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author talks about his novel The Snow Queen with CBC’s Carol Off at Harbourfront’s Brigantine Room. 7:30 pm, Free-$10. ifoa.org. Kishi Bashi Psych-rock violinist in Jupiter One, Of Montreal and Regina Spektor plays the Mod Club. Doors 8 pm. $15. RT, SS, TF.

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your franchise on election day. In some parts of the world voting is just a fantasy. WeMakeVotingEasy.ca. The NOtwist German indie rockers bring their Close To The Glass album to Lee’s Palace. Doors 8:30 pm. $21.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. shelter Juliet Palmer and Julie Salverson’s new opera about life in the atomic age opens at Berkeley Street Theatre. 7:30 pm. To Jun 15. $55-$75. 416368-3110, tapestryopera.com.

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Boo, hiss on Kristyn Wong-Tam’s playing to the base with this propo sal to rename Cawthra Park after former Toronto mayor Barbara Hall (NOW, May 22-28). And being a bit sneaky about it. Cawthra is/was a historically sig nificant Torontonian. I’ve suggested to Wong-Tam that if she wishes to name a park, how about the one that’s going to be part of the development on the parcel of land assembled by the province at Bay and Wellesley for the putative opera house? History wins, Toronto wins, Ms. Hall is memorialized. Done. Barnaby Southgate Toronto

Straight goods on Hall’s gay activism

I have huge respect for Barbara Hall and the enormous contributions she has made to the city and human rights. Hall, however, was not a founder of the Right to Privacy Committee after the bathhouse raids in 1981. The RTPC was founded on January

23, 1979, after the first raid on the Barracks on December 9, 1978. Hall had not even been called to the bar at the time. The RTPC’s founders were not lawyers, but rather a group of gay activists, bathhouse owners and those charged as “found-ins” in the 1978 raid. Tim McCaskell Toronto

Doug Ford’s low opinion

People who live with others who have autism and people with autism themselves would be incensed to hear Doug Ford’s low opinion of those he cannot possibly understand without having any true interaction with them (NOW, May 22-28). I often think of my brother who has autism as the smartest guy I know. I would not even dignify what Doug said by sharing it with him. Thanks, NOW, for your supportive stance. Cecilia Tement Toronto

Race to the bottom of human values

Regarding Jason Smith’s letter and Cynthia McQueen’s article on Doug

Ford (NOW, May 22-28). Our ethically challenged political leadership at all levels is in a race to the bottom of human values, abdicating social responsibility and fuelling greater cynicism about government. It is our sense of social connectedness that builds and reinforces cohe sion, belonging, empathy and meaning among all of us and strengthens all our lives. Melanie Milanich Toronto

“ Our ethically challenged political leadership is fuelling greater cynicism about government. ” Transgression or selfpity at tenant board ?

Re Sophia Banks’s implausible recollection of her alleged transphobic treatment before the Landlord and Tenant Board (NOW, May 22-28). Journalist Saira Peesker did not state that she read the actual order from the board or listened to the audio recording of the hearing. Her story lists two different grounds for

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Remembering Tony Silipo in Davenport

It’s not quite true that Davenport riding was without an NDP MPP for decades before Jonah Schein won in 2011 (NOW, May 22-28). Tony Silipo was MPP for Dovercourt, which contained part of present-day Davenport, and a cabinet minister in the Bob Rae government from 1990 to 99. Vit Wagner Toronto

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What in the world was Alexander Joo thinking when he recommended that handheld Fuji film printer (NOW, May 15-21)? His last sentence says that with this printer “You’ll be the life of the party, aside from the cool people who brought drugs and alcohol.” Really? In light of all the insanity this city has had to go through watching our drug-addicted mayor skulk and wobble from bad to worse, how is it ac ceptable to refer to the people who brought drugs to the party as “cool”? Maybe Joo has not lost loved ones and friends to the horrible ravages of drug use? In my humble opinion, the cool people are the ones who walk their talk, face their responsibilities and, frankly, don’t need any sort of substance to feel cool. David Wiznuk Toronto

Shekinah criticism

I read NOW movie reviews mainly to help me decide which films are worth seeing. But I found Susan G. Cole’s review of Shekinah: The Intimate Life Of Hassidic Women (NOW, May, 15-21), completely unhelpful. Her piece focused more on her negative opinion of Hassidic Judaism than on the film itself, and by confus ing criticism of a documentary with criticism of its subjects, she complete ly avoided any discussion of the quality of the filmmaking. Her only comment on the film was her objection to the director’s alleged blindly positive attitude toward the women he portrayed. Cole’s opinions about Orthodox Judaism belong in an op-ed, not in a movie section. And since those opinions had no bearing on my decision to see Shekinah, I ended up going to the film and found it both engaging and objective. David Teitel Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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hildren like to play make-believe. So, too, do the Ontario government and its pals in the nuclear industry. From May 26 to 28, Ontario Power Generation (OPG) staged a three-day mock nuclear accident at Darlington, where they role-played what they’d do in the event of the real thing in the Greater Toronto Area. But these nuclear games differed from reality in one profound way: Ontario has no real plan for dealing with a Fukushima-like event. Well, in fact, the plan is this: a nuclear accident won’t happen, so we don’t need to worry about it. OPG, the Ontario government and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission have always dismissed the possibility of a major incident here, but with major reactor accidents happening about once a decade somewhere in the world, we need to stop pretending. What would a real plan look like? It would give Torontonians the tools and knowledge needed to protect their families in the event of an accident, for starters. That’s what the Swiss government is doing. It recently passed a directive giving over 4 million people living within 50 kilometres of a nuclear plant potassium iodine pills (KI), which reduce the risk of thyroid cancer, to take immediately after a nuclear event. Approximately that many people in the GTA live within 50 kms of the Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations. But if you want a KI pill, you’ll need to pick it up at one of five pharmacies in Durham Region. Not so convenient if you live in Toronto. Giving Torontonians the knowledge and means to protect themselves would require having a conversation Canada’s nuclear industry has avoided for decades. It would need to admit that major accidents can happen, what the consequences

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would look like and what we could do (if anything) to protect our families. No government has ever assessed the impacts of a major reactor accident on Toronto, but ignorance isn’t bliss. According to Freedom of Information documents received last week by Greenpeace, OPG’s own internal research shows that people living next to its reactors have effectively ignored decades of public education campaigns on emergency planning because OPG has told them over and over again that a major accident won’t happen. Designed to give Torontonians a false sense of security, this week’s nuclear games will do little to change that. A May 14 court ruling overturning OPG’s approvals to build new reactors at Darlington, however, may finally force the authorities to start the conversation. Justice James Russell’s reasons for overturning OPG’s approvals included the fact that OPG failed to consider the consequences of a Fukushimascale accident and, specifically, whether our emergency plans are adequate. The common-sense ruling also requires OPG to carry out further assessment as a result of: gaps in the bounding scenario (that aim to exclude what will not happen from what could happen) regarding hazardous substance emissions and onsite chemical inventories; lack of consideration of spent nuclear fuel; and OPG’s deferral of the analysis of a severe common cause failure (caused, for example, by earthquake, corrosion, loss of power or faulty software). Given that we already have 10 reactors in the GTA, it’s amazing that we haven’t made plans. Let’s hope we will now. 3 Shawn-Patrick Stensil is an energy campaigner with Greenpeace.

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If there was any doubt that the NDP was having trouble in Toronto during this provincial election, they were dispelled when influential long-time NDP supporters released a blistering open letter to leader Andrea Horwath last week. Its signers included Cathy Crowe, Michele Landsberg and Judy Rebick. Has the party forgotten working people, poor people, women, immigrants,? they ask. Why vote down a progressive budget and create the possibility that Ontario will elect a far-right Conservative government? “Where is the NDP we know?” Rebick later wondered in an interview with the CBC. In this exclusive one-on-one interview, we ask the NDP leader these – and other questions – directly. By SUSAN G. COLE Here’s what she has to say.

When word got out about that open letter, I immediately received a note from [former Saskatchewan premier] Roy Romanow, who told me leaders have gone through this many times before. He reminded me that the history of the NDP always included an understanding that if you run a huge deficit you wind up letting the banks call the shots. Tommy Douglas knew he had to balance the budget in Saskatchewan before he could introduce his health care plan, and he did. That’s why we’re concerned about accountability and waste. We propose capping CEO salaries in the public sector. Do we need four different hydro agencies with four layers of management and CEOs making over $1 million? I don’t think we do. We’re the ones who have pledged $100 million to childcare so we can stabilize the system that has become so destabilized under the Liberal government. Between a dozen and 20 childcare centres are on the brink of closure.

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It’s true: we don’t want to be only the conscience of the legislature, we want to implement our ideas as part of the government. If you want to become a government, you have to put forward ideas that are going to stick.

But this Liberal budget was one of the most progressive ever. Many are wondering how the NDP could turn it down? Have those people really read that budget? The Liberals are proposing selling off assets just like their predecessors did before them. They’re proposing project partnerships that give unprecedented decision-making powers to private interests.

But the pension plan. That is a good idea. We brought up the idea of pension plan four years ago, and the Liberals rejected it.

Yours was a voluntary plan. It doesn’t matter that our proposal was a voluntary fund – that wasn’t the reason they opposed it. They said they were waiting to see what

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the federal government was doing with the Canadian Pension Plan. More important, the Liberals don’t plan to implement their proposed pension plan until 2017. Instead of an actual pension plan in the meantime, they’re proposing what are really glorified RRSPs, the kind the federal Conservatives have been pushing, which allow fund administrators to take a huge cut, gouging taxpayers.

Why make such a big deal out of the gas plant scandals, when both you and the PCs originally supported closing the plants? When word first came out that the plant was going to be cancelled, we were clear that we didn’t want to tear up a contract until we found out what that would entail and how much it would cost. And [NDP energy critic]Peter Tabuns

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Given your silence on the $14 minimum wage proposal, can you understand why NDPers suspect that you’re abandoning working people? We want to talk to working people, not about them. There’s a reason why we’re trying to get dental care for children and lower hydro rates; both are in our platform. Working people are having trouble paying their hydro bills. That’s what they’re telling us. And if we don’t listen, that’s a population that will vote for Tim Hudak. We didn’t run an ad in the Toronto Sun because we’re veering to the right. We did it because working people read that paper.

As for the $14 minimum wage, we introduced a $12 minimum wage years ago, and the Liberals said no. And we always said that to increase the minimum wage you have to do it incrementally and not right this minute. Big corporations like McDonald’s are one thing. But we talked to small businesses, and they were clear that an immediate raise to $14 would crush them.

Still, the Liberal strategy to cull from the NDP seems to be working to attract progressive voters. The Liberals have a history of running on the left and governing on the right. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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ADAM GIAMBRONE on why horwath pulled the plug It may be hard for progressives to believe, but waiting any longer for an election risked losing more support to the PCs Not everyone is happy with the NDP’s decision to vote against the budget, and the media have made hay of the fact that some old-school NDPers are frustrated with the party. But there are always some NDP members who disagree with some element of policy or strategy. While the budget presented by the Liberals had many positive-sounding components, especially for urban voters, at the end of the day it was a much more cynical document than most realize. Take the Ontario Pension Plan proposal, something many people are concerned about. There was nothing in the associated legislation of the budget to move this project forward other than a mention in the introduction.

Similarly, on other funding com mitments, like infrastructure, there were lots of pledges but no evidence that the government would do anything to jump-start Toronto’s stalled LRT and subway proposals. On transit, the Liberals have been good at promising action, not so good at putting the shovels in the ground. Just ask the residents around Finch and Sheppard, who were promised LRTs that should have been under con struction or completed by now. As someone who has been a committed NDPer for a long time, I understood that provincial leader Andrea Horwath could no longer support a government that has wasted billions of taxpayers’ dollars that could have been spent on worthwhile programs and projects. Progressive-minded people, who believe that government can be a force for positive change cannot allow poor public management to run rampant as it undermines support for government initiative and our democratic system. And outside Toronto’s core, a large percentage of people feel that the NDP was becoming complicit in the mismanagement of the province by supporting the Liberals. Waiting any longer for an election, risked swinging more support to the PC in parts of the province where voters are, ac-

cording to the polls, considering whether to vote NDP or Tory. For many progressives, this scenario is hard to believe, but looking at various political attitude studies shows unlike strongly politically engaged partisans, most people more easily switch parties based a complex mix of factors and see no problem going NDP to Tory or Tory to NDP. While the NDP platform released last week focuses on a lot of pocketbook issues, the party’s traditional values remain strongly represented, and its discussion of fiscal management would make NDP founder Tommy Douglas proud. He believed in reducing debt to limit the interest paid to bankers. Saskatchewan premier Douglas didn’t run a deficit after

The NDP platform would make Tommy Douglas proud. his first year, though he governed one of Canada’s poorest provinces. In most of Toronto, with the exception of a riding or two in Etobicoke and Scarborough, it will be a Liberal or a New Democrat who wins, meaning that strategic voting against the Tories isn’t an important consideration. Whether you felt an election was justified or not when Horwath pulled the plug, it’s time now to move forward and choose the next government of Ontario. 3 Adam Giambrone ran unsuccessfully for the NDP in last summer’s Scarborough-Guildwood byelection and remains an adviser to the party. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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couraging “cross-dressing for sixyear-olds”? Hudak’s not just blowing off urban voters and scaring the bejesus out of Libs and NDPers with his plan to take an axe to the civil service, kill wind and solar projects, bury LRTs and whatever else is standing in the way of his twisted vision for less government; he’s also frightening moderate conservatives. Folks like – surprise – his PC predecessor John Tory, who happens to

Hudak’s not just blowing off urban voters; he’s frightening moderate conservatives. have Kathleen Wynne’s former chief of staff, Tom Allison, working on his mayoral campaign. If anything, Hudak’s radical push has helped galvanize support against the PCs. The Libs can’t jump for joy yet. Much can still happen in the two weeks before the June 12 vote. But the

Abacus Data poll and others suggest the Grits are edging into majority government territory. As incomprehensible as that may seem, the numbers confirm internal polling done for the PCs at the start of the election that put the Libs at around 38 per cent support and the PCs around 31. Even folks in the crucial 905 battleground the PCs are targeting seem unable to stomach Hudak’s far-right drift. The PCs and Libs are neck-andneck there. Also problematic for the PCs is what Hudak’s leadership may mean for the party’s long-term electoral prospects. It’s political hara-kiri to pursue policies that only entrench the party as a rural rump. While Dalton McGuinty was said to be a cold fish, he won two majorities for the Liberals and came within a hair’s breadth of a third. Hudak’s unlikeability, on the other hand, has been a fatal flaw. To meet him is to think he’s a nice guy, people say, but in front of a mic he turns into a cliché-spouting automaton. But it’s not just his unease in front of the cameras that turns off anyone who’s under 60 and/or doesn’t live in rural Ontario. Believability is an issue, too. His pledge to create a million jobs, for example, has been widely panned by economists. Past bloodletting in the war over

his leadership is adding to Hudak’s troubles, too, though he avoided the embarrassment of a formal review at the party’s policy convention last September. That was shortly after the high-profile demotions of finance critic Peter Shurman and former leadership rival Randy Hillier – the former for billing taxpayers $20K for a housing allowance Hudak reportedly signed off on; the latter for allegedly breaking caucus confidentiality on a private member’s bill that would put the PCs in line for big donations from construction giant EllisDon. Back then there was talk of a reform wing of the PCs making a break from the party, and a ceiling was imposed on election spending by the same party executive that wanted to put the matter of Hudak’s leadership to a vote. Those episodes help explain his campaign push to the right. The platform is clearly not about growing the PC vote, but getting out the hardcore. It’s cynical politics 101, with Hudak banking on riled-up PC supporters and low voter turnout to take him over the top. To that end, how far will he go? There’s no telling. Hudak has everything to lose; anything short of an election win and he’s a goner. 3

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n a sunny Saturday afternoon, May 24, my wife, Karyn, and I make our way to the Toronto church that’s been providing sanctuary for the Pusuma family for over two years. Jozsef and Timea are there to welcome us, greeting us with warm smiles and sad eyes. Their six-year-old, Lulu, is in her ballet costume. Today is special: she and other children from the church are putting on a small dance recital. Timea serves a goulash whose recipe she tells me her grandmother passed down to her. It’s been in the family for generations. She loves her grandmother, with whom she often Skypes. The older woman would love to hold her and Lulu in her arms, but she’s made them promise never to come back to Hungary. She knows. Lulu says she and her family are in hiding from the “bad people” who want to send the family back to Hungary, where they would be in danger. Sadly, we Canadians, we are the bad people. A callous Harper government has engineered the dissipation of the compassion Canadians were once renowned for. Our open arms are closed.

Our hearts have frozen. Jozsef and Timea are Roma. Jozsef has a second strike against him: his father was Jewish. They are also wellknown human rights activists in a country where both Roma and Jews face verbal and physical attacks from roving gangs of neo-Nazis. Indeed, the fascist Jobbik party, which now holds 20 per cent of the seats in Hungary’s parliament, is virulently anti-Roma and only slightly less anti-Semitic. Jozsef was a hate crimes investigator for the Movement for Desegregation Foundation led by the former European Parliament member Viktória Mohácsi, the leading domestic monitor of anti-Roma attacks and hate crimes in Hungary. His work took him to towns and villages where Roma men, women and children were being harassed, violently attacked and even murdered by thugs from the racist, paramilitary-style Hungarian Guard. It was his job to document these cases, and because of it Jozsef and his family became targets. On a quiet weekday afternoon in July 2009, Jozsef, Timea and Lulu, then 18 months old, were out for a stroll when they were attacked. Jozsef and Ti-

mea were badly beaten. Lulu was saved only because Jozsef, who almost died, shielded his daughter by lying over her and taking the blows. They were warned that if he continued his work, they wouldn’t be so lucky next time. They knew they had to leave. Jozsef had heard that Canada celebrates dif ferent ethnic and cultural groups, that we welcome and embrace newcomers. He thought Canada would be a hospit able home for his family. Sadly, when he and his family sought refugee protection here, a law yer hoping to make a quick buck latched on to them. They believed he would help, but he made matters worse. Though armed with evidence of

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the ballot, nine took part: Olivia Chow and John Tory, the frontrunners not currently in treatment for addiction; David Soknacki and Karen Stintz, the poor poll performers counting on late ascendance; and Sarah Thomson, the now-perennial candidate who will continue to believe in herself long after anyone else does. Also participating were Morgan Baskin, the intelligent and earnest 18-year-old; Dewitt Lee, the feisty advocate for the underserved; Michael Nicula, the self-proclaimed “new Rob Ford,” who believes he’s uniquely qual ified to root out corruption at City Hall; and Erwin Sniedzins, once “voted the most innovative manager in Xerox” and whose last name rhymes with “pigeons.” Since all participants were afforded the opportunity to weigh in on each question, the event ran longer than the Stratford production of King Lear that opened the same night. Even in Ford’s absence, the leading candidates fell into their usual fiveway game of rock-paper-scissors. With varying degrees of passive aggression, Stintz went after Tory and Chow; Chow went after Tory and Ford; Tory went after Ford and Chow; and Soknacki went after Ford. Stintz, for example, used a question about restoring integrity and accountability to City Hall as a chance to attack Tory’s leadership skills. “Mr. Tory had challenges managing his own caucus when he was the leader of the opposition,” she said. “I don’t know how he thinks he can manage a council.” This would be less silly an observation if Stintz hadn’t conveniently ignored the fact that she did no better herding the Responsible Government Group – a right-wing council faction she chaired in the later Miller years – and utterly failed to achieve council buy-in for her doomed OneCity transit plan. The lesser-known candidates pri-

marily used the platform to talk up their own biographies and the atyp ical perspectives they bring. Lee spoke of what he learned from the “immigrant-life rude awakening” he experienced when he started over in Toronto a decade ago after spending most of his life elsewhere. “If you have a desire to succeed,” he said, “this city will meet you halfway.” He claims first-hand knowledge of our shelter system, saying he would sleep on benches, wake up, walk to a shelter, shower, put on a suit and “go out to seize the day, carpe diem. And the city met me halfway.” Throughout the debate, Lee shouted each sentence as if it were a grand proclamation, which is a handy approach when everyone else is beginning to drift off. But some sentences deserve to be bellowed. “We have to deal with our citizens with compassion,” he announced. “The way our least are treated is a disgrace.” In trumpeting the gap between what Toronto is and what it could be, Lee embraced the heart of the election. At its best, politics is a benevo lent force that rouses us to act on our own behalf and that of the most marginalized. That mission and the things that make it compelling should be intertwined and insepar able. The best leaders excite us with the prospect of contributing to something better. Right now, however, our politics is defined by the negative space left by the absence of a leader. Every thing is framed in contrast to the incumbent. “If you operate under the impres sion that local politics are boring,” Jimmy Kimmel said when introdu cing Mayor Ford on his show in March, “you probably don’t live in Toronto.” For those of us passionate about Toronto city government, that was a pronouncement laced equally with vindication and damnation. To the extent that it serves to pique interest in municipal politics, entertainment value is important. The more compelling a narrative, and the more that seems to be at stake, the greater the level of civic engagement. A reporter from Salam Toronto, a Persian-English weekly, asked the candidates why they think some people still support Ford, and what they have to offer that’s different. It was a reasonable inquiry that pro duced interesting answers. “I see the question as one of hope,” said Soknacki, “because I think that we are moving forward, we are exorcising that ghost.” But Baskin, who kicked off the debate by plainly asserting “I’m not here as a joke,” dismissed the ques tion out of hand. “I’m here because youth matter,” she said. “I’m sorry, I’m not gonna comment on Rob Ford. You can look up why he won.” 3 jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie

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anchor: weight or wastE? a place brimming with purpose, en ergy and conviction (as it is, I’m sure, to some extent today). But even from my admittedly modest perch at the Mother Corp, I could see that CBC-TV News and Cur rent Affairs was equally racked by insecurity, destructive cliques and incessant complaints over the lack of money and people to do its job. The occasional CBC president tried to reassure the forever restive troops that while the multi-channel uni verse was on the horizon – the inter net was still further in the distance – the CBC’s “signature” place as this nation’s “unrivalled” source of news would remain fixed. Those “glory days” and The Nation al’s supposed hegemony would turn out to be fleeting, not simply because the CBC made strategic errors, but because of the explosion of immedi ate alternative web-based sources of information that are challenging the CBC’s editorial primacy. The news anchor in the mould of Nash or Mansbridge is an anachron ism. Comedians like Jon Stewart, Ste phen Colbert, Rick Mercer, Bill Maher and lately John Oliver have clinically exposed this inherent absurdity. Stewart, in particular, has appro priated the anchor role not to deliver the news, but routinely to offer view ers incisive context for the news, to parade the media’s habitual hypo crisy and institutional amnesia and speak truth to power – all with enter taining dexterity and, of course, a punchline. In some important respects, Stew art is doing the job that today’s so- called anchors should be doing. Rather than telling us what we al ready may know, the anchor should be exploring what we don’t know by spending time and resources delving deeply into the context of events, not with insiders and pundits but with reporters. This is not a revolutionary idea. But until it’s adopted, it doesn’t mat ter who occupies the anchor chair. In any event, the idea of Nash as the reassuringly polite if erudite ver sion of a Canadian is predictably sim plistic. Surely, our complex national identity, if it exists, can’t be reduced to this irritating cliché any longer. Sometimes a “good night” is just a “good night.” 3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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Thursday, May 29

Benefits

r#CanadaCares Family Day And Concert

(Save the Children/Canadian Network for Maternal Newborn and Child Health) Performances by Serena Ryder, Jully Black and others (7 pm) plus family activities (3-5 pm). Free (donations appreciated). Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. Canstruction Competition (Daily Bread Food Bank) Design and build contest with giant sculptures constructed entirely out of canned food. To May 31. TD Centre, 77 King W. canstructiontoronto.org. Funny Girls And Dynamic Divas (Sistering) Performances by Debra Di Giovanni, Cheri Maracle, Barbra Lica, Jane Bunnett and others plus a silent auction. 6:30 pm. $80. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3667723, sistering.org. Mad Libs Story Battle (Story Planet) Fundraising gala with celebrity judges, craft beer, a silent auction and more. 7-11 pm. $100. Mercer Union, 1286 Bloor W. storyplanet.ca. Menstravaganza At The Revue (Femme Int’l) An evening of menstruation-themed cinema and a panel discussion on periods in global culture mark Menstrual Hygiene Day. 7 pm. $10. Revue Cinema, 400 Roncesvalles. 416-531-9959.

Events

The Amazing Universe Presentation on alien worlds, the life and death of stars, cosmic catastrophes and more. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Coffee & Co-Ops Brewing, Tasting And Learning Seminar with coffee expert Elijah Lederman. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129.

Let’s Grow Food: Transplanting And Direct Seeding Workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela@ foodshare.net. Market 707 Farmers Market Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Thursdays 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

Movers & Shakers, Community Makers: Our Activist Neighbourhood Presentations and discussion on the Riverdale community’s history of social action, with Amy Go and others. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. r alphthornton.org.

The Perimeter Series: Public And Community Engagement Through Design

Panel discussion with archiTEXT’s Zahra Ebrahim, T.O. Design Offsite Festival’s Deborah Wang and others. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Bahen Centre, 40 St George, rm 1190. Preregister azero.ca.

Silent Partners: Sustainable Architecture

Conservation Council of Ontario presentation by Green-Deck-City architect Loghman Azar. 6 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register 416-533-1635.

Friday, May 30

Benefits

5Liona Boyd, Two Voices – Two Guitars

(Casey House/ Toronto PFLAG) Benefit concert. 7 pm. $55-$95. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. uofttix.ca.

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More Than Just A Yardage Sale (Textile Museum of Canada) Sale of fine fabrics, beads, buttons, patterns and more in tents outside the TMC, rain or shine. Today 11 am-6 pm; tomorrow 11 am-2 pm. Free. 55 Centre. textilemuseum.ca.

Events

BBike Month Critical Mass Ride Join the

monthly critical mass ride at Bloor and Spa dina. Meet at 6 pm, ride at 6:30 pm. Free. facebook.com/groups/2246288900. Bloor West Village Art Tour Self-guided tour of local artist studios and galleries in Bloor West Village, Swansea, High Park, the Junction and Malta Village. Today 6-9 pm, tomorrow and Jun 1, 11 am-5 pm. Free. 416769-4454. arttour.info. Common Skin Problems Health talk. 1 pm. Free. Toronto Western Hospital Auditorium, 399 Bathurst. Pre-register 416-603-6475. Culture Talks Discussion with journalists Kisha Ferguson and Shawn Micallef. 5:30 pm. Free. Goethe-Institut, 100 University. goethe.de/toronto. Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with a Strictly Forbidden theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl. Green Party Town Hall Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May and Ontario leader Mike Schreiner hold a town hall to welcome candidates for the upcoming byelection for Trinity-Spadina. 6:30 pm. Free. Medical Sciences Bldg, rm 2158, 1 King’s College Circle. rebecca.harrison@greenparty.ca.

Native Women’s Resource Centre Open House A history exhibit, healing circle, info

on programs and more. 3-6 pm. Free. 191 Gerrard E. 416-963-9963. TraumaTalks Symposium on advancing cultural understanding in trauma informed care, with speakers and workshops. $199, stu $105. Northrop Frye Hall, 73 Queen’s Park. Pre-register traumatalks.ca.

Ready, Set, Die! (Heart & Stroke Fdn) Zombie run and fitness challenge. Register to participate or just watch (free). 10:30 am-3 pm. $34-$74. Alpha Obstacle Training, 93 Polson. readysetdie.com. Support Fauna Foundation (Fauna Fdn chimpanzee sanctuary) Live music with Anastace, trivia, a live auction, a reading by Chimps Of Fauna Sanctuary author Andrew Westoll and more. 7 pm. Free. Arts Market, 1114 Queen E. faunafoundation.org.

Toronto Fitness Challenge

(SickKids Fdn) Fitness enthusiasts conquer numerous classes, plus a show with various vendors and fitness celebrities. Today 9 am-6 pm; tomorrow 10 am-4 pm. $42-$85. Metro Convention Centre, 250 Front W. torontofitnesschallenge.com.

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rBuddha’s Birthday Celebration A parade, dragon and lion dance troupes, music and dance performances, martial arts and more. 3-6 pm. Free. Mississauga Celebration Square, 300 City Centre. vesakcelebration.com.

Chinatown: Then And Now

istoric walk with author Arlene H Chan. 6:30-8 pm. Free. Location provided on registration. Preregister heritagetoronto.org/ event/chinatown-then-andnow.

Community Garden Planting Day Plant veggie seed-

lings for the community kitchen. 10:30 am-noon. Free. Centre for Immigrant & Community Services, 2330 Midland. cicscanada.com.

Festivals this week

InspiraTO Theatre Festival Performances of 10-minute plays by playwrights from Toronto and beyond including Ian August and Sandra Cardinal. $15-$50. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. theatreinspirato.ca. May 29 to Jun 7 RUNG Festival South Asian festival featuring contemporary arts, crafts, music and dance from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and more. $13-$16. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rungfestival.com. May 31 to Jun 1 Scarborough Film Festival Feature films and shorts including Lex Sidón’s Grand Street. $13-$20. Venues in Scarborough and East York. scarboroughfilmfestival.com. Jun 3 to 8 SING! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival A cappella festival featuring Canadian and international artists. $30-$65. Little Trinity Anglican Church (425 King E) and the Distillery District (55 Mill). singtoronto.com. May 30 to Jun 1

continuing Contact Photography exhibitions, installations, talks and

more. Most shows free. Various venues. contactphoto.com. To May 31

Deep Wireless Festival Of Radio & Transmission Art

Performances, installations, radio broadcasts and talks. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. deepwireless.ca. To May 31

Bhavajan Kumar performs at the Rung Festival.

Saturday, May 31

Benefits

Canoe Heads For Kids (Canoe Heads for Kids) Camp enthusiasts strap canoes to their backs and complete a 15K portage and paddle through the waterfront to help send low-income kids to summer camp. 1-5 pm. Spectating free. Harbourfront Canoe and Kayak Centre, 283 Queens Quay W. canoeheadsforkids. wordpress.com. Days Of Our Lives Fan Event (Three to Be Fdn) Meet and mingle with stars Arianne Zucker, Shawn Christian and others, a photo shoot, Q&A role party and dance. $475 and up. Westin Harbour Castle Hotel, 1 Harbour Sq. starscanadaevents.com. Mining For Justice (Common Thread Community Chorus) Performance with Common Thread Kids and Proyecto Altiplano. 1:30 & 7:30 pm. $25, adv $20, stu/srs $15, adv $10; under 12 free. Estonian House, 958 Broad view. commonthreadchorus.ca. Mom To Mom Sale (Royal Canadian Legion/ New Mom Project) Baby and kids’ clothing, toys, games, furniture and more plus a barbecue. 9 am-1 pm. Free. Baron Byng Beaches Royal Canadian Legion, 243 Coxwell. torontomomtomom.com. Parkdale Plant Fair (Horticultural Societies of Parkdale & Toronto) Perennials, annuals, native plants, seeds and more plus arts and crafts, a flea market and advice from experts on eco-friendly gardening and ice-damaged tree care. 10:30 am-1:30 pm. Free. Parkdale Public School, 78 Seaforth. parkdaletorontohort.com. Polo And Family Day (IDRF Water) Polo matches, food and entertainment to benefit a project providing clean water to communities in need. 5:30 pm. $20, family/VIP $50. Royal Canadian Riding Academy, 4252 Davis (Newmarket). idrf.ca. Race For Kids (local Boys and Girls Clubs) A race, awards and after party. 10 am. $10. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Yonge. raceforkids.ca.

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rDrum Artz CommunityDay BBQ

amba drumming workS shop, community gardening, a mural project and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free. 360 Geary. d rumartz.com.

Famous People Players Anniversary

The black light theatre company celebrates its 40th anniversary with a tribute evening honouring hockey’s Johnny Bower, senator Art Eggleton and actor Ron James. 6 pm. $94. Dine and Dream Theatre, 343 Evans. fpp.org. Festival Of Social Innovation Celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Centre for Social Innovation and its programs. 2-6 pm. Free.

new media by graduating students from Ryerson’s MFA program. docnow.ca. To Jun 28 East End Performance Crawl Plays including Bronwyn Steinberg’s Occupy Me!, storytelling for all ages, dance and more. Various prices and venues on Queen East from Broadview to Greenwood. 416-9070468, crowstheatre.com. To Jun 1 Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Celebrating queer culture and history on film with screenings, panels, performances, parties and more. $10-$22. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. insideout.ca. To Jun 1 Subtle Technologies Festival exploring participatory culture in art and science through performances, films, exhibitions and more. $10-$60. Various venues. subtletechnologies.com/festival. To May 31 rToronto Jewish Literary Festival Readings by Nora Gold and Chantal Ringuet plus lectures. Free or pwyc. Various venues. Pre-register kofflerarts.org. To Jun 1 Toronto Korean Film Festival Authentic Korean cinema in various genres. $5-$10. Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas W), Cinecycle (129 Spadina). t kff.ca. To May 31

St James Town And The Filipino Community Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org/asian-heritage-month.

A Taste Of The Dragon Boat Festival

Hands-on workshop and tasting as part of Asian Heritage Month (11 am-noon), followed by Chinese folktale (12:30 pm). Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Preregister 416-393-7746. rTina Petrova Launching her kids’ book Krista-Link-A-La And The Size 13 Shoe with a reading. 1 pm. Free. RedFish BlueFish Creative Café, 73 Harbord. redfishbluefishcafe.ca. Toronto Zombie Run 5K obstacle course race and live action cosplay. 10 am-3 pm. Starts at Riverdale Park East, 550 Broadview. Pre-register readysetdie.com/zombie-runtoronto. Walnut Studios Spring Open House Painting, furniture, jewellery, sculpture and more. 1-6 pm and 7-10 pm. Free. 83 Walnut. walnutstudios.com. Whiskey, Wharf & Windmill Guided ROM walk through the Distillery District with beer sampling. 2 pm. $30. Pre-register 416586-5799.

Sunday, June 1

Benefits

Paprika $2 Clothing Sale (Paprika Festival)

Great fashion finds and a bake sale support the indie theatre fest. 11 am-6 pm (rain or shine). Free. Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. paprikafestival.com. Push For Your Tush (Colon Cancer Canada) Fundraising walk/run. 9 am. $25, family $50. East Don Parkland (NW corner Leslie and Sheppard). coloncancercanada.ca. BRide For Heart (Heart & Stroke Fdn) Cycle

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In a world where food could be plentiful, there’s no excuse for the fact that starvation continues to dog people all over the planet. Action Against Hunger/Action contre la Faim (ACF) is an international humanitarian organization that fights hunger and its root causes worldwide. Support the org by attending the Meatballs 35th Reunion at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West) on Wednesday (June 4) at 7:30 pm. A screening of the iconic summer comedy is followed by a panel discussion featuring writer and producer Dan Goldberg (The Hangover), producer Don Carmody (Chicago) and more. $35 (tax receipt for $20). actioncontrelafaim.ca/ meatballs.

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Journalism professor Kamal Al- Solaylee moderates a discussion entitled The Rainbow Railroad: Fleeing Anti-Gay Persecution. Arsham Parsi, founder of the Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees, who lives in exile in Canada, and immigration lawyer Michael Battista, chair of Rainbow Railroad, a volunteer organization that helps LGBTQ people facing violence or threats, discuss options available to queers facing persecution. Wednesday (June 4) at 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Toronto Island House & History Tour

(Stephen Lewis Fdn Grandmothers Campaign) Tour distinctive homes and community buildings on the island. Noon-5 pm. $45, child $15. Take the ferry to Ward’s Island. Pre-register torontoislandhousetour.weebly. com.

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Agincourt Village Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Agincourt Jr Public School, 29 Lockie. heritagetoronto.org. BBike Paths Of Liberty Village In 1914

Heritage walk or bike ride. 6:30 pm. Free. King and Strachan. 416-593-2656. Bird Walk Guided bird hike. 8 am. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. 416661-6600 ext 5770. rCreative Science Sunday: Origami Learn paper-folding techniques from the past and future. 1 & 3 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-6961000. Distillery Sunday Market Juried art market. Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com.

rLa Dolce Vita Italian celebration with a

culinary showcase, live entertainment, an automotive exhibit, all-ages activities and more. $35, yth/child $25, under 3 free. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. e-day island Music Festival Equality Day all-ages celebration with performances by Ron Hawkins, Spookey Ruben and many others. Noon-11 pm. Toronto Island Gibraltar Point. e dayfest.ca. Heart of Toronto Guided ROM walk exploring the city halls and more. 2 pm. Free. Doors of New City Hall, Queen and Bay. rom. on.ca. Inspire 2014 Inspirational talks and Q&As with journalist Mary Garofalo, author Frankie Flowers and others. 9:30 am-1:30 pm. Montecassino Hotel & Event Venue, 3710 Chesswood. Pre-register inspiretoronto. com. rMill Pond Splash Eco Festival Celebrate the Don River Watershed with hands-on environmental education activities. Noon-4:30 pm. Free. Mill Pond Park (Richmond Hill). trca.on.ca/mill.

Nature In The City: Mud Creek And The Beltline Trail Heritage Toronto walk. 10

am. Free/pwyc. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. heritagetoronto.org. Rouge Park Guided walk. Today 9:30 am, 12:30 & 2 pm; Jun 4, 9:30 am. Free. Various locations in Rouge Park. r ougepark.com/ hike.

Royal Conservatory Of Music Open House Sample 15-minute music lessons, live

performances and more. 10 am-4 pm. Free. TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor W. rcmusic.ca/wide-open-house.

Social Mingle: Creating A Book Or A Life

Women connect to learn about the Passion Over Past global community book project. 2-5 pm. Free. Salon Tresses, 935 Queensway. Pre-register passionoverpast@yahoo.ca. rStroll, Roll And Run Relay Seniors’ Month celebration and community festival, wih a relay run, music by the Coppertones, a reptile petting zoo, barbecue and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Better Living Health Centre, 1 Overland. Pre-register mybetterliving. ca. Succulent Plant Show & Sale More than 70 different classes of strange and unusual house plants. 10:30 am-4:30 pm. Free. Allan Gardens Conservatory, Carlton E of Jarvis. torontocactus.org.

Monday, June 2

Benefits

An Evening With... Dan Rather (Women’s College Hospital) Gala evening with a talk by the broadcast journalist. 6 pm. $750. Fairmont Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. aneveningwith.ca.

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Balcony And Terrace Container Gardening Learn the secrets to success. 1:30-3 pm.

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Miles Nadal JCC and Bloor Annex BIA present the 18th Annual

Andre Dubus III discusses the film adaptation of House Of Sand And Fog, with Jennifer Connelly, after it screens on June 2. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-3937131.

Books On Film: Andre Dubus III On House Of Sand And Fog Film screening and discussion

with the author on adapting his novel for the screen. 7 pm. $35, stu/srs $30. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. Pitch #3: Talks On Baseball Panel discussion with journalists Scott Griffin, Cathal Kelly, Alexis Brudnicki and others. 7 pm. $15. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. pitchtalks3.brownpapertickets.com.

Tuesday, June 3

Events

Stay Up All Night: Where Sinai Meets Spadina All-night Jewish learning festival

with performers, storytellers, a religiousinspired poetry slam, discussions and more. 7:30 pm-6 am. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. milesnadaljcc.ca.

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Bigger, Better And Multiples: Orgasms For Women Workshop. 7 pm. $33. Good for

Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416-5880900, goodforher.com. The Grange Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. SW corner Dundas and McCaul. rom.on.ca. BHart House Bike Month Breakfast Bicycle commuters enjoy free pancakes, juice and coffee. 7:30-9 am. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. harthouse.ca. Meditation Class for the experienced or for those who can’t sit still. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ralphthornton.org. Misconceptions About The Big Bang Talk on how the universe really formed. 7 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Greenbelt Fdn) Spring feast from master chefs and brewers with entertainment, a silent auction and more. 6:15 pm. $125. CBC Barbara Frum Atrium, 250 Front W. brewersplatetoronto.org. Eva’s Auction (Eva’s Initiatives Home for Life) Live and silent auctions, dinner and more support homeless youth. 6 pm. $100. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. homeforlifeauction.ca.

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(ActionAgainst Hunger Canada) Screening of the 1979 film starring Bill Murray, cast reunion and panel discussion. 6 pm. $35, VIP $150. TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King W. actioncontrelafaim.ca/meatballs.

Parsi of Iranian Railroad for Queer Refugees and immigration lawyer Michael Battista. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Reveal Me Burlesque Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show with emcee Dayton Bitch. Doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com.

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

pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-861-0626. Small Business Money Forum Talk by The Lunch Lady founder Ruthie Burd. 9:30 am-2 pm. Free. City Hall, Queen and Bay. toronto. ca/enterprisetoronto. 3

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Roll out the rain barrel

Don’t let all that precious rain hitting your roof flood sewers and basements. Rain barrels can capture thousands of gallons over the summer to help keep your garden green without chlorine. Which barrel’s worth buying? HEAVEN & EARTH COLLAPSIBLE This one may be super-convenient to pack up come wintertime, but it’ll totally disappoint you if your ground’s not level. Plus, some stores sell a version that’s made of vinyl (softened with hormone-disrupting phthalates), which is a bad idea. If you do get an H&E barrel, make sure to opt for one made of polyester or nylon. $99. SCORE: NN

FISKARS I tested out this rain barrel last summer, and it drove me nuts. Yes, the spigot provides clearance for watering cans. But without a second spout at ground level, it’s impossible to empty this sucker out without turning it on its head, so a lot of funky water can fester on the bottom. I thought I’d drained it completely, but I hadn’t, and it froze and split over the winter. Did I mention that the diverter is a pain in the ass to install, since a hole saw isn’t included? Made in the U.S. No recycled content. $160. SCORE: NN

RTS There are a lot of fake wood rain barrels on the market. This flat-backed one, made in Canada, will work just fine if you have room to rest it directly under your downspout. Otherwise, it’s not the barrel for you, since it doesn’t offer a diverter. You also have to clean the screen periodically to keep it from clogging. There’s only one spigot and it’s low to the ground, so this barrel has to be put on a stand to access the 189 litres it holds. $120. SCORE: NNN

ALGREEN Let’s face it, most rain barrels are not the prettiest things. Algreen’s are probably the most style-conscious out there and great for high-visibility spots. Plus they have planter-friendly lids for cascading greenery. These barrels (from 190 to 380 litres) are built to withstand Canadian winters, meaning they shouldn’t crack like others do. They’re made an hour outside Toronto, and the charcoal and brown models have 15 per cent recycled content. Bonus: the company offers a cool pump kit to help get H20 from the barrel out through a hose. $199. SCORE: NNNN

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Facing a Water WORLD What if we had a South Africa-style truth and reconciliation process for the earth?

If you’ve entered Toronto’s underbelly to catch a subway this spring, you’ve likely spent time making eye contact with souls standing knee-deep in floodwaters. Before the Drowning World photo exhibit (part of Contact) wraps up on May 31, a panel of leading-edge thinkers, moderated by Catherine Wright, toured the installation in the Queen’s Park subway station and gathered at MaRS on Sunday, May 25, to dig into some big-picture Qs on climate change. Ecoholic talked to the panelists about the coming deluge and what we can do to rescue humanity.

“Western industrialized cultures have lost a sense of our deep connection with and dependence upon earth’s biological and geological systems. We see ourselves as separate from everything else, as the only subjects with rights.

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radically, at the species level so that our economic, cultural, political and social systems and institutions operate in ways that are mutually enhancing for humanity and the rest of creation.” DENNIS O’HARA theology and envi ronment prof, U of T “Our drowning world is a direct result of over-consumption. A small proportion of the world’s population – mainly those in the affluent and developed world – use up most of the world’s resources and produce most of the greenhouse gas emissions. “We will have to reassess the global obsession with ‘growth.’ But the problem is that the impacts of climate change can feel distant. Often people will only respond to important global issues when they begin to feel close to their lives. Some sort of mass global movement is needed, but I do not have any easy answers about how this might happen.” GIDEON MENDEL award-winning photographer of Drowning World “We’ve changed the chemistry of the atmosphere and ocean so much through burning fossil fuels that we’ve destabilized both weather patterns and the planet’s reserves of ice. Result: gushers of rain where it used to be dry;

ocean where it used to be shore. “It seems to me that it’s not just the world that’s drowning: we are, too – but in guilt, blame, anger, fear. These are powerful, paralyzing emotions that keep us from moving on and finding solutions. “So I’ve been toying with the idea of forgiveness. It’s capable of transforming all that negative energy into a flood of relief and a conviction that it’s possible to move on. What would it feel like if we could forgive ourselves for what we’ve done to the planet? Forgive each other? What if we had a South Africa-sytle truth and reconciliation process for the earth?” ALANNA MITCHELL science journalist and author of Sea Sick “Humanity appreciates the earth as merely an intricate machine with a limitless capacity to buffer our industrial aspirations. “Our lifeline will be the cultivation of biospiritual moral imaginations, fed by empirical data from modern science and the meaningfulness of sacred wisdom traditions. This will allow humanity to appreciate the earth anew and learn to live in ways that will allow abundant life for all in our planetary community.” CATHERINE WRIGHT eco-spirituality teacher, Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association

“Like a frog in a pot of slowly warming water, we’re paralyzed. It’s literally difficult to believe climate disruption is as bad as it is, and easy to deny. It runs counter to so much of our world view: tomorrow will be better than today, human ingenuity knows no bounds, nature is ours to control, and so on. “Our minds will play lots of tricks to keep us from absorbing the uncomfortable truth that we’re in deep, deep trouble. Add to denial’s siren song the deep commitment of our institutions to keep existing capital and profits flowing. “We need to wake up and find new ways of talking about climate that get past our cognitive block. Then change the rules of the market by putting a fee on carbon. That’s it.” TOM RAND clean tech guru, author of Waking The Frog ecoholic@nowtoronto.com @ecoholicnation

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “When I was young,” wrote French author Albert Camus, “I expected people to give me more than they could – continuous friendship, permanent emotion.” That didn’t work out so well for him. Over and over, he was awash in disappointment. “Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give,” he concluded. “Their emotions, their friendship and noble gestures keep their full miraculous value in my eyes; wholly the fruit of grace.” I’d love to see you make an adjustment like this in the coming months, Aries. If you do, the astrological omens suggest you will experience a blessing like Camus’. Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Some earth-

quakes happen in slow-motion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier. Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, these gradual varieties can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the earth’s surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo. I’m not sure what exact form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream? The thawing of a frozen asset or the return of a lost resource?

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 For German physi-

cist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything

that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favourable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 “I should have

kissed you longer.” I hope you won’t be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now. I hope you won’t be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like “I should have treated you better” or “I wish I would have listened to you deeper” or “I should have tried harder to be my best self with you.” Please don’t let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so, you will be free of regrets later.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 “Longing,

what is that? Desire, what is that?” Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her

poem Prism. Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That’s what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner’s mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 You could

really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic – someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance and correct your mistakes. Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that? Ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body. One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is, will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Now would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with your existing

methods. It’s just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment. What’s the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done? What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

Pisces Feb 19 | Mar 20 Now is an excellent time to transform your relationship with your past. Are you up for a concentrated burst of psycho-spiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: “What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?” Next, move on to this inquiry: “What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?” Here’s a third query: “What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the deadweight I had been clinging to?” Homework: I dare you to give a compliment to someone you’ve never praised before. Tell me about it at Freewillastrology.com.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 I suspect that

some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand onstage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There’s a strong possibility you will be wearing pink and green striped socks and a gold crown. And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving, but no words will come out. So that’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you’ve got and make a splashy impression, you will be well-prepared.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that’s rotting on the forest floor. I see e xuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cow pie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I’m guessing you’re going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing. In the process, you are preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won’t be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin. Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 “Dear Diary: Almost

everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating. Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chip-chip-chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud? Why is it I’m not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders? Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defences were totally stripped away? I think I’ll go with that theory.”

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week PANDA BEAR at the

Opera House, Tuesday, ñ May 20.

Rating: NNNN Six years after Noah Lennox (aka Panda Bear) released his breakthrough album Person Pitch, the Baltimore native and Animal Collective member finally made his much-awaited (and long overdue) solo debut in Toronto. But rather than play material from his previous albums, he surprised the packed crowd with a preview of Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper, a new album to be released later this year. Judging from the show, the record is full of classic Lennox tricks: swampy modulating samples layered until they sound as if they’re bubbling underwater; driving drums punctuated by alien effects; vocals that vary from banshee shrieks to soft coos. But most interesting – besides the backing visuals of naked women, gummy bears, twirling snakes and technicolour clouds by artist Danny Perez – was witnessing how Panda Bear created his complex soundscapes. Starting with a bass or drum sample, he slowly added more samples – all drenched in woozy effects – until he reached peak density, when he finally added his vocals, which were then looped on the spot. Slowly retracting

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layers and subtly inserting new sounds, his transitions were so climactic that the crowd’s anticipation between songs was palpable. SAMANTHA EDWARDS

DANIEL ROMANO, SHOTGUN JIMMIE and WEATHER STATION as part of YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS FIFTH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT at the Horseshoe, Thursday, May 22. Rating: NNNN

To celebrate its fifth anniversary, Welland-based You’ve Changed Records (founded by Constantines’ Steve Lambke and Attack in Black’s Daniel Romano and Ian Kehoe) staged a fullon love-in at the Horseshoe Tavern. Toronto’s beloved Weather Station reunited for the occasion and even played a handful of new songs from an upcoming LP that showcased lead singer Tamara Lindeman’s deep, smoky voice and nimble guitar-plucking. Daniel Romano and his backing band, the Trilliums, were the night’s not-so-surprising surprise guests. The country crooner, sporting a cowboy hat and leather boots, had us eating up every word of his 1960s-inspired hurtin’ cowboy ballads. In fact, Romano’s raise-your-arm-inthe-air-and-say-yee-haw set would

ALL TORONTO’S PARTIES in Kensington Market and other venues, Saturday, May 24. Rating: NNNN

For the second edition of All Toronto’s Parties, the organizers took the theme of collaboration to absurd lengths. Curated and run by a growing team of indie labels and promoters (Weird Canada, Wavelength, Pleasence Records, Feast in the East, Silent Shout and Healing Power), the mini-festival focused on one-off experimental supergroups, combining performers from a wide range of local weirdo musician scenes into even stranger new configurations. The daytime portion of the event was like a musical scavenger hunt, with small makeshift stages set up all over Kensington Market, which in some cases meant the performers had to collaborate with the surrounding environment and sounds. The no-shoes rule for Castlevania’s afternoon set at the Krudar Muay Thai studio made for a stinky room, but their brain-melting, synth-fuelled cover of the Velvet Underground’s noise rock anthem Sister Ray made it worthwhile. Later, the nighttime show at the Comfort Zone was loud enough to drown out your own thoughts. The result? The ambitious project oscillated wildly between inspiringly creative and aggressively irritating, with just enough of the former to justify waiting out the latter. Highlights of the 10-hour event included the fractured folk songs of Isla Craig, the deafening noise rock techno of Fresh Snow and Jamie Kidd hybrid Frisch Kind, and the minimalist psychedelic disco of Nature. BENJAMIN BOLES

have been the perfect ending to the night if not for Shotgun Jimmie’s encore performance of his song You’ve Changed from 2009’s Paint It Pink EP. An ode to high school (but also a nod to the label), the lo-fi jam had Jimmie belting out, “You’ve changed, I know I don’t feel the same.” But in the case of the ever-evolving, tight-knit family at SE YC, change is – apparently – good.

