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Norman Wilner takes a sober stance on the mayor’s behaviour and chances for recovery.

2. Rob Ford takes leave Council reacts to news that Ford is taking a break to deal with his drinking – with no mention of his drug use.

3. DoFo: He’s “100%” in rehab Questions about the mayor’s whereabouts are deflected by his brother.

Doug asks Toronto to trust him.

4. Ford admits to alcohol problem In the wake of more bad press – a second supposed crack video and a drunken rant full of racism, homophobia and misogyny – our mayor is taking time off work.

5. We’re sorry, Kyle Lowry Julia LeConte explains why Lowry should have been front-page news instead of Ford.

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Haim heat up Kool Haus, May 15

John Monahan, diaspora ­studies prof Rima Berns-­ McGown and others. 7 pm. $5.

Noor Cultural Centre. ­noorculturalcentre.ca. +Contact The month-long ­photography festival is in ­galleries and on billboards around town. ­scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

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queer, trans and two-spirited writers. 6-9 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-324-4100 ext 5245. godzilla It’s opening day for the blockbuster remake of the ultimate m ­ onster movie.

Fu manchu Orange County stoner rockers bring brand new album to Lee’s Palace. Doors 9 pm. $18.50-$20. HS, RT, SS, TF.

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CSI Regent Park. 100in1day.ca/ toronto. a god in need of help Sean Dixon’s play about art and ­religious belief continues at the Tarragon until May 25. 8 pm. $21-$53. 416-531-1827.

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Explore The Forbidden City: Imperial Costumes And The Projections Of Desire Talk by

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Panda Bear Animal Collective co-frontman brings his solo project to the Opera House.

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Re Crack A Case Of Beer, Crack A Case Of Labour Rights Violations, by Cynthia McQueen (NOW, May 1-​7).

Thanks for reporting on the strike at Crown Holdings – excellent article and well written. I am one of the employees on strike, and all of us really appreciate your coverage since we’ve had very limited media exposure, possi­bly because there are only 124 of us.

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Re “Go And Never Come Back”: Rob Ford Takes Leave (NOW, May 1).

Is crack legal in Canada? What do the police do up there? There is video and there is admission of drug use.

Ford is a liar and a criminal who should be in jail.

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Well, let the Ontario election games begin. It’s probably a good thing we’re having one. Kathleen Wynne may be stronger if she gets her own man­date. Maybe she’ll be free of the conservative shackles placed on her by opposition parties.

At least now Wynne can defend her budget and, hopefully, the taxes we need to pay for essentials like tran­sit and infrastructure. This election gives Ontarians a clear choice.

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Of course he is right; it was the invading Nazis who had the camps built, not the Polish government. As Morawski writes, “The use of ‘Polish camp’ is offensive to Polish people.”

There should be “solid information to fight ignorance about WWII.” But as Claude Lanzmann’s Holocaust film Shoah shows, one of the

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more unpleasant and disturbing truths about such places as Auschwitz is that some Poles were, at the very least, indifferent to their presence.

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We still the North

Astronaut Hadfield time-travels to McCoys

Transit debases sense of common good

Re Chow, Stintz Transit Plans Full Of Uncertainty (NOW, April 30).

The downtown relief line benefits suburbanites, not people who already live downtown. How often do I need to go to Scarborough? So I guess it’s “gracious” of suburbanites to support something that benefits them?

As a downtowner, I support them being able to get to the downtown core, where many of them work, more easily, even if it’s paid for with my taxes.

Much like the roads I don’t use (don’t own a car) or the schools that my non- existent kids don’t attend.

That’s civilization.

We’re rapidly losing the idea of the common good in Canada, and that’s a little sad.

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Chris Hatfield in your Big 3 photo (NOW, May 1-7) probably had a minor role in a feud with the McCoys following the U.S. Civil War. Chris Hadfield is a Canadian astronaut. Homes First might get better bids for their housing-related fundraising efforts if they had one of the latter’s ties for auction.

George Hume Toronto

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The Raptors really had no business ever getting within one point. But through some miracle (actually, two miracle Terrence Ross plays), there we were: inbounding the ball, down only one point versus the Brooklyn Nets Sunday with a handful of seconds remaining – a relative fourth-quarter eternity in basketball terms.

But the play didn’t work; the ball didn’t go in bucket. We lost the game 7 playoff thriller 104-103. That’s hoops.

There are hundreds of thousands of hurtin’ Raps fans right now. That’s the funny thing about sports teams.

They’re a lot like lovers: the better yours is, the harder it hurts when they let you down.

Impossible as it is to shake that “We were this close” feeling, we have to try to focus on the bigger picture.

Few expected the Raptors to make the post-season this year. They won their division, got the most wins in team history (48) and were the best

fourth-quarter team in the league. And while it was brief, the post-season was one for the ages.

There was always something to talk about: clever things like We The North, Northern Uprising and Jurassic Park hashtags; stupid, hilarious things like Drake lint-rolling his pants, launching a million memes and bizarre sponsorships; and inspiring, heart-tugging things like our arena being so damn loud that Magic Johnson was giving us props.

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They pulled it off and converged on Allan Gardens, then marched to Queen’s Park on the evening of Thursday, May 1. Organized labour was not missed; at least we didn’t have to stumble through a singalong of Solidarity Forever.

Earlier in the day, Premier Kath­ leen Wynne dropped “a budget that pri­oritizes people.” Thanks to the gen­erosity and compassion of our as­ pir­ing “social justice premier,” effec­

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The high-pressure systems of aus­ terity and an ecologically destructive economy are brewing a solidarity shitstorm of infighting on the left in general – between and within groups.

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business decisions.

“It’s like two kids playing in a sandbox” says John Ing, president and gold analyst of Maison Placements Canada. “The logic for this deal is still there, but when you get down to each other’s personalities, it’s a different kettle of fish.

“Barrick is a company that has been built on mega-deals throughout its history. That’s how they have grown as a company. However, with mega-deals come mega-problems and mega-writeoffs.”

At the shareholders’ meeting, Barrick CEO Jamie Sokalsky took to the stage to explain that after a year of transformation, Barrick is leaner and stronger. “Returns will drive production – not production will drive returns,” said Sokalsky as he repeated the same message from 2013.

It’s been said that Munk should have left the company sooner and that he was pushed out by shareholder pressure over Barrick’s two years of missteps.

Ing disagrees. “I don’t think there was shareholder pressure for him to leave. Politicians overstay their time.

Only the individual knows when is the right time to leave.”

After all was said and done, Munk stood up and waved to the audience one last time before he put on his fedora and walked off the stage. Love him or you hate him, many are hoping there will never be another one like him in our lifetime. His retirement may take the pressure off him for now, but the company’s activities, if the status quo continues, will face scrutiny for many years to come. 3

should be, according to OCAP, the organization isn’t letting up on what it calls the “Liberals’ war on the poor.

The group recently disrupted the Grits’ $1,500-a-plate Heritage Dinner by unfurling a “Raise the Rates” banner and releasing an epic macaroni shower.

Chanting, “We didn’t cross the borders, the borders crossed us,” the NOII contingent at Thursday’s rally targeted the Harper government’s latest xenophobic move – a moratorium on the inclusion of restaurant workers in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

But the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and NDP are onside with the HarperCons on this one. An NDP press release calling for a moratorium on the entire program says, “The bottom line is, there are people living here in Canada who are being laid off or having their hours cut to facilitate the use of foreign workers – this needs to end immediately.”

There are many difficult conversations that need to happen within and without the labour movement.

Megan Kinch, a new mom, apprenticing electrician and parttime assistant editor of Briarpatch Magazine, was at the rally and says change won’t happen “until we as unionists honestly face up to the problems of Canada’s labour movement.”

Kinch openly criticizes unions for “commonly accepted practices that screw over young workers,” listing each of the following examples with a bang of her pencil on her reporter’s notepad: two-tiered contracts for new hires; taking union dues off the paycheques of minimum-wage employees; fighting hard for severance packages but not to keep jobs in Canada.

Meanwhile, video from Vancouver’s three May Day marches shows police among the crowd pushing and shoving anarchists and violently arresting at least a couple of activists In Montreal, police made five arrests and kettled (corralled) some 136 anti-capitalist demonstrators, fining them $638 each for violating P-6, a municipal bylaw that makes it illegal to march without submitting a planned itinerary – essentially ending the right to protest.

Back on College Street, as the marshals quietly herd us past Toronto Police Headquarters, the parade is oh so polite.

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GOODBYE OR GOOD RIDDANCE FOR GOLD MINING BUSINESS? Barrick CEO Peter Munk leaves dirty legacy By CHRISTIAN PEÑA Barrick Gold founder and chairman Peter Munk said goodbye to the company he started more than 30 years ago at its annual shareholders’ meeting in Toronto on April 30. His departure marks the end of an era for Barrick, but MiningWatch is much more concerned about the legacy the company is leaving behind internationally.

The protest crowd outside the meeting was smaller than usual, according to Catherine Coumans, a research coordinator with MiningWatch, a Canadian NGO that advocates for those affected by mining.

That was because of “the overwhelming level of focus on the long-overdue resignation of Peter Munk.”

Inside the meeting, Coumans, said she is “concerned that the legacy in developing countries is one of human rights abuses, environmental destruction and local conflicts that are very costly to communities.”

Barrick is implicated in alleged gang rapes and other violent abuses by private security guards employed at the Porgera Gold Mine in Papua New Guinea, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Another controversial Munk project, the PascuaLama open-pit site in northern Chile, which has been in development for 20-plus years, is currently suspended due to environmental violations

by Barrick.

In reponse to what Barrick’s communications president, Andy Lloyd, calls “credible allegations of sexual assault” in Papua New Guinea, the company launched an investigation, terminated the employees implicated in the allegations and turned over

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the results of its investigation to police. Barrick has since implemented a “remedy program that provides compensation to women who were victims of sexual assault.”

At 86, Munk is a legend in the gold industry. He told the capacity audience at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre that he recognized “it was time for a change and new start.”

Munk promised he would help incoming Barrick chairman John Thornton, saying, “You can take Munk out of Barrick. But you can’t take Barrick out of Munk.”

Today Barrick is worth about $22 billion. With more than a dozen mines globally, it’s the largest gold company in the world.

Regardless, the company is now trying to recover from one of its worst years ever. Its acquisition of Equinox Minerals forced the company to write down (reduce its net income by) about $4 billion. Both Pascua-Lama and Equinox have seemingly hurt the company and plunged it further into debt, contributing to the loss of its AAA credit rating.

One of Barrick’s most outspoken critics, Toronto mining justice organizer Sakura Saunders, says that while Munk can be linked to some of the the company’s more egregious business decisions, his departure will have little impact on its direction.

“He has done a horrible job – their share prices are down – but the company is not resolving the issues I care about, whether he’s in power or not.”

The Norwegian Government Pension Fund divested its Barrick holdings in 2009 over the Porgera Mine’s pollution of a 600-kilometre river

system. But that mine remains in operation, and human rights violations there continue to mount. Last year, an illegal miner was killed in a confrontation with security forces employed by Barrick.

In Chile, in addition to strong community protests, lawsuits have been filed against Barrick and millions of dollars in environmental fines imposed by a Chilean court. Barrick spent $6.7 billion on the mine site before the shutdown last October, but costs have now increased to an estimated $8 to $8.5 billion.

To top it all off, a multi-billiondollar securities class action suit was launched in April on behalf of shareholders against the company and several of its senior officers, including Munk, over the losses on PascuaLama.

Munk’s retirement comes just after talks collapsed between Barrick and its main rival, Newmont Mining, over what could have been one of the biggest mergers in gold mining history.

Both companies took to the media to blame each other. “That’s the kind of people they are, and that’s why it’s so difficult to make a deal. They are not shareholder-friendly,” Munk said about Newmont in a National Post interview.

Newmont chair Vincent A. Calarco wrote in a letter to new chairman Thornton that Munk had killed the merger by calling it “dead,” making the board unanimously decide not to pursue the deal. Clearly, Munk’s retirement will leave a noticeable absence of audacious leadership, but if this letter is any indication, he’s still the same man known for his bold

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Moratorium on temporary foreign workers makes things harder for people already struggling with a less than inviting system ­ By JOSH KERR When Senthil Thevar moved to Cana­ da as a temporary foreign worker in 2008, he had high hopes for the fu­ ture.

He’d met a recruiter who promised he could make big money working as a cook in North York. So the Mumbai native quit his job, hopped on a plane and made his way to Toronto.

“He told me [the employer] was willing to pay a good salary, said Thevar. “So I came to Canada for bet­ ter opportunity.”

That better opportunity turned out

to be working 12-hour days, six days a week in a kitchen, with no holidays and no benefits. Instead of the $18 an hour he’d been promised, The­var esti­ mates he made about $8 an hour – less than Ontario’s mini­mum wage which was $8.75 at the time.

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When temporary foreign worker Senthil Thevar left his job in Canada, he had to starve himself to survive.

of permanent immigrants.

The population of temporary for­ eign workers (TFW) has tripled in the last decade, to 338,000 in 2012, up from 101,000 in 2002.

It all started in 1973 with programs that allowed farmers to bring in tem­ porary agricultural workers, and ur­ ban professionals to import live-in caregivers for their children and the elderly. The program expanded and in 2002 the Liberals opened the door to all types of low-skilled work.

Most TFWs can’t apply for perma­ nent residency. If live-in caregivers fulfill all the technical requirements over two years, they can apply, but others aren’t so lucky.

There isn’t much opposition from the business community to provide foreign workers with a path to resi­ dency.

Dan Kelly, president of the Cana­ dian Federation of Inde­pen­dent Busi­ ness, says that possibility is “ideal.”

He calls the immigration system dishonest. “We tell the rest of the world, ‘Send us your best and bright­ est,’ but we’re still going to put them in jobs that are at the junior end of the skill set … and somehow we’re comfortable with that.”

What we’re not comfortable with is bringing in immigrants to work in laboratories; Canadians want these skilled jobs for themselves, he says.

The system was once fairer. “When my Ukrainian ancestors on my mom’s side came to rural Manitoba, they didn’t come to work in a laboratory; they came to work on the farm.”

In theory, TFWs have to be paid the same and have the same rights as other Ca­na­dian workers. In practice, because they’re dependent on their em­ployers for their legal sta­tus in this country, that’s not the case, says Sharryn Aiken, a law pro­fessor at Queen’s University.

“So long as somebody’s status is temporary and conditional – in effect tied to their place of employment – the rights of the worker are essentially thrown out the window,” she says.

“They exist on paper but are very, very difficult to realize in practice.”

For instance, although TFWs are required pay into Employment In­ surance every month, there is no way they can collect it.

To be eligible for unemployment

benefits, you must be available to work. TFWs who quit or lose their jobs for whatever reason also lose their work permits, and since they’re not legally allowed to work until they get new permits, they can’t collect EI until they find new jobs.

So when Thevar got fed up and quit his first job, he had no way to sup­port himself while he waited eight months for a new work permit.

He got by with the help of friends and by stretching his savings.

“Instead of eating three times [a day], you eat, like, one time,” says The­var with a bit of a laugh. “I starved myself. I had no choice, right?”

Thevar’s experience is hardly the worst.

Over the years, worker advocates have documented everything from wage theft and illegal recruitment

“‘Send us your best and brightest,’ but we’re still ­going to put them in jobs that are at the junior end of the skill set.”

Dan Kelly, Cana­dian Federation of Inde­pen­dent Business fees to workplace safety violations and overcrowded and substandard liv­ing conditions. To date, there has been little government oversight of the TFW program.

While allegations of abuse and ex­ ploitation of TFWs seem to have made little impression on politicians in Ottawa, recent findings by the C.D. Howe Institute that the program is suppressing wages and increasing unemployment in the west, as well as accusations by Canadian workers that employers are passing them over in fa­vour of foreign temps, have spurred the government to action.

After the CBC reported that a piz­ ze­ria in Saskatchewan fired Ca­na­ dian employees to hire TFWs, and a

Mc­Don­ald’s franchise in BC cut the hours of local staffers and ignored ap­pli­cations from qual­i­fied Cana­ dian ap­pli­cants, the government took action last month, imposing a moratorium on the food services sec­ tor’s access to the Tem­por­ary Foreign Worker Program.

“The moratorium is really bad news,” says Kelly.

“It’s deeply, deeply unfair to the vast majority of independent busi­ ness owners who are using [the pro­ gram] right.”

It’s also a burden on foreign tempor­ ary workers, who are often counted on to send money back home and now find themselves in limbo, he says.

According to the Canadian Restau­ rant and Foodservices Association, TFWs make up only about 2 per cent of Canadian res­taurant employees, more than 80 per cent of them in western provinces where the oil and gas boom has made recruiting ser­ vice industry workers difficult.

While regionally the big jump in the use of TFWs has been in areas of low unemployment like Alberta and BC, it’s also on the rise in places like Ontario, where almost a third of all Canadian TFWs live.

In Toronto alone, where the un­ employment rate hovers around 8 per cent, there are almost as many temporary foreign workers as there are in the entire province of Alberta.

Now that the Temporary Foreign Worker Program is in the spotlight and a national election not too far off, the feds are promising to overhaul it. But given Ottawa’s track record on this issue, says Fay Faraday, a human rights lawyer and professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, she has little hope that it will lead to substantial improvement.

“They know these are not isolated incidents. These are not a couple of bad apples. The problem is systemic, and it needs a systemic response. I think we are at a tipping point, and real change needs to happen.”

One simple fix, she says, would be to ensure that workers of all skill lev­ els have the ability to apply for per­ manent residence in Canada.

As long as the status of TFWs is tied to a specific employer, it’s “an open invitation to exploitation,” says Faraday.

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rainbow carpet and inviting up to 200 LGBTQ couples to tie the knot in what could be the biggest queer wedding in world history.

The event, A Celebration Of Love: A Grand Pride Wedding, will take place at Casa Loma on June 26 during the World Pride festival, the global ­LGBTQ celebration that Toronto is hosting for the first time this summer.

At a press conference on Monday, May 5, Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam and Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly said the wedding could be historic. According to Wong-Tam, the current record for a mass gay wedding is held

by Rio de Janeiro, where 130 pairs got hitched in December after Brazilian courts ruled in favour of same-sex marriage.

The event will give couples visiting Toronto for World Pride an opportunity they may not have at home. Only 17 countries have legalized gay marriage, according to Pew Research.

Wong-Tam, the only openly gay council member, said the celebration is also a chance for Toronto to turn the page after Mayor Rob Ford made international headlines with his anti-gay actions. In February Ford tried to have the Pride flag removed from a ceremonial pole outside City Hall. Last week he was caught on tape making disparaging remarks about “the gays” who led the flag-raising campaign.

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Toronto’s big, fat, queer wedding Councillor hopes mass marriage will repair damage done to city’s image by Rob Ford’s homophobia

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appeared to show the mayor smoking crack, prompted Ford to announce on Wednesday that he’s taking a leave of absence to deal with alcohol abuse.

“I think that it’s time for us to show a different face of Toronto, to demonstrate that this is a city of equality and inclusive values, a city that celebrates all its diverse communities,” Wong-Tam said.

She noted that the city has a proud history of protecting LGBTQ rights.

In 1973 council passed a motion pro-

“It’s time for us to demonstrate that this is a city of equality and inclusive values.” hibiting discrimination against city employees based on their sexual orientation, the first legislation of its kind in Canada. The first same-sex marriages in Canada took place here in 2001, four years before Parliament passed legislation making them legal.

That history “can’t be undone by just one person,” Wong-Tam said.

The councillor also praised Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, who since

tak­ing over many of the mayor’s powers in November has been a vocal supporter of the queer community.

“It was never deliberative, it just was done naturally,” explained the 73-year-old Kelly, who is acting mayor while Ford is away. “I think one of the mayors of Toronto once said he was the mayor of all the people, and I felt that I was the deputy mayor of all people. And I think inclusiveness has to be the basic principle of any office that includes the title ‘mayor.’”

The group wedding will take place in the new glass tent in Casa Loma’s gardens. Aside from the price of a marriage licence, it won’t cost parti­cipating couples a thing.

Liberty Entertainment Group, which took over management the 100-year-old castle in November, has agreed to foot the bill.

Liberty president and CEO Nick Di Donato said he expects the event to cost between $25,000 and $35,000. He wouldn’t say how many registrations have been received since the wedding website went live last week, but he expects “tremendous” interest following Monday’s press conference.

Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, New Thought and Humanist officiants will preside over the nuptials, and the ceremony will be followed by cocktails, dinner and dancing. Each couple can invite four guests to the reception, tickets for which cost $45. The wedding colours will, of course, be rainbow.

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Khabouth says the Daniels Corpor­ ation made the purchase and is plan­ ning to build a “condo haven.” Calls made to Daniels were not returned.

Aside from having two of the most annoyingly spelled names in Toron­ to nightlife (and that’s saying some­ thing for a city with a club called Muzik), the Guvernment/Kool Haus complex has been a staples of our live music and nightlife scenes since 1996.

INK claims in a press release that it’s Canada’s largest and longest-run­ ning club. Eighteen years doesn’t seem overly long.

But it is definitely the only club I knew about when I moved here in 2003. And as anyone who’s lived here for any number of years can testify, the two venues have hosted more than their share of the city’s best concerts and parties.

I have fond and foggy memories of seeing DJs such as Sharam and Dub­ fire and Steve Aoki at the Guvern­ ment (and staying until 7 am), and some of my favourite concerts went down at the Kool Haus (Ziggy Marley, Lauryn Hill, Puff Daddy).

“I’m more sad than anybody else, because I’ve seen so much and so much has happened over the years,” says Khabouth. “We’ve seen so many artists grow from the ground up,

whether it was Justin Bieber or Lady Gaga. Deadmau5 – one of his first gigs was there. He used to play the little room with 200 people.”

INK Entertainment will continue to host concerts at Tattoo Rock Par­ lour and Sound Academy; the latter will get a makeover.

“We’re going to make sure it’s the next hottest spot,” says Khabouth.

Changes will include improve­ ments to sound, sight lines, lighting and balconies.

But not to worry. INK hasn’t given up on a new massive party space to replace Guvernment.

Says Khabouth: “We have a plan for something much, much larger – like double the size [of Guvernment].

We’re committed to sticking by the scene, and we’re committed to con­ tin­uing what we do best, and that is live shows and electronic dance mu­ sic.”

The club will be downtown, but that’s the only location detail Kha­ bouth will divulge, because “we’re just going through all the legal stuff.

The space is absolutely massive. It will take at least three years [before we open].”

In the meantime, the Guvernment and Kool Haus will operate as usual until January, and Khabouth prom­ ises massive parties leading up to its last hurrah.

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No. 1 Has Rob Ford really hit bottom?

We’d like to believe Rob Ford when he says he’s getting “professional help” for his boozing so he doesn’t wind up dead, after last week’s revelations about a second crack video and audio of another racist rant. Except it sounds like something his former campaign manager, Nick Kouvalis, might’ve told him to say.

In fact, those are the precise words sources say that Kouvalis used a year and a half ago in a meeting with the mayor’s brother Doug and his mother, Diane, to talk about Rob’s substance abuse problem.

Rob is spinning us. Again.

It’s not possible to believe he has all of sudden had a moment of clarity and just wants to be able to see his kids grow up. The mayor has not been reluctant to use his children for political cover in the past: he did it after the Marg Delahunty “ambush” and his 9-1-1 rant; he did it when he lied about Star reporter Daniel Dale acting the “peeping Tom” over his backyard fence; he did it when he chalked up a domestic dispute call to his home on Christmas morning 2011 to “regular family stuff.”

In that incident, his in-laws reported that he was taking the kids to Florida against his wife’s wishes. Ford sent his buddy Joe Warmington of the Toronto Sun a photo of himself and his daughter happily playing in the pool in the Sunshine State just in case there was any doubt about that.

Are we really to believe his latest bender had anything to do with the death of family friend Jim Flaherty? Ford was reportedly broken up about that.

In his statement announcing his leave of absence, the mayor proclaimed his love for Toronto, though he’s consistently put his political and personal interests ahead of the city’s by not heeding calls for his resignation.

Let’s get real. As long as there was no hard evidence, Ford was going to play out the string. There was no need to do otherwise, especially since the police investigation into his alleged association with known gang members has stalled. But stills from a second video of the mayor smoking crack have forced him to step away.

More than one reporter observed last Thursday, May 1, that Ford strode with purpose from his house to the car waiting to take him to an airfield north of Toronto and presumably to an undisclosed rehab facility in ­Chicago.

A few of them wished him good luck, but he said nothing, wearing a look of consternation, a man off to face his demons, but not because he wants to.

No. 2 What’s the mayor’s end game, and is Doug Ford ­running for mayor?

No. 4 Who benefits from Ford’s staying in the mayoral race?

It’s not clear that the mayor has a game plan beyond maybe going to California and starring in his own reality TV show. When it comes to the responsibilities of running the city, he’s never had the smarts, the energy or the inclination.

It’s not about Ford Nation any more, if it ever was. It’s about upholding the Ford family’s grandiose self-image based on Doug Ford Sr.’s four-year political career as a Mike Harris-era backbencher. For the boys, his inflated figure is always looking down from heaven.

That mission has always informed the Fords’ poli­tical game plan.

Which is why there’s renewed talk of the sullied one, Rob, stepping back to assume Doug’s council seat and of Doug running for mayor. Doug offered a terse “No comment” when asked about that this week. But the old switcheroo has always been a possibility in the event of an emergency.

It was part of the plan when Doug announced in February that he wouldn’t be running for the provincial PCs and it looked like the cops might be ready to arrest the mayor. It was also in the works when Ford got tossed from office on the conflict of interest ruling back in 2012 – only to be saved on appeal.

With Rob slipping in the polls – two-thirds say he should resign – now may be the moment for the brand to get a facelift.

The short answer is Olivia Chow, who noticeably didn’t call on Ford to ­resign. Perhaps she didn’t want to be seen as kicking a guy when he’s down.

But just as it’s time for Ford to swallow some hard truths about his substance abuse problems, it’s time for his poli­tical opponents – especially those on council who didn’t ask the province for the powers to give him the boot last November – to face facts. They’re just as responsible for prolonging the agony. He’s been politically isolated for going on two years now. Why keep him around? It’s difficult to buy the argument that giving council the power to remove Ford would somehow put our democracy in peril, that any future unpopular chief magistrate could be taken out on a whim. It wouldn’t be that simple; the courts would have something to say.

But Ford makes a convenient foil, so it’s to his opponents’ advantage to keep him in office. For those supporting Chow, he’s useful for keeping John Tory, the other right-wing mayoral candidate, at bay. For the Libs at Queen’s Park, Ford is a helpful reminder to voters what a mess the Conservative agenda would be if PC leader Tim Hudak were elect­ed. Most of his opponents, it seems, would rather sit back and watch Ford self-destruct – and drag Toronto through the mud right along with him.

No. 3 Is there still time for Ford to write his redemption story?

The recently called Ontario election is diverting attention from the mayor’s race, which is opportune for Rob Ford.

And there is still some sympathy for the mayor, a deep enough well in older parts of the suburbs to

scare the shit out of political operatives working on opposing mayoral campaigns. If he can get himself clean and sober, if only for the sake of his two small children, who knows? The city overfloweth with forgiveness.

The last time Ford was on the wagon, he began showing up at Sunday revival meetings at Jane and Finch. He talked about his “come-to-Jesus” moment. He said prayer was “very important” to him, and that was no accident. He was speaking directly to the socially conservative minority communities that make up his base, the true believers whose fervent support for Ford is almost religious.

Some still want to cast his story as a personal tragedy; that’s what Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly calls it. But it’s more like a bad rerun. He plays nice for a

couple of months, and then he’s back in the ditch.

It’s the classic ­addict pattern.

And it’s a question of character. Ford has none, despite (or because of) all the advantages he had growing up, unlike those in poor neighbourhoods across the city who have every reason in the world to make excuses for themselves but persevere in working toward a better life for themselves and their families. Frankly, he shouldn’t be Toronto’s problem any more.

But since he won’t resign and ­politically there’s still no appetite on council for forcibly removing him from office – no, that would be dangerous to democracy, right? – we’re stuck with him for as long as he wants us to be, or at least until election day, October 27.

No. 5 And how did a racist, homophobic, misogynist like Ford get elected in the first place?

The South Asian woman whose family recently bought ­Royal York bakery and deli says the mayor has been coming here for the pepperoni sandwiches since he was a kid.

The shop is two doors from Sullie Gorman’s bar at the corner of the strip mall, where audio of the mayor’s latest drunken racist, homophobic, misogynist rant was recorded. The woman outside the deli, however, hasn’t heard the latest because she has a newborn

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THE ROB FORD SCANDAL: PART II more complicated, varied and diverse agglomeration than Mississauga, and the same is true of our relationship with our mayor. But we are likewise a young, sprawling city in pursuit of defining myths.

Mississauga is straightforward: they adore McCallion and see themselves in her. Ford, on the other hand, connects us not through a common love or a common loathing but a shared adventure and the mess of emotions that go along with it. It’s partly traumatic and partly exhilarating.

To the extent that any lone thing binds all of us together, this is it. You

rest of Ontario’s municipalities, has the same clause.)

Council regularly and routinely excuses members who’ve missed a meeting, for this very purpose. It’s a courtesy that’s practically a procedural formality, introduced at meeting’s end without discussion or debate.

In the past year, council has passed seven such motions excusing a total of 21 absences – and were it not for Doug Ford’s dissension at November’s meetings to strip the mayor of his powers, all would have been adopted unanimously.

While it’s certainly possible that a motion to excuse the mayor could become politicized, it’s extremely unlikely that a majority of council would oppose it on any one occasion, let alone three months consecutively.

He could go from mayor-in-name-only to mayor-in-the-abstract, a position he could hold indefinitely and regardless of electoral outcome. It would be a kind of haunting, an eery silence penetrated only by the odd football prognostication.

In 2010, the David Miller years came to a crashing end. Many of his legacies live on, but not necessarily the attitudes that enabled them.

On the ground, the Miller era was distinguished by an up-with-Toronto boosterism. Many who felt affection for the mayor were overwhelmed by a wave of hope for, and pride in, a city whose possibilities were at last being tapped. Toronto, it seemed, had finally come into its own.

In reality, however, the movement was highly concentrated and exclusionary, even as it self-consciously fretted about its own whiteness and downtown-centrism. Miller may have attempted to integrate the suburbs (through Transit City, Tower Renewal, etc), but “Torontopia” was an invigorated urbanism that still neglected significant parts of the urban landscape.

For all of Rob Ford’s destructive and divisive influence, his effect on the city has been to force a consideration of differences. It is impossible to think about Ford without confronting some kind of otherness (and not always adversarially). Whether you support him or oppose him, he is a reminder that the breadth of this city includes people unlike yourself.

From the ugly, bombed-out wreckage of our political discourse has emerged a clearer picture than ever of who and what constitutes Toronto.

It would be a waste of the Ford years if we returned to our respective geographic nests once it’s all done, trying to live as though amalgamation never happened.

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He could get a reality show or just walk around posing for photos like Fred Flintstone used to do at Wonderland

WHAT A FORD-FREE TORONTO LOOKS LIKE

FOR ALL ROFO’S DESTRUCTIVE AND DIVISIVE INFLUENCE, HIS EFFECT HAS BEEN TO FORCE A CONSIDERATION OF WHO AND WHAT CONSTITUTES TORONTO

By JONATHAN GOLDSBIE

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n the afternoon of Thursday, May 1, after Mayor Rob Ford began his leave of absence, Toronto City Hall was still.

Doug Ford, the deputy mayor and the city manager had all said what they wanted to say.

And then it was quiet. No running, no chasing, no panting, no sweating.

Mercifully, no shoving. With the mayor out of the picture, safely tucked away wherever, City Hall had lost its rampaging centre of gravity.

Is this what post-Ford life will be like?

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Whether or not he’s re-elected, Ford will cling to the fringe of our civic consciousness for years. He could get a radio show, a reality show, make paid appearances at nightclubs or just walk around posing for photos like Fred Flintstone used to do at Wonderland. New stories of his years in office, of actions and incidents yet unreported, will continue to emerge even as others pass into legend.

Some of us, out of habit, will keep digging and burrowing in search of new Fordian details to share, hoping to rekindle the collective adrenaline rush of a city on the edge. He and his associates’ legal exploits will dispro-

portionately occupy our social conversations long after we’ve professed we no longer care.

Christopher Hume once wrote of Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion that “she has become the personification of a community that otherwise would not exist except on paper, that wouldn’t know itself except as a series of postal codes. She is the thread that holds it together, that provides Mississauga with its history and its meaning, that makes it more than the sum of its parts.”

He didn’t mean that as a good thing.

In many respects, Toronto is a

can opt out of paying attention to a professional sports team. You can’t opt out of paying attention to Rob Ford. Only the CN Tower rivals the impression he makes on our understanding of Toronto as a unified whole.

So what happens when he goes?

A mayor-based cultural identity is not the most sustainable thing; even McCallion is finally retiring.

In mid-December 2012, Ford was spotted in line at Pearson airport headed for places unknown. He was not seen or heard from for a week and a half afterward, and upon his return, his office confirmed rumours that he’d been in Florida. There was speculation he’d been shuffled off to rehab, but no particular indication that was the case.

Two weeks prior, Ford was booted from office by a judge who ruled that he had violated provincial conflictof-interest legislation. The penalty was stayed pending an appeal that Ford ultimately won.

Earlier that year, his political power had begun to materially dissipate. Ford’s budget and transit plans were shot down by council in defeats that at other levels of governments would be deemed votes of non-confidence.

In other words, Toronto is long accustomed to a liminal mayor who manages to be absent when present, and vice versa.

He could serve the rest of his term from an undisclosed location and campaign for mayor in absentia, if he wanted, making only the occasional call to the Sun’s Joe Warmington to check in.

In theory, the law should and does discourage this. Under the City Of Toronto Act, “The office of a member of city council becomes vacant if the member… is absent from the meetings of council for three successive months without being authorized to do so by a resolution of council.” (The Municipal Act, which governs the

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The rob ford Scandal: Part II

can rob ford save himself?

THE LAST TIME THE MAYOR PLEDGED TO SEEK “PROFESSIONAL HELP,” IT TURNED OUT HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A PERSONAL TRAINER

By NORMAN WILNER Defending Rob Ford has always hinged on denying the basic truth.

Thanks to the revelations of April 30 – screen grabs of Ford holding “a copper-coloured pipe” in a state of bleary-eyed intoxication, and audio of the apparently inebriated mayor making sexual and racial insults at a bar near his mother’s home – Ford’s remaining defenders can no longer fall back on the excuse that they “don’t know about that.” We all know.

We’ve always known, really.

Toronto was witness to Ford’s

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never-ending self-destruction even before he was elected mayor.

I can’t blame the mayor’s supporters for hanging on as long as they have. Denial is easier than acceptance, and if you were fully invested in the Ford brand, you’d had a lot of practice denying things by the time last week’s shitstorm hit.

The Fords themselves? They’re still in denial, too.

Neither Rob nor his brother Doug made reference to Rob’s drug problems, or even uttered the word “re­

hab” in their public statements. Rob pledged to “seek immediate help”; on Thursday morning, May 1, Doug said Rob “has faced his problems and has decided to seek professional help.”

And here we have a problem. Because except for Rob’s flying to Chicago in a private jet, only to be turned around, while his brother went on television to beg our indulgence (Fords, they’re just like us!), this was exactly what happened last No­ vember after Rob’s “come-to-Jesus” moment. Back then Rob and Doug

had to respond to Chief Bill Blair’s announcement that the Toronto police had recovered the first crack video. Remember?

On their Newstalk 1010 radio show, Rob read that long, tortured apology.

His entire mea culpa, it turned out, was for staggering around shitfaced at Taste Of The Danforth.

It was the only time I’ve seen evidence of Team Ford’s supposed politi­ cal savvy. In one excruciating week, they shifted the focus away from Rob’s confirmed crack use to his may­be having a few too many “pops” now and then. It was brilliant.

It allowed the Fords to dodge questions about harder substances by say­ing Rob had already apologized. It was time to move on. Anything else?

Of course, with Ford there’s always something else: the speed-rapping rant at Steak Queen; more public unpleasantness on St. Patrick’s Day, when he was videotaped weaving on the sidewalk outside Nathan Phillips Square; and whatever the fuck happened the night of April 5, when Twit­ter lit up with reporters describing a smell like burning rubber filling the hallways of City Hall after the mayor had been turned away from an executive lounge at the Air Cana­ da Centre.

Newspapers, TV shows and websites around the world are dutifully reporting that Rob Ford is finally getting help for his substance abuse problems.

I would love to believe this is true – that he’s getting proper medical and psychiatric treatment for his pro­found issues. Imagine what a clean and sober Ford could do to help other addicts as an advocate for treatment and harm reduction.

It’s a long shot.

But at the very least, he’d be an ex­ am­ple: if he can get out and get clean, anyone can. It’d be great.

