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1. Men’s rights whitewash Reps from the innocuously named Canadian Association for Equality, with ties to the men’s rights movement, did not handle their interview with NOW very well. At all. 2. Yes, really, all women Morgan Baskin, 18, might not have run for mayor if she’d known she’d have to fend off men’s unsolicited advances. 3. Myth man prophecy Rob Ford’s prolonged absence from politics and the city has transformed him from a distraction to an abstraction. 4. ’Dos and don’ts New footage sheds light on who our mayor brought back to the office after the hockey game April 5. His new buds have fauxhawks. 5. Hudak’s hex As provincial election on June 12 nears, polls say it’s the PCs who should worry about the outcome.

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Was Saturday Night author reads with Miriam Toews, Elizabeth Renzetti and Lisa Gabriele at the Reference Library. 6:30 pm. Free. torontopubliclibrary. ca. QPOC CHRONICLES Featuring queer people of colour focusing on their historic perspective. 7 pm. Free. Onsite @ OCAD U. ocadu.ca/onsite.

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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Philadelphia indie rockers bring their new album, Only Run, to the Horseshoe. Doors 8:30 pm. $20. HS, RT, SS, TF. TWELVE ANGRY MEN The classic courtroom drama gets a new production at Soulpepper’s Young Centre. Final preview before tomorrow’s opening. To Jul 19. 8 pm. $29-$74. 416-866-8666.

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lines one of NXNE’s strongest lineups (Future Islands, Omar Souleyman, Le1f, the Posterz) on Toronto Island’s brand new Vice Island: House of Vans. 11 pm. Festival wristband $149. nxne.com. SLEIGH BELLS Brooklyn noisepop duo play at the first of four massive free NXNE YongeDundas Square shows. 9:10 pm. nxne.com.

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MR. HARPER, KEEP YOUR PROMISE: WHERE ARE THE 1,300 SYRIAN REFUGEES? Forum to hold the government to its promise to allow Syrian refugees into Canada. 7 pm. Pwyc-$3. Trinity St Paul’s United Church. 416-922-8435.

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the Cuban 5, wrongly accused of espionage. 1 pm. Bell Media. torontoforumoncuba.com. +THE ROOTS Iconic hip-hop/ neo-soul group play David Pecaut Square for Luminato. 8 pm. $35. TM. luminatofestival. com. CINEASTAS Mariano Pensotti’s multimedia show adapted from the lives and work of Buenos Aires filmmakers opens at the MacMillan Theatre as part of Luminato. To Jun 9. 7:30 pm. $35-$55. 416-368-4849.

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bare as you dare to protest oil dependency and car obscenity. Noon. Free. Coronation Park. worldnakedbikeride.org. ZIGGY MARLEY Bob and Rita’s oldest son plays Luminato: Rock Steady Reggae with Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars at David Pecaut Square. 8 pm. $35. TM, luminatofestival.com. 22 JUMP STREET Opening weekend for comedy sequel starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill.

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Although NDP leader Andrea Horwath comes across as a decent person in Susan G. Cole’s Q&A (NOW, May 29-June 4), it’s obvious that she is unaware of how politics works. Had she pulled the plug on the first Liberal budget, she would be premier today. Nobody really knew Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne back then. All they knew was that the Liberals were caught in myriad scandals. Now Wynne has managed to deflect much of the Liberal scams onto her predecessor and is seen by many as a leader. The NDP needs some new people in the back rooms who know how and when to run elections. Gary Brigden Toronto

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The ferocity of the attack on NDP leader Andrea Horwath has been amazing in its hypocrisy. Jour nalists and bloggers of the “progressive left” write glowing op-eds about Olivia Chow one week and lambaste Horwath the next for using exactly the same campaign strategy: the prospective mayor is a progressive leader who is not afraid to take her “positive message” to the business elite, and a penny-pinching

guardian of the citizens’ tax money. Makes sense! Not so for Horwath. Even the attempt to speak the language of those disgruntled folks outside the core is right-wing. Perhaps it’s the fact that Horwath really does speak the language of those on the outside looking in that is so irksome? Horwath is from Hamilton, doncha know? Steven Smith Toronto

“ Had Andrea Horwath pulled the plug on the first Liberal budget, she’d be premier today.” today.

NDP soft-sells pensions

Andrea Horwath says, “It doesn’t matter that our [pension] proposal was a voluntary fund – that wasn’t the reason [the Liberals] opposed it [four years ago]. They said they were waiting to see what the federal government was doing with the Canada Pension Plan.” Uh, that’s now the NDP’s line on the Liberal pension plan in this election: let’s wait to see what the feds will do? And how is sinking a flawed plan better when you don’t have a plan of your own in the works or in your platform? I’m afraid NOW’s interview with the NDP leader was about the most soft-soap ever. Shawn Whitney Toronto

Hudak played waiting game with electorate

Your tidy article on the potential imminent demise of Tim Hudak (NOW, May 29-June 4) hits all the right notes. One last observation: Hudak and his sizable caucus sat on their hands for two years screaming “Scandal!” at the Liberals instead of contributing what they could to a minority government. This “just waiting it out until the next election” put politics in place of governing. They were elected and are accountable, too. We’ll see whether the Ontario electorate was also just willing to wait it out. Ian Scott Toronto

Nuke disaster here as likely as meteor strike

Re Nuke You, Toronto (NOW, May 29June 4). Could you bring back Greenpeace’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil to write an article explaining how a CANDU reactor could suffer a Fukushimascale disaster? The two reactors don’t even use the same type of fuel! And Ontario’s reactors aren’t threatened by earthquakes or tsunamis. Meteors or asteroids, maybe,

but even if we give the author the very generous starting point of a meteor strike, I’d be fascinated to see them get from there to a Fukushima-like meltdown. I love your magazine, but that article was thin on details in all the worst ways. Doug Howat Toronto

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I live in the Beach, 25 kilometres from the Pickering nuclear station – absolutely too close in the event of an accident. I’m outraged that government authorities have no emergency plans to protect my family in the event of an accident. It’s been determined that Fukushima was a man-made accident, and there’s no reason to believe an accident couldn’t happen here. I’ve raised my concerns to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission at their public hearings and found them to be dismissive. Pickering was designed for a 40year lifespan that runs out this year. It should be shut down immediately. This would be the very best safety plan. Monica Whalley Toronto

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Thanks to Bernie Farber for exposing the Canadian government’s unjust plan to deport the Roma Pusuma family, including six-year-old daughter Lulu, to Hungary (NOW, May 29June 4). For the last two years, the family has been resisting deportation in a church sanctuary. They came to Cana da to escape persecution, assaults and systemic racism, including anti-Semitism. It’s time Canada respected and enforced the United Nations con vention on refugees. It’s time for citizens to stand up for the Pusuma family and their right to stay in Canada and be free. Don Weitz Toronto

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Re Morgan Baskin Fights Sexism On The Election Trail (NOW, May 29). I’ve been following mayoral candidate Morgan Baskin on Twitter for months. Her opinions are sensible, reasoned and articulate, unlike some other mayoral candidates who don’t need naming. She won’t win, but honestly, is there any reason a smart 18-yearold couldn’t do better than the mayor we currently have? Gary Smith From nowtoronto.com 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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’m talking to you, fellow lovers, sharers and carers: where are we going with this Ontario election? You know who you are, but for accuracy’s sake, here’s a checklist. Whether you’re an NDPer, a Liberal, a Green or somewhere in between, you understand these are dangerous times. First off, it isn’t news to you that violence and repression are raging around the globe. You get that part of the reason is because inequality and corporate empowerment, both here and globally, are crazily off-kilter. Same for the fact that humans have destabilized the earth’s climate and that life forms on the pla net are pretty much in a death spiral. You are experiencing a visceral anxiety about PC leader Tim Hudak taking the June 12 vote. “How did the NDP put us in this position?” we ask as we scratch our heads over the polls. Plus, the ice storm was scary, right? We’re unsettled by the experience we shared of feeling the power of unbalanced nature. That was surely a wake- up call – one loud message from the weather: we are all in this together. Okay. So, first step, let’s look around and be grateful that there are actually

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so many of us who are not in denial about the simple facts of life as they are right now. That’s the good news. There are other empowering positives. For example, in this provincial election we have not one, but two party leaders who started out as smart, accomplished activists with an astute sense for good public policy and then got enough rank-and-file membership support to go on to lead their parties. This is unusual in the political world we live in. Kathleen Wynne has a progressive budget, pension and transit plans that affirm the courage of her convictions. The lesser known Mike Schreiner of the Green party has offered his substantial gifts to give voice to our basic need for uncontaminated watersheds and farmland. He might actually win his own Guelph riding, and then Ontario would have an Elizabeth May all our own, which would be a great addition to the provincial political culture. I’d like to emphasize to staunch NDPers who’ve never seen a Liberal or Green candidate (or supporter) they like that many of the core party members continued on page 14 œ who installed

Ontario New Democratic Party leader Andrea Horwath

Michael Hollett: I’m for the populist unafraid of taking on NDP elites NOW co-founder, editor and CEO says Kathleen Wynne needs a mandate to create useful public policy.

NOW co-founder, editor and publisher says bread-andbutterissues matter when you don’t have much of either.

he often-reviled Ford Nation gets at least one thing right: the downtown elites do exist, and I suppose I am one of them. I didn’t start out that way. Raised in Flemingdon Park by a struggling single mother, I watched her fumble in her purse for money to finance school field trips “everyone is going on.” And watched her embarrassed face when she came to Cub Scouts and realized I was the only kid without a uniform. Bread-and-butter issues matter when you don’t have much of either, and it can be easy for people without these challenges to forget. We downtown elites helped create Ford Nation in the heady, often excellent days of David Miller’s mayoralty, with what felt to them to be esoteric talk of tree canopies and bike lanes while many worried about feeding their families, getting to work or having a job. While a $65 vehicle tax, supported by downtowners with jobs, seemed a small price to pay for inspired city-building, Ford Nation saw it as one more move by out-of-touch snobs, adding to their bills while downtowners biked or walked to nearby employment.

NDP leader Andrea Horwath isn’t afraid to speak about pocketbook issues to people whose pocketbooks aren’t full or who are feeling economically overwhelmed. Her talk of respect for tax dollars, promises to run a government that won’t blow people’s money, and her denunciations of corruption and spending scandals speak to a legitimate suspicion of government in general. Just because big business parties ser ving the 1 per cent – the Tories and the U.S. Republicans – have expertly tapped these themes to serve banks and their buddies doesn’t mean progressives need to abandon turf that speaks so directly to the population’s frustrations and an xieties. Now the NDP’s own downtown elites, the Gang of 34, are attacking Horwath for daring to offer straightforward talk. In a preachy and patronizing shameafesto, these party poohbahs take on a working-class kid who wants to be premier for sounding too much like, well, the people who get elected. Federal NDP leader Jack Layton, who was on his way to becoming one of Canada’s greatest prime ministers, was similarly attacked by continued on page 16 œ

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Enzo DiMatteo: Can Wynne convince voters that government is still a force for good?

eaders’ debates are by definition perverse. Tuesday night’s (June 3) was unfortunately no different. We knew going in that NDP leader Andrea Horwath and the PCs’ Tim Hudak would go balls-to-the-wall after Kathleen Wynne over the gas plants scandal. And they didn’t disappoint. Surprisingly, Wynne seemed to be unprepared for the barrage. The good news for Wynne is that most people probably weren’t watching, and most of those who were have already decided who they’ll vote for. The bad news for Wynne is that after a record low turnout in the last provincial election, pundits are expecting an even lower turnout this time out. Still, for the Liberal premier, this election looks like it could go down as one of the greatest escapes in Ontario political history – and one of the most paradoxical – if she manages the seemingly unimaginable and pulls off a win. The paradox is that she’ll have to do it by pumping the positive at a time of increased cynicism about government. Since assuming the party’s leadership a year and a half ago, Wynne’s become famous for the “conversations” she’s wanted to open with Ontarians and the opposition parties about the issues of the day, insisting that government can be a force for good. Yes, even while the Grits have been racked by gas plant skullduggery and questions of financial bungling at Ornge, eHealth and, most recently, MaRS. Through it all, Wynne has kept her minority government afloat. Love her or not, her political appeal is undeniable. She may not be the most popular Ontario leader (Andrea Horwath is ahead in that category), but in the eyes of voters who participate in public opinion polls, she’s consistently seen as the most able. Her legislative agenda has included rollbacks on corporate tax cuts, a youth jobs strategy, and labour peace with teachers’ unions.

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Her personal standing with voters is significant, of course, but it’s even more impressive because she happens to be an out lesbian. This may be 2014 and most voters could care less about sexual preference, but it’s a subject that still comes up in socially conservative ethnic pockets of the GTA and beyond. To see Wynne in action is to understand her appeal. Maybe it’s the hands: she’s constantly using them for emphasis when she talks. The idealistic activist who cut her teeth as a school board trustee and then fighting amalgamation in 1996 comes through. There’s no denying her likeability, despite the criticism that she can come across as a know-it-all school marm. Some of her political appeal no doubt arises from the contrast with the NDP’s Horwath, who forced the election but has been unable to articulate a vision, judging by the party’s flatlining support. But Liberal insiders have insisted all along that the election, whenever it came, would be Wynne’s chance to shine, and most polls so far are bearing that out. As we head into the final stretch, the Libs are neckand-neck with the PCs in overall support but may in fact be flirting with a majority when you count most likely voters. The big contradictory metric in public opinion surveys? Three-quarters of voters say it’s time for change. But who is the change candidate? An argument can be made for Wynne. The answer for the Liberals has been to persuade voters that change for change’s sake is a bad idea; their focus has been on the path ahead. That’s understandable, since the one behind is arguably littered with roadkill. Hence the photo ops and campaign ads early on of the jogging enthusiast. As political adverts go, those proved effective with focus groups even if the desired message didn’t always resonate. Some who watched drew the opposite conclusion: that Wynne was trying to outrun the long shadow of her predecessor, Dalton McGuinty,

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architect of the regime that involved the Libs in those multiple scandals. In recent days, however, the Liberal campaign has taken on a more familiar tone. They’re warning us again that electing a Tory premier like Tim Hudak would bring back the bad old days of Mike Harris and the turmoil that followed, when not a blade of grass in Queen’s Park was left untrampled by protesters. Earlier this week, the Liberals ramped up those attacks. Trade Minister Eric Hoskins accused the PCs of adopting slash-and-burn policies from “right-wing extremist radical elements” stateside. That after it came to light that Hudak had sought solace in the arms of arch-conservatives in the U.S. after his soul-destroying 2011 election loss. Uh, yeah. PCs since Mike Harris have drawn on the electoral experience of the Republicans. As a campaign strategy, the ol’ anti-Harris gambit comes off a bit desperate. Are the folks calling the shots in the Liberal backroom getting nervous about polls showing a PC surge? Some former McGuinty war room generals have noted that the crew behind Wynne doesn’t collectively have the best record when it comes to winning elections. But according to one Liberal insider, the Tea Party Tim attacks were designed simply to put the PC leader off-message. A day spent defending himself is a day he’s not talking up his million-jobs plan. The Libs’ carefully crafted campaign aims not just to scare up the ghost of Mike Harris, but to play up the obvious holes in the Tory platform. Beyond the PCs’ threat to cut 100,000 public sector jobs – an easy target that’s dominated the discussion – there’s Hudak’s plan to scrap all-day kindergarten. Killing retrofit programs won’t exactly help those in rural communities who want to get off the grid to lower those hydro bills either. Anticipated PC gains in the 905 and southwest Ontario have yet to materialize, and those are crucial if the party’s to have a chance of forming the government. While the Grits’ pension plan is seen as an overture to NDP voters, it’s also gotten traction among an unexpected set: older moderate Tories worried about their retirement prospects. With only a handful of days left before the blackout on political advertising, Wynne’s Libs are within striking distance. Who would have given them a chance a year ago? 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo

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Wynne and Schreiner as leaders have similar values and desires to those of the wonderfully committed people who’ve made family and community of their beloved NDP. The bad news is that NDP leader Andrea Horwath’s leadership approach has upped the political danger quotient in the province considerably. Many within the party, both publicly and privately, find it hard to square Horwath’s platform with our own values. We feel betrayed by her willingness, in the hope of winning another few seats, to expose us to the possibility of another Harris-like government. History seems to be in an endless loop here. The parties who share a pro-social majority end up slicing and dicing each other to pieces, while the anti-social leader gets control of the community war chest to unleash more impoverishment, misery and climate chaos. (Hello, Stephen Harper.) What a messed-up story. How does that keep on happening? Turns out there are plenty of other humans in our common social-scape (but a minority) who don’t see the “together we are the weather” aspect of what’s going on at all. For lots of their own reasons, they think it’s all about them against the world. They hate the government and the rules, and they are angry. We have Ford Nation to thank for helping us figure that out. The perfect storm that brought Ford to power forced us to ask ourselves, “How can so many people support a politician who transgresses the basic idea of truth?” We have the clear answer. A significant body of humans feel that anti-social is the better way. And the populism Horwath is peddling is clearly designed to capture a share of that rebellious base. Meanwhile, we sharers and carers are scattered and tattered, flying old flags flapping in the wind. Well, my seeker friends, I’m proposing that we retire the words “left” and “right” as they’re applied to politics, right

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WE SEEM TO BE IN AN ENDLESS LOOP IN WHICH THE PARTIES WHO SHARE A PRO-SOCIAL MAJORITY END UP SLICING AND DICING EACH OTHER TO PIECES.

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here and now. They’re obscuring the landscape so we can’t see the forest for the trees. The political designation “left” has been losing meaning for a long time. By forcing this election, Horwath dealt the term a death blow, compounded by a platform that, when it differs from Wynne’s, is often described as being to the right of it. But here’s the soul problem that many NDPers are dealing with. If the term “left” has lost its meaning, then who the hell are we? I think we can agree that no “ism” can answer that question any more. Ideology just hasn’t paid off. In fact, it has been a killing field. We need a larger identity that embraces the public good. And it has to be self-correcting and self-aware – not self-righteous – including a verifiable fact-based approach to the public good. The shorthand I find useful is “pro-social.” Here’s one definition: “Pro-social behaviour is characterized by a concern about the rights, feelings and welfare of other people. Behaviours that can be described as prosocial include feeling empathy and behaving in ways to help or benefit other people.” Now that we’ve lived through a Rob Ford Toronto, we know behaviour that’s consistent with our values absolutely needs a place in our political philosophy. Pro-social is also the most scientific approach to doing good for ourselves. Quantum physics has established with absolute certainty that we are all connected. There’s nothing especially novel in this connected fact of life. The great teacher and anti-war activist Thich Nhat Hanh calls this “inter-being.” The late, great (honorary) Canadian Nelson Mandela (and all of Africa) call it “ubuntu” – “I am because we are.” If you respectfully ask our own First Nations elders, they have helpful and interesting views to share on this subject as well. So we start by acknowledging that we’re all in relationship. Then we go to work on figuring out the facilitation skill-sets needed to resolve the natural differences that arise from our endlessly diverse experiences

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and points of view. Instead of a constant cycle of disempowerment, let’s start working on the tools we need to negotiate and create efficient and effective inclusive win-win solutions to our huge and many problems. If we leave behind the nasty, self-righteous, adversarial, win-lose, ideological lens of left and right, we can wake up to the fact that most of us in the NDP and the Liberal party and the Greens are in the sharing and caring camp. And we are a powerful sector of the electorate. So how do we get to health and happiness? Do we align politically and tackle our problems from a communal, pro-social perspective? Or do we bandage up the wounds we’re all dealing with by grabbing whatever we can for ourselves – alone, against the world that’s trying to get its dirty hands on our money? If we could just get our act together, we could make a lot of good things happen for ourselves and each other, including electing the first openly lesbian premier in the history of Canada. Right now we can’t even agree that such an obvious milestone for basic human rights is a good thing. Where does that leave the NDP, that loving jewel of a party that’s been a beacon of generosity for generations? First, the leadership needs an electoral kick in the ass to make clear that the anti-tax neo-con playbook is not our way back to the future. Change must be called for in a loud and compelling way at the ballot box. Many esteemed party activists have said as much. Then we get to work on honouring the party’s history by creating and fulfilling a vision that goes one step further into ubuntu by transforming the NDP into Canada’s real home of peace and reconciliation. After the election will be a perfect time to dive right in. In this dream, the future NDP would play the role in our political system of something akin to the brilliant relationship counsellor who somehow gets all the angry parties around the table to journey together even further into health and well-being than any of them ever thought possible. But what about right now, with the election in our hands? Here is the obvious pro-social answer: number one, get out and vote. So many of us in the pro-social world don’t do that because we’re disaffected by the whole process. That’s an effect of the anti-social meanness infecting public debate. It could be deadly, however, for the province, the people and the planet if we leave political decisions in the hands of Hudak Nation. Who we actually vote for is more complicated. The best pro-social outcome we can achieve on June 12 is a stable Liberal government led by the dyed-in-the-wool pro-social Wynne. That’s not because she or the Liberals are ideal or even the very best. It’s because public policy and the public service need a four-year mandate to create anything vaguely useful. A coalition would be best, but sadly, Horwath’s NDP has proven itself unable to partner effectively for the public good. Hopefully the NDP, with our help, will learns some new relationship tricks and will be able to form a coalition. But in our electoral system, we need to be strategic in the way we try for a Liberal or coalition government. Vote-splitting is an issue that we need to consider depending on what’s going on in our ridings and, frankly, how the political winds are blowing come election day. But hey, attitude is everything. Instead of being daunted, let’s just look at it as “This is what makes democracy so interesting.” At nowtoronto.com we have created a Toronto riding-by-riding voting guide with the easily accessible background you need to figure out how to avoid votesplitting and elect the best pro-social candidate possible. We need to get creative, tune in to each other and do the best we can. 3 alice@nowtoronto.com | @AliceKlein

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uneasy, defeatist leftists. Layton wanted to win, and so does Horwath, knowing that in power real change is possible. But the Gang of 34 want Horwath to speak Brita-filtered progressive purity. Will they also come after Toronto mayoralty frontrunner Olivia Chow, who is wisely attempting to reclaim that ground with a campaign that appears, hopefully, on its way to a win? These curmudgeonly critics play into the hands of our corruptiondrenched premier, suggesting that the Liberal campaign-left, alwaysgovern-right party is this time finally and really going to remain progressive while actually in power. They are helping convince those who have the luxury of pondering progressive perfection that the chro nically conservative Liberals have changed their spots and have now bought into a red-swabbed nirvana. Horwath is attacked for not backing Wynne’s fantasy budget the same way Layton was criticized for not swal lowing another Liberal come-to-Jesus moment, when then PM Paul Martin tabled a progressive Liberal budget back in 2005 – just before the door hit

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him in the ass as his scandal-soaked federal party was on its way out. Why, oh why, can Liberals never come up with a progressive budget when they have, say, a majority gov ernment? The NDP is actually running against Harris apostle Tim Hudak. There were shrieks when the NDP recently launched a front-page ad takeover of the Toronto Sun. Critics sniffed: why the hell would she want to talk to those people? Because she wants them to vote for the NDP. They will need to for the party to actually win. Horwath is reaching outside the NDP’s traditional base, and listening, too. When small business owners, B:20.37 mom-and-pop shops, told Horwath T:20.37

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they couldn’t afford a jump in the minimum wage in one go, she listened, proposing a compromise, but is attacked for not being progressive enough. The NDP leader doesn’t want moral victories; she wants a win that is moral. And to wrench working people free from parties that will never serve them. And I think she can do it. The Steeltown Scrapper remains the most popular party leader in Ontario, in part for being least like a pol. Ontarians are sick of being lied to and sick of plug-and-play politicos talking down to them. I’ll take a populist progressive any day who isn’t afraid to challenge the orthodoxies, even among her party’s elites. Are we really ready to say a party that blew over a billion bucks covering its ass while the current premier, Kathleen Wynne, was in cabinet deserves another try? She sounds like Rob Ford, repeating her empty apologies and calling for people to just move on. The Liberals couldn’t find the bucks for transit, but coughed up a quick $1 billion when they needed it to buy votes with our money. Why didn’t she just say no? Horwath is running to beat back the Tories, and she successfully bashed them in recent head-to-head by-elec-

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tions – despite the fact that in the 2011 elections the NDP ran third in those ridings. So much for strategic voting. She can do that in battlegrounds all over Ontario. And in Toronto she is largely facing off against Liberals, so for most of us the vote-splitting bugaboo isn’t even an issue. So vote for the party that isn’t conning you, that promises to raise corporate taxes – the lowest in the Great Lakes area – and will give tax credits to companies that hire and invest in infrastructure instead of skipping

town with their profits. There’s still plenty that’s social in the NDP plan, which promises nutrition programs and dental care for kids, shortened emergency room wait times, increased home care and schools kept open as community centres. The chameleon Libs are the party of Ornge, eHealth and gas plant cancellations. And remember, it wasn’t just the Tories who sparked a war with the public sector when they were in power. It was Dalton McGuinty, while Wynne was minister of education, who went after the educators and attacked their wages. That’s another thing the non-elites hate: teacher strikes and lockouts that mean they have to scramble to get their kids taken care of, maybe even miss a day’s work. Like Layton in his last debate before his final federal election, Horwath made a breakthrough Tuesday night. Her look-you-in-the-eye honesty contrasted with the old-style parties as Wynne squirmed and dodged and Hudak made promises that are impossible to believe. Don’t be hustled into believing a little scruff and a little tough from a Steeltown tornado can’t take it all. 3

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One day it’s a PC majority, the next it’s the Liberals riding to victory. Ontario election 2014 is doing little to boost our faith in public opinion surveys. The polls may be all over the place, but it’s not too early to spot trends. Here’s where the pollsters stood as of press time Wednesday afternoon. ABACUS DATA Predicting Liberal majority (maybe). Key metric Upswing in likely voters who say they’ll cast their ballot for the Liberals; Tory support dipping to 30 per cent after sitting at 35 per cent in an Abacus poll only days earlier. Methodology gap Abacus’s was an online survey, which tend to skew right politically, but each of its last three polls has shown a trend: an upward trajectory for the Grits. IPSOS-REID Predicting PC majority with 41 per cent of the vote and Libs at 29. Key metric Threequarters of voters polled say they want change.

Methodology gap Small sample size (868 voters); margin of error was 4 per cent.

Key metric Zero margin of error. Methodology gap The Oracle survey was of likely voters and conducted over four days with live interviewers over the phone, usually considered the best method.

EKOS RESEARCH Predicting Liberal majority with 39 per cent of the vote. Key metric Significant sample size of 1,215 respondents. Methodology gap The results of the Interactive Voice Response poll are from a random sample of 927 people and were heavily weighted. Most of the other polls are of likely voters. And the 17 per cent NDP support must be a blip, right?

FORUM RESEARCH Predicting A toss-up, with PCs and Libs each at 36 per cent. Key metric Dip for Libs, which polled at 41 per cent in a much earlier Forum survey. Methodology gap Forum’s polls are predicting a Liberal minority when vote concentration is factored into the equation.

ORACLE POLL RESEARCH Predicting PC minority with 36 per cent of the vote.

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1. Buffalo skyline, looking northeast from the City Hall observation deck, with the Statler Hotel in foreground 2. The H.H. Richardson Complex 3. Christopher Graper and Luella Kenny at Love Canal 4. Kitty Lambert-Rudd at Buffalo ReUse 5. Buffalo City Hall 6. The fenced-off epicentre of Love Canal 7. Buffalo Central Terminal.

buffalo in the rear-view C The Queen City is in many ways Toronto’s mirror image. Here our issues are management of growth and prosperity, there it’s dealing with shrinkage and poverty By jonathan goldsbie hristopher Graper runs tours to ex actly two places in the world: North Korea and Buffalo. The Toronto man previously worked in the tar sands and as a tour bus driver for bands including New Kids on the Block and Loverboy. His trips to Buffalo for small groups of eight to 12 are “urbex [urban exploration] week enders,” run by his own nascent company, Vignette Tours. He is also the lone North American repre sentative for Koryo Tours, a Beijing-based Brit ish company that runs trips to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. There’s overlap, thematically and with par ticular travellers. A New York City man who had been to North Korea several years before learn ed about the Buffalo trip from Koryo’s email list. “Not absolutely everyone that goes to North Korea, or is fascinated or interested or intrigued by North Korea, is interested in abandonment and post-industrial blight and the stories sur rounding it,” Graper tells me over beers in Kensington Market. “Not everyone has that same interest, but a lot do.” Nostalgia, he explains, is the distinction be tween expectation and reality, between ambi tions and the failure to fulfill them. Both of his

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tours involve an “aesthetic appreciation” of that chasm. Buffalo’s downtown core embodies that idea as we roll through on Saturday morning, May 24, though it’s a pretty day and the area’s dot ted with pink-blossomed trees. It’s hard to look desolate in spring. A representative of Explore Buffalo gives us a tour of the art deco City Hall – a massive shell into which the government never fully grew. Murals and carvings that set out the city’s founding myths now serve as memorials to its promise. Past noon, the pervasive quiet becomes more pronounced as we drive to the apocryphal birthplace of the Buffalo wing. At the Anchor Bar, the air is thick with the smell of Frank’s RedHot and butter. Don’t You Forget About Me plays on the jukebox, followed by Once In A Lifetime, while I use fries to sop up the excess sauce. Elsewhere, the music, like much of the cul ture, tends toward what Graper calls a counter intuitive or “off-modern” sensibility. He keeps the van’s radio tuned to Drive Time Polka, and we cruise around to the Chicken Dance as though it were normal. Buffalo used to have (and to an extent still has) a significant Polish population based in the Polonia District. Expectation and reality

collide once again as a polka-singing bartender turns out to be less a dancing accordionist in traditional costume than an old guy in a Bills jacket pacingwith a microphone. The bartender, Geno, tells us we should have a look at “Mr. Obama” in the back room. For those who go to investigate, it dawns with deep discomfort that he’s referring to a statue of a chimpanzee in a waiter’s outfit. The off-modern sensibility we’re here to ex perience at a semi-ironic remove is now more difficult to enjoy as a delightful quirk of hist ory. And I feel stupid for not having previously grasped what it means to visit an isolated pub in a grim neighbourhood of a depressed Amer ican city. “There’s still real big divisions here, and it’s very sad,” says Kitty Lambert-Rudd, executive director of Buffalo ReUse. “It’s like some people here just haven’t figured out that it’s not 1950 and this is not Mississippi.” Buffalo ReUse is a volunteer organization that collects and sells furnishings from demol ished and remodelled properties out of a ware house on the city’s east side. Lambert-Rudd also happens to be half of the first couple to have had a same-sex wedding in the state. The warehouse, with rows of sinks and bath tubs and every imaginable fixture, is a mu seum of 20th-century domestic design.

“Our grandparents thought that a sign of success was being able to remove something or dispose of something before it was broken,” Lambert-Rudd explains, adding that this has “unfortunately created a world of garbage.” She moved to Buffalo from Arizona in 2004, when she bought a house at auction for $3,000. A decade later and after extensive renovation work, it’s now worth $15,000. “God, Buffalo is such an affordable place to start,” she says. “You can start a business here: there is so much real estate available where you walk in the door and start a factory [or] a retail business.” A city with so little is full of possibility. “The tour is not us looking into the impos sible zoo that can’t be fixed,” Graper advised me before we left. “The story is the challenge. How hard it is. Economic contraction.” Buffalo is in many ways the Great Lakes mir ror-image of Toronto. Here, our issues are the management of growth and the equitable dis tribution of prosperity. There, their issue is contraction, dealing with shrinkage and pov erty. What happens when your best days are behind you and never coming back? “Decay, entropy, this is what actually hap pens to all of these places eventually,” Graper says. “So unless they’re repurposed, they fall apart.” continued on page 21 œ

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NO charity for feminists Men’s org with ties to U.S. anti-woman hate group fails at E-Day concert, but feels legitimized by new charitable status By ben spurr An anti-feminist group called the Ca nadian Association for Equality has gained charitable status, and the Ca nada Revenue Agency doesn’t seem fazed about legitimizing its misogy nist connections.

