
KC ROBERTS & THE LIVE REVOLUTION at Virgin Mobile Mod Club, Friday, April 25. Rating: NNN
KC Roberts & the Live Revolution’s record release show Friday night was a marathon. Joined throughout the night by a rotating cast of backup singers, musicians and rappers, the seven-piece kept on rocking until 2:15 am. Dancers at the front of the full room boogied for the whole four-hour, two-set fete to tunes from KCLR’s double album, Parkdale Funk 2: Sides. The first set contained a few too many slow songs, but the band made up for the lack of BPM with musicianship: Roberts worked his electric guitar magic on Humanity, which also included a crowd-silencing trombone solo by Christian Overton. Later, a three-piece string section added symphonic flair, but music from the club downstairs throbbed during what should have been some of the most poignant moments. The second set was more upbeat. Toronto rap duo Airplane Boys worked the crowd to their most hyped during Get Back To The Middle, and KCLR’s electro-dance-inspired Daisy D also translated well. I counted 21 people onstage for the triumphant closing number – an indulgent end to a celebraJULIA LECONTE tory night. and unnecessary guitar solos kept coming, the show felt like a snooze. Fans awaiting danceable catharsis were rewarded at the 60-minute mark when the band launched into Culture Club’s Church Of The Poison Mind. Finally, lively singalongs bolstered the energy level during encore performances of Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?, Everything I Own, Karma
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Rating: NNNNN On last year’s Shaking The Habitual, Swedish duo the Knife endeavoured to make music that mirrored the leftist, feminist and queer theory ideas that inform their lyrics. They were no longer
pop infiltrators; the album was resolutely anti-commercial. They expanded this idea in concert by casting themselves as part of a sparkly-suited dance troupe – essentially removing themselves as the focal point – in a show that used acid techno rhythms, eerie lighting design, arresting tableaux, agitprop poetry and freewheeling choreography to foster a spirit of crowd collectivism. The ingenious result played like a mashup of Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour and experimental modern dance theatre, where rainbow-spectrum lights pulsed to dark, throbbing rave music. Singer Karin Dreijer Andersson’s creaky voice added an alluring creepiness to ambient slow burner Raging Lung, and she screeched powerfully alongside Light Asylum’s Shannon Funchess during protest anthem Stay Out Here. It was refreshing to see a pop group espouse progressive politics in front of a mixed crowd without irony. It’s rare to see dance, movement and music come together to further unabashedly political ideas in such fun and galvanizing ways in any medium – let alone a KR pop concert.
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G.O.O.D. Music collaborator puts on for Houston on solo debut By Jordan sowunmi
travis scott , brandon chev and cam smith as part of canadian music week
Chromeo electro-funk
Montreal duo polish sound, hone songcraft on fourth album By Julia leconte
chromeo and oliver at the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (May 2), 7 pm. $22.50-$30. TM.
For their fourth album, Chromeo had a vision. “The idea was to spend more time on it: on recording, writing, songcraft,” says the electro-funk duo’s lead singer, Dave 1, aka David Macklovitch. “I had a bit of a chip on my shoulder when we started this record. I really, really wanted this band to improve, and I wanted to polish up our sound.” Macklovitch and partner P-Thugg (aka Patrick Gemayel) – originally from Montreal, now based in New York – also had a bucket list: female background vocals (check), a song with a full orchestra (check), interludes between tracks (check), a break from the three-minute-song formula of their previous three albums (check, see Sexy Socialite). The infectious result is White Women, named after Helmut Newton’s first book of photographs, published in 1976. “[The title] gives us an opportunity to talk about our influences beyond just music… and it’s also a bit of a mindfuck. But it’s fun to talk about that, too,” he says. The lyrics follow a simple boy-meets-girl, boy-lusts-forgirl template. But the messages they convey are often as loaded as the album title. “We talk about aspects of relationships that no one else sings about – whether it’s Jealous or Over Your Shoulder, which is kind of an ego booster for insecure girls in the age of Tumblr and Instagram.” On that latter song, he coos, “See, your problems of selfesteem could be self-fulfilling prophecy / so probably your best policy is to talk to me.” When I suggest that it might be offensive to paint women as insecure and image-obsessed, Macklovitch says, “For some girls who aren’t, good! “I’d also like to meet a guy who’s not insecure,” he says. “I
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mean, show me.” (Hence Jealous, which taps into male feelings of inferiority.) Still, it might all seem a little patronizing if Chromeo’s music weren’t so darn earnest. Embracing retro without a touch of irony, the duo are a modern electro version of wholesome Hall & Oates, albeit with a hefty dose of Prince’s lusty funk and saviour complex. Although White Women is certainly more songwriterly, Chromeo’s sound is relatively unchanged since their 2004 debut. But the musical landscape has shifted: Daft Punk’s funky disco-danceable Random Access Memories, for example, was one of 2013’s biggest commercial and critical hits. “The success of [Get Lucky] opens doors for anybody who makes this kind of music. It creates a climate where people are no longer frowning on disco.” On this subject, Macklovitch is passionate and refreshingly frank. “There was a stigma against disco because it was black and it was gay. There was a stigma in the press, at radio… And in that lineage you have funk music. “When we came out, we wore Cameo and Zapp and Rick James on our sleeves, and people thought we must have been joking because there was no way anyone in their right mind could use those people as an influence. And that’s just institutionalized musical racism by music critics who always think Joy Division is cooler than, you know, Cameo.” Jealous (I Ain’t With It) is in major rotation and could be their biggest hit. With Coachella and SXSW already under their belts, the band is playing pretty much every world festival that matters this summer – Lollapalooza, Roskilde, Osheaga – before heading out on a fall tour. In short, White Women will be heard a lot. Disco lives. 3 julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte
at the Opera House (735 Queen East), Wednesday (May 7), 9 pm, all ages. $22.50. cmw.net.
“It’s been a minute since you’ve seen a weird nigga from the corner put it on for the South,” raps Travis Scott on his new single, 1975. “I feel like people have an imaginary vision of Houston,” the emcee explains over the phone from a “a super-undisclosed location” – befitting his accessible yet mysterious demeanour (no clear shots of his face in his press photos). The freshly leaked track (in fact, we don’t yet know the song’s official name) demonstrates a refined maxi malist sound that feels less indebted to his influences (Kid Cudi, Kanye West, Future) and more like a burgeoning star finding his own frequency. It’s also one of the first songs where Scott posits himself as the torchbearer for a new era of Houston rap. Just three years after teaching himself to produce and engineer his own music, Scott is one of the industry’s most exciting, star-ready producerrappers. Last year he signed to Kanye West’s production label (Very G.O.O.D. Beats) and scored credits on two of the year’s biggest releases – Jay Z’s Magna Carta Holy Grail and West’s Yeezus. And, more importantly for his solo ambitions, he also released Owl Pharaoh, a promising debut specializing in gargantuan 808s and brooding synths. After a “super-awesome” SXSW trip, Scott went overseas, inspiring Houston To Osaka, a compelling lo-fi tour doc that chronicles his first headlining gigs in Japan. “The tour to Japan was a trip,” he says, sounding humbled but confident. “We sold out both shows, 1,500 people. It was one of the best experiences of my life.”
But in a fresh career, it still didn’t make Scott’s “favourite show ever” short list. His top prize goes to his first performance in Los Angeles, at the El Rey Theatre, which featured a rowdy Kanye West cameo. “That was my first headlining tour and one of the early moments of feeling the complete confidence of ‘Okay, I got this,’” he says. Now more than comfy onstage, his MO is to highlight the new, youthful culture of the 21st century’s most influential regional rap scene. “It’s great to see the love Houston gets from artists around the world, but I also feel like people talk about it but don’t show it, because they’re not actually from there,” he says. “Now I feel like it’s my responsibility to show people what it’s really like culturally.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto
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clubs&concerts hot The Darcys Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas West), Thursday (May 1) First Thursday with the art rockers. Jerry Leger & the Situation, Alanna Gurr, the Pinecones Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (May 1) Rootsy singer/songwriter LP release. Angel Haze The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Thursday (May 1) Introspectively intense rap. Lapalux, ObesØn, Wolf SagA Tattoo (567 Queen West), Thursday (May 1) Brainfeeder IDM/hip-hop artist. Chromeo, Oliver Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Friday (May 2) See preview, page 40. M.I.A., Elliphant Tattoo (567 Queen West), Saturday (May 3) CMW kickoff party. Shlohmo Opera House (735 Queen East), Saturday (May 3) See preview, page 44.
Bun b, Thugli The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Sunday (May 4) Southern hiphopper. Sultans of String, Anwar Khurshid Kingston Road United Church (975 Kingston), Sunday (May 4) Instrumental world music. EMA, Downtown Boys Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (May 6) Synth-heavy noise pop. The 1975 Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Tuesday (May 6) Manchester indie rock. The Lox (Styles P, Sheek Louch, Jadakiss), Peter Jackson & the Nicks, G5ive, Trinity Chris Sound Academy (11 Polson), Tuesday (May 6) Hip-hop supergroup. Travis Scott, Brandon Chev, Cam Smith Opera House (735 Queen East), Wednesday (May 7) See preview, page 40.
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How to find a listing
St. Louis-bred singer/songwriter Angel Olsen cut her teeth singing backup and playing guitar for acts like Bonnie Prince Billy and the Cairo Gang, but her voice proved too strong to remain second fiddle. After a couple of solo EPs and a 2012 full-length confirmed that she’s got some of the most versatile pipes in indie rock, her second full-length, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, which came out in February, upped the production ante with gritty garage fuzz and moments of psychedelic splendour. She exudes an unmistakable retro nostalgia that imbues her live show, too, if her intimate, charming SXSW gigs were any indication. Wednesday (May 7) at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), doors 8:30 pm. $13.50. RT, SS, TF.
Just Announced No Age, Indian Handcrafts, Biblical, Public Animal Virgin Mobile Mod Club 9 pm. May 10.
Black Absinthe, the Rough Boys, Citizen Vicious, Sludgehammer
Smiling Buddha 9 pm, $5. May 10.
Oneiroi, Palindromes, Tame Hell, Noise Floor Smiling Buddha 9 pm, pwyc, $5 sugg. May 11.
Absolutely Free, Fresh Snow,
Marcel Ramagnano Universe: A Live Soundtrack Experiment Revue Cinema doors 8:30 pm, free. May 15. TV Freaks, Teenanger, Das Rad
Izakaya Sushi House. May 17.
Mykal Rose & Junior Reid, Mountain Edge, Exco Levi Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner? Sound Academy doors 10 pm, $35. PDR. May 24.
The Courtneys Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. May 30. Moon King, U.S. Girls, Petra Glynt Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $10 adv. RT, SS, TF. June 7.
Lighthouse 12:30 pm Nathan Phillips
all ages, $27.50-$72.75. LN. July 29.
Bryan Ferry Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all
Mac Demarco, Spoon, Alvvays
Kings of Leon, Young the Giant, Kongos Molson Amphitheatre doors 6
Little Mix Sound Academy doors 6:30
Square free. torontojazz.com. June 21.
NXNE Yonge-Dundas Square free. June 21.
pm, all ages, $29.50-$75.50. LN, TM. August 5.
Man with a Mission Lee’s Palace doors
Echo & the Bunnymen The Danforth
Maylee Todd Toronto Jazz Festival Shops at Don Mills 7 pm, free. torontojazz.com. June 26.
Our Lady Peace, Sloan, I Mother Earth, Eve 6 and others Edgefest
8 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. June 25.
Bobby McFerrin, Soul Nannies
Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $69.50. TM. torontojazz.com. June 27.
son Amphitheatre $tba. LN, TM. July 1.
ages, $59.50-$125.50. LN, TM. July 5.
Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $39.50-$49.50. TF. July 5.
Scott Weiland The Danforth
Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre $tba. LN, TM. July 18.
Music Hall doors 7 pm, $37.50-$59.50. RT, SS, TM. July 19.
Cyhi the Prynce, Dillan Ponders, Jerzee Tha Icon, SeT Tattoo
Rik Emmett, Blair Packham, Liam Titcomb and others Song Studio Showcase
doors 6 pm, all ages, $17. INK. June 14.
TV Freaks, Needles//Pins, Low Culture, Nervosas Smiling Buddha.
June 15.
Chaka Khan, Shemekia Copeland Toronto Jazz Festival Sony Centre for
the Performing Arts 8 pm, $45-$129. TM. torontojazz.com. June 19.
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Hugh’s Room free. July 24.
Wiz Khalifa, Young Jeezy, Tyga, Ty Dolla $ign, Sage the Gemini, Rich Homie Quan, Mack Wilds, Iamsu!,DJ Drama
Under The Influence Of Music Tour Molson Amphitheatre doors 5 pm,
How to place a listing
All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com. Include artist(s), genre of music, event name (if any), venue name and address, time, ticket price and phone number or website. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. Weekly events must confirm their listing once a month.
Thursday, May 1 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Alleycatz Reenie. Array Space Array Session #25 (improvised) 8 pm. Art Gallery of Ontario First Thursday The Darcys (art rock) 7 to 11 pm. ñ Baltic Avenue Indie Machine Crowns for
Convoy, History Majors, Ferraro, Tiger Bloom doors 9 pm. Bovine Sex Club Olde, the Horned doors 9 pm. Cadillac Lounge CD release party Greg Arcade & His Rockin’ Band, Callan Furlong. Cavern Bar aBabe Music Cat & the Queen, Hot Peach (indie) doors 9 pm. The Central Upstairs Drago Dit Dragon, Merival, Cade doors 9 pm. Dance Cave Bloody Five, Aliens Ashore, DJ Different Class 8:30 pm. The Danforth Music Hall Johnny Hallyday (French singer/songwriter) doors 7 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk) doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Lo-Fang, Kate Berlant doors 8 pm. The Garrison Chicago Underground Duo, Not the Wind, Not the Flag, King Weather doors 8 pm. The Hideout Scully & the Crossbones 10 pm. Horseshoe Jerry Leger & the Situation, Alanna Gurr, the Pinecones (rock/country/folk) doors 8:30 pm. See Alanna Gurr album review, page 50.
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risas, Chthonic, Varg, Winterhymn 6 pm, all ages. Pauper’s Pub Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. Phoenix Concert Theatre Kid Ink, King Los doors 7 pm, all ages. Rivoli The Muso Project album release Plaitwrights, the Soul Motivators (soul/blues/funk/R&B) doors 8 pm. Smiling Buddha Invasions, Pet Sun, Lint (garage rock) 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer 9:30 pm. Tattoo Rescheduled to Sept 6. Vic Mensa, Redway (hip-hop) doors 9 pm, all ages. 3030 Dundas West Musical Charity for MedLife in support of mobile medical clinics in Peru Shannon Kelly, the Otterboxers, Quarter Step Down 8:30 pm.
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BEYONCÉ AND JAY Z On The Run Tour Rogers Centre $40.50-$253.25. LN. TM. July 9.
Luciano, Cocoa Tea Sound Academy
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Lee’s Palace Gladheart, Red Lines (rock) 9 pm. Opera House Paganfest 2014 Korpiklaani, Tu-
Rickie Lee Jones The Danforth Music
Gabriel Kahane Drake Hotel Underground doors 8 pm, $12. RT, SS, TF. June 10.
pm, all ages, $42.50-$60. LN, TM. O ctober 11.
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The Hoxton Angel Haze doors 8 pm. ñ Kensington Lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm.
Maxwell Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all
Gypsyhawk, Diemonds, Black Pussy, the Mohrs Hard Luck Bar doors
doors 10 pm. June 12.
Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre $tba. LN, TM. August 16.
The Sheepdogs, Monster Truck, Matt Mays, Head of the Herd and others Edgefest Echo Beach at Mol-
USS, Ms Mr, Said the Whale, Bear Hands and others Edgefest
8 pm, $10. June 7.
Music Hall doors 7 pm, $37.50-$45. LN. August 12.
ages, $49.50-$129.50. LN, TM. September 25.
Music listings appear by day, then by genre, then alphabetically by venue. Event names are in italics. See Venue Index, online at nowtoronto.com, for venue address and phone number.
Beyoncé & Jay Z
at Rogers Centre, July 9.
Folk/Blues/Country/World Bar Radio Steve Gleason (roots) 10
pm.
Cameron House Matthew Hornell 10 pm, Samantha Martin 6 pm.
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Experimental Los Angeles punk duo signed to Sub Pop. Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), May 9, midnight, $15; and Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), May 10, midnight, $20.
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Jazz-fusing four-piece whose frontman is a member of the famous New Orleans Batiste family of jazz-makers. Horseshoe, May 8, 11 pm, $15.
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Aussie-born local electro solo artist with Mouth Full Of Teeth album dropping in June. Painted Lady (218 Ossington), Wednesday (May 7), 9 pm, $10.
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Mysterious Nina Simone-, Jon Hopkins- and Brian Eno-inspired Galway girl full of ambient soul. Czehoski (678 Queen West), Tuesday (May 6), midnight, $10; and Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel (525 Bay), May 9, midnight, free.
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Toronto punk rockers with ultra-sweaty shows. Silver Dollar (486 Spadia), May 10, 10 pm, $10.
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Montreal rockers. Mac DeMarco collaborators. Psych, electronic and metal mashers. Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), May 8, 1 am, $10; and Hard Luck Bar (772 Dundas West), May 9, 11 pm, $15.
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Streets, the Nathan Day Project, DB Cooper. Gate 403 Melanie Brulée (folk/cabaret) 9 pm. The Great Hall Stu Larsen doors 7 pm. Grossman’s Root Down Trio (blues) 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Dan Gooch (bluegrass) 7:30 pm. Hugh’s Room CD release Steve Dawson (blues) 8:30 pm. Lazy Daisy’s Cafe Time Will Tell Nancy Dutra, Kirsten Jones, David Newland 8 pm. Linsmore Tavern Andy Griffiths Band (rootsy indie pop) 9 pm. The Local Gest Open Mic With Porter 9 pm. Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. Monarchs Pub Jerome Godboo, Shawn Kel lerman, Eric Schenkman, Aubrey Dayle 8 pm. Musideum Tony McManus 8 pm. Relish Bar Ike Cedar & the Day Drinkers 7 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross The Wanted 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth 7:30 pm. Unicorn Pub Honky Tonk Thursdays 10 pm. Wise Guys Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
The Central Alexandria Taylor, Sintia Baba Quartet doors 5 pm.
De Sotos Jam Anthony Abbatangeli (jazz/ blues) 8 pm.
Emmet Ray Bar John Wayne Swingtet (jazz/ swing) 9 pm.
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre
Appassionato Leonard Gilbert (piano) noon to 1 pm. Gallery 345 Camilo Davila, Jean Desmarais, Mireille Asselin (clarinet, piano, soprano) 8 pm. Gate 403 Roberta Hunt Jazz & Blues Band 5 to 8 pm. Heliconian Hall Kaeja Lounge Carina Reeves, Jim Gelcer, Edgardo Moreno, Marilyn Lerner VIP 7 pm, party 8:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro Rudy Smith. Kama Thursdays At Five Mike Malone, Neil Swainson & Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. The Local Anita Eccleston (jazz trio). Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Melissa Lauren Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). The Rex Eli Bennett Quartet 9:30 pm, Miriam Snider 6:30 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Hamilton Children’s Choir & Young Voices Toronto noon. The Whippoorwill A Little Rambunctious Michael Louis Johnson (jazz/swing) 10 pm.
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Clinton’s Throwback Thursdays (90s) doors 10 pm. Club 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 CODA Kaskade doors 10 pm. Crawford Twisted Thursdays DJ Law. EFS Untitled Simon Jain, Pasha doors 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe DJ Carley Ogonek 10 pm. The Jazz Bistro Cellar Rooftop Patio DJ Leo Love, Peter B 7 to 11 pm.
Imperial Pub Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation (big band classics) 5:30 to 7:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro Rudy Smith. Living Arts Centre Hammerson Hall Celebration! 30th Anniversary Gala Concert Mis sissauga Festival Choir 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Danny Mc Erlain Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. The Rex Alex Dean 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/ piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.
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1803 Danforth Art Of The Danforth Festival: Installation Party 28: The Tar And Feathering Party 9 pm. Baltic Avenue Mad Men No Pants Dance Party (60s party) 10 pm. Black Eagle GROWLr DJ Ches (bear night) 10 pm.5 Club 120 Full Force Fridays DJs Ping, Tongue & Lady Bliss 10 pm.5 CODA Joris Voorn, Simon Jain, Jonathan Rosa, Brent Hayward doors 10 pm. Curzon DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm. The Danforth Music Hall Come Alive Tour Chromeo, Oliver doors 7 pm. See preview, page 40. Drake Hotel Underground Y2K: A Millenium Dance Party DJ Marco Morales & DJ Caff (early-mid 2000s) doors 11 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Your Boy Brian doors 10 pm. Drake One Fifty DJ Dougie Boom doors 9 pm. Fly Besharam’s 10-Year Anniversary J Raj, DJ Amita doors 10 pm.5
Los Angeles-born DJ/producer Shlohmo (aka Henry Laufer) specializes in hazy lo-fi soundscapes that frequently cross-pollinate with sensual R&B influences. His 2011 debut LP, Bad Vibes, paired abstract hiphop rhythms with dense walls of distortion and delicately melancholy synth melodies, but his recent work has been more traditionally song-based – he’s been actively collaborating with vocalists like Banks, How to Dress Well and Jeremih. Plus, he continues to churn out a steady stream of club-friendly remixes and bootlegs. Shlohmo plays the Opera House (735 Queen East), Saturday (May 3), 10 pm.
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You’ve been working with more singers lately. Is that an indication of where you’d like to see your career going? Not really. It’s fun to make shit with other people sometimes. But I think I’ll always prefer to work alone. What were the biggest differences between working with Banks, How to Dress Well and Jeremih? Working with people is always different. I try to find common ground in our respective sounds and work from there. What you’re trying to get out of the other artist’s performance changes depending on who you’re working with. Do you wish you could spend more time in the studio and less on the road? Yes, 100 per cent. I like my house and my couch a lot. Where is home these days, and do you think that has much impact on your work? Los Angeles is home right now. Location has somewhat of an impact on my music, but it always has to come from this place where I’m zoning everything out, and that zone isn’t necessarily location-specific. How would you like to see your live show evolve? Or is it already where you want it to be? I want to have enough time to be able to write an album and fully translate it to a live band. Not on some bullshit fusion shit: I would want it to be really fucking heavy. I came across an interview where you said “exposure makes me nervous.” What did you mean? It means I don’t like people looking at me, and I don’t like Benjamin Boles talking about myself, like this right now.