Except the last time Ford pledged to seek “professional help,” it turned out he was talk­ing about a personal trainer. And before too long, Rob and Doug were walking back on Rob’s pro­mise to quit drinking: nah, he never said that; those videotapes must be wrong.

Nothing in Rob or Doug’s public statements gives me confidence that this time is any different. Rob’s taking a leave from the campaign isn’t a clever stunt; it’s the biggest and most blatant Hail Mary move yet. Campaign manager Doug is just repeating the November strategy: apologize for the less ugly thing and then get back to ignoring the media.

Doug has played his usual card of asking the media to back off in this time of family crisis, echoed by their mother, Diane Ford, in an interview last week.

This leaves the rest of us keeping one eye on Instagram, waiting for some clubber to post a video of Rob ordering shots. That’s where Rob Ford’s left us – waiting for the next worst thing.

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rob ford from “rehab” “Rehab is amazing. It reminds me of football camp,” Mayor Rob Ford told the Sun’s Joe Warmington.

You might have thought Ford would go with an I’m-doin’-greatbut-it’s-hard tack, but, nope. It’s apparently fun times in “working rehab” all the way.

Shortly after the story was published Wednesday morning, Warmington went on Newstalk 1010’s Moore In The Morning to talk about his scoop. Here are some highlights:

➤ Warmington, standing by his report: “He says he’s in rehab. It sounds like he’s in rehab.”

➤Warmington on how he got in touch with Ford in rehab: “So I just called the number that I usually call.”

➤Warmington on the mayor’s demeanour: “He did sound like he’s really enjoying himself.”

➤John Moore, just doublechecking: “Do you actually know for sure that the mayor’s in a rehab facility?”

Warmington: “No, I don’t know.”

➤Warmington, on how he verified what Ford told him: “I’m taking him at his word. I’m ­reporting the best that I could do.” ➤Moore, asking the question everyone wants to ask: “Do you ever feel that you are just ­another one of Rob Ford’s­enablers?”

Warmington: “Yeah, I get that a lot. And I guess if people think that, I mean, I dunno. It’s interesting that everything that I write, everybody seems to take it and want to have me on their shows and all that, so I guess there’s a lot of enablers in ­Toronto. I don’t know what the rule book is, or if that’s illegal or immoral or what. I don’t know.”

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Addicted to the gravy train wreck Enabling, relapsing and a man who doesn’t seem to know when to quit

By Cynthia McQueen

The mayor of North America’s fourth-largest city has been caught on camera smoking what appears to be crack not once, but twice. The first time Mayor Rob Ford denied it, lied about it and confessed only when police Chief Bill Blair confirmed he’d seen the video, at which point Ford said he must have smoked it in one of his “drunken stupors.”

Anyone who drinks to the point that they don’t recall what they’ve done the night before has a problem. Anyone who admits to drinking so much they can’t recall that they’ve smoked crack, well, that is a serious problem.

Now that a second tape has surfaced showing him smoking what ap­pears to be crack, we know the first video was not an anomaly. Add to that a recent recording of an apparently drunken racist, homophobic and mis­o­gynistic rant (in vino veri­tas) and Ford has hit the floor beneath rock bottom.

Based on the evidence, and the fact that the word “addict” describes someone whose behaviour is out of control, compulsive and repeated despite the consequences, it seems our mayor is a textbook example.

Late Wednesday night, April 30, he released this statement: “I have a problem with alcohol and the choices I have made while under the influence. I have struggled with this for some time.” It goes on to say that he knows

30 days and plunge into the high-stress, highly visible work that is running for mayor ... I can’t imagine that he could be successful in that kind of environment.

It’s a fishbowl.”

In Long’s experience, the chances of his failing are very high. “If he comes back and decides to dive right into the campaign, within a relatively short period of time the same kind of behaviour pattern will emerge.”

According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, 90 per cent of alcoholics relapse, some after years of abstinence. The rate is similar for drug addiction.

Glen, who works with Alcoholics Anonymous and therefore can’t give his last name, quit drinking 20 years ago and knows the struggle well.

“I don’t drink any more, but I’m an alcoholic,” he says.

“I’m always going to be an alcoholic.” He describes the cravings as overpowering and says it just takes one drink to send an alcoholic on a downward spiral.

“There are social drinkers and there are alcoholics. Once you cross that line into alcoholism, then you are going to have a craving to drink, and it’s almost impossible for you to stop on your own for any length of time.”

It’s precisely for this reason he thinks the mayor is not serious about recovering. Even though, according to Doug Ford, the mayor’s in re­hab somewhere, Glen says Ford isn’t Betzalel Wolff, addiction specialist prepared to do the necessary work.

“There’s lots wrong with us besides our he needs professional help, “and is 100 per cent commit- drinking problem,” he says. “We’ve gotta clean house.” ted to recovery,” but the statement fails to address his Psychotherapist and addictions spe­cialist Betzalel drug use.

Wolff says addicts usually have serious underlying is­sues After he withdrew his application to enter the U.S. that tend to be associated with childhood trauma. when his plane landed in Chicago last Thursday, he enOne study found that 79 per cent of adult substance tered a rehab centre at an undisclosed location, possibly abusers believe they’ve been emotionally abused, 43 per somewhere in Ontario. cent physically abused, 41 per cent sexually abused and 51 Whether this was a political move to create a redemp- per cent neglected by their parents. tion narrative that might promote his re-election or a Rehab is “just the tip of the iceberg,” says Wolff, who’s gen­uine recognition of his substance abuse problems, the been running a private addiction clinic for 13 years. question on everyone’s mind is, can he return to the cam- “When somebody goes to rehab, they don’t come out paign trail or his job after re­hab? fixed.”

“Unequivocally no,” says Dennis Long, a social worker According to Wolff, addiction begins as a “bogus” soluwith 35 years’ experience with addictions. tion to a previous problem but soon becomes the primary “He probably should step away from public life for a problem. while and try to get his act together,” says the executive “It’s one thing to get sober. The trick is staying sober to director of Breakaway Addiction Services. deal with all the underlying stuff.”

“To think that somebody can come out of rehab after The real work comes after rehab, when life changes

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Rehab is just the tip of the iceberg. When somebody goes to rehab, they don’t come out fixed.”

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have to be made – including re-educating your friends, family and enablers. In every addict’s life there is an enabling system.

“All too often it’s the family,” Wolff says.

There are things the family does because they want to protect the addict; they want to protect the family; they want to protect the people, so they do it with good intentions, but “they enable the addict to continue.”

In this case, there’s Councillor Doug Ford, who stood by Rob af­ter each embarrassing incident, con­tin­uing to say that his brother simply enjoys a few pops.

Then there’s their mother, Diane, who claims she didn’t know the sev­erity of her son’s issues until the announcement last Wednesday.

Finally, the Fords’ sister, Kathy, hers­elf an addict, keeps company with a person involved in the drug world who filmed the mayor allegedly smoking crack in her basement.

Wolff explains the family enabling system with a metaphor. “A fire can only survive if there’s oxygen. If the oxygen is only getting close to the fire, then the oxygen’s not responsible for the fire, but the fire can’t go on without oxygen.

“It’s unfortunate. Some of this could have possibly been avoided had they let him hit rock bottom way back.”

Meanwhile, Long says Ford’s reputation is destroyed. “He’s done immeasurable damage to himself and the city, and he continues that same behaviour. That in­di­cates that he has a substantial problem and that it needs to be fixed,” he says.

The nature of the recovery process is that you are sober for a while, then “you screw up and you try it again, and you go for a while and there’s another screw-up, but you have to have the freedom and the respect of peo­ple around you to be able to fail and get support and keep moving.

“That’s almost impossible,” says Long, “in this city running for mayor.”

As far as the professionals are concerned, Rob Ford is done... for now, that is, if he’s serious about recovery.

Was Ford’s family his only enabling system, or are we – the public and the media – complicit in adding fuel to the fire?

It’s possible many even wished for this fall, because the media and the masses are addicted to celebrity failures. And everyone knows scandals sell newspapers.

The mayor was flirting with disaster from the beginning, and we continued to report on every single solitary embar­rass­ing misstep, which, to be fair, were not in short supply. It’s as if we were staring into a fire. We just couldn’t pull ourselves away from the train wreck.

Does this say something about our societal inability to confront mental illness and substance abuse? Are we perhaps more frightened of what we’ll see in ourselves upon closer inspection?

During Mental Health Week (to Sunday, May 11), perhaps it’s time to take a sobering look at ourselves before we point fingers. And remember that everyone at some point in their life will need a helping hand. This is in no way to say I support Rob Ford’s politics, but I do support people who need help, and it’s abundantly clear that he’s one of them.

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Screenings of films about musicians and bands. $12, adv $10. Royal Cinema, 608 College. cmw.net/film.

May 8 to 10

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All listings are free. Send to: listings@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​ 1168 or mail to Daily Events, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include a brief description of the event, including participants, time, price, venue, address and contact phone number (or e-mail or website if no phone available). Listings may be edited for length. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Forest Of Reading Festival Of Trees

Thursday, May 8

­ hildren’s literary festival with live enterC tainment plus workshops with authors and illustrators. $15. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ifoa.org.

May 14 and 15 rock.paper.sistahz Arts festival with performances and workshops with d’bi young, Joseph Jomo Pierre, trey anthony, Catherine Hernandez, Ngozi Paul and others. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­bcurrent.ca.

May 11 to 18

Colourful Dichotomy (CAMH) Art exhibit

RUFF – Ryerson University Film Festival Films by the graduating film class of

Benefits

the School of Image Arts. $12-$20. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. imagearts.ryerson.ca.

May 13 and 14 Toronto Comic Arts Festival Appearances by comic creators including Kate Beaton, Kazu Kibuishi, Moyoco Anno, Christophe Blain and Lynn Johnston, exhibits and more. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. ­torontocomics.com.

May 10 and 11 Toronto Digifest Festival celebrating trends in design and technology, with panel discussions, lectures, workshops and a family day. Various venues. ­torontodigifest.ca.

May 8 to 10 WeeFestival Festival of theatre and culture for kids ages zero to six with artists from around the world, featuring songs, dance, puppetry, storytelling and more. $10-$14. Various venues. w ­ eefestival.ca.

May 12 to 19

and sale. To May 8. Milk Glass Co, 1247 Dundas W. colourfuldichotomy.com.

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.

Lady Luck Returns (Nanny Angel Network) An evening of casino entertainment, food, music and more supports free childcare for mothers undergoing cancer treatment. 7 pm. $130. Warehouse, 35 Carl Hall. ­nannyangelnetwork.com.

Events

Comic Vs Games 3D And VRcade Opening

convict HudBay for abuses in Guatemala and Canada. 10 am. Free. Sidewalk outside 150 King W. ­facebook.com/​events/​ 757394004304839.

Let’s Grow Food: Intermediate Garden Design Workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (slid-

ing scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Preregister 416-363-6441, angela@­foodshare. net.

Market 707 Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. 3-7 pm. Free. 707 Dundas W. ­scaddingcourt.org/market_707.

The Martys Mississauga Arts Council presents awards to local artists at a gala. 6 pm. $35. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Arts.

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Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission 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.

To May 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.

To May 15

Janice Waugh. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416-393-7666.

Spring Birding Two-part workshop and guided birding hike. Today 7-9 pm; May 11, 7:30-9:30 am. $45, adv $40. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

Benefits

Hop Nation, Workman Arts, Split Bitches, Les Productions des pieds de mains and others. Free-$25. Various venues. ­abilitiesartsfestival.org.

To May 23

Peggy Shaw gives a workshop on green screen technology for theatre at the Tangled Art + Disability Festival.

Toronto Jewish Film Festival

Screenings of films from 15 countries plus talks and more. $13, stu/srs $9, wkday mats $8. Various venues. 416-324-9121, tjff.com.

To May 11

Writing The Coming Of Age Narrative

Solo Travel: 6 Things You Absolutely Must know Talk by travel author/blogger

Saturday, May 10

Tangled Art + Disability Festival Performances by Krip-

888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710.

lawyer John Monahan, diaspora studies professor Rima Berns-McGown and others. 7 pm. $5. Noor Cultural Centre, 123 Wynford. ­noorculturalcentre.ca.

ogy walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Queen and River.

416-593-2656.

Love Art fair Contemporary art fair. Today and tomorrow 11 am-7 pm; May 11, 11 am-6 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place. l­ oveartfair.com.

5Pup Night Bring collars, pup-hoods, leashes and toys to this party for beginners and experienced players. Spectators welcome.

10 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416413-1219, ­blackeagletoronto.com.

Shuck U Oyster-shucking class with wine pairings. 5:30-7:30 pm. $17-$52. Miele Gallery at the Market Kitchen, 93 Front E. Preregister uniiverse.com/shucku.

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

Women’s Rights In Sri Lanka Talk by lawyer/international human rights expert Yasmin Sooka. 3 pm. Free. Hart House Debates Room, 7 Hart House Circle. jbargue@direct. ca.

Art Of The Danforth Festival of public art with large-scale installations throughout the neighbourhood. Free.

Danforth from Greenwood to Woodbine. ­artofthedanforth.com.

To May 11 Contact Toronto’s month-long photography festival features exhibitions, public installations, workshops, portfolio reviews, talks and more. Most shows free. Various venues. ­contactphoto.com.

To May 31

­mississaugaartscouncil.com.

Workshop for aspiring writers with author Carianne Leung. 6:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. 416-393-7686.

Friday, May 9

Benefits

Carnival Of Dreams (416 Community

Support for Women) Acrobats, a toonie auction, raffles, music and more. 6-9 pm. $30. CRC, 40 Oak. 416928-3334 ext 221, 416community.com.

A Night Of Neil Young According To Bill (ALS Can-

ada) More than 25 local

musicians perform the music of Neil Young in memory of Bill Quinn. Donation. Legends, 1184 the Queensway. als.ca/­ anightofneilyoung.

Events

M5Crip Your World: An Intergalactic Queer/POC Sick And Disabled Extravaganza Performances by and about queer/

trans people with Mel Gayle, Masti Khor, Billie Rain and others. 7 pm. $10 or pwyc.

Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. ­mayworks.ca.

Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, gallery tours and more with a Photo Flash theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10.

Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

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Party Lovers In A Dangerous Spacetime tournament, virtual reality games, beats by mymanhenri and more. 7 pm. $15, adv $10. ­Bento Miso Collaborative Workspace, 862 Richmond W. ­bentomiso.com.

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. 416-4662129.

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.

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AKEN Bazaar (AKEN Estonian charity) Rummage and bake sales. 8 am-1 pm. Free. St Andrew’s Church, 383 Jarvis. 416-482-9408.

Meagan’s Walk (SickKids) A 5K walk from Fort York to SickKids Hospital culminates in participants joining hands to “hug” the hospital and send a message of hope to those within. 8:30 am. Pledges. Begins at 250 Old Fort York, ends at 555 University. Pre-register ­meaganswalk.com.

Paint The Town Red (Canadian Fdn for AIDS Research) A silent art auction, DJ dancing and raffle raise money for a future without AIDS. 9 pm. $70, adv $60. Burroughes Building, 639 Queen W. ­bit.ly/ofwa2014.

Plant Sale (Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc) Outdoor plant sale. 10 am-1 pm. Free. Scarborough Village CC, 3600 Kingston. ­gardenontario.org.

Events

Art Battle Day Live competitive painting, audience voting and an auction. $10-$25.

Amber Group Gallery (966 St Clair W), Project Gallery (1109 Queen E). a ­ rtbattle.ca/ ABD. Arts On The Road: Kingston Road’s

­Creative Walk Music by Luke McMaster and others, visual, art, poetry, photography, dance and more. 11 am. Free. RH King Academy, 380 St Clair E. 416-396-5560 ext 20090.

Ask An Expert: Investment Research Info on the use of the library’s investment databases. 2 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. Pre-register 416-393-7209.

Decolonizing & Revitalizing The Heart

Workshop. 1-5 pm. $20 or pwyc. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

Fantastic Pulps Show & Sale Pulp fiction magazines and other paper collectibles. 10 am-5 pm. $3. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. ­girascollectables.com.

Gerrard India Bazaar Heritage Toronto Walk. 1:30 pm. Free. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto. org.

Green Screening Tangled Art + Disability Festival workshop on green screen

“a work of astonishing beauty and thoughtfulness” - the new yorker ProDuction sPonsor Dance Programming generously suPPorteD by the hal Jackman FounDation

ends May 11 Bluma Appel Theatre

technology for theatre, with Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver. Noon-4 pm. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. Pre-register kate@tanagledarts.org. rKids Fun Day Live entertainment by Sharon, Lois and Bram, balloon arts, colouring contest, grilled cheese cook-off and more.

11 am-4 pm. Free. Mount Pleasant Village between Eglinton and Davisville. ­mountpleasantvillage.ca.

Memoir Writing Workshop with author Sharon A Crawford. 9:30 am-4 pm. $75.

Hugh’s Books, 2861 St Clair E. Pre-register 416-750-0860. rMother’s Day Beading Workshop Giftmaking for ages six and up. 10:30-11:30 am.

Spadina Library, 10 Spadina Rd. Pre-register 416-393-7666.

No Tar Sands, No Fracking, No Line 9!

Rally to defend Canadian communities from pipelines, dirty energy projects and climate change. 1 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. facebook.com/ events/1412880168983337.

Persian Beauty Awards A performance by Nima Nimani, a fashion cat walk, Brazilian samba dancers, celebrity judges and more. 7 pm. $77-$209. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. p ­ ersianbeautyawards.com.

Plant Sale Swansea Horticultural Soc sale of annuals, perennials and more. 9 am. Free.

Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. ­gardenontario.org.

Rocket Design exhibit and competition with graduating industrial design students.

1-4 pm. Free. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. acido.info.

Rocket Mass Heater Workshop Workshop on the clean and sustainable space-heating system. Today and tomorrow to 10 pm. 4 pm. Free. Permaculture GTA Headquarters, 160 Bartley. ­eventbrite.com. rScience Rendezvous Interactive science activities, entertainment, science-themed tents and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free. U of T St George Campus, 100 St George. ­sciencerendezvous.ca.

M Silkscreen Power! Workshop on creating silkscreen posters and other materials to celebrate May Day and labour. 1-3 pm. Free.

Sketch, Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw. ­mayworks.ca.

Scope Record Show Sale of new and used vinyl. 10 am-3 pm. Free. Ryerson Student Centre, 55 Gould. t­ hescopeatryerson.ca. ity Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free.

Location provided on registration. Pre-register ­heritagetoronto.org.

Walk For Wildlife In High Park Join Toronto Field Naturalists for a nature walk. 11 am. Free. High Park entrance, Bloor and High Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org.

nomics workshop. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. o ­ ccupyeconomics.ca.

Stranger In A Strange Land Talk and presentation by National Geographic photographer Jodi Cobb. Today and tomorrow 8 pm. $19.50-$79.50. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. ­masseyhall.com.

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

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Tuesday, May 13

Beyond Memory And Forgetting: Contours Of Community In A Post-Apartheid State Talk. 7 pm. $5. Beit Zatoun, 612 Mark-

Strike Out Melanoma (David Cornfield

St James Town And The Filipino Commun-

ham. ­beitzatoun.org.

Books On Film: Yiyun Li On A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers Film screening and discussion with the author on adapting her short story for the screen. 7 pm. $35, stu/srs $30. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.

David Lynch In Nayman’s Terms Film clips and talk by film critic Adam Nayman. 6:30 pm. $12, stu $6. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. ­mnjcc.org.

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Melanoma Fund) Interactive entertainment, food, a silent auction and more. 6:30 pm. $100. Ballroom Bowl, 145 John. 647-3933263.

Early Listings Deadline Due to the Victoria Day holiday we will have an early listing deadline for our May 22 issue.

Please submit all listings by Wednesday, May 14 at 5 pm to listings@nowtoronto.com or by fax to 416-364-1166.

Events

Around The World In An Hour Travel talk.

6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. ­atcadventure.com.

B-Corporations: The Toronto Story

Panel discussion on corporations that benefit society with NOW editor/CEO Alice Klein, Ran Goel, Seema Pabara and Joyce Sou. 7 pm. Free. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ground, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. ­principledwealth.wordpress.com.

O Muse Plays for Parents Series Live readEdible City Film screening and discussion on ing of a play in a casual, baby-friendly seturban farming. 6:15 pm. Free. Annette Liting.

1:30 pm. $10. Bebo Mio, 1 Munro.

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Small Space Worm Compost For Kids

Workshop. To May 12. $10. Redfish Bluefish Creative Cafe, 73 Harbord. Pre-register ­redfishbluefishcafe.ca. rSpring Flowers Family nature walk.

1:30-3 pm. $2. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com.

C Stereographs Portrait session. Noon4:30 pm. Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

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Toronto Bicycling Network 2014 Season

Kickoff Bike rides at Etienne Brule Park, refreshments and more. 9-11 am. Free. Details at tbn.ca.

Toronto Salsa Practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. ­torontosalsapractice.com.

Sunday, May 11 Cabbagetown North Guided ROM walk. 2

pm. Free. NE corner Parliament and Winchester. rom.on.ca.

The Confessional Seven speakers tell truelife tales and one tells an out-and-out lie on the theme of family. 3-5 pm. $10 or pwyc.

Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. uniiverse.com/­ confessional.

High Park Native Plant Sale Sale benefiting the Volunteer Stewardship Program. 11 am-2 pm. Free (plants cash only). In front of High Park Greenhouse, 200 Parkside. ­highparknature.org.

Is THAT What That Is?! Architectural historian Shannon Kyles talks about Toronto architecture. 10:10 am. Free. St Clement’s Church Parish Hall, 70 St Clements. 416-483-6664.

M Labour + Love: A Celebration Of Care-

givers Live storytelling and musical performances by Kwentong Bayan, Mahlikah Awe:ri, Haniely Pableo and others. 2-5 pm.

Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­mayworks. ca.

Mother’s Day Burlesque Brunch Burlesque show with the Glam Girls, Sassy Ray and others. 12:30 pm. $15. The Libertine, 1307 Dundas W. thelibertinespeak.com. rMother’s Day Sweets Tour Walking tour of sweets shops in Kensington Market.

11:30 am, 2 & 4:30 pm. $27, child $13. 321 Spadina. tastytourstoronto.com.

5Oink! Dungeon/play party for men only.

1-5 pm. $10. Black Eagle, 457 Church. ­blackeagletoronto.com.

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Rally to fight dirty energy on May 10.

DYING FOR MINERALS

Join the jury Thursday (May 8) in the people’s court trial of HudBay Minerals and convict the company and its CEO, David Garofalo, for abuses in Guatemala and Canada. In Guatemala, the company stands accused of the brutal killing of Adolfo Ich, the gang rape of 11 women from Lote Ocho and the shooting and paralyzing

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Growing Vegetables In Your Garden

Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc talk. 7:30 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. ­gardenontario.org.

100 In 1 Day Pre-festival workshop on citizen-driven action for a better city. 6-8 pm.

Free. CSI Regent Park, 585 Dundas E. 100in1day.ca/toronto.

Spring & Summer Skincare Workshop

Learn how to make natural face and body concoctions including sunscreen and bug spray. 7:30-9:30 pm. $35. Grassroots, 372 Danforth. Pre-register 416-466-2841.

Wednesday, May 14

Benefits

Battle Of The Brains After-Party (Day-

trippers Children’s Charity) Music, food and networking. 9:30 pm. $75. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­bit.do/botb2014.

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of German Chub. While shareholders inside meet to discuss profits, activists put HudBay Minerals, Corporate Criminals On Trial at 150 King West on at 10 am. Free. facebook.com/ events/757394004304839.

JUST SAY NO TO OIL

Rally to defend our climate for the National Day Of Action, No Tar Sands, No Fracking, No Line 9! and support indi­

Mayworks celebrates the art and ideas of queer/trans people of colour and two-​spirit artists who have disabilities and/or chronic illnesses at Crip Your World: An Intergalactic Queer/POC Sick And Disabled Extravaganza, Friday (May 9) at 7 pm.

Performers include Mel Gayle, Masti Kohr and Friends, Billie Rain and more. Palmerston Library Theatre, 560 Palmerston. Pwyc-​$10. ­mayworks.ca. pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626.

networking. 6:30-9 pm. $25. Owl, 20 Camden. p ­ icatic.com/event/​ 13948016042430.

Chinatown: Then And Now Historic walk with author Arlene Chan. 6:30-8 pm. Free.

Spadina & Dundas W. heritagetoronto.org/ event/chinatown-then-and-now.

CCurator’s Talk Exhibition tour and talk led by curator Bonnie Rubenstein. 6 pm.

Free. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. ­contactphoto. com.

5Generations Of Queer Tour the exhibition with professor Wendy Coburn. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ­ocadu.ca/onsite.

The Grange Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free.

SW corner Dundas and McCaul. rom.on.ca.

tim Police and fire services discuss personal safety, and library staff introduce internet safety for seniors. 1-2:30 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7168.

Beerworking Beer education, tasting and

Lost & Found: European Encounters In The Arctic Lecture by professor Nicole

Blackwood. 7 pm. $12, stu $8. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Meditation Class for all levels. 7 pm. Free.

Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ­ralphthornton.org.

CMichelle Valberg The artist talks about photographing in the Arctic. 6:30 pm. Free.

St Paul’s United Church Cody Hall, 227 Bloor W. ­scotiabankcontactphoto.com.

Natural Cleaning Party Make your own green household cleaning products. 7-8:30 pm. $10 sugg (bring spritzer and squeeze bottles). Karma Food Co-op, 739 Palmerston. 416-534-1470.

One Of Us: The Transcendent Rise Of Religious Cults In Horror Lecture by writer

Alison Lang. 9 pm. $15, adv $12. Royal Cinema, 608 College. theblackmuseum.com.

Reveal Me Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. ­aprofessionaldistraction. com.

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genous communities on the front line of struggles from BC to New Brunswick. In BC, First Nations are rising up against companies that violate treaties to conduct fracking exploration. In Alberta, indigenous groups are still fighting the tar sands.

Here in Toronto, Line 9 – the pipeline stretching from Sarnia to Montreal that has a 90 per cent chance of rupture – threatens one of our greatest natural resources, the Great Lakes.

Help save Canadian communities from dirty energy at Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay, Saturday (May 10) at 1 pm. Free. facebook. com/events/1412880168983337.

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Benefits

Beautiful Before & After (Transforming

Faces) Fundraiser for cleft lip and palate programs in developing countries, with a silent auction, talks and more. 6 pm. $80. BMO Conference and Event Centre, First Canadian Place, 100 King W. ­transformingfaces.org.

Read & Believe (Literature for Life) Fundraising gala with performances by DJ jojoflores, Vita Chambers and others. 8 pm. $40, adv $30. Product Nightclub, 364 Richmond W.­ ­literatureforlife.org.

Events

Healing Anxiety, Panic Attacks And Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Drug Free Sem-

inar. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth.

416-466-2129.

Intermission Vol 1 Party exploring what happens when divergent ideas and ideologies collide, with music by DJs Bangs & Blush and King Weather, projectionist Adam Carlucci and more. 8 pm. $10. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. canadianstage. com.

Ivory Sculpture And The Arts Of The Book Lecture by European art curator Catherine Yvard. 7 pm. $12, stu $8. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net.

Let’s Grow Food: DIY Container Gardens

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

Mother’s Day Panel Discussion Editors Jasjit Sangha, Kerry Clare and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles discuss issues of motherhood.

7 pm. Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. anotherstory.ca.

State Of Canadian Crime Writing Discussion on the current climate for Canadian mystery fiction. 7 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View. ­torontosistersincrime.ca.

Theaster Gates The Chicago artist talks about community projects that engage with the public. 7:30 pm. $12, stu/srs $8. Prefix, 401 Richmond W. 416-591-0357.

What’s Next For The Two-State Solution? Canadian Friends of Peace Now pre-

sents a talk by Globe And Mail journalist Patrick ­Martin. 7:30 pm. Free. Congregation First ­Narayever, 187 Brunswick. info@ peacenowcanada.org.

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Popular custom menswear etailer Indochino comes to Toronto for the first time with its pop-up Traveling Tailor Toronto at 425 King West until May 25.

Custom clothing doesn’t have to break the bank. Shirts and suits start at $79 and $449 respectively, making this the perfect opportunity for inexperienced guys to become comfortable with the particulars of custom suit shopping.

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I hate spring. Every year come April, I’m a sniffling red-eyed mess of mucus and misery thanks to my severe hay fever. It should be peak pollen season by now, but this lingering crappy weather has stifled all signs of plant life. But even I am itching to see Mother Nature bless us with some colours other than grey and brown.

Cue the perfectly timed return of the Toronto Flower Market. Buy affordable blooms in fresh-cut or potted varieties from local growers and florists. Check out market faves Sweet Gale Gardens and Pioneer Flower Farms for a last-minute Mother’s Day bouquet.

The market runs once a month through October and opens Saturday (May 10) from 10 am to 3 pm. 1056 Queen West. torontoflowermarket.ca.

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Veuve Clicquot brings Yelloweek ( yelloweek.com) to Toronto with seven days of cultural experiences showcasing the best of the city’s dining, arts, fashion and lifestyle scenes. Oh, and there’s champagne. Lots of champagne. We suggest checking in to the Yellow Spa at the Ritz Carlton (181 Wellington West), where you can get glasses of VCP to complement your pampering and leave with a special gift. Also on our radar is Yellow Art, which takes place Thursday (May 8) at House of Moments (86 Carlaw).

Four Canadian artists and local fashion design favourites Greta Constantine show off VCP-inspired pieces while you indulge in bubbly.

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Enter a world of vintage medicine bottles, porcelain pop can vases and fine art that’s just the right mix of nostalgic and trendy. Seriously, the place looks like Pinterest brought to life.

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Action on allergies You don’t have to feel helpless when pollen and mould wreak havoc By elizabeth bromstein Well, spring’s here. All winter long everyone was pissing and moaning about the cold and the snow. The cold and snow are fine with me because I’m not allergic to them.

April showers, May flowers – for

many of us that means snotty noses, itchy eyes, coughing and wheezing.

Allergies are a hypersensitivity disorder of the immune system, an overreaction to something benign like pollen or mould. Allergies may be

What the experts say “Higher temperatures, a product of climate change, make for longer growing and pollen seasons. Plants are in distress, which activates their instinct to reproduce and send out more pollen.

Increased precipitation creates mould and mould spores, which trigger allergies. During longer dry periods there are more forest fires, so more particulate matter adheres to the lungs, and with more dust comes more dust mites, a major cause of ­allergies.

The closer you live to industrial sites, traffic and diesel emissions, the more likely you will have effects from industrial pollution, which exacerbates asthma and allergies. Poorer people live in industrial areas with less green space or in rural areas with more pollens.

The first line of attack is oral antihistamines. Or, if you’ve been tested,

­allergy shots are important. Health providers are starting to do sublingual (under the tongue) treatments that ­replace injections. We have one on the market for grass, which is the largest allergy in Canada. Also, intranasal sprays with cortisone are recommended for allergic rhinitis.”

ROBERT OLIPHANT, president and CEO, Asthma Society of Canada, Toronto “The best front-line treatment is to get diagnosed properly and get onto ­allergy injection immunotherapy, but it’s a little late for that this season.

Antihistamine medications just ­cover up symptoms. In many cases the temporary relief can perpetuate the problem by delaying people from getting properly evaluated.

Over years, the disease can progress

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hereditary, and their severity can range from mildly annoying to lifethreatening, like an anaphylaxis reac-

tion to peanuts or bee stings.

You’re probably won’t die from hay fever, but allergic rhinitis and asthma

to the point where whatever relief the antihistamine could have offered is eclipsed by the reaction the body now mounts. We see this particularly in hay fever. People need to get diagnosed and get on definitive disease-modifying intervention.

In terms of lifestyle changes, you can replace your window screens with a material called PollenTEC, so that you can get fresh air while preventing pollens from coming into your home.”

MARK GREENWALD, allergist, Toronto

10 consecutive days before the season starts. It contains pollen extract and boosts resistance to common spring allergens. Combine it with one tablespoon of locally produced honey daily during the 10-day regime.

This helps alleviate allergy symptoms.”

SARA CELIK, naturopath, Toronto

“For hay fever, choose foods that reduce inflammation, like wild fish, chia seeds, enzyme-rich pineapple and papaya. Turmeric and ginger contain the excellent anti-inflammatory bioflavonoid quercetin, which may help reduce allergy symptoms.

I recommend taking a homeopathic preparation such as Allergiplex for

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by Rob Brezsny

Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Fireworks displays

excite the eyes and lift the spirit. But the smoke and dust they produce can harm the lungs with residues of heavy metals.

The toxic chemicals they release may pollute streams and lakes and even groundwater. So is there any alternative? Not yet.

No one has come up with a more benign variety of fireworks. But if it happens soon, I bet it will be due to the efforts of an enterprising Aries researcher. Your tribe is entering a phase when you will have good ideas about how to make risky fun safer, how to ensure vigorous adventures are healthy and how to maintain constructive relationships with exciting influences.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Free jazz is a

type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal. Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable.

A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation – riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus – which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz – you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in

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America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time. But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves.

Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a ­future success.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an English-language proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up.

The Albanian version of the adage is “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet.”

Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom. You will, in effect, be able to eat you cake and still have it.

You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip. You will figure out a way to ride two horses with your one butt.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 I know this might come as a shock, Leo, but... are you ready? You are God! Or at least godlike. An influx of crazy yet useful magic from the Divine Wow is boosting your personal power way beyond normal levels. There’s so much primal mojo flowing through you

that it will be hard if not impossible for you to make mistakes. Don’t fret, though.

Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 In your imagination, take a trip many years into the future. See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then.

The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets? Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.”

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 Over 100 years ago, the cattle industry pressured the U.S. government to kill off wolves in Yellowstone National Park. By 1926 the wolves had all but vanished. In the following decades, elk herds grew unnaturally big, no longer hunted by their natural predator. The elk decimated the berry bushes of Yellowstone, eating the wild fruit with such voracity that grizzly bears and many other species went hungry. In 1995, environmentalists and conservationists got clearance to re-introduce wolves to the area.

Now the berry bushes are flourishing again. Grizzlies are thriving, as are other mammals that had been deprived. I re-

“A number of natural treatments help reduce elevated histamine levels that result from exposure to tree pollen, grass and weeds. Increase omega-3 fatty acid foods like wild salmon or add one teaspoon of a good-quality fish oil daily. This decreases inflammation and histamine.

Avoid dairy during pollen season – that helps decrease mucous production and nasal congestion. Take 1,000 mg of quercetin and of vitamin C three times daily. Nettle leaf decreases histamine gard this vignette as an allegory for your life in the coming months, Libra. It’s time to do the equivalent of replenishing the wolf population. Correct the imbalance.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 I have no prob-

lem with your listening closely to the voices in your head. Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the vicinity of your reproductive organs, I’m not opposed to your hearing them out, either. But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 Kangaroo

rats live in the desert. They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So welladapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake. I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Your passions will definitely not be weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I

can be really terrible, disrupting sleep and quality of life. Environmentalists say climate change is making it worse and that poorer people are more often affected.

Doctors recommend nipping it in the bud with preventative measures like immunotherapy. There are also over-the-counter medications.

Lifestyle changes like keeping the windows closed and the house clean and staying indoors can help. But who wants to stay indoors all the time?

Check the daily pollen count to prepare yourself at theweathernetwork. com.

Let’s see what else we can do. levels. For tea, steep 1 tbsp in a cup of hot water for eight to 10 minutes; drink two to three cups per day.

For nasal irrigation, mix ⅓ tsp baking soda and ⅓ tsp fine sea salt in 1 cup water and use as a rinse up to three times daily to remove pollen from the nasal canal. Limit outdoor ­exposure on high pollen days.”

TARA ANDERSEN, naturopath, Toronto “In conjunction with 3,000 mg of vitamin C a day in divided doses, I really like acupuncture because it helps balance the body and calm the nervous system.

I also recommend a neti pot or salt water lavage every night to clear up any congestion.”

MUBINA JIWA, naturopath, Toronto

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mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus.

You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Would you

please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations? Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous. Two or three nice long naps. Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in Epsom salts as you binge-watch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf. They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing. Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education. Okay? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.” If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic.

Homework: Upon waking up for the next seven mornings, sing the song that fills you with feisty hope. freewillastrology.com

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First the good news: Teflon, the most famous of the polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) non-stick coatings, is now being manufactured without the notoriously persistent, suspected human carcinogen PFOA, as the result of U.S. government pressure. However, critics argue that replacement chems are underresearched. France-based T-Fal’s website says it’s still manufacturing with PFOA, though like all non-stick makers, it says the final pan surfaces are PFOAfree. Regardless, Health Canada says PTFE pans can give off poisonous fumes at very high temps. FYI, some titanium pans use PTFE non-stick coatings, so be sure to probe.

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Aluminum’s great at conducting heat (hence, all sorts of pans have aluminum cores), but plain aluminum skillets do quite a bit of leaching.

Anodizing the metal in an acid bath with electric current hardens it, creating a non-stick surface that leaches a lot less aluminum. But it still seeps out over time if you’re cooking high-acid foods like tomato sauces. Health Canada says levels are low enough that you shouldn’t worry. But why invest in one of these when there are so many other options on the market?