CAFE, widely criticized for its links to a toxic U.S. anti-woman group, suffered an embarrassing setback when it tried to organize an “Equality Day” T:5.833” concert last week at Artscape Gibraltar Point. When bombarded by on-

line messages condemning the group’s ties to the “men’s rights” movement, Artscape pulled the plug Thursday, May 29. The E-Day fiasco was a victory for local feminists, but CAFE’s supporters were still celebrat-

ing the CRA’s granting it official also has suggested that domestic viostatus as an educational charity in lence is consensual, often sexually March. gratifying for women and would Charitable status gives the organcause less harm if men weren’t so ization a significant financial advanskittish about hitting their partners tage: donors are eligible for tax dein the first place. ductions, and the organization is “Our ‘never EVER hit a woman’ exempt from taxes on certain exmentality has those men waiting un penses. But more importantly, as the til they completely lose control of group boasted in a May 19 web post, their emotions before giving their it “serves as a major legitimization of women what they’re demanding,” our men’s issues agenda.” she wrote on Reddit a year ago. Those are ominous words for anyCritics and feminists are wonderone paying close attention to CAFE’s ing if CAFE’s charitable status will activities. help the movement take hold. The group’s reading list offers furSteph Guthrie, a local feminist adther insight into its “educational” role, vocate and community organizer, with titles like The War Against Boys: warns that the CRA has given CAFE a How Misguided Feminism Is Harm“dangerous” boost. ing Our Young Men, and Legalizing “I’m very concerned that the Cana Misandry: From Public Shame To Sysdian government would recognize temic Discrimination Against Men. them as a charity… when the ‘educaNot only is CAFE engaged in a fight tion’ they’re advancing is founded in against feminism, but in a recent post what appears to be a campaign of about last month’s Isla Vista killings, misinformation,” she says. one of its directors appears to refute At first glance, CAFE’s official man the concept of gender-based violence altogether. Citing the fact that men murder other men more often than they murder women, board member Adam McPhee writes, “If anyone – Karen Straughan, who spoke at a CAFE event at Ryerson should fear men, it is men. It is not women we need to teach men to be date is almost comically unobjecgentle towards, it is men themselves.” tionable. Its stated goal is “achieving Such statements are practically equality for all Canadians,” with a harmless in comparison to the bile on focus on the status of men and boys. the U.S. site A Voice For Men (AVFM). Guthrie says that in reality much of The group’s founder, Paul Elam, has what it does is aimed at repudiating written such articles as When Is It feminism and exposing the supposOkay To Punch Your Wife? In 2011, he edly disastrous effect it has had on set up a website designed to broadcast males. To support its arguments CAFE the personal information, including offers up distorted facts, she says. names and addresses, of women who For example, the group believes he imagined had committed crimes that the family court system is biased against masculinity. against men and notes that less than 5 In a bizarre interview with NOW per cent of fathers are awarded sole last week (a full account of which can custody of their children. What they be found on our site), CAFE outreach don’t say, according to Guthrie, is that director Denise Fong said her group fewer than 10 per cent of divorced does not endorse Elam’s organizafathers ever seek sole custody. tion. But CAFE’s site currently pro“The problem is really that they’re motes an AVFM conference. And in propagating misinformation,” she February it thanked AVFM for its says. “If you’re an educational organi help with a fundraising drive “dezation, the resources you’re putting spite already having committed efout there should have some integrity.” forts to previous appeals. The CRA did not respond by press “We thank them for their ongoing time to questions about what stansupport to our on campus efforts,” a dards a charity must meet to be conCAFE administrator wrote. sidered “educational.” Natalie Lochwin, who has reported Ryerson’s Students’ Union unsuc on CAFE for Rabble.ca, says the cessfully opposed the Straughan/ group’s attempts to downplay its CAFE event, fearing the “precedent links to AVFM are deliberate. this sets for hateful groups to take up “They’ve become more moderate spaces on our campus.” as they’ve been trying to achieve Administrations on other campus their goal of becoming a charitable es might want to brace themselves. organization,” she says. “But they do CAFE has made a “New Year’s resoluhave ties, absolutely.” tion” to stage at least eight major CAFE also has ties to Karen events at universities and colleges Straughan, a self-described female across the country in 2014. Armed men’s rights advocate whom the org with charitable status, the group brought to speak at Ryerson Univermight find it that much easier to essity in February. Straughan believes cape scrutiny. 3 bens@nowtoronto.com | @BenSpurr most feminists are mentally ill. She

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e take for granted that safety comes first in our schools, but if your child is autistic, that’s

not the case. Cassidy Lamourie-Parkinson is a 10-year-old with autism, and his story reveals a gaping hole in our education system. The Grade 5 student was recently suspended from Finch Public School. In an effort to leave his classroom without permission, he tried to pry a teaching assistant’s fingers off the door frame. While this is inappropriate behaviour from any child, Cassidy isn’t like neurotypical children, and the incident involved behaviour that would

be deemed inappropriate from anyone working with children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Matters got worse when Cassidy’s mother, Tracy Lamourie, asked principal Sally Gustin if suspension was the appropriate method of discipline for her son. Gustin replied, “In my day, they got the strap.” A gobsmacked Lamourie called the school’s superintendent, Linda Curtis, and anyone else who would hear her out. She asked for an apology and a meeting. Neither Gustin nor Curtis returned NOW’s requests for interviews, but in a series of email exchanges Lamourie provided to NOW, Gustin apologized for the comment. She writes to Lamourie that “I used [the phrase] to illustrate that we have changed our methods of discipline. In the past there was corporal punishment and now we use progressive discipline.” The situation led to a discussion with the board’s autism team that Lamourie says she has been advocating for since Cassidy started school in November. The school decided to withdraw the suspension, determine a safety plan and start monitoring Cassidy to see when and what is triggering his challenging behaviour. People on the autism spectrum have difficulty dealing with sensory stimulation, movement and transitions, like deviating from a schedule or moving from one task to the next. Maureen Bennie, director of Calgary’s Autism Awareness Centre, a former teacher and mother of two teenagers with autism, says educators don’t reflect enough on what’s triggering aroused behaviour in such kids. “Nine times out of 10, the trigger

goes back to something that person in charge of the child with autism did. It is not the impetus of the child,” she says. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Education Act does not require teachers or any staff who interact with autistic children to receive non-violent crisis intervention training to safely manage disruptive and assaultive behaviour. Bennie points out that even with this training, “the workers or the children themselves often wind up with injuries.” But any training would be better than none. Policy/Program Memorandum (PPM) 140, instituted by the province in 2007, directs school boards to use applied behaviour analysis (ABA) and conditioning to build useful repertoires of behaviour and reduce problematic ones. Ask parents of autistic children in the Toronto District School Board how often they’ve met with an ABAtrained therapist and they report that such meetings are scarce. The year before the PPM was introduced in 2006, the ministry funded the Geneva Centre for Autism to provide summer training for educators on diverse ABA topics. That was the same year the Ontario government limited intensive behavioural intervention treatment for autistic children under six. Many low-functioning autistic children don’t develop speech until five or later, if at all. (Cassidy started at five.) That change has left many children without the treatment necessary to help them adjust to a school environment. Although autism training became available free to all public educators

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as of July 2013, according to Marg Spoelstra, executive director of Autism Ontario, none of that training is mandatory. Spoelstra recognizes that schools have done well with reporting their successes with autistic students, but in general, she says, “We’re not seeing the kinds of gains we’d like to.” That could be a result of teacher turnover, but “there needs to be standardized training in place, [and] that is currently not mandatory,” she says. Because children on the spectrum present differently in terms of issues with speech or stimuli, a one-sizefits-all program doesn’t work. As far as Cassidy’s concerned, his learning program has been adjusted, but his case hasn’t changed how children on the spectrum will be dealt with in the education system. Cassidy’s a high-functioning, verbal child. Imagine schools that are

dealing with low-functioning, nonverbal autistic children who are prone to self-harming. What happens when they start hitting themselves? Currently, the answer is nothing – they beat themselves. As for the lack of properly trained professionals, Lamourie says, “If we don’t deal with it now, we’ll have to when they’re adolescents.” Thinking of worst-case scenarios, she asks, “What about a situation with police? I can just see if they say, ‘Put your hands up’ and he doesn’t do it quickly enough.” How are children on the spectrum learning to cope if their educators aren’t learning how to deal with them? Lamourie sees Cassidy’s rescinded suspension as a blessing in disguise. She feels he won’t now slip through the cracks. But he’s just one child, and his story is a common one. 3

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dancing, gambling, an auction and more. $175. Corus Quay, 25 Dockside. autism.net. Connect Beauty (Women’s Healthy Environments/Fashion Takes Action) Eco-fashions on the runway with celebrity models including NOW writer Adria Vasil, a talk by Toxin Toxout author Rick Smith, 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. Toronto Plays (Right to Play) Drinks, dancing, Vegasthemed games, prizes and more. 8 pm-2 am. $85 adv. Burroughes Bldg, 637 Queen W. torontoplays.org.

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Bread & Honey Festival Live entertainment, carnival rides, a parade and more. $2-$5. Streetsville Memorial Park, 335 Church (Mississauga). breadandhoney.ca. Jun 6 to 8 Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Performances by Broken Social Scene, Constantines, Gord Downie, Interpol, the Kills, Half Moon Run, Austra and others. $75, pass $125. Fort York Common, Garrison off Fleet. fieldtriplife.com. Jun 7 and 8 Luminato The festival of arts and creativity offers theatre, music, films, dance, visual art, cabaret, literary readings, installations, lectures, kids’ entertainment and more. Various prices, many events free. luminatofestival.com. Jun 6 to 15 Mateca Arts Festival Community multi-arts celebration, with performances by Laura Fernández, Ill Skillz, Beatriz Pichi Malen and others. Free-$25. U of T Victoria College, Burwash Quad, 91 Charles W. mateca.com. Jun 7 and 8 Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Celebration of the drum with local and international performers, food and craft vendors, a

kids’ area and more. Free. Woodbine Park, Lake Shore E and Coxwell. muhtadidrumfest.com. Jun 7 and 8 Riverdale Art Walk Outdoor art festival and sale of paintings, photography, prints, sculpture and more. Free. Jimmie Simpson Park, Queen and Booth. artistsnetwork.ca. Jun 7 and 8 Toronto Raw/Vegan Festival Celebration of healthy, cruelty-free, eco-friendly green living with entertainment, speakers, workshops, food demos, sampling and more. Sat 10 am-8 pm, Sun 10 am-4 pm. Free. 918 Bathurst. torontorawveganfestival. com. Jun 7 and 8

continuing Doc Now Documentary media festival showcasing film, photography and new media by graduating students from Ryerson’s MFA program. d ocnow.ca. To Jun 28 InspiraTO Theatre Festival Performances of 10-minute plays by local and international playwrights. $15-$50. Alumna Theatre, 70 Berkeley. theatreinspirato.ca. To Jun 7 Scarborough Film Festival Feature films and shorts. $13-$20. Various venues in Scarborough and East York. scarboroughfilmfestival.com. To Jun 8

Choose Happiness Talk on modern Buddhism and meditation. 7:30 pm. $15, adv $10. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. kadampa.ca/choose-happiness. Crisis Of Distrust: Police And Community In Toronto

Film screening and talk on ideas that impact policing on our streets. 6 pm. Free. Social Planning Toronto/Urban Alliance for Race Relations offices, 2 Carlton. p litoronto.org. Financial Literacy: Lessons For Life Talk by financial lit-

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Screening of Leonard Weinglass On The Cuban Five, talks and a workshop. 6:30 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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avail). FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-363-6441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net. Music History On The Yonge Street Strip Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 6:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register at heritagetoronto.org. LQ Live At Luminato Special live recording of CBC’s culture show with Jian Ghomeshi. 6:45 pm. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. luminatofestival.com.

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style notes The week’s news,

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views and sales FRAME-UP Sea Folly high-neck tank and hipster bottom ($113 and $89, Sandpipers, 87 Yorkville, 416-921-2376, and other, swimfashion.com)

Whether you road-trip to Wasaga or throw down a towel at Trinity Bellwoods, look cool in these swimsuits while you soak up the sun.

All the Instagram filters in the world still can’t compare to a physical photo of loved ones. Get your memories off the web and into a frame with SoHo Art & Custom Framing’s (77 Roncesvalles, 416-531-2047, sohoframing.com) 10th-anniversary specials. Save 30 per cent on all custom framing, 10 per cent on all framed posters and gift items, 10 per cent on art hanging systems and more until June 28.

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Minnow Bathers Volcano two-piece ($160, Victoire, 129A Ossington, 416588-6978, minnowbathers.com) Mara Hoffman one-piece with back straps ($320, Sandpipers)

The Toronto Design Offsite Festival hosts the second annual #StfDsgnrsMake Silent Auction at the Gladstone Hotel (1214 Queen West) on Tuesday (June 10) from 6 to 10 pm (bidding ends at 9 pm). Participating designers include Christina Ott, Brothers Dressler, Adrian Forrow, Virginia Johnson, Philip Sparks, Guy Laliberté (Type Books) and many more. There’s a $5 entrance fee and a cash bar, and all proceeds benefit the production of the fifth annual Toronto Design Offsite Festival. Also check out the free onsite exhibition exploring the common ground between art and design, Friday to Tuesday (June 6 to 10) from noon to 5 pm. Visit todesignoffsite.com for more info.

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L*Space Hunter Rose bandeau top and Lydia bottom ($105 and $68, lspace.com)

Shan Les Tulipes bikini top and high-rise bottom ($235 andB:9.833” $140, 38 Avenue Road, 416-961-7426, shan.ca) T:9.833” S:9.833”

Two of our favourite local designers have new e-commerce shops. Mizdragonfly, our go-to girl for funky vintage-inspired jewellery, now sells her wares at mizdragonfly.com. Meanwhile, hoibo’s popular bags are now available for international shipping at hoibo.com. 3

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The e-commerce boom opens all sorts of doors for indie designers and makers whose small budgets often shut them out of traditional retail set-ups. Recognizing this, the team who brought you the popular One Of A Kind Show for close to 40 years now presents the One Of A Kind Online Shop. Stocked full of homegrown crafts that fall under five key categories – home, jewellery, fashion, kids and flavours – the e-shop keeps the show’s spirit of “meeting the makers” alive by featuring the stories and inspirations behind each product. The store currently showcases over 300 artisans and plans to add more fresh talent weekly. OOAK picks: Vancouver brand Lover Fighter’s hand-painted clutches ($145), made from painters’ drop sheets, fuse art and fashion. Nicole Tarasick Studio’s screenprinted Great Lakes and YYZ pillows ($65-$95) are patriotic minus the kitsch. Look for: N-Product donates 15 per cent of all sales from its cool-looking Inner City bird houses ($100) to the Youth Services Bureau. Toronto-based Curious Oddities’s Compass Rose cufflinks ($35) make stylish Father’s Day gifts. 3

As a university student I was very active and social. That all changed at age 21 when I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). My neck stiffened, my fingers swelled and the joints in my feet became so inflamed that I had to crawl to the tub and soak them before I could get up and walk. I felt a fraction of the person I once was. As years passed, I changed my routine, took up yoga, tried to strengthen my joints — anything to ease my pain and restore my mobility. My left foot deteriorated badly, but I was put on a new “biologic” drug that helped managed my flares. Between drugs and surgery, I was able to walk down the aisle at my wedding without pain. I survived other ups and downs, but when I became pregnant with twins, my RA flared

badly and my pregnancy was marked by pain. I feared not being able to pick up my babies, but with the help of family and doctors, I am pushing through to care for my children, and for myself.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

HERE COMES THE SUN: MINERAL FACIAL SUNSCREENS

There’s lots of beauty-industry talk about mineral sunscreens fending off UV rays more effectively and safely than reef-damaging, skin-sensitizing, endocrine-disrupting chemical sunscreens. And they’re right. Still, not all mineral lotions are created equal. Make sure your face is protected with the right stuff. AVÈNE MINERAL CREAM Hyped at mainstream cosmetics counters as a cream-of-the-crop solar protector free of dodgy sunscreen chemicals (such as the octinoxate in Avène Emulsion). Too bad they’re using controversial nano versions of the minerals (under 100 nanometres wide) – enviro and health impacts of these are still under-studied. Plus this one contains junky fillers like cyclomethicone, which Environment Canada pronounced to be a danger to the environment, but then recanted after the industry complained. Also in the mix, lots of petroleum-derived ingredients and preservatives like butyl and propyl parabens being banned from children’s products in Europe. $30/50 ml SCORE: N

AVEENO MINERAL GUARD Aveeno has all sorts of sunscreens it claims are “safe as water” and chock full of “active naturals,” when they’re loaded with dubious sunscreen chems like oxybenzone and octinoxate (both reef-damaging estrogen mimickers). Aveeno Mineral Guard, however, uses more effective zinc oxide and titanium dioxide minerals. It’s just a shame that J&J (maker of Aveeno) uses teeny, tiny, nano-sized versions of the particles, which are contentiously under-studied and under-regulated. The fillers here are far from natural. Still, this one’s generally a better option than other drugstore sunscreens. $20/80 ml SCORE: NN

LOOK WHO’S DISSING DIVESTMENT

n a ballroom at Toronto’s Hyatt Regency Hotel in late May, a smartly dressed crowd of a few hundred investors has gathered at the Responsible Investment Association’s annual conference. This is no conventional investors’ forum. On today’s agenda, right after What Would Marx Do? Investors Respond To The Contradictions Of Capitalism, is a plenary on investing in a carbon-challenged world. On the table: how long will oil be a staple of the Canadian economy? What will the implications be for responsible investors? And the nub of it all: is divesting from fossil fuels the “correct” approach?

Onstage, Cary Krosinsky, the man whose organization’s groundbreaking carbon research fuelled a growing legion of university campaigns to pull institutional funds out of fossil fuels, isn’t the divestment poster boy you’d expect. On the contrary, Krosinsky pulls out pie chart after bar graph to demonstrate how the snowballing student divestment movement is, in his words, “causing trouble.” Listen closely and you’ll hear a giant record scratching to a halt. After all, Krosinsky is the co-founder of Carbon Tracker Initiative, a non-profit run by financial specialists who’ve been waving big red flags to alert the investment community to the carbon bubble threatening the global economy. The org’s seminal 2011 report Unburnable Carbon flagged 200 oil, gas and coal companies that would have to leave 80 per cent of their assets in the ground to keep the world from cooking up a full-blown climate crisis. That’s the very list of companies eco rock star Bill McKibben’s 350.org is asking universities, churches and municipalities to divest from. And big-name cities and campuses have started listening. Stanford made waves last month by announcing its divestment from 100 coal companies. Just this week, 59 Oxford academics threw their weight behind that school’s campaign. Yet here at the responsible investment conference, there’s a surprising amount of disdain for divestment.

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CONSONANT MATTE, GRAYDON SUN CREAM These two lovely locavores offer excellent unscented mineral protection without turning you goofy white like a 50s surfer (though it can take a minute for the initially white minerals to be absorbed by some skin types). Like MyChelle and True facial sunscreen, they’re not organic, but they are natural/naturally derived without greasing you up. Consonant’s Matte Finish aloe-based sunscreen dries the quickest and has either SPF 15 or tinted SPF 30 ($35/50 ml). Graydon, an SPF 30, is initially a little stickier but also cheaper($20/50 ml). SCORE: NNNN

GREEN BEAVER FACE CREAM, GODDESS GARDEN SUNNY FACE If you’re looking for the most ecologically enlightened solar protection, opt for certified organic brands Green Beaver or Goddess Garden (although Green Beaver wins in Canadian books for being an Ontario native that folds in Canadian-grown, naturally UV-fending raspberry seed oil). Green Beaver’s nano-free facial sunscreen (SPF 15) is non-whitening and less oily than its original formula but still sits a little heavier than some others, making it better for dry skin. Goddess Garden has a bit more of a white cast initially but is water-resistant and higher SPF (SPF 30). Both contain some lavender. $21.99/40 ml SCORE: NNNN

DEVITA SOLAR PROTECTIVE MOISTURIZER I try to like other brands as much as I dig Devita, but this U.S.-based skin care line still makes the most feather-light natural facial sunscreen in town. It’s totally non-whitening on all skin tones, unscented, made with nano-free zinc oxide (SFP 30), in a base of certified organic aloe. Like Andalou, it’s got a good tinted Beauty Balm with SPF, too. It’s cheaper to buy Devita Body Block and apply it on your face, but Body Block is slightly richer, with a little lavender. Devita’s not water-resistant, so reapply after serious sweating. Hard to find in Canada but available at the Big Carrot, essentialdayspa. com and hollyandivy.ca (which raises funds for women with breast cancer). $34/75 ml ecoholic SCORE: NNNNN pick

Krosinsky himself argues that oil use is too embedded throughout our economy to ask investors to flat-out divest. He dismisses college divestment as a politically motivated approach that will have a drop-in-the-bucket impact. Plus, he adds, students aren’t considering investors’ legal fiduciary duty to act in the interest of shareholders whose money they’re managing. “To just barge in with a divestment ask on a systemic issue doesn’t really fly.” On day two of the conference, at a Climate Change Strategies workshop for conscious investors, the packed room hears about “stranded carbon assets,” the ones financial risk-assessment heavyweights increasingly agree will have to be left in the ground. Krosinsky is back with NEI Investment’s Bob Walker, both talking about favouring an engagement approach of leveraging investor cash to pressure corporations to green up. Lawyer/shareholder rights advocate Dimitri Lascaras is the lone voice in favour of divestment. The problem with engagement, he says, is that it’s resulting in changes too slow and modest to meet the urgent need for climate action. He points to 60 proposals presented by shareholders to oil and gas companies on enviro issues, only one of which called for a reduction in CO2 emissions, at Suncor’s tar sands operations. Since that 2007 proposal, Suncor has doubled its barrel output per day. “What we should be doing is engaging in a strategy that isolates and delegitimizes the industry.”

So, yes, Lascaras says campus divestment is indeed a political tool. Hopefully can help shift to shift public opinion and “force the government to stop facilitating the interests of the fossil fuel industry.” When moderator Heather Lang, director of institutional relations at Sustainalytics, asks the audience how many in the room have personally divested, only four or five out of 100 put up their hands. Lang tells me more hands would have been raised south of the border. Here in Canada, where the TSX is heavily dominated by fossil fuel companies, there’s a sense that there’s not much to invest in if you opt out of oil and gas altogether. Outside the workshop, Lascaras says he’s actually surprised at how many raised their hands, not how few. “Those investment professions are operating in perhaps the most difficult environment in the Western world at the moment, because we have a government that seems hell bent on

promoting the interests of the fossil fuel industry and promoting the dependence of Canada’s economy on this industry.” While Canada shrugs off U.S. calls to shrink our fossil fuel emissions, investment pros may still want to listen to the World Bank’s Jim Yong Kim on this one. In January, he called on the investment community, corporations and governments to divest from oil, gas and coal ASAP. He challenged “so-called long-term investors” to reframe their fiduciary duty to include protecting the pocketbooks of future generations. If the feds won’t heed the divestment call, shouldn’t our responsible investors consider leading the way?

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 “We are born with

whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside us,” writes novelist Robert R. McCammon. “We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls. We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out and combed out. We get put on the straight and narrow path and told to be responsible.” That’s the bad news, Aries. But now here’s the good news: the next 12 months will offer you a series of excellent opportunities to re-magic yourself. If you have not yet caught wind of the first invitation, I bet you will soon.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 “When given a choice between owning an object and having an experience,” says art critic Holland Cotter, “I always choose the experience.” He prefers to spend his money on adventures that transform his sense of self and his understanding of the world. I recommend that approach to you in the coming weeks, Taurus. The most valuable “possessions” you can acquire will be the lessons you learn, the skills you hone and the relationships you ripen. Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 In Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way, the narrator speaks of how profoundly he is inspired by an older writer named Bergotte: “Each time he talked about something whose beauty had until then been hidden from me, about pine forests, about hail, about Notre-Dame Cathedral... with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.” I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because in the coming days I suspect a great deal of beauty will explode into you. Why? I think it’s because you’re more receptive than usual to being delighted and enchanted. The triggers could be anything: exciting people, eavesdropped conversations, good books, surprising music and who knows what else? Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 “Little horses cannot carry great riders.” So says a Haitian proverb. Now, in accordance with the astrological omens, I’m urging you to meditate on its meaning for your life. Here are four possible interpretations: 1. Are you a “little horse” trying to carry a “great rider” who’s too much for you? 2. Are you a little horse that could grow into a bigger, stronger horse worthy of a great rider? 3. Are you a “great rider” who is in need of a horse that is big and strong enough to serve your big, strong ambitions? 4. Would you like to be a “great rider,” but you can’t be one as long as you have a horse that is too small and weak? Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Declare victory, Leo.

Even if victory is not quite won yet. Even if your success is imperfect and still a bit messy around the edges. Raise your arms

up in elated triumph and shout, “I am the purified champion! I am the righteous conqueror! I have outsmarted my adversaries and outmanoeuvred my obstacles, and now I am ready to claim my rightful rewards!” Do this even if you’re not 100 per cent confident, even if there is still some scraping or clawing ahead of you. Celebrate your growing mastery. Congratulate yourself for how far you’ve come. In this way, you will summon what’s needed to complete your mission and achieve final, total victory.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 Give special atten-

tion to what will last the longest. That’s my main recommendation for you in the coming weeks. Devote less of your energy to transitory pleasures and short-term hopes. Turn away from the small obsessions that demand far too much of your energy. Withdraw from the seemingly pressing concerns that will soon start to fade because they really aren’t that important. Instead, Virgo, devote your love and intelligence to the joys and dilemmas that will animate your life well into the future. Express reverence and care for the mysteries that will teach you and teach you and teach you for years to come.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 My favourite bridge in the world is the Golden Gate Bridge. In the hundreds of times I have driven on it over San Francisco Bay, it has never let me down. I’ve always gotten from one side to the other without any problem. In addition to its reliability, it uplifts me with its grandeur and beauty. What’s your most beloved bridge, Libra? I suggest that in the coming weeks you make it your lucky charm, your magical symbol. Why? Because the next chapter of your life story requires you to make a major crossing. You will traverse a great divide. Having your favourite bridge as a shining beacon in your imagination will inspire your strength and courage as you travel. Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 U2’s Bono has called Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah “the most perfect song in the world.” It is mournful and triumphant, despairing and uplifting. It’s a riddle that improbably offers cathartic release. Over 300 recording artists have done cover versions of it, and it has even been the subject of books. And yet it was a challenge for Cohen to compose. He wrote more than 80 verses before choosing the few he would actually include in the final version, and in one famous session he resorted to banging his head on the floor to stimulate his creative flow. “To find that urgent song,” he said, took “a lot of work and a lot of sweat.” I nominate Hallelujah to be one of your sacred symbols for the next 12 months, Scorpio. From your strenuous effort, I predict, will come masterful creations.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 Let me

outline the breakthroughs I hope to see for you in the coming months. First, what is pretty good about you will not interfere with what is potentially great about you, but will instead cooperate with it and boost it. Second, your past accomplishments won’t hold back your progress; you will not be tempted to rely on them at the expense of your future accomplishments. And third, the brave ideas that have motivated you so well won’t devolve into staid old dogmas; you will either renew and reinvigorate them or else move on to a new set of brave ideas.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 If you are in even moderate alignment with cosmic rhythms during the next 12 months, you will be a connoisseur and master of re cycling. I’m speaking metaphorically here. What I hope is that you will reanimate worn out inspirations and convert faded dreams into shiny new fantasies. You will find ways to revive alliances that went off track. A once-vibrant shtick or trick that lost its cool could be retrieved from the ash heap of history and turned into a fresh, hot asset. Gear yourself up for some entertaining resurrections. Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 I wish I could

tell you that your power animal this month is the eagle or dolphin or panther. Having a glamorous creature like that as your ally might boost your confidence and charisma. To be paired with one of them might even activate dormant reserves of your animal intelligence. But I can’t in good conscience authorize such an honour. That’s not what the astrological omens are suggesting. In fact, your power animal this June is the bunny rabbit. Please understand that there is no shame in this. On the contrary. You should be charmed and appreciative. It signifies that you will be fertile, fast, a bit tricky and very cute. (To read an essay on the mythology of the rabbit as trickster, go here: tinyurl.com/rabbittrickster.)

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 The Buddhist

meditation teacher Chogyam Trungpa said that one of the best ways to become fearless is to cultivate tenderness. As you expand your heart’s capacity to feel compassionate affection for the world, you have less and less to be afraid of. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom, which says you become brave by toughening up, by reinforcing your psychic armour. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you Pisceans are best set up to benefit from Trungpa’s method – now even more than usual.

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Action on acne Remedies exist for zits By elizabeth bromstein “I can’t believe I’m in my 30s and I still get acne,” a friend complained. Right? When you get past your teens you’re supposed to leave the zits behind, but we all get them from time to time, even as adults. Acne can range from mild to very severe, and can be slightly uncomfortable or extremely painful. Selfconsciousness about acne can have damaging psychological effects. Causes vary, and some people are just unlucky. Hormones are a factor. When I was taking the hormone DHEA for fertility issues, I developed pain-

ful acne around my hairline. It stopped when I went off the drug. Severe cystic acne is still treated with Accutane (isotretinoin) in Cana da but has been withdrawn from the U.S. market due to lawsuits claiming it caused inflammatory bowel disease. Isotretinoin has a lot of known side effects, including birth defects, but it’s unclear whether IBD is one. Nonetheless, many say it’s changed their lives for the better, and it is still available in the States under other names. Dermatologists say not to pop zits, but just try to resist.

“The herb chaste tree berry works very well. It’s a good hormone balancer. Take 1 teaspoon of the tincture every morning in a little bit of water. Or combine in equal parts for a really nice tea stinging nettle leaf, red clover, burdock root and dandelion root. Use 1 teaspoon of the blend in a cup of boiled water three or four times a day. Topically, sponge over the face 1 or 2 drops of pure lavender oil on a warm, wet face cloth. You could also make a strong tea from the flowers, strain it and use it as a natural facial toner. A batch keeps in the fridge for a week. A little tea tree, lavender or geranium oil can be dabbed on more severe spots.” CELINA AINSWORTH, herbalist, Toronto

healthy, well-balanced diet is important for general as well as skin health. There are many excellent treatments available: topical creams and gels, oral antibiotics, oral contraceptive pills, Accutane – a safe medication if used by an experienced physician for the right patient – and chemical peels. The approach your doctor takes depends on your age, sex, type of acne, how long it has been a problem, if the acne is inflammatory and other things.” ERIC GOLDSTEIN, dermatologist, Toronto

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“There can be many factors behind acne, but it’s usually heat and dampness. We make a customized formula to clear heat and dampness. We use herbs that tend to be bitter. These could include Herba taraxaci (dandelion) and Poriae cocos. A formula might contain as many as 15 ingredients. Diet could have an effect as well, but some people who have incredibly clean diets still suffer from acne. Avoid dairy and greasy and sugary foods.” FRANCIS ROCK, Chinese medicine practitioner, Toronto “Acne is caused by many factors, including blockage of pores, hormones – especially androgens – increased oil production and inflammation. It’s a myth that greasy, oily foods and ‘dirty’ skin cause acne. Dietary factors are often blamed, but there’s little hard evidence for this. Some researchers have found that milk, especially skim milk, can worsen acne. Eating a

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“Typically, acne results from excess sebum production that plugs hair follicles, which can become infected. It’s linked to compromised digestion, including low stomach acid, and made worse by food sensitivities – in particular to milk, butter, cheese, etc. Removing these foods can help improve skin and prevent outbreaks. If stomach acid is low, bitter herbs or betaineHCl can improve levels and repair skin. Boosting vitamin A and zinc levels is important to decrease sebum production, as well as supporting liver function and balancing blood sugar. Milk thistle can help clear up acne by supporting liver function. The mineral chromium can help balance blood sugar in those prone to hypo- or hyperglycemia. You can assess testosterone and DHEAs levels, which can contribute to acne formation if elevated, though lab testing. Herbs like saw palmetto and Paeonia root can balance androgen hormones like testosterone.” TARA ANDRESEN, naturopath, Toronto

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45 Queens Quay W, 2 at Lower Simcoe, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse.com Coming up on its first anniversary, Amsterdam’s shiny new facility boasts a sprawling waterfront patio for 300. Decked out with the typical accoutrements of summer – uniform umbrellas, manicured planters, lots of wood – Amsterdam has some pretty tantalizing hooks. Where else (besides the cottage) can you recline in deck chairs steadily downing delicious craft beer while boats float by? Get free shared appetizers and pints of (416) Local Lager for $4.16 every Friday starting at 4:16 pm. Make a pit stop at the bottle shop, open 11 to 11 daily, to stock up for your next patio party. Sunday to Tuesday 11 am to midnight, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to 1 am, Friday and Saturday 11 am to 2 am. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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414 Dupont, at Howland, 647-340-6142, fatpasha.com When Fat Pasha executive chef Anthony Rose secured the lease of the Patel family’s long-running Indian Rice Factory, the recently shuttered space came with one proviso – he had to keep the fish. “There’s a pond in the back yard stocked with koi that’s been there for decades,” explains the very busy Rose. “The Patels almost considered them pets.”