Mel Boogie, Mastermind, DJ X, Wristpect, Nino Brown, DJ Law 10 pm. Guvernment Limitless TWRK, Enferno, Benzi, Scratch Bastid, 4Korners, Joe Ghost, Fizza vs Heather, Addy, Deko-ze, Neon Knights, Joee Cons and others. The Hoxton Boys Noize doors 10 pm. Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm. Smiling Buddha Bad News DJs Neil & Derek (soul/garage/rockabilly) 10 pm. TATTOO UNDERGROUND Young Adults DJs Chobo, Gaunt, Ira Oskman (electronic/dance) 10 pm. WAYLA Bar DJ Munin (chill house/deep house/electro) 10 pm.
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Alleycatz Taxi. Bovine Sex Club Album launch Vodnik, Kil litorous, Bookakee, Dawn Vally 8 pm.
Cameron House Back Room Muscle Souls,
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Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-
hop) 9 pm.
Tattoo Lapalux, Obesøn, Wolf Saga
doors 9 pm. ñ WAYLA Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.
Friday, May 2 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Alleycatz Ascencion (R&B/soul/funk). Bar Radio Matt Morgan (soul/blues) 10 pm. Cavern Bar Ravyn Red doors 8 pm. The Central Tim & Him, Mind & the Matter,
Android 16, Don’t You Mean People? doors 5 pm. The Central Upstairs Buc, Boito doors 9 pm. The Garrison Godstopper, the Great Sabat ini, Hammerhands, IDNS doors 9 pm. The Great Hall Wanda’s World: Benefit for Homes First Andrew Cash, Dave Murphy Band, Shaw String Redemption, Hank’s Aluminum Siding, Philip & Patricia Morehead, Trio Bravo, Vicki Blechta (rock/bluegrass/classical) doors 7 pm. Harlem West Mboya Nicholson (soul) 7:30 to 11 pm. The Hideout No Fixed Address (rock) 11 pm, Sunny Nights (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Record release Bella Clava, Mad Anthony, the Mercy Now, the Lying
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Cheats (rock).
House of Moments Unplugged Moments
Rachael Kennedy, Dane Hartsell, Quan, Kiri Etzkorn, Andres Sierra doors 7 pm.
Lee’s Palace July Talk doors 9 pm. ñ Orbit Room The Dave Murphy Band (soul/ rock/pop) 10 pm.
Phoenix Concert Theatre VNV Nation,
Whiteqube (industrial goth) doors 7 pm. Press Club Alun Piggins & the Quitters (rock) 10 pm. Relish Bar The Danger Bees 9 pm. Rivoli 17th Annual Original Wailers Tribute House of David Gang, Ronnie Edwards, the Fugitive Minds (reggae) doors 9 pm. Rockpile Welcome To DILLAVille Tour: A Tribute To J Dilla The Pharcyde, Slum Vil lage (rap/hip-hop) doors 8 pm, all ages. The Rockpile East Ripper Owens (rock/metal) doors 8 pm, all ages. Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Party Of The Century. Seven44 Mama Kin (Aerosmith tribute).
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Irish Choral Society 6:30 pm. Unicorn Pub Cover Alls 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club The Rhythm & Soul Revue The St Royals (Motown/R&B) 9 pm.
Folk/Blues/Country/World
Cameron House Dustin Bentall & the
Smokes 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm. Cameron House Back Room Conor Gains (blues). C’est What Hatchetmen (country rock) doors 8:30 pm. Drake Hotel Underground CD release party Sharon Nutzati (singer/songwriter) 8 to 11 pm. Grossman’s Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm. The Hole in the Wall Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Borrowed Tunes: The Music Of Neil Young Tom Wilson, Lee Harvey Osmond, Layah Jane, Dan Griffin, Douglas Cameron, Hemingway Corner, Brent Titcomb, Cat Clyde and others 8:30 pm. Lake Affect Lounge Acoustic Affect Fun Cam, Martin Rouleau, Alexander Quain 9 pm.
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Flamingo Bay, the Lad Classic. Cavern Bar Reclass (rock) doors 8 pm. The Central Chartreuse, Glass Satellite, Tired Girls doors 9 pm. Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Jet Black Rose, the Unchained. The Danforth Music Hall Bombay Bi cycle Club, Royal Canoe doors 8 pm, all ages. The Flying Beaver Pubaret Unplugged Whis key Jack (roots/country/bluegrass) 5 pm. The Great Hall The Milk Carton Kids (acoustic folk rock) doors 8 pm. Harlem Zimzum (soul/funk/jazz) 7 pm. The Hideout The Disco Rebels, Bernadette & the Collective (rock) 10 pm.
Linsmore Tavern Welcome Soleil (eclectic French songs) 8 pm. Musideum Kristin Lindell, Bret Higgins, Neil Hendry 8 pm. Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall World Music Ana Moura 8 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Array Space Adam Scime DMA Composition
Recital (classical/avant) 8 pm. 80 Gladstone Benefit for Raven (Respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs) Rosetta Trio 8 pm. Emmet Ray Bar Matthew Cowley, Fabrice Sicco, Nick van Weerdenberg, Tomaz Jardim, Patrick Gregory (jazz/swing) 7 pm. Gallery 345 SpringScapes: Musical Intuitions, Conversations And Other Encouragements Ali Garrison, Nancy Bennet, Mosa Neshamá Mc Neilly, Kwanza Msingwana, Suba Sankaran, Mark Rainey 7:30 pm. Gate 403 Tevlin Swing Band 9 pm, Felix Wong Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s Combo Royale 10 pm. Habits Gastropub Gord Sheard Trio 9 pm.
Horseshoe Baths, Young Fathers, P Morris. ñ Hot Box Puff Lounge Rock The Hotbox (free-
style competition).
Izakaya Sushi House Shaking Hands, the Knows, LOC-NAR 9 pm.
Lee’s Palace July Talk doors 9 pm. ñ Linsmore Tavern Mr Pharmacist (the Fall
tribute) 9:30 pm. Orbit Room Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/ Motown/stax/R&B) 10 pm. Press Club aBabe Saturdays Seed of Nature, Vedette, Sarah Sidd (rock) 9:30 pm. Revival Solid Garage 16 Year Party Ian Friday, Groove Institute (Afro/Latin/deep/party). The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Rivoli Wacken Metal Battle Canada SemiFinals Shattered Remains, Our Covenant, En demise, Burning the Day, the Blackcloud Syn
dicate doors 8 pm.
The Rockpile East Honeymoon Suite (rock/ pop) doors 8 pm, all ages.
Southside Johnny’s Captain Snorkel (rock)
10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. CTattoo CMW’s Kickoff Block Party M.I.A., Elliphant doors 8 pm. Tranzac Rock You! A Night Of Classic Hits Irish Choral Society 6:30 pm. Trinity St. Paul’s Church The Canadian Civil Liberties Association 50th Anniversary Jason Collett, Arraymusic Ensemble, Kobo Town, Lido Pimienta, Damian Rogers and others doors 7 pm. Unicorn Pub Cover Alls 10 pm.
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Folk/Blues/Country/World
Bar Radio Chris Staig & the Marquee Players (roots) 4 to 7 pm.
Cameron House Whitebrow & Combo Royale 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm.
Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Loren Hicks 1 to 4 pm.
Gate 403 Bill Heffernan (folk) 5 to 8 pm. Gladstone Hotel Ballroom An Evening For
Bazou 5 Fundraiser Afrafranto, Drumhand & Njacko Backo 8 pm, Afternoon Family Fun & Fundraiser for Bazou 5 Marni’s Move-NMusic, Soli & Rob, Njacko Backo 3 to 5 pm. Grossman’s Dirty Sweet (blues) 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Borrowed Tunes: The Music Of Neil Young Tom Wilson, Lee Harvey Osmond, Layah Jane, Dan Griffin, Douglas Cameron, Hemingway Corner, Brent Titcomb, Cat Clyde and others 8:30 pm. Humble Beginnings Glen Hornblast (blues/ folk) 12:30 to 2:30 pm. Kensington Lodge Will Gillespie (singer/ songwriter) 8 pm. The Local The Amazing Luther Wright. Pauper’s Pub Roy Zimmerman (satirical songwriter). Portobello Words & Music Salon Rita Visser & Peter Haverkamp, Glen Hornblast 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Rancho Relaxo CD release Mike Nagoda (blues/rock) 9 pm. Relish Bar The Ditch Horses 9:30 pm.
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atory Theatre Bluebird North Craig Northey, Steven Page, Ben Sures 8 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Jamzac (folk) 3 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Canadian Music Centre Lunch Time Concert Mary Kenedi (piano) 12:10 pm. C’est What The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad jazz) 3 pm. Chalkers Pub Robi Botos Trio 6 to 9 pm. Gate 403 Melissa Boyce Jazz & Blues Band 9 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. Harlem West Madette (jazz) 7:30 pm. The Jazz Bistro Rudy Smith. Musideum Tribute To Miss Peggy Lee Francine Hailman & Rick Maltese 8 pm. Nawlins Jazz Bar The N’Awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke & Duane Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9 pm, Sam Heineman (piano) 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Colleen Allen Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Gala Concert On The Occasion Of Canonization Of John XXIII And John Paul II Toronto Sinfonietta, Fr Eugene O’Hagan, Fr Martin O’Hagan, Fr David Delargy, Toronto Choir 7 pm. The Rex Benny Goodman Tribute Don Thompson, Jesse Barkdale, Ross Wooldridge 9:45 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet + 2 3:30 pm. The Rex Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm. Royal Conservatory of Music Mazzoleni Hall Discovery Series Academy Chamber Orchestra 7:30 pm.
Runnymede United Church 25th Anniversary
Concert Cantores Celestes Women’s Choir 7:30 pm. Seven44 Climax Jazz Band (trad) 4 to 7 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Bar Radio DJ Mistah Selector H 10 pm. Black Eagle Short Circuit DJ the Robotic Kid
(Italo/robot/nu-disco/deep & tech house) 10:30 pm.5 The Cage 292 Shitshow Saturdays DJ Raz (metal/industrial/rock) doors 10 pm. Cinema Nightclub Cinco De Tres DJ Undercover, Mike Toast doors 10 pm. Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm. CODA Honey Dijon doors 10 pm.
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Cube Social Saturdays DJ Chris La Roque. Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Lounge DJ Dougie Boom doors
10 pm.
Drake Hotel Underground Never Forgive Action Mantis, Hajahbub, DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia (hip-hop/R&B) 11 pm.
THURSDAY MAY 1
THE LAST POST 30th ANNIVERSARY
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Sunday, May 4 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
The Danforth Music Hall David Gray, David Kitt doors 7 pm, all ages.
The Hideout Unplugged Geoff (rock) 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Major Babe (pop) 9 pm. The Hoxton The Trillest Tour Bun B, Thugli (rap) doors 8 pm. ñ Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie
FRIDAY MAY 2
RHYTHM & SOUL REVUE
THE ST. ROYALS 16 PC SUPERBAND DJ set by DJ Fase
SATURDAY MAY 3 PRESENTED BY INERTIA ENTERTAINMENT
PRIMAL FEAR
ANSWER WITH METAL SOVEREIGN COUNCIL
Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm. Orbit Room Horshack (classic rock/bangers) 10 pm. Rivoli Fiction Issue, Bordeen, Piffbreak Arcade, St Andrews doors 8 pm. Smiling Buddha War Baby, Tropical Dripps, Ketamines (grunge punk) 9 pm. Tranzac Indie Kidz Music Festival: benefit for ALPHA Alternative Public School 1 to 4 pm.
Folk/Blues/Country/World
The Cage 292 Jam Phill Hood 10 pm. Cameron House The Double Cuts (western swing) 10 pm.
Cameron House Kristine Schmitt & Her Special Powers 6 pm.
SUNDAY MAY 4
C’est What Uke 416 Mr Bennett 7 pm. Dakota Tavern The Beauties 10 pm,
FASHION SHOW TUESDAY MAY 6
Bluegrass Brunch 10 am-2 pm. ñ Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm.
CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK
JUSTIN NOZUKA CMW @ MODCLUB MAY 6 - 10 CMW.NET
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Drake One Fifty Flex Saturdays DJ Cozmic Cat (funk/love) 9 pm. Guvernment Thomas Gold, Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong 10 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Lazer Pop DJs Marine & PJ (cumbia/hip-hop/electro/80s/90s) 10 pm. Magpie Taproom Hairwaves DJ Madame HAIR (rock n’ roll) 9:30 pm. Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm. Monarch Tavern Dancecrasher! The Soul Bhoys (soul/ska/reggae). Opera House Shlohmo doors 10 pm. See preview, page 44. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club). The Savoy Mad City (R&B/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm. 751 Motown Party DJ Caff, Brett Millius, Fawn BC, Rev Throwdown. Smiling Buddha Born Horne DJ Mikey McFly (post-punk) 9 pm. Sneaky Dee’s Shake-A-Tail. Sound Academy Cape Town Year-End Party 10 pm. WAYLA Bar DND DJ Dwayne Minard, Mike B (house) 10 pm.
Emmanuel Howard Park United Church
World Fiddle Fest Benefit Concert Swamperella, Metis Fiddler Quartet, Jon Pilatzke & Jake Charron, North Atlantic Drift, Shoeless, NUA, the Gypsy Jive Band, Njacko Backo & the Reel Bulgars 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Emmet Ray Bar Graham Playford (folk/rock/ roots) 9 pm. Flato Markham Theatre Roby Lakatos (fiddler) 8 pm.
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Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic
Family Bluegrass 10 am to 1 pm. Grossman’s Blues Jam The National w/ Brian Cober 10 pm. Horseshoe Shane Philip & Ukae (didgeridoo/ tribal/folk/multi-instrumentalist) 9 pm. The Local Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban). Lou Dawg’s Gospel Choir Southern Brunch noon. Press Club G Mark Weston, the Rev Buddy Black (singer/songwriter) 8:30 pm. Relish Bar Stir It Up Sundays 9 pm, Evan Desaulnier 11 am to 2 pm. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross The Woodchoppers Association 10 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, Allison Cameron 1 pm. Yellow Griffin Another Bloody Folk Club 7 pm.
T.O. Music Notes
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Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Array Space Audiopollination 18.1: There Is No Magic No Magic, Odradek 8 pm.
Dominion on Queen Spring Swing Dirty
Dishes (country/roots) 3:30 pm. Flato Markham Theatre The Final Frontier: Star Wars Day Markham Concert Band, Pickering Community Concert Band, Ian MacLellan 2 pm. The Flying Beaver Pubaret Songs In The Key Of Love Barb Scheffler & Scott Pietrangelo 7:30 pm. Gallery 345 The Complete Mozart Violin Sonatas Jacques Israelievitch, Christina Petrowska-Quilico (violin, piano) 11 am, 1, 3 & 5 pm. Gate 403 Root Down Trio 9 pm, Anita Eccles ton Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. Heliconian Hall Syrinx Concert Peter Longworth, Ben Bowman (piano, violin) 7 pm. Hugh’s Room Michael Johnston Music Studio Recital & Spring Celebration noon. The Jazz Bistro Young Artists Series Mary Pitt & David Warrack 7 pm, 12:30 pm. Kingston Rd United Church Sultans of String, Anwar Khurshid (gypsy-jazz/ folk/rhythms) 1:30 pm. Montgomery’s Inn The Neapolitan Connection Series Katherine Whyte (soprano) 3 pm. Morgans on the Danforth Jazzy Sundays Allyson Morris & Adrean Farrugia 2 to 5 pm. Music Gallery By Other Means Continuum Contemporary Ensemble 8 pm. Musideum Poli’s Jazz Salon Bill McBirnie, Paul Hoffert 3 pm. The Rex Victor Bateman Trio 9:30 pm, Pram Trio 7 pm, Kevin Quain 5 pm, Humber Community Music School Recital noon to 4:30 pm.
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NXNE News It’s official: NXNE has solidified its third (but not final) round of programming, adding some of the festival’s most exciting names yet. Baltimore synth-pop trio Future Islands and their outstanding, growling frontman, Samuel T. Herring; Rick James-inspired, Bay Area neo mack rapper 100s; the G.O.O.D. music emcee with one of 2013’s hottest records, Pusha T; and hip-hop producer extraordinaire AraabMuzik join an already stellar lineup featuring St. Vincent, Danny Brown and Rhye. June can’t come fast enough. See NXNE.com for more information.
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Sam Larkin’s Final Album Great Toronto folk songwriter Sam Larkin had an unfinished album in the works when he died on October 28, 2013, from leukemia and cirrhosis. Now, another great Toronto songwriter, Bob Wiseman, is raising funds to cover the cost of “fixing, mixing, mastering and promoting” that final record. The goal is to raise $8,100 by May 18. Fifty bucks gets you a CD and a lyrics booklet designed by Kyp Harness; $350 gets you a CD, lyric booklet, mug, your name in the credits and the opportunity to attend the final mastering session. Contribute at indiegogo.com/projects/quack-quack-theswan-songs-of-sam-larkin.
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Black Eagle Sweat DJ Blackcat (house) 5 to 10
The folks behind local radio station Jazz.FM91 want to see Toronto host UNESCO’s 2015 International Jazz Day. After all, they argue, where else was 1953’s legendary Jazz At Massey Hall recorded? Plus, this city is home to myriad jazz festivals and a number of jazz-dedicated venues big and small. Then there are young upstarts like BADBADNOTGOOD updating the sound, and vets like Mike Downes winning Juno Awards. International Jazz Day – April 30 – aims to raise awareness of the genre’s virtues as an educational tool and vehicle for peace, unity and dialogue. This year’s host city is Osaka, Japan. Go to jazz.fm to sign the petition for T.O. to be next.
Fox & Fiddle Danforth Yolo Sundays Industry
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Royal Conservatory of Music Mazzoleni Hall American Berserk Amici Chamber En-
semble, Jonathan Crow, Barry Shiffman, Eric Nowlin 3 pm. St Clement Of Ohrid Cathedral Once Upon A Tune East York Concert Band 2 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Jeff Scarrott Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.
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The Local Gest Sherie Marshall, Artie Roth,
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Monday, May 5 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Drake Hotel Underground Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.
The Hideout Big Otter Creek (acoustic rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Shoeless Mondays Mooch, New
Teeth, Spirit Animal. Lee’s Palace Connan Mockasin, Kirin J Callinan (NZ psyche pop) doors 8 pm. Orbit Room Jordan John (soul/R&B) 10 pm. Silver Dollar Mystic Braves doors 8:30 pm.
Folk/Blues/Country/World
Cameron House Weatherstone 10 pm, C&C Surf Factory 8 pm, Joe Nolan 6 pm.
Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Dora’s
Explorers (roots/pop) 8 pm. Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Jerome Godboo, Brendan Power, Shawn Kellerman, Eric Shenkman, Aubrey Dayle 8 pm. The Local Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/ honky-tonk). On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm. The Painted Lady Open Mic Mondays 10 pm. Relish Bar Bentroots (Cana-Cajun blues) 8 pm.
Toronto’s reputation as a no-fun city solidified last month when the board of Exhibition Place banned all-ages EDM music shows from all city-owned facilities on Exhibition grounds, citing the prevalence of drug dealers and pedophiles at these types of events. But Councillor Mike Layton stepped into the fray on Monday, April 28, pushing for council to reverse the ban, which he argues protects business interests rather than the young people in question, and goes against city policy. Layton and Councillor Michael Thompson will ask council to override the board’s vote at its May meeting. Roxton Eva Moon (singer/songwriter) 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mon-
Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro70s/80s) 10 pm. Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.
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days 9 pm.
Church of the Holy Trinity Music Monday Annie Zhou (14-year-old pianist) 12:15 pm. Emmet Ray Bar The Tequila House Band (jazz) 9 pm, Ess & Bee Sam Gleason, Belinda Corpuz (jazz) 7 pm. Gate 403 Chris Kettlewell Jazz Trio 9 pm, Mike Daley Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. The Rex Terry Promane & Dave Young Octet 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. Seven44 Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/ swoon) 7:30 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.
Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Cameron House Run with the Kittens (rockabilly eclectic punk/surf psychedelic folk punk) 10 pm, Noel Johnson 6 pm. Castro’s Lounge The Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8 to 10 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Priscilla Ahn doors 8 pm. Gate 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo 9 pm. Horseshoe EMA, Downtown Boys doors 8:30 pm.
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Kool Haus Canadian Music Week The 1975 doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ Orbit Room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm. CRivoli CMW Current Swell (indie rock/ roots rock) doors 8 pm.
Sound Academy The Lox (Styles P,
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Mobile Mod Club Canadian Music Week Justin Nozuka, Megan Bonñ nell doors 7 pm, all ages. CVirgin
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Cavern Bar Bekah vs Missy (alt folk) doors 8 pm.
The Duke Live.com Open Jam Frank Wilks
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Free Times Cafe Heather Dale, SJ Tucker (folk/ rock/Celtic) 8 pm.
Gate 403 Howard Willett Blues Duo 5 to 8 pm. Grossman’s Ms Debbie & the Don Valley
Stompers 9:30 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Birdsacrosswater, Norvaisa & ChooZey (folk) 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Steppin’ Out: A Cabaret Journey Lynn Glazer, Sunny Choi, Gerald Isaac 8 pm. Izakaya Sushi House Drummers In Exile 8:30 pm. The Local Massey/Harris. Press Club Toast n’ Jam Open Mic Gord Zubrecki 10 pm. Relish Bar Liane Fainsinger 7 pm. 751 Open Mic The Stoopids 10 pm.