CHILLY GONZALES, EVE EGOYAN, AFIARA STRING QUARTET at Koerner Hall, Friday, May 23. Rating: NNN

It was difficult to find any through-line between the four pieces that made up the 21C Festival’s Friday program (aside from the fact that three were world premieres), but the night was still enjoyable.

Isla Craig The first half showcased the Afiara String Quartet playing the head-spinning, atonal Jagged Edges by and with pianist Uri Caine, and the cajónfuelled Requiem Flamenco by Javier Limón, a work made up of three long movements that had sensuality but lacked soul. The post-intermission collaborative piece Surface Tension saw Eve Egoyan playing minimally on a disklavier, an acoustic piano with a computer interface, while David Rokeby’s projections – rippling water, geometric towers, snowfall – screened overhead to delicate, evocative effect. No surprise, Chilly Gonzales’s headlining performance was most entertaining. Hunched at his piano in a pair of slippers and delivering comments with a side of humour, he debuted his Suite From The Shadow For Chamber Ensemble, inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale for adults. It was dynamic and invigorating, moving through myriad moods (including one he later referred to as “stoner tango”) and employing the Madawaska Quartet, a flautist and French horn player. The “rap song” follow-up, deeply rhythmic and bassy, earned him and the CARLA GILLIS musicians a standing O.

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clubs&concerts hot Kelp Records 20th Anniversary Party w/ the Acorn, Andrew Vincent, Jim Bryson, Andy Shauf, Evening Hymns, Chris Page, Andy Swan & the Flaps Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Thursday (May 29) Folk-leaning label party. Dan Deacon, DIANA, Digits Adelaide Hall (250 Adelaide West), Thursday (May 29) Electronic-classical noise-maker. Inside Out LGBT Film Festival Local Heroes Party w/ DJs Vee Stun, John Caffery, Phil V, Cozmic Cat, Joe Blow and Sigourney Beaver, Secret Agent & others Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen West), Thursday (May 29) Celebration of local queer DJs. The Courtneys, Dilly Dally, Waterbodies Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Friday (May 30) See preview, page 36. Skrillex, Dillon Francis, GTA, DJ Snake, Henry Fong & Others Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lakeshore West), Friday and Saturday (May 30 and 31) Dubstep superstar. Yes Yes Y’All & Dudebox 519 Church Street Community Centre, Friday (May 30) See preview, page 97.

Coeur De Pirate, Bry Webb Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (May 31) See preview, page 32. La Roux Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Sunday (June 1) Elly Jackson’s synth-pop project. Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Tuesday (June 3) Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Mary Gauthier Hugh’s Room (2261 Dundas West), Tuesday (June 3) See album review, page 99. Die Antwoord Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Wednesday (June 4) Cape Town rap-rave.

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Mind-bogglingly, Toronto still lacks a dedicated all-ages venue, but some of the folks behind Long Winter are picking up the slack with their Construction summer all-ages music series. The second instalment is bound to be high-energy fun, with Hamilton rock ’n’ rollers the Dirty Nil in the headlining spot, plus psych country-folkers Milk Lines, noisy doom-surf trio Billie Dre & the Poor Boys and DJ Cell M emory. Fucked Up’s Mike Haliechuk and Just Shows’ Mark Pesci are the project’s masterminds, and they’ll offer events once every two months at Double Double Land and Smiling Buddha (961 College). “These venues represent the small but vibrant downtown music community we hope to build and support,” they say in a press release. Three cheers for the accessible, sliding-scale pricing and for thinking of the kids, some of whom will go on to become the next generation of music community builders. Friday (May 30) at Double Double Land Milk Lines (209 Augusta), doors 9 pm, all ages. $5-$10 sliding scale. doubledoubleland.com.

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Lemon Bucket Orkestra Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. June 13.

Roncy Rocks! NQ Arbuckle, Oh Susanna 6 pm, Mike Evin, Luke Jackson & his String Quartet 4 pm,

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NXNE Spiritualized 10 pm, the Barr Brothers 9 pm Massey Hall festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 20.

NXNE Danny Brown midnight, Le1f 11 pm, Cities Aviv 10 pm, Alvvays 9 pm Virgin Mobile Mod Club festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 20.

Scott McCord & the Bona Fide Truth, the Monkey Bunch 2 pm, Big Rude Jake & Tennessee Voodoo Coupe 1 pm, Jessica Blake & the Dinner Club, Lush 11 am Roncesvalles Village free. roncyrocks.com. June 14.

NXNE Criminal Hygiene 3 am, Perfect Pussy 1 am, Swearin’ midnight, Speedy Ortiz 11 pm, Viet Cong 10 pm, Benjamin Booker 9 pm, Greys 8 pm, Horseshoe festival wristband $149. nxne. com. June 20.

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NXNE Evian Christ 1 am, A$AP Ferg midnight, 100s 11 pm, Shi Wisdom 10 pm, the Posterz 9 pm Tattoo festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 20.

NXNE Har Mar Superstar midnight, Pif Paf Hangover 11 pm Lee’s Palace festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 18.

NXNE Spoon 9 pm, Mac Demarco 7:30 pm, Alvvays 6:30 pm Yonge-Dundas Square free. June 21.

NXNE tUnE-yArDs 10 pm, Tobacco 9 pm, Weaves 8 pm Massey Hall festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 19.

NXNE Ratking 1 am, METZ midnight, Eagulls 11 pm Lee’s Palace festival wristband $149. nxne.com. June 21.

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Thursday, May 29 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Adelaide Hall Dan Deacon, DIANA, Digits doors 8 pm. ñ Boat Divine Hammer, You, Me & the Machine

9:30 pm.

The Central Tanner James, Sean Hamilton 9 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Flash Lightnin

doors 8 pm.

Drake Hotel Lounge The Digs (funk) doors 10 pm. Estrella Taqueria Saul Torres Band (rock Latino acustico) 9 pm.

The Garrison The Royal Crowns, Crummy Stuff, Punching Nuns doors 9 pm.

The Hideout The Leghorns (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Kelp Records 20th Anniver-

Just Announced

DJ Questlove Tattoo doors 10 pm, $18.

this week

NXNE Juicy J 9 pm, Run the Jewels 8

pm, Ratking 7 pm, Astro 6 pm, Ain’t No Love 5 pm, Krazy Drayz 4 pm, Mibbs 3 pm, DJ Fusion & Ausar Ra Black Hawk 12:30 pm. Yonge-Dundas

6:30 pm, $tba. LN, TM. August 26.

Chris Isaak Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all

ages, $39.50-$99.50. LN, RTH, TM. August 27.

Square festival wristband $149. nxne. June 22.

How to Dress Well Virgin Mobile Mod

The Order of Good Cheer Video &

The Airborne Toxic Event The Dan-

LP release The Piston 9 pm. June 25.

Great Lake Swimmers, the Rural Alberta Advantage Massey Hall $18.94. July 8.

Club doors 7 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. S eptember 12.

forth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $24.50. LN, RT, SS. October 11.

Streetlight Manifesto The Dan-

Liam Finn Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15.

forth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $21.50$25.50. RT, SS, TF. October 19.

Pink Mountaintops Horseshoe doors

Hozier, James Bay Phoenix Con-

HS, RT, SS, TF. July 14.

8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 15.

OOIOO Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 22.

cert Theatre doors 7 pm, $20. LN, TW. O ctober 28.

Run River North Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 23.

S.H.I.B.G.B’s 8 pm, $18. SD. August 1.

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Steve Winwood Air Canada Centre doors

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Hospitality Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. August 2.

Arts & Kulcha Festival Downsview Park $7-$20. 647-341-9031, rastafest.com. August 23.

Page, Andy Swan & the Flaps doors 8:30 pm. Jane Mallett Theatre Funny Girls & Dynamic Divas: Sistering’s Comedy & Music Cabaret Jane Bunnett, Cheri Maracle, Barbara Lica 6 pm. Kensington Lodge Jam Derek Mok 7 pm. Lee’s Palace Ages of Man, Orangabang, King Tut, Seed of Nature. Linsmore Tavern Patrick Maloney 9 pm. Orbit Room Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan tribute) 10 pm. Press Club Dead Jack Pine, Erika Werry, Kate McLean (rock) 10 pm. Rivoli Double album release Wunderstrands, Jon Hynes, Donovan Woods, Lisa Bozikovic doors 8 pm. Seven44 Honouring Our Own: Jay Douglas George Olliver, Jon Finley, Heavyweights Brass Band, Cathy Young, Everton Pablo Paul, Steven Ambrose, Kafaye Rose, King Fabuloso, Danny B, Pete Otis and others 7 pm. Silver Dollar Astrojunk, Subject to Change, the OK Yodel Club, Incriminating Screws doors 8:30 pm. Southside Johnny’s Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. 3030 Dundas West The Lovely Feathers, Crooked House Road doors 9 pm. Woodbine Racetrack The Magic Of Motown The Contours, the Miracles Review w/ the Junior Walkers Allstar Band & the Ladeez 8 pm. Yonge-Dundas Square CanadaCares Concert & Family Day Serena Ryder, Jully Black 7 to 9 pm.

Cro Mags, Enforcers, Long Knife, Hassler & Wild Side

Cornel Campbell, Jay Douglas, Cherry Natural, Nana McClean, Jahsmin Daley and others Rastafest: Rastafari

sary Party The Acorn, Andrew Vincent, ñ Jim Bryson, Andy Shauf, Evening Hymns, Chris

Aspetta Caffe Open Mic El Faron 8 pm. Bar Radio Kyp Harness & the Chemical Valley Cowboys w/ Blair Harvey (roots). ñ Cameron House Back Room CD release

100s at Tattoo, June 20.

Grady Kelneck, Raven Shields 8 pm. Cameron House Matthew Hornell 10 pm, O Frontera 6 pm. Cavern Bar Marc Martyre, Stacey Y Band, Black Rhino Riot (indie/folk) doors 9 pm. C’est What Jack Walker doors 8:30 pm. Free Times Cafe Michael Dalton, Adam White 9 pm. Hugh’s Room Regeneration Community

S ervices Benefit Concert The Toronto All-Star Big Band 8 pm. The Local Gest Open Mic With Porter 9 pm. The Local Lotus Wight (oldtime/blues) 9 pm. Lola Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm. Lula Lounge Lulaworld Festival M.A.K.U. Sound System, Mitsura Fina Trio, DJ General Eclectic (Brazilian, Colombian, cumbia) 8 pm. Monarchs Pub Blues Thursdays The Jack de Keyzer Band 8 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Tom Eastland 7 to 9 pm. Royal Canadian Legion Branch 266 Patti Lamoureux (Metis-style fiddler) workshop 6 pm, concert 8 pm. Second Cup Roger ‘Pops’ Zuraw 7:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Warm Electric Winter & James Burrows 10 pm, Bluegrass Thursdays Houndstooth (old-time) 7:30 pm. Unicorn Pub Honky Tonk Thursdays.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Daniella Walters. Array Space Chelsea Shanoff, Marc Funken-

hauser, David Zucchi, Shaun Mallinen (classical/avant) 7:30 pm. By The Way Cafe Patio Jazz Chris Adriaanse & Liam Stanley Duo (jazz duo) 8 to 10 pm. De Sotos Jam Anthony Abbatangeli (jazz/ blues) 8 pm.

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Toronto Summer Music The Sonoro Quartet noon to 1 pm. Gallery 345 Min & Amy Min Kim, Amy Zanrosso (cello, piano) 8 pm. Gate 403 Tiffany Hanus Jazz Band 9 pm, Miss Caroline M&R Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm. The Great Hall The Red Ride 4-Way Concert Kristi Lane Sinclair, Cris Derksen, Laura Ortman (modern/classical fusion by indigenous artists) doors 8 pm. The Jazz Bistro Maureen Kennedy w/ Bill Coon & Cory Weeds. Kama Thursdays At Five Kelly Jefferson & Canadian Jazz Quartet 5 to 8 pm. Musideum Meghan Morrison, Angie Coombes (classical/folk/pop) 8 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Robin Banks Trio (jazz/blues/soul) 7:30 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz) 10 pm. The Rex Sean Meredith-Jones 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Mazzoleni Hall CMC Stepping Stone Competition: Finals (classical) 8 pm.

Trinity St. Paul’s Church Jeanne Lamon Hall Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival:

Delightfully Baroque Tafelmusik (classical) 8:30 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 Dance Cave Different Class (dance/rock/new

El Mocambo Greezefest 6 The Living Deads,

Tennessee Voodoo Coupe, Terror Lake, DJ Rockin’ Dave Faris, (rock/surf/hillbilly jive) doors 9 pm. The Garrison CD release Young Doctors In Love, Blimp Rock, Fitness doors 9 pm. See album review, page 99. Grossman’s Frankie Foo (ska) 10 pm. Hard Luck Bar R.A. the Rugged Man (rap) doors 9 pm. Harlem Unbuttoned (pop/soul) 7:30 pm. Harlem West Mboya Nicholson 7:30 to 11 pm. The Hideout The Beggars (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe White Cowbell Oklahoma (rock & roll) doors 9 pm. Kool Haus Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation Benefit Danny Fernandes, Jade Naraine, Amanda Thomson doors 6:45 pm. Lee’s Palace Sheezer, So Young, Wax Atlantic doors 9 pm. Linsmore Tavern The Wholigans (Who tribute) 9 pm. Lola Shitkicker 9 pm. Mercer Union Platform Absolutely Free, Jason Doell, Swiss Dice 8 pm. Monarchs Pub Classic Rock Fridays Guitar Stars, Rob Quail, Steve Grisbrook 9 pm. Orbit Room The Dave Murphy Band (soul/ rock/pop) 10 pm. Phoenix Concert Theatre Atmosphere, Prof, deM atlaS (hip-hop) doors 8 pm. PJ O’Brien Irish Pub The Marc Joseph Band (pop/rock) 9:30 pm. Press Club Press Club 7-Year-Anniversary Party Big City Hicks, Stolen Rims, Ravaged by Wolves (rock) 9 pm. Relish Bar & Grill The Danger Bees 9 pm. Rivoli Hue, Beau, Basements, History Majors doors 9 pm. Royal Ontario Museum Friday Night Live: Strictly Forbidden Helsynski, Chloe Charles, DJ Mensa 7 to 11 pm. 2nd Floor Midnight Mrkt Lucie Tic, Johnny Hockin 9 pm. Seven44 Hot Rocks (Rolling Stones tribute). Silver Dollar The Courtneys, Dilly Dally, Waterbodies doors 9 pm. See preview, page 36. Southside Johnny’s Groove Marmalade (rock) 10 pm. Tattoo Stereokid, Mumbai Standstill, the Outerspacerz & St Andrews doors 9 pm. 3030 Dundas West Mary Margaret O’Hara (Britpop hits) 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross The Ryan Driver Quartet (indie powerpop) 10 pm. Unicorn Pub Mixed Nuts 10 pm.

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The Cage 292 Moving Units, Coronado. Cameron House Back Room CD release party Tony Day 9 pm.

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

Campbell House Museum Ballroom

Salon & Fare Well The Wooden Sky, Edwin Huizinga, Alex Read, Keith Hamm, Britton Riley (folk-rock/classical quartet) 8 pm. Dance Cave Moving Units, Coronado doors 8 pm. Distillery District Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival The Nylons 7:30 pm. Double Double Land Construction: A Summer All-Ages Music Series The Dirty Nil, Milk Lines, Billy Dre & the Poor Boys, DJ Cell Memory doors 9 pm.

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BRY WEBB Constantines singer explores free will on second solo project By SARAH GREEN BRY WEBB with COEUR DE PIRATE at Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Saturday (May 31), 8 pm. $18.94. RTH.

“We nicknamed it the ‘Sorry, goodnight’ tour,” says Bry Webb, laughing. It doesn’t exactly scream rock ’n’ roll, but it’s Webb’s longest stretch away from home since becoming a dad. “There are lots of moments of Michael Hollett homesickness and, y’know, guilt,” he @m_hollett explains over the phone from somewhere between AliceIndianapolis Klein and Chicago, @aliceklein the final destination of a nine-date trip with Chad VanGaalen and Cousins. Susan G. Cole “My wife is a saint,” he adds. @susangcole But it’s a labour of love that takes DiMatteo him onEnzo the road. Free Will (Idée Fixe), the second solo album from the Con@enzodimatteo stantines singer, continues in the Norm Wilner mellow country-ish vein of 2011’s Provider. This time, though, there are @normwilner subtle dynamic builds; Rich Burnett’s Glenn Sumi lap steel plays perfectly off Aaron @glennsumi Goldstein’s pedal steel, and avant hurdy-gurdy man Ben Grossman LeConte providesJulia beautiful John Cale-style @julialeconte distortion on Let’s Get Through Today. The album’s title refers in part to Steven Davey its thematic thread. “Will, in the @stevendaveynow sense of free will or wilfulness, appears in (I think) every song on the

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record,” says Webb. “It wasn’t intentional, but it was something that was at the front of my mind.” It’s also a nod to Constantines bandmate Will Kidman, who’s been living on Haida Gwaii in BC, but came to the Guelph area last October for his brother’s wedding. “We had this idea to do a feedback solo on AM Blues, and the only person I could imagine doing it was Will,” says Webb. “We went to Toronto, got a few guitars with whammy bars and just did feedback solos for half an hour. It was a perfect reconnection and celebration, and that’s part of the reason why the record’s called Free Will.” The Constantines missed their 10th anniversary last year in what Webb calls “true Cons form,” and are celebrating their 11th instead with appearances scheduled at Field Trip, SappyFest, the Peterborough Folk Fest and Arboretum. Accordingly, Webb’s been maxing out this time away to hone his skills for both projects. “All of us have been practising [for the reunion] on our own,” says Webb. “I’ve had my headphones on and my electric guitar in the backstage area, trying to learn Cons songs again.” music@nowtoronto.com

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Your mixtape for the first (real) week of summer. Grab the tunes, then go hear them live. 1. Surf Wax America, Weezer If summer-obsessed Torontonians could ride Lake Ontario’s waves to work on surfboards, they surely would. Local tribute band Sheezer probably know the tune – plus all the other nostalgic Blue Album hits – better than the band themselves. Sheezer play Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Friday (May 30), doors 9 pm. $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

2. On The Beach, Absolutely Free Toronto psych-pop trio Absolutely Free are so committed to the water theme that they premiered their On The Beach/Clothed Woman, Sitting EP at an indoor pool. (Being March, it was presumably too cold for the actual beach.) On The Beach isn’t your typical three-and-ahalf-minute, top-40 summer singalong: it’s seven minutes of dreamy, mellow-synth-line, astral-rock heaven. Absolutely Free play Mercer Union (1286 Bloor West), Friday (May 30), 8 pm. $10.

3. Burn Slow, NDMA Of his love interest in Burn Slow, Ottawa’s Nilton De Menezes (aka NDMA) says, “I met her in the wintertime / she got me feeling like summertime.” Well, if he can heat up the capital with his skittery electro-rap blend, imagine what the emcee/singer/producer can do on College Street. NDMA plays Weldon Park (569 College), Saturday (May 31), doors 10 pm. $10.

4. Tropical Chancer, La Roux La Roux’s first album since her 2009 debut isn’t out until July 8, but a live version of Tropical Chancer – peppy, poppy and, yes, tropical (are those steel drums?) – has appeared on SoundCloud, making us salivate for the studio version. This weekend, cure your Sunday-night blues with a live preview. La Roux plays the Danforth Music Hall (147 Danforth), Sunday (June 1), doors 7 pm. $20.50$35.50. RT, SS, TM.

5. Money Made Me Do It, A-Game featuring Luu Breeze What’s a summer playlist without something loud, with an infectious beat and shout-it-out chorus? Something to annoy the neighbours with? Something to blare with your windows down? Local hip-hop duo A-Game to the rescue. A-Game play the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne) as part of Roc The Mic, Saturday (May 31), doors 9 JULIA LECONTE pm, $20-$30. PDR, TG.

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Lately, life has been sweet for Vancouver three-piece slacker popsters the Courtneys. Fresh off an American tour with Tegan and Sara, they’re suddenly a hot ticket – playing with St. Catharines alt-rockers Waterbodies on Friday (May 30) at the Silver Dollar (486 Spadina). Plus, their self-titled debut LP was recently re-pressed on Hockey Dad Records. From a tour van on the road to Washington, DC, bassist Sydney Koke talks all-ages crowds, gigging in Van City and always leaving fans wanting more. There isn’t a lot of sun in Vancouver. How do you manage to write sunny pop tracks through persistent rain? Vancouver can be really depressing. We live in the Downtown Eastside, and our jam space is on East Hastings, which isn’t the happiest place, so elements of that are going to be reflected in the music. [But] perhaps that’s why the band always sounds happy; it’s nice to have a release.

Your full-length was recorded over one weekend on Vancouver Island. Was the plan to quickly capture a certain mood? It was meant to be a four-song EP, but things went very smoothly so we just recorded more songs. It’s eight songs and comes in under 30 minutes; we’re happy with the length because we like to play a short set and leave people wanting more instead of getting bored. A few years ago Vancouver garnered a lot of attention for the restrictions on venues and allages parties. From your point of view, how’s that going now? The city introduced a pilot project to deal with the fact that there are so many illegal venues. It would allow a lot of the underground venues to get around some of the building restrictions and problems with

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No. 1 Get your butt to a park.

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Green spaces are a major draw for city folk who want to hang out in nature (alwaysgood for the soul), chill out in the sun or join the party, like these two picnickers in Trinity Bellwoods Park. Party on, but don’t forget to respect the residents whose homes border on your favourite outdoor l ocation.

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No. 2 Go to one of these awesome festivals. Canada Day Extravaganza Celebrate with the SoundClash Music Awards Showcase and performances by Maestro Fresh Wes, Vox Sambou and Dirty Dishes plus kids’ activities, fireworks and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jun 27 to 29 & Jul 1 CHIN Picnic Annual multicultural bash featuring live music, folklore dance competition, a kids’ zone, fireworks and more. Daily from noon-11 pm. Free. Exhibition Place. scotiabankchinpicnic.com. Jun 28 to Jul 1 Digital Dreams Music Festival Electronic music by Tiësto, Deep Dish, Justice, Luciano and others. $99 and up. The Flats @ M.C.A. (Ontario Place), 909 Lake Shore W. digitaldreamsfest.ca. Jun 28 to 29 Doc Now Documentary media festival showcasing film, photography and new media by graduating students from Ryerson’s MFA program. docnow.ca. To Jun 28 Female Eye Film Festival Provocative and controversial shorts, documentaries and feature films as seen through the eyes of women directors. Royal Cinema, 608 College. femaleeyefilmfestival.com. Jun 18 to 22 Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Performances by Broken Social Scene, Constantines, Gord Downie, Interpol, the Kills, Chvrches, Half Moon Run, Austra, Shad and others. $75, wknd pass $125. Fort York Common, Garrison off Fleet. fieldtriplife.com. Jun 7 and 8 InspiraTO Theatre Festival Performances of 10-minute plays by local and international playwrights. $15-$50. Alumna Theatre, 70 Berkeley. theatreinspirato.ca. To Jun 7 Italian Contemporary Film Festival Documentaries, shorts, dramas and comedies celebrating Italian culture and lifestyle. $10-$30. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. icff.ca. Jun 12 to 20 Luminato The festival of arts and creativity offers theatre, music, films, dance, visual art, cabaret, literary readings, installations, magic shows, lectures, kids’ entertainment and more. Various prices, many events free. l uminatofestival.com. Jun 6 to 15 Mateca Arts Festival Community multi-arts celebration, with performances by Ill Skiilz, Laura Fernández, Beatriz Pichi Malen and many others. Free. U of T Victoria College, Burwash Quad, 91 Charles W. mateca.com. Jun 7 and 8

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Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Celebration of the drum with local and international performers, food and craft vendors, kids’ area and more. Free. Woodbine Park, Lake Shore E and Coxwell. muhtadidrumfest.com. Jun 7 and 8 North By Northeast Music Festival And Conference Performances by 950 bands including Calexico, Social Distortion and Big Boi at venues across the city, plus comedy shows, a film festival, interactive conference and music biz conference. Various prices, wristbands/ passes; some free events. nxne.com. Jun 13 to 22 Open Roof Festival Live music by indie bands followed by a film screening at sundown every Thu. $15. 99 Sudbury. openrooffestival.com. Jun 19 to Aug 14 Reelheart International Film Festival Showcase of work by emerging and established independent filmmakers. $12, passes avail. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, and other venues. r eelheart.org. Jun 23 to 28 Ribfest Rotary Club food festival with entertainment, a midway, soccer games and more. 11 am-11 pm. Free admission. L’Amoreaux Community Centre, 2000 McNicoll. canadadayribfest.com. Jun 28 to Jul 1 Scarborough Film Festival Feature films and shorts, see website for details. $13-$20. Various venues in Scarborough & East York. scarboroughfilmfestival.com. Jun 3 to 8 Taste Of Little Italy Food sampling and musical performances. Free. College between Bathurst and Shaw. tasteoflittleitaly.ca. Jun 13 to 15 Toronto Animation Arts Festival International Screenings of the best of animation arts from Canada and around the world plus masterclasses, kids’ workshops, filmmaker Q&As and more. Corus Quay (25 Dockside), George Brown Waterfront (51 Dockside). taafi.com. Jun 13 to 16 Toronto Japanese Film Festival Screenings of the finest in Japanese cinema. $12, passes $45-$90. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. jccc.on.ca/torontojff. Jun 12 to 27 Toronto Jazz Festival Mainstage performances by Melissa Etheridge & Deborah Cox, David Clayton-Thomas, Robert Randolph Family Band and others, club series and free shows. Various prices and venues around the city. t orontojazz.com. Jun 19 to 28 Toronto Raw/Vegan Festival Celebration of healthy, cruelty-free, ecofriendly green living with entertainment, continued on page 51 ➤

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Pride goes global >> June 20 to 29

This is the year WorldPride comes to Toronto, and that means this summer’s Pride celebrations will be like nothing we’ve seen before. While we’re flaunting our own vibrant queer scene with hundred of homegrown events (see NOW’s Pride Preview, June 19), T.O. also hosts a mammoth Human Rights Conference June 25 to 27 – a meeting facing more urgent matters than ever, given what’s happening in Russia, Uganda and elsewhere. Expect more than a million LGBTQ celebrants from around the world to party hard, starting right from the opening ceremony June 20. It all peaks at the WorldPride Parade – guaranteed to be ginormous – on June 29. worldpridetoronto.com.

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speakers, workshops, food demos, sampling and more. Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. Free. 918 Bathurst Centre. torontorawveganfestival.com. Jun 7 and 8 Toronto Tango Festival Celebration of Argentine tango with parties, performances, workshops and more. $10-$30 (workshops extra). Lithuanian House, 1573 Bloor W. torontotangofestival.com. Jun 12 to 15 Toronto Wine & Spirit Festival Demos and samples from wineries, breweries and distilleries. $30, adv $21.50. Sugar Beach, 25 Dockside. wineandspiritfestival.ca. Jun 19 to 21 Waterfront Festival Flyboard championships, DockDogs canine performers, entertainment, a wine and spirit festival, and more. Along Queens Quay. towaterfrontfest.com. Jun 20 to 22 World Pride 2014 The LGBTTIQQ2SA festival features entertainment on outdoor stages, the Pride Parade and Dyke March, parties, art exhibits, theatre, comedy, family activities and much more. worldpridetoronto.com. Jun 20 to 29

july Afrofest Music Africa’s outdoor music and culture festival features live music, dance, an African marketplace, food and craft vendors, artistic displays, music workshops and activities for youth and kids. Free. Woodbine Park, Lake Shore at Coxwell. m usicafrica.org. Jul 5 and 6 Beaches International Jazz Festival Concerts by jazz artists Brownman Electryc Trio, Paul James, Samba Squad, Trampled Under Foot and many others. Free. Woodbine Park (Lake Shore and Coxwell) and venues along Queen E. beachesjazz.com. Jul 18 to 27 Big On Bloor Car-free street festival with musical performances, dancers, strolling buskers, storytelling, art, vendors and more. Free. Bloor from Dufferin to Lansdowne. bigonbloor.com. Jul 19 to 20 Caribbean Carnival Toronto Annual summer celebration of all things Caribbean, featuring calypso and soca music, the King and Queen of the Bands competition, Junior Carnival, live music and the annual parade along the lakeshore. Various prices, many events free. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. Jul 8 to Aug 3 China Now Festival of Chinese arts and culture with performances, food, activities and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jul 9 to 13 Cultura Festival Live music, outdoor films, buskers and more every Fri in Jul 6-11 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. culturafestival.ca. Jul 4 to 25 Festival Of India A parade down Yonge to Queens Quay is followed by performances, yoga, a vegetarian feast, South Asian bazaar, music, dance and more on Centre Island. Free. festivalofindia.ca. Jul 12 and 13 Figment Arts Festival Family arts festival with interactive sculptures, performances, theatre art, installations and more. Sat 10 am-11 pm, Sun 11 am-6 pm Free. Olympic Island, Toronto Islands. toronto.figmentproject.org. Jul 26 and 27 Habari Africa Festival Multidisciplinary music and cultural festival with live performances, African food and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jul 18 to 20 The Fringe Toronto’s indie theatre festival features plays, dance works, sketch comedy, solo shows and more by local and international companies. $12. Various venues. fringetoronto.com. Jul 2 to 13

No. 4 see Isabella Rossellini do green porno at luminato. The Luminato Festival’s mandate is to gather the best artists from around the world and from inside our own city in an orgy of creation. The fest doesn’t always succeed in attracting the greatest stars – last year’s Joni Mitchell appearance notwithstanding – but it can be counted on to feature some very intriguing figures. To give just a few examples, Isabella Rossellini dons various animal costumes for her erotic stage show Green Porno Live (June 6 to 8) and gives an artist talk on the final day. Mercurial avant-garde visual artist Matthew Barney talks with curator Kitty Scott about his AGO show Drawing Restraint on June 7, and Canuck icon Buffy Sainte-Marie hits the stage June 10. This year’s outdoor Literary Picnic on June 15 boasts 45 writers and commitment to uncover unseen Toronto. A rainstorm flooded out last year’s picnic, but that won’t happen again – this year’s edition has an alternate venue in case of bad weather. luminatofestival.com.

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Indy Toronto World-class auto racing, concerts, exhibits, a craft beer festival, tailgate parties, interactive games, kids’ activities, food and more. Race tickets from $35. Exhibition Place and other venues. hondaindytoronto.com. Jul 18 to 20 Mad Pride Toronto Arts, culture and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people and folks the world has labelled “mentally ill.” madprideto.com. Jul 5 to 14 Night It Up! Outdoor night market featuring Asian street food, stage performances and more. Free. Markham Civic Centre, 101 Town Centre Blvd. nightitup. com. Jul 11 to 13 Ontario Latin Arts Festival Music, dance, theatre, visual art, food and more. Free. Saturday at Mel Lastman Square, Sunday at North York Civic Centre (both at 5100 Yonge). ontariolatinartsfestival.ca. Jul 12 and 13 Salsa On St Clair Latin-themed street festival with live music, dance performances and lessons, a parade, food and more. Free. St Clair West between Christie and Winona. salsaintoronto.com. Jul 12 to 20 South Asia Calling Contemporary performances from Canada, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Tibet and Nepal. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jul 4 to 6 Summerlicious Restaurants across the city offer special 3-course prix-fixe menus. toronto.ca/summerlicious. Jul 4 to 20 Taste Of The Danforth Festival of Greek culture with food tasting, live music and dance, a kids’ fun zone and more. Free. Danforth from Broadview to Jones. tasteofthedanforth.com. Jul 24 to 27 Taste Of Lawrence International food and cultural festival with performances by Luanda Jones, Sultans of String and others, food tastings, crafts and more. Free. Lawrence East from Warden to Birchmount. tasteoflawrence.com. Jul 4 to 6 Toronto Burlesque Festival Performances by Dr Lucky, Natasha Estrada, Perle Noire, Armitage Shanks and others, newbies competition and more. Various prices. Virgin Mobile Mod Club, 722 College. torontoburlesquefestival.com. Jul 24 to 27 Toronto Festival Of Beer Music by Big Sugar, Willi Williams and Strictly Roots, tours, a brewmaster series, a grilling tent and more. $30 adv. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. b eerfestival.ca. Jul 24 to 27 Toronto Summer Music Festival International classical music festival with performances by the Emerson String Quartet, Sondra Radvanosky, Orion String Quartet, Beatrice Rana and many others plus master classes. $10-$590. torontosummermusic.com. Jul 22 to Aug 12 TURF: Toronto Urban Roots Festival Outdoor festival with performances by more than 30 bands including Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Tweedy, Gary Clark Jr, Born Ruffians, Sam Roberts Band and Jenny Lewis. $60-$350. Fort York, 100 Garrison (plus club shows). 416-392-6907, torontourbanrootsfest.com. Jul 4 to 8 UNITY FESTIVAL Celebration of urban culture including beatboxing, breakdancing, rap and more. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. Jul 23 to 26

august Artfest Toronto Arts and crafts show with live music. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. a rtfestontario.com. Aug 2 to 4 Ashkenaz Festival Global Jewish music and culture festival. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 29 to Sep 1 Buskerfest International street performers’ festival with aerialists, magi-

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cians, clowns, comedy, music and more. Thu to Sat 11 am-11 pm, Sun 11 am-8 pm. Free (donations to Epilepsy Toronto). Yonge Queen to College and surrounding areas. torontobuskerfest.com. Aug 21 to 24 Canadian National Exhibition The Ex, f eaturing bandshell concerts, an acrobatics show, celebrity chef demos, parades, the Air Show, the midway, rides, food trucks and much more opens today runs to Sep 1. $18, child/srs $14, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com. Aug 15 to Sep 1 Dusk Dances Dance performances in the park feature choreographies by Sylvie Bouchard, Peter Chin, Julia Aplin and others. 7 pm. Pwyc. Withrow Park, S of Danforth between Logan and Carlaw. d uskdances.ca. Aug 4 to 10 Expressions Of Brazil Festival of arts, culture and cuisine. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 8 to 10 Festival Of South Asia Street festival with stage performances, interactive booths, arts and crafts, and more. Noon-11 pm. Free. Gerrard between Coxwell and Glenside. festivalofsouthasia.com. Aug 23 and 24 Hispanic Fiesta Celebration of Spanish and Latin American arts, music, food and culture featuring more than 300 local, national and international performers. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. hispanicfiesta.com. Aug 29 to Sep 1 Hot & Spicy Food Festival Culinary delicacies, hot rhythms and spicy grooves. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 15 to 17 Island Soul Music, dance, film, food and more from the Caribbean. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 1 to 4

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No. 6 No. 5 get ready for drake at ovo fest. OVO Fest Music festival with headliners Drake and Outkast. $49.50-$299.50 (Ticketmaster, Live Nation). Molson Amphitheatre, 909 Lake Shore W. ticketmaster.ca. Aug 3 and 4 Summerworks Theatre Festival Juried theatre festival with plays, concerts, workshops and more. $15, passes $40-$120, some live art events free. Various venues. summerworks.ca. Aug 7 to 17 Taiwanfest Festival of music, art, dance and food. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 22 to 24 Toronto Queer Arts And Culture Festival Queer poetry, film screenings, cabaret, dance and music performances, and more. Various prices, some events free. Various venues. 416-879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest.org. Aug 7 to 16 Yogapalooza Family-friendly outdoor yoga festival with movement, music and meditation. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Aug 16 and 17 3

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North By Northeast turns 20 this year, and this edition’s lineup of music, film, comedy, art and interactive sessions more than befits a milestone of this magnitude. American heavyweights Reggie Watts and Marc Maron star in the comedy program, with local lights Alex Pavone (who just moved to New York) and DeAnne Smith shining bright as well. NXNE film’s multiple Canadian premieres include William J. Stribling’s Lies I Told My Sister and Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Shady Records co-founder and mega-star manager Paul Rosenberg is one of the speakers at NXNE interactive. The art program, meanwhile, takes over private and public spaces around downtown. But the music component is NXNE’s bread and butter, and this year’s lineup is its most eclectic and relevant yet. Headliners for free Yonge-Dundas Square shows, for example, include Brooklyn noise-poppers Sleigh Bells on June 19, guitar-shredding singer/songwriter St.Vincent on June 20, Texas rockers Spoon on June 21 and Houston OG Juicy J on June 22. And this year, for the first time, Vice Island takes over Toronto Island on June 19. So you’ll ride on a boat and then party with Pusha T and Future Islands, with Toronto’s cityscape in the rear view. Pretty cool.

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Thursday, June 5 Benefits The Autists (Geneva Centre for Autism) Entertainment, dancing, gambling, an auction and more. $175. Corus Quay, 25 Dockside. autism.net. CONNECT BEAUTY (Women’s Healthy Environments Network/Fashion Takes Action) Eco-fashions on the runway, a talk by Toxin Toxout author Rick Smith, a silent auction and more. Doors 7 pm. $35-$40. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. connectbeauty.ca. Power Ball: Old/New World (Power Plant) Gala art fundraiser, with visuals, music and food. 7 pm. $165. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4018.

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spend two hours in the dark.

It’s blockbuster time – see a pic. It’s cool inside air-conditioned Cinemas and outside after dark. 22 Jump Street Hollywood’s top comedy team is at it again. No, not Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, but Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who infused the first 21 Jump Street movie with the perfect balance of selfaware craziness and straight-up fun. They aim to do it all over again in a sequel that takes Tatum and Hill’s cops out of high school and into college. Expect everything you loved about the first one to be blown up to sequel size – and given that Lord and Miller were still thinking up more gags when they were promoting The Lego Movie this winter, maybe even bigger than that. Opens June 13.

Outdoor screenings It wouldn’t be summer without an open-air screening in every neighbourhood, from the City Cinema series at Yonge-Dundas Square (ydsquare.ca) – which kicks off June 24 with a Pridethemed presentation of To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar – to the irregular pop-ups in the Junction, Christie Pits (christiepitsff.com) and Riverdale Park (moviesinthepark.wordpress. com). On Wednesday nights starting July 2, I’m afraid you’ll have to choose between TIFF In The Park at David Pecaut Square (tiff. net) – featuring documentaries like Searching For Sugar Man and Pina – and Harbourfront’s annual Free Flicks series 22 Jump Street

(harbourfrontcentre.com), which this year is built around female-centric comedies like Mean Girls and In A World… and will be hosted by yours truly and a selection of very special guests. Not that I’m trying to push you one way or the other, you understand.

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes It’s weird that Dawn should follow Rise instead of the other way around, but semantics aside, this follow-up to the 2011 surprise smash looks to top its predecessor in every way – and not just because three additional years of CGI advancement guarantee Andy Serkis’s motion-capture performance as Caesar will be even more lifelike. With Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) replacing Rupert Wyatt in the director’s chair and the mismatched James Franco and Frieda Pinto swapped out for a cast that includes Gary Oldman, Judy Greer and Reeves’s old Felicity buddy Keri Russell, it sounds like this one might have the emotional weight to give the unfolding apepocalypse some gravitas. Opens July 11.

A Most Wanted Man Based on John le Carré’s 2008 novel about a young Chechen who may prove an invaluable hook in a German spymaster’s hunt for bigger fish, Anton Corbijn’s new thriller will land in theatres a little more heavily than it should, thanks to the presence of the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as the aforementioned spymaster.

Hopefully, le Carré’s clockwork plotting and the powerhouse cast – Rachel McAdams, Robin Wright, Willem Dafoe and relative newcomer Grigoriy Dobrygin – will help us over that hump. Opens July 25.

Boyhood

For his Before Sunrise trilogy, Richard Linklater constructed three films that dropped in on key moments in the lives of star-crossed lovers Celine and Jesse. His newest project does something similar with a single character – but rather than checking in with him at nine-year intervals, Linklater follows his fictional protagonist (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade to high school graduation. The result is Boyhood, a coming-of-age narrative unlike anything previously attempted. Linklater shot with Coltrane and his co-stars – including Patricia Arquette and the Before trilogy’s Ethan Hawke as his parents – on an annual basis. Not even Michael Apted’s Up documentaries offered this kind of access. The result has been wowing film festival audiences from Sundance to SXSW, and looks to do the same when it makes its Canadian premiere at NXNE Film June 14 before opening here in July. NORMAN WILNER

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ARAB SOUQ (Syrian refugees in Jordan) Musical performances by Maryem Tollar and others, a photo exhibit, shopping and more. Today 6-10 pm; tomorrow 10 am-5 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. Cruise For A Cure (Princess Margaret Cancer Fdn) Fundraising harbour cruise aboard the Northern Spirit with a DJ and live auction. 7 pm. $80, adv $75. 207 Queens Quay W. uniiverse.com. Relay For Life Toronto West (Canadian Cancer Soc) All-night relay benefit where particpants take turns walking laps. 7 pm. Pledges. Etobicoke School of the Arts, 675 Royal York. facebook.com/rfltorontowest.

Events B rBike Tour Of Community Gardens In Toronto’s West End Familyfriendly cycling tour. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Dufferin Grove Park community garden, Dufferin south of Bloor. ward18@cycleto.ca. Celebrate Dad Father’s Day crafts. 3:305:30 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120. Dr Sketchy’s Cabaret Life Drawing Life drawing with Dolly Berlin as a sexy cannibal. 7 pm. $10. Round, 152A Augusta. 416451-6346. rETSY CRAFT PARTY Bring photos, selfies or postcards and transform them into something new using craft supplies. 5-8 pm. Free. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. FEMMES FATALE BURLESQUE Performances by Kryptonite Kunt, Coco La Creme and others. 10 pm. $14. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/777053908971271. Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with a Beats theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl. Ghosts, Greasepaint And Gallows Walk Ghost walk of jails, a public hanging square and vaudeville theatres. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). St Lawrence Mar-

ket middle door, 93 Front E. Pre-register 416-923-6813. B West End Community Garden Tour Guided bike tour hosted by Cycle Toronto Wards 14 & 18. 7-8:30 pm. Dufferin Grove Park, Dufferin S of Bloor. bikemonth.ca.

Saturday, June 7 Benefits Bloom: A Springtime Gala (Canadian Diabetes Assoc) Fundraising dinner and dance. 6 pm. $250/pair. Gerry Gallagher Hall, 1263 Wilson. d iabetes.ca/events. FOREVER YONGE RELAY (Mon Sheong Fdn) Cross-city relay race. 8:30 am. Donation. Mon Sheong Home for the Aged, 36 D’Arcy. 905-883-9288, msf.akaraisin.com/relay. B Ride To Conquer Cancer (Princess Margaret Hospital) Fundraising 200K bike ride from Toronto to Niagara. Today and tomorrow. Pledges. conquercancer.ca.

Events Black Canadian Awards Awards ceremony celebrating success stories, with performances by Ki Davis, Anselm Douglas and others. 5 pm. $30 and up. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd, Exhibition Place. blackcanadianawards.com. Buying Your First Home Workshop Learn about obtaining financing and how to make an offer. 2-4 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-3937746. rDundas West Fest Car-free community street festival with live music, buskers, kids’ activities, food, shopping and more. 11 am-10 pm. Free. Dundas between Lansdowne and Roxton. dundaswestfest.ca. Eats & Beats In Riverside Street festival with musical entertainment and tasting plates in local restaurants. 1-6 pm. Free admission. Queen East between the DVP and Empire. riverside-to.com. rInsects Catch some bugs and learn about their amazing world. 11:30 am & 1 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905-832-2289. Invasive Species Removal Help conduct meadow maintenance. 10 am-1 pm. Free. Heart Lake Conservation Area (Brampton). Pre-register hlinvasivesevent.eventbrite.ca. rKnow Your Nature Family nature walk. 1:30 pm. $2 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. L Matthew Barney The artist talks about his work. 2 pm. $20, stu $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net. Murder At the ROM Scavenger Hunt Murder mystery team scavenger hunt for adults. 10:30 am & 2 pm. $30. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register at urbancapers.com. 100 In 1 Day Festival of citizen-driven action for people to showcase their ideas for a better city through urban interventions. Free. Details at 100in1day.ca/toronto. Portuguese Toronto Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. Bellevue Square Park, 5 Bellevue. h eritagetoronto.org. B rScarborough Southwest Bike Rodeo Families learn new cycling skills, get a free bike tuneup and shop the marketplace. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Warden Hilltop community Centre, 25 Mendelssohn. to35cycles.ca. rToronto Horse Day Riding and driving demos, displays, educational stations and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Riding Academy at the Horse Palace, Exhibition Place. horse.on.ca/oef-events/horse-day. Vote Communist! Provincial election rally. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. info@communistpartyontario.ca.

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Walk Now For Autism (Autism Speaks Canada) 3K walk around downtown. 10:45 am. Pledges. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. w alknowforautismspeaks.ca.

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music, fitness demos, buskers, kids’ activities, craft and food vendors, and more. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Bloor, Spadina to Bathurst. mnjcc.org. L Thomas Enger/Jakob Melander/ Dan T Sehlberg/Herman Koch Readings by the Scandinavian authors. 4 pm. Free (advance ticket required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary. ca/appelsalon. B rBike The Park Bike ride and scavenger hunt for families in High Park. 2-4 pm. Free. ward13@cycleto.ca. Bird Walk Guided bird hike. 8 am. Free. Tommy Thompson Park, foot of Leslie. 416-661-6600 ext 5770. Book Movie Music Eco-Swap Bring your books, comics, DVDs and vinyl to a swap meet. 10 am-4 pm. $5. Toronto Harbourfront, 235 Queens Quay W. swapcity.ca/meets. DISTILLERY SUNDAY MARKET Juried art market. Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. L Isabella Rossellini The actor/director is interviewed by New York Times senior food editor Sam Sifton. 6 pm. $25. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. luminatofestival.com. Islington Village: An Art Walk Through History Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. heritagetoronto.org. B More Than An Island: A Bicycle Tour Of Toronto Island Heritage Toronto tour. 2 pm. $25. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org. Mount Pleasant Cemetery Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Yonge entrance (N of St Clair). rom.on.ca. Sleeping In The Devil’s Bed: The Music Of Daniel Lanois Panel discussion with Lanois and guests. 2 pm. $25. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. luminatofestival.com. 5rStumble, Topple And Stand Straight Camp presents a show featuring messy, queer fairy tales for all ages. 2 pm. $10, free for kids under 10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555. rSummer Music Camp Open House Check out programs in piano, composition, jazz, musical theatre and more and see teachers perform. 2-5 pm. Free. On the Off Beat Music School, 1113 Queen E. ontheoffbeat.ca.

Monday, June 9 Benefits A Taste Of Home (Child Development Institute) Kid-inspired culinary creations by chefs including Sam Geldman of Momofuku and Scott Vivian of Beast. 6 pm. $150. KPMG, Bay Adelaide Centre, 333 Bay. childdevelop.ca/tasteofhome.

Events LAUGHTER YOGA Discover the physical, emotional and social benefits of laughter exercises and yoga breathing. Today and Jun 19, 12:10-12:50 pm. Free (bring your lunch). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5653. Trampoline Hall Mini-lectures hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.

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er Storytelling and drumming for all ages. 1:30pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 40 Orchard View. 416-395-5440. Art Social Talk by Susan N Stewart. 7 pm. Free. Luce Resto-Bar, 791 King W. 647-7485464. Asia In Style Travel talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Adventure Travel Co, 408 King W. atcadventure.com. Sharon Baltman Launching her memoir Escape From The Bedside. 2 pm. Free. Wychwood Library, 1431 Bathurst. 416393-7683. rBoogie At The Barns: Boogie Woogie Dance class and dancing with Bees Knees. 7:15 pm. $15, stu/srs $10,

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under 14 $5. Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. v olunteerwbca@gmail.com. rBotanical Sketchbook Three-week workshop for adults. 6-9 pm. $150. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. Pre-register at highparknaturecentre.com. L Copycat Talks: The Politics Of Emotion In Contemporary Art Talk by Jennifer Doyle. 8 pm. $25. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. l uminatofestival.com. 5A Defining Moment For Gay And Lesbian Activism: Toronto In The 1970s Discussion with York historians Tom Hooper and Mathieu Brûlé. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Haunted Yorkville, U Of T And Queen’s Park Ghost walk. 6:30-9:30 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813. L The Lost Train Take the train on a train-themed adventure to a secret locale. To Jun 12. $225. Departs from Royal York Hotel, 100 Front W. luminatofestival.com. Ray Robertson Reading from his book I Was There The Night He Died. 2 pm. Free. Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston. 416-396-8939. SUMMER HOLIDAYS: BEYOND FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND Conversation about the tradition of pilgrimage both abroad and nearby for young adults. 7 pm. Free. Sin & Redemption Pub, 136 McCaul. Pre-register mberardinelli@stpatrickstoronto.ca. 5STORIES FROM OUR YOUTH: WHAT HAS SAME SEX MARRIAGE DONE FOR ME? Lecture by Helen Kennedy. 6:30 pm. $15. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. Tai Chi Outdoor classes. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Wednesday, June 11 Benefits Citizens Climate Lobby Fundraiser (Citizens Climate Lobby) Panel discussion with Cheryl McNamara and others. 6:45 pm. U of T, 255 Huron. citizensclimatelobbyca. earth day gala (Earth Day Canada) Gala celebration with an all-star lineup of award winners. 7 pm. $40-$250. Mill St Brew Pub, 21 Tank House Lane. e arthday.ca.

Events Aboriginal Month Celebration Authors Cherie Dimaline and Giles Benway. 7 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-393-7746. B The Bicycle Polka Ride Cycle the streets of west T.O. while listening to polkainspired music. 7:15-11 pm. Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin, S of Bloor. b ikemonth.ca/ events. Cabbagetown North Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. NE corner Parliament and Winchester. rom.on.ca. ERNEST TATE Launching his book Revolutionary Activism In The 1950s And 60s. 6:30 pm. Free. Pauper’s Pub, 539 Bloor W, 2nd fl. 416-530-1331. L Lisa Gabriele/Heather O’neill/Liz Renzetti/Miriam Toews Reading. 6:30 pm. Free (adv ticket required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca/ appelsalon. Meditation Class for the experienced or for those who can’t sit stil. 7 pm. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. ralphthornton.org. 5Qpoc Chronicles Featuring queer elders of colour focusing on their historic perspective. 7 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite. Rouge Park Guided walk. 9:30 am. Free. Various locations in Rouge Park. Details at rougepark.com/hike. SPRING SPECTACULAR: GROWING MAGNOLIAS, AZALEAS AND RHODODENDRONS IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO Etobicoke Horticultural Society talk. 8 pm. Free. Fairfield Seniors Centre, 80 Lothian. gardenontario.org. TASNEEM JAMAL Launching her debut novel, Where The Air Is Sweet. 6 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-361-0032.

Thursday, June 12 Benefits 5Late To The Prom (Rainbow Camp)

Sharron Matthews

No. 9 wet your pants laughing. From stand-up to sketch to the fringe, comedy shows will make you laugh your face off

Marc Maron

On your Marc

His WTF With Marc Maron podcast has introduced his laid-back and savvy personality to audiences around the world, and he’s built on that brand with a bestselling book and TV show. But veteran stand-up Maron is still best seen live, as he demonstrated at least year’s JFL42. Don’t miss him as he delivers a sure-to-be-talkedabout keynote address at NXNE Interactive. June 18 at the Hyatt Regency. nxne.com/tickets.