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1 Tank House, at Trinity, 416-681-0338, 2 millstreetbrewpub.ca The Distillery is almost exclusively a seasonal district for me – when the sun’s shining and the cobblestones start radiating heat, it’s on. Mill Street’s year-old addition, the Beer Hall (which also houses a nano-distillery that produces beer schnapps), means even more space to down pints outdoors. Tap into Mill Street staples like Stock or Tankhouse Ale, or sip on a summer seasonal like Belgian Cherry IPA or Palomar Ale, a Mexican-inspired amber flavoured with chipotle and lime. Monday to Wednesday noon to 10 pm, Thursday noon to midnight, Friday noon to 2 am, Saturday 11:30 am to 2 am, Sunday 11:30 am to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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87 Yonge, at Gloucester, 5 416-928-0008, barvolo.com To say that patio space at Volo is a hot commodity is an understatement, so if you score a spot, you should probably stay for a few. And the charming terrace, with its wooden benches and leafy climbers, is not even Volo’s primary draw. Their legendary beer selection has been making beer geeks smack their chops for years. Cask ales and rotating taps (featuring nano- brewed house ales and cool collaborations) are padded by exclusive bottles from Cantillon, Dieu du Ciel and Mikkeller via sister agency Keep6 Imports. Monday to Friday 4 pm am to 2 am, Saturday noon to 2 am, Sunday 2 to 10 pm. Licensed.

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1 24 Ossington, at Argyle, 416-5354586, bellwoodsbrewery.com An afternoon on Bellwoods’ patio is the legal equivalent and next best thing to drinking in its namesake park. Every sunny day marks an occasion to throw a raging hipster block party on the white- picketed front lot, a former auto garage. Opt for a pint of summery Saison or thirst-slaying Wizard Wolf, or keep it non committal with a flight of Bellwoods’ finest. When you finally peel yourself from one of the picnic tables, full of beer and barbequed meat, don’t forget to scoop a growler from the bottle shop on your way out. Monday to Thursday 5 pm to close, Friday to Sunday 2 pm to close. Closed some holidays. No reservations on B:9.833” patio. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. SP T:9.833”

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The oversized goldfish are very much a part of Pasha’s new garden grotto. Wrapped in wisteria, the 60seat partially covered hideaway is the next best thing to a trip to the country. Throw in Rose’s modish Middle Eastern carte – chewy wheatberry tabbouleh, braised flanken short ribs that fall from the bone if you look at them and chef’s signature whole roasted head of cauliflower slathered in tahini and coriander pesto and tossed in pomegranate seeds – and it’s little wonder that Pasha is the hottest communal picnic table of the season. Whatever next? “We’re thinking of turning the carriage house into a cocktail lounge or a private dining room,” says Rose. “Or maybe a catering facility. We’re already doing a huge amount of takeout.” As long as it’s not sushi. Lunch Wednesday to Friday 11 am to 3 pm, dinner nightly from 5 pm. Weekend brunch 11 am to 3 pm. Reservations accepted. L icensed.

10 Temperance, at Yonge, 647-3487000, thechasetoronto.com We admit we weren’t completely bowled over by this Bay Street boîte when we first visited last fall. Maybe it was the bordering-on-100 braying stockbrokers and real-estate speculators who call this beautifully restored space home, or executive chef Michael Steh’s over-fussy plates that prove that, most times, more is definitely less. And, oh, those expense-account prices! But one look at the cinematic skyscraper view from Chase’s 70-seat fifthfloor patio (or “rooftop terrace” as management prefers) and we can almost forgive the $75 whole roasted chicken with foie gras and prunes for two. Virtually deserted mid-afternoon, this jaw-droppingly gorgeous aerie is a mob scene weekdays come half-past 5, mixologist Shane Mulvaney’s grapefruitinfused cocktail with both cachaça and Aperol the apertif du jour. For those feeling peckish, chef Steh is best when he keeps it simple, as witness his freshly made-in-house mozzarella paired with seasonal local melon and aged balsamic vinegar. “Summer in Toronto is a very concentrated season,” says Steh. “There’s so much to do in such a short time, it’s hard not to get carried away.” Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Saturday 5 pm to midnight. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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150 York, at Adelaide W, 416-363-6150, drakeonefifty.ca Think of the super-hip Drake Hotel’s outpost in the financial district as an artier version of the Keg across the street. Come the 4 o’clock bell, the 150-seat dining room and adjacent 94-seat sidewalk patio are wall-to-wall suits out to celebrate their latest big win on the stock market with $99 porterhouse steaks. They like their food familiar – none of that foreign molecular foam stuff. And so they get executive chef Ted Corrado’s nonna’s old-school meatballs in tomato sauce with smoked ricotta, and the Drake’s classic cheeseburger topped with Perth County bacon and pickled red onions. Watch for takeout lunch-box specials at the side door on Mondays and Tuesdays from noon, a lineup of boozy slushies – Chartreuse Swizzle with lime and pineapple juice, anyone? – and a new wooden-trellis-cum-art-installation over the patio from the Brothers Dressler. Sadly, designer Joel Loblaw’s fluorescent garden gnomes will not be making a return appearance. Seems too many

people tried to walk off with the little critters! Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 1 am, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 4:30 pm to 2 am. Closed Sunday, holidays. Reservations accepted. L icensed. Access: barrier-free.

1Estrella Taqueria

4899 Yonge, at Spring Garden, 416-222-1500, estrellataqueria.ca Multiculti tacos might be a bit gonethere, done-that, bought-the-T-shirt to the downtown crowd, but up here north of the 401 in Lastman Land, they’re the cat’s pyjamas, nowhere more so than at this far from tacky taqueria. If you’ve ever been to one of Dave Sidhu’s myriad Playa Cabanas, you know what to expect, from the bleached cow skulls with light-bulb eyes on the walls to the resplendent 120-seat deck on the roof. As anticipated, there are tacos of the socalled “gringo” variety – trendy slowbraised pork belly with mild guajillo pepper sauce and purple cabbage slaw, say, or fried red snapper with salsa verde and pickled jalapeño, all 5 bucks a piece. Others less luxuriously topped with corn fritters, ground chipotle-spiked pork or applewood-smoked cremini mushrooms with stringy Oaxaca cheese are three for $10. Not hot enough for ya? Order the taster of the house’s hot sauces, our favourites the sweet Papaya Vengeance and the deadly Doctor Kevorkian. Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to midnight, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 5:30 pm to 2 am, Sunday 5:30 pm to midnight. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

124 Harbord, at Major, 416-901-5901, harvestkitchen.ca Ten years after shuttering their acclaimed and way-upscale JOV Bistro on Mt. Pleasant, Owen and Jill Steinberg have finally resurfaced with this decidedly more accessible all-day café. It also comes with one of the most celebrated rooftop decks in the city, familiar to anyone who remembers Kensington Kitchen. The brother-and-sister team describe this most laid-back of Kitchens as the kind of place “where vegetarians bring their meat-eating friends.” And vice versa, we should think. That translates as an eclectic veggie-friendly carte that ranges from A frican peanut soup and meatless Italian-style meatball sandwiches to substantial grass-fed bacon cheeseburgers and a sustainable Ocean Wise fish of the day. At brunch, eggs come from chickens with the free run of the farm. Cheapskates of all persuasions will be happy to learn that domestic pints go for $4 every day from 3 to 5 and 9 to 11 pm under the shade of that magnificent Norway maple. Lunch 10 am to 4 pm Monday to Friday, dinner nightly 4 to 11 pm. Weekend brunch 10 am to 4 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed.

Valdez

606 King W, at Portland, 416-363-8388, valdezrestaurant.com This narrow shotgun of a space has had several previous incarnations, the nightclubs 606 and Cheval among them. But none of them has been as delicious as Steve Gonzalez’s Valdez. Perched on its year-round 100-seat rooftop deck, you tuck into an invigorating vegan ceviche of melon and seaweed in lime vinaigrette followed by his signature Chinese-by-way-of-Peru fried rice finished with duck confit and flying fish roe. Several rounds of salt-rimmed Michelada beer cocktails seem appropriate. And starting June 8, Valdez salutes the World Cup with a daily barbecue lunch. Think spicy things on skewers. Like most chefs these days, Gonzalez likes to keep his carte as locally sourced as possible, no mean feat when the specialty of the house is Latin American street food. “I’ve got a guy bringing in wild mushrooms and fiddle heads this week,” says the erstwhile Origin toque and Top Chef Canada contestant. “They’re not very Latino on their own, but they will be by the time I’m finished with them!” Lunch daily from 11:30, dinner Sunday to Wednesday 5 to 11 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5 pm to midnight. Bar till close. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

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1Fika

28 Kensington, at Dundas W, 416-9947669, fikacafe.ca Roll over, Ronnie’s. And you, too, Cold Tea. You are no longer the coolest seeand-be-scene patios in Kensington Market. That honour now goes to Nikki Leigh McKean’s Scandi-cool Fika Café. Blink and you’ll miss its shabby-chic 16-seat curbside deck on your way to the vintage clothing stores. Instead of pints of Delirium Tremens and tall boys of Stiegl, Fika’s fashionable regulars sip iced lattes laced with cardamon and mint from Le Creuset mugs. No grilled cheese or cheap dim sum dumplings for this crowd. They prefer stylish Swedish meatball sandwiches on housebaked milk buns – Ikea, eat your heart out – and gluten-free veggie wraps, both sided with de rigueur quinoa salads. At brunch, they lay waste – and waist – to the Smorgasbord platter of rustic housemade terrine, creamy country pâté and the inevitable runny-centred poached egg, all the work of McKean’s partner, Victor Barry, of splendiferous Splendido on Harbord. Iced-coffee popsicles and chocolate-chip and strawberry-shortcake ice cream sandwiches are his latest confections. “Everyone’s going crazy for them,” says McKean. As they should. Daily from 10 am to 6 pm. Weekend brunch till 3 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Unlicensed.

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ginger beer, absinthe and dill syrup – on the Hudson’s gorgeous trellised terrace, you’re sure to feel like a La-La Land Alister. Dinner Tuesday to Sunday 6 to 11 pm, bar nightly till close. Weekend brunch 10 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

1Momofuku Daisho

190 University, at Adelaide W, 647-253-8000, momofuku.com/toronto/daisho Toronto didn’t exactly roll over on its collective back and wave its arms and legs in the air when superstar New York City chef David Chang brought his heavily hyped Momofuku to the Shangri-La Hotel two years ago. While the entry-level Noodle Bar and Chang’s trend-setting ramen were a hit

with locals from the get-go, they weren’t quite as keen on the pricier Shoto and Daisho on the third floor of this luminous dining pavilion. Six hundred bucks for prime rib-eye for six even if it does come with Yorkshire pudding? We think not. Following the success of its lunch launch this spring, Daisho has now opened its dazzling 40-seat patio to the public. There, draught Negroni in hand, partake of what could almost be Chang’s greatest hits – roasted rice cakes with spicy pork sausage in Korean red-pepper paste, DIY ssam-style lettuce wraps stuffed with shredded chicken thigh and shiitake ’shrooms, and his towering lunch-only burger dressed with kimchee and sided with both kohlrabi slaw and tempura-battered onion rings. Whatever next? Half-price chicken wings and karaoke? Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, dinner Sunday to Wednesday 5:30 to 10 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5:30 to 11 pm. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

1681 Lake Shore E, at Northern Dancer Blvd, 416-698-3456, paralia.ca Taking its name from the Greek word for garden, the newly rebranded Paralia started out last summer as Trinity Taverna. Imagine Mykonos filtered through Miami Beach. Other than the handle, little else has changed. It’s still as breathtakingly beautiful as ever, a great vaulted whiteon-white room complete with wading pool that leads to an impressive 300seat terrace right on the beach, where there’s inevitably a volleyball game under way. And the seafood-centric menu is just as we remember, much of it listed as “market price” – resto-speak for “If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.” A whole suckling pig with roasted potatoes will set you back in the region of 400 dineros. But not everything on the carte requires a second mortgage. Two can eat a very good veal-cheek moussaka in a textbook béchamel sauce for $38, and there’s a relatively inexpensive lamb burger combo – with fries! – at lunch for $19. Stick to domestic beer and you might get out for just under 100 bucks a couple. Lunch daily 11 am to 3 pm, dinner Monday to Wednesday 5 to 10:30 pm, Thursday to Sunday 5 to 11 pm. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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1Big Crow

176 Dupont, at St George, 647-748-3287, roseandsonsbigcrow.com Don’t talk to Anthony Rose – yes, him again – about winter. He only went and opened a year-round outdoor barbecue restaurant last fall and froze his anchovies off for the next six months. But now that the temperature’s soared into double digits, Big Crow has finally come into its own. You find it down a dodgy-looking Annex alleyway next to a gas station, an eight-seat sheltered backyard furnished with long rows of picnic tables and an open-pit kitchen at the back. Freight trains rumble past fre-

quently, drowned out by the musical stylings of Led Zeppelin. The unconventional ’cue – Rose calls it “authentic-ish” – sees the retro likes of Miamistyle beef ribs rub shoulders with porktastic baby back ribs dusted with crushed walnuts and pecorino cheese. Wash ’em down with a pitcher of Purple Jesus – Concord grape juice, red wine and vodka – a round of melt-in-your-mouth marshmallow ’Smores ice cream sandwiches and a chorus of Kumbaya for the full Muskoka campsite effect. Dinner nightly 5 pm to close. Weekend brunch 11 am to 3 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. SD

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Hudson Kitchen

800 Dundas W, at Palmerston, 416-644-8839, hudsonkitchen.com Since launching with unprecedented hoopla during last fall’s Film Fest, this unlikely west-side Kitchen quickly became the hottest table in town. The presence of mega-celebs like Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Matthew McConaughey – not to mention the platoon of international paparazzi – might have had something to do with it. That’s not to say that ex-Woodlot sous and -Ursa chef de cuisine Robbie Hojilla’s innovative carte isn’t just as worthy of attention. He sends out Korean-style lettuce wraps stuffed with Miami short ribs, Grandma’s kimchee and puffed wild rice alongside Filipino fried chicken sliders dressed with adobo mayo and iceberg lettuce. His mains range from grilled spring asparagus, petit pois and miyaki mushrooms over rye-berry polenta cakes to house-made papardelle laced with stinging nettles and finished with wine-braised rabbit in crème fraîche. After a couple of Plants Vs Zombies cocktails – overproof rum, Beefeater gin,

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1182 Queen E, at Rushbrooke, 416-463-5663, lesliejones.ca Since opening in 2006, one-time Couillard sous George Wensley’s low-key Leslieville bistro has consistently flown under the foodie radar, it’s only “serious” review in a certain alternative weekly. His devoted regulars wouldn’t have it any other way. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to show up unannounced on a balmy Tuesday evening and score a four-top on the drop-dead gorgeous backyard

Agave y Aguacate

35 Baldwin, at Henry, 647-748-6448, agave-y-aguacate.com No less an authority than Anthony Bourdain claims Francisco Alejandri’s remarkable cantina is responsible for “some of the most amazing Mexican takeout north of the border – any border.” And this was back when Agave was a low-rent food stall in Kensington Market! Now ensconced in a real live restaurant with actual tables and chairs and a 20seat curbside deck in nearby Baldwin Village, the one-time Scaramouche line cook and his new crew make tapas-like plates that are even better than the gregarious TV gourmet could imagine. Who else would serve lightly poached shrimp ceviche-style over sliced avocado tossed with toasted peanuts and pumpkin seeds, or slowly simmer boneless chicken breasts in a velvety sauce of blanched almonds and raisins before garnishing them with pickled jalapeños and parsley? Save room for chef’s exceptional sweet potato pudding topped with dried fruit and house-made ginger ice cream and a drizzle of Anejo tequila and 40-proof rum. Bourdain doesn’t know what he’s missing. Dinner Tuesday and Wednesday 5:30 to 10 pm, Thursday to Saturday 5:30 to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed.

deck. Or actually hear each other’s conversations, the only other sound the rustle of the wind in the trees. Such moderately priced starters as meatballs in gorgonzola cream sauce and mains like thin-crusted pizzas dressed with lemony chèvre, roasted leeks and zucchini, followed by flourless chocolate torte for dessert, guarantee first-timers fall in love with Jones from the get-go. Tuesday to Saturday 5 to 10 pm. Closed Sunday, Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

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87 Elm, at Elizabeth, 416-9011899, pizzeriaviamercanti.ca When NOW recently set out to find Toronto’s ultimate pizza, it wasn’t established heavyweights like Terroni and Queen Margherita that came out on top. Instead, we gave the title to Romolo Salvati’s somewhat obscure Kensington Market pizzeria. His are not the floppy minimalist affairs of the competition. Mercanti’s signature pizza is actually two – a thin-crusted wonder dressed with prosciutto crudo, hot soppressata salami, mushrooms and ricotta on the bottom, a second artfully appointed Margherita on the top. We called it the pizza de résistance. Since winning the top spot, Mercanti has opened a second much larger outpost closer to the downtown core. Show up early – like 9 am – if you plan to score a table on its 60-seat patio during this year’s World Cup tournament, especially at lunch, when you can get a mini version of that classic Margherita and a properly ripped romaine side salad for all of $10. We predict pandemonium. Don’t tell anyone, but watch for a third Mercanti to launch on the east side later this fall at the corner of Coxwell and Gerrard. Monday to Thursday 11 am to 10 pm, Friday 11 am to 11 pm, Saturday noon to 11 pm, Sunday noon to 10 pm. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed.

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1330 Queen W, at Elm Grove, 416-627-3459, grandelectricbar.com They used to say that if you didn’t want to stand in line for a table at downtown’s trendiest taqueria, you could show up for a late lunch and waltz right in. Not any more! These days, GE’s just as busy – and as loud! – by the light of day as it is after dark, even more so once its partially covered 40-seat backyard patio is in session. There, it seems as if le tout Parkdale shout at each other over a curated playlist of 60s gut-bucket soul (management’s moved on from 90s hip-hop) as they scarf down designer tacos topped with the likes of pork belly al pastor and deep-fried scrapple while knocking back $4 shots of the bourbon du jour. Sunday to Thursday noon to midnight, Wednesday to Saturday noon to 1 am. Bar till close. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed.

Red Sauce

50C Clinton, at College, 416-792-6002, redsaucetoronto.com It takes cojones the size of our nonna’s meatballs to open an inexpensive old-school Italian trat directly across the street from the Diplomatico, but that didn’t stop Scott and Lindsay Selland from converting their way-pricy Acadia and its avant-garde tasting menus into precisely that. No, the Sauce’s curbside terrace isn’t as sunny as the competition’s, but the new kid’s no-frills kitchen is twice as tasty. Where once customers dined fine on red snapper étouffée with chlorophyll at linendraped tables, they now tuck into pig-knuckle panini and massive platters of eggplant parmigiana heaped with spicy broccoli rabe at tables topped with red gingham. All that’s missing are Chianti bottles and dripping candles. Think of boozy Popcorn Floats made with aged El Dorado rum and caramel-corn ice cream for dessert as the icing on the cake. Daily 11 am to 2 am. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed. SD

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top 5 classic Patios Lahore Tikka House

1365 Gerrard E, at Highfield, 416-4061668, lahoretikkahouse.com The Taj Mahal of Little India is finally finished! A decade in the making, this sprawling family-run Pakistani resto might not be as quirky as it was when it was little more a plywood shack and a series of interconnected trailers decked out with sari fabric and strings of bare light bulbs, but the grub’s as incendiary as ever. Shame they still serve it on styrofoam plates. You still place your order at the counter, where they give you a number to place on

your table. Food-runners still race about the 400-seat tented patio, their trays loaded with sizzling platters of fish, chicken tikka combos and “naan bread” straight from the tandoor oven. Take the advice printed on the back of their black T-shirts: “Try the lamb chops.” And you want the house-made pistachio kulfi ice cream, too. As you leave, don’t forget to take a selfie in the rickety rickshaw out front. It’s tradition. Sunday to Thursday noon to 1 am, Friday and Saturday noon to 2 am. No reservations on patio. Unlicensed. Access: barrier-free.

Allen’s

143 Danforth, at Broadview, 416-4633086, allens.to Synonymous with flaming saganaki and souvlaki on a stick, the Danforth’s GreekTown is also home to John Maxwell’s most cosmopolitan of saloons. Past the well-worn wooden booths, Venetian blinds and vintage Wurlitzer jukebox, find this extremely popular 90-seat backyard patio, sheltered from the sun by an immense weeping willow that was named best tree six years running by the readers of North America’s largest alternative weekly.

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4 Avenue Rd, at Bloor W, 416-924-5471, parktoronto.hyatt.com A fraction the size it was back in its 70s heyday when it was the roof of the Park Plaza, the small 18th-floor patio on top of the Park Hyatt Hotel is the perfect spot to relive the Rat Pack/Mad Men past. But first you have to get there. Oh, sure, you could just waltz right through the historic hotel’s lobby like a tourist, but the cocktail cognoscenti take a more clandestine route. Push through the door of the anonymous office building at 180 Bloor West and approach the elevators. Take the door on their immediate left, make a right, go through that door, make another right until you see a second set of elevators. Push “18” and, after a 10-second ride back in time, you’re there – 1965, to be exact. There are mixed nuts to nibble and Cuban cigars to be smoked. Drinks are strictly old-school, too, classic martinis and good old Scotch on the rocks the tipples of choice. “In other words, the same thing they serve at hipster bars,” laughs long-time server Noel Devlin, proving that everything old is new again. Daily noon to 1 am. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

The attractions are manifold at this beloved east-side watering-hole – an all-VQA Canadian wine cellar, more than 200 single malts by the glass and an upscale pub-grub menu that globetrots from Subcontinental curries to Irish-style lamb shank braised in Guinness and a not-so-secret secret hamburger. But we’ll be back for the nightly barbecue, if only for the Jurassic provimi veal chop and the baby back ribs. Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 1 am, Saturday and Sunday 10:30 am to 1 am. No reservations on patio. Licensed.

Black Bull

298 Queen W, at Soho, 416-593-2766, blackbulltavern.ca Established in 1833, the Bull is perhaps the granddaddy of all local patios. But it took till the late 70s – the 1970s – when the original Queen West arts-music scene was starting to bloom, for the workingman’s pub to get one, though it was just a couple of picnic tables in the parking lot. Legend has it Robert Plant sipped a pint here one sunny afternoon back in the 80s and nobody made a fuss. Since then, the patio has expanded to some 200 seats, the beat-up picnic tables replaced by fancy-pants tables and chairs. With its front-row view of the passing human parade and the CN Tower off in the distance, the Bull’s almost always full. The booze selection is much as it ever was – beer, beer and more beer – and the kitchen sticks to serviceable pubgrub “classics” like chicken wings, cheesy nachos and nearly a dozen different burgers. Shame about the frozen fries that come with them. Our resident restaurant critic advises you to avoid the Hawaiian pizza. Daily noon to 2 am. Closed some holidays. No reservations on patio. Licensed.

Cafe Diplomatico

594 College, at Clinton, 416-5344637, diplomatico.ca Maybe it’s the gluten-free pizza, but if this iconic College Street trat’s 100-seat patio is good enough for Sarah Polley, it’s right up NOW’s alley. Forty-six years ago, when Toronto the Good considered drinking outdoors the work of the Devil, the Dip was our first taste of la dolce vita – sunshine and wine, the more of both the merrier. We’ll be the first to admit that the three Ps – pasta, panini and pizza – aren’t always up to Libretto, Terroni or Mercanti standards, but no one ever complains about their price, not when a whole grilled rainbow trout with a side of salad or pasta sets you back all of $13.50. Show up Thursdays when martinis are half-price or any time during the imminent World Cup, when a bucket of five iced Amsterdam Blondes is a walletfriendly $16. All this and a new retractable awning, too! Sunday to Thursday 8 am to 1 am, Friday and Saturday 8 am to 2 am. No reservations on patio. Licensed. SD

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325 Bay, at Adelaide, 416-637-5550, stockrestaurant.com If you’re at all afraid of heights, this narrow slip of a glassed-in patio on the 31st floor of the Trump Hotel probably isn’t your idea of fun. The rest of us will take in the skyscraping panorama of the lower financial district, the majestic art deco details of the old Commerce Court illuminated in the warm afternoon sun. In the distance, light refracts off the lake. In surroundings this swank, we’re surprised we made it past the uniformed doorman, let alone the maitre d’. You’ll still be better dressed than the well-heeled American tour-

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ists in track suits who can afford to stay here. But then, who cares what you’re wearing if you can fork out $140 for 50 grams of premium sturgeon caviar or $56 for Nova Scotia l obster, asparagus and whipped Yukon Gold potatoes (24 carat, we presume)? The hotel’s extravagant all-you-can eat – and eat and eat – $49 Sunday brunch buffet seems like a relative bargain. Breakfast daily 6:30 am to 11 am, lunch Monday to Saturday 11 am to 3 pm, lounge menu daily 3 to 5 pm, dinner nightly 5 to 10:30 pm. Sunday brunch 11 am to 3 pm. Bar till midnight Sunday to Wednesday, 1 am Thursday to Saturday. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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toronto’s best patios 66 Wellington W, at York, 416-7771144, bymark.ca There are patios and then there is Bymark, the crown jewel in televisual chef Mark McEwan’s constantly expanding culinary empire. Surrounded by the looming towers of the modernist Mies van der Rohe-designed Toronto Dominion Centre, the 150-seat resto-lounge might as well be a rooftop retreat in reverse, only one timelessly appointed in leather and wood by local design gurus Yabu Pushelberg. The price of admission is steep. The signature cocktail – 3 very chilled ounces of Absolut Citron vodka, pink grapefruit juice and champagne – commands a healthy 15 bucks, while the secret-recipe Colonel Sanders will cost you 16 smackers. But no visit to this stunning Bay Street boîte is complete without one of McEwan’s legendary $35 cheeseburgers made with 8 ounces of grass-feed PEI beef. Out of your price range? Order the slider version off the bar menu for only $8.50.

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Against the Grain

Jack Astor’s

10 Dundas E, at Yonge, 416-263-9800, jackastors.com Situated on the fourth floor of the AMC theatres, this most perfunctory of corporate roadhouses offers first-rate sightlines of Yonge-Dundas Square from its heated 100-seat patio, something you

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might want to remember if you’re thinking of attending any of this year’s NXNE concerts. Service is friendly, the playlist rarely strays from classic rock – Bryan Adams, later-period Fleetwood Mac – and the pub-grub menu’s all over the map, encompassing everything from pulled pork

poutine to pad thai. The bacon cheeseburger deluxe and a pitcher of sangria look like safe bets. Keep in mind that nothing up here comes cheap. But, hey, we can see Sleigh Bells! Daily 11 am to 2 am. Closed some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

25 Dockside, at Queens Quay E, 647344-1562, atgurbantavern.ca For a world-class city on a so-called Great lake, Toronto certainly lacks for patios on the water, tourist traps excepted. Against the Grain cuts against that grain. Slightly off the beaten track, this upscale resto-lounge with its perpetually mobbed terrace can be found right on the harbour, at the foot of Sherbourne next to Sugar Beach on the south side of the Corus complex. Across the water lie the yacht club, Ward’s Island and the

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Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 11 pm, dinner Saturday 5 to 11 pm. Bar nightly to close. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. eastern channel. Sailboats float past, seagulls shriek overhead. Good luck scoring a walk-in. Used to be, if you came on a weekday in the middle of the afternoon, you’d have the 150-seat patio practically to yourself. Not any more now that everything on tap and all appetizers are discounted two bucks from 3 to 6 pm. Monday and Tuesday 11 am to 11 pm, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to midnight, Friday 11 am to 1 am, Saturday 10:30 am to 1 am, Sunday 10:30 am to 11 pm. No reservations on patio. Licensed. Access: b arrier-free.

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131 Bloor W, at Avenue Rd, 416-551-9929, lasociete.ca On the second floor of the 60s-chic Colonnade, on what was known as the Mink Mile back when it was fashionable to wear the fur of dead animals, the spectacular wraparound terrace at Charles Khabouth’s recently rebranded La Société has some of the best sightlines around. Why, on a clear day you can see right across the street to Tiffany’s – and Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Chanel and Cartier to boot!

Perhaps that explains the mostly orange-skinned clientele, many of whom seem to be speaking Russian as they absent-mindedly pick at their $179 towers of seafood and $27 foie gras hot dogs. Those of us of lesser means will make do with one of the tastiest cheeseburgers in Yorkville. Sided with frites as skinny as a supermodel, it’s a steal at 18 bucks. Monday to Thursday 11:30 am to 11 pm, Friday 11:30 am to midnight, Saturday 11 am to midnight, Sunday 11 am to 11 pm. Weekend brunch till 3 pm. Bar nightly till close. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. SD

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top 5 Patios with a great cocktail list 1Cold Tea 60 Kensington, at Baldwin, 416-546-4536

The chain-link fence has been replaced with warmer wood, but the Market’s worst-kept secret is still the city’s most unapologetically unique spot to throw back cocktails in the sun. (A kiosk down Augusta sells $5 Ray-Ban knockoffs just in case you forget yours at home.) Seven-dollar cocktails like the Juliet And Romeo (gin, lime, mint, bitters) are on offer daily from cinq à sept, and pop-up BBQs helmed by some of the city’s best chefs go down every Sunday afternoon. Tuesday to Sunday 5:30 pm to 2 am. Closed Monday, holidays. No reservations. Licensed. Cash only.

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Bovine Tiki Bar 42 Queen W, at Bathurst, 416-504-4239, 5

roof BAr @ tHe tHompson Hotel 50 Wellington W, at Bathurst, 416-640- 7778, 5

thompsonhotels.com Though the Thompson’s rooftop arguably offers one of the finest vistas, droves of try-hards and scandalously overpriced lacklustre drinks used to dull its allure. But that was the Thompson of yore. Under the watch of new bar manager and perfect gentleman Brad Gub-

bins (formerly of SpiritHouse), the rooftop’s vibe and cocktail list have undergone a classy transformation. Treat yourself to a signature cocktail while luxuriating on leather couches as afternoon fades to dusk. Check in throughout the summer for seasonal drink updates. Daily 11 am to 2 am; pool open 7 am to 7 pm. Open to hotel guests, members and residents, but the drinking public can book private tables.

bovinesexclub.com My lush life is now complete: Toronto finally has a legit tiki bar. I’m rubbing on the SPF, sticking hibiscus blossoms behind my ear and never coming home. In keeping with the tiki movement’s escapist roots, the Bovine’s entrance is easy to sail past without ever knowing there’s a rum-tastic treasure on the roof. Find your way up the stairs and enter a sun-drenched dreamland where you can sway to surf rock while soaking up mai tais (rum, curaçao, lime, orgeat, $13) and Spiced Hurricanes (spiced rum, lemon, passion fruit syrup, $13) through comically large bendy straws. When resident drink-smith Charlie Lamont (who designed the list along with Rock Lobster GM Robin Wynne) isn’t behind the stick, you may just have your slushy pina colada handed over by a rockabilly princess in fire-engine lipstick and a coconut bra (pinch me). Industry nights every Monday showcase various rum brands via tastings and drink specials. Daily 4 pm to 2 am. No reservations. Licensed.