Jazz/Classical/Experimental
Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre Of
Love And Longing Allyson McHardy, Liz Upchurch, Artists of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra (mezzo-soprano, piano) noon to 1 pm. The Jazz Bistro The Jazz Descendants 8 pm. The Rex Humber’s Raising Rhythm: Non-profit fundraising initiative for educational programs in visual/performing arts in developing countries The Humber Funk Band, the Colin Response Band, the Mike Downes Enriched Stream Ensemble (jazz) 5 pm till late. Tranzac Southern Cross Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 10 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Alleycatz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun 8:30 pm. Bloke & 4th Swank DJ Crunch (house/hiphop/club anthems).
Gossip Restaurant Latin Nights DJ Alejo (sal-
sa/bachata/kizomba/merengue/reggaeton). Reposado Alien Radio DJ Gord C. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/reggae) 10 pm.
Wednesday, May 7 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul
Adelaide Hall The Punks Don’t Dance Tour Crystalyne, D-Pryde, Aspire, Ben Zamora, 1st Class doors 6 pm, all ages.
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Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron. Drake Hotel Underground Broods, Meg Myers doors 8 pm.
Gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm, Cody
McMillan & the Soft Shoe Shufflers (folk/ blues) 5 to 8 pm. Johnny Jackson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 pm. Lee’s Palace Angel Olsen, Promised Land Sound doors 8:30 pm. The Local Whitebrow (spooky folk). Lola Wednesday’s Child Open Stage 8 pm. The Queen’s Legs Open Mic Skip Pickering 9:30 pm. Rasputin Vodka Bar Acoustic Jam/Open Mic Taylor Abrahamse 9:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Ronley Teper’s Lipliners 10 pm, Katie DuTemple 7:30 pm.
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Luminous (Beggars/XL) Rating: For Britain’s the Horrors, the world is a less and less horrific place. As the title suggests, their fourth LP is the analogobsessed five-piece’s brightest effort yet. They call it a dance album, but it owes more to producer Andrew Weatherall’s blend of psych and prog rock and the fizzy, feel-good vibes of Donna Summer’s Four Seasons Of Love than today’s aggressively
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rhythmic club music. Luminous has even more beaming optimism than 2011’s heady Skying. Glowing with romantic sentiment, the songs are a succession of dizzying, epic builds that accrue layers of twinkling analog ephemera. Singer Faris Badwan’s voice grows thinner the higher it goes, so the band smartly treat it as yet another instrument in their arsenal of vintage synths, giving him room to breathe only during the lilting verses of Change Your Mind. After a while the tripped-out builds can feel formulaic, but the mind-altering textures and melodic flourishes are so gorgeously realized that Luminous’s feelgood charms become hard to resist. Top track: In And Out Of Sight KEVIN RITCHIE
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Nikki Nack (4AD) Rating: For tUnE-yArDs’ third album, Oaklandbased Merrill Garbus used a handful of new instruments to create her sonic fusion of Afropop, experimental folk and R&B: drum machines; a bag of white rice whacked like a cowbell; a leather-cushioned stool as a snare; a Casio keyboard she received as a gift when she was nine; and the boula, a small Haitian drum that Garbus learned to play while visiting the country last spring. But despite her new musical toys, her voice – as always – is the most impressive instrument. Garbus’s vocals transform from a piercing, chanting choir to silky-smooth spoken word without missing a beat. On Real Thing, she crafts a one-woman calland-response section, showing off her prowess and lung power. But her pipes stand out most on Wait For A Minute: interestingly enough, it’s when she sounds softest (surrounded by cool R&Binspired synth lines) that she’s most commanding. Top track: Wait For A Minute tUnE-yArDs plays Massey Hall as part of NXNE on June 19. SAMANTHA EDWARDS
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Get Back (Outside/Jagjaguwar) Rating: The last Pink Mountaintops record, 2009’s Outside Love, was a hazy, romantic affair with lots of slow grooves and female vocalists singing alongside ringleader Stephen McBean. The only female vocalist this time around is Giant Drag’s Annie Hardy, who delivers a profane rap on North Hollywood Microwaves, inserting a reference to a certain crack-smoking mayor between all the bear-cum jokes. That’s a good indication of how much has changed in McBean’s world. The 45-year-old Vancouver native has moved to Los Angeles, where he appears to be having the time of his life, following love, taking time off from psych rockers Black Mountain, jamming with J Mascis (who also appears on Get Back) and starting new bands, including hardcore four-piece Obliterations. The spirit of youth is all over this energized offering. Songs have a lurking Thunders-and-Bowie glam rock edge, dotted with rock ’n’ roll sax solos. The lyrics are reflec tive without being nostalgic – as if McBean’s bringing a fun adolescence back into the here and now. There are no big hooks, no clear single. Just a boozy-andwoozy late-night vibe that’s pretty damn satisfying. Top track: Sell Your Soul CARLA GILLIS
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Soul Power (Burger) Rating: Every once in a while an artist comes along who elicits an immediate “Who is this?” reaction. Curtis Harding, seductively smoking a cigarette on the cover of his debut album, is one of them. A man with a Hedi Slimane-shot Saint Laurent Paris music video before he has a proper record release, Harding is the Michigan-born product of Atlanta’s swirling, genre-mashing music scene. He’s a former CeeLo Green backup singer whose record is a delirious blend of blues, soul, R&B and surf – all with the distinct raw fuzz of garage rock. (He calls his particular mix “sloppin’ soul.”)
LILY ALLEN Sheezus (Parlophone) Rating: NNN On this album, Lily Allen approaches pop music with a hip-hop sensibility. And it’s not just because the English singer enlisted Kendrick Lamar and Drake collaborator DJ Dahi to produce the skittering standout title track. A clever lyricist, she’d make quite a good rapper. And on Sheezus, Allen takes on her contemporaries – Gaga, Lorde, Riri – in hip-hop’s competitive spirit while also betraying some of her signature insecurity and singing about her period. Mostly, though, with producer Greg Kurstin back on board, Allen’s third album is a continuation of the light, slick pop stylings of her first two efforts – granted, with dubby, electro and R&B additions.
(1017 Brick Squad) Rating: NNN Young Thug has an impressive ability to imbue nearly every syllable with levity. On Hot Boyz, he shouts “Hot boyz, hot boyz, hot boyz, hot!” with the kind of wide-eyed zeal that recalls Lil Wayne during his experimental phase of the mid- to late 2000s (aka his prime). Elsewhere on this collaborative mixtape with Gucci Mane, Thug shows off his deft cadence control as he bobs and weaves, elongating words like his voice is melting in one bar, then clipping them like he’s trying to speak in code on the next. On Siblings, Thug’s longing- and affection-evoking melodies make a comically lascivious conceit almost sweet. For his part, Mane is consistent, displaying his trademark sly humour on OMG Bro and Stoner 2 Times, but he definitely plays second fiddle here. Thug is ascending to rap’s A list as the most exciting solo stylist approaching crossover status since Future released Pluto. It’s hard not to view La Flare as a harbinger of things to come. Top track: Need JORDAN SOWUNMI
Each song has bite, but every sound on Soul Power is kept fairly mellow. Even Harding’s voice (the pipes of a former gospel singer) maintains a level of cool restraint while he switches deftly from smoky croon to silky falsetto. The tunes could easily be from the 60s and 70s, and some tracks hint at the Marvin Gaye outspokenness of that era (Surf, Beautiful People), though they’re not quite as overtly political. Others are slightly dark tales of past, unconquered or unrequited love (Next Time, I Don’t Wanna Go Home, Drive My Car). Heaven’s On The Other Side is a slice of sunny disco, but the showstopper is Castaway: here, Harding is a tortured bluesman at the end of his rope. Top track: Castaway JULIA LECONTE of contemporary drum machine beats, which, combined with their nods to indie rock, puts them in a category all their own. Top track: CS60 Badbadnotgood play Field Trip at Fort York Garrison Common June 8. BENJAMIN BOLES
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Not that we wanted a revolution. We’ve missed Allen’s sweet sass since she went on hiatus five years ago and had a family. Her domestic bliss songs are predictably the most boring, the exception being L8 CMMR, the dancehall-esque, AutoTuned track in which she sings of her husband’s virility. And whether or not you can stomach the controversial music video for Hard Out Here, the song – “Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits, it’s hard out here for a bitch” – rings way too true to ignore. Top track: L8 CMMR JL
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III (Pirates Blend) Rating: Technically, III is Toronto hip-hop jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD’s third album, but it’s their first that’s been offered for sale rather than simply posted for free on the internet. Their earlier releases were both strong, but they seem like playful experiments compared to III’s self-assurance. Resisting the temptation to make their commercial debut too pristine, they recorded instead to reel-to-reel tape, keeping that raw, live feel that initially garnered them so much attention. And while there are a few guest appearances by some of their horn-playing friends, most of the album is just the three core members. There’s nothing new about live musicians getting inspiration from hip-hop, but BBNG approach it from a different generational perspective. Instead of imitating the manipulated loops of funk drummers that defined earlier rap, they make references to the more robotic feel
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Late At Night (Missed Connection) Rating: NNNN Alanna Gurr’s voice brings you inside. It’s hushed and raspy, giving you a sense of secret confidences as she coos her at times nearly whispered tunes. On her sophomore disc with her band, the Greatest State, Gurr works with a melancholic country- and soul-tinged indie folk palette: embellished minimalism with spiky, twangy electric guitar lines and lots of pedal steel, organ and backup vocals. (Guests include Daniel and Ian Romano, Jessy Bell Smith and Raven Shields.) The band does wonders with very few chords on gentle songs like Hell Or High Water, and the sweetness of Gurr’s lyrics shines, especially on By My Side. When the group gets grooving on standout single Golden Coast, it doesn’t drown Gurr’s vocals out; she rises to the occasion, sounding confident and alluring. Here’s hoping the band keeps exploring its poppier side on records to come. Top track: Golden Coast Alanna Gurr and the Greatest State play the Horseshoe Thursday (May 1). SARAH GREENE
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New site-specific show immerses you in the world of EMS workers By JON KAPLAN
Katherine Cullen says her character doesn’t like people, even though she saves them for a living.
VITALS by Rosamund Small, directed by Mitchell Cushman, with Katherine Cullen. Presented by Outside the March and Theatre Passe Muraille at a secret location (meet at 149 Roncesvalles). Opens Thursday (May 1) and runs to May 25, TuesdaySunday 7:30 pm, matinees Saturday-Sunday 2 pm. $25-$30. 416-504-7529.
Ever think about the paramedics who drive the EMS vehicles that rush past us, sirens blaring? Rosamund Small’s Vitals looks at Anna, one of those emergency rescue people, as she teeters on the edge of a breakdown. The production by Outside the March, known for its site-specific work, takes us to a neighbourhood location where Anna does her skilled work while her unsettled thoughts wander in many directions. “She’s an isolated and vulnerable person lacking the large support network that people in her profession require,” explains Katherine Cullen, who plays the role. “In the research we’ve done, we know that workers do best when they have a partner or some other solid structure apart from the job to keep them grounded. “Anna’s not great with intimacy and doesn’t recognize the effect of post-traumatic stress disorder. I think, in fact, she doesn’t like people, though she saves them for a living. She connects better with animals.”
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As a result, Cullen says, when Anna starts to unravel, she goes through a frightening process that destroys her calm and cool exterior. “Only by the end of the play does she decide to join the club that we call humanity, though it’s sometimes dark and scary for her.” Cullen’s been with the project since its start, when she read a monologue that Small wrote for a theatre fundraiser. Mitchell Cushman, co-artistic director of Outside the March, was there, too, and the three artists saw potential in the short speech and continued developing it. Eventually, Theatre Passe Muraille came on board, and the show has grown into a production literally outside the (theatrical) box. “That’s classic Mitchell,” laughs Cullen, who’s worked with the director on previous OtM shows Mr. Marmalade and Passion Play. “What started as a no-frills, inexpensive one-person show has become one of the most complicated pieces I’ve ever worked on.” Vitals involves the audience on a number of levels, physically as well as emotionally. While Cullen is the only named actor, some 10 “first responders” facilitate the experience for the 30 viewers, who are sometimes together and sometimes divided into different groups as they explore the secret venue. It’s not quite like the enormously
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popular, Macbeth-inspired Sleep No More, a current New York production that allows its large audience to wander pretty much at will through dozens of rooms, but there’s a sense that everyone gets to discover the play’s story and its secrets in their own way. “I love site-specific theatre,” admits Cullen, “because it gives audiences the gift of being close to the action, part of it rather than at a distance. It creates a magical world into which viewers step. The set itself becomes one of the characters, allowing the audience to connect with the show at a sensual level.” Cullen admits it’s been strange rehearsing in a traditional hall without the audience interaction that will be key in performance. “I’m astounded at how transformed the show has become now that we’re in the actual space. The staging, the sound, the details of design and the role and choreography of the first responders are all important. It feels like a huge team coming together and being pushed to places we’ve never gone to before. “This is a great way to bring in new audiences,” says Cullen. “It’s the kind of theatre that will keep the art form buoyant and relevant.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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Philip Carey, the central figure in Of Human Bondage, is caught between two worlds: medicine and art. As he notes early on, “Medicine is boring but useful, art is beautiful but impractical.” Vern Thiessen’s fine adaptation of the W. Somerset Maugham classic is clear about the two pulls on Philip (Gregory Prest), but there’s an overriding magnet in his life – the enticing Mildred (Michelle Monteith), who becomes his obsession. Director Albert Schultz swirls the play’s filmic action around Philip, scenes bleeding into each other excitingly as we follow the adventures of a hero made shy and insecure because of his club foot. An almost Dickensian group of figures’ lives intersect with Philip’s, from music hall singers and physicians to businessmen and various women drawn to him. The medical world is represented by his teacher,
Tyrell (Oliver Dennis) and fellow students Griffiths (Jeff Lillico) and Dunsford (Paolo Santalucia), while the artistic is represented by the poet Cronshaw (Dan Chameroy) and the painter Lawson (Dennis). It’s here that the production stumbles a bit; while we get a strong sense of the medical people in his life, the artistic side isn’t as well fleshed out. But that’s a minor problem in the play’s rich world, with Prest an engaging figure even when we want to slap Philip for returning to Mildred yet again. His smile of happiness at play’s end includes an awareness of life’s inevitable disappointments. Monteith has an even harder job: making her character more than a shrewish manipulator. She does that by suggesting that Mildred is, in her own way, as subtly addicted to Philip as he overtly is to her. Also memorable are the two women who offer Philip warm alternatives to Mildred: forthright penny novelist Norah (Sarah Wilson) and diffident but free-thinking Sally (Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster), both embodying the independent woman starting to appear on the London scene at the start of the JON KAPLAN 20th century.
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BEDTIME STORIES by Norm Foster (Huntsville
Theatre). Six comic vignettes look at human nature and the search for love. Opens May 1 and runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $18. Chaffey Hall, 20 Chaffey Township Rd, Huntsville. huntsvilletheatre.org. COME RAIN OR COME SHINE (Windmill Theatre). The company presents sentimental standards from the 40s and 50s American songbook. May 2-3 at 8 pm. $30. Unitarian Congregation Great Hall, 84 South Service Rd, Mississauga. 905-483-5702, windmilltheatre.com.
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scene, in which Persée, aided by Mercure (Lawrence Wiliford) and other gods, charms the monster (played by Laquerre in drag) and her two Gorgons (Curtis Sullivan and Aaron Ferguson, ditto), and the scene in which Adromède, Fay Wray-style, is chained to a rock to be sacrificed to a sea monster. Gerard Gauci’s painted sets in both scenes are wonderfully vivid. But apart from Wiliford, whose nimble grace and pure tenor are a delight, and the rich-voiced Kriha Dye, whose Mérope seems genuinely conflicted, there’s not much sparkle from the cast. Garvanliev is so over-the-top, he seems to be in a panto, and there’s no chemistry between Enns and Asselin. Thankfully, there’s lots to look at in Jeannette Lajeuesse Zingg’s elegant choreography, and the Tafelmusik Orchestra, under David Fallis, adds a propulsive vigour that’s often missing on GLENN SUMI the stage.
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Choppy seas PERSÉE by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera telier). At the Elgin Theatre until May 3. A $38-$166. 1-855-622-2787. See Continuing, page 54. Rating: NNN
Opera Atelier’s production of Lully’s Persée has become a signature work for the company, and no wonder. It’s filled with everything that makes them special: sumptuous sets and costumes, and a witty, lively take on a lesserknown baroque opera gem. What it lacks this time around, however, are compelling voices in the leads. The latest production, enhanced since its 2004 version and heading to Versailles after its run here, takes a while to ignite, since it’s mostly set-up. Ethiopia under King Céphée (Olivier Laquerre) and Queen Cassiope (Carla Huhtanen) is being decimated by Méduse, who turns all who look at her to stone. When the King brings in Persée (Christopher Enns) to fight the monster, promising his daughter Andromède’s (Mireille Asselin) hand if he succeeds, he raises the ire of Phinée (Vasil Garvanliev), Andromède’s betrothed, and the queen’s sister, Mérope (Peggy Kriha Dye), who’s secretly in love with Persée. The second half is much more exciting, particularly the famous Méduse
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The Cousin From Nowhere by Eduard
Künneke (Toronto Operetta Theatre). The idealism of young love drives this Jazz Age chamber operetta. May 1-4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $72-$95. St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, s tlc.com. From Rags To Bitches (Red Sandcastle Theatre). A boy tries to become fabulous in this comical jaunt starring the Fabulous Russella. Opens May 7 and runs to May 8, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $15-$20. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com.
A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart and Stephen Sondheim (Scarborough Music Theatre). A sly Roman slave plots to win his freedom in this musical comedy. Opens May 1 and runs to May 17, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm (May 17 at 2 pm, no eve show). $27, stu/srs $22. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. Hackerlove by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). This theatrical fantasy imagines a queer love affair between two characters in the midst of the 2010 WikiLeaks scandal. Opens May 1 and runs to May 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $19-$30, Sun pwyc at the door. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. The Lion King by Elton John, Tim Rice and Roger Allers (Mirvish). The musical based on the Disney film returns. Opens May 1 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. Mies Julie by Yael Farber (Baxter Theatre Centre/ Harbourfront World Stage). A black man and a white woman wage love and war in postApartheid South Africa in this version of Strindberg’s play about class and gender. Opens May 6 and runs to May 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $49. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre. com. A Month In The Country by Ivan Turgenev (Amicus Productions). A bored wife’s roving eye leads to trouble in this romantic comedy. Opens May 1 and runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and May 10) at 2 pm. $22, srs $20, stu $18. Papermill The-
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atre, 67 Pottery. 416-860-6176, amicusproductions.ca. The Mystery Of Edwin Drood by Rupert Holmes (Alexander Showcase Theatre). The audience decides the ending of Charles Dickens’ unfinished book in this musical murder mystery. Opens May 2 and runs to May 11, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $32, stu/srs $27. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-324-1259, alexandershowcasetheatre.com. The Road To Mecca by Athol Fugard (Soulpepper). A South African widow turns her property into an eccentric art installation in this drama about intolerance and the need for self-expression. Previews to 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. 416-866-8666, 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. Opens May 1 and runs to May 15, see website for schedule. $15-$24. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. Third Eye Looming by Ed Roy and Workman Artists (Lisa Brown/Tangled Art + Disability). A man tries to piece together his life after the onset of mental illness in this multidisciplinary piece. May 2-3, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/PWD $20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Ada Slaight Hall. 416-392-1038, t angledarts.org. The 39 Steps by Patrick Barlow (Galahad Theatre Productions). This comedy whodunit is based on the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film. May 2-3, Fri-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25-$40. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts, Mississauga. 905-306-6000, livingartscentre.ca. Vitals by Rosamund Small (Outside the March/Theatre Passe Muraille). A paramedic deals with life, death and bureaucracy in this site-specific show based on interviews with EMS workers (see story, page 51). Opens May 1 and runs to May 25, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. Starts at Roncesvalles & Garden Aves, 149 Roncesvalles. 416504-7529, outsidethemarch.ca.
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opposite sides of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Previews to May 8. Opens May 9 and runs in rep to Oct 18. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor (Factory Theatre). Drinking games and fear of life in their 40s drive the actions of five friends at their high school reunion. Previews May 3-7, Sat and Tue-Wed 8 pm, Sun 7 pm. Opens May 8 and runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30$45, previews $23, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Previews to May 9. Opens May 10 and runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com.
The Charity That Began At Home: A Comedy For Philanthropists by St John Hankin (Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home. Previews to May 9. Opens May 10 and runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. Of Shapes Transformed By Love by Kyle Capstick (Aim for the Tangent Theatre/Newborn Theatre). A night of myths and magic outdoors looks at a world ruled by the wilderness of the heart. Previews May 7. Opens May 8 and runs to May 18, Wed-Sat 9 pm. $20, stu/ srs $15, preview pwyc. Majlis Art Garden, 163 Walnut. s hapes.brownpapertickets.com.
One-Nighters
Faster Than Night by Digital BlackBox (Harbourfront Centre HATCH). A social media billionaire goes on a time-travel mission to cheat death in this fusion of live theatre, 3D animation and audience interaction. May 3 at 2 and 8 pm. $12-$15. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com/hatch. The Peepshow Clipshow (PeepshowTO). This retrospective looks at previous Underground Peepshow revues. May 3, doors 7 pm. $15$25. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W, Underground. peepshowto.com.
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dance listings Opening Blumberg/Norman Double Bill Angela Blumberg and Tracey Norman present Blumberg’s duet Shadow and trio What Remains, and Norman’s duet Witness. May 1-3, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $13-$17. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. traceynorman.com. Dance Matters Series 3 – From The Fryin’ Pan Dance Matters presents new works, in-
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cluding Meredith Kalaman’s Ruminate, Alias Dance Project’s Untitled, Emilio Colalillo’s Affinity and others. May 3-4, Sat 8 pm, Sun 4 pm. $14-$18, ltd Sun pwyc. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. dancematters.ca/tix. Momentum 2014 School of Toronto Dance Theatre presents student dancers performing works by Julia Sasso, Nova Bhattacharya, Marc Boivin, Christopher House and others. Opens May 1 and runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Wed fundraiser 7:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15; Wed $30. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-907-0468, schooloftdt.org. NeoIndigenA Kaha:wi Dance Theatre and Harbourfront NextSteps present Santee Smith performing her solo work about our relationship to all living entities and elements. May 1-3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20-$30, opening gala $65. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, kahawidance.org. Sharing Dance Day Canada’s National Ballet School presents dance and musical performances plus ballet, hip-hop and Bollywood dance classes. May 4 from 2 to 4 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. sharingdance.ca. SoloDuet tiger princess dance projects presents two new works by Yvonne Ng that explore identity and its fluidity. Opens May 6 and runs to May 10, Tue-Fri 8 pm, Sat 4 pm. $28, stu/srs $20. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. The Tempest Replica Canadian Stage and Kidd Pivot present a dance-theatre piece by Crystal Pite that stages a game of revenge and forgiveness based on the Shakespeare classic. Opens May 7 and runs to May 11, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $24-$99. Bluma A ppel Theatre, 27 Front E.