Kurt’s cut-ups Comics don’t come much more sarcastic than Kurt Braunohler, whose debut disc, How Do I Land?, is a favourite of every comedy

nerd I know. Don’t miss his weekend of sets at the Comedy Bar, June 20 and 21 (where his openers include DeAnne Smith, one of the funniest queer comics I know), and then June 22 hosting Sunday Night Live. comedybar.ca.

Proud and hilarious

Speaking of queer and funny, World Pride has brought out some of the best local and international LGBTQ talent around. On-the-brink-of-stardom comic James Adomian headlines Yuk Yuk’s, from June 25 to 28 (he’s the feature act of Robert Keller’s OUTrageous Show on June 25), yukyuks.com. Two headliners in their own right team up in Gavin Crawford And Sharron Matthews Are Vicious Bitches, June 22 at Second City (416-343-0011) and June 26 at Buddies in Bad Times. Also at Buddies, Drew Droege, known for his dead-on impression of Chloë Sevigny, headlines Bitch Salad Pride on June 27, and Elvira Kurt, Richard Ryder, Shawn Hitchins, Susan Fischer and Dawn Whitwell are on the Homo Night In Canada bill on June 28. For all Buddies shows call 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

to Toronto. Before she takes it to Edinburgh, Canadian Comedy Award winner Chelsea Manders (one-half of beloved Fringe duo the Nefarious Black Roses) mounts her music-filled autobiographical comedy Don’t Tell My Dad. And Sex T-Rex, an improv troupe who play hilariously with genre, present Watch Out Wildkat!: Yer Dealin’ With The Devil. July 2 to 13 at various venues. 416-966-1062, Glenn Sumi fringetoronto.com.

Fringe faves The summer’s biggest theatrical blowout, the Toronto Fringe, always contains lots of laughs, and this year is no exception. The aforementioned Elvira Kurt, one of the country’s best standups ever, pairs with Megan Fahlenbock in Parallel Play, a comic revue about womanhood in. Ace character comic Kathleen Phillips performs Trust Me, It’s Fine. I Figured It Out. In Lost And Found, Marilla Wex chronicles her journey from England

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Sherwood Park (190 Sherwood) Where Lost in the steep slopes between Bayview and Mount Pleasant in midtown Toronto,

through which Burke Brook once flowed. Why Tall stands of rare old-growth trees, among the finest in the city. Getting there 103 Mount Pleasant bus.

Topcliff Park (75 Topcliff) Where Unlikely sanctuary behind Jane Finch Mall. Why Picturesque creek, firepit, children’s playground. And a chance to glimpse a rarely seen side of the too-often maligned Jane-Finch neighbourhood. Getting there Use the access preferred by locals: the trail behind York Woods Library (1785 Finch West).

Moatfield Park Farm (300 Lesmill) Where Eastern Don Parklands north of York Mills between Leslie and Don Mills. Why Some of the steepest and most dramatic sections of the upper Don watershed; Tudorstyle farmhouse that used to form part of the Duncan family estate’s dairy farm. Getting there The scenic route: Betty Sutherland Trail off Duncan Mill Road. ENZO DiMATTEO

Pwyc, $20. sugg. Mill St Brew Pub, 21 Tank House Lane. proudfm.com/latetotheprom. Toronto Firefighter Calendar Event (Princess Margaret Cancer Fdn) Calendar launch with firefighter models. Doors 7 pm. $35, adv $25. Tattoo Rock Parlour, 567 Queen W. 416-703-5488.

Events Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic 20th Anniversary Tribute & Award (Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic) Tribute gala, awards presentation and live auction. 6:30 pm. $60. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. s chliferclinic.com. L Copycat Talks: Following The Blind Man Talk by Kendell Geers. 8 pm. $25. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. luminatofestival.com. Health & Beauty Day Demos and exhibits on meditation, skin and body care, fitness, natural cosmetics, naturopathic care and more. 10 am-3 pm. Free admission. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. centraleglinton.com. P LIBIDO: DYKE MARCH FUNDRAISER Queer art, music and performances. 9 pm-2 am. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635, worldpridetoronto.com. Looking For My Roots Sol Hermolin talks about his recent trip to Poland. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Café, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com. Scottish Country Dancing In The Park Dancing to live music by Scotch Mist. 7 pm-dusk. Free. Edwards Gardens, SW corner Lawrence and Leslie. rscdstoronto.org. 535 Years & Counting Buddies celebrates its 35th anniversary with a party, performances and more. 10 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416975-8555.

Friday, June 13 Events L Copycat Talks: Hijacking As Proactive Strategy Talk by Märten Spängberg. 8 pm. $25. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. luminatofestival.com. CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Sampling of craft beers from 30 breweries plus music and food. Today and tomorrow. Free admission. Yonge-Dundas Square. sessiontoronto.com. Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with an Indigenous Now theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl. Giving Great Head Workshop. 7 pm. $33. Good for Her, 175 Harbord. Pre-register 416588-0900, goodforher.com. In The Footsteps Of Charles Dickens Literary detective walk. 3-5:30 pm. $25, stu/srs $20, child $15. St Lawrence Market middle door, 93 Front E. Pre-register 416923-6813. MR HARPER, KEEP YOUR PROMISE: WHERE ARE THE 1,300 SYRIAN REFUGEES? Forum to call upon the government to keep its promise to allow access to Syrian refugees. 7 pm. $3 or pwyc. Trinity St Paul’s United Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435.

Saturday, June 14 Benefits Barbados Ball (Barbados Ball Canada Aid) Party and awards ceremony to support scholarships and health care in Barbados and Canada. 5:30 pm. $225, adv 200. Pearson Convention Centre, 2638 Steeles E (Brampton). barbadosballcanada.com. Community Book Fair (Yonge Street Mission) Popular fiction, children’s books, cookbooks, dictionaries and more. To Jun 19. $2. 306 Gerrard E. 416-929-9614, ysm.ca. HOPE Volleyball Tournament (Kids, Cops & Computers/Alzhimer Society of Toronto) Hundreds of teams play on 40+ courts. Various prices, spectating free. Olympic Island, Toronto Islands. h opevolleyball.com.

Events Along The Boardwalk Of Humber Bay Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/ pwyc. Small park on E side of Palais Royale, 1601 Lake Shore W. heritagetoronto.org. Along The Front Guided ROM walk of the old town of York. 2 pm. Front & Jarvis. rom.on.ca. Asian Community Games Track and field, swimming, soccer, basketball, volleyball, cricket, golf and more. To Jun 22. Tait McKen-

zie Centre, York U, 4700 Keele. a cgames.ca. Beaches Arts & Crafts Show Visual arts, jewellery, fashions, ceramics and more. Today and tomorrow. Free. Kew Gardens, Queen E at Lee. beachesartsandcraftsshow.ca. Before Toronto: An Archaeological Bus Tour Of Our City’s First 13,000 Years Heritage Toronto all-day bus and walking tour. 10 am. $80. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org. CANADA’S NATIONAL BALLET SCHOOL CREATIVE CHALLENGE Outdoor performances by young dancers. 3-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, Trinity Square, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. Gluten Free Market Samples and glutenfree food to buy. 9 am-5 pm. $14, adv $12, srs $11, child free. International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd. canadasglutenfreemarket.com. Lost First Chinatown Food Tour Explore the sites of the city’s original Chinatown. 10 am-1 pm. $30-$45 (includes food). Meet at Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Preregister 416-923-6813. Mortgage 101 Learn about mortgage basics, approvals and what banks don’t tell you. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-393-7746. North York Centre Then And Now Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am. Free/ pwyc. Gibson Park, NW corner Yonge and Park Home. heritagetoronto.org. REPAIR CAFÉ Bring in a broken household item and get help fixing it. 10 am-2 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416395-5653, repaircafetoronto.ca. Swansea & LM Montgomery Lit Walk Literary detective walk that traces places and folks Montgomery met in Toronto. 3-5:30 pm. $25, child $18 (includes snacks). Runnymede subway. Pre-register 416-923-6813. Whistling Gardens & Whitehern Historic Home & Garden Bus trip. 8:45 am. $74. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. Pre-register 416-767-2574.

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B World Naked Bike Ride Cycle bare as you dare to protest oil dependency and car obscenity. Noon. Free. Coronation Park, Lake Shore W of Bathurst. worldnakedbikeride.org. Youth Employment And Volunteer Fair Local agancies provide info on opportunities for teens. 2-4 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-394-5120.

Sunday, June 15 Benefits Yorkville Exotic Car Show (Prostate Cancer Canada) View vehicles including cars from Porsche, Ferrari, Aston Martin and Bentley along car-free Bloor. Noon-5 pm. Free (donations appreciated). Bloor between Bay and Avenue Rd. bloor-yorkville.com. continued on page 62➤

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actment with a rubber-band shooting gallery, Father’s Day barbecue and more. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733. rChessfest Games and programs on the history of chess for all ages and levels. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. L David Byrne The musician is interviewed by The New York Times media reporter Ben Sisario. 6 pm. $25. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. luminatofestival.com. rFather’s Day BBQ Live entertainment, self-guided tours, family activities and a barbecue. 11 am-5 pm. $40, srs/yth $35, child $30, under 3 free. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, c asaloma.org. rFather’s Day Brunch Cruise Cruise the harbour and enjoy a buffet brunch. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. $59. Queens Quay Terminal (foot of York). tickets.mariposacruises.com. P Free Jane Reading of a new play by Sonny Mills followed by an open mic. 8 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. P Genderplay: Fun With Dick (And Jane) Reading of Larocque’s play about a man who found love in an unlikely place. 2 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. L If I Loved You: Gentlemen Prefer Broadway – An Evening Of Love Duets Panel discussion with Rufus Wainwright and guests. 11 am. $25. MaRS Discovery District, 101 College. luminatofestival.com. 5Elisha Lim Launching her debut graphic novel, 100 Crushes. 2-5 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD U, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite. L A Literary Picnic Outdoor readings and more. Noon-3:30 pm. Free (bring lunch). Trinity Bellwoods Park, 155 Crawford (rain location: Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw). luminatofestival.com. L Literary Walks Walks led by authors Cary Fagan, Andrew Pyper and Alissa York. 2, 3 & 4 pm. $25. luminatofestival.com. L The Lost Songs Of Toronto Literary event. 6 pm. $18 & $25. Edward Day Gallery, 952 Queen W. luminatofestival.com. The Mansions Of Jarvis Street Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. SE corner Jarvis and Isabella. heritagetoronto.org. rSurvival Skills Learn what can keep you alive in the forest if you get lost. 11:30 am & 1 pm. Kortright Centre, Pine Valley and Major Mackenzie (Kleinburg). 905832-2289. Yorkville Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. rom.on.ca.

Monday, June 16 Events Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids CBC radio show launch party. 8 pm. $10. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. P Stilettos On The Move Fashion show featuring drag performers. 7 pm. Free (RSVP). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. p ridetpl.eventbrite.ca.

Tuesday, June 17 Events Nature All Around Us Join a team of experts to piece together the historical flora and fauna of dynastic China. 7 pm. $21, stu $18. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-586-5797. Real Food For A Change Talk on the problems facing our food industry and potential solutions by professor Rod MacRae. 1 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. 5Ken Setterington Author of Branded By The Pink Triangle discusses events in LGBTQhistory. 7 pm. Free. Bendale Library, 1515 Danforth Rd. 416-396-8190. 5Zanele Muholi The photographer and LGBTQ activist talks about her exhibition Faces And Places. 7:30 pm. Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould. contactphoto.com.

Wednesday, June 18 Benefits Music Heals (Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Fdn) Rock bands including Marc Reed, SoSumi, the Sauce and the Gavelheads, dancing, auction, food and more. 7 pm. $75. Hard Rock Café, 279 Yonge. musicheals.hollandbloorviewfoundtion.ca.

Events BLUE AND WHITE CHINESE PORCELAIN: SOCIAL CURRENCY PAST AND PRESENT Lecture by Sotheby's Cynthia Volk. 6:30 pm. $20. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. P Kamal Al-Solaylee Reading from his memoir, Intolerable: A Memoir Of Extremes. 1 pm. Free. City Hall Library, 100 Queen W. 416-393-7650. 5Sky Gilbert Evening of poetry with the poet and drag performer. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca. P Pridecab Multidisciplinary cabaret of songs and

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Check out some of the most gifted choreographers at shows inside and out Al fresco romp

It wouldn’t be summer without Dusk Dances. Every year, the beautifully curated, family-friendly festival transforms the hills and valleys of Withrow Park into an evocative backdrop for movement magic. Now in its 20th year, the fest has just announced a stellar lineup that includes choreography by Sylvie Bouchard, Peter Chin, Julia Aplin, Milan Gervais, Sis Robin Hibbert, Kate Franklin and Meredith Thompson. August 4 to 10. d uskdances.ca, 416504-6429 ext 89.

Adieu, Alek In one of last season’s most moving moments, dancer Aleksandar Antonijevic took his final bow in

monologues by members of the Queer Youth Arts Program. 8 pm. $10, free for youth 25 & under. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. Rouge Park Guided walk. 9:30 am. Free. Various locations in Rouge Park. Details at r ougepark.com/hike. The Struggle To Juggle Presentation on multiple life roles, brain health and the sandwich generation. 7 pm. Free. Beaches Library, 2161 Queen E. t orontopubliclibrary.ca. Then And Now Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. 6 pm. Free. In front of the ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca. When Worlds Collide Reading by 25 Canadian authors including Jowita Bydlowska, Linwood Barclay, Lynn Crosbie. Andrew Pyper and Zoe Whitall. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/yth under 25 free. Harbourfont Centre Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org. The Yorkville Music Scene Of The 1960s Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 6:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org.

Thursday, June 19 Benefits P A Chorus Queen (Toronto People with AIDS Fdn) Benefit performance of the drag musical. Mon-Sat 7:30 pm, matinees Jun 21 and 25 at 2 pm. To Jun 28. $35-$45. Hart House Theatre, 7 Hart House. uofttix.ca/acq.

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the demanding dramatic role of Onegin. Now, after 23 years, he retires from the National Ballet for good, dancing every performance in William Forsythe’s contemporary classic the second detail. There won’t be a dry eye in the house. On the same bill are Jerome Robbins’s Opus 19/The Dreamer, originally created for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Le Spectre De La Rose, Marco Goecke’s reimagining of the classic Fokine ballet. Until Sunday (June 1) at the Four Seasons Centre. 416-345-9595.

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Louise Lecavalier has blazed a brilliant trail through the contemporary dance scene, first as the leading lady in La La La Human Steps and then for indie choreographers like Crystal Pite and Benoît Lachambre. Her raw, high-energy2011 performances – Children and A Few Minutes Of Lock – made

40th Anniversary Gala (Downsview Svs for Seniors) Party celebrating 40 years of community service. 5 pm. $90. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. downsviewservices.com/gala.

Events Argonauts Football Argos season opener against the Hamilton Tiger Cats. 7 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca. Book Summit 2014: In Bed With The Reader Industry event for publishing professionals with labs on marketing, social media and more. 8:45 am. $166, stu/ srs $93. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org. Allan Stratton Reading from The Resurrection Of Mary Mabel McTavish. 7 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. 416-393-7660.

Friday, June 20 Events AZ Awards Gala celebrating architects and designers from around the world. 8 pm. $75. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. a zawards.adbeast.com. P The Bizarre Ball: Rainbow Warriors This Pride ball features vogueing performers the House of Nuance. 10:30 pm. $10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555.

local critics’ best-of lists, including mine. Now she’s bringing her own choreography, So Blue, to Luminato. And if the buzz from its North American premiere last year at Montreal’s Festival TransAmérique is any indication, dance lovers are in for a treat. June 13 to 15 at the Fleck Dance Theatre. luminatofestival.com.

Step up Yo! Street dance is the new kid on the block, and it’s not just happening in cheesy Hollywood movies. On Canada Day, check out the Common Steps Dance Battle, which presents movement from all over Canada, from jingle dress and hoop dancing to B-boying. It’s followed by the ever-popular street dance competition. July 1 at Harbourfront’s WestJet Stage. Glenn Sumi 416-973-4000.

Central Canadian Barista Competition T.O.’s best up-and-coming baristas compete for a spot in the Nationals. Today and tomorrow. Propellor (Crema Coffee), 50 Wade. torontoccbc@gmail.com. Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with a Sun Burn theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl. 5Ladies Army 6 International Women’s Bike Polo Tournament Battle for global championship by 32 women and trans bike polo teams. Fri 9 am to Sun 1 pm. To Jun 22. Dufferin Grove Park, 875 Dufferin S of bloor. bikepolo.to. P Pride Walk: Discovering Toronto’s LGBTQ Heritage Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. To Jun 25 weekdays 6:30 pm, Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register h eritagetoronto.org. P THAT’S SO GAY: ON THE EDGE Exhibition of new projects created by LGBTTI2QQ artists about their experiences of identity. To Jun 27. Noon-5 pm. Free. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. Women’s World Wheelchair Basketball Championship Cheer on Team Canada. To Jun 28. $5-$100. Mattamy Athletic Centre, 50 Carlton. 2014wheelchairbasketball.com.

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The Fringe, Summerworks and other stage sensations are set to hit the boards Angels’ return flight One of the best shows of 2013, Soulpepper’s production of Angels In America, flies back with the same excellent cast: Troy Adams, Raquel Duffy, Diego Matamoros, Michelle Monteith, Nancy Palk, Gregory Prest and Mike Ross. Damien Atkins also returns as the linchpin character, Prior Walter, a gay, HIV-positive man who’s declared by one of the play’s several angels to be the new messiah. That’s an audacious plot twist, given that Tony Kushner’s superb two-part epic is set during the

1980s AIDS crisis. Director Albert Schultz’s production gives the text both universal resonance and emotional immediacy. Performances begin June 12 and run through July 12 at the Young Centre (50 Tank House). 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

Sizzling SummerWorks The annual curated theatre festival, now in its 24th year, offers mostly new Canadian works and other exciting components such as a music series and a developmental collaboration between musicians and theatre and dance artists. Though shows won’t be revealed until the June 6 launch at Campbell House Museum, the festival runs from August 7 to 17 along Queen West from Theatre Passe Muraille to the Scotiabank

Studio Theatre; this year’s hub venue is the new Theatre Centre. There’ll be 28 mainstage shows, five site-specific events, a dozen live art shows and an eight-hour durational production. Companies will be visiting from Kingston, Guelph, Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Montreal, St. Catharines and New York. 416-628-8216; summerworks.ca.

Ruffing it

In only a few years, the revived Shakespeare in the Ruff troupe has made a name for its riveting spins on the Bard’s work. This year’s entry, again staged between two large trees in Withrow Park (south of Danforth, east of Logan), is one of Shakespeare’s late romances, Cymbeline, a kind of fairy tale complete with beset princess, evil queen, Machiavellian villain and triumphant hero. In the hands of artistic director Brendan McMurtry-Howlett, the show will draw on some other Shakespeare texts as well as a 1778 version of the story. It features a cast of six, among them Hume Baugh, Kaitlyn Riordan, Jesse Griffiths, David Patrick Flemming and A.J. Richardson. Performances run August 12 to 31. shakespeareintheruff.com.

Classic Sondheim There’s no more revered name in contemporary American musical theatre than Stephen Sondheim, who had his first solo hit with 1970’s Company. Theatre 20 revives the work, whose central character, Bobby, is a single man unable to make an emotional commitment despite the help of all his married friends. Dan Chameroy stars as the skittish Bobby, surrounded by a galaxy of fine musical theatre artists, among them Brent Carver, David Keeley, Nora McLellan, Louise Pitre, Eliza-Jane Scott, Carly Street, Steven Sutcliffe, Jeff Lillico, Sarah Slean, Nia Vardalos and Joe Matheson. Gary Griffin directs, with music direction by Scott Christian. Performances begin June 21 and continue to July 13 at the Berkeley Street Theatre (26 Berkeley). 416-368-3110, theatre20.com.

Frolicking at the Fringe Toronto’s biggest theatre festival enters its second quarter-century with another big bash, this year featuring 136 shows, including 14 sitespecific productions, at 29 venues. In addition to the shows there’ll be informative tent talks, the Visual Fringe art market, alley plays, buskers, underground parties and the 24-hour playwriting contest. New this year is a Fringekids Club, with activities and crafts for pint-sized audience members. Among the participants are comedy duo Peter n’ Chris, New Zealand’s You Rung? Productions (who last year brought a very funny one-man Richard III), Momentum Dance Toronto, Keystone Theatre, Baby Gumm Productions and Pea Green Theatre Group. The festival runs July 2 to 13. 416-966-1062, f ringetoronto.com.

CanStage combo

Canadian Stage had such a success last year rotating a pair of works by the Bard at the annual Shakespeare In High Park that they’re repeating the format. This year’s shows are the forest-set comedy As You Like It, which has always been perfect for the park, and the far darker Titus Andronicus, a tale of bloody revenge set in ancient Rome. Nigel Shawn Williams directs As You, and Keira Loughran helms Titus, with an ensemble cast that includes Shauna Black, Gwenlyn Cumyn, Beau Dixon, Sean Dixon, Chala Hunter, Omar Alex Khan, Alexander Plouffe and Amy Rutherford. Performances begin June 26 and run to August 31 at the High Park Amphi theatre. 416-368-3110, canadianstage.com.

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P World Pride Opening Ceremonies Fireworks plus live performances by Melissa Etheridge, Deborah Cox, Martha Wash, DJs David Morales, Quentin Harris and others. 7:30pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W. worldpridetoronto.com.

Saturday, June 21 Benefits B Cycle For Sight (Foundation Fighting Blindness) Fully supported, one-day cycling event. Pledges. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Jane & Steeles W. c ycleforsight.ca.

Events P The B-Girlz: Pride Nation! The drag troupe perform a disco-cabaret tribute to gay life. 8 pm. $25-$28. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555. Dr Fitzgerald And The Connaught Laboratories: Medical Legacy Meets Family History Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. Convocation Hall, 31 King’s College Circle. heritagetoronto.org. B rEBW Family Bike Festival Wild bike ride with a naturalist, safety checks for kids’ bikes and more. 10 am-1 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca. B Eco-Wheels Show Check out the latest in ecofriendly transportation, high-tech accessories, rider education and more. 11 am-7 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. eco-wheelsshow.com. Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement Introductory class. 10:30 am-noon. Free. Ralph Thornton Centre, 765 Queen E. Pre-register 416-406-0054. rFurry Forest Friends Family nature walk. 1:30 pm. $2 or pwyc. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.com. Journalists And Editors In 19th Century Toronto Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. 160 Frederick. heritagetoronto.org. rJunction Summer Solstice Festival Bike the West Toronto Railpath to enjoy art, music, bike tune-ups, outdoor cinema and more. Noon to midnight. Free. Dundas from Indian Rd to Quebec. t hejunctionbia.ca. Kensington Foodies Roots Walk Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 9:30 am-1 pm. Today and Jul 26, 10 am-1 pm. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35. Red Pole with Black Cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. rLESLIEVILLE TREE FESTIVAL Live performances, native plants, tree-planting, local artists, a kids’ zone, green vendors and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Leslie Grove Park, 1158 Queen E. y ourleaf.org. Murder At the ROM Scavenger Hunt Murder mystery team scavenger hunt for adults. 10:30 am & 2 pm. $30. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register at urbancapers.com. P Nuit Rose Queer grassroots contemporary art event from sundown to 3 am. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W, and Queer West Zone on Queen between Shaw and Gladstone. n uitrose.wordpress.com. P Rise Sexy playground of art, dance, strip tease and aerial arobatics with Charissa Wilcox, Shane MacKinnon, Kitty Neptune, Axel Blows and others. 8:30 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com/pride2014. Solstice Tarot Circle Summer solstice potluck feast and circle to share the tarot’s wisdom. 6:30 pm. $25. The Hermit’s Lamp, 425 Vaughan. hermitslamp.com. Understanding Your Credit Report & Credit Score Learn more about how to improve your credit score. 2 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. Pre-register 416-393-7746. YOGATHON Yoga enthusiasts welcome summer at specially themed outdoor classes for all levels. 9 am-5 pm. Free (bring yoga mat). Distillery District, 55 Mill. omto.ca.

Sunday, June 22 Benefits P Just Me, You And The Silence (FARUG – Freedom and Roam Uganda) Reading of a play by Ugandan writer ADONG Lucy Judith followed by a panel discussion. 7 pm. $10 adv, pwyc at the door. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes. com/pride2014.

Events rGatsby Garden Party Garden party with 20s period music, food, dance and a costume contest. Noon-5 pm. $5, kids free. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416392-6910. Get Into Sailing Day RS sailing demo day. 11 am-3 pm. Free. Outer Harbour Centreboard Club, 14 Regatta. 416251-0384. The Hogtown Hoedown Appalachian square dancing and instruction. Today and Jul 20. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Ontario Wine Fair Wine- and cheese-tasting event. 1 pm. $70, adv $60. Drake One Fifty, 150 York. cafetasteevents.com. Paint Party All-inclusive, paint-your-own-canvas event. 7:30-10 pm. $20. Art Factory, 263 Adelaide W. artfactory.cc. continued on page 66 ➤

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Monday, June 23 Events BOOKS ON FILM: PAUL FIERLINGER ON MY DOG TULIP Film screening and discussion with the author on transforming his memoir into an animated feature. 7 pm. $35, stu/srs $30. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. P CLOCKED Don Pyle and Martin Sorrondeguy look at queer content in their punk photographs. 7 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/ onsite. DORA MAVOR MOORE AWARDS Reception, awards presentation for excellence in theatre and an afterparty. 5 pm. $65. Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, tapa.ca. HOW CHANGE HAPPENS: MAKING OUR VOICES HEARD AT CITY HALL & QUEEN’S PARK CultureLink and Cycle Toronto event on civic engagement with lawyer Patrick Brown. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Lillian H Smith Library, 239 College. bikemonth.ca. NIKI KOULOURIS/RUDYARD FEARON/JC BOUCHARD Reading. 8 pm. Pwyc. Magpie, 831 Dundas W. 416-9166499. P ELISHA LIM Launching her debut graphic novel, 100 Crushes. 2-5 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD University, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite.

235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ifoa.org. P IN LOVE AND CHAOS: RAW, RESILIENT AND FOREVER REDEFINING Showcase of indigenous two-spirit, black and people of colour queer/trans communities, artists and performers. 10:30 pm. $15, standing room $10 at the door. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com/ pride2014. LAST WEDNESDAYS Art-focused events at the galleries and shops happen the last Wed of the month. 5-8 pm. Free. 401 Richmond W. 401richmond.net. MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY Guided ROM walk. Today 6 pm; Jul 30, 6 pm; Aug 17, 2 pm. Free. Yonge entrance (N of St Clair). rom.on.ca. P MY BIG FAB GAY GARDEN WEDDING Group ceremony in the gardens for LGBTQ lovebirds with bouquets and boutonnieres, photos, an outdoor reception and more. 3 pm. Free. Toronto Botanical Gardens, 777 Lawrence Ave E. Pre-register torontobotanicalgarden. ca/bigfabgaywed. P THE SCIENCE OF GAYDAR: MAKING SENSE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION FROM LIMITED PERCEPTUAL CUES Talk by professor Nicholas Rule. 7 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca. P VIVA CABARET – A TRIBUTE TO THE GREATEST DIVAS Drag parodies of gay icons from Russia performed by Yury Ruzhyev. Today and tomorrow 8 pm. $25, adv $20. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. rushow.ru. P WORLD PRIDE HUMAN RIGHTS CONFERENCE LGBTTIQQ2SA human rights advocates from around the word meet to discuss anti-sodomy laws, intersex persons, sex work activism, the politics of pride parades and more. To Jun 27. Info at wphrc14.com/program.

Thursday, June 26 Events rABORIGINAL HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION Music and cultural performances, arts and crafts, and more. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. P BUTCH FEMME SALON – PRIDE EDITION: UNDER THE COVERS Belle Jumelles and Titus Androgynous host a party for butches and femmes of all stripes with performances and a dance party. 8 pm. $10 or pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com/pride2014. No.

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Wednesday, June 25 Benefits P WORLD PRIDE AWARDS GALA (Camp Fyrefly/Pride Toronto) Lea DeLaria and kd lang perform at this fundraiser for this leadership retreat for LGBTTIQQ2SA youth hosted by Salah Bachir. Cocktails 6:30 pm, dinner 7:30 pm. $tba. worldpridetoronto.com.

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P CELEBRATION OF LOVE A mass wedding ceremony celebrates World Pride Toronto with more than 100 same-sex couples tying the knot. Free for qualified couples (marriage license fees extra). Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. prideweddingtoronto.com. DANCING ON THE PIER Outdoor dancing to live music of all styles. To Jun 26. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. INTRODUCTION TO E-READING DEVICES Workshop. 7 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-3955710. continued on page 68➤

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Kensington Market Heritage Toronto walk. 6:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Bellevue Square Park, 5 Bellevue. heritagetoronto.org. P Pride Walk: Discovering Toronto’s LGBTQ Heritage Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. Today 6:30 pm; tomorrow 2 pm. $20. Location provided on registration. heritagetoronto.org. P Starry Night Drag queens Adore Delano, Courtney Act, Bianca Del Rio, Darienne Lake, DJs Freemasons, Rosabel and the Cube Guys and others. Free. Cawthra Square Park Greenspace, beside 519 Church Community Centre. g reenspaceto.org. P Two-Spirited People In Indigenous Societies Talk by Jessica Danforth from the Native Youth Sexual Health Network. 7 pm. Free. Spadina Road Library, 10 Spadina Rd. torontopubliclibrary.ca. Yoga Outdoor classes for all levels. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com.

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tainment, kids’ activities, art, fireworks and more. To Jul 1. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. h arbourfrontcentre.com. Deep Fried Fridays DJs spin and local chefs provide the food. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. P rFamily Pride Activities for families of all kinds include children’s entertainers, a style zone, and arts and crafts. To Jun 29. Free. Church Street Jr Public School, Church and Alexander. worldpridetoronto.com. P Friday Night Live @ ROM Live music, DJs, pop-up food, tours of the galleries and more with a ROM Proud theme. 7-11 pm. $12, stu $10. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca/fnl.

P I Do At The Carlu Group wedding for gentlemen, with musical performances and a wedding celebration. Today and tomorrow, 7 pm. $25. Carlu, 444 Yonge. thecarlu.com. The Life & Death Of Stars Planetariaum show. 7 & 8 pm. $5. U of T Astronomy Bldg, 50 St George. planetarium@astro.utoronto.ca. P One World: Where The Wild Things Are Pride dance party. 7 pm-midnight. Free. Cawthra Square Park Greenspace, beside 519 Church Community Centre. greenspaceto.org. PARTY ON THE PLAZA Live music, food and drink outdoors every Fri evening. $25. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. P5Pride Street Fair Vendors, arts and crafts, entertainment and more. Today 6 pm- 2 am; tomorrow noon-2 am; Jun 29 noon-11 pm. Free. Church and Wellesley area. worldpridetoronto.com.

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P Trans March A community-led political march leaves from Church and Isabella at 8 pm (preceded by a rally at 7 pm) heads N to Bloor, W to Yonge and S on Yonge to Yonge-Dundas Square. Free. worldpridetoronto.com. P World Pride Drag Race Celebrity Cruise Celebrate on a harbour cruise with RuPaul. 8-11:30 pm. $115. Queen’s Quay Terminal (foot of York). tickets.mariposacruises.com.

Saturday, June 28 Events The Don Valley: A Bicycle Tour From Todmorden Mills To Lake Ontario Heritage Toronto tour. Today 10:30 am; Sep 21, 1:30 pm. $25. Location provided on registration. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org. P Dyke March Celebrating the diversity and passion of LGBTTIQQ2S women and trans folk with a rally at Allan Gardens (Carl-

P Disco Disco Pride dance party with DJs Dimitri from Paris, Horse Meat Disco and others. 1 pm-midnight. Free. Greenspace, Cawthra Square Park, beside 519 Church Community Centre. g reenspaceto.org. P The Lady Oiye’s Tea Dance Low-key gathering off the parade route for a cool respite. 3-10 pm. Free. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. buddiesinbadtimes.com. Necropolis Guided ROM walk. Today and Jul 27, 2 pm. Free. 200 Winchester. rom.on.ca. rPedestrian Sundays In Kensington Market Celebrate summer with music, street theatre and more on streets closed to traffic. Noon-7 pm. Today, Jul 27 and Aug 31. Free. Kensington Market, Augusta and College. pskensington.ca. P Pride Parade The annual parade of floats, marching bands and music starts 2 pm at Bloor and Church, heads west to Yonge, south on Yonge to Yonge-Dundas Square. Free. worldpridetoronto.com. Sunday Pop-Up Market Market featuring local vendors and DJs. Today, Jul 27 and Aug 24 noon-5 pm. Free. Le Dolci, 1006 Dundas W. 416-262-3400. P World Pride Closing Ceremonies Singer/songwriter duo Tegan & Sara perform at the closing ceremonies. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. worldpridetoronto.com.

Monday, June 30 Events Fireworks Dinner Cruise Harbour cruise with cocktails, dinner and fireworks. 7-11:30 pm. $98. Queens Quay Terminal (foot of York). tickets.mariposacruises.com. rShakespeare For Kids Summer Camp Two-week literacy, acting and performance camps for kids seven to 12. To Jul 11. $500. Shakespeare in Action, 385 Roxton. Pre-register shakespeareinaction.org.

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games, horse-drawn wagon rides, live music, village tours and more. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-736-1733, blackcreek.ca. Canada Day Cruise Harbour cruise with a buffet lunch. 11:30 am-2:30 pm. $59. Queens Quay Terminal (foot of York). tickets. mariposacruises.com. rMULTICULTURAL CANADA DAY Music and cultural performances, arts and crafts, and more. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, July 2 Events FREE FLICKS: MEAN GIRLS Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. GEOFFREY FARMER The artist talks about his work. 5:30 pm. $12, stu $8. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net. HEART OF TORONTO Guided ROM walk exploring the city halls and more. Today 6 pm; Aug 3, 2 pm. Free. Doors of New City Hall, Queen and Bay. rom.on.ca.

Thursday, July 3 Events CHINATOWN: THEN AND NOW Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. Today 6:30 pm; Aug 3, 2:30 pm. $20. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. MARKET 707 FARMERS MARKET Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Every Thursday 3-7 pm. Free. 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

Friday, July 4 Events TORONTO OUTDOOR ART EXHIBITION Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, glass art, jewellery and more from 400 artists. Fri & Sat 10:30 am-7:30 pm, Sun 10:30 am-6 pm. To Jul 6. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. torontooutdoorart.org.

Saturday, July 5 Events ARGONAUTS FOOTBALL The Argos play the Saskatchewan Roughriders. 3 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca. SECOND CHINATOWN FOODIES WALK Tour of a Chinese bakery, grocery shops and more. 10 am-1 pm. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35 (includes food). Red pole with black cat, 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813. THE TOWN OF YORK AND THE WAR OF 1812 Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. St James Park, King and Church. heritagetoronto.org.

Sunday, July 6 Events THE ANNEX Guided ROM walk. Today 2 pm; Aug 20, 6 pm; Oct 5, 2 pm. Free. West corner of ROM on Bloor (just west of Avenue Rd). rom.on.ca. BRAINS, WORDS & VOICES Poetry contest with pre1975 poems recited from memory before an audience for a cash prize. Today and Aug 3, 6:30 pm. Turotino, 109 Niagara, buzzer 007. therotarydial.ca/ brainswordsandvoices. EXTRA! EXTRA! MAKING THE NEWS IN TORONTO Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. Berczy Park, 35 Wellington E. heritagetoronto.org. A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN Outdoor film screening and costume contest. 9 pm approx. Pwyc. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. christiepitsff.com. rTHE UNCOMMON FLEA MARKET Outdoor flea market. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. WWE LIVE SUMMER SLAM HEATWAVE TOUR Wrestling with John Cena, the Shield, Seth Rollins and others. 5 pm. $20 and up. Ricoh Coliseum, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Exhibition Place. ticketmaster.ca.

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Monday, July 7 Events YOUTH SUMMER OPERA INTENSIVE Day camp for youth in grades 9 to 12 with the Canadian Opera Co. To Jul 14. $350 1 week, 2 weeks $625. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Pre-register 416-3638231.

Tuesday, July 8 Events C CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL TORONTO LAUNCH Official launch party for the festival. Noon-2 pm & 4-8 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen W, at Bay. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. INTERNET TELEVISION WITH XBMC Learn how to watch TV using open-source software. 12:10-12:50 pm. Free (bring your lunch). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5653. TRAINSPOTTING Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, July 9 Events FREE FLICKS: BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening and host NOW Magazine’s film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-9734000, harbourfrontcentre.com. GRAND PRIX OF MOSPORT RACEFEST Free. YongeDundas Square. ydsquare.ca. PHANTOMS, PLAYERS AND PUNDITS WALK Ghostly tour and tales of Financial and Entertainment district bldgs. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Old City Hall (front steps), 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813. A SENSE OF SPADINA: HISTORIC JEWISH TORONTO Heritage Toronto walk. 6:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Cecil St Community Centre, 58 Cecil. heritagetoronto.org.

Thursday, July 10 Events CREATING TORONTO: THE STORY OF THE CITY IN TEN STOPS Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. Today, Jul 17, 24, Aug 7, 14 and 28, 6:30 pm. $20. Preregister heritagetoronto.org. TASTY THURSDAYS Live world music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. toronto.ca/special_ events.

Saturday, July 12 Benefits HEATWAVE TORONTO BEACH VOLLEYBALL (SickKids) Corporate teams compete to help fight childhood cancer. Today and tomorrow, see website for details. Ashbridges Bay and Woodbine Beach. heatwaveevents.com.

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Sunday, July 13 Events BEACONSFIELD VILLAGE Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. 1153 Queen W. heritagetoronto.org. GETTING AROUND DOWNTOWN IN THE AUTOMOBILE AGE Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am. Free/pwyc. SW corner Queen and Yonge. heritagetoronto.org. MR HULOT’S HOLIDAY Outdoor film screening. 9 pm approx. Pwyc. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. christiepitsff.com. PARKDALE Guided ROM walk. Today 2 pm; Aug 6, 6 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca.

Tuesday, July 15 Events NATIONAL LAMPOON VACATION Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

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film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Music History On The Yonge Street Strip Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. Today 6:30 pm; Aug 9, 10 am. $20. Location provided on registration. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org. THE WINE DOCTOR RECOMMENDS... SUMMER DRINKS Info seminar with the Wine Doctor Edward Finstein. 12:10-12:50 pm. Free (bring your lunch). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5653.

Saturday, July 19 Events Guild Park: Where Art Meets Nature Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. 201 Guildwood Pkwy. heritagetoronto.org. C rJunior Carnival Parade Caribbean Carnival presents children masqueraders. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Downsview Park, Keele and Sheppard. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. rLive Green Toronto Festival Green street market, concerts, swap zone, buskers, kids’ activities and more. 11 am-8 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. livegreentoronto.ca. Textile City: Living Fashion And Garment Production In Toronto Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am. Free/pwyc. Grange Park south of AGO (317 Dundas W). heritagetoronto.org.

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Monday, July 21 Events rRyerson Radio Camp Kids eight to 12

and 12 to 15 learn the ins and outs of radio broadcasting at a week-long day camp. Today (ages eight to 12); Jul 28 (ages 12 to 15). $325. Pre-register at thescopeatryerson.ca.

Tuesday, July 22 Events Let’s Grow Food: Abundant Harvest – Growing Vegetables Organically Workshop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net. Little miss sunshine Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

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The Grange Guided ROM walk. Today 2 pm; Sep 28, 2 pm. Free. SW corner Dundas and McCaul. rom.on.ca. Stand By Me Outdoor film screening. 9 pm approx. Pwyc. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. c hristiepitsff.com. Watershed Wonders: The Forks Of The Don Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. Marc Garneau Collegiate, 135 Overlea. heritagetoronto.org.

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Friday, July 25 Events C Caribbean Carnival Gala Festival gala with music, masquerade models, dancing, food and more. 5:30 pm-2 am. Liberty Grand, 25 British Columbia, Exhibition Place. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. Exhibition Place And The Battle Of York, 1813 Heritage Toronto walk. 7 pm. Free/pwyc. Dufferin Gate, Exhibition Place. heritagetoronto.org.

Saturday, July 26 Events Cabbagetown South – Old & New Guided ROM walk with snacks. Today and Aug 31, 2 pm. $30. Pre-register 416-586-5799. rDesigning Toronto: A Playful Tour Of Toronto’s Fashion District Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour for kids (seven to 12) and families. Today 10:30 am; Aug 23, 2:30 pm. $10, child $8. Preregister heritagetoronto.org. South East Rosedale: Castle Frank To Glen Road Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Castle Frank subway. heritagetoronto.org.

Sunday, July 27 Benefits Beaches Jazz Fun Run (Rotary Int’l/Toronto East General Hospital/Canadian Running Series Fdn) Fundraising run in the Beach. Free. Starts and ends at Kew Gardens, Queen and Lee. Pre-register b eachesjazz.com.

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Wednesday, July 23 FREE FLICKS: CARAMEL Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

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make friends. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. h arbourfrontcentre.com. JOSEPH LUZZI Dinner and conversation with the author. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. Pre-register 416-361-0032. rMATSURI JAPANESE FESTIVAL Celebration of Japan’s culture, art and cuisine with traditional and modern live music and dance performances, a fashion show and market. 10 am-9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. matsuri.ca. rPedestrian Sundays In Kensington Market Celebrate summer with music,

street theatre and more on streets closed to traffic. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, Augusta and College. pskensington.ca. Rear Window Outdoor film screening. 9 pm approx. Pwyc. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. c hristiepitsff.com. STARTING A COMMUNITY ART GARDEN Urban gardening workshop. 1 pm. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. Pre-register 416596-1495, evergreen.ca. rSunday Game Day Board games for all ages. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. harbourfrontcentre.com. Thistletown Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Thistletown Multi-Service Centre, 925 Albion. heritagetoronto.org.

Tuesday, July 29 Events almost famous Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, July 30 FREE FLICKS: DESK SET Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

Thursday, July 31 Events C King And Queen Competition Caribbean Carnival Toronto presents male and female costumers parading for the titles. 7 pm-midnight. $30. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Friday, August 1 Events C rRip The Runway: Kiddies Edition Costumed child and teen models walk the runway to soca music. 6-9 pm. Centennial Rec Centre, 1967 Ellesmere. 647-519-3932.

Saturday, August 2 Events Rogers Cup ATP pros from the men’s tour compete for the championship. To Aug 10. $35 and up. Rexall Centre at York U, 1 Shoreham. r ogerscup.com.

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C rToronto Caribbean Carnival Grand Parade Masqueraders and steelpan bands parade along Lake Shore from Exhibition Place to Sunnyside. 9 am-6 pm. Free along Lake Shore Blvd (seated viewing price tba). torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Sunday, August 3 Events C rBeyond De Lime Dusk to dusk party. Price tba. Ontario Place, 955 Lake Shore W. caribanatoronto.com.

Tuesday, August 5 Events the italian job Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, August 6 FREE FLICKS: KISSING JESSICA STEIN Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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NATIONAL AWARENESS DAY Tai chi demos, a dragon dance, drumming, a parade and more. 9 am-2:30 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. Haunted Kensington, Chinatown & Grange Tour Ghost walk with multicultural ghost stories. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Meet at 350 Spadina (red pole w/ black cat). Pre-register 416-923-6813. Market 707 Farmers Market Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

Saturday, August 9 Events Mount Pleasant Cemetery: Where Soldiers Rest In Peace Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Cemetery gates, Yonge N of St Clair. heritagetoronto.org. 5Queer West Film Festival Films as part of the Toronto Queer Arts Festival. 6-10 pm. $5/pwyc. Buddies In Bad Times, 12 Alexander. 416879-7954, artsfestival.queerwest. org.

Sunday, August 10 Events rExporing Self-Portraiture Summer photography camp for girls. To Aug 15. 9 am-4 pm. $297, adv $247. Kiwanis Boys and Girls Club, 101 Spruce. Pre-register eventbrite.ca. The Trees Of Queen’s Park Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. NE corner College and University. heritagetoronto.org.

Tuesday, August 12 Events Argonauts Football The Argos play the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. 7:30 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. a rgonauts.ca. BEN MACINTYRE Dinner and conversation with the author. 6:30 pm. $100. Grano, 2035 Yonge. Pre-register 416-361-0032. talladega nights: the balad of ricky bobby Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, August 13 FREE FLICKS: IN A WORLD... Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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Thursday, August 14 Events rSail-In Cinema Toronto Port Authority outdoor film festival with two-sided floating movie screen set atop a barge in the harbour to be viewed by land or boat. To Aug 16. Free. Sugar Beach, 25 Dockside. sailincinema.com. Toronto Music Run 5K night run along the shores of Lake Ontario combining music, light and an after-party. tomusicrun.ca.

Friday, August 15 Events rCanadian National Exhibition The Ex, featuring bandshell concerts, an acrobatics show, celebrity chef demos, parades, the Air Show, midway, rides, food trucks and much more opens today runs to Sep 1. $18, child/srs $14, under 4 free (rides extra). Exhibition Place. theex.com.

Tuesday, August 19 Events across the universe Outdoor film screening. 8:30 pm. Free, Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Wednesday, August 20 FREE FLICKS: FUNNY GIRL Celebration of funny femmes in film with an outdoor screening hosted by NOW Magazine film critic Norm Wilner. Dusk (9 pm). Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com.

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The Boys Of Harbord Collegiate And The Great War Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/pwyc. Ed & Anne Mirvish Parkette, outside Bathurst subway. heritagetoronto.org. rrastafest Multidisciplinary festival showcasing different aspects of Rastafrian culture.$10, adv $7. Downview Park, Sheppard and Keele. r astafest.com.

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rPAWS In The Park (Toronto Humane Soc) Pet walk with canine minimakeovers, face painting, a microchip clinic and more. 10 am-2 pm. Donations. Woodbine Park, Coxwell and Lake Shore E. p awsinthepark. com.

Events Saturday, August 16 Events Aggie’s Wildflowers Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Lambton House, 4066 Old Dundas. heritagetoronto.org.

Sunday, August 17 Events Argonauts Football The Argos play the BC Lions. 7:30 pm. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. a rgonauts.ca. Remaking Toronto: Animals And Office Towers In The Downtown Core Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am. Free/pwyc. Commerce Court North, 25 King W. heritagetoronto.org. Town To Park: Avenue Road To Rosehill Reservoir Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. NW corner of Avenue and St Clair. heritagetoronto.org.

The Royal Alexandra Theatre And Its Neighbourhood Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. Simcoe E of CBC Bldg (250 Front W). heritagetoronto.org.

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1054½ gerrard street east | 647-352-6969 | aprilebambina.com Walk into Aprile’s and step back in time to the classic Mom and Pop Italian. From the red vinyl kitchen chairs and to the vintage Italian American Album covers on the wall, the whole feel is familiar and homey kitsch. And that homey goodness extends to the food! For starters, try the grilled Caesar with pancetta. Pizzas are made using “00” flour imported from Italy to ensure a light, tasty crust. There are the classic offerings as well as

pizzas like pear, walnut, gorgonzola or an impeccable wild mushroom. You’ll also find traditional pastas done well with the standout being a homemade pappardelle with slow cooked beef cheek, burnt butter and pinenuts. A boutique selection of beers including Peroni is offered. Aprile’s wine list is simple, well-chosen and very affordable. Perfect for casual date night or a family meal.

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91/2 Church street (north of esplanade) | 416-504-2657 | hanks9church.com Hank’s is a cafe diner in the St. Lawrence market area. It’s hip, upmarket vibe offers an ideal respite from the bustle of downtown. Menus are home-style and well executed. Notable are the various Eggs Bennies and the 2-Hander Sandwiches on thick, grainy bread. Hank’s espresso is some of the city’s best. The all-day breakfast is certainly a hit with the market crowd and creative types who want to

get some business done over a casual meal. Hank’s also works well to grab a latte and a homemade baked good. Take out is available but recommend eating in. A very cool and relaxing spot that is a sure hit for weekday brunch/lunch and weekend brunch. Morphs nicely into modish event space in the evenings. Fully Licensed.

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1058 gerrard st. east @ Jones | 416-901-9859 | mcgugans.com McGugan’s is perhaps the best gastropub this side of the Don. It walks the line between being a solid neighbourhood local and a destination for Scots looking to claim their stake in a city full of Irish pubs. On tap are a dozen beers, mostly local craft products and staples like Tennants and Guinness. The food is comforting and classic pub fare with the usual pot pies, curry and burger as well as massive buttermilkbattered chicken wings and so much more. This wee

East end gem has live music every Friday and two of the best backyard patios in the city - a flowerfestooned ground-level 60-seater and a rooftop bar with a big-screen TV to catch the rugby or the football! Join us @ 6pm on Sat June 7 for our Patio Launch Party with complimentary food & drinks & prize giveaways!

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9 Church street (north of esplanade) | 416-504-9463 | 9church.com Wine Bar claims it offers the cure for menu boredom. Indeed, the menu of sharing dishes changes monthly and leans heavily on local ingredients. Menus are designed to create a broad palate of taste experiences and they lend themselves to plenty of pairing options. Wine-wise, roughly 25 bottles are available by the glass and plenty of those options won’t break the bank. The

full wine list is 350 bottles long and features some rare and eccentric finds. Ideal venue for intimate dinners or when you actually want to engage with your dining mates! Notable for its cozy, carefree ambience and its friendly low-key Chef’s bar, which serves as both entertainment and the ideal conversation starter.

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Known as David, Phil and Peter Chau to their mom and dad, the Banh Mi Boys have come a long way in just two years. Since first opening at Queen and Spadina, their two eponymous takeaways are regularly found amongst the more vaunted spots on Toronto best o’ resto lists. Queues have been the norm from the get-go. The brothers are about to strike gold for a third time with the launch of the 36-seat Lucky Red in Chinatown. June 5 is the pencilled-in date. And instead of Asian fusion fare like the multiculti tacos

and Saigon subs stuffed with duck confit that give BMB its considerable rep, bao will be the main attraction. “They’re nothing like the ones we sell now,” says David Chau. “For starters, the tops and bottoms are separate and not hinged like traditional bao. We’ll still be steaming them, but we’ll be baking and deep-frying them, too.” Their new fillings are familiar yet different as well. “We’ll be doing smoked beef tongue, but with caramelized onion and hot mustard like a little hamburger. And there’ll be ramen, too, only our

version comes topped with barbecued chicken wings.” Is Lucky Red the first of many? “Not necessarily,” says a cautious Chau. “Banh Mi Boys will always be our priority. We’ve checked out at least 10 other restaurants in the downtown core as possible locations, but none of them have worked out. I guess we’ll have to start looking uptown!” Lucky Red, 318 Spadina, at Dundas West, luckyredshop.com, @luckyredshop continued on page 74 ➤

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The Bristol bites back When Davy Love shuttered his NOW Reader’s Poll-winning Bristol Yard last month, he announced that the all-day brunch spot would soon resurface as the Bristol and Bombay, a UK-centric gastro-pub with an emphasis on curries. He didn’t exactly say where, though. Since then, he’s finally found a home in the short-lived Samuel J. Moore bistro. Occupying the ground floor of Queen West’s Great Hall, the resto will run from lunch till late. He’s also shortened the name to the Bristol.