Beverley Hotel 3 35 Queen W, at Beverley, 416-493-2786,

thebeverleyhotel.ca With its rad Nordic-inspired design and exclusive-without-being-douchey vibe, the Beverley’s rooftop patio was one of my fave spots to down a few sun-soaked Campari spritzers last summer. Now that veteran cocktailian Aja Sax is running the booze show, I may just check in for the next few months. There are few better perches for sipping warm-weather cocktails like the Old Cuban (Havana Club 7, lime, mint, sugar, sparkling, $14) or Caught In The Rain (cachaça, salted coconut cream, pineapple, pimento dram, $14) than the Beverley’s white and wood rooftop oasis. Bonus: the latest outdoor space overlooks Queen for bird’s-eye people watching. Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to midnight, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 2 am, Saturday 10 am to 2 am, Sunday 10 am to midnight. Weekend brunch to 4 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.

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ganzi.ca Hedged in greenery, Ganzi’s 200-pax patio hugs a regal mansion that once belonged to architect George Horace Gooderham (grandson of whisky baron George Gooderham Sr., founder of T.O.’s first distillery). Cocktails by head bartender João Machado have signature Euro flair – generous goblets of Spanish-style gin tonics tempered with hibiscus, juniper, citrus zest and coriander ($13) will entice you to linger long enough to get a glow on. There’s plenty of hearty Italian fare available should you need to dry out. Dinner Tuesday to Sunday 5 pm to close. Brunch Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Closed Monday, holidays. Reservations accepted. Licensed. SP

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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 BBQ Pig roast 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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230 adelaide St west, 416-916-2099 | thecopa.ca Authentic Brazilian Rodizio. Immerse yourself in the culture through delectable eats, incredible cocktails and the best in live entertainment. Copacabana is a unique and exciting concept with a storied history deeply rooted in Brazilian culture. Our focus on superior food quality, exceptional service and an exciting dining experience for every guest is how we create lasting

memories for our guests with every visit. Indulge in a vast selection of perfectly seasoned and grilled meats along with a full Galleria of fresh salads, breads, and ever changing side-dish creations to satisfy every appetite. We pair mouthwatering food with an invigorating atmosphere.

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1588 Dupont, at Franklin, 416-546-0626; Farmhouse Tavern, 1627 Dupont, at Edwin, 416-5619114, farmhousetavern.tumblr.com Though they have similar names and are only a block apart, Darcy McDonell’s Farmer’s Daughter and Farmhouse Tavern couldn’t be more different, the former’s decor best described as the aftermath of an explosion in a tractor factory, the latter all sleek subway tiles and electric-blue neon. The two extremely popular resto patios also share a food philosophy: since everything on the menu is fresh, once it sells out it’s gone until the following week. To make sure this happens, they feature hourly food and drink specials every Sunday night. Starting at 5, oysters are a buck a shuck. At 6 a pint of whatever draught’s on tap goes for $6, at 7 that week’s featured cocktails are $7, and any open bottle of wine goes for $8 a glass from 8 pm. Best of all, from 9 till 10, anything on either dinner menu is half-price as long as it hasn’t already sold out. That’s quite the bargoon. Can I show up at 5 and

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Burger Stomper

364 Danforth, at Hampton, 647-347-7867, burgerstomperbar.com. Buy any combo and get the second combo of equal or lesser value half off through August 31.

Factory Girl

193 Danforth, at Ellerbeck, 647-352-2799, factorygirlrestaurant.com. $2 corking fee Sunday from 4 pm and all day Monday with minimum $10 food purchase.

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35 Church, at Wellington, 416-366-7800, hothousecafe.com. Get a pound of steamed mussels at the bar all day Monday, and $5 pints the same day from 3 to 6 pm.

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Hunter’s Landing

82 Fort York, at Spadina, 647-352-7082, hunterslanding.ca. The Landing Cure – a Caesar sided with a lobster tail, slider, smoked bacon, smoked mozzarella, veggies and pickles – goes for $16 from 11 am to 3 pm at weekend brunch.

Lakeview

1132 Dundas W, at Ossington, 416-850-8886, thelakeviewrestaurant.ca. $3 mimosas, $4 Caesars and $4 daily pint specials from 11 am to 2 am daily.

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1058 Gerrard E, at Jones, 416-901-9859, mcgugans.com. $5 pints daily from 2 to 7 pm. Patio launch party Saturday (June 7) from 6 pm with free food, drinks and prize giveaways.

Piola

1165 Queen West, at Northcote, 416-477-4652, piola.it. All-you-can-eat gnocchi every 29th of the month for $14.99 per person.

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1150 Queen W, at Beaconsfield, 416-531-5042 ext 244, thedrakehotel.ca. Get one hot-buttered lobster with sides of Mexican corn, potato salad, coleslaw and jalapeño cheddar biscuits, followed by chocolate fool in a jar, plus a Corona for $36.95 per person Sundays at 7 pm. One seating; reservations recommended.

Paupers

539 Bloor W, at Albany, 416-530-1331, pauperspub.com. Food and drink specials every day of the week, including tax-inclusive $5 2-ounce Bloody Caesars Monday, $6 3-ounce martinis Tuesday, and halfprice chicken wings Wednesday. Daily 3 pm to 2 am.

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458 Queen W, at Augusta, 416-203-0088. $3.50 daiquiris Monday, $3.50 domestic bottles of beer Wednesday, and $3.50 margaritas Thursday.

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Shows that rocked Toronto last week KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS and STEVE GUNN at the Phoenix, Wednesday, May 28.

Rating: NNN A Kurt Vile show is a lot of mellow goodness but not a ton of engagement. There are few spikes in energy or volume, despite the Philly rocker’s moving constantly between acoustic and electric guitars and his threepiece Violators churning out a full sound. Bringing last spring’s terrific Wakin On A Pretty Daze album to Toronto, Vile unsurprisingly focused on its tunes throughout the 90-minute set, coasting on stoner grooves and punc-

tuating the sprawling songs with mesmerizing guitar leads, frequent hoots and drawn-out “yeah”s. He only broke loose near the end, during Freak Train from third album Childish Prodigy, which upped the crunchy fuzz and saw Vile screaming the vocals and his bassist switching to sax. Earned him an encore, naturally. Fellow Philadelphia (but Brooklynbased) musician Steve Gunn was the perfect opener, an even more fluid, hypnotic guitarist than Vile, and with a fingerpicking style all his own. Water Wheel and Lurker from 2013’s Time Off were standouts, and word is he’s got something new coming out CARLA GILLIS this fall.

LA ROUX at the Danforth Music Hall, Sunday, June 1.

Rating: NNN A lot has changed since electro-pop duo La Roux burst on the scene in 2009. In particular, co-founder Ben Langmaid is no longer involved, leaving vocalist Elly Jackson to continue as a solo performer. That might be for the best, though, since the retro synth-pop feel of their self-titled debut album doesn’t sound nearly as fresh as it did back then. The new songs Jackson previewed from her upcoming release, Trouble In Paradise, felt much more vibrant in comparison. Considering the extended hiatus that preceded the album and tour, it made sense that she didn’t seem especially thrilled to be revisiting some of her older songs. Unfortunately, because the new record isn’t out yet, she still had to base her set around that material, which the fans seemed more excited to sing along to than she did. Jackson and her touring band really came to life on the glammy new disco-rock jams, which often felt like a surprisingly effective combinationB:9.833” of LCD Soundsystem punk funk and Young AmericansBENJAMIN BOLES era Bowie. T:9.833” S:9.833”

JIM BRYSON, EVENING HYMNS, ANDREW VINCENT and ANDY SHAUF as part of KELP 20 at the Horseshoe, Thursday, May 29. Rating: NNN

Twenty years of music from Ottawa indie label Kelp Records is plenty to celebrate. Evidently, it’s also ample time to forget lyrics and chord changes. A spirit of bashful forgetfulness messed with nearly every brief, revue-style set and was met with forgiveness and laughs. (Folkie Andy Shauf is too young for the excuse, yet even he bailed on one of his songs because he couldn’t recall some of its words.) œ continued on page 49

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Like You’ve Changed, the label that celebrated its fifth anniversary at the ’Shoe last week, Kelp is a community. In this case, however, it’s a community of ball-capwearing dudes who are pretty friggin’ great at playing their guitars and yet oddly self-deprecating about their musicianship. (Jim Bryson, I’m looking at you.) Evening Hymns’ Jonas Bonnetta ended his set with the looped refrain “Women of the world take over / because if you don’t / the world will come to an end,” which raised the question, “Where are all the ladies?” With the exception of Guelph’s Jenny Mitchell (who stepped in on bass for one brief, rocking song during Andrew Vincent’s loose but brilliant set), all the musicians were men. Here’s hoping that changes by Kelp 25.

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Tanya Tagaq laughs one of her big, wild, belly cackles. She’s just confided that sometimes she’ll randomly ask people, “Are you fucked up?” “And most of the time they’ll say, ‘I am,’” she says. “How much of the population is walking around fucked up and trying to seem okay? And if it’s everyone, what the hell are we doing?!” She adds that she, too, is fucked up, “but in such a joyous way – it’s part of being alive.” Connecting with people is part of the three-time Juno-nominated throat singer’s calling, on and offstage. Over the phone from her home in Brandon, Manitoba, Tagaq touches on being whisked off on a world tour by Björk early in her career, the awful Twitter firestorm she was recently caught up in with certain animal rights activists after posting a “sealfie” with her younger daughter in support of the Inuit seal hunt, conflict, contradictions, colonialism and feminine shame. “Giving birth takes a massive amount of strength. I often wonder in this society where that strength is going when we’re not giving birth? How come we’re not walking around in our beautiful, glorious, amazing, strong sexuality? And in our power?” she asks. “I was raised with only brothers, and grew up hunting and fishing in the North, where we related so com-

pletely with the environment around us that the idea of denying yourself calories so you could be more alluring was nonsensical.” These kinds of ideas play out on Tagaq’s third album, Animism (Six Shooter). Unconventional, electronic and often improvised, it features freaky violin courtesy of producer Jesse Zubot, intense percussion from Jean Martin, and soundscapes and live programming by Michael Red. Not that Tagaq broaches politics explicitly in her lyrics. Animism is mostly lyric-less, though it opens with a cover of the Pixies’ Caribou; Fight has some English words in it; and gentle, exploratory Rabbit is a play on words for Tagaq’s daughters (“bunnik” is Inuktitut for “daughter”). That’s intentional, she says. It opens up the meaning of the songs. “Each song can be looked at in a literal sense of what it is,” says Tagaq, “but it also applies itself to the feeling in the entire world that applies to that particular circumstance.” In Fracking, for instance, Tagaq moans, cries, and her voice seems to break in grief and suffering; it is her expression of what it would feel like to be the earth in that scenario. “But it’s

also the feeling of everything horrible in the world,” she says, “from global warming to the negative things that have happened in residential schools.” Tagaq’s wordless performances also help her connect more intimately with her audiences. “I had a woman who was terminally ill tell me that she was way less afraid to die after the show,” she says. “If I’d been standing up there yelling about colonialism, she couldn’t have taken that from me; I couldn’t have helped her.” Perhaps the most radical thing about Tagaq’s breathing, grunting, singing and howling is the implied invitation to every listener to explore all the different facets of their human experience – from joy and love to the shittier or scarier feelings they might rather leave in the dark. “I like the challenge of releasing music that I don’t like myself,” says Tagaq. “All the music I’ve ever done, there are parts that are very hard for me to listen to. I cower in embarrassment and shame, and then I say, ‘No, Tanya, that part deserves respect, too.’” music@nowtoronto.com

Rating: NNN Yonge-Dundas Square is a hard space to command. There are no walls, no roof. People are milling, meandering and loitering. So it says a lot that folk-soul singer Chloe Charles had a pretty firm grip on those who attended the free weekly Lunchtime Live! series for the hour she was onstage. The Uxbridge-raised singer/ songwriter/guitarist and a five-person band performed new tunes from a forthcoming album (recorded last week), old favourites (including the first song she ever wrote) and two excellent covers, though she could have used better acoustics on Carole King’s So Far Away. Still, her smokey vocals were solid and versatile in both her highest and lowest registers. Equally impressive was the honesty expressed in her very literal lyrics – whether she was singing about a one-night stand or her dad abandoning her to “raise glasses with Mick Jagger.” The crowd, which had doubled to around 100 (not counting all the others dipping in and out), wasn’t going anywhere till it was over. At one point there was even a baby playing along with a maraca. It sounded like it belonged on the record. JULIA LeCONTE NOW JUNE 5-11 2014

clubs&concerts hot SLOAN Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas West), Thursday (June 5) Canrock power-poppers. FEAST IN THE EAST 38 w/ Jennifer Castle, Eucalyptus, Michael Mucci & Ben Grossman, Thom Gill Jam Factory Co (2 Matilda), Thursday (June 5) Blues folk singer/songwriter + more. LUMINATO LATE NIGHT: JASON COLLETT’S BASEMENT REVUE Edward Day Gallery (952 Queen West), Friday (June 6) to June 15 Collett and surprise guests. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS, JAMES HUNTER Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Friday (June 6) See preview, page 55. A-TRAK, SALVA The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Friday (June 6) Montreal electro-house turntablist. FIELD TRIP w/ the Kills, Fucked Up, Shad, A Tribe Called Red, Broken Social Scene, Constantines, Chvrches and others Fort York Garrison Common (250 Fort York), Saturday (June 7) See Fucked Up preview, page 54.

THE HIDDEN CAMERAS David Pecaut Square (55 John), Sunday (June 8) Energetic indie pop. MOONFACE The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Sunday (June 8) Spencer Krug’s solo project. RAY LAMONTAGNE, THE BELLE BRIGADE Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Sunday and Monday (June 8 and 9) Blues-tinged folk rock. TANYA TAGAQ, BUFFY SAINTEMARIE David Pecaut Square (55 John), Tuesday (June 10) See preview, page 49. PHOENIX, ALBERT HAMMOND JR Sound Academy (11 Polson), Tuesday (June 10) French electronic-tinged indie rock. LUMINATO: SLEEPING IN THE DEVIL’S BED: EMMYLOU HARRIS, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, ANNA McGARRIGLE, KEVIN DREW AND MORE Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Tuesday (June 10) The music of Daniel Lanois. KELIS, SON LITTLE The Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Wednesday (June 11) See preview, page 61.

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Producer for the likes of D’Angelo, Jay Z and John Legend, music critic, world-class DJ, extraordinary op-ed writer, co-frontman for Jimmy Fallon’s in-house band – Questlove is a busy man. Most recently we saw him at Tattoo spinning for an extremely packed house and slightly miffed at our lack of excitement for his rarer B-sides. It’s a wonder he has any time for the project for which he’s best known: the original live hip-hop band, the Roots. Happily for music lovers, Quest hasn’t forgotten his, er, beginnings. The band just released their 11th studio album, the acclaimed ...And Then You Shoot Your Cousin, which continues to do what the band does best: examine, analyze, criticize and offer an alternative to contemporary club-banging hip-hop. See them live when the Roots headline Luminato this weekend. Saturday (June 7) at David Pecaut Square (55 John), 8 pm. $35. TM. luminatofestival.com.

Just Announced COMET CONTROL, MIMICO, DJ SCOTT CUDROME Construction: A Sum-

mer All Ages Music Series-LP release show Smiling Buddha doors 10 pm, all ages, $5-$10. June 13.

JACKYL, HEAVENS FIRE, A REBEL FEW, SECOND PASS Phoenix Concert

Theatre doors 7 pm, $40. RT, SS, TW. June 13.

TEEN Drake Hotel doors 8:30 pm, $12. TW. June 26.

CASHMERE CAT, HARRISON The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $15. TW. June 27. KITTEN Wrongbar doors 7 pm, al ages, $15. TW. July 4. ARMY GIRLS, DILLY DALLY, NEW FRIES Girls Art League Fundraiser The Gar-

rison doors 9 pm, $10. facebook.com/events/ 240957826110939. July 4.

NOISECONTROLLERS, DAMO & GABBO Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 10 pm, $20. TW. July 5.

SKRATCH BASTID, STARTING FROM SCRATCH, TONY TOUCH, RICH KIDD, WRISTPECT, DEMIGGS & TOM WRECKS, JESSE FUTERMAN, THE GAFF, JIM SHARP, BIG JACKS, LOVE HANDLE AND OTHERS Bastid’s BBQ

Queen W Parking Lot (across from Black Bull) skratchbastid.com. July 5. BASIA BULAT, DESTROYER Live At Massey Hall Music & Concert Film Series Massey Hall 8 pm, $18.94. RTH. July 10.

TO THE WOLVES Virgin Mobile Mod Club.

July 11.

ALICE GLASS (DJ SET), THE RANGE, CHROME SPARKS The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $15. TW. July 18.

GRIMES, DEATH GRIPS, ACTION BRONSON, JON HOPKINS, SMITH WESTERNS, MAJICAL CLOUDZ, FLUME, ST LUCIA, KAYTRANADA, CHARLI XCX, HAERTS Time Festival Fort

York Garrison Common doors noon, all ages, $25-$50. EMB, RT, SS, TW. time-fest.com. July 19. MERCER The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $15. July 26. IMELDA MAY Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm,

$29.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 27.

pm, $34-$54. RT, SS, TM. September 30.

Hall doors 8 pm, $35.75-$40. TM. July 30. GESAFFELSTEIN The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $15-$30. TW. August 1.

YELLE Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm,

BLOOD ORANGE The Danforth Music

THE WINERY DOGS, HEAVENS FIRE, SUCKERSHOT Phoenix Concert Theatre

doors 7 pm, $39.55. RT, SS, TW. August 3. THE TEMPER TRAP Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, all ages, $25. LN, RT, SS. August 5. RIXTON, T MILLS Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6 pm, all ages, $25. TF. August 7. JOHN LEGEND Molson Amphitheatre doors 6:30 pm, all ages, $20-$101. LN, TM. August 8.

AMON AMARTH, SABATON, SKELETONWITCH Sound Academy 7 pm, all ages, $33.50-$48.50. TF. October 10.

$22.50. RT, SS, TF. October 15.

BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, MILO GREENE Kool Haus doors 7 pm, all ages,

$30. LN, RT, SS. October 16.

GRUFF RHYS Horseshoe

doors 8:30 pm, $15. HS, RT, SS, TF. November 10.

ITZHAK PERLMAN

Roy Thomson Hall 8 pm, $29.50-$129.50. RTH. December 1.

HEDLEY, MAGIC!, KARDINAL OFFISHALL Mol-

son Amphitheatre doors 6 pm, all ages, $19.50$89.50. LN, TM. August 20.

JULIE DOIRON W/ WOODEN STARS Horseshoe doors 8:30

pm, $13.50 adv. HS, RT, SS, TF. August 21. WHY? Lee’s Palace doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. September 19. SHONEN KNIFE Silver Dollar. September 20. SAM SMITH Kool Haus 8 pm, $47.50. TM. September 21.

BLACK LIPS, KING KHAN & BBQ SHOW Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 8 pm, $23.50. RT, SS, TF. September 25.

FINK Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm,

$17.50. RT, SS, TF. September 30. ERASURE The Danforth Music Hall doors 7

JUNE 5-11 2014 NOW

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HUDRVAATKIVE

H T A W R O H DP

W YENRNALE

Will kickstart priority projects such as the Downtown Relief Line

Cut $4 billion out of Transit City

Proposed privatizing public transit

Will invest in nurse practitioners, 24-hour family health clinics and will cut ER wait times in half

Wasted billions on hospital CEO salaries, Ornge, and eHealth as homecare and long-term care waitlists grew

Plan to privatize service delivery

Consistently said no to jets and is committed to preserving the integrity of our waterfront

Refuse to take a position on jets

Support jets and expanding the island airport

TUITION FEES

Will freeze postsecondary tuition and make student loans interest-free

Have allowed tuition to skyrocket by almost 50%

Will scrap the existing tuition rebate

JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Will make real investments to create local jobs through targeted tax credits

Want to give away $6.5 billion to corporations

Have promised to fire 100,000 people

CONDOS & DEVELOPMENT

Only party working to free Toronto from the unelected and unaccountable OMB

Failed to act on OMB reforms

Failed to act on the OMB and have strengthened ties with developers

Committed to providing fully electric, clean trains on the Air-Rail Link

Support diesel trains along the line

Ruled out electrification

Will invest $100 million and keep centres open in 18 communities

Introduced a new funding formula where 18 communities will lose childcare centres

Childcare workers are at risk of losing their jobs through Hudak’s 100,000 job cuts

Campaigned against bringing a mega-casino to Toronto’s waterfront

Supported the plan to bring a megacasino to Toronto

Supported the plan to bring a mega-casino to Toronto

BIKES

Will invest $20 million to create bike networks and make roads safer for everyone

Have dragged their feet on a provincial cycling strategy and haven’t provided proper funding

Have no cycling policy

PIPELINES AND OIL

The only party committing $2 million to ensure environmental assessment on Line 9

Refuse to conduct provincial EAs on pipeline projects that cross provincial boundaries

Are not interested in making sure pipelines are safe

CORPORATE TAXES

Increase the general corporate income tax rate by 1%

cut corporate taxes from 14% to 11.5% — $2 billion in giveaways

Cut even deeper to 8%

TRANSIT

HEALTHCARE

JETS ON THE ISLAND

PEARSON AIR-RAIL LINK

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NEW DEMOCRATS ARE TORONTO CHAMPIONS

ON JUNE 12 — VOTE NDP

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HUDRVAATKIVE

H T A W R O H DP

W YENRNALE

Will kickstart priority projects such as the Downtown Relief Line

Cut $4 billion out of Transit City

Proposed privatizing public transit

Will invest in nurse practitioners, 24-hour family health clinics and will cut ER wait times in half

Wasted billions on hospital CEO salaries, Ornge, and eHealth as homecare and long-term care waitlists grew

Plan to privatize service delivery

Consistently said no to jets and is committed to preserving the integrity of our waterfront

Refuse to take a position on jets

Support jets and expanding the island airport

TUITION FEES

Will freeze postsecondary tuition and make student loans interest-free

Have allowed tuition to skyrocket by almost 50%

Will scrap the existing tuition rebate

JOBS & INTERNSHIPS

Will make real investments to create local jobs through targeted tax credits

Want to give away $6.5 billion to corporations

Have promised to fire 100,000 people

CONDOS & DEVELOPMENT

Only party working to free Toronto from the unelected and unaccountable OMB

Failed to act on OMB reforms

Failed to act on the OMB and have strengthened ties with developers

Committed to providing fully electric, clean trains on the Air-Rail Link

Support diesel trains along the line

Ruled out electrification

Will invest $100 million and keep centres open in 18 communities

Introduced a new funding formula where 18 communities will lose childcare centres

Childcare workers are at risk of losing their jobs through Hudak’s 100,000 job cuts

Campaigned against bringing a mega-casino to Toronto’s waterfront

Supported the plan to bring a megacasino to Toronto

Supported the plan to bring a mega-casino to Toronto

BIKES

Will invest $20 million to create bike networks and make roads safer for everyone

Have dragged their feet on a provincial cycling strategy and haven’t provided proper funding

Have no cycling policy

PIPELINES AND OIL

The only party committing $2 million to ensure environmental assessment on Line 9

Refuse to conduct provincial EAs on pipeline projects that cross provincial boundaries

Are not interested in making sure pipelines are safe

CORPORATE TAXES

Increase the general corporate income tax rate by 1%

cut corporate taxes from 14% to 11.5% — $2 billion in giveaways

Cut even deeper to 8%

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Etobicoke Centennial Choir 7:30 pm. Imperial Pub Jazz Fridays Jazz Generation (big band classics) 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Music Gallery Pop Avant Series: The Unbearable Lightness Of Bass Pursuit Grooves, Sunclef, Bile Sister doors 7 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Don Vickery Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Paintbox Bistro Mike Janzen Trio 8 pm. Reposado The Reposadists (bop jazz) 10 pm. The Rex Ted’s Warren Commission 9:45 pm, the Jivebombers 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Roy Thomson Hall What Makes It Great? Appalachian Spring Toronto Symphony Orchestra 7:30 pm. St Basil’s Catholic Church Organix James David Christie (organ) 8 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Baltic Avenue The Blues Ain’t Nothing But A

Good Woman Gone Bad DJ Nix (hip-hop/R&B) doors 9 pm. Campbell House Museum SummerWorks Launch Party DJ Warren Bray 9 pm.

Church Street Garage Pheromone Friday.5 CODA Boris, the Junkies, Justin James doors

10 pm.

Dance Cave Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm. Detour Bar Heresy One Year Anniversary Party DJs Riggadale, Cole Burns, SL.Y, Mikey Palermo. Encore Studios Prince 4U – The Birthday Celebration DJ Sean Sax, the machine (all Prince) 10 pm. PFly WorldPride Playlist Party DJ Sumation, DJ Blackcat, DH Recklezz 10 pm.5 Holy Oak Cafe Rave Coulier (pop/R&B) 10 pm.

The Hoxton A-Trak, Salva doors 10 pm. ñ Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/

funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm. Mix Markham Remix DJ Baby Yu, DJ JClass, Renegade Squad, Sin (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/ soca). On The Rox Strictly The Best – The Ultimate 90s Party DJ Whitebwoy, Black Reaction Sound, Infamous Sound, DJ Chippy, Fire Kid Steenie and others. The Painted Lady DJ Frank Phantastik Johnson 10 pm. The Piston Building Blocks DJ General Eclectic 10 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). The Savoy Frkn Wknd DJ Caff (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Marcus Schossow, Baranov & Dizko Theory.

Saturday, June 7 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Lady Kane. Cadillac Lounge Front Stage Great Lakes

Surf Battle Rocket XL5, the Reverb Syndicate, the Huaraches, the Men in Grey Suits, DJ Vivs & Johnny 9 pm. Cadillac Lounge Patio Stage Great Lakes Surf Battle The Blue Demons, the Del Rios, Les Clandestins, the Cliff Divers, DJ Surfin Dave Faris, MC the Wolfman 9 pm. Cavern Bar Of Gentlemen & Cowards (alt pop rock) doors 8 pm. CineCycle CD release We Were Heads, Les Ex, Alpha Strategy, Wolfcow doors 9 pm. LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato: Philly Funk Sandwich The Roots, Adrian X 8 pm. Dundas West Dundas West Fest Pony Metal Orchestra, Los Hijos De Tuta, the Arsenals, the Clearing, Charlotte Cornfield, the Detours, Royal Crowns, Green Rays and others 5 to 9 pm, The Overtones, King Eddy Rockband, Novas de Alegria Band, Quique Escamilla w/ Andrew Cash, Portuguese Cavaquinho Ensemble, Public Animal, the Beverleys and others 2 to 5 pm, Novas de Alegria Band, Rui Nunes, Miko Sobreira, Yami Trio, the Tavares Quintet, Eugene Ripper and others 11 am to 2 pm. The Fifth Pub House Matt Morgan (rock) 9 pm. The Flying Beaver Pubaret Bare Bones (Suzanne Nuttall & Patrick Hutchinson) (rock & soul roots) 9 pm. Fort York Garrison Common Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Interpol, the Kills, Half Moon Run, Lord Huron, Kevin Drew, Shad, Austra, A Tribe Called Red, the Darcys, Vance Joy, Reuben & the Dark gates at noon. The Garrison The Preatures, the Beaches doors 9 pm. Hard Luck Bar Gypsyhawk, Diemonds, Black Pussy, the Mohrs doors 8 pm. Harlem Marla Walters (Motown/R&B/soul) 7:30 pm. Holy Oak Cafe Lazer Pop (R&B/pop/cumbia) 10 pm. Horseshoe Album release show The Dying Arts, Uncut, Girls on Stilts, Pile High doors 9 pm. Hot Box Puff Lounge Rock The Hotbox Hotrox & Gene-One (freestyle competition). Lee’s Palace Record release The Intentions, DJ OH16 9 pm. Linsmore Tavern Trainwreck (rock) 9:30 pm. The Local Jimmy Byron (rock & roll) 9 pm. Opera House Wacken Metal Battle Canada National Finals Skull Fist, Burning the Day, Neck of the Woods, My Hollow, Exit Strategy 8 pm, all ages. Orbit Room Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/ Motown/stax/R&B) 10 pm. Queen Elizabeth Theatre Black Canadian Awards Sharon Musgrave 5 pm. Revival Soul Motivators, DJs Groove Institute, General Eclectic, Jason Palma (jazz/ soul/funk) 10 pm.

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Kelis R&B

R&B singer’s two loves collide on new album By Julia LeConte KELIS with SON LITTLE at the Hoxton (69 Bathurst), Wednesday (June 11), 8 pm. $25-$35. TM.

“I wanted to be a master of something,” R&B singer Kelis tells me over the phone from L.A., her deep, husky voice sounding exactly as it does on her latest, retro-inspired record. But she isn’t talking about music. She’s referring to her other love: cooking. As well as being a pop star, Kelis recently trained as a saucier at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school. “Sauce is like a woman’s accessory. Meat is just meat, vegetables are just vegetables, but it’s the sauce that tells you who the chef is, what the culture is, where you are. What it is. It defines everything.” She doesn’t, however, take the same perfectionist approach to music. “Music is something that I naturally do well, and something that I’ve done so long, it’s just part of my personality.” That may explain why the artist has successfully attacked so many different genres. While they varied in levels of experimentalism, her early records were Neptunes-produced, radio-ready R&B for the most part. In 2010 she released Flesh Tone, a distinctly dance album. Her sixth, Food (Ninja Tune), is com-

pletely different again, combining soul, funk and Afrobeat with plenty of warm horns. It even features an acoustic, Simon & Garfunkel-evoking Labi Siffre cover. Recording in producer Dave Sitek’s home, the two came by the decidedly groovy mood naturally. “We didn’t have plans on doing a whole album,” says Kelis. “But the next thing we knew, I didn’t want to leave, and he didn’t want me to go. The (sound) wasn’t planned. It just came out this way – maybe just because I am calm and at peace with my life.” Then there’s the epicurean theme: the record’s name; the song titles (Jerk Ribs, Cobbler, Friday Fish Fry, Biscuits N’ Gravy); the opening to the record, where Kelis’s young son, Knight, says “Hey, guys, are you hungry? My mom made food.” The songs, though, aren’t exactly literal. Just like her signature hit Milkshake off her 2003 album, Tasty, you quickly get the idea that Kelis is singing metaphors. “The names were in there as working titles. It wasn’t even something we talked about or took seriously,” she says. “I was around food all the time. I was always cooking, people were always cooking. It just came together on its own.” 3 julial@nowtoronto.com | @julialeconte

NOW June 5-11 2014

fort york

national historic site Club Bonus Series (13 shows) at Horseshoe & Lee's Palace now on sale All kids 10 years old and younger get free admission when accompanied by an adult

Sunday July 6th

SHARON JONES & THE DAP KINGS

WITH JAMES HUNTER FRI JUNE 6 • MASSEY HALL 60’s $39.50-$59.50 advance

SOUL

SATURDAY JUNE 14 • TD ECHO BEACH • $37.50 ADV THE DIGITOUR PRESENTS

ALL AGES!