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Arrabal (Mirvish/BASE Entertainment). 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 Gustavo Santaolalla’s music is electric and catchy. But writer Weidman needs to find more clarity in the storytelling. 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) 3
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Performance Showcase Fundraiser (Rose-
neath Theatre). A performance of Beatriz Pizano’s La Maleta anchors this event that also features live and silent auctions and a kids’ craft table. May 4 from 2 to 5 pm. $40, kids $10. Workman Theatre, 651 Dufferin. 416-686-5199 ext 221, roseneath.ca. Songs In The Key Of Love (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Singer/actor Barb Scheffler performs songs and stories about love with Scott Pietrangelo. May 4 at 7:30 pm. $15-$20. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. Stars Come Out (Theatre by the Bay). This funder for the company features song, music and dance. Opens May 5 at 7:30 pm. $26$126. Georgian College, 1 Georgian, Barrie. 705-739-4228, theatrebythebay.com. Synthesia III – Music And Film (FAWN Opera/ Seventh Art). This technology-themed, interdisciplinary concert features soundtracks by emerging composers and is performed alongside eight films. May 3 at 8 pm. $15-$20. Brockton Studio, 442 Dufferin, studio 18. fawnopera.com.
The Walls Are Alive With The Sound Of Mad People (Friendly Spike Theatre Band/Jane’s
Walk). The company presents a theatrical walking tour about the CAMH patient-built wall. May 4 at noon. Free. SW Corner, Queen West at Shaw Street. janeswalk.org.
Continuing Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh (Precisely Peter
Productions). The hostess from hell humiliates and dominates her guests at a dinner party in this satire on social climbers in 70s suburban England. Runs to May 3, Thu-Sat 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 moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel (Factory Theatre/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Lindsay Cochrane’s adaptation of Martel’s flawed Holocaust parable fails to tighten the book’s themes or emphasize its visual or dramatic appeal. A key element of the book has been left out, leaving tired symbols to telegraph the work’s obvious mystery. Actors Damien Atkins and Pierre Brault fumble around with Beckett-like dialogue on an overly fussy set. Runs to May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30-$45, ltd pwyc Sun. 125 Bathurst, Studio. 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, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-
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Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux isn’t as well known as some of his other operas, but, based on the Canadian Opera Company’s triumphant production, it deserves to be. Above all, it’s a spectacular showcase for a soprano, since despite that title, it’s Queen Elizabeth I who’s at the centre. Director Stephen Lawless understands that, staging it as a memory piece as the aging Elisabetta (Sondra Radvanovsky) looks back on her life, including her skill at politics, her love of theatre (the entire opera takes place on a replica of the Globe Theatre stage) and, ultimately, her tragic obsession with the title character, the Earl of
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At the centre of Sean Dixon’s fascinating A God In Need Of Help is a monumental painting by Dürer, The Brotherhood Of The Rosary. It’s 1606, and four men chosen for their strength must carry it from Venice to Prague. A miracle – or what some see as a miracle – brings their journey to a standstill when a group of Protestants attack the team and their captain. Dixon’s script is, on one level, a courtroom drama involving represen tatives of the secular Venetian state (John Cleland’s practical Zen) and the Vatican (Greg Ellwand’s art-loving Archbishop Borromeo) questioning the five to decide if a miracle occurred.
Essex (Leonardo Capalbo, replaced by Giuseppe Filanoti in mid-May). He’s charged with treason and is in love with Sara (Allyson McHardy), who’s married to the Queen’s adviser, the Duke of Nottingham (Russell Braun). The work is about the clash between private passions and the public face of politics. This being Italian opera, those passions rule, expressed in long, lyrical arias of utter beauty, as well as charged duets, tense trios and climactic choruses. I can’t recall a COC opera this uniformly well cast. Capalbo, besides looking believable as the dashing cad, has a gorgeous tenor, delivering his lines with a lovely legato, while McHardy has a rich, full mezzo and an instinctual dramatic grasp of Sara’s situation. Braun, his baritone at the peak of its powers, makes Nottingham’s descent from concerned statesman to suspicious husband palpable. But it’s Radvanovsky who brings the house down with her stunning portrayal of the complex Elisabetta, her But the script is far more than that; Dixon has drawn seven lively, theatri cal characters, each of whom engag ingly holds the spotlight for an enacted recollection of the events or, in the case of the judges, a reaction to the tales. We meet the vicious captain (Dmi try Chepovetsky), slow but loyal oarmaker Marco (Alden Adair), witty actor Dolfin (Tony Nappo), retired soldier Cocco (Daniel Kash) and finally Rafal (Jonathan Seinen), a delicate but forceful young man who seems to come from a different world than his rough compatriots. More and more secrets are divulged as their tales unfold, and director Rich ard Rose does a fine job of staging on Camellia Koo’s dark, mysterious set, lit
Allyson McHardy (left) and Sondra Radvanovsky share a tense scene in Roberto Devereux.
flexible, lyrical voice capable of tender endearments followed by ferocious, demented fury and then poignant pathos. She’s an equally good actor. Look at her posture in public and private, or how she wields various props to reveal her character. Although some scene changes take a while to set up, Lawless makes terrific use of set designer Benoit Dugar
dyn’s Globe Theatre motif, especially the window-like balconies at the top, where characters can suddenly appear to eavesdrop. And although Donizetti’s score can occasionally feel repetitive, Corrado Rovaris and the COC orchestra bring an urgency and – especially in the arias – spontaneity to the music that makes GLENN SUMI this vivid musical theatre.
by Kimberly Purtell, with the huge painting in the background. But there are other layers that have to do with the power of art, alchemy and medicine, ancient gods and more contemporary deities. It’s too bad that much of the first act, cool and uninvolved, needs more passion. Happily, that excitement develops in the more emotional second act, starting with Nappo’s light, appealing take on Dolfin.
The acting’s fine throughout, with a series of well-etched characters: Cleland’s nastily punctilious Zen; Ellwand’s rule-bound Borromeo, seduced by fine paintings; Adair’s sympathetic Marco; Chepovetsky’s duplicitous captain; Kash’s crude soldier with a surprising soft side; and Seinen’s Rafal, with a secretive smile and a hidden agenda. The play’s swiftpaced conclusion intentionally leaves some key elements unresolved, but that’s what the best art does, tantalizing as much as satisfying.
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368-3110, canadianstage.com. NNNN (GS) Bingo: The Musical by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid and David Holcenberg (Encore Entertainment). Love blossoms and friends reunite amidst fierce competition. Runs to May 4, Thu-Sun 8 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 in this comedy. Runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $20, stu/ srs $16. Bloor West Village Playhouse, 2190 Bloor W. 416-767-7702, villageplayers.net. Business As Usual by Viktor Lukawski, Adam Paolozza and Nicolas Di Gaetano (Independent Creators Cooperative/ZOU Theatre Co). Highly stressed office workers are the focus of this seriocomic, movement-inspired look at the tension in a do-more business world, one in which suicide is a convenient out. The writer/actors (Viktor Lukawski, Adam Paolozza and Nicolas Di Gaetano) evoke the stress well, though it’s not until the play’s last third that the action gels. Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times (Runs in rep with Ralph + Lina and Death Married My Daughter). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 3shows.ca. NNN (JK) Cold Comfort by Owen McCafferty (Fly on the Wall Theatre). A man returns to Belfast to resolve issues with his dead father. Runs to May 4, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20, Sun rush $13. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Near Studio. flyonthewalltheatre.ca. Death Married My Daughter by Danya Buonastella, Dean Gilmour, Nina Gilmour and Michele Smith (Play it Again Productions/Independent Creators Cooperative). Shakespeare’s Desdemona and Ophelia, back from the dead to get closure for their unhappy lives, take on the patriarchal world that subjugated them. Danya Buonastella and Nina Gilmour’s bouffon characters are appropriately nasty and fascinating in equal measure. Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times (Runs in rep with Ralph + Lina and Business As Usual). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416-5380988, 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK)
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Dora The Explorer Live: Dora’s Pirate Adventure (Lower Ossington Theatre). Dora and friends go to Treasure Island in this kids’ show. Runs to May 4, Sat-Sun 11 am and 1 pm. $29$39. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. Drunk Enough To Say I Love You by Caryl Churchill (Circlesnake Productions/The Playwright Project 2014). Two men are locked in a tense affair in this allegorical play about the seduction of Britain by the U.S. Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10-$15, Project 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. Runs to May 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $18, stu $12. The Box Studio, 89 Niagara.
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per). 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, four Catholics carrying a holy painting across the Alps are attacked by Protestants and attribute their escape to a miracle (see review, page 53). Runs to May 25, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, 8 pm, ltd rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) Hedwig And The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender musician moves to America to start a rock band and find love. Runs to May 10, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 and 11 pm. $49. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. The Last Confession by Roger Crane (Mirvish). This thriller explores the mystery shrouding the sudden death of Pope John Paul I in 1978. 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 French satirist takes aim at the extravagant ladies of the French bourgeoisie. 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; May 8 gala $125. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-534-6604, t heatrefrancais.com. Magic @ The Cage (Abracadabaret). Weekly magic and comedy show. Sun and Tue 7 pm. $15-$20. The Cage 292, 292 College. 416-9951736, a bracadabaret.com/cage. The Memo by Václav Havel (Thought for Food). An employee goes on an absurd quest to decipher a message in an invented workplace language. Runs to May 10, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $25. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. thought4food.ca. A Number by Caryl Churchill (Cart/Horse Theatre/The Playwright Project 2014). This thriller looks at the relationship between fathers and sons. Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10-$15, passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com. Of Human Bondage by Vern Thiessen (Soulpepper). W Somerset Maugham’s novel is adapted for the stage (see review, page 51). Runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) 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. Runs to May 11, see website for schedule. $17-$22.
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Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front E. 416-8622222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. Persee by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera Atelier). Perseus battles Medusa to rescue princess Andromeda in this retelling of the classical myth (see review, page 52). Runs to May 3, Fri-Sat and Tue-Wed 7:30 pm, Sun 3 pm. $38$166. Elgin Theatre, 189 Yonge. 1-855-6222787, operaatelier.com. NNN (GS) Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to May 25, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, pinkaliciousthemusical.com/toronto. Ralph + Lina by Michele Smith, Dan Watson and Christina Serra (Ahuri Theatre/Independent Creators Cooperative). An Italian romance interrupted by the Second World War has a happy Canadian ending in this commedia-inspired work. It features Dan Watson and Christina Serra, delightfully warm and funny as their characters go through the problems of several separations and an unwanted new love interest. Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times (Runs in rep with Death Married My Daughter and Business As Usual). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 416538-0988, 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK) Rent by Jonathan Larson (Lower Ossington Theatre). NYC artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical. Runs to May 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.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 (see review, page 53). Runs to May 21: May 3, 15 and 21 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. NNNNN (GS)
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Singular Sensation: A Music Theatre Open Mic (Jennifer Walls). Sing showtunes with a
live band and see previews of upcoming works at this weekly show. Mondays 10 pm. Free. Statler’s, 487 Church. 416-922-0487. 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. 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. 416-531-1827, 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 kids of an Austrian officer in this musical. Runs to May 3, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $39-$69. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. Three More Sleepless Nights by Caryl Churchill (Bad Joe/The Playwright Project 2014). This play looks at human relationships through the eyes of two ill-fated couples. Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10$15, Project passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. p laywrightproject.com.
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Thursday, May 1 BAD HABITS COMEDY Habits Gastropub pre-
sents a weekly show. 10 pm. Pwyc. 928 College. 416-533-7272, habitsgastropub.com. COSIMO TUCCI’S JUST TALKING Ian Pozzebon presents a comedic short film and live taping of the stand-up special. 10:30 pm. $5. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly pro/am show w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com. LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Nigel Grinstead, Levi MacDougall, Kate Berlant, Bob Kerr, Phil Moorhead, host Steph Kaliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.
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prov, workshops and more to celebrate funny femmes from T.O. and abroad, w/ Iris Benson, Julia Bruce, Amanda Day, Kris Simmons, Filthy & Squalor, Anna Gustafson and many others. (See Q&A, page 55.) To May 3, Thu-Sat 7-10 pm (multiple shows on the Mainstage & Cabaret Space). $12-$15, pass $30. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. shedotfestival.com. 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) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Eddie Della Siepe. To May 4, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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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, mats Fri, Mon 1 pm, Wed 1:30 pm. $25-$55. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House. 416-8668666, videocab.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill (Neoteny Theatre/The Playwright Project 2014). This dark comedy looks at how witch hunts target old, poor and unconventional women. Runs to May 4, see website for schedule. $10-$15, Project passes $15-$45. The Downstage, 798 Danforth. playwrightproject.com. We Will Rock You by Ben Elton and Queen (Mirvish). Teens rebel against a futuristic world where live music is banned. 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. 3
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Puff Mama presents a podcast taping show. 9 pm. $20. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125, ticketfly.com. ALLAN TURNER IS ALL ALONE Imperial Pub presents writer/comedian Turner performing an improvised solo play. 9 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. facebook.com/events/276074515900989.
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liament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. ONE AND DONE COMEDY SHOW The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents stand-up w/ Diana Bailey, Clifford Myers, Marito Lopez, Dave Burke and host Francis Brian Shaw. 7 pm. $5$10. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.com/event/667653.
SheDot. Toronto’s Festival Of Funny Women See Thu 1. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 1. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Main Event, a weekly pro headliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416637-7427. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 1.
Saturday, May 3 BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Fan Fiction: Harry Potter, 8 pm, $10. Harry Potter And The Amulet Of Adanac, 10 pm. $5. 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-4060880, redrocketcoffee.com. SheDot. Toronto’s Festival Of Funny Women See Thu 1. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 1. STONER CHICKS Puff Mama presents a stand-up variety show. 9 pm. $15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125, puffmama.ca. WHITE RHINO Baltic Avenue presents improv w/ Wayne Jones, Pat Thornton, Matt Folliott and others. 9 pm. $10. 875 Bloor W. 647-898-5324. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 1.
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Sunday, May 4 THE CHAOS JAM Black Swan Comedy presents duo scenes with Second City vets. 8 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents contestants competing for a spot on Yuk Yuk’s Tuesday Night Show. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca. LADYBUSINESS GETS LAID – OFF The sketch group presents its final show. 7 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. facebook.com/ events/678127855578388. MAD LAUGHS AND A SONG Madison Avenue Pub presents a weekly open mic comedy show and karaoke contest. 8 pm. Free. 14 Madison. 416-927-1722, madisonavenuepub.com. QUINNIE THE POOH – THE COMEDY SHOW
arlem presents Quinn C Martin and others. H 8 pm. $10. 67 Richmond E. 416-368-1920, harlemrestaurant.com. SHEDOT FESTIVAL GALA SheDot. Toronto’s Festival Of Funny Women presents a festival wrap-up show w/ Elvira Kurt, Leslie Seiler, Lauren Ash, Carolyn Taylor and Sandra Battaglini. Proceeds benefit the Jo-Anna Downey Fund. 7:30 pm. $35, pass holders $25. Opera House, 735 Queen E. shedotfestival.com. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 1.
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a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. UNDERGROUND WING FESTIVAL Puff Mama presents a wing buffet, stand-up comedy and burlesque. 8 pm. $30. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125, ticketfly.com. Yuk Yuk’s Downtown See Thu 1.
Monday, May 5 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Eddie Della Siepe, Monty Scott, Rob Pue, ñ Nick Flanagan, Nug Nahrgang, Rose Giles,
J ared Borland, MC Mark Forward and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge. com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562. COMEDY NIGHT TORONTO @comedynightto presents comics competing for cash w/ Nigel Grinstead, Natalie Norman, Marito Lopez, Christophe Davidson, headliner Bryan O’Gorman and host Dan Guiry. 9 pm. Pwyc. Brooklynn Bar, 1186 Queen W. 416-536-7700, comedynightto.com. GET HAPPY! Smiling Buddha presents a weekly open mic w/ hosts Scott Barkley & Scott Topolinsky. 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. OFFICE PUB COMEDY presents 12 pros and amateurs each week w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti and Blayne Smith. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900. 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, May 6 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents an open-mic night w/ headliner Ron ñ Josol, MC Mike Rita & 12 spots available. 9 pm.
$5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. COMEDY Cove Nick Reynoldson and Barry Taylor, followed by Jeff E’s Olde Fashioned Open Mic. 9 pm. Pwyc. Maple Leaf House, 2749 Lake Shore W. 416-255-2558. THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros and random lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416966-4369. FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents stand-up with hosts Diana Love and Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com. IMPROV DROP-IN Black Swan Comedy presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. 154 Danforth. blackswancomedy.com. KENNY VS. SPENNY VS. CANADA Trixstar Productions and CMW present cult heroes Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice in a night of comedy, Q&A, behind-the-scenes footage and more. To May 7, Tue-Wed 8 pm. $39-$49. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. ticketmaster.ca. LES IMPROBABLES Supermarket presents a biweekly show with competitive improv en français. 7 pm. $5. 268 Augusta. 416-8400501, ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com. PROPEN MIC Comedy Bar presents a weekly pro open-mic show followed by lottery spots. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. ROB VS THE WORLD Empire Comedy Live presents Rob Mailloux in his new show, Drunkorexia. To May 8, Tue and Thu 8 pm. $10. Johnny Jackson, 587 College. empirecomedylive.com. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 1. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts. TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents comedy in the style of a 70s cable access show w/ Templeton Philharmonic, Matt Collins, Amanda Balsys, Parker & Seville, hosts Steph K aliner & Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 61 Ossington. theossington.com. TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Imperial Pub presents host Danny Polishchuk and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-9774667, imperialcomedy.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive competitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber
School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/ show. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
Wednesday, May 7 CAMP WAYWARD Bad Dog Theatre present all-female improv about an allgirls sleepaway camp w/ Carolyn Taylor, Lisa Merchant, Kayla Lorette and others. To May 14, Wednesdays 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco. com. CORKTOWN COMEDY Corktown Productions presents an open-mic show w/ Jake Brennan, Michelle Christine, Aaron Weingott, host Brian Coughlin and others. 9 pm. Free. Betty’s, 240 King E. 416-988-2675, corktowncomedy.com. D&D LIVE Bad Dog Theatre Epic Wednesdays presents an improvised show based on the Dungeons & Dragons cult phenomenon. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. ELEPHANT EMPIRE Comedy Bar presents the sketch troupe w/ Hannah Spear, Andrew Gardner, Matt Lemche and Peter Stevens, performing fast-paced sketch and a one-act play. To May 28, Wednesdays 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present a monthly sci fi-inspired improv comedy variety show w/ Freddie Rivas, PHATT al, and a music video by Delica-m. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com. KAREN WILLIAMS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents the queer female comic in a show to benefit the Healing Place. 7 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. Kenny vs. Spenny vs. Canada See Tue 6. MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly stand-up. 8-10 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-604-0202, facebook.com/ MagicOvenKeele. 120 WEDNESDAYS OPEN MIC Club 120 presents comics, burlesque and novelty performers w/ TS comedian Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca. Rock N Roll COMEDY night Yuk Yuk’s and CMW present stand-up w/ Terry Clement, Dan Guiry and MC Christophe Davidson. To May 8, Wed-Thu 8 pm. $11.50. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Brendan Pinto and headliner Michelle Christine. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 1. SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free. Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440. 3
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Martha O’Neill Comic and co-producer, SheDot: Toronto’s Festival Of Funny Women
The days of the straight white male guy dominating the comedy scene are over – at least in Toronto. There are lots of allfemalesketch troupes, plenty of stand-ups and improvisers, and nights devoted exclusively to women performers. And now comes SheDot, a new four-day festival celebrating laughinducingladies. With shows devoted to every genre, panels and spots featuring everyone from family-friendly comics to LBT performers to raunchy types, as well as a star-studded gala Sunday night, there’s something for everyone. See listings, page 54.
How’d you come up with the name? It’s pretty hip-hop. I honestly thought everyone knew that T-dot was a nickname for Toronto. So: SheDot. Turns out it’s not as common as I thought and I’m way cooler than I thought. Plus, I’d already bought the domain name. What would your hip-hop name be? DJ Sham-Rock. Unlike most festivals *wink wink*, you’re covering pretty much every genre of comedy. Was that a nobrainer? Absolutely. It’s Toronto’s Festival Of Funny Women, not Toronto’s Festival
Of Funny Women Stand-Up Comedians. Categories that didn’t make the cut? Mimes and parade clowns. On April 1, your PR reps sent out an April Fool’s Day press release saying Tina Fey was headlining the festival. How’d that go over? I was a little worried about blowback, but it turns out journalists have a great sense of humour. And Tina Fey doesn’t care about us! How’d you go about choosing the outof-towners, the SheNotTDot comics? Except for the gala performers and the show hosts, all the comics applied to be part of the festival. Without exception, comics were chosen by a jury based on how funny they were, not where they were from. We were just lucky enough to have a number of h ilarious women submit from all over North America. Besides my appearance at the Industry Panel (Saturday, May 3, 5 to 6 pm at the Baltic), what are you most looking forward to seeing at the festival? Ha! Second to you? Bums in seats. Lots of bums in lots of seats. Is there a cap on Rob Ford jokes? Can there ever be too many Rob Ford jokes? I think not. Who from the SheDot Gala bill would be a good alternative to the current crop of late-night TV hosts? They’re all so funny, but I think Sandra Battaglini would shake things up well and good. Same time next year? For sure. Bought the domain name for GLENN SUMI three years.