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“When people saw Bombay, they thought we were turning into an Indian restaurant,” explains the parttime DJ. Oh, there’ll still be Brit-style curries (onion bhaji Scotch eggs followed by a Bristol 2 Electric Vindaloo should do the trick), but they’ll share space with the Yard’s signature old-school meat pies. Love’s crowd-pleasing brunch will now be served weekends only. He’s even come up with an incendiary ghost-pepper sausage he’ll side with turmeric mash. “If you can eat that, you can eat anything.” The week after the Bristol’s scheduled June 7 launch, Love celebrates a certain upcoming soccer tournament with what he calls the World Cup of Pies. “Say Germany is playing Italy that day. We’ll have a schnitzel pie and a cacciatore pie, and whichever sells the most wins the Cup!” The Bristol, 1087 Queen West, at Dovercourt, 647716-6583, thebristolyard@gmail.com

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wanted to do, and the timing seems right.” The new RL won’t be a mere carbon copy of its west-side siblings, though much of the lobster-mad carte remains. Think more familyfriendly. “We’re going to have a kids’ menu for the first time, and we’re definitely doing brunch. I firmly believe that you can’t just put a restaurant into a neighbourhood and hope it works. You have to work the restaurant into the neighbourhood. If that means designated stroller parking on the patio, we’ll do it!” Rock Lobster, 1192 Queen East, at Curzon, rocklobsterfood.com, @RockLobsterFood continued on page 77 ➤

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Rock Lobster’s Matt Dean Pettit is one helluva busy guy. Besides recently launching the Boots & Bourbon saloon in Riverside with partner Darryl “Bovine Sex Club” Fine, he’s just created a line of lobster-to-go products for the Sobeys supermarket chain and written a lobster cookbook that comes out in October. Hot on the heels of the original on Ossington and its sequel on Queen West, Petit looks to unveil a third Rock Lobster on Queen East any day now. Why Leslieville? “Right from the beginning we’ve had a lot of customers say we’ve got to come to the east side,” explains Pettit. “It’s something we’ve always

No. 24 Suck back the perfect summer suds.

Brewers have applied their best expertise to designing beers meant to be imbibed during the hot months By Sarah Parniak

Cheval Blanc

Rating NNN Why This Montreal-brewed Belgian- style wit is crisp, citrusy and mellow: a solid patio pint. Cheval Blanc isn’t reinventing the wit wheel – there aren’t many complexities to ponder – but, paradoxically, its dry finish goes a long way in the quench department. Price 6 x 341 ml bottles/$13.60 Availability LCBO 302851

Session Saison

Rating NNN Why This classy saison is a collaborative exclusive from the Local 7 collective (the brew luminati of the Auld Spot, Bar Hop, BarVolo, Bryden’s, C’est What, the Only Café and WVRST) brewed to fruition by Sam Corbeil (of Sawdust City). Spiked with raspberry and lemon verbena, it’s called Session for a reason: sweet, tart and perfect for passing back and forth across a picnic blanket. Price 750 ml/$9.95 Availability LCBO 383927, or grab a pint at Session Craft Beer Festival, June 13-14 at Yonge-Dundas Square (sessiontoronto.com).

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Classic ñRodenbach

Rating NNNN Why I drank buckets of Rodenbach last summer, and I see no good reason to switch gears this year. Increasingly trendy sour beers can be hard for some to wrap their palates around, but consider this classic Flanders red ale an ambassador for the style. With its notes of tangy cherry and oak, this is an elegant, mouthwatering Sour Brew 101. Availability On draught and in bottles at specialty beer bars like Bar Hop (391 King West, 647-352-7476, barhopbar.com), Beer Bistro (18 King East, 416-861-9872, beerbistro.com) and Bier Markt locations. Treat yourself to the Grand Cru if you can find it.

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Collective Pilsner Arts Brewing ñUrquell ñ Rhyme & Reason Rating NNNN Why A recent abundance of quaffable, locally brewed pale ales has those wary of having their tongues eviscerated by hops bombs drinking for joy. An extrapale APA, Rhyme & Reason is dry-hopped to preserve a juicy bouquet without the sucker-punching b itterness. What I mean is that you can easily throw back a six in the sun. (Feel free to take that as a challenge.) Price 6 x 355 ml/$14 Availability LCBO 363465

Rating NNNN Why The OG Czech brand that started the golden antiale revolution back in 1842 maintains a devoted following of beer geeks and casual drinkers alike. Grassy, bready and bitter, Urquell remains the paradigm pilsner, setting the standard for refreshment. Price 500 ml/$2.55 Availability LCBO 255380

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Cut to the chase

Rob Gentile doesn’t like to move quickly. It took the executive chef of King West’s Buca – arguably downtown’s top Italian trat – more than two years from the day it was first announced to launch the Bar Buca spinoff on Portland. The third projected Buca – Buca Osteria Enoteca, to be precise – in Yorkville’s Four Seasons Hotel seems to be taking even longer. What gives? “The space wasn’t originally designed to be a restaurant,” says Gentile. “We’ve had to make a lot of upgrades and retrofits, basic things like power and plumbing. We probably went through 10 different designs before we got it the way we wanted.” Now that construction’s under way, what should we expect when Buca 3.0 finally opens come late July? “It’ll be the same menu as King Street, but we’ll be replacing the meat salumi elements with cured fish. The look will stay rustic industrial, but the front of the restaurant will be more like Bar Buca.” Running a successful restaurant can be very stressful. Is he up to the challenge of three? “That’s always the question, but I think I’m prepared for it,” laughs Gentile. “I’ve got a very good team. And wait till you see the kitchen – it’s a beauty!” Buca Osteria Enoteca, 60 Yorkville, at Bay, 416-962-2822, buca. ca, @BucaToronto

Now that New York City superstar chef Scott Conant’s Scarpetta has scarpered back to the Big Apple, the Thompson Hotel has brought in the team behind the wildly successful Chase to replace its firstfloor flagship resto. They’re calling it Colette.

“We wanted something that represented femininity,” says Chase Hospitality Group executive chef Michael Steh. “Something light and delicate like the food.” And so it’s goodbye to Scarpetta’s pricey spaghetti, and hello, accessible French cuisine. There’ll actually be two Colettes, one a more formal dining Colette is moving into the room, the Thompson Hotel with a modern other a casual French menu. bakery café, not to mention a drop-dead gorgeous outdoor terrace complete with reflecting pool and Space Needle view. What can we expect of the carte? “If anything, I want Colette to be as far away from a typical French brasserie or bistro as it can be. I’d describe it as somewhere between Michel Bras and Alain Ducasse – modern French but with classic technique.” Scheduled to launch in late June, Colette isn’t the only new restaurant in Steh’s immediate future. He’s about to convert the former Fiore on the first floor of the Chase’s Temperance Street home into the slightly downmarket Little Fin. Do we smell fish tacos? “It’s one of the most exciting projects we’ve ever done. And we’ve already got another two Fins in the works. I really believe that down the road we’ll have five or six of the best restaurants in Toronto.” Colette, 550 Wellington West, at Bathurst, 647-348-7000 , colettetoronto.com, @ColetteToronto David Laurence

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Chef Rob Gentile is launching his second Buca spinoff at the Four Seasons Hotel.

The soon-to-open Drake Devonshire Inn in Prince Edward County will feature locally sourced grilled pickerel with bread salad.

Drake Devonshire Inn The Drake Hotel’s much-delayed expansion into Prince Edward County has been in the cards for quite some time, but it looks like it’s finally going to happen this summer. To celebrate its imminent mid-July launch, the boutique hotel hosts a preview dinner at Drake One Fifty on Monday (June 2). The 13-room Inn’s head chef, Matt DeMille, spills the beans. “We’re doing shrimp cocktail but deconstructed,” says the one-time Le Select and Parts and Labour sous chef. “You grab some shrimp and some alfalfa sprouts and then you wrap it in lettuce like a taco or a Korean ssam. I like regionally sourced food with aggressive flavours that pop in your mouth.”

And it doesn’t get any more local than Bay of Quinte pickerel, especially when sided with a panzanella bread salad thick with roasted corn from the farm down the road. There’s even a lemon-tart milkshake for dessert. Say what? “You put a lemon tart, some milk and some ice cream in a blender and that’s it. It’s awesome. I call it the fine line between cheesy and cheeky. I have no idea where the idea came from, but I swear I wasn’t high.” Drake Devonshire Inn, 24 Wharf, at Main, Wellington, 613-399-1851, drakedevonshire.ca, @thedrakehotel continued on page 78 ➤

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Electric Muskoka

It’s pretty cool. You can drive your boat right up to the restaurant.” Scheduled to launch June 5, the 50-seat resto, with a 70-seat patio, is open Thursday to Saturday from noon to 10 pm through the Thanksgiving long weekend. Should we expect Grand Electric’s greatest hits? “We’ll still have shrimp tacos, but there’ll also be a couple of ceviches and lots of oysters.” Surrounded by all that water, will you be serving anything fished from the lake? “Only if we’re drunk enough!” Grand Electric Muskoka, 2 James Bartleman Way, at Joseph, Port Carling, 705-765-0381, grandelectricbar.com, @grandelectricTO 3 David Laurence

Not content with owning two of the busiest cantinas in town, Colin Tooke and Ian McGrenaghan of Grand Electric and Electric Mud are bringing tacos to Port Carling. How come? “It sounds like fun,” laughs McGrenaghan. “We open restaurants in areas we enjoy, and we really like the idea of doing something in cottage country. It’s beautiful up there. End of discussion!” The two have secured the lease on an old marina right on the locks between Lakes Muskoka and Rosseau. Look for the 10-foot fibreglass shark with the gold tooth on the roof. “On the top floor is a company that restores badass antique boats, and there’s a kayak club right beside us.

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No. 23 Don’t miss out on these Summer classics. It’s got a fabulous patio, awesome ice cream or that seasonal mainstay, a beautiful burger – Some food spots just scream summer By Steven Davey Burger’s Priest

1636 Queen E, at Coxwell, 647-346-0617; 463 Queen W, at Cameron, 647-748-8108; 3397 Yonge, 416-488-3510, at Teddington Pk; 7887 Weston, at Hwy 7, 905-8562662, theburgerspriest.com, @burgerspriest What goes together better than burgers and the beach? If you’re not going to be grilling them yourself, here’s the next best thing – the Double Double, two of the beefy patties layered with processed American cheese and served on an absorbent Wonder Bread bun. A religious experience of the culinary kind! Order this: from the not-so-secret menu, the Tower of Babel – a Double Double cheeseburger topped with a deep-fried portobello veggie burger sandwiched between three grilled cheese sandwiches. Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Saturday noon to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Average main $9. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

Cafe Belong

550 Bayview, at Pottery Rd, 416-9018234, cafebelong.ca The centrepiece of the Don Valley’s bucolic Brick Works eco complex, Restaurant Makeover celebu-chef Brad Long’s all-day bistro and adjacent take-away lets locally grown and naturally raised products be the star of the show. Don’t do crowds? Show up any time other than Saturday’s farmers’ market and have the place virtually to yourself. Order this: at dinner, Brussels sprouts salad tossed with blue cheese, braised garlic and salted pork-fat scrunchions followed by elk schnitzel over spaetzle and spicy micro-greens. Lunch Monday to Friday from 11:30 am, dinner Sunday to Friday from 5 to 9 pm, Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Weekend brunch 10 am to 3 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Average main $29 dinner/ $18 lunch or brunch. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

Cafe 668

885 Dundas W, at Claremont, 416-7030668, cafe668.com The anti-Hoof? After the runaway success of their modest vegan hole-in-the-wall, Hon Quach and Ngoc Lam move what’s become one of the best herbivore haunts in town into far fancier digs a few blocks west. While the name and innovative card remain the same, the bordering-on-chic room – floor-to-ceiling glass, off-white banquettes – signals that 668 has upped its game considerably. Order this: the 668 salad – a vibrant julienne of English cucumber, carrot and celery dressed with deep-fried tofu, coriander leaf, crushed peanuts and toasted cashews in a sweet Sriracha vinaigrette – followed by an idiosyncratic ketchup-

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free take on pad thai tossed with carrot, peanuts, cabbage, sprouts ‘n’ ‘shrooms. Monday to Thursday 5 to 9 pm, Friday 5 to 10 pm and Saturday 3:30 to 10 pm, Sunday and holidays 3:30 to 9 pm. Reservations accepted. Average main $14. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.

Caribfusion

Southeast corner King W, at Bay If there’s a threat of rain that day, Bridgette Pinder’s terrific Caribbean food cart likely won’t be there. But when the sun shines, she dishes up some of the tastiest eats in the core. Order this: gently jerked and grilled boneless chicken breast dressed with two salads – crisp romaine, purple cabbage and carrot, the other sweet ripe mango and bell pepper strips in a spicy Thai vinaigrette – doused with both island-style barbecue and hot sauces and wrapped in a grilled whole wheat pita or dalpoori roti. Monday to Friday 11 am to 2 pm-ish. Closed Saturday, Sunday, holidays. No reservations. Average main $8. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free.

Dutch Dreams

36 Vaughan, at St Clair W, 416-656-6959, dutchdreams.ca, @dutchdreams Forced out of their original digs just north of St Clair due to condo conversion, the Aben family’s greatly loved ice cream parlour resurfaces two blocks south with every knick-knack in place. Now three times the size and air-conditioned, the larger room means you won’t have to line up outside in the sweltering heat ever again. Patio and parking, too! Order this: Forest Hill homeboy Drake’s favourite – two scoops of the Dream’s own Gold Medal Ribbon chocolate and peanut butter ice cream in a house-made waffle cone. Daily noon to midnight. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.z

Ed’s Real Scoop on Roncesvalles

189 Roncesvalles, at Fern, 416-531-3113; 2224 Queen E, at Beech, 416-699-6100; 920 Queen E, at Logan, 416-406-2525, edsrealscoop.com, @Eds_Real_Scoop First launched in the Beach back in 02, ice-meister Ed Francis’s shop brings an expanded lineup of artisanal creams and gelati to the hip Roncey strip. While some rely on rich butter and cream, Ed’s depend on all-natural ingredients and 100 per cent real and often organic fruit for flavour. Order this: new flavours this season include boozy sangria sorbet and S’mores ice cream with burnt marshmallows, chunky Belgian chocolate and crumbled graham crackers. Daily 11:30 am to 10:30 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

Julie’s

202 Dovercourt, at Argyle, 416-532-7397, juliescuban.com A stellar Cuban cantina year round, this tucked-away trat on a sleepy west-side street really blooms come summer. As trees whisper overhead and candlelight reflects off wine glasses, affable hosts Jesus Baute and Sylvia Llewellyn offer a classic pre-Castro Havana card that’s perfect for sharing à deux under a starry sky. Order this: ropa vieja – slow-stewed flank steak in green-olive tomato sauce tossed with green peas and red pepper strips, sided with beans ‘n’ rice. Tuesday to Sunday from 5 pm. Bar till close. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Average main $18. Licensed. Access: two steps at door, washrooms in basement.

Red Tea Box

696 Queen W, at Euclid, 416-203-8882 The secret café hidden away in a shabbychic coach house behind this exquisite patisserie and chocolatier has to be one of the most exclusive restos in town. And romantic. Where else can you laze on a chaise while nibbling Pacific Rim exotica washed down with small-farm biodynamic teas in a setting worthy of a Brontë sisters novel? Order this: the lunch bento box of seared salmon with avocado and pink pickled onions, ginger chicken salad with blue cheese and green beans, and lemongrass-scented brown jasmine rice. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday 10 am to 6 pm, Friday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Sunday noon to 5 pm. Closed Tuesday, holidays. No reservations. Average main $17. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor, four steps to terrace, and another four steps to coach house.z

S. Lefkowitz

913 Dundas W, at Bellwoods, 647-346-8448, slefkowitz.com, @hummuslefkowitz Subtitled “the hummus institute of North America,” Ezra Braves’s reconfigured coffee house and patio is downtown’s first café dedicated to the humble chickpea dip. Show up early on the weekend or join the inevitable queue. Order this: shareable hummus plates splashed with French olive oil infused with house-ground za’atar and topped with spicy minced beef, warm mixed olives or chopped hard-boiled egg, all served with warm pita. Tuesday to Sunday 11:30 am to 6 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement.z

Millie Creperie

161 Baldwin, at Spadina, 416-977-1922, milliecreperie.com, @milliecreperie Part crispy ice cream cone and part French flapjack, Harajuku-style crepes look set to become as ubiquitous as ramen and tacos. And where better to find this multiculti street food than amidst the colourful chaos of Kensington Market? That is, if you manage to find Carson Leung and Christinn Hua’s way-cute take-away. Hint: it’s around the corner from Seven Lives and under the parking garage across from the George Brown condo. Order this: the Japanese Special Crepe with house-made green tea gelato, sliced strawberries, sweet adzuki beans, matcha sauce and whipped cream. Sunday to Thursday 12:30 to 8:30 pm, Friday and Saturday 12:30 to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms. 3

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Yoncé and her husband both had two shows in Toronto last year: Bey graced the ACC stage twice, and Jay hit it once, appearing at the Rogers Centre with Justin Timberlake a few months prior. Now Beyoncé and Jay Z, pop’s reigning couple, are giving the people what they want. Turns out their sensual Grammys chair dance was just a preview of their On The Run Tour, at the Rogers Centre July 9, 8 pm, $40.50$253.25. LN, TM.

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Thursday, June 5 The Beatdown, Piffbreak Arcade The Rockpile East doors 7 pm, $12. TW. Daniella Watters, Andrea Loren, Pastel Cavern Bar doors 9 pm, $5. Dave Dunlop & Canadian Jazz Quartet Thursdays At Five Kama 5 to 8 pm. David Poe, Don Kerr Smock Café 8 pm, $20, adv $14. tinyurl.com/poesmock. The Hunters, the Penske File, Somos, Owen Wilson, the Fallout Magpie Taproom doors 8:30 pm, $5-$10. Irene Atman Trio Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 to 10:30 pm, free. Jamie Cullum, King Queen Elizabeth Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$47.50. LN. Jennifer Castle, Eucalyptus, Michael Mucci & Ben Grossman, Thom Gill Feast In The East 38 Jam Factory Co 9 pm, all ages, $8. CB, FB, GR, SS. Lea Kirstein Relish Bar & Grill 7 to 9 pm. Loving Mary, Carly Jo Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $23, adv $20. Marcel, DJ Les Frenchies Francophonie en Fete: Lobster Dinner Cruise Jubilee Queen boarding 6-6:30 pm, $65. francophonie-en-fete.com. Marta Pacek Album release party Cadillac Lounge 7 pm. Oakville Children’s Choir Roy Thomson Hall noon, free. Samantha Martin & Roots N Roll Revue Lulaworld Festival Lula Lounge doors 7 pm, $15, adv $10. Scarlett Jane, Andrew Austin Drake Hotel Underground. Sloan First Thursday Art Gallery of Ontario 8 pm. Tafelmusik Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival: The TBSI Orchestra And Choirs Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall 1 pm, free. 416-964-6337, tafelmusik.org. The Toasters Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sondra Radvanovsky Songs For Soprano Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $33-$145. RTH. And Jun 7. Wax Motif EFS 10 pm. http://bit.ly/1ISRCvk.

Friday, June 6 Bill Gilliam, Ambrose Pottie Redraw The Map Gallery 345 8 pm, $10-$20. The Blue Demons, Rocket XL5, the Reverb Syndicate, the Huaraches, the Men in Grey Suits, Luau or Die, the Del Rios, the King Beez, the High Tides and others Great Lakes Surf Battle Cadillac Lounge facebook.com/ events/587428404683419. And Jun 7. Christopher Platt Trio Summer Music In The Park Village of Yorkville Park 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, free. DJ Nix The Blues Ain’t Nothing But A Good Woman Gone Bad Baltic Avenue doors 9 pm, $14. DJ Sean Sax, the machine Prince 4U – The Birthday Celebration Encore Studios 10 pm, $15. P DJ Sumation, DJ Blackcat, DH Recklezz WorldPride Playlist Party Fly 10 pm.5 DJs Riggadale, Cole Burns, SL.Y, Mikey Palermo Heresy One Year Anniversary Party Detour Bar facebook.com/ events/292158787626440. L Eva Avila Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. First Aid Kit, Willy Mason The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, all ages, $22.50$28.50. RT, SS, TW. Friday Night Live: Beats Royal Ontario Museum 7 to 11 pm. L Jason Collett, various performers Luminato Late Night: Jason Collett’s Basement Revue Edward Day Gallery 11 pm, $20. luminatofestival.com. And Jun 13. Jeffery Amos & Michelle Lecce-Hewitt The Flying Beaver Pubaret 9 pm, $10-$15. L Jesse Cook w/ Amanda Martinez, Emeline Michel, Interactivo Luminato: Pan-American Tropical Triple Bill David Pecaut Square 8 pm, free. luminatofestival. com. Jimmy Rankin Lunchtime concert First Canadian Place Waterfall Stage 12:15 pm, free. Ken Yoskhioka Band The Hole in the Wall 10 pm.

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Lynn Miles, Keith Glass Acoustic Harvest St Nicholas Anglican Church Robinson Hall doors 7:30 pm, $25, adv $22. acousticharvest.ca. Marilyn Lerner, Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser Ugly Beauties Gallery 345 8 pm, $10-$20. Moon King, U.S. Girls, Petra Glynt Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $10 adv. RT, SS, TF. L More or Les Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Woodbine Park free. muhtadidrumfest.com. And Jun 8. The Preatures The Garrison doors 9 pm, $15, adv $12. EMB, TW. QuiQue Escamilla, Andrew Cash, Los Hijos de Tuta, Marito Marques Trio, Jimmy Bosch, the Lula All-Stars, the Arsenals, Maracatu Mar Aberto, Bracatum, Street Brass Dundas West Fest Dundas West 11 am to 10 pm, free. dundaswestfest.ca. L The Roots, Adrian X Luminato: Philly Funk Sandwich David Pecaut Square 8 pm, $35. TM. luminatofestival.com. Shahin Najafi Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $45-$70. smallworldmusic.com. Sharon Musgrave Black Canadian Awards New date. Queen Elizabeth Theatre 5 pm, $30. TWIN. blackcanadians.com. Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, Ustad Sukhwinder Singh Bhari Lester B. Pearson Theatre 7 pm, $35-$100. spkacademy.org. Wacken Metal Battle Canada National Finals Opera House 8 pm. metalbattle.ca. We Were Heads, Les Ex, Alpha Strategy, Wolfcow CD release CineCycle doors 9 pm.

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No. 26 Danny Brown @ NXNE

For someone who hails from the Motor City, Danny Brown’s trips to Toronto have been few and far between. (Border-crossing issues couldn’t have anything to do with it, could they?) Not to worry, on the Friday, June 20, of NXNE, the eccentric rapper brings his alternative stylings to a headlining gig at NOW’s Northby showcase at the Mod Club, preceded by sets from two other outside-the-box emcees, Cities Aviv and Le1f, plus East Coast fuzz-pop band Alvvays. Doors 8 pm. See NXNE preview, page 52. Nxne.com.

Lady Kane Alleycatz. And Jun 7. The Marc Joseph Band Bier Markt Queensway 9:30 pm. Marito Marquez, Yami, Joao Frade, Jimmy Bosch, Ralph Irizarry Lulaworld Festival Lula Lounge doors 7 pm, $25, adv $20. Morakoza, Sex Tape, Spek Won, Hungry Animals The Garrison doors 9 pm, $12, adv $10. anchorshoppresents.com. NARIA Melodies Of Summer Heliconian Hall 7:30 pm, $20-$25. 416-727-2143, naria.bigcartel.com. New Teeth & the 905s 3030 Dundas West 10 pm, free. Prince Nifty, Sunclef, Bile Sister Pop Avant Series: The Unbearable Lightness Of Bass Music Gallery doors 7 pm, $17, adv $13. SS. Richard Buckner Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $13.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, James Hunter Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $39.50-$59.50. RTH, TM. Skydiggers w/ Peter Cash Slow Burnin’ Fire Tour Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $32, adv $29.50. And Jun 7. Toronto Symphony Orchestra What Makes It Great? Appalachian Spring Roy Thomson Hall 7:30 pm, $29-$79. RTH. A Trak, Salva The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $20. TW.

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Saturday, June 7 Bare Bones (Suzanne Nuttall & Patrick Hutchinson) The Flying Beaver Pubaret 9 pm, $10-$15.

Chuckie Guvernment 10 pm, $25. INK. Dave Martin Humble Beginnings 12:30 to 2:30 pm, pwyc. DJ Questlove Tattoo doors 10 pm, $18. INK, PDR, RT, SS. DJ Undercover, Mike Toast, Dee Cee Sex Lies Video: Friends With Benefits Cinema Nightclub. Don Francks, Dave Young & Bernie Senensky Jazz Night Toni Bulloni 9 pm. Eats & Beats In Riverside: A StreetFest Riverside District 1 to 6 pm, free. riverside-to.com. Gypsyhawk, Diemonds, Black Pussy, the Mohrs Hard Luck Bar doors 8 pm, $10. The Intentions, DJ OH16 Record release Lee’s Palace 9 pm, $10. Interpol, the Kills, Half Moon Run, Lord Huron, Kevin Drew, Shad, Austra, A Tribe Called Red, the Darcys, Vance Joy, Reuben & the Dark Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Fort York Garrison Common gates at noon, $75, weekend pass $125. LN, TM. fieldtriplife.com. Jim Clayton Trio Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 to 10:30 pm, free. Jimmy Rankin Enwave Theatre 8 pm, $29.50. RTH. L Kid Koala & Afiara Quartet Luminato: Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live TIFF Bell Lightbox Cinema 1 7:30 pm, $35. luminatofestival.com. And Jun 8 and 9. Laura Fernández, Eliana Cuevas, Rita di Ghent, Luanda Jones, Beatriz Pichi Malen Mateca Arts Festival Victoria College Burwash Quad 6:30 to 10:30 pm. 416596-0729, mateca.com.

The Basic Fix, Aliens Ashore, Brittany Scott, Batucada Carioca, C-Note, D’Champ, DMJR, Doggie & Disho, Highspeech and others Landmark Showcase Revival landmarkevents.net. Broken Social Scene, Chvrches, Constantines, Washed Out, Gord Downie, the Sadies, the Conquering Sun, Hydra, Fucked Up, Do Make Say Think, Babbadnotgood, Lowell Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Fort York Garrison Common gates at noon, $75, weekend pass $125. LN, TM. fieldtriplife.com. Cults Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $21.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Faye & Bryant Lopez, Quique Escamilla Band Mateca Arts Festival Victoria College Burwash Quad 5:30 to 10 pm. mateca.com. L The Hidden Cameras Luminato David Pecaut Square 4 pm, free. luminatofestival. com. Jennel Garcia, Stay Seventeen, Fourth & Coast, Max River, Keek Hard Luck Bar doors 6 pm, all ages, $15. TF. Laura Smith Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $27.50, adv $25. L Molly Thomason Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Moonface The Garrison doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS, TF. Parquet Courts Horseshoe $14.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Ray Lamontagne, the Belle Brigade Supernova Tour Massey Hall doors 6 pm, all ages, $44.50-$89.50. LN, TM. And Jun 9. Sammy Jackson 9:30 pm, Bud Powell Tribute 7 pm The Rex. Tafelmusik Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festival: The Grand Finale Grace Church onthe-Hill 7:30 pm, free (adv tickets required). 416-964-6337, tafelmusik.org. L Theo Tams Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 6 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. L Thomas Golubi , Colin Stetson Luminato: Synchronize David Pecaut Square 8 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. L Toronto Symphony Orchestra & audience participation Luminato: Music Mob Air Canada Centre 2 pm (musicians assemble at 1:30 pm), free. luminatofestival.com. William Fitzsimmons, Leif Vollebekk Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Zachary Ebin, Maria Dolnycky Music On Canvas – Dreams: A Revival Of Ukrainian Music Kumf Gallery 3 pm, $15-$20. 416-6219287.

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No. 27 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

Fifteen records and three decades into the Australian alt-rockers’ storied career, lovably sombre frontman Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds surely have the touring chops and the diverse catalogue to wow an audience. The band is known to play sets that showcase their whole discography, and Cave works the stage like a man possessed. Any Future Islands fans out there? You like Samuel T. Herring? Cave – the original uninhibited, quirky frontman – plays the Sony Centre July 31. 8 pm. $39.50-$98.25. sonycentre.ca.

Monday, June 9 L Bebel Gilberto, Aline Morales Luminato: Brazilian Samba Soul David Pecaut Square 8 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Chain Gang of 1974 Drake Hotel $13.50. Judy Collins Date changed from May 5. Original tickets honoured. Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $100, adv $90. L Liz Coyles Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 6 pm, free. Sweet Alibi Lunchtime Live! Yonge-Dundas Square 12:30 to 1:30 pm, free.

Tuesday, June 10 Banks, Jerome LOL The Hoxton. L Bill Frisell, Kevin Drew, the Handsome Family, Emmylou Harris, Mary Margaret O’Hara, Anna McGarrigle, Martha Wainwright and others Luminato: Sleeping In The Devil’s Bed – The Music Of Daniel Lanois Massey Hall 7:30 pm, $45-$150. luminatofestival.com. DevilDriver, Whitechapel, Carnifex, Revocation, Rivers of Nihil, Fit for an Autopsy Opera House doors 5:30 pm, all ages, $30. RT, TF. L Luminato: Slaight Music Series Digging Roots 7 pm, Nick Sherman 6 pm David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge free. luminatofestival.com. Gabriel Kahane Drake Hotel Underground doors 8 pm, $12. RT, SS, TF. Jerome Godboo, Eric Schenkman, Gary Craig, Fraser/Daley, Mike MacDonald, Pat Rush, Suzie Vinnick, the Swinging Blackjacks, Caution Jam,

the 24th Street Wailers Amy Louie Scholarship Fun-raiser Grossman’s 9 pm. Kevin Myles Wilson The Local 9 pm. Mike Rud, Amy Brandon 918 Bathurst Centre for Culture & the Arts 8 pm, $20. amybrandon.ca. Paulo Filipe Lula Lounge doors 7 pm, $25, adv $15. smallworldmusic.com. Phoenix, Albert Hammond Jr Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50. LN, RT, SS. Sam Dickinson Quartet 9:30 pm, Jim Gelcer Group 6:30 pm The Rex. L Luminato: Northern Lights And Music Tanya Tagaq 9:30 pm, Buffy SainteMarie 8 pm David Pecaut Square free. luminatofestival.com.

Wednesday, June 11 Aaron Carter Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TF. L Alejandra Ribera Luminato David Pecaut Square 8 pm, free. luminatofestival. com. L Angela Hewitt, Tré Armstrong Luminato: Keys On The Street David Pecaut Square 9 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. The Baarbad Trio Mezzetta 9 & 10:15 pm, $10. Kelis, Son LIttle The Danforth Music Hall 8 pm, $25-$35. TM. L Luminato: Slaight Music Series Liam Titcomb 7 pm, Jessica Mitchell 6 pm David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge free. Pamela Jane Gerrand CD release Hugh’s Room 8 pm, $30, adv $25.

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No. 28 Bruno Mars and Pharrell

Say what you want about Bruno Mars’s music, but even the most diehard metal heads are won over when they see the pint-sized pop superstar working that mic stand. Last year he played the Molson Amphitheatre solo; this year he’s teamed up with needs-no-introduction Pharrell Williams for a double-whammy ACC show that’s sure to make you happy. July 26, 7:30 pm, $66.75-$142.25. LN, TM. NOW hot summer guide 2014

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No. 29 Jack White

On the heels of his hotly anticipated new solo album, Lazaretto, one of this generation’s true-blue rock stars embarks on a massive stadium tour. We’ve seen Jack White play venues big and small – with the White Stripes he played every single Canadian province and territory – but an 18,000-person venue (the Air Canada Centre) seems especially appropriate for one of the best guitarists around. July 31, 7 pm, $29.50-$65.50. LN, TM. ➤continued from page 81

Saintseneca Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Yuja Wang Masterworks: Beethoven Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $38.75-$169. RTH. And Jun 12. Univox Choir Toronto w/ Kurt Sampson, Yuka Pop 3.0 The Great Hall 8 pm, $20, adv $15. univoxchoir.org/tickets.

Thursday, June 12 Andy McKee & Don Ross, Calum Graham Randolph Theatre 8 pm, $50. BP. mckeerosstoronto.com. DJ Jazzy Jeff, DJs Tom Wrecks & DJ Wikked Citizen UNIUN INK. Espresso Manifesto Salone Di Cultura Rino Noto 7 to 11 pm, $55. EB. L Jill Godin Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 6 pm, free. Mike Celia CD release Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $20, adv $18. The Notwist Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $21.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Pharmakon, Ell V Gore, SINS S.H.I.B.G.B’s 9 pm, all ages, $10, adv $9. L Quique Escamilla Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. l uminatofestival.com. Richard Herriott Music For Autism Piano Recital St Stephen-in-the-Fields Church 7:30 pm. L Sidestepper, the Souljazz Orchestra Luminato: Colombian Cumbia Dub Club David Pecaut Square 8 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Skynet, Honour Crest, Cardinals Pride Hard Luck Bar 6 pm, $13, adv $10. facebook.com/events/840674422613573. Young & Sick Drake Hotel.

Friday, June 13 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. Alejandro Vela The Art Of The Piano: From Rach To Rock Gallery 345 8 pm, $10$20. The AutoPilots, Erick FlowChild, Just John, Mic Boogie, Jae Ari, WarrZone, DJ Law Big Ticket Wrongbar 10 pm, $10. Datsik, Hydee, Lush Projek Datsik Guvernment $20. PDR, TW. Friday Night Live: Indigenous Now Royal Ontario Museum 7 to 11 pm. Ginger-Ale & the Monowhales, Fat as Fuck, the Lifts EP release The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10. Hey Ocean!, Highs Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Jeff King’s Catalyst 9:45 pm, the Jivebombers 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm The Rex. Justin Rutledge Record release Rivoli doors 9 pm, $20. RT, SS, TF. And Jun 14. L Lemon Bucket Orkestra Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. The Lizards Tribute To PHISH The Great Hall doors 9 pm, $20, adv $13. EB. Murder by Death Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Nagata Shachu & Jeng Yi Enwave Theatre 8 pm, $20-$30. HF. NXNE Music Festival Yonge-Dundas Square nxne.com. And Jun 20. Patrick Brealey Dark Angel: The Music And Life Of Roy Orbison Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $22.50, adv $20. SDD (Simple Damned Device) CD release

party Tattoo 10 pm, $10, NXNE wristbands/ tickets. nxne.com. Soko, Mother The Hoxton. Treeline The Local 9 pm. L TV on the Radio, Saidah Baba Talibah Luminato: Black Rock Coalition Redux David Pecaut Square 8 pm, $35. TM. luminatofestival.com.

Saturday, June 14 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. L The Arsenals Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 7 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Bison Bovine Sex Club $tba. IE, RT. Brenda Lewis & Margaret Stowe The Flying Beaver Pubaret 7 pm, $15, adv $10. Christopher Platt Trio Summer Music In The Park Village of Yorkville Park 1:30 to 4:30 pm, free. Christopher Plock Duo Jazz Night Toni Bulloni 9 pm. Cyhi the Prynce, Dillan Ponders, Jerzee Tha Icon, SeT Tattoo doors 6 pm, all ages, $17. INK. David Buchbinder Trio Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 to 10:30 pm, free. DJ Unstoppable & DJ Unstoppable Jr Father’s Day Sunset Cruise Pioneer Princess Cruise Line boarding 6 pm. 416-606-7656. Elvis Costello Solo Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $35-$99. LN, TM. The Features Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $11.50. RT, SS, TF. Fifth Harmony, Cimorelli, Midnight Red, Before You Exit, JennXPenn, Rebecca Black, Ricky Dillon and others Digifest YouTube Music Festival Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre doors 3 pm, all

No. 30 Earth, Wind & Fire

This summer the Toronto Jazz Festival brings another full roster of jazz, blues, funk and soul stars to over 50 venues. But we’re most stoked about Chicago’s Grammy-winning, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted, kalimbajamming, Afro-R&B genre-benders Earth, Wind & Fire. Take your pick from a slew of greatest hits: the nine-man band are sure to jam After The Love Has Gone, Shining Star, That’s The Way Of The World and more at the Sony Centre, June 24, 8 pm, $59.50-$210. TM, torontojazz.com.

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ages, $37.50. TM. digifesttoronto.com. Glendale One, the Dixie Cup Water Tower of Power Horns Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $20, adv $18. The Jezabels, Gold & Youth Date changed from Apr 10. Original tickets honoured. Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $23, adv $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Julian Jordan The Hoxton. Lindsey Stirling Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50. RT, SS, TF. Mike Butler Boots & Bourbon Saloon 10 pm. And Jul 4. Nightbox, Rush Midnight Adelaide Hall doors 9 pm, $15. NT, RT, SS. Roncy Rocks! NQ Arbuckle, Oh Susanna 6 pm, Mike Evin, Luke Jackson & his String Quartet 4 pm, Scott McCord & the Bona Fide Truth, the Monkey Bunch 2 pm, Big Rude Jake & Tennessee Voodoo Coupe 1 pm, Jessica Blake & the Dinner Club, Lush 11 am Roncesvalles Village free. roncyrocks.com. Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull Bump N’ Hustle Rivoli Loft doors 10 pm, $10. Raoul & Bigger Time 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7 pm, Chris Kettlewell Gypsy Jazz noon The Rex. Reel Big Fish, Survey Says, This Magnificent Opera House doors 8 pm, $25. RT, SS, TF. Rezonance Baroque Ensemble Birds, Beats & Rustic Revelry! Artscape Youngplace Studio 202 8 pm, $20. facebook.com/ rezonance.ensemble. Rezonance Birds, Beasts, Rustic Revelry Artscape Youngplace doors 7:30 pm, pwyc, $20 sugg. L Rufus Wainwright, David Byrne, Boy George, Josh Groban, Brennan Hall, Glen Hansard, Ezra Koenig, Steven Page, Andrew Rannells Luminato: If I Loved You – Gentlemen Prefer Broadway Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 7:30 pm, $45-$150. TM. luminatofestival.com.5 Sheesham & Lotus The Local 9 pm. Songs That Touch The Heart Musical Fundraiser Birchcliff Bluffs United Church 7 pm, $15-$20. L The Soul Rebels, the Heavyweights Brass Band Luminato: New Orleans Funky Brass David Pecaut Square 1 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Thompson Egbo-Egbo Junior Jazz Jam Paintbox Bistro 10 am, free. L Toronto Symphony Orchestra Luminato: TSO Goes Late Night Roy Thomson Hall 10 pm, $35-$45. tso.ca. Toronto Symphony Orchestra Tailgate Party Roy Thomson Hall Parking Lot 7:30 pm, $75-$89. RTH. L Ziggy Marley, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars Luminato: Rock Steady Reggae David Pecaut Square 8 pm, $35. TM. luminatofestival.com.

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Sunday, June 15 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. DJ Pete Tong Grand Opening Weekend Blowout Party Sound Academy Cabana Poolbar. Julia Rohan & Meg Tennant Rebas Full Of Beans Sundays Full of Beans Coffee 2 to 4 pm.

Jungle Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS. Linda McRae CD release Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $20, adv $18. Mike Field Quintet 9:30 pm, Bud Powell Tribute 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm The Rex. Rick Ross The Mastermind Tour Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $65. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM. L Stacey Kay Luminato: Slaight Music Series David Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge 5:30 pm, free. luminatofestival.com. Steve Koven Jazzy Sundays Morgans on the Danforth 2 to 5 pm. L Luminato: Salute To The Americas The Toronto Symphony Ochestra 7 pm, Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita 4 pm David Pecaut Square free. luminatofestival.com. TV Freaks, Needles//Pins, Low Culture, Nervosas Smiling Buddha.

Monday, June 16 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com.

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Jane’s Party Lunchtime Live! Yonge-Dundas Square 12:30 to 1:30 pm, free. Michael Kleniec The Central 7 to 10 pm. Peter Murphy Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $29.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Rich Underhill Jazz Hockey Mayor Fundraiser 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm The Rex. Robert Francis & the Night Tide Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF.

Tuesday, June 17 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. Bigwig Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $11.50. RT, SS, TF. Hamilton All-Star Jazz Band 9:30 pm, Jim Gelcer Group 6:30 pm The Rex. Jello Biafra & the Guantanamo School of Medicine, Negative Approach Opera House doors 8 pm, $22. RT, SS, TF. John Herberman Toronto Ravel Hugh’s Room 9:30 am, $25, adv $22.50. LIVINGSTON Artificially Intelligent Folk Songs, Vol 1 Holy Oak Cafe folksingularity.com.

Wednesday, June 18 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. David French 9:30 pm, Payadora-Tango 6:30 pm The Rex. Marc Reed, SoSumi, the Sauce, the Gavelheads Music Heals 2014 Hard Rock Cafe 7 pm, $75. musicheals. hollandbloorviewfoundation.ca. Tyler Ward Opera House all ages, $17.50. RT, SS, TF.

Thursday, June 19 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. Bill McBirnie Lula Lounge. Black Flag, HOR, Cinema Cinema CODA doors 8 pm, $26. RT, TF. Chaka Khan, Shemekia Copeland Toronto Jazz Festival Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 8 pm, $45-$129. TM. torontojazz.com. Chelsea McBride & the Cityscape Toronto Jazz Festival Habits Gastropub 9 pm, $10. torontojazz.com. The Haret w/ Andru Bemis The Local 9 pm. Harrison Kennedy Third Thursday Series Dominion on Queen 7:30 pm, free. Heillig Manoeuvre G-Three Music Series Paintbox Bistro 9 pm, $15. gthreemusic.com. John Sherwood Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 to 10:30 pm, free. Journey, Steve Miller Band, Tower of Power Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $30-$110. LN. Judge, H20 Opera House doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50. RT, SS, TF.

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No. 31 Field Trip

In its second year, Arts & Crafts’ two-day outdoor fest has spread its wings beyond the label to include artists that are just plain awesome. In the idyllic park setting of Fort York Garrison Common, heavyweights Interpol, the Kills and Broken Social Scene headline, label faves Austra, Kevin Drew and Fucked Up hold court, while outsiders Shad, A Tribe Called Red and BADBADNOTGOOD infiltrate. June 7 and 8. Gates open at noon. $75, weekend pass $125. LN, RT, SS, TM. fieldtriplife.com.

Michael Dunston & Dave Young’s Tribute to Donny Hathaway G-Three Music Series Paintbox Bistro 9 pm, $15. gthreemusic.com. Patty Griffin, Parker Millsap Winter Garden Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $42.50. TM. Paul Reddick, Brian Litvin & Jabulani, Jon Brooks, Gathering Sparks, JD Edwards, Tim Posgate & Andrew Downing, Kristen Bussandri, the Rucksack Willies In Cash We Trust: Johnny Cash Tribute Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $30, adv $25. The Reposadists Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 10 pm, $10. Sean Dowhaniuk Trio Summer Music In The Park Village of Yorkville Park 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, free. Shawn Potter Organix All Saints Kingsway Anglican Church 7:30 pm, $20$30. organixconcerts.ca. N St Vincent NXNE Yonge-Dundas Square 9 pm, free. nxne.com. Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir Gershwin Highlights Roy Thomson Hall 7:30 pm, $38.75-$169. And Jun 21. Zomboy, Cookie Monsta Phoenix Concert Theatre dioors 10 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TW.

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Saturday, June 21 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com.

Memo Acevedo & the Building Bridges Band w/ Jacquelene Acevedo & Jane Bunnett and Maqueque Toronto Jazz Festival Lula Lounge 8 pm, $39.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Meshuggah, Between the Buried and Me 25th Anniversary Tour Sound Academy doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50-$50. LN, RT, SS. Needtobreathe The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $33.50-$43.50. LN, RT, SS. Open Roof Festival 99 Sudbury $15. openrooffestival.com. And Jun 26, Jul 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31, Aug 7 and 14. N NXNE Sleigh Bells 9:10 pm, Danny Brown 7:40 pm, Golden Teacher 6:30

pm, Odonis Odonis 5:30 pm Yonge- Dundas Square free. nxne.com. Sonny Landreth Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $35, adv $32.50. Tigers Jaw, Pity Sex Hard Luck Bar doors 7:30 pm, all ages, $15.50. RT, SS, TF. Viet Cong Silver Dollar.

Friday, June 20 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. Afterfunk, Capital Beats Redpath Waterfront Festival: Emerge Artists Show-

case-Make It Funky Sugar Beach 5 to 11 pm, free. towaterfrontfest.com. N The Danks, Royal Tusk Hidden Pony Records Birthday: NXNE Horseshoe. DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia, Ted Dancin’ HipHop Karaoke: 2nd Annual Posse Cut Competition Revival doors 10 pm, $10-$15. hhktoronto.com. Friday Night Live: Sunburn Royal Ontario Museum 7 to 11 pm. Laura Marks & Julie McGregor w/ Bernie Senensky, Duncan Hopkins, Kevin Dempsey Toronto Jazz Festival – Singer’s Jazz Series: Something Cool Pauper’s Pub Upstairs 7 pm, $15. singersjazz.com.

Luis Mario Ochoa Sextet Toronto Jazz Festival Shops at Don Mills 7 pm, free. torontojazz.com. Manuel Valera 10 pm, Alex Pangman 8 pm, the Jivebombers 5 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 3 pm The Rex. Mark McLean w/ Lester McLean Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $30. torontojazz.com. P Melissa Etheridge, Deborah Cox, Martha Wash, DJs David Morales, Quentin Harris and others Toronto Jazz Festival And World Pride Opening Ceremonies Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, free. worldpridetoronto.com.

4Korners, Mike Jacinto, D3FF & Aktec, DJ Addy, Manzone & Strong, Wristpect, Mikey Terra, Armani, DJ Mo & Mili and others The Beach Club Festival Wild Water Kingdom beachclubfest.com. Summer Solstice Festival The Allnighters Blues Duo 9 to 11 pm, Songbird 6 to 8 pm, Young Running 3 to 5 pm, Natalie Giangioppo 12:30 to 2:30 pm Humble Beginnings pwyc. Arctic Monkeys, White Denim Molson Amphitheatre 7:30 pm, $29.50-$59.50. LN, TM. The Belle Regards The Local 9 pm. David Clayton-Thomas, Oakland Stroke Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $42.50. TM. torontojazz.com. DJ TheVinylDen Habits Gastropub 9 pm, free. Eliza Gilkyson Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $27.50, adv $25. Felix Cartel, Kryder The Hoxton. Gairey Richardson Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Full of Beans Coffee 1 to 4 pm. Hilario Duran Trio G-Three Music Series Paintbox Bistro 9 pm, $30. gthreemusic.com. The Hi-Wires Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 10 pm, $10. Irene Torres & the Sugar Devils, the continued on page 84 ➤

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Toronto Urban Roots Fest is a bit of a misnomer. To clarify: it’s urban in that it’s downtown, it’s (mostly) roots in genre. But as usual, the stellar lineup makes you forget the name pretty quickly. Beloved Georgian indie-rockers Neutral Milk Hotel, Chicago alt-country performer/soul and gospel producer Jeff Tweedy, Austin blues guitar virtuoso Gary Clark Jr. and Toronto-via-Ottawa power poppers Hollerado are among the bold names. July 4 to 6. Fort York Garrison Common, $59$99.50, fest pass $149.50-$329.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com.

Earth, Wind & Fire Toronto Jazz Festival Sony Centre for the Performing Arts 8 pm, $59.50-$210. TM. torontojazz.com. Foxy Shazam, Larry & His Flask Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $19.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. A Great Big World The Danforth Music Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $24.50-$39.50. RT, SS, TM. Hiromi Toronto Jazz Festival: The Trio Project Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $43-$65.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Il Volo Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $39.50$149.50. RTH, TM. Jon Ballantyne Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $25. TM. torontojazz. com. Logic, QuESt, Castro While You Wait Tour Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, all ages, $20. C54, PDR, RT, SS, TF. Toronto Jazz Festival Mike Murley Trio 5 pm, Patricia Cano noon Nathan Phillips Square free. t orontojazz.com. Nels Cline, Julian Lage Duo Toronto Jazz Festival Horseshoe 10 pm, $28.50. torontojazz.com. Toronto Jazz Festival Rhythm & Truth 5:30 pm, Happy Pals 1 pm Shops at Don Mills free. t orontojazz.com.

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No. 33 St. Vincent @ NXNE

St. Vincent’s live show is a theatrical affair. Her 2009 album was called Actor, so you know that the woman is a ham. But her YongeDundas Square performance will focus on tunes from her recent critically adored eponymous album, which sees her blending jazz, pop and prog rock. She’s also one of the finest guitarists on the planet, shredding that thing almost robotically, in the best possible way. And, oh yeah, it’s a free show. June 20, 9:10 pm. nxne. com.

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Soul Motivators Redpath Waterfront Festival: Emerge Artists Showcase-Make It Funky Sugar Beach noon to 10 pm. towaterfrontfest.com. The Junction Summer Solstice Festival Dundas and Keele noon to midnight, free. thejunctionbia.ca. June Garber, Russ Little Quartet w/ Amanda Martinez Toronto Jazz Festival Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar 7:30 pm, $35. torontojazz.com. Kandinsky Effect 10 pm, Manuel Valera 8 pm, Swing Shift Big Band 3:30 pm The Rex. Kohen Hammond Quartet Toronto Jazz Festival Habits Gastropub 6 to 9 pm, $10. torontojazz.com. N Mac Demarco, Spoon, Alvvays NXNE Yonge-Dundas Square free. Mark McLean w/ Wade O Brown Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $30. torontojazz.com. P Mia Martina, DJ Division 4 Pride Of Bloor-Yorkville Village of Yorkville Park 7:30 to 10:30 pm, free. Ms Lauryn Hill Sound Academy doors 8 pm, $60. PDR, RT, SS, TM. Toronto Jazz Festival Our Old School 5 pm, Wagner Petrilli Sextet 2 pm Shops at Don Mills free. torontojazz.com. Toronto Jazz Festival Rehan Dalal 2:30 pm, Lighthouse 12:30 pm Nathan Phillips Square free. torontojazz.com. Sex Lies Video: Summer Solstice Cinema Nightclub. Sundar and His Quartet Toronto Jazz Festival Pauper’s Pub Upstairs 7 pm, $10. Sunehri Yaadein 2014: Golden Era Of Bollywood Don Bosco CSS 6:30 pm, $20-$25. arzeeyaan.com. Terra Hazelton Duo Jazz Night Toni Bulloni 9 pm. The Wailin’ Jennys Enwave Theatre $39.50. RTH. Yngwie Malmsteen, Uli Jon Roth, Gary

Hoey, Bumblefoot Guitar Gods North American Tour Phoenix Concert Theatre.

Sunday, June 22 For complete NXNE listings, see nxne.com. Bill Mays Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $30. torontojazz.com. Bill McBirnie, Brenda Carol, Clairvoyance 7 pm Hot House Cafe. And Jun 23. Carin Redman, Mark Kieswetter & Ross MacIntyre Jazzy Sundays Morgans on the Danforth 2 to 5 pm. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society Toronto Jazz Festival Music Gallery 8 pm, $39.50. torontojazz.com. Gary Gray, Les Hoffman, Michael Theodore and others Toronto Jazz Festival Pauper’s Pub Upstairs 7:30 to 10 pm, $5. The Hogtown Hoedown Harbourfront Centre Ontario Square free. And Jul 20. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Robert Randolph & the Family Band Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $69.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Toronto Jazz Festival Lorraine Klaasen Group 3 pm, Odessa/Havana noon Shops at Don Mills free. torontojazz.com. OneRepublic, the Script, American Authors Native Summer Tour Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $19.50-$59. LN, TM. Toronto Jazz Festival Organic 2:30 pm, Toronto Mass Choir 12:30 pm Nathan Phillips Square free. torontojazz.com. Parc X Trio Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 9:30 pm, pwyc. torontojazz.com. Steve Raiken Rebas Full Of Sundays Full of Beans Coffee 2 to 4 pm.