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Often branded as “eco” pans because their non-stick glazed ceramic surface doesn’t use PTFEs or Teflon. I’ve tried a good half-dozen ceramic brands over the years. Some scratched within six months (like Eco-Chef, which came with a one year warranty) or just failed to deliver consistent non-stick performance (Orgreenic). Earthchef and Green Pan, both of which test for lead and cadmium in the glazes, were more durable, but I’ve found ceramic will lose its non-stick skills if you’re searing or cooking at high heat often. Nice part is Earthchef comes with a five-year guarantee. My advice: reserve these for eggs, and cook with another pan the rest of the time.

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Few pans are more durable and resilient than those made of stainless steel.

They won’t rust like cast iron or wear out like ceramic, aluminum or conventional non-stick pans. You can scrub them with steel wool if need be and on they live. They can leach a little nickel and chromium into your food, though “not enough to cause concern,” according to Health Canada. Rundown aluminum and copper pans may leach to a more worrisome extent. A lot of pro chefs use carbon steel, which is mostly iron without the nickel or chromium in stainless steel. It’s more like lightweight cast iron and still needs seasoning. (De Buyer B Element from France is carbon steel with a beeswax coating.)

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I love old-fashioned cast iron pans.

Okay, yes, they’re a bit of a pain in the arse since they’re heavy as hell and you have to wash and dry them with care.

But if you buy good seasoned pans (Lodge crafts quality, American-made ones), these are wonderful chef-friendly surfaces. Plus, iron cookware can actually boost your daily iron intake by some 20 per cent – a bonus for vegetarians! Too heavy for you? Try carbon steel.

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theatre. It doesn’t matter if the sun hasn’t been seen for days.

Between the budding treetops, flashes of neon-green moss and purple violets, it’s as though nature is warming up its best singers and dancers for a wild cabaret to celebrate spring.

If you’re far from decent hiking grounds, have your morning coffee outside, skip the gym and jog outdoors, suggest a walking meeting at work. Even a little parkette should have a tree under which you can read/ sketch/write.

All I need is a single big ol’ tree.

There’s something expansive, transformative that happens when you really stop to take in the vibes and wondrous skyward twisting limbs of those giant woody gods. It’s like a mini-

meditation without the ponytailed guru.

Take 30 minutes to escape the concrete jungle and the heady traffic jams of the information highway, and your day, no matter how it started, is enchantingly purified. Less than a week in, I feel relaxed and healthier. Have I felt so alive I just want to burst?

Actually, check.

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Committing 30 minutes to nature every day in May shakes off my flu-ridden winter cobwebs.

PHILIPS SLIMSTYLE LED BULB Looking for a conversation piece to get your friends oohing and aahing about the marvels of green technology? Pick up one of these odd LEDs with a new “someone stepped on your light bulb” look. Postmodernists might even like the bare bulb aesthetic with these babies. They’re still not as cheap as old-school hyper-inefficient incandescents (now outlawed for the most part), but at $10 for 25,000 hours of highly efficient lighting, you’ll be saving money on your hydro bill. They’re fully dimmable, and, unlike compact fluorescents, there’s no mercury in ’em. Plus, their plastic casing helps keep them from cracking if you’ve got slippery fingers.

Soggy grey clouds are wringing themselves out on the streets of Toronto, and I’m at my computer ticking boxes asking how agitated or energized I’ve been feeling. “Have I felt so alive I just want to burst?” Hmm. Clearly this is a sign I need a kick in the ass. Thankfully, I’m signing up for one from David Suzuki himself.

Suzuki’s not doing the actual kicking, but every May his foundation signs Canadians up to commit to 30 minutes in nature for 30 days as part of its 30 x 30 Challenge. The national well-being-boosting campaign asks participants to take an official psychological pre- and post-nature-injection survey. The whole thing kind of made me want to lie down on a shrink’s couch at first.

I consider myself a pretty happy, upbeat person. But from the look of my survey answers, something was obviously off. I couldn’t put my finger on it before, but the solution smacks me upside the head: I need to get outside.

Committing to 30 minutes in nature sounds like a breeze, I know – until you realize that May can be a pretty wet month. Grey skies are a little uninspiring, and on drizzly days I park the bike and opt for transit. (I’d never survive Vancouver.)

But now I’m committed to track down a park, a ravine – anything green really – and stroll tree-lined side streets no matter the forecast.

It takes a little internal goading at first, but making time for those 30 minutes, well, it’s magic. I’d normally bypass the ravine near my house to speed-walk to the bus, but today the trickling brook, chirping birds and rustling leaves (mementos of fall) envelop me in nature’s surround-sound amphi-

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Tavern by Trevor’s serves a salad with smoked duck and crispy poached eggs at brunch.

Deep-fried Snickers bar is sided with vanilla ice cream.

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gets the tempura treatment. A carpaccio of big-eye tuna artfully tossed with crisply fried shallots, fresh coriander leaves and squiggles of shoyu mayo could be Susur Lee five years ago.

Tavern by Trevor offers tasty, totally on-trend fare By Steven Davey or’s Farmhouse Cocktail Kitchen and Snack Bar. Wilkinson’s best known for the long-running Trevor on Wellington East, and Yaworski’s responsible for the defiantly down-market Wide Open bar on Spadina. T by T is what happens when high-end and low-rent collide.

As at any good sports bar worth its pork rinds, there’s a very good cheese­ burger ($12), albeit one made with 6 ounces of corn-fed Kobe-style beef imported from the grand Nebraskan plains. Silverstein’s supplies the brioche bun, Black River of Prince Edward County the cheddar, and the recipe for the terrific ketchup comes

TAVERN BY TREVOR (147 Spadina, at Richmond, 416-546-3447, tavernbytrevor.com, @­tavernbytrevor) Complete dinners for $40 per person (lunches/brunches $30), including tax, tip and a domestic beer.

Average main $15. Open daily from 11 am till late. Weekend brunch to 3 pm. Closed holidays. No reservations. Licensed. ­Access: barrier-free. Rating­: NNNZ

Though it may be lacking in au courant decor – cheap barnboard and filament bulbs are so three years ago – Trevor Wilkinson and Mike Yaworski’s Tavern by Trevor couldn’t be more right on trend if it tried. Thank the powers that be they didn’t call it Trev-

from chef Wilkinson’s mom.

He also does a tasty steak frites ($19), here 8 grilled-to-order ounces of dry-aged Wellington County sirloin dressed with quick-pickled onions and sided with a heap of skinny bistro frites and more of that fab ket­chup. At brunch, he throws in a sunny-side-up egg on the house.

From the bar menu, pub-grub chicken wings show up glazed with curried maple mustard, while the veggie of the moment – cauliflower! –

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And while we admire the concept, deep-fried foie gras tastes like liquid liver lollipops, especially paired with Concord grape jelly (all $11).

The Tavern’s personal-size tour­ tière ($13) in puff pastry mixes ground bison with the more tradi­tional pork, the lot scented with cinnamon and finished with a tangle of pickled beet threads and a dollop of chipotle-apple butter. Side it with a wilted romaine salad in champagne vinaigrette tossed with garden peas, fresh mint and feta ($10) for the perfect one-two punch. Or go retro with a cream of tomato soup ($5) worthy of the Campbell Kids.

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Miguel Torres Pisco El Gobernador

If you’ve ever had a pisco sour, then you know that it’s a drink with considerable patio cred. Aromatic and fruity, El Gobernador comes from Chile (pisco can also be Peruvian), and like its spirit brother brandy, it’s distilled from grapes. Shake up a frothy sour or sub it in a margarita or Collins.

Price: 700 ml/$28.30 Availability: LCBO 363978

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Rating NNNN Why I wasted so many years thinking that wellbranded white was the only rum worth drinking (if I could only find a time machine so I could smack some sense into my high-school self).

Then my pops showed me the golden light of Mount Gay from Barbados, the island that invented rum. The mixable Eclipse isn’t widely available at the ­moment, but the XO is awesome neat or in rum Manhattans.

Price 750 ml/$39.95 till the end of the month Availability LCBO 557975

Brugal 1888

Rating NNN Why As suggested by the price point, this rum is a sipper. Dominican Brugal is known for crafting exceptionally dry rums, but the 1888 has a soft, lingering sweetness from double aging first in American and then in Spanish oak.

Price 750 ml/$69.95 (limited supply) Availability LCBO 366658

Angostura Anejo 5 ñ Year Old Rum

Rating NNNN Why From the same company that brings you the world’s most iconic bitters, this Trini rum spends five to eight years in exbourbon barrels preparing for its debut in your glass. Tropical fruit and tantalizing whiffs redolent of the pastry kitchen lend nuance to cocktails.

Price 750 ml/$28.35 Availability LCBO 273540

Along with cocktails and craft beer, snacks have come to define our city’s nocturnal zeitgeist. New bars have a slim chance in hell if they miss the small plates and artisanal beverages bandwagon.

Since moving from its pop-up at Spadina and Queen a few months ago, Come and Get It has been offering lunchtime sandwiches and late-night bites.

In an effort to attract hungry industry people with limited options when they get off shift, owner Jon Polubiec, who cooked for years at restos like Mistura and Prego, promises an after-hours menu that lets you choose your snack and format – on flatbread or atop poutine, for example.

The promise of post-shift food and a nightcap drew me in past midnight one recent drizzly evening.

With Skam-inspired graffiti inside , bumping hip-hop and giant front windows, the new Come and Get It has the familiar campy, urban feel of its predecessor pop-up – kind of like you’re drinking in an alley off Richmond.

A seasonal cocktail list is in the works.

So the next time you’re parched and bordering on ravenous well after dark, just go and get it.

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Fullbodied & Firm It’s time to start thinking ’bout Mama’s Day, kiddies. Moms deserve to drink from classy glasses, so grab a muchhyped, gorgeously designed set by Sempli from Room 2046 (1252 Yonge, 647-348-2046, ­room2046.com). Why not toss in a matching decanter? Only the best for the lady who gave you life.

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JERRY LEGER with ALANNA GURR AND THE GREATEST STATE and THE PINECONES at the Horseshoe, Thursday, May 1. Rating: NNN

Jerry Leger’s launch for his latest album, Early Riser, had a great lineup: he enlisted Guelph’s Alanna Gurr and the Greatest State – fresh off the release of their new album, Late At Night – and Toronto power pop trio the Pinecones to open.

But despite its strong components, the night failed to coalesce until midway through Leger’s country rock set, when fans got up close, sang along and cut a rug near the stage.

It was tanning-salon hot at the ’Shoe, and the sound was too loud for the Pinecones (who played a formidably good set to a disappointingly small crowd) and kinda wonky for Gurr, whose introspective vocals got a little lost in the mix.

The room worked better for the headliner. His robust voice was blanketed by big, bassy, colourful sound care of his band, the Situation, which includes Aaron Comeau on keys and

James McKie on electric guitar and fiddle.

Leger and co. have upped their swagger in recent years. But they interspersed the rockers with acoustic ballads, lending a sympathetic warmth to songs about the screwed-up side of SARAH GREENE love.

M.I.A. at Tattoo, Saturday,

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Rating: NNNN On Saturday night, British rapper M.I.A. – who was originally scheduled to play Yonge-Dundas Square as one of Canadian Music Week’s headliners – ended up playing a CMW kickoff party at a tiny Queen West club instead, three days before the actual festival began.

We thought it was going to be packed to discomfort, but the powers that be did a good job of letting in only a civilized number of fans. In the end, the crowd was a little tame, but M.I.A. rose to the occasion, bringing more of a stage show to Tattoo than the club’s seen in a long time: three normcoreclad backup dancers – two girls and a guy – as well as a set-up of twinkly lights that made a backdrop resem-

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Angel Haze at the Hoxton, Thursday, May 1.

ANGEL HAZE at the Hoxton, Thursday, May 1. Rating: NNNN Having previously toured with a full band, Angel Haze told us she was a little nervous at first about performing with just her DJ. But on Thursday night, the NYC-via-Detroit emcee could have been rapping a cappella for all clubgoers at the Hoxton cared.

The venue couldn’t have been any louder. Her first song, Echelon (It’s My Way), the standout track from her latest album, conveniently name-drops our city: “On my way out to Cabo / Riding beside a baddie that’s never once left Toronto.” Cue loud squeals that never really stopped.

Haze’s delivery is confident and robust, and she’s careful with each verse. If you were hearing her for the first time, you’d know exactly what she was talking about: whether it was making money on Werkin’ Girls, or depression, solitude and suicide on Angels & Airwaves – which, at Haze’s request, turned into a massive singalong.

She’s not at all precious: she gamely climbed over the stage rails to rap on the elevated areas on either side of it, pulled up four girls from the audience during her performance of Planes Fly and, later, descended fully onto the floor JULIA LeCONTE mid-song to weave through the crowd.

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bling a lit-up nighttime festival.

In heart-shaped sunglasses, a patterned jumpsuit and a bucket hat, she played songs from her entire discography, including Hussel from Kala, and Double Bubble Trouble from her latest, Matangi.

Though she chided her sound woman for problems throughout the evening, the audience was mostly unaware of them. Eventually, the emcee wove through the crowd and climbed

atop the bar to perform Paper Planes.

Moving over to stand on the sound booth, she attempted Bad Girls. When sound issues persisted, she sang the song a cappella, providing the best JL moment of the night.

BUN B at the Hoxton, Sunday, May 4. Rating: NNN

It was an open secret that Raptors ambassador Drake would be in attendance at Bun B’s tour stop Sunday,

despite the team’s loss earlier in the day. (B was sitting courtside with the Toronto emcee.)

The headliner took the stage shortly after 11:30 pm with guns blazing, running through Draped Up and UGK classic Diamonds And Wood.

The crowd – which included Raptors power forward Patrick Patterson (aka Patman) – responded well, but reacted with undeniable zeal to anything related to Bun’s deceased UGK partner, Pimp C. On One Day, UGK’s seminal record about untimely deaths, B rapped his verses while squinting, looking like he could burst into tears at any moment.

After his encore culminated with the 2007 instant classic Int’l Players Anthem, Drake bounded out in a Sidney Crosby Team Canada jersey (reminding himself of happier times in Canadian sport), sending camera phones aflutter. “Y’all got to make some motherfucking noise for Bun B,” he said. Blame the sombre feelings of losing game seven at home in the final seconds, but the response had less gusto than you’d expect for a Drake JORDAN SOWUNMI cameo.

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Astral Swans experimental folk

cing [2011’s] Modern Horses, which was my other lucky music moment.”

For a musician primarily influenced by “art created by the mentally ill and people in the midst of religious or drug experiences,” Swann’s partnership with Mangan’s new label, Madic, which is in itself a partnership with Arts & Crafts, is awesomely unexpected. The Astral Swans record, All My Favourite Singers Are Willie Nelson, will be Madic’s inaugural full-length release, out this fall and preceded by the March-released 7-inch You Carry A Sickness/Park Street.

While EHG!!! albums meld instrumental atonality, bedroom production, droney vocal delivery and pretty melodies, Astral Swans is less experimental and more song-focused: introspective late 60s folk à la Nick Drake filtered through an avant-garde 90s lens.

“Astral Swans still has experimental elements, but my main concern is the songs,” Swann explains. “I want to write songs that are honest and sincere expressions of my own bizarre personhood. I get anxious a lot. I get paranoid a lot. I get depressed a lot. I feel compassion and empathy a lot.

I’m scared to die. I’m impulsive. I make shitty mistakes.

“With EHG!!! I approach all of that through atonality and lower production [values]. With Astral Swans, I’m trying to convey that shit as beautifully as I can – singing well and with higher production, without getting too slick.”

So was signing a record contract a giant thrill?

“I definitely signed the contract with the chocolate end of a Pocky stick,” Swann says. “It’s on my Insta­gram. And then I had to make sure it was legally binding, which it totally is. Dan hadn’t even seen me play live at that point, but it was too late. The chocolate had dried.”

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Matthew Swann’s new solo project finds an unlikely home on Madic By Carla Gillis ASTRAL SWANS as part of Canadian Music Week at the Cameron House Back Room (408 Queen West), Thursday (May 8), doors 8:30 pm, $10 or CMW wristband; and at the Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen West), Friday (May 9), doors 7:30 pm, $10 or CMW wristband. cmw.net.

Last summer, Extra Happy Ghost!!! mastermind Matthew Swann sent out demos of his new solo project, Astral Swans, to a slew of experimentally minded indie labels. He waited and waited, hearing back from none of them. Four months later, Vancouver folk rock powerhouse Dan Mangan contacted him out of the blue.

He’d liked what he heard, and asked for more.

“It was weird,” says Swann from his home in Calgary, “because no one really gets into my stuff. Funnily, the only other time someone really seemed to like my shit was when [Chad] VanGaalen got into the first Extra Happy Ghost!!! record, which led to him produ-

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Owen Pallett has two days off from playing violin for Arcade Fire. He’s spending them sick in a Kansas City hotel room bed, doing interviews to promote his new solo album, In Conflict (Domino/Secret City). While it’s clearly a struggle scheduling his own professional projects around his current day job, Pallett sounds grateful for the changes this regular gig has imposed­on his routine.

“It’s a very different experience being on tour with Arcade

On his new album, local composer takes inspiration from the everyday

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Fire. It feels like being a passenger on a very comfortable cruise ship,” he says. “I was getting depressed working as a freelancer, and I was losing my mojo as a songwriter. For so long that had been my only way of paying my bills.”

In Conflict is the second album Pallett has recorded under his own name; he left his Final Fantasy moniker behind when he released 2010’s Heartland. While it shares some thematic similarities with his first, In Conflict finds him looking to real-life experiences for inspiration.

Inspired by the diary-like songwriting of John Darnielle – frontman of California indiefolk band Mountain Goats – Pallett decided to spend two weeks writing tunes based on the mundane aspects of his life as a type of creative exercise.

“When I came back to them later, pretty much all the songs were unusable because they read more like therapy sessions than actual lyrics,” he says.

The exercise wasn’t without merit, however.

“I noticed a constant theme of dysphoria.

All these events felt like they were being written about by this person who was uncomfortable in body, or in place, or in mindset,” he says. “I realized that the events in my life that had stuck with me the most were all related to what I generally refer to as liminal states.”

That realization greatly shaped the songs that would become In Conflict, but Pallett makes it clear that he wasn’t looking to his personal life for relatable universal themes.

“I don’t feel like confessional songs where listeners are supposed to hear elements of themselves really speak to that kind of liminal world view I was experiencing – at least not in the way that, for example, [singer/ songwriter] Lisa Germano songs do,” he says.

“Lisa Germano is someone I can really vibe with.”

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clubs&concerts hot Astral Swans Cameron House Back Room (408 Queen West), Thursday (May 8) See preview, page 42.

King Khan & the bbq show The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Thursday (May 8) Punk-rocking, doo-wop collaborators. operators The Silver Dollar (486 Spadina­), Thursday (May 8) See preview, page 46.

Tasha the amazon Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Thursday (May 8) See preview, page 46.

No Age Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), ­Friday (May 9) Experimental punk from Cali. neko case Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday (May 9) Beloved alt-country singer/songwriter.

Biblical Mod Club (722 College), Saturday (May 10) Local pysch-influenced hard rockers .

owen pallett Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Saturday (May 10) See preview, page 42.

The idan raichel project Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (May 10) Cross-cultural world music fusionist.

DJ Uproot Andy Mojo Lounge (1305 Dundas West), Saturday (May 10) Global bass producer.

Wye Oak Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (May 11) Baltimore girl-guy indie-folk duo.

Foals Kool Haus (132 Queens Quay East), Tuesday (May 13) Oxford indie-rock quintet.

Lana del rey Sony Centre (1 Front East), ­Tuesday (May 13) Sultry chamber pop superstar. crosss Smiling Buddha (961 College), ­Wednesday (May 14) Doom-ish grunge metal.

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The last time these guys were in town – back in October at Wrongbar – they admitted they were tripping on acid.

It sort of gives you an idea what Flatbush Zombies are about: the Brooklyn trio of emcees – Meechy ­Darko, Zombie Juice and Erick “Arc” Elliott – are part of a new wave of psychedelic-drug-positive musicians (with their Beast Coast associates the Underachievers and Chicago’s Chance the Rapper, among others) making and performing music with a new box of creative, er, tools.

After collaborating with A$AP Mob on the song Bath Salt in 2012, they released their own tune Face-Off, which pairs characteristically sexually graphic lyrics with snippets of news broadcasts about the infamous “bath salts” face-eater.

Their new It’s All A Matter Of Perspective EP drops later this year, and its first single, LiT, is a smooth slice of golden-era hip-hop production.

One thing’s for sure with this group: there’s never a dull moment.

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MELANIE DURRANT, TRISH, JAY EVANS, ALAN RAYMAN, BROTHA J, DAN-E-O, DJ LAW Big Ticket Wrongbar

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HEY OCEAN! Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. June 13.

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PAUL VAN DYK Guvernment. May 23.

IVARDENSPHERE, MALHAVOC, GOTHSICLES, ­AYRIA, ANTIGEN SHIFT, PROMONIUM JESTERS Aftermath Music Festival Phoenix Concert Theatre 8 pm, $15$20. BP. May 23.

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wave Theatre 8 pm, $25-$59. HF. May 23 & 24.

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Oak Cafe 9:30 pm, pwyc. May 24.

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Concert Theatre 8 pm, $15-$20. BP. May 24.

DANNY FERNANDES, JADE NARAINE, AMANDA THOMSON Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Benefit Kool Haus doors 6:45 pm, $50. ­xoxoheartent.com. May 30.

RICARDO VILLALOBOS, DJ SNEAK, DOC MARTIN, NITIN CODA. May 30.

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Molson Amphitheatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $20-$79.50. LN, TM. August 15.

PRINCE ROYCE Sound Academy doors 7 pm, $65.75-$89.75. TM. August 23.

JANN ARDEN, JILL & KATE Massey Hall doors 7 pm, $59.50-$99.50. LN, RTH, TM. ­September 23.

STROMAE Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50-$45. TM. ­September 23.

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All listings are free. Send to: music@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-​364-​1168 or mail to Music, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. 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.

Gorious Sons, Ten Second Epic, LYON, the Provincial Archive, Seas doors 7:30 pm.

Alleycatz Aviation Band.

CBaltic Avenue CMW: Best Of British HipHop DJ Ace, Little Simz, Macca, Ghetts doors 8:30 pm.

CBovine Sex Club CMW The Toniks, Salt of the Chief Cornerstone, Open Air, Uncut, the Wyld, Megafauna doors 8:30 pm.

CCameron House Back Room CMW Veda Hill, Astral Swans, Sandro Perri, AroarA doors 8:30 pm. See Astral Swans preview, page 42.

Cavern Bar aBabe Music Daisy Blue, Northern States doors 9 pm.

CC’est What CMW Ivy Coast, Keiffer & the Curiosity Club, the Feather, Twin Lakes, Finding Chuck doors 8:30 pm.

Charlie’s Gallery The Indie Machine & CMW Jeff Beadle, the Hollowbodies, Jay Miln, DT & the Dinosaurs, Dean Marino doors 7:30 pm.

CCherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla CMW The Shanks, Cheetah Chrome, Cafeine, Papillion, Like a Motorcycle, Stone River, Speed Control, BODO doors 7:30 pm.

CComfort Zone CMW Terrace, ByStarlight, Anastasia A, Stamps, Jasmine Singh, Dorine Levy doors 7:30 pm.

CCzehoski CMW Parallels, Kashka, Slaughter Beach, Water, Canvas, Falls doors 7:30 pm.

CDakota Tavern CMW The Roseville Band, the Do Good Assassins, Flash Lightnin’, Sleepy Sun, Spencer Burton, Foreign Diplomats, Pooma doors 7:30 pm.

CDetour Bar CMW Adi Ulmansky, Half Chance Heroes, Kevin Lester, Beach & Monski, Eric Zayne, Allan Rayman doors 7:30 pm.

CDrake Hotel Underground CMW Late Night Rush Midnight, Leisure Cruise, ASTR midnight, Jennifer Castle, ASMR Buds, DIANA, Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn doors 7:30 pm.

CEl Mocambo Upstairs CMW: Hearing Taiwan DJ Code, Matzka, Red, io doors 7:30 pm.

CFree Times Cafe CMW Laurent Bourque, October Gold, Pat Maloney, Courtney Lynn Music, Allie, JoJo Worthington doors 7:30 pm.

CThe Garrison CMW Green Rays, King Khan & the BBQ Show, CATL, Thomas D’arcy, No Sinner, Saidah Baba Talibah doors 7:30 pm.

CGladstone Hotel Ballroom CMW: Le French Tickler Kandle, Hay Babies, Jimmy Hunt, Pandaléon, Antoine Corriveau doors 7:30 pm.

CThe Great Hall CMW: Concert/Book Launch Teenage Head, Cyclops 76-6-6 doors 8 pm.

CHandlebar CMW Yeo, the Blancos, Texas

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CAdelaide Hall CMW Living with Lions, the

Dundas West 11 am to 10 pm, free. dundaswestfest.ca. June 7.

$39.50. RTH. June 21.

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QUIQUE ESCAMILLA, ANDREW CASH, MARITO MARQUES TRIO, LOS HIJOS DE TUTA, JIMMY BOSCH, THE LULA ALL-STARS, MARACATU MAR ABERTO, BRACATUM, THE ARSENALS, STREET BRASS Dundas West Fest

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Toronto emcee brings basement-jam revelry to CMW

By JULIA LeCONTE

OPERATORS as part of CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Thursday to Saturday (May 8-10), midnight. $10 or festival wristband, cmw.net.

If you want to hear what Dan Boeckner’s new band, Operators, sounds like any time soon, it’ll have to be live. And very loud.

Google the band and you’ll find only two fuzzy, fan-made YouTube clips, a couple of vague news articles and one show review.

“We’re not putting anything online before we play. There’s no teaser trailer, no protracted rollout,” Boeckner says over the phone from Columbus, Ohio, where Operators are currently practising for Canadian Music Week.

“The CMW shows are really going to be the debut of the band. I like the idea that if people want to hear us, they’re going to have to come see us in a live setting, in Toronto, at a Dan Burke show, at the Silver Dollar.”

Although the Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs alum’s latest project is very hush-hush for now, he’s happy to drop hints about what the band will sound like: sci-fi pop with punk elements, dancey grooves and undertones of contemporary electronic music.

“We built this table of wobbly, creaky synths and super-boomy drum machines and were like, ‘Okay, this is the palette we get to work with. If we’re going to write a ballad, it’s going to be coming from these boxes; if we’re writing a punk rock song, it’s coming from these decaying synthesizers.’”

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The trio – Boeckner, Sam Brown (the drummer in Boeckner’s other current band, Divine Fits) and Devojka, a musician he met in eastern Europe – recorded their debut album this past winter in Montreal, where Boeckner lived for over 10 years until he moved to California in 2011.

“After we finished the record, I was happy because I really think this band is the culmination of what I’ve been working on with Wolf Parade and Handsome Furs for the past 10 years.”

Recorded by Howard Bilerman, who’s worked with Arcade Fire and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, the latest album doesn’t yet have a release date or a record label.

Soon enough Boeckner will shop it around, but for now they want to soak in the joys of being unattached – not having to worry about massive tours and album cycles.

Operators has given Boeckner another kind of freedom, too: being untethered from his guitar and keyboard.

“For a lot of the songs I just get to sing, which has been a nice revelation for me.”

He admits that performing sansinstrument was kind of awkward at first (“What the hell do I do with my hands?”), but it’s given him the chance to push his range and really focus on his vocals.

And, of course, now he gets to dance.

“We hope people will dance. I am planning on spending a significant amount of time in the audience.”

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TASHA THE AMAZON, THE 6TH LETTER, RONEY and OSIYM as part of CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK at Wrongbar (1279 Queen West), Thursday (May 8), doors 9 pm. $10. cmw.net.

Rapper and producer Tasha the Amazon is a trained classical pianist and a self-taught multi-instrumentalist: guitar, bass, saxophone, “a bunch of weird ethnic instruments,” she tells me over beers at Sneaky Dee’s, which she calls her Cheers.

But it’s dancehall music she’s most pumped to talk about.

“There was a long point in time where the only clubs I wanted to go to were basement dancehall jams. I used to spend a lot of time in the Jane and Finch and Lawrence and Weston areas, and they were always doing really gully parties, like, getting somebody’s random uncle to DJ, and everybody’s just sweating and grinding each other and daggering,” she says, laughing.

What she’s describing is the essence of her November-released hip-hop mixtape FiDiYootDem, which sweats with dancehall and reggae beats under Tasha’s rebel calls for I-don’t-give-a-fuck semidepraved revelry.

“There’s been times in my life where I’m not partying at a dancehall place for a while, and in my mind I’m like, ‘You know, maybe I’ve outgrown that.’ And then someone tosses on a song, and I’m just the most ignorant person in the room,”

she says, before adding in a fierce, faux savage voice, “Neverrr! It’s in my blooood!”

Clearly. There was never any other career option for the artist, born Tasha Schumann. “I decided when I was six or seven: this is the only thing I want to do. I was surrounded by people who were rapping and in bands and performing and going on tour, so it was a no-brainer.”

The Fugees and Wyclef Jean (“until he got super-soft”) were early influences. “DMX was a large person in my life,” she says, which might explain her snarling performance swag and penchant for debauchery.

While studying at the University of Toronto, Schumann met her musical partner and boyfriend, Danthrax. As well as pursuing solo endeavours, together they make beats as the duo Bass & Bakery, who take all production credits on FiDiYootDem. Most of the tunes are the soundtrack to one of those nights you might not remember, but some of them, like Where Are You Now, nod to something more autobiographical.

“The thing about rap is, you have the leeway to open up as much or as little as you want. A lot of rappers never say anything personal, and it’s all about their whips and chains – and there’s a fan base for that. And then there’s your emo rap, and then you have your conscious

rap. Up till right now, I’ve given as much as I’m comfortable giving. It’s a place I want to go to more on the next album – not a ton, but offer up a few more droplets of me, personally. But you can’t do that before you’re ready.”

In the meantime, she’s done a few carefully chosen shows, including the February instalment of AGO’s First Thursdays – not exactly her regular performance space, but that’s kind of the point.

“That was probably not going to end up with crowd-surfing. It was about showcasing to music lovers and to people who are art lovers.”

We can assume that the CMW show at Wrongbar – headlining the Truth’s music showcase that also features local rappers the 6th Letter, Roney and OSIYM – will be more like the aforementioned basement jams.

“A lot of people perform as if it’s all about them. I feel more comfortable if I see myself as the party conductor. We’re all in this party together, I just happen to be on the stage. So I’ll do anything to raise the energy. Every crowd is different.

Some people, you can see they’re not moving yet, but they really want to be moshing or crowdsurfing or they want to have booze poured in their face,” she says.

“Just whatever. Whatever it calls for.”

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Kicking off the two-week event, Beck makes his festival debut with a sampling from his newest album, Morning Phase, while crooner Cassandra Wilson marks the 20th anniversary of her famous breakthrough album, Blue Light ’Til Dawn.

Tapping into jazz’s Afro-funk roots, Angélique Kidjo performs highlights from her 13th album, Eve, and reggaerock star Ben Harper teams up with blues legend and harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite to present their collaboration, Get Up! Other marquee names include Tony Bennett and Diana Ross, and there are many newer acts like Coeur de Pirate

Coeur de Pirate and BadBadNotGood. In the Nuits Heineken series, homegrown 90s alt-pop duo Gogh van Go reunite to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their first album and reach a new audience.

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T.O. MUSIC NOTES

PUTTING THE RAP IN RAPTORS

ON YOUR 4 OUTSTANDING WINS AT THE

Unofficial Raptors ambassador Drake certainly made his presence felt during our short, great, wild and wonderful playoff run, sitting courtside each game, lint-rolling his pants, calling out Jay Z, etc. But he wasn’t the only hip-hop superstar in the house. Although Hova never showed (despite rumours to the contrary), 50 Cent took in game 5 (wearing a “Northern Uprising” hat), and Bun B sat next to Drizzy for game 7. Other Raps fanatics at the games? Broken Social Scene’s Kevin Drew and City and Colour’s Dallas Green.

SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT

Toronto indie rock five-piece July Talk have been wowing Canadian audiences with their dynamic, free-spirited stage show starring front-people Peter Dreimanis and Leah Fay. And now they’re making a splash worldwide, announcing a trifecta of label deals: Polydor in the UK, Universal Music in the rest of Europe, and Island south of the border. The labels will release three different July Talk EPs in the coming weeks, each one culled from their eponymous debut album.

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FORT YORK & GARRISON COMMON • TORONTO

SATURDAY JUNE 7

INTERPOL

LORD HURON • KEVIN DREW • SHAD AUSTRA • A TRIBE CALLED RED THE DARCYS • VANCE JOY REUBEN AND THE DARK

SUNDAY JUNE 8

BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE CONSTANTINES CHVRCHES • WASHED OUT

GORD DOWNIE, THE SADIES • HYDRA FUCKED UP • DO MAKE SAY THINK BADBADNOTGOOD • LOWELL

All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change without notice. Ticket prices subject to applicable fees.

WIN tickets at nowtoronto.com/contests

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CMARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE HOTEL LOUNGE BAR CMW: CBCmusic.ca

THE KILLS • HALF MOON RUN

Tickets available at Livenation.com, all Ticketmaster outlets, Rotate This and Soundscapes.

King, Con Vos, Sea Perry, Chairs doors 7:30 pm.

CHARD LUCK BAR CMW For Esme, the Lovelocks, Juliana’s Daughter, Wordburglar, Young Doctors in Love doors 7:30 pm.

CTHE HIDEOUT CMW L.A., South of Bloor, Little Black Dress, Sons of Revelry, Le Trouble, Birth of Joy, Public, the Pistolwhips doors 7:30 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Carey Oakey (pop) 10 pm.

CHORSESHOE CMW Tanika Charles, Jr Gone Wild, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Three O’Clock Train, Maylee Todd doors 8:30 pm.

KENSINGTON LODGE Jam Derek Mok 7 pm.

CLEE’S PALACE CMW Say Yes, Rubblebucket, Brendan Canning, Basecamp, the Mohrs, the Franklin Electric doors 8 pm.

LULA LOUNGE In The Name Of James Brown Carlton J Smith (funk) 8 pm.

Lounge The Brothers Landreth, Bryan Potvin, Rob Moir noon.

CMARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE HOTEL CMW: Sounds Australia Sound

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Walters, Ma Petite, Sue-Anne Stewart, Brendan Ryder, Helen Shanahan, Emma Davis, Hein Cooper 7:30 pm.

COPERA HOUSE Canadian Music Week Kongos, Dear Rouge, Zerbin doors 8 pm.

CTHE PAINTED LADY CMW Mattyboh, Quake Matthews, Kayo, Miles Jones, Rasoul, MTL, Kyle Aaron doors 7:30 pm.

CPARTS & LABOUR CNW: Operations Showcase Elos Arma, Party Cat, Skynet, GUNT, Days Like Today doors 10 pm.

THE PISTON Genital Hospital, Devonian Gardens, Minotaur’s Oath (psych rock) 8 pm.

CRANCHO RELAXO CMW Zoo Harmonics, the Blue Stones, Cowpuncher, Goodnight Sunrise, the Beer Patrice, Paint, the Dead Projectionists, Buddy McNeil & the Magic Mirrors 8 pm.

CREVIVAL CMW Fefe Dobson, the Boom Booms, Francesco, Craig Stickland, Scott Helman doors 8:30 pm.

CRIVOLI CMW The Heartbroken, Jeremy Fisher, Bros Landreth, the Fortunate Ones doors 8:30 pm.

CSILVER DOLLAR CMW: Hand Drawn Dracula/neXt Red Mass, Operators, Omhouse, Praises, Strands, RLDML doors 7:30 pm. See Operators preview, page 46.

CSNEAKY DEE’S CMW: Anmesia Rock Fest/ New Damage Life in Vacuum, the Flatliners, Direct Hit!, Grimskunk, Miracles, Slates, White Widows Pact doors 7:30 pm.

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

CSUPERMARKET CMW Bryan Finlay, Amy Hef, Poor Young Things, Andrew Allen, Andrew Austin doors 7:30 pm.

CTATTOO CMW Naturally Born Strangers, Tre Mission, Airplane Boys, A Game, DJ hustleGRL doors 8 pm.

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CUNDERGROUND GARAGE CMW Conversa-

tion, Take Part, Fake Shark Real Zombie, Rend, Weekend Riot Club, Bad Captain doors 8:30 pm.

CVELVET UNDERGROUND CMW Saturns, Ariel, Devah String Quartet, Bathurst Station, Kristina King & the Walk-ups doors 7:30 pm.

CVIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB CMW Matt Pond PA, the Lighthouse & the Whaler, leisure cruise doors 7 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic El Faron 8 pm.

