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1. The silent treatment Rob Ford isn’t the only one not taking questions.

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To Jul 20. 7 pm. Pwyc. Meet at 92 London. kaeja.org.

FAN THE FLAMES It’s Wednesday, so you can see this fascinating queer video and photo show for free after 6 pm at the AGO. To Sep 7. 416-979-6648.

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Ben ­McNally Books. ­benmcnallybooks.com. eric andrews The talented stand-up comic continues a week of headlining sets at Yuk Yuk’s. 8 pm. To Jul 20. $13-$22.

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Boredoms member, in this case Yoshimi P-We, deserves your attention. Witchy, tribal experimental rock. Lee’s Palace. 8 pm. $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

ist’s new sensory architecture – on an apian theme – is at Koffler ­Gallery (Artscape Youngplace), to Aug 31. the tempest Driftwood Theatre’s outdoor production of the late Shakespeare play continues at Withrow Park. 7:30 pm (special Food Of Love event at 6:30 pm). To Jul 27. Pwyc ($20 suggested). ­driftwoodtheatre.com.

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Time Festival Embrace presents a stacked lineup – Grimes, Smith Westerns, Majical Cloudz – at Fort York Garrison Common. Doors noon, all ages. $25-$50. EMB, RT, SS, TW. timefest.com.

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How Ford can make love gravy flow again

Rob Ford (NOW, July 3-​9) can redeem himself in one way only – he can go all Crown-witness confessional on us and sing about everything he knows, with dates and times of meetings and monies exchanged in the Green For Life private garbage contract, the Ferris wheel adventure on the waterfront, casino scheming, the dirty stuff with Muzik at the Ex, the Island airport scoop and the printing subcontract with the city that the Ford family business was angling for. He could still save himself by doing this.

He has a chance. The love gravy would pour again if he yelled, “If I’m going down I’m taking you all with me!” It’s his only chance.

Chris Malcolm Toronto

From the mouth of Ford Nation

Enzo DiMatteo’s Rob Ford’s Lost Come­back In Three Acts (NOW, July 3-9) is the latest in a long line of reports from NOW about our mayor.

Your view that Ford is incompetent is well understood. As I am sure you are aware, Ford has a gift for talking to the people – his people. He has per-

“ Maybe Toronto

is ready to leave its teenage phase behind and enter adulthood. ”

Ford has been our major? This is what the citizens of Toronto need to understand prior to the upcoming election in order to make an informed decision. Whose answer can we trust?

Maybe To­ronto is ready to leave its

teenage phase behind and enter adulthood.

The upcoming election will tell the tale. If you want to change the minds of current Ford fans, though, you had better show them that Ford’s fiscal legacy is just as out of touch as his personal legacy.

Brittany Jones Toronto

Robo cop-out

Rob Ford is to Toronto what Uruguayan striker Luis Suárez is to football – he has bitten and head-​butted Torontonians far too long. Putting on a business suit and speaking gravely be­fore a selected group of media won’t change that.

Ford should take his own advice. If his substance abuse issues are indeed going to be a life-​long struggle, he should give up the distractions of politics altogether so he can focus on what he claims is supremely important: to be the best person he can be.

Geoff Rytell Toronto

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suaded me to believe that he has accomplished a great deal during his time as mayor. Ford is proof of the power of words delivered with a char­ ismatic and personable approach.

I agree he does play the victim and has put himself in a terrible position.

Here is my question: Is the city of Toronto better off fiscally now, since

Too much stupidity for one day

Re Doug Ford Redefines Racism (NOW, July 2). Are the Fords trying to make up for lost time? I know Rob has been in rehab for a couple of months, but that’s no reason to try and squeeze so much stupidity into one day.

Justin Flontek From nowtoronto.com

R. Kelly missing from our gay gallery

Loved the nostalgic Hall of Fame page in your Pride special of gay folks who’ve graced your cover (NOW, June 26-​July 2), save for one glaring omission: the gorgeous 2002 cover of Hog­town Renaissance man and über-​ homo R. Kelly Clipperton.

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In her article Will Johns Become The New Fags? (NOW, June 26-​July 2), Alice Klein writes that men who buy sex should not be criminalized for seeking an “uncomplicated and pleasurable way to satisfy their sexual hunger.”

There is nothing “uncomplicated” or “pleasurable” about the limited op­tions that result in women of any age having to resort to prostitution in order to pay the rent and being unable to exit [the profession] due to a severe lack of services.

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9). Allow me to say on behalf of liberals everywhere that when consenting adults have sex (possibly with an exchange of money involved), it’s fun­damentally different from the ab­use of children.

S. David’s obsession with “sexual deviancy” reflects an unhealthy need to control the sex lives of other people. Normalcy encompasses a much broader range than S. David imagines. And, of course, it is ridiculous to make it legal to sell sex but illegal to buy it. Who does the Harper government think it is fooling?

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to start warning residents about the health risks associated with sewage system bypasses into the lake. Such events happen about three times a month, during rainstorms, causing high levels of E. coli and toxins to be released into the lake. Ottawa and Kingston both issue public alerts during sewer bypasses; Toronto, however, informs the Ministry of Environment but not the public. Lake Ontario Waterkeeper says paddlers, surfers, swimmers and boaters should be advised of the health risks associated with using the water after a storm. The problem was so bad after the massive rainstorm one year ago this week that untreated sewage flowed into Lake Ontario for 28 hours.

Another week, another loss for the HarperCons’ right-wing agenda. The Federal Court rules Ottawa’s cuts to health care services for refugees are “cruel and unusual” and gives the government four months to make changes to the legislation. Not surprisingly, the government announces it will appeal the decision.

ANDREA HORWATH FOR MAYOR?

Under pressure to step down, NDP leader Andrea Horwath hasn’t ruled out a run for Hamilton’s mayoralty. Is a petition started by the party’s socialist caucus and signed by riding association presidents and former candidates causing her to rethink leaving Queen’s Park and taking up the reins in her hometown? Horwath hasn’t put those ­rumours to rest, declaring that in politics “you never say never.”

FARE IS FAIR

Council voted 35-3 Tuesday, July 8, to look into fare discounts for low-income riders and price breaks for senior citi­ zens. The idea of special low-income transit fares has been brought up at various city committees this term, but this is the first time its won widespread sup-

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What Vigil to mark the first anniversary of the Lac Megantic train derailment and explosion.

Where Bartlett Avenue rail crossing at Dufferin and Dupont.

Why Before the accident in Quebec, the doomed train rolled through mid-town Toronto on the same Canadian Pacific line. port. The proposed discounts won’t go into effect until 2017 at the earliest. A report to council on the matter warns that plans to expand the transit system will fail unless everyone can afford to get on.

It also notes that the new buses, trains and LRVs already approved under expansion plans are set to run through 15 of the city’s 31 economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Read more at nowtoronto.com.

“That’s a ridiculous question. I’m not going to answer it.”

Newly appointed Ward 5 interim coun-

cillor James Maloney’s non-response to a query from NOW’s Jonathan Goldsbie about one drunken St. Patrick’s Day night at the Old Sod in Etobicoke in 2011.

Yes, it turns out Maloney is the same James Maloney who was with Councillor Mark Grimes on the night in question when the latter drunkenly berated a journalist at the Royal York pub. Story at ­nowtoronto.com.

the lowdown on sewage

We have heat alerts and cold alerts, so why not sewage bypass alerts? Lake Ontario Waterkeeper is calling on the city

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The inaugural Jack Layton School for Youth Leadership “to make things better” kicked off at Ryerson this week. Organizer Myer Siemiatycki says the one-week program named after the late NDP leader “is intended to enrich the knowledge, skills and networking of youth engaged in social justice activity.” Some 21 young people, from the labour movement and advocacy organizations from Montreal, Hamilton, Sudbury, Guelph, Brockville and across the GTA are participating. Layton’s son, Toronto councillor Mike Layton, will take part in a panel discussion Friday, July 11, on advancing progressive politics inside government. Among the lighter topics on the agenda: healthy eating for political activists. Layton was a professor in the poli-sci department at Ryerson in the 1970s and 80s.

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ROB FORD, THE IGNORABLE We’ve passed peak Ford – no one cares any more what the mayor’s spouting By ENZO DiMATTEO Between Doug “Comical Ali” Ford’s calling City Hall journalists “jihadists” and Mayor Rob’s saying not much of anything at all, it’s back to the brothers’ netherworld.

That was quick.

To recap the week that followed Rob’s return from rehab – news flash 1: he has a sobriety coach; news flash 2: he also has a new communications director. In other tabloid news, Pamela Anderson is seeking a divorce from her third husband.

Rob’s hiring of the former was supposed to assure us that Ford is committed to not falling off the wagon or showing up in videos in another inglorious drunken stupor. But that went awry when the coach, Bob Marier, was caught on camera allegedly kicking a protester at Rob’s first public presser on Tuesday, July 8, since his return from rehab.

As for the latter, Ford Nation may not be enthused to learn that new communications director Jeff Silverstein’s day job – when he’s not keeping Rob out of trouble, that is – is running interference for the big, bad banks. That’s right, the fighter for the little guy has a damage-control dude for evil financiers running his show.

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Oh, dear. The mayor’s re-entry into the political atmosphere after two months in rehab in Muskoka has been one gargantuan public relations fail after another.

Shocking but not surprising, as they say, especially for the architect of Ford’s 2010 win, Nick Kouvalis, who’s now working for the rival John Tory camp in the mayoral race.

Kouvalis was paying close attention from council chamber’s public gallery at this week’s meeting. “Just getting a sense of things,” he says. Uh-huh.

If anyone knows what makes the Fords tick, it’s Kouvalis. He chalks up Ford’s precipitous descent into ignobility to hubris. Go figure.

Kouvalis called the sorry scenario months ago, when he said Ford would be a footnote in the race by the time Labour Day rolled around. He was off about that: folks are already tuning Rofo out.

That bump in the mayor’s numbers that the pundits were expecting upon his (sorta) teary-eyed return from rehab – what pollsters call the “dead cat bounce” – hasn’t happened. In fact, voters are turning off in droves. The latest poll released by Nanos Research on Monday, July 7, spells trouble with a capital T for the mayor, putting him

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Among those hired to watch the mayor’s back is sobriety coach Bob Marier (right), who was caught on camera allegedly kicking a protester at Ford’s first public presser since his return from rehab on Tuesday, July 8.

in third place for the first time – behind Tory and Olivia Chow.

Whatever’s left of his base in pockets of underprivileged Scarborough and North York is bleeding quickly to Tory. Even more problematic for Ford: the Nanos survey confirms the results of a Forum poll released a few days earlier.

So much for sober second thought. With the “shirtless horde” and other protestors wagging giant foamy fingers in front of the cameras at the mayor and campaign manager Doug at every press conference and media scrum, we’ve entered Monty Python territory. I can’t be the only one who’s relieved that we can finally enjoy the funny (back)side of the Fords now that they’re in retreat.

Rob’s trademark bluster about City Hall overspending on rocks and pink umbrellas on the waterfront (how about those plants that need watering at City Hall?) barely registers with voters any more. Spending was the least of voters’ concerns in the Nanos poll. No one cares what the Fords are spouting, least of all, it seems, the media covering the mayor.

That boycott talk among journos after the mayor’s invite-only presser on June 30 may not have been a fleeting idea after all. Some media and loads of folks online, even on the message boards of Ford-friendly newspapers, are musing openly about actively ignoring the lug.

We’ve passed peak Ford. The two months the mayor spent “in rehab” (apparently he was spending most of his time watching TV in a private cottage and maybe having drugs delivered) have opened Torontonians’ eyes to what life is like without the drama and distractions.

It felt almost quaint when Ford pulled out the old carsversus-bikes saw at a press conference on gridlock Tuesday, which he turned into a critique of bike lanes and wider sidewalks on Eglinton. That’s right. He also referred to the LRTs that will run under Eglinton as “subways.”

Just as cringe-worthy were the two interviews Ford did with CBC and CP24 before pulling the plug on the sitdowns he promised other news outlets last week. These appearances only raised more questions about his socalled rehabilitation.

Has the mayor done heroin? Is he on medication to help with his alcoholism? Has wife Renata finally had enough?

Rofo referred to his substance abuse problems in the past tense during the CBC interview. Clearly, he’s still in denial.

Not having to pay attention to Ford sounds like an attractive proposition, but pretending he’s not there won’t exorcise the memories. For that to happen, we need to be reminded periodically of just how effed-up his reign of error has been.

That’s a required part of the process of our own recovery. In the meantime, enjoy the shit-show, knowing it’ll all be over on election day, October 27. Or maybe sooner at this rate.

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following up on our text conversation regarding [Red Velvet] as ‘hosts’ of the fundraiser…. You’ll see the extent that we’ll be ‘using’ your company name.”

The initial contract prepared by the banquet hall was for a “Giorgio Mammoliti Fundraiser” and listed the client as “Giorgio Mammoliti Campaign.” Palladino asked that it be changed so his name would not appear “anywhere.” Red Velvet’s name was put on the contract, and ticket payments were made out to the company.

ANATOMY OF A SCANDAL

Follow the money

On May 23, the day after the fundraiser, Red Velvet issued Mammoliti a cheque for $40,000. On May 30, the company issued him a second cheque for the same amount.

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GIORGIO IN DEEP OVER BIG TO-DO

Mystery “stag”

Six days before the fundraiser, Red Velvet cut Mammoliti a cheque for $16,000 marked “Stag.” Leiper did not consider this cheque part of her report except to note that its “timing and source raise questions.”

Leiper’s ruling

The integrity commissioner found that in accepting the $80,000, Mammoliti violated council’s code of conduct, which prohibits a councillor from accepting any gift or personal benefit “that is connected directly or indirectly with the performance of his or her duties.”

Leiper contacted Mammoliti and suggested that he repay the money but he didn’t respond; the courts ruled in the Rob Ford conflict of interest case that the integrity commissioner does not have the authority to ask council to order one of its members to give back cash contributions.

Instead, she is recommending that council impose the harshest penalty allowable: docking his pay 90 days.

Integrity commissioner’s report says councillor and his staff tried to cover up paper trail into $80k fundraiser

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has all the ingredients of a bona fide blockbuster scandal: a fundraiser attended by lobbyists, contractors, and other local bigwigs; millions of dollars’ worth of city contracts; an alleged attempt to erase the paper trail; and at the centre of it all a politician who claims he can’t remember what happened because he has amnesia.

Integrity commissioner Janet Leiper’s scathing report released last Thursday (July 3) into a May 2013 fundraiser that raised $80,000 for Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti is damning stuff.

She determined that the councillor broke council’s code of conduct, and for the first time in the city’s history is recommending the harshest penalty allowed by the rules: that council dock Mammoliti 90 days’ pay, which would cost him $26,000.

Her report also raises troubling questions not only about council’s ability to penalize members who break the rules, but also whether one councillor has become more beholden to a group of wealthy backers than to the residents who elected him.

Mammoliti needed money

At the time of the fundraiser, Mammoliti owed the city $52,000 as a result of an audit of his spending during the 2006 election campaign. He was also facing hefty legal bills over a review of his 2010 election finances, which found he overspent the limit by $12,065, or more than 40 per cent.

The initial CBC report on the fundraiser cited court documents he filed as part of divorce proceedings stating that he had $175,000 in annual expenses while making a salary of only $106,000, and that he’d been forced to borrow $100,000 from one of his sons and move back in with his parents.

The invitation

An April 12, 2013, letter sent to Mammoliti’s supporters requested their attendance at a $500-a-plate fundraiser. Signed by Mammoliti’s son Michael, it claimed the councillor’s “continued dedication to the mayor” had made him “the subject of political and personal attacks” that had “taken their toll on him financially.”

The invitation asked for help “so he can continue to fight the good fight at Toronto City Hall and not be held back by the financial burdens these attacks have brought.”

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The invitation included an important disclaimer: “Rest assured any contributions made will not be in any way a conflict. We have obtained legal council [sic] and opinion to help guide my father through this fund raising process and eliminate any possible conflicts or code of conduct issues.”

Mammoliti’s defence

The councillor initially told Leiper that when the invitation was sent out, he was in hospital recovering from brain surgery and only found out about it after he was discharged.

He claimed that his son had organized the event to toast his “life and recovery” and denied that the fundraiser was “for political or campaign purposes.” He also said his surgery caused memory loss and his recollection of anything around the time was, and still remains, “limited.”