Monday, June 23 Boston, Cheap Trick Molson Amphitheatre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $39.50-$82.50. LN, TM.

Canadian Jazz Quartet, Ken Peplowski Toronto Jazz Festival: Masters Of Mainstream Kama 5 pm, $40. torontojazz.com. Galactic, Big Sam’s Funky Nation Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $42.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Gerald Clayton Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $30. torontojazz.com. John MacLeod’s Rex Hotel Orchestra 8:30 pm, Tara Kanangara 5 pm The Rex. Toronto Jazz Festival Joy Lapps Trio 5 pm, Elizabeth Shepherd Quartet noon Nathan Phillips Square free. t orontojazz.com. Nice Peter Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. Norm Amadio, Darryl Orr Toronto Jazz Festival: Helza-be-boppin Music & Comedy Show Pauper’s Pub Upstairs 8 pm, $10 or pwyc. And Jun 27. Painted Palms The Garrison doors 6 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. Sly Juhas Trio Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 9:30 pm, pwyc. Snarky Puppy Toronto Jazz Festival Horseshoe 10 pm, $28.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Toronto Jazz Festival Viva Mexico Mariachi 5 pm, Drumhand 1 pm Shops at Don Mills free. torontojazz.com.

Tuesday, June 24 Bill McBirnie, Stephen Gardner Morgans on the Danforth 6:30 pm. Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ Harry Allen Toronto Jazz Festival: Masters Of Mainstream Kama 5 pm, $40. torontojazz.com. The Cookers Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 9:30 pm, pwyc. Dave Matthews Band Molson Amphitheatre 7 pm, all ages, $46-$76. LN, TM. Dianne Reeves, Brandi Disterheft Quartet Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $42.50. TM. torontojazz.com. P DJ Johnny B Goode CrushTO Pride Club 120 10 pm, $10.

Buika Toronto Jazz Festival Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $43$65.50. TM. torontojazz.com. Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ Warren Vaché Toronto Jazz Festival: Masters Of Mainstream Kama 5 pm, $40. torontojazz.com. Toronto Jazz Festival Denis Keldie Trio 5 pm, Laila Biali Trio noon Nathan Phillips Square free. t orontojazz.com. Fall Out Boy, Paramore, New Politics Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $30-$60. LN, TM. Havok, Wretched, Razorwire, Answer with Metal, Injustice Hard Luck Bar. Ian Shaw Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $30. torontojazz.com. Lawrence Rothman Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. Lettuce, Dirty Dozen Brass Band Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $42.50. t orontojazz.com. Man with a Mission Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. The Order of Good Cheer Video & LP release The Piston 9 pm. The Outside Track Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $20, adv $18. Rudresh Mahanthappa 10 pm, the Colour of Soul 8 pm, Chris Gale Quartet 5 pm The Rex. Toronto Jazz Festival Slocan Ramblers 5:30 pm, Woodshed Orchestra 1 pm Shops at Don Mills free. torontojazz.com. Stacie McGregor Quintet G-Three Music Series Paintbox Bistro 9 pm, $15. gthreemusic.com. Toronto Jazz Festival: Sly Vs Spy Vs Sly Reposado 9:30 pm, pwyc.

Thursday, June 26 Alexis Baro Quintet G-Three Music Series Paintbox Bistro 9 pm, $15. gthreemusic. com. Brandon Boyd, JC Chasez, Michelle Williams, John Lydon Jesus Christ Superstar Air Canada Centre $45-$225. TM. Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ Houston Person Toronto Jazz Festival: Masters Of Mainstream Kama 5 pm, $40. torontojazz. com. Delta Rae Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Dennis Mackrel 10 pm, Joe LaBarbera 8 pm, Bill Smith 5 pm The Rex. Donovan Wolfington Dance Cave doors 7:30 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. George Lake Big Band w/ Rena Gaile & Vincent Wolfe Celebrating The Music Of The Stan Kenton Orchestra Hugh’s Room 8 pm, $25, adv $22.50. Harry Vetro Trio Toronto Jazz Festival Habits Gastropub 9 pm, $10. torontojazz.com. P Italove, TQ, DJ BPM World Pride: Throwback Thursday Retro 80s party Adelaide Hall 9 pm, $40-$50. ticketriver.com. John Scofield Uberjam Band, Dave Holland, Kevin Eubanks, Craig Taborn, Eric Harland Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $49. TM. torontojazz.com.

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P DJs Chus & Ceballos, DJ Aron, DJ Kitty Glitter WorldPride: Aqua YongeDundas Square noon to 8 pm, free. P Glitterati Courthouse 9 pm, $20. EB. 416799-7089. Michael Bublé Air Canada Centre 8 pm, $49-$119. LN, TM. And Jun 29. Stanley Clarke, Mehliana w/ Brad Mehldau & Mark Guiliana Toronto Jazz Festival Nathan Phillips Square 8 pm, $49. TM. torontojazz.com. Tiesto, Justice, Deep Dish, Luciano, Dash Berlin, Art Department, Eric Prydz, Dimitri Vegas, Like Mike, Flux Pavilion, Nervo, Carnage, Fedde Le Grand and others Digital Dreams Music Festival The Flats at Molson Amphitheatre doors 2 pm, $159-$299 two-day pass. TM. digitaldreamsfest.ca. And Jun 29.

Sunday, June 29 Bossa Tres Trio Reposado. Charcoal Sketch Cabaret Habits Gastropub 8 to 11 pm, pwyc. P DJ Lissa Monet, DJ Tasha Rozez, YYY Jill Ne Plus Ultra Thompson Hotel 9 pm, $20. EB. 647-529-7277. Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Vazaleen: Shame Wrongbar doors 9 pm, $15. RT, SS, TW.5 White Lung The Garrison doors 8 pm, $10. TF.

Monday, June 30 BOMBINO Canada Day Extravaganza Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage 9 pm, free.

Wednesday, July 2 Born Ruffians Toronto Urban Roots Festival: TURF Club Bonus Series Horseshoe $20.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com.

Friday, July 4

No. 34 The Roots

Hip-hop’s first legitimate live band, Philadelphia’s the Roots just released their 11th album, ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. Drummer Questlove has become a cultural icon and a DJ in his own right, but we still like him best alongside lead rapper Black Thought. The gang’s all here for Luminato, playing an open-air show at David Pecaut Square. June 7 at 8 pm. $35. TM. l uminatofestival.com. Lemon Bucket Orkestra Lee’s Palace doors 8:30 pm, $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. Max Schneider Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $20. TF. Maylee Todd Toronto Jazz Festival Shops at Don Mills 7 pm, free. torontojazz.com. Measha Brueggergosman Toronto Jazz Festival Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall 8 pm, $57-$65.50. TM. torontojazz. com. Mike Celia & Sean Pinchin The Local 9 pm. Norma Winstone Trio Toronto Jazz Festival The Jazz Bistro 8 pm, $35. torontojazz.com. Ori Dagan Toronto Jazz Festival Pauper’s Pub Upstairs 7 pm, $10. The Reposadists Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 9:30 pm, pwyc. Toronto Jazz Festival Rosemary Galloway Trio 5 pm, Suzie Vinnick Quartet noon Nathan Phillips Square free. torontojazz.com. Scott Biram, Austin Lucas Silver Dollar doors 9 pm, $13.50. RT, SS. Toronto All-Star Big Band Dancing On The Pier: The Crooners & Songbirds of Yesterday & Today Harbourfront Centre.

Friday, June 27 The Antlers Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TF. Beck Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, all ages, $49.50$79.50. LN, TM. Cyndi Cain Toronto Jazz Festival Shops at Don Mills 7 pm, free. t orontojazz.com. P DJ Tek Reloaded, DJ Sparka, DJ JJ Rock Temperature MOJO Lounge 10 pm, $20-$35. EB. 647-718-0227. Elizabeth Shepherd, Yvette Tollar, Dominic Mancuso, Mark Kelso, Kevin Turcotte, Jon Maharaj, Michael Occhipinti Shine On: The Universe Of John

Lennon Hugh’s Room 8:30 pm, $25, adv $22.50. P Friday Night Live: ROM Proud Royal Ontario Museum 7 to 11 pm. Toronto Jazz Festival Harkness-Herriott Duo 5 pm, Benny Meets Arnie Ross Woldridge Big Band & Lorraine Lawson noon Nathan Phillips Square free. torontojazz.com. Septicflesh, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Hour of Penance, Necronomicon Conquerors Of The World Opera House $tba. IE, RT.

Saturday, June 28 P Ashley Bea, Ken Morgan, Sean Stanley Soultry Jazz Brunch BerBer Lounge

noon to 5 pm, $50, adv $45. EB. 647-5297277. Toronto Jazz Festival Autorickshaw 5 pm, Jim Galloway Quartet 2 pm Shops at Don Mills free. torontojazz.com. Backtrack, Harms Way, Expire, Suburban Scum, Incendiary, Downpresser, Iron Mind & Freedom Life & Death Tour S.H.I.B.G.B’s 6 pm, all ages, $18. HL. Birds of Bellwoods Habits Gastropub 9 pm, $10. Bradley & the Bouncers Toronto Jazz Festival Reposado 10 pm, $10. Canada Day Extravaganza: SoundClash Music Award Performances Harbourfront Centre Redpath Sugar Stage noon, free. And Jun 29.

Neutral Milk Hotel, Jeff Tweedy, Gogol Bordello, Jenny Lewis, July Talk, Hollerado, Man Man, the Paper Kites, Noah Gundersen, Twin Forks, New Country Rehab, Bidini Band, Joe Pug, Devin Cuddy Band, JonBoy Langford & the Burlington Mens Welsh Chorus TURF: Toronto Urban Roots Fest Fort York Garrison Common $59$99.50, fest pass $149.50-$329.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com.

Saturday, July 5 Maxwell Massey Hall doors 7 pm, all ages, $59.50-$125.50. LN, TM. Pokey Lafarge, New Country Rehab, Devin Cuddy Toronto Urban Roots Festival: TURF Club Bonus Series Horseshoe $17.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com. Sam Roberts Band, Hey Rosetta!, Gaslight Anthem, Violent Femmes, Drive by Truckers, Shovels & Rope, Pokey LaFarge, the Strumbellas, Joyce Manor, the Stanfields, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Waco Brothers, Ladies of the Canyon, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Old Man Markely, Caitlin Rose TURF: Toronto Urban Roots Fest Fort York Garrison Common $59-$99.50, fest pass

$149.50-$329.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com. Solids, Animal Faces Sneaky Dee’s.

Sunday, July 6 Beirut, Local Natives, Gary Clark Jr, Born Ruffians, Andrew Bird & the Hands of Glory, Deer Tick, Lucius, the Weeks, Black Joe Lewis, Waco Brothers, Willie Nile, Tift Merritt, London Souls TURF: Toronto Urban Roots Fest Fort York Garrison Common $59-$99.50, fest pass $149.50$329.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. torontourbanrootsfest.com.

Wednesday, July 9

Beyoncé & Jay Z On The Run Tour Rogers Centre 8 pm, $40.50-$253.25. LN, TM. Hundred Waters Drake Hotel Underground doors 8 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF. Lady Gaga artRave: The Artpop Ball Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $35$200. LN, TM.

Friday, July 11

Future, Rico Love, Que & Bando Jonez Sound Academy.

Sunday, July 13 Queen & Adam Lambert Air Canada Centre doors 7 pm, all ages, $29.50$129.50. LN, TM. And Jul 28.

Tuesday, July 15 Pink Mountaintops Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.

Friday, July 18

Ex Hex The Garrison doors 9 pm, $12.50. RT, SS, TF.

Saturday, July 19 Grimes, Death Grips, Action Bronson, Smith Westerns, Jon Hopkins, Majical Cloudz, Flume, St Lucia, Kaytranada, Charli XCX, Haerts Time Music Festival Fort York Garrison Common doors noon, all ages, $25. EMB, RT, SS, TW. time-fest.com.

Saturday, July 26

Bruno Mars, Pharrell Williams Moonshine Jungle Tour Air Canada Centre 7:30 pm, $66.75-$142.25. LN, TM.

Sunday, July 27 Nine Inch Nails, Soundgarden Molson Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $29.50-$99.50. LN, TM.

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No. 35 Journey and the Steve Miller Band

Which 70s super-band has more super-hits? Our money’s on the Steve Miller Band, whose 74-78 best-of compilation alone features Fly Like An Eagle, Jungle Love and Take The Money And Run. But it’s not a competition, and we’re more than open to waiting until he teams up with Journey for their Molson Amphitheatre show to be doubly sure. Don’t stop believin’. June 19, doors 6 pm, all ages, $30-$110. LN. NOW hot summer guide 2014

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No. 37 escape the city. You gotta escape the urban noise at some point. Head to these concerts and festivals just a few hours out of the downtown core.

Tegan & Sara play Hillside

This three-day festival is a bit of a hike from downtown T.O., but for your time (roughly four and a half hours on the road), you’re rewarded with the incredibly scenic northern Ontario setting of the Sturgeon River and some of the best music from across the country. Vancouver psych-rockers Pink Mountaintops, Welland classic country star Daniel Romano, Toronto psych-country outfit the Highest Order and Montreal experimental pop group the Besnard Lakes are highlights. July 18 to 20. 3636 Hwy 539, Field. Weekend pass $125. riverandsky.ca.

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Environs/905/Burlington/ Hamilton/Oakville Because Beer – Craft Beer Festival Dinner Belles, Ginger St James, Harlan Pepper, Terra Lightfoot and the Tallest Tree perform. $25, weekend pass $40. Pier 4 Park, 469 Bay N (Hamilton). b ecausebeer.ca. Jul 11 to 12 Boots And Hearts Music Festival Toby Keith, Blake Shelton, Gord Bamford, the Road Hammers, Paul Brandt, Danielle Bradbery, Tim Hicks, Sawyer Brown and others play at this country fest. Camping available. Single-day tickets $115, three-day pass $269-$350. Motorsport Park, 32233 Concession Rd 10 (Bowmanville). bootsandhearts.com. Jul 31 to Aug 3 Brampton Canada Day Simple Plan and Andee perform at this event with a kid’s zone, Tigerfest, fireworks and more. Noon to 10 pm. Free. Chinguacousy Park, 9050 Bramalea (Brampton). brampton.ca. Jul 1 Brampton Folk Club Annual Showcase Concert Original and familiar songs featuring a variety of folk artists. $15, stu/srs $12. St Paul’s United Church, 30 Main S (Brampton). 647-233-3655, bramptonfolk.ca. May 31 Bread & Honey Festival Shyann, Time Trip & electro dance music Jun 6 (6 to 11 pm), Justus, Fiddlestix, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Christian James Band, Daylight for Deadeyes and Half Hour City Jun 7 (noon to 8:30 pm), Mississauga Big Band, Blackboard Blues Band, Streetfire and Carla Casanova & the Latintrain, Jun 8 (noon to 5 pm). $2-$5. Streetsville Memorial Park, Queen St S at Church (Streetsville). b readandhoney.ca. Jun 6 to 8 Concerts In The Park Outdoor concerts include the Don MacArthur Band Jun 12, Hotel California Jun 26, Little Peter & the Elegants Jul 10, Robbie Lane & the Disciples Jul 24, and others. Thursday evenings 7 to 9 pm. Bring a lawn chair. Free. Rotary Park, 192 Queen (Bowmanville). Jun 12 to Aug 28 Downtown Milton Street Festival Winds of the North, Steel City Rovers, Groove Hammer, Mid Life Chaos, Kerosene Creek, Bella Vox, Vibonics, ScIrish and many others perform at several locations in the downtown area. Free. downtownmiltonstreetfestival.ca. Jun 7 Durham West Blues Fest Lisa Hutchinson Band and Fathead Jun 13, Jack de Keyzer, Mark Stafford, Johnny Max Band, Downchild Blues Band and others Jun 14, Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley Jun 15. Art project, silent auction, workshops for guitar and harmonica Jun 14 and more. Sat workshops $10, three day pass $150, Sat $75, Fri or Sun $65. Annandale Country Club, 221 Church S (Ajax). m usicbythebaylive.com/ durham-west-blues-fest. Jun 13 to 15

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River And Sky Music Festival

Wolfe Island Music Festival When a weekend fest boasts two of Canada’s finest emcees (Shad and k-os) performing in silhouette against the setting sun on Lake Ontario, 362 kilometres really isn’t that far to travel. Well, we can’t guarantee the sunset or the silhouette, but that’s how we picture Wolfe Island Music Festival outside of Kingston. Electro-pop band Young Galaxy, inaptly named Toronto indie rockers Rural Alberta A dvantage and Constantines-frontman-gone-solo Bry Webb help round out the stacked bill. August 8 and 9. $45-$125, weekend pass $100. wolfeislandmusicfestival.com.

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Go camping AND see great music at the same time. Fresh air, clear skies, miles away from the concrete jungle – is there a better way to see a music show?

Hillside

Happy Hillside! The music love-in on Guelph Lake Island turns the big 3-0 this year. Twin sister pop duo Tegan & Sara, local punks PUP, fuzz-pop band Alvvays, Guelph folkie Basia Bulat and Montreal indie pop duo

Majical Cloudz are among those helping to celebrate. Break out the bug spray and tent; if ever there was a festival made for camping, this is it. July 25 to 27. $55-80, weekend pass $135. ticketbreak.com, hillsidefestival.ca.

Shad plays Wolfe Island

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Ottawa Bluesfest

The gargantuan Ottawa Bluesfest sprawls over two weeks and encompasses just about every genre on the planet. Sure, it might be a little directionless, but you can see some of the planet’s most famous artists and some of the best ones, too. (Sometimes both!) Pop icon Lada Gaga, DJ/pro ducer/remixer Ryan Hemsworth, rock icon Blondie, rapper/actor Childish Gambino, Tuareg guitar god Bombino, English prodigy Jake Bugg and electronic trip-hopper Bonobo share the same bill. See? July 3 to 13. $20-$150, festival passport and multiple ticket options at frontgatetickets.com. ottawabluesfest.ca.

garet O’Hara & Aidan Closs’s Spar & Automatic, Ronley Teper & Her Lipliners and others. Doors 8 pm, show 8:30 pm. $12-$23, passes $60 (brownpapertickets.com). Hamilton Artists Inc, 155 James N (Hamilton). zulapresents.org. Jun 16 to 21 Sound Of Music Festival Lou Gramm, Carole Pope, Coney Hatch, Teenage Head, Kim Mitchell and others Jun 7, the Sheepdogs, Young Rival and others Jun 12, Classified, Maestro, Jarvis Church, Jane’s Party and others Jun 13, Colin James, Hey Ocean, Sloan, David Francey, Monster Truck, Gord Downie & the Sadies, Alysha Brilla and others Jun 14, Trooper, Chilliwack, the Stampeders, Ashley MacIsaac and others Jun 15. Streetfest downtown Jun 13 to 15. Free. Spencer Smith Park, Lakeshore at Brant (Burlington). 905-333-6364, soundofmusic. ca. Jun 7 to 15 Sugar Heat Latin top 40 band fuses the styles of Canadian and Latino musicians. 7:30 pm. Free. Sonoma Heights Community Park, 100 Sunset Ridge (Vaughan). vaughan. ca. Jul 30 Summer Metal in the Hammer Threat Signal & Endast Jun 30, and Black Tongue, Villains and Lifeforms Jul 22. $13. Club Absinthe, 38 King William (Hamilton). ticketscene.ca. Jun 30 to Jul 22 Sunday Folk Songwriters In The Round with Glenn McFarlane, Jamie Riley, Downtown Freddy Brown and Sally Campbell Jun 29. Blue Yonder, Dave MacLachlan, Moira & Elena, Rebecca Phillips Jul 13. 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Free. Chinguacousy Park Bandshell, 9050 Bramalea (Brampton). bramptonfolk. ca. Jun 29 to Jul 13 Synsonic Music ranges from the 70s, 80s and more. 7:30 pm. Free. North Thornhill Community Centre Outdoor Amphitheatre, 300 Pleasant Ridge (Vaughan). vaughan.ca. Jul 9 Thursday Night Concert Series The folk club presents an in-the-round style concert with Dave MacLachlan, Mike Butterworth, Downtown Freddy Brown, Mark Yan, Rebecca Phillips and Tanya Grant. 7 to 9 pm. Free. Gage Park, Main S at Wellington (Brampton). b ramptonfolk.ca. Jun 12 Toronto All-Star Big Band Sounds of the 30s, 40s and 50s at this outdoor concert. 7:30 pm. Free. Vaughan City Hall Courtyard, 2141 Major Mackenzie (Vaughan). vaughan.ca. Jun 11

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Flower City Music Festival Friday Night Concerts Jason Wilson Band Jul 5, Wilderness of Manitoba Jul 12, the Stretch Orchestra Blues Trio Jul 19 and the Claytones Jul 26. Outdoor shows from 7:30 to 9:30 pm. Free. Rose Theatre Garden Square, 1 Theatre Lane (Brampton). 905-874-2800, rosetheatre.ca. Jul 5 to 26 Friends Of Crystal Beach Waterfront Concerts Event to commemorate the park Jul 12 (10 am-4 pm), Toronto All-Star Big Band Jul 13, and the Saltshakers tribute to Jimmy Buffet Jul 20 (both 7 pm). Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free. Crystal Beach, 3875 Terrace Lane, foot of Ridgeway Rd (Fort Erie). focb.net. Jul 12 to 20 Hamilton Blues & Roots Festival Monkey Junk, Jesse O’Brien, Steve Strongman, Chuck Jackson, Bry Webb, Harrison Kennedy and many others. Noon to midnight. Free. Westdale Village, King St and Paisley (Hamilton). hamiltonbluesandroots. com. Jun 7 Hamilton World Music Festival Frank Yamma and David Bridie, Scantily Plaid, Huu Bac Quach, Kakama, Kongero, Vox Sambou, Jaime Rodriguez Band and others. Free. Gage Park, Main St S at Wellington (Brampton). hamiltonworldmusicfest.com. Jul 11 to 13

Markham Village Music Festival John Stewart Band, Cobra Kings, What About Bob, Project Phoenix, Twin B Project, Moralitos and others perform at this street festival. Free. Markham Village, Main Street (Markham). 905-472-2022, markhamfestival. com. Jun 20 to 21 Mississauga Waterfront Festival Music festival with Sara Dell, Monster Rock Orchestra Jun 13 from 8 pm, Roller Jam with DJ Starting from Scratch Jun 13 at 7 pm; Desire (U2 tribute) Jun 14 at 3 pm; Dingo and Monster Rock Orchestra Jun 14 from 8 pm; Brian McIntyre Band Jun 15 at noon. Free. Port Credit Memorial Park, 20 Lakeshore E. themwf.com. Jun 13 to 15 Pickering Concerts At The Lake 2nd Nature Jul 3, Straight Shooter Jul 10, Stacey Renee Jul 17, Royal Scam Jul 24 and Sugar Heat Jul 31. Thursdays, 7 to 9 pm. Free. Millennium Square Park, 1 Liverpool (Pickering). 905-420-4660. Jul 3 to Aug 28 Queens Of The Stone Age and Brody Dalle Rock concert. 8 pm. $39.50-$55.50 (livenation.com). General Motors Centre, 99 Athol E (Oshawa). 1-877-436-8811, generalmotorscentre.com. Jul 5 Richmond Hill Children’s Concerts Concerts include music with the Dufflebag

Theatre Jul 6, and Envirodrum Jul 20. 1-2 pm/. Free. Richmond Green Park Elgin Mills Rd E, 1300 (Richmond Hill). richmondhill.ca. Jul 6 to 20 Richmond Hill Park Concerts Concerts include Kevin Mills Band tribute to Elvis Jul 10, Tina Turner & Rod Stewart tribute Jul 17, Amanda Martinez Latin jazz Jul 24, and Tom Jones & Neil Diamond tribute Jul 31. 7 to 9 pm. Free. Mill Pond Park, 314 Mill (Richmond Hill). 905-771-5508, richmondhill.ca/concerts. Jul 10 to 31 Richmond Hill Ribfest Hotel California and Ben Crosby Jul 25 (5 to 10:30 pm), Eric Lambier, Fairchild Brother, Pontune 5 and the Marc Joseph Band Jul 26 (noon to 10:30 pm), Paul Reddick, Julien Kelland and Markus Jul 27 (noon to 7:30 pm). Free. Richmond Green Park, 1300 Elgin Mills E. richmondhill.ca. Jul 25 to 27 Rock The Hills All-ages indie rock festival with headliner Hollerado, Casual Disaster, Mill Pond, Standby, Erica Knox, Ryan Bourgeois and Hannah Ward. 3 to 11 pm. $25. Georgetown Fairgrounds, 1 Park Ave (Georgetown). rockthehills.ca. Jul 12 Something Else! Festival Of Creative Music Eschaton, Sun Rooms, Boneshaker, Golden State, Same Old Thing, the Tiny Orchestra Trio, Interstellar Orchestra, Mary Mar-

Barrie New Music Festival Two days, multiple venues with over 50 artists performing. Check website for details. (Barrie). newmusicfest.ca. Jul 18 to 19 Canada Day At Blue Myles Goodwyn & April Wine play this celebration with opening act youth band Motion Device. Free. Blue Mountain Village, 108 Jozo Weider (Collingwood). bluemountainvillage.ca. Jul 1 Casino Rama Gipsy Kings May 30, Santana Jun 10, Julio Iglesias Jun 19, Avril Lavigne Jun 24, Diana Ross Jul 2, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss & Union Station Jul 15, Counting Crows Jul 17, Megadeth Jul 19, Robin Thicke Jul 26, John Mellencamp Jul 30 & 31 and and others. Check website for schedule. Casino Rama, 5899 Rama (Rama). 416870-8000, casinorama.com. May 30 to Jul 31 Collingwood Elvis Festival Roots Of Rock And Roll – A Salute To The Million Dollar Quartet Jul 23, Shon Carroll mountaintop concert Jul 24, street party and tribute artist showcases Jul 25, tribute shows, gospel competition, street dances, gospel brunches, family carnival and more. Check website for schedule and venues. $10-$70, some free events. Collingwood, 1-866-943-8849, collingwoodelvisfestival.com. Jul 23 to 27 Georgian Triangle Music Festival Multi-genre music festival at Sunshine Park and other spots in town. The Coyote Kids, Freestyler, David Stone, Kit Cairns and others perform. Free. Sunshine Park, 604 River W and other venues in the area (Was-

aga Beach). georgiantrianglemusicfest.com. Jul 4 to 6 Independence Day Concert Party The Tea Party, Rival Sons, Punishment and DJ Rawkd perform. Doors 8 pm. $29.95-$45. Ranch Concert Hall, 56 Bayfield (Barrie). impactlive.ca. Jul 4 Jazz On The Mountain At Blue Gino Vanelli with Irene Torres Jul 4, Commodores with Andria Simone Jul 5, Yellowjackets with After Four Jul 6, and others at this festival of jazz, pop and R&B. Free club series at several venues in town. $35.95 (ticketbreak. com), 2- and 3-day passes available, free concerts outdoors at the Village. Blue Mountain Village, Events Plaza. bluemountainjazzfest.com. Jul 4 to 6 Lil’ Ed & The Blues Imperials Blues band perform from their new CD Jump Start. 8 pm. $75. Violet’s Venue, 52 Morrow (Barrie). 705-238-9282, violetsvenue.com. Jun 14 Mariposa Folk Festival Ani Difranco, Birds of Chicago, Seryn, Sarah Slean, the Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer, Roseanne Cash, Keith Secola, Tim Chaisson, Union Duke and others play this fest of folk, roots, blues, gospel, acoustic and world music. Camping available. Fri $49, Sat/Sun $89, weekend pass $63-$114. Tudhope Park, 500 Atherley (Orillia). 705-326-3655, mariposafolk.com. Jul 4 to 6 Orillia Spring Blues Festival Mad Dogs & Englishmen tribute to Joe Cocker & Leon Russell, Douglas Watson, the Paul DesLauriers Band, Gary Kendall Band, Kirby Sewell Band and others perform at the park and in downtown clubs. Blues & Gospel with John Mays and Quisha Wint Sun (noon), Blues All Star Workshop Sat (5 to 6 pm). $5$20. Couchiching Beach Park, Bay at Jarvis (Orillia). orilliaspringblues.com. Jun 6 to 8 Theory Of A Deadman The BC rockers perform. Doors 9 pm. $33.50-$40. Sound Empire, 46 Dunlop W (Barrie). admirallive. ca. Jun 6 Tottenham Bluegrass Festival The Spinney Brothers, the Bluegrass Mountaineers, the Crowe Brothers, Feller & Hill & the Bluegrass Buckaroos, Hometown Bluegrass, Georgian Blue and others play by the pond. Camping available. $25-$35/day, wknd pass $85 (srs $80), some discounts before Jun 4. Tottenham Conservation Area, 4th Line and Queen S. 1-888-886-4566, tottenhambluegrass.ca. Jun 20 to 22 Wasaga Beach Fest Eleven Past One, Tyler Shaw, Party Hero and others play this beach party. Sat noon to 10:30 pm, Sun noon to 6 pm. Free. Beach Area 1, (Wasaga Beach). wasagabeachfest.com. Jun 21 to 22

Cambridge/Elora/Fergus/ Kitchener/London/Stratford Anciients Heavy metal concert. Doors 8 pm. $13 (ticketscene.ca). Call the Office, 216 York (London). calltheoffice.com. Jul 10 Big Music Fest Battle of the bands Fri (free), Bryan Adams, Styx, Collective Soul and Moist Jul 12, Aerosmith, Slash, Big Wreck and Kim Mitchell Jul 13. Single-day pass $69.50, two-day pass $99.50, VIP one-day pass $129.50. McLennan Park, 901 Ottawa St S (Kitchener). bigmusicfest.com. Jul 11 to 13 Boot Hill Country Jamboree Sawyer Brown, Doc Walker, Shenandoah, Lisa Brokop, Small Town Pistols, Ambush, Marshall Dane, Cold Creek County and others. Camping available. Early bird wknd pass w/ camping $152.50, day pass $65, see details on website. 15722 Turin Line (Bothwell). boothilljamboree.com. Jul 31 to Aug 4 Canterbury Folk Festival Performers include Valdy, Murray McLauchlin, Brown Ale, Beckon, Cindy Church, Poor Angus, Wendell Ferguson and others, plus workshops, dance, artisans’ alley, kids’ events and more. Free, donations welcome. Yvonne Holmes Mott Memorial Park, Canterbury and Thames (Ingersoll). 519-485-6337, www.canterburyfolkfestival.on.ca. Jul 11 to 13 continued on page 92 ➤

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head to owen sound and have your mind blown. Mudtown Music & Arts Festival

Of all the smaller out-of-town multi-day shindigs, Owen Sound’s Mudtown Music & Arts Festival has the most impressively avant-cool lineup. It’s hard (Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, Odonis Odonis), it’s indie (Bry Webb, Alana Gurr), it’s experimental (Fresh Snow), it will satisfy your snobbiest music insider (Godspeed You! Black Emperor offshoot Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra). August 8 and 9. Single-day pass $45-55, weekend pass $75. mudtownfestival.com. ➤continued from page 91

The Church Sessions Singer-songwriter series with the Sunparlour Players performing Jun 16, Justin Rutledge and Jadea Kelly Jul 14, Leif Vollebekk Jul 28. 8 pm. $25. The Church Restaurant, 70 Brunswick (Stratford). 519-273-3424, thechurchsessions.com. Jun 16 to Jul 28 Elora Festival Opening gala Haydn’s Creation Jul 11, Brilliant Bach! with pianist Shoshana Telner Jul 13, the Irvine Twist Trio Jul 16, Richard and Lauren Margison Jul 19, Latin Fusion Trio Jul 24 and others. $30-$60. Elora Centre for the Arts (75 Melville), Gambrel Barn (Wellington Rd 21) and other area venues. 519-846-9698, ecfta.ca. Jul 11 to 27 Folk Night Celtic singer-songwriters Eileen McGann and David K perform. 8 pm. $20, adv $18. Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick St (Kitchener). registrytheatre.com. May 31 Gone Country Music Festival Darius Rucker, Dean Brody, Eil Young Band, and Tim Hicks play this outdoor music festival. 4:30 to 11 pm. $65-$110. Harris Park, Dufferin at Ridout N (London). 1-888-999-8980, gonecountry. rockthepark.ca. Jul 23 Grand Bend Buskerfest Entertainers include Clara Stegall, Amity Beach, Mike Trudgeon, Greg Gallelo and others performing on Main Street, River Road and the main beach. Free. grandbendbuskerfest.ca. Jun 21 to 22 Grickle Grass Festival Zaki Ibrahim, Walrus, Absolutely Free, Wormwood, New Zebra Kid and others play this family fest of sustainable and healthy living, music and art. 10 am to 5 pm. $25-$30. London Regional Children’s Museum, 21 Wharncliffe Rd S (London). gricklegrassfest.com. May 31 Hillside Festival Tegan & Sara, Hydra, Hey Rosetta!, Imelda May, Elephant Revival, Super Friendz, PUP, Royal Canoe, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Basia Bulat, Majical Cloudz and many others. Camping available. Wknd pass $135, Fri $55, Sat or Sun $80 (srs $67.50), under 12 free (ticketbreak.com). Guelph Lake Island Conservation Area, 7743 Conservation (Guelph). 519-763-6396 1-866943-8849, hillsidefestival.ca. Jul 25 to 27 Home County Music And Art Festival Whitehorse, Ashley MacIsaac, Nathan Rogers, Cold Specks, Jenn Grant, The Bills, Connie Kaldor, The Beauties, James Keelaghan and others perform in the park. Free, $5 donation suggested. Victoria Park, 509 Clarence (London). 519-432-4310, homecounty. ca. Jul 18 to 20 Incline Decline Festival The Soupcans, Doomsquad, HSY, Petra Glynt, Not the Wind Not the Flag, Dilly Dally, Teen Tits Wild

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Wives, Anamai, Wolfcow and many others at this showcase of regional music. Downtown Guelph, Wyndham and MacDonell. on.fb. me/1k5M16z. Jul 25 to 27 Kingsville Folk Music Festival Bruce Cockburn, Jane Siberry, David Francey, Valdy, Russell deCarle Band, Ron Hynes, Jaron Freeman-Fox & the Opposite of Everything, Fish & Bird, JP Cormier and many others. Fri 6-11 pm, Sat 11 am-11 pm, Sun 10:30 am-10:30 pm. Weekend pass $90, Fri $35, Sat or Sun $55. Lakeside Park, 315 Queen (Kingsville). 519-997-7777, kingsvillefolkfest. org. Aug 8 to 10 Lionel Richie Concert by the American singer-songwriter, with CeeLo Green as opener. 7:30 pm. $41.25-$121.25. Budweiser Gardens, 99 Dundas (London). budweisergardens.com. Jul 31 Michael Bublé Concert by the crooner. 8 pm. $50.75-$120.75. Budweiser Gardens, 99 Dundas (London). budweisergardens.com. Jun 30 Open Ears Festival Festival includes Shary Boyle and Christine Fellows Jun 6, Christian Bök Jun 7, Andrew Downing Orchestra Jun 8, Pierrre-Yves Martel and Ben Grossman Jun 9, Nexus Percussion and Sepideh Raissadat Jun 13 and others. Registry Theatre and other venues in Kitchener/ Waterloo. Various prices, see website. Registry Theatre, 122 Frederick (Kitchener). openears.ca. Jun 5 to 15 Orangeville Blues And Jazz Festival Opening gala w/ Paul Donat Jazz Trio, Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton and Kirby Sewell Band Jun 5, Blues Cruise on Broadway Jun 6, free music workshops in the library Jun 6. Opera House shows (87 Broadway) include Aura Jun 6, Jarvis Church Jun 7 and Alana Bridgewater Jun 8. $23-$48, outdoor shows free. Alexandra Park, and area venues (Orangeville). 519-941-9041, orangevillebluesandjazzfestival.ca. Jun 5 to 8 Oxford Renaissance Festival Music by Cu Dubh and Stone Clover plus magic, jousting and more at this outdoor fest. Fri 6:30 to midnight, Sat & Sun 10 am to 8 pm. $22-$25, srs $17-$20, child $16, under five free; weekend pass $36-$40, child/stu/srs $26-$30. Woodstock Fair Grounds, 875 Nellis (Woodstock). oxfordrenfest.ca. Jun 13 to 15 QuartetFest Penderecki String Quartet open this fest Jun 1, Gallery Trio Jun 4, Chiara Quartet Jun 6, Skyros Quartet Jun 7 and others. Concerts at KWCMS except Jun 1 at Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery (25 Caroline N). $15-$35 (ticketscene.ca). KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young W (Waterloo). 519-8861673, k-wcms.com. Jun 1 to 8

Riverfest Elora Blue Rodeo, Serena Ryder, Charles Bradley & His Extraordinaires, Arkells, Dan Mangan, Blacksmith, Elliott Brood, Young Galaxy, the Strumbellas and others perform at the community and music fest. Bring a blanket or chair. Rain or shine, gates 2 pm. Fri $45, Sat $66, wknd pass $81. Bissell Park, 127 East Mill (Elora). riverfestelora.com. Aug 22 to 23 Rock The Park Weezer, Tegan & Sara, Matthew Good and July Talk Jul 24, Sammy Hagar, Extreme, Tom Keifer, Winger and Survivor Jul 25, Burton Cummings Band, Huey Lewis & the News, 38 Special and Headpins Jul 26. $65-$110, passes $110-$235. Harris Park, Dufferin at Ridout N (London). rockthepark.ca. Jul 24 to 26 RockinWheel Chad Brownlee, Dry County, Them Dang Rattlers, the Rizdales and Tanya Marie Harris Aug 15, Sam Roberts Band, Sam Cash & the Romantic Dogs, Marcellus Wallace and others Aug 16. Fundraiser for Shoot for a Cure, stopconcussions.com and Parkwood Hospital. $30. Lions Park, Lions Park Dr. r ockinwheel@gmail.com. Aug 15 to 16 Something You Whisper, Wind Cries Mary, Trace The Sky, Our Place or Yours and Self Confined All-ages concert. Doors 7 pm. $10 (ticketscene.ca). The APK, 347 Clarence (London). theapk.ca. Jun 3 Stratford Summer Music Anna Atkinson, Folger Shakespearean Consort, Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, Pavel Kolesnikov, Speed Control, Torq Percussion Quartet and others play this festival. Check website for schedule and prices. St Andrew’s Church, Royal Canadian Legion and other venues, (Stratford). 1-866-288-4313, stratfordsummermusic.ca. Jul 14 to Aug 24 Stratford Summer Music On The Barge TorQ Percussion seminar participants perform Jul 24-25, National Youth Orchestra Jul 26, Canadian Men’s Chorus Jul 27, Les Poules à Colin Jul 31. Thu & Fri at 12:30 pm, Sat at 12:30 & 3 pm. Free. Avon River, beside the Boathouse (Stratford). 1-800567-1600, stratfordsummermusic.ca. Jul 24 to 31 Sunfest The 20th anniversary edition of this festival celebrating world cultures includes world music and jazz ensembles 4Square, Estrella Acosta, Delhi 2 Dublin, Mokoomba, KC Roberts & the Live Revolution, Manteca and many others. Thur 6 to 11 pm, Fri to Sun noon to 11 pm. Free. Victoria Park, 509 Clarence (London). 519-672-1522, sunfest.on.ca. Jul 3 to 6 Tillsonburg TurtleFest Amy Churm, Shane Chisholm, Marshall Dane and Nicole Rayy entertain at this downtown block party. Saturday events at Memorial Park and Lake Lisgar. Free. Downtown Tillsonburg,

Broadway and Gowrie. t urtlefest.ca. Jun 13 to 14 Uptown Waterloo Jazz Festival Ivana Santilli, Beverly Taft, Jim Clayton, Soul Stew, Big Band Theory, Eliana Cuevas, Cadence, Eccodek and others play this outdoor fest. Free. Waterloo City Centre, 100 Regina S (Waterloo). uptownwaterloojazz. ca. Jul 18 to 20 Wheatley Summer Concert Series David Light Jun 1, Stay Tuneds Jun 8, Bosco Jun 15, the Diggers Jun 22, Catilin Hanford Duo Jun 29, the Jay Allan Band Jul 6, the Ravens Jul 13, Whoa Nellie Bluegrass Band Jul 29 and Kool Kats Jul 27. Outdoor concerts go into the pavilion in inclement weather. 6:30 pm. Free, donations welcome. Two Creeks Conservation Area, 21638 1 Kent Rd (Wheatley). 519-324-6988, twocreeks.ca. Jun 1 to Jul 27 Winterreise Bass baritone Daniel Lichti celebrates his career of 40 years with a performance of Schubert’s song cycle with pianist Ephraim Laor. 8 pm. $25-$35. KWCMS Music Room, 57 Young W (Waterloo). ticketscene.ca/kwcms. Jul 16

Georgian Bay/Grey County/ Lake Huron/Owen Sound Bob DeAngelis & Sax Appeal Concert for jazz lovers. $35. Meaford Hall, 12 Nelson E (Meaford). 1-877-538-0463, m eafordhall. ca. Jun 12 Electric Eclectics Performers include Fresh Snow, Tarpit, Erin Sexton, Not the Wind Not the Flag and Paul Dutton, DJ sets by HVYWTR, Petra Glynt and many others at this fest that includes films, workshops and installations. Camping available. Various prices, check website. Funny Farm, 202 Scotch Mountain (Meaford). 519-378-9899, electriceclectics.com. Aug 1 to 3 Holstein Rodeo & Country Musicfest Cara Smith, the Road Hammers, the Western Swing Authority, Tommy Gilham & the Chill Billys, Megan Morrison and others play this outdoor festival. Concerts $45, weekend passes available, see website. Foster Ranch, 492253 Southgate Rd 49 (Holstein). holsteinrodeo.com. Jul 10 to 13 Honky Tonk Bass Festival The Reklaws, Ty Baynton, Marshall Dane and Larry Berrio all perform alongside a smallmouth bass derby. $25 per evening. Paisley Rotary Park, Queen and Goldie (Paisley). 519-3536021, paisleyvillage.ca. Jul 11 to 13 Illumination Music & Arts Festival Music by Future Rock, the Heavy Pets, Dr Fameus w/ After Funk, Chameleon Project, Chartruse and others plus workshops, art and more. $60 (eventbrite.ca). Frontier Ghost Town, Grey Rd 12 W of Concession 2. illuminationfestival.ca. Jul 11 to 12 Leith Summer Festival The Penderecki String Quartet Jul 12 and the Lafayette String Quartet Jul 26. 7:30 pm. $25, stu $15; series pass $120. Leith Church, 419134 Tom Thomson Lane (Leith). 1-888-446-7699, leithfestival.ca. Jul 12 to Aug 23 Lighthouse Blues Festival Brandon Santini, Johnny Max Band, Rita Chiarelli, Mackenzie Blues Band, Dana Fuchs Band, Jack de Keyzer, Morgan Davis, Harrison Kennedy and many others play this festival. Sat afternoon Queen street festival from 11 am to 4 pm, free. Wknd pass $50, Fri or Sat night $30 (ticketscene.ca). Downtown Kincardine, Queen at Harbour. 519-395-0470, lighthousebluesfest.ca. Jul 11 to 12 Mudtown Music & Arts Festival Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Odonis Odonis, Fresh Snow, Mahogany Frog, Bry Web, Alana Gurr and many others at multiple venues amidst art installations, a night market and artisans. Wknd pass $75, Fri/Sat only pass $45-$55 adv. Roxy Theatre, 251 9th E (Owen Sound). 1-888446-7699, m udtownfestival.com. Aug 8 to 9 Paisley River And Blues Morgan Davis Blues, Mackenzie Blues Band, Cheryl Lescom, Tim Woodcock Band, Riverside Blues Band and others play Rotary Park and Main Street. Free performances in the Town Square Saturday and concerts at the Palace and Back Eddies. See website for details.

Paisley Rotary Park, Queen and Goldie (Paisley). 519-353-6021, p aisleyevents.ca. Jun 5 to 8 The Sound Of Meow-sic 2 The MadriGals & Guys, Two Pianos Eight Hands and the Beaver Valler concert band perform to benefit the Clarksburg Cat Shelter. 7 pm, silent auction opens at 3 pm. $20. Meaford Hall, 12 Nelson E (Meaford). 1-877-538-0463, meafordhall.ca. Jun 28 Summerfolk Music & Crafts Festival Buffy Sainte-Marie, Union Duke, Danny Michel, Oh Susanna, Beckon, Ventanas, David Newland, David Sereda and many others at this outdoor festival. Various prices, check website. Kelso Beach Park, Eddie Sargent Pkwy at 19th (Owen Sound). 1-888-655-9090, summerfolk.org. Aug 15 to 17

Huntsville/Muskoka/Parry Sound/Sudbury Charles W Stockey Centre Concerts David Clayton-Thomas Jul 2, Abbamania Jul 4, the Navigators Jul 5, JJ Grey & Mofro Jul 7, Pavlo Jul 9, Legends Of Rock & Roll & Country Music tribute show Jul 10, and more (see website). $30-$59.95. Charles W Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, 2 Bay (Parry Sound). 1-877-746-4466, s tockeycentre.com. Jul 2 to 10 Etwell Concert Series Outdoor blues concert series includes Paul James Jun 8, Jerome Godboo Jun 22, Jake Thomas Jun 29, Fathead Jul 6, the 24th Street Wailers Jul 20 and Michael Pickett Jul 27. 3 to 6 pm, occasional weeknight shows. Suggested $20 donation. Etwell Pavilion, 2012 Etwell (Huntsville). etwellconcertseries.ca. Jun 8 to Jul 27 Festival Of The Sound Gala opening concert with the Trinity College Choir Cambridge Jul 18, Classical Cruise on the Bay Jul 20, Gryphon Trio Jul 22, Shakespeare’s Songbook Jul 25 and other concerts. Stockey Centre and other area venues. Various prices, some free events. Charles W Stockey Centre for the Performing Arts, 2 Bay (Parry Sound). 1 866-364-0061, festivalofthesound. ca. Jul 18 to Aug 10 Huntsville Festival Of The Arts Jesse Cook Jul 3 & 4, British Columbia Boys Choir Jul 16, Colin James Jul 18, Cowboy Junkies Jul 24, Holly Cole Jul 25 and others. Various prices. Algonquin Theatre, 37 Main E (Huntsville). 705-789-4975, huntsvillefestival.on.ca. Jul 3 to Aug 9 Huntsville Jazz Festival Joel Sealy and Jackie Richardson perform Jul 31, Jane Bunnett & Maqueque Aug 1. $20-$35. Algonquin Theatre, 37 Main E (Huntsville). 705789-4975, huntsvillefestival.on.ca. Jul 31 to Aug 3 The Kee To Bala Jason Blaine, the Reklaws and Runaway Angel Jun 14, the Sheepdogs Jun 27, and 54-40 Jul 5. Doors 9 pm. $30-$35 (ticketbreak.com). The Kee, Bala Falls Road (Bala). thekee.com. Jun 14 to Jul 5 Music On The Barge The Muskoka Concert Band Jun 22, the Bifocals Concert Band Jun 29, Gino Monopoly’s Elvis tribute Jul 6, Eddy & the Stingrays Jul 13, Beatles tribute Jul 20, Eagles tribute Jul 27. Shows at 7:30 pm. Bring a lawn chair. Concerts cancelled in the event of rain. Free/donations welcome. Gull Lake Rotary Park, Bethune Dr (Gravenhurst). musiconthebarge.webs.com. Jun 22 to Jul 27 Muskoka Sound Music Festival Walk Off the Earth, Serena Ryder, Mother Mother, Monster Truck, Shad, Yukon Blonde, Paper Lions and others play a new all-ages festival at this scenic spot. Fri $50, Sat $60, Sun $40, festival pass $99. Lion’s Lookout, Lookout Rd (Huntsville). muskokasound.ca. Sep 12 to 14 New Music Fest Sudbury Theory of a Deadman, Monster Truck, the Glorious Sons, Gentlemen Husbands, Golden Gate Graves and many others. Gates 5 pm, all ages. $36.50-$45. Grace Harman Amphitheatre, 900 Paris (Sudbury). newmusicfest.ca. Jun 6 to 7 Northern Lights Festival Boréal Bruce Cockburn, Wintersleep, Tokyo Police Club, the Strumbellas, Patrick Wright et les Gauchistes, Jazz Paradis and others play this outdoor festival on Lake Ramsey. Fri $28, Sat/Sun $43, weekend pass $88, stu $63. Bell Park, 900 Paris (Sudbury). nlfbsudbury.com. Jul 4 to 6 continued on page 94 ➤

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Fiona Reid

Stormy times

In Edward Bond’s dark comedy The Sea, set in a small village in Edwardian England, a storm brings surprising changes to the community. Among its residents are Mrs. Rafi, a Lady Bracknell type who suffers no contradictions to her opinions; Hatch, the local draper going slowly mad who insists that the storm proves that aliens are about to invade; and a pair of young lovers who want to escape from the pull of a controlling society. Eda Holmes directs a fine cast that includes Fiona Reid, Patrick Galligan, Patty Jamieson, Wade Bogert-O’Brien, Jenny L. Wright and Peter Millard. Performances begin June 3 and run through October 12. At Shaw’s Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Man Of La Mancha

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The crown jewel at this year’s Stratford Festival might well be King Lear, given the pedigree of the artists involved. Long-time festival favourite Colm Feore tackles the title role of the aged ruler who makes decisions based on flattery rather than good judgment, going mad before things are set right. His daughters are played by the superb Maev Beaty, Liisa Repo-Martell and Sara Farb. They’ll be well supported by Evan Buliung, Jonathan Goad, Stephen Ouimette and Scott Wentworth. Antoni Cimolino directs a production that will likely be as chilling as it is exciting. Runs to October 10 at the Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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Cabaret

Come to the Cabaret

Director Peter Hinton amazed audiences with his visually gorgeous and emotionally powerful take on Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan at last year’s Shaw Festival, so expectations are high for his take on the classic Kander and Ebb musical Cabaret. The show is dark to begin with, but it’s likely that even the comedy will have a razor-sharp edge in this production. The fine cast is headed by Deborah Hay as the selfdestructive Sally Bowles, Gray Powell as the writer who falls for her, Corrine Koslo as Sally’s landlady, forced to choose between her heart and her safety, and Juan Chioran as the insidious Emcee at the hottest nightspot in pre-war Berlin, the Kit Kat Klub. Runs to October 26 at the Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

Tilting at windmills

Broadway’s legendary musical Man Of La Mancha is more than a onehit wonder. Sure, people remember The Impossible Dream, but Dale Wasserman’s book, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion, is a clever tale-within-a-tale about Miguel de Cervantes, who, when imprisoned by the Inquisition, is forced to defend himself and his manuscript of Don Quixote. The Stratford production features NOW’s top theatre artist of 2013, Tom Rooney, as Cervantes/Quixote, with Steve Ross as Sancho Panza and Robin Hutton as Aldonza. Robert McQueen, who’s done fine work directing for Acting Up Stage, helms the production, which also features Shane Carty, Shawn Wright and Monique Lund. Runs to October 11 at the Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, s tratfordfestival.ca.