These days there are more women than ever in comedy. So why a special all-female festival? Because there are more women in comedy than ever! And yet, women are still woefully under-represented on shows. It’s time to let the ladies shine.
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Scott McFarland Snow, Shacks, Streets, Shurbs Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas West May 14 to August 10 McFarland has always focused on the use of digital technologies to create painterly alterations that play with an image’s sense of time or placement. He likes to transpose elements into different environments or make a subject appear in different areas of the photograph simultaneously. Extremely exacting in his choices of alteration, he achieves an almost hallucinatory, dreamlike clarity that can only be called hyperreal. This time he applies his subtle DJ wizardry to populated landscapes. CAPTION: Wortley’s Wiggle, Caledon Ski Club, Mississauga Rd. Caledon, Ontario
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CONTACT photography festival // 25 can’t-miss shows No 3
Stacey Tyrell Backra Bluid General Hardware Contemporary, 1520 Queen West To May 17 (also part of Picture From Paradise: A Survey Of Contemporary Caribbean Photography, at the Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay West, to May 25) The Brooklyn-based Caribbean Canadian gives Cindy Sherman-style selfportraiture a new spin by posing as imaginary white women, a kind of blackface in reverse. She alters her features and dons elaborate costumes to inhabit British characters that might be part of her mixed-race family tree, playing with the power relations inherent in constructions of racial identity. “Backra” is Caribbean slang for “white,” “bluid” is Scottish FS for “blood.”
CAPTION: Mara, 17yrs, from Backra Bluid series
CAPTION: Letitia, from Backra Bluid series
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Rebecca Belmore Kwe Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House May 15 to August 9; reception 6-8 pm May 15; performance 8 pm May 23, August 9 X Billboard installation at NE corner of Spadina and Front To May 31 Premier First Nations artist Belmore’s practice centres on visceral, intense performances. Kwe (an Anishinaabe term of respect for women) gathers video, photography and sculpture. A tree in Queen’s Park is the site of a new performance, and early work Speaking To Their Mother, a giant wooden megaphone for addressing the earth, will be marched down to the waterfront on the final day. In her billboard installation, photos of workers in safety jackets marked with an X explore manual labour, displacement and exploitation of the land. FS
CAPTION: Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother
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Richard Renaldi Touching Strangers Metro Hall, corner of King and John To June 1 How can a photographer explore the chemistry between strangers in a large cosmopolitan city? Renaldi had the intriguing idea of selecting two random people on the streets of New York City and posing them together for spontaneous, often strangely touching portraits. He has a talent for mixing and matching duos, like the stately financial analyst and the young woman who could be his daughter. The resultant series upends our assumptions about intimacy and our ideas of what constitutes otherness. It’s also an uplifting testament to the fundamental civility of its subjects, who seem to have no problem getting around each other’s difDJ ferences.
CAPTION: Elaine and Arly, New York
CAPTION: MacLeod’s Books, Vancouver
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Stan Douglas Scotiabank Photography Award Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould To June 1 Playing with outdated styles of media representation – period photojournalism, genre filmmaking and TV – Douglas explores fictionalized history-based narratives about identity and injustice. His complex, multi-layered projects include Midcentury Studio, black-and-whites channelling entertainment photos from 50s magazines, and Disco Angola, which recreates scenes from the 70s in New York and Africa. Part of the Vancouver school of conceptual photographers, the influential 2013 Scotiabank prizewinner also works in film, video, theFS atre, installation and digital media.
CAPTION: Naomi and Bruce, New York
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Robert Flack and Will Munro Paul Petro Contemporary Art, 980 Queen West May 2 to 31 This show combines images from the estates of Toronto’s late, great queer activists. Flack developed a highly personalized and spiritually focused aesthetic exploring the body and AIDS through the principles of Kundalini yoga. Munro is of course the well-loved promoter of Vazaleen, the queer-centric monthly club event that radically configured the Toronto scene with its goofy, all-embracing aesDJ thetic of glamour and fun. Credit: Will Munro CAPTION: Untitled
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CREDIT: Chun Hua Catherine Dong CAPTION: Husbands and I
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Through The Body: Lens-Based Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists University of Toronto Art Centre, 15 King’s College To June 28 Visual art has been blossoming like never before in China, but it’s mostly been an all-male affair. This show focuses on highly charged work by Chinese contemporary women artists that centres on the body. Ranging from the deeply personal to the extremely political, the work in this show demonstrates a surprising range of inventiveness and courageous exploration of what it means to be a woman and an artist in today’s DJ China. CREDIT: Fan Xi CAPTION: Up Front
CAPTION: Husband and wife on Sunday Morning, Fort Scott, Kansas
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Dana Claxton Indian Candy Dundas West billboard installations at Ossington, Rusholme and L ansdowne May 1 to 31 Claxton repurposes media images of indigenous life, including archival material about Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows, her ancestor Sitting Bull and the plains tribes’ uprising against the U.S. government. Her radical alterations – enlarging images, bathing them in vibrant unnatural colour, adding her own text – reclaim them as First Nations iconography and the advertising billboards they occupy as aborigFS inal territory.
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Jessica Eaton Jessica Bradley Gallery, 74 Miller To May 31 Montreal-based Eaton exclusively employs analogue processes to create images that resemble geometric abstract paintings. Using a large-format camera, prisms, polarized lens, multiple exposures and other mysterious techniques inspired by early photography, she shoots wooden cubes or pyramids through coloured gels, combining the results into luminous, vibrantly hued photos that draw on the colour theories of Josef Albers and the oeuvre of Sol FS LeWitt.
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CAPTION: Tatanka (Buffalo)
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Gordon Parks Portraits Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue (BAND), 1 Lansdowne, second floor To August 3 Nicholas Metivier Gallery, 451 King West To May 24 Parks – who was also a director (Shaft), poet, novelist and composer – made a career of being the first: first African-American photographer for the U.S. Farm Security Administration and Life magazine, first black director of a Hollywood film. Now, eight years after his death, he’s getting his first solo shows in Canada. He was especially passionate about documenting the civil rights movement and racial injustice. The BAND exhibit demonstrates the rapport he had with his subjects, from people on the street to leaders like MalFS colm X.
CAPTION: Bay Roberts
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Steve Payne False Fronts Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond West May 8 to July 26, reception 7-10 pm May 8 When not snapping editorial images of political figures, musicians and film folk for NOW and other publications, Payne turns his camera on vernacular architecture. Previous projects documented independent taxi stands in St. John’s and Toronto’s suburban lakeshore motels. He returned to his native Newfoundland to shoot these images of wood-framed mercantile buildings with false fronts, roof-level exFS tensions designed to make facades look grander.
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Credit: Leala Hewak CAPTION: Brightview #1
Z-Ro Bright View: Z-Ro Collective presented by Flophaus Project Gallery, 1109 Queen East May 8 to 14, reception 7-11 pm May 8 Winnipeg’s four-member Z-Ro Collective pay tribute to vintage signage on crumbling low-rise apartment buildings in their economically depressed hometown. William Eakin is known for photographing his collections of scratched Polaroids, watch faces, bottle caps and other discarded items. Cliff Eyland and Craig Love incorporate found images into artist books and paintings. Leala Hewak, an artist who’s relocated to Toronto, runs virtual art showcase FS Flophaus.
CAPTION: Lily
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Annie MacDonnell Pictures Become Objects, Objects Become Events Toronto Reference Library, 789 Yonge May 5 to 30 In her month-long residency, MacDonell explores the Reference Library’s picture collection, seeking to reframe the paper clippings selected by mostly female librarians as an unintentional feminist archive. She’ll be at work on weekdays, placing images in a fifth-floor vitrine and creating a collaged mural on the third floor. A performance and an artist book are also promised. MacDonell’s practice, which includes film, installation, sculpture and sound, uses stratFS egies of appropriation and deconstruction.
Myron Zabol 78/46 Gallery House, 2068 Dundas West May 3 to 31, reception 2-5 pm May 3 A 30-year veteran of editorial and art photography, Zabol makes palladium prints, handcoating fine art paper with a platinum emulsion, a black-andwhite process that produces a unique sense of depth and range of tone. Some of the images are from People Of The Dancing Sky, a collaborative project portraying the Iroquois of the Six Nations reserve that updates the Edward S. Curtis FS tradition.
CAPTION: Mae
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Brittany Lucas Light From Outside Sonic Boom, 201 Augusta To May 31 Those who love crate digging at Sonic Boom and catching shows at Lee’s
Palace and the Dakota Tavern can see some of their favourite local musicians in Lucas’s photographs. The show features a hefty cross-section of participants in the city’s burgeoning music scene as they work local venues and studios in a bid for DJ rock immortality. NOW may 1-7 2014
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CONTACT photography festival // 25 can’t-miss shows No 17
Fausta Facciponte Six Characters In Search Of A Photograph Art Gallery of Missisauga, 300 City Centre May 15 to June 29 Facciponte’s delirious dioramas extend kitsch into some new realm of visual intensity. She creates impeccably staged and photographed tableaux that consist entirely of cutesy porcelain figurines crammed together. The title riffs on Luigi Pirandello’s play Six Characters In Search Of An Author, though a conclusive narrative is hard to discern here. The result is both overwhelming and intriguing, like being swarmed by an army of porcelDJ ain Keebler elves.
CAPTION: The Lonely Artist
CAPTION: The Collectors
Credit: Geoff George CAPTION: Carey Gray and partner at Morpheous Bondage Extravaganza
CAPTION: Elderly vigil
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Archiving Public Sex University of Toronto Art Centre Art Lounge, 15 King’s College To June 28, panel discussion May 21 With the opening of adult play spaces and expansion of the queer and S/M scenes, Torontonians have been having a lot of sex in public. This show of archival material from the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies documents recent sex-positive celebrations like the Feminist Porn Awards and Morpheus’s bondage extravaganzas and includes multimedia items from the archive’s collection. Look for special additions from everybody’s favourite sex activist Annie Sprinkle and local burDJ lesque bombshell Coco La Crème.
Samer Muscati The Unfinished Revolution OCAD U Students Gallery, 52 McCaul May 8 to 31, reception 6-9 pm May 8 Neither art photography nor photojournalism, the unique images in this show were made by Human Rights Watch researcher Muscati while advocating for victims of oppression. He says the process of taking photos gives the people he works with “a sense of ownership over what we are doing together.” The show reflects his current focus on women’s rights in Africa, the Middle East and aboriginal communities in BC, where our justice system often ignores violence against women. He’s an inspiring man. FS
Dominic Nahr The Rift O’Born Contemporary, 131 Ossington To May 31 The award-winning Magnum agency photojournalist and Ryerson grad has covered conflict in Sudan and the Arab Spring and travelled widely on the African continent. Nahr made the photos in this show in East Africa’s Rift Valley, which he calls “a startling metaphor for the balancing act upon which life on Earth is contingent.” His images contrast the beautiful, resource-rich environment with inhabitants’ difficult lives and the region’s politFS ical unrest.
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Adad Hannah Three Generations (Kodiak Art Club, 1953) Koffler Gallery, 180 Shaw To June 8 Centre Space/Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain Toronto, 65 George May 3-31 The Vancouver-based artist has received international recognition for video tableaux vivants that look at museum exhibition strategies or reinterpret classical artworks, exploiting the tension between still and moving images. In Three Generations, a new work commissioned by the Koffler, he draws on his own family history of art-making, recreating a portrait his grandmother painted of his mother in a complex video and still installation. Centre Space shows videos reworking the Millais painting Ophelia and depicting people he encountered on a visit to Russia. FS CAPTION: Blackwater Ophelia
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Adam Taylor Ruins Of Toronto The Brockton Haunt, 1150 College May 15 to June 15 Derelict spaces have always held a special fascination for urban explorers of a certain stripe, and in the face of Toronto’s recent condo boom they have been slowly vanishing. To make these images of urban decay and spaces in transition, Taylor bravely enters abandoned silos, energy plants, decaying mansions and crumbling factories awaiting DJ demolition or retrofit .
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Joseph Hartman Hamilton Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1026 Queen West May 10 to June 7, reception 5-9 pm May 9 The son of cityscape painter John Hartman was set to go to med school when he changed directions to become a photographer, apprenticing for several years with Edward Burtynsky and relocating to the Hammer from a small Georgian Bay town. His sharp, beautifully composed colour images of his adopted city show the influence of Burtynsky and his father, but his streetscapes with old cars and panoramas incorporating the defunct steelworks capture his own FS sense of gritty urbanity.
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CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL // 25 CAN’T-MISS SHOWS No 24 Stoking The Star Maker Machinery Behind The Popular Songs Art Square, 334 Dundas West May 6 to 19 Our rich musical legacy is captured in this collection of Canadian music legends snapped as they saunter around Toronto. Pretty much every luminary of the past five decades makes an appearance, from Leonard Cohen to Joni Mitchell to Gordon Lightfoot. Rare and never before seen photographs depict singer/songwriter icons walking the streets, performing at bars and grinding out the hits in the studios of the big DJ smoke.
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AKASHA ART PROJECTS The Purists/The Manipulators group show, May 1-31. 511 Church, 2nd fl. 647-348-0104. ALLEN LAMBERT GALLERIA Owen Kydd, to May 30. Brookfield Place, 181 Bay. 416-777-6480.
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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DOWNTOWN Jordan Campbell, May 1-31, reception 6:30-9 pm May 7. 24 Spadina Rd. 416-922-2014. ANALOGUE GALLERY Punk Vs Rap group show, May 1-Jun 15, reception 6-10 pm May 1. 673 Queen W. 416-901-8001. ARSENAL TORONTO/DIVISION GALLERY Varial Cédric Houin and Fabrice Nadjari, to Aug 16. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082. ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Fuasta Facciponte, Elisa Julia Gilmour and Ben Freedman, May 15-Jun 29. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Scott McFarland, May 14-Aug 10. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR POINT Claudette Abrams, May 1-31. 443 Lakeshore Ave, Toronto Island. 416-392-7834. ARTSCAPE YOUNGPLACE Landscape Subversions group show, May 1-22. 180 Shaw. 416530-2787. BAND (BLACK ARTISTS’ NETWORKS IN DIALOGUE) Gordon Parks, to Aug 3. 1 Lansdowne, 2nd fl.
BAU-XI PHOTO Virginia Mak, May 1-31, reception 2-4 pm May 3. 324 Dundas W. 416-9770400.
Contact Photography Festival Open Exhibition
Candid Ryan Emberley, Tara noelle May 21–28 • Spoke Club 600 King St W 2nd Floor
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FalSE FRonTS Steve Payne
May 8-26 • Prefix Institute of Contemporary art • 401 Richmond St W
SilvER lining Tanja Tiziana
May 7-31 • Steam Whistle Brewery 255 Bremner Blvd
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Max Dean I’m Late, I’m Late: Part Puzzle, Part Game Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West To June 16 Dean, who calls himself a “visual thinker,” works in sculpture, performance, installation and robotics as well as photography, putting a unique
slant on changes of scale and modifications of everyday objects. (His Robotic Chair, which collapses and then reconstructs itself, was part of the first Luminato.) This installation uses Harbourfront’s hallway photography space as a metaphor for the artist’s process, following his ideas from conception through strange creative FS detours to realization.
traits; Becky Comber, May 1-31, reception 7-10 pm May 2, Pictures From Paradise panel 6 pm May 4. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GOODFELLAS GALLERY Instagratification group show, May 1-21, reception 6 pm-midnight May 3. 1266 Queen W (enter at back). HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Installation: Max Dean, to Jun 15. 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000. I.M.A GALLERY Saman Aghvami, to May 24, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 80 Spadina #305. 416-703-2235. IX GALLERY Elaine Chan-Dow, to May 30. 11 Davies #101. 416-461-4848. JAPAN FOUNDATION Seiji Ozawa In Toronto, May 6-Jul 31. 131 Bloor W. 416-966-1600. JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Jessica Eaton, May 1-31, reception 6:30-8:30 pm May 1. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125. JULIE M. GALLERY Deganit Berest and Shai Kremer, May 1-Jun 7, reception 6-9 pm May 1. 15 Mill, bldg 37. 416-603-2626. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Rebecca Belmore, May 15-Aug 9. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. KATZMAN CONTEMPORARY Wyn Geleynse, May 1-31, reception 6-8:30 pm May 1. 86 Miller. 416-504-9515. KOFFLER GALLERY Installation: Adad Hannah, to Jun 8. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. 647925-0643. LONSDALE GALLERY Joan Kaufman, May 1-Jun 1. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733. MARK CHRISTOPHER GALLERY Scott Christie, to May 11, reception 7-10 pm May 1. 1594 Queen W. 416-705-3052. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Arctic Explosure: Photographs Of Canada’s North, May 3-Jun 1. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. METRO HALL Richard Renaldi, to Jun 1. 55 John. 416-397-9887. MILES NADAL JCC Rafael Goldchain, to May 20. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211. MOCCA Material Self: Performing The Other Within; In Character: Self-Portrait Of The Artist As Another. May 1-31, Contact festival launch 7 pm May 2. Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MONIKER GALLERY Vanessa Yuen, May 1-14, reception 7-11 pm May 1. 452 Richmond W. 647-699-8803. MONTGOMERY’S INN Deborah Barndt, May 1-Aug 31. 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Carbon group show, May 2-31, reception 6-9 pm May 2. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683. O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Dominic Nahr, to May 31. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555. OLGA KORPER Ken Matsubara, May 3-31, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 17 Morrow. 416-5388220. PAUL PETRO Robert Flack and Will Munro, May 2-31, reception 7-10 pm May 2. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.
PROJECT GALLERY Z-Ro Collective, May 8-14.
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BEIT ZATOUN Michel Huneault and Valerian
Mazataud, May 1-18, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. BERENSON FINE ART Aleksandar Antonijevic, May 1-29, reception 6-8 pm May 1. 212 Avenue Rd. 416-925-3222. BILLBOARDS ON DUNDAS Dana Claxton, May 1-31. Dundas W at Ossington, Rusholme and Lansdowne. scotiabankcontactphoto.com. BILLBOARDS ON SPADINA AND FRONT Rebecca Belmore, May 1-31. scotiabankcontactphoto. com. BIRCH CONTEMPORARY David Hanes, to May 24. 129 Tecumseth. 416-365-3003. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Double The Pleasure, Triple The Fun: Stereographic Images, May 3-Jun 1. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. CANADIAN LESBIAN AND GAY ARCHIVES Raphael Bendahan, to Jun 15. Tue-Thu 7:30-10 pm, Fri 11 am-2 pm or by appt. 34 Isabella. 416777-2755. CENTRE SPACE Photos/video: Marc Audette and Adad Hannah, May 3-31, reception 3-5 pm May 3. Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain Toronto, 65 George. 416-323-1373. CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778. COLLÈGE BORÉAL Mika Goodfriend, to May 24. 1 Yonge, 3rd fl. CONTACT GALLERY Rob Hornstra and Arnold van Bruggen, May 1-31, reception 2-5 pm May 3, Hornstra talk 3 pm May 3. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595. CORKIN GALLERY Andrés Marroquín Winkelmann, May 1-31. 7 Tank House Lane. 416-9791980. DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Nadia Belerique, May 1-31. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880. DRAKE HOTEL Hidden Image: Photography + Abstraction panel, 2 pm May 4. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. EVERGREEN BRICK WORKS Ian Brown, May 2-Jun 2, reception 6:30-9 pm May 7. 550 Bayview. 416-596-1495. FIRST CANADIAN PLACE Elaine Waisglass, May 1-30. George Steinmetz, to May 16. 1 First Canadian Pl. 416-862-8138. GALLERY 44 Sheree Hovsepian and Jérôme Nadeau, May 2-Jun 7, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 401 Richmond W #120. 416-979-3941. GALLERY HOUSE Myron Zabol, May 3-31, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 2083 Dundas W. galleryhouse.ca. GALLERY 1313 DNA: Do Not Assume (Gallery 44 members), to May 11, reception 7-10 pm May 1. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778. GALLERYWEST Alice Dixon, May 1-31, reception 7-10 pm May 2. 1172 Queen W. 416-9137116. GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Stacey Tyrell, to May 17. 1520 Queen W. 416-8213060. GLADSTONE HOTEL 40 Years: Hip Hop Por-
1109 Queen E. 416-890-5051.
POWER PLANT Pictures From Paradise: A
Survey Of Contemporary Caribbean Photography, May 1-25, reception 5-7 pm May 3, panel 6 pm May 4 (at Gladstone Hotel). 231 Queens Quay W (in shipping containers behind gallery). 416-973-4949. QUEEN GALLERY Iranian Contemporary Photographers, May 1-14. 382 Queen E. 416361-6045.
QUEEN’S PARK STATION AND OTHER SUBWAY SCREENS Gideon Mendel, May 1-31. College
and University. scotiabankcontactphoto. com. REFERENCE LIBRARY Annie MacDonell, May 5-30. 789 Yonge. 416-395-5577. THE REX Andrew Fleming, May 1-31, reception 10 am-2 pm May 4. 194 Queen W. 416598-2475. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Michael Awad, May 3-Sep 28. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:308:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Collecting And Curating Photographs: Between Private And Public Collections symposium, May 1-3 (ryerson.ca/ric/lectures/uplectures.html). Curious Anarchy: The Collection of MaiaMari Sutnik; Stan Douglas, Zanele Muholi, Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, May 1-Jun 1. 33 Gould. 416-9795164. SPOKE CLUB Ryan Emberley and Tara Noelle, May 2-30, reception 7-10 pm May 2. 600 King W. 416-368-8448. STEAM WHISTLE BREWING The Hunt Club group show, May 7-31, reception 7-11 pm May 7. 255 Bremner. 416-362-2337. STEPHEN BULGER Joseph Hartman, May 10Jun 7. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Joseph O Holmes, May 2-Jun 15. 350 King W. 416-599-8433. TODMORDEN MILLS Xposé: CAPIC, May 21Jun 1. 67 Pottery. 416-396-2819. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Steven Beckly, May 1-31, reception 2-5 pm May 3. 80 Spadina. 416-703-1999.