Powerful attendees

More than 200 people attended the lavish fundraiser at the Royalton Banquet Hall in Woodbridge. Leiper redacted the names in her report, but said those present included: • A corporation that has contracts with the city worth millions of dollars. It purchased a table for $5,000.

• A corporation that bid on and received contracts from the city in 2013, and also bought one $5,000 table.

• Six registered lobbyists or clients of lobbyists who committed $31,000 between them.

• A landscape company that has carried out projects in Mammoliti’s ward and bids on city projects, which paid for one $5,000 table but didn’t send anyone.

• A principal in a company that was bidding for a “significant” city contract at the time. (The contract eventually went to someone else.)

• A lobbying firm that had active lobbying files with the city and that initially committed to buying one table. Interviewed by the integrity commissioner, the firm’s partners said they didn’t pay for their tickets but were there as Mammoliti’s guests. The firm was not identified, but the president of the powerful Sussex Strategy Group, as well as one of the firm’s partners, were photographed at the event.

Event organized on taxpayers’ dime

Melissa Palladino, Mammoliti’s executive assistant, was listed on the invitation as the event contact. Leiper determined that Palladino and another of Mammoliti’s aides sent emails about the event during work hours on 38 separate workdays, doing fundraiser-related tasks like designing tickets, arranging printing, confirming RSVPs and communicating with event staff. This may have broken council rules that say councillors can only use city resources for city business.

Paper chase

Although Mammoliti’s staff planned the fundraiser, Leiper’s report says an event company, Red Velvet Events Inc., was “brought in” to act as the organizer.

In one email to the company, Palladino wrote, “Just

Does Mammoliti have a case?

Has Giorgio Mammoliti become more beholden to his wealthy backers than to the residents who elected him?

Mammoliti’s claim that the event was to celebrate his recovery from a health scare is undermined by the facts that his staff were in discussions about the fundraiser before he knew he needed emergency brain surgery, and the invitation made no mention of his health.

Mammoliti’s assertion that he knew little about the event is also questionable. He was periodically copied on emails about it, and correspondence from his staff referred to his instructions on the matter. One email stated that he would personally collect payment from one of the invitees.

Leiper wrote that the disclaimer in the invitation about contributions not constituting a conflict, as well as his staff’s instruction that his name be removed from the event contract, indicated that Mammoliti and his employees were aware that the event could constitute a breach of council’s code of conduct.

What happens now?

Leiper’s report went to council this week, but at NOW press time Wednesday, a decision had yet to be made.

Mammoliti has already sought a judicial review in hopes of stopping the investigation, arguing that Leiper’s investigation was biased against him. Now he’s threatening to take the city to court if council doesn’t defer voting on the report until the legal proceedings have wrapped up. That likely won’t happen until after the October 27 election, in which Mammoliti is already registered to run. Council could opt to suspend his pay despite the threat of legal action, but given that the $26,000 he would be forced to forfeit is $54,000 less than he collected from the fundraiser, serious questions remain about whether the punishment fits the scale of the violation.

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Elliot Rodger’s rampage followed a familiar path: from sexualization of women to violence.

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The attitudes Elliot Rodger expressed about women are extreme, but his sense of male entitlement to women’s bodies is not just something he got from pick-up artists’ websites By ­jacob scheier

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Barbara Walters’s inter­ view June 27 with Peter Rodger, the father of El­ liot Rodger, who killed seven people, including himself, in Isla Vista, California on May 23, the viewer is given a clear and simple story: Elliot Rodger’s mind was, in Walter’s words, “broken by mental illness,” and his parents missed the warning signs.

Rodger, a Hunger Games assistant director, told Walters: “There’s an aw­ ful lot that can be done in this country to help families that might have an­ other Elliot. There are holes in the mental health system that I think real­ ly [have] to be looked at.”

Walters spent all of a minute mid­ way through the interview, on the fact that Elliot had been drawn to “mis­ ogynistic websites,” which Peter told his son were “evil.”

It’s safe to say the attitudes Elliot ex­ pressed about women in the 141-page “manifesto” and YouTube video he left behind – he blamed “girls who have never been attracted to me” for the loneliness and rejection that led to his rampage – are extreme.

Whether those attitudes triggered his horrible crime has been the subject of debate. It’s been pointed out that El­ liot Rodger killed more men than women. And in addition to his mental health issues, he was reportedly strug­ gling with his mixed-race ethnicity.

Blaming misogyny alone for his killing spree may be an oversimplification.

But as feminists have observed, Rodger felt entitled to wo­men’s bodies

and enraged when they were denied to him. He not only spoke the language of the PUA (pickup artist) community, but was also reportedly a member of online forum PUAhate.com (which has since been taken down), a site for men who are angry with PUAs because the pickup techniques they’re selling haven’t worked for them. He also fre­ quented men’s rights movement sites, which generally aim to discredit the idea that there is a power imbalance between men and women in society.

PUA and men’s rights websites are far from obscure online communi­ties where only the criminally deranged gather. But the countless online PUA communities’ promotion of “tech­ niques” for “scoring” clearly fos­ter a sense of male entitlement to wo­men’s bodies which, in a fragile young mind, could be very dangerous, experts say.

“There’s a pathway from sexualiza­ tion to objectification to dehumaniza­ tion to violence,” argues University of Windsor professor Dusty John­s­tone, who helped launch the Bringing In The Bystander initiative, which teaches the importance of speak­ing out against so­ cial norms that support sexual assault and coercion. “[Rodger] was engaging in such an extreme manifestation of all those things that violence was the in­evitable result.”

How little the role of misogyny is understood by those in the Toronto PUA community is alarming.

“Coach EJ” of the PUA “training” org Tdotpickup, which offers “bootcamps” for $2,000 a pop, tells me he teaches

Manifesto for the RESPONSIBLE male

1. Call out friends whose idea of a “joke” is to make sexist remarks.

2. Talk to your male friends about how to be masculine without being m ­ isogynist.

3. Combat rape culture on campus and intervene in potentially risky situations. Inform yourself at www1.uwindsor.ca/bystander 4. Read the work of male pro-​ feminist writers such as Jackson Katz.

5. Join the White Ribbon Campaign.

6. Find support for the violence you may have witnessed or experienced growing up.

7. Check the media you consume. Why watch/listen to/read it if it d ­ e­bases women?

8. Ask the women in your life to tell you when they feel you are not fully respecting them.

9. Be gentle: don’t beat yourself up when you screw up. View those mistakes as learning opportunities.

10. Practise empathy: try to feel what a woman is feeling rather than how you want a woman to JS make you feel.

Sources consulted: academics Kate Drabinski and Dusty Johnstone, feminist authors Roxanna Bennett and Natalie Zina Walschots, and educator Farrah Khan.

his “students” to be “respectful and not over-insistent.”

EJ, whose online bio describes him as “quite ballsy,” is adamant that he sees women as equals, not as objects, though he also refers to meeting wo­ men as “a game – a numbers game.”

When I ask if this kind of language makes women seem like points to tally, he says a term like “the game” is just an analogy.

Although EJ sees his main objec­tive as building confidence and “selfimprovement,” professor Kate Dra­bin­ ski, a lecturer on gender and wo­men’s studies and director of the Wo­ men Involved In Learn­ ing And Leadership pro­ gram at the University of Maryland, finds this prob­lematic.

“The message is that men are entitled to women as possessions. So if you haven’t possessed a woman, you haven’t fully developed yourself to the point where you deserve a wo­man.”

Over at bigwilliestyle.ca, which of­ fers “dating advice and life style de­ velopment,” Willy Beck tells me that if he approaches a woman and she says “she doesn’t want to go with me but has a smile on her face, that’s not a clear rejection.” His advice: “Hustle with heart.” His compilation of videos includes titles such as How To Pick Up An Asian Chick From The Streets And Take Her Home, and Get Laid More By Playing An Imperfect Game.

Talking with Beck, I find myself wondering if anything less than pep­ per spray would constitute a clear re­ jection.

As Farrah Khan of the Barbra Schli­ fer Clinic, which counsels women who have experienced violence, reminds me, true consent is not simply a matter of agreeing.

“What makes me nervous about [PUA] is that informed consent [is] the cornerstone of a relationship. If people are using manipulation to connect, that’s not [informed consent],” she says.

Drabinski agrees, adding, “It’s such an inauthentic way to approach peo­ ple. Your goal is manipulation. Your goal is to break someone down.”

One kind of manipulation used by PUAs is “negging,” which according to PUA blog Seduction Science amounts to subtly insulting a wo­man in order to “lower a girl’s social value in relation to yours.” About negging Beck says, “It’s a joke. It’s a tease. It’s playful.”

Another PUA technique Beck prac­ tises is “kino,” short for kinesthetic, which means lightly touching a wo­ man as soon as you meet her. You can see it demonstrated in videos on Beck’s website, where he convinces women he’s just met to kiss him on the street, getting in their personal space and touching them immediately.

Coach EJ says he doesn’t endorse either kino or negging, but Beck sees nothing wrong with either, and seems not to understand how anyone else could.

Drabinski observes that PUA com­ munity attitudes are “actually built into our every day. The idea, for ex­ ample, of having a ladies’ night at a bar is to get women there and give them free or reduced-price drinks so they’ll get drunk, so they’ll be more available to men. This is just something we have at all the bars, and we think it’s fun. A lack of consent is built into a lot of cul­ tural life.”

It’s easy to focus on people who call women “targets” (a common phrase in the PUA lexicon) and harder to look at ways in which sensitive men who con­ sider themselves allies in the struggle against misogyny, as I do, may be com­

His compilation of videos includes titles such as How To Pick Up An Asian Chick From The Streets And Take Her Home. plicit in our culture’s devaluation of women (see sidebar).

As Johnstone, points out “what we need to see is that pickup artist [culture] is just one end point on a continuum of normative behaviour. There’s such an urge to distance ourselves psychologic­ ally from people who commit horrible crimes – to say they’re not like us. But the problem is, [Rodger] was. He was so­ cialized in this same culture, it’s just that he rep­resents a more extreme ver­ sion of it.”

3 news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto Jacob Scheier is a freelance journalist and Governor General’s Award-winning poet.

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Thursday, July 10

Events

rCorktown Common Community Picnic

Waterfront Toronto welcomes the public to the new park with a barbecue, live music and activities. 5-8 pm. Free. Foot of Bayview at Lower River Street. ­waterfrontoronto.ca.

Creating Toronto: The Story Of The City In Ten Stops Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 6:30 pm. $20. Location given on registration. Pre-register ­heritagetoronto.org.

F-You: The Forgiveness Project Sex & HipHop speaker series. 6:30 pm. Free. Bulwer Space, 37 Bulwer. t­ hefyouproject.com.

Haunted Kensington, Chinatown & The Grange Tour Ghost walk with multicultural

Beau Dixon as Aaron in Titus Andronicus. Photo by David Hou.

ghost stories. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Meet at 350 Spadina (red pole w/ black cat). Pre-register 416-923-6813. rLive Music Labs Join musicians in interactive workshops exploring the relationship between science and music. Tue & Thu at noon & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

Market 707 Farmers Market Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Thursdays from 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. ­scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market.

Mata Amritanandamayi The Indian spiritual leader and humanitarian partipates in a program devoted to world peace. To Jul 13, Thu 10 am and 7 pm, Sun 7 pm. Free. International Plaza Hotel, 655 Dixon. ­ammacanada.ca.

Plant Medicine in the City Learn to identify locally grown medicinal plants and how to use them safely for food and medicine. 6:30 pm.

Free. Queen/Saulter Library, 765 Queen E. 416393-7723, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Resources In York Region Learn more about community resources. 6-8 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Svs, 8400 Woodbine (Markham). w ­ elcomecentre.ca.

Scottish Country Dancing In The Park Dancing to live music by Scotch Mist. 7 pm-dusk.

Free. Edwards Gardens, SW corner Lawrence and Leslie. ­rscdstoronto.org.

Summer Craft Beer Fest Sample some of Ontario’s best craft beers and stroll through the cobblestone galleria. 5-10 pm. $20. Liberty Market Building Galleria, 171 East Liberty. ­summercraftbeerfest.com.

Tasty Thursdays Live world music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer.

Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay.

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Festivals this week

China Now Festival of Chinese arts and c­ ulture with performances, food, activities and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Jul 11 to 13 Cuisine-Art Watch chefs and artists in action and discover the region’s best artisinal food, drink and art. $25-$35 (fundraiser for Alton Millpond Rehabilitation). AltonMill Art ­Centre, 1402 Queen (Caledon). altonmill.ca/cuisine-art_2014.

Jul 12 to 13 Festival Of India A parade down Yonge Street to Queens Quay followed by performances, yoga, vegetarian feast, South Asian bazaar, music, dance and more on Centre Island. Free. f­ estivalofindia.ca.

Jul 12 to 13 Night It Up! Outdoor night market featuring Asian street food, interactive sports activities, music and dance performances and more. Proceeds to UNITY Charity. Free.

Markham Civic Centre, 101 Town Centre Blvd. ­nightitup.com.

Jul 11 to 13 Ontario Latin Arts Festival Music, dance, theatre, film, visual art and food with Cassava Latin Band, Eliana Cuevas, Pablo Gutierrez, Cabildo Dance and others. Free. Sat (1-10 pm) at Mel Lastman Square, Sun (1-4 pm) at North York Civic Centre (both at ­toronto.ca/special_events.

Yoga Outdoor classes for all levels. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Friday, July 11 Button Making For Teens Make buttons from old magazine pictures, comic book illustrations or your own creation. Ages 11 and up.

5-7 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Deep Fried Fridays DJs spin every Fri and local chefs provide the food. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Ghosts, Greasepaint And Gallows Guided walking tour of jails, public hanging squares and vaudeville theatres. 6:30-9 pm. $15-$25 (includes snacks). Meet at St Lawrence Market, 93 Front E, middle door. Pre-register 416923-6813.

Modern Man Lifestyle and fashion night out for men with food, cigars, poker, cocktails, music and more. 7 pm-midnight. $40. Roy Thomson Hall, 60 Simcoe. Pre-register ­modernman.ca.

Passion Search Competition Performers have 8 minutes to prove their passion in categories of arts, craft and business with the audience voting for the winners. 8-11 pm. $20, adv $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. ticketfly. com/event/610585.

Scene On The Plaza – Cantina Remix American Independence Day celebration with performances by DJ Felix and Gani of MILK. 6-10 pm. $20, adv $15. Gardiner Museum Plaza, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080, ­gardinermuseum.com/scene.

as you like it + titus andronicus as you: Tue, Thu, SaT titus: Wed, Fri, Sun

5100 Yonge). ­ontariolatinartsfestival.ca.

Jul 12 to 13 Salsa In Toronto Festival Week Latinthemed street festival with live music, dance performances and lessons, a parade, food and more. Free. St Clair West between Christie and Winona. ­salsaintoronto.com.

Jul 12 to 20 SLAMtario Spoken Word Festival Ten teams compete to win the title of Ontario Slam Champions plus Buddy Wakefield on Sat night. $25 weekend pass, finals $20 at the door. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. ­slamtario.com.

Jul 11 to 12 Waterfront Blues Performances by Irene Torres, Brant Parker Blues Band, Blackburn and others plus a kids’ fun zone, beer and wine garden, and more. Free. Woodbine Park, Coxwell and Eastern. ­waterfrontblues.ca.

Jul 11 to 13 We Are Pan Am Festival marking the oneyear countdown to the Pan Am Games, with soca music by Machel Montano, salsa lessons, sports, DJs, Olympic gold medallists and more. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Yonge. ­toronto2015.org.

Jul 11 to 12

along the lakeshore. Various prices, many events free. ­torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

To Aug 3 Cultura Festival Live music, outdoor films, buskers and more every Fri in Jul 6-11 pm.

Free. Mel Lastman

Square, 5100 Yonge. c­ ulturafestival.ca.

Eco-Art-Fest Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with sustainable architecture and animal habitat workshops, watercolour painting, art tours, an exhibit and more.

Wed to Sun. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery.

416-644-1019.

To Sep 21 The Fringe Toronto’s indie theatre festival features plays, dance works, sketch comedy, solo shows and more by local and international companies. $10-$12, passes $45$85. Various venues. ­fringetoronto.com.

To Jul 13 Mad Pride Toronto Arts, culture and heritage festival created by psychiatric survivors, consumers, mad people and folks the world has labelled “mentally ill.” ­Various venues. m ­ adprideto.com.

To Jul 13 Open Roof Festival Live music by indie bands followed by a film screening at sundown every Thursday evening. $15.

99 Sudbury. ­openrooffestival.com.

To Aug 14 Spaces We Live In Visual arts installations, walking tours and musical and poetry performances from local artists.