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Peter’s Players Jarvis Church Jun 6, Muskoka Blues dinner cruise with David Rotundo and Jordan John Jun 14, Mike Stern, Bill Evans, Tom Kennedy and Steve Smith Jun 26, Goddo Jul 10, Great Lake Swimmers Jul 12, Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Steam Show Jul 19, Basia Bulat Jul 31 and more. $65-$130. Peter’s Players, 830 Muskoka Rd S (Gravenhurst). 705-687-2117, petersplayers. com. Jun 6 to Jul 31 River And Sky Music Festival Pink Mountaintops, Bry Webb, the Silver Hearts, the Besnard Lakes, Cuff the Duke, Ketamines, the Highest Order, Daniel Romano, Snowblink and many others. Camping available at this festival on the Sturgeon River near West Nipissing. Weekend pass $125. 3636 Hwy 539 (Field). riverandsky.ca. Jul 18 to 20 River Valley Bluegrass Jamboree David Davis & the Warrior River Boys, Stevens Family, Ralph Stanley, Hard Ryde, Danny Paisley & Southern Grass, Jeanette Williams and others. Rough camping included. Day pass $20-$25, weekend pass $90$105. Hwy 539A through River Valley, (West Nipissing). 705-789-9049. Jul 30 to Aug 3

Niagara Amphitheatre Summer Concert Series Sam Roberts Band Jun 13 and 14, Jesse Cook July 5, Alan Doyle Jul 11, Chantal Kreviazuk Jul 12, Colin James Jul 19, Justin Rutledge & Lindi Ortega Jul 26, Elton Lammie Aug 8, Stars Aug 9, and Cowboy Junkies Aug 16. $49-$89, dinner packages available. Jackson-Triggs Niagara Estate Winery, 2145 Niagara Stone (Niagara-on-the-Lake). 1-866589-4637 ext 2, j acksontriggswinery.com. Jun 13 to Aug 16 Blues Blowout Concert Blues harmonica concert with Carlos Del Junco, Jerome Godboo and Adam Gussow. 8 pm. $25. Shared Harvest Community Farm and Education Centre, 834 North Shore (Dunnville). 905-7017255. Jun 28 Cayugafest Presents The Grand River Music Festival Freedom Train, 12-20 Blast and Dry County Jul 19 (from 6 pm), Boogie Infection, Western Swing Authority, Shane Chisholm, Marshall Dane & the Law Jul 20 (noon to 1 am). See website for details. $10. Bob Baigent Memorial Park, Ouse St S (Cayuga). cayugafest.com. Jul 19 to 20 Cider Fest Country music concert, barbecue and cider festival with George Canyon, Aaron Pritchett, Brad James, Autumn Hill, High Valley and others. 1 to 10 pm. $40-$50. Stoney Creek, Puddicombe Estate, 1468 Highway 8 (Stoney Creek). c iderfest.ca. Jun 20 to 21 Fallsview Summer Concerts Gladys Knight Jun 20-21, Little Anthony & the Imperials Jun 27-28, Train Jul 17-18, Songwriters Jul 19, Elton John tribute Jul 24-Aug 2 and others. Various prices, see website for details. Niagara Fallsview Casino Resort, 6380 Fallsview Blvd. n iagarafallshilton.com. Jun 20 to Aug 2 Hayden Performance by the singer-songwriter at 8:30 pm. $20. The Sanctuary - Centre for the Arts, 209 Ridge (Ridgeway). 905894-8373, ticketscene.ca/events/10387. Jun 19 Illuminaqua Live musical performances set on a floating stage surrounded by fire. Jordan Raycroft Jun 13, the Abrams Brothers Jul 4 and others. 8 pm. $20-$80. Merritt Park Amphitheatre, 115 King (Welland). 905735-1700, illuminaqua.com. Jun 13 to Aug 29 Montebello Park Concerts Kindred Jun 13 and Solstice Jun 27. 7 to 9 pm, rain or shine in the bandshell. Free. Montebello Park, 64 Ontario (St Catharines). 905-6885601 ext 1563. Jun 13 to 27 Music Niagara Festival of classical to jazz, country to cabaret. Le Vent Du Nord Jul 12, Afiara String Quaret Jul 13, Quartetto Gelato Jul 18, Richard Strauss, Robert Silverman and Christopher Newton Jul 26, and others. Various prices. St Mark’s Church, and other venues (Niagara-on-the-Lake). 1-800-5117429, musicniagara.org. Jul 12 to Aug 16 Norfolk N’ Blues Festival Jordan Patterson, Ray Fuller & the Blues Rockers, the Mackenzie Blues Band, Steve Strongman, Jack de Keyzer, Loco Zydeco, the Fraser Mel-

vin Band, Chuck Jackson, Paul James and others play this outdoor fest.Camping available. Sat $45, Sun $30, wknd pass $65, camping $25. Frog’s Hollow, Lakeside Vista, 2916 Front (Vittoria). n orfolkbluesfestival.ca. Jul 19 to 20 S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival Marianas Trench, Matthew Good, the Sheepdogs, Arkells, Shad, Monster Truck, Lights, Glorious Sons, Current Swell, Boy & Bear and many more at this all-ages concert. Doors at 1 pm. Sat or Sun $39.50, VIP $69.50, weekend pass $69.40-$119.50 (ticketfly.com). Montebello Park and downtown, 64 Ontario (St Catharines). scenemusicfestival.com. Jun 28 to 29; Sessions Showcase The AntiQs and Jessica Lajner May 30, Elton Lammie Jul 11 and others. $10-$20 (ticketscene.ca). Sessions on the River, 133 Niagara Blvd (Fort Erie). 905-658-7253. May 30 to Aug 8 Simcoe Park Bandshell Concerts Music Niagara presents Often Running Jul 20, My Sweet Patootie Jul 27 and others. Shows at 2 pm. Free. Picton and King (Niagara-on-the-Lake). musicniagara.org. Jul 20 to 27 Summer Concert Series Foghat and David Wilcox kick off the concert series Jun 20. Other bands tba. $42 (ticketbreak.com). Safari Niagara, 2821 Stevensville. 866367-9669, safariniagara.com. Jun 20

Brighton/Cobourg/Picton/Prince Edward County/Port Hope California Sun Beach music of the 60s. 8 pm. $25. Park Theatre, 666 King E (Cobourg). 1-877-700-3130, parktheatrecobourg.com. Jul 19 Cobourg Outdoor Concerts The Concert Band of Cobourg plays Tuesday evenings in the bandshell. 8 pm. Free. Victoria Park, 138 Division (Cobourg). 1-888-2626874, cobourg.ca. Jul 8 to Aug 26 Don Ross And Andy McKee Concert by guitar players includes guest Calum Graham. 8 pm. $38.80 (brownpapertickets.com). Trinity College School LeVan Theatre, 55 Deblaquire N (Port Hope). 905-885-0908, porthopetourism.ca. Jun 14 Johnny Winter The American blues guitarist performs. $59.50. Regent Theatre, 244 Main (Picton). 613476-8416, regenttheatre.org. Jul 23 Jonny Lang The Southern blues, rock and gospel singer performs. $59.50-$69.50. Regent Theatre, 244 Main (Picton). 613-476-8416, regenttheatre.org. Jun 1 Kevin Fox The composer, singer, arranger and cellist performs. 8 pm. $28. Fire Hall Theatre, 213 Second (Cobourg). 905-372-2210. Jun 13 to 14 Music At Port Milford Chamber music festival includes performances by Linden String Quartet Jul 26 and others. See website for schedule. $25, student $10. St Mary Magdalene Church, 335 Main (Picton). mpmcamp.org. Jul 20 to Aug 9 Port Milford Takes To The Streets Students of the classical chamber music festival busk on street corners. 10 am to noon. Free. Main Street (Picton). mpmcamp.org. Jul 19; Aug 2 Quinte Isle’s Bluegrass Celebration Canadian bluegrass bands Hard Ryde, Dusty Drifters, the Monroe Sisters, Riverbend Gentlemen, the Barrel Boys and others perform. Camping available. Day pass Fri $10, Sat $25, Sun $15, weekend passes available. Quinte’s Isle CamPark, 237 Salmon Point (Cherry Valley). quintebluegrass.com. May 30 to Jun 1 Stewart Park Festival Three-day folk music festival outdoors in Stewart Park and at downtown venues. The Bills, John Gorka, Sultans of String, The Lovelocks, Amelia Curran, Bombadils, Duane Andrews and Craig Young, Pacific Curls, JW Jones, and others perform. Free, after hours concerts $20 button for weekend, individual shows $tba. Stewart Park, 80 Gore E, behind the Town Hall (Perth). 613-485-6434, stewartparkfestival.com. Jul 18 to 20 Summer Bandshell Concert Series Union Duke Jul 3, Maple Leaf Jug Band Jul 10, Clarington Concert Band Jul 17, Bruce Longman Trio Jul 24, Don McArthur’s Big Band Jul 31 and more. Thursdays 7 pm. Bring a lawn chair. Free. Memorial Park, Queen at Augusta (Port Hope). 905-885-2004, porthopetourism.ca. Jul 3 to Aug 28 Till The Boys Come Home North Lakeshore Mass Chorus perform a choral and band tribute to the Canadian soldiers of the First Contingent of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who sailed to Europe 100 years ago. 3 & 7:30 pm. $22, $12 child under 12. Trinity United Church, 284 Division (Cobourg). concerthallatvictoriahall.com. Jun 14 Valley Bluegrass Festival Family oriented festival with bands Junior Sisk & Ramblers Choice, Hard Ryde,

the Delaney Brothers, Maple Hill and others. Rough camping available. $20-$30, weekend passes available. Johnston’s Farm, 408 Castleford (Renfrew). valleybluegrass.ca. Jul 10 to 13

Bancroft/Haliburton/Kawarthas/ Peterborough The Black Diamond Express The Edinburgh roots and blues musicians perform with the Mayhemingways opening. 8 pm. $25. Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George N (Peterborough). 1-866-444-2154, showplace.org. Jun 24 The Black Diamond Express The roots and blues band performs with the Mayhemingways. 8 pm. $25. Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George N (Peterborough). 705-742-7469, showplace.org. Jun 24 Erring On The Mount Multidisciplinary arts festival with the Zippa Dee Doo Dah Soul Chorus and others tba. See website for schedule. Various prices. Mount Community Centre, 1555 Monaghan (Peterborough). publicenergy.ca. May 30 to Jun 1 Hayden Performance by the singer-songwriter at 9 pm. $25. Gordon Best Theatre, 216 Hunter W (Peterborough). ticketscene.ca/events/10370. Jun 13 Martin Wall The pianist performs a program of ragtime, waltzes, Bach, Beethoven, originals and more. 2:30 pm. $25, adv $20. Showplace Performance Centre, 290 George N (Peterborough). 705-742-7469, showplace.org. Jun 30 Minden Hills Bluegrass Festival Back Roads, Rhyme n’ Reason, Traditionally Wound, the Tebworth Brothers, Bill White & Whitepine, the Schotts, Randy Morrison & Flatt Rivers and others. Fri eve $20, Sat day pass $35, Sat after 6 pm $25, Sun $20, weekend pass $75. Minden Fairgrounds, 2048 Fleming. mindenhillsbluegrassfestival.ca. Jul 18 to 20 Palmer Rapids Twin Music Festival Two complete festivals with a stage for country and including Chad Brownlee, Dr Hook, Tommy Cash, Ridin’ Shotgun and others; a bluegrass stage features Amy Gallatin, Jimmy Flynn, Whiskey Jack and others. Weekend pass $30$160, srs $84-$95, day tickets $25-$75. Wingle and Cedar Grove (Palmer Rapids). palmerrapids.ca. Jul 24 to 27 Peterborough Folk Festival Kick off concert with the Constantines, the Lonely Parade and Marine Dreams Aug 22, the Burning Hell Aug 23, and hands-on workshops Aug 24 in the park. Fri events downtown; Sat at Nicholls Oval; Sun at Millennium Park (Peterborough). 705-8746796, p eterboroughfolkfest.com. Aug 22 to 24 Peterborough Musicfest Skydiggers Jun 28, the Strumbellas Jul 2, Wide Mouth Mason Jul 5, Colin James Jul 16, Tegan & Sara Jul 23, Cowboy Junkies Jul 30 and many others. Concerts Wed & Sat at 8 pm to Aug 27. Free. Del Crary Park, Crescent at Perry (Peterborough). 705-755-1111, ptbomusicfest.ca. Jun 28 to Aug 27 Sweet Alibi The soulful folk-pop trio performs. 7:30 pm. $25. Northern Lights Performing Arts Pavilion, 5358 County Road 21 (Haliburton). 705-457-9933. Jun 6 Westben Barn Concerts Music in an outdoor setting. The Choir of Trinity College, Cecelia String Quartet, the Skydiggers, Dough Leahy & Friends, pianist Avan Yu, Phantom Of The Opera in concert and many other events. $4.50 for youth, $44.25 adults. The Barn, 6698 County Road 30 (Campbellford). 1-877-883-5777, westben.ca. Jul 4 to Aug 3

Figure at Babylon (317 Bank) and others. Check website for prices. Downtown Ottawa, escapademf.com. Jun 30 Frankford Island Blues Festival Joe Callahan, the Fade Kings, Ila Vann, Janet Jeffery & the 8 Wing Show Band, Riley & Riley, the Fabulous Tonesmasters, Balls & Jane and many others play this three-day outdoor festival with onsite camping. $15, weekend $40. Frankford Tourist Park, Hwy 5 and Hwy 33. 613-392-1025, loyalblues.ca. Jun 6 to 8 Heart & Jason Bonham Rock concert. 8 pm. $49.50$95 (capitaltickets.ca). Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium (Ottawa). 613-599-0100, canadiantirecentre.com. Jun 18 John Sebastian Concert with the Lovin Spoonful musician. 7:30 pm. $36.50-$48.50. Grand Theatre, 218 Princess (Kingston). 613-530-2050, kingstongrand.ca. Jun 28 Judy Collins Concert by the singer-songwriter. 7:30 pm. $36.50-$48.50. Grand Theatre, 218 Princess (Kingston). 613-530-2050, kingstongrand.ca. Jun 8 Justin Timberlake Rock concert. 8 pm. $45-$175. Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium (Ottawa). 613599-0100, capitaltickets.ca. Jul 22 Katy Perry’s Prismatic World Tour The pop diva performs with openers Capital Cities. 7:30 pm. $29.50$125.50. Canadian Tire Centre, 1000 Palladium (Ottawa). 613-599-0100, capitaltickets.ca. Jul 16 Kim Pollard Band Blues and jazz concert and dance. 8 pm. $20 (ticketscene.ca). Dog House Studios, 99 Dairy (Napanee). doghousestudios.ca. Jun 13 Mattawa Voyageur Days Randy Bachman, Theory of a Deadman, Matthew Good & Sass Jordan and many others perform at this outdoor fest. Camping available. Fri & Sun day pass $40, weekend wristband $40, under 10 free. Explorer’s Point, 285 First (Mattawa). 1-800-2674222, voyageurdays.com. Jul 24 to 27 Mookoomba Concert by the Zimbabewan musicians. 7:30 pm. $20-$30. Grand Theatre, 218 Princess (Kingston). 613-530-2050, kingstongrand.ca. Jul 9 Ottawa Bluesfest Lady Gaga, the Killers, Blake Shelton, Queens of the Stone Age, Lady Antebellum, Journey, Snoop Dogg, the Band Perry, Ryan Hemsworth, Childish Gambino, Blondie, Bonobo, Danny Brown, Matt Andersen, Action Bronson and many many others. $20$150, festival passport and multiple ticket options at frontgatetickets.com. Lebreton Flats Park, 1 Vimy Place, near the War Museum (Ottawa). 1-877-788-3267, ottawabluesfest.ca. Jul 3 to 13 Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival Concerts include Stars and the Zolas Jun 19, the Sheepdogs, Cuff the Duke and Harlan Pepper Jun 20, Hey Ocean!, Arkells and Amos the Transparent Jun 21 and others. Free. Mooney’s Bay Park, Riverside and Brookfield (Ottawa). dragonboat.net. Jun 19 to 22 Ottawa Explosion Punk and garage bands from Montreal to Halifax including Audio, Black Love, Dig it Up, Hashed Out, the Mandates, Odonis Odonis, Wasted

Potential and many others. Wristband $60. Club Saw, 67 Nicholas, and other venues (Ottawa). ottawaexplosion.blogspot.ca. Jun 12 to 15 Ottawa Jazz Festival Austra Jun 21, Ron Sexsmith Jun 21, Steve Martin & the Steep Canyon Rangers w/ Edie Brickell Jun 22, Tedeschi Trucks Band Jun 23, Elliott Brood Jun 24, Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite Jun 27, Aretha Franklin Jun 28 and many others. Concerts under the stars, late-night jam sessions and more. $20-$85, passes $190-$310, yth pass $90, single-day Confederation Park tickets also available. Confederation Park (Elgin at Slater), NAC and other venues (Ottawa). 1-613-241-2633, ottawajazzfestival.com. Jun 20 to Jul 1 Prince Edward County Music Festival Festival’s Greatest Hits Sep 20, Mary Lou Fallis & Peter Tiefenbach Sep 21, Gryphon Trio Sep 22, Puccini’s La Bohème Sept 26, Baroque Sep 27 and many more concerts. Various venues in Picton and Bloomfield (see website). $36-$50, passes available. Regent Theatre, 224 Main (Picton). 1-877-411-4761, pecmusicfestival.com. Sep 19 to 28 Skeleton Park Arts Festival Jim Bryson, Cold Specks, Maylee Todd, Luther Wright, the Heavyweights Brass Band and many others Jun 21, 10 am to dusk. Musical events every day. Check website for more details. In the park and other venues in town. Most events free. McBurney Park, Ordnance at Alma (Kingston). skeletonparkmusicfestival.ca. Jun 20 to 29 Summer Solstice Aboriginal Festival & Powwow Murray Porter, Andy Mason Band, Holly McNarland, Lucie Idlout, Joanne Shenandoah and others at this festival of aboriginal cultures. Free, donations welcome. Vincent Massey Park, Heron and Riverside (Ottawa). ottawasummersolstice.ca. Jun 20 to 22 1000 Islands Jazz & Blues Festival Barry Greene May 29, River City Junction May 30, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday tribute May 31, Brenda Lewis Jun 1. Various venues in Brockville. Check website for details. $15-$20, $65 for four concerts. Brockville, brockvilleconcert.ca. May 29 to Jun 1 WestFest: Westboro Villages’ Festival of Music, Art & Life A Tribe Called Red, Ashley MacIsaac,Good2Go, Shawnee, River City Junction, George Leach and others. Free. Westboro Village, Richmond from Churchill to Kirkwood (Ottawa). 613729-3565, westfest.ca. Jun 13 to 15 Wolfe Island Music Festival The Rural Alberta Advantage, K-OS, Shad, Bry Webb, Young Galaxy, PUP, Harlan Pepper, Wilderness of Manitoba and others, a short ferry ride from Kingston or Cape Vincent. Gates 5 pm. $45-$125, weekend pass $100 (early bird at ticketfly.com). Wolfe Island, (Kingston). wolfeislandmusicfestival.com. Aug 8 to 9 3

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Belleville/Kingston/Brockville/ Ottawa Carivibe Beach Festival Celebration of Caribbean culture with performances by Moses Revolution, Destiny, Artisan Kings, Nepean Panharmonic Steel Band, Salsitos, Loyal Kigabiro and many DJs and dance groups. $20, advance $12 (ticketgateway.com, capitaltickets.ca). Petrie Island, 727 Trim (Ottawa). 613-590-1588, carivibe. com. Jun 21 Empire Rockfest All-ages licensed outdoor event with Huey Lewis & the News and Glass Tiger Jul 24, Weezer and the Trews Jul 25, Sammy Hagar and Extreme Jul 26. Gates open at 6 pm. Various prices, check website. Empire Theatre Square, 321 Front (Belleville). 613-969-0099, empiresquarelive.com/rockfest. Jul 24 to 26 Escapade Music Festival Eric Prydz, Chuckie, Kaskade, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Fedde Le Grand, Nervo and others at this international DJ fest. Check website for prices. RA Centre, 2451 Riverside (Ottawa). 613-7335100, escapademf.com. Jun 28 to Jul 1 Escapade Music Festival Club Series The DJ festival’s club series includes Alex Metric at Ritual (137 Besserer), Simon Patterson at Era Nightclub (380 Elgin),

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YES YES Y’ALL

ANEELA Q

YES YES Y’ALL DUDEBOX HIP-HOP

With goals of complete inclusivity, two Toronto mega-parties merge By KEVIN RITCHIE outs that draw a cross-section of revellers. But the last one was different. “We noticed there was a ton of gay Centre (519 Church), Friday (May 30), 10 people. That’s a new development,” pm. $5 (50 per cent of profits donated to says Tal. “To create such a safe environthe 519). ment – that’s a huge accomplishment.” Last October, six friends To build on that mothrew a Halloween mentum, Tal reached party at a car wash at out to Aneela Q (aka King and Bathurst. DJ Nino Brown), one Around 700 people of the promoters showed up to behind the monthdance to hip-hop, ly queer hip-hop and the organizers party Yes Yes Y’All, raked in over and suggested they $10,000, which they team up. donated to the Mani“What stood out festo Festival. the most was how much DUDEBOX The bash was Dudethey care about the events box, an event that evolved and how they aren’t doing it for from house parties Daniel Tal and five money,” says Q. “That’s hard to come roommates threw when they lived in a by these days.” massive Chinatown loft space in 2007. On Friday, the two join forces for As their numbers outgrew the apartwhat they hope will be the first of ment (the floors were caving in), they many events. The location – and recipistarted organizing pop-up parties in ent of 50 per cent of profits – is the unorthodox venues, giving the pro519 Church Street Community Centre, ceeds to charity. a Village hub for over 35 years. Since then, Dudebox has raised Tal and Q both gush about the vibe more than $80,000 for various Toronthe other has fostered at their respectto-based organizations through blowive jams: inclusivity, which was also a

YES YES Y’ALL + DUDEBOX PRESENT NICE UP! at the 519 Church Street Community

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ECHO BEACH AT MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE The Mothership Tour Skrillex, DJ Snake, ñ Henry Fong, Sluggers, Matt Zanardo doors 5 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Joints DJ Serious, Arcee, DJ Numeric (hip-hop/R&B/funk/soul) 10 pm.

JOHNNY JACKSON Forever Young Mista Jiggz

(80s new wave/retro/pop/R&B/hip-hop/ house/reggae) doors 10 pm. LI’LY Mad-Bass Heroes DJ Shok, DJ Gabbo, Kontraire, B7, DJ Dynamic, Velociraver (hardcore/hardstyle/rave) 10 pm. MAY CAFE Mayhem (90s-ish dance party) 9 pm. MILL STREET BREW PUB DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm. OPERA HOUSE Audion doors 10 pm. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club). RIVOLI Footprints DJs General Eclectic & Jason Palma doors 10 pm. RYZE Mark Fanciulli, Joee Cons, Alberto Jossue, Evan G. THE SAVOY Mad City (R&B/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Shake-A-Tail. SOUND ACADEMY Above And Beyond Mark Oliver doors 10 pm. WHITE ELEPHANT BAR Toastr DJs Lucie Tic & Sticky Cuts (hip-hop/dancehall/trap/R&B/ house) doors 9:30 pm. THE YUKON Mojo Workout DJ Chico, DJs Siân LuLu Teuse, Craig Daniels (soul/garage rock/ early R&B/bubblegum/rockabilly).

Sunday, June 1 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL La Roux doors 7 pm. ñ 401 RICHMOND W ATRIUM Marcus Ali, Jason

Wilson, Andrew Stewart (reggae) 8 pm.

THE GARRISON Papa doors 8 pm. ñ THE HIDEOUT Unplugged Geoff Willingham (rock) 10 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Pat Perez & John Dickie

Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm. OPTICIANADO LW3 w/ Alan Zemantis 1 to 4 pm. ORBIT ROOM Horshack (classic rock hits) 10 pm. RIVOLI Chartreuse, After Funk, the Main Squeeze doors 8 pm. TORONTO ISLAND GIBRALTAR PT E-Day Free Island Music Fest Ron Hawkins, Spookey Ruben and others. Equality day celebration focused on parental equality. Two stages, live indie bands. Noon to 11 pm, all ages. VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Honey Jam Auditions 2 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Sing! The Toronto Vocal Arts Festival: O Canada! Our Nation’s Greatest Hits A Cappella Alan Frew, Dan Hill, Lorraine Segato 7 pm, Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye – Tribute To Cole Porter 4 pm, A Legacy Of Song Boys & Girls Choir of Harlem Alumni Ensemble 1 pm.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS CHRISTIE STUDIO A Cappella Jam (improvisational singing

circle) 2 pm.

THE CAGE 292 CRIMSON LOUNGE Jam Phil Hood

focus when indie promoter Dalton Higgins and Wavelength’s Jonny Dovercourt teamed for the cross-genre NICE show in April. Both Dudebox and Yes Yes Y’All are run by friends of different ethnicities, genders and sexualities, which comes in handy in attracting crowds but also in dealing with venues and conflict. Over five years, Q has watched Yes Yes Y’All become more diverse. “There was something about the vibe that made all different walks of life feel comfortable. It was our job to make sure everyone felt safe,” she says, adding that openness in dealing with things like security issues, fights and politicking goes a long way. “We took [those things] very seriously,” she continues. “We dealt with it privately. We dealt with it publicly. It’s our job to be transparent.” Above all, both promoters believe their intention is key to their success. “You go into it with the right attitude. We aren’t there to make money. We really just want to have fun,” says Tal. “It’s not easy throwing these popup parties, so if you’re gonna do that and not get paid, you better have a good time.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

& Jon Macan 10 pm. C’EST WHAT Uke 416 Mr Bennett 7 pm, Noah Zacharin 3 to 6 pm. DUFFY’S TAVERN Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Brunch Beyond the Pale (klezmer) 11 am & 1:15 pm. FREE TIMES CAFE Keeley Xavier & Federico Luiu (folk) 7:30 pm. FULL OF BEANS COFFEE Rebas Full Of Beans Sundays Jim Amar 2 to 4 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Acoustic Family Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 1 pm. GROSSMAN’S Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm. THE LOCAL Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban son) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/country) 5 pm. LOU DAWG’S Gospel Choir Southern Brunch noon. LULA LOUNGE Lulaworld Festival Martha Gonzalez w/ Café Con Pan, Amanda Medina Pinedo, Mamselle doors 7 pm, Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza Broup 11 am. RELISH BAR & GRILL Stir It Up Sundays 9 pm, the Pearl Motel (country/blues) 11 am. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM RUNG Festival (Festival Of Colors) Anita Katakkar & Rex Van Der Spuy, Anusha Sharma, Yasmeen Anam, Bell Band from Pakistan. 10 am to 2 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Woodchoppers Association 10:30 pm, Woodhead, Cohen & Wilde 7:30 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, No Angels Dancing (Allison Cameron & D Alex Meeks) 1 pm.

JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

AMADEUS Rick Donaldson & the JazzCats 6 to

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es, lessons and performances. Wide Open House Royal Conservatory School students, Glenn Gould School students, Phil & Eli Taylor Performance Academy for Young Artists students 10 am to 4 pm. Scarborough Civic Centre Sensational Juan Tomas Show Band w/ Marylou Malicdem 2 pm.

Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Festiñ val: Musical Interlude Tafelmusik (classical)

Upper Canada College Laidlaw Auditorium Mooredale Youth Orchestra 3 pm.

Enwave Theatre East O’ The Sun And West O’

Fox & Fiddle Danforth Yolo Sundays Indus-

12:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

The Moon Canadian Children’s Opera Company 2 pm. Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. Morgans on the Danforth Jazzy Sundays Thyron Lee Whyte & David Restivo 2 to 5 pm. Musideum Brenna MacCrimmon, Maryem Tollar, Jayne Brown, Sophia Grigoriadis (Middle Eastern) 8 pm, Poli’s Jazz Salon Don Thompson, Paul Hoffert (jazz) 3 pm. Paradise Bar & Billiards Jazz Jam The Unit 4 to 8 pm. The Rex Dave Neill Quintet 9:30 pm, Pram Trio (jazz) 7 pm, Humber Community Music School Annual Recitals 11 am to 6 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Light Classics Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sarah Jeffrey, Teng Li (oboe, viola) 3 pm.

try Night 10 pm.

Royal Conservatory of Music Koerner Hall Show One Productions 10th Anniversary

The Hideout Big Otter Creek (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Shoeless Monday New Franchise,

Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) 7 pm. Royal Conservatory of Music Music class-

Hotel Ocho Inside Out LGBT Film Festi-

val Closing Gala DJ Regina the Gentleñ lady 10 pm.5

Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (live guitar soundtracks) 9:30 pm.

Stone Lounge Sexy Summer Sundays Night

Club Party (dance/house/trance) 10 pm.

Monday, June 2 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Cage 292 Denday (reggae) 8 & 10 pm. The Central Jenna Burke, Miray (R&B/soul) 7 pm. Drake Hotel Underground Elvis Monday doors 9 pm.

The Great Hall Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox doors 7 pm.

8 Oz Soul, the Ten O’Clock People doors 8:30 pm. Kitch Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

Opera House Sage Francis, B Dolan (hip-hop) doors 8 pm.

Orbit Room Jordan John (soul/R&B/funk) 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Kishi Bashi doors 8 pm. ñ Yonge-Dundas Square Lunchtime Live! Chloe Charles 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Joe Nolan 10 pm, Doug Paisley 6 pm.

Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Keith

Holding 8 pm. Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm. The Local Hamstring String Band (bluegrass/ traditional country) 9 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Bentroots (Cana-Cajun blues) 8 pm. Roxton Eva Moon (singer/songwriter) 10 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Holy Blossom Temple Lachan 20th Anniversary Concert Lachan: the Toronto Jewish Chamber Choir 7:30 pm. On Cue Ken Yoshioka (blues) 8 pm. The Rex Jazz Mechanics Big Band 9:30 pm, Peter Hill Quintet 6:30 pm. Seven44 Advocats Big Band (bop/swing/ swoon) 7:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. Dance Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (ret-

ro 70s/80s) 10 pm. Reposado Mezcal Mondays DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, June 3 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Cameron House Run with the Kittens (rocka-

billy eclectic punk/surf psychedelic folk punk) 10 pm, the Seasons 6 pm. The Hideout Unplugged The World Is Yours (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe Nu Music Nite Made Violent, Pink Moth, Str2Bidnis, Tasman Jude, My Kind of Karma doors 8:30 pm. The Hoxton Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl 8 pm. See album review, page 99. Living Arts Centre Hammerson Hall Michael Bolton 8 pm, all ages. Opera House The Menzingers, PUP, Lemuria (punk) doors 7 pm, all ages. Orbit Room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm. The Piston Leh Lo’s Songwriters Circle 9 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Polica doors 8 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

The Duke Live.com Open Jam Frank Wilks

8:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Dan Rheault, Noella Choi (folk) 8 pm.

Gage Park Inspirational Music In The Park

(gospel/folk/classical) 7 to 9 pm. Grossman’s Ms Debbie & the Don Valley Stompers 9:30 pm.

HUgh’s Room CD release Mary Gauthier 8:30 pm. See album review, page 99. ñ Izakaya Sushi House Drummers In Exile 8:30 pm.

The Local Massey/Harris (roots singer/songwriter) 9 pm. Press Club Toast n’ Jam Open Mic Yawn Temiseva 10 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Clela 7 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Collette Savard (indie pop) 7:30 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Four Seasons Centre for the Performing

Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre The Art Of The Domra And Bayan Iraida Erokhina, Alexander Sevastian (domra, bayan) noon to 1 pm. Lula Lounge Lulaworld Festival Roberto Occhipinti & the Gryphon Trio (jazz/Cuban/classical) doors 7 pm. Musideum Patrick Ballantyne, Pat Furlan, Lou Trottier (folk) 8 pm. Rasputin Vodka Bar Linda Carone (vintage jazz & blues) 7:30 to 9:30 pm. The Rex Dave King Trucking Co 9:30 pm, Jim Gelcer Group 6:30 pm. Toni Bulloni Jazz Night Mary McKay & Mark Kieswetter 8 pm. Tranzac southern cross Peripheral Vision (jazz ) 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun 8:30 pm. Bloke & 4th Swank DJ Geoff Brown. Gossip Restaurant Latin Nights DJ Alejo (sal-

sa/bachata/kizomba/merengue/reggaeton). Reposado Tequila Tuesday DJ Gord C’s Alien Radio. Toby’s Famous All Dressed Tuesdays DJ Caff (funk/soul/new Jack swing/rock/reggae) 10 pm.

Wednesday, June 4 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

CODA Scorpion Child doors 8 pm. The Danforth Music Hall Die Ant-

woord (rap-rave) doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ The Flying Beaver Pubaret Rockabilly Box

Social Zaxh 7 pm. Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm. The Hideout Pat Wright (rock) 10 pm. Horseshoe The Marwills, Skye Wallace, Alanna Gurr, Broken Bricks doors 9 pm. The Loaded Dog Tommy Rocker (classic rock) 9 pm.

Opera House Yann Tiersen, NO doors 8 pm. ñ Orbit Room LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 10 pm. Seven44 Uptown Island Lindo P, Korexion,

Tony Anthony, Nadera, Skibu, Kisco, DJs Su Pa Natty, Dougy Fresh, DJ Vincy and others 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Aspetta Caffe Open Jam El Faron. Cameron House Back Room She’s Listening

Toronto II.

Cameron House Luke Bill 10 pm, Belle Regards 6 pm.

Classico Pizza & Pasta Roger ‘Pops’ Zuraw 6 pm. Hugh’s Room Jimmy Bowskill & Carlos del Junco 8:30 pm.

Johnny Jackson Jam Matt Cooke (folk/pop) 9 pm. The Local The Vaudevillian (1920s blues) 9 pm. 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 Southern Cross Ronley Teper’s Lipliners 10 pm, Katie DuTemple 7:30 pm. Unicorn Pub Open Jam B-Sides 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm. Array Space Lina Allemano, Peggy Lee, Marilyn Lerner (avant/improvised) 8 pm. Chalkers Pub Girls Night Out: Lisa Particelli’s GNOJAZZ Jam Session 8 pm. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre

Brass Blowout Artists of the Canadian Opera Company Orchestra noon to 1 pm. Lula Lounge Lulaworld Festival David Virelles w/ Eric McPherson, Rich Brown Trio w/ Hugh Marsh & Barry Romberg (jazz) doors 7 pm. Nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Trio (jazz) 7 to 11 pm. Relish Bar & Grill The BTB’s (instrumental jazz/funk/fusion) 7:30 pm. The Rex Carn/Davidson 9 9:45 pm, PayadoraTango 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Bovine Sex Club Pussy Whipped Wednesdays DJ Recklezz (dance party) 10 pm.

Brassaii Les Nuits DJ Undercover, Mike Toast

(top 40/R&B/hip-hop/dance). Club 120 Open-mic Comedy Show DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 Drake One Fifty Goin’ Steady DJs doors 9 pm. 3

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The Feast Of The Broken Heart (Moshi Moshi) Rating: NNNN The balance between strength and vulnerability has long been a magic formula in dance music and especially in gay dance music. Hercules & Love Affair’s third album zeroes in on this with hawk-eyed precision, pairing pumping house beats with voices full of world-weary gravitas. On past albums, bandleader Andy Butler reworked classic disco, but this record – the group’s most straightforward – unapologetically revels in the scuzzy analog house of the 80s and 90s. The beats

Pop/Rock YOUNG DOCTORS IN LOVE

World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band (independent) Rating: NNN Your appreciation for Young Doctors in Love’s first full-length album will depend on your tolerance for group bahbah-bahs and perky melodies. Led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Clay Puddester, the Toronto six-piece’s power pop tendencies are loud and clear throughout the 11 songs. What sets it apart from average indie pop fare are the melodic twists and turns, myriad Toronto references and song structures that include multiple bridges and inspired arrangements. Quirky orchestral pop I’ll Be There In Your Arms slows down while still staying sunny, while (I Might) Smile alludes to the Beach Boys in more than just its title. Fans of the band’s 2010 EP might be disappointed to discover one of its songs repeated here – first single And If You Really Want To, which still stands out as the best – and the album would benefit from more emotional and tonal variety. But you can’t deny its energy. Top track: And If You Really Want To Young Doctors in Love play the Garrison on Friday (May 30). CARLA GILLIS

are raw, and the emotions equally so. It’s a formula to be sure, but Feast’s main delights are its textures and songwriting. Hercules is a platform for queer vocal talent, and the particular qualities of their four singers add emotional momentum that prevents the music from becoming mere dance floor nostalgia. Piano man John Grant turns up to unpack a few demons, and Krystle Warren’s dusky, androgynous turn on the exhilarating My Offence celebrates conversations around language and identity – also very 90s. If it’s not a hit, someone needs to be called out. Top track: My Offence KEVIN RITCHIE

THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER Midnight Sun (Chi-

mera) Rating: NNN For much of his music career, Sean Lennon was trying to escape from the shadow of his father. But no matter how hard he tried, the media kept steering the conversation back to the Beatles. It probably doesn’t help that you can hear so much of his dad in just the tone of his voice. On Midnight Sun, however, Lennon and his collaborator/girlfriend, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, have finally embraced the classic rock conventions he used to run from. Lennon has said that part of what originally attracted him to Kemp Muhl was that she hadn’t even heard Strawberry Fields Forever (presumably because she was only 17 when they met). They’ve been bingeing on 60s psychedelia in the years since, though, and Midnight Sun is a playful reflection of those sounds. The guitars are a bit heavier than most flowerpower-era acts, and there’s a sprinkling of contemporary indie rock references, but it’s still basically a retro rock album. It’s all quite nice, and definitely a fun album to chill out to while watching a lava lamp, but it also sounds a bit like every other band that ever obsessed about the Fab Four. Top track: Poor Paul Getty The GOASTT play the Hoxton Tuesday (June 3). BENJAMIN BOLES

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

Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse (Universal) Rating: Mariah Carey became a star thanks to power ballads showcasing her five-octave range. But over the past 15 years, her best material has been high-end R&B bursting with multi-tracked vocal work that used her playful runs and ad libs as tripped-out textures. That approach, combined with a breezy mix of gospel balladry (Cry), grimy beats (Meteoite, Dedicated), 70s funk and disco (Make It Look Good, You Don’t Know What To Do) and bassy R&B (Thirsty, Faded), makes the pop diva’s 14th release a fun and consistently surprising record. If anyone can make giggling babies sound both innocent and psychedelic, it’s Carey. Supernatural, a languorous midtempo Rv&B song that arrives halfway through, is the sonic equivalent of dropping a pill and getting lost at Babies R Us. But it’s just another day in the studio for the Elusive Chanteuse, who hasn’t sounded this relaxed since 2005’s The Emancipation Of Mimi. After turning her attention to motherhood, Christmas music and home shopping in the past few years, Carey’s back to adding her sparkly touch to summer-ready pop tunes. Top track: Cry KR

the latter a lot on X Factor, too. Over brash, clubby, radio-ready beats, Lloyd musters a number of pop platitudes: “Everything you see that glitters isn’t always gold” she wails on Human, for example. On Dirty Love, she’s sick of all the good boys and craves a bad one. Lyrics aside, sometimes you think Lloyd would make a darn good country singer, with her almost Partonesque high trill on Sirens and, especially, Goodnight. Too bad the songs sound so incongruous with the rest. M.F.P.O.T.Y (“motherfucking party of the year” ) is downright ridiculous, even for a 20-year-old. “Kee-eeep it all in your pants, bo-ooy,” Lloyd croons. Good grief. Top track: Sirens JL

Punk FUCKED UP Glass Boys (Arts & Crafts) Rating: NNN In the video for Glass Boys’ second single, Sun Glass, Fucked Up skip through a cemetery eating ice cream and cruise around on bikes, tromping the landscape of indie rock cliché and blowing pot smoke in the faces of the straightedge kids who have been calling the band sellouts since 2006. Like that video, Glass Boys bridges the gap between indie rock acceptability and Fucked Up’s hardcore roots. More so than previous releases, this album is a bid for mainstream viability. The band’s triple-guitar offensive takes a backseat to drummer Jonah Falco and bassist Sandy Miranda’s rolling rhythm section, and the lyrics ditch kabbalistic weirdness for honest songs about aging (Paper The House), compromise (The Art Of Patrons) and making peace with aging and compromise (Glass Boys). It’s softer, but it’s nice to see a band unafraid of mellowing. It sure beats the embarrassing snarling of icons like Keith Morris and Henry Rollins, barking about government puppetry well into middle age. Top track: Glass Boys Fucked Up play Field Trip at Fort York Garrison Common on June 8. JOHN SEMLEY

Hip-hop NDMA Panache (Give N Go Sounds) NNNN ñJON McKIEL

(Headless Owl) Rating: Jon McKiel’s sunny and fuzzy six-song EP kicks off impetuously – as if the East Coaster were already in mid-song – on opener New Tracy and comes to an abrupt halt 16 minutes later with a sudden, humorous clang at the end of Chop Through. Altogether, it’s a brief blast of rock ’n’ roll performed by just two guys, McKiel and producer/improviser Jay Crocker. But to their credit, it sounds more like a live band than studio fiddling. Short and unpretentious, the songs are packed with shifts in time signatures and evocative yet down-to-earth lyrics. I Know, I Know is psychedelic, while a rain of angular guitar leads off skronky Twin Speaks, which ends with a very un-East Coast traffic jam of drums and guitars. Poppy and punky Accolades has us eager to find out what these tunes will sound like live on a lawn. Top track: Accolades John McKiel plays the Silver Dollar June 14. SARAH GREENE

CHER LLOYD Sorry I’m Late (Epic/ Sony) Rating: N Cher Lloyd can obviously sing, having placed fourth in Britain’s The X Factor largely because of her pipes. Shame, then, that on her second album she often abandons her fluid vocals for squeaky Ke$ha sing-speaking, petulant Avril whineshouts and unconvincing rapping. She did

Rating: NNN Angola-born, Brazil-raised and based in our nation’s capital. Can’t get more Canadian than that, really.

And to our cultural mosaic, Ottawa’s Nilton De Menezes (aka NDMA) contributes a hip-hop/electronic hybrid five-song EP that draws influences from both his former countries. There are definite elements of kuduro, the Luandan music phenomenon that combines house, rap, Afrobeat, techno and zouk into a frenetic, danceable stew. But the rapper/singer (who produced all songs but one) mellows this aggressive style with more typical hip-hop production and Portuguese rhythms. Clearly a student of Kanye, Menezes includes lyrical nods to the just-married mogul, plus some 808s & Heartbreakstyle singing on opener Bring Us Down. His flow is intriguing and bounces along with the help of pinging, stuttery bass lines. Unfortunately, the lyrics often lack depth, and a real banger fails to emerge from the bunch. That said, NDMA is unique among his alt-hip-hop peers. A promising debut. Top track: What You Want NDMA plays Weldon Park Saturday (May 31). JULIA LeCONTE

Folk MARY GAUTHIER Trouble & Love

(Six Shooter) Rating: NNN Mary Gauthier’s last album, The Foundling (2010), was based on her experience growing up adopted and her attempts to reconnect with her birth mother. On her seventh album, Trouble & Love, the Nashville-based songwriter wearily traverses more well-trod Americana territory: namely, moving on from a broken heart. Gauthier – something of a LGBTQ folk hero – is talking about getting over a woman, which reminds us just how universal these themes are. Her songs are slow-moving at the best of times, but these are heavier and more plodding than usual, with the artist’s gravelly, conversational voice – anchored by big, low piano chords, bowed bass and acoustic guitars – sounding by turns despairing and resilient. Gauthier’s Louisiana accent comes out on fingerpicked gospel song Oh Soul and slide-guitar-soaked standout Worthy, but the highlight is How You Learn To Live Alone, a soulful synopsis of a person’s trajectory through love. Top track: How You Learn To Live Alone Mary Gauthier plays Hugh’s Room Tuesday (June 3). SARAH GREENE

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Edge of Glory WATCHING GLORY DIE by Judith Thompson (Canadian Rep Theatre). At Berkeley Street Theatre Upstairs (26 Berkeley). Runs to June 1. $30-$42. 416-368-3110. See Continuing, page 102. canadianrep.ca. Rating: NNN Ashley Smith’s suicide inside a federal penitentiary – witnessed but not prevented by corrections officers – is rich terrain for Judith Thompson’s exceptional talents. Her passion for social justice and empathy for marginalized characters are always tempered by her insistence on seeing an issue’s complexities. In Watching Glory Die, inspired by the Smith case, she mines multiple points of view by creating three personae: Glory, the troubled inmate whose sentence keeps getting extended because of minor infractions; Gail, one of

the “screws” guarding her in a therapeutic quiet room, aka solitary confinement; and Rosellen, Glory’s naive adoptive mother, who can’t understand how the sweet teen who got busted for throwing a crabapple at a letter carrier could wind up incarcerated for nearly five years. Thompson plays all three, intertwining a series of monologues that convey the way all the characters are hopelessly trapped: Rosellen by her ignorance of the facts, Gail by the orders from above that she must obey and Glory by a corrections system that has no idea how to handle someone struggling with mental illness. Technically, the piece is a wonder. Glory occupies a small square cell designed by Astrid Janson, sometimes prowling around her cage, sometimes just feeling the walls. The floor is a mirror that reflects and refracts Cameron

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Piatigorsky (Soundstreams/Maniac Star). This modern opera is set aboard a plane and examines the joy and angst of flying. Opens Jun 3 and runs to Jun 8, Tue-Fri 8 pm, Sat 4 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20-$75. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Ada Slaight Hall. 416-4080208, soundstreams.ca. AMERICANDREAM.CA by Claude Guilmain and

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Davis’s brilliant projections, and Debashis Sinha’s disturbing sound design adds to the unsettling experience. Strangely, the play doesn’t deliver a powerful emotional charge. This may be, in part, because we know how it’s going to end, but it’s also because Thompson deals so elliptically with the mental illness issue: Glory has no business being in prison, and in a more enlightened world, Rosellen would recognize that Glory needs psychiatric attention. Thompson’s performance is good, for sure – even without Janson’s small costume changes, we would be able to recognize the characters – but it lacks depth. Glory is the most fully realized, but that’s because her sequences have all that technical support. The material, worthy as it is, may have been better served by a more SUSAN G. COLE charismatic performer. Louise Naubert (Théâtre La Tangente). Six characters hide their personal tragedies from each other in this multidisciplinary show with English audio translation. Opens Jun 3 and runs to Jun 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20-$35. Glendon Campus Theatre, 2275 Bayview. 416-9477909, americandream.ca. EAST O’ THE SUN AND WEST O’ THE MOON by Norbert Palej and KT Bryski (Canadian Children’s Opera Co). A farm girl saves her hungry family by befriending a bear in this adaptation of a Norwegian folk tale. May 30-Jun 1, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35, srs $20, stu $15. Enwave Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, canadianchildrensopera.com. FACTORY WIRED 14 (Factory Theatre). Staged readings of new works in progress by Morro & Jasp, Joseph Jomo Pierre, Jonathan Seinen, Karen Hines, Marjorie Chan and others. Opens May 30 and runs to Jun 15, see website for schedule. Pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. THE GOD THAT COMES by Hawksley Workman and Christian Barry (2b theatre company). The slaves, women and outlaws of a city flee the oppressive king to worship the

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Bull’s eye DEAD METAPHOR by George F. Walker (Canadian Rep Theatre). At Panasonic Theatre (651 Yonge). Runs to June 8. $19-$79. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. See Continuing, page 102. Rating: NNNN

George F. Walker’s latest, the story of an unemployed sniper, delivers its scathing critique of veteran services and partisan politics with the subtlety of a shotgun blast. The strong ensemble makes Walker’s signature highoctane dialogue and blue-collar perspective intense, disturbing and hilarious in its utter absurdity. Dean (Noah Reid), a sharpshooter recently returned from duty in Afghanistan, has a pregnant wife, Jenny (Haley McGee), and no civilian job prospects. So he moves in with his elderly parents, Frannie (Nancy Beatty) and Hank (Eric Peterson), and begins visiting Oliver (Michael Healey), a career counsellor. Oliver finagles a job for Dean as a staffer for his wife, Helen (Julie Stewart), a ruthless conservative politician running for office. When the campaign gets ugly, Dean’s sniper skills quickly come back into focus. Walker explores the social, psychological and structural pressures on soldiers struggling to make the transition

to civilian life with only military training and experience. Frustrated, Dean considers returning to active duty, where his skills are in demand, but Jenny threatens to leave him if he continues to be so cavalier about their family’s future. Peterson’s Hank emerges as the breakout character. Suffering from some form of dementia similar to Alzheimer’s, the old man has a habit of speaking his mind to anyone anywhere in searing strings of expletives – displaying Walker’s talent for colourful language. Peterson nails these outbursts, one of which, directed at Helen’s political hypocrisy, proved such a slam dunk at the performance I saw that it inspired a sustained round of applause. Another had people gasping, “Did he just say that?” Healey’s transition as Oliver is also fine. At first he’s a boring career bureaucrat, a left-leaning foil for his wife’s superficial Tea Partyesque positions. But Oliver becomes more interesting in the second act when the pace and stakes ramp up, devolving into a desperate, paranoid mess. Walker’s direction dials up the fiery back-and-forths, pushing them beyond realism whenever he needs to his message to be clear. He doesn’t just hit the bull’s eye – he takes out the entire JORDAN BIMM target. Michael Healey and Julie Stewart bring social issues to life in Dead Metaphor.

god of wine, sex and ecstasy in this rock and roll cabaret (see story, page 102). Opens Jun 3 and runs to Jun 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $40. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-5311827, tarragontheatre.com. THE HARROWING by Scott Douglas (Clock Tower Theatre). Brute force meets cunning and intellect as a man tries to resist his torturer in this psychological drama. Opens May 29 and runs to Jun 7, Thu-Sat 7 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15-$20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. 647-660-0010, secureaseat.com. INSPIRATO FESTIVAL (Theatre InspiraTO). The festival of 10-minute plays presents works by Steven Simoncic, Dominik Loncar, Nina Kaye, Julie Cohn and others, plus site-specific plays on Queen East. Opens May 29 and runs to Jun 7, see website for schedule. $20, stu $15; festival pass $50, stu $40. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. theatreinspirato.ca. MAN OF LA MANCHA by Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion (Stratford Festival). The imprisoned Cervantes reenacts the misadventures of his novel’s protagonist in this musical. Opens May 29 and runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre,

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99 Downie, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. MEDICINE by TJ Dawe (East End Performance Crawl). Dawe tells of his experiences ingesting a shamanic plant at a Peruvian retreat. May 29-Jun 1, Thu-Fri 7 pm, Sat 5 pm, Sun 6 pm. $15. Loft Apt, 10 Hastings. crowstheatre.com. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy. Previews to May 30. Opens May 31 and runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN by Bertolt Brecht (Stratford Festival). A woman and her children sell goods to soldiers across 17thcentury war-torn Europe. Previews to May 29. Opens May 30 and runs in rep to Sep 21. $50$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. PETER PAN, A TRADITIONAL BRITISH PANTO by Simon Aylin and Trudy Moffatt (Drayton En-

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Yoga yuks THROUGH THE GAZE OF A NAVEL by Anita Rochon and Emelia Symington Fedy (The Chop Theatre). Saturday (May 31), 2:30 and 8:30 pm, Sunday (June 1), 2:30 pm. Yogathletix (911 Queen East). Rating: NNNN

Om. My. God. Through The Gaze Of A Navel is a savagely funny interactive yoga session led by Emelia Symington Fedy, who admits she’s spent over $68,000 on self-help and enlightenment techniques. These include everything from jade egg therapy (to increase the strength of her vagina) to swimming with 300 baby dolphins. The yoga itself isn’t too demanding (wear comfortable clothing), and Fedy allows you to go at your own pace, although she jokes she’ll point out who’s the best. (There are chairs for people who just want to watch.) There’s a deeper point to the show, involving acceptance of the dark things in your life and understanding the competitiveness and bullshit at the heart of a lot of New Age navel-gazing. That’s what I think, anyway. It’s hard to know where truth ends and satire begins, but that’s part of the fun. Fedy maintains her deadpan persona throughout, making you laugh, think and open your mind and body to new experiences – as well as a cool form of GLENN SUMI theatre.