DIGIFEST Saturday July 5th

FEAT. FIFTH HARMONY, BEFORE YOU EXIT & DOZENS MORE! SATURDAY JUNE 14 • OPERA HOUSE • $25.00 ADV

REEL BIG FISH

SO-CAL SKA & SOUL

TUES JUNE 17

OPERA HOUSE $22.00 ADV

JELLO BIAFRA W/ NEGATIVE & THE GUANTANAMO

SCHOOL OF MEDICINE

APPROACH

WEDNESDAY JUNE 18 • OPERA HOUSE • $17.50 ADV

Friday July 4th

TYLER WARD BRYNN ELLIOTT • MIKEY WAX

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TOMMYGUNN

THU JUN 5

DRUNK LIPS

STRAY BULLETS

$6.00 @Door

BEAUTIFUL NOTHING FRI JUN 6 @ The Cave $7.00 @Door

NO OTHER (FROM PHILLY) UNFINISHEDEARLY BUSINESS SHOW

SPRUKE CULTS STREETS OF LAREDO FRI JUN 6 • $15.00 @Door

SUPER AUDIO LAND 2:

SUN JUN 8 • $21.50 Adv

FREE FOUNTAIN SLEEPY KITTY

WED JUN 11 • $25.00 Adv

TUE JUN 10

MURDER

$20.00 Adv

PUBLIC ANIMAL

THU JUN 12

THE SPACE AGE

THE CADILLAC THREE

THE JEZABELS YOUTH

GOLD &

MON JUN 16 • $20.00 Adv

CLAP YOUR

BY DEATH PETER HAR MAR

CANADIAN SHIELD • OLD SALTS TUES JUNE 17 • $11.50 Adv • THE CAVE

MON JUN 16 • $29.50 Adv

MURPHY FROM BAUHAUS

NXNE

THU JUN 17 • $12.00 Adv • NXNE

BLOODSHOT BILL

STAGNANT POOLS

NICE PETER JUNGLE • LEE’S PALACE • JUNE 23 • $ 18.50 adv

JUNE 26 •

$ 10.50

adv @ THE CAVE

DONOVAN WOLFINGTON

JUNE 28 • $ 10.50 adv @ THE CAVE

BEATY HEART

SAT

JUNE 15

LEES PALACE

FRI JUNE 13 & SAT JUNE 14

$5.00 @Door

JULY 22 • $ 18.50 adv

OOIOO

$6.00 @Door

S.H.I.T.

AUGUST 7 • $ 20.00 adv

THU JULY 3 • LEE’S PALACE • $24.50 ADV

SAM CASH & THE ROMANTIC DOGS

AUGUST 8 •

adv

SEPTEMBER 19 •

adv

JIM CUDDY

HIDDEN PONY 5TH BIRTHDAY

FRI JUN 20 @Door Noon

NXNE FREE SHOW!

ODDS RAH RAH

THE DANKS ROYAL TUSK

FRI JUN 20 • $15 @ Door • NXNE • 7:30 pm

PERFECT PUSSY

SPEEDY ORTIZ WHITNEY ROSE

ELSA

SIX SHOOTER GUNS & OUTLAWS

BENJAMIN BOOKER

• THE GARRISON • • HORSESHOE TAVERN •

PAINTED PALMS DELTA RAE JUDGE H 0 & STRIFE CROCODILES JULY 27 • $ 12.50 adv

SUN

JUNE 8

GARRISON $15.00 ADV

TUESDAY JUNE 24

SUN JULY 6 • HORSESHCE • $15.50 ADV

JOE NOAH GUNDERSON PUG

THU JULY 3 • HORSESHOE • $24.50 ADV

BLACK JOE

JUNE 26 • $ 20.00 adv • SOUL

JUNE 28 • $ 12.00 adv

JD WILKES DRENGE PATRICK SWEANY • DRAKE HOTEL • JULY 29 • $ 10.00 adv

JUNE 29 • $ 10.50 adv

JUNE 10 •

$ 12.00

adv

GABRIEL KAHANE JUNE 11 • 10.00 adv $

SAINTSENECA

LEWIS

JULY 4 • $ 17.50 adv

THE STRUMBELLAS

WITH LUCIUS

THE TREASURE

THU JUNE 26 • SILVER DOLLAR • $13.50 ADV

SCOTT BIRHAM AUSTIN LUCAS

JOLIE HOLLAND

$ 10.50

adv

JUNE 14 •

$ 11.50

JUNE 16 •

$ 12.50

JULY 21 •

$ 11.50

JULY 6 • $ 10.50 adv • 10:30pm

adv

SALLY TIMMS THE FEATURES W/ MEKONS’ JULY 8 • 15.50 adv FORKS ROBERT FRANCIS TWIN WITH NORTHCOTE JULY 14 • 15.00 adv WYTCHES $

adv

DIRTY SOUL PUNK

LEE’S PALACE • $22.50 ADV SUN JULY 6 • LEE’S PALACE • $17.50 ADV MON JULY 7 • LEE’S PALACE • $22.50 ADV

SHOVELS & ROPE

JUNE 13 •

JULY 23 •

JOYCE MANOR • SPRAYNARD

$ 12.50

adv

RUN RIVER NORTH SAT JULY 5 • HORSESHOE • $17.50 ADV

POKEY LAFARGE

THIRD MAN RECORDS OLD TIMEY BLUEGRASS

NEW COUNTRY REHAB

LIAM FINN ELECTRIC SIX HOSPITALITY BOB LOG III JULY 17 • $ 20.00 adv

AUGUS 2 • $ 13.50 adv

AUGUS 17 • $ 12.00 adv

TUES JULY 15 • PHOENIX • $23.50 ADV THU SEP 18 & FRI SEP 19 (SOLD OUT) • VIRGIN MOD CLUB • $ EX DBT - ALABAMA ALT COUNTRY

JASON SUN ISBELL KIL MOON

SUN JUNE 29 • GREAT HALL • $16.50 ADV FRI SEP 12 • OPERA HOUSE • $20.50 ADV

$ 16.50

WHITEHORSE

$15.00 Adv

BENEFIT

THE RIVOLI • $20.00 ADV DANFORTH MH • $ 24.50-$39.50

FRI ANDREW 4 JACKSON LEE’SJULY PALACE

BORIS THE STANFIELDS • CAITLIN ROSE THEE SILVER MT. ZION WHY? $ 15.00

THU JUN 19 • $25.00 @ Door • NXNE

TUE JUN 17

WED JUN 18 • $15.00 Adv • NXNE

$20.50 ADV

AUGUST 3 • $ 20.00 adv

GLADHEART

UKIAH DRAG

THE WILLIE NILE BAND • THE LONDON SOULS JIHAD TEMPLES FRI JULYHOLLERADO 5• PAPER GROUNDATION MAN MAN KITES adv

BLONDE ELVIS OCEAN HIGHS • ROSIE JUNE LEGATO VIPERS

COLLECTIVE

BROKEN SONS

MERCHANDISE

PARTYCAT

IMELDA MAY DEER TICK AUGUST 2 •

STUCK OUT HERE

BERNADETTE &

WORLD GEMINI CLUB WACO BROTHERS MISSION RUTLEDGE BIG JUKEBOX THE GHOST

JULY 27 • $ 29.50 adv $ 20.50

ALPACAS

HIGH DRIVE BAND

THU JUN 12 THE

A GREAT AIR GUITAR MAN WITH A JUSTIN

CHAMPIONSHIP

HEY RIVAL BOYS FRI JUN 13 • $17.50 @Door

THE CARDINAL DREAM

WED JUNE 25 • LEE’S PALACE • $10.50

JULY 10 • $ 10.00 adv

PARQUET

EFFENS • PILE HIGH PROTOMARTYR THE SAT JUN 14 • $8.00 @Door

CHARLOTTE CORNFIELD

JUNE 23 • $ 10.00 adv

FOXY SHAZAM MOONFACE

MASKED INTRUDER LARRY & HIS FLASK

THE KITCHEN PARTY

THURS JUN 19 • HARD LUCK • $24.50

$18.50 ADV W/

TUE JUNE 24 • LEE’S PALACE • $19.50

SUN JUN 8 • $14.50 Adv

COURTS ARTS THE UNCUT TYVEK

FREEMAN DRE &

SAY

SUPERSTAR

BIGWIG SO CAL SKA PUNK RINGO DEATHSTARR SHANNON & THE CLAMS

WITH

THE DYING

HANDS DAN ALEJANDRO CROLL ESCOVEDO LOW YEAH MUTUAL NQ ARBUCKLE

WED JUN 18 $12.00 ADV

SAT JUN 7 • $6.00 @Door

WED JUN 11

COYOTE

THE NOTWIST JEL CARTER JUN 14

Bookie’s New Music Night

No Cover

$21.50 Adv

FRIDAY JUNE 13 • $16.50 Adv SAT

BUCKNER

Shoeless Mondays MON NEW JUN 9 CARDINAL

$10.00 @Door

WITH

NEW YORK CITY SKA

SMALL TOWN GET UP • FRANKIE FOO

THE INTENTIONS AARON SAT JUN 7

FRI JUN 6 • $13.50 Adv

THE TOASTERS RICHARD

EPIC GAME MUSIC

COPY RED LEADER

THU JUN 5 • $11.50 Adv

DOUG PAISLEY

THE

HORSESHOE • $27.50 ADV

WATCHMEN

JUNE 8 • 20.00 adv • 19+

WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS JULY 16 • $ 22.50 adv

WILD BEASTS $ SEPT 12 •

15.00 adv

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The Rex Danny Marks (pop) noon. Riverside District Eats & Beats In Riverside: A

StreetFest 1 to 6 pm. Rivoli The Walkervilles, Crissi Cochrane & the Soul Brothers, DJ Double A doors 9 pm. Silver Dollar Moon King, U.S. Girls, Petra Glynt doors 9 pm. Southside Johnny’s David Love Band (60s pop rock) 10 pm, the Bear Band 4 to 8 pm. 3030 Dundas West Hangover (top 40 covers) 10 pm. LTIFF Bell Lightbox Luminato: Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live Kid Koala & Afiara Quartet (multimedia adaptation of a graphic novel) 7:30 pm. Unicorn Pub Half Hour City (alt rock) 10 pm. The White House Apetechnology, Brian Ruryk, Tarpit, Giant Claw & Seth Graham, Toblerone Boys 8 pm, all ages.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Bar Radio Freeman Dre & the Kitchen Party (roots) 10 pm, Chris Staig 4 to 7 pm. Cameron House The Double Cuts 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm. Cameron House Back Room Oxford Blue & Bill Pond. C’est What Sweet Alibi (soul/folk) doors 7:30 pm. LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge

Luminato: Slaight Music Series More or Les (hip-hop) 7 pm. Dora Keogh The Swingin’ Blackjacks (blues) 9 pm. Enwave Theatre Jimmy Rankin (country/folk) 8 pm. Gladstone Hotel Melody Bar The Exide (folk rock) 9 to 11 pm. Grossman’s Porch Dog 10 pm. Hugh’s Room Slow Burnin’ Fire Tour Skydiggers w/ Peter Cash 8:30 pm. Humble Beginnings Dave Martin (roots/ blues) 12:30 to 2:30 pm. King’s Belly Gary 17’s Acoustic Showcase & Open Stage 8 pm.

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Lester B. Pearson Theatre Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan, Ustad Sukhwinder Singh Bhari (Indian classical sitar and percussion) 7 pm. The Local Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm. Monarchs Pub Blues On Saturdays: CD release party The Morgan Davis Blues Band 5 to 9 pm. Portobello Words & Music Salon Tony Hanik & Veronica Clarke-Hanik, Bob Cohen, Michael Laderoute 1:30 to 4:30 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Danny & Manny 9:30 pm. St Nicholas Anglican Church Robinson Hall Acoustic Harvest Lynn Miles, ñ Keith Glass doors 7:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Greyhound Riders 10 pm, Abigail Lapell w/ Tamara Sandor 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm. Victoria College Burwash Quad Mateca Arts Festival Laura Fernández, Eliana Cuevas, Rita di Ghent, Luanda Jones, Beatriz Pichi Malen (world music) 6:30 to 10:30 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club Shahin Najafi doors 7 pm. Woodbine Park Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Will Calhoun and others.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Bloor Street United Church An Evening Of Opera Voices-Relyea (arias, duets and songs from the dramatic to the zany) 8 pm. C’est What The Hot Five Jazzmakers (trad jazz) doors 2 pm. Chalkers Pub Fern Lindzon Trio 6 to 9 pm. ñ Church of the Holy Trinity Songs For Mona

Lisa Cantemus Singers (choir) 7:30 pm. Gallery 345 Ugly Beauties Redux Marilyn Lerner, Matt Brubeck, Nick Fraser (piano, cello, percussion) 8 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. Harlem West Madette (jazz) 7:30 pm. Humber Valley United Church The Mikado Etobicoke Centennial Choir 7:30 pm. Nawlins Jazz Bar The N’Awlins All Star Band w/ Brooke & Duane Blackburn (jazz/blues) 9 pm, Sam Heineman (piano jazz) 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Old Mill Inn Home Smith Bar Jim Clayton Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. Reposado Bradley & the Bouncers (swing). The Rex Marito Marques (world/jazz/funk) 9:45 pm, Nick Teehan Group 7 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet +2 3:30 pm. Roy Thomson Hall Songs For Soprano Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sondra Radvanovsky (soprano) 8 pm. Toni Bulloni Jazz Night Don Francks, Dave Young & Bernie Senensky 9 pm. Village of Yorkville Park Summer Music In The Park Attila Fias Trio 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts Soulpepper Cabaret Series: Music For Silent French Films 8:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

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God, Billionaire, Ballistik 10 pm. Church 2Deep DJ Ticky Ty, DJ Aeryn Pfaff 10 pm.5 Cinema Nightclub Sex Lies Video: Friends With Benefits DJ Undercover, Mike Toast, Dee Cee. Clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll (60s rock/pop/ soul) doors 10 pm. Dance Cave Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm. Drake Hotel Never Forgive Action DJ Numeric & DJ Dalia (hip-hop/R&B) 11 pm. Drake One Fifty Flex Saturdays DJ Cozmic Cat (funk/love) 9 pm. Guvernment Chuckie, Mark Oliver, Manzone & Strong 10 pm. Guvernment Skybar Kiss The Skybar Goodbye. Marquis of Granby Purplelectricity Prince Party – 10th Anniversary Edition DJ Doctor Baggie doors 10 pm. Milk Glass Co Dunwest Electro Fest CHOBO, Strangerobotix, TRVPT, Texture 9 pm to 3 am. Mill Street Brew Pub DJ Humble Mike (soul/ funk/classic hip-hop) 8 pm. Monarch Tavern Dancecrasher! The Soul Bhoys, Keef (soul/ska/reggae). Moniker Gallery Protect Ya Neck: Bikers For Autism DJ Mensa, DJ Sunclef, Brendan Philip, Shadrack Jackman (house/ electro) 8 pm. The Painted Lady Music by Salazar 10 pm. The Piston With It (60s mod dance party) 10 pm. Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/club). The Savoy Mad City (R&B/hip-hop/dancehall) 10 pm. Sneaky Dee’s Shake-A-Tail.

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Tattoo DJ Questlove (hip-hop) doors ñ10 pm.

Sunday, June 8

Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Aspetta Caffe Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm. LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato The

Hidden Cameras 4 pm. ñFort York Garrison Common Field Trip Music & Arts Festival Broken Social ñ Scene, Constantines, Chvrches, Washed Out, Gord Downie, the Sadies, the Conquering Sun, Hydra, Fucked Up, Do Make Say Think, Badbadnotgood, Lowell gates at noon. See Fucked Up preview, page 54.

The Garrison Moonface doors 8 pm. ñ Hard Luck Bar Jennel Garcia, Max River, Stay

Seventeen, Fourth & Coast, Keek (pop/rock) doors 6 pm, all ages. Holy Oak Cafe Nude As The News Sandro Perri, Market Starling & Spookey Ruben 9 pm. Horseshoe Parquet Courts, Tyvek, Protomartyr. Lee’s Palace Cults, Streets of Laredo doors 8 pm. Linsmore Tavern Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (R&B) 3 to 7 pm. Massey Hall Supernova Tour Ray Lamontagne, the Belle Brigade doors 6 pm, all ages. Oasis Aqualounge Great Lakes Surf Battle: Tiki Pool Party The Blue Demons, Luau or Die 2 to 7 pm. Orbit Room Horshack (classic rock hits) 10 pm. Revival Landmark Showcase The Basic Fix, Aliens Ashore, Batucada Carioca, Brittany Scott, C-Note, D’Champ, DMJR, Doggie & Disho, Highspeech and others. LTIFF Bell Lightbox Luminato: Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live Kid Koala & Afiara Quartet (multimedia adaptation of a graphic novel) 7:30 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cadillac Lounge Cadillac Lounge 14th Birth-

day Celebration Whiskey Jack (bluegrass/ country) 4 to 7 pm. The Cage 292 Crimson Lounge Jam Phil Hood & Jon Macan 10 pm. C’est What Uke 416 7 to 9:30 pm, Noah Zacharin 3 to 6 pm.

LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge

Luminato: Slaight Music Series Molly Thomason (pop) 7 pm, Theo Tams (folk) 6 pm. Dora Keogh Undiscovered Artist Series Clark Schlesinger, Rusty Brakes, Plaid, Brain Juice. Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm. Gallery 345 Pierre-Yves Martel, Ben Grossman (viola da gamba/hurdy-gurdy) 7 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. Hugh’s Room Laura Smith 8:30 pm. The Local Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban son) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/country) 5 pm. Opera Bob’s The Ole Fashion 9 pm. The Painted Lady Asiko Afrobeat w/ Foly Kolade 10 pm, Tropical Punch 8:30 pm. Relish Bar & Grill Stir It Up Sundays 9 pm, Jordan Glick Usual Suspects 7 pm. The Rex Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm. Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm. Tranzac Southern Cross Max Layton & Robert Priest (folk singer/songwriters) 5 pm, the Toronto Improvisers Orchestra 1 pm. Unicorn Pub Acoustic Night 6 Foot 5 9 pm. Victoria College Burwash Quad Mateca Arts Festival Faye & Bryant Lopez, Quique Escamilla Band (latin) 5:30 to 10 pm. Virgin Mobile Mod Club William Fitzsimmons, Leif Vollebekk (singer/ songwriter) doors 7 pm. Woodbine Park Muhtadi International Drumming Festival Will Calhoun and others.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Tafelmusik (classical) 7:30 pm. Heliconian Hall Jazz For Social Change: MATCH International Women’s Fun Benefit Kye Marshall & Don Thompson 2 to 5 pm. Kumf Gallery Music On Canvas – Dreams: A Revival Of Ukranian Music Zachary Ebin, Maria Dolnycky (violin, piano) 3 pm. Morgans on the Danforth Jazzy Sundays Jordana Talsky 2 to 5 pm. Paradise Bar & Billiards Jazz Jam The Unit 4 to 8 pm. The Rex Sammy Jackson 9:30 pm, Bud Powell Tribute 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. Tranzac Southern Cross The Lina Allemano Four (jazz) 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Cube Hot Stepper Sundays DJs Mike Tull & Paul E Lopes doors 4 pm. Fox & Fiddle Danforth Yolo Sundays Industry Night 10 pm. Reposado Spy Vs Sly Vs Spy (live guitar soundtracks) 9:30 pm.

Monday, June 9 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Cage 292 Denday (reggae) 8 & 10 pm. Cameron House Back Room East Coast Tour

Homecoming Show Elder Sister Plum, the Sun Harmonic doors 8:30 pm.

LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato Lounge

Luminato: Slaight Music Series Liz Coyles 6 pm.

Drake Hotel The Chain Gang of 1974, Blondfire doors 8 pm.

Kitch Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar

(solo bass).

Massey Hall Supernova Tour Ray Lamontagne, the Belle Brigade doors 6 ñ pm, all ages. Orbit Room Jordan John (soul/R&B/funk) 10 pm.

Sauce on the Danforth The Out of Towners

(soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm.

LTIFF Bell Lightbox Luminato: Kid

Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live Kid Koala & Afiara Quartet (multimedia adaptation of a graphic novel) 7:30 pm. Yonge-Dundas Square Lunchtime Live! Sweet Alibi (soul/folk) 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Cameron House Joe Nolan 10 pm, Golden Country Classics 6 pm.

LDavid Pecaut Square Luminato: Brazilian

Samba Soul Bebel Gilberto, Aline Morales 8 pm, Luanda Jones (folk) 7 pm. Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Brian Gladstone 8 pm. Grossman’s Jam No Band Required 9 pm.

Hugh’s Room Judy Collins 8:30 pm. ñ The Local Hamstring String Band (bluegrass/

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swing between post-rock aggression that nods to METZ and a 90s-Canrock-leaning style that’s unfortunately more like Econoline Crush. The self-titled effort has producer Jon Drew’s (Tokyo Police Club, the Arkells) polish all over it. It’s a thick slab of guitar rock, though the four-piece moves nimbly between full-throttle power and more open, textured and ambient sections in every song. When doing the latter, things get fairly forgettable, which also happens when Mike Portoghese trades in his excellent throat-scraping screams for melodic singing, like on slower tunes Snake In The Grass and Control, where a dated, commercial sound creeps in. Here’s hoping they stick with the visceral punk power of Scratch and Bed Spins instead. Top track: Scratch The Dying Arts play the Horseshoe on Saturday (June 7). CG

album of the week COURTS ñPARQUET NNNN

Sunbathing Animal (What’s Your Rupture?/Mom + Pop) Rating: There’s a ramshackle quality to Parquet Courts’ third album. You’re never quite sure where it’s going to go next. The New York City via (mostly) Texas band get tagged “punk,” but it’s a non-urgent, spare style in the vein of Television, Suicide and Wire, all of whom were more than just punk, as are Parquet Courts. They mix wordy lyrics and nervy guitars. The title track has the never-let-up tempo of hardcore but without the aggres-

Pop/Rock BIRDY Fire Within (Warner) Rating: NNN Almost every pop star today – with the exception of refreshingly minimalist Lorde – is so hopped up on synths, bass and dance-floor overkill, it makes you long for songs that not only stand up with just a voice and a piano, but sound like they were written precisely for that set-up. For this, Britain’s always been great. See Adele and, recently, Sam Smith – and now Birdy, aka Jasmine van den Bogaerde. Fire Within was released last year in the

sion. Instant Disassembly is quirky and light like the Velvet Underground, enhanced by singer/guitarist Andrew Savage’s tendency to sound like a nerdier Lou Reed. Bodies Made Of is catchy slacker rock, and Always Back In Town is perfect straightforward gar-

age. The album’s last bit kind of peters out, but what comes before it is amusing and fun. Top track: Always Back In Town Parquet Courts play the Horseshoe on Sunday (June 8). CARLA GILLIS

UK but makes its North American debut now, her first full-length here. Van den Bogaerde teams up with some of the industry’s biggest scribes (among them Sia Furler and Ben Lovett) to pen solid pop tunes that aspire to Elton Johnstyle balladry. On these standout songs – No Angel, Standing In The Way Of The Light, Shine, lead single Skinny Love and People Help The People – her warbling croon is highly emotive. The few folksier, guitar-plucked numbers, however, are a touch formulaic and over-familiar. Top track: Standing In The Way Of The Light JULIA LeCONTE

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Mi Senti (Vinyl Factor) Rating: Róisín Murphy’s 2007 album, Overpowered, used classic disco as a springboard into slick, modern pop. It was a commercial flop but grew the ex-Moloko singer’s following among fans, DJs and producers with a strong sense of dance history. It also led to a string of singles that Murphy made with assorted European house producers over the past seven years. Accordingly, her latest is a discerning Euro-pop fan’s wet dream. Mi Senti, along with one original, features five covers of 60s and 70s Italian pop songs by singers such as Mina and Patty Pravo, rearranged as spaced-out pop using synthesizers that evoke the Italo disco era’s analog warmth. And just as Italian producers obsessed over making the best synth sounds, Murphy makes the most of her sultry voice. She soars on opener Ancora Ancora Ancora but quickly settles into a stylish precision. The EP’s graceful minimalism is best realized on the lone original, In Sintesi. Bleepy synths and breathy whispers swirl around a pulsating rhythm toward a beautifully understated climax. Top track: In Sintesi KEVIN RITCHIE

THE DYING ARTS (independent)

Rating: NNN Toronto’s the Dying Arts play in-your-face rock and roll that’s bound to be a lot of fun live. On their five-song debut EP they

BOB MOULD Beauty & Ruin (Merge)

Rating: NNN The cover of Beauty & Ruin pairs a younger Bob Mould with the current grizzled and grey-bearded one, showcasing the physical evolution of the former Hüsker Dü frontman. Musically though, the artist’s retained his youth: on his latest release, his driving, hook-laden punk rock is as precise as always. Inspired in no small part by his father’s death in 2012, there’s definite fury on the record, heard especially in the stomping, moody opener Low Season. The pain continues on Nemeses Are Laughing, though a plodding “do-do-do” chorus is one of the more depressing moments, threatening to derail the record’s spirited outlook. But Mould manages to save it with an ultimately joyous stance: he sounds youthful and invigorated screaming “Tomorrow morning should be fine” on Tomorrow Morning – one of the many injections of optimism that rings true. Top track: Little Glass Pill Bob Mould plays Riot Fest at Downsview Park September 6 and 7. JOSHUA KLOKE

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End Scene (Throne of Blood) Rating: If you’ve been following Jokers of the Scene’s career since their early days, you know that the Toronto-based DJ/producers have been steadily moving away from the pumpy, big-room electro sound of their first releases. Even so, the ambient and experimental focus of their debut full-length is surprising at first, although not unwelcome. Far too many LPs by dance artists feel more like compilations

of singles than proper albums, but End Scene has a strong narrative. Rather than simply bouncing between genres to showcase their wide range of influences, every song brings together elements from a range of styles. It feels like a love letter to the larger history of atmospheric electronic music, from vintage sci-fi soundtracks to shoegazer pop to classic deep house. There is a strong sense of nostalgia throughout, but more for a vintage vision of the future than for the actual past. Top track: Channels For Success BENJAMIN BOLES

Folk NEIL YOUNG A Letter Home

(Reprise) Rating: NNN Neil Young has always been eccentric, but A Letter Home is his kookiest idea yet. Recorded in Jack White’s 1947 Voice-OGraph recording booth (not much bigger than a phone booth), the album crackles and pops through 11 lo-fi covers – mostly from the 60s – and two spoken intros addressed to Young’s deceased mom. The songs are old, and the album sounds really old. Young’s versions of Gordon Lightfoot’s songs sound rougher than the originals, while Dylan’s Girl From The North Country is suitably blustery. Willie Nelson’s Crazy is almost more beautiful here than ever – just naked melody – while On The Road Again is a funny little mess. Ragtimey piano on Since I Met You Baby, by Ivory Joe Hunter, makes you wonder how Young got a piano into the booth. Best are a fragile cover of Bert Jansch’s Needle Of Death and the Everly Brothers’ I Wonder If I Care As Much, with White on backup vocals and guitar. Top track: Needle Of Death SARAH GREENE

Reggae SIERRA LEONE’S REFUGEE ALL STARS Libation (Cumbancha)

Rating: NNN On their fourth studio album, Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars – the band that literally formed in a Guinea refugee camp during Sierra Leone’s civil war – have gone back to their roots: stripped-down, acoustic, folk-tinged reggae songs well suited to a campfire. Multiple band members (there are seven total) take turns writing and singing lead, lending the album diversity as well as varying degrees of reggae-ness, all unified by laid-back vocal harmonies that are like a cool breeze on every track. Producer Chris Velan wisely keeps the brass muted, bringing warm guitar, congas, banjo and ukulele to the forefront. The instrumental combination is pleasant on each song, whether “romantic” (on Can’t Make Me Lonely, a woman consistently refuses bandleader Reuben M. Koroma’s advances) or political (Rich But Poor and Manjalagi both address poverty). The prettiest tunes, like standout Gbaenyama, are sung in Mende, making you wish for more of them. Top track: Gbaenyama Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars play David Pecaut Square as part of Luminato on June 14. JL

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LUMINATO DANCE PREVIEW

Bringing Bausch

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Legendary troupe dances here for first time in decades By KATHLEEN SMITH

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook L= Luminato event

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Opening LCINEASTAS by Mariano Pensotti The lives and cineñ(Luminato Festival). matic works of four Buenos Aires film-

makers are adapted into a mulitmedia stage show. Jun 7-9, Sat-Mon 7:30 pm. $35-$55. Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, MacMillan Theatre. 416-368-4849, luminatofestival.com. DAVY THE PUNK (Bob Bossin). Indie musician Bossin brings to life the seedy underbelly of 1930s and 40s T.O. in a musical stage show based on the life of his outlaw father. Opens Jun 10 and runs to Jun 15, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $18$22. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex, Deluxe Theatre. davythepunk.com.

THE DELIVERANCE OF JULIET AND HER ROMEO

The 1978 masterwork Kontakthof explores how people relate to each other with tenderness, humour and brutality.

KONTAKTHOF by Tanztheater Wuppertal’s Pina Bausch, presented by the Luminato Festival at the Bluma Appel (27 Front East). Opens Wednesday (June 11) and runs to June 14, 7:30 pm; pre-performance talk by Lutz Forster on June 12 at 6:30 pm. $45$125. 416-368-4849, luminatofestival.com.

It’s been 30 years since the late Pina Bausch’s iconic Tanztheater Wuppertal last performed in Toronto. In some ways the world is a completely different place, not least because the revered choreographer is no longer in it – she died in 2009. Yet Kontakthof (“courtyard of contact”), the 1978 masterwork the company is bringing to Luminato for four performances, reminds us that some things never change. The three-hour minimalist work looks unflinchingly at how people relate to each other – in couples, in

groups, alternating tenderness, humour and brutality. “I think relations between people haven’t changed for centuries, and I don’t think they will change so easily,” long-time company member and current artistic director Lutz Forster tells me from his home in Essen, Germany. Forster performed in the original production while still a student, and remembers the soul-baring character of Bausch’s concept. “It’s a bit like performing in an operating room,” he says. “With strong lights on you, the audience sees everything, even the movement of every little finger, and it leaves you sort of naked. You have nothing to hide behind.” The work has famously been remounted with casts of amateur seniors and preteens in recent years, as well as with the company itself. Choreographically simple but also

ahead of its time in eschewing mere spectacle for a more detailed and authentic intimacy, Kontakthof continues to fascinate. “The more I look at the piece and rehearse it, the more I see how brilliantly constructed it is,” says Forster. “It’s not just that it gets at all this emotion, but formally the way Pina constructed it is incredible. The use of music, the exits and entrances, the rhythm – she catches you, and then maybe there’s a moment of comfort, but only to prepare you for the next blow. She was such a master of form.” Forster, who was Bausch’s friend as well as a devoted colleague, says he was shocked by her unexpected death. He was invited to take over directorship of the company in 2013, and has worked hard since to reinvigorate dancers and staff who’d also been left reeling. But Forster is more than a mere

custodian of Bausch’s legacy. His vision for the company’s future includes inviting other choreographers to Wuppertal to create new works after the current season, its 40th. “I think the company is ready for it,” he says, though he won’t name names yet. These possibilities are exciting – even necessary – for the artistic health of a company that might just as easily never have recovered from the loss of such a luminous and prolific leader. But Forster is adamant about its enduring commitment to Bausch works like Kontakthof. “Pina’s repertoire will remain the nucleus of the company,” he says firmly. “There is great demand for her work – we still get invitations from all over the world, which we don’t even have time to fulfill. How could we ever give up this repertoire?” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

by Harrison Thomas, Ashleigh Kasaboski and Anne Van Leeuwen (Leroy Street Theatre/ Avant Bard Productions). The daughters of rival families try desperately to be together in this adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. Opens Jun 11 and runs to Jun 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20$25. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. totix.com. LGREEN PORNO, LIVE ON STAGE by Isabella Rossellini and Jean-Claude Carrière (Luminato Festival). Rossellini dons animal costumes to examine the curiosities and risks of sex and reproduction in this solo show based on her short films. Jun 6-8, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $45-$85. Winter Garden Theatre, 189 Yonge. 416-368-4849, luminatofestival.com. KATE AND SAM ARE NOT BREAKING UP by Joel Kim Booster (Cue6 Theatre Company). An obsessed fan plots to reunite two movie stars whose onscreen-to-offscreen romance has ended. Previews to Jun 5. Opens Jun 6 and runs to Jun 21, Wed-Sat 8 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20$40. Fraser Studios, 76 Stafford. cue6.ca. LOOK, NO HANS! by John Chapman and Michael Pertwee (Drayton Entertainment). A spy tries to hide his double life in this comedy. Opens Jun 11 and runs to Jun 28, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. MISS CONCEPTION: STAGE TO SCREEN (Lash Entertainment/Queer Pride 2014). Miss Conception performs a musical tribute to pop divas. Jun 6-7 at 7:30 pm. $25. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. ORANGE IS THE NEW BURGUNDY by Mike Payne, Tim Evans and Paul Levia (Queen’s Players Toronto). Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy

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comes to Toronto and ends up in a co-ed jail in this comedy. Opens Jun 5 and runs to Jun 14, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm. $20-$25. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. queensplayerstoronto.com. LParadisiacal Rites by Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell (Luminato Festival/Saint Genet). Actors, dancers, musicians and other artists participate in a narrative exploration of American hysteria, nationalistic vanity and utopian fervour. Opens Jun 10 and runs to Jun 14, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm. $35. MOCCA, 952 Queen W. 416-368-4849, luminatofestival.com. The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans are complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy reporter. Previews to Jun 7. Opens Jun 8 and runs in rep to Oct 25. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Soulpepper Cabaret Series (Soulpepper). The company presents the Song/Book Series,

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Hay Fever by Noël Coward (Stratford Festival). An eccentric family and their house guests spend a weekend together in this comedy. Previews to Jun 18. Opens Jun 19 and runs in

rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (16Endean Collective). The classic tragedy is performed by an all-female cast. Previews Jun 11. Opens Jun 12 and runs to Jun 22, Wed-Sat and Mon 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $15, preview pwyc. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. redsandcastletheatre.com. The Sea by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival). A 1900s English village reacts to one of its own being lost at sea in this mix of politics and comedy. Previews to Jul 10. Opens Jul 11 and runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s hawfest.com. Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (Soulpepper). Jurors argue over the case of a young man accused of killing his father in a capital murder case. Previews Jun 11-16. Opens Jun 17 and runs to Jul 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane, Toronto. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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cabaret performers and more in this weekly series. Opens Jun 7 and runs to Jul 26, Sat 8:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. South Pacific by Rodgers & Hammerstein (Drayton Entertainment). Love blooms on an island paradise during WWII in this musical. Opens Jun 5 and runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-3729866, draytonentertainment.com. When We Are Married by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed as three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries. Previews to Jun 5. Opens Jun 6 and runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

Like the plucky heroine at the heart of the story, it’s hard to hate Flashdance – The Musical. She might not have the best fashion sense, and there’s as much padding in the new songs as there is in some of the outfits her pals wear, but her heart’s in the right place. Based on the hit 80s movie, the musical has kept enough of the iconic imagery (torn sweatshirt, leg warmers, bucket of water splashed over silhouetted body) to please those looking for a nostalgia fix. But book co-writer Tom Hedley, who also helped pen the screenplay, has boosted the class theme, deepened relationships and added a solid B plot. Orphan Alex (Sydney Morton) works as a welder in a steel plant and moonlights dancing at a cabaret, while she dreams of one day becoming a legit dancer. The plant’s upper-class boss, Nick (a bland Corey Mach), falls in love with her, and he’s faced with making severe cutbacks. (One of the few

relevant things about the adaptation is the economy.) Meanwhile, the strip club down the street from the cabaret wants to hire new dancers, and Alex’s friend Gloria (Ginna Claire Mason) is tempted. Most of the new songs sound generic – there’s nothing as catchy as the film’s Maniac or the title track, given a clever and touching treatment near the end. And the added subplot about Gloria and her aspiring stand-up boyfriend Jimmy (David R. Gordon) merely distracts from the main narrative.