See website for details. AccessPoint on Danforth, 3079 Danforth. ­scarborougharts.com.

To Jul 28 Summerlicious Restaurants across the city offer special 3-course prix-fixe menus. ­toronto.ca/summerlicious.

To Jul 20

continuing Caribbean Carnival Toronto Annual

s­ ummer celebration of all things Caribbean, featuring calypso and soca music, the King and Queen of the Bands competition, Junior Carnival, live music and the annual parade

Saturday, July 12

Benefits

The Great TTC Knitalong (Sistering) Knitters and crocheters ply their craft aboard the TTC as they travel around the city. $15 to participate. Pre-register ­ttcknitalong.blogspot.com.

Heatwave Toronto Beach Volleyball

(SickKids) Corporate teams compete to help fight childhood cancer. Today and tomorrow.

Ashbridges Bay. ­heatwaveevents.com.

Pop-up Market Place in Liberty Village (The Stop Community Food Centre) ARIDO GTA Chapter presents more than 50 vendor tables with food and other goods. 10 am-8 pm. Parking lot behind 67 Mowat. i­dcanada.org.

Events

Annex Patio Art Show Check out works by emerging artists displayed in store windows.

Today and tomorrow 10 am-6 pm. Free. Bloor from Spadina to B ­ athurst. p ­ atioartshow.com.

Argonauts Football

The Argos play the Calgary Stamped-

Eliana Cuevas performs at the Ontario Latin Arts Festival on July 12. ers. 6:30 pm. R ­ ogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. argonauts.ca.

Car Seat Installation Workshop Learn how to use and install a child’s car seat in any vehicle. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Humberview Motors, 3200 Bloor W. safeandsure.ca.

CrCaribana Presents Flags And Colours

Street parade and activities with a focus on educating children about the carnival arts and culture. Parade at 10 am (from Shoreham Public School, 31 Shoreham), festivities 11 am-6 pm. Free. Yorkgate Mall, Finch west of Jane. flagsandcolours.org.

Create This! Art and portfolio clinic for artists.

1-4 pm. Free. Hillcrest Library, 5801 Leslie. Preregister laura@northyorkarts.org.

The Gibraltar Market Artisinal market with vintage clothing, handmade soaps, jewellery, pottery and more. Noon-4 pm. ­Artscape Gibraltar Point, 443 Lakeshore, Toronto­Island. facebook.com/events/507377452741054.

Gluten-Free Baked Goods Learn to make breads (9:30 am-12:30 pm) or cookies, bars and squares (1:30-4:30 pm). $80 per class.

Bonnie Gordon College, 670 Caledonia. Preregister ­bonniegordoncollege.com.

Immigration Stories: Making A Home In Old Toronto Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am.

Free/pwyc. Location provided on registration. ­heritagetoronto.org.

In Conversation With... Mamoru Oshii The Ghost In The Shell director dicusses his career in animation, live action, television, film and manga. 6:30 pm. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.

Kensington Culinary Adventure Uncover history, folklore,

graffiti and street foods in an urban scavenger hunt where

you answer trivia questions and complete taste challenges. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Preregister ­urbancapers.com.

Kensington Foodies Roots Tour Celebrate food connected with the immigrant waves in the Market. 10 am-1 pm. $50, stu/srs $45, child $35. Starts at 350 Spadina. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Mad Market Bizarre Various goods on display and for sale plus performance artists, talks, an art exhibition and a poetry reading as part of the Mad Pride Toronto festival.

Music by DJ Greatdrake. Noon-10 pm. Free.

246 Sackville. ­madprideto.com.

Masterchef Canada Open Casting Call

Home cooks bring a prepared dish for judging to qualify for participation in season 2 of Masterchef Canada. Today and tomorrow 7 am. Free. InterContinental Toronto Centre Hotel, 225 Front W. ctv.ca/masterchefcanada.

rNatsu Matsuri: Japanese Summer Festival Enjoy games, food, music and dance performances and more. 3-8 pm. Free. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, 6 Garamond. 416441-2345, ­jccc.on.ca.

The Necropolis Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Necropolis Cemetery Gates, 200 Winchester. ­heritagetoronto.org.

Red Cross Babysitting Course For Teens

Learn about diapering, feeding, household safety and basic first aid. Certificate upon completion. 9 am-5 pm. $50. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-395-5710, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Rouge Park Walks Guided nature walks happen Sat, Sun and Wed, various times and difficulty levels, see website for details. Free. ­rougepark.com/hike.

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5Toronto Gaymers Board Games Night

Gathering of the LGBT* social group for geeks and gamers of all stripes. 7 pm. $6. Glad Day Bookshop, 598A Yonge. ­torontogaymers.ca.

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

Trees By Two Wheels: A Biking Tour Of The Urban Forest Pick up simple tree identifica-

tion tricks and learn about biking in the city.

10:30 am-12:30 pm. $5 sugg donation. Meet at NW corner of Queen and Euclid (ends at Rosedale subway station). Pre-register ­yourleaf.org.

Women’s Flat Track Rollerderby The Fresh and the Furious. 7 pm. $15, adv $12, kids free.

Ted Reeve Arena, 175 Main. gtarollergirls.­ ticketleap.com.

Sunday, July 13 The Art Of The Sufi Tale Ariel Balevi talks about the stories of Jalaladin Rumi. 2 pm.

Free. Knox College, 59 St George, room 4.

416-410-1892, ulyssean.on.ca.

Basketball Tournament Esplanade Youth Movement and Toronto Police Service host an outdoor 5-on-5 game. 1-6 pm. Free. Berkeley and Esplanade. deb.crane@hotmail.com.

Bastille Day In Toronto! Check out French artisans, associations and institutions plus music and dance at this bilingual event. Noon. $10, kids under 12 free. Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-922-2014, alliance-­francaise.ca.

Beaconsfield Village Heritage Toronto walk.

1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. 1153 Queen W. ­heritagetoronto.org.

CCaribbean Carnival Opening Service

Religious service, open to everyone. 10 am.

Free. Church of the Nativity, 10 Sewells. ­torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Distillery Sunday Market Juried art market.

Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. ­thedistillerydistrict.com.

Family Photo Shoot In High Park Free shoot (photos extra) with a pro photographer Sundays in July. 2-7 pm. See website for details. Pre-register ­sandrareds.com.

Getting Around Downtown In The Automobile Age Heritage Toronto walk. 10:30 am.

Free/pwyc. SW corner Queen and Yonge. ­heritagetoronto.org.

High Park Restoration Site Maintenance

Monday, July 14 Farm City Farmers Market Fruit and veg,

homemade spices and more. Mondays 4-8 pm. SE corner of Bathurst and Niagara. 416392-0335.

Green Screen For Beginners Digital Innovation Hub staff show you how to use a video camera and a green screen to create footage at fun and far out places. 2 pm. Free. Fort York Library, 190 Fort York Blvd. Pre-register 416-

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

What did you call me?

When a local cop told a group of women not to dress like “sluts” if they didn’t want to get raped, he started a global movement that’s spread to more than 200 countries in just three years. March with your sisters at SlutWalk Toronto to stand in solidarity for the right to live free of violence, victim-blaming and slutshaming. The walk to sexual freedom starts at 3 pm Saturday (July 12) at Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen West, and ends at Queen’s Park with speeches from 4 to 5 pm. Free. ­slutwalktoronto.com.

Maniacs on mattresses

There’s power in reclaiming words, 393-6240, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre Summer Program

Classes in contemporary indigenous dance and powwow styles. See website for schedule. $15 drop-in. Dancemakers Centre, 9 Trinity.

416-367-1800, ­kahawidance.org.

Orientation To Ontario Interact with other newcomers and learn how to find services in your community. Today 10 am-1:30 pm; Jul 16, 10 am-4 pm. Free. Welcome Centre Immigrant Svs, 8400 Woodbine (Markham). ­welcomecentre.ca.

Youth Summer Opera Intensive Day camp for youth in grades 9 to 12. 9:30 am-5:30 pm. $350 one week, 2 weeks $625. Joey and Toby Tanenbaum Opera Centre, 227 Front E. Preregister 416-363-8231.

and that’s just what Mad Pride is all about. “I am he, as you are me, and we are all together = not Other.” Call yourself a “lunatic,” “psycho” or “nutter” – just don’t call yourself late for this parade. Let your freak flag fly and use your crazy power at the Mad Pride Bed Push parade. Starting at noon Sunday (July 13) at the Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen West, the march ends at Trinity Bellwoods with a picnic in the park. Free. ­madpridetoronto.com.

knitting’s taken on an activist tinge.

During The Great TTC Knitalong on Saturday (July 12), knitters and crocheters ply their craft on public transit while they make their way to knitting shops. The $15 registra-

A stitch in time...

At first blush, knitting looks like a solitary activity. But peek into a yarn shop and you’ll see knitters socializing while working away, and lately pm. Free. NE corner Parliament and Winchester. rom.on.ca.

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

Fresh Wednesdays Live music and a farmers’ market every Wed , to Aug 27. 10 am-2 pm.

Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen & Bay. toronto.ca/special_events.

MNJCC Rooftop Barbecue Kosher food and refreshments and live entertainment. 5-8 pm. $7-$10. 750 Spadina. milesnadaljcc.ca.

Music History On The Yonge Street Strip

Haunted Yorkville, U Of T & Queen’s Park

Heritage Toronto boutique walking tour. 6:30 pm. $20. Location provided on registration.

Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. rMusic Making Sing along, dance and play various percussion instruments. 10:30 am.

Free. Mount Pleasant Library, 599 Mt Pleasant.

416-393-7737, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Lewis R Yealland And His Shell-Shocked First World War Patients Professor Dennis

Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & Fitness Classes Cardio dance

Tuesday, July 15 Ghost walk. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Royal Ontario Museum steps, 100 Queen’s Park. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Duffy talks about the career of the WWI psychiatrist. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

5LGBT Salsa Classes Salsa and bachata classes for queer and trans people and their allies.

To Aug 26, 6:30-9:30 pm. $70 for seven-week session, stu $35. $15 drop-in for single class.

Multifaith Centre, 569 Spadina. Pre-register lgbtdance.club@utoronto.ca.

National Lampoon’s Vacation Outdoor film screening. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & Fitness Classes Zumba fitness classes and

live music. Noon to 12:50 pm, to Aug 26. Free.

Trinity Square Park, 10 Trinity Sq. ­downtownyonge.com/playtheparks.

Summer Lunchtime Yoga Trish Dingman leads a class every Tue in July. Bring your mat.

12:10-12:50 pm. Free. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, main lobby, 1 Front E. ­sonycentre.ca/yoga.

Summer Market Party A fresh-food market with local food vendors, local beer and music.

6-9 pm. 369 King W, freshcityfarms.com/­getinvolved/the-farm-lot-2.

Tai Chi Outdoor classes. 6-7 pm. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Wednesday, July 16

Benefits

The Craft Exbeerience (The Remix Project)

Showcase of local food, entertainment, vendors, artwork and, of course, beer. 7:30-11 pm. $20. Burroughes Bldg, 639 Queen W. ­facebook.com/thecraftexbeerience.

Decoding Annie Parker (Willow Breast & Hereditary Cancer Support) Pre-screening of the film about the three-time cancer survivor followed by a panel discussion w/ Parker and others. 6:45 pm. $50-$100. TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. Pre-register ­uniiverse.com.

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Mad Pride takes to the street on July 13.

from noon to 12:50 pm with live music.

Free. College Park Courtyard, 444 Yonge. downtownyonge.com/playtheparks.

Preserving In The Park Strawberry balsamic jam-making class. Includes jar and ingredients. Bring a cutting board and knife. 5-7 pm. $40. Fairmount Park Farmer’s Market, 1725 Upper Gerrard E. facebook.com/fairmountparkfarmersmarket.

Ryerson’s Farmers Market Fresh local produce, food trucks and music. Every Wed 11 am-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. food.ryerson.ca. #SHAREFEST T.O. Learn about organizations and meetups for sharing goods and services.

6:30-9:30 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. ­facebook.com/ events/563971290379904.

tion fee goes to Sister­ing, which provides women with support, services and programs to help them gain new control over their lives.

Pre-register at ­t tcknitalong.blogspot.com.

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Free. Downsview Library, 2793 Keele. 416395-5720, torontopubliclibrary.ca. rMad Science Show Fun experiments in chemistry and physics for ages 5 to 12. 2 pm.

Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston.

Girls, Guys & Goats (Blessings in a Backpack) 416-393-7680, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Join artists Harvey Glazer, Samara Shuter and Summer Wine Jam Wine tasting, food. 7:30Richard Ahnert for a night of cocktails and fine 10:30 pm. $59. Airship 37, 37 Parliament. art. 6 pm. Free (RSVP is required). The Spoke iyellowwineclub.com.

Club, 600 King W. Pre-register online at Toronto Indie Arts Market Fashion, ­eventbrite.ca/e/12005267077. crafts, small press, food and more from local Lights Camera Imagine! (SickKids) Entertainartisans and makers. 7-11 pm. Free. Gladment by 40 artists, buskers, dancers and stone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. torontoinmore. 3:30-10 pm. Donations. Yonge-Dundas dieartsmarket.com.

Square. Pre-register lightscameraimagine.ca.

Wine And Cheese Tasting Try Ontario wines B:3.833” and cheeses with Jeremy Lago. 7 pm. $40.

Lazy Daisy’s Cafe, 1515 Gerrard E. Pre-register Diabetes Prevention Learn about signs andT:3.833” dawn@­lazydaisyscafe.ca. symptoms and how to reduce your risk. 2 pm.

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Benefits

Events

Score major culture cred at Toronto’s 207 galleries.

Smart Textiles and Emotive Technologies

Illustrated talk on the history of smart materials and flexible technologies. 6:30 pm. $15, stu free. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321.

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Help uncover plants in a restoration site. Tools provided. 10:30 am-12:30 pm. Free. Grenadier Cafe, 200 Parkside. ­highparknature.org.

Leslieville Farmers’ Market Meats, baked goods, dairy, fruits and veg offered by local producers every Sunday till Oct 26. 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). ­leslievillemarket.com.

Liberty Village Farmers Market Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca.

Mad Pride Bed Push Mad Pride march with a bed push and a picnic in the park. Noon. Free.

Parkdale Activity and Recreation Centre, 1499 Queen W. ­madpridetoronto.com.

Parkdale Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca.

Sunday Serenades Dance to swing, jazz and big band music. To Aug 17. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. ­toronto.ca.

Time For Peace Talk by international peace ambassador Prem Rawat. Translation will be provided in Tamil, Hindi and French, plus service for those with impaired hearing. 7 pm.

Free. Sony Centre, 1 Front E. Pre-register ­wordsofpeacetoronto.com.

Ukulele Sundays Intro class. 12:30-1 pm.

Free. Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen W. ­enjoymusictoronto.com.

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Ethan Eisenberg

every Saturday. All skill levels. 9:30 am-noon. $12. Rebellion Gallery & Art Academy, 914 Eastern. 416-469-1777.

Slutwalk Toronto Walk for the right to live free of violence, victim-blaming and sexshaming. 3-5 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. ­slutwalktoronto.com Swansea & LM Montgomery Tour Literary detective walk that traces places and folks the author met in Toronto. 3-5:30 pm. $15$25 (includes snacks). Meet at Runnymede subway station. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Summer Movies For Teens: Perks Of Being A Wallflower Drop-in screening. 3-5 pm.

Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Table Talk Presentation on the fusion of food and design with Rob Bragagnolo, Chad Roberts, Jen Agg and others. 6-9 pm. $25, stu/srs $18.75. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. uniiverse.com.

Under The Stars Outdoor film screening at dusk. Free. Outside Daniels Spectrum (585 Dundas E) in the adjacent park. ­regentparkfilmfestival.com.

rWetland Wander-Family Nature Walk

Visit an underground water source, visit Salamander stream, weave a willow crown and more along Spring Creek. 1:30-3 pm. $2-$5 or donate what you can. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. highparknaturecentre.org.

The Wine Doctor Recommends... Summer Drinks Info seminar with the Wine Doctor

Edward Finstein. 12:10-12:50 pm. Free (bring your lunch). North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge, Auditorium. 416-395-5653.

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 What are the

sources that heal and nourish you?

Where do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.

Taurus Apr 20 | May 20 Why do birds

fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food. Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat. Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 per cent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 per cent of the time.

Gemini May 21 | Jun 20 Is there an impor­tant resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool?

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would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day.

Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived to ­become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.