About a boy Who’s Your Daddy? by Johnny

O’Callaghan (O’Callaghan). Friday (May 30), 9:30 pm, Saturday (May 31), 9 pm, Sunday (June 1), 1 pm. The Loft Apartment (10 Hastings). Rating: NNNN

Toronto audiences will recognize Johnny O’Callaghan from his Fringe and SummerWorks appearances in shows by playwrights from his native Ireland: Rum And Vodka (Conor McPherson) and Howie The Rookie (Mark O’Rowe). Now the L.A.-based actor returns in his own very

good play, Who’s Your Daddy? It’s 2006, and O’Callaghan, recovering from a bad relationship and a stalled career, decides to help a friend shoot a documentary in Africa. There, amidst child soldiers and poverty, he meets an adorable boy at an AIDS orphanage and over the next year goes through every step to try to adopt him. O’Callaghan packs a lot into 90 minutes: his penchant for dating fucked-up men and women, his bigoted, chainsmoking mother, a drunk escapade at the Chateau Marmont, Uganda-style homophobia. Director Aaron Willis helps give a jolt to each scene, helped by Zach Williamson’s evocative sound design and the use of every inch of the intimate space. A couple of things are glossed over – it’s not clear why he wants to adopt this particular boy – and although the climax is exciting, there could be a stronger emotional payoff. But O’Callaghan is an electric performer, and it’s hard to imagine anyone resisting his darkly comic adventure. GS

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tertainment). The classic tale is presented with musical numbers, slapstick comedy and audience participation. Opens Jun 4 and runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. draytonentertainment.com. Promises To A Divided City (Mammalian Diving Reflex/Theatre Centre). This interactive performance takes the audience on a tour through our city examining its social and economic dynamics. May 30-31, Fri various start times between 7 and 9:40 pm, Sat various start times between 4 and 7:20 pm. $15, stu/ srs $10. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. Queer Bathroom Stories by Sheila Cavanagh (Libido Productions/Queer Pride 2014). Based on hundreds of interviews of LGBTQ people, this play examines sex and gender politics in public washrooms. Previews May 31-Jun 1. Opens Jun 3 and runs to Jun 15, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. Rumors by Neil Simon (Scarborough Players). Secrets and lies derail a couple’s 10th anniversary party in this comedy. Opens May 30 and runs to Jun 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com. A Spirit’s Face by Jeff D’Hondt (Spiderbones Performing Arts). A social worker and an addictions counsellor fall in love and unmask each other’s demons. Previews Jun 3. Opens Jun 4 and runs to Jun 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $10-$20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416-5311402, totix.ca. Standing Room Only (The Shoe Project). Stories from South Sudan, Syria, Hungary and elsewhere are presented in theatrical readings. Jun 3-4 at 7:30 pm. $20, Wed $30 (benefit for the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc). Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. govier.com/shoe.htm. Tracy Wright Global Archive by Denise Fujiwara, Jani Lauzon, Nadia Ross and Marcus Youssef (The Theatre Centre). This collective creation is inspired by the artists’ travels and interactions with various communities. Opens Jun 4 and runs to Jun 8, see website for schedule. $10, Global Archive Pass $35. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. A Very Chris-terical 90s Cabaret (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Chris Tsujiuchi performs with Colin Asuncion, Hilary Wilson, Kevin Wong and others. May 30-31 at 8 pm. $20$25. 12 Alexander. b uddiesinbadtimes.com.

One-Nighters

Coffee Talk With Ryan G Hinds: Final Show

(The Flying Beaver Pubaret). The final edition of Hinds’s cabaret/chat show with guests Das Fagott Mannschaft, Wrong Note Rusty and Jory Rossiter. May 30 at 9 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. picatic.com/eventRyanHinds. Everybody’s Girlz (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Gita Wigdorchik and Caroline MartinRowe perform musical theatre tunes, pop songs and more. May 31 at 9 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. FPP 40-Year Anniversary (Famous People Players). Performance of show Going Bananas and a tribute to supporters Johnny Bower, Art Eggleton and Ron James at this gala. May 31 at 6 pm. $94. FPP Dine and Dream Theatre, 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. Plaza Suite by Neil Simon (Medina Theatre Ensemble). Staged reading of Simon’s comedy play featuring couples at a swanky NYC hotel. Jun 2 at 7:30 pm. $10. Temple Sinai Congregation, 210 Wilson. medinatheatre.blogspot.ca. The Producers Pop Edition (A Platinum Production/the Mansfield Brothers Vaudeville Troupe). This variety show features comedy, dance and burlesque. May 29 at 8 pm. $10. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-5314635, gladstonehotel.com. Reveal Me Burlesque (Red Herring Burlesque). Virgin vixens and professional peelers put on a show. Jun 4, doors 8 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. aprofessionaldistraction.com. The Sonnet Show: A Night Of 14 (Humber River Shakespeare Company). Five original 14-minute plays based on a 14-line sonnet are performed. May 30 at 7 pm. $30. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca.

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The Art Of Traditional Head-Tying by Kanika Ambrose (East End Performance Crawl). A woman returns to Dominica 20 years after immigrating to Canada in this solo show. Runs to May 29, Thu 6:30 pm. $15. Ralph Thornton

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Centre, 765 Queen E. c rowstheatre.com. Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. The Ballad Of The Young Offender by Patrick John Constello (East End Performance Crawl). This show looks at the xenophobia, racism and fear-mongering that followed the birth of rock and roll. Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule. $15. Sidemart Theatrical Grocery, 1362 Queen E. crowstheatre.com. Bingo! by Daniel MacIvor (Factory Theatre). MacIvor’s latest is a cute and funny highschool reunion story aimed at the 50-plus crowd. Lubricated with alcohol, two groups of old friends discuss whether their best years are behind them, leading to emotional revelations. Runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$45, Sun pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-5049971, f actorytheatre.ca. NNN (Jordan Bimm) Dead Metaphor by George F Walker (Mirvish/Canadian Rep). A soldier returns from Afghanistan and takes a job with a crusading politician in this dark comedy (see review, page 100). Runs to Jun 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $19-$79. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) East End Performance Crawl (Crow’s Theatre). Theatrical fest featuring Bronwyn Steinberg’s Occupy Me, the Soulo Festival, storytelling and more. Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule and prices. Various venues on Queen East from Broadview to Greenwood. crowstheatre.com. Face Value: Leslieville by Tracey Hoyt (East End Performance Crawl). Improv artist Hoyt explores a number of unforgettable Leslieville characters. (See review at n owtoronto.com/ stage.) Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sat 9 pm, Sun 8 pm. $15. Pentimento Fine Art Gallery, 1164 Queen E. crowstheatre.com. NNN (GS) Flashdance – The Musical by Tom Hedley, Robbie Roth and Robert Cary (Mirvish). A welder dreams of becoming a professional dancer in this adaptation of the iconic 80s film. Runs to Jun 8, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, see website for Sun and other times. $36$130. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416872-1212, mirvish.com. Freeway Strangler by Christian Canterbury (The Box Studio/Straeon Filmworks Inc). Four Hollywood actors pursue love and fame while a serial killer terrorizes L.A. Runs to Jun 8, ThuSun 8 pm. $20. The Box Studio, 89 Niagara. brownpapertickets.com/event/688046. The Glorious Ones by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (The Civic Light-Opera Co). This musical looks at the daily lives of a comedia dell’arte troupe in 17th century Italy. Runs to Jun 15, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28. Zion Cultural Centre, 1650 Finch E. 416-755-1717, musictheatretoronto.com. Hedwig And The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love. Runs to Jun 7, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 11 pm. $49. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. In Case We Disappear by Vanessa Smythe (East End Performance Crawl). Smythe performs her part spoken-word, part stand-up solo show (see review, page 101). Runs to Jun 1, Fri 8 pm, Sat-Sun 6 pm. $15. The Purple Purl, 1162 Queen E. c rowstheatre.com. NNNN (GS) The Last Confession by Roger Crane (Mirvish). Crane’s play about a real-life mysterious death in the Vatican is an awkward patchwork of genres, including religious history and detective story. But solid performances by Richard O’Callaghan, as Pope John Paul I, and David Suchet, as the cardinal who helped get him elected, help pass the time. Runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $35-$119. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416872-1212, m irvish.com. NN (GS) The Lion King by Elton John, Tim Rice and Roger Allers (Mirvish). More than 15 years after its debut, Julie Taymor’s musical – based on the Disney animated film – continues to roar, thanks to its mix of jaw-dropping stagecraft, stirring music and archetypal story. The performers in this touring production are generally excellent – especially Brown Lindiwe Mkhize’s baboon Rafiki – but the real stars are the puppets and masks, which give this very modern show an old-school feel. There’s no CGI trickery here, just imagination and wonder. 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) Love And Human Remains by Brad Fraser

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(Witchboy Theatre). Frustrated young adults look for sex and love while a serial killer roams the city. Runs to Jun 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. witchboytheatre.com. Magic @ The Cage (Abracadabaret). Magicians, mind readers and mystery entertainers perform weekly magic and comedy. Runs to Jun 29, Sun and Tue 7 pm. $15-$20. The Cage 292, 292 College, Crimson Lounge. 416-9951736, a bracadabaret.com/cage. Occupy Me by Bronwyn Steinberg (East End Performance Crawl). An anxious zen seeker grapples with the Occupy movement and seeks nirvana in India. Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule. $15. The Flying Yogi, 245 Carlaw. crowstheatre.com. The Parliamentarians by Phil Rickaby (Red Sandcastle Theatre). The new Prime Minister’s tryst with a call girl is ruined when a political opponent shows up at the hotel. Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com. Rent by Jonathan Larson (Lower Ossington Theatre). NYC artists struggle to make ends meet in the shadow of the AIDS epidemic in this musical. Runs to Jun 8, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

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Rock on Singer/songwriter Hawksley Workman adds playwright and actor to his resumé By Jordan Bimm

Singular Sensation: A Music Theatre Open Mic (Jennifer Walls). Sing showñ tunes with a live band and see previews of

upcoming works at this weekly show. Mondays 10 pm. Free. Statler’s, 487 Church. 416922-0487. Stars Of David based on a book by Abigail Pogrebin (Harold Green Jewish Theatre/Angelwalk Theatre). Pogrebin’s book of celebrity interviews about Jewish identity gets a theatrical makeover performed in a concert-like production. For each song, one of four compelling performers (Darrin Baker, Will Lamond, Lisa Horner and a particularly versatile Gabi Epstein) embodies a famous American Jew such as Fran Drescher, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or Norman Lear. Despite some clever musical numbers (backed by an excellent orchestra), the show just doesn’t dig deep enough and can’t overcome tired pacing, cliché material and dated references. Runs to Jun 1, Thu and Sat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mat Thu 1 pm, Sun 2 pm. $25-$65. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-733-0545, hgjewishtheatre.com. NN (Debbie Fein-Goldbach) TEASE by Amy Keating, Julie Tepperman and others (East End Performance Crawl). Viewer and performer share an intimate encounter in this site-specific show limited to five people per performance. Runs to May 31, Thu-Sat 11:25 am, noon and 1 pm. $15. Jilly’s, meet at 696 Queen E. crowstheatre.com. Through The Gaze Of A Navel by Emelia Symington Fedy (East End Performance Crawl). A self-proclaimed self-help expert takes you on a journey in this theatre show/yoga class (see review, page 101). Runs to Jun 1, Sat 2:30 & 8:30 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $15. Yogathletix, 911 Queen E. crowstheatre. com. NNNN (GS) Toronto Festival Of Clowns (Adam Lazarus/Dave McKay). Clowns, bouffons and physical theatre performers include Foo Productions, 2 Man No Show, Morro & Jasp, Guayoyo Creative Collective and others. Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule. $15, pass $65-$115. Pia Bouman Studio, 6 Noble, and Brockton Collective, 442 Dufferin. torontofestivalofclowns.com. Vitals by Rosamund Small (Outside the March/Theatre Passe Muraille). This interactive, site-specific show takes us into the world and mind of Anna, an EMS worker who starts to crack under the pressure of her job. The exciting staging by director Mitchell Cushman never stops offering up unexpected twists and turns both in the venue and in Anna’s life. Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$30. Starts at Roncesvalles & Garden Aves, 149 Roncesvalles. 416-5047529, outsidethemarch.ca. NNNN (JK) Watching Glory Die by Judith Thompson (Canadian Rep Theatre). Thompson performs in her solo show about three women linked by shared helplessness in the face of tragedy (see review, page 100). Runs to Jun 1, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30-$42. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley, Upstairs. 416-368-3110, canadianrep.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) Who’s Your Daddy? by Johnny O’Callaghan (East End Performance Crawl). A film shoot in Africa leads to an adoption in Uganda for a single, down-and-out gay actor (see review, page 101). Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule. $15. Loft Apt, 10 Hastings. crowstheatre.com. NNNN (GS) 3

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Hawksley Workman says making albums was beginning to feel like factory work.

THE GOD THAT COMES by Hawksley Workman and Christian Barry, directed by Barry, with Workman. Presented by 2b theatre company and the Tarragon (30 Bridgman). Opens Tuesday (June 3) and runs to June 29, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. $40. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

After a string of successful stops out west, Hawksley Workman’s rockedout riff on the Bacchus myth finally hits Toronto. “I was experiencing some career malaise,” admits the Juno Award-win ning singer, songwriter and producer about his dip into theatre. “The idea to do something different started in Montreal when Christian Barry, then a student at the National Theatre School, found me after I played a show at Club Soda and suggested we work together. Later, he came to me with the idea of doing a rock version of Euripides’ The Bacchae. It was a perfect match, because I’ve always had a little glam and cabaret in my back pocket.” The solo show, which debuted in Calgary in 2013, finds Workman covering all aspects of the performance: he swaps characters, playing an evil ruler, hedonistic townspeople and of course Bacchus, the Greek god of wine, and creates a full band effect with a range of instruments and loop pedals. For Workman, who’s known as a speedy and prolific operator after releasing 14 solo records in about as many years, the change of pace in developing this show was a relief. “Making albums almost felt like factory work: write, record, promo, tour, come home, try to drink less, repeat,” he says. “Working with Christian, we’d just show up each morning and have these in-depth discussions, and the songs emerged naturally

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from that. We had a piano and a little stage there, so when inspiration struck we could hop up and act it out. A lot of the show came out of those improvised nuggets.” But there were some challenges involved in the slower pace of this new artistic medium. “For so long we were performing this show as a work-in-progress, which had its benefits, but for me it was always a little frustrating. I got impatient. It felt kinda silly, like what if I played a concert and was like, ‘Okay, check out these three chorus ideas’?” The plot delves into the psyche of the evil monarch bent on banning the bacchanalia, but Workman says his approach to unsavoury characters comes from a place of empathy. “We’ve seen a lot of rancid rulers lately – there seems to be no shortage of them – but I didn’t want to recreate the hate that they use to wield power. So much of our current politics is about stifling difference through the promotion of hate, so here I want to model an approach to this bad character from a place of love. Hate is so petty and constricting; it’s love that makes people burst with possibilities and potential, and that’s what Bacchus was all about.” After a month-long run at the Tarragon, the show will continue to tour with stops at the Edinburgh Fringe in August and Stratford in September. When he’s not doing the show, Workman has other tour dates with his new band, Mounties, a rock trio that also includes Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat and Ryan Dahle of Limblifter. “I feel very blessed to have a me dium-sized career,” he laughs. “Not being too big or too small means I get to try out all these different projects, and a bunch of the seeds I planted years back are starting to grow.” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com | @jordanbimm

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Thursday, May 29 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Derick

Lengwenus, Faisal Butt and host Perry Perlmutar. To Jun 1, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BEERPROV: THE DRAFT Jim Robinson presents young improvisers competing in a series of elimination games. 9:30 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com. FAMILY SLIDES Underground Cafe presents slides and stories w/ Tim Nasiopoulos, Martha Chaves, Boyd Banks, Candice Gregoris, Nitish Sakhuja and hosts Phil Luzi & Sandra Batta glini. 9 pm. $10. 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125.

FUNNY GIRLS AND DYNAMIC DIVAS Sistering presents its annual comedy ñ and music benefit w/ Debra DiGiovanni,

Cheri Maracle, host Elvira Kurt, musical guest Jane Bunnett and others. 7:30 pm. $80. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, s istering.org. KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly pro/am show w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. k itchbar.com. LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents a night of improv w/ James Hartnett, Bob Kerr, Aaron Eves, Tim Gilbert, Nick Flanagan, host Becky Johnson and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. l aughsabbath.com. May Flowers With Comic Powers Spice Lounge and Jeff Estrela present Azfar Ali, Blair E Streeter, Ernice Vicente, Cathryn Naiker, Xulf Ali, Ricardo Mejias and host Jeff E. 9 pm. $5. 52 Lakeshore E, Mississauga. jeffecomedy.com. THE RECEPTION Comedy Bar presents a sketch comedy party w/ Tony Ho and Jeremy Woodcock. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SIXTEEN SCANDALS The funniest SC revue in ages draws on our anxiety about the schizophrenic weather, our crack-smoking 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. To Jun 29, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS)

Absolute Comedy See Thu 29. BEERPROV Jim Robinson presents the monthly

improv competition. 10:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. beerprov.com. BRENDON WALSH Puff Mama presents a stand-up show. To Jun 1, Fri-Sun 9 pm. $20. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. 416-4509125, p uffmama.ca. CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly improv pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. COMEDY COVE CATACULAR Blair Streeter & Marianne Gibson present a benefit for Toronto Cat Rescue and Forever Home Cat Rescue w/ headliner Kenny Robinson, Bobby Knauff, Pat MacDonald plus Ian Fergus’s Catacular Cats. 9 pm. $15-$20. Maple Leaf House, 2749 Lake Shore W. c omedycove.ca. HIRUT HOOT Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine presents Boyd Banks, Sam Burns, Todd Graham, Troy Kulchyski, Jim McAleese, Marcel St Pierre, Mark Walker, George Westerholm and host Kevin MacDonald. 9 pm. $5. 2050 Danforth. 416-551-7560. THE JOKEBOX Impulsive Entertainment presents the monthly show w/ Andrew Barr, Mark DeBonis, Plum Thunder, headliners the Rocket Scientists, host Garrett Jamieson and others. 10 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 29. THANK YOU, DREW, COMEDY SHEW The Social Capital presents players of its rep company. 10 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.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. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Main Event, a weekly pro headliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416637-7427. Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 29.

Saturday, May 31 Absolute Comedy See Thu 29. BEGGAR’S CANYON: EVERY SKETCH IS AWESOME

Comedy Bar presents Rulers of the Universe, Luke Gordon Field and headliners Beggar’s Canyon (Peter Hill & Ian MacIntyre). 10 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. Brendon Walsh See Fri 30. DEEZ LAUGHS Derryck Birch presents Gilson Lubin w/ Eesha Brown, Jen Sakato and host Marc Trinidad. 9 pm. $15-$20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. INTERNATIONAL FEAST OF LAUGHTER Leggys Catering Plus and Kinteet Kompini present

dance listings Opening Cinderella The National Ballet of Canada presents James Kudelka’s interpretñ ation of the fairy-tale ballet. Opens Jun 4 and

runs to Jun 15, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm (no show Jun 11-12). $25-$244. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca. cos.mo.pol.i.tan Danceworks Co-Works and Harbourfront NextSteps present two African dance works comprising both contemporary and traditional forms by Lua Shayenne and Company. May 29-31, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $25-$30. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Fulcrum Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre and Harbourfront NextSteps present works by Colin Connor, Deborah Lundmark and Ofilio Portillo. May 30-31 at 8 pm. $22.50-$38. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Guelph Dance Festival The GCDF presents

performances by Carousel Dance Company, MOonhORsE Dance Theatre, Katie Ewald, GUH, Mocean Dance, and many others. May 29-Jun 1, see website for schedule. Various prices and passes, some shows pwyc. River Run Centre, 35 Woolwich, Exhibition Park and other venues in Guelph. 519-763-3000, guelphdance.ca. Him: Evolution HiM Promotions presents sexy male athleticism and dance. Jun 4 at 8 pm. $40. The Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. eventbrite.ca/e/10151071127. Rung Festival Royal Ontario Museum presents a South Asian cultural celebration featuring dance by Pratibha Dance, Kathakali Group, Afghani Dance Group and many others. May 31-Jun 1, 10 am-5 pm daily (see website for performance schedule). $9-$12.50. 100 Queen’s Park. rungfestival.com. Short Stories ProArteDanza presents new works by Robert Glumbek, Adam Paolozza and Matjash Mrozewski. May 29-31, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $16. Wychwood Barns Theatre, 76 Wychwood. proartedanza.com.

music and comedy w/ Professor Nuts, Ity and Fancy Cat, Blakka Ellis, Marcia Brown, Jean Paul and others. 8:30 pm. $45-$50. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. 647-4040432, ticketgateway.com. THE LONGFORM IMPROV SHOWCASE Comedy Bar presents Burns & Gallo, Shots & High Fives, Touch My Stereotype and Bacon Bits w/ host Matt Folliott. 11 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. MEME GIRLS Toronto Comedy All Stars present a fundraiser for Native Women’s Resource Centre w/ headliner Martha Chaves, Lucy Gervais, Aisha Alfa, Zabrina Chevannes, host Danish Anwar and others. 8 pm. $12. BalticAvenue, 875 Bloor W. 416-963-9963, memegirls.brownpapertickets.com. 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 29. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents the improv competition w/ Ashley Comeau, Carmine Lucarelli, Rob Baker, Alice Moran and others. To Jun 21, Saturdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. THE UNSUNG SEQUEL Special Features Musical Improv Troupe presents an improvised musical sequel to top movies. 8 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. specialfeaturesimprov. wordpress.com. Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 29.

Sunday, June 1 Absolute Comedy See Thu 29. Brendon Walsh See Fri 30. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT Ein-

Stein presents contestants competing for a spot on Yuk Yuk’s Tuesday Night Show. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca. MAD LAUGHS AND A SONG Madison Avenue Pub presents a weekly open mic comedy show and karaoke contest. 8 pm. Free. 14 Madison. 416-927-1722. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 29. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 29.

Monday, June 2 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE: SIRIUS XM TOP COMIC COMPETITION Rivoli presents ñ Dave Merheje, K Trevor Wilson, Steph Tolev,

Julia Hladkowicz, Zabrinna Chevannes, Dom Pare, Ted Morris, Michelle Shaughnessy, Pat Thornton, MC Ben Miner and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416815-7562. IMPERIAL COMEDY SHOW Imperial Pub presents a weekly show. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, imperialcomedy.com. OFFICE PUB COMEDY presents 12 pros and amateurs each week w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti and Blayne Smith. 8 pm. Free. The Office Pub, 117 John. 416-977-1900.

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End Performance Crawl presenst a solo work by Meagan O’Shea about the relationship between home/less/ness in the body. Runs to Jun 1, see website for schedule. $15. Kryart Studio, 980 Queen E (enter from Carlaw). crowstheatre.com. Elvis and The Man in Black Coleman Lemieux & Compagnie presents a double bill featuring James Kudelka’s The Man In Black and the world premiere of Laurence Lemieux’s Looking For Elvis. Runs to May 31, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $20. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-364-8011, c olemanlemieux.com. On Display Toronto Dance Theatre presents 10 solos created by non-choreographers who work in theatre and visual art, including Brendan Healy, Sook-Yin Lee and Laura Nanni. Runs to May 31, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $26, stu/srs $20. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. tdt.org. Physical Thinking The National Ballet of Canada presents works by Marco Goecke, Jerome Robbins and William Forsythe that highlight the physical and intellectual rigour of ballet. Runs to Jun 1, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $25-$244. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet.ca. 3

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Tuesday, June 3 ALTDOT COMEDY OPEN MIC Rivoli presents headliner Graham Kay, MC Mike Rita and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. COMEDY COVE Blair Streeter presents Gavin Stephens and Mayce Galoni, followed by Jeff E’s Olde Fashioned Open Mic. 9 pm. Pwyc. Maple Leaf House, 2749 Lake Shore W. comedycove.ca. THE FIRESTARTER Fox & Fiddle presents weekly pros and random lotto spots w/ host Kyle Andrews. 8:30 pm. Free. 280 Bloor W. 416-966-4369. FOUNTAIN ABBEY The Fountain presents stand-up w/ Diana Love & Julia Hladkowicz. 8 pm. Free. 1261 Dundas W. juliacomedy.com. IMPROV DROP-IN The Social Capital presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com. LES IMPROBABLES present competitive improv en français featuring the tournament finals. 7:30 pm. $5. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416840-0501, ligueimprotoronto@gmail.com. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 29. THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts. TERRIFIC WOMEN The Ossington presents comedy styled as a 70s cable access show w/ Amanda Day, Nick Flanagan, Mark Forward, Julia Hladkowicz and hosts Steph Kaliner & Sara Hennessey. 9 pm. Pwyc. 61 Ossington. theossington.com. 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.

Wednesday, June 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

headliner Dave Merheje, Dylan Beeson, JP Hodgkinson, Jen Sakato, Marc Anthony Sinagoga, Max Margas, Rob Browne and host Sam Demaris. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca.

CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com. THE FIRKIN KINGS OF COMEDY Firkin on King presents K Trevor Wilson, Jeff Paul, Amish Patel, JJ Liberman and a mystery guest. 8 pm. $10. 461 King W. firkinkings.bpt.me. HOLODECK FOLLIES The Dandies present a monthly sci fi-inspired improv comedy variety show w/ Copy Red Leader and Kari Maaren. 8 pm. Pwyc ($8 sugg; fundraiser for the Fresh Air Fund). Black Swan Social Capital Studios, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. improvdandies. wordpress.com. HUNGRY AT 8 The Social Capital presents a comedy show. 9:30 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. b lackswancomedy.com. Jill Knight’s Comedy Fare presents Kate Davis, Richard Ryder, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Ernie Vicente, Roy Daye, Barry Taylor and Chrissie Cunningham. 9 pm. Free. Parlour, 270 Adelaide W. knighttimecomedy.com. THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR C’est What presents stand-up by Dionne and music by Garage Baby. 9 pm. $10. 67 Front E. 416-8679499, cestwhat.ticketfly.com. MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standup. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele. 120 WEDNESDAYS OPEN MIC Club 120 presents stand-up, sketch & improv 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 Michelle Christine and headliner Shirley Whalen. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 29. SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of T.O.’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416-967-0001. TEAM WILDCATS! Bad Dog Theatre presents an unscripted comedy about a high school baseball team. To Jun 4, Wednesdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, baddogtheatre.com. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free. Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440. 3

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Pierre François Ouelette Art Contemporain/Centre Space (65 George, 416-323-1373) To May 31 Adad Hannah has gained an international following for his photographic reproductions of well-known paintings. At his Centre Space show, he restages John Everett Millais’s pre-Raphaelite kitsch masterpiece Ophelia. “Millais’s Ophelia was one of the paintings I remembered from summer trips to Europe I took as a young adult,” Hannah recalls. “I have done remakes of wellknown works a couple of times before and always like to try and get close to the original while allowing some space for experimentation and deviation along the way.” Every element of the landscape was meticulously built, painted and assembled. “The photograph was shot inside of a wooden crate on wheels filled with water and covered in fake flowers. I often shoot in a built set. The act of taking something apart and rebuilding a facsimile in the studio is a process I very much enjoy. “The biggest challenge is to keep pushing forward with an idea that one is not sure will work. I end up doing this over and over, which is quite stressful from a production standpoint but productive from a conceptual standpoint. “I just keep working away with some kind of blind faith that eventually things will work themselves out through experimentation. And they usually DAVID JAGER do.”

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TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King West, 416-599-8433 To June 15 Shot in cinemas in and around New York City – art houses, neighbourhood theatres and drive-ins, as well as the Museum of the Moving Image – Holmes’s photographs reveal the unseen spaces where projectionists screen our films. The film industry’s glittery fantasies unspool from these utilitarian rooms, with unfinished cement walls, exposed wiring and pinned-up layers of posters, notes and schedules. Not everything was button-pushing digitized tech in 2012, when the images were made. Those of us who still cherish the darkened theatre experience will recognize kindred spirits and unsung heroes in Holmes’s portraits of the daylightFRAN SCHECHTER deprived workers who toil in these dim caves.

Varial (Cédric Houin) and Fabrice Nadjari WAKHAN, ANOTHER AFGHANISTAN Arsenal Toronto, 45 Ernest, 647-346-9062 To August 16

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ato Jun 6-15). 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, to Aug 10. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. DESIGN EXCHANGE Connect Competition, May 30-Jun 8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, May 29-Sep 14, reception 6-8 pm May 29 ($30). $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm discounts. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. CJUSTINA M. BARNICKE Rebecca Belmore, to Aug 9. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. CMOCCA Material Self: Performing The Other Within, to Jun 1. Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. ROM Restless Precinct tour, 6-7 pm May 30 (restlessprecinct.ca). Rung Festival, May 31Jun 1 ($9-$12.50). The Forbidden City, 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 discounts. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. CRYERSON IMAGE CENTRE Stan Douglas, Zanele Muholi, to Jun 1. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164. TEXTILE MUSEUM Ying Gao, to Sep 1. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. CU OF T ART CENTRE Through The Body: Chinese Women Artists; Archiving Public Sex, to Jun 28. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838.

Franco-Canadian Varial and his French collaborator Nadjari, adventurers who’ve visited some of the world’s remotest corners, document the inhabitants of northeastern Afghanistan’s Wakhan corridor. In this beautiful mountain range, yurt-dwelling herders, isolated from the current conflict by the harsh terrain, continue a timeless pastoral existence. Many pose holding Polaroid portraits of themselves, gifts from Varial and Nadjari. Though the images degraded and discoloured at the extreme altitude, they were still precious to people who’d never had a photograph of themselves. A quiet 76-minute video of everyday scenes – children playing, women carrying water, men coaxing heavily laden donkeys over mountain FS trails – makes fascinating viewing.

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NOWTORONTO.COM/MOVIES THE GRAND SEDUCTION directed by Don McKellar, written by Michael Dowse and Ken Scott, with Brendon Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent and Liane Balaban. An Entertainment One release. 115 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111.

Don McKellar has acted in other people’s movies, written movies for other people and directed other people’s scripts for television – including a Canadian remake of the British TV series Sensitive Skin, which will air on The Movie Network later this summer. His new feature presented a different challenge, though: not only was he working from someone

else’s script, but from someone else’s picture. The Grand Seduction is a remake of JeanFrançois Pouliot’s La Grande Séduction, about a tiny Quebec village that schemes to trick a bigcity doctor into moving there to secure a lucrative factory. The new version, written by Michael Dowse, finds Taylor Kitsch dispatched to fictional Tickle Harbour, Newfoundland, at the behest of Brendan Gleeson’s de facto mayor, Murray French. “You know, as an actor I rarely get the pleasure of doing someone else’s script,” McKellar says after demolishing a sandwich at a College Street café. (He’s spent most of the day in isolation, doing phone interviews.) “And it’s a very different pleasure, asking yourself, ‘Why was this written, and how can I make that work?’ instead of thinking ‘Oh, I can just change it.’ That was the same here: ‘How can I best sell that joke?’ How do I make that set-up clear and pay it off honestly, set a joke up without seeming to try? And that was fun. It’s really fun.” Departing from the rampant feelgoodery of the original, McKellar engages with the economic desperation at the heart of The Grand Séduction, in the tradition of 70s American comedies or more recent films by socially conscious filmmakers like Ken Loach and the Dardennes brothers. It’s still a comedy, but it has very few illusions. “That’s sort of what I grew up on,” he says, “– that hyper-naturalism in comedy, which you really rarely see now. No one goes for that. And no one goes for the social comedies. It’s hard,

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REVIEW THE GRAND SEDUCTION (Don McKellar) Rating: NNN Don McKellar’s The Grand Seduction is an English-language remake of Jean-François Pouliot’s 2003 comedy Seducing Dr. Lewis, with the action transposed from rural Quebec to a depressed Newfoundland harbour community. The plot is otherwise the same: the locals (including Brendon Gleeson and Gordon Pinsent) scheme to trick a big-city doctor (Taylor Kitsch) into moving there in order to secure a factory and stave off financial ruin. Directing a script by Michael Dowse and Seducing screenwriter Ken Scott, McKellar crafts a gentle, pleasant farce that takes its time setting up stakes and defining the characters, giving the cast (which also includes Liane Balaban, Mary Walsh and Cathy Jones) room to play. It’s a movie less interested in belly laughs than in generating a constant hum of contentment, and it works perfectly well for the material. NW

for one thing, but that was definitely one of the things that appealed to me. It had a classic feel.” Not only did shooting on location in Trinity Bay help the very Irish Brendan Gleeson keep his accent straight, but it let the movie be as authentic as possible. “If we don’t have those people to guarantee for us that it’s not bullshit, then I don’t know,” says McKellar. “I’m not from there, I’m not the guy to say, ‘Uh, that’s not how you clean a fish.’ Those guys, that’s what they do. And all that stuff makes a difference, you know.” For the opening sequence, which flashes back to the days when Tickle Harbour was a thriving fishing community, the production recruited most of the town as extras. “Everyone’s in their fathers’ work clothes, basically, and to have them walk down the hill – they were in tears,” he says. “They were really, really moved. It was heartbreaking. I thought, ‘Fuck, this is not a joke to these people.’ And our current government is being very callous about the idea that people should just move within a 100-mile radius to get a job at the local fast food joint, or on the oil rigs, if they want to be able to collect welfare. That’s just killing communities. “It’s easy to be cynical about that, but when you’re there and you see that culture, you see the richness of it, it’s hard not to be seduced.” normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

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Lise Roy and Xavier Dolan deliver thrills and chills in Tom At The Farm.

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Best bet WE ARE THE BEST! (Lukas Moodysson). 102 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 30) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. See Times, page 117. Rating: NNNN

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Dolan, written by Dolan and Michel Marc Bouchard, with Dolan and Pierre-Yves Cardinal. An eOne release. 103 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111.

I’m in a hotel suite during the 2013 Toronto Film Festival, and Xavier Dolan, a filmmaker three years my junior, is laying out the rudiments of dramatic structure for me as if I’ve never sat through a Grade 9 English class. It’s all fairly basic, but for Dolan, a prolific young Canadian filmmaker who has netted a wunderkind rep fucking around with the narrative and visual grammar of filmmaking, it seems very exciting. Dolan’s latest, the rural thriller Tom At The Farm, may be his most straight-ahead movie to date. But its restraint is exhilarating in its own way, like watching Jackson Pollack paint a straight line. “It’s a Syd Field script,” says Dolan of the screenplay, a reference to the author of The Screenwriter’s Workbook. “I’m ashamed, but it is. The aim was to follow rules.” After arriving in rural Quebec following the death of his lover, Tom (Dolan) becomes weirdly intoxicated with farm life and enters into a pseudo-sexual relationship with his partner’s macho, bullying older brother (Pierre-Yves Cardinal). Rising action, tension, climax and resolution: it’s all there, a movie built on a boilerplate. Following his lavish, expressionistic epic Laurence Anyways, Dolan wanted to do something different. After seeing a staging of Michel Marc Bouchard’s play Tom At The

Farm, he found his inspiration. “After Laurence Anyways, I needed a break from style,” he says. “I needed a break from love stories. For me, this film was a rupture in terms of tone, genre, style, approach. Everything was different. I didn’t want to scale back or scale down, but just fucking simplify.” Neverthless, the film still makes a point of mucking about with genre. Dolan calls it a psychological thriller, but it’s also reminiscent of backwoods horror films in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre mould – where old abandoned houses hide all kinds of family secrets. It’s as much about country life as it is about metropolitan assumptions that rural life is dirty and gritty, something Dolan feels uniquely qualified to comment on. “I was brought up in the suburbs and the country, half and half,” says Dolan. “So I know the contempt that comes from both ends. Toward the city: ‘Oh, it’s just a bunch of fags who don’t want to step in the mud with their boots’ or whatever. And in the city people think the country just has a bunch of dumb farmers who will fuck you in the ass and fuck you up.” 3 movies@nowtoronto.com

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Tom At The Farm feels like a horror movie zapped into our universe from some other, more compassionate dimension. Tom (Xavier Dolan) heads into the beige-bleached Quebec countryside to attend the funeral of his lover, Guy, meeting up with his bereaved family. While Guy’s widowed mother (Lise Roy) seems oblivious to her son’s sexuality, her other son, Francis (Pierre-Yves Cardinal), is acutely aware, coercing Tom to maintain the fiction that Guy was arrow-straight. Mingling melodrama, rural horror and absurdist plotting (Tom’s inability to escape evokes Luis Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel as much as John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness), Dolan takes turns satisfying and stymying the conventions of the genre. The film also offers an unforgettable monster in the prowling, deeply repressed, borderline incestuous Francis: a Frankenstein of sloppily stitched- together sexual JS energies.

This film, adapted by director Lukas Moodysson from the graphic novel by his wife, Coco Moodysson, is ostensibly about three Swedish girls who start a punk band in the early 80s. But it’s as much about preteen mentality – that paradoxical tendency to be hilariously overconfident and hopelessly insecure at the same time – as it is about creative aspirations. Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin) are ready to launch their punk music careers. They even have a

signature song, Hate The Sport, a tuneless diatribe against gym class that they love to scream out to the rafters. All they need to do is learn how to play their instruments and convert the school’s nerdy classical guitar player Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne) from Christian to punk. Of course, no one at their school appreciates their efforts, and neither does Hedvig’s mom, especially after the girls give their long-tressed friend a very short haircut. Director Moodysson has an unerring eye and ear for the times – the adults, including some hippie parents, are as well rendered as the kids – and a clear sense of how preteens communicate with each other. It helps that he’s working with three charismatic young actors. Sly, fun and irresistible. SUSAN G. COLE

James McAvoy revels in the Filth of this Irvine Welsh adaptation.

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Filthy frolic FILTH (Jon S. Baird). 98 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111. Rating: NNN

Following in the footsteps of Harvey Keitel and Nicolas Cage, James McAvoy shines (or perhaps rots) as an exceptionally bad lieutenant in Filth. With glazed, wild eyes and a sinister grin, McAvoy holds little back, daring us not to look away while he plays the coked out, depraved and deranged Scottish detective Bruce Robertson. He’s the magnetic centre in this latest adaptation of an Irvine Welsh novel, which arrives almost two decades after Trainspotting. If this film feels dated, its because

director Jon S. Baird adheres to Danny Boyle’s style, with all the visual flourishes and accelerated editing that seem mandatory when translating Welsh’s prose. Boyle had an easier time finding redeeming qualities in Trainspotting’s junkies. Baird has to strain to find the humanity in a detective who puts off solving a murder as long as possible so he can get wasted, fuck over his colleagues while angling for a promotion and get off on married women (and even a 14-year-old girl), all while his own wife and child remain mysteriously absent. If not morally nauseating, the sick hijinks can be periodically hysterical, but also numbing, like the movie is beating on a dick that’s already cum RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI five times.

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Nadia Litz and Philip Riccio talk around truths in Hotel Congress.

Glamazon Angelina Jolie is devilishly good as a tricked sprite who seeks payback.

LITZ ON A BLITZ Lean feature was written, shot and edited in three months By NORMAN WILNER HOTEL CONGRESS directed by Nadia Litz and Michel Kandinsky, written by Litz, with Litz and Philip Riccio. A Search Engine Films release. 72 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111.

Nadia Litz shot Hotel Congress in three days, but the Toronto-based writer, co-director and actor had been working toward it for a while. Perhaps best known for her roles in Love That Boy, Monkey Warfare and You Are Here, Litz has had one eye on the other side of the camera for years. She attended the Canadian Film Centre, where she made the delightfully odd short How To Rid Your Lover Of A Negative Emotion Caused By You! When Ingrid Veninger launched her 1K Challenge in 2012 – offering $1,000 to filmmakers to write, shoot and edit a feature film in three months – Litz pitched Hotel Congress, an austere study of two people (played by herself and Philip Riccio) meeting in an Arizona hotel room. On a patio in Kensington Market on the first truly warm day of the

REVIEW HOTEL CONGRESS (Nadia Litz, Michel Kandinsky) Rating: NNN Produced as part of Ingrid Veninger’s $1K challenge, Hotel Congress takes place entirely within the confines of a Tucson hotel, where a woman (codirector Nadia Litz, who also wrote the screenplay) and a man (Philip Riccio) spend their time talking around a profound truth. Made for virtually nothing, the movie is lean to the point of emaciation, but Litz and co-director Michel Kandinsky turn their limitations into assets, expanding the movie’s world through sound design and austere, precise compositions. Litz’s dialogue uses evasion and allusion to explore who these people are – and, more importantly, who they might be to each other – while creating a deep sense of melancholy through their isolation. Hotel Congress won’t be for everybody – what movie is? – but it’s a work of considerable intelligence and great NW promise.

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year, Litz is talking about the speed with which it all had to come together. “It was, like, three weeks of writing, two weeks of prep, three days of shooting,” she laughs. “And Philip was in a play at the same time, so he had all this other [work] he was learning and performing every night. Rehearsal was very limited. I was mostly working by myself; sometimes my mom would Skype in and read Philip’s part.” Litz cites Eric Rohmer as a jumping-off point for herself and her co-director, Michel Kandinsky, who found themselves interested in “those art films where the couple in gorgeous clothes go and sit in a hotel room and frolic and sort of bathe in their own wonderfulness,” she laughs. “What would happen if they were forced, because of the circumstances, to have a real emotion?” That’s the crux of her movie, which slowly reveals its characters’ desires and goals over a series of conversations that take place in total isolation – thanks to ACTRA rules restricting the shoot. “It’s kind of neat,” Litz says. “No one can even walk past the frame. It becomes an air-pocket type of film, but you can still feel the hotel. I like that you can hear that there’s life happening outside but these two people are just kind of fixated on whatever they’re trying to figure out.” Meanwhile, we’re supposed to be figuring out what’s being figured out, which makes Hotel Congress an intriguing Rorschach test for the viewer. “The only way for a movie like this to work is if you and the audience are projecting your own experiences,” she says. “You’ve maybe been in this position at various points. It’ll be different for every person watching it.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

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MALEFICENT MAGIC Wickedly fun twist on Sleeping Beauty is a meditation on vengeance and regret By SUSAN G. COLE MALEFICENT directed by Robert

Stromberg, written by Linda Woolverton, with Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning and Imelda Staunton. A Walt Disney release. 97 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111. Rating: NNNN

Who cares if Angelina Jolie scares the shit out of the kids as the wronged fairy Maleficent? Grown-ups will get a charge out of this Sleeping Beauty variation that applies the Wicked formula to the well-loved story. Jolie plays a happy sprite with extraordinary powers who defends her gorgeous land from venal humans. When she’s betrayed by the neighbouring prince (Sharlto Copley) – who later takes the throne – Maleficent, with the help of her ever-morphing servant Diaval (Sam Riley), lays a curse on the king’s daughter (Elle Fanning): she’ll fall into a deep sleep after pricking her finger, and can be woken only by a true love’s kiss. The story, originally about evil visiting an innocent kingdom, turns

into a meditation on revenge and regret. “Be careful what you wish for” is the main message. Iconic star (and executive producer) Jolie does everything she can to deliver a sympathetic performance. But pointy-eared Maleficent, all sneers and hisses as she hatches her plan, is not a character children will be drawn to. The three feuding fairies (Imelda Staunton, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville) the king assigns to rear the princess in safety are obviously designed to give the kids some relief, but they can’t stop the film from going to a very sad place once Maleficent seeks vengeance. Never mind. This movie is spectacular to look at – 3D’s not wasted here, and you can tell that first-time director Robert Stromberg has 94 visual effects credits, including Life Of Pi. It also puts a glorious twist on the kiss that’s supposed to wake Princess Aurora. Breakneck pacing, too. Big fun – and definitely for grownups. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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CYBER-SENIORS (Saffron Cassaday). 74 minutes. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111. Rating: NN Prompted by a high school project launched by director Saffron Cassaday’s siblings, this good-natured doc chronicles the efforts of some exceedingly patient youngsters to bring “the magic in the internet” to assorted elders in their community. The result is about what you’d imagine… or less. There’s little to justify a feature-length theatrical release instead of a PSA. Cassaday claims in the opening of Cyber-Seniors that she wants to explore the project’s implications, yet for starters, she never moves beyond comfortable boundaries of class and race. For a film made in Toronto, the absence of colour is startling. Touching as it is to see seniors connect with

loved ones via Skype or social media, the impact of the digital-age generation gap is surely greater on seniors living with limited resources or other challenges. The film’s strongest assets are the stories and personalities of its genuinely inspiring and charismatic elderly subjects,

but individual profiles are cursory. Cassaday shoehorns an alarming family heath crisis into the narrative, but this has little bearing on the film as a whole. The project she documents is laudable, but the investigation mostly settles for cute oldster YouTube material and easy sentiment.

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In Daxing, China, an internet addict wishes he could delete his real-world problems.

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Sticky Web WEB JUNKIE (Shosh Shlam, Hilla Medalia). 76 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (May 30). For venues and times, see Movies, page 111. Rating: NNN The patients in the Daxing boot camp for internet addiction can be good for “Angelina Jolie is Maleficent, magnificent, and more fun than you ever imagined.”

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a laugh. The treatment facility near Beijing looks like a military-run juvenile detention centre. The locked-up teens are often seen breaking down in tears, heartbroken because they can’t get their hands on a keyboard to play World Of Warcraft. Web Junkie, a documentary that brings you along on their journeys, takes their addiction very seriously, the sadness of their situation stifling your laughter. The title is a bit misleading, since the addicts are not into social media or reading lists on Buzzfeed. They’re gamers, typically teenage boys so hooked on online role-playing that they wear diapers so bathroom breaks don’t interfere with their next conquest. China, the first country to declare internet addiction a clinical disorder, has built more than 400 of these rehabilitation camps, treating what Western psychiatrists might consider a pervasive symptom of depression. The filmmakers are astute enough to consider the social conditions that nurture such addictions. These boys grew up as only children whose relationship with stern parents make the web a drug to remedy loneliness. But the film falters when an underdeveloped rehab success story is ushered in at the end like a quick fix designed to RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI numb the pain.