Their songs are so unnecessary they nearly induce eye-rolling. And you know you’ve got a serious problem when you can’t tell the raunchy cabaret and the strip club apart. But Morton is a dynamo, with a clear voice, flexible body and a ton of presence. Whether in the spotlight in a fierce solo or sharing one of several inspired street dance sequences (choreographed by Sergio Trujillo), she just about holds the show together.

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Mad Hot Ballet: Spellbound The National Ballet of Canada presents its ñ gala fundraiser inspired by fairy tales, featur-

Opening Canada Dance Festival CDF and the Nation-

al Arts Centre present performances by Tania Alvarado, Montréal Danse, Corpus, Bboyizm and others. Opens Jun 9 and runs to Jun 14, see website for schedule. $16-$35, passes $60-$250. National Arts Centre, 53 Elgin, and other venues in Ottawa. c anadadance.ca. LKeys On The Street Luminato Festival presents a fusion of classical music and dance by choreographer Tré Armstrong and pianist Angela Hewitt. Jun 11 at 8 pm. Free. David Pecaut Square, 55 John. luminatofestival.com. LKontakthof Luminato Festival presents the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Dance Company in Bausch’s 1978 choreography about the eternal battle of the sexes (see story, page 67). Opens Jun 11 and runs to Jun 14, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $45-$125. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-3684849, luminatofestival.com.

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ing a performance of short works followed by a reception. Jun 11 at 6:30 pm. $55-$133. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, madhotballet.ca. 10 PushPULL Dance presents non-professional dancers performing choreography from past shows and new creations to mark the company’s tenth anniversary. Opens Jun 5 and runs to Jun 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $20-$25. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. pushpulldance.com.

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One-Nighters The Blues Ain’t Nothing But A Good Woman Gone Bad (Les Femmes Fatales). This

burlesque revue features Saskia Smith, Bombyx Mori, Piper Hayes and others. Jun 6 at 10 pm. $14. Baltic Avenue, 875 Bloor W. facebook.com/events/777053908971271. Box Salon (The Box). An evening of short words, film, performance and music by Eldon Garnet, David Heti, Shelby Lamb and others. Jun 8, doors 8 pm. $5/pwyc. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. boxsalon.com. Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (Show One Productions). The Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre of Russia performs a theatrical adaptation of Pushkin’s tale of unrequited love. Jun 10 at 7:30 pm. $62-$159. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 1-855-9852787, showoneproductions.ca. First Look (Obsidian Theatre Playwright’s Unit). Excerpts of new plays by Tawiah McCarthy, Teneile Warren and Makambe Simamba will be presented. Jun 9 at 8 pm. Free/ pwyc. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. pd@obsidiantheatre.com. Potluck Festival XI (fu-GEN). Potluck dinner and new works in progress by Leonard Cervantes, Dean V argas, Ming-Bo Lam, Elena Juatco and Norman Yeung. Jun 8 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Factory Theatre, 125 Bathurst, Studio. fu-gen.org. Ralph + Lina by Michele Smith, Dan Watson and Christina Serra (Edge of the Woods Theatre). Italian lovers stay together in the face of WWII, forced immigration and old age. Jun 6 at 8 pm. $30, stu $25. Market Hall Theatre, 140 Charlotte, Peterborough. edgeofthewoodstheatre.com. Stumble, Topple, And Stand by Nick Carney, Owen Fawcett, Katie Sly and Spencer Charles Smith (Straight Camp/Queer Pride 2014). This show features messy, queer fairy tales for all ages. Jun 8 at 2 pm. $10, free for kids under 10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com.

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SummerWorks Launch Party & Fundraiser (SummerWorks). The August theñ atre festival launches with a dinner, silent auction and performances, followed by a DJ dance party. Jun 6, fundraiser 6:30 to 9 pm ($100), dance party from 9 pm on (pwyc). Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen W. summerworks.ca. Test Drive by Dave Carley (Festival Players of Prince Edward County/Pocket Carnival). Live reading with Carley. Jun 10 at 7 pm. Free w/ RSVP (see website). Books & Company, 289 Main, Picton. f estivalplayers.ca.

Sun 8 pm. $25. 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 lives, loves and troubles 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. m usictheatretoronto.com. 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 god of wine, sex and ecstasy in this rock and roll cabaret. Runs to Jun 29, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $40. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, 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. Runs to Jun 7, ThuSat 7 pm. $15-$20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. 647-660-0010, secureaseat.com. Hedwig And The Angry Inch by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender musician moves to America to start a rock band and find love. Runs to Jun 7, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 and 11 pm. $20-$49. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. InspiraTO Festival (Theatre InspiraTO). The annual festival of 10-minute plays presents works by Steven Simoncic, Dominik Loncar, Nina Kaye, Julie Cohn and others, plus sitespecific plays on Queen East. Runs to Jun 7,

Madison Walsh and Cole Alvis look into A Spirit’s Face. see website for schedule. $20, stu $15; festival pass $50, stu $40. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. theatreinspirato.ca. 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 (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 and mystery entertainers perform

weekly. Runs to Jun 29, Sun and Tue 7 pm. $15-$20. The Cage 292, 292 College, Crimson Lounge. 416-995-1736, abracadabaret.com. PQueer 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. 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. 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. Rumors by Neil Simon (Scarborough Players). Secrets and lies derail a couple’s 10th anniversary dinner party in this comedy. Runs to Jun 14, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-2679292, theatrescarborough.com. A Show (Platform A). Works resulting from various micro-grants are presented, including visual and interactive arts, video and live performance. Runs to Jun 7, Tue opening show 5:30-9:30 pm, exhibit runs Wed-Thu noon-8 pm, Fri-Sat noon-6 pm. Free. Jumblies Theatre, 132 Fort York Blvd. jumbliestheatre.org.

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Piatigorsky (Soundstreams/Maniac Star). This modern opera is set aboard a plane and examines the joy and angst of flying. Runs to Jun 8, Thu-Fri 8 pm, Sat 4 pm, Sun 3 pm. $20$75. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Ada Slaight Hall. 416-408-0208, soundstreams.ca. Americandream.ca by Claude Guilmain and Louise Naubert (Théâtre La Tangente). Six characters hide personal tragedies from each other in this multidisciplinary show with English audio translation. Runs to Jun 7, Tue-Sat 8 pm. $20-$35. Glendon Campus Theatre, 2275 Bayview. 416-947-7909, americandream.ca. Dead Metaphor by George F Walker (Mirvish/Canadian Rep). Walker’s intense, disturbing and hilarious look at an exsniper trying to transition into civilian life examines the many challenges faced by veterans. With good jobs hard to find, Dean is eventually forced to fall back on his military training to make ends meet. Walker’s direction dials up fiery back-and-forth exchanges. He doesn’t just hit the bull’s eye – he takes out the entire target. 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) 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. Runs to Jun 15, see website for schedule. Pwyc. 125 Bathurst. 416-504-9971, factorytheatre.ca. 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 80s film (see review, page 68). 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. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NN (GS) 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, Thu-

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Free. Statler’s, 487 Church. 416-922-0487. 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. Runs to Jun 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $10-$20. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416-531-1402, totix.ca. 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 communities around the world. Runs to Jun 8, see website for schedule. $10, Global Archive Pass $35. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

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The Affections Of May by Norm Foster (Dray-

ton Entertainment). Men vie for the attention of a woman after her husband leaves her and their small town in this comedy. Runs to Jun 22, see website for schedule. $25-$42. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. draytonentertainment.com. Alice Through The Looking-Glass adapted by James Reaney (Stratford Festival/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Alice enters a world of wonders through a mirror in this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. Arms And The Man by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). An American writer falls for a nightclub singer in Nazi-era Berlin. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

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For Philanthropists by St John Hankin (Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Crazy For You by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival). A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this musical set in the 1930s. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festi-

val Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Deathtrap by Ira Levin (Drayton Entertainment). A fading writer seeks to steal a brilliant mystery from one of his students. Runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. draytonentertainment.com. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A Southern woman and her black chauffeur see Atlanta change over 25 years. Runs to Jun 14, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. King John by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The English king defends his throne against the rival claim of his nephew. Runs in rep to Sep 20. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. King Lear by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The old ruler’s plans for dividing his kingdom bring strange and tragic consequences. Runs in rep to Oct 10. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.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. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Young lovers mingle in an enchanted forest in this classic comedy. 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. Runs in rep to Sep 21. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Nine Mile Portage (Theatre by the Bay). This collective creation enacts moments from Barrie’s history as the audience walks from South Shore Centre to Centennial Park. Runs to Jun 7, see website for schedule. $25-$35. South Shore Centre, 205 Lakeshore, Barrie. 705-7359243, theatrebythebay.com. Peter Pan, A Traditional British Panto by Simon Aylin and Trudy Moffatt (Drayton Entertainment). The classic tale is presented with musical numbers, slapstick comedy and audience participation. Runs to Jun 21, see website for schedule. $25-$42. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. 1-888-3729866, draytonentertainment.com. 3

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Dave Merheje, Becky Bays and host Sam ñ Demaris. To Jun 11, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat

8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. DOING IT! Moniquea Marion presents a solo show featuring new sketch, stand-up and improv. 8 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. KITCH KOMEDY presents a weekly pro/am show w/ host Dean Young. 9 pm. Free. Kitch, 229 Geary. kitchbar.com.

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Mood Disorders Association of Ontario presents stand-up by graduates of its program. 7:30 pm. $15 (eventbrite.ca). Supermarket, 268 Augusta. mooddisorders.ca. MARK DEBONIS ALBUM TAPING Comedy Records presents DeBonis w/ Garrett Jamieson, Rob Bebenek and Tim Nasiopoulos. 7:30 & 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. 416-967-1078, comedyrecords.ca. PILOT SEASON: THE IMPROVISED SITCOM JJ Evason presents a comedy variety show w/ host Sam Roulston. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. SIXTEEN SCANDALS Second Citys’ funniest revue in ages draws on our anxiety about the schizophrenic weather, our cracksmoking mayor and the urban/suburban split in surprising and inventive ways. Director Chris Earle has a great ear and sharp sense of drama and he knows how to get the best from his stellar cast, who shine – especially in two contrasting sketches about young dudes (played by the women) and middle-aged women (played by the men). Don’t miss it. To

Deserving Doras Sometimes the planets align and things like awards nominations actually seem fair and well-considered. That’s the case with this year’s Dora Mavor Moore nominations, announced June 2. While I have some quibbles with a couple of categories, overall the nominees are deserving. What’s to complain about when strong productions like The Gay Heri tage Project, Venus In Fur, The Double, Lungs, A God In Need Of Help, Of Human Bondage, Les Misér ables and London Road get multiple nominations in the general theatre division, and Vitals, The Tin Drum, Trudeau And The FLQ, Ralph + Lina and All Our Happy Days Are Stupid get singled out in the indie categories? Particularly strong are the ensemble acting categories. I can’t recall so many shows featuring such great casts that it was hard to single out any single performer. Among this year’s nominated ensembles are The Gay Heritage Project, London Road, Of Human Bondage, Passion Play, The

Aug 10, Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 7:30 & 10 pm, Sun 7:30 pm. $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS) YUK YUK’S presents Jay Brown. To Jun 8, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com.

7 & 9:30 pm. $35.50-$55.50. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. sonycentre.ca. RED ROCKET COMEDY presents a weekly show w/ host Joel West and guests. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 5. 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. Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 5.

Absolute Comedy See Thu 5. CATCH 23 Comedy Bar presents a weekly im-

prov pit fight. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416551-6540, comedybar.ca. PILOT SEASON: PALS JJ Evason presents a neverbefore-seen sitcom episode, based on the NBC hit series Friends. 10:30 pm. $10. Round Venue, 152A Augusta. roundvenue.com. Sixteen Scandals See Thu 5. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Main Event, a weekly pro headliner and others. 9:30 pm. $5. St Louis Bar & Grill, 1963 Queen E. 416-637-7427. Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 5.

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Absolute Comedy See Thu 5. Comedy @ The Well presents Pat Burtscher,

Kevin Herod, Ali Hassan, hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca. 42 YEARS AN IDIOT Comedy Bar presents Rick Jones w/ Todd Graham, Jess Beaulieu and Ryan Maglunob. 7 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca.

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Madison Avenue Pub presents a weekly open mic comedy show and karaoke contest. 8 pm. Free. 14 Madison. 416-9271722.

resents the p comic writer/ performer in a live show (see story, page 71).

Mark DeBonis tapes a comedy album at Free Times, June 5.

Venus In Fur, starring Rick Miller and Carly Street, got lots of Dora love.

Lungs’ many nominations include actors Brendan Gall and Lesley Faulkner.

The Double, starring Adam Paolozza (left) and Viktor Lukawski, scored well at Doras.

Tin Drum, All Our Happy Days Are Stupid and Figaro’s Wedding. Mostly absent from these lists, though, is Angels In America (probably the biggest snub of the year) and Idiot’s Delight, as well as New Jerusa lem, Elegies, God Of Carnage and Cock. Other things that make me happy:

five nominations for Damien Atkins (including best actor in a play and a musical, for Angels In America and London Road, respectively), the acknowledgement of Ron Pederson for his superb work in Pith!, and the fact that Camellia Koo and Lorenzo Sa voini dominate the scenic design categories in general theatre for three

and two separate shows. I’m disappointed that the excellent production of Look Back In Anger was shut out. It’s also odd that Tarragon’s production of The Valley got no love. Speaking of snubs, surely James Monroe Iglehart’s performance as the Genie in Aladdin (he’s a front-runner for the Tony Award this Sunday) rates a nomination? Guess not. And while it’s heartening to see such love for the sizzling production of After Miss Julie, it’s too bad that

Christopher Morris didn’t get a nod opposite the justly nominated Claire Armstrong. No one would argue that it was a good year for new musicals, but the absence of Ross Petty Production’s The Little Mermaid seems churlish. The original musical Arrabal got no nominations, even for its stunning choreography. The Doras are handed out June 23. 416-973-4000, tapa.ca. For the full list of nominees, see tapa.ca/doras/ GLENN SUMI nominees.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 5. THE STAND-UP 101 GRAD SHOW Second City

Training Centre presents the fresh new comics. 12:30 & 3 pm. $5. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WAR PORSCHE present storytelling and improv w/ Hayley Kellet, Kristopher Bowman, Paul Barns and others. 8 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S See Thu 5.

Monday, June 9 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Dave Merheje, K Trevor Wilson, Trixx, ñ Graham Kay, Christina Walkinshaw, Arthur

Simeon, Chris Locke, Kyle Radke, Matt O’Brien, Sara Hennessey, MC Ryan Belleville 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. 416-343-0011, 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. 416-815-7562. 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. 200% VODKA The Social Capital presents a weekly show by the Black Swan Comedy Rep Company. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, June 10 COMEDY COVE Blair Streeter presents Hunter Collins and Andrew Barr, 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. IMPROV DROP-IN The Social Capital presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388. FLAT TIRE COMEDY AT THE ABC Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. MEGA CRAZY CRAZY FRENZY! The Garrison presents stand-up w/ Troy Stark, Steve Patrick

Adams, Paul Beer, Zoe Daniels, Phil Moorehead, DJ Demers and hosts Matt Collins & Jeremy Woodcock. 9 pm. Free. 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 5. 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. TUESDAY HEADLINER SERIES COMEDY Imperial Pub presents host Danny Polishchuk and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 Dundas E. 416977-4667, imperialcomedy.com. WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive competitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents the Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/ show. 224 Richmond W. yukyuks.com.

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Wednesday, June 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/ headliner Sam Demaris, Adrienne Fish, Alex Brovedani, Nitish Sakhuja, Sean McKiernan, Steve Davis, Wojtek Arciszewski and host Matt Billon. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. CHUCKLE CO. PRESENTS weekly stand-up. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. chuckleco.com. LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a tall tales competition w/ David Code, Andrew Vail, Amy Lester, Marco Bernardi host Paul Bellini and others. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. pubaret.com. MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly stand-up. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-604-0202, facebook.com/ MagicOvenKeele. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents openmic stand-up w/ host Natalie Norman and headliner Jess Beaulieu. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339. SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 5. SPIRITS COMEDY Spirits Bar & Grill presents one of the city’s longest-running weekly comedy nights. 9 pm. Free. 642 Church. 416967-0001. TOP SHELF COMEDY presents The Spotlight, a weekly night of top comics. 9 pm. $5. WAYLA Bar, 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570. TORONTO COMEDY CAVERN presents a weekly show w/ host Adam Jamal. 8:30 pm. Free. Cavern Bar, 76 Church. 416-971-4440. YUK YUK’S presents Kenny Robinson. To Jun 15, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

Don’t be surprised if you see Jim Gaffigan chowing down on poutine.

JIM GAFFIGAN: THE WHITE BREAD TOUR Saturday (June 7), 7 and 9:30 pm, at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts (1 Front East). $35.50-$55.50. 1-855-8727669. sonycentre.ca.

Few make a career out of pasty skin and an obsession with snack food, but that’s the trick stand-up Jim Gaffigan has pulled off. He began his comedy career on the 90s New York City circuit, but it didn’t

really take off until the 2000s after he became a regular on Conan O’Brien and did an infamous rant about Hot Pockets. Now he’s of the most popular theatre headliners around, constantly on the road and making one of his regular Toronto appearances on Saturday. “I have a new hour and I was trying to figure out a way to get up to Toronto and do as many Canadian dates as I could,” he says. It’s not surprising that the pale, po-

lite, irreverent comedian loves performing in Canada, and that Canadians love him. “Most of it is just scheduling. I have 500 children, so I had to figure out how to get there.” Then there’s the draw of junk food. “Eventually I’m going to have to grow up and stop eating it, especially if I want to be at one of my kids’ weddings,” he says. “But it’s hard. If I’m going to Canada, I have to get poutine. That happens when I travel to any city. My wife says I don’t have to. The citizens of Montreal aren’t going to be angry if I don’t have smoked meat.” Though food continues to be a staple of Gaffigan’s act, it never grows tiresome. It’s just part of his take on mundane observational comedy, and something that he’s inevitably turning into a book. “The title is Food: A Love Story. I’m just writing essay upon essay about food. I’m not a foodie, just a guy with a distinct point of view on baloney and macaroni and cheese.” He’s taking his time in order to make the book worthwhile. “We’ve all purchased humour books that you start reading and realize, ‘Oh, this author just wanted to get some money.’ This won’t be one of those.” There’s something charmingly oldfashioned about Gaffigan’s wholesome approach. And it’s not calculated. “That’s just how the comedy comes out of me or a Brian Regan,” he says. “I love political and filthy comedy, and I love my friends who do it, but it’s not a huge sacrifice to not say ‘fuck’ if you’re talking about bacon.” 3 stage@nowtoronto.com

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William Kentridge and Robin Rhode, to Jun 28. 1069 Bathurst. 647-348-5110. Bau-Xi Painting: Bobbie Burgers, Jun 7-21, reception 2-4 pm Jun 7. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600. Daniel Faria Gallery Nadia Belerique, to Jun 7. 188 St Helens. 416-538-1880. LDavid Pecaut Square Installation: Los Carpinteros, Jun 6-15. 55 John. Elgin Theatre L Film: Matthew Barney and Jonathan Bepler, Jun 6-8 ($40, Fri 6 pm-12:10 am, Sat 5-11:10 pm, Sun 2-8:10 pm). P Installation: Sarah Foy, to Jun 29 (docnow.ca). 189 Yonge. 416314-2901.

Galerie Antoine Ertaskiran// Libralato Sculpture/video/installation:

Jon Rafman, to Jun 28. 944 Queen W. 416-877-2853. gallerywest Alize Zorlutuna, Basil AlZeri and Umber Majeed, Jun 5-28, reception 7-10 pm Jun 5. 1172 Queen W. 416913-7116. Katzman Contemporary Linen group show; Kevin Sonmor, Jun 7-Jul 5, reception 2-5 pm Jun 7. 86 Miller. 416-504-9515. LE Gallery Painting: Tristram Lansdowne, to Jun 28. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467. MKG127 Bill Burns, Jun 7-Jul 5, reception 6-8 pm Jun 11. 1445 Dundas W. 647435-7682. NNXNE on Dundas Installation: Steve Carty, Trevor Wheatley, Stuart Pearce and Brandon Ing, Jun 6-8. 1506 Dundas W. nxne.com. Olga Korper Angela Grauerholz, Jun 5-28. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. POnsite [at] OCAD U Generations Of Queer, to Jun 28, Queer Pride Story Slam 7 pm Jun 11. 230 Richmond W. 416-9776000 ext 265. Paul Petro Olia Mishchenko and Gary Evans, Jun 6-Jul 5, reception 7-10 pm Jun 6. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874. RAW Riverdale Art Walk Jun 7-8. Near Queen E btwn Broadview and Leslie. 416-465-0302, artistsnetwork.ca. LE Gallery Painting: Tristram Lansdowne, to Jun 28. 1183 Dundas W. 416532-8467. TIFF Bell Lightbox L Film: Matthew Barney, 4-11 pm Jun 7 ($tba). Photos: Joseph O Holmes, to Jun 15. 350 King W. 416-599-8433. WARC Simone Jones, Jenn E Norton and Sarah Kernohan, to Jun 21. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097.

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sculptural surfaces are more complex than they first appear, integrating bits of canvas and patches of texture. Poda is a strong show built on a past era of sculptural history. It’s hard to know if Aitken is quoting rev-

erentially, sarcastically or ironically. Does it matter? Perhaps the faithful recreation of old modernist preoccupations is another way of taking us deeper down the conceptualist rabbit hole. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS N = NXNE; L = Luminato; P =Pride ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA Fausta Fac-

ciponte, Elisa Julia Gilmour and Ben Freedman, to Jun 29. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO LMatthew Barney, to Sep 28, artist’s talk 2-3:30 pm Jun 7 ($12-$20, Luminato). N1st Thursdays, 8-midnight Jun 5 ($12-$15). Big Bam Boom Youth Arts Festival, to Jun 10 (free). Brian Jungen and Duane Linklater, to Jun 15. Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, to Jul 20 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Scott McFarland, to Aug 10. Elevated: Contemporary Art In The AGO Tower, to Oct 12. Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF PEEL Photography In The Time Of Digital Disenchantment, to Jul 6. David Somers And PAMA’s Works On Paper Collection, to Aug 31. $4.50, stu/srs $3.50. 9 Wellington E (Brampton). 905-451-4931. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Camilla Singh, to Jun 16, artist’s talk 2 pm Jun 8. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. PBLACKWOOD GALLERY Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts And Traces Illuminated In The Archives, to Jul 27, ARTbus tour noon5 pm Jun 8 (see Oakville Galleries). 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga. 905-8283789. DESIGN EXCHANGE Connect Competition: Ontario secondary students, to Jun 8. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. PGARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, to Sep 14, talk 6:30-8 pm Jun 10 ($15). $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-5868080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Visiting Curator French delegation talk, 6:30-9 pm Jun 9 (Hart House Music Room). Rebecca Belmore, to Aug 9, ARTbus tour noon-5 pm Jun 8 (see Oakville Galleries). 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION LTerence Koh, 9:15-10 pm Jun 6-13 (free;

bus from Metro Centre, 200 Wellington W, 7 pm, $10). $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA L Performance: Derrick Ryan Claude Mitchell, Jun 10-14 performance 7:30-10:30 pm ($35). Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART The Matchbox Gallery: A Retrospective, to Oct 1. $5, stu/srs $3. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571. OAKVILLE GALLERIES You’ve Really Got A Hold On Me, Jun 8-Aug 30, reception Centennial 2:30-3:30 pm, Gairloch 3:30-5 pm Jun 8 (ARTbus tour, noon-5 pm, $10, reserve artbus@oakvillegalleries.com by Jun 6). Gairloch (1306 Lakeshore E), Centennial (120 Navy) (Oakville). 905-844-4402. THE POWER PLANT Power Ball: Old/New World, 7 pm Jun 5 ($165-$300). 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Etsy Craft Party, 5-8 pm Jun 6 (free). Ying Gao; Telling Stories, to Sep 1. The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles And Preservation, Jun 11-Sep 21. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. U OF T ART CENTRE Through The Body: LensBased Works By Contemporary Chinese Women Artists; Archiving Public Sex, to Jun 28. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. VARLEY ART GALLERY The Story Of Canadian Art: As Told By The Hart House Art Collection, to Sep 1. $5, stu/srs $4. 216 Main (Unionville). 905-477-9511. 3

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The title of the bestselling freakonomists’ third book says it all. This one teaches you not just how to think outside the box, but how to think beyond geometry. Basically, the rules are: don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know”; reconnect with the curiosity, perspective and honesty of your inner child; and, despite all popular thought to the contrary, quitting is a good idea. These freaks use a hot-dog-eating champion, the doctor who swallowed a petri dish full of bacteria to determine the cause of ulcers, and how legalizing abortion in the U.S. correlates with a drop in crime rates to illustrate how changing your linear thought process can lead to amazing results. If all this sounds unorthodox, that’s the point. When you follow their line of reasoning, the genius and hilarity is in their adherence to Occam’s razor, the principle that the simplest answer is

often the right one. In one of their more surprising examples, the authors demonstrate that people are more generous when a charity asks for one solitary donation to prevent further solicitations. In fine freak form, the results are counterintuitive: people donated more often and asked for more updates from the organization when given this option. Before the book ends with what seems the best advice anyone can give, the authors assess why educated people deny the serious impacts of climate change and how the fear of

Elizabeth Renzetti has stepped out of her usual role as Globe and Mail columnist to test her skills writing fiction. In her debut novel, Based On A True Story ($19.95, Anansi), Augusta Price, an actor just out of rehab, writes a tell-all memoir that doesn’t exactly tell all. Fearing exposure by an ex-lover who’s written his own book, she enjoins an insecure tabloid journalist to find him. It’s not exactly the deepest piece of literature – something the former Globe books editor knows full well – but it’s fun. Renzetti joins a stellar list of readers – Miriam Toews, Heather O’Neill and Lisa Gabriele – at the Reference Library Wednesday (June 11). SUSAN G. COLE See Readings, this page.

Habits Gastropub, 928 College. 416-533-7272. SISTER WRITES Creative writing program magazine celebration and launch. 6:30 pm. Free. Bloor/Gladstone Library, 1101 Bloor W. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, June 5 5DEBRA ANDERSON Author talk and Q&A.

7 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. 416-393-7686. JEFFREY BROWN Signing copies of his new book, Kids Are Weird: And Other Observations From Parenthood. 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. KIM MORITSUGU Launching her book Oakdale Dinner Club. 6 pm. Free. Boots and Bourbon Saloon, 725 Queen E. dundurn.com.

THE POWER OF POETRY: OUT OF THE IVORY TOWER, INTO EVERYDAY LIFE Discussion with

poets Elizabeth Carson and Ellen S Jaffe. 2 pm. Free. Queen/Saulter Library, 765 Queen E. torontopubliclibrary.ca. 5QUEER CONFESSIONS LGBTQ memoir reading with Karen Hines, Barbara Erochina, Kim Chee Lee, Eugene Stasiuk and others. 8 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. queerconfessions.com. DAVID SEDARIS Signing copies of his book Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls. 7 pm. Free. Indigo B:9.833” Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

LIZZIE VIOLET/DAN THOMPSON/VANESSA T:9.833” MCGOWAN Reading. 9 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). S:9.833”

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failure led to the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Talk about a cautionary tale. While this short expository book doesn’t offer the same antithetical comparisons as their earlier work, it isn’t without clever chapters like What Do King Solomon And David Lee Roth Have In Common? Think Like A Freak is like a book of advice that makes you feel you know something no one else does.

Friday, June 6 SHARON SALZBERG Reading from her book

Meditation At Work. 7 pm. $20 (includes copy of book). Breathe Yoga Studio, 2968 Dundas W. Pre-register at breatheyogastudio.com.

Saturday, June 7 RA DICKEY The Blue Jays pitcher signs copies of his new book, Knuckleball Ned. 6 pm. Free. Indigo Eaton Centre, Yonge and Dundas. chapters.indigo.ca. TRAVIS JEPPESEN The novelist/art critic gives a marathon reading performance from his book The Suiciders. 7:30 pm. Free. O’Born Contemporary, 131 Ossington. 416-4139555. ARNO KOPECKY Talking about his book The Oil Man & The Sea: Canada’s Pipeline Debates. 7 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. facebook.com/ events/1379975415625068. MIKE MARTIN Signing copies of his novel Beneath The Surface. Noon-4 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca.

Sunday, June 8 LTHOMAS ENGER/JAKOB MELANDER/DAN T SEHLBERG/HERMAN KOCH Readings by the Scandinavian authors. 4 pm. Free (RSVP required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca/appelsalon.

Tuesday, June 10 SHARON BALTMAN Launching her memoir Escape From The Bedside. 2 pm. Free. Wychwood Library, 1431 Bathurst. 416-393-7683. PETER O’BRIEN Discussing his book Cleopatra At The Breakfast Table with his daughter, Sioban. 7 pm. Free. Another Story Bookshop, 315 Roncesvalles. 416-462-1104. RAY ROBERTSON Reading from I Was There The Night He Died. 2 pm. Free. Taylor Memorial Library, 1440 Kingston. 416-396-8939.