Cancer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Since 1981, Chi-

nese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favourable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate long-term growth.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 The weeks preceding

your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demon-banishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently,

and even if it was cast by yourself.

Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah!

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 You know what

it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown.

And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone. Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul.

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 Since 2008, Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics.

They’re doing well. The Avengers earned $1.5 billion, making it the third-highestgrossing film of all time. Iron Man 3 brought in over $1 billion, too, and Thor: The Dark World grossed $644 million.

Now Marvel executives are on schedule to release two movies every year through 2028. I’d love to see you be inspired by

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their example, Libra. Sound fun? To get started, dream and scheme about what you want to be doing in both the near future and the far future. Then formulate a flexible, invigorating master plan for the next 14 years.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 While in Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?” Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked.

As amusing as his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should NOT proceed in the coming week.

If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 In one of

her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 This would

be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not

cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Expect noth-

ing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo?

Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders – with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 Every year, the U.S. government spends $25,455 per capita on programs for senior citizens. Meanwhile, it allocates $3,822 for programs to help children. That’s only 15 per cent as much as what the elders receive. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I believe your priorities should be reversed. Give the majority of your energy and time and money to the young and innocent parts of your life.

Devote less attention to the older and more mature aspects. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need to care intently for what’s growing most v­ igorously.

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COLD, HARD TRUTH: THE ICE CREAM GUIDE

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BREYERS Milk, cream, sugar, vanilla – that’s what Breyers used to say its ice cream contained. Now you get two scoops of synthetic ingredients no kid could pronounce: tasty stuff like mono and diglycerides as well as artificial colour in a tantalizing base of “modified milk ingredients” from North American rather just Canadian sources.

Why does that matter? Breyers still hasn’t banned the use of dairy from cows given genetically modified growth hormones that boost milk production.

Those hormones are banned in Canadian cows but still perfectly legal to import in, say, modified milk ingredients. Clearly, their old slogan “Breyers: taste not technology” is buried somewhere deep in the freezer.

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CHAPMAN’S This Canuck company’s ice cream has all the synthetic fillers, thickeners and modified milk ingredients that Breyers has, but it’s got one advantage: it’s made with 100 per cent Canadian milk, which means no added growth hormones. Don’t expect organic or fair trade contents.

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BEN & JERRY’S Tree-hugging ice cream lovers, rejoice! As of this summer, Ben & Jerry’s has finally ditched the last of its genetically modified ingredients, swapping GMO beet sugar for fair trade cane sugar. B&Js is now a vocal champion of Vermont’s new GMO labelling law. However, hardcores say the ice cream should still be boycotted, since its parent company, Unilever, has donated half a million to the anti-labelling camp. Your call, but Ben & Jerry’s is a socially responsible certified B Corp biz and uses fair trade ingredients (sugar, cocoa, vanilla, etc), growth-hormone-free milk and eggs from cage-free hens, which is way more than most mainstream brands can say.

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nature notes DENMARK BOWS TO EU PRESSURE AND DITCHES PHTHALATE-BAN In the world of anti-toxins campaigning, Denmark is heralded as a bit of rock star. It broke ranks with the EU by announcing a ban on two parabens from kids’ items before any other nation on the planet. It then defied the EU again by muscling ahead to outlaw four controversial, plastic-softening phthalates not just from children’s items but from virtually all consumer products.

Until, that is, word got out earlier this month that all phthalate-banning plans have been scrapped.

When Denmark first announced the ban on four phthalates found in a broad range of products in 2012, the environment minister at the time, Ida Auken, said she was done waiting on

the EU “when there are such clear risk indications in this area.”

What gives? Pressure from the European Commission, that’s what. Denmark had said it was prepared to take the matter to court, but a recent ruling on a comparable case made mandatory repeal of Denmark’s phthalate law likely.

Denmark’s current enviro minister says it’s now linking arms with other Eurozone countries to keep pushing for tougher regs. If Europe’s going to maintain its rep as a global leader on toxins, it had better hurry up and get out of Denmark’s way.

MAPLETON’S ORGANIC If you want to make sure the cows behind the ice cream in your cone were treated with a little more care (and weren’t spiked full of antibiotics), look for the certified organic seal. I like Mapleton’s in particular since this ice cream is crafted right on their Ontario farm, using milk and cream from 70 milking cows (that happen to eat, sleep and give milk on their own sched). Plus, all the sugar, cocoa and coffee flavours are fair trade and organic-certified.

Mapleton’s also offers up delicious seasonal flavours like lavender, pumpkin and dandelion (!) as well as organic frozen yogurt.

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EDEN FOODS COOKS UP BIRTH CONTROL BATTLE What do you look for in a can of beans?

An organic seal, maybe a “BPA-free” sticker telling you the lining is free of harmful substances. What most Whole Foodies and Crunchy Betty’s may not be browsing for is a can of worms – of the American religious-politico variety.

If you do your grocery-buying in the organic food aisle, chances are you already own a stash of Eden products. As purportedly the oldest natural food brand in America, the multi-million-dollar company has long been a trusted source of organic canned goods and soy bevvies.

It’s now getting a much less wholesome rep for trying to squash employ-

SCREAMIN BROTHERS, COCONUT BLISS How do you cool down without heating up the planet? I say go for non-dairy ice cream, er, frozen dessert. But just because the ingredients don’t come from gassy mammals doesn’t mean they’re grown without pesticides. Many are made with lots of fillers and binders. And, yes, it’s hard to find a non-dairy option made with mostly local, organic ingredients. Still, Alberta’s Screamin Brothers makes creamy organic frozen coconut treats with local raw honey, Quebec maple syrup, BC berries and organic fair trade cacao. And 5 per cent of profits go to kids’ charities. Oregon’s über-yummy Coconut Bliss is also entirely organic, with fair trade chocolate and coffee.

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ee access to birth control coverage.

Last year, Eden, headed by devout Catholic CEO Michael Potter, sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, claiming Obamacare was violating its religious freedom by mandating that employee health insurance cover birth control pills, charging that contraception and abortifacients “almost always involve immoral and unnatural practices.” A boycott ensued.

An appeal court shot the case down in the fall, but the tide has since shifted. On June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a craft store

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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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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.

GOOD TO KNOW: Must try dishes include Hank’s famous Breakfast Poutine with Hollandaise and soft poached egg in place of the usual gravy. Get your Lipitor Rx ready!

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McGuGan’s Fine scottish Pub

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. The Roast Beef Sannie - thin-

sliced beef served on a yorkshire pudding bun - is a must-try. This wee East end gem has live music every Friday and two of the best backyard patios in the city - a flower-festooned ground-level 60-seater and a rooftop bar with a big-screen TV, as well as a giant indoor TV to catch all of the world cup matches.

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Aprile BAmBinA CuCinA

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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Unwilling to resign ourselves to a half-decade at East Side Mario’s, we started experimenting. We looked for places with other children but no insipid “children’s menu” of chicken nuggets and PB&J, places that were noisy but where the music wasn’t too loud, places with interesting vegetarian options (my husband is an ethical vegetarian and has been since he asked his parents for permission as his 12th birthday present), places where we felt comfortable as a queer couple.

Ever since that day, the first taste of blanched cucumber slicked with superfine sesame oil and the merest touch of seasoning relaxes my shoulders like a password.

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TWO DADS AND A BABY We find warmth and welcome over Korean kimchee By S. BEAR BERGMAN

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It sounds like the opening of a joke: two gay dads and a six-month-old walk into a bar (and grill)! Less funny when it’s the only place open on a freezing Good Friday, and downright humourless when the simmering hostility of the other patrons means abandoning your juice, cancelling the soup and heading back into the cold.

Shortly after that, we decided to

move back to Toronto, where, among other benefits, we figured we’d be more likely to find queer-friendly establishments (and have more restaurant choices on stat holidays).

Queer-friendliness turned out not to be a problem. We live on the edge of the Church-Wellesley village and can have any number of cuisines in the company of as many homos as we’d like. The problem, it turns out, is

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We started ordering in yet another pizza when work and caring for our son, Stanley, left us too exhausted for proper cookery. * * * One cold day around his first birthday, we find ourselves in front of a place on Bloor with the uninspired name Korean Village (aka Han Kuk Kwan, 628 Bloor West, 416-536-0290).

We’ve been out doing errands for a little too long and are on the verge of

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Turns out that sometimes we do want to go where everybody knows your name, just like the song says, and that this is especially true in the kind of work my husband and I do as educators and advocates.

After a day of absorbing people’s homophobia, transphobia, gen­deressentialism and assorted other bad behaviour, it’s balm to feel welcomed and valued, given our favourite table and brought an assortment of banchan that Jason knows we all like and can eat.

That first day, he brings two separate and highly customized stone bowls of bi bim bap. Everything is wonderful – that signature sweet-salty-tangy trifecta that makes Kor­ean food so appealing in perfect balance.

My eggs are runny, as requested, and ready to mix into a glorious mess studded with crunchy bits of rice made crisp in the hot bowl, while my husband’s bowl is made without egg or meat or anything with fish sauce, puffs of seasoned tofu heaped in the centre. It’s our first totally successful meal as parents, and when we leave we feel a little more like maybe we can do this family thing.

On the way out, we meet the formidable Mrs. Lee, owner and head chef. (Jason tells us everything is prepared with her recipes.) She smiles at us, casually but warmly, and then catches sight of Stanley. Exchanging a few phrases with Jason in Korean, she beckons us to bring Stanley closer and, through her son, explains that children with a whorl of hair on top of their heads, as Stanley has, are thought to be born with exceptional luck.

“Fortune baby!” she exclaims in En­glish, and that is how she has greet­ed him for years when we arrive, followed shortly by a little special snack from the kitchen, and after that the banchan – now, for all of us, the taste of being cared for.

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686 Queen E, at Broadview, 647-3461541, aftbar.com, @aft_bar Taking its name from the acronym for “about fucking time,” Paul Campbell’s southern-fried bistro in the one-time Toucan Taco/Le Rossignol/Pop space delivers considerable ’cue on one of the loveliest backyard patios east of the Don Valley Parkway. Best: to start, smoked and briefly deep-fried chicken wings in the Buffalo style sided with a whack o’ hand-cut fries; for the wayward vegetarian, deep-fried strips of panko-dusted portobello mushrooms with thyme aioli; mains like free-range half-chicken slathered with sweet Kansas City-style sauce sided with purple cabbage slaw and German potato salad; nicely barked and perfectly pink pork side ribs optionally mopped with sauce; weekendonly platters with peppercorn-crusted brisket, those meaty ribs and saucy chicken; cheddar-studded ground-brisket burgers on eggy Harbord Bakery buns. Complete dinners for $40 per person, including tax, tip and smoked habanero Caesar. Average main $18. Kitchen open daily 11 am to 1 am. Bar open 11 am to 2 am. Licensed.

Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNN✺

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the kind of fight you have when you’re too hungry to function.

In our marriage of two over-com­ mitted people who aren’t always the best about stopping work to put food in, the hungry fight is to be avoided at all costs, lest we find ourselves hissing at each other from either side of the car: “Jesus Harriet Christ on a canapé tray with a swizzle stick, just tell me what you want to eat!”

So we walk in. They take one look at us – two chilly, grouchy guys with a wriggly toddler – and give us a small private room with a bell to ring when we need the server. Later, someone suggests to us that they might’ve been trying to hide the homos, but in that moment we are overwhelmed with gratitude to be beyond the gaze of other diners while we try to eat and keep our kid from (literally) climb­ing the walls.

A smiling woman brings in a tray of tiny dishes containing even tinier delicious vegetables and kimchee, which I later learn are called banchan. At half-past-dinnertime with a toddler and a vegetarian, this is more or less heaven on a plate. We dig in to barely cooked cucumber with a light tang, bean sprouts elevated to magic with some then-unknown ingredients, potatoes made sweet and salty, tiny fish cake slivers, sweet pickled daikon and two kinds of kimchee as our collective blood sugar returns to normal and we warm in the small space.

Even the little guy munches happily while we page through the vast menu and regain our equilibrium.

Ever since that day, the first taste of blanched cucumber slicked with superfine ses­ame oil and the merest touch of seasoning relaxes my shoulders like a password.

When it’s time to order, we have questions about the relative vegetar­ ianosity of certain menu items and only one word of Korean between us, so our attempt to question our server fails. She disappears and reappears with Jason, now our friend and stalwart but then just another friendly stranger.

We like him right away when he looks at the zone of chaos around our small person and gives him a big smile anyhow, and we grow to adore him as he brings endless small tastes

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Baby back ribs with burst tomato pesto are a treat at Big Crow.

@hummingbirdTO Conveniently located directly across the street from the Leslieville Beer Store, Otis Creary’s island-inspired bistro cum take-away breathes new life into tradition-bound Caribbean cuisine. Best: to start, saltfish and ackee bruschetta on house-baked bammy flatbread; aggressively spiced jerk chicken over local greens with sliced avocado, baby grape tomatoes and caramelized plantain croutons in thyme-scented balsamic vinaigrette; delicate dal puri rotis stuffed with callaloo, chickpeas and pumpkin squash; Friday and Saturday nights, jerk pork kebabs with sweet peppers and pineapple sided with grilled corn, roasted sweet potatoes or cornbread; at weekday lunch, $6 specials like jerk or Jamaican fried chicken with coleslaw and rice ’n’ peas; for dessert, blueberry SnoCones. Complete dinners for $25 (lunches $15), including tax, tip and a beer. Open Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 9 pm; Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 10 pm.

Closed Sunday. Reservations ­accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN

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Brunch Big Crow 176 Dupont, at St George, 647-748-3287, ñ roseandsonsbigcrow.com,

@roseandsons Ex-Drake chef Anthony Rose rebounds with a year-round backyard barbecue located behind his popular Rose and Son diner. Where else will you find picnic tables loaded with shareable church-social plates, Zeppelin on the turntable and the occasional passing freight train? Best: to B:3.833” start, chopped countrystyle salads of chickpeas, baby plum tomatoes, cubed English T:3.833” cuke and pitted black olives, all tossed with sheep-milk feta and crunchy dill pickle; retro Shrimp Louie salads with shredded iceS:3.833”

berg, sliced avocado, hard-boiled egg and a handful of Quebecois cocktail shrimp in Thousand Island dressing; mains like uncut jerk chicken wings with grilled pineapple splashed with coriander hot sauce; smoked Cornish hen in garlicky pesto; whole grilled rabbits with buttery hot sauce; on the side, baby red potato salad with grilled cremini mushrooms; grilled corn salad with crumbly fetalike queso and crema fresca; to finish, profiterole-like s’mores ice cream sandwiches with fire-roasted marshmallows. Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $40), including tax, tip and a mai tai. Average main $18. Open daily 5 pm till close; Brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. ­Access: three steps at door, three steps to washroom. Rating:

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Gautama

1416 Gerrard E, at Hiawatha, 416-4694444, thesiddhartha.com Though the original was shuttered more than a year ago after a fire, Siddhartha rises from the ashes phoenix-like in fancier new digs a few blocks west. Not only is Sid’s all-you-caneat buffet as exemplary as ever, but it can now be enjoyed al fresco on the only licensed patio in Little India. Best: from the buffet, crisply fried samosas stuffed with potato, peas and mild peppers; saag paneer swirled with yogurt; biryani-style rice with garden peas and curry leaves; stir-

fried cabbage with turmeric and mustard seeds; mashed eggplant and potato with chilies; aloo gobi with curried cauliflower ’n’ spuds; super-moist tandoori chicken legs and thighs while they last; to finish, rice pudding, mango ice cream and fresh fruit; to drink, lime sodas. Complete buffet dinners for $25 per person (lunches $20), including tax, tip and a domestic lager. Average la carte main $10. Open daily for $10.99 lunch buffet noon to 3:30 pm; $13 dinner buffet 4 to 10:30 pm. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: one step at door, washrooms in basement. R ­ ating: NNN✺

Middle E ­ astern District Oven 842 College, at Ossington, 416-901ñ 7717, districtoven.com, @DistrictOvenTO

The crew behind long-running Middle Eastern bistro 93 Harbord transform a ginormous Portuguese sports bar into a sexy chandelier-lit resto-lounge worthy of the slick King West strip. Best: from the large gas-burning oven that gives the resto its name, warm complimentary pits the size of soccer balls with za’atar-spiked olive oil; cracker-thin Lebanese pizza topped with fresh figs, halloumi cheese and mint leaves; juicy beef ’n’ lamb kefta burgers garnished with arugula, fig jam and molten Brie, a basket of crisp Yukon Gold frites dusted with paprika and oregano on the side; duck legs à la tagine with apples ’n’ apricots; baked cauliflower in sumac-scented chili oil over a creamy risotto of Israeli couscous; to finish, poached pears with sour-cherry reduction. Complete dinners for $55 per person, including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $20. Open for brunch Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 3 pm; dinner daily 5 pm to close; late-night menu till midnight Thursday to Saturday; bar open till close. Reservations accepted. Licensed. ­Access: one step at door, washrooms on same floor. Rating: NNNN

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up their hip ’n’ happening Weslodge with Patria, their tastiest collab yet. Executive chef Stuart Cameron’s open kitchen sends out unusually authentic Spanish tapas while the cavernous room’s cathedral ceiling guarantees the buzz only gets louder as the night progresses. Come back Sunday for one of the most nonbrunchy brunches around. Best: to share, tissue-thin slices of 24-month-old Serrano ham; wedges of Valdeon blue cheese with quince jelly and grilled sour dough; creamy Manchego cro-

Head to Patria for Spanish octopus, potato and paprika drenched in olive oil.

quettes; blistered padrón peppers; Manchego-stuffed dates and guindilla peppers wrapped in fatty Iberico bacon; blood-red Iberico pork flank over piquillo pepper jam; deep-fried churros with caramel sauce; soft coffee ice cream sandwiches with olive marmalade; at brunch, sponge-cake muffins with o ­ live-oil pudding; potato frittata with romesco sauce; braised cannellini beans ’n’ chorizo; octopus terrine on flatbread splashed with aioli; wood-fired Spanish pizzas dressed with white anchovies, piquillo peppers and Manchego. Complete dinners for $60 per person (brunches $30), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average tapas $9. Open for brunch Sunday 10:30 am to 2:30 pm; dinner daily 5:30 to close. Reservations ­accepted. Licensed. A ­ ccess: barrier-free. ­Rating: NNNN✺

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at Toronto Urban Roots Festival, July 6.