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE
Through The Body: Lens-Based Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists; Archiving Public Sex, to Jun 28, curator/artist tour 6-7 pm May 7. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. VERSO GALLERY Julie Jenkinson, May 1-Jun 1, reception 4-6 pm May 3. 1160 Queen W. 416-533-6362.
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NNNN Pity those poor child stars. They can almost never sustain their early fame and often can’t develop, emotionally speaking. So it goes with twins Noushcka and Nicolas, the spawn of legendary – and reprobate – Québecois folksinger Etienne Tremblay, who thrust them onto the stage when they were small children to advance his own career. Their mother abandoned them after they were born, and Etienne promptly left them in the hands of their loving grandfather. The twins, now in their early 20s, are a mess. They can’t connect emotionally to anyone except each other – they still sleep in the same bed – and Noushcka in particular has a big
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READINGS THIS WEEK 5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, May 1 DAN FALK Launching his book The Science Of
Shakespeare. 5:30-7:30 pm. Free. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. 416-967-1078. DAVID ALLEN SIBLEY Launching his book The Sibley Guide To Birds, 2nd Edition. 7 pm. $5 (advance only). Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. 416-361-0032.
THE EXILE BOOK OF YIDDISH WOMEN WRITERS
Talk by editor Frieda Forman. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com. I FOUND IT AT THE MOVIES Launch for an anthology of film poems, with readings by Molly Peacock, Blaise Moritz, Lillian Necakov, Jacob Scheier, Jim Smith and others. 8 pm. Free. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. PHILIP LYMBERY Launching his book Farmageddon: The True Cost Of Cheap Meat. 6-8 pm. Free. OISE Nexus Lounge, rm 130, 252 Bloor W. Pre-register 416-928-2408. 5QUEER CONFESSIONS Memoir reading with Jean-Claude Paquette, Suzy Zucker, Howard Shulman and others. 8 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. queerconfessions.com.
ELAINE LUI The celebrity blogger talks about her mother-daughter memoir, Listen To The Squawking Chicken. 2 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. LYNN THOMSON/HILARY DAVIDSON/ MICHAEL MCMILLAN AND ALISON LOAT/ ñ MIRIAM TOEWS Authors’ brunch. 10 am. $50.
King Edward Hotel, 37 King E. Pre-register 416-361-0032.
Tuesday, May 6 NIKI KOULOURIS Poetry launch for The Sea
KARYN L FREEDMAN (Toronto Rape Crisis
Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape) Launching her memoir One Hour In Paris: A
Given the backlash against feminism and women trying to talk about the sexual assault epidemic – why was a rape culture denier invited to speak at the University of Ottawa, anyway? – it’s a relief to see Karyn L. Freedman memoir One man’s Hour In Paris: A True Story Of Rape And Recovery ($22.50 University of Chicago). It’s the philosopher’s story of how being raped in her early 20s changed her life, influencing her relationships in profound ways. She launches the book on Tuesday (May 6) with a performance by comedian Elvira Kurt and live music at the Gladstone. See SGC Readings, this page.
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True Story Of Rape And Recovery with comedian Elvira Kurt and live music. 7:30 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar, 1214 Queen W. facebook.com/events/775214982498141.
Wednesday, May 7 THE BEST ORIGINALS Spoken word by Nordine Storm, Niki Koulouris, Jim Scott, Nancy Doucet and Ayla Heeds and music by singer/songwriters. 8 pm. Hirut Restaurant, 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560. PIVOT READINGS Poetry and fiction. 8 pm. Free. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. pivotreadings.ca. RAY ROBERTSON/CP BOYKO/KD MILLER
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We round up some of the highlights – and a few things to avoid – at the Toronto Jewish Film Fest
Dull Days
Oy vey! Don’t bother Hunting Elephants.
24 DAYS (Alexandre Arcady, France). 110 minutes. Subtitled. Thursday (May 1), 8:30 pm, Varsity; Sunday (May 3), 9 pm, Canada Square 2. Rating: NN
from Thursday (May 1) to May 11, at various venues. For venues and times, see Indie & Rep Film, page 77. tjff.com
This year’s opener is a slick policier based on the 2006 case of Ilan Halimi, a young Parisian abducted in Paris by an international gang specializing in ransoming Jewish victims. Director Alexandre Arcady, who also co-wrote and co-produced, is less interested in the specifics of the case (and the vile motivations of Ilan’s kidnappers) than in packaging the story as a pulsepounding thriller. The script is based on a book written by Ilan’s mother, Ruth Halimi, which might explain why Ilan ceases to exist as a character once he’s taken. But it doesn’t justify 24 Days’ odd indifference to its own themes, or its failure to allow its talented leads (Zabou Breitman and Pascal Elbé as Ilan’s parents, and Jacques Gamblin and Sylvie Testud as the police specialists to whom they turn) to do more than look worried or shout at one another. NORMAN WILNER
24 Days is not a strong festival opener.
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(Christian Delage, France). 53 minutes. Wednesday (May 7), 3:30 pm, ROM; May 11, 4:30 pm, Empress Walk. Rating: NNNN
Hammy heist HUNTING ELEPHANTS (Reshef Levi). 107 minutes. Some subtitles. Saturday (May 3), 9:30 pm, Canada Square; Tuesday (May 6), 8:45 pm, Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: N
Swinging wildly between obnoxiously frantic farce and shameless melodrama, this godawful heist comedy is apparently what passes for massmarket entertainment in Israel these days. The American studios have nothing to worry about. An obnoxious 12-year-old (Gil
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Blank) and his grandfather (Sasson Gabai) plot to rob a Jerusalem bank with two other seniors, one of whom is a casually anti-Semitic English lord (Patrick Stewart). The characters insult each other constantly and often wave guns around because director/co-writer Reshef Levi believes old people being threatening is hysterical. But even the endlessly game Stewart’s throwing himself into a performance of Funiculì, Funiculà can only get him so far. Hunting Elephants can’t even be enjoyed ironically; believe me, I tried.
When America entered the Second World War, John Ford and George Stevens enlisted in the Army and were put to work by the Office of Strategic Services producing propaganda reels and documenting the war for the military. A young journalist named Sam Fuller also joined up, bringing his own movie camera along to the front lines as an infantryman. Produced to accompany a recent exhibition at New York’s Museum of Jewish Heritage, Christian Delage’s documentary is basically a selection of the footage shot by Stevens and Fuller as they made their way through the European theatre. Ford remained in the United States, but he oversaw the production and edited much of Stevens’s work – including a presentation screened at the Nuremberg trials that confronted accused war criminals with the gruesome evidence of mass murder at Dachau. Delage lets the footage speak for itself in long stretches, so the presentation might seem a little on the dry side to casual viewers, but this is an invaluable documentary for film stuNW dents and historians.
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CUPCAKES (Eytan Fox, Israel). 92 minutes.
Joe (David Gordon Green). 121 minutes. Opens Friday (May 2). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NNN
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Six neighbours learn the meaning of authenticity when they represent Israel in a Eurovision-style song contest. It all happens by accident. When Ofer (Ofer Shechter) sends a video of the group’s spontaneous performance, they become surprise contestants in the competition. But a management team wants to turn them into Abba clones and strip the performance of its soul. Each of the performers has a problem being who they really are, from the delightful gay Ofer, forced to keep his relationship in the closet, to Keren (Keren Berger), who writes a popular blog but is socially awkward. This musical comedy is a crowdpleasing piece of fluff. Go have fun – just don’t expect anything deeper. SUSAN G. COLE
Nicolas Cage (left) and Tye Sheridan get down and dirty in derivative Joe.
Last year’s Prince Avalanche got attention for supposedly marking David Gordon Green’s return to low-budget rural studies after a string of disposable studio comedies (Pineapple Express, Your Highness, The Sitter). This project, however, seems even more desperate to recapture the character-based naturalism of the director’s breakout works George Washington and All The Real Girls. Joe takes place in a small Texas town where a
troubled alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) who manages a deforestation crew reluctantly takes an abused young boy (Tye Sheridan) under his wing. Tensions build, boiling points are reached.... You know the deal. Unfortunately, Green’s time in Hollywood has calcified his storytelling sense. Languid takes and quiet character development are nice, but Joe has a plot to play out from A to B to C, and it does so in a rigidly schematic manner, with clear good guys and bad guys and innocent children to be rescued from the monsters. It’s Sling Blade without the subtlety, or Mud (which also featured Sheridan as a resourceful teen bonding with a troubled man) without the texture. That said, Cage’s commitment to his role – and his insistence on playing it in a minor key – pulls things along admirably. Norman Wilner
Hidden gem
THE PIN (Naomi Jaye, Canada). 85 minutes. Subtitled. May 11, 6 pm, Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NNN This first-ever Canadian Yiddish feature – about two young adults hiding out during the Second World War – has a very strong mood and good performances by leads Milda Gecaite and Grisha Pasternak. When a shomer (David Fox) – the man who sits vigil for the dead in a Jewish funeral home – believes that his current charge is the same woman he hid out with decades ago, he has intense flashbacks about the experience. During the war, the couple connect when they both escape to the same barn. He’s much more forthcoming than she about what brought them there. It’s a tad slow, but The Pin shows insight into what it takes to maintain your humanity under dire circumstances and how desperately survivors SGC 3 seek closure.
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Andrew Garfield suits up again for this week’s blockbuster.
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THE SAME OLD SPIDEY
Charismatic leads, Sally Field and the comic book stuff get caught up in familiar web
Actor channels Tom Ford in oddball rom-com By NORMAN WILNER
By NORMAN WILNER THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 directed by Marc Webb, written by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner, with Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Paul Giamatti and Sally Field. A Sony Pictures release. 142 minutes. Opens Friday (May 2). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70. Rating: NNN
You can say this about the new Spider-Man movies: they’re consistent. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 delivers virtually everything its predecessor did, and gets by on the charm and chemistry of its leads. No, seriously, it’s the same movie. Amazing 2 even starts at the same point as Amazing 1, expanding on the events of the night young Peter Parker’s doomed parents left him in the care of Uncle Ben and Aunt May. And it ends with a mopey Peter urged to make the most of his life by a handy speech recorded earlier in the story. In the middle, well, there’s all the comic-book jumping, fighting and web-swinging as our hero battles super-villains created by the weird science of the nefarious Oscorp. This time they’re Jamie Foxx’s scenechewing Electro and Dane DeHaan’s calculating Harry Osborn, a character rebooted – if not exactly reinvented – from Sam Raimi’s trilogy. That stuff is fine. As he demonstrated the last time around, Marc Webb has a nice way with elaborate 3D action sequences, and he keeps
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the heavies on a short leash. They’re the bad guys, and though they do have connections to Spidey and Peter, respectively, they don’t get to take over the movie the way the villains did in Raimi’s films. More importantly, the non-super stuff is just as strong as ever. Andrew Garfield brings radically different physicalities to the paralyzed, selfdoubting Peter Parker and his highflying alter ego, and Emma Stone’s plucky Gwen Stacy is basically Emma Stone infused with the proportionate adorability of a dozen golden retriever puppies. Sally Field continues to be a much different and much more affecting Aunt May than Rosemary Harris ever was in the first trilogy: Field’s rapport with Garfield is at least as important to the movie as the bond he shares with Stone. Still, the subplot about Peter’s dad and his super-secret research? Much as I enjoy seeing Campbell Scott in a major Marvel franchise, it’s entirely unnecessary, adding a good halfhour to the running time when three lines of dialogue would take care of the required exposition. Of course, the Spider-Man movies are never really streamlined, are they? And the need to set up more projects – like a Sinister Six spinoff I’m not sure anyone is clamouring for – does start to weigh the picture down by the end. But I guess that’s the case with every Marvel picture these days. 3
THAT BURNING FEELING directed by Jason James, written by Nick Citton, with Paulo Costanzo, Ingrid Haas, Tyler Labine and John Cho. A Search Engine Films release. 95 minutes. Opens Friday (May 2). For venues and times, see Movies, page 70.
You’ve seen John Cho in a bunch of stuff: alongside Kal Penn in the Harold & Kumar trilogy; as a confident, kickass Sulu in J.J. Abrams’s Star Trek reboot; and in such small-screen gigs as Kitchen Confidential, FlashForward and Sleepy Hollow. But you’ve never seen him dance his way through a picture. That Burning Feeling gives him the chance, casting Cho as the movie’s slightly deranged villain. His condominium developer, Roger Whitacre, seems to be doing a soft-shoe to music only he can hear. It’s a nifty choice for the role, which Cho credits entirely to director Jason James’s suggestion that he consider the designer Tom Ford as Whitacre’s spirit animal. “I ended up watching a documentary about him and was really fascinated,” Cho recalls. “He’s very serene but also self-obsessed. Did you know Tom Ford takes five baths a day?” I did not know that, I have to admit. Where does he find the time? “You’re Tom Ford – you make the effing time,” Cho laughs. “I was so taken by him, so I stole little bits and pieces from the documentary and ran with it. Jason was kind enough to allow me to amuse myself in front of a camera.”
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Were there any other things he folded in there? “[Whitacre] is maybe a sociopath,” Cho says. “I don’t know what his mother and father did to him to make him love himself so much, but he just lacks empathy and is convinced that everything he does is pure and right.” The movie gives his character the standard land-baron motive of tearing down a community centre for a new condo development. The gentrification angle resonated with Cho. “I’m experiencing a similar thing on the east side of Los Angeles,” he says. “It’s not condos, but it’s historically been a Latino neighbourhood, and it was a gay neighbourhood, and they’re renters. So sometimes I wonder, ‘Okay, I own a house here, so it’s ostensibly good for the neighbourhood,’ but people are being displaced for this to happen. There’s a human cost, and it’s not entirely visible to me, but you know it’s there.” Currently, Cho’s waiting on a script for the next Star Trek movie and wondering whether he’ll have a new TV gig in the fall. He and Doctor Who’s Karen Gillan have a pilot for a series, Selfie, at ABC. “I’m expecting news in maybe a couple of weeks,” he says. “It’s a romantic comedy, and that’s not something I get the opportunity to do much on TV. I hope it goes. But you never know.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner
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REVIEW THAT BURNING FEELING (Jason James) Rating: NNN That Burning Feeling may not break any new ground for the oddball romantic comedy, but it’s charming and confident and willing to get a little weird. In Vancouver producer Jason James’s feature debut, hotshot developer Adam Murphy (Paulo Costanzo) is forced to look up his past sexual partners – and re-evaluate his life choices – after he’s diagnosed with gonorrhea. The fairly rote script is brought to life by very smart casting. Costanzo is an appealing lead, Scott Pilgrim’s Ingrid Haas as a well-meaning but conflicted do-gooder adds some nice layering to the role of Murphy’s love interest, Tyler Labine and Jay Brazeau have fun with their goofy supporting roles, and John Cho is positively Walkenworthy as Adam’s NW delusional boss.
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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating. Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS), and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.
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
BEARS (Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey) is this year’s Disneynature documentary The rating system is as follows: release, and the most shamelessly conNNNNN Top 10 of the year trived one yet, taking gorgeous wildlife photography of Alaskan brown bears and NNNN Honourable mention editing it into a fictionalized, ridiculously NNN Entertaining anthropomorphic narrative about a mothNN Mediocre er and her cubs avoiding perils while foraN Bomb ging for seafood in the Arctic wilderness. More than previous projects, this one is Ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended) aimed at very small children, with editors Movie theatres are listed at the end and working overtime to create conflict can be cross-referenced to our film times through the juxtaposition of footage and on page 74. John C. Reilly’s narration alternating from calm, informative description to goofy imABOUT LAST NIGHT (Steve Pink) stars agined dialogue for the animal characters. motormouth Kevin Hart in an update of (“I didn’t want that clam anyway.”) That the 1986 rom-com, an adaptation of said, there are few things more adorable wordsmith David Mamet’s provocative than brown bear cubs falling asleep next play Sexual Perversity In Chicago. Hart is to their mother, so if that’s all you want working with real material thanks to the from a movie called Bears, this one certwo degrees of separation from Mamet. tainly delivers. 77 min. His comedic talents get NNN (NW) structure and purpose, 401 & Morningside, Canand he has enough EXPANDED REVIEWS ada Square, Carlton Cinroom to put his own nowtoronto.com ema, Coliseum Mississtamp on the original’s sauga, Coliseum acidic dialogue. This Scarborough, Colossus, may be watered-down Mamet, but for Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Hart it’s 80 proof. 98 min. NNN (RS) Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Interchange 30 Promenade, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Marc Webb) 142 min. See review, page 68. NNN (NW) BETHLEHEM (Yuval Adler) uses the Opens May 2 at 401 & Morningside, Beach same plot as Hany Abu-Assad’s Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Omar. An Arab teenager (Sadhi Marei) is Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborthrust into a world of deception and beough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton trayal when he’s enlisted as an informant Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinby Israel’s secret service. But the execuemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market tion is very different, and even if you Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow haven’t seen Omar, Bethlehem stands just Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity fine on its own. Subtitled. 99 min. NNNN Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity York(NW) dale, Varsity Canada Square
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Annette Bening is at her soulful best as a widow who Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson meets and falls in love with a man return in this (Ed Harris) who decent sequel about the gung-ho looks exactly like her dead husband. superhero who uses his powers to The plot is kinda silly, but the actors save the world from a conspiracy. lend it depth and complexity.
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Nimrat Kaur and the great Irrfan Khan star in this gentle romance built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that lets two lonely Mumbai strangers write letters to each other.