BAR RADIO Kyp Harness 9 pm. See al-

review, page 58. ñbum CADILLAC LOUNGE CMW Country Showñcase Jason Hastie & the Alibi, the Bros Landreth, Billy J White, Mike LeBlanc, Steve Rivers,

Black Mocassins, Ann Chaplin doors 6:30 pm.

CAMERON HOUSE Matthew Hornell 10 pm, Wax Mannequin 6 pm.

CTHE CENTRAL CMW The Dead South, Mike Edel, Columbo, Buddy Black, Jeremy Loops, Briagha McTavish, Michael Brooker & MB10, Century Thief, Kevin Myles Wilson doors 8 pm.

CEL MOCAMBO DOWNSTAIRS CMW: Toronto Blues Society Monkeyjunk, Sugar Brown, Conor Gains doors 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Responsibles 10 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE The Living Daylight Stringband (old time) 7:30 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM Terry Gillespie Band w/ Danny Marks 8:30 pm.

THE LOCAL GEST Art & Music Jeff & Noah 7 pm.

THE LOCAL David Celia (folk/rock) 9 pm.

LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm, Maurice’s Short 7 pm.

PRESS CLUB Kristine Schmitt & Her Special Powers (honky-tonk swing) 10 pm.

RELISH BAR & GRILL LazerSusan (improvised music) 7 pm.

SECOND CUP Roger ‘Pops’ Zuraw 7:30 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm.

UNICORN PUB Honky Tonk Thursdays 10 pm.

WISE GUYS Open Jam Jon Long 10 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

ARRAY SPACE Thin Edge New Music Collective

Ghislain Aucoin, Alex Samaras, Felicity Williams, Ryan Brouwer, Robin Dann and others 8 pm.

DE SOTOS Jam Anthony Abbatangeli (jazz/ blues) 8 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Bossa Tres (bossa nova/jazz/ samba/Latin) 9:30 pm.

FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS RICHARD BRADSHAW AMPHITHEATRE

German Romanticism Marie Bérard, Bryan Epperson, David Louie (violin, cello, piano) noon to 1 pm.

GATE 403 Kevin Laliberté Jazz & Flamenco Trio 9 pm, Abbey Sholzberg Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO CD release Fern Lindzon, David French, Michael Davidson, George Koller, Nick Fraser 8 pm. See Fern Lindzon album review, page 58.

KAMA Thursdays At Five Michael Stuart & Canadian Jazz Quartet (saxophone) 5 to 8 pm.

MUSIDEUM Lazersuzan Kenny Kirkwood, Steve Koven, Pedro Orrego, Jon Campbell,

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Jeff Koven, Aron Slipacoff (improvised) 8 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Terra Hazelton Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.

CORBIT ROOM CMW Jazz Showcase Andys Other Bands, Journeys, Yuichiro doors 7:30 pm.

POETRY JAZZ CAFE Andrew McAnsh Group 9 pm.

THE REX Tisziji Munoz Quartet 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

RICHMOND HILL CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Big Bad Voodoo Daddy (jazz) 8 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Rob Clutton’s

Cluttertones & Laurenzi/Ernst/Green (improvised/jazz) 10 pm.

THE WHIPPOORWILL A Little Rambunctious Michael Louis Johnson (jazz/swing) 10 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

CLINTON’S Throwback Thursdays (90s) doors

10 pm.

CLUB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 EFS Untitled Simon Jain, Pasha doors 10 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO CELLAR ROOFTOP PATIO DJ Leo Love, Peter B 7 to 11 pm.

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Bunitall (R&B/hip-hop)

9 pm.

WAYLA BAR Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard

(disco/yacht rock/new wave) 10 pm.

CWRONGBAR CMW: Truth Music Group Showcase DJs Seven:30, Danthrax, Tasha the Amazon, the 6th Letter, Roney, Osiym doors 8 pm. See Tasha the Amazon preview, page 46.

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AIR CANADA CENTRE City and Colour, Half Moon Run doors 7 pm. ñ ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane.

CBALTIC AVENUE The Indie Machine & CMW Sun Stone Revolvers, Yellerkin, Parks at Night, My Heart Belongs to Cecilia Winter, Crhymes, Bill and Murray doors 7:30 pm.

BIER MARKT DON MILLS The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 9:30 pm.

CBOVINE SEX CLUB CMW The Almost Trigger Happy, Cheetah Chrome, the Dirty Nil, the Blancos, Dead Messenger, the Bloody Five doors 8:30 pm.

CCADILLAC LOUNGE CMW The Cardinal Dream, the Retrievers, Blue Davens Code, Old James, the Commoners, Amberwood, JJ & the Pillars doors 7:30 pm.

CAVERN BAR Start! (mod/British revivalists) doors 9 pm.

CTHE CENTRAL CMW Patrick Grant, the Dirty Fix, Killer Wails, the Archers, T Nile, Serushio, Valérie Daure, Juliane Jones, Jessica Speziale, JJ Gerber, Mozayic, Candice Sand, Signe Miranda’s Veranda, Noah Pascoe, Muscle Souls, Carmel Freeman doors 12:30 pm to 3 am.

CHARLIE’S GALLERY The Indie Machine & CMW Marlon Chaplin, Mark Martyre, Jon Hynes, Emily Reid, Gdansk doors 7:30 pm.

CCHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA CMW Mushy Callahan, Die by Remote, Secondhand Habit, the Nils, Richard Duguay, Water, Hunting, Caracal doors 7:30 pm.

CCZEHOSKI CMW: Sounds Australia Beat Pie Sons et Al, Elizabeth Rose, Audego, Yeo,

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Hoodlem, Lili Kendall, Tanya Lee doors 8 pm.

CDakota Tavern CMW Papillion, Jr Gone Wild, Mia Dyson, the High Dials, Cub Sport, Alexandre Desilets, 36? doors 7:30 pm.

CDetour Bar CMW No Big Deal, Danjasop, Olenonly, DJMJ doors 7:30 pm.

CDrake Hotel Underground CMW: Get High With DIANA Pacific High, DIANA, House of Monroe, Ice Cream doors 7:30 pm.

CEl Mocambo Upstairs CMW: Supernova Hello Companion, the Mustard Junkies, Para­ sona, Holy Mind Funk, Chatterton Eve, Ano­ dyne 8 pm.

CEl Mocambo Downstairs CMW: Men In Suits Journeys, Men in Suits, the Muso Project doors 7:30 pm.

First Canadian Place Waterfall Stage Nik­ ki Yanofsky 12:15 pm.

CFree Times Cafe CMW Pilot Light, Elliot Maginot, Belle, Emma Davis, Lovely Quinces, Beatrice Mason doors 7:30 pm.

CThe Garrison CMW Wolf Saga, Breton, Step Rockets, Bestie, Adi Ulmansky doors 8 pm.

CGladstone Hotel Ballroom CMW: Alberta/Saskatchewan Music The Dead South, Port Juvee, Close Talker, Astral Swans, Keiffer & the Curiosity Shop, JJ Shiplett doors 7:30 pm. See Astral Swans preview, page 42.

CHandlebar CMW The Kerouacs, Le Trouble, Jane’s Party, Tully on Tully, Duck Duck Goose, Fire/Works doors 7:30 pm.

CHard Luck Bar CMW No Age, Red Mass, the Motorleague, Port Juvee, We Outspoken doors 7:30 pm.

Harlem West Mboya Nicholson (soul) 7:30 to 11 pm.

CThe Hideout CMW: Bigsound Silent Movie Type, Shawn Brady, You Am I, Public Animal, White Hills, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the Black Lullaby, Overseas doors 7:30 pm.

CHorseshoe CMW: Culture Collide King Khan BBQ Show, Head of the Herd, the Balconies, the Honeyrunners, the Damn Truth, Jordan Klassen doors 8:30 pm.

CKool Haus Canadian Music Week Ellie Goulding, Tegan & Sara, Magic!, Alyssa Reid, Andrew Allen, Kristina Maria doors 6 pm.

CLee’s Palace Canadian Music Week Festival Tupperware Remix Party, Slackers, Soul ­MOtivators, Green Room Rockers (ska soul) doors 8 pm.

Magpie Taproom Rising Crust, Hashed Out, Hounds (punk) doors 10 pm.

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CMarriott Downtown Eaton Centre ­Hotel Lounge Bar CMW: CBCmusic.ca Lounge Gentleman Husbands, Matthew Johnston, Andrew Austin doors noon.

CMarriott Downtown Eaton Centre ­Hotel Lounge Bar CMW Michael Fraser,

Somerville, Shakura S’Aida, Wolves as Friends, Luca Fogale, Bryan Finlay, Laura & Greg, Maneli Jamal 7:30 pm.

CMassey Hall Canadian Music Week Neko Case, the Dodos doors 7:15 pm, all ages.

Orbit Room The Dave Murphy Band (soul/ rock/pop) 10 pm.

CThe Painted Lady CMW Maldito, the Wyld, Cam Smith, Cecy B, Neon Dreams doors 7:30 pm.

CParts & Labour CMW: Underground Operations Showcase 143 Band, Starks & Heights, Kayo, Alfie, Jutes doors 10 pm.

CPhoenix Concert Theatre CMW Flatbush Zombies, Bodega Bamz, Per­ rion, Kaydee 8 pm.

Press Club Chris Gostling & the The Tempo (rock) 10 pm.

CRancho Relaxo CMW Dave Whitty & the City Suprette, DT & the Dinosaurs, Paper­ maps, Liserstille, Brothers of North, South of Bloor, Fade Chromoatic, Yesterday Shop 8 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9 pm.

CRevival CMW Kardinal Offishall, Andee, Cris Cab, Nikki Yanofsky, Bobby Bazini, Jesse Gold doors 8:30 pm.

CRivoli CMW: Music BC Moves, Jordan Klas­ sen, Good for Grapes, No Sinner, the Lion the Bear the Fox, Chersea, David Morin doors 8 pm.

Rockpile Metal As F#$K Fest all ages.

Rose & Crown Johnny B Good & the Bad Boys (pop/classic rock) 10 pm.

Royal Cinema Girls Rock Camp Toronto Film Screening Unicorn Patrol, the Overtones all ages.

Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Photo Flash.

Seven44 Crazy Babies (Ozzy/Sabbath tribute).

CSilver Dollar CMW: Silent Shout/ neXT Zoo Owl, New Zebra Kid, Sexy Merlin, Operators, Pat Jordache, Nyssa, Petra Glynt, We Are Wolves doors 7:30 pm. See Operators preview, page 46.

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fort york

national historic site Club Bonus Series (13 shows) at Horseshoe & Lee's Palace now on sale

Special TIER ONE $59.50 regular & $99.50 VIP tickets ENDS Monday, May 19th at 10pm

FRIDAY MAY 9

NEKO CASE MASSEY HALL • $39.50-$54.50 adv

WITH

Sunday July 6th

THE DODOS

SATURDAY MAY 10 • DANFORTH MH • $20-$30 ADV

OWEN PALLETT DOLDRUMS W/

Saturday July 5th

TUES MAY 13

DANFORTH MUSIC HALL

MOGWAI MAJEURE

$ 25.50-$29.50 adv ALL AGES

W/ WED MAY 28 • PHOENIX • $25.50 ADV

KURT W/ STEVE

VILEGUNN

Friday July 4th

& THE VIOLATORS

MATADOR INDIE

SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS

with JAMES HUNTER FRI JUNE 6 • MASSEY HALL

$39.50-$59.50 advance tier one single Day

59.50

$

Until Mon May 19

tier one single Day VIP

99.50

$

Until Mon May 19

SATURDAY JUNE 14 • TD ECHO BEACH • $35+FF ADV 3 Day

149.50

$

3 Day VIP

229.50

$

MASTER VIP

329.50

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DIGIFEST ALL AGES!

FEAT. FIFTH HARMONY, BEFORE YOU EXIT & DOZENS MORE!

THU MAY 8 • $13.50 -$20 Adv RUBBLEBUCKET

SUN MAY 18 • $17.50 -$20 Adv

FRI MAY 16 • $20.00 @Door

THU MAY 8 • $15.00 Adv

BRENDAN

CANNING

SONS OF REVELRY | FIGARO

CADDIES

& STAY HUMAN THE POOR THREE O’CLOCK YOUNG THINGS

ELECTRIC CITIZEN ELECTRIC MAGMA

BASECAMP THE MOHRS FRI MAY 9 $26.50 Adv

NYC SKA!

WITH

TRAIN TODD

MAYLEE

FRI MAY 9 • $20.00 Adv

WED MAY 14 • $24.50 Adv

OFF! THE ORIGINAL CEREBRAL

BALLZY SINGLE MOTHERS

ORGAN THIEVES

MUSTARD PLUG

SUN MAY 18

NO COVER @THE CAVE

WAILERS

THU MAY 22 $6.00 @Door

BBQ SHOW

SAT MAY 17 • $10.00 Adv

@ THE CAVE STAN SIMON

THE DAMN TRUTH JORDAN KLASSEN

SUN MAY 18

$13.50 Adv @THE CAVE

MOVING UNITS JUNE 12 • $ 21.50 adv

THE NOTWIST

MURDER BY DEATH JUNE 24 • $ 19.50 adv JUNE 25 • $ 10.50 adv

WEST HAMMOCK

NO COVER NOON

JULY 4 • $ 20.50 adv

MAY 21 • $ 18.50 adv • ALL AGES

MAN OVERBOARD JUNE 8 • $ 20.00 adv • 19+

WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS • HARD LUCK BAR • $ 12.50

adv

SEAHAVEN YOUNG WIDOWS BANE MAY 17 • $ 10.50 adv

MAY 23 • $ 16.50 adv

THE TREWS

WYE OAK BRAIDS WITH

Shoeless Mondays

MAY 13 No Cover

ONE DAY LATE DANIELA CAS

PALM TREES

MR. LITTLE

BEDOUIN

DOORS: 8PM • BANDS 8:30 & 9:30

SMALL APARTMENT

GARAGE DRAG THE RIVER

TUE MAY 13

Bookie’s New Music Night

No Cover

JEANS NORWAY LOW ANIMAL THU MAY 15 $6.00 @Door

GORMAN X PRIME GEN LAKE OF LIONS PLAYDEAF BIG OTTER CREEK

CJ RAMONE PLAN 37 FRI MAY 16 • $15.00 Adv

WITH

THE FAIRMOUNTS SAT MAY 17 • $7.00 @ Door

Bookie’s New Music Night

CHAMBERS

BIG BAND OF ONE WED CHRIS CADELL MAY 21 & THE WRECKAGE $10.00 @ Door

TRISH ROBB CLIFTON DAVID

YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS 5TH ANNIVERSARY!

THE WEATHER

THU

BABY EAGLE

$15.00 @ Door

STATION MAY 22 SHOTGUN JIMMIE MARINE DREAMS

SAT MAY 24 • $18.50 Adv

EVAN BABIES DANDO WILL HUNTER BALLROOM

THE CLEARING OF THE LEMONHEADS JESSY BROWN BAND BEAUTIFUL SARA JOHNSTON SECRET INTERNATIONAL FOR PAUL GOURLIE THE LAZYS NOTHING SUBURBIA | THE AGES

SOUNDCLASH CYSTIC FIBROSIS BENEFIT

ZOMBIES OF LOVE

• TURF @HORSESHOE •

TUESDAY MAY 20

JULY 2 • $ 20.50 adv

OPERA HOUSE $21.50 ADV

JULY 3 • $ 24.50 adv

WITH

LEMURIA & PUP

JULY 5 • $ 22.50 adv $

JULY 7 • $ 22.50 adv

• SILVER DOLLAR • MAY 12 • $ 11.00 adv

COMEBACK KID

SUN MAY 11 • $16.50 Adv

W/

$10.50 Adv

TWO COW

PANDA BORN RUFFIANS • HORSESHOE TAVERN • DEER TICK THE TOASTERS BEAR BLACK JOE LEWIS RICHARD BUCKNER HOLLERADO THE MENZINGERS THE STRUMBELLAS JULY 3 • $ 24.50 adv

DONOVAN WOLFINGTON POTTYMOUTH • VIRGIN MOD CLUB •

MAY 9 • $ 20.00 adv • ALL AGES

GENTLEMEN HUSBANDS

MON CLUB SPORT | FAIRCHILD MAY 12 MADYSON | TULLY ON TULLY No Cover SAT MAY 10 • $10.00 @Door TUE

IVORY HOURS

MAN MAN MAN WITH A MISSION WITH JOYCE MANOR

JUNE 26 • $ 10.50 adv @ THE CAVE

AFTERNOON SHOW

CMF AUSSIE BBQ SAT MAY 10 YOU AM I | THE LAZYS

SHOVELS & ROPE JULY 6 • 17.50 adv FOXY SHAZAM PAPER KITES JUNE 13 • $ 16.50 adv

HONEYRUNNERS

& THE HOLY BIBLES

• TURF @ LEE’S • MAY 30 • $ 10.50 adv @ THE CAVE

THE BALCONIES

AFTER PARTY

SHEEZER

DEALS GONE BAD DAVID GANG EVERYTHING KINOKO TEIKOKU IS TERRIBLE NEXT MUSIC FROM TOKYO

MAD CADDIES

HEAD OF THE HERD

FRI MAY 30 • $13.50 Adv

WITH HOUSE OF

SKA!

MAY 12 •

THE LAZYS THE KING KHAN &

THE SOUL MOTIVATORS & TUPPERWARE REMIX PARTY JAMAICAN REGGAE

$13.50 Adv

JR GONE WILD GLORY HOUND JOHN BATISTE ADAM BALDWIN

THE SLACKERS

SAT MAY 10 • $20.00 Adv

THU MAY 15

TANIKA CHARLES

SOHN

SAT MAY 10 • $10.00 @Door WED MAY 14 • $15.00 Adv MON MAY 19 ATOM AND THE VOLUMES

SO-CAL SKA

THE MAD FU MANCHU SAY YES CALIFORNIA STONER ROCK

MAY 22 •

$ 10.00

adv

DEAD RIDER SCOTT BIRAM JUNE 26 • $ 13.50 adv

SATURDAY JUNE 14

REEL BIG FISH OPERA HOUSE • $25.00 ADV

SO-CAL SKA & SOUL WEDNESDAY JUNE 18 OPERA HOUSE • $17.50

TYLER

OPERA HOUSE $17.00 adv

TUES JUNE 17 • OPERA HOUSE • $22.00 ADV

JULY 4 • $ 17.50 adv

WITH LUCIUS

& THE GUANTANAMO

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE W/ NEGATIVE APPROACH

WITH NEW COUNTRY REHAB

DANFORTH MH • $ 24.50-$39.50

JUNE 13 • $ 17.50 adv

HEY OCEAN JUNE 16 • $ 20.00 adv

JUNE 26 • $ 20.00 adv • SOUL

NOAH GUNDERSON DELTA RAE

JULY 6 • $ 15.50 adv • 7:30PM

JUNE 28 • $ 12.00 adv

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THURS JUN 19 • OPERA HOUSE • $24.50

JULY 7 • $ 18.50 adv

WARD CULTS TWIN FORKS TUESDAY JUNE 24

JUNE 6 • $ 13.50 adv

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TUESDAY JUNE 3

JUNE 5 • $ 11.50 adv • NYC SKA

STREETS OF LAREDO

TUES JULY 15 • PHOENIX • $23.50

BIG WORLD JASON ISBELL

JULY 8 • $ 15.50 adv

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ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE JUNE 8 • $ 15.00 adv

JUNE 29 • $ 10.50 adv

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JULY 14 • $ 10.50 adv

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The Sister Mia Sheard & Band w/ Selina M ­ artin.

CSneaky Dee’s CMW Random Recipe, Lisa Leblanc, Highs, International Zombies of Love, Secret Sun, Buddy McNeil & the Magic Mirrors, Poutine Party w/ Loud Lary Ajust doors 6:30 pm.

CSupermarket CMW The Franklin Electric, the Mohrs, Bellwoods, the Seasons doors 7:30 pm.

CTattoo CMW Odesza, ASTR, Elizabeth Rose, Free n Losh doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC 604 Records/Light Organ Records Showcase The Mohrs, Matthew Johnston, Fake Shark-Real Zombie!, ByStarlight, Cat Thomson 5 pm, all ages.

CUnderground Garage CMW Gruve, Open Air, Tupelo Honey, Pigeon Park, FLTF, Blurred Vision doors 8:30 pm.

Unicorn Pub Little Rock (indie rock) 10 pm.

CVelvet Underground CMW BamBoo, Tiny Danza, Ginger Ale & the Monowhales, Crowns for Convoy, the Meerkats doors 7:30 pm.

CVirgin Mobile Mod Club Canadian Music Week Festival Comeback Kid, Counterparts, Backtrack, the Greenery, Alpha & Omega doors 6:30 pm, all ages.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

CAdelaide Hall CMW Brett Kissell, Livy

Jeanne, Jordan MacIntosh doors 8 pm.

Bar Radio Angie Gunn (roots) 10 pm.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre Kris & Dee, Crackpuppy (folk/pop) 9 pm.5 CCameron House CMW Graydon James & the Young Novelists, the Seasons, Future History, Little Suns, the Loodies, Michael Cassidy, Jeremy Loops doors 6:30 pm.

Cameron House Fraser Melvin Blues Band (blues) 1 am, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia­6 pm.

C’est What Jessica Blake, Greyhound Riders (folk) 9 pm.

CThe Great Hall Canadian Music Week Woods, Quilt, Good for Grapes (folk rock) doors 8 pm.

Grossman’s The Mad Cats 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room CD release Raoul & the Big Time w/ Curtis Salgado 8:30 pm.

The Local The Tonkas (brushbass power duo) 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Cafe Cubano (salsa) 10:30 pm.

Monarch Tavern CD Launch party Howard Willett (blues) 8 pm.

Music Gallery New World Series Jersualem in My Heart, Steve Kado doors 7 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross The Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

Imperial Pub Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation (big band classics) 5:30 to 7:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Tribute To Donny Hathaway Dave Young 9 pm.

Lula Lounge David Buchbinder Trio (jazz) 8 pm.

Music Gallery Jerusalem In My Heart (experimental film and music performance).

Musideum Tod Paul Dorozio (classical guitar) 7 pm.

Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Archie Alleyne Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Patrick Hewan Trio 9:30 pm.

The Rex Oz Noy Trio w/ Will Lee & Anton Fig 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

Roy Thomson Hall 35th Anniversary Tour Vladimir Spivakov & Moscow Virtuosi (violin) 8 pm.

St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church Turn The World Around – Songs Of Hope And Rebellion Upper Canada Choristers (medieval concert).

St James Cathedral Snell Hall A COSI Connection Double Bill Kathryn Whyte & Stephen Philcox, Casanova (opera) 7:30 pm.

Toronto Centre for the Arts Russian Serenade Alexander Ghindin, Sinfonia Toronto (piano) 8 pm.

Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Heavy Ethics 10 pm, Giampalo Scatozza, Bret Higgins & Neil Brathwaite (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Club 120 Full Force Fridays DJs Ping, Tongue & Lady Bliss 10 pm.5 CODA Guido Schneider, Chris Larsen, Terence Kissner, R+D doors 10 pm.

Curzon DJ Mr Stylus (hip-hop/funk/soul/ R&B) 10 pm.

Drake One Fifty DJ Dougie Boom doors 9 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Radioactive Dreams (new wave/soul) 10 pm.

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

La Perla HER: Stage Moth-HER Edition DJs Kiki Lefreak, Blake, OMGBLOG.COM (house/ disco/electro/dance) doors 11 pm.

The Piston Synthesexer (indie/classic electro) 10 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll).

The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm.

Sound Academy R.A.W.: Redemption All White D’Bandit (dancehall) doors 10 pm.

WAYLA Bar Ladies Who Game DJ Munan 9 pm.

Saturday, May 10 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Hall CMW Wildlife, Groenland, Nothing, We Are Wolves doors 9 pm. ñ Alleycatz Soular (R&B/soul/funk).

Sacred Noise TorQ Percussion Quartet 8 pm.

Gate 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm, Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

Habits Gastropub Josh Smiley (jazz) 9 pm.

King Reign, ShaqisDope, Quake Matthews, Alfie doors 7:30 pm.

CBovine Sex Club CMW The Lazys, You Am I, the High Dials, Richard Duguay, Papillion,

Church of the Holy Trinity Strange &

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CBaltic Avenue CMW Mattyboh, Perrion,

Win TickeTs! collective concerts presents

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Mad June doors 8:30 pm.

Cavern Bar Unofficial CMW Nocase Yeo,

Lovely Quinces, Paula Gomez, Michael Cassidy (world/indie/electro) doors 9 pm.

CThe Central CMW Sharon Nutzati, Fat as Fuck, Black Lady Soul, Eriksen, Candelora, Laura Roy, Familiar Wild, 9YRS, Art/the Band, All Those Who Wander, Brooklyn Doran, Lisa Marie Kruchak, Fanette, Rory Taillon & the Old Souls, the Alter Kakers doors 11:30 am to 3 am.

CC’est What CMW: Greg Simpson’s Mindbending Friends Xprime, Michelle Joly, David Blair, Donna Creighton, Kenny Butterill doors 8:30 pm.

CCherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla CMW Willhorse, the Tungsten Hum, Dance with Dirt, Dinner Belles, Oh Suzanna, Terra Lightfoot, the Tallest Tree doors 8:30 pm.

CCzehoski CMW Bill & Murray, Oh No! Yoko, MTT, Iluminas, This Sound Will Save You doors 7:30 pm.

CDakota Tavern CMW Port Juvee, Bestie, the Franklin Electric, Highs, the Treasures, Lake Forest, Come On Live Long doors 7:30 pm.

CThe Danforth Music Hall Canadian Music Week Festival Owen Pallett, Doldrums doors 7 pm, all ages. See Owen Pallett preview, page 42.

CDetour Bar CMW DJ Mike P, Wolf J Mc­Farlane, Kaydee, Dean West, Mikhail Jae Dash, Pink Chocolate doors 7:30 pm.

CDrake Hotel Underground CMW Bizzarh, the Wyld, Elizabeth Rose, Chloe Charles doors 7:30 pm.

CEl Mocambo Downstairs Canadian Music Week Festival Gabrielle Aplin doors 7:30 pm, all ages.

CEl Mocambo Upstairs CMW: Supernova ShootR, Heroes of the Resistance, Artifice, Ansley Grove, Andreas, Alona 8 pm.

CThe Garrison CMW: Hillydilly Basecamp, Waldo, iXXi, Sons et Al, Hoodlem doors 8:30 pm.

CGladstone Hotel CMW For Esme, Yellerkin, Cardinals, Stacey doors 7:30 pm.

Grossman’s Chloe Watkinson, ‘Park Eddy’ (soul/funk/R&B) 10 pm.

Habits Gastropub The Hailee Rose Band (Motown/soul/rock) 9 pm.

CHandlebar CMW Ponctuation, the ‘92 Blue Jays, Ourfold, Dead Messenger, Silent Movie Type, Ramona doors 7:30 pm.

CHard Luck Bar CMW Burning the Day, Kodessa, Double Experience, Friday Night Trend, Zoo Harmonics doors 7:30 pm.

CHard Rock Cafe CMW One Day Late, M.T.L., Your Favorite Enemies, Sex with Strangers, These Silent Waves, Union City doors 7:30 pm.

CThe Hideout CMW Bella Clava, Cowpuncher, Hisland, the Nils, Soho Ghetto, Cub Sport, Babylones, Forester doors 7:30 pm.

CHorseshoe CMW: 65 roses Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser & Tribute to Paul Gourlie Glory­ hound, Adam Baldwin, Poor Young Things, Gentlemen Husbands, Trews & Bedouin Soundclash 8 pm, CMW: Sounds Australia Aussie BBQ The Black Lullaby, the Lazys, Fairchild, Twin Lakes, Tully on Tully, Mia Dyson, Cub Sport, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, You Am I noon to 6 pm.

Hot Box Puff Lounge Think of a Name (electronic music improv) 7 pm.

CJohnny Jackson CMW Nicole Ariana, ­Ebedoz doors 6:30 pm.

Kennedy Public House Odd Soul (funk/soul/ R&B/Motown) 10 pm.

CKool Haus The Indies: Canadian Music Week The Strumbellas, Ponctuation, Mounties, Born Ruffians, Hollerado, the Hidden

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CMarriott Downtown Eaton Centre ­Hotel Lounge Bar CMW: CBCmusic.ca Lounge Good for Grapes, Thought Beneath Film, the Mohrs noon.

CMarriott Downtown Eaton Centre ­Hotel Lounge Bar CMW AHI, Aaron Wright,

Emily Reid, Jake Feeny, Lovely Quinces, Crissi Cochrane, TJ Kingston 7:30 pm.

The Olde Stone Cottage Pub The Fabulous Rave 9:30 pm.

COpera House Canadian Music Week – Metal On Ice: Tales And Tunes From Canada’s Hard Rock And Heavy Metal Heroes Lee Aaron, Carl Dixon, Darby Mills, Brian Vollmer, Nick Walsh doors 7 pm.

Orbit Room Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/ Motown/stax/R&B) 10 pm.

CThe Painted Lady CMW Vibonics, Pimpton, Blake Carrington, Weirdo Click, Zoo Legacy, Transit, Philly Moves doors 7:30 pm.

CPhoenix Concert Theatre CMW Television, Brendan Canning doors 6:30 pm.

CRancho Relaxo CMW The Sketch, Navy Skies, Hogarth & the Sky Vines, We’re Doomed, Mooch, Billie Dre & the Poor Boys, Gypsy Chief Goliath, Mobina Galore 8 pm.

CRevival CMW Teedra Mosses (R&B).

The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon.

RH King Academy Arts On The Road: Kingston Road’s Creative Walk Luke McMaster, Choir! Choir! Choir! 11 am.

CRivoli CMW: Music Nova Scotia The Mandevilles, Neon Dreams & Cam Smith, Jessie Brown & the Black Divine, Adam Baldwin Band, Ria Mae doors 9 pm.

Rose & Crown Cellar Door (pop/rock) 10 pm.

CSilver Dollar CMW: Pop Montreal/ neXt Liver, Sunshine & the Blue Moon, Orkestar Kriminal, Operators, Pkew Pkew Pkew Gunshots, Grounders, Motel Raphiel, BlueVenus doors 7:30 pm. See Operators preview, page 46.

Smiling Buddha Black Absinthe, the Rough Boys, Citizen Vicious, Sludgehammer (metal) 9 pm.

CSneaky Dee’s CMW Exalt, Auras, Like Pacific, Safe to Say, Seaway, July, Riot Acts doors 7:30 pm.

CSound Academy Canadian Music Week Festival Mastodon, Gojira, Kvelertak doors 6:30 pm.

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

CSupermarket CMW Leisure Cruise, Rush Midnight, Port Juvee doors 7:30 pm.

CUnderground Garage CMW Last Bullet, Beautiful Nothing, the Shoeless Joes, Eagleson, the Bluebirds, Drop Dead Pin-ups doors 8:30 pm.

Unicorn Pub Little Rock (indie rock) 10 pm.

CVelvet Underground CMW Stolen Owners, Chris Quotes, Marcellus Wallace doors 7:30 pm.

CVirgin Mobile Mod Club Canadian Music Week Festival: Exclaim No Age, Indian Handcrafts, Biblical, Public Animal 9 pm.

CWrongbar CMW PYPY, the Cruelty Party, King Gizzard & Lizard Wizard, Step Rockets, Stellar Lane doors 8 pm.

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Bar Radio Video release Scarlett 8 pm, Sheldon Holder (blues/soul) 10 pm.

CCadillac Lounge CMW: Country Showcase The River Junction Band, Big Tobacco & the Pickers, Domino, the Tumblin’ Dice, JJ Shiplett, Carli & Julie Kennedy doors 6:30 pm.

CCameron House Back Room CMW Elliot Maginot, the River & the Road, Kirty, Luca Vasta, Emilie & Ogden, Hein Cooper, Laura & Greg doors 6:30 pm.

Cameron House Sam Cash 2 am, David Celia midnight, Ferraro 10 pm, Graham Nicholas 8 pm, Big Tobacco & the Pickers 6 pm.

Dakota Tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am-2 pm.

Don Bosco CSS Mohammed Rafi’s Musical Tribute Concert Mehboob Shaikh (Bollywood) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

CFree Times Cafe CMW Amy Carson Hunter, INKA, Anita Eccleston, Wolves as Friends, Laura & Greg, Sydney Delong doors 7:30 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Peter Mathieson 1 to 4 pm.

Gate 403 Sweet Derrick Blues Band 9 pm, Bill Heffernan (folk/country/blues) 5 to 8 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Winchester Warm & Giant Hand (folk rock) 10 pm.

Hugh’s Room Jay Aymar, Roxanne Potvin 8:30 pm.

Humble Beginnings Songbird (folk) 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

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CLee’s Palace CMW OFF!, Cerebral Ballzy, Single Mothers, the Organ Thieves, Twelve Foot Ninja doors 8 pm.

MAY 22 & 25

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The Local Whoa Nellie! (hillbilly swing) 9 pm.

Lola Son of Bronto 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Orquesta Fantasia 10:30 pm.

Massey Hall MOTEK Gala The Idan

Raichel Project (Israeli/world music) 8 pm. ñ Press Club The Whiskey Hearts (country punk) 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Monica Chapman 9:30 pm.

The Sister Woodchoppers, Joe Lapinski.

Small World Music Centre Spire.

Tranzac Southern Cross Healing Power &

Pleasance Hobo Cubes & Man Made Hill, DJ Jasmati 10 pm, Scott B Sympathy 6:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm.

Unicorn Pub Open Jam 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Chalkers Pub David Occhipinti Trio 6 to 9 pm.

Dogfish Pub Penny Barr, Adrean Farrugia, Jordan O’Connor, Kevin Barrett 8 pm.

Eglinton St George’s United Church Spring

Gala Concert Toronto Welsh Male Voice Choir (choral/classical) 7:30 pm.

Gallery 345 No Going Back Stacie Dunlop, Andrea Neumann, Peter Lutek (soprano, violin, clarinet) 8 pm.

Glenn Gould Studio Our Time: Worlds To Change. Worlds To Win: A Pride Concert Singing Out Community Chorus 3 & 7:30 pm.

Grace Church on-the-Hill Chandos Anthems Toronto Chamber Choir 8 pm.

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

Harlem West Madette (jazz) 7:30 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Tribute To Donny Hathaway Dave Young 9 pm.

Metropolitan United Church Musicians On The Edge Benjamin Stein, the Elixir Ensemble 7:30 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 Nancy Walker Trio (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Paintbox Bistro The Nearness Of You: Musical Salute To Hoagy Carmichael Joe Sealy, Cindy Church, George Koller 8 & 9:30 pm, ­Student Jazz Trios 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

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

The Rex Oz Noy Trio w/ Will Lee & Anton Fig 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/swoon) 3:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music TD Jazz: Celebrating Dinah & Sarah Kurt Elling & Denzal Sinclaire 8 pm.

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

Winter Garden Theatre Under The Influence Tour Straight No Chaser (a cappella group) doors 7 pm, all ages.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Andy Poolhall Lets NetMeet Mark Grimace, DJ Dominik, MartyMcFly Fawn BC, DJ Thunder, Willar-X, DJ Nokturnal (nu disco/UK garage/house/retro rave/breakbeats) 10 pm.

Black Eagle TRADE DJs Scooter & Dave Picard (deep house/techno).5 C Lounge Renaissance – All 90s 4Korners, Mista Jiggz (R&B/house/hip-hop/pop/reggae/dance) doors 10 pm.

Cinema Nightclub Sex Lies & Videotape: Symphony In Effect Maestro Fresh Wes, DJs Undercover & Mike Toast.

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

Club 120 Diva-off Burlesque DJ Johnny B Goode 10 pm.5 CODA Kolombo, Rampa w/ Starving Yet Full, Adam Port, Graham Plant, Cosella doors 10 pm.

Cold Tea DJ K-Cut. Crawford Ignition DJs Caff & Walmer Convenience (R&B-hip-hop/dancehall/new jack swing) 10 pm.

Cube Social Saturdays DJ Chris La Roque.

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

Drake One Fifty Flex Saturdays DJ Cozmic Cat (funk/love) 9 pm.

Marquis of Granby Prakata DJ Wayuu, DJ Cortez (Latin rumba/electronic rave).

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

MOJO Lounge Uma Nota’s Worldwide Ting DJ Uproot Andy, Maracatu Mar Aberto, General Eclectic doors 10 pm.

99 Sudbury Box Of Kittens Luke Slater, Jamie Kidd, Mike Gibbs, Fabio Palermo 10 pm.

The Piston Beam Me Up (disco) 10 pm.

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

Rivoli Loft Bump’n Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/disco/lovers rock/

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Venue Index

Adelaide Hall 250 Adelaide W. Air Canada Centre 40 Bay. 416-815-5500.

Alleycatz 2409 Yonge. 416-481-6865.

Andy Poolhall 489 College. 416-923-5300.

Array Space 155 Walnut. 416-532-3019.

Aspetta Caffe 207 Augusta. 416-725-0693.

Baltic Avenue 875 Bloor W. 647-898-5324.