Shows that rocked Toronto last week

AGALLOCH and JEX THOTH at the Opera House, Friday, July 4. Rating: NNNNN

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The gamble with metal shows is that it’s hard to guess how they’ll come together live. That’s especially true with Oregon-based blackened folk metal group Agalloch. Their albums are loaded with quiet, meditative, folksy elements (acoustic amblings, babbling brooks, chirping birds) that provide counterpoint for all the pummelling, howling and power solos. It’s hard to imagine it registering as effectively onstage.

And then you see it. Filing onstage through prop smoke, cued by tonesetting acoustic fingerpicking, Agalloch drove into The Astral Dialogue, which carried them through an impressively heavy, incredibly fun set. It’s easy to joke about the band’s bright instrumentals and crescendo fetishism, but their ability to massage the savagery of black metal into complex, triumphant instrumentals – dynamic beyond their vacillations between acoustic and electric guitars – is impressive. Especially live.

Also: big shout-out to openers Jex Thoth, a definitive example of a band that sounds flat and kind of boring

on record but explodes in concert.

Singer Jex contorted like a Tim Burton claymation maquette, her commanding, soulful vocals summoning the anguished spirits of classical metal front-women like Coven’s Jinx Dawson.

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MAXWELL at Massey Hall,

ñSaturday, July 5.

Rating: NNNN Even as R&B and hip-hop have become increasingly interwoven over the past decade, falsetto-voiced Maxwell has stuck to the kind of finger-snapping midtempo jams and soul ballads of his 90s neo-soul heyday.

Dressed in a three-piece suit, the 41-year-old cut a classic silhouette, and he and his seven-piece band sounded as sharp as he looked. Playing exclusively back-catalogue material, he swayed his pelvis suggestively, commanded the band James Brown-style and frequently dropped to his knees.

When a woman handed him a pair of panties during Bad Habits, he put them in his mouth and finished the song. “Wow,” he said, sniffing them after. “They were pretty used.

Definitely.”

The most theatrical portion of the

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ñFEMMES at Toronto Urban Roots Festival, Saturday and Sunday, July 5 and 6.

Rating: NNNN Violent Femmes’ Saturday afternoon TURF set was triumphant: they ripped through their 31-year-old eponymous debut, in order, then delved into Hallowed Ground material, sounding even better live than on record.

But what Jeff Tweedy pulled off the next day was subtler and more of a coup: the bulk of the Wilco frontman’s set was songs the audience could not sing along to because they’d never heard them before. Tweedy’s debut solo album, Sukierae, is due out in September.

He joked that it took him 18 years to make a solo album because he had to grow a drummer: his son Spencer played on the record and at the show.

Their stripped-down, more straight-ahead arrangements allowed Tweedy’s lyricism, humour and charisma to shine, even as his guitar playing occasionally fumbled.

Afterward, Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum was a reluctant cult hero, but the audience was eager to eat up songs from their beloved In The Aeroplane Over The Sea album, especially Two-Headed Boy and The King Of Carrot Flowers. Mangum’s vocals, especially when backed just by his acoustic guitar, were the most distinctive and haunting of the fest.

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evening was a cover of the Kate Bush ballad This Woman’s Work, during which religious devotion doubled as foreplay.

Maxwell knelt with his back to the crowd and faced a single spotlight as a near-a cappella pre-recorded Kate Bush vocal played. Returning to the mic, he drank in a long pause, leaned into the mic and caressed it gently as women screamed and waved their arms in anticipation.

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FESTIVAL D’ÉTÉ at

various venues in Quebec ñ City, Friday, July 4, to Sunday,

July 6. Rating: NNNN For 11 nights each summer, up to 90,000 people flood Quebec City’s Plaines d’Abraham, the headlining “venue” of the multi-stage, city-wide music celebration Festival d’été. A pass goes for $78 for the whole shebang, making it Canada’s best-kept festival secret, as well as totally worth the gas

money or airfare if you’re inclined to visit from T.O. Judging by the international media presence, it won’t be secret for long.

Lady Gaga brought her Artpop tour outdoors on Friday night, showcasing hits from that record, belting a dynamite ballad version of Born This Way and making impressive costume (and wig!) changes throughout: bondagey leather numbers; dazzling, winged bodysuits; rainbow-bright, Harajukuinspired ensembles.

Snoop Dogg was less impressive on Saturday, expending minimal energy, even if his 90s hit catalogue is familiar and fun. A$AP Rocky – who commanded the stage despite a wonky set list – totally outshone him.

But Sunday’s headliners, Journey, were tops. After a solid but sleepy Steve Miller Band, they owned their ultra-singable rock hits, from the pump-up classics (Any Way You Want It) to the lighter-waving ballads (Faithfully) to the all-out transcendental (Don’t Stop Believin’). Lead singer Arnel Pineda is a ball of captivating energy, breathing new life into the classics with his tirelessly soaring vocals.

The festival continues until July 13.

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clubs&concerts hot Basia Bulat, Destroyer Massey Hall (178 Victoria), Thursday (July 10) Singer/songwriters in a beauty hall.

Experimental noise and shaman beat.

The Highest ­Order, the Idaho Stop, ­Lowlands 3030 Dundas West, Saturday (July 12) Psych-country and more.

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Askio, Luvmenauts, DJ Groove ­InstituTe Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (July 12) See preview, page 35.

Queen & Adam Lambert Air Canada Centre (40 Bay), Friday (July 13) Rock gods w/ American Idol runner-up.

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Weaves 99 Sudbury, Thursday (July 10) Outdoor concert and film.

Prison Garde, Ango, Michael Imperial, Seb Diamond, ­Itsmattlangille Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Thursday (July 10) Funk/techno/house beatmaker.

Anciients, Black Wizard, Castle Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), ­Friday (July 11) See preview, page 30.

Absolutely Free, Doom­squad, Anamai, DJ Josh V Smiling Buddha (961 College), Friday (July 11)

Jason Isbell Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Tuesday (July 15) Alt-country singer/songwriter.

Wild Beasts Virgin Mobile Mod Club (722 College), Wednesday (July 16) English art rock four-piece.

Hip-Hop/R&B

Future

Though he’d been grinding in Atlanta for a few years already (with the likes of the Dungeon Family and Andre 3000), singer/rapper Future­seemed to come out of nowhere in 2012 with his debut fulllength, Pluto, raising eyebrows with his squeaky croon and remarkably polished production, his fresh juxtaposi­tion of heartfelt love ballads and aggressive bangers.

Numerous follow-up-album delays caused fans a little worry, but the Haitian-born artist over-delivered: Honest is one of 2014’s best hip-hop re­leases, featuring the emcee’s strongest lyrics to date and addictive collabos with Kanye, Pharrell and Drake.

Lately, he’s also contributed guest vocals for literally everybody (Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne), shared the stage with Outkast and made a baby with his partner, R&B star ­Ciara. But he still, still, hasn’t had a Toronto headlining show. Until now.

Friday (July 11), Sound Academy (11 Polson), doors 8 pm. $38. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

Just Announced Basement Jaxx, HolloH The Hoxton doors 10 pm, $20. TW. July 17.

Lich King, Shotgun Cure, Mokomokai

­Bovine Sex Club 9 pm, free. July 20.

Weatherbox, Dikembe, the Box Tiger, Sweet and Lowdown, The Cave doors 8 pm, $10.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. July 23.

Model 500 Live, Jeremy Greenspan, Gingy B2B, Members Only, Andrew Ross, Mikey Apples Otherland Tattoo 10 pm, $20. INK, PDR, RT, SS. July 25.

Tom Keifer The Rockpile East 8 pm. July 26.

Cross Record, Any Kind, Loom Drake Hotel

Lake Street Dive

at The Danforth Music Hall, August 30.

8 pm, $10. July 26.

Mortals Smiling Buddha. July 28.

Bas Last Winter Tour Tattoo 9 pm, $20. TM. July 31.

Belle Starr Roy Thomson Hall 5 to 8 pm, free.

July 31.

Beautiful Nothing, Drunk Lips, Fussisus The Garrison 9 pm, $5. August­ 1.

Kuato, Billie Dre & the Poor Boys Boat 10 pm, $6. August­ 7.

Nashville Pussy, Fifth on the Floor Bovine Sex Club 8 pm, all ages. $12. August­ 8.

The Cameron Brothers, the Treasures,

Kirty The Garrison 9 pm, $10. August­ 8.

The Box Tiger Silver Dollar. August­ 14.

Canvas, Atom and the Volumes, Young Doctors in Love, Old English EP release The

Garrison 9 pm, $10. August­ 22.

Harper Simon Drake Hotel doors 8 pm, $10.50. RT, SS. August­ 23.

Lake Street Dive The Danforth Music Hall doors 8 pm, $22.50. RT, SS, TM. August­ 30.

Chelsea Shanoff, Nadia Klein Boats & ­Balloons Heliconian Hall 7:30 pm, $10-$15. info@cellophone.ca. September­ 3.

Lee Fields & the Expressions Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $25. HS, RT, SS, TF. September­ 9.

The Young Silver Dollar doors 8:30 pm, $12.50. RT, SS. September­ 15.

Crowbar, Havok, Revocation, Fit for an Autopsy, Armed for Apocalypse Symmetry

In Black Tour Phoenix Concert Theatre. ­September 19.

Sinéad O’Connor Massey Hall 8 pm, $49.50$79.50. RTH. October­ 24.

Reigning Sound Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October­ 25.

Reid Jamieson CD release Rivoli. November­ 7.

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ANCIIENTS with BLACK WIZARD and CASTLE at Hard Luck Bar (772a Dundas West), Friday (July 11), 8 pm. $16. TF.

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Chris Dyck from Anciients is a bit harried. Their van’s GPS system sent them on a wild goose chase between Rimouski and Fredericton, making them late for sound check. And besides juggling intensely complex co-guitar and covocals, he and his three bandmates are handling all the driving, tour managing and merch selling.

So is the Vancouver metal group’s first headlining tour across Canada (not financially viable enough for them to afford hotel rooms) a far cry from opening arena shows with Lamb of God in the States, which they did last year?

“Anyone who says, ‘Oh, I’d rather go headline Canada,’ is bullshitting you,” admits Dyck. “But we’re stoked to be doing it cuz we’ve done three tours of

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the States and one of Europe. We’re Canadian – it’s our market. People have been asking us to come out. And we haven’t seen much of our own country, so it’s a bonus to go out and get paid anything at all.”

Plus, it turns out they never used drivers, merch people or tour managers on those previous tours either (with the exception of a driver in Europe, which is standard). The more Dyck talks, the more clearly Anciients’ DIY ethic comes through.

After forming in 2011, Dyck, coleader Kenny Cook and bassist Aaron Gustafson (drummer Mike Hannay is newer) spent a year hibernating in their jam space working out the lengthy prog-metal tunes that bring to mind Mastodon, High on Fire and Baroness. They recorded the album in 2012, then spent (and continue to spend) thousands of hours networking and playing shows. Once prestigious French label Season of Mist came

aboard, they cleared their schedules to tour as much as possible.

Their 2013 debut album, Heart Of Oak, was a hit in both mainstream metal and indie circles, snagging them tours with metal giants like Lamb of God, Death and Sepultura (a tour that fell through due to visa issues) and earning them a spot on the Polaris Prize long list. But those opportunities didn’t fall from the sky.

“We attribute [the fast jump to the big leagues] to being really nice, working hard and being available,” says Dyck. “We have this team of people sitting in an office, and somewhere on their list of shit to do for the day is our name. They don’t have to be investing time and money into us.

“So we’re just super-appreciative and do whatever it takes. They could be helping 20 billion other proggy, sludgy, beardo bands. For real. There’s fucking tons.”

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

THE PISTON Suxxess, Norway 9 pm.

ROY THOMSON HALL Live On The Patio

POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL

ALLEYCATZ Back In Time: Canadian Cancer Society Benefit Music Souljah, Team Sunshine feat JC, DJ Wayne doors 8 pm.

CAVERN BAR aBabe Residencies Anthony Lohan, Libby Yonge, Olivia Rafferty 9:30 pm.

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JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL

BENARES HISTORIC HOUSE On The Verandah Summer Concerts 7:30 pm.

GATE 403 Denielle Bassels Jazz Band 9 pm,

Doc Barrister Jazz Band 5 to 8 pm.

GERRARD ART SPACE Midcoast, Not the Moon 8 pm.

HARLEM Mike Field Jazz Quintet (jazz trumpet) 7:30 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO Joel Miller Quartet 8, 9:30 & 11 pm.

MUSIDEUM Pleistocene Serenade (avant/improvised) 8 pm.

OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR David Restivo Trio (jazz) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

REFERENCE LIBRARY BEETON AUDITORIUM Free Jazz & Avant-Garde Music The Element Choir (improvising choir) noon to 1 pm.

THE REX Ryan Oliver 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (piano/vocals) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

THE CAVE Bif Bang Pow DJ Trevor (60s mod Brit pop) 10 pm.

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CRAWFORD UPSTAIRS Phazed DJ Aphillyaded (hip-hop/old school/R&B) 9 pm.

CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS Crawford House Party JFlex, DJs Chunk, Gngrn 9 pm.

GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART PLAZA

Scene On The Plaza: Summer Art Party – Cantina Remix DJ Felix & Gani 6 to 10 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE REDPATH STAGE China Now: DJ Deep Fried Fridays DJ Rhythm & Hues 6:30 to 8 pm.

LI’LY Bass Nexus DJ Barikade, Marcus Visionary (bass/DNB/UK garage) 10 pm.

MAISON MERCER Jorn Van Deynhoven, Boom Jinx, Saad Ayub, Morton 10 pm.

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RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock & roll).

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THE LOCAL David Baxter & the Regulars (honky-tonk heartache) 9 pm.

THE LOCAL Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

LOLA Hot Apollo 8 pm.

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PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE A Long Way To The Beginning Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Askio, Luvmenauts, DJ Groove Institute (Afrobeat) doors 9 pm. See preview, page 35.

CPOLISH COMBATANTS HALL Calypso Riddims Music Series Macomere Fifi, Dick Lochan and others (calypso/kaiso/roots/gospelypso, soca/jazz).

THE REX Summer Blues Matinee Jake Chisholm Group 3:30 pm.

THE SISTER The Gypsy Rebels (fusion/world music).

SMALL WORLD MUSIC CENTRE Heart Of Africa Ranzie Mensah, Reza Moghaddas Trio (electro-Afro jazz) doors 7 pm.

TRANZAC JamZac (folk) 3 pm.

VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Big Rude Jake Trio 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

WOODBINE PARK Waterfront Blues Otis Clay & Johnny Rawls 8 pm, Blackburn 6 pm, Lynn Drury 4 pm, Terry Gillespie 2:30 pm, Brant Parker Blues Band 1 pm.

CYORKGATE MALL Caribana Flags and Colours – Junior Carnival Anslem Douglas, Subliminal, Pan Man Pat, Ngozi, the Ngoma Drumming Ensemble, Pass the Torch noon to 5 pm.

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BY THE WAY CAFE Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm.

GATE 403 Michelle Rumball 5 to 8 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm.

HOT BOX PUFF LOUNGE Wilson McLeish Quartet 7 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO Joel Miller Quartet 8, 9:30 & 11 pm.

MUSIDEUM Westwood Chamber Players (classical) 8 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 Barry Elmes Quartet (jazz) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

THE REX Reunion The Deborahs 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, Chris Kettlewell noon.

ST JAMES CATHEDRAL The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge 4 pm.

YOUNG CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Soulpepper Cabaret Series: Bohemians in Brooklyn 8:30 pm.

DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE

ADELAIDE HALL WEFUNK DJ Static, Professor Groove, Ruby Jane (funk/soul/hip-hop/disco/ boogie) 9 pm.

BASSLINE MUSIC BAR Dance Night ’95 DJ Shok, Paul Savage, Brad Respawn, DJ Davide, High Voltage doors 10 pm.

THE CAVE Full On DJ Pat (alternative) 10 pm.

CELT’S PUB Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness Visible (gothic/dark alternative/retro) 10:30 pm.

CINEMA NIGHTCLUB Sex Lies Video DJs Mike Toast & Dee Cee doors 10 pm.

CLINTON’S Shake, Rattle, Roll Bangs & Blush (60s rock/pop/soul) doors 10 pm.

CLUB 120 Dance Night ’95 DJs Shok, Paul Savage, Edwin Somnambulist, Davide, High Voltage doors 10 pm.5 CODA Pleasurekraft, Damn Kids, Darren Arcane, Sam Haze, Paul Quzz 10 pm.

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Fela Kuti’s son maintains his father’s political spirit while updating his Afrobeat sound By BENJAMIN BOLES SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 with ASKIO, LUVMENAUTS and DJ GROOVE INSTITUTE at the Phoenix (410 Sherbourne), Saturday (July 12), 9 pm. $30. AD, PDR, RT, SS, TW.

All Afrobeat musicians know their work will be compared to that of the genre’s creator, Fela Kuti.

The combination of American jazz and funk influences with traditional Nigerian music and highlife that Kuti pioneered in the early 70s has spread all over the world, and his legacy has grown since his death in 1997. His legendary band, Egypt 80, has continued under the leadership of his youngest son, Seun Kuti, who shrugs off the pressure of growing up in the shadow of such an icon.

“I’ve never seen my father’s career and legacy as something I need to live up to,” Kuti explains carefully from a tour stop in Paris. “I don’t think there is any way I can erase the fact that I am Fela’s son from my personality, and I’ve understood that since I was very young. My dad taught us a lot about individuality, and I realized that one of the factors in accepting my individuality is also accepting that I am Fela’s son.”

The younger Kuti has already established an identity distinct from his father’s, but on his

newest album, A Long Way To The Beginning (Knitting Factory), he pushes his sound even further from the genre’s roots by embracing hiphop. While some of the new ideas were helped along by Grammy-winning producer/jazz pianist Robert Glasper, Kuti says they had more to do with being true to his own vision, which is often motivated by social injustice.

“Our interests are not represented in government. It is exploitive and extractive, and not just in Nigeria. What is meant for the many is used to benefit the few. In my country, the president’s budget just for eating every day is $20,000. This is the kind of leadership that we have: full of grandeur while the majority of people are hungry.”

So although he’s updated the Afrobeat sound, he maintains his father’s tradition of fiercely political lyrics.

“Afrobeat was created to express the needs of the many. If you are making Afrobeat music, it should represent the majority of people where the music is from. If it is a loving place, we can have love songs, but the situation that we face in Africa cannot allow this.”

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CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS DJs Ford, Mayhem

9 pm.

DRAKE ONE FIFTY Flex Saturdays DJ Cozmic Cat (funk/love) 9 pm.

THE GARRISON Chronologic Goin’ Steady DJs (musical trip through time) 10 pm.

THE PISTON Beam Me Up (disco dance party) 10 pm.

POETRY JAZZ CAFE DayDream DJ Jennifer Loveless, DJ Deep 2:30 to 7:30 pm.

THE RED LIGHT Strictly Business DJ Serious & DJ Numeric (hip-hop/R&B) 10 pm.

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE Bump’n Hustle DJ Paul E Lopes, DJ Mike Tull (soul/funk/hip-hop/disco/ house) doors 10 pm.

SUPERMARKET Do Right! Saturdays DJ John Kong, MC Abs (funk/soul/hip-hop) 10:30 pm.

TIME NIGHTCLUB Time Sundays DJ Wikked, DJ Dattabass, JG, Scotty Scratch.

TOIKA Bryan Kearney, Shelley Johannson (trance/electro) 10 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Funkagenda, Disco Fries, Neon Knights, Skugog 10 pm.

WRONGBAR Lee M Kelsall, Sishi Rosch, Jeff Button, Night Vision, Chris Bosno 10 pm.

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AIR CANADA CENTRE Queen & Adam Lambert doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ ASPETTA CAFFE Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm.

CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA Sinful Sundays Burlesque doors 9 pm.

EMMET RAY BAR Orbitals (groove/soul) 9 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Zack Werner’s Canadian Idol School Showcase (songwriter) 7:30 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR Miniature Tigers, the Griswolds doors 7 pm, all ages.

HIRUT FINE ETHIOPIAN CUISINE Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3-6 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Alex Ricci (rock) 10 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Pat Perez & John Dickie Band (R&B) 3 pm.

OPTICIANADO Army Girls 1 to 4 pm. ñ ORBIT ROOM Horshack (classic rock hits) 10 pm.

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duct, Tunic, Deliluh, Blackbelt 10 pm, all ages.

Rivoli Indie Night Liberty Deep Down doors 8 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Joanna ChapmanSmith (jazzy folk-pop) 7:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Black Bear Pub Jam SNAFU 3:30 to 7:30 pm.

Brigadoon Restaurant Open Jam Murphy’s

Law (rock/top 40) 4 to 8 pm.

The Cage 292 Jam Phil Hood 10 pm.

Dora Keogh Traditional Irish Music Session Patrick Ourceau 5 to 8 pm.

Free Times Cafe Jewish Brunch Buffet Gypsy Jive Band (country/folk/Klezmer/gypsy) 11 am and 1:15 pm.

Grossman’s Open Blues Jam Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 10 pm.

Harbourfront Centre Redpath Stage China Now: Little Dragon Tales Shanghai Restoration Project, Yip’s Children’s Choir 2 to 2:45 pm, Qiang Polyphonic Singing Zewang Renqing & Geluo Zhaxi noon to 1 pm.

Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage China Now Leishan Miao Music and ñ Dance Group 3 to 4 pm.

China Now Silk & Bamboo Ensemble 1-1:30 pm, 3-3:30 pm.

Harbourfront Centre Ontario Square

China Now Silk & Bamboo Ensemble 5 to 5:30 pm.

The Local Los Caballeros del Son (Cuban son) 9 pm, Chris Coole (old-time/country) 5 pm.

Lola Brother Paul (delta blues) 3 to 7 pm.

McGradies Tap and Grill Open Jam Dan Walek (R&B) 6 to 10 pm.

North York Civic Centre Ontario Latin Arts Festival Cassava Latin Band, Eliana Cuevas, Giovanni Ruiz, Chantel Collado, Jaime Elizondo, Pablo Gutierrez and others. 1 to 4 pm.

CPolish Combatants Hall Calypso Riddims Music Series Macomere Fifi, Dick Lochan and others (calypso/kaiso/rioots/gospelypso, soca/jazz).

Supermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

Tranzac Max Layton, David Woodhead, Bob Cohen, Robert Priest 5 pm.

Unicorn Pub Acoustic Night Six Foot Five 9 pm.

Woodbine Park Waterfront Blues Sugar Ray & the Bluetones 6 pm, Harrison Kennedy 4 pm, Greg Nagy 2 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

CineCycle Sounds & Silents Presents: Man Ray Red Lantern (short films w/ live score performance) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Joe Sheridan & Mark Kieswetter (trad jazz/swing) 5 pm, Bruce Chapman Jazz & Blues Band 7 to 11 pm.

Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All

Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Jam Factory Co Man Forever, Music in the Barns Chamber Ensemble, Gordon Monahan 8 pm (artist talk 7 pm).

The Jazz Bistro Gillian Margot Quintet 7 pm, Young Artist Brunch George Crotty Duo 12:30 pm.

The Local Gest Sunday Jazz The Steve Koven Trio 4:30 pm.

Mel Lastman Square Sunday Serenades ­Sophisticated Swing (40s & 50s swing) 7 to 9:30 pm.

Musideum Huu Bac Quartet (jazz/east Asian) 3 pm, Dylan Bell (jazz/pop) 8 pm.

Paradise Bar & Billiards Jazz Jam The Unit 4 to 8 pm.

The Rex Ethio-Jazz Project 9:30 pm, Tara Kanangara Group 7 pm, Red Hot Ramble 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Toronto Music Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Wit & Wisdom Gretchen’s Muse w/ Beiliang Zhu (chamber music) 4 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Toronto Improvisers Orchestra 1 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross The Lina Allemano Four (jazz) 10 pm.

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Cube Rooftop Hot Stepper Sundays DJs Mike Tull & Paul E Lopes doors 4 pm.

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 344 Heat Wave Rob Szan, Atif, Brash-B, Stevie Stubz, Colby Hircock, Ted Kasprow, Darko, Richard Archon and others 11 am to 11 pm.

Monday, July 14 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

The Cage 292 Denday (reggae) 8 & 10 pm.

Drake Hotel Dub Thompson, Ought doors 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s No Band Required 10 pm.

Horseshoe

Liam Finn doors 8:30 pm. ñ Kitch Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass).

Orbit Room Jordan John (soul/R&B/blues) 10 pm.

Sauce on the Danforth The Out of Towners

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Virgin Mobile Mod Club Us The Duo (pop/ folk) doors 7 pm, all ages.

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Rockerfella 8 pm.

Free Times Cafe Open Stage Mondays Dylan Hennessy (folk/songwriter/acoustic) 7:30 pm.

The Local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/ country) 9 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic 9 pm.

Downham 10 pm.

Dora Keogh Open Stage Lawrie Ingles, Arch

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

By The Way Cafe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm.

Church of the Holy Trinity Music Monday Gretchen’s Muse w/ Abigail Carr (baroque) 12:15 pm.

Emmet Ray Bar Roarshaq (jazz) 9 pm.

Gate 403 Jay MacDonald Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

The Rex CD release Mike Herriott & Off the Road Big Band 9:30 pm, Boom for Rent 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

The Cave Manic Mondays DJ Shannon (retro

70s/80s) 10 pm.

The Piston DJ What’s Her Problem 9 pm.

Reposado DJ Ellis Dean.

Tuesday, July 15 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Alleycatz Lady Kane.

Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre

S­ oulshine Summer Music And Yoga Tour ­Michael Franti & Spearhead, SOJA, Brett Dennen, Trevor Hall (music, yoga and dance) 4:30 pm, all ages.

Gate 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo (pop) 8 pm.

Grossman’s Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9:30 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Bliss Gloss (pop) 9 pm.

Horseshoe CANCELLED Pink Mountaintops, Comet Control doors 8:30 pm.

Monarchs Pub Showcase Tuesdays Michael Dankert & Paul Martin 8 pm.

Orbit Room The Sattalites (reggae) 10 pm.

Reposado Gord C Alien Radio.

Rivoli American Opera Volume Academy, ­Beyond the Mountain, Midnight Vesta doors 8:30 pm.

Axis Gallery & Grill The Junction Jam Derek

Cameron House Back Room The Song ­ reation Formula Book And Tour Launch Signe C Miranda’s Veranda, Pascoe, Dan Kosub, the Fox and the Moon, Brian Allossery, Taylor Abrahamse, Chris Birkett 8 pm.

C’est What Brooklyn Doran, Sarah MacRae, Dead Penny Trio doors 8:30 pm.

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

Free Times Cafe Born On Borden Tony Cohn (country/folk/roots) 8 pm.

Gage Park Inspirational Music In The Park (gospel/folk/classical) 7 to 9 pm.

The Local Sugar Brown (blues) 9 pm.

Phoenix Concert Theatre Jason Isbell (alt country) doors 8 pm.

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The Jazz Bistro Tribute to Bill Evans Coleman Tinsley 8 pm.

Musideum Valeria Matzner (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

The Rex Classic Rex Jazz Jam Chris Gale (sax)

9:30 pm, Arbuckle 6:30 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Episteme (jazz) 7:30 pm, Ken MacDonald Quartet (jazz) 10 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Alleycatz Bachata Night DJ Frank Bischun

8:30 pm.

Gossip Restaurant Latin Nights DJ Alejo (salsa/bachata/kizomba/merengue/reggaeton).

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

Tota Lounge CLICK (garage/deep/techbass) 10 pm.

Wednesday, July 16 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Black Swan Nicola Vaughan (pop rock)

9:30 pm.

Free Times Cafe Vic Garden, Michael Kirkotovlof (rock) 8 pm.

Grossman’s Bruce Domoney 9:30 pm.

Horseshoe Nick Teehan, Ferraro, Blue Sky

Miners, Shaking Hands 9 pm.

The Jazz Bistro The Spandettes (disco) 8 pm.

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

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

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Emmet Ray Bar Kevin Butler & Darlin (folk/

songwriter) 9 pm.

Gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 7 to 11 pm.

Hugh’s Room Morgan Davis (blues) 8:30 pm.

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

The Local Ron Leary (folk troubadour) 9 pm.

Lola Open Stage Johnny Bootz 8 pm.

Musideum CD release Andrea Menard (singer/songwriter) 8 pm.

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

The Rockpile East Open Jam Juggernaut Jam Band 8 pm to midnight.

Sound Academy Matt Nathanson, Gavin DeGraw, Mary Lambert doors 6 pm, all ages.

Tranzac Southern Cross Right Rounders (old-time) 7:30 pm, Josh Cole 10 pm.

Unicorn Pub Open Jam B-Sides 10 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Alleycatz Carlo Berardinucci Band (swing/ jazz) 8:30 pm.

Array Space Rob Clutton, Chris Pruden, Germaine Liu (avant/improvised) 8 pm.

Casa Loma Symphony In The Gardens Toronto Concert Orchestra 7 to 10 pm.

Monarchs Pub Jazz Wednesdays The Andy de Campos Jazz Band 8 pm.

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

The Rex Seamus Blake w/ Kirk MacDonald 9:30 pm, Kurt Neilsen Trio 6:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Brassaii Les Nuits: Since 76 Wristpect, DJ

Mike Toast doors 10 pm.

Club 120 Open-mic Comedy Show DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 Rivoli BOOMBAPHUMPDAY: DJ Koray Ozel doors 8 pm.

Seven44 Uptown Island Lindo P, Korexion, Tony Anthony, Nadera, Skibu, Kisco, DJs Su Pa Natty, Dougy Fresh, DJ Vincy and others 7 pm.

Toika Low Frequency Wednesdays Hydee, Stickbubbly, Grizzly, Thuun, Arts & Crafts (dubstep/trap/DNB) 10 pm.

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A whole month of World Cup soccer-watching has come down to one game, Sunday (July 13), 3 pm, everywhere beers are sold. The tournament brings together cultures the world over (note Toronto’s explosion of jerseys and wavin’ flags since mid-June), and so should your playlist for the day.

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Hailing from Brazil, Toronto’s Wagner Petrilli studies with his country’s greats and seamlessly blends samba, choro, bossa nova and jazz for Canadian audiences. This cut from his new album transports you to Rio. Slightly ominous, mood-setting pre-game fare.

Wagner Petrilli’s June-released first solo album, Confissão, is available now. wagnerpetrilli.com.

2. O MALANDRO – LIVE AT THE TRANE, Bossa Tres Toronto’s Bossa Tres trio honour their Brazilian heritage by playing their native land’s classics in original Portuguese form.

Soothing half-time music to calm your nerves. Goes well with caipirinha.

Bossa Tres play the Emmet Ray Bar (924 College), Thursday (July 10), 9:30 pm. Pwyc.

3. WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, Queen Well, this song from one of England’s greatest rock bands is obvious. Unfortunately for Queen, their squad certainly won’t have been playing it of late. See also: Don’t Stop Me Now and Bohemian Rhapsody for the winners, and Another One Bites The Dust for the losers.

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Donald Miller to come up with a contemplative, restful take on abstract hip-hop grooves. The kick drum still pounds out of the speakers, but it’s wrapped in shimmering textures and pretty melodies, resulting in a mood more suited to couch sessions than the club.

Unlike some contemporary left-field beats that tend to sound like a drunk robot drummer, Chin’s rhythms are just wonky enough to feel human, without disrupting your head-nodding. The bird call samples might be a little too literal an interpretation of his theme, but the harp bits on See The Forest by Johanna Wienhølts work surprisingly well. The guest rap by the Matrixx on For The Trees goes a little too far into the hippy hip-hop direction, though.

Top track: Phantom Limbs Paul Chin celebrates the release of The Forest Thursday (July 10) at Wrongbar.

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made Road) Rating: NNN If you’re a fan of Everything but the Girl’s chilled-out sophisti-pop, Ben Watt’s second solo album might also do it for you. Watt was one-half of that successful 90s English duo, but it was the other half, Tracey Thorn, with her smooth, melancholy vocals, who gave the project its distinct allure.

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High Life (Warp) Rating: Shortly after releasing Someday World in May, ambient music master Brian Eno and Underworld’s Karl Hyde produced a second joint album over five days by recording and processing live improvisations in front of a group of journalists.

High Life feels a bit more Eno than Hyde, though the Underworld singer’s penchant for New Romanticism is evident in the winsome melodies and artfully droning guitar that punctuate Eno’s obsession with North African polyrhythmic pulsations. By dispensing with typical pop structure in favour of improvisation and repetition, the pair achieve and maintain an openness and momentum that Someday World lacked. It feels alive.

Return, with its effervescent guitar loop, bleepy melodies and swirling arpeggios, is a beautiful slow-burn intro to the album before frenetically jazzy African funk takes over on DBF. The squalling Moulded Life is the sole unwieldy track, the crescendoing Lilac provides the most sweepingly dramatic arc, and Cells & Bells is an ethereal comedown.

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There are plenty of concert venues in Toronto where you can afford a seat that isn’t an obstructed view.

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ostro) Rating: NNN On his first EP for French label Cosmonostro, Toronto producer Paul Chin takes inspiration from nature and the writing of

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KIESZA Hideaway (Universal) Rating: NNN This past February, Calgary’s Kiesza (aka Kiesa Rae Ellestad) became an internet star when her Wannabe-style one-take video for Hideaway went viral. Her buttery soprano pipes, hip-hop-meets-ballet moves and the song’s 90s dance trappings proved a killer combo for the former ballerina.

Now, she delivers a four-song EP for her ever-expanding fan base. More of the same bleeping, blooping, moody synth lines and thwacking bass continue on second single Giant In My Heart, as well as a sick male vocal hook that steals the song and sends it squarely into 90s deep-house territory. The whole EP – like the artist, born in 89 – is indebted to that decade, though hints of Bonnie Tyler and current EDM themes also penetrate.

Third track So Deep is a bit of a snooze, the only jam unsuited to predrinks or a spin class. But a slowed-down version of Haddaway’s What Is Love – with a very pretty piano arrangement – hits the mark. The swelling strings are a bit OTT, but that’s kind of Kiesza’s thing.

Top track: Giant In My Heart JULIA LECONTE

KING REIGN Sincere (CLK Creative Works/ Reign Music) Rating: NNN Toronto emcee King Reign’s debut fulllength is a realist window on Toronto life.

Sometimes bleak and sometimes hopeful, Reign’s lyrics reveal his knack for street poetry as well as a distrust of authority and an arsenal of pop culture references (“Pay my debts like the Lannisters,” he says on Promo).

He sounds a lot like Common, and his no-frills, no-bullshit delivery lends legitimacy when he’s taking big risks, like adopting the voice of Sammy Yatim on opener Oh No, and telling the sympathetic tale of a bullying victim in Pretty Girl Lost. That CAM’RON 1st Of Da Month (Empire) said, when he does get expressive – there Rating: NNN are moments on Happylaidback when he It’s been five years since Cam’ron released channels the elastic-voiced experimental a major label album, but he’s remained a rapper Le1f – you wish he’d be playful pop fixture through his addictive Inmore often. stagram feed and several highly touted The baritone also has a smooth, natural streetwear partnerships. singing voice that he uses effectively On 1st of Da Month, Cam proves that throughout, especially on Sincere, which his rap skills have kept up with his current could have been a straight-up R&B song cultural ubiquity. He’s cocksure and with a couple of tweaks. Throughout, procomical setting up narratives filled with duction is laid-back and minimal, with lots familial strife and street success (Other of raw piano and pattering drums – Zen, Side). He’s digressive yet totally compeleven if the stories he tells are anything but. ling stacking internal rhymes on top of B:3.833” Top track: Sincere one another over soul samples (Talk About King Reign plays Wrongbar Friday (July T:3.833” It). And he’s droll when comparing himself 11) and the Rivoli on July 17.

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Rating: NNN In the four years since Sia Furler’s last studio album, the Aussie singer/songwriter has found success contributing to the popularity of David Guetta and penning ballads for Rihanna (Diamonds), Beyoncé (Pretty Hurts) and Britney (Perfume).

Furler’s sixth album reunites her with producer Greg Kurstin but springs from more painful subject matter than the cheery guitar pop of 2010’s We Are Born.

Inspired by alcoholism, depression and romantic insecurity, the songs are full of disconcerting metaphorical violence (Free The Animal, Straight For The Knife, Hostage, Fire Meet Gasoline) and lighters-tothe-sky melodies designed for maximal power-ballading.

Save for the frisky Hostage – with its Strokesian riff courtesy of that band’s guitarist, Nick Valensi – the focus is squarely on Furler’s epic voice, and for the most part Kurstin stays out her way. This is a mixed blessing. At times, she sounds refreshingly raw – sultry, a bit jazzy, powerful and occasionally raspy – but loses subtlety when loudly multi-tracked.

This is a top 40 pop record after all, and thus errs toward deafeningly loud vocals that occasionally obliterate some of the year’s smartest pop songwriting.

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ly resembles EBTG work, while the title track is a nuanced, tender effort about love’s saving qualities. The album, closer to folk rock than electronica, is a collaboration with guitarist Bernard Butler, and features Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour on slide guitar, bass and backing vocals on lonely The Levels.

Lyrics are reflective and well written – Watt is also a published author – but a middle-age malaise runs through these 10 tracks. Spring stands out for being an uncomplicated declaration of love, and its effective arrangment and uplifting melody enhance the message.

Top track: Spring Ben Watt plays the Drake Underground on July 17.

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By Divine Right frontman José Contreras is alone with his angels – he references them a lot – and the warm reverb of the room on his first solo album, recorded with Lee Maslin, who also produced BDR’s latest, Organized Accidents.

Contreras pulled together an album’s worth of material from various points along his 25-year, nine-album career with By Divine Right, reworking the songs for solo voice, guitar and piano.

The effect is at times almost uncomfortably intimate and vulnerable, but also an effortlessly perfect psychedelic campfire version of his songs, an excellent soundtrack to the next inevitable summer blackout.

The naked bass line of Angels paired with Contreras’s soulful vocal will come back to haunt you, while She Knows (from 1997’s All Hail Discordia) and Twisted Crystalline and I Want Light (from 1999’s Bless This Mess) captivate.

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to the Sopranos’ toughest Mob bosses and renouncing an accomplice-turned-policeinformant’s murder (Funeral).

Production on this release shades a little pedestrian, but ultimately the brevity of the EP format serves Cam well; his last full-length release occasionally felt overstuffed.

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e h t f o t s e fringe festival reviews B Of the more than 100 shows we reviewed at t.o.’s biggest ­theatre fest, here are the ones we liked best. check out more at nowtoronto.com/ fringe and see next week’s ­issue for our fest wrap-up.

By JON KAPLAN, GLENN SUMI, JORDAN BIMM, DEBBIE FEIN-GOLDBACH, KATHLEEN SMITH, CHRISTOPHER HOILE and SHARILYN JOHNSON

THE TORONTO FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL featuring 150 local, national and international companies at 27 venues. Runs to July 13. $10 at the door, $2 surcharge on advance tickets, discount passes; FringeKids! $5 for those 12 and under. All tickets are available up to three hours before showtime, online, by phone or at the festival box office at the Fringe Club (581 Bloor West). If available, remaining tickets go on sale at the venue an hour before showtime (cash only). No latecomers. See complete Fringe listings at nowtoronto.com/fringe. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

Ruth Goodwin and Alex Crowther deal with romance in 52 Pick-Up (review, page 41).

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Keystone Theatre brings its silent-filminspired style to the story of men and women caught up in the Yukon Gold Rush of the 1890s. The narrative would benefit from establishing at the start who the main characters are, but among the many highlights are the recreation of the pioneers’ gruelling trek through the Chilkoot Pass in winter, two women miming a wild kayak journey and the marvellous live piano acCH companiment of David Atkinson.

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Rebecca Perry. Jul 11 at 5:45 pm, Jul 12 at 12:30 pm, Jul 13 at 4 pm. Rating­: NNNN

This cute and quirky solo musical follows a week in the life of Joni (Rebecca Perry), an Annex barista who uses her degree in anthropology to analyze the behaviour of annoying customers: perpetual joggers, construction workers and nerds in the corner trying to conceal their game of Settlers Of Catan.

Joni’s everyday problems – clumsy interactions with a cute patron, icy relationship with her boss – will be familiar to anyone who’s worked in the service industry.

Perry’s a captivating performer with a strong, sultry singing voice that an-

chors the show’s clutch of bluesy folk songs.

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Euripides’ great tragedy has maintained its terrible relevance because the way men treat women vanquished in war has barely changed in 2,500 years. The Randolph Academy’s modern dress production suits Gwendolyn MacEwen’s tough-minded modern translation.

Director Peter Pasyk’s key insight is that the play isn’t merely a communal female outcry against men, but also the tragedy of Hecuba, whose anger at defeat gradually leads her to question the point of existence itself. The portrayal of the prophet Cassandra as a nymphomaniac may jar, but the production shines in the fine work of the individualized chorus.

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This brave solo musical is Erin Thompson’s sexual autobiography. Through stories and songs both funny and poignant, she recounts childhood experimentation, confusing teenage makeouts, awkward workplace romances and other permutations of love and lust. Her music-theatre-inspired songs are short and sweet,

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This enchanting show, based on English writer Jerome K. Jerome’s 1889 travelogue and adapted for the stage by Mark Brownell, is the witty account of three friends and a dog who take a boating holiday along the Thames and encounter hilarious, often self-imposed obstacles.

Actors Matt Pilipiak, Victor Pokinko and Scott Garland go beyond the eccentricities of the period to define their individual characters amidst squabbles, anxieties and parochial viewpoints. All theatrical elements – Nina Okens’s meticulous costumes (with especially wonderful shoes), lighting, props and J. Rigzin Tute’s whimsical musical arrangements – come together beautifully under Sue Miner’s superb direction.

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This solo show provides a kind of backstage view of Canadian theatre history that is rapidly being lost. Stage-struck at an early age, Briane Nasimok worked as an extra at the Canadian Opera Company under its first artistic director, eventually moving up to become a stage manager.

Nasimok has a wealth of surprising anecdotes of onstage and off-stage goings-on at the opera in the early 1970s that any theatre-lover will enjoy. His deadpan delivery only makes his stories CH funnier.

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Shakespeare’s words are recontextualized to illustrate the social hierarchy, alliances and backstabbing (figurative and literal) within a women’s prison.

While reminders of the mismatched script/setting exist throughout, clever solutions – prison uniforms emblazoned with “ROME CORR.” on the back, the inclusion of prison “marriages” – make it work without feeling gimmicky.

Strong performances by an all-female cast with true Shakespeare chops make this experiment well worth seeing for those familiar with the original. SJ

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with lots of lyrical fun. The Boy Next Door, about contemplating being a surrogate mother for a gay couple, and IHOP, which puts a clever new spin on the restaurant’s acronym, both get howls of laughter.

Thompson convincingly conveys the anguish and frustration – but also the pleasure – in relationships, and uses her search to craft a sex-positive mesJB sage.

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What unites all six is an extraordinary obsession with something quite trivial.

While no deeper thematic connections link them, the characters provide Wright with the perfect showcase for his extraordinary intensity and versatility as an actor.

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Kat Sandler’s latest play borrows its set-up – schmuck kidnaps star comedian – from Scorsese’s 1982 film The King Of Comedy, but she turns it into an urban fairy tale where the schmuck wants to learn to coax a laugh from the “saddest girl in the world.” Sandler broaches such important theatrical topics as the very nature of humour and the relation of comedy to tragedy, but she’s too busy generating zingers to explore them. We hardly notice this given the play’s breakneck pace and the turbocharged performances of the entire cast.

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In this inventive long-form sketch show, quick-shootin’ and quick-talkin’ cowgirl WildKat MacReady (Kaitlin Morrow) travels the land to avenge the death of her Pa (Josef Addleman).

Conor Bradbury, Seann Murray and Julian Frid round out the cast, and together they expertly weave countless characters in and out of a complex story that visits some unexpected locations and delivers hearty laughs.

Director Alec Toller keeps the pace at a gallop with a steady stream of entrances and exits.

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Trevor­Poelman. Jul 10 at 9:30 pm, Jul 11 at 5:15 pm, Jul 12 at 7 pm. Rating­: NNNN

Three siblings and one boyfriend have personal problems to solve in this funny and engaging comedy. The characters are three-dimensional from the start thanks to well-written exposition.

The relationships are well enough defined to make them believable as a slightly dysfunctional (but loving) family, and Kristy LaPointe’s natural delivery as level-headed sister Christie is a highlight.

But the characters’ problems seem mild, and more tension leading up to their pat resolutions would make the show feel less like a sitcom.

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Kathleen Greenfield, Ingrid Hansen and Rod Peter Jr. Jul 10 at 2 pm, Jul 11 at 7 pm. Rating­: NNNN

Two Grade 8 misfits at a school assembly begin delivering a presentation on salmon but then hijack the proceedings to instruct their peers (the audience) on scientific findings about the coming apocalypse. They heighten the dramatic intensity by revealing they’ll die in an

hour, and actors Ingrid Hansen and Rod Peter Jr brilliantly and comically use every moment to explore emotional, social and environmental concerns.

Their nuanced portrayals nail the complex emotions involved in finding a place in the school’s social hierarchy and the subtext of their friendship.

The production includes shadow puppetry, video and quirky original songs, with Hansen playing uke. Director and co-creator Kathleen Greenfield brings all these elements together seamlessly.

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A sure bet for festival laughs, Bad Dog Theatre Repertory Players offer up an all-improv show based on Toronto locales. The show I saw used Wychwood Barns, Downsview Airport and Sushi on Roncesvalles as backdrops for hilarious storylines involving an overly attached daycare worker, a mining heiress fleeing the city on her wedding day and an awkward bromance involving a herd of cats.

Every show is different, but Bad Dog’s players bend and flip scenes in unexpected ways that almost always produce hilariously dark and twisted moments. While the entire ensemble is strong, Colin Munch stands out as one of the city’s funniest actors.

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Palmerston Library ­Theatre (FringeKids!)

560 Palmerston Elly’s Emotions Alison Daley and Johnson & Johnston. Jul 10 at 2 pm, Jul 11 at 2:30 pm, Jul 13 at 6:15 pm.

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Young Elly’s overlarge emotions and determination to be herself rather than “normal” make her special. When her friends get caught up in Nintendo Wii games, she just doesn’t fit in and resists celebrating her birthday with a party.

This first-rate musical by the talented Anika Johnson and Barbara Johnston, assisted on book by Alison Daley, is sharply written and directed and features a winning ensemble of actors.

Full of invention, throwaway comic lines and clever plot twists, it will delight viewers of any age.

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Fringe faves Peter Carolone and Chris Wilson lasso puns and laughs with a Wild West tale about a blossoming friendship between two lonesome cowboys. The story’s thin but provides enough structure to showcase their adept physical comedy. They can turn a bare stage into a barn or saloon or go down a cliff and through a forest on horseback.

Highly attuned to each other, the pair can trade off playing the same character in the same scene or portray various characters in a poker game without any confusion. Always in the

moment and responsive to audience reactions, they really know how to milk a scene – particularly when one of them becomes a cow named Winifred. DF-G

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winked audiences with psychic feats and various other tricks. The excellent David Ladderman (you may remember him from last Fringe’s Battle Of The Bastards) and Lizzie Tollemache recreate parts of the Alexanders’ act using viewer participation and expert sleight of hand.