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(Jeremy Saulnier) is an all-American revenge story that explores the consequences of getting caught in the tit-for-tat algebra of retribution. Macon Blair stars as Dwight, introduced as a scruffy itinerant living out of his beatup blue car. Careful to parcel out information, Saulnier reveals that a criminal recently released from prison killed someone close to Dwight. When he 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. 90 min. NNNN (John Semley) Carlton Cinema
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) is a remake of the 2004 French action film District B13, which introduced the aerodynamic David Belle, a founder of parkour. Belle reprises his role: he ricochets through windows and rooftops, sustaining the impact of massive leaps and bouncing further as if the earth were his trampoline. The parkour theatrics make 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’s Damien, an undercover cop, gets Belle’s Lino to help him infiltrate a fortified ghetto and disarm a nuke. Amidst the derivative action, poor acting and Luc Besson’s atrocious screenplay lurks a heavy-handed class-conscious message. When the movie takes a swing at gentrification, it dislocates a shoulder in the process. 90 min. NN (RS) 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
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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, Yonge & Dundas 24
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(Jean-Marc Vallée) stars Matthew McConaughey as Ron Woodroof, a hard-living, womanizing Texas electrician who became an unlikely AIDS activist in the mid1980s 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) Kingsway Theatre
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 Scarbor-
ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
ñDOM HEMINGWAY
(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 manic-depressive 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) Kingsway Theatre, 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 o=f 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) Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24
ENDLESS LOVE (Shana Feste) is a dull teen
romance that starts off okay but quickly devolves into silliness and contrivance. 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)
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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) is what
you get when you toss every boxing movie cliché into the ring and let ‘em battle it out. Prison Break’s Dominic Purcell plays a middle-aged welder who takes on a cocky young opponent (Izaak Smith). Both need the prize money and both have a lot at stake – too much, really, for one film. Director Lee uses copious flashbacks during the fight, and the device soon becomes tiresome. But the fight sequences are competent and the actors have their moments, especially Sheila McCarthy as a wisdom-dispensing Irish ma. 89 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema
ñFinding Vivian Maier
(John 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) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox
Frozen (Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee) is an
ntertaining Disney animated musical e 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
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 Gala pagos 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 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 (Jose Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre
ñGloria
(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
ñThe Grand Budapest Hotel
(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, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
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ñGravity
(Alfonso Cuarón) plays as both an immediate, nail-biting thriller and a stunning technological accomplishment, following two astronauts (Sandra Bullock, George Clooney) stranded in Earth orbit and cut off from mission control. There are things here you’ve never seen before; this is a great, unprecedented picture. 91 min. NNNNN (NW) Interchange 30
ñThe Great Beauty
(Paolo Sorrentino) 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
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ing 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, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñHER
(Spike Jonze) is essentially a 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
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
JOE (David Gordon Green) 121 min. See review, page 67. NNN (NW) Opens May 2 at Carlton Cinema LE WEEK-END (Roger Michell) is being mar-
keted as a frothy middleHOLD FAST (Justin aged romance, but it’s Simms) is an adaptareally a drama about an tion of Kevin Major’s EXPANDED REVIEWS English couple (Jim 1978 book, in which nowtoronto.com Broadbent, Lindsay Duntroubled 14-year-old can) unhappily marking Michael (newcomer their 30th anniversary in Paris. As they Avery Ash) runs away to the Newfoundfuss and fight across the City of Light, we land wilderness with his cousin (Douglas come to understand their dynamic: she’s Sullivan) in tow. It certainly looks great, tired of him, and he’ll do anything to hold but Major’s novel is a largely internal naron to her. This should be the start of an rative, dealing with Michael’s emotional interesting character study, or at least a confusion and slow process of self-discovdrama worthy of powerhouse performers ery. Very little actually happens, and neiDuncan and Broadbent. But neither ther screenwriter Rosemary House nor discreenwriter Hanif Kureishi nor director rector Simms (Down To The Dirt) have Michell seems interested in going that shaped the material into something that way, and the actors can’t settle on a tone. feels even the least bit cinematic. Neither Le Week-End feels like a stage play that’s of the young leads are particularly gifted been awkwardly translated to the screen. at the whole acting thing: Ash is uncertain It certainly can’t compete with last year’s at best and Sullivan just plain bad. If you’re Before Midnight, which told a very similar going to bring a beloved children’s classic story with considerably more empathy to the screen, you should at least cast child and skill. 93 min. NN (NW) actors capable of delivering their lines in a convincing manner. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Promenade Carlton Cinema
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IN THE BLOOD (John Stockwell) unfortunately reaffirms what Haywire demonstrated: while MMA fighter Gina Carano is an entirely effective action hero, she struggles to deliver dialogue or inhabit a character. Here, she plays a recovering addict who must punch, kick, stab and shoot her way through an unnamed island nation when her new husband (Cam Gigandet) disappears after a zip-lining accident. Director Stockwell takes a good 45 minutes to get the plot rolling, indulging in elaborate zip-lining 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. Some subtitles. 108 min. NN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
ñINSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS
(Joel Coen, Ethan Coen) plays as comedy, musical and drama all at once, with the tone steered by Oscar Isaac’s soulful interpretations of folk songs that somehow manage to reflect precisely what his character is feeling. Beautifully realized and packed with delightful incidents; the recording of
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ñTHE LEGO MOVIE
(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
THE LUNCHBOX (Ritesh Batra) is built
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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
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her neglectful husband, which are sent through Mumbai’s dabbawalla delivery system to the wrong recipient, Mr. Fernandes (Irrfan Khan), a standoffish accountant who’s ready to hide away in retirement. A sense of their personal lives is conveyed by suggestion, like the scents of the ingredients in a satisfying dish. There’s romance, comedy and melodrama, but Batra deploys them gently, building a moving, sincere film around his characters. It’s an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Varsity
ñMISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS
(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
ñTHE MONUMENTS MEN
(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, Mt Pleasant
MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of
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3D animation. The genius dog and his adopted son visit textbook figures like Marie Antoinette, King Tut and Leonardo Da Vinci while giving history a zany spin. The father-son story is a strained framework for their lighthearted, rib-tickling episodic adventures, which retain the cartoons’ fun and humour. 92 min. NNN (RS) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre
MUPPETS MOST WANTED (James Bobin)
uses The Great Muppet Caper as its template, plunging the Muppets into a world of international intrigue and mistaken identity when they embark on a European tour just as Constantine, the world’s most dangerous frog, impersonates Kermit to use the troupe as cover for a series of museum heists. (Kermit, mistaken for Constantine, is sent to a Russian gulag run by Tina Fey.) It’s less a movie than an excuse for a series of Muppet Show sketches and celebrity cameos, and it lacks the heart Jason Segel brought to the previous picture. (It also lacks Segel himself, though his character’s Muppet brother, Walter, is still around.) Returning director Bobin compensates with a faster pace and more anarchic Muppety energy, which makes for a pretty fun movie. It’s just not as enjoyable as the last one. 108 min. NNN (NW) Colossus, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24
NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR is a high-def broadcast of Sam Mendes’s production of the Shakespeare tragedy, starring Simon Russell Beale in the title role. 228 min. May 1, 7 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE – ENCORE is a high-def screening of the
stunning stage version of Michael Morpurgo’s young-adult tale of a boy and his horse in World War I. 168 min. May 5, 6:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24
NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a rea-
son to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre
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 co-writer 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. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
ñNON-STOP
(Jaume Collet-Serra) is an inventive, intense picture with surprisingly fleshed-out characters, a truly subversive message about American security 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, Interchange 30, 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 detach-
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ment. 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
ñOculus
(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 written, and the actors are all much better than they need to be. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) is a tale of a vampire couple meeting up in decaying Detroit that 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 manse, making music he swears he’ll never release; Eve (Tilda Swinton) is his fashion-plate partner, just back from Tangiers. 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. But it’s a deeply pleasurable film, with bonedry 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, too. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity
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The Other Woman (Nick Cassavetes) is a
strained, phony, overlong comedy about an unlikely alliance between a clumsy housewife (Leslie Mann), the slick lawyer her husband’s been romancing (Cameron Diaz) and a second, utterly superfluous, much younger mistress (Kate Upton). As Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, the theme from Mission: Impossible and other abysmally predictable ditties carpet-bomb the soundtrack, this ostensibly adorable threesome gradually exact their revenge on the ostensibly irresistible sociopath (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) who seduced and deceived them. As befits such a onedimensional fiend, this serial adulterer’s eventual comeuppance is violent, total and seemingly endless. Yet nowhere in this film do we get any indication as to how these women wound up with such an evil asshole, or what they learn from their
relationships with him. 109 min. N (José Teodoro) 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
Particle Fever (Mark Levinson)
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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. NNNN (José Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre
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, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24
The Quiet Ones (John Pogue) is a big
mess of a movie. The plot involves a crazy university professor and three sexy students who pluck a haunted teen from an asylum to prove that ghosts are merely products of troubled minds. Obviously the tests go wrong – and so do most of the decisions made by the filmmakers. Despite some strong performances, this hokey drivel is treated far too seriously to offer any fun. The story is needlessly confusing, the scares are clichéd, and there’s even some horrible CGI for good measure. 98 min. N (Phil Brown) 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 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) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre
The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)
tells the story of British Army officer Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), who was taken prisoner and tortured by the Japanese during WWII. The film begins years later, when the endearing yet damaged Eric meets the nurse (Nicole Kidman) 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 barely explored. Firth is betrayed by his character’s paucity of depth, and it’s baffling that Kidman would want to portray a strictly utilitarian character, the tormented hero’s helpmeet, like Ingrid Bergman in Spellbound but without any personality. A stiflingly solemn, disappointing dramatization of an extraordinary story. 108 min. NN (José Teodoro) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, 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
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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
Rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a trop-
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)
ical 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 all-consuming 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, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
Transcendence (Wally Pfister) has a
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ñRobots
(Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha) is truly a joy, from sight gag to bon mot, and features the most imaginative animation in years. A story teaching it’s what’s inside that counts is delivered with humour and subtlety. Hand-me-down kid Rodney (Ewan McGregor) tries to save the Robot world from body part upgrades only a Fox executive would encourage. Dizzying effects by the Ice Age team are matched by the clever script. Inventing Robots impressive; reinventing the wheel on flatulence – now, that takes skill. 95 min. NNNN (LF) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale
ñSuper 8
(J.J. Abrams) finds writer/ director Abrams building a rousing new movie out of the suburban adventure genre claimed by Steven Spielberg in the late 70s and early 80s. It follows a bunch of small-town kids in 1979 Ohio who stumble upon a military conspiracy while shooting a Super 8 movie about zombies. Nostalgic and novel in equal amounts. 112 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24
401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24
The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scor-
sese) is another sprawling look at the inner workings of a massive criminal enterprise, like Goodfellas and Casino; here, it’s the stock frauds and swindles of rich prick Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio). Scorsese 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
WWE Extreme Rules – 2014 is a live high-def broadcast of a wrestling match featuring John Cena, The Shield, Evolution and others. 180 min. May 4, 8 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 3
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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) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre
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BEARS (G) Thu 1:20, 3:15, 5:05, 7:00 BLUE RUIN (14A) 1:15, 3:50, 7:05, 9:20 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 1:40 4:15 6:45 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:00 CINCO DE MAYO: THE BATTLE Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:15 DRAFT DAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 6:50 A FIGHTING MAN (14A) Thu 1:30, 3:55, 6:50, 9:11 THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 3:40, 9:05 Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:10 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Fri-Wed 1:25, 3:55, 6:45, 9:05 HOLD FAST (PG) Thu 1:30, 6:55 JOE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:05, 7:10, 9:30 LE WEEK-END (14A) 1:45, 6:55 Wed no 6:55 OCULUS (14A) Thu 4:05, 9:30 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:00, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:25 THE RAID 2 (18A) 9:00 RIO 2 (G) 1:25, 3:45, 6:40 Thu 9:15 THAT BURNING FEELING Fri-Wed 1:35, 7:00 TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT (14A) 4:20, 9:25 Thu 1:50 mat, 7:10 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) 1:30, 6:45 Wed no 6:45
RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:25, 3:25, 6:45, 9:35 Sat, Tue 12:25, 3:25, 6:45, 9:35, 11:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sat, Tue 11:20 late DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30 GOD’S NOT DEAD (PG) Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:55 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 12:20 2:40 5:00 7:15 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:15, 9:40 Sat, Tue 11:40 late OCULUS (14A) Thu 9:20 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 RIO 2 (G) 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:25, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, SunMon, Wed 9:20 Sat, Tue 9:20, 11:35
SCOTIABANK THEATRE (CE) 259 RICHMOND ST W, 416-368-5600
300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:50 Fri, Sun 12:50, 2:10, 3:10, 4:10, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8:50, 9:50, 10:50 Sat 11:00, 12:50, 1:20, 2:15, 4:10, 4:40, 5:30, 7:30, 7:55, 8:45, 11:00, 11:30, 12:00 Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:05, 3:00,
4:00, 5:15, 6:15, 7:15, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 MonWed 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Fri, Sun 1:15, 1:45, 2:40, 4:30, 5:05, 6:00, 7:55, 8:20, 9:20 Sat 11:40, 1:45, 2:45, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 8:15, 9:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 1:10, 1:40, 2:30, 4:25, 4:50, 5:40, 7:45, 8:00, 9:00 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 8:15, 10:50 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:15, 8:35, 10:50 Sat 1:35, 3:50, 6:15, 8:35, 11:15 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 9:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:40 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30 Sat 12:35, 4:00, 7:15, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:50 NON-STOP (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 OCULUS (14A) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:40, 8:05, 10:40 Sat 1:00, 3:25, 6:45, 9:10, 11:50 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:55, 10:20 THE RAID 2 (18A) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 Sat 2:00, 5:15, 8:25, 11:40 MonWed 12:25, 3:40, 6:55, 10:10 TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT (14A) Thu 12:35, 8:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 7:25, 9:45
TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 3:00, 7:30 Fri-Sun 2:30, 7:00 Mon 6:15, 8:30 Tue 3:00, 5:30, 6:35, 8:30 Wed 12:15, 2:15, 6:15, 8:30 JODOROWSKY’S DUNE (PG) Thu 5:30 Fri-Sun 12:00, 5:00 Mon 6:30, 9:00 Tue 12:45, 3:30, 7:30, 9:30 Wed 12:30, 2:30, 7:00, 9:00 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME I (R) Thu 9:30 Sat 9:00 MonTue 6:45 Wed 1:45, 6:45 NYMPHOMANIAC: VOLUME II (R) Fri, Sun 9:00 Mon-Tue 9:15 Wed 4:00, 9:15
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THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:25, 9:10 FriWed 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:15
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
2 STATES (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 3:15, 6:35, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:05, 3:15, 6:35, 9:50 Wed 3:15, 9:50 BEARS (G) 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:55 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Fri-Wed 2:55 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) FriWed 5:55, 9:00 DOM HEMINGWAY (14A) Thu 9:10 DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Wed 9:10 FOCUS ON THE FAMILY PRESENTS: IRREPLACEABLE Wed 4:00, 7:00 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:55, 2:55, 4:35, 5:25, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:25, 1:55, 2:55, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 IN THE BLOOD Thu 10:30 Fri-Sat, Wed 9:30 Tue 9:35 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:00 mat MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) 3:05, 6:45, 9:25 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Mon 6:30 NOAH (14A) 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:40 mat THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 PETER GABRIEL: BACK TO FRONT Thu 1:30 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu-Tue 4:00 THE QUIET ONES (14A) 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat RIO 2 (G) 1:30, 4:05, 6:40 RIO 2 3D (G) 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat SUPER 8 (PG) Fri, Tue 1:30, 7:00 Sat 12:55, 7:00 Sun 1:00 Mon 1:30, 10:00 Wed 1:30 THAT DEMON WITHIN 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Tue 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:30 Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 10:30 TRANSCENDENCE: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 WWE EXTREME RULES – 2014 Sun 8:00
Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444
BEARS (G) Thu 4:10, 6:00 Fri 4:10, 6:10, 8:10 Sat 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 Sun 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:10 BETHLEHEM (14A) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:30 Sat 1:30, 3:50, 6:20, 8:40 Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 8:40 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50 GLORIA (18A) Thu 4:00, 6:40 THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:30 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu 4:20, 6:50 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 1:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:30 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat 12:50 Sun 1:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:10 Fri 4:00 Sat 3:20 Sun 3:30 NOAH (14A) Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:10 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10 Fri 6:20, 8:40 Sat 5:45, 8:10 Sun 6:00, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 12:40, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:20 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40 TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:00
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SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:20, 10:20, 10:50 Mon-Tue 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Wed 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 3:25, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Fri-Sun 2:40, 6:00, 9:20 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 Wed 5:45, 9:00 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Tue 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20 Wed 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:40 Mon-Tue 1:05 Wed 1:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sun 3:50, 7:15, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:10 Fri-Sun 12:10, 6:40 Mon 12:35 Tue-Wed 12:35, 6:55 DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:35 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Mon 6:30 NOAH (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 9:45 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 1:10, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:50, 5:35, 8:10, 10:50 Mon 12:25, 3:15, 7:05, 10:10 Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:15 Fri-Sun 12:00 Mon-Tue 12:55 Wed 12:15 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Mon 3:40, 6:35, 9:10 Tue 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 3:40, 10:15 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sun 3:20, 9:50 Mon 3:50, 9:45 Tue-Wed 3:50, 10:10
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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Wed 4:00, 7:00, 8:50, 10:00 Sat-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 8:50, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri, Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Tue 1:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 3:20 7:00 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 Thu-Fri, Wed no 1:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu 5:00 Fri, Wed 3:30, 6:50 Sat-Tue 1:15, 3:30, 6:50 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:50
KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Thu 3:15 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) Thu 1:20 DOM HEMINGWAY (14A) Fri-Wed 2:00, 7:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 2:40, 8:05 Fri-Wed 1:45, 8:35 THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (G) Thu 6:00 Fri-Wed 5:00 INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A) Thu 5:25 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu 11:45, 7:20 Fri-Wed 12:10, 7:00 MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS (G) Thu 9:40 Fri-Wed 10:05 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Fri-Wed 12:25, 5:25 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 4:10 Fri-Wed 3:35 PARTICLE FEVER Thu 11:15 Fri-Wed 3:15 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 1:00 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) Thu 8:55 Fri-Wed 8:35
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1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:25,
10:30 Fri 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:40, 3:45, 4:10, 4:15, 6:00, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 9:20, 10:20, 10:45, 10:50, 11:15 Sat 11:00, 12:20, 12:30, 12:50, 1:20, 2:15, 3:45, 3:50, 4:15, 4:40, 5:30, 7:15, 7:20, 7:45, 8:00, 8:45, 10:40, 10:45, 11:15, 11:20, 12:00 Sun 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:40, 3:45, 4:10, 4:15, 6:00, 7:00, 7:15, 7:30, 7:45, 9:20, 10:20, 10:45, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:30, 3:10, 3:30, 4:00, 4:15, 5:50, 6:30, 7:00, 7:15, 8:00, 9:10, 9:50, 10:20, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Fri 1:30, 2:45, 5:00, 6:15, 8:15, 10:00, 11:30 Sat 11:50, 2:45, 3:10, 6:15, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 1:30, 2:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:20, 9:45 Mon-Tue 1:50, 2:30, 5:10, 6:00, 8:30, 9:45 Wed 2:30, 5:10, 6:00, 8:30, 9:45 BEARS (G) Thu 1:15, 4:50 Fri 12:05 Sat 11:05, 12:00 Sun 12:30 Mon-Wed 12:55, 2:50 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:50, 4:00, 5:15, 6:40, 7:40, 9:50, 10:05 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 1:00, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30, 10:55 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Fri, Sun 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:50, 8:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:40, 7:50, 11:00 Sat 1:10, 4:30, 7:50, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35 Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:20, 9:10 Fri 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:25 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 9:55 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:50, 7:05, 10:10 Wed 12:45, 3:50, 10:10 FOCUS ON THE FAMILY PRESENTS: IRREPLACEABLE Wed 7:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:00, 3:40, 6:00, 6:20, 8:50, 8:55 Fri 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:55 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: KING LEAR Thu 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Mon 6:30 NOAH (14A) Thu 3:00, 6:10, 9:20 Fri 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15 Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 OCULUS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:40 Fri 12:35, 3:10, 5:45, 8:25, 11:00 Sat 12:40, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00, 11:30 Sun 1:10, 3:50, 7:10 Mon 2:10, 5:00, 10:25 Tue 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 Wed 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 2:20, 3:30, 5:05, 6:20, 7:50, 9:20, 10:35 Fri 12:00, 2:30, 3:15, 5:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8:00, 8:30, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 11:40, 12:00, 2:30, 3:15, 5:20, 5:30, 6:45, 8:20, 8:30, 9:45, 11:10, 11:30 Sun 11:20, 12:00, 2:30, 3:15, 5:15, 5:30, 6:45, 8:00, 8:30, 10:10, 10:45 Mon 1:05, 3:00, 3:45, 5:30, 6:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:20, 9:45 Tue 2:10, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:45, 8:30, 9:20, 10:25 Wed 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:05, 8:30, 9:20, 10:25 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 10:30 Fri 1:50 Sat 11:25 Sun 11:30 Mon-Wed 1:30 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 ROBOTS (G) Sat 11:00 TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON’T LEGALIZE IT (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:20 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 5:00, 7:10, 8:10, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sat 1:05, 4:10, 7:40, 10:35 Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 1:20, 4:25, 7:45, 10:35 WWE EXTREME RULES – 2014 Sun 8:00
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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:50 FriWed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:40 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 FriWed 4:10, 9:20 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) Thu 1:25, 4:05 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 1:10 4:15 6:55 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 1:30 4:20 7:05 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:20 4:00 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:15 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:05, 6:30
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 8:00 Fri 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:30, 10:00, 10:40 Sat 12:00, 1:00, 3:30, 4:10, 6:40, 7:30, 10:00, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:45, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) 6:10, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:50 mat Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:05 Mon 3:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 5:10, 7:50, 10:05 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Sat-Sun 12:50 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sat 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:20, 9:30 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:40 Sun-Wed 7:05, 9:40 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 National Theatre Live: King Lear Thu 7:00 National Theatre Live: War Horse - Encore Mon 6:30 National Theatre – War Horse Mon-Wed 1:30 Noah (14A) Thu 3:30 The Other Woman Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 The Railway Man (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Fri, MonWed 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Rio 2 (G) 4:35 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:10 mat Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 3:45, 6:30 Transcendence (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 7:05, 9:50 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Transcendence: The IMAX Experience (PG) Thu 4:20
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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 1:30, 2:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 12:50, 1:30, 2:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:00, 10:30 SunTue 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:50, 4:40, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15 Wed 12:20, 1:45, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 5:45, 6:40, 8:10, 9:00, 9:45 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Sun-Tue 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Wed 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Fri 1:20, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 SunWed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Fri 1:50 Sat-Wed 12:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 Sun-Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Focus on the Family Presents: Irreplaceable Wed 7:30 Noah (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 10:05 Oculus (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 10:15 The Other Woman Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:20 Fri 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Rio 2 (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:50 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sun-Tue 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Robots (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Tue 7:30, 10:20 Wed 10:05
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:40, 4:10, 6:05, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:10, 5:05, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:50, 3:15, 4:00,
6:10, 6:35, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri, Sun 1:30, 5:00, 8:30 Sat 2:40, 6:05, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:50, 8:10 Bears (G) Thu 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15 Fri, Sun 12:35 Sat 11:30 Mon-Wed 12:45 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Sat 1:20, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Thu 12:45 mat, 9:30 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:15, 10:30 Noah (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Oculus (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40 Fri-Wed 4:25, 10:00 The Other Woman Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:25 Rio 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 12:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Robots (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Mon 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 8:00 Fri, Tue 4:00, 5:20, 7:15, 8:30, 10:30 Sat 11:05, 12:50, 2:10, 4:00, 5:20, 7:15, 8:30, 10:30 Sun 12:20, 2:10, 3:40, 5:20, 6:55, 8:30, 10:10 Mon, Wed 5:00, 6:30, 8:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri, Tue 4:45, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 12:00, 3:15, 6:40, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:25, 7:30 Bears (G) Thu 5:45, 7:45 Fri, Tue 4:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:25, 4:30 Mon, Wed 5:50 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:50 Fri, Tue 4:15, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 3:05, 5:35, 7:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:25 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Sat-Sun 1:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 4:10, 7:05, 10:15 Sun 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 5:45 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:40 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Noah (14A) Thu 5:05, 8:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 7:45 The Other Woman Thu 5:15, 7:55 Fri, Tue 4:35, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:50 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 5:50, 8:20 Fri, Tue 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sat 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:35 Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Rio 2 (G) Thu 5:05, 7:30 Fri, Tue 4:20 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:20 Sun 12:40, 1:45, 4:20 Mon, Wed 5:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 5:40, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:10 Robots (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:00, 9:45 Mon, Wed 8:00
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:20, 12:50, 2:40, 3:40, 4:10, 6:00, 7:00, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 11:00, 12:20, 2:15, 3:40, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 7:40, 8:45, 10:20, 11:00, 12:00 Mon-Wed 12:20, 12:45, 2:40, 3:40, 4:00, 6:00, 6:55, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Bears (G) Thu 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:35 Sat 2:00 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:35, 5:00, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 1:10, 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:50 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:25 Sat 11:05 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 2:10, 5:20, 8:30, 11:40 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 Fri-Sat, MonWed 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 3:50, 10:15 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 National Theatre Live: King Lear Thu 7:00 Noah (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:50 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 6:45, 10:05 Sun 7:05, 10:25 Oculus (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:20, 8:55, 11:30 Sun 2:30, 5:05, 7:45 The Other Woman Thu 12:55, 3:55, 7:20, 10:40 Fri, SunWed 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40
Robots (G) Sat 11:00 Trailer Park Boys: Don’t Legalize It (14A) Thu 10:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30 WWE Extreme Rules – 2014 Sun 8:00
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festivals for the love of comedy film seminar carlton cinema, 20 carlton. 416-785-0335, torontofilmsociety.com
Virunga deals with an explosive subject.
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Skeptic James Randi’s decency comes through loud and clear in An Honest Liar.
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fri 2 – The Awful Truth (1937) D: Leo McCarey.