Bar Radio 615 College. 416-516-3237.

Bier Markt Don Mills 7 O’Neill. 416-862-7075.

Black Eagle 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

Bloke & 4th 401 King W. 416-477-1490.

Bovine Sex Club 542 Queen W. 416-504-4239.

Brassaii 461 King W. 416-598-4730.

Buddies in Bad Times Theatre 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

C Lounge 456 Wellington W. 416-260-9393.

Cadillac Lounge 1296 Queen W. 416-536-7717.

The Cage 292 292 College.

Cameron House 408 Queen W. 416-703-0811.

Cavern Bar 76 Church. 416-971-4440.

The Central 603 Markham. 416-913-4586.

C’est What 67 Front E. 416-867-9499.

Chalkers Pub 247 Marlee. 416-789-2531.

Charlie’s Gallery 112 Harbord. 416-961-2828.

Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla 200 Bathurst.

Church of the Holy Trinity 10 Trinity Square. 416-598-4521.

Cinema Nightclub 135 Liberty. 416-588-2888.

Clinton’s 693 Bloor W. 416-535-9541.

Club 120 120 Church.

CODA 794 Bathurst.

Cold Tea 60 Kensington. 416-546-4536.

Comfort Zone 480 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

Crawford 718 College. 416-530-1633.

Cube 314 Queen W. 416-263-0330.

Curzon 1192 Queen E. 416-850-3650.

Czehoski 678 Queen W. 416-366-6787.

Dakota Tavern 249 Ossington. 416-850-4579.

Dance Cave 529 Bloor W, 2nd floor. 416-532-1598.

The Danforth Music Hall 147 Danforth. 416-778-8163.

De Sotos 1079 St Clair W. 416-651-2109.

Design Exchange 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

Detour Bar 193.5 Baldwin.

Dogfish Pub 7 Brimley. 416-264-2337.

Don Bosco CSS 2 Saint Andrews Blvd. 416-393-5525.

Drake Hotel 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042.

Drake One Fifty 150 York. 416-363-6150.

Duffy’s Tavern 1238 Bloor W. 416-628-0330.

The Duke Live.com 1225 Queen E. 416-463-5302.

EFS 647 King W. 416-477-5460.

Eglinton St George’s United Church 35 Lytton Blvd.

416-481-1141.

El Mocambo 464 Spadina. 647-748-6969.

Emmet Ray Bar 924 College. 416-792-4497.

First Canadian Place 1 First Canadian Pl. 416-862-8138.

The Flying Beaver Pubaret 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231.

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Latin/hip-hop/boogie) doors 10 pm.

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

Sneaky Dee’s Shake-A-Tail.

WAYLA Bar Michael Jackson Video Dance Party DJ Truewind (top 40/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.

Sunday, May 11 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Aspetta Caffe Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm.

Baltic Avenue The Indie Machine & CMW

Present: The Unofficial Party 9Yrs, Formalists, Happy Movie, Graeme Long & the Boxsets, Mia Dyson doors 7:30 pm.

Gladstone Hotel CD release Rosalie Sinanan 7 to 10 pm.

The Hideout Unplugged Scott Barrager (rock) 10 pm.

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

Orbit Room Horshack (classic rock) 10 pm.

Fox & Fiddle Danforth 535 Danforth. 416-462-9830.

Free Times Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078.

Full of Beans Coffee 1348 Dundas W. 647-347-4161.

Gallery 345 345 Sorauren. 416-822-9781.

The Garrison 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

Gate 403 403 Roncesvalles. 416-588-2930.

Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

Glenn Gould Studio 250 Front W. Gossip Restaurant 50 Prince Edward Island Cres. 416596-6492.

Grace Church on-the-Hill 300 Lonsdale. 416-488-7884.

The Great Hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330.

Grossman’s 379 Spadina. 416-977-7000.

Habits Gastropub 928 College. 416-533-7272.

Handlebar 159 Augusta. 647-748-7433.

Hard Luck Bar 772a Dundas W. Hard Rock Cafe 279 Yonge. 416-362-3636.

Harlem West 745 Queen W. 416-366-4743.

The Hideout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664.

Holy Oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803.

Horseshoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753.

Hot Box Puff Lounge 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990.

Hugh’s Room 2261 Dundas W. 416-531-6604.

Humble Beginnings 3109 Dundas W. 647-748-3109.

Imperial Pub 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667.

Izakaya Sushi House 294 College. 416-551-6264.

The Jazz Bistro 251 Victoria. 416-363-5299.

Johnny Jackson 587 College.

Kama 214 King W. 416-599-5262.

Kennedy Public House 3199 Bloor W. 416-769-3888.

Kensington Lodge 21 Kensington. 647-769-9936.

Rivoli Indie Night Eleanor Shore, Gods & Kings, the Toniks, the Second, Stellar Lane doors 8 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

The Cage 292 Jam Phill Hood 10 pm.

Cameron House The Double Cuts (western

swing) 10 pm, Kristine Schmitt & Her Special Powers 6 pm.

The Central Daisy Blue Groff.

Dakota Tavern The Beauties 10 pm, Bluegrass Brunch 10 am-2 pm.

Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm.

Free Times Cafe Zack Werner Idol School Recital 7:30 pm, Mothers Day Brunch Mitch Smolkin & Nina Shapilsky 10:45 am.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full Of Beans Sundays Peter Eastmure 2 to 4 pm.

Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar Acoustic Family Bluegrass 10 am to 1 pm.

Glenn Gould Studio Raag-Mala Music Society of Toronto Ashwini Bhide Deshpande, Sanjay Deshpande, Tanmay Deochake (voice/tabla/harmonium gharana) 6 pm.

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

Holy Oak Cafe Nude As The News Sandro ­Perri & Simone Schmidt (folk/pop) 9 pm.

Horseshoe Wye Oak, Braids (indie folk) doors 8 pm. See album review, page 58.

Hugh’s Room A Band Of Mothers On Mother’s Day Laura Repo, Darcy Good, Kristin Cavoukian, Marnie Niemi 2 pm.

The Local Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban) 9 pm, Chris Coole (oldtime) 5 pm.

Lula Lounge Samba Squad (samba) 8 pm, Mother’s Day Brunch Jorge Maza Group (salsa) 11 am & 2 pm.

Musideum Shannon Kingsbury (singer/songwriter) 4 pm.

Not My Dog Familiar Wild (orchestral folk/ pop) 10 pm.

Press Club G Mark Weston, the Rev Buddy Black (singer/songwriter) 8:30 pm.

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Kingsway-Lambton United Church 85 the Kingsway.

416-234-8224.

Kitch 229 Geary. 647-350-4555.

Kool Haus 132 Queens Quay E. 416-869-0045.

Lee’s Palace 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598.

Linsmore Tavern 1298 Danforth. 416-466-5130.

The Loaded Dog 1921 Lawrence E. 416-901-0662.

The Local Gest 424 Parliament. 416-961-9425.

The Local 396 Roncesvalles. 416-535-6225.

Lola 40 Kensington. 416-348-8645.

Lula Lounge 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307.

Magpie Taproom 831 Dundas W. 647-350-8305.

Marquis of Granby 418 Church. 416-599-0418.

Marriott Downtown Eaton Centre Hotel 525 Bay. 416-597-9200.

Massey Hall 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255.

Metropolitan United Church 56 Queen E. 416-363-0331.

Mezzetta 681 St Clair W. 416-658-5687.

Mill Street Brew Pub 21 Tankhouse Lane. 416-681-0338.

MOJO Lounge 1305 Dundas W. 416-530-1338.

Monarch Tavern 12 Clinton. 416-531-5833.

Morgans on the Danforth 1282 Danforth. 416-461-3020.

Music Gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080.

Musideum 401 Richmond W. 416-599-7323.

Nawlins Jazz Bar 299 King W. 416-595-1958.

99 Sudbury 99 Sudbury.

Not My Dog 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397.

Old Mill Inn 21 Old Mill Rd. 416-236-2641.

The Olde Stone Cottage Pub 3750 Kingston Rd. 416265-7932.

On Cue 349 Jane. 647-763-0417.

Only Café 972 Danforth. 416-463-7843.

Relish Bar & Grill The Barrel Boys 9 pm, L­ iane Fainsinger 7 pm, Cadre (roots/blues) 5 to 7 pm.

Rose & Crown Open Jam 9 pm.

The Sister Shak Shak matinee.

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

St. Andrew by-the-Lake Church Mother’s Day Kath & Kin doors 3:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Bob Cohen, Robert Priest, Arlene Bishop, Max Layton (folk singer/ songwriters) 5 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Church of the Holy Trinity Singing! Here!

Now! Echo Women’s Choir 3 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Jon Shearsmith (jazz) 9 pm.

Gallery 345 Brahms violin sonatas Monique De Margerie, Hibiki Kobayashi (piano, violin) 11 am.

Gate 403 Harry Vetro Jazz Quartet 9 pm, Joel Sheridan & Mark Kieswetter (jazz/swing) 5 to 8 pm.

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

The Jazz Bistro Jazz Cellar Marcus Nance, Tanya Holt 7 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Colin Hunter w/ the Joe Sealy Quartet (7 pm), Mother’s Day Brunch Colin Hunter 12:30 pm.

Kingsway-Lambton United Church A Song Bouquet For Mother’s Day Amy Dodington & Doreen Uren Simmons (soprano & piano) 3 pm.

Morgans on the Danforth Jazzy Sundays Laura Hubert & Peter Hill 2 to 5 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe Patrick Hewan Trio 2:30 to 5:30 pm.

The Rex Rachel Therrien 9:30 pm, Pram Trio 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Music Of The Night: A Tribute To Colm

Wilkinson Adam Brazier, Aaron Walpole, Josh Young, Chilina Kennedy, Jennie Such 7 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross The Toronto ­Improvisers Orchestra 1 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Fox & Fiddle Danforth Yolo Sundays Industry Night 10 pm.

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Orbit Room 580A College. 416-535-0613.

Paintbox Bistro 555 Dundas E. 647-748-0555.

The Painted Lady 218 Ossington. 647-213-5239.

Parts & Labour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750.

La Perla 783 Queen W. 416-366-2855.

Phoenix Concert Theatre 410 Sherbourne. 416-323-1251.

The Piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989.

Poetry Jazz Cafe 224 Augusta. 416-599-5299.

Press Club 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-263-3293.

The Queen’s Legs 286 Eglinton W. 416-481-3555.

Rancho Relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366.

Rasputin Vodka Bar 780 Queen E. 416-469-3737.

Relish Bar & Grill 2152 Danforth. 416-425-4664.

Reposado 136 Ossington. 416-532-6474.

Revival 783 College. 416-535-7888.

The Rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475.

RH King Academy 3800 St Clair E. 416-396-5550.

Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts 10268 Yonge (Richmond Hill). 905-787-8811.

Rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908.

Rockpile 5555 Dundas W. 416-504-6699.

Rose & Crown 2335 Yonge. 416-487-7673.

Roxton 379 Harbord. 416-535-8181.

Roy Thomson Hall 60 Simcoe. 416-872-4255.

Royal Cinema 608 College. 416-466-4400.

Royal Conservatory of Music 273 Bloor W. 416-408-0208.

Royal Ontario Museum 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

The Savoy 1166 Queen W. 416-499-9386.

Second Cup 1050 Islington. 416-231-3131.

The Danforth Music Hall Down, Sons of

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Hard Luck Bar Seahaven, Adventures, Foxing doors 7 pm, all ages.

The Hideout Big Otter Creek (rock) 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Mondays One Day Late, Daniela Cas, Palm Trees.

Kitch Hypnotic Lounge Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

Orbit Room Jordan John (soul/funk) 10 pm.

Silver Dollar Potty Mouth, the Beverleys, Nicholas Doubleyou & the B Squad 8:30 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Augustana, Twin Forks doors 7 pm.

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Seven44 744 Mt Pleasant. 416-489-7931.

Silver Dollar 486 Spadina. 416-975-0909.

The Sister 1554 Queen W. 416-532-2570.

Small World Music Centre 180 Shaw.

Smiling Buddha 961 College. 416-788-7586.

Sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 1 Front E. 1-855-872-7669.

Sound Academy 11 Polson. 416-461-3625.

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St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church 73 Simcoe. 416593-5600.

St Anne’s Anglican Church 270 Gladstone. 416-536-3160.

St James Cathedral 65 Church. 416-364-7865.

Supermarket 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.

Tattoo 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488.

Toby’s Famous 411 College. 416-868-6297.

Toronto Centre for the Arts 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388.

Touché 669 College. 416-516-9009.

Tranzac 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137.

Underground Garage 365 King W. 416-340-0365.

Unicorn Pub 175 Eglinton E. 416-482-0115.

Velvet Underground 510 Queen W. 416-504-6688.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club 722 College. 416-588-4663.

WAYLA Bar 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570.

The Whippoorwill 1285 Bloor W. 416-530-2999.

Winter Garden Theatre 189 Yonge. 416-314-2901.

Wise Guys 2301 Danforth. 416-694-2005.

Wrongbar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677.

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

The Hideout Unplugged The World Is Yours

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The Local Hamstrung Stringband (bluegrass/ honky-tonk).

On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm.

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Roxton Eva Moon (singer/songwriter) 10 pm.

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Gate 403 Lowell Whitty Jazz Band 9 pm, Jay MacDonald Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Gustav Mahler-Symphony No 4 Euphonia (classical) 8 pm.

The Rex Robert Mark’s Journeys 9:30 pm, Klezmer Big Band Fundraiser KlezKonnection 6:30 pm.

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Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon

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Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

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The Danforth Music Hall Mogwai doors 8 pm. ñ Gate 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo 9 pm.

Snaggle 9 pm.

Sony Centre for the Performing Arts Lana Del Rey (singer/songwriter) doors 7 ñ pm, all ages. pm, all ages.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Sinners Choir 10 pm, Noel Johnson 6 pm.

The Duke Live.com Open Jam Frank Wilks

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Free Times Cafe SAC Toronto Regional Songwriters Group & Open Mic 7:30 pm.

Izakaya Sushi House Drummers In Exile 8:30 pm.

The Local Crooked House Road 9 pm.

Lula Lounge Rotary and Canadians for Children at Health Risk benefit Ron Manfield & the Bob Cary Orchestra (singer/songwriter) 7 pm.

Press Club Toast N Jam Open Mic 10 pm.

Relish Bar & Grill Clela 7 pm.

751 Open Mic The Stoopids 10 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Harley Card, Michael Davidson, Dan Fortin 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Array Space Audiopollination 18.2: Focus On Voice 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Journeys Of The Soul Russell Braun, Artists of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra (baritone) noon to 1 pm.

Gate 403 Tom McGill (piano) 5 to 8 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Kim Barlow Band & Ryan Driver (jazz folk) 9 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Three Lauras Marks, Fernandez, Hubert 8 pm.

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

The Rex MB10 Big Band 9:30 pm, Allison Au Trio 6:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Aurochs (jazz) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun

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Baltic Avenue Bass Tha F#ck Up DJ DTM, Audi freq, Trinurgy (EDM).

Bloke & 4th Swank DJ Crunch (house/hip-hop/

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Gossip Restaurant Latin Nights DJ Alejo (salsa/bachata/kizomba/merengue/reggaeton).

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

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Comfort Zone Ulcerate, Inter Arma, Castevet, Thanktifaxath 9 pm.

Curzon Tony Carpino.

The Garrison Morning Parade doors 8 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm.

The Hideout Don Campbell (rock) 10 pm.

The Jazz Bistro The Soul Nannies 8 pm.

Lee’s Palace The Original Wailers doors 8 pm.

The Loaded Dog Tommy Rocker (rock) 9 pm.

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

Phoenix Concert Theatre One OK Rock all ages.

The Piston Buzz Records Showcase 9 pm.

Smiling Buddha CROSSS, Each Other, Gay 9 pm. ñ Unicorn Pub Open Jam 10 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron.

Emmet Ray Bar Peter Boyd, Noah Zacharin

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The Flying Beaver Pubaret Minxy’s Country Music Mix Up Sara Minx, Dave Barrow (country) 7 pm.

Free Times Cafe Shannon Lyon, Lucas Stagg (folk) 8:30 pm.

Gallery 345 Toronto Zen Centre Benefit Shelly O’Brien (singer/songwriter) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm.

Horseshoe Sohn, Mr Little Jeans (singer/ songwriter) doors 8:30 pm.

Hugh’s Room Betty & the Bobs, Soozi ­Schlanger, David Woodhead, Suzie Vinnick, Wendell Ferguson, Katherine Wheatley, Rich Greenspoon & David Matheson, Holmes Hooke 8:30 pm.

Johnny Jackson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 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 (singer/songwriter) 9:30 pm.

Tranzac Tiki Room Comhaltas Irish Slow Session 6 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Local 164 (old time music) 10 pm, Tax Bass 7:30 pm.

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NICHOLAS SAVAGE ñSEAN NNNN Bermuda Waterfall (Arbutus) Rating: Originally from Edmonton, then adopted by Arbutus’s DIY loft scene in Montreal, eccentric singer/songwriter Sean Nicholas Savage has put forth his most impressive (and coherent) album yet.

His 10th in six years, Bermuda Waterfall is a pop record through and through.

But what makes it so original is Savage’s sincerity, a quality often lacking in the genre. Wielding vintage synthesizers,

keyboards and a Spanish guitar, he coos about love and heartbreak, poetically exploring the lightness and darkness in his life. Even on tropical-inflected songs like Naturally, where he mentions “5 billion zombies roaming the street,” he sounds completely earnest.

While some may mistake Bermuda Waterfall’s chill ambience for irony, that just isn’t Savage’s style. He’s a self-proclaimed lover of Cyndi Lauper and a proud balladeer with a knack for writing glimmering melodies.

Top track: Naturally SAMANTHA EDWARDS

The Halls Of Wickwire (Hand Drawn Dracula) Rating: Cousins’ third full-length album is an excellent follow-up to 2012’s The Palm At The End Of The Mind, equally raucous but also tinted with counterbalancing soul.

Written in the aftermath of singer/guitarist Aaron Mangle’s grandmother’s death in 2012, the 10 songs have lyrical cohesion in addition to thick, memorable riffs and gripping, VanGaalenesque melodies.

The vaguely paranoid Body and surging rocker Phone use direct quotes from Mangle’s conversations with his grandmother while she dealt with dementia near the end of her life. Drummer Leigh Dotey adds distorted vocals to unhinged garage rocker What’s Your Name, and a sweeter colead turn on bleak murder duet Death Man. Her rhythmic chops, meanwhile, are more pronounced than ever.

Producer Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck, METZ, Julie Fader) extracts a bold, confident sound from the Halifax two-piece, emphasizing loud-soft dynamics that help their one-central-riff-per-song approach get lots of mileage.

Top track: Mess Cousins play Lee’s Palace on May 24.

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In Conflict (Domino/Secret City) Rating: His fourth album features the most reality-based lyrics of Owen Pallett’s career, yet there’s still as much magic in his compositions as there was when he called himself Final Fantasy. The swooping strings, wistfully romantic melodies and percolating synthesizers effectively walk the line between serious experimental art rock and flamboyantly emotional synth pop, resulting in some of his most accessible work yet. The songs are still too wonderfully weird to make it onto commercial radio, but that possibility seems more likely than it once did.

Brian Eno’s name is in the credits, but the legendary producer makes only a few cameo appearances and had little to do with shaping the album’s sound.

Nevertheless, it’s appropriate to imagine Eno’s influence in the ways synthesizers and effects are used to create mood. Pallett’s inventive textures lend emotional weight to some of the deliberately mundane lyrical details, so the album is at once beautifully ethereal and painfully real.

Top track: The Sky Behind The Flag Owen Pallett plays the Danforth Music Hall Saturday (May 10). BENJAMIN BOLES

(Epitaph) Rating: NNN Punk rock is full of young adults frustrated by the cruel world. But on their fourth fulllength, 30-somethings the Menzingers take that dissatisfaction one step further, adding tales of heart-wrenching paranoia and self-realization to the mix.

Instead of condemnations of society’s expectations, lead singer Tom May comes to terms with his place as an aging punk, employing a newfound clarity in his lyrics.

Driving opener I Don’t Want To Be An Asshole Anymore keeps the “woh-ohs” to a minimum and gets to the point, something Menzingers albums have had trouble doing in the past. Nothing Feels Good Anymore captures the loneliness of being the oldest person at the party.

Slower jam When You Died falters by asking somewhat predictable questions about mortality, failing to capitalize on the momentum built by the rest of the record’s powerful, riff-based tracks.

The Menzingers haven’t necessarily mastered the grown-up punk formula, but they’re certainly maturing with each new release.

Top track: In Remission The Menzingers play the Opera House June 3.

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Blues (independent) Rating: NNNN A new Canadian was bemoaning the dearth of protest songs by local folkies yesterday, so I told him about Kyp Harness.

Harness’s latest flies in the face of the love song’s hegemony, its 10 unapologetically political tracks backed by the Dinner Is Ruined Band playing scrappy and loose rock ’n’ roll perfectly suited to Harness’s freewheeling and scathing vocals.

The first half of the disc is rocking, especially the organ-heavy vitriolic barrage of Big Deal! – about the kind of arrogant big shot we love to loathe – and super-fast Easy Money, which I really want to throw on a jukebox and get everyone dancing to.

The second half leans toward ballads, covering Canadian injustices on We Own It Now and Ipperwash – which should become a standard if there’s any justice in folk. Most chilling, however, is The Black Donnellys, with its incessant descending piano figure setting the stage for the story of a famous Ontario massacre.

Top track: The Black Donnellys Kyp Harness plays Bar Radio Thursday (May 8).

SARAH GREENE

Electronic WYE OAK Shriek (Merge)

Rating: NNN Baltimore/Portland-based duo Wye Oak came onto the indie rock scene in 2008 with plucky guitars and decisive drums as their backbone, the odd distorted breakdown scattered throughout for drama and Jenn Wasner’s feathery vocals floating overtop. Four albums later, the band is unrecognizable.

Wasner traded her signature guitar for bass and synthesizers, while drummer Andy Stack picked up the keyboards as well. Circuitous guitar lines are replaced with pulsating R&B-tinged synth melodies, and the drums have evolved from rhythm-keeper to main player at centre stage – especially apparent on songs like Paradise. And although they’re still sweet, Wasner’s vocals seem more confident and assertive now, as if she’s come of age.

Still, there are moments on Shriek just yearning for a clever guitar melody or screeching solo. Here’s hoping Wasner hasn’t retired the instrument for good.

Top track: Paradise Wye Oak play the Horseshoe on Sunday (May 11).

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FATIMA AL QADIRI Asiatisch (Hyperdub) Rating: NN Western imaginings of foreign cultures fascinate New York-based musician and conceptual artist Fatima Al Qadiri on her debut album, a collection of songs that mines the tensions between the ancient and modern in Chinese culture.

Al Qadiri – who has never been to China – was inspired to put her own spin on it by insipid, Disneyfied portrayals of the country in Hollywood films that say more about American culture than they do about China.

This being instrumental music (save for a nonsensical cover of Nothing Compares 2 U featuring singer Helen Fong), Al Qadiri’s Chinese fantasies are decidedly abstract and in line with the dreamy, sci-fi approach to production of past EPs Desert Strike and Genre-Specific Xperience.

Asiatisch mixes repetitive industrial noises, poetry samples, Asian synth motifs and vaguely menacing atmospherics into tepid, listless and melodically bland soundscapes that serve the concept more successfully than they do the listener.

Top track: Shanzhai feat. Helen Fong KEVIN RITCHIE

Funk CHROMEO White Women (Last

Gang) Rating: NNN Of all the electro rock bands that emerged in the early 00s, few would have guessed that Montreal funk-obsessed duo Chromeo would be playing the big festival stages a decade later. Memorable hooks aside, they’ve always been overtly goofy in that peculiarly Quebecois way. Still, Daft Punk have proven that the public is ready for disco revival tunes that embrace the kitschier aspects of the genre, so maybe it’s not surprising that Chromeo are bigger now than ever.

The band’s calling the sound “Larry David funk,” which is as good a description as any the critics have come up with.

Still, the comedy reference is puzzling, since they obviously take this stuff seriously, constantly telling anyone who’ll listen that there’s nothing ironic about their love of Cameo and Rick James. But are we really supposed to believe that a song like Sexy Socialite isn’t at least a bit tongue-in-cheek? Thankfully, the novelty disco elements are balanced by enough rock-solid grooves that the cheesier moments don’t stink up the whole thing.

Top track: Lost On The Way Home (feat.

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Jazz FERN LINDZON Like A Circle In A Spiral (Iatros/independent) Rating: NNN Juno-nominated pianist and vocalist Fern Lindzon takes an unusually eclectic, international approach to jazz.

On her third album, Lindzon samples from Israeli and Yiddish songs as well as jazz classics and contemporary Canadiana.

(Album opener Jazz At The Bookstore, by Ron Sexsmith, arranged by Lindzon and producer/bassist George Koller, is a natural fit.)

The ensemble, which includes drummer Nick Fraser and Michael Davidson on vibraphone, paints a whimsical, often slow backdrop for Lindzon’s exploratory vocals, but the music isn’t without tension: the title track mimics a spinning mind, and the songs often sound imploring or intentionally cluttered.

That tension is released on danceable Shashado/Loro – based on Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti’s Loro – which features lots of Bill McBirnie’s flute playing, and on fluttery, light and brief album kicker This Little Love.

Top track: Shashado/Loro Fern Lindzon plays the Jazz Bistro Thursday (May 8).

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Still the King THE LION KING by Tim Rice, Elton John, Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi. Presented by Disney and Mirvish at the Princess of Wales (300 King West). Runs to June 15. $35-$155.

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Katherine Cullen maps out her troubled character’s journey in Vitals.

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At a secret location (meet at 149 Roncesvalles). Runs to May 25. $25-$30. 416-5047529. See Continuing, page 62. Rating:

NNNN Watching someone crack under stress may not be pretty, but it can make for powerful theatre.

In Rosamund Small’s Vitals, we enter the world and the mind of Anna (Katherine Cullen), an EMS worker who believes she’s so efficient at her job that nothing emotional can touch her.

What makes the show even stronger is that we don’t just watch Anna but become part of her rescue team, donning blue EMS gloves. Our evening’s guides are nine silent first responders who lead us through what appears to

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Street smarts SULTANS OF THE STREET by Anusree Roy (Young People’s Theatre, 165 Front East). Runs to May 15. $15-$24.

416-862-2222. See Continuing, page 62.

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In Sultans Of The Street, Anusree Roy brings two pairs of urban children to life.

Brothers Prakash (Ali Momen) and the younger Ojha (Colin Doyle) come from a comfortable home and play hooky from school to fly their kites.

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be an ordinary house on a quiet street.

It’s not, though. The production, helmed by that sorcerer of site-specific theatre, Mitchell Cushman, immerses us in a disturbing psychic landscape.

Though the building might be Anna’s home, more importantly it reflects her anxious state of mind.

Gathered in the backyard at the start, the audience of 30 finds telephone cords all over the place and watches a burn victim behind a basement window. Tchaikovsky blares from the garage.

When we meet Anna, we realize she has a sense of her own importance and the right way of doing things. We’re then led into the house, whose rooms are a dark wonderland: there are boxes of victims’ possessions, maps, red strings, medical reports suspended from the ceiling, and a kitchen that’s been invaded by the forest.

Viewers spend much of their Orphans Mala (Mina James) and her shy sibling Chun Chun (Richard Lee) live on the street and can only dream about going to school.

Set in contemporary Kolkata, India, Roy’s play explores the orphans’ hopes for a better life. Guiding their actions is the mysterious Auntie (Zorana Mina James’s Mala dreams of attending school.

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time wandering and exploring the space, sometimes watching Anna speak the text and sometimes listening to her on headsets. The latter technique doesn’t work at first, because there’s so much going on visually in Anahita Dehbonehie’s fascinating production design that we don’t pay attention to the words.

Cullen drives the production carefully. Over the course of 90 minutes, cracks appear in her controlled surface as ongoing stress eats away at her. Her eyes become wild, her breathing on the headset panicky.

In Small’s clever, often darkly comic script, seemingly isolated incidents develop larger importance as Anna falls apart, shaking with anger. That anger makes her aware that her work can’t help but be personal, an understanding that leads her to a new kind of care-giving, one for which she’s perhaps JON KAPLAN better suited.

Sadiq), who sends them out on the streets dressed as Indian gods to beg for money and pockets whatever they get.

Director Nina Lee Aquino’s staging, on Camellia Koo’s set of colourful fabrics that swirl to create various locations, suggests the vibrant city and the class differences be-

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More than 15 years after its debut, The Lion King continues to roar. The show’s mix of jaw-dropping stagecraft, stirring music and archetypal story still resonates with audiences young and old.

It’s based, of course, on the justly celebrated animated Disney film about a lion cub named Simba who, because of his manipulative uncle Scar, is convinced he’s responsible for the death of his father, Mufasa, and guiltily abandons the pride until he locates the hero within and returns to fight for the crown. Think Joseph Campbell on the African veldt.

This Broadway tour captures most of the magic of the sit-down production that played here in the late 90s. That’s evident from the astonishing opening number, in which, after baboon Rafiki’s (Brown Lindiwe Mkhize) soul-stirring call, the entire animal kingdom flocks, bounds and jumps onstage, a scene staged by director Julie Taymor with joyous variety and theatricality.

The many types of puppets and masks (designed by Taymor and Michael

tween the brothers and the other three. The children are clearly defined: the protective, streetwise Mala; the naively impetuous Chun Chun, desperate to show off his multiplication tables; the principled Prakash and the stuttering Ojha.

The scenes in which the quartet pursue people for coins are full of comedy, in part because their marks are defined by single characteristics: Big Shoe Man, Small Dog Girl, Red Turban Man. Not all the performances are shaped yet. Momen’s Prakash delivers one of the play’s themes, that fairness and honesty are important qualities, but at this point his character is fairly stolid,

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Curry) help shift perspective and carry the story along. Some of these techniques are centuries old, giving this very modern production an oldschool feel. There’s little CGI trickery here, just imagination and wonder.

Elton John’s music and Tim Rice’s lyrics are a bit more earthbound, but the arrangements and orchestration (including lots of African percussion) add richness and texture. The songs added from the movie aren’t the most memorable but help make use of the talented ensemble or develop character.

Acting standouts include Nick Cordileone and Ben Lipitz, whose Borscht Belt rhythms animate the comic relief characters Timon and Pumbaa, and Patrick R. Brown, who nails Scar’s drily sarcastic quips even if the show’s treatment of his character hasn’t aged well. (The producers really ought to cut the blatantly homophobic lines about him, including “There’s one in every family,” which didn’t get a laugh on opening night.)

Jordan A. Hall (who alternates with Nathaniel Logan McIntyre) is a spirited and spontaneous young Simba, while Jelani Remy is a better dancer than actor as the grown-up version. And Mkhize is the Rafiki of your dreams: vocally secure, with great comic timing.

But no one sees The Lion King for its performances. It’s bigger than that. Whether you’re a newcomer or know it already, see one of the cornerstones of modern musicGLENN SUMI al theatre.

Jelani Remy feels the pump in The Lion King.

without much warmth.

Sadiq plays the mimed characters from whom the children beg, nailing them with an appropriate touch of clown. But her Auntie needs a touch of imperiousness when she rounds on the children.

The powerful climax, in which Auntie’s guile is revealed and Ojha and Chun Chun both stand up to their elders, offers the children newfound friendships and the possibility of a future of their choosing. Roy brings richness to the conclusion, for though it’s uplifting, it doesn’t erase the memory JON KAPLAN of the past.

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Kawa Ada (left) and Nick Green become anonymous in ​ Hackerlove.

Gilbert (Cabaret Company). At Buddies in Bad Times (12 Alexander). To May 11. $19-$30. See Continuing, page 62.

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May 14 – 18, 2014 Wednesday – Saturday, 8pm Sunday Matinee, 2pm WHERE

The Theatre Centre 1115 Queen St. West

Hackerlove explores the relationship between Chelsea Manning (formerly Bradley Manning), the U.S. Army intelligence analyst who provided Wiki­ Leaks with a motherlode of classified information in 2010, and Adrian Lamo, the hacker she confided in who alerted the authorities, which led to her incarceration. Themes of trans identity, trust and morality all come into play.

Playwright Sky Gilbert brings ­Manning (Kawa Ada) and Lamo (Nick Green), who never met in real life, to­ gether in a series of “what if?” scen­ arios. What would ­happen if Lamo showed up in M ­ anning’s cell? What if Lamo hadn’t exposed Manning? What if they had sex? In b ­ etween these hypothetical events, their real online chats about the m ­ aterial Manning was about to make public are projected in real time on two large screens.

It’s an odd-couple scenario, with Ada’s lonely, friendly, idealistic Man-

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RUFF: BY SPLIT BRITCHES A PEGGY SHAW SOLO PERFORMANCE, DIRECTED BY LOIS WEAVER MAY 9 & 10, 8PM DANIELS SPECTRUM 585 DUNDAS ST. EAST For tickets and info visit: www.tangledarts.org may 8-14 2014 NOW

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Big Ideas (Alumnae Theatre). Staged readings of works-in-progress by ­Ramona Baillie, Mairy Beam and others. Opens May 13 and runs to May 16, Tue-Fri 8 pm. Free. 70 Berkeley, Studio. alumnaetheatre.com/WP/shows/big-ideas.

Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor (Factory Theatre).

Drinking and fear of their 40s drive the actions of five friends at their high school reunion.

Opens May 8 and runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$45, 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-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, s­ hawfest.com.

Contractions by Mike Bartlett (Red One Theatre Collective). A ruthless office manager grills an employee about a policy breach in this dark comedy. Opens May 8 and runs to May 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. ­redonetheatre.com.

Don Quichotte by Jules Massenet (Canadian Opera Company). This French take on Spain’s great literary hero features Ferruccio Furlanetto in the title role. Opens May 9 and runs to May 24, see website for schedule. $12-$332.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-363-8231, coc.ca.

Of Shapes Transformed By Love by Kyle

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One-Nighters

Lunacy Cabaret: Summer Of Love (Zero

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. Opens May 8 and runs to May 18, Wed-Sat 9 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Majlis Multidisciplinary Art Garden, 163 Walnut. ­shapes.brownpapertickets.com.

Only Drunks And Children Tell The Truth

by Drew Hayden Taylor (Centre for Indigenous Theatre). Senior and grad students perform the drama about an adopted native woman dealing with the death of her birth mother.

May 8-11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $10 or pwyc. Helen Gardiner Phelan Playhouse, 79A St. George. ­indigenoustheatre.com. rock.paper.sistahz festival (b current). This arts festival features theatre, comedy, spoken word, visual art and more by d’bi young, trey anthony, Catherine Hernandez and others.

Opens May 11 and runs to May 18, see website for schedule/prices. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­bcurrent.ca.

RUFF by Peggy Shaw (Tangled Art + Disability).

Writer/actor Shaw, who suffered a stroke in 2011, performs her show about issues of aging and infirmity. May 9-10, Fri-Sat 8 pm. $25, stu/PWD $20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. 416-392-1038, ­tangledarts.org.

Snow Bride by David James Brock (Romantic Animal Theatre Posse). On the eve of her wedding, a cocaine addict reflects on her past and hopes for a new life. Opens May 8 and runs to May 18, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat May 18 at 2 pm. $20, stu $15, mat pwyc. Box Studio, 89 Niagara. brownpapertickets.com/ event/621926.

Stars Of David based on a book by Abigail Pogrebin (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Angelwalk Theatre). Musical version of a book about being Jewish based on interviews with Gloria Steinem, Leonard Nimoy and others. Previews May 10-13, Sat & Tue 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. Opens May 14 and runs to Jun 1, Tue-Thu & Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Thu 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65.

Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416733-0545, ­hgjewishtheatre.com.

We Are Not Afraid Of The Dark by Tine Van Aerschot (The Theatre Centre). Monologue show about survival, life and love, inspired by Van Aerschot’s conversations with late theatre artist Tracy Wright. Opens May 14 and runs to May 18, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25$30. 1115 Queen W. t­ heatrecentre.org.

WeeFestival (Theatre Direct). Theatre festival for children ages zero to six featuring ­Helios Theatre, Teotro do Biombo and others. Opens

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A mid-show audience-interaction interlude is fun but could be better integrated into the production.

The visually striking set designed by Andy Moro, a large cube with two ­adjoining sides missing, serves as ­Manning’s cell in military prison but doubles as other locations. Projections of text and video onto the cube’s back panels work well.

Hackerlove isn’t Gilbert’s strongest work, but given the continuing leaks of government secrets and the promi­ nence of LGBT people in these events, it’s both entertaining and timely.

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May 12 and runs to May 19, see website for schedule & venues. $10-$14. w ­ eefestival.ca.

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ning contrasted with Green’s uptight, obsessive, cold and rational Lamo. ­Gilbert’s imagined moments push these qualities to their breaking point to find what might have made Manning confide in Lamo and what Lamo – a convicted hacker – was thinking when he betrayed Manning.