The result is gripping theatre, full of laughs and thrills, surprises and delights. Don’t miss it.

JK

Elly’s Emotions shines at KidsFringe! (­review, this page).

214 College Silent Party Interlude Devon More. Jul 10 at noon, Jul 11 at 6:15 pm, Jul 12 at noon, Jul 13 at 9 pm.

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On a whim, a maturing party girl signs up for a 10-day silent meditation retreat. Devon More tells her true story through a poetic script, original songs (there’s a lot of Ani DiFranco in her), and dynamic movement. The writer/ performer doesn’t push a meditation agenda, but illustrates the relatable struggle of an always on, always moving person desperately trying to disconnect. Her story lacks a major arc aside from her attempt to reach enlightenment (a predictable destination), but More’s impressive performance makes her journey well worth watching.

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St Vladimir’s 620 Spadina All In The Timing David Ives. Jul 10 at 1:45 pm, Jul 12 at 3:30 pm.

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Could three monkeys at typewriters eventually write Hamlet? What if you could reset your conversation every time you said the wrong thing? Before Venus In Fur, David Ives wrote this collection of absurdist playlets about language and meaning. Directors Jonathan Dufour and Mikhael Melnikoff wisely present the five scenes in ascending order of cleverness.

While the whole cast is in full command of Ives’s wit, the show is worth seeing just to hear Nicholas Porteous speak fluent Unamundo, a fake Esperanto composed entirely of terrible puns.

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One of the best productions in this year’s Fringe.

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A newly hatched bird-girl tries to bring together two opposing worlds in Artichoke Theatre’s latest, a work of found-object puppetry that constantly surprises with the kinds of creatures we meet. Since the wordless show deals with time in both a literal and metaphoric sense, it’s appropriate that clocks and clock parts are built into characters smoothly manipulated by Aisha Bentham, Talia DelCogliano and Michelle Urbano, who work along with sound designer/musician Sam Bergmann-Good under Tijiki Morris’s direction.

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International Fringe favourite Jem Rolls is back with another tour de force poetry performance. The crankypants Brit master mixes mile-a-minute delivery with occasionally manic physicality, all the while taking liberties with language that only a true wordsmith would attempt. Making up words, conflating others, Rolls also makes high art out of repetition.

Brains will get a workout keeping up with this erudite yet crazed rant about excruciating bus rides, evolution and the hell and heaven of other people.

Well worth it for his many fans.

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In this clever show chronicling the beginning, middle and end of a relationship, the order of scenes is determined by a deck of playing cards, each card titled with a scene, thrown in the air and picked up randomly. No two performances are alike, and the fascinating mix gets added dimensions with some same-sex couplings: four alternating sets of actors work with co-directors and performers Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster and Paolo Santalucia.

Peter n’ Chris saddle up I saw the excellent for another hit comedy Ruth Goodwin and Alex (review, this page).

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Mr And Mrs

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Ladderman and Lizzie Tollemache. Jul 10 at 11 pm, Jul 11 at 4 pm, Jul 12 at 7 pm.

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A combination of music hall, magic show and whodunit mystery, Mr And Mrs Alexander tells the story of a pair of 1880s New Zealanders who hood-

While the sketches in this two-hander have familiar themes (relationships, growing older, motherhood), bold characterization and sharp jokes make it feel like an entirely fresh take on womanhood and gender identity.

Whether portraying judgmental new moms or a conversation between the human heart and brain, Elvira Kurt and Megan Fahlenbock are consistently engaging, and their upbeat performances keep the edgier material fun.

Some moments still need polish, but every scene delivers solid laughs, and there’s not a weak link in the bunch. SJ

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This quirky and inspiring one-woman comedy about the roller-skate contact sport that’s become so popular in recent years follows Amy (writer Nancy Kenny) through her conversion from timid couch potato to fierce competitor. Nerdy nods to Buffy, Star Wars and The Simpsons get lots of laughs, but at the show’s emotional core are Amy’s icy relationship with her more successful sister, and a budding teammate romance.

The charismatic Kenny makes Amy a lovable oddball hero, and the show’s well-choreographed skate sequences nicely replicate the track-level intensity of derby matches.

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Two women who have both been cheated on become an avenging duo, taking appropriately ruthless action against adulterous husbands. Peppered with sharp dialogue and dark comedy, Thomas McKechnie’s script brings them up against a man eager for rough, kinky sex who’s not the women’s usual victim.

Though the backstory could be clearer and the key encounter developed more quickly, the cast – Tara Koehler, Monique Renaud and Spencer Robson, under Bruce Gooch’s direction – play the slippery power games expertly. JK

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prov. Not all the bits fly, but I howled at Allana Reoch as a real estate agent tempting a couple with a home containing a portal to hell and Nicky Nasrallah as a mom “addicted to drama” and undergoing an intervention by her family.

The cast takes on topics as diverse as abortion and hipster restaurants, and credit director Ken Hall for teasing out transitions and through-lines to create a clever and satisfying framework for the barely restrained mayhem.

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Vancouver stand-up Graham Clark may have a scraggly biker beard, but this affable dude could crack you up just reading the phone book. Hilarious bits of observational humour include his contemplation of the drawbacks of growing his “dream beard,” assessing Hulk Hogan’s illustrious film career and expressing supreme frustration at discovering a gaping plot hole in Back To The Future.

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Writer/performer Clay Nikiforuk’s engaging solo show begins with the history of weighing people for health insurance purposes and then zeros in on one young woman’s lifelong struggle with her body image and a relationship to food that becomes dysfunctional and slowly takes over her life.

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Donald Margulies’s powerful drama about two American war journalists (one a writer, the other a photographer) trying to adjust to normal life after one of them has survived a brutal accident in the Middle East is full of rich ideas about privilege, happiness and the ethics of exploiting suffering for art.

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The brilliance of this immersive show about unsuccessful Andy Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas is how her radical feminist theories – including her infamous SCUM Manifesto – come across as vividly as her mental instability. Chalk that up to Ali Joy Richardson’s chilling, intense performance as Valerie, and strong direction by Matt White, who uses songs, games and slides to help create the feel of a “happening” in pop icon Warhol’s famous Factory.

Ben Hayward perfectly captures Warhol’s look and passive aggressive tone, and Nick Potter is eerily effective as assistant Gerard Malanga, with a strong group of acolytes playing the SCUM chorus.

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Ryan Gladstone’s whodunit is set at an isolated mansion but has a hilarious twist: it’s performed by puppets. Tara Travis is completely charming as the narrator/puppet master voicing nearly a dozen characters, moving them around a gorgeous dollhouse-like set (complete with hidden passageways) and even checking in with Clay Nikiforuk takes us to see if we know us through The where the plot’s goDysmorphia­Diet ing. (­review, this page).

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An American soldier and an older German man find their lives intertwined by their Jewish faith in this heartfelt musical based on a true story. Some of Evan Malach’s folk-influenced songs sound similar, and his book is a tad earnest and unsubtle. But the incredible story, the addition of a fiddler (Sonia Shklarov) and the solid performances by Adam Jesin and Malach as the two men add weight to the work.

And director Naomi Tessler makes vivid use of various areas in and around Kensington Market’s Kiever Synagogue.

You’ll want to stick around afterwards to look at the archival photos and documents about Toronto’s Jewish community on the basement walls.

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SUMMER SPECTACULAR Jacob Zimmer and the company. Frankel Lambert Park (340 Christie). Jul 10 at 7 pm, Jul 11 at 7 pm, Jul 12 at 5 pm, Jul 13 at 5 pm.

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Rosa Laborde’s potent modern-day take on King Lear finds three sisters reacting differently when their estranged father tracks them down. Some plot points shouldn’t be spoiled – Laborde reveals her characters (including one of the siblings’ husbands), their history and dynamics with enviable skill and grace.

As a director, she gets fine, nuanced work from all her actors: Sabrina Grdevich, Ingrid Rae Doucet and Shannon Taylor as the sisters, Layne Coleman as the dad and Scott McCord as a gloriously complex husband.

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BARD’S BUS TOUR: THE TEMPEST by William

Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Group). The classic play is presented outdoors. Some performances include workshops, chats and Food Of Love a cappella concerts. Previews Jul 10-11 in Toronto (see Previewing). Opens Jul 12 and runs to Aug 17. Pwyc. Various venues in Southern Ontario, see website for details. 416-703-2773, driftwoodtheatre. com.

LEGALLY BLONDE: THE MUSICAL by Laurence O’Keefe, Nell Benjamin and Heather Hach (Wavestage Theatre). A sorority girl makes it to law school in this musical based on the 2001 film. Jul 10-13, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $22-$30. Richmond Hill Centre for the Performing Arts, 10268 Yonge. 905787-8811, wavestagetheatre.com.

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THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare (Drift-

wood Theatre’s Bard’s Bus Tour). The classic story of love and revenge is presented outdoors in previews before going on the road.

Returns to Toronto July 22. Previews Jul 1011, Thu-Fri 7:30 pm. Pwyc (adv $20-$24). Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-703-2773, driftwoodtheatre.com.

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ROMEO & JULIET by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Company). The tragic tale of ill-fated young love is presented outdoors. Jul 16 at 7 pm. Pwyc. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross Pkwy.

416-209-2026, humberrivershakespeare.ca.

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ADVENTURES IN SLUMBERLAND (Frolick). This all-ages show about a young boy’s dream world features puppets, music, masques and more. Runs to Sep 1, Wed-Sat 11:11 am, 12:12, 1:11 and 2:22 pm (weather permitting). Pwyc. Olympic Island Lagoon Theatre, near Centre Island ferry dock, over the bridge. frolick.ca.

ANGELS IN AMERICA: PARTS I & II by Tony Kushner (Soulpepper). Kushner’s ambitious, two-part epic follows the intertwined lives of seven people in 80s New York City who are forced to deal with the fallout of Reagan politics and AIDS. Looking at moral, spiritual, sexual and emotional realities that resonate beyond the play’s time period, Angels is both thought-provoking and very funny. It’s one of the most important plays of the past 50 years, and director Albert Schultz’s production, featuring a strong cast and filled with memorable moments, is a fine one. Runs to Jul 12, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23.

Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca.

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grad moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play.

Runs to Aug 3, see website for schedule. $49$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

BILLY BISHOP GOES TO WAR by Eric Peterson and John Gray (Rose Theatre). The WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical.

Runs to Jul 19, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $32. 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

BORNE by Judith Thompson and the ensemble (RARE Theatre Company/Soulpepper). Nine performers who use wheelchairs tell their own stories and blow up myths about living with a disability. (See review at nowtoronto. com/stage.) Runs to Jul 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $49, stu $25. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) COMPANY by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth (Theatre 20). There’s a stop-and-start quality to this revival of Sondheim’s musical about a 35-year-old single man and the married couples who want him hitched. The material is as sharp as ever, but the performances are uneven (standouts include Louise Pitre and Carly Street) and there’s a lack of direction. In the lead, Dan Chameroy sounds solid but looks a little lost. Runs to Jul 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30-$89.

Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416368-3110, theatre20.com. NNN (GS)

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED) (Shakespeare in the

Square). Three actors perform all 37 plays in 87 minutes in an outdoor show. Runs to Jul 24, Tue-Thu 7 pm. Free. Rose Theatre Square, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. rosetheatre.ca.

DINOSAUR ZOO LIVE (Erth Visual & Physical/ Mirvish). Large-scale dinosaur puppets and other creatures bring to life the prehistoric world in this all-ages theatrical presentation.

Runs to Jul 20, Tue-Fri 7:30 pm, Sat 6:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 11 am and Sat-Sun 3 pm. $25-$35. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge.

416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH by John Cameron Mitchell (Lower Ossington Theatre). An East German transgender rocker moves to America to start a band and find love. Runs to Jul 12, see website for schedule. $50. 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

MOON OVER BUFFALO by Ken Ludwig (Scarborough Theatre Guild). A theatre troupe wants to impress a Hollywood director but their interpersonal conflicts get in the way in this comedy. Runs to Jul 12, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $17. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-2679292,.

PINKALICIOUS THE MUSICAL by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. Runs to Sep 28, Sun 1 pm (no shows Aug 10, 17 & 24). $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com.

RETURN TO GRACE (Mirvish). This theatrical tribute show looks at every phase of Elvis Presley’s career in concert. Runs to Jul 20, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $30-$99. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com.

his life in this musical. Runs to Aug 15, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. blythfestival.com.

CABARET by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is darker than many, with fine performances by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s Berlin. Don’t miss it. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) 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. stratfordfestival.ca.

KITCHEN RADIO by Marion de Vries and David Archibald (Blyth Festival). A lonely wife lives vicariously through female country stars.

Runs to Aug 9, see website for schedule. $22$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival. com.

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 17th-century war-torn Europe. Runs in rep to Sep 21. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford.

1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

THE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Philip Barry ARMS AND THE MAN by Bernard Shaw (Shaw (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding Festival). A woman is caught between two plans are complicated by her ex-husband and men on opposite sides of the 1885 Serboa nosy reporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35Bulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 $113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com.B:3.833” 511-7429, shawfest.com.

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SHAKESPEARE IN HIGH PARK: AS YOU LIKE IT

(Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The classic comedy is performed outdoors on alternating nights with Titus Andronicus. Runs to Aug 30, Thu, Sat and Tue 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. canadianstage.com.

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SOULPEPPER CABARET SERIES (Soulpepper). The company presents the Song/ Book Series, cabaret performers and more in this weekly series. 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.

SPAMALOT by Eric Idle, John Du Prez and Neil Innes (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Monty Python-based musical gets a staging. Runs to Aug 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com.

TORONTO FRINGE FESTIVAL (Fringe Toronto). The fest offers more than 140 shows featuring plays, dance, kids’ shows, art, music and multidisciplinary events. See page 40 for Best of Fringe reviews in this issue and nowtoronto.com/fringe for complete listings and more reviews. Runs to Jul 13, various venues, dates & times, see website for details. $10-$12, FringeKids plays $5 for kids; passes $45-$85. 416-966-1062, fringetoronto.com.

TWELVE ANGRY MEN by Reginald Rose (Soulpepper). Rose’s well-constructed 50s play pits one man against his 11 fellow jurors in a murder trial; he has reasonable doubt about the defendant’s guilt, the others don’t. In this well-acted Soulpepper production, he convinces them to examine the evidence as well as their own beliefs. The tension isn’t as strong as it might be in the first act, but the second cranks up the drama. 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. soulpepper.ca. NNN (JK)

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Thursday, July 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents The Best Of Absolute Comedy show. To Jul 13, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, ­absolutecomedy.ca.

BIG BAD WOLF (VS LORD UNDERWEARFACE VON SCHTINKER) Second City presents a family

musical that takes a new look at a fairy-tale character. To Aug 29, Wed-Thu 1 pm. $14, family 4-pack $45. 51 Mercer. ­secondcity.com.

LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Joel Buxton, Darryl Orr, Chris Locke, Tony Ho, Jordan Foisy, Kathleen Phillips, Aaron Eves, Tom Henry, host James Hartnett and others.

9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­laughsabbath.com.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS Second City’s funniest revue in ages draws on our anxiety about the schizophrenic weather, our cracksmoking mayor and the urban/suburban split in surprising and inventive ways. Director Chris Earle has a great ear and sharp sense of drama and he knows how to get the best from his stellar cast, who shine – especially in two contrasting sketches about young dudes (played by the women) and middle-aged women (played by the men). Don’t miss it. To 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) SLIM BROTH Underground Cafe presents comedy w/ Terry Clement. 9 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-450-9125, ­puffmama.ca.

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YUK YUK’S presents Brian Aylward. To Jul 13, Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, ­yukyuks.com.

Friday, July 11 Absolute Comedy See Thu 10.

THE BONG-A-LONG SHOW Underground Cafe

presents show w/ hosts Sandra Battaglini & Phil Luzi, Mike Rita, Pat Burtscher and others.

9:30 pm. $15. 670 Queen E. 416-732-7761.

CARLA COLLINS The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a stand-up comedy show. To Jul 12, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20-$25. 488 Parliament.

647-347-6567, ­pubaret.com.

MICHAEL WINSLOW LIVE! Crack Me Up Comedy presents sound effects guy Winslow w/ 3 Men 2 Souls, Marc Trinidad, Dr. Ron, Dan