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(D: Seth MacFarlane, 116 min) The comic western is a tough sell at the box office, but count on Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane to find the funny in this tale of a farmer who falls for a woman (Charlize Theron), only to find her gunslinger husband (Liam Neeson) is back in town. The cast also includes Amanda Seyfried, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman and Family Guy actor Alex Borstein. Opens Friday (May 30). Screened after press time – see review May 30 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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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) Canada Square BELLE (Amma Asante) spins the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, daughter of an 18th cen-

tury British naval officer and an African slave, into a historical biopic that aspires to more complexity than its lavish costume-drama packaging will allow. Gugu Mbatha-Raw is a strong lead as a young woman brought up among gentry while forever kept at a remove from them; Tom Wilkinson is nicely stuffy as the uncle who’s 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 broader-than-necessary supporting performances by Miranda Richardson and Tom Felton as Dido’s social-climbing antagonists. Those elements work against Asante’s goal of an accessible, mass-audience drama that shows how the story’s real issues of race and gender are still (sadly) entirely relevant today. 104 min. NNN (NW) Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE BIRDER (Ted Bezaire) is a pleasant but

insubstantial comedy starring Ed’s Tom Cavanagh as an awkward high school biology teacher and birding enthusiast who embarks on a half-assed campaign to win back his wife (Allana Harkin) with the help of an equally hapless former student (Algonquin’s Mark Rendall). Cavanagh

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(Andreas Johnsen) picks up exactly where Alison Klayman’s Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry ended, with the Chinese artist and activist released from detention after 81 days in the spring of 2011. Danish director Johnsen follows Ai as he weathers the next stage of his persecution by the Chinese government, a legal assault on his studio. The strangeness of the situation brings out Ai’s puckish wit. He works around the restrictions placed upon him by designing art in secret and openly videotaping the security agents assigned to intimidate him. It’s a fine study of a man trying to joke his way out of hell. Some subtitles. 79 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY is a

high-def broadcast of the successful recent touring production of Uhry’s play about an elderly Southern Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur, starring Angela Lansbury and James Earl Jones. 90 min. Jun 4, 4 and 7 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Yonge & Dundas 24; 7 pm at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge,

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 end. 142 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16,

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(Laurent Cantet) is an overlong but mostly satisfying and detail-rich adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s novel about young women in 1950s upstate New York rising up against bullying males of all ages. Director Cantet (The Class) does a fine job building character and tension even when the story gets away from him, and the film deals with period-appropriate depictions of sexism and racism quite wonderfully. At the very least, it’s much better than the 1996 film version starring Angelina Jolie. 143 min. NNN (Andrew Parker) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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commits fully, and director Bezaire stages some visually striking images with the help of cinematographer Arthur E. Cooper, production designer Taavo Soodor and art director Jessica Cook. But the film falls victim to its inconsistent tone: Cavanagh and Rendall are playing cartoonish characters, but no one else is. You get the sense that there just wasn’t enough material here for a feature film, but someone insisted on making one anyway. 85 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

BLENDED (Frank Coraci) is Adam Sandler’s

charismatic hero, inspired action choreography and Robert Redford. Also, it’s really funny. Some subtitles. 136 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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CYBER-SENIORS (Saffron Cassaday) 74 min. See review, page 110. NN (José Teodoro) Opens May 30 at Carlton Cinema

DIVERGENT (Neil Burger) is the latest atlatest dump into theatres as star and tempt to launch the next Hunger Games, producer. Sandler and his Wedding Singer and the first to nakedly mimic that franco-star Drew Barrymore play single parchise with another post-apocalyptic tale ents who, after enduring a bad blind date, of a young woman (Shailene Woodley) find themselves saddled together with fighting to save her people from an elabtheir broods on a South African safari – a orate political conspiracy. Problem is, it ridiculous scenario that requires the takes nearly two hours to get going, crappy screenplay to wasting all its time on dullperform plot-mawitted world-building and chination backflips. endless training sequenEXPANDED REVIEWS Instead of building ces. 140 min. NN (NW) nowtoronto.com on Sandler’s knack Canada Square, Scotiabank for intimate comedy, Theatre the movie surrounds him with horny rhinos, wild ostrich rodeos DOM HEMINGWAY (Richard Shepand supporting players like Shaquille ard) features Jude Law in a ferocious, O’Neal and Kevin Nealon, whose mere balls-out performance as the eponymous presence is supposed to signal comedy safecracker who’s released from prison despite the absence of actual jokes. 117 after 12 years and goes looking for the min. N (RS) money that’s owed him. The film’s filled 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cinewith bold colours, big, clear chapter titles plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum and a couple of marvellously fun set Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, pieces. The supporting actors don’t have Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, much to do, but Law is feckin’ brilliant. 94 Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow min. NNNN (GS) Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, RainKingsway Theatre bow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverFADING GIGOLO (John Turturro) stars City Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Woody Allen as Murray, who becomes Dundas 24 part-time flower arranger Fioravante’s CABIN FEVER 3: PATIENT ZERO (Kaare (director Turturro) pimp. It’s plainly an Andrews) is a horror franchise prequel homage to Allen’s films, with its jazzabout a flesh-eating virus that spreads based soundtrack, offbeat Jewish humour throughout a cruise ship in the Caribbean – it’s set in Brooklyn close to an Orthodox after it crashes into an abandoned scienJewish enclave – and Allen as another tific research boat. 91 min. endearing schlemiel. And what would a May 29, 7:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, paean to the Woodster be without a bit of Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensan ick factor? Turturro delivers with a way, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas borderline offensive set-up between 24; continues at Yonge & Dundas 24 working boy Fioravante and an Orthodox Jewish widow (Vanessa Paradis). The film CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER also asks that you buy the idea that SOLDIER (Anthony Russo, Joe Russo) Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara couldn’t is a super-powered riff on Three Days Of get a threesome together without paying The Condor, with Steve Rogers (Chris a male third party. You might go for Evans) branded an enemy of the people Fading Gigolo if you do, but the rest of us and forced to work with friends old know an elaborate male fantasy when we (Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff, see it. 98 min. NN (SGC) Cobie Smulders’s Maria Hill) and new Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queen(Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson) to clear sway, Varsity his name and save the world from a con-

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. 120 min. NNN (José Teodoro) Kingsway Theatre

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(Lucía Puenzo) is an appropriately creepy what-if drama about an encounter between a 12-year-old girl (Florencia Bado) and fugitive Nazi Josef Mengele (Álex Brendemühl) in Patagonia circa 1960. It plays like a finely rendered short story, forgoing jolts for a long, unpleasant shiver of understanding. Subtitled. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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on selling its thesis – that sugar is terrible for you, and it’s in everything – that it becomes hectoring and exhausting. The fact

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that America’s heavily sugared processedfood diet has produced to an epidemic of morbidly obese children (prone to type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and other ills) is certainly important, but anyone who’s bought a ticket to this movie already knows processed foods are bad and fresh foods are better. Director Soechtig 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. 92 min. NN (NW) Varsity

FILTH (Jon S. Baird) 98 min. See review, page 108. NNN (RS) Opens May 30 at Carlton Cinema

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(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier to construct a compelling portrait

of an artist who refused to be seen. Unknown to the world until co-director Maloof happened to acquire her negatives at auction, Maier’s raw, poetic street photography portrays a distinctive view of the everyday. Here the photographs are not just art but bread crumbs 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) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Gareth Edwards) finally gives the King of the Monsters a summer movie worthy of his stature, taking guidance not just from Jaws and Jurassic Park but from Close Encounters Of The Third Kind as well. This is a movie that values wonder as much as horror. Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Ken Watanabe and others play various puny humans sent scurrying by the advent of giant monsters in a world unaccustomed to them. Monsters director Edwards shifts between micro and macro views to let us revel in the spectacle of monster action – or teases us with the promise of same before pivoting away to another aspect of the story. This Godzilla builds on the framework of the best recent kaiju movies, The Host and Cloverfield, using their sense of scale and dread to craft an experience even larger and more powerful. While struggling to give their gargantuan hero agency and a personality, previous Godzilla movies failed to create characters in whom the audience could invest; this one does both. And it’s so damn satisfying, especially in IMAX 3D. 123 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Wes Anderson) finds director/co-writer Anderson building a magnificent playhouse, populating it with actors he knows and trusts – among them Ralph Fiennes, Adrien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff Goldblum and Edward Norton – and running riot. And when moments of genuine emotion pierce that perfectly constructed artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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115 min. See interview and review, page 106. NNN (NW) Opens May 30 at Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queens way, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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 themselves as much as the audience. 100 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Steven Knight) is an intense character study unfolding more or less in real time about a construction foreman (Tom Hardy) who puts his personal and professional lives at risk to make an impromptu drive from Birmingham to London. With nothing but 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. 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

(Spike Jonze) is essentially a story about how technology can facilitate a relationship over impossible distances and what happens when one partner evolves more quickly than the other. In the end, it’s a movie as beholden to Annie Hall as it is to 2001, and don’t think that isn’t the strangest sentence I’ve written this year. 125 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24 Kandinsky) 72 min. See interview and review, page 109. NNN (NW) Opens May 30 at TIFF Bell Lightbox

The Love Punch (Joel Hopkins) stars

Emma Thompson and Pierce Brosnan as divorced Brits who reunite to get payback from the slimy French businessman who scammed them out of their life savings. This involves flying down to the Côte d’Azur, impersonating Texans to crash a wedding and attempting to steal a $10 million diamond. The script is ludicrous, full of plot holes and unfunny jokes about physical ailments, and Hopkins’s direction feels laboured. (His Last Chance Harvey, also with Thompson, was much more graceful.) But the two leads, along with Celia Imrie and Timothy Spall as their best friends, seem up for anything, and their enthusiasm carries the picture along. Look for two amusing running gags, one involving a character’s exciting past, the other involving Skype. 94 min. NN (GS) Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 moving, sincere film around his characters. It’s an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(George Clooney) is a Second World War caper picture in which director/co-writer Clooney and a band of charming character actors portray art experts roaming around Europe to retrieve sculptures and paintings seized by the Nazis from Jewish collectors. The earnest and clever script makes some very good points about the importance of art while telling an involving story about characters we come to adore. Some subtitles. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant

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) Kingsway Theatre

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nibal Buress, Jason Mantzoukas and Lisa Kudrow. You never know where the next laugh will come from. 96 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

112 WEDDINGS (Doug Block) is a documentary based on 20 years of wedding videos shot by filmmaker Block. Tracking down some of his former clients to see how their romances have fared, he shows clips from those happy nuptials and what their lives are like now. The results aren’t surprising: children radically affect a relationship, as do illness, moving and employment. Some couples trust him enough to open up, while others say more with their body language than with words. A number have divorced. Block’s narration isn’t very inspired, but he made a good decision to follow two pairs who are about to be married, one a young couple and another whose commitment ceremony he filmed years before who now want to legally tie the knot. Both of these stories add a sense of momentum and drama to a documentary that occasionally feels episodic. 93 min. NNN (GS) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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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 fashion-plate partner, just back from Tangiers. They pick up deliveries of “the good stuff” and swan around in elegant decadence until Eve’s wild-child sister (Mia Wasikowska) gets in from L.A. and fucks up their perfect ennui. It doesn’t explode the vampire genre – I’m not even sure it takes place within the genre. But it’s a deeply pleasurable film, with bonedry wit and languid pacing that recall the Jarmusch of Mystery Train and Dead Man. continued on page 116 œ

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disagreements. 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. 108 min. NNNNN (GS) Varsity

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The entire cast is having a ball, and Adam’s music is pretty good, too. 123 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

The Other Woman (Nick Cassavetes) is a

strained, phony, overlong comedy about an unlikely alliance between a clumsy housewife (Leslie Mann), the slick lawyer her husband’s been romancing (Cameron Diaz) and a second mistress (Kate Upton). This ostensibly adorable threesome gradually exact their revenge on the ostensibly irresistible sociopath (Nikolaj Coster- Waldau) who seduced and deceived them. 109 min. N (José Teodoro) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñPhilomena

(Stephen Frears) is an odd but effective combination of investigative drama and buddy picture, as a devout, working-class woman (Judi Dench) and a privileged, cynical journalist (Steve Coogan, who also co-wrote and coproduced the film) find common ground in the search for the son she was forced to give up. 98 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant

The Raid 2 (Gareth Huw Evans) expands

the graphic, visceral action of Evans’s breakout 2011 thriller into a more ambitious riff on Infernal Affairs and The Departed. But at two and a half hours, the sequel proves as exhausting an experience as its predecessor, a blunt instrument that just keeps pounding after everything’s turned to powder. Subtitled. 148 min. NNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

The Railway Man (Jonathan Teplitzky)

tells the story of British Army officer Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), who was taken prisoner and tortured by the Japanese during WWII. The film begins years later, when the endearing yet damaged Eric meets the nurse (Nicole Kidman) who will become his wife and oversee his recovery. Their romance lasts some minutes; thereafter we’re treated to fumblingly structured flashbacks and Eric’s present-tense journey east to confront – and eventually befriend – his chief torturer, a fascinating development barely explored. Firth is be-

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trayed 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, Carlton Cinema

Rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a t ropical fruit smoothie that won’t stop spinning in the blender. The 3D animated sequel about a pack of blue macaws dancing their way from Rio de Janeiro to the Amazon jungle presents a relentless rush of bright colours impeccably choreographed to samba, R&B and show tunes. But the busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 at the Farm ñTomNNNN

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Transcendence (Wally Pfister) has a

premise that could be the stuff of grand sci-fi inquiry or the latest iteration of The Lawnmower Man, so it’s a little frustrating to see it settle for the middle ground of a ticking-clock thriller in which scientists debate the ethics of interfacing consciousness with computers and Johnny Depp’s digitized face makes grand statements about upgrading humanity after his assassinated visionary, Will Caster, is uploaded to a supercomputer. Pfister’s directorial debut cross-pollinates everything from Colossus: The Forbin Project to Demon Seed, with maybe a little of James Cameron and Edgar Wright’s post-punk sensibility in there, too. But it doesn’t quite capture the doomed love at the heart of the story: Will’s widow (Rebecca Hall) repeatedly avoids the question of whether that really is her husband who’s taken up residence on her iPad. 117 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñUnder the Skin

(Jonathan Glazer) will indeed get under your skin. It’ll also provoke lots of discussion and, likely,

Daniel Bryan, John Cena, Randy Orton, The Shield and others. (This match was formally called Over The Limit.) 180 min. Jun 1, 8 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñX-Men: Days of Future Past

(Bryan Singer) finds producer/director Singer knitting together the splintered continuity of the Marvel movie franchise by sending Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine back to 1973 to rewrite history by preventing an incident that will send humanmutant relations down an apocalyptic path. But really it’s an excuse to let the allstar casts of the original X-Men trilogy and 2011’s sprightly X-Men: First Class share the same feature while the effects crew comes up with nifty new gags and suitably spectacular set pieces. Michael Fassbender is once again an even more charismatic Magneto than Ian McKellen, Jennifer Lawrence rocks the blue bodysuit as Mystique, James McAvoy has a lot of fun with the notion of an angry, dissolute Charles Xavier and series newcomers Peter Dinklage and Evan Peters make vivid impressions as sinister scientist Bolivar Trask and wisecracking speedster Peter Maximoff, respectively. Co-stars Jackman, Nicholas Hoult, Ellen Page and Halle Berry don’t get quite as much to do, but that’s okay; this one isn’t really about them. Some subtitles. 131 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñYoung & Beautiful

(François Ozon) is the story of a 17-year-old high school girl who leads a double life as a prostitute – a junior Belle De Jour. It’s baffling work, but that’s its strength. As Isabelle’s (Marine Vacth) hormones surge, she dispenses with her virginity on a seaside vacation like she’s shedding a coat. But it’s never clear why she returns home and starts piling up cash by turning tricks after school. Is it because her dad is absent, or to separate from her caring mom (a superb Géraldine Pailhas)? Does she relish her sexual power? Told in four parts, each representing a season over a year, the movie has some charming grace notes: the loving relationship between Isabelle and her younger brother, a sequence in which her class discusses Rimbaud and a superb final scene featuring the great Charlotte Rampling. But it’s Vacth, luminous yet steely and able to speak volumes with silence, who owns this movie. Subtitled. 95 min. NNNN (SGC) Canada Square 3

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BELLE (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:20, 8:55 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:00 LOCKE (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:25, 6:30, 9:00 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri-Wed 12:00 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45

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ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Wed 4:00, 7:00 BELLE (PG) 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:40 BLENDED (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 Fri-Sun 1:30, 2:25, 4:10, 5:20, 6:55, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 MonWed 1:30, 2:20, 4:10, 5:20, 6:55, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 CABIN FEVER 3: PATIENT ZERO Thu 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Tue 4:00, 9:45 Sat 9:45 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:55, 10:25 THE FATAL ENCOUNTER 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 2:30, 3:00, 5:30, 6:30, 8:30, 10:00 Fri, Tue-Wed 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:00, 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 9:30 Mon 1:00, 3:30, 3:45, 6:30, 9:30 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:00, 4:00, 4:50, 7:30, 7:50, 9:40, 10:50, 11:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 8:05, 10:25, 11:05 Mon 2:00, 5:00, 7:15, 8:05, 10:25, 11:00 Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 8:05, 10:25, 11:00 GODZILLA: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:55, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 12:10, 3:45, 7:10, 9:55 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Fri-Wed 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 4:35 7:05 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:35 HER (14A) Thu 1:30 JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CONQUERING THE DEMONS (PG) Fri, Tue 1:00, 7:00 Sat 7:00 Sun 5:00 Wed 1:00, 9:45 KOCHADAIIYAAN (14A) Thu 1:40 4:40 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 LED ZEPPELIN “CELEBRATION” DAY ENCORE Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:30, 10:30 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Thu 1:25, 3:50 THE LOVE PUNCH (PG) 12:35, 3:45, 6:05, 8:35, 10:55 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:15 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:15, 9:15 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:30 MALEFICENT: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:45, 3:10, 5:55, 8:30, 11:00 Tue-Wed 12:45, 3:20, 5:55, 8:30, 11:00 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) 12:25, 3:55, 6:50, 10:05 Thu 12:25 4:00 6:50 9:55 Mon only 1:00 3:55 6:50 10:05 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:00, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 MOMS’ NIGHT OUT (PG) Thu 9:40 NATIONAL THEATRE: KING LEAR - ENCORE Sat 12:55 Sun 12:30 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 2:45, 5:30, 10:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 12:50, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25, 11:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:25, 5:50, 8:25, 11:10 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 PAN’S LABYRINTH (14A) Thu 4:30 RIO 2 (G) Thu 12:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:00 Sat-Sun 11:55 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 2:35, 5:05 Fri, Tue 2:25, 5:05 Sat-Sun 2:20, 5:05 Mon, Wed 2:25 TRANSCENDENCE (PG) Thu-Sun, Tue 7:35, 10:35 Mon, Wed 10:35 WWE PAYBACK Sun 8:00 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 3:30, 6:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 8:00, 9:10, 11:15 SatSun 1:20, 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 8:00, 9:10, 11:15 Mon, Wed 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 8:00, 9:10 Tue 4:30, 8:00, 11:15

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 6:30, 9:30 Sun 8:40 Mon-Wed 7:10 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Fri 3:30 Sat 12:30, 3:30 Sun 2:30, 5:30 Mon-Wed 4:00 BEARS (G) Thu 4:20, 6:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Fri 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 1:20,

4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:25, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:20 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (14A) Thu 3:45, 6:25 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 4:00, 6:40 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:35 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:30 MonWed 4:30, 7:00 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10 Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15 Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10 MonWed 4:10, 6:40 RIO 2 (G) Fri 3:55, 6:25, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30 YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL Thu 4:30, 6:50 Fri 4:40, 7:10, 9:30 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:20 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Fri 8:55 Sat 9:10 Sun, Tue 7:00 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30

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

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 7:00 IDA (PG) Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30 LE WEEK-END (14A) Fri-Sat 4:30 Sun, Tue 7:00

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

ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Wed 7:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:15 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 12:00 BLENDED (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 1:15, 4:35, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 1:15, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Tue 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 12:35, 3:20, 6:40, 9:30 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30 Fri 12:55, 3:50 Sat 1:10, 4:00 Sun 1:05, 4:00 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:10 Wed 4:10 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 Fri 6:50, 10:10 Sat 7:00, 10:10 Sun 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:55 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:40 Mon-Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05 Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:05 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:45 Sat 6:30, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:30, 9:20 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 9:40 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 NATIONAL THEATRE: KING LEAR - ENCORE Sat 12:55 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 12:35, 3:10, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 12:40, 3:00, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri 12:25, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 12:20, 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Wed 12:30, 3:30, 9:45 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 12:00, 12:40, 3:05, 3:50, 6:30, 7:00, 9:45, 10:15 Fri 1:05, 4:15, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 1:00, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sun 12:50, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15

Metro

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

BLENDED (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Fri, Wed 6:50 Sat-Tue 1:15, 6:50

GODZILLA (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:10, 9:30 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:20 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri, Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Tue 1:45, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Fri, Wed 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Tue 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 4:30, 6:40, 9:00 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

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

AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASE (PG) Fri-Wed 4:35 DOM HEMINGWAY (14A) Thu 11:30 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 2:25, 7:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 6:15 THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN (G) Thu 12:25 THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Thu 5:45 Fri-Wed 9:15 GOD’S NOT DEAD (PG) Thu 3:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:15 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) 3:40, 7:10, 9:00 FriSat 10:45 IDA (PG) Thu 1:00, 7:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 2:10, 7:45 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu 4:00, 8:55 Fri-Sat 3:00, 10:45 Sun-Wed 3:00 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat-Sun 12:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 5:40 Fri-Wed 11:45 112 WEDDINGS (PG) Fri-Wed 5:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Wed 7:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:55, 10:15 Fri 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Sat 3:10, 6:30, 9:50 Sun 3:30, 6:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:40, 10:05 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 12:30 Fri 12:15 Sat 12:00 Sun 12:10 BLENDED (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:50, 10:05 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 CABIN FEVER 3: PATIENT ZERO Thu 7:30 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:40 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 12:45, 3:15, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Sat 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:00, 6:20, 9:15, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:10, 2:50, 4:10, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 1:45, 2:50, 4:40, 6:00, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 4:50, 8:00 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:00, 3:40, 4:10, 5:00, 7:10, 8:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 7:40, 10:40 Sun-Wed 7:40, 10:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 10:35 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Tue 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 1:00 LED ZEPPELIN “CELEBRATION” DAY ENCORE Mon 7:30 MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (G) Sat 11:00 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00 Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40, 9:45 Fri 12:15, 2:50, 4:15, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 1:30, 2:50, 4:15, 5:25, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30 Sun 11:55, 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:20, 3:10, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:40, 10:00 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Thu 12:55, 2:50, 3:55, 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Sun 1:10, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 10:20 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Thu 9:55 Fri 1:20, 2:20, 3:15, 4:20, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:10, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 11:40, 12:30, 1:20, 2:20, 3:15, 4:20, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 8:10, 10:10, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 12:55, 2:10, 3:15, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:10, 10:35 Mon 1:10, 2:10, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 10:05, 10:35 Tue 1:10, 2:10, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 6:50, 7:50, 9:20, 9:40, 10:35 Wed 2:10, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 6:40, 7:50, 9:20, 9:40, 10:35 NATIONAL THEATRE: KING LEAR - ENCORE Sat 12:55 continued on page 118 œ

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

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:00, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Mon-Wed 2:50, 6:10, 9:30 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 10:10 DIVERGENT (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 LOCKE (14A) Fri-Sun 1:35, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 MonWed 1:50, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:30 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Thu 10:20

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Neighbors (18A) Thu 12:40, 1:40, 2:50, 3:10, 4:40, 5:40, 8:10, 8:30, 10:35 Fri 12:55, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sat 1:05, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 12:30, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:40, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 The Other Woman Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri-Sat 8:15, 10:50 Sun, Tue 6:45, 9:30 Mon, Wed 9:30 Rio 2 (G) Thu 2:30 Fri-Sat 12:25, 3:00, 5:35 Sun 12:40, 3:40 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:40 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 5:10 WWE Payback Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 3:50, 6:30, 6:50, 9:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:10, 4:10, 4:30, 5:20, 7:30, 8:30, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 2:30, 3:45, 4:40, 4:50, 5:40, 7:30, 7:50, 8:10, 8:45, 10:45, 10:55 Sat 11:30, 12:15, 1:00, 2:30, 3:45, 4:50, 5:40, 7:30, 7:50, 8:10, 8:45, 10:45, 10:55 Sun 12:15, 12:50, 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:10, 4:50, 5:10, 7:30, 8:10, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Tue 1:00, 2:00, 3:45, 4:10, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:10, 8:00, 8:20, 10:15 Wed 1:10, 2:00, 3:45, 4:10, 4:20, 5:10, 7:00, 7:10, 8:00, 8:20, 10:15

Rainbow Woodbine (I)

Woodbine Centre, 500 Rexdale Blvd, 416-213-1998 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:35 Blended (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Godzilla (PG) 12:55, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Maleficent (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:30, 9:15 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Neighbors (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:05, 9:15 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:15, 4:05 Fri-Wed 1:10 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:10 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:00 Fri 3:15, 6:45, 9:30 SatSun 12:15, 3:15, 6:45, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:30 The Grand Seduction (PG) 6:30, 9:15 Fri 3:00 mat SatSun 12:00, 3:00 mat Maleficent (PG) Sat-Sun 12:45 Maleficent 3D (PG) 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 4:00 mat Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:15 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:15 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat, 4:15 Neighbors (18A) 7:45, 10:20 Fri 4:45 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat, 4:45 Rio 2 (G) Sat-Sun 11:45 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Fri 3:45 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:45 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Fri-Wed 7:00, 10:00

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

Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy Wed 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 10:25 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:20 Blended (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:25 Fading Gigolo (14A) 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Sat 12:10, 2:35 mat Sun 2:35 mat Godzilla (PG) Thu 3:15, 6:20, 9:20 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:20 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 7:20, 10:20 Godzilla: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:20 The Grand Seduction (PG) 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat Maleficent (PG) 4:30, 7:00 Sat 11:30, 2:00 mat Sun 2:00 mat Maleficent 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 9:30 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 7:30, 10:15 Fri 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 National Theatre: King Lear - Encore Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Fri 5:15, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 7:45, 10:10 Sun 2:25, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Tue 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 4:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu-Fri 3:50 Sat 12:40, 3:50 Sun 12:40, 1:15, 3:40, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50,

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7:15, 9:50, 10:20 Fri 4:40, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:45 Sat 1:30, 4:40, 6:50, 7:40, 9:50, 10:45 Sun 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 7:15, 9:50, 10:15

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 10:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:40 Blended (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero Thu 7:30 Godzilla (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:15 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:40 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 6:40, 7:25, 9:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat 7:10, 10:00 Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:45 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) Fri 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sun-Tue 1:20, 3:45, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sun-Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Wed 2:00, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 6:55, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 6:55, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40 Sun-Tue 12:50, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 Wed 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 Neighbors (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Wed 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:40 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30 FriSat 1:30, 4:30 Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:00 Wed 12:50, 4:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sun-Tue 12:10, 3:10, 6:10, 7:00, 9:10, 10:00 Wed 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 7:00, 9:10, 10:00

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:40 Fri-Wed 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) 12:30 Blended (PG) Thu-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Godzilla (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:50 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:25 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri 1:10, 2:10, 4:05, 5:05, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:50 Sat 11:15, 1:10, 2:10, 4:05, 5:05, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:50 Sun-Wed 1:00, 1:45, 3:55, 4:40, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:25 Neighbors (18A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 The Other Woman Thu 7:25, 10:15 Rio 2 (G) Thu 12:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 3:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 MonWed 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:20, 6:50, 7:30, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Sat 11:00, 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 5:05 Fri-Sat, Tue 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Sun 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:10 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Sat-Sun 12:40 Blended (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:05 Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:10, 10:15 Sat 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (PG) Thu 7:30 Godzilla (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:45 Fri, Tue 4:50, 6:40, 9:50 Sat 1:55, 4:50, 6:40, 9:50 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 6:40, 9:25 Mon, Wed 5:40, 7:30 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 5:40, 8:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:45, 10:35 Sun 7:15, 9:55 Mon, Wed 8:25 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 5:15 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) Fri, Tue 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 Sat 11:40, 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:25 Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:40 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 8:10 Fri 5:05, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:15 Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 5:10, 8:00 Fri, Tue 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:50, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Mon, Wed 5:05, 8:05 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri, Tue 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:25, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Mon, Wed 5:20, 8:00 Neighbors (18A) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:25 Fri, Tue 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 The Other Woman Thu 8:15

Rio 2 (G) Fri, Tue 4:15 Sat 11:20, 1:45, 4:15 Sun 1:50, 4:15 Mon, Wed 5:05 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 5:05 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 5:00, 6:30 Fri, Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:35, 8:20 Fri, Tue 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sat 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:20

10:30 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 Vallavanukku Pullum Aayudham (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Fri-Sun 10:30

GTA Regions

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

Rainbow Promenade (I)

47 to 84: Hun Main Kisnu Watan Kahunga Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy Wed 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:55 FriSat 4:05, 7:15, 10:40 Sun-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 10:25 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:35 Fri, MonWed 1:00 Sat-Sun 12:55 Blended (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:40, 9:50 Godzilla (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:35 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 9:15, 10:15 Fri 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Sat 6:40, 7:20, 9:40, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 7:20, 9:25, 10:05 Wed 3:55, 7:20, 9:35, 10:05 Godzilla: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:15 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Maleficent (PG) Fri 1:05, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:30 Sun, Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Mon-Tue 1:05, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Maleficent 3D (PG) Fri 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:25 Fri 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:15 Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:50 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 8:00 Fri-Sat 1:30, 2:00, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 SunWed 1:30, 2:00, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 National Theatre: King Lear - Encore Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 7:15, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 Fri 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45 Sun 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 The Other Woman Thu 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 Fri 6:35, 9:25 Sat 7:25, 10:10 Sun 7:25, 9:55 Mon-Wed 6:35, 9:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:00 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:25, 4:55 Romeo Ranjha (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Fri 3:30, 6:25, 9:35 Sat 12:35, 3:30, 6:25, 9:35 Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 1:05, 1:35, 4:00, 4:30, 6:55, 7:25, 10:05, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:05, 1:35, 4:00, 4:30, 6:55, 7:25, 9:50, 10:20

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Blended (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 Godzilla (PG) 12:45, 6:55 Thu 3:45 mat, 9:45 Maleficent (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:20 Million Dollar Arm (PG) 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Neighbors (18A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Wed 4:10, 9:45 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25 Mon 3:40, 6:40, 9:25

Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy Wed 4:00, 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:20 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:35, 6:55, 10:15 Sat 4:10, 7:25, 10:40 Sun 3:35 Wed 3:35, 10:15 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:40 Fri, SunWed 12:20 Sat 1:00 Blended (PG) 1:25, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Godzilla (PG) Thu 1:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15 Sat 11:05, 2:00, 4:55 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:15, 4:35, 7:15, 7:40, 10:20, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 7:20, 10:20 Sat 7:55, 10:55 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 12:55 3:45 6:40 10:00 FriWed 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 10:05 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:55 Sat 11:15 mat Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:55 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 10:40 Fri, Sun 12:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 11:00, 12:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 National Theatre: King Lear - Encore Sat 12:55 Neighbors (18A) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 8:05, 10:35 Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:35, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:25 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:55, 10:25 The Other Woman Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:10 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:05 WWE Payback Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:55, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45 Mon-Tue 12:15, 3:25, 6:45, 9:50 Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:25, 3:40, 6:35, 7:30, 9:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:00, 2:30, 4:10, 5:45, 7:30, 9:00, 10:45 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 6:55, 7:30, 10:15, 10:45 Wed 12:40, 1:00, 3:50, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15, 10:45

Coliseum Mississauga (CE)

1901 Eglinton Ave E, 416-752-4494

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:05, 10:30 Fri-Sat 4:15, 7:35, 10:55 Sun-Wed 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00 Sun 12:30 Blended (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:35, 7:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Tue 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero Thu 7:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:55 Godzilla (PG) Thu 2:15, 5:40, 8:40 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Sun 12:40, 3:40 Mon, Wed 5:40, 8:40 Tue 3:45, 6:40, 9:40 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45 Mon, Wed 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Tue 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 The Grand Seduction (PG) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 5:15, 7:45 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Mon, Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Tue 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Sun 1:50 mat Sat 11:20, 1:50 mat Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Tue 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55 Mon, Wed 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 Tue 4:10, 7:05, 10:00 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri 1:30, 2:45, 4:20, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 11:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 1:30, 2:45, 4:20, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:05, 11:00 Mon, Wed 3:45, 4:40, 6:25, 7:25, 9:15, 10:15 Tue 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Neighbors (18A) Thu 5:25, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Tue 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 The Other Woman Thu 4:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 8:05, 10:45 Sat 7:25, 10:15 Sun 7:50, 10:35 Mon, Wed 6:40, 9:30 Tue 7:25, 10:05 Rio 2 (G) Fri 12:15, 2:50, 5:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:35 Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15 Mon, Wed 4:05 Tue 4:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 4:50, 10:20 WWE Payback Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Tue 3:50, 6:55, 10:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:20, 1:35, 3:20, 4:40, 6:25, 7:45, 9:30, 10:50 Mon, Wed 4:15, 5:15, 7:15, 8:15, 10:20 Tue 4:20, 5:30, 7:25, 8:30, 10:30

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

2 States (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:30 Heropanti (PG) 6:30, 9:30 Thu, Sat-Sun 3:30 mat Poovarasam Peepee Fri 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:15,

Hwy 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 7:05, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:20 Fri 12:20, 3:30, 6:55, 10:25 Sat 12:05, 3:25, 7:05, 10:25 Sun 12:20, 3:30, 7:05, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero Thu 7:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 9:50 Godzilla (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:45, 9:00 Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 Sun 12:10, 3:10 Mon-Wed 12:25, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Fri 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 MonWed 12:50, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Godzilla: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 1:10, 4:20, 7:35, 10:40 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:15, 6:50 Wed 3:50, 6:30 Maleficent 3D (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 9:15 Sat 9:40 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Fri, Sun 12:00, 12:40, 2:45, 3:45, 5:30, 7:20, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 12:00, 1:20, 2:45, 4:10, 5:30, 7:15, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 MonTue 12:40, 1:25, 3:45, 4:05, 6:25, 7:00, 9:25, 10:15 Wed 12:40, 3:45, 4:05, 6:25, 7:00, 9:25, 10:15 Neighbors (18A) Thu 12:40, 1:45, 3:10, 4:20, 6:50, 7:25, 9:25, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 The Other Woman Thu, Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:45, 10:25 Fri 2:25, 5:15, 8:05, 10:45 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Sun 2:25, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 WWE Payback Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 4:00, 5:30, 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20 Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:40, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50, 10:50 Sat 12:30, 1:30, 3:45, 4:40, 6:45, 7:45, 9:50, 10:50 Mon-Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:35, 4:30, 6:45, 7:30, 9:50, 10:30

Mississauga

Eglinton Town Centre (CE)

Colossus (CE) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sun 7:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 6:50, 10:05 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:00 Mon-Wed 3:45 Blended (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Sat 11:10, 1:55, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero Thu 7:30 Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG) Thu 9:50 Godzilla (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50 Mon-Wed 3:35 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 5:45, 7:40, 9:00, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:50, 6:50, 7:50, 9:55, 10:55 Sat 11:15, 2:10, 5:05, 6:50, 7:55, 9:55, 10:50 Mon-Wed 4:25, 6:25, 7:15, 9:30, 10:15 Godzilla: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:20 The Grand Seduction (PG) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 4:35, 6:55 Fri-Sun 8:05, 10:35 Mon-Wed 7:35, 10:00 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:05, 7:00, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Led Zeppelin “Celebration” Day Encore Mon 7:30 Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (G) Thu 4:15 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (G) Sat 11:00 Maleficent (PG) Fri, Sun 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00 Sat 11:00, 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Fri, Sun 2:05, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 11:40, 2:05, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 4:10, 7:15, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 3:50, 10:30 Tue-Wed 3:50, 6:55, 9:40 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 9:40 Fri-Sun 12:00, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:10, 8:15, 10:00, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:45, 9:25, 10:25 Neighbors (18A) Thu 4:40, 5:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:35, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40 Sat 11:25, 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 The Other Woman Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 5:50, 8:25, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:05, 9:55 Rio 2 (G) Fri-Sun 12:25, 2:55, 5:20 Mon-Wed 4:50 Rio 2 3D (G) Thu 3:40, 6:20, 8:50 WWE Payback Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:15, 6:30, 8:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat 12:05, 12:35, 3:15, 3:45, 6:15, 6:45, 9:20, 9:50 Sun 12:05, 12:35, 3:15, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:30, 6:30, 8:30, 9:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:05, 1:35, 4:15, 4:45, 7:15, 7:45, 10:20, 10:50 Sat 11:05, 1:05, 1:55, 4:15, 4:55, 7:15, 7:55, 10:20, 10:55 Mon-Wed 4:10, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20

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festivals doc now film festival bloor hot docs cinema, 506 bloor w. docnow.ca

wed 4-JUNE 28 – Ryerson University documentary media festival. Free. wed 4 – Politics And Poetics program including El Settat D: Nadia Marzouk, Adam D: Alexena Weinstein, Light Of My Eyes D: Zeinab Fattahi, and Close The Door D: Natasha Nuhanovic. 6:30 pm. Identity In Motion program including Persistence Of Vision D: Caitlin Durlak, Love And Genealogy D: Jonas Jacobs, and Straight Guys D: Daniel Laurin. 9 pm.

inside out toronto lgbt film festival tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w, insideout.ca

THU 29-JUNE 1 – Festival of queer cinema. $13,

stu/srs $10, eight-ticket pass $91, gala screenings $22, stu/srs $17. thu 29 – What It Was (2013) D: Daniel Armando. 5:15 pm. Alex & Ali (2014) D: Malachi Leopold. 5:30 pm. The Circle (2014) D: Stefan Haupt. 7:15 pm. Mixed Shorts: Local Heroes program including My Father, Francis (2013) D: Case Mecija, Ivy (2013) D: Elias Campbell, and others. 7:30 pm. Of Girls And Horses (2014) D: Monika Treut. 9:45 pm. Boys (2014) D: Mischa Kamp. 10 pm. fri 30 – The Case Against 8 (2013) D: Ben Cotner and Ryan White. 5 pm. Dual (2013) D: Nejc Gazvoda. 5:15 pm. Praia Do Futuro (2014) D: Karim Aïnouz. 7:30 pm. Transplanetarium Shorts program including You’re Dead To Me (2013) D: Wu Tsang, Performing Girl (2013) D: Crescent Diamond, and others. 7:45 pm. Happy End?! (2014) D: Petra Clever. 9:45 pm. Gay Shorts: Scruff Riders program includingWham, Bam Mr Pam (2014) D: Nicolas Kazamia, Being There (2013) D: Ben Hakim. 10 pm. sat 31 – An Evening With The Imposters (2014) D: Raymond Helkio. 12:15 pm. Gay Shorts: The Life Of Guy : Age 17 (2013) D: Filippo Demarchi, Home (2013) D: Paul Hasick, A Last Farewell (2013) D: Casper Andreas, and others. 2 pm. Through A Lens Darkly Black Photographers And The Emergence Of A People (2014) D: Thomas Allen Harris. 2:15 pm. The Dog (2013) D: Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren. 4 pm. Artist Talk: Portrait Of A Serial Monogamist, sneak peek at the film by Christina Zeidler and John Mitchell and disucussion with the writer/directors. 4:45 pm. The Foxy Merkins (2013) D: Madeleine Olnek. 6:45 pm. Yves Saint Laurent (2014) D: Jalil Lespert. 7 pm. My Straight Son (2012) D: Miguel Ferrari. 9:15 pm. Lesbian Shorts: A Little Bit Closer including Next Door Letters (2012) D: Sascha Fülscher, Citizen Jane (2013) D: Cari Green, Bachelorette (2013) D: Anna Linke, and others. 9:45 pm. sun 1 – No Easy Walk To Freedom (2014) D: Nancy Nicol. Noon. Mixed Shorts: Art Therapy including What You Will (2014) D: James Resendes, Transmission Woo (2013) D: Duncan Roxburgh and Alex Shaw, Sins Invalid (2013) D: Patty Berne, and others. 1 pm. American Vagabond (2013) D: Susanna Helke. 2:45 pm. Web Series Showcase. 3 pm. Me, Myself And Mum (2013) D: Guillaume Gallienne. 5 pm. Derby Crazy Love (2013) D: Maya Gallus and Justine Pimlott, and Outside The Ring (2013) D: Joanne Green and Steve Lindsay. 5:15 pm.

THE MISSING PICTURE

Documentarian Rithy Panh has addressed the horrors of Pol Pot’s Cambodia before – most memorably in 2003’s chilling S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine. But in The Missing Picture he makes it personal, telling the story of his own family’s ordeal under the regime. With no footage available, Panh – who was 13 when the Khmer Rouge seized power in the spring of 1975 – films clay figurines in dioramas to give form to his own lost history. It’s a technique that reframes an unimaginable event as something intimate and delicate. Panh uses cinema as a catalyst for memory in a way similar to The Act Of Killing, recreating stylized images in an attempt to convey a profound truth, but the context is very different. There’s no boasting here, just a profound emptiness as Closing gala: 52 Tuesdays (2013) D: Sophie Hyde. 7:30 pm.

rung festival

royal ontario museum, 100 queens pk. rungfestival.com

sat 31-sun 1 – Festival of Colors, South Asian

film, music, arts, dance and more. $16, stu $14.50, child $13. sat 31 – Loden: The Little Monk. 10:30 am. Sadequain – An Enigma. 11 am. Bhutan: Land Of The Black-Necked Crane. Noon. Children Of Kabul. 12:25 pm. The Kalasha And The Crescent. 1:05 pm. sun 1 – Sons Of Ram. 10:30 am. The Kalasha And The Crescent. 12:05 pm. Loden: The Little Monk. 12:35 pm. Children Of Kabul. 1:05 pm. Bhutan: Land Of The Black-Necked Crane. 1:45 pm. Sadequain – An Enigma. 2:15 pm. Big In Bollywood. 3:15 pm.

scarborough film festival

U of T Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail (UTSC), Cedar Ridge Creative CEntre, 225 Confederation (CR); Fox Theatre, 2236 Queen E (FT); Woodside Cinema, 1571 Sandhurst Circle (WC). scarboroughfilmfestival.com

tue 3-jun 8 – Festival of film by Scarborough and Toronto and international filmmakers.

tue 3 – $15, srs/stu $10, opening night $20,

stu/srs $15, closing night film $15, stu/srs $15.

tue 3 – Opening night gala: Grand Street

(2014) D: Lex Sidón. 7 pm (FT). wed 4 – Kertu: Love Is Blind (2013) D: Ilmar Raag. 7 pm (FT).

toronto korean film festival art gallery of ontario, jackman hall, 317 Dundas W (AGO); cinecycle, 129 spadina (CC). tkff.ca

thu 29-sat 31 – Festival featuring authentic Korean cinema and supporting Korean filmmakers. $5-$10, festival pass $39. thu 29 – Korean Queer shorts: Act Of Affect (2013) D: Siren Eun Yong Jung, Fly By Night (2011) D: Tae-gyum Son, I’m Jinyoung (2006) D: Sung-eun Lee, Dol/First Birthday (2011) D: Andrew Ahn, The Woman (2012) D: Mi-hye Jo, and Auld Lang Syne (2007) D: Joon-Moon So. 7:30 pm (CC). fri 30 – Korean shorts competition including Fever (2013) D: Ji Won Oh, Sprout (2013) D: Ga Eun Yoon, Bad Hair Day (2004) D: Mee Soo Lee, and others. 6:30 pm. Broken (2014) D:

(2014) D: Reg Hartt. 9 pm. sun 1 – Oz Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Darkside Of The Moon. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm.

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

Thu 29 – Crankytown’s Crankyfest, an online

Rithy Panh uses clay figurines to tell the story of his family’s ordeal under the Khmer Rouge.

the middle-aged filmmaker tries to pull meaning into what he experienced as a teenager. The Missing Picture is a genuinely striking work of personal journalism, its artistry making it possible to consider the convulsions of

Cambodia – and Panh’s own life – without folding up into fetal balls in our seats. It’s awfully powerful stuff. Friday to Tuesday (May 30 to June 3) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Norman Wilner listings, this page.

Lee Jung-ho. 8:50 pm. All screenings at AGO. sat 31 – Broken. 12:30 pm. Our Homeland (2012) D: Yonghi Yang. 3:30 pm. My Place (2013) D: Emmanuel Moonchil Park. 6:10 pm. Night Flight (2014) D: Leesong Hee-il Korea. 8:30 pm. All screenings at AGO.

III discusses House Of Sand And Fog (2003) D: Vadim Perelman. 7 pm. tue 3 – Check website for schedule. wed 4 – Meatballs Anniversary Reunion, a benefit for Action Against Hunger Canada, features a screening of Meatballs (1979) D: Ivan Reitman, followed by a panel discussion and celebrity reunion. $35, VIP $150. actioncontrelafaim.ca/meatballs.

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thu 29-wed 4– Check website for schedule.

Thu 29 – The Face Of Love (2014) D: Arie Posin. 7 pm. The Lunchbox (2014) D: Ritesh Batra. 9 pm. Fri 30 – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) D: Wes Anderson. 7 pm. sat 31-sun 1 – Mr Peabody And Sherman 3D (2014) D: Rob Minkoff. 2 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel. 4 & 7 pm. mon 2 – Check website for schedule.

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506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 29 – Pete Seeger: A Song And A Stone

(1972) D: Robert Elfstrom. 4 pm. 112 Weddings (2014) D: Doug Block. 6:30 pm. Finding Vivian Maier (2013) D: John Maloof. 8:45 pm. fri 30 – 112 Weddings. 4 pm. Web Junkie (2013) D: Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia. 6:30 pm. The Missing Picture (2013) D: Rithy Panh. 8:45 pm. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:30 pm. sat 31 – Finding Vivian Maier. 12:30 pm. The Missing Picture. 3 pm. Web Junkie. 6 pm. The Last Waltz (1978) D: Martin Scorsese. 9:30 pm. sun 1 – Finding Vivian Maier. 12:30 pm. The Missing Picture. 3 pm. Iterum D: Kevin Panlilio. 6:30 pm. $9. uniiverse.com. The Missing Picture. 9:15 pm. mon 2 – Web Junkie. 6:30 pm. The Miss ing Picture. 8:45 pm. tue 3 – Web Junkie. 4 & 8:45 pm. The Missing Picture. 6:30 pm. wed 4 – Web Junkie. 3:30 pm. Doc Now Festival. See listings, this page.

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sat 31 – Four Brothers (2005) D: John Singleton. 3 pm.

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CBC Museum, CBC Broadcast Centre, 250 Front W, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 29-wed 4 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. Thu 29-fri 30 & mon 2-wed 4 – Highlights of current programming.

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770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ntariosciencecentre.ca o

thu 29-fri 30 – Great White Shark. 11 am.

Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The H uman Body. 1 pm. Jerusalem. 2 pm. sat 31-sun 1 – Flight Of The Butterflies. 11 am. Great White Shark. 1 & 3 pm. Jerusalem. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. mon 2-wed 4 – Great White Shark. 11 am. Flight Of The Butterflies. Noon. The H uman Body. 1 pm. Jerusalem. 2 pm.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 Bathurst. 416-603-6643.

thu 29 – True Grit (1969) D: Henry Hathaway.

4:45 pm. True Grit (2010) D: Joel and Ethan Coen. 7 pm. Rooster Cogburn (1975) D: Stuart Miller. 9 pm. sat 31 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 7 pm. Reg Hartt: What I Learned From LSD

film festival for short films about periods, presents Menstrual Man (2013) D: Amit Yirmani, and others. 7 pm. $10. Proceeds benefit Femme International and their work in Nairobi. Cult Classics: They Live (1988) D: John Carpenter. 9:30 pm. Fri 30 – The Lunchbox (2014) D: Ritesh Batra. 7 pm. The Other Woman (2014) D: Nick Cassavetes. 9 pm. sat 31 – Mr Peabody And Sherman 3D (2014) D: Rob Minkoff. 2 pm. The Lunchbox. 4 & 7 pm. The Other Woman. 9 pm. sun 1 – Mr Peabody And Sherman 3D. 2 pm. Check website for schedule. The Other Woman. 9 pm. mon 2 – The Lunchbox. 7 pm. The Other Woman. 9 pm. tue 3 – The Other Woman. 7 pm. The Lunchbox. 9 pm. wed 4 – Check website for schedule.

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Thu 29 – Enemy (2013) D: Denis Villeneuve. 7

pm. Bad Words (2013) D: Jason Bateman. 9 pm. fri 30 – Things The Way They Are/Las Cosas Como Son (2012) D: Fernando Lavanderos. 7 pm. Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) D: Jim Jarmusch. 9 pm. John Dies At The End (2012) D: Don Coscarelli. 11:30 pm. sat 31 – Coraline (2009) D: Henry Selick. 2 pm. Only Lovers Left Alive. 4 & 9 pm. Things The Way They Are. 7 pm. sun 1 – Things The Way They Are. 7 pm. mon 2 – Check website for schedule. tue 3 – Things The Way They Are. 9 pm. wed 4 – Check website for schedule.

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thu 29-wed 4 – The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. c ntower.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 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top 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 29 – WILDsound Feedback Toronto Film Festival presents short films. 7 to 9 pm. Pwyc. Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. w ildsound.ca. Alli’s Journey presents a benefit screening of The Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar. 6:30 pm. $40 incl snack/drink. Empress Walk Theatres, 5095 Yonge. allisjourney.ca. sat 31 – Toronto Film Noir Syndicate Film Fatale #5 presents Garment Jungle (1957) D: Vincent Sherman. 7:30 pm. $5. Dominion on Queen, back screening room, 500 Queen E. tfns.ca. The Committee in Canada that supports Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon presents the documentary Chevron Toxic, and En El Nombre De La Hija. 6:30 pm. York University Centre for Excellence, Glendon College, Rm A100, 2275 Bayview. 416-875-9362, comitedeapoyocanada@yahoo.ca. sun 1 – ClimateFast and Toronto350 present Do The Math (2013) D: Kelly Nyks and Jared P Scott. Discussion on carbon pricing with Cheryl McNamara of Citizens Climate Lobby to follow. 7 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. c limatefast.ca. 3 NOW may 29 - june 4 2014

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I’m a 25-year-old straight guy. Last month I was in the locker room at my gym. It was 4 am and I was the only one around. I was getting ready to leave when I noticed someone exiting the showers. He kinda caught me looking (he was very well endowed), and I quickly turned my head, embarrassed. About 20 seconds later, he came around the corner and said, “Hey, how ya doin’?” He was still naked, and it was obvious that he was wondering if I wanted to try something. (Trust me – he was about 10 or 11 inches now!) I didn’t know what to think, so I just got the hell out of there as fast as I could. I’ve never been with a guy before, but for the past few weeks, I can’t stop thinking about it. I kinda wish I hadn’t left so fast. I guess I’m really turned on by the size, and curious about maybe trying oral? That’s all I’m curious about trying, nothing else. I am way more attracted to girls than guys, but I can’t shake these thoughts. Panic At The Dick, So? I was wondering what happened to Joey from Friends. Look, PATDS, you’re clearly straight enough to continue identifying as straight. But as you learned in that locker room, to get yourself to straight (or to remain at straight), you have to round yourself down the tiniest bit. (Or round yourself up the tiniest bit. Up, down – depends on how you feel about straight.) But you are now consciously aware that you’re more than a little curious about dick, and given the right circumstances (oral-only circumstances) and the right dick (great big dick), you could hit/suck/ stroke that. Since that giant 4 am dick wasn’t your last chance at dick, PATDS, you didn’t miss your only opportunity to explore your bisexual/heteroflexible/man-onman desires. There are other giant dicks out there. Hell, you might get another chance at that particular dick. The next time an opportunity presents itself – whether you leave that opportunity to chance (another encounter with Mr. Ten or Eleven Inches Now) or create your own opportunities (taking out a few NSA sex ads) – put your very limited interests (oral only) and even more limited experience (none whatsoever) on the table and let the dude decide if he’s in (your mouth).

My sister owes me one from when I told our mom – at her request – that she was pregnant because she feared her reaction. I’m considering asking my sister to out me to my mom so that maybe she’ll be done screaming and yelling by the time she arrives. I know this is chickenshit, but I also can’t bring myself to come out to her. I’ve tried before and can never summon the courage.

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My advice for you is the same as my advice for all queer kids with crazy, hyperconservative parents: Don’t fear their rejection – make them fear yours. Tell your mom you’re queer, AFRAID, and then tell her that you won’t speak to her or see her if she can’t treat you and your partner with respect. Remember: The only leverage an adult child has over her parents is her presence. If your mom treats you like shit, absent yourself. If she’s rude to you in your own home, kick her ass out. You’re a grown woman, and it’s time to stop being scared of mommy.

Free trade sex-style My boyfriend and I have been together for four years, and we have a great relationship. In the bedroom I am generally the bottom, but I play an equal role during sex – neither dominant nor submissive – and in general we have great sex. But both of us have things we

y clitoris – but only through anal sex. m What gives? A Nosy Admiring Lass The Lord giveth, ANAL, and it seems He gave you an amazing superpower. I wouldn’t question it too much, lest the Lord peg you for an ingrate and taketh away.

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bottom for you on a night when you hand him a chip, he can veto your red chip by surrendering one of his. Likewise, you can veto one of his red chips by surrendering one of yours. When a veto is played, you default to the sex you have most of the time, i.e., your “regular” sexual routine (which seems to entail you bottoming for him as his equal), and the chip used to veto is forfeit. You each have to use your three red chips in one calendar month – an unused chip doesn’t carry over to the next month. Basically, QPQ, you have three chances per month to top him, and he has three chances per month to dominate you. If he wants to deny you one of your chances to top him, he loses one of his chances to dominate you. You don’t have to be submissive when you’re not feeling it, and he doesn’t have to bottom when he’s not feeling it. But if you never agree to submit – if you veto all of his requests – you never get to top him. If he never agrees to bottom, then he never gets to dominate you. And what’s the blue chip for? It’s a “free veto,” a chip you can sacrifice without giving up one of your chances to fuck or dominate the other. So there you go! With the help of legal marijuana, I’ve turned your compromise into a sexy game. Have fun!

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Be out and say “or else” I’m a 25-year-old lesbian, and I live ith my partner of two years. My family w is coming to visit from Texas, where they are part of a hyper-conservative church. I’m not out to my mom. While I want this to be a happy occasion, I’m not willing to hide who I am in my own home.

What I’m about to propose may seem elaborate, QPQ, but bear this in mind while you read my advice: Marijuana is legal where I live. Take the average number of times you two have sex in any given month and divide that number in half, then divide it in half again. You each get a stack of red poker chips equal to whatever the third number is, plus one blue poker chip. So let’s say you guys have sex 12 times a month on average. Half of 12 is six, half of six is three – you each get four chips: three red, one blue. (You still with me? Good. Man, I could use some chips right now myself.) You keep your chips on your nightstand, and your boyfriend keeps his chips on his. On nights when you want to top your boyfriend, you hand him one of your red chips. On nights when he wants you to be submissive, he hands you one of his red chips. If he doesn’t want to

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