9:15 am. Our Miss Brooks (1952) D: Al Lewis. 10:55 am. He Did And He Didn’t (1916) D: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle. 1:30 pm. Midnight (1939) D: Mitchell Leisen. 2 pm. The Man Who Came To Dinner (1942) D: William Keighley. 3:45 pm. The Patsy (1928) D: King Vidor. 7 pm. Ball Of Fire (1941) D: Howard Hawks. 8:30 pm. Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934) D: Mark Sandrich. 10:25 pm. sat 3 – You Can’t Take It With You (1938) D: Frank Capra. 9 am. Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) D: Mack Sennett and Charles Bennett. 11:15 am. Unfaithfully Yours (1948) D: Preston Sturges. 1:30 pm. Love Before Breakfast (1936) D: Walter Lang. 3:25 pm. This Is The Night (1932) D: Frank Tuttle. 4:45 pm. The Ladykillers (1955) D: Alexander Mackendrick. 7:30 pm. The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case (1930) D: James Parrott. 9:15 pm. Never Wave At A WAC (1953) D: Norman Z McLeod. 9:55 pm. sun 4 – The Cure (1917) D: Charles Chaplin. 9 am. The Play House (1921) D: Edward F Cline and Buster Keaton. 9:25 am. Send Me No Flowers (1964) D: Norman Jewison. 10 am. Professional Sweetheart (1933) D: William A Seiter. 2:30 pm. Double Wedding (1937) D: Richard Thorpe. 3:55 pm. It Should Happen To You (1954) D: George Cukor. 5:35 pm.
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Deft debunker
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AN HONEST LIAR (Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom, U.S.). 91 minutes. Thursday (May 1), 7 pm, and Saturday (May 3), 6:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN
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A Toronto-born magician and escape artist who reinvented himself as the world’s premier debunker of psychics and faith healers – most famously by helping Johnny Carson discredit Uri Geller on The Tonight Show in 1973 – The Amazing Randi still maintains a public life at age 85, shuttling from his home in Florida to any number of appearances. But there are a few things about him you may not know. Directors Justin Weinstein and Tyler Measom apply the same relentless scrutiny to their subject that
Patrice Fortier is a low-key, scruffy, rail-thin farmer in rural Quebec who painstakingly grows rare vegetables like turnips from 18th-century France or Polish rutabagas, then preserves and sells their seeds, promoting biodiversity. In the course of about a year, he and a few of his workers plow the earth, sow seeds, tend to the plants and harvest, with stops to produce homemade business cards, visit an old toothless neighbour’s backyard garden and take part in a wacky agricultural ritual called The Garden Follies. We learn nothing per-
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Seligman, Tokko Shigan D: Kenshow Onodera, and others. 7:30 pm.
lakeshorts international short film festival
toronto jewish film festival
assembly hall, 1 colonel samuel smith park dr. l akeshorts.ca.
fri 2-sat 3 – Festival of films from the arts
community in south Etobicoke and international shorts. $35, stu $15, festival pass $85, gala $60 (includes reception). fri 2 – Loved And Local selections: Prairie Dogs D: TW Peacocke, We Need A Hero D: Michelle Nolden, SweetieFace D: Mark Obrien, and others. 7:30 pm. sat 3 – The Gala screening including The Developer D: Robert Odegnal, Diego D: Sara
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Randi brings to bear on the phonies he exposes. What they find isn’t damning in the slightest – the man’s decency comes through loud and clear – but it does offer a more complicated consideration of James Randi than you may expect. And that’s a very good NORMAN WILNER thing.
bloor hot docs cinema, 506 bloor W (BC); cineplex cinemas empress walk, 5095 yonge (EW); famous players canada square cinemas, 2200 Yonge (cs); koffler house, u of t, 569 spadina (KH); royal ontario museum, eaton theatre, 100 queen’s park circle (ROM); cineplex odeon varsity cinemas, 55 bloor w (VC). tjff.com.
thu 1-may 11 – Opening night $20, $13, srs/stu $9, weekday matinees $8, flexible pass $160 for 20 films/events (excluding opening night), some free events. thu 1 – Opening night: 24 Days (2014) D: Alexandre Arcady. 8:30 pm (VC).
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THE SOWER (Julie Perron, Canada).
77 minutes. Subtitled. Thursday (May 1), 2 pm, and Sunday (May 4), 1:30 pm, Scotiabank. Rating: NNNN
fri 2 – Shtisel (2013) D: Alon Zingman, Episodes One to Three. 1 pm (CS). Before The Revolution (2013) D: Dan Shadur. 1 pm (EW). The Dybbuk (1960) D: Sidney Lumet. 1 pm (KH). In The Shadow (2012) D: David Ondrícek. 2 pm (CS). Hora 79 (2013) D: Eli Cohen, and short Hint. 3 pm (EW). Regina (2013) D: Diana Groó. 3:30 pm (KH). When Comedy Went To School (2013) D: Mevlut Akkaya and Ron Frank, and short Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop. 4 pm (CS). Bureau 06 – The Architects Of The Eichmann Trial (2013) D: Yoav Halevy. 4:30 pm (CS). sat 3 – The Wordsmith (1979) D: Claude Jutra, and short Tviggy. 2:30 pm, free (KH). Professor Mamlock (1938) D: Adolf Minkin and Herbert Rappaport. 5 pm, free (KH). 24 Days. 9 pm (CS). Hunting Elephants (2013) D: Reshef Levi. 9:30 pm (CS). God Told Me To
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sonal about Fortier or his employees, and there’s no dramatic tension. It’s all quiet, unshowy, non-didactic – and abGLENN SUMI solutely absorbing.
Yes, Virunga VIRUNGA (Orlando von Einsiedel, UK). 92 minutes. Thursday (May 1), 8:30 pm, TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Saturday (May 3), 9:30 pm, Isabel Bader. Rating:
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(1976) D: Larry Cohen. 9:30 pm (KH). sun 4 – The Real Shlemiel (1997) D: Albert Hanan Kaminski. 11:30 am, free (CS). Shtisel, Episodes Four to Six. 1 pm (CS). Sukkah City (2013) D: Jason Hutt. 1 pm (EW). Lionel Bart: Reviewing The Situation (2013) D: Mick Conefrey, and Claire Bloom: British Legend Of Stage And Screen (2012) D: Anthony Fabian. 1 pm (KH). Sheldon Leonard’s Wonderful Life (2014) D: Allan Holzman. 1:30 pm (CS). Igor And The Cranes’ Journey (2012) D: Evgeny Ruman. 3 pm (EW). Where We Grew Up (2013) D: Idit Cebula. 3:30 pm (CS). A New Life On The Land (2014) D: Dov Okouneff. 3:30 pm (KH). The Outrageous Sophie Tucker (2013) D: William Gazecki. 4:30 pm (CS). The Unvanquished (1945) D: Marc Donskoy. 5 pm, free (EW). Hora 79, and short Hint. 5:30 pm (CS). Album 61 (2013) D: Halil Efrat. 5:30 pm
Einsiedel was shooting a documentary there. The result is Virunga, which almost immediately expands beyond the “gorgeous HD movie about endangered creatures” genre to dig into the corruption and brutality that threaten both the gorillas and the people devoted to their protection. (Be warned, however, that the camera doesn’t shy away from atrocities inflicted on animals or NW humans.) The Sower’s Patrice Fortier is devoting his life to preserving plant biodiversity.
(KH). The Secret Life Of Uri Geller – Psychic Spy? (2013) D: Vikram Jayanti. 7 pm (CS). Etgar Keret: What Animal Are You? (2013) D: Gur Bentwich, and shorts A Knock On The Door, and Siren (2013) D: Jonah Bleicher. 7:30 pm (KH). For A Woman (2013) D: Diane Kurys. 8 pm (EW). In Hiding (2013) D: Jan KidawaBlonski. 8:30 pm (CS). The Best Of Men (2012) D: Tim Whitby. 9 pm (CS). mon 5 – The Unvanquished. 1 pm, free (KH). Before The Revolution. 1 pm (ROM). Farewell Herr Schwarz (2013) D: Yael Reuveny. 2:30 pm (ROM). Internal Combustion (2013) D: Steve Faigenbaum. 3 pm (CS). Arabani (2013) D: Adi Adwan. 3:30 pm (EW). The Sturgeon Queens (2014) D: Julie Cohen, and I Remember Barbra (1981) D: Kevin Burns. 3:30 pm (KH). The Garden Of Eden (2012) D: Ran Tal,
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fri 5 – Check website for schedule. sat 6 – The Great Escape (1963) D: John 9 pm. ñSturges. sun 7 – Food On Film: Momofuku Milk Bar founder and chef Christina Tosi disñ cusses Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Fac-
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2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca
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Thu 1 – The Husband (2014) D: Bruce MacDonald. 7 pm. Alan Partridge (2013) D: Declan Lowney. 9 pm. fri 2 – Hot Docs Film Festival. See schedule at hotdocs.ca. sat 3 – Alan Partridge. 4 pm. Hot Docs Film Festival. See schedule at hotdocs.ca. sun 4 – Alan Partridge. 4 pm. Hot Docs Film Festival. See schedule at hotdocs.ca. mon 5 – Closed. tue 6 – Alan Partridge. 7 pm. Like Father, Like Son (2013) D: Hirokazu Koreeda. 9 pm. wed 7 – Like Father, Like Son. 7 pm. Alan Partridge. 9 pm.
CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca
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thu 1 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The uman Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The H Butterflies. 2 pm. fri 2 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. sat 3-sun 4 – Flight Of The Butterflies. 11 am. Great White Shark. Noon & 2 pm. Jerusalem. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. mon 5 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. tue 6 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The Human Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. wed 7 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm.
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Camera Bar
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sat 3 – A Woman, A Gun And A Noodle Shop fri 5 – Art exhibit Holy Mother My Mother by Vivek Shraya, and screening of short film My Father, Francis D: Casey Mecija. Doors 7 pm. Suggested donation $5-$10.
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D: Roger Vadim. 9 pm. tue 6 – Orgy Of Clowns: Traffic (1971) D: Jacques Tati. 5 pm. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) D: Charles Barton. 7 pm. The Pink Panther (1963) D: Blake Edwards. 9 pm. wed 7 – Disgusting Perverts Film Fest: House Of Boys (2010) D: Jean-Claude Schilm. 5 pm. Going Down In La-La Land (2011) D: Caspar Andreas. 7 pm. Teorema (1968) D: Pier Paolo Passolini. 9 pm.
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thu 1 – The Ladykillers (1955) D: Alexander Mackendrick. 5 pm. The Ladykillers (2004) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 7 pm. sat 3 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm. Reg Hartt: What I Learned From LSD (2014) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. sun 4 – Potluck Silent Film Festival: Hula (1927) D: Victor Fleming. 1 pm. Teddy At The Throttle (1917) D: Clarence Bader. 2:10 pm. Sparrows (1926) D: William Beaudine. 2:45 pm. Manhandled (1924) D: Allen Dwan. 4 pm. Lady Of The Pavements (1929) D: DW Griffith. 5:15 pm. The Wind (1928) D: Victor Sjostrom. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. mon 5 – Vampires And Other Monsters Film Fest: The Horror Of Dracula (1958) D: Terrence Fisher. 5 pm. Black Sunday (1960) D: Mario Bava. 7 pm. Blood And Roses (1960)
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Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. cntower.ca. Casa Loma presents The P ellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top 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 1-may 9 – The Goethe-Institut presents Looking At The Big Sky, 14 short videos by students from German art schools. Tue 1 to 6 pm, Wed & Thu 3 to 7 pm, Sat 11 am to 2 pm. Free. 100 University Ave, North Tower. goethe.de/toronto. thu 1 – L’Altra Italia presents La Migliore Offerta (2013) D: Giuseppe Tornatore. 8 pm. $15. Colossus Theatre, 3555 Highway 7 W, Vaughan. laltraitalia.org. tue 6 – Workman Arts, Rendezvous With Madness and Reel Asian Film Festival present Web Junkie D: Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia. Panel discussion on internet addiction to follow. 7 pm. $12 (register online at webjunkierwm.eventbrite.ca). Workman Arts, 651 Dufferin. workmanarts.com. wed 7 – Cinegraphe Productions present Dead Anyway (2014) D: Doug Sutherland. 7:30 and 9 pm. $10. JPC Post Studios, 3083 Dundas W. ticketscene.ca. 3
blu-ray/dvd A Birder’s Guide To Everything
(levelFILM, 2013) D: Rob Meyer, w/ Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Kingsley. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN A Birder’s Guide To Everything is a likeable teen comedydrama that skips the high school and hormones clichés to imbue its young protagonists with genuine emotion, brains and dignity. Fifteen-year-old David (Kodi SmitMcPhee) is a serious birder (they used to be called birdwatchers) who thinks he’s spotted a duck believed to be long extinct. He takes off to track it with his fellow birders and a girl photography classmate. But it’s the day before his father (James Le Gros) is to remarry, only a year and a half after David’s mother’s death, and David is still grieving. The birding, central to the action, helps keep the drama and comedy – mostly centred on teen awkwardness – gentle and grounded. The cast handles the tone with ease. Ben Kingsley, as a renowned birder, brings a depth to his character that resonates through the rest of the film. Director Rob Meyer and co-writer Luke Matheny deliver a standard making-of commentary, and the making-of docs are little more than promo spots, but the Bird Song Hero feature gives you a chance to sharpen your ears while you learn a bit about birding and birdsongs. It’s a treat. EXTRAS Commentary, three makingof promo docs, birdsong identification doc. English audio. No subtitles.
Labor Day (Paramount, 2013) D: Jason Reitman, w/ Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin. Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN In Labor Day, director Jason Reitman
(Juno, Up In The Air) crafts a well-balanced and very watchable mix of suspense, coming-of-age drama and love story from a tale that in other hands could have been pure mush. Pubescent Henry (Gattlin Griffith) and his depressed, agoraphobic single mother, Adele (Kate Winslet), are approached for help by an injured and polite but menacing stranger (Josh Brolin). They take him home and in short order discover that Frank’s an escaped murderer. Relationships shift in unexpected ways, and Reitman is adept at finding new sources of suspense to go with those shifts. Barring the voice-over by the adult Henry (Tobey Maguire), the storytelling is largely visual, the dialogue sparse and functional. Brolin walks a line between manliness and menace, Winslet’s inward-looking gaze suggests complex misery, and Griffith holds his fear just below the surface. Reitman heads a thoroughly detailed group commentary that covers a broad range of production topics from the need for a location shoot through the reasons why Maguire was the first and only choice for the adult Henry’s voice-over. EXTRAS Commentary, making-of doc. English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.
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grel, 2013) D: Billy Corben. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN Money, murder and drugs always make a good story, and director Billy Corben crafted great ones in the original Cocaine Cowboys documentary and its sequel, Cocaine Cowboys II: H ustlin’ With The Godmother, so check those out before you hit Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded. The original covers the smuggling careers of Jon Roberts and Mickey Munday, who go into great detail about how they brought hundreds of
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(Criterion, 1996) D: Lars von Trier, w/ Emily Watson, Stellan Skarsgård. Rating: NNNNN; DVD/Blu-ray package: NNNN You can view it as a love story, spiri tual journey or a descent into madness, or blend any of these and find a few more. However you take it, Breaking The Waves is filled with powerfully resonant emotions, and it’s flawlessly made. Bess (Emily Watson), a goodhearted, devout girl from a Scottish village, marries oil rig worker Jan (Stellan Skarsgård). Their union is
tons of cocaine into Miami in the 80s. In the sequel, Jorge “Rivi” Ayala recalls his life of murder for brutal Miami dealer Griselda Blanco. Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded goes for the bigger picture: the drug wars that doubled Miami’s murder rate in the early 80s. Roberts, Munday and Ayala are back with more tales of excess and bloodshed, along with Roberts’s then girlfriend and lots of cops. Everyone gives frank, detailed interviews, and as before, Corben stitches them together with archival footage into a fast-paced dramatic narrative. A few deleted scenes shed some interesting sidelights. 3 movies@nowtoronto.com
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joyful until a work accident leaves Jan paralyzed and dying. Hoping to rekindle his own will to live and/or ensure that Bess moves on in life, Jan asks her to sleep with other men and then tell him about it. His request upends her relationship with God, her family and her community. Watson throws herself wholeheartedly into Bess’s emotional extremes. Skarsgård and the rest of the cast are equally strong, and writer/ director Lars von Trier captures their work with a perpetually moving cam-
era and close-ups that give the sense of seeing directly into their souls. Von Trier gives a good account of his visual and editing plan on the commentary, and Watson and Skarsgård’s interviews are full of insights about their roles and working experiences. EXTRAS Director, editor and location scout selected-scene shared commentary; Watson, Skarsgård, interviews; Watson audition tape with von Trier commentary; essay booklet; more. English audio and subtitles.
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t o come out to their friends and family, and I think it’s a great idea. Here’s my conundrum: I’m not sure I technically classify as “bisexual.” I’m a 40-year-old guy who strongly prefers sex with women to men (percentage-wise I’m 70/30). I’ve had sex with dudes in the past (five or six times) and loved it, though I’ve never had the same emotional attachment and attraction that I’ve had with women. Most people seem to think that bisexuals are equally attracted to both genders – sexually and emotionally – like they could decide by flipping a coin. So am I bisexual or just a juicy boner hobbyist? Just Understanding Identity Causing Erotic Delirium A quick word about my calls for bisexuals to come out to their friends and family…. Bisexuals complain about anti-bi stereotypes and misconceptions – about biphobia and bi-erasure – and quite rightly. It’s awful, it sucks, it’s gotta stop. But just as coming out has always been the most effective way for gays and lesbians to combat homophobia, coming out is the most effective way for bisexuals to combat biphobia. And while 77 per cent of gay men and 71 per cent of lesbians are out to “most of the important people in their lives,” according to a 2014 Pew Research survey of LGBT Americans, only 28 per cent of bisexuals are. Some argue that most bisexuals won’t feel safe enough to come out until straight and gay people get over their biphobia. That’s a bullshit argument. Yes, biphobia makes it more difficult for bisexuals to come out – in the same way that homophobia makes it difficult for gays and lesbians to come out. Someone could argue that the culture is less homophobic today, and they would be right. But that wouldn’t be the case if gay people hadn’t risked coming out when “insanely homophobic” was the near-universal default setting for “most of the important people in our lives,” i.e., friends, family, co-workers. I’ve been accused of “blaming the victim” when I make this point. That’s absurd. I’m not blaming bisexuals for biphobia any more than I’m blaming gay people for homophobia. But biphobia will continue to thrive so long as the majority of bisexuals remain closeted. That’s just a fact. I’ve also been accused of being biphobic for making this point. That’s just nuts. (“That guy hates bisexual people so much, he wants there to be way more of them!”) Okay, JUICED, on to your question: I get letters like yours every day. Guys tell me they enjoy fucking men and women but they fall in love only with women. They’re not interested in relationships with men – some aren’t even into kissing men (getting fucked by men, yes; swapping spit with men, no) – but they love them juicy boners. These guys invariably tell me that they’re confused about their sexual orientation. They know they’re not straight (not with all the cock they’ve sucked), and they’re pretty sure they can’t be gay (not with all the pussy they’ve eaten), but they’re convinced they can’t be bisexual – aren’t bisexuals open to sex and relationships with both men and women? Isn’t that what everyone says? These guys are bisexual, JUICED, and so are you. The reason so many guys like you are confused about their sexual identity – sorry, but “juicy boner hobbyist” is not a sexual identity – is because the popular definition of bisexuality, “someone who
is equally attracted to men and women,” excludes guys like you. But there’s an improved definition making the rounds. It was coined by bisexual activist Robyn Ochs: “I call myself bisexual because I acknowledge that I have in myself the potential to be attracted – romantically and/ or sexually – to people of more than one sex and/or gender, not necessarily at the same time, not necessarily in the same way, and not necessarily to the same degree.” You say you’re attracted to men and women, but not in the same way or to the same degree? Congratulations, JUICED, you’re bisexual. But that may not be all you are…. “Of all of the bi guys I’ve known over the years,” gay journalist Charles Pulliam- Moore wrote in a post at Thought Catalog, “the majority of them have been what I would describe as bi-sexual but hetero-amorous. That is to say that while they’d certainly get into some sweaty bro-on-bro action, guys simply couldn’t provide the kind of emotional satisfaction necessary for a romantic relationship.” So if identifying as bisexual feels dishonest – since many folks will assume it means you’re open to a relationship with a man–go ahead and say you’re “bi but heteroamorous,” and rest assured that you’re not the only bi guy like you out there.
Trans man a gay turn-on I am a 58-year-old gay man. I have ever, ever been attracted to women n sexually and never had sex with a
woman. However, a few months ago I stumbled across some trans man porn (thank you, Buck Angel!) and was incredibly turned on. I would totally go down on or fuck a hot trans man. Am I still gay? Transmen Have Ripped Open Wonted Notions “I get this question all the time,” says Buck Angel, a trans male porn star. “You are still gay, my friend. Trans men like myself who present ‘male’ consider ourselves men. So THROWN is still attracted to a man – just one who happens to have a different set of ‘balls.’ It does not make him any less gay. He’s attracted to the masculinity of the trans man. Some people think genitals are the deciding factor in gender. This is far from the truth! So don’t stress it, THROWN, and go have some fun!”
Distant yearnings I’m a 20-year-old guy in a long-dis-
t ance relationship with my boyfriend of almost two years. Before I met him, I had a history of anonymous sex with men on Craigslist. I’ve recently been having urges to have anonymous sex again and urges that are hard to satisfy in a long-distance relationship. We tried having an open relationship but decided to stop because it left us feeling unhappy. I’m only comfortable with both of us having anonymous hookups, while my boyfriend is only comfortable hooking up with people he knows and is familiar with. Gay Boy Problems Unless you guys have a concrete plan that lands you in the same city soon, your best course of action is to officially break up,
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do whatever/whoever you wanna do, keep in touch while sparing each other the details of your (now separate and private) sex lives and then pick up where you left off if and when you’re living in the same city. If you can’t bear the thought of breaking up and you can’t resist your urges for immediate, real-time, in-person sexual contact, GBP, the second-best course of action is a don’t ask/don’t tell arrangement. You do whatever/whoever you wanna do (safely!), he does whatever/whoever he wants to do (safely!), while – again – sparing each other the details. But the way your boyfriend wants to hook up – with people he knows – discomforts you, most likely because his hookup preferences seem more threatening. A known-and-familiar hookup could easily turn into a relationship, right? True enough, GBP, but the gay world is filled with loving couples in stable, long-term relationships who met during anonymous or nearly anonymous sexual encounters, aka unknown and unfamiliar hookups. So demanding that your boyfriend adopt your preferred model of hooking up is no guarantee that he won’t meet and fall in love with someone else – and it’s no guarantee that you won’t meet and fall in love with someone else either.
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