The psychoanalyzing is mostly speculative, but still compelling and plausible. In early scenes, the pairing feels awkward because it’s unclear why the impatient, dismissive Lamo even tolerates Manning, but midway in, we’ve learned enough about them that their tense connection starts to click.

Gravity Circus). This vaudeville-style cabaret features clown, circus, comedy, music and more. May 10 at 9 pm. $20-$25. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. l­unacycabaret.com.

A Spring Showcase (Scarborough Music Theatre). Songs from Broadway plus pop, jazz and opera. May 13 at 8 pm. $15. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-267-9292.

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Abigail’s Party by Mike Leigh (Precisely Peter

Productions). The hostess from hell humiliates and dominates her guests at a dinner party in 70s suburban England. Runs to May 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $29.50, srs $25. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416-504-7529, a ­ rtsboxoffice.ca.

Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Jun 1, ThuSat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59.

100A Ossington. ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel (Factory Theatre/Canada’s National Arts Centre). 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 Beckettlike 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. 416504-9971, ­factorytheatre.ca. N (GS) 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 (ZOU Thea­ tre Company/Independent Creators Cooperative). 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 (Lukawski, Paolozza and 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 two other shows). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 3shows.ca. NNN (JK)

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Fierce choreographer moves to the spirit of The Tempest

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THE TEMPEST REPLICA choreography by Crystal Pite. Presented by Canadian Stage and Kidd Pivot at the Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front East). Runs to May 11, Thursday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2 pm. $24-$99. 416-368-3110.

Procrastinators, take note: sometimes avoiding work can lead to inspiration.

Back in 2011, Crystal Pite and her Vancouver-based company, Kidd Pivot, were commissioned to present something in Frankfurt as part of a residency there. She knew she wanted to work with a script – either an existing one or a new work – but had nothing. Rehearsal dates were fast approaching.

“And then, as a way of procrastinating, I picked up Peter Brook’s The Open Door,” says Pite. “There’s a chapter about the creative process in which he says every director must make a decision about the shipwreck scene in The Tempest. It’s the only scene in the play that doesn’t take place on the island, so how much time – and money – should you spend on that shipwreck?”

That got her entranced with the idea of creating a shipwreck scene and possibly tackling Shakespeare’s late play in dance. Coincidentally, a sound designer she works with named Meg Roe had recently directed a version.

Crystal Pite identifies with The Tempest’s themes of parenthood, inspiration and control.

“I read the play and realized it was too complex to do as a dance, but Meg held my hand as I tried to negotiate the play and helped me decide how to reduce it so dance could handle it.”

That’s the story behind The Tempest Replica, which Pite and Kidd Pivot are in the midst of touring throughout Europe and North America.

Like her dance/theatre piece Dark Matters, which wowed audiences several years ago, the new work is split into two parts.

“I use the first part as a kind of onstage storyboard,” says Pite from the company’s stop in Birmingham, England. “It delivers plot points of the play with dancers in what we call replica gear – faceless mannequins. In the second part we dance, and the relationships and emotions of the play come out.”

Most artists relate to The Tempest’s themes of isolation, control, parenthood, the muse and eventually giving up their creative powers.

“Those themes really resonated with me, especially since I’d just had a child,” says Pite. “I identified with how Prospero has to release his

dance listings Opening

BLUE LANTERN Ismailova Dance Theatre pre-

sents an original creation about a strange newcomer in a community. May 10-11, SatSun 8 pm, mat Sun 3 pm. $18-$23. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble, Studio Theatre. ismtheatreofdance.blogspot.ca.

DANCENETTE Arabesque Academy presents multi-genre dance with Nashita, Anu Joshi, Egyptian Dance Academy Folklore Troupe, Princess Moon, Karina Parez and others.

May 11 at 7 pm. $10-$15. 1 Gloucester, suite 107. dancenette.com.

THE EROS CABARET Sion Irwin-Childs presents music, dance, film, comedy and interdisciplinary performances connected by themes of love, death, passion and the avant-garde.

May 9 at 8 pm. $10-$15. Round Venue, 152A Augusta. PedestrianThrashDC@hotmail.com.

FOLLOW YOUR HEART Evolution Dance Theatre presents the story of a modern Middle Eastern woman in love with a traditional man through belly dance and Western dance styles. May 8-11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35-$45, stu/srs $31-$40. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, evolutiondt.ca.

FRAMES Conteur Dance presents a student showcase. May 9-11, Fri-Sun 8 pm. $35. York

University Accolade East Bldg, 4700 Keele, McLean Performance Studio. 416-736-5888, finearts.yorku.ca/perform.

IN LIFE AND AFTER LIFE Mayworks, Inside Out Festival and the People Project present the stories of three queer young adults of colour told through dance. May 14 at 8 pm. $10-$15.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, Ballroom.

416-531-4635, mayworks.ca.

NEOINDIGENA Kaha:wi Dance Theatre presents Santee Smith performing her solo work about our relationship to all living entities and elements. May 9 at 8 pm. Pwyc.

Oakville Centre for the Performing Arts, 130 Navy. 1-888-489-7784, oakvillecentre.ca.

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ARRABAL (Mirvish and 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

power and magic in order to find his humanity and do the right thing by his daughter.”

Recently, Pite herself faced some big decisions. Her schedule is hectic, what with Kidd Pivot and regular work with Nederlands Dance Theatre and other companies. (Ironically, she collaborated with Robert Lepage on a new opera version of The Tempest for New York City’s Metropolitan Opera.)

So last year she took a sabbatical to figure things out.

“It was important for me to be home, focus on being a mom and not have a lot of pressure to produce for a while,” she says. “I had to think about whether I wanted to continue to have a company, and at the end I realized that, yes, I do want to keep the company, and, yes, I do want it to be based in Vancouver.

“I have lots of opportunities to create in other places, but there are certain things I can’t achieve in the same way unless I have my own group. So that was affirming.”

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is electric and catchy. But writer Weidman needs to find more clarity in the storytelling. Runs to May 11, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun 2 pm. $44-$84. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNN (GS) LAND / BODY / BREATH Peggy Baker Dance Projects presents an immersive installation performance for dancers and vocalists. Runs to May 14, Sat-Sun 2 pm, Tue 1 pm, Wed 7 pm. Included w/ admission to AGO (Wed free). Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. peggybakerdance.com.

MOMENTUM 2014 School of Toronto Dance Theatre presents student dancers performing works by Nova Bhattacharya, Marc Boivin, Julia Sasso, Christopher House and others. Runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20, stu/srs $15; Wed $30. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-907-0468, schooloftdt.org.

SOLODUET tiger princess dance projects presents two new works by Yvonne Ng that explore identity and its fluidity. Runs to May 10, Thu-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 play (see story, this page). Runs to May 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $24-$99.

Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3683110, canadianstage.com.

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Buonastella, Dean Gilmour, Nina Gilmour and Michele Smith (Play it Again Productions/ Independent Creators Cooperative). Shakespeare’s Desdemona and Ophelia return from the dead to take on the patriarchal world that subjugated them and get closure for their unhappy lives. 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 two other shows). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK) FROM RAGS TO BITCHES (Red Sandcastle Theatre). The Fabulous Russella puts on a show.

Runs to May 8, Thu 8 pm. $15-$20. 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com.

A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart

and Stephen Sondheim (Scarborough Music Theatre). A Roman slave plots to win his freedom in this musical comedy. Runs to May 17, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $27, stu/srs $22.

Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. theatrescarborough.com.

THE GIGLI CONCERT by Tom Murphy (Soulpepper). It takes a while to warm to Murphy’s play about an Irish building contractor who hires an English therapist to help him sing like Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli. But Stuart Hughes

and Diego Matamoros bring out the rich complexity of the characters. Too bad the script lacks the passion found in the Gigli recordings used between scenes. Runs to May 16, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. youngcentre.ca. NNN (GS) A GOD IN NEED OF HELP by Sean Dixon (Tarragon Theatre). In 1606, a mercenary and the men in his charge transport a painting from Venice to Prague. Afterwards, they must explain a miracle that they observed on their trip – religious and civil authorities want the truth. Dixon’s play about the relationship between faith, art and the gods is strong, though the first act lacks an emotional underpinning that surfaces in the second. Runs to May 25, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $21-$53, 8 pm, ltd rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. NNNN (JK) HACKERLOVE by Sky Gilbert (The Cabaret Company). This fantasy imagines a queer love affair between two characters in the midst of the WikiLeaks scandal (see review, page 60).

Runs to May 11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $19-$30, Sun pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm) THE LAST CONFESSION by Roger Crane (Mirvish).

This thriller explores the mystery shrouding the sudden death of Pope John Paul I in 1978 (see review at nowtoronto.com/stage). 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. NN (GS) LES PRÉCIEUSES RIDICULES by Molière (Théâtre français de Toronto). The French satirist takes aim at ladies of the bourgeoisie. Runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 3:30 pm. $28-$57, rush $20; May 8 gala $125. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. theatrefrancais.com.

THE LION KING by Elton John, Tim Rice and Roger Allers (Mirvish). The musical based on the Disney film returns (see review, page 59). Runs to Jun 15, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6:30 pm, mat Sun 1 pm, Sat 1:30 pm (see website for more dates/exceptions). $35-$155.

Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNN (GS) MAY ONE ACTS (Sterling Studio Theatre). Each week features a differnt playwright. Week 1 (to May 11): James McClure. Week 2 (May 1318): Woody Allen. Week 3: (May 19-25): John

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Patrick Shanley. Runs to May 25, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (no show May 19). $20, mat pwyc. 163 Sterling. sterlingstudiotheatre.com.

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.

MIES JULIE by Yael Farber (Baxter Theatre Centre/Harbourfront World Stage). A white woman and a black man wage love and war in post-Apartheid South Africa. Runs to May 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $49. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY by Ivan Turgenev (Amicus Productions). A bored wife’s roving eye leads to trouble in this comedy. Runs to May 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $22, srs $20, stu $18. Papermill Theatre, 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. Runs to May 11, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $32, stu/srs $27. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. alexandershowcasetheatre.com.

OF HUMAN BONDAGE by Vern Thiessen (Soulpepper). Thiessen’s adaptation of Maugham’s classic about an art-loving med student who’s obsessed with a woman gets a

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ret/Soulpepper). This instalment of Hollingsworth’s epic Canadian history series looks at the 1970 October Crisis, which saw Quebec separatists kidnap a diplomat and cabinet minister and Pierre Trudeau declare martial law. It features the company’s trademark colourful, rapid-fire, Brechtian approach to recounting (and lampooning) our past. Mac Fyfe’s spot-on Trudeau steals the show. Runs to May 10, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 1 pm, Sat 2 pm. $25-$55. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, videocab.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) VITALS by Rosamund Small (Outside the March/Theatre Passe Muraille). A Toronto paramedic deals with life, death and bureaucracy in this show based on interviews with EMS workers (see review, page 59). Runs to May 25, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. Starts at Roncesvalles & Garden Aves, 149 Roncesvalles. 416-504-7529, outsidethemarch.ca. NNNN (JK) 3

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Runs to May 17, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (JK) PAPER SONG by Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull (Young People’s Theatre/Concrete Theatre).

This play blends a Japanese folk tale about a crane with the story of a mouse. Runs to May 11, see website for times. $17-$22. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca.

RALPH + LINA by Michele Smith, Christina Serra and Dan Watson (Ahuri Theatre/ Independent Creators Cooperative). An Italian romance interrupted by WWII has a happy Canadian ending in this commedia-inspired work. Writer/actors Watson and Serra are delightfully warm and funny as their characters go through the problems of many separations and an unwanted new love interest. Runs to May 18, Thu-Sun see website for times (Runs in rep with two other shows). $23, stu $18, 3-show pass $55. The Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. 3shows.ca. NNNN (JK) THE ROAD TO MECCA by Athol Fugard (Soulpepper). A widow turns her property into an art installation in a South African village in this drama about intolerance and self-expression. Runs to May 28, Mon-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed & Sat 2 pm. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

ROBERTO DEVEREUX by Gaetano Donizetti (Canadian Opera Company). It may be called Roberto Devereux, but the central figure of this rarely performed opera is Elisabetta I, who’s caught between her private duties as England’s Queen and her passion for the traitorous Devereux, who’s in love with someone else. Director Stephen Lawless’s superb production brings out all these themes with stunning clarity. Sondra Radvanovsky and a first-rate cast and orchestra help bring out the beauty, urgency and drama in the score. Runs to May 21: May 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) 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 India (see review, page 59). Runs to May 15, see website for schedule. $15-$24. 165 Front E. 416-862-2222, youngpeoplestheatre.ca. NNNN (JK)

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax 416-364-1168 or mail to Comedy, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, producer, comics, brief synopsis, days and times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address and box office/ info phone number/website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

Thursday, May 8 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliners Matt Bergman & Gilson Lubin and host ñ Chris Timms. To May 11, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BAD HABITS COMEDY Habits Gastropub presents a weekly show. 10 pm. Pwyc. 928 College. 416-533-7272, habitsgastropub.com.

BIG JAY OAKERSON – WHAT’S YOUR FUCKING DEAL? Empire Comedy Live ñ presents Oakerson and Carmen Lynch. 9 pm.

$15. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. empirecomedylive.com.

CHRIS GETHARD & CARMEN LYNCH Empire Comedy Live presents a comedy double bill. 8 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, comedybar.ca.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Todd Graham, Steve Patrick Adams, Dawn Whitwell, host James Hartnett and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

MIRANDA SINGS LIVE Just for Laughs and CMW present the international YouTube sensation. 7 pm. $29.50-$50. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. ticketmaster.ca.

ROB VS THE WORLD Empire Comedy Live presents Rob Mailloux in his new show, Drunkorexia. To May 8, Thu 8 pm. $10. Johnny Jackson, 587 College. empirecomedylive.com.

ROCK N ROLL COMEDY NIGHT Yuk Yuk’s and CMW present stand-up w/ Terry Clement, Dan Guiry and MC Christophe Davidson. 8 pm. $11.50. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.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) TITS N’ SASS Rethink Breast Cancer presents a benefit comedy show w/ Sandra Battaglini, Zabrina Chevannes, Sara Hennessey, Diana Love, Kathleen Phillips, Martha O’Neill, Dawn Whitwell and host Paul Hutcheson. 8 pm. $50. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. rethinkbreastcancer.com.

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Friday, May 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 8.

THE BONG-A-LONG SHOW Underground Cafe

presents Nick Flanagan, Nitish Sakhuja, Jon Malanos, Julia Hladkowicz and hosts Sandra Battaglini & Phil Luzi. 9 pm. $15-$20. 670 Queen E. ticketfly.com.

CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

CHRIS GETHARD Empire Comedy Live presents the comic in a live stand-up show. To May 10, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

COMEDY INFERNO Canadian Music Week presents stand-up w/ Ryan Horwood, Nigel Grinstead, Adrienne Fish, Wojtek Arciszewski, host Katharine Ferns and headliner Steph Tolev. 8 pm. $10, ltd free wristband entry. Johnny Jackson, 587 College. katharineferns.com.

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tions presents an improv tribute to apple-pie comics w/ Devon Hyland, Ann Pornel, Mark Little, Leigh Cameron and others. 10 pm. $5.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388.

SEBASTIAN MANISCALCO Just for Laughs and CMW present the Italian-American comic in a live show. 7 pm. $40. Elgin & Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. t­ icketmaster.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 8.

Jeremy Woodcock and others. 9 pm. Free.

1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439.

PROPEN MIC Comedy Bar presents a weekly pro open-mic show followed by lottery spots.

9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 8.

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.

WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive competitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents the

Mother’s Day True Open Mic. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

NEW YORK SPOTLIGHT Empire Comedy Live presents a triple bill w/ Big Jay Oakerson, ­Carmen Lynch and Chris Gethard. 7 pm. $20.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 8.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

TEH INTERNETS QUIZ SHOW: WELCOME TO THE INTERNETS Comedy Bar presents ñ Chris Gibbs, Alice Moran, Darrly Pring, Sean

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Trinidad Vs Jamaica Mothers Day Clean Comedy Clash presents Jean Paul, Jay Martin,

Tabares and host Tom MacKay. 10 pm. $10.

945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­comedybar.ca.

Trixx, Marvin Ishmael, Kareem Jones, Kathy Grant and others. Partial proceeds to the Lupus and Cancer societies. 3 pm. $35 adv.

Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd.

416-729-9776, ­ticketgateway.com.

TEXAS COMEDY MASSACRE 2: 8TH ANNISHOW Fox & Fiddle presents ñVERSARY Ali Hassan, Tim Steeves, Julia Hladkowicz, Ed-

die Della Siepe, Christophe Davidson, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. ­texascomedymassacre2.com.

THROW DOWN Bad Dog Theatre Repertory Plaers present performers challenged by the audience and by each other to perform feats of improv mastery. To May 30, Fridays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, ­baddogtheatre.com.

TOM GREEN Yuk Yuk’s presents the comic actor live. To May 10, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $35. 224 Richmond W. ­yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, May 14 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

headliner Joey Elias, Sean McKeirnan, Thomas Calnan, Rene Payes, Candice Gregoris, Joel West, Dylan Beeson and host Fraser Young.

8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

CAMP WAYWARD Bad Dog Theatre present all-female improv about an allgirls sleepaway camp. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco. com.

ELEPHANT EMPIRE Comedy Bar presents the troupe w/ Hannah Spear, Andrew Gardner, and others, performing fast-paced sketch and a one-act play. To May 28, Wednesdays 8 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

FINAL FRONTIER Bad Dog Theatre presents improv inspired by the Star Trek universe w/ Etan Muskat, Jess Bryson and others. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standup. 8-10 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. ­facebook.com/MagicOveneele.

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.

SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ host Selby Nixon and headliner Darren Springer. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 8.

SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001.

TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free.

Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440.

YUK YUK’S presents Jeff McEnery. To May 18, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com. 3

Monday, May 12 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Julia Hladkowicz, Nick Beaton, Bryan ñ Hatt, Chelsea Manders, Mark Heath, Cleve

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COMEDY NIGHT TORONTO @comedynightto presents comics competing for cash w/ headliner Gilson Lubin and host Dan Guiry. 9 pm.

Pwyc. Brooklynn Bar, 1186 Queen W. ­comedynightto.com.

NEW FACES 2014 Humber School of Comedy presents stand-up, sketch and satire by graduates, w/ host Dave Thomas. 8 pm. $14.

Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, ­secondcity.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.

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Saturday, May 10 Absolute Comedy See Thu 8.

BIG JAY OAKERSON & CARMEN LYNCH

Empire Comedy Live presents two New ñ York City comics in a live show. 9 pm. $20.

Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. ­empirecomedylive.com.

Chris Gethard See Fri 9.

RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 8.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents headliner Ron Josol, Tim Golden, Pat MacDonald and host Christophe Davidson.

9:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents the improv competition w/ Carmine Lucarelli, Ashley Comeau and others. To Jun 21, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­baddogtheatre.com.

Tom Green See Fri 9.

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Tuesday, May 13 COMEDY COVE Blair Streeter presents Terry

Clement and Darryl Orr, 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 & lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369.

IMPROV DROP-IN Black Swan Comedy presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. ­blackswancomedy.com.

MEGA CRAZY CRAZY FRENZY! The Garrison presents a one-year anniversary show w/ Scott Thompson, Nick Flanagan, Amanda Brooke Perrin, hosts Matt Collins &

Sunday, May 11 Absolute Comedy See Thu 8.

COMEDY WARRIORS Yuk Yuk’s presents U.S.

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Meryl McMaster part of Material Self: Performing The Other Within, at ­MOCCA (952 Queen West, 416-395-0067), to June 1.

The beings Meryl McMaster inhabits on camera for her In-Between Worlds series wear costumes combining colourful crafters’ finery and bits from nature, a mashup based on her aboriginal and European heritage.

The sculptural elements evolve over several months. “Many of my ideas are labour-intensive,” she says, “for example, sewing 5,000 balloons into a headpiece and outfit for Wind Play.”

She keeps a mental inventory of out­door locations but is open to oppor­tunities: “an incredibly foggy, windy morning” sent her down to the Ottawa River to shoot Wingeds Calling.

The pictures are not performance documents, she cautions. “Performance is one of many elements I use in the construction of the photographs.

“Being the subject of the images is very difficult technically, physically and mentally,” she says. Working with an assistant outdoors in winter, alternating between performing and photographing, is both exhilarating and exhausting.

“I like that the images look like stills from a dream,” she says. The work “helps me develop a better understanding of my personal identity and, I hope, triggers similar FRAN SCHECHTER internal conversations for others.”

Stan Douglas t Ryerson Image Centre (33 Gould), a to June 1. 416 979-5164.

Stan Douglas, recipient of the 2013 Scotiabank Photography prize, is preoccupied with reconstructing moments in history using actors, sets and costumes. Modernism, urban politics, race, the history of cinema, jazz, blues and Samuel Beckett figure prominently.

The current show is a representative sample of his many projects. Kung-Fu Fighting comes from his series Disco Angola, in which he explores the role of disco shoes, by Stan Douglas as a cultural force during the Angolan civil war of the mid 1970s. The show is so broad it almost lacks focus, but that shouldn’t DAVID JAGER discourage viewers from appreciating its savviness.

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Tactuality at MJG Gallery (1028 Queen East) to June 1. 416-923-4031.

At his friendly east-end gallery, Mark Gleberzon curates works that focus on the many uses of texture. This show includes the imposing and starkly contrasting landscapes of nature photographer Phil Vriend, two striking portrait pieces by international music photographer Kevin Kelly and the artful nudes of Shelagh Howard.

Gleberzon contributes his own pieces, which generally centre around the contrasting use of photographic imagery with sculptural and collage elements. The show also features the serene landscape photographs of Sandy Dj Middleton, which are printed directly onto raw wood.

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jects, to May 11, paint fight 1 pm May 10 (Danforth and Ladysmith). Danforth btwn Greenwood and Woodbine. artofthedanforth.com.

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Drawing/photos/prints: William Kentridge and Robin Rhode, to Jun 28. 1069 Bathurst.

647-348-5110.

CELAINE FLECK GALLERY Photos: Gary Ray Rush and S Vote, to May 31. 888 Queen W. 416-469-8005.

ESP Julie Favreau and Grier Edmundson, Jean-François Lauda, to May 10. 1450 Dundas W. 647-345-6163.

CGALLERY TPW Installation: Tris VonnaMichell, May 10-Jun 7, reception 3-6 pm May 10. 1256 Dundas W. 416-645-1066.

CHARBORD COINWASH Photos: Dirty Laundry group show, May 10-31, reception noon-6 pm May 10. 292 Harbord.

CJESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY Jessica Eaton, to May 31. 74 Miller. 416-537-3125.

CLONSDALE GALLERY Photos: Joan Kaufman, to Jun 1, reception 6-9 pm May 8, artist’s talk 2-5 pm May 10. 410 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8733.

LOVE ART FAIR Affordable art, May 8-11, gala 6-9 pm ($35, adv $30) May 8. $12, stu/ srs $10. Direct Energy Centre, Exhibiton Pl, 100 Princes’. loveartfair.com.

CMETRO HALL Photos: Richard Renaldi, to Jun 1. 55 John. 416-397-9887.

MKG127 Painting: Monica Tap, to May 31.

1445 Dundas W. 647-435-7682.

NAISA SPACE Sound installation: Hilary Harp and Reva Stone, to May 25 (Thu-Sat).

601 Christie. 416-652-5115.

CNICHOLAS METIVIER Photos: Gordon Parks, to May 24. 451 King W. 416-2059000.

CNIKOLA RUKAJ GALLERY Photos: Ebrahim Noroozi, May 10-31, reception noon-4 pm May 10. 384 Eglinton W. 416-481-5995.

NO FOUNDATION Jason Deary, to May 11.

1082 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

PARI NADIMI Video/photos: Tori Foster, to May 24. 254 Niagara. 416-591-6464.

Passage Verdeau, by Tanja Tiziana Burdi, hangs at Steam Whistle.

CPREFIX Photos: Steve Payne, May 8-Jul

26, reception/Prefix Photo magazine launch 7-10 pm May 8. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357.

PROJECT GALLERY Art Battle Day, 7 pm May 10 ($20, artbattle.ca). C Photos: Z-Ro Collective, May 8-14, reception 7-11 pm May 8.

1109 Queen E. 416-890-5051.

CSTEPHEN BULGER Photos: Joseph Hartman, reception 5-9 pm May 9, May 10-Jun 7. 1026 Queen W. 416-504-0575.

CSTEAM WHISTLE BREWING Photos: Silver Linings group show, to May 31. 255 Bremner. 416-362-2337.

SUSAN HOBBS Shirley Wiitasalo, to May 24.

137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699.

VIDEOFAG The Last Match (Toronto Comic Arts Festival), to May 12. 187 Augusta.

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Shani Mootoo’s story of Toronto-born writer Jonathan, who reconnects with his transgender parent in Trinidad, may distress trans activists bent on promoting a single narrative.

Sydney, once the woman Sidhanna, didn’t transition only because he felt like he had the wrong body. His first impulse arose from finding lesbian life too difficult.

But I like that about this story. Mootoo creates characters and situations – Jonathan is the son of lesbian mothers – of a complexity we rarely see.

As the book opens, Jonathan has been summoned to Trinidad – Sid abandoned the nine-year-old and his other mother, India, in Toronto for the island – to attend to his ailing parent.

He’s been visiting there for the last decade, but only now does he believe he can get to the truth about Sid’s life.

That story involves Sid’s childhood friend Zain, who gave him his first

Thursday, May 8 NOIR AT THE BAR Readings by Rob Brunet, Tanis Mallow, Jill Edmondson, John McFetridge, Andrew Pyper and others. 7 pm. Free. PJ O’Brien Irish Pub, 39 Colborne. robbrunet.com/events.

Friday, May 9 ACROSS NO 1 Reading by Gary Barwin, Tom

Cho, Beatriz Hausner, Kaie Kellough and Hoa Nguyen. 7:30 pm. $5-$10 sliding scale. St Stephen in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue. mchristakos@hotmail.com.

KAREN ENNS/JOANNA LILLEY/JANE MUNRO/ ARLENE PARE Reading from new poetry collec-

tions. 6 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032.

C = Contact Photography Festival show ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Jennifer Marman

TEKSTEDITIONS SPRING LAUNCH AND TRIBUTE TO RICHARD TRUHLAR Launch for new books

and Daniel Borins, to May 25. Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, to Jul 20 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). C Scott McFarland, May 14-Aug 10, reception 6:30-8:30 pm May 14 (free). Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

ART GALLERY OF YORK U Camilla Singh, to Jun 16. 4700 Keele, Accolade E. 416-736-5169.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Communicating Vessels, to May 11. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga (Mississauga). 905-828-3789.

CCAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Double The Pleasure, Triple The Fun: Stereographic Images, to Jun 1. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227.

CCITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to May 31. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

DESIGN EXCHANGE This Is Not A Toy, to May 18 ($16, stu/srs $13). Rocket industrial design student competition, May 10-11.

Emerging Designer Competition, to May 19. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

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Artist As Another; Material Self: Performing The Other Within, to Jun 1. Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT Mike Nelson, to May 19.

C Pictures From Paradise: A Survey Of Contemporary Caribbean Photography, to May 25. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). C Michael Awad, to Sep 28. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000.

CRYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Stan Douglas, Zanele Muholi, Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, to Jun 1. 33 Gould. 416979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA From Geisha To Diva: The Kimonos Of Ichimaru, to May 25, curator tour 6:30 pm May 14. Ying Gao, to Sep 1. Telling Stories, to Sep 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.

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by Brian Dedora, Nicholas Power, Lance Olsen, Melody Sumner Carnahan and Truhlar, with tribute readings/performances. 7 pm. Free.

Gallery 345, 345 Sorauren. teksteditions.com.

Tuesday, May 13 DAVID A POULSEN Talking about his books

and being a children’s writer. 10 am. Free.

Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

PRISCILA UPPAL Reading from her memoir, Projection: Encounters With My Runaway Mother. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

BAUHAUS POETRY REMIX Authors Suzanne Alyssa Andrew, Tony Burgess, Heather Loretta Curlee, Liisa Ladouceur, Jacqueline Valencia and Jade Wallace turn the lyrics of indie goth band Bauhaus into poetry. 7:30 pm. Nocturne, 550 Queen W. 416-504-2178.

BETH GOOBIE Signing copies of her book The Throne. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

RIA VOROS The author talks about her books and about being a children’s writer. 2 pm.

Free. Spadina Library, 10 Spadina Rd. 416393-7666. books@nowtoronto.com

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Candid Ryan Emberley

May 21–28 • Spoke Club 600 King St W 2nd Floor

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May 8-26 • Prefix Institute of Contemporary art • 401 Richmond St W

MONA OIKAWA Launching her book Cartographies Of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory And The Subjects Of The Internment with a panel discussion. 4 pm.

Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. anotherstory.ca.

Monday, May 12 BANOO ZAN/JIM JOHNSTONE/MAT LAPORTE

Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. lionatnight.com.

ECW SPRING LITERARY PARTY With authors Arjun Basu, Jonathan Bennett, Heather A

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Clark, Suzannah Showler, Richard Rosenbaum and Adam Nayman. 8 pm. Free. The Piston, 937 Bloor W. ecwpress.com.

COMICS NOIR WITH ED BRUBAKER & DARWYN COOKE The comic creators discuss their craft

Sunday, May 11

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Saturday, May 10 followed by a Q&A and screening of Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing. 5:30 pm. $7-$10. Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, 506 Bloor W. 416-516-2330.

J FENWICK LANSDOWNE Launch of a book on the life of the artist. 2-5 pm. Free. Feheley Fine Arts, 14 Hazelton. 416-323-1373.

whiney, when Sydney isn’t meeting his emotional needs or when circumstances force him to take on new responsibilities.

And, as always, Mootoo’s descriptions of Trinidadian landscapes are spectacularly lush, transporting readers to this gorgeous location.

The ending’s a bit too tidy, but this is still another winner from the GilSUSAN G. COLE ler short-lister.

The shameful internment of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War in camps across Canada is one of our most under-discussed historical realities. Mona Oikawa tries to change that with her book Cartographies Of Violence: Japanese Canadian Women, Memory, And The Subjects Of The Internment ($39.95, University of Toronto), in which she interviews women survivors and their daughters and explores the effects of forced displacement. Oikawa launches the book with a panel discussion Sunday (May 11) at Another Story SGC Bookshop. See Readings, this page.

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clue that he was different, his difficult relationship with India, and Sid’s account of his journey to a T.O. clinic for gender reassignment.

Along the way, Mootoo probes homophobia in the Caribbean, racism in Toronto and, ultimately, the beauty of the trans community Jonathan comes to appreciate.

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than Glazer, written by Walter Campbell from Michel Faber’s novel, with Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy McWilliams and Paul Brannigan. A Mongrel Media release. 108 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

If Scarlett Johansson pulled up to you in a white van at night, rolled down the window and began chatting you up, you’d recognize her, right?

Well, think again. During the making of Jonathan Glazer’s existential sci-fi thriller, Under The Skin, Johansson – albeit with dark hair – was filmed from inside the van trying to flirt with solitary male pedestrians along the bleak roads of Scotland, and most didn’t catch on.

“The central idea is that Scarlett is an alien, a spy, dropping into the world undetected,” says Glazer. “She’s playing a character who’s playing an actor. So it was a perfect storm of ingredients.”

In the first part of the film, Johansson’s unnamed creature stalks men in her van, then lures them back to her home, where they meet their death. It took the director and star a while to find the right approach to the character. The story is told from her inhuman point of view.

“We talked a lot, but not about how to play an alien – more about finding the right tone,” says Glazer. “We tried to find equivalent things in the human experience. And it helped to give Scarlett tasks to perform – to

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keep her immersed in the function of driving, for instance.”

The role required a lot of nudity, a big ask for one of the most photographed women on the planet.

“Scarlett understood why we needed to include the scenes, so she took a deep breath: she’s a real pro,” says Glazer. “And she understood very tacitly that the bravery of the character needed to be matched by her bravery as an actor. She couldn’t flinch or pull back.

“But,” he adds, “I was conscious of not wanting those sequences to be erotic. I understood their power in the film, and what they would mean to people. They show her as completely fearless. I don’t think you can walk away from that and feel anything other than respect.”

The male victims also had to bare all.

And when they’re walking to their deaths, they’re obviously – how to put it? – up for the task.

“That was essential,” says Glazer.

“She’s cast this spell on them. They’re following her to their demise, and they’re in a state of sexual arousal. It would have been completely wrong for them not to be.”

More than Glazer’s other films (2000’s Sexy Beast, 2004’s Birth), Under The Skin is being compared to the work of Stanley Kubrick, especially its opening shot, an homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey.

“That opening scene was a con-

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scious choice,” says Glazer. “2001 is one of the great science fiction films.

But [that opening scene] was also about lulling people into a world by presenting imagery that feels familiar. You’ve seen an image of planets aligning or spaceships docking, but at the end we reveal that it’s an eye we’ve been looking at.”

Which, in turn, becomes a clue about how to watch the film.

“It’s a film dedicated to her perspective,” says Glazer. “We experience it through her eye.”

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Jonathan Glazer’s first film since 2004’s absorbing psychological drama Birth will indeed get under your skin. It’ll also provoke lots of discussion and, likely, disagreements. (It’s already become one of the fest circuit’s most polarizing films).

Scarlett Johansson plays a beautiful alien who drives a white van around the grey, drab roads of Scotland to pick up single men and mysteriously dispense with them. While this sounds like some sci-fi thriller – Species 4! – it’s anything but.

Loosely based on Michel Faber’s novel, it deals with big themes like alienation, charity and – hell, why not?

– the human condition. One remarkable sequence manages to look at Glasgow’s citizens as if through the eyes of someone not quite human.

The harsh, rugged landscape helps immensely, as does Johansson’s restrained performance and Mica Levi’s hypnotic, disturbing score, which will bore its way into your subconscious.

This one will haunt you. GS

This visually arresting meditation on guilt and innocence, faith and hypocrisy in 60s Poland leaves a haunting impression.

On the brink of taking her vows, novitiate nun Anna (Agata Trzebuchowska), sent to the convent as a child, is instructed to visit Wanda (Agata Kulesza), the aunt she’s never met. After Wanda tells Anna her real name is Ida and that she is Jewish, they set out for the small town where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed. A hitchhiking musician (Dawid Ogrodnik) they pick up along the way gives Anna her first taste of what can happen outside the walls of the nunnery.

As he did in My Summer Of Love, Pawlikowski explores contrasting personalities – Anna is pure and unworldly, Wanda a hard-drinking, cynical Communist judge – and he’s cast the film accordingly, eliciting a luminously wide-eyed performance from firsttimer Trzebuchowska and a powerful, world-weary turn from veteran Kulesza.

He’s shot the film in black-andwhite, using distancing techniques that make the two appear lost in wide open landscapes, and its Dogme-influenced soundtrack makes the most of every creaking convent door and every classical record that Wanda plays to block her memories.

There’s a small hole in the narrative: it’s never clear why Wanda contacts the convent after nearly two decades.

But Ida tackles the complex issues of wartime accountability with nuance, and it’s drop-dead gorgeous.

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Zac Efron shows off his frat abs in Neighbors.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw (left) and Sarah Gadon help illustrate issues that aren’t just black and white.

COMEDY

Home hilarity NEIGHBORS (Nicholas Stoller). 96 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

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THE BELLE OF THE BALL Director looks at race as well as gender, equality and class By NORMAN WILNER BELLE directed by Amma Asante, written by Misan Sagay, with Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid and Sarah Gadon. A Fox Searchlight Pictures release. 104 minutes.

Opens Friday (May 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71.

Amma Asante’s first film, A Way Of Life, played the 2004 Toronto Film Festival and promptly disappeared. That was a shame. The study of a teenage mother in contemporary Wales, it was a gripping drama about a young woman trying to define herself on her own terms.

Nine years later, Asante returned to TIFF with Belle, which explores similar themes in a very different manner. On the surface, it’s a costume drama starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Dido Elizabeth Belle, the mixed-race daughter of an 18th century British naval captain.

Raised by her uncle, the Lord Chief Justice of England (Tom Wilkinson), alongside his own daughter Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), Dido grows up to make the acquaintance of crusading young solicitor John Davinier (Sam Reid) and contribute to Britain’s move toward outlawing the slave trade.

But there’s something more intimate and complex underneath. Though it hits the expected melodramatic beats of a woman torn between two suitors, Asante parallels Dido’s journey toward self-actualization with her association with the abolition movement – which meant Belle had more in common at last year’s TIFF with The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes’s biopic about Charles Dickens’s

mistress, Nelly Ternan, than with 12 Years A Slave. Not that too many people noticed.

“So many interviewers have compared it to other movies where they have leads of colour or that have been about slavery,” says Asante. “For me, what’s just as important as race in this story is the gender status, equality and class issues. They completely overlap with each other. Pardon the pun, but they’re not black-andwhite issues.”

Most of those issues, Asante explains, were not present when she first came aboard on the project.