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be – certainly, visually we’re incredibly literate,” he says over the phone Gray, written by Gray and Richard from L.A. Menello, with Marion Cotillard, Joaquin “But in narrative terms I’m a little Phoenix, Jeremy Renner and Dagmara bit less optimistic about our advanceDominczyk. An Entertainment One rement. In fact, I find that audiences lease. 120 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens have pretty much turned away from Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see the moral ambiguities of the late Movies, page 80. 1960s and the early 1970s – returned to big villains and lovely heroines. I James Gray has had a rough time getthink we’ve taken a step backwards.” ting his movies seen. His In The Immigrant, he’s new film, The Immitrying to turn regresgrant, opens in Tosion into a strength. ronto more than a It’s a throwback to year after its prethe silent era, to miere at the 2013 the immediate Cannes Film Fesintensity of D.W. tival. Five years Griffith’s Broken ago, the same Blossoms and thing happened Carl Dreyer’s The director with his last Passion Of Joan interview movie, Two Of Arc, morality Lovers. plays about This seems insane, suffering and sacribecause Gray makes infice. timate dramas with A-list “Certainly that’s what I talent. The Immigrant stars Oscar thought about when I wrote [The Imwinner Marion Cotillard as a Polish migrant] for Marion,” Gray says. “But woman who arrives at Ellis Island I can’t say that I thought of them with her tubercular sister in 1921 and much consciously during the maksoon finds herself caught between a ing of the film. I tried to be as perviolent hustler (Gray regular Joaquin sonal as I could in approaching the Phoenix) and a charming magician material. Having said that, we cer(Jeremy Renner). It’s the sort of movie tainly also thought about a silent that rewards a deep reading, much film approach in a more general like all of Gray’s films. He’s just hopsense, which is to say allowing the ing people realize that. faces of the actors to do a lot of the “In some respects we are much talking for us.” more sophisticated than we used to The result is an intelligent, absorb-

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THE IMMIGRANT (James Gray) Rating: NNNN James Gray’s The Immigrant feels like a conscious attempt to do for the pre-Code morality picture what Todd Haynes’s Far From Heaven did for the Douglas Sirk melodrama. It revisits an earlier sub-genre with a modern intelligence, unpacking the images and plots to reveal its underlying social and dramatic elements. The Immigrant is set in the winter of 1921, as Polish refugee Ewa (Marion Cotillard) arrives at Ellis Island and is separated from her ailing sister. Ewa is taken in by a violent hustler (Joaquin Phoenix) who exploits her; a chance meeting with a charming stage magician (Jeremy Renner) offers her a glimmer of hope. Gray strikes a measured, almost ascetic tone, letting Darius Khondji’s meticulous camera set the scene, and the actors play it out perfectly. Cotillard conveys complex emotional shifts in the flicker of an eyelid, and Phoenix and Renner invest their stock characters with ambiguity and humanity. There’s much more here than a simple tale of NW good and evil.

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ing drama that has nevertheless proven very difficult to get into theatres. When I ask Gray why, he says there aren’t any superheroes in it. “It’s a very easy thing to understand once you view it this way,” he says. “My films don’t lose people money; in fact, they’ve been quite good about making people money. But the problem is that they make people $5 or $6 million. And if you’re gonna just make people $5 million, $6 million repeatedly, that sounds very nice to you and me but why would [a studio] spend $12 million to make $5 million when they could spend $200 million to make a billion?” It’s a depressingly convincing argument; even the most disappointing mega-movies tend to make back their costs in the end. So where does that leave a filmmaker like Gray? “Well, commerce wins in the short term,” he says, “but I’m not sure it wins in the long term. I mean, I don’t know if you know what the top-grossing movie in 1974 was. I would bet it was The Towering Inferno; it certainly wasn’t Chinatown. “So you have to forget that stuff and just forge on ahead and hope the film does okay – if people like it, that’s great – and hope that time treats it well. It may not, you know? You don’t know, and you just do the best you can.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

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Ti West is known for slow-burning, character-based indie horror films like The House Of The Devil and The Innkeepers, but there’s nothing supernatural about the chills in his latest film, which follows a trio of guys from Vice to an out-of-country commune where one of their sisters is living. They plan on documenting the trip videotravelogue-style. After flying and being helicoptered to the compound (Georgia convincingly made to look tropical), they’re held back by machine-gun-toting security guards: first red flag. Once inside, though, everything seems fine. The sister (Amy Seimetz) appears happy, strangers praise their leader, and they’re even granted an interview with the man – who’s called simply “Father” – that night. This public chat between on-camera guy Sam (AJ Bowen) and the messianic, Jim Jonesesque figure (Gene Jones) is the film’s centrepiece, and absolutely riveting, as Father twists the questions around to play to his followers. Look for a sly critique of America’s wars and the plight of its inner cities. The chaos that follows, effectively caught on hand-held shakycam, is full of tension and high-stakes situations. And while there aren’t many surprises, the terror cuts deeper because the premise – as history has proven – is all GLENN SUMI too real.

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Seeing red BEING GINGER (Scott P. Harris). 69 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6) at the Kingsway; also Tuesday (June 10) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. For times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNN

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Mia’s making Tracks Actor talks about deserts, camels and dream directors By SUSAN G. COLE TRACKS directed by John Curran, written by Marion Nelson from the book by Robyn Davidson, with Mia Wasikowska and Adam Driver. 112 minutes. A Mongrel release. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

Mia Wasikowska’s Tracks shoot should have been one of the most gruelling she’s ever experienced. To play Robyn Davidson, the Australian adventurer who spent a year crossing the desert, she spent months enduring blistering heat and getting up close and personal with a quartet of camels. But comfort wasn’t an issue. “Credit makeup and wardrobe for making sure I never got sunburnt,” she says in her charming Aussie accent during the film’s TIFF premiere. “They kept me covered.” Good thing she was wearing loosely draped clothing, too. “It would have been more painful if I had to wear period dresses and keep clean. This way, I could just walk into makeup and they’d dump dirt on me and kick me outside.” The camels, she says, were a gas. “They’re the most obliging film animals, which is a shame because they’re so seldom needed,” she deadpans. “I spent three days in the desert learning to work with them. I was able to get Robyn’s perspective on working with the camels. Cameliers” – yes, that’s a word – “sometimes have an aggressive approach, but she was quite sensitive.”

It’s not exactly common practice for a woman to head into the torrid wilds alone, but Wasikowska could relate to the material, especially the camels and her character’s struggle with Rick, the photographer who keeps interrupting Robyn’s journey and the isolation she craves. His employer, National Geographic, was a key funder for her trek. “It’s a constant struggle in so many fields that the thing that enables you to do something ends up taking away from the reason why you’re doing it,” she says. “That’s a struggle for people in the arts. It’s expensive to make films, and people will invest in them if they can get something from them. So there’s give and take, and it’s hard to get the freedom to do what you want to do.” Compared with the days before she broke out in the TV series In Treatment and in the pic The Kids Are All Right, she herself is finding more freedom when it comes to choosing work. “When you’re an actor you’re very much a warm prop. When you start young you’re so thrilled to be there you’d do anything, but as you get older you have to learn how to say no.” So will she say no to an Alice In Wonderland sequel? “I’m contractually obligated, but it’s hard to say. Everything changes every three days,” she says carefully. Then she jokes, “I’ll read the script and then decide if I want to get preg-

nant or not.” If she had her choice, she’d work with Werner Herzog, Jane Campion, Wim Wenders or one of our own homegrown talents. “I’d love to collaborate with Sarah Polley. She’s amazing.” I’m sure Polley doesn’t mind her name being said in the same breath as those three. 3 susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

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REVIEW TRACKS (John Curran) Rating: NNN Mia Wasikowska plays real-life adventurer Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 walked 2,750 kilometres through the Australian desert and scrub with only three camels and her dog by her side. The actor is riveting as the anti-social traveller – a good thing, given that she’s in every frame. And as her intrepid photographer, who interrupts her trek several times during her journey, Adam Driver (Girls) is charming. But the script stays almost too true to reality and lacks conflict and tension until very near the end. Fortunately, you can just sit back and groove on the images. The film is gorgeous, thanks to cinematographer Mandy Walker’s B:9.833” expert eye. She’s right up there with WasikowT:9.833” SGC ska as the star of this film. S:9.833”

It’s not easy being red. Director Scott P. Harris grew up teased and feeling unloved because of his freckled, pale skin and carrot-coloured hair. And now, going to film school in Edinburgh, he’s appalled at the dating bias against gingers. So as a class project he decided to make a documentary asking random people – particularly women he finds attractive – why they don’t like his kind. It starts off like some icky, selfindulgent vanity project. But Harris, chatting with his unseen camerawoman, has an appealing, unpretentious presence, and he seems up for anything – including asking out a woman who says she likes redheads because of Harry Potter’s pal Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Damian Lewis from Homeland. The film gathers emotional weight when Harris opens up about being bullied, which left him eating lunch alone in the hallway and even being teased by a teacher. A bit of research opens up fascinating vistas for him and us: a website devoted to dating gingers, and a huge convention in Amsterdam for redheads and their admirers. Harris uses cute animation for a few sequences but doesn’t dig too deeply into the societal reasons for the prejudice or even offer a list of famous redheads. Those things could have provided a bit more context and increased the running time. Harris hosts Q&As Friday and Saturday (June 6 and 7) at the Kingsway and Tuesday (June 10) at the Bloor, which is also Ginger Appreciation Day. (RedGLENN SUMI heads get in free.)

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Atlas). 80 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNNN

With both Father’s Day and jazz festival season just around the corner, the timing couldn’t be better for Brothers Hypnotic, a fascinating look at a unique musical and cultural legacy. The jazz, funk, soul and (a touch of) hip-hop outfit Hypnotic Brass Ensemble consists of eight real-life brothers, all sons (from three different moms) of the legendary jazz trumpeter and African rights activist Phil Cohran. When the film begins, director Reuben Atlas finds the Chicago-born kids trying to make it in the Big Apple, playing on street corners, hawking CDs and talking about how they don’t want to sell out to record companies. That suspicion of the Man comes from growing up with their dad, who played with the greats but was eventually shut out of the biz. Will the sons follow their father’s example or adapt not only to new kinds of music but new ways of marketing themselves? There’s a ton to explore: the black power movement of the 60s and 70s, non-traditional families (the boys and their other siblings grew up with two moms and their dad) and the archetypal struggle to forge one’s independence. Atlas expertly interweaves archival footage, present-day interviews and clips of jams with Mos Def and Prince. And there’s unexpected emotional resonance near the end when the boys ask their dad to collaborate on a track called, appropriately enough, Black GLENN SUMI Boy.

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Favreau, starring Favreau, Emjay Anthony, John Leguizamo and Sofia Vergara. A VVS Films release. 115 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

First things first: yes, Jon Favreau knows Chef is a metaphor for his own career. The actor-turned-filmmaker – who broke out in 1996 when he wrote and starred in Swingers, then shaped the Marvel cinematic universe as the director of Iron Man and its first sequel, and oversaw Cowboys & Aliens as that film spiralled into disaster – made a conscious decision to back away from blockbusters and return to his indie roots with his new picture. Chef, a modest dramedy about a celebrity restaurateur who selfdestructs on social media and has to reinvent himself behind the wheel of a food truck, was conceived as a project to get Favreau back to basics. Not that he was exactly starting from the bottom this time. “Yeah, I had a lot more available to me now, financially and talent-wise, than I had back in the Swingers days,” he says. “The question was, did I still have the chops and the voice? That was a big unknown. So a big part of what was satisfying about this process is that there’s a continuation from my earlier work.” In contrast to the over-cluttered business of Iron Man 2 and Cowboys & Aliens, Chef is content to just let its characters interact with one another

for long stretches of time without advancing the plot. “That’s something I would not be permitted to do on a big studio film. There’s no patience for it. “With good chefs, so much of it is in the layering and the preparation, and how fastidious every step of the process is. And as a filmmaker, you’re building ingredients as well, trusting that it’ll ultimately satisfy the consumer.” Working on a larger scale, says Favreau, corners get cut and those things are seen to be not worth the time. “You’re fighting and trying to justify things that you can’t explain why you want them in. That’s why in a film like this, scaling back – so I had complete control over where I shot, what I shot, what I wrote, who I cast, how I edited – was the most impor≠tant aspect.” Favreau’s particularly happy about how things worked out with his leading man. “It’s the first time I really feel like I got a great performance out of myself, you know?” he says before immediately backtracking. “‘Great’ might be overstating it,” he laughs, “but it’s a level of performance I would have given in somebody else’s film. I’ve tended to be a better actor when I wasn’t worried about making the movie, but here I actually was able to have my moments where I could really go for it. And that was fun.” 3

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ñ(Jon Favreau) Rating: NNNN Jon Favreau’s Chef hangs its drama on a social-media premise that’s a little on the cutesy side. The writer/director plays a celebrity chef whose Twitter fight with a restaurant critic (Oliver Platt) ends up torching his career, forcing him to start over in a food truck with his son (Emjay Anthony) and best pal (John Leguizamo). It’s 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but Favreau is so intent on delivering a pleasurable experience that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and the last thing you’d want to do is cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies. Bonus points for the exquisite food-prep sequences, the most convincing I’ve seen NW in years. Even vegans are likely to leave the theatre craving a Cuban sandwich.

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Liman). 113 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNNN

Animal farm Writer/director discovers life in furry costumes isn’t all warm and fuzzy By NORMAN WILNER THE ANIMAL PROJECT written and

directed by Ingrid Veninger, with Aaron Poole, Joey Klein, Jacob Switzer and Hannah Cheesman. A Mongrel Media release. 90 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80.

When Toronto filmmaker Ingrid Veninger wanted a change of pace from her intensely personal, DIYstyle movies, she altered her entire approach. Her new film would be scripted and cast with professional actors. And maybe it would be a little weird. The result is The Animal Project, which stars The Conspiracy’s Aaron Poole as an acting teacher who challenges his students to wander around Toronto in oversized animal costumes. “I don’t think they knew what they were getting into,” Veninger says, fresh from taking the movie to the Cannes film market. Everyone thinks, ‘Oh, I’m in a mascot suit, it’s gonna be fun! I’m gonna be lovable!’ But the world’s reaction to a mascot is completely unpredictable, and you see the bright and dark side. These actors were put through the wringer when they were in these suits. They were surprised, and they were transformed in completely unexpected ways.” Veninger cites the e x p e r ie nc e of co-star Emmanuel Kabongo, who wore the owl suit and sought hugs on a rainy night. “One minute he’s

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being hugged, the next minute he’s being completely rejected,” she says. “He is absolutely vulnerable in the suit. He’s happy and euphoric and in love with the world one minute, sobbing in his owl head the next minute. And people just think he’s this big rag doll, so they’re punching him in the head, pulling his tail, humping him.…” Yeah, about that. I worked at Canada’s Wonderland when I was a teenager, and saw people in Hanna-Barbera suits repeatedly attacked by swarms of children. Veninger assures me that she and her crew kept an eye out for potential threats. “We were never very far from the actors,” she says. “There’s always someone with them from their starting positions to their ending positions.” Which isn’t to say there weren’t occasional deviations from the plan. “Joey Klein, in the beaver suit – he was wild,” Veninger admits. “I was always very paranoid about crossing the street and not doing anything crazy.” Now The Animal Project is ready to go out to the world. Thanks to a same-day release on iTunes Canada and a deal with Vimeo VOD for the rest of the globe, Veninger’s movie will be available

literally everywhere as of Friday. “I’m really excited that we get to do this multi-platform thing,” she says. “Everywhere in the world with an internet connection can see The Animal Project as of June 6. I love that a small, independent film can actually have that kind of accessibility. That’s been the problem: we make our films, and then no one knows how to find them or where to see them.” Now Veninger can turn her full attention to coordinating the six scripts she’s developing in her pUNK Films Femmes Lab, to be delivered to Melissa Leo at the end of the month. “Don’t even,” she says, waving her hands. “I’m gonna have a panic attack.” 3

Yes, the title is bland to the point of meaninglessness. But that’s just about the only thing Edge Of Tomorrow gets wrong. Doug Liman’s return to giddy form after the awful Jumper and the perfunctory Fair Game is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens. Tom Cruise stars as a cowardly soldier who’s killed battling an ET invasion in France, only to find himself reliving the events leading up to his death over and over, often alongside a veteran of a previous battle (Emily Blunt) who’s oddly sympathetic to his plight.

Using Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s graphic novel All You Need Is Kill as a springboard, Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) and his screenwriters have devised an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly self-aware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. (I’ll need to see it again to figure out if there’s a second.) Cruise is solid, Blunt is great, Brendan Gleeson turns up as a pissy general, and Bill Paxton is basically Groundhog Day’s Ned Ryerson in military fatigues. Honestly, what else do you want from a summer movie? NORMAN WILNER

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The Animal Project feels like a transitional project for director Ingrid Veninger – and I mean that in a good way. The reigning queen of lo-fi Canadian cinema has upped her game without abandoning any of her characteristic whimsy. Her tale of an acting teacher (Aaron Poole) who dresses his students in animal costumes and sends them out into Toronto to jump around and hug people has a narrative structure with solid story beats rather than the gentle drift of Only, Modra and i am a good person/i am a bad person. It also further distinguishes itself with a more formal visual style than she’s attempted before. Veninger’s still doing what she does best: finding moving moments of emotional connection between awkward, confused people. It’s just that this time one of them’s wearing a NW squirrel suit.

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Head case SUPERMENSCH: THE LEGEND OF SHEP GORDON (Mike Myers). 85 minutes. Opens Friday (June 6). For venues and times, see Movies, page 80. Rating: NNN

In Supermench: The Legend Of Shep Gordon, we see a photo of the titular talent manager wearing a T-shirt reading No Head No Backstage Pass. That’s where Mike Myers comes in, all dicksucking reverence as he directs this frequently entertaining but one-note profile of one of Hollywood’s “nicest” behind-the-scenes players. Myers has a personal reason for his bias while covering his subject’s rise, influence and generosity: Gordon offered up his home in Maui to the comedian for two months during a

time of need. A parade of familiar faces echoes the warm sentiments, including Sylvester Stallone, Michael Douglas, Alice Cooper and Emeril Lagasse. If Gordon has flaws (womanizer being the most evident), they’re shrugged off as endearing, while darker chapters are hinted at before being skipped over entirely, leaving massive gaps in the narrative. The doc is shapeless as a consequence, but there are terrific recollections of drug-fuelled parties with Jimi Hendrix, publicity stunts with Cooper and joint custody of a cat with Cary Grant. These are the kinds of Hollywood tales you could only get from a guy as connected as Gordon, which I guess makes getting on your knees to hear them kind of worth it. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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visual flourishes and accelerated editing that seem mandatory when translating Welsh’s prose. The sick hijinks – including racism, homophobia and statutory rape – are periodically hysterical, if not morally nauseating, but also numbing, like the movie is beating on a dick that’s already cum five times. 98 min. NNN (RS) Carlton Cinema

becomes hectoring and exhausting. The fact that America’s heavily sugared processed-food 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) Canada Square, Varsity

ñFinding Vivian Maier

(John aloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through M 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

Filth (Jon S. Baird) stars James McAvoy,

who shines (or perhaps rots) as an exceptionally bad lieutenant who can’t be bothered to solve a murder because he’s having too much fun. With glazed, wild eyes and a sinister grin, McAvoy holds little back, daring us not to look away from his coked-out, depraved and deranged Scottish detective. He’s the magnetic centre in this latest adaptation of an Irvine Welsh novel, which arrives almost two decades after Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting. If this film feels dated, it’s because director Baird stays reverent to Boyle’s style, with all the

unhinged. Maier may still be an enigma, but the film does a remarkable job of developing those riddles into a fascinating picture. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

ñThe German Doctor

(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)

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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

t eases 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 God zilla 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) continued on page 82 œ

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THE GRAND SEDUCTION (Don McKellar) 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, with the locals (including Brendon Gleeson and Gordon THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Pinsent) scheming to trick a big-city docAnderson) finds director/co-writer tor (Taylor Kitsch) into moving there in Anderson building a magnificent playorder to secure a factory house, populating it that’ll stave off town’s with actors he knows financial ruin. Directing and trusts – among EXPANDED REVIEWS a script by Michael them Ralph Fiennes, nowtoronto.com Dowse and Seducing Adrien Brody, Bill Murscreenwriter Ken Scott, ray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff McKellar crafts a gentle, pleasant farce Goldblum and Edward Norton – and runthat takes its time setting up stakes and ning riot. And when moments of genuine defining the characters, giving the cast emotion pierce that perfectly constructed (which also includes actual Maritimers Liartifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. 100 ane Balaban, Mary Walsh and Cathy Jones) min. NNNN (NW)

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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. 115 min. NNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, 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) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24 HOTEL CONGRESS (Nadia Litz, Michael

Kandinsky) takes place entirely within the confines of a Tuscon hotel, where a woman (co-director Litz, who also wrote the screenplay) and a man (Philip Riccio) spend their time talking around a profound truth. Produced as part of Ingrid Veninger’s $1K challenge, the film is lean to the point of emaciation, but Litz and co-director 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 two people are – and, more importantly, who they might be to each other – while creating a deep sense of melancholy through their isolation. Though not for everybody, it’s a work of considerable intelligence and great promise. 72 min. NNN (NW) TIFF Bell Lightbox

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(Pawel Pawlikowski) follows novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed. Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance – and it’s drop-dead gorgeous. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (Kenneth Branagh) is a proudly square espionage thriller that satisfies on that basic spymovie level, the one where people race through city squares shouting technobabble into jacket mics while a clock ticks down to an unspecified disaster. Chris Pine looks suitably panicked as a Tom Clancy hero. Some subtitles. 105 min. NNN (NW) Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine LE WEEK-END (Roger Michell) is being mar-

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keted as a frothy middle-aged romance, but it’s really a drama about an English couple (Jim Broadbent, Lindsay Duncan) unhappily marking their 30th anniversary in Paris. It feels like a stage play that’s been awkwardly translated to the screen and certainly can’t compete with last year’s Before Midnight. 93 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

ñLOCKE

(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

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In this offshoot of Taylor Kitsch, Liane Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, Angelina Balaban, Gordon Jolie plays the Pinsent and once happy sprite Brendan Gleeson who turns evil and star in this smart vengeful after comedy about a she’s betrayed. Newfoundland The ﬁlm moves at harbour community’s attempt a good clip, looks great, and Angie’s to keep a big-city fabulous. doctor there.

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 diminish what Knight and Hardy have achieved. This is a remarkable cinematic experiment. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

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

ñTHE LUNCHBOX

(Ritesh Batra) is built around the fanciful conceit of a mistaken lunch delivery that paves the way for two strangers to exchange handwritten letters via their meals. Ila (Nimrat Kaur) prepares home-cooked lunches for her neglectful husband, which are sent through Mumbai’s dabbawalla delivery 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

ñMALEFICENT

(Robert Stromberg) stars Angelina Jolie as 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 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 medita-

A bunch of Swedish preteens in the early 80s want to launch their punk music careers but get opposition from their parents and teachers in this sly, fun and irresistible pic.

tion on revenge and regret. Iconic star Jolie’s pointy-eared Maleficent, all sneers and hisses as she hatches her plan, is not a character children will be drawn to. Never mind. This movie is spectacular to look at – 3D’s not wasted here, and you can tell that first-time director 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, but definitely for grown-ups. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA BOHEME ENCORE is a high-def broadcast of Puccini’s

opera in the Met’s popular Franco Zeffirelli staging, with singers Vittorio Grigolo, Kristine Opolais and Susanna Phillips. 195 min. Jun 7, noon, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge; Jun 9, 6:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

ñMILLION DOLLAR ARM

(Craig Gillespie) is what happens when you put a Disney summer picture in the hands of genuinely talented craftspeople: it manages to tick every box in the sports-movie playbook while still feeling halfway intelligent and even surprising. Jon Hamm is effortlessly winning as an L.A. sports agent who hits on a scheme to recruit baseball talent from India; Life Of Pi’s Suraj Sharma and Slumdog Millionaire’s Madhur Mittal are likeable and vulnerable as the young men he brings back to train as pitchers, and Lake Bell spikes her scenes as Hamm’s love interest with charm and unpredictable timing. But the real talent is behind the camera: screenwriter Tom McCarthy (Win Win) and director Gillespie (Lars And The Real Girl) go above and beyond the requirements of their true-life fantasy to deliver a proper movie experience. Some subtitles. 124 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Seth MacFarlane) feels like it ought to be a charming retro western, thanks to Michael Barrett’s suitably sweeping cinematography and Joel McNeely’s rousing score, but in the hands of director/star/

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producer/co-writer MacFarlane it’s nothing more than a half-assed goof. Too bad, because the film has some potentially terrific things rattling around inside it – subtle tweaks to the primitive morality of the Hollywood western, a charming Charlize Theron performance, fun work by Giovanni Ribisi and Sarah Silverman and a commentary on the unenlightened, self-justifying cruelty underlying the concept of manifest destiny. And MacFarlane himself has decent comic timing. But the whole thing is so smug, self-satisfied and bloated – running two full hours when it has maybe half an hour of story – that it just proves wearying, especially once MacFarlane gets really perverse, casting Ewan McGregor and Ryan Reynolds in two-shot cameos and giving them absolutely nothing funny to do. 116 min. NN (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

The Monuments Men (George

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

ñNeighbors

(Nicholas Stoller) stars Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne as new parents enmeshed in a prank war with the frat house that’s moved in next door. As he did in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek, director Stoller manages to interlace the escalating insanity with surprising emotional intelligence: Neighbors isn’t just about stolen airbags and über-keggers; it’s about the leads’ desperation to still identify as young and cool to Zac Efron’s alpha bro and his followers. Extra points for the amazing supporting cast, which includes such comedy MVPs as Ike Barinholtz, Carla Gallo, Hannibal Buress, Jason Mantzoukas and Lisa Kudrow. You never know where the next laugh will come from. 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, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

lives are like now. The results aren’t surprising, and Block’s narration is dull, but he made a good decision to follow two pairs who are about to be married, which adds momentum and drama to a doc that occasionally feels episodic. 93 min. NNN (GS) Kingsway Theatre

ñOnly Lovers Left Alive

(Jim Jarmusch) is a tale of a vampire couple meeting up in decaying Detroit that has the texture and vibe of every Velvet Underground song ever recorded – but of course that’s also its central metaphor. Adam (Tom Hiddleston) lives like a recluse in a shabby manse, making music he swears he’ll never release; Eve (Tilda Swinton) is his fashion-plate partner, just back from Tangiers. They pick up deliveries of “the good stuff” and swan around in elegant decadence until Eve’s wild-child sister (Mia Wasikowska) gets in from L.A. and fucks up their perfect ennui. It doesn’t explode the vampire genre – I’m not even sure it takes place within the genre. But it’s a deeply pleasurable film, with bonedry wit and languid pacing that recall the Jarmusch of Mystery Train and Dead Man. The entire cast is having a ball, and Adam’s music is pretty good, too. 123 min. NNNN (NW) 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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ñPhilomena

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

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tells the story of British Army officer Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), who was tortured by

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the Japanese during WWII. The film begins years later, when he meets the nurse (Nicole Kidman) who will become his wife and oversee his recovery. The fumblingly structured narrative alternates between flashbacks and Eric’s present-tense journey east to confront and befriend his chief torturer, a fascinating development barely explored. A stiflingly solemn, disappointing dramatization of an extraordinary story. 108 min. NN (José Teodoro) Canada Square

busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

Ride Along (Tim Story) is a buddy cop flick in which Ice Cube pays homage to himself by citing It Was a Good Day, his classic track about going 24 hours without police harassment. Now Cube plays a detective with an iron fist who shakes down ex-cons for information and threatens frame-ups. This rich opportunity to say something meaningful is instead played for cheap laughs. 100 min. NN (RS) Rainbow Woodbine

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ñTom at the Farm

(Xavier Dolan) feels like a horror movie zapped into our universe from some other, more compassionate dimension. Tom (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

Rio 2 (Carlos Saldanha) looks like a tropical 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

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(Jaume Collet-Serra) is an inventive, intense picture with surprisingly fleshed-out characters, a truly subversive message about American security theatre and a refreshing sense of play. Yeah, it’s a little easy to figure out who the villain killing passengers on air marshal Liam Neeson’s plane is, but so what? Go ahead, strap yourself in. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Rainbow Woodbine

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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 energies. Subtitled. 103 min. NNNN (John Semley) TIFF Bell Lightbox

Tracks (John Curran) 112 min. See interview and review, page 76. NNN (SGC) Opens Jun 6 at Varsity

ñUnder the Skin

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

man 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) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Varsity

ñWe Are the Best!