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“What I received was something called Belle And Bette, a story as much about Elizabeth as it was about Dido,” she says. “Elizabeth ends up having an affair with John Davinier, and the two sisters can’t stand each other – you know, Elizabeth is a spoiled brat. It was all very conventional and we’d seen it before, to be perfectly honest with you. What I wanted to do was shake it up and do something more complex.

“I think I’ll always be striving for that in the choices I make in the stories that I get to tell.”

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Gugu Mbatha-Raw (Larry Crowne, Odd Thomas) makes a strong lead as a young woman brought up among gentry but forever kept at a remove from them; Tom Wilkinson is nicely stuffy as the uncle who raised her; and Sarah Gadon is terrific as his more privileged daughter.

But while Misan Sagay’s script is rife with intriguing subtext, the text itself is a little simplistic, with stilted dialogue and broaderthan-necessary supporting performances

by Miranda Richardson and Tom Felton as Dido’s social-climbing antagonists.

Those weaknesses work against director Amma Asante’s goal of an accessible, massaudience drama that shows how the story’s issues of race and gender are still (sadly) entirely NW relevant today.

If the trailers for Neighbors make you a little nervous – another dumb comedy about squares versus frats? – you can relax.

That is indeed what Nicholas Stoller’s new movie is about, with new parents Mac (Seth Rogen) and Kelly (Rose Byrne) locked in a prank war with the frat that’s moved in next door. But it’s a lot smarter than the pitch.

As he did in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek, Stoller manages to interlace the escalating insanity with surprising

emotional intelligence. Neighbors isn’t just about stolen airbags and überkeggers; it’s about Mac and Kelly’s desperate wish to still identify as young and cool to alpha bro Teddy (Zac Efron) and his followers.

Rogen and Byrne are exactly the right people to play those notes. They find a nice, comfortable chemistry and a physical ease with one another that speaks to a long relationship. And Neighbors also gives Efron the best role he’s had since Hairspray, pushing the actor’s blandness into genuine blankness and making Teddy utterly unreadable as the pranks grow more complex.

Extra points for the amazing supporting cast, which includes such comedy MVPs as Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Hannibal Buress, Jason Mantzoukas and Lisa Kudrow. You never know where the next laugh will come from.

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Deragh Campbell (left) and Kim Taylor share a quiet moment in I Used To Be Darker.

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Dark matters I USED TO BE DARKER (Matthew Porterfield). 90 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NNN Writer/director Matthew Porterfield’s third feature peruses the dynamics of a splintering family. A Baltimore couple, both musicians, undertake a painful separation exacerbated by professional resentments. Their distraught daughter cuts ties with her mother, and an Irish niece, who is expecting, makes an unexpected visit.

Through it all, the camera is unimposing, the light sourced from the surroundings, and the naturalistic performances convey a sense of warmth and quietude. Porterfield’s craft is superb, his sense of place authoritative and inviting.

But I Used to Be Darker dissipates

when it swerves into high drama and plot development. There’s little story, yet too much exposition. The absence of scoring signals the intention of avoiding easy sentimentality, yet the frequent use of onscreen musical performance, replete with on-the-nose lyrics, has the unfortunate effect of overstating themes and emotions already implied.

The exception is an early scene where two young women attend a gig in which a lean, fearsome quartet charge through a smouldering staccato rock number.

Otherwise, the finest moments are subtle, atmospheric, seemingly incidental: a drunken swim, a casual snoop around a house when no one’s home, a scene in which a young woman casually breaks into a passage from Hamlet.

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Allie MacDonald camps it up in Stage Fright.

Tom Hardy is stuck behind the wheel of a car talking to a speakerphone. For an hour and a half.

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Killer combo STAGE FRIGHT (Jerome Sable). 102 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NNN

LOCKED AND LOADED Director’s low-budget, high-concept car picture pays off By NORMAN WILNER LOCKE written and directed by Steven

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Steven Knight established himself as a screenwriter with Dirty Pretty Things and Eastern Promises, both of them about people of questionable character who risk everything to help someone else.

“It’s always interesting to explore the idea of someone doing a bad thing for a good reason,” Knight says in his distributor’s office on a foggy Toronto press day for his latest film, Locke. “People justify things to themselves. ‘If the reason is good behind this bad thing, that’ll do.’”

Having just made his directorial debut with the similarly themed Jason Statham thriller Redemption, Knight felt he needed to shake things up.

“I wondered, fundamentally: is there a different way of making a film?” he says. “I’d seen a lot of test footage that was shot from moving cars to test out the cameras. I found it quite hypnotic and beautiful, and wondered if it wasn’t possible to turn that into a theatre, to put an actor in there and shoot a play.”

The result is Locke, essentially a chamber drama that happens to take place inside a speeding car. The driver is construction foreman Ivan Locke – played by Tom Hardy, the villain in The Dark Knight Rises – who has chosen to abandon the biggest project of his career and drive from Birming-

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ham to London.

“I wanted to shoot something in almost a naive way,” Knight explains.

“Turn the cameras on and shoot the whole film beginning to end, which is what we did. We would put three cameras and the car on a [flatbed truck]. Tom had an Autocue, like a newsreader’s, of the script. The other actors were in a conference room in a hotel with a real phone line to the car. So I would say, ‘Action’ once, we would set off and shoot the whole thing. Then we’d come to the end, have a break and shoot the whole thing again.”

They shot 16 full-length takes over six nights. It was a gamble, but Knight had worked everything out in advance – “to the last syllable” – with his financiers.

“I put forward the idea and the way of filming – the shortness of the shoot that would be needed – so the budget was low, and with Tom’s involvement as well you’re sort of getting into no-risk territory. If you have a low budget, people leave you alone. Which is great.”

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Using nothing but Tom Hardy stuck behind the wheel of a car talking to a speakerphone, writer/director Steven Knight has made a brooding consideration of the price of having a moral code. It’s amazing what a high-wire act that turns out to be.

Co-stars like Olivia Colman (Broadchurch) and Ruth Wilson (Luther) make considerable impressions given that they’re heard only as disembodied voices. And Knight’s carefully calibrated script provides rock-solid motivations for Hardy’s character.

You could quibble that the method by which that exposition is delivered is a bit gimmicky, but it doesn’t diminish what Knight and Hardy have achieved.

This is a remarkable cinematic experiment.

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Jerome Sable gets full marks for ambition. Stage Fright, his debut feature, takes on not one, but two movie genres – the musical and the slasher flick. While not everything works, he more than lives up to the promise he showed with his award-winning short, the similar genre mashup The Legend Of Beaver Dam. Ten years after Broadway diva Kylie Swanson (Minnie Driver) is butchered on the opening night of The Haunting Of The Opera (get it?), her twin kids Camilla (Allie MacDonald) and Buddy (Douglas Smith) are working as cooks at a musical theatre summer camp headed by Kylie’s partner and producer (Meat Loaf), who’s looking for a comeback.

When Camilla tries out for the camp’s production of Haunting, weird things begin happening offstage, seen through the POV of the masked killer and scored to some wicked guitar riffs.

Is it the lighting guy? The creepy groundskeeper? The jealous girl competing for the part?

Think Meatballs meets Glee meets Phantom Of The Paradise.

Sable throws in allusions to everything from Hellraiser to Carrie, and the camp setting (filmed in Parry Sound and North Bay) gives the exterior shots authenticity.

Sure, the opening third rambles, the tone occasionally feels icky – those prepubescent campers aren’t gonna die, are they? – and there’s some problems with lip-synching and looping of songs.

But the tunes (co-written with Eli Batalion, who’s got a cute cameo) are clever, the final reel is filled with lots of gruesome, unpredictable fun, and the killer’s screeching theatre-related bons GLENN SUMI mots are to die for.

Sorry, but Fed Up doesn’t measure up.

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FED UP (Stephanie Soechtig). 92 minutes.

Opens Friday (May 9). For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating: NN There’s nothing inherently wrong with reducing a complex issue to a single argument. Advocacy documentaries need to be able to get their message across as simply and clearly as possible.

But Fed Up is so intent on selling its thesis – that sugar is terrible for you, and it’s in everything – that it becomes hectoring and exhausting.

Narrated by Katie Couric (and coproduced by Heather Reisman), Stephanie Soechtig’s feature contents itself with making the same point from a number of different angles.

It’s an important message, but any-

one who’s bought a ticket to this movie already knows processed foods are bad and fresh foods are better. And though Soechtig nods in the direction of the economic and social realities that drive American families to eat badly, she doesn’t really engage with them – not even asking Bill Clinton, whom she interviews at length, about his own impoverished upbringing in Arkansas and the poor eating habits that almost certainly contributed to his quadruple bypass surgery in 2004.

Instead, she goes all in on simplistic messaging, cutesy animated graphs and repeated comparisons of today’s sugar industry to the tobacco conglomerates that pushed back against scientific reality for decades.

I agree with everything Fed Up is saying and I still wanted to walk out.

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Teen spirits Teenage (Matt Wolf). 78 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Times, page 76. Rating: NNN

TEENAGE Inspired by Jon Savage’s acclaimed book, Teenage blends expansive archival footage and 16mm recreations to depict youth culture and the rise of the teenager.

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PARTICLE FEVER 10,000 scientists join forces to find the elusive Higgs Boson particle at CERN.

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According to Teenage, and the book by Jon Savage it’s based on, the adolescent is an early 20th century invention, a tumultuous space created between childhood and adulthood when nothing of the sort had previously existed.

Matt Wolf’s doc weaves together nifty archival footage of life and pop culture, along with sly recreations, charting the evolution of the teenager from exploited factory worker after the industrial revolution to lucrative demogra­phic immediately after WWII – still exploited, but with a facade of agency.

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THE LADY IN NUMBER 6: MUSIC SAVED MY LIFE This 2014 Oscar-winning film shares the inspiring life story of a 109-year-old pianist.

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Andrea Logan White (left), Sarah Drew, Patricia Heaton: onward, ­Christian moms!

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Faith ’n’ farce MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (Andrew and John ­ rwin). 99 minutes. Opens Friday (May 9).

E For venues and times, see Movies, page 71. Rating­: NN God works in mysterious ways, especially in Moms’ Night Out. The slapstick comedy about an overworked mother whose evening off turns into a zany adventure seems like something from the Judd Apatow factory. It’s actually a Christian movie on the sly, sneaking in the faith before you catch on to the absence of f-bombs and lewd innuendo. If you’re expecting The Hangover, this one comes with a virgin twist.

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If the multiplex today is any indication, teenagers rule the world, or at least corporations want them to think they do.

Wolf draws parallels between flappers and jitterbugs, the Boy Scouts and Hitler Youth. But instead of spelling out a convincing argument, he opts for a mixtape of history in which images both idyllic and turbulent dance to a funky soundtrack. While that collage often feels repeti­tive, it does pay lyrical and intoxicating tribute to the spirit of the teenager, which is at once assertive and vulnerable, confused and confusing, supposedly unique yet always steering toward the flock.

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than previous attempts of its kind. As a movie, Mom’s Night Out has more practical problems than the gentle ­sermon buried between the lines.

Few characters are relatable or believable, with the exception of Allyson (Sarah Drew, putting in fine work), a mother gasping for air amidst the dialedup chaos of being a happy homemaker.

Allyson’s ladies’ night starts off charmingly, playing familiar challenges for laughs (a reservation mix-up over the definition of “next Saturday”). That soon disintegrates into an over-thetop, asinine search for a missing baby that’s full of strained, antic gags and uncommonly polite bikers and alco­ holics, all of whom are God’s children, ­because that would be the point.

I was sincerely hoping the whole package would work, but somewhere during the foolishness, I lost faith.

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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

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BEARS (Alastair Fothergill, Keith Scholey) takes gorgeous wildlife photography of Alaskan brown bears and edits it into a fictionalized, ridiculously anthropomorphic narrative about a mother and her cubs avoiding perils while foraging for seafood in the Arctic wilderness. That said, few things are more adorable than brown bear cubs falling asleep next to their mother.

77 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (Marc

Webb) delivers virtually everything its predecessor did, in more or less the same order. It 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, there’s jumping, fighting and web-swinging as our hero battles super-villains created by the nefarious Oscorp (Jamie Foxx’s scene-chewing Electro and Dane DeHaan’s calculating Harry Osborn). Andrew Garfield brings radically different physicalities to the paralyzed, self-doubting 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. And Sally Field continues to be an affecting Aunt May. The plot about Peter’s dad and his super-secret research is unnecessary, and the need to set up more projects starts to weigh the picture down by the

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, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER ñCAPTAIN

(Anthony Russo, Joe Russo) is a super-powered riff on Three Days Of The Condor, with Steve Rogers (Chris BELLE (Amma Asante) 104 min. See interEvans) branded an enemy of the people view and review, page 67. NNN (NW) and forced to work Opens May 9 at Varsity with friends old BETHLEHEM (Yuval (Scarlett Johansson’s EXPANDED REVIEWS Adler) uses the Natasha Romanoff, nowtoronto.com same plot as Hany AbuCobie Smulders’s Assad’s Omar. An Arab Maria Hill) and new teenager (Sadhi Marei) is (Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson) to clear thrust into a world of deception and behis name and save the world from a contrayal when he’s enlisted as an informant spiracy that dates back to the Second

by Israel’s secret service. But the execution World War. No, it won’t make any sense if is very different, and even if you haven’t you haven’t seen the first Captain America seen Omar, Bethlehem stands just fine on and The Avengers (at least). But it has a its own. Subtitled. 99 min. NNNN (NW) charismatic hero, inspired action choreogCanada Square raphy and Robert Redford. Also, it’s really BLUE RUIN (Jeremy Saulnier) is an all- funny. Some subtitles. 136 min. NNNN (NW) American revenge story that ex401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplores the consequences of getting caught plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Misin the tit-for-tat algebra of retribution. sissauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Macon Blair stars as Dwight, introduced as Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, a scruffy itinerant living out of his beat-up Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow blue car. Careful to parcel out information, Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Saulnier reveals that a criminal recently Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, released from prison killed someone close SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, to Dwight. When he returns to his Virginia Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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CINCO DE MAYO: THE BATTLE (Rafael Lara)

is a recreation of the Battle of Puebla, in which the overmatched Mexican army managed to hold off a French invasion on May 5, 1862. Patterned after Hollywood epics like Titanic, The Patriot and The Alamo (which is more than a little ironic), it plays out a handful of personal stories against a massive historical event. The period recreation is pretty convincing – produced for a reported $10 million, the film looks like it cost six times as much, and writer-director Lara insists on showing that off at every opportunity, stopping to marvel at the detail on a character’s costume or stun the eye with wide shots full of extras. The actors wind up struggling to hold our attention against the next big action sequence. Perhaps as a corrective to Germán Lammers’s selfconsciously jittery Hunger Games-style camerawork, Lara tells the story with the broadest strokes possible: the French commanders are sneering aristocratic villains, the Mexicans straight-up heroes – even the deserter (Christian Vasquez) who returns to the battle. No one ever says or does anything that will surprise you.

That’s an inherent limitation to historical drama, but here it almost seems like an excuse. Subtitled. 126 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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DIVERGENT (Neil Burger) is the latest attempt 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) Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

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Darren Aronofsky takes on the Biblical story of Noah, his wife and their family and adds CGI rock monsters, a villain, a barbaric army and a cautionary climate change metaphor.

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­Shepard) features Jude Law in a ferocious, balls-out performance as the eponymous safecracker who’s released from prison after 12 years and goes looking for the money that’s owed him. The film’s filled with bold colours, big, clear chapter titles and a couple of marvellously fun set pieces. The supporting actors don’t have much to do, but Law is feckin’ brilliant. 94 min. NNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

Draft Day (Ivan Reitman) borrows its

plays from 2011’s Moneyball, an entire movie built around the business of shaping a winning team. Kevin Costner stars as the fictional Cleveland Browns GM, who approaches the NFL draft as the figurehead of a desperate team. Moneyball took a novel approach by exploring numbers and whittling baseball down to a mathematical equation. Draft Day is much more old-fashioned, playing by the num-

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ñThe Face of Love

(Arie Posin) is an absorbing, affecting tale of grief and love. Annette Bening and Ed Harris are superb as a widow who meets and falls in love with a man who looks freakishly like her dead husband. 92 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Varsity

Fed Up (Stephanie Soechtig) 92 min. See

review, page 68. NN (NW) Opens May 9 at Varsity

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­Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier to construct a compelling portrait of an artist who refused to be seen. Unknown to the world until co-director ­Maloof happened to acquire her negatives at auction, Maier’s raw, poetic street pho-

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(Wes Anderson) recounts the entirely ­fictional tale of Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes), the unflappable concierge of the eponymous mountaintop manse in the European country of Zubrowka, and his training of the young lobby boy Zero (Tony Revolori) in the ways of service and life. It is a story filled with intrigue and love and war and murder and betrayal and a fairly novel prison break, and if I was to say ­anything further about what director/cowriter 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)

The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine) whisks

us back to the remote island of Floreana in 1930s, when a handful of European eccentrics attempted to escape civilization. The story, which climaxes with apparent murder, is captivating, but the execution suffers from an excessively leisurely pace, over-used stills and mostly superfluous interviews with the subjects’ descendants.

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The German Doctor (Lucía Puenzo) is a biographical thriller about an Argentine family who lived with Nazi butcher Josef Mengele without knowing his identity. 93 min.

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tography 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

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(Paolo Sorrentino) stars Toni Servillo as a 60-something disllusioned journalist in this sweeping indictment of Berlusconi’s Italy. 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. Subtitled. 142 min. NNNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

A Haunted House 2 (Michael Tiddes) is a

mediocre comedy spoofing all the recent haunted house flicks. The minimal plot lurches awkwardly from one set piece to another, but Marlon Wayans and Gabriel Iglesias have fun sending up ethnic stereotypes, and Missi Pyle is wickedly demented spoofing Vera Farmiga’s ghostbuster from The Conjuring. 86 min. NN (GS) Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Rainbow Woodbine

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, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24 I Used to be Darker (Matthew Porterfield) 90 min. See review, page 67. NNN (José Teodoro) Opens May 9 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Pawel Pawlikowski) 80 min. See review, page 66. NNNN (SGC) Opens May 9 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñJodorowsky’s Dune

(Frank Pavich) examines surrealist filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s proposed mid-70s adaptation of Dune, which was too big to succeed. With a cast that included Orson Welles, Mick Jagger and a Salvador Dali robot and a run time between 12 and 20 hours, it was too out-there for any Hollywood studio to drop $15 million on.

The hardest sell was the filmmaker himself. In this document of the conception and ultimate unravelling of Jodorowsky’s spiritual sci-fi epic, he describes his Dune as “the coming of a god.” He’s apparently very serious about this. And why shouldn’t he be? Pavich’s film is a testament to the power of motion pictures as metaphysical experience. Even if Jodorowsky’s movie never got made, his wide-eyed belief in the medium is refreshing in an age when cinema’s possibilities feel frustratingly limited. Even if we can’t see his Dune, we can still believe in it. 90 min. NNNN (John Semley) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Joe (David Gordon Green) 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. Director Green’s time in Hollywood has calcified his storytelling sense. 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. 121 min.

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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.

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The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live is a live high-def broadcast of

Rossini’s comic opera, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. 220 min.

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min. See review, page 78. NNNN (SGC) Opens May 13 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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keted as a frothy middle-aged romance, but it’s really a drama about an English couple (Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan) unhappily marking their 30th anniversary in Paris. It feels like a stage play that’s been awkwardly translated to the screen and certainly can’t compete with last year’s Before Midnight. 93 min. NN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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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.)

It’s still a pretty fun movie, it’s just not as enjoyable as the last one. 108 min. NNN (NW) 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.

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(Nicholas Stoller) 96 min. See review, page 67. NNNN (NW) Opens May 9 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Darren Aronofsky) has rock monsters, a villain, a barbarian army and all sorts of other stuff that wasn’t in the original text. But what director and cowriter Aronofsky has done, in a surprisingly textured and mature way, is acknowledge that the story is in fact only a story.

He plays it absolutely straight; even a hint of irony would bring the whole thing down in a heap. That’s why casting Russell Crowe as Noah makes sense; he’s immune to irony, and can’t help but engage fully with the role of a patriarch wrestling with concepts and responsibilities well beyond his pay grade. After the Flood, Aronofsky shuts out the spectacle to focus, intensely, on the people in the boat: Noah, his wife (Jennifer Connelly), their sons and a young continued on page 74 œ

(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange hand­ written letters via their meals. Ila (Nimrat Kaur) prepares home-cooked lunches for 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

(Phil Lord, Chris­ topher Miller) is sweet, funny, preposterously complex and uniquely ridiculous. 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

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(Tom Berninger) is billed as a documentary about the National, but it’s really a study of brothers Matt (the band frontman) and Tom Berninger’s fractured relationship. It cleverly deconstructs their emotional dynamic, though you might have trouble believing director Tom did the deconstructing himself. 75 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of 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) Interchange 30, Kingsway Theatre

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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, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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) Interchange 30, Scotiabank Theatre

Nymphomaniac: Volume I (Lars von

Trier) is the sometimes funny, profoundly misogynist story of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), who recounts her hypersexual adventures to Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), who responds to every sordid tale with stunningly cerebral detachment. Von Trier’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

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Nymphomaniac: Volume II (Lars von

Trier) See Nymphomaniac: Volume I above. 120 min. NN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Mike Flanagan) feels like a creative response to the diminishing returns of the Paranormal Activity series, with adult siblings (Karen Gillan, Brenton Thwaites) bent on scientifically proving that a centuries-old mirror is to blame for the deaths of their parents (Rory Cochrane, Katee Sackhoff) 11 years earlier. It’s cleverly written, and the actors are all much better than they need to be. 105 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(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 fashionplate 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 bone-dry wit and languid pacing that recall the Jarmusch of Mystery Train and Dead Man. The entire cast is having a ball, and Adam’s music is pretty good, too. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

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(Mark Levinson) chronicles the buildup to the maiden operation of CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and the long-belated validation of the Higgs boson theory. This pop science doc is smart and commendably accessible, but works too hard to milk suspense from the scientists’ anticipation anxiety. 99 min.

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(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, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & ­Dundas 24

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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 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

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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 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 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, Queens­ way, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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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(Mike Clattenburg) plays very much like the boys’ cult TV series, with the same loose mock-doc style and plot lines involving selling stolen urine for drug tests and attempting to prevent the legalization of marijuana because it would cut into Ricky, Julian and Bubbles’s homegrown businesses. Thankfully, the new movie feels more like a celebration than a retread.

There’s an undeniable sweetness to the gang’s relationships, a refreshingly unCanadian brashness to their humour, which leaves an oft-overlooked darker sour aftertaste. It’s what made the Trailer Park Boys an unexpected hit in the first place that somehow continues to resonate over a decade later. 95 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre

Transcendence (Wally Pfister) has a 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, Yonge & Dundas 24

Rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a trop-

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. But the busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus,

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Short Peace is an anime anthology featuring work by four emerging directors. 68 min.

May 14 at Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24 Stage Fright (Jerome Sable) 102 min. See review, page 68. NNN (GS) Opens May 9 at Carlton Cinema Teenage (Matt Wolf) 78 min. See review,

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That Burning Feeling (Jason James) is a

pleasantly odd little comedy about a hotshot Vancouver developer (Paulo Costanzo) who’s forced to look up his past sexual partners – and re-evaluate his life choices – when he’s diagnosed with gonorrhea. It doesn’t break any new ground for its genre, but Costanzo is an appealing lead, Scott Pilgrim’s Ingrid Haas puts some nice layering into the well-meaning but conflicted role of Costanzo’s do-gooder love interest, and John Cho and Tyler Labine have fun with their goofy supporting roles. 95 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

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 postpunk sensibility in there, too. But it doesn’t quite capture the doomed love at the heart of the story: Will’s widow (Rebecca Hall) repeatedly avoids the question of whether that really is her husband who’s taken up residence on her iPad. 117 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 BELLE (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 FED UP (G) Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:45, 5:05, 7:20, 9:40 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:30, 6:45, 9:10 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 2:25, 4:45, 7:35, 9:50 LOCKE (14A) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:25, 4:25, 6:35, 9:00 Mon, Wed 12:30, 2:30, 7:20, 9:25 Tue 2:50, 4:50, 7:20, 9:25 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:30, 9:05 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:40, 9:15 UNDER THE SKIN Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:50, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 8:55

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2 STATES (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:35, 9:50 ABERDEEN Fri-Sat, Tue 12:40, 3:45, 6:10, 8:30, 10:50 SunMon, Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:05, 8:35 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Fri-Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (G) Mon 1:30, 7:00 BEARS (G) Thu 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 2:55 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Tue 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 10:00 Wed 12:20, 3:30, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 5:55, 9:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:55, 5:55, 9:05 Sat 2:55, 10:45 DRAFT DAY (PG) Thu 9:10 THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Mon 2:00, 4:15, 6:20, 10:20 Wed 1:00, 3:15, 6:15, 10:20 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:55, 2:50, 4:25, 5:25, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 10:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 12:20, 4:20, 7:25, 9:45 Sun 1:55, 4:20, 7:05, 9:45 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 THE HOST (PG) Fri 7:00, 9:45 Sat 12:55, 7:00 Sun 8:00, 10:30 Mon 4:00, 9:30 Tue 10:15 Wed 4:45, 9:30 KOCHADAIIYAAN Fri-Sat, Tue 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:20, 10:55 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:10, 6:45, 9:30 THE LAST UNICORN Sat 4:00, 7:00 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (G) Fri-Wed 12:05 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN 3D (G) 2:25, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Mon only 2:25 4:45 7:30 10:10 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 FriWed 1:25, 3:50 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Sat 7:00 MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (PG) 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat MUPPETS MOST WANTED (G) Thu 3:05, 6:45, 9:25 Fri, Tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:25 Sat 11:55, 2:50, 5:25 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:25 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Fri 3:00 Sun 12:55, 4:30 Tue 1:30 NEIGHBORS (18A) Fri, Tue 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 11:00 Sat 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 Mon, Wed 4:00, 5:00, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40 NOAH (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:15, 9:15 Mon 8:45 Wed 9:15 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, Tue 12:50, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:25, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 12:50, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:25, 7:30, 8:00, 9:55, 10:30 Mon 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:00, 9:55, 10:30 Wed 12:30, 2:30, 3:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30, 7:25, 7:30, 8:00, 9:55, 10:30 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 1:30, 7:00 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 8:10, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 6:50, 9:50 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Fri-Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:25 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:30, 4:05, 6:40 Fri, Tue-Wed 12:00 Sat-Sun 11:55 Mon 12:05

CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BEARS (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:10 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 BETHLEHEM (14A) Thu 4:30, 6:50 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:20 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) 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 DIVERGENT (PG) 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 FACE OF LOVE (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:20, 8:50 Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10 Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:00 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:30 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 NOAH (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:10 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:10 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:00 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40 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

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Thu, Sun, Wed 7:00 Fri 4:20 Sat 4:20, 9:10 PHILOMENA (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

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

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu, Sat, Wed 7:00 Fri 7:00, 8:45 Sun 4:30 PARTICLE FEVER Sat 8:45 Sun 7:00

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

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 3:30, 4:00, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:20, 12:50, 1:40, 3:40, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 12:45, 1:40, 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:30, 8:30, 10:20, 10:50 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:45, 9:00 Fri, Sun 2:40, 6:00, 9:20 Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:00, 9:20 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:15, 6:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri, Sun 12:10, 3:25, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 12:35, 6:55 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (G) Fri-Tue 12:30 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN 3D (G) Fri-Sun 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:25 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA LIVE Sat 12:55 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Sun 12:55 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40 Sat 12:20, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu, Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:50 Sun 5:30, 8:05, 10:50 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 RIO 2 (G) Thu, Mon-Tue 12:55 Fri-Sun 12:00 Wed 12:30 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:25, 9:10 Fri-Sun 2:30, 5:10, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:15 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 3:50, 10:10

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

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 8:50, 10:00 Fri, Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sat-Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Wed 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 4:10 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Thu-Fri, Wed no 1:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu 3:30, 6:50 Sat-Tue 12:45, 3:00

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

DOM HEMINGWAY (14A) Thu 2:00, 7:00 Fri-Sat 1:45, 7:00, 11:35 Sun-Wed 1:45, 7:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) 1:45, 8:35 THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (G) Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 3:00 LE WEEK-END (14A) 12:10, 7:00 MISTAKEN FOR STRANGERS (G) 10:05 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu 12:25, 5:25 Fri-Wed 12:10, 3:30 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 3:35 Fri-Wed 5:15 PARTICLE FEVER Thu 3:15 Fri-Wed 5:10 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A) 8:35

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 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 Fri 12:35, 1:05, 2:45, 3:05, 4:00, 4:30, 6:15, 6:25, 7:10, 7:45, 9:25, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 Sat 11:30, 12:20, 1:05, 2:45, 3:05, 4:30, 6:15, 6:25, 7:10, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30, 11:00 Sun 12:00, 12:35, 1:10, 2:30, 3:20, 4:00, 4:40, 6:00, 6:40, 7:10, 8:00, 9:30, 9:55, 10:30 Mon 12:35, 2:45, 3:00, 4:00, 6:15, 6:40, 7:10, 8:00, 9:45, 9:55, 10:30 Tue 12:35, 1:00, 2:45, 3:00, 4:00, 4:40, 6:15, 6:40, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 9:55, 10:30 Wed 12:35, 2:45, 3:20, 4:00, 6:15, 6:40, 9:45, 9:55, 10:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 1:50, 2:30, 5:10, 6:00, 8:30, 9:45 Fri 1:40, 3:15, 4:45, 5:20, 7:15, 8:30, 8:45, 10:45 Sat 1:40, 1:45, 3:15, 5:20, 5:30, 7:15, 8:45, 9:00, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 5:20, 7:00, 8:15, 8:45, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 5:20, 7:00, 8:15, 8:45, 10:30 Wed 1:40, 3:30, 4:30, 5:20, 7:00, 8:00, 8:15, 8:45, 10:30 AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (G) Mon 7:00 BEARS (G) Thu 12:55, 2:50 BRICK MANSIONS (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:00, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Mon 3:45, 7:30, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 7:30, 10:10 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 4:50, 8:10 Fri-Wed 12:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Tue 3:40, 7:00, 10:05 Sat 3:40, 10:05 Wed 3:40, 7:00, 10:00 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:05 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:10, 9:00 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 1:40 4:20 6:55 9:30 FriWed 1:35, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:25 Sat 11:10, 1:45 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN 3D (G) 4:10, 6:45 Sat only 4:05 6:45 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA LIVE Sat 12:55 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Sat 7:00 MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (PG) Fri, Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:00, 3:00, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE Sun 12:55 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 9:20, 10:10 Fri 12:25, 1:30, 3:00, 4:25, 4:30, 5:35, 7:15, 7:45, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30, 10:45 Sat 11:00, 12:25, 1:30, 2:15, 3:00, 4:25, 5:00, 5:35, 7:15, 7:45, 8:10, 10:00, 10:30, 10:45 Sun 12:25, 1:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:25, 4:45, 5:35, 7:15, 7:30, 8:10, 9:50, 10:10, 10:35 Mon-Tue 12:30, 1:30, 3:35, 4:25, 4:45, 6:35, 7:15, 7:30, 9:10, 9:50, 10:10 Wed 12:30, 3:00, 4:25, 4:45, 5:35, 7:15, 7:30, 8:10, 9:50, 10:10, 10:35 NOAH (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 6:30, 9:40 Mon 12:30, 3:50, 10:20 OCULUS (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 2:10, 3:00, 5:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:45, 8:30, 10:25 Fri 12:20, 2:25, 3:45, 5:10, 6:45, 7:55, 10:00, 10:40 Sat 12:15, 12:20, 3:45, 3:50, 5:10, 6:45, 7:55, 10:00, 10:40 Sun 12:20, 12:30, 3:15, 4:35, 6:30, 7:35, 9:45, 10:25 Mon 3:15, 4:35, 6:30, 7:35, 9:25, 10:25 Tue 1:45, 3:15, 4:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:00 Wed 1:45, 3:15, 4:35, 6:30, 7:35, 9:25, 10:25 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:30 Fri 1:50 Sat 11:15, 1:50 Sun 12:10 MonWed 12:50 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 3:15, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 SHORT PEACE Wed 7:30 TOOTH FAIRY (G) Sat 11:00 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Wed 9:15

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 12:45 3:35 6:35 9:35 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 (14A) Thu 4:10 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 1:00 3:55 6:55 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 LEGENDS OF OZ: DOROTHY’S RETURN (G) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 THE OTHER WOMAN 1:10, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 THE QUIET ONES (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45 Fri-Wed 9:20 RIO 2 (G) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu 1:05, 6:30

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

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) 7:15, 10:30 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:00 mat THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 6:50, 10:00 Fri 3:15, 6:45, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:45, 10:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Sun 12:30

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10:30 Sun 7:10, 9:30 Mon, Wed 8:25 Rio 2 (G) Thu 5:00 Sat 12:05 Sun 12:10 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 5:35, 8:10 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 2:35, 5:00, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:40 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 8:00

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

Paul Walker gives one of his final performances in Brick Mansions.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 3:45 mat The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:15 FriWed 10:10 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) 7:45, 10:20 Fri 3:30 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:30 mat The Other Woman Thu 7:30, 10:20 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 6:30, 9:15 Sun 12:15, 3:00, 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:15 Rio 2 (G) 7:30 Fri 5:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30 mat, 5:00 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 6:40, 9:30

12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 Mon-Tue 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:05 Wed 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:10 The Other Woman Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, SunTue 2:15, 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:25 Wed 2:15, 4:45, 10:05 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00 Fri 1:15, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Short Peace Wed 7:30 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 6:40

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:45, 10:20 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 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:45, 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 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) 6:10, 9:30 Sun 11:40, 2:50 mat Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:50 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50, 10:10 The German Doctor (PG) Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10 Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:10 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 7:05, 9:40 FriSun 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:50 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Sat 12:10 Sun 12:20 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Sat 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Sun 3:00, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:20, 9:00 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 National Theatre Live: War Horse - Encore Sun 12:55 National Theatre – War Horse Thu 1:30 Neighbors (18A) Thu 10:00 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 MonWed 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 The Other Woman Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 1:20, 4:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 The Railway Man (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:20 Fri 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 6:45, 9:20 Sun-Wed 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Rio 2 (G) Thu 4:35

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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 3:50, 4:40, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 2:00, 3:15, 4:00, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 12:45, 2:15, 3:50, 5:30, 6:30, 7:00, 9:05, 9:40, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 2:30, 3:15, 3:50, 5:45, 6:30, 7:00, 9:00, 9:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:00, 2:30, 3:20, 5:15, 5:45, 6:30, 8:30, 9:00, 10:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 Fri 1:30, 4:45, 8:00 Sat 1:30, 4:50, 8:15 Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Tue 3:00, 6:05, 9:15 Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Tue 9:00 Sat 9:15 Wed 9:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu, Sat 12:30 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:15 Sun 1:20 Wed 1:10 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 3:40, 7:15, 10:20 Wed 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:45 Sat 11:30, 1:50 Wed 1:35 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri, Sun-Tue 4:05, 6:30 Sat 4:15, 6:40 Wed 4:00, 6:40 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri 2:30, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Sat

3401 Dufferin St, 416-787-2052

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 2:50, 3:15, 4:00, 6:10, 6:35, 7:15, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 12:20, 12:50, 3:40, 4:10, 7:00, 7:30, 10:20, 10:50 Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:15, 4:00, 6:35, 7:15, 10:00, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:50, 8:10 Fri-Sat 1:40, 2:40, 5:05, 6:05, 8:30, 9:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 2:50, 4:50, 6:10, 8:10, 9:30 Bears (G) Thu 12:45 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu, Sun-Tue 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:20, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45 Wed 1:00, 8:10, 10:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) 12:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) 3:55, 7:05, 10:20 Wed no 7:05 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri, Sun-Wed 1:10 Sat 12:10 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri 3:40, 7:30 Sat 2:40, 5:05, 7:30 Sun-Wed 3:40, 7:00 Neighbors (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:25 Oculus (14A) Thu 10:30 The Other Woman Thu, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 1:05, 8:00 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 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:35 Fri-Sat 10:00 Sun-Tue 9:40 Wed 9:50

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 6:30, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:00, 5:20, 7:10, 8:30, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 12:50, 2:10, 4:00, 5:20, 7:10, 8:30, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 1:45, 3:45, 5:20, 6:55, 8:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:00, 6:30, 8:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 5:25, 7:30 Fri, Tue 4:45, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:30 Bears (G) Thu 5:50 Fri, Tue 4:30 Sat-Sun 12:25, 2:25, 4:30 Mon, Wed 6:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 5:05, 8:25 Fri, Tue 4:15, 8:15, 10:30 Sat 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:10, 8:25 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Sat-Sun 12:40 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:15 Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 3:45, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:20 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 5:10, 7:40 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:55 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Sat 11:15, 12:10 Sun 12:10, 12:50 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:25 Neighbors (18A) Fri, Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:00 Noah (14A) Thu 7:45 The Other Woman Thu, Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:50 Fri, Tue 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 8:10,