(Lukas Moodysson) is an adaptation of a graphic novel by the director’s wife, Coco Moodysson. Swedish preteens Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin) are ready to launch their punk music careers. All they need to do is learn how to play their instruments and convert schoolmate Hedvig (Liv LeMoyne), a nerdy classical guitar player, from Christian to punk. Of course, no one at school appreciates their efforts, and neither does Hedvig’s mom, especially after the girls give their longtressed friend a very short haircut. The

films is 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. Director Moodysson has an unerring eye and ear for the early 80s – the adults, including some hippie parents, are as well rendered as the kids. It helps that he’s working with three charismatic young actors. Sly, fun and irresistible. Subtitled. 102 min. NNNN (SGC) TIFF Bell Lightbox

Web Junkie (Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam)

follows patients in the Daxing boot camp for internet addicts, who can often be good for a laugh. The treatment facility near Beijing looks like a military-run juvenile detention centre. The locked-up teens often break down in tears because they can’t get their hands on a keyboard to play World Of Warcraft. The documentary takes their gaming addiction very seriously, and you stifle your laughter when you see how very sad the situation has become. The film is astute enough to consider social conditions: the boys grew up as only children whose relationship with stern parents makes the web a drug to remedy loneliness. It falters when an underdeveloped rehab success story is ushered in at the end as a quick fix to numb the pain. Subtitled. 76 min. NNN (RS)

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(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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CHEF (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:20, 10:00 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 12:00 Fri-Wed 12:15 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 2:40 5:10 7:45 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 TRACKS Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45

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ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Thu 1:00, 7:00 BELLE (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:40 Fri-Sun, TueWed 12:20, 2:45, 5:10, 7:45, 10:55 Mon 12:20, 2:45, 10:55 BLENDED (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:20, 4:10, 5:20, 6:55, 8:00, 9:45, 10:45 Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 Mon 8:05, 10:45 TueWed 12:15, 2:25, 5:20, 8:05, 10:45 BONNIE AND CLYDE Sun 12:55 Mon 4:30 Tue 1:00, 4:00 Wed 7:00, 9:45 CABIN FEVER 3: PATIENT ZERO Thu 9:45 CHEF (14A) Fri, Tue 12:00, 3:15, 4:00, 6:05, 7:00, 9:05, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:00, 12:45, 3:15, 4:00, 6:05, 7:00, 9:05, 10:00 Mon, Wed 12:00, 3:15, 3:30, 6:05, 6:30, 9:05, 9:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Fri, Tue 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 11:00 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 THE FATAL ENCOUNTER Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:35 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) 12:10, 12:55, 1:40, 3:00, 3:45, 4:30, 5:50, 6:35, 7:20, 8:40, 9:25, 10:10 Mon only 12:10 12:55 1:40 3:00 3:45 4:30 6:00 6:35 7:20 8:40 9:45 10:10 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:00, 6:30, 9:30 Fri 12:15, 3:20 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:20 Mon 1:10, 4:15 Tue-Wed 3:20 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 8:05, 10:25, 11:00 Fri-Sat, Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:25, 10:25 Sun 6:15, 7:15, 9:25, 10:25 Mon 12:15, 3:20, 7:15, 10:25 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 4:20, 7:10, 9:40 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35 HOLIDAY Fri-Wed 2:55, 6:20, 9:55 JOURNEY TO THE WEST: CONQUERING THE DEMONS (PG) Thu 4:00 KOCHADAIIYAAN (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 THE LOVE PUNCH (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:45, 6:05, 8:35, 10:55 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu 7:40, 10:15 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 5:15, 9:15 Fri-Tue 2:30, 6:55, 10:00 Wed 6:55, 10:00 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 4:45, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:30 Fri, Tue 1:45, 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:25, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 1:45, 3:30, 4:45, 6:30, 7:25, 9:30, 10:30 Mon 1:45, 2:55, 4:45, 6:00, 7:25, 9:00, 10:30 Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:25, 9:40, 10:30 MALEFICENT: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:45 3:20 5:55 8:30 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:55, 8:30, 11:00 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) 12:25, 3:55, 6:50, 10:05 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Thu 3:00, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Tue 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:30, 8:30 THE NIGHT BEFORE OUR STARS Thu 8:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 12:50, 3:25, 5:55, 8:25, 10:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:05, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 RIO 2 (G) Thu 12:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:00, 2:40, 5:05 SatSun 11:55, 2:20, 5:05 RIO 2 3D (G) Thu 2:25, 5:05 SAVING PRIVATE RYAN (14A) Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Sun, Tue 7:00 Mon 1:00, 7:00 Wed 2:00

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 8:00, 9:10 Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Mon, Wed 3:50, 7:00, 10:15

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

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:10 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 4:00 BELLE (PG) Fri 4:00, 6:20, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50 FED UP (G) Fri 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Sun 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:30 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 3:45, 6:20, 8:40 Sat 1:20, 3:45, 6:20, 8:40 Sun 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:10 MonWed 3:50, 6:20 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:20 Fri 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00 MAYBE THIS TIME Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sun 12:00, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:50 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:10 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 4:30, 7:00 THE RAILWAY MAN (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40 Fri 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10 RIO 2 (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30 UNDER THE SKIN Fri 4:10, 6:35, 9:00 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10 Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 YOUNG & BEAUTIFUL Thu 4:50, 7:20

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 Sat 7:00, 9:15 Sun 4:30, 7:00 Tue-Wed 7:00 PHILOMENA (PG) Thu 7:00

REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884 IDA (PG) 7:00 Fri, Sun 4:30 LE WEEK-END (14A) Sat 4:30

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

ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Thu 7:00 BLENDED (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:20, 9:30 BONNIE AND CLYDE Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 CHEF (14A) Fri, Tue 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 10:15 Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:35 Mon 1:25, 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 Wed 4:25, 7:05, 9:50 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:15, 10:05 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Fri 12:50, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Sat 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Mon 1:45, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:40 Mon, Wed 12:55, 3:55 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri, Tue 6:50, 9:50 Sat 6:40, 9:50 Sun 6:40, 9:40 Mon, Wed 6:55, 9:55 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:05 Fri 1:00, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:00 Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:25, 10:15 MILLION DOLLAR ARM (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:40 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55 Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 3:50, 7:20, 9:45 Mon 4:05, 7:35, 10:00 Tue 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:25 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:35, 10:00

THE NIGHT BEFORE OUR STARS Thu 8:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA BOHEME ENCORE Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:30 Sat 12:10 Mon, Wed 12:45 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Sun 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon, Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:45

Metro

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

BLENDED (PG) Thu 6:50 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 7:00, 9:40 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 4:10, 9:20 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:10, 6:50, 9:15 A MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (14A) Thu 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30

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

AI WEIWEI: THE FAKE CASE (PG) Thu 4:35 AL WEI WEI Fri-Wed 10:05 BEING GINGER (PG) Fri-Wed 7:00 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 1:30, 6:15 Fri-Wed 5:25 THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Wed 8:35 GOD’S NOT DEAD (PG) Thu 12:15 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 3:40, 7:10, 9:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:15, 3:10, 8:35 Sat-Sun 3:10, 8:35 IDA (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:45 Fri-Wed 1:30, 7:00 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu 3:00 Fri-Wed 2:15 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 11:45 Fri-Wed 12:30 112 WEDDINGS (PG) Thu 5:30 Fri-Wed 3:50 THE OTHER WOMAN Fri-Wed 5:00, 10:15

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 ALFRED UHRY’S DRIVING MISS DAISY Thu 7:00 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 3:15, 6:50, 10:10 Sun-Mon 5:10, 8:30 TueWed 5:50, 9:05 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri-Sat 12:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:50 Tue 2:30 BLENDED (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sat 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:10, 9:00 BONNIE AND CLYDE Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 CHEF (14A) Fri 1:50, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 1:00, 1:50, 4:00, 4:50, 7:00, 7:30, 10:15, 10:20 Sun 12:40, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:15 Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:30, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:10 Wed 3:35, 4:00, 6:20, 7:00, 9:20, 10:10 DR. SEUSS’ THE LORAX (G) Sat 11:00 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri 11:45, 2:20, 4:40, 5:10, 7:40, 8:00, 10:45, 10:50 Sat 11:30, 1:30, 2:20, 4:30, 5:10, 7:40, 8:00, 10:45, 10:50 Sun 1:30, 2:00, 4:30, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 4:50, 7:30, 7:40, 10:25, 10:30 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Fri 1:00, 3:15, 4:10, 7:00, 7:20, 10:15, 10:25 Sat 11:40, 12:30, 3:50, 4:10, 7:00, 7:20, 10:15, 10:25 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 12:50, 3:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00, 10:15 Mon 12:20, 3:10, 3:15, 6:50, 7:00, 10:10 Tue 12:50, 3:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00, 10:10 Wed 3:15, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00, 10:10 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 4:50, 8:00 Fri-Sat 12:50, 4:00 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:15 Mon 1:20, 4:10 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:55 SunWed 7:20, 10:15 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:20, 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 continued on page 86 œ

NOW JUNE 5-11 2014

movie times œcontinued from page 85

Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Fri 2:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 9:15, 9:40 Sat 11:50, 12:30, 2:10, 3:20, 4:40, 6:30, 7:10, 9:15, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 1:10, 3:20, 3:50, 6:30, 6:40, 9:10, 9:15 Mon 1:30, 3:40, 3:50, 6:30, 6:40, 9:10 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:40, 3:50, 6:30, 6:40, 9:10 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 2:20, 3:10, 4:50, 6:00, 7:30, 8:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 Sun 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:10, 3:05 Sun 2:10, 5:30 Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:30 Wed 12:45, 3:40 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 1:10, 2:10, 3:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:30, 6:45, 7:20, 7:50, 9:20, 9:40, 10:35 Fri 11:50, 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 6:15, 7:05, 8:10, 9:10, 10:00, 11:00 Sat 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:20, 6:15, 7:05, 8:10, 9:10, 10:00, 11:00 Sun 1:00, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:10, 9:30, 10:30 Mon 1:00, 4:10, 5:00, 7:50, 8:40, 9:45, 10:30 Tue 1:00, 2:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 8:40, 9:30, 10:30 Wed 1:00, 2:10, 4:10, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Neighbors (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:40, 6:05, 8:30, 11:00 Sun 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Mon 2:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Tue-Wed 12:35, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 Rio 2 (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40 Fri-Sat 1:15 Sun-Wed 12:30 The Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Encore Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 2:00, 3:10, 5:10, 6:10, 9:20 Fri 12:20, 3:30 Sat 3:30 Sun 12:10, 3:20 MonWed 12:25, 3:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 4:10, 4:20, 7:00, 7:10, 8:00, 10:15 Fri 1:20, 2:45, 4:30, 6:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 1:20, 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:45, 10:45 Sun 1:20, 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 9:45, 10:35 Mon 1:10, 2:45, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35 Tue-Wed 1:20, 2:45, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:35

Rainbow Woodbine (I)

Woodbine Centre, 500 Rexdale Blvd, 416-213-1998 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:40 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:15 Blended (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 6:40 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30 Godzilla (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25 Fri-Wed 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (PG) Sat 4:00 Maleficent (PG) 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 1:15 3:55 6:50 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:45 The Monuments Men (PG) Sat 6:00 Neighbors (18A) Thu 4:10, 7:05 Non-Stop (PG) Sat 2:00 Ride Along (14A) Sat 12:00 Rio 2 (G) 1:10 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:55, 3:55, 6:50, 9:35 Wed 3:55, 6:50, 9:35

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

Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Fri-Sun 1:30 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 4:30 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30 mat Godzilla (PG) 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:15 mat Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:30 The Grand Seduction (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:15 Maleficent (PG) Fri-Sun 1:15 Maleficent 3D (PG) 7:15, 9:45 Fri-Sun 4:00 mat A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:15, 7:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:45, 10:20 Neighbors (18A) Thu 7:45, 10:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:45 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) 7:00, 10:00

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

Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy Thu 7:00 Blended (PG) Thu 3:30, 3:40 Chef (14A) 3:40, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat Edge of Tomorrow: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:30 Fading Gigolo (14A) Thu 5:05, 7:35, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri 4:25, 7:30, 10:25 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:25 Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:25, 10:15 Godzilla (PG) 4:20 Sat-Sun 1:25 mat Godzilla 3D (PG) 7:20, 10:20 Fri 4:20

june 5-11 2014 NOW

The Grand Seduction (PG) 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat Maleficent (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00 Sat 11:30 Sun 2:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:15 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Neighbors (18A) Thu 4:00 Fri, Tue-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Sat 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Mon 3:30 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 The Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Encore Sat 12:00 Mon 6:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Sat-Sun 12:40 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 7:15, 9:50, 10:15 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:50

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Blended (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Bonnie and Clyde Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri 12:55, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 11:00, 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Godzilla (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:40 SunWed 1:30, 4:25 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Sat 7:30, 10:20 SunWed 7:20, 10:20 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 6:20, 9:00 Fri 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Sun-Tue 1:20, 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 Wed 3:55, 6:30, 9:10 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:25 SunWed 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 1:10, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 6:40, 7:30, 9:30, 10:10 Fri 1:20, 2:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 1:20, 2:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Sun-Wed 12:50, 1:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Neighbors (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sat 11:05, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sun-Tue 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Wed 4:20, 9:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00 FriSat, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10 Sun 4:10 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:10, 6:10, 7:00, 9:10, 10:00 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15 SatWed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 7:15, 9:40, 10:15

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:30 Fri, SunWed 12:45, 6:55 Sat 12:30, 6:45 Blended (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:05, 10:15 Sat 3:45, 10:05 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Godzilla (PG) 12:50, 3:50 Godzilla 3D (PG) 6:50, 9:50 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:00 4:45 7:40 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat 11:00 mat Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Fri, SunWed 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 3:55, 4:40, 6:50, 7:35, 9:40, 10:25 Fri 1:10, 2:05, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:10, 1:10, 2:05, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 SunWed 12:50, 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Neighbors (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:45, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Tue 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 8:10 FriSat 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Sun 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Mon, Wed 8:10 Tue 7:10, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri-Sun 12:40 Mon, Wed 5:05 Tue 4:05 Blended (PG) Thu 5:30, 8:05 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:05 Tue 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Sat 11:15, 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:55 Tue 4:15, 7:05, 10:10 Godzilla (PG) Thu 5:40, 7:30 Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50 Sun 1:30, 4:20 Mon, Wed 5:40 Tue 4:50 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 8:25 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:50, 10:35 Sun 7:15, 9:55 Maleficent (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:40 Fri-Sat 12:30, 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 Sun 12:30, 1:00, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:25 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:50, 8:15 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Sun 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Tue 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 5:05, 8:05 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:40, 6:35, 9:20 Mon, Wed 5:15, 8:05 Tue 4:15, 6:55, 9:40 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu, Mon,

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

GTA Regions

Coliseum Scarborough (CE)

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 7:05, 10:25 Fri 12:00, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Sat 11:50, 3:30, 6:40, 10:05 Sun 11:50, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Bonnie and Clyde Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Chef (14A) Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:35 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:35 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:55, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 3:55, 7:10, 10:00 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Fri-Tue 1:00 Wed 12:45 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 Edge of Tomorrow: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat 11:40, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sun 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri, Sun 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:40, 10:30 Mon-Tue 12:15, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:25, 9:35, 10:30 Wed 12:15, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:25, 9:35, 10:30 Godzilla (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:20, 6:20, 9:30 Fri, Sun 12:40 Sat 12:30 Mon-Wed 12:25 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 12:55, 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 6:30 Fri, Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30 Sat 12:50, 3:40, 6:30 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:35, 7:30 Wed 2:10, 4:35 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 Fri, Sun 12:05, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 9:30 Sat 11:30, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 10:05 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 12:40, 1:25, 3:45, 4:05, 7:00, 7:20, 9:55, 10:15 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:45, 5:30, 8:20, 10:20, 11:00 Sat 11:20, 2:45, 5:30, 8:20, 10:20, 11:00 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30, 10:15 Neighbors (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:55 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:45, 10:20 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 The Other Woman Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:35, 10:25 The Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Encore Sat 12:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 6:50, 9:50 Fri 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 Sat 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Sun 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:35, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 Sat 1:20, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:25

Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:55 FriWed 4:00, 7:15, 10:35 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 12:20 Fri-Wed 12:45 Blended (PG) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:10 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 11:25, 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Godzilla (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15 Fri-Wed 1:35 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Wed 4:35, 7:35, 10:40 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 10:05 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:55 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sat 11:20, 12:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Sun, Tue 12:15, 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Maybe This Time Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:45, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:25, 10:50 Neighbors (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:10, 3:20, 6:35, 9:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 12:40, 1:00, 3:50, 4:05, 7:30, 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:20

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:10, 10:25 Fri-Sun 4:15, 7:35, 10:55 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:05, 10:20 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Fri-Sun 1:00 Blended (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun 4:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 10:05 Bonnie and Clyde Sun 12:55 Wed 7:00 Chef (14A) Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:35, 10:35 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Fri-Sun 1:15 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 10:20 Fri-Sun 11:45, 2:30, 4:10, 5:15, 7:05, 8:00, 9:50, 10:50 Mon, Wed 4:10, 4:50, 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 Tue 4:10, 5:00, 7:00, 7:55, 9:50, 10:45 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sat 11:05, 12:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 Godzilla (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:55, 4:55 Mon, Wed 3:55 Tue 4:20 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:25 Fri-Sun 7:55, 10:55 Mon, Wed 6:55, 9:50 Tue 7:20, 10:15 The Grand Seduction (PG) Thu 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Holiday Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:40, 7:10, 10:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 9:00 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 Maleficent (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Tue 4:25, 6:55, 9:30 Wed 4:25, 6:55, 9:40 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:25, 8:00, 10:30 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:30 Fri-Sun 1:05, 6:50 Mon-Wed 7:05 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 2:15, 3:45, 4:40, 6:25, 7:25, 9:15, 10:15 Fri 12:00, 1:25, 2:45, 4:25, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sat 1:25, 2:45, 4:25, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 12:00, 2:45, 4:25, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Mon 4:00, 4:45, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Tue 4:00, 4:55, 6:50, 7:40, 9:40, 10:25 Wed 4:00, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 10:20 Neighbors (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Fri, Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Sat 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:45, 10:15 Tue 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 The Other Woman Thu 7:50, 10:30 Rio 2 (G) Thu 5:15 The Metropolitan Opera: La Boheme Encore Sat 12:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Sun 12:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:15, 5:35, 7:15, 8:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:35, 3:50, 4:40, 6:55, 7:40, 10:00, 10:45 Mon, Wed 3:45, 4:20, 6:45, 7:20, 9:45, 10:25 Tue 3:45, 4:25, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:35

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

Heropanti (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:30 Fri 4:00 Sun 1:30 Holiday Fri 3:00, 6:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30 Poovarasam Peepee Thu 7:00, 10:00 Un Samayal Arayil Fri, Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:15, 7:15, 10:30

Mississauga

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

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 47 to 84: Hun Main Kisnu Watan Kahunga (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 10:10 Fri 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 Sat 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:50 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Alfred Uhry’s Driving Miss Daisy Thu 7:00 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 4:05, 10:25 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri, MonWed 1:00, 4:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 1:00, 4:05 Blended (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sat 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Sun-Wed 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Chef (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:20, 6:55, 9:30 Edge of Tomorrow: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri 1:30, 3:20, 4:20, 6:10, 7:10, 9:15, 10:15 Sat 12:30, 1:30, 3:20, 4:20, 6:10, 7:10, 9:15, 10:15 Sun 12:30, 1:30, 3:20, 4:20, 6:10, 7:10, 9:00, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 3:20, 4:20, 6:10, 7:10, 9:00, 10:00 Godzilla (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:35 Fri-Wed 1:55, 4:40 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:40, 7:20, 9:25, 10:05 Fri-Sat 7:25, 10:25 Sun-Wed 7:25, 10:10 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:05, 2:00, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Fri 1:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 10:10 Sun 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:10, 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Fri-Sat 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:40 Sun-Tue 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Wed 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:15, 9:35 FriSat 7:15, 10:20 Sun-Wed 7:15, 10:05 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 1:30, 2:00, 4:15, 4:45, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 2:20, 4:30, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 10:05, 10:35 Sun-Tue 1:50, 2:20, 4:30, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 9:50, 10:20 Wed 1:50, 4:30, 5:00, 7:10, 7:40, 9:50, 10:20 Neighbors (18A) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 1:00, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:35 Sun 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05, 9:20 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 The Other Woman Thu 6:35, 9:10 Rio 2 (G) Thu 1:25, 4:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:25, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 1:35, 4:00, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 10:00 SunWed 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45

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

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 10:05 Fri-Sun 7:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:55 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PG) Thu 3:45 Fri-Sun 12:40, 4:00 Mon-Wed 3:35 Blended (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:10 Chef (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax (G) Sat 11:00 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Fri-Sun 12:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:25, 10:25 Edge of Tomorrow: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:35, 9:35 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Fri-Sun 12:20, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 4:20, 6:40, 7:20, 9:25, 10:20 Godzilla (PG) Thu 3:35 Fri, Sun 1:45, 4:50 Sat 11:15, 2:10, 5:05 Mon-Wed 4:10 Godzilla 3D (PG) Thu 4:25, 6:25, 7:15, 9:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 7:50, 10:55 Sat 8:00, 10:50 Mon-Wed 7:10, 10:05 The Grand Seduction (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Heaven Is for Real (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:00 Fri-Sun 8:05, 10:30 Mon-Wed 6:55, 9:40 Kochadaiiyaan (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 Maleficent (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Maleficent: An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:10 Million Dollar Arm (PG) Thu 3:50 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Wed 3:50, 7:00, 9:50 A Million Ways to Die in the West (14A) Thu 4:00, 5:00, 6:45, 7:45, 9:25, 10:25 Fri, Sun 12:05, 1:55, 2:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Sat 11:10, 12:05, 1:55, 2:45, 4:40, 5:30, 7:25, 8:15, 10:10, 11:00 Mon-Wed 4:05, 4:50, 6:45, 7:35, 9:20, 10:10 Neighbors (18A) Thu 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:40 Mon-Wed 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:30 The Night Before Our Stars Thu 8:30 The Other Woman Thu 4:35, 7:05, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:00, 5:35, 8:10, 10:45 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:05, 9:45 Rio 2 (G) Thu 4:50 Fri, Sun 12:30, 3:05, 5:40 Sat 11:40, 12:30, 3:05, 5:40 Mon-Wed 4:25 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 3:40, 5:30, 6:30, 8:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:10, 6:15, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 4:10, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri, Sun 12:50, 1:35, 3:55, 4:40, 7:00, 7:45, 10:05, 10:50 Sat 11:00, 12:50, 1:55, 3:55, 4:55, 7:00, 7:50, 10:05, 10:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30

Rainbow Promenade (I)

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Barney to Toronto. The singular visual artist is being celebrated by the arts festival in wild style, a retrospective of his work tied together with the newly opened AGO exhibition of selectionsfrom his Drawing Restraint video project. Barney will be at the Art Gallery of Ontario on Saturday at 2 pm for a Meet The Artist event, in conversation with Luminato artistic director Jorn Weisbrodt and AGO curator Kitty Scott. The biggest deal, clearly, is the

Toronto premiere of Barney’s new film, River Of Fundament, which screens three times this weekend at the Elgin. A three-part “story of regeneration and rebirth” freely adapted from Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings, it’s six hours and 10 minutes long (including two intermissions), features Ellen Burstyn, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Elaine Stritch and has something to do with the American automotive industry. I do not know how all these elements relate to one another, but Barney is kind of a genius at finding the common ground between radically disparate points – as you’ll know if you’ve seen his Cremaster cycle. Um, you haven’t seen it? Well, you’re in luck. Luminato’s screening all seven hours of Barney’s hallucinatory magnum opus – with the man himself present to introduce it – Saturday afternoon and evening. Yes, it overlaps completely with that day’s River Of Fundament screening at the Elgin. Obviously, I recommend making a weekend of it. In non-Barney programming, the festival honours the late choreographer Pina Bausch with screenings of her 1990 performance film The Complaint Of An Empress (Tuesday, June 10, 1 pm, Lightbox) and Wim Wenders’s artful 3D dance documentary Pina (June 14, 1 pm, Lightbox). Each presentation will be followed by a Q&A with an as yet unnamed member of the Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch company. NORMAN WILNER

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festivals luminato festival

elgin theatre, 189 yonge (ET); tiff bell lightbox, 350 king w (TIFF). luminatofestival.com

fri 6-sun 8 – Festival of the arts. $35-$40. fri 6 – River Of Fundament (2013) D:

Matthew Barney, a 6-hour film loosely ñ based on Norman Mailer’s 1983 novel Ancient

Evenings. Screenings are six hours and 10 min long, with two intermissions. $40. 6 pm (ET). sat 7 – The Cremaster Cycle (1995-2002) D: Matthew Barney. 4 pm. River Of Fundament. 5 pm (ET). Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live D: KK Barrett with Kid Koala and Afiara Quartet, an immersive multidisciplinary adaptation with real-time filming, live music, multiple cameras, miniature stages and puppetry. $35. 7:30 pm (TIFF). sun 8 – River Of Fundament. 2 pm (ET). Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live. 7:30 pm (TIFF). mon 9 – Kid Koala’s Nufonia Must Fall Live. 7:30 pm (TIFF). tue 10 – The Complaint Of An Empress (1990) D: Pina Bausch. 1 pm (TIFF).

scarborough film festival

U of T Scarborough Campus, 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

thu 5-sun 8 – Festival of film by Scarborough,

Toronto and international filmmakers. $15, srs/stu $10, closing night film $15. thu 5 – Everything We Loved (2014) D: Max Currie. 7 pm (FT). Papilio Buddha (2013) D: Jayan Cherian. 7 pm (WC). I’m Not Him (2013) D: Tayfun Pirselimoglu. 9 pm (FT). The Man Of The Crowd (2013) D: Cao Guimarães and Marcelo Gomes. 9 pm (WC). fri 6 – Award-winning short films from around the world. 4 pm (UTSC). The Seventh Walk (2014) D: Amit Dutta. 7 pm (UTSC). sat 7 – Out Of Focus (2014) D: Shengze Zhu. 1 pm (UTSC). Barzan (2013) D: Alex Stonehill and Bradley Hutchinson. 4 pm (UTSC). The Disobedient (2014) D: Mina Dukic. 4 pm (FT). Quick Change (2013) D: Eduardo Roy, Jr. 7 pm (UTSC). Macondo (2014) D: Sudabeh Movtezai. 7 pm (FT). A Free Night At The Movies including The Story Of Furious Pete (2010) D: George Tsioutsioulas, and others. 7:30 pm (CR). sat 8 – Somos Mari Pepa (2013) D: Samuel Kishi Leopo. 4 pm (FT). Closing gala: Life Feels Good (2013) D: Maciej Pieprzyca. 7 pm (FT).

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. bigpicturecinema.com

thu 5-wed 11 – Check website for schedule.

BLOOR hot docs Cinema 506 Bloor W. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com

Thu 5 – Web Junkie (2013) D: Shosh Shlam

and Hilla Medalia. 3:30 pm. Doc Now, the Ryerson University Documentary Media Fes-

Screening Luminato MATTHEW BARNEY: Drawing Restraint at the Art Gallery of Ontario (317 Dundas West), until September 28 (regular AGO hours); The Cremaster Cycle at TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King West), June 7 at 4 pm; and River Of Fundament at the Elgin Theatre (189 Yonge), June 6 at 6 pm, June 7 at 5 pm, June 8 at 2 pm. luminatofestival.com.

For the film component of its 2014 edition, Luminato brings Matthew tival presents Art And Effect including A Shift In The Landscape D: Simone Estrin, Every Story Has A Twist D: Bindu Shah, and Photos By Kirk D: Jamie Day Fleck. 6:30 pm. Matters Of Blood program including As Brothers We Grow D: Jordan Kawai, A Ghost In Our House D: Liz Gibson-DeGroote. 9 pm. Free. fri 6 – Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon (2013) D: Mike Myers. 4 & 6:30 pm. Brothers Hypnotic (2013) D: Rueben Atlas. 8:45 pm. sat 7 – Royal Opera House: La Bohème (2013) D: John Copley. 1 pm. $15. Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon. 4:30 & 9 pm. Brothers Hypnotic. 6:45 pm. sun 8 – Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon. 12:30 & 9 pm. Brown University’s 250th Anniversary: 1982 (2013) D: Tommy Oliver. 3 pm. $10. Red Dragon Productions presents Dead End D: Tazito Garcia. Q&A w/ director to follow. 7 pm. $10-$13. reddragon-productions.com. mon 9 – Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon. 6:30 pm. Brothers Hypnotic. 8:45 pm. tue 10 – Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon. 4 & 8:45 pm. Being Ginger (2013) D: Scott P Harris. 6:30 pm. wed 11 – Supermensch: The Legend Of Shep Gordon. 4 pm. Matthew House Refugee Reception Services presents Everybody’s Children D: Monika Delmos, a film about the plight of unaccompanied refugee minors. 7:30 pm. Panel discussion to follow. $25 (brownpapertickets.com). matthewhouse.ca.

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sat 7 – Away From Her (2006) D: Sarah

ñPolley. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 5 – Polish Cinema – Krzysztof Zanussi X

2: Illumination (1972). 6:30 pm. Camouflage (1976). 8:45 pm. fri 6 – TIFF Kids Family Fridays: Sesame Street presents Follow That Bird (1985) D: Ken Kwapis. 1 pm. The Muppet Movie (1979) D: James Frawley. 3:30 pm. Polish Cinema X 2: Eroica (957) D: Andrzej Munk. 6:30 pm. Night Train (1959) D: Jerzy Kawalerowicz. 8:45 pm. Lsat 7 – Polish Cinema: Innocent Sorcerers (1960) D: Andrzej Wajda. 1:45 pm. Luminato Festival: see listings, this page. 4 & 7:30 pm. sun 8 – Polish Cinema: Andrzej Wajda X 2: Ashes And Diamonds (1958). 4 pm. The Wedding (1972). 6:30 pm. mon 9 – Check website for schedule. Ltue 10 – Luminato Festival: see listings, this page. 1 pm. Polish Cinema: Man Of Iron (1981) D: Andrzej Wajda. 6:30 pm. wed 11 – Check website for schedule.

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. f oxtheatre.ca

Thu 5-sun 8 – Scarborough Film Festival. See listings, this page. Fri 6 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (2014) D: Anthony and Joe Russo. 1 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) D: Wes Anderson. 4 pm. sat 7-sun 8 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D. 1 & 9:30 pm. mon 9 – Tim’s Vermeer (2013) D: Teller. 7 pm. Ida (2013) D: Pawel Powlikowski. 9 pm. tue 10 – Ida. 7 pm. Tim’s Vermeer. 9 pm. wed 11 – Le Week-End (2013) D: Roger Michell. 7 pm. Finding Vivian Meier (2013) D: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel. 9 pm.

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

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Of The Butterflies. Noon. The H uman Body. 1 pm. Jerusalem. 2 pm. sat 7-sun 8 – Flight Of The Butterflies. 11 am. Great White Shark. 1 & 3 pm. Jerusalem. Noon & 4 pm. Under The Sea. 2 pm. mon 9-wed 11 – 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.

sat 7 – Salvador Dali Film Fest. 7 pm. sun 8 – Salvador Dali Film Fest. 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 5 – The Other Woman (2014) D: Nick Cassavetes. 7 pm. Finding Vivian Meier (2013) D: John Maloof and Charlie Siskel. 9 pm. Fri 6-sat 7 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D (2014) D: Anthony and Joe Russo. 1 & 9:15 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) D: Wes Anderson. 4 & 7 pm. sun 8 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D. 1 & 9:15 pm. Silent Sunday: The Navigator (1924) D: Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton. 4:15 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm. mon 9-tue 10 – The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm. Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3D. 9:15 pm. wed 11 – The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm. Fed Up (2014) D: Stephanie Soechtig. 9:15 pm.

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Thu 5 – Jodorowsky’s Dune (2014) D: Frank Pavich. 7 pm. Only Lovers Left ñ Alive (2013) D: Jim Jarmusch. 9 pm. fri 6 – Le Week-End (2013) D: Roger Michell. 7

pm. The Raid 2 (2014) D: Gareth Evens. 9 pm. Late Night Fridays: Fateful Findings (2013) D: Neil Breen. 11:30 pm. sat 7 – The Lego Movie (2014) D: Christopher Miller and Phil Lord. 2 pm. Logans Run (1976) D: Michael Anderson. 4 pm. Le Week-End. 7 pm. The Raid 2. 9 pm. sun 8 – The Lego Movie. 2 pm. Le Week-End. 7 pm. The Raid 2. 9 pm. mon 9 – Le Week-End. 7 pm. The Raid 2. 9 pm. tue 11 – Le Week-End. 7 pm. Logan’s Run. 9 pm. wed 12 – Le Week-End. 7 pm. The Black Museum presents An Image Of Death: Our Evolving Relationship With Mortality On Screen, a lecture by Rue Morgue Magazine’s Dave Alexander, including film clips from The Others (2001) D: Alejandro Amenábar, Wisconsin Death Trip (1999) D: James Marsh, and others. 9:30 pm. $15, adv $12. rue-morgue.com.

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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. h hof.com. thu 5 – Pleasure Dome presents Dirty Looks NYC, a program of queer experimental film and video including O Happy Day (1996) D: Charles Lofton, Extraordinary Pregnancies (2010) D: Chris E Vargas, Dirty Girls (1996-00) D: Michael Lucid, and others. 7:30 pm. $10. Tallulah’s Cabaret, Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. p dome.org. sat 7 – Videofag presents Struggled Reagans D: Gregg Golding. 8 pm. $5 suggested donation. 187 Augusta. v ideofag.com. 3

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so far we haven’t tried anything larger. He’s afraid of hurting me and wants to start with toys and plugs. But I want to jump right in. He’s not that big and, in all honesty, I take shits that are longer and thicker than his erect penis. (Sorry to be gross.) Do you think we need to start slow? Why won’t he even try? Anal Novice Anxiously Lusting When I hear from straight couples just starting to explore buttsecks, ANAL, it’s usually the boy who wants to “jump right in” and the girl who is afraid of getting hurt. I tell these straight boys that they are obligated to take their partner’s feelings into account – they must take it slow, they must use lots of lube, they must start with fingers and toys and plugs, etc. Those are Buttsecks Best Practices. My advice for you is the same: you are obligated to take your partner’s feelings into account. His fear of hurting you is just as valid as a woman’s fear of being hurt. So while you may not need plugs and toys for your own comfort, ANAL, you should use them for his. It’s possible, of course, that his concern is misplaced – you’ve taken shits that are longer and thicker than his erect penis. But unless you’ve taken shits that have jumped out of the toilet and jammed themselves back into your ass and then proceeded to pound away at you for 20 minutes, you really don’t know what it’s like to get buttfucked.

he wasn’t able to explore with younger women. But he does not orgasm from vaginal or anal sex. He comes only if he masturbates. He says he has reached orgasm only once during vaginal. He agreed to stop masturbating to see if that would help. No change. I suggested a urologist, but he’s a college student with no insurance. Please help me to help him. It’s not a big issue, but he’s going to need to be able to do this when he gets married and wants to start a family. He Can’t Come He can so come – he just needs to crank himself over the edge using his fist. Needing his own fist to finish may be the result of death-grip masturbation techniques, and he could retrain his dick with some time and effort. But it’s not fair to say that “he can’t come.” He can and he does. If a woman can’t come from vaginal intercourse alone (75 per cent of women can’t) but can come during oral sex or when mixing fingers or a vibrator into vaginal intercourse, we don’t say, “She can’t come.” We

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