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 12:45, 2:40, 3:40, 4:00, 6:00, 6:55, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10, 10:30 FriSun, Tue 12:10, 12:30, 1:10, 3:30, 3:50, 5:05, 6:50, 7:10, 9:00, 10:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 12:30, 1:10, 3:20, 3:50, 5:05, 6:40, 7:10, 9:00, 10:05, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:40, 5:35, 9:30 Bears (G) Thu 12:35 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:20, 10:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:05, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 3:10, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Mon 3:05, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35 Wed 2:15, 4:45, 10:35 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:25 Fri-Wed 12:45 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 7:00 Sat 1:15, 7:00 Kochadaiiyaan 1:30, 3:00, 5:00, 6:30, 8:30, 10:00 SatSun, Tue 12:00 mat The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 10:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 12:40, 4:30, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 2:55, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Noah (14A) Thu 6:45, 10:05 Oculus (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:05, 7:45, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:20, 10:20 Sat 10:20 The Other Woman Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 3:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20 Sat 11:30, 1:35 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:40 Fri-Wed 4:05, 6:45, 9:30 Short Peace Wed 7:30 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:30, 6:35, 9:30

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

2 States (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:50 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:20, 10:30 Fri 12:50, 1:40, 4:10, 5:05, 7:30, 8:20, 10:50 Sat 12:50, 3:00, 4:10, 6:20, 7:30, 9:40, 10:50 Sun 12:10, 1:40, 3:40, 5:05, 7:00, 8:30, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:00, 5:05, 7:15, 8:30, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 2:20, 3:20, 6:00, 6:40, 9:20, 10:00 Fri 12:15, 2:35, 3:40, 6:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:25 Sat 11:10, 11:40, 12:20, 3:40, 5:40, 7:00, 9:00, 10:25 Sun 11:45, 12:50, 3:05, 4:10, 6:25, 7:50, 9:45 Mon 3:45, 6:00, 9:20, 10:00 Tue 3:25, 6:00, 6:40, 9:20, 10:00 Wed 6:00, 9:20, 10:00 An American in Paris (G) Mon 7:00 Bears (G) Thu 2:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat, Tue 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Sat 12:40 Sun 12:25 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 9:00 Fri 3:50, 6:55, 10:10 Sat 3:50, 10:10 Sun 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:50, 9:55 Tue 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:15, 6:45, 9:25 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Kochadaiiyaan Fri-Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 MonWed 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri, Sun 12:20 Sat 11:25, 12:10 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri, Sun 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Sat 7:00 Moms’ Night Out (PG) 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45 mat Neighbors (18A) Thu 10:00 Fri 12:45, 2:30, 3:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:35, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 12:45, 2:30, 3:15, 5:00, 5:45, 7:35, 8:15, 10:05, 10:45 Sun 11:50, 12:30, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:50, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:50, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 9:50, 10:25 Noah (14A) Thu 6:30, 9:40 The Other Woman Thu 4:55, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 The Railway Man (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:25, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 Rio 2 (G) Thu 3:50 Fri 2:00 Sat-Sun 11:45 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Sun 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 MonWed 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:45

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GTA Regions Mississauga

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:50, 2:40, 4:00, 5:30, 6:00, 7:15, 8:50, 9:20, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:50, 2:40, 4:10, 6:00, 7:30, 9:20, 10:50 Sat 11:20, 12:50, 2:40, 4:10, 6:00, 7:30, 9:20, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:45, 2:40, 4:00, 6:00, 7:15, 9:20, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 3:10, 5:30, 6:30, 8:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:50, 1:50, 3:10, 5:30, 6:30, 8:50, 9:50 An American in Paris (G) Mon 7:00 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:35, 10:10 Fri 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 11:10, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Mon 1:40, 4:40, 10:05 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:05 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu, MonWed 12:25 Fri, Sun 12:30 Sat 12:00 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:40 Fri-Sun 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:05, 10:25 Divergent (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:40, 10:45 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Sat 12:10, 3:30, 6:45, 9:20 MonWed 12:35, 3:20, 6:35, 9:35 Kochadaiiyaan Fri, Sun 1:00, 4:20, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:50, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri 2:20 Sat 11:40, 2:20 Sun 12:00, 2:20 Mon-Tue 1:20 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri-Sun 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:45, 2:00, 3:15, 4:40, 5:45, 7:20, 8:20, 10:00, 10:55 Sat 12:30, 2:00, 3:00, 4:40, 5:40, 7:20, 8:20, 10:00, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:30, 3:50, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Oculus (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:50 The Other Woman Thu 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:45 Fri 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 11:00 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 5:20, 8:10, 11:00 Sun 11:45, 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 11:00 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:00, 12:50, 1:40, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:20, 9:30, 9:50, 10:50 Sat 11:35, 12:00, 12:50, 1:40, 2:40, 3:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 8:20, 9:30, 9:50, 10:50 MonWed 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:15, 7:15, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:30 Fri, Sun 2:10, 5:30, 8:50 Sat 11:05, 2:10, 5:30, 8:50 Bears (G) Thu 7:10 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:20 Fri, Sun 1:20 Sat 12:40 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Fri, Sun 4:30, 7:50, 11:00 Sat 3:50, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Divergent (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:35 Sat 4:15, 7:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 3:45, 7:05, 10:05 Draft Day (PG) Thu 4:30, 9:10 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:40 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:35, 9:15 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 Kochadaiiyaan Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:45 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri-Sun 1:00 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri-Sun 4:00, 7:05 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola Live Sat 12:55 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Sat 7:00 Moms’ Night Out (PG) 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45 mat Neighbors (18A) Thu 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:45, 2:15, 3:15, 4:50, 5:45, 7:25, 8:15, 10:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:50, 9:25, 10:20 Noah (14A) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Sat 1:10, 7:20, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:55, 9:55 The Other Woman Thu 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:35, 10:25 Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:00, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 7:15, 8:10, 10:05, 10:55 Sat 11:25, 12:30, 2:00, 3:05, 4:40, 5:40, 7:15, 8:10, 10:05, 10:55 Mon-Wed 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:40, 9:35, 10:25 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun 9:55 Mon-Wed 9:40 Rio 2 (G) Thu 3:35 Fri, Sun 12:05 Sat 11:15, 11:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 Fri-Sun 2:35, 5:10, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:20, 8:50 Tooth Fairy (G) Sat 11:00 Transcendence (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:25, 10:10

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Courtney Park 16 (CE)

30 Interchange Way, Hwy 400 & Hwy 7, 416-335-5323

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 2:10, 2:45, 3:40, 5:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:30, 9:00, 10:00 Fri 2:10, 2:45, 3:40, 5:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:30, 9:00, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 2:10, 2:45, 3:40, 5:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:30, 9:00, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 2:10, 2:45, 3:40, 5:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:30, 9:00, 10:00 Wed 2:10, 3:40, 5:20, 5:50, 6:50, 8:30, 9:00, 10:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:15, 7:25, 10:45 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Fri 3:10, 6:20, 9:45 Sat 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:45 Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 Bears (G) Thu 1:15 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Fri 1:00, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:35 Sat 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Wed 2:40, 5:00, 10:20 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:20 Sat 12:45, 3:45, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Wed 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Dil Vil Pyaar Vyaar (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Fri 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 Sat 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:20 Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05 Divergent (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:25 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Fri 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Jatt James Bond (PG) Thu 3:05, 6:30, 9:35 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:40 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Kochadaiiyaan Fri 1:05, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:25 Sun 12:10, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 1:05, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:35, 2:30 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:30 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return 3D (G) Fri-Sat 4:50, 7:15, 9:50 Sun-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Sat 7:00 National Theatre Live: War Horse - Encore Sun 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 10:15 Fri 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 12:55, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 12:55, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:15, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:15, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:15, 10:15 Wed 1:00, 2:15, 3:15, 4:35, 5:35, 6:55, 7:55, 9:15, 10:15 Noah (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15 The Other Woman Thu 1:20, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 12:40, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 The Quiet Ones (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 6:55, 9:20 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:10, 2:20, 4:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:30 Sat-Sun 11:55, 1:30 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 Fri-Sat 4:00, 6:45, 9:35 Sun-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:20 Short Peace Wed 7:30 Transcendence (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50

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Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Bears (G) Thu 1:20, 4:15 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) 1:05, 6:55 The Last of the Unjust (14A) Thu 6:35 Neighbors (18A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Mon 4:10, 7:05, 9:45 Oculus (14A) Fri-Wed 3:55, 9:30 The Other Woman 12:50, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Rio 2 (G) 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Transcendence (PG) Thu 3:55, 9:30

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:00, 8:00, 10:20 Fri, Tue 3:40, 4:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:20, 1:15, 3:40, 4:40, 7:00, 8:00, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:45, 10:00 Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Bears (G) Thu 7:55 Fri, Tue 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 Mon, Wed 7:55, 10:05 Brick Mansions (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Sat-Sun 12:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:10, 10:20 Fri, Tue 4:05, 7:10, 10:20 Sat-Sun 3:40, 7:10, 10:20 A Haunted House 2 (14A) Thu 9:45 Neighbors (18A) Thu 10:05 Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 SatSun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:45, 10:15 The Other Woman Thu, Mon, Wed 7:30, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 6:50 Sat-Sun 12:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Tue 3:55, 6:30, 9:35 SatSun 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:35 Transcendence (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 7:15, 10:10 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 3

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canadian music week film festival thu 8-sat 10 – $12, adv $10. thu 8 – Finding Fela! (2014) D: Alex Gibney.

6:30 pm. Jimi: All Is By My Side (2013) D: John Ridley. 9:15 pm. fri 9 – Breadcrumb Trail (2014) D: Lance Bangs. 7 pm. Looking For Johnny: The Legend Of Johnny Thunders D: Danny Garcia. 9 pm.

Miami Connection (1987) D: Richard Park, and short Postmodem. 11:30 pm. sat 10 – We Are The Best! (2013) D: Lukas Moodysson. Screening followed by live performance by Girls Rock Camp Toronto alumni.

1 pm. Swim Little Fish Swim (2013) D: Lola Bessis and Ruben Amar. 4:30 pm. Heaven Adores You: An Elliott Smith Project (2014) D: Nickolas Rossi. 7 pm. Frank (2014) D: Lenny Abrahamson. 9:30 pm.

ruff: ryerson university film ­festival bloor hot docs cinema, 506 bloor W. imagearts.ryerson.ca

tue 13-wed 14 – Student-run film festival of thesis films by graduating School of Image Arts students. $12, two-day pass $20. tue 13 – Call It Blue D: Julia Hendrickson, Billy The Kid D: Joshua Amar, Abacus, My Love D: Rebeccah Love, Dwell D: Zachary Ouellette, Prophet D: Keifer Wiseman, Flower Girl D: Dominique van Olm, Running Season D: Grayson Moore, Positive D: Myrna Moretti, Wrong Turn Into Tomorrow D: Aleksey Matviyenko, Kemosabe D: Charles Hutchings, and Suite Spot D: Alex Cananzi. 7:30 pm. wed 14 – Dorsal D: Adam Shipley, The Ray Gun: A Love Story D: Martin Bennett, Pitkä Koirat: A Horse In The Folds D: Kelso Steinhoff, Good Dog, Barl D: Thea Hollatz, The Impassioned D: Stephen Hosier, Alouette D: Michaela Kurimsky, Nobody Cares D: Nadia Pacey, Astray D: Arabella Roberts and Emily Cheung, Gramps D: Brad Alexander, Bull D: Max Martin, and Afternoon D: Eric Rowe.

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toronto jewish film ­festival

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). tjff.com. ­

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matinees $8, flexible pass $160 for 20 films/events, some free student admissions and free events. thu 8 – Birthplace (1992) D: Pawel Lozinski, and Sukkot In Warsaw (2013) D: Dmitriy Khavin. 1 pm (KH). The Jewish Cardinal (2013) D: Ilan Duran Cohen. 1 pm (ROM).

Mamele (1938) D: Joseph Green and Konrad Tom. 3 pm (CS). Joachim Prinz: I Shall Not Be Silent (Work In Progress) (2013) D: Rachel Pasternak and Rachel Fisher, and short You Are Me. 3 pm (KH). The Garden Of Eden (2012) D: Ran Tal, and short Drops. 3:30 pm(EW). Like Brothers (2013) D: Hugo Gélin.

3:30 pm (ROM). In Between (2013) D: David Ofek and Neta Shoshani, and The Funeral (2013) D: Nick Green. 4 pm (CS). It Happened

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Don Chaffey. 1:30 pm. Home Movie: Orson Welles Directing Too Much Johnson, and Too Much Johnson (1938) D: Orson Welles. 4:30 pm. Orson Welles – Lost And Found: Citizen Kane (1941). 6:30 pm. The Wicker Man (1973) D: Robin Hardy. 9:15 pm. sun 11 – Orson Welles – Lost And Found: Othello (1952). 12:30 pm. The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). 2:45 pm.

The Third Man. 5 pm. The Servant (1963) D: Joseph Losey. 7:30 pm. mon 12 – Books On Film: A Thousand Years Of Good Prayers (2007) D: Wayne Wang. 7 pm. $24-$35. tue 13 – The Goethe-Institut presents ­Absurdistan (2008) D: Veit Helmer. 6:30 pm.

A Man Escaped (1956) D: Robert Bresson.

6:45 pm. The Third Man. 9:15 pm. wed 14 – Check website for schedule.

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sat 10 – Jason And The Argonauts (1963) D:

The sustaining power of music THE LADY IN NUMBER 6:

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Rating: NNNN It’s hard to resist this portrait of concert pianist Alice Herz-Sommer, the oldest Holocaust survivor at the time the film was shot. (She died last year at 110.) Oscar voters certainly couldn’t, naming it best documentary short last year.

Director Malcolm Clarke keeps the focus on the relentlessly positive Herz-Sommer, whose trauma inside In Saint-Tropez (2012) D: Danièle Thompson, and Heavy Duty (2012) D: Maya Sarfaty and Nir Sa’Ar. 5:15 pm (CS). Esther Broner: A Weave Of Women (2013) D: Lilly Rivlin. 5:30 pm (KH). The Lab (2013) D: Yotam Feldman. 6 pm (CS). Farewell Herr Schwarz (2013) D: Yael Reuveny. 6 pm (EW). God’s Slave (2013) D: Joel Novoa. 6:30 pm (BC). Transit (2013) D: Hannah Espia. 6:30 pm (ROM). Natan (2013) D: David Cairns and Paul Duane. 8 pm (CS).

Friends From France (2013) D: Anne Weil and Philippe Kotlarski. 8:30 pm (EW). Kidon (2013) D: Emmanuel Naccache, and Frog Hunt (2012) D: Yotam Ishay. 8:30 pm (CS).

Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor (2013) D: John Wager. 9 pm (BC). Sex & Secrets: A Short Film Programme including Auschwitz On My Mind (2013) D: Assaf Machnes, Nightswimming (2013) D: Sharon Angelhart, Setup, Punch (2013) D: David Schlussel, and Summer Vacation (2012) D: Sharon Maymon and Tal Granit. 9 pm (ROM). fri 9 – Aftermath (2012) D: Władysław Pasikowski. 1 pm (CS). Shtisel: Episodes One to Three (2013) D: Alon Zingman. 1 pm (EW).

Life Sentences (2013) D: Nurit Kedar and Yaron Shani. 1 pm (KH). The Best Of Men (2012) D: Tim Whitby. 1 pm (ROM). Joe Balass X 2: Nana, George And Me (1998), and Baghdad Twist (2007). 2 pm (CS). Marvin, Seth And Stanley (2012) D: Stephen Gurewitz, and I’m A Mitzvah (2014) D: Ben Berman. 3:30 pm (CS). Raquel: A Marked Woman (2013) D: Gabriela Böhm, and short Catherine The Great. 3:30 pm (KH). Ten From Your Show Of Shows (1973) D: Max Liebman. 3:30 pm (ROM). Regina (2013) D: Diana Groó. 4 pm (EW). The Length Of The Alphabet (2013) D: Joe Balass. 4:15 pm (CS). sat 10 – Shalom Sesame (2010). 3 pm (KH).

The X-Files: Kaddish (1997) D: Kim Manners, and Zeitgeist (2007) D: Navot Papushado.

4:30 pm (KH). Spadina (1984) D: David Troster. 7 pm (KH). The German Doctor (2013) D: Lucía Puenzo. 9 pm (CS). Kidon. 9:15 pm (BC). Natan. 9:15 pm (KH). The Fearless Vampire Killers, Or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are In My Neck (1967) D: Roman Polanski.

the Theresienstadt concentration camp was eased by her commitment to her music and the fact that she continued to play the piano while imprisoned.

In fact she was expected to. A strength of this 39-minute doc is its study of this particular camp, located in what is now the Czech Republic, which housed many accomplished artists and was used as a propaganda tool by the Nazis. They frequently released films of inmates performing for officers to allay suspicions that 9:15 pm (ROM). Comedy Warriors: Healing Through Humor. 9:30 pm (CS). Goldberg And Eisenberg (2013) D: Oren Carmi. 11:30 pm (ROM). sun 11 – The Lab. 1 pm (BC). Esther Broner: A Weave Of Women.1 pm (CS). Shtisel: Episodes Four to Six. 1 pm (EW). Internal Combustion (2013) D: Steve Faigenbaum. 1 pm (KH). For A Woman (2013) D: Diane Kurys. 1 pm (ROM). A Strange Course Of Events (2013) D: Raphael Nadjari. 2 pm (CS). Cupcakes (2013) D: Eytan Fox, and Hannah Cohen’s Holy Communion (2013) D: Shimmy Marcus. 3 pm (BC). Lionel Bart: Reviewing The Situation (2013) D: Mick Conefrey, and Claire Bloom: British Legend Of Stage And Screen (2012) D: Anthony Fabian. 3 pm (CS). The Length Of The Alphabet. 3 pm (KH). The Pleasures Of Being Out Of Step (2013) D: David L Lewis. 3:30 pm (ROM). Transit. 4:30 pm (CS). From Hollywood To Nuremberg: John Ford, Samuel Fuller, George Stevens (2012) D: Christian Delage, and Reporting On The Times: The New York Times And The Holocaust (2013) D: Emily Harrold.

4:30 pm (EW). The Sturgeon Queens (2014) D: Julie Cohen, and I Remember Barbra (1981) D: Kevin Burns. 5:30 pm (CS). American Jerusalem: Jews And The Making Of San Francisco (2013) D: Marc Shaffer, and Shanghai Strangers (2012) D: Joan Chen. 5:30 pm (KH). In The Shadow (2012) D: David Ondrícek. 5:30 pm (ROM). The Pin (2013) D: Naomi Jaye. 6 pm (BC). Fading Gigolo (2013) D: John Turturro.

8:30 pm (BC).

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. ­bigpicturecinema.com

thu 8-fri 9 – Check website for schedule. sat 10-sun 11 – Sudden Impulse Film Festival.

Local comedies and cult horror short films.

Live music from Black Fax Bulletin, DJ from midnight. 9 pm. $15. ­suddenimpulses.com. mon 12-wed 13 – Check website for schedule.

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Jews were being slaughtered en masse.

But Herz-Sommer is the centrepiece, seen playing Mozart and Beethoven, not quite with the stellar precision of a young pianist but with passion – and by heart.

Her testimonials to the power of music to sustain her throughout her life are gobsmackingly beautiful.

Opens at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Tuesday (May 13).

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BLOOR hot docs Cinema

506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. ­bloorcinema.com

Thu 8-sun 11 – Toronto Jewish Film Festival.

See listings, this page. fri 9 – Teenage (2013) D: Matt Wolf. 4 & 8:45 pm. Particle Fever (2013) D: Marc Levinson.

6:30 pm. sat 10 – Particle Fever. 12:30 pm. Teenage. 3 pm. Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Comics Noir, screening of The Killing (1956) D: Stanley Kubrick, and talk by Ed Brubaker and ­Darwyn Cooke. 5:30 pm. $10, adv $7. ­torontocomics.com. mon 12 – Shekinah: The Intimate Life Of Hasidic Women (2013) D: Abby Jack Neidik.

3:30 & 6:30 pm. $17, stu/srs $12. Particle ­Fever. 9:15 pm. tue 13 – The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013) D: Malcolm Clarke.

3:30 pm. RUFF: Ryerson University Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7:30 pm. wed 14 – Teenage. 3:30 pm. RUFF: Ryerson University Film Festival. See listings, this page. 7:30 pm.

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Camera Bar

1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sat 10 – Strange Brew (1983) D: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 8 – The Goethe-Institut presents Lila, Lila (2009) D: Alain Gsponer. 6:30 ñ pm. M (1931) D: Joseph Losey. 6:30 pm. The

Wicker Man (1973) D: Robin Hardy. 8:45 pm. fri 9 – The Italian Contemporary Film Festival presents The Best Offer (2013) D: Giuseppe Tornatore. 9 pm. $15. Orson Welles – Lost And Found: The Third Man (1949) D: Carol Reed. 9:15 pm.

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. f­ oxtheatre.ca

Thu 8 – The Monuments Men (2014) D: George Clooney. 7 pm. The Great Beauty (2013) D: Paolo Sorrentino. 9:15 pm.

Fri 9 – Finding Vivian Maier (2013) D: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel. 7 pm.

Non-Stop (2014) D: Jaume Collet-Serra. 9 pm. sat 10-sun 11 – Muppets Most Wanted (2014) D: James Bobin. 2 pm. Finding Vivian Maier. 4:15 & 7 pm. Non-Stop. 9 pm. mon 12 – Non-Stop. 7 pm. Finding Vivian Maier. 9:15 pm. tue 13 – Finding Vivian Maier. 7 pm. NonStop. 9 pm. wed 14 – Alan Partridge (2013) D: Declan Lowney. 7 pm. Particle Fever (2013) D: Mark Levinson. 9 pm.

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CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 8-wed 14 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

Thu 8-fri 9 AND mon 12-wed 14 – Highlights of current programming.

ontario science centre

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ­ ntariosciencecentre.ca o

thu 8 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The

­ uman Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The H Butterflies. 2 pm. fri 9 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem.

Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. sat 10-sun 11 – Flight Of The Butterflies. 11 am. Great White Shark. Noon & 2 pm. Jerusalem. 1 & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. mon 12 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. tue 13 – Great White Shark. 11 am. The ­Human Body. Noon & 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm. wed 14 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Jerusalem. Noon. The Human Body. 1 pm. Flight Of The Butterflies. 2 pm.

reg hartt’s ­cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 8 – Modern Masters: Mean Streets (1973) D: Martin Scorsese. 5 pm. No Country For Old Men (2007) D: Ethan and Joel Coen. 7 pm. The Godfather (1972) D: Francis Ford Coppola. 9:30 pm. sat 10 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival.

7 pm. Reg Hartt: What I Learned From LSD (2014) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. sun 11 – Classics Of The Silent Screen Two: Hollywood: A Celebration Of The American Silent Film – Part One: The Pioneers (1980) D: Kevin Brownlow. 1 pm. Lyman H Howe’s Famous Ride On A Railway Train (1921). 2 pm. Chaplin At Keystone (1914): Making A Living, and Kid Auto Races At Venice. 2:30 pm. The White Shadow (1924) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 3 pm. Shifting Sands (1918) D: Albert Parker. 4 pm. The Mechanical Doll

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blu-ray/dvd disc of the week (1922) D: Max Fleischer. 5 pm. The Show Off (1926) D: Malcolm St Clair. 5:10 pm. The Ten Commandments (1923) D: Cecil B Demille.

6:30 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm. mon 12 – Vampire Film Fest: Let The Right One In (2008) D: Tomas Alfredson. 5 pm. The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) D: Roman Polanski. 7 pm. Blood And Roses (1960) D: Roger Vadim. 9 pm. tue 13 – The Anarchist, Surrealist Hallucinatory Films of Luis Bunuel: Los Olivados (1950).

5 pm. The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (1954). 7 pm. The Exterminating Angel (1962). 9 pm. wed 14 – Novello # 4 Plus 1: The White Rose (1923) D: DW Griffith. 3:30 pm. The Lodger (1926) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 5 pm. Downhill (1927) D: Alfred Hitchcock. 5 pm. The Lodger/ The Phantom Fiend (1932) D: Maurice Elvey.

8 pm. Gosford Park (2001) D: Robert Altman.

9 pm.

revue cinema

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

Thu 8 – The Monuments Men (2014) D:

George Clooney. 7 pm. Tim’s Vermeer (2013) D: Teller. 9:15 pm.

Fri 9 – The Lunchbox (2013) D: Ritesh Batra. 7 pm. Particle Fever (2013) D: Mark Levinson. 9:15 pm. sat 10 – Muppet Most Wanted (2014) D: James Bobin. 2 pm. The Lunchbox. 4:15 & 7 pm. The Great Beauty (2013) D: Paolo Sorrentino. 9:15 pm. sun 11 – Muppet Most Wanted (2014) D: James Bobin. 2 pm. The Lunchbox. 4:15 & 7 pm. Particle Fever (2013) D: Mark Levinson.

9:15 pm. mon 12 – The Great Beauty. 6:45 pm.

The Lunchbox. 9:30 pm. tue 13 – Particle Fever. 7 pm. The Lunchbox.

9 pm. wed 14 – Closed.

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608 College. 416-466-4400. theroyal.to

Thu 8-sat 10 – Canadian Music Week Film Festival. See listings, this page.

sun 11 – The Nut Job (2014) D: Jimmy Hay-

ward. Noon.

mon 12-tue 13 – Closed. wed 14 – Check website for schedule.

other films

thu 8-wed 14 – The CN Tower presents

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, c­ asaloma.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 8 – The Goethe-Institut presents Looking At The Big Sky, 14 short videos by students from German art schools. 3-7 pm. Free. 100 University, North Tower. g ­ oethe.de/toronto.

Mayworks presents Food, Land And Colonialsim, poety, music and screening of The Edible Indian D: Cass Gardiner, a documentary about three First Nations cooks recreating their favourite meal. 6 to 9 pm. Friends House, 60 Lowther. $10 or pwyc. ­mayworks.ca. sun 11 – CineCycle presents L’Age d’Or (1930) D: Luis Bunuel, on 16mm film with live score by Arthur Bull. 8 pm. $10. 129 Spadina. ­super8porter.ca/CineCycle.htm. tue 13 – Green 13 Monthly Film Screening presents The Edible City (2012) D: Andrew Hasse.

6:15 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette.

416-393-7692, ­green13toronto.org.

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Gloria (Mongrel, 2013) D: Sebastián Lelio, w/ Paulina García, Sergio Her­nán­dez. Rating: NNN; DVD package: N Director Sebastián Lelio’s refusal to manipulate our emotions, and star Paulina García’s subtle, detailed performance give Gloria a resonance and depth that put most romances to shame.

Fifty-something Santiago office worker Gloria, 10 years divorced, likes to go dancing and get laid now and then. One night she meets Rodolfo (Sergio Hernández), and sex blossoms into romance. But he has some baggage: his demanding and financially dependent ex-

Mr. Jones (Anchor Bay, 2013) D: Karl Mueller, w/ Jon Foster, Sarah Jones.

Rating: NNN; DVD package: none A more interesting story than the usual bargainbasement horror show, Mr. Jones finds a fresh use for the worn-out found-footage device.

Husband and wife Scott and Penny (Jon Foster, Sarah Jones), he a documentary filmmaker, she a photographer, are on a year-long retreat to a cabin in the woods. Fifty days in, they glimpse a hooded figure and discover a strange scarecrow. Penny recognizes it as the work of Mr. Jones, an art world darling whose identity and location are completely unknown. Scott immediately envisions a documentary, Penny a coffee table book.

While Penny snoops and shoots, Scott returns to New York, where he learns that the artworks may cause madness and that Jones may either be trying to bring some malignant mystical realm into our world or defending us against its eruption.

Back at the cabin, the supernatural incursions grow stronger, and Scott and Penny wind up paranoid, delusional and trapped in another reality. This involves a nifty underground cave and an eerily disorienting liberation of the camera from Scott’s point of view.

Turning the found-footage gimmick

wife and two grown daughters.

Gloria and Rodolfo work out their conflicts in simple, direct dialogue, but their slightest reactions suggest worlds of subtext. Without explanation, we understand Gloria’s past, present and potential futures.

García delivers a remarkable performance, and Lelio’s camera lingers to savour its refinements.

The extras consist entirely of three two-minute on-set promo clips cut to the disco music that figures promi­nently in the movie.

By ANDREW DOWLER

Sergio Hernández and Paulina García have a ball in Gloria.

EXTRAS Promo clips. Spanish audio.

English, Spanish subtitles. on its head produces an effective third act, but the film’s visual incoherence – supposedly reflecting Scott’s travails – mark this as a seriously cheap movie.

Without extras, we’ll never know how cheap.

EXTRAS English audio. English, Spanish subtitles.

Veronica Mars (WB, 2014) D: Rob Thomas, w/ Kristen Bell, Jason Dohr­ ing. Rating: NN; Blu-ray package: NNNN Veronica Mars drags in the beginning and sags in the middle but comes back in a notbad third act with a couple of genuine shocks. The initial drag comes from the need to establish what Mars (Kristen Bell) has been doing in the decade since her days as a teenage sleuth in a corrupt California town, and then get her back there. That part’s easy: her exboyfriend Logan (Jason Dohring) is ­accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Then there’s the need to catch up with the regulars from the brief (200407) but much-loved TV series. That adds to the sag in the middle, but Vero­ nica’s leap-to-conclusions style of sleuthing is also fairly snooze-worthy.

Bell and the rest deliver their perpetual, occasionally funny sarcasm in a flat monotone, contributing to the neonoir tone that gives the show its little bit of edge.

The film was funded through a Kickstarter appeal that raised $5.7 million from 91,000 fans. The process and the fans themselves figure heavily in the hour-long making-of doc.

EXTRAS Making-of doc, six mini-docs, gag reel, deleted scenes. English, French, Portuguese audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

The Terminal (Paramount, 2004) D: Steven Spielberg, w/ Tom Hanks, Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Rating: NNN; Blu-ray package: NNN Look closely and you can see traces of silent comedian Buster Keaton and French comic genius Jacques Tati in The Terminal, a thoroughly amiable movie built on a brilliant idea.

When Viktor Navorski (Tom Hanks) arrives in the U.S. from his eastern European country, he discovers that a coup at home has left him stateless. By law, he’s confined to the arrivals lounge

until the paperwork gets sorted. Hours turn to months as Viktor settles in, makes friends with various workers, finds a job and starts a tentative relationship with flight attendant Amelia (Catherine Zeta-Jones). All the while, senior security bureaucrat Dixon (Stanley Tucci) schemes to be rid of him.

Viktor is no idiot, and Hanks keeps his physical and verbal comedy this side of buffoonery. Zeta-Jones is surprisingly vulnerable. Tucci avoids villainy to make Dixon merely a rule-bound careerist. The supporting cast get lots of good comic moments, particularly Kumar Pallana as a cranky janitor.

Steven Spielberg dials his tendency toward cloying warm-heartedness down to reasonable levels while keeping things moving and showing off the spectacular set in novel ways.

You get a good look at that set’s construction and the cast in the making-of docs.

EXTRAS Seven making-of docs, more.

English, French, Spanish, Portuguese audio and subtitles.

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By Dan Savage

FWB’s hard to maintain I’m a 26-year-old lesbian 18 months

out of an eight-year relationship. She was my first girlfriend. I do not want to be in another monogamous relationship. I want to have a couple of sex buddies or, preferably, a couple of friends with benefits. In the last 18 months, I have had three FWB “arrangements” with different girls. The problem is, about two or three months in, each girl developed serious like/love feelings and began talking about a future together and how they want to be with me exclusively. Each time, I had to reiterate my feelings about not getting into a relationship and wound up feeling like an asshole. I care about these women and don’t want to hurt them, but I told them the situation from the start. Am I a bad person? Or are FWB impossible?

Fears Wilting Boundaries Friends-with-benefits arrangements may not be committed relationships, but they are relationships. They’re ongoing sexual relationships, and – you might want to sit down for this – people have been known to develop like/love feelings for folks they’re fucking on a reg­ular basis. So if “getting into a relationship” is something you want to avoid, and you don’t want anyone developing feelings, you should have one-night stands and/or NSA sex instead. (Those are also relationships, in my opinion, but they’re extremely short-term ones, and people rarely develop serious like/love feelings in a single sex session.) On to your questions: You are not a bad person. FWB are not impossible – there are a lot of successful FWB arrangements – and a desire for exclusivity or a future together is not proof that someone entered into a FWB arrangement under false pretences. And reiterating your disinterest in a committed relationship isn’t assholery.

this a legiti­mate worry? He doesn’t watch gay porn. I just want to make sure of everything if we are ­going to be married.

Fiancé Lusts After

[Trans Women] Hottie

sexual interest, but I don’t want to be locked into vanilla sex forever. Any ­advice on getting her to come around?

Partner Against Nighties

That Intrigue Eager Spouse

“I’m intolerable and you should break up with me.”

You would be foolish to waste your time wondering whether your fiancé wants to have sex with trans women, FLATWH, as it’s clear that your fiancé wants to have sex with trans wo­men. The question you should concern yourself with is this: Can your fiancé be trusted to honour the monogamous commitment he’s (presumably) about to make to you, or is he going to cheat on you with other trans and/or cis women? If you trust that he’ll honour the commitment he makes to you, then his taste in porn and his fantasies about other partners – trans or not – is irrelevant.

But can he commit?

Will she ever indulge me?

My question concerns my fiancé. He

I’m a married straight man. My wife

Someone can be “open to new things” without being “open to everything.” So your wife might be up for exploring other sexual kinks, posi­tions and circumstances – hubby-in-lingerie isn’t the only form of non-vanilla sex out there – but seeing you in panties could be a “libido killer,” a term coined by Emily “Dear Prudence” Yoffe. If that’s the case, PANTIES, she may never come around. But if it’s not a libido killer, if it’s just something she hasn’t had time to wrap her head around, your best course of action is to drop the subject for now. Let the wife see that your interest isn’t all-consuming and you still enjoy vanilla sex in genderconforming underpants, and indulging this particular kink may come to seem less threatening.

sleep with big guys exclusively, rub your own clit during sex or instruct skinny dudes to rub your clit for you.

The message is clear I am in a heterosexual relationship.

y boyfriend and I have been together M for two years. We were long-distance for the first year and a half. When we were long-distance, he complained that it was hard to have a relationship over the phone. Now that we are in the same city, he says he feels like our relationship has gone “stale” and he feels “trapped.”

I’m sick of his complaining. Does he want to be with me or not? What is he really trying to say?

Confusing Lad Is Nagging Girl

is 35 years old. Between the ages of 20 and 30, he was in and out of jail. He has admitted to me that while in prison he had sex with a [trans woman]. I know he loves having sex with [cis] women, but I found out that he watches [a porn genre that features trans women who have penises]. He says he is just looking, but I know he masturbates to this [porn genre]. To be fair, he watches tons of porn featuring [cis] women. A lot. He loves watching [cis] women and having sex with [cis] women. My worry is that he wants to have sex with [trans women]. Is

The sitch: Tend bar with a hot girl

Where can straight women find men

who won’t make odd sexual requests?

Dumped One Again Graveyards. n the Lovecast, Dan chats with graphic O ­novelist Ellen Forney about dating when you’re bipolar: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

Nominations are open for NOW’s 2014 Best Of T.O. Reader’s Choice, and we want to hear what YOU have to say.

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ho has a boyfriend. Hit on her anyway w because I’m that guy. She says I can fuck her, but only if her boyfriend gets to watch and eat her out after. I don’t want anything to do with that scene. I was down for some traditional cheating, not this kinky shit. But I’d still like to fuck this girl. Any advice for me?

Blue-Balled Baller Nope.

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MICHAEL WATIER

I’m a 28-year-old straight female. I’ve

You’re having real orgasms, WRO. When your clit is fully engaged – using your hands or toys when alone, rubbing against the abdomen of a big guy during intercourse – you get off. Some women’s clits are fully engaged during intercourse without any extra effort (they can come “just” from fucking), but they’re in the minority. If climaxing during intercourse is important to you, WRO, you’ll have to

Not going to happen

S ’ R E D A E R E C I

In this case – no advice

only ever been able to orgasm if I self-induce while alone or if I’m on top during sex with a guy and my clit is being rubbed on the guy’s abdomen. (This works best with bigger guys.) When there is no abdomen rubbing my clit, I fake it. I can squeeze so it feels as if I’m coming, but I’m not. Do you have any suggestions?

Wants Real Orgasms

nd I have been married for five years. I a thought my wife was GGG and open to new things, so six months ago I brought up my ­desire to wear lingerie. She did not react well. We struggled a bit but gradually got back to normal, with me just not mentioning it again. My birthday is in May, so I proposed a weekend of indulgence of my fetish as a birthday present. I thought that would be easy enough to accommodate. I was wrong, and got totally and uncomfortably denied. I’m at a loss for what to do. I don’t want to destroy a marriage over a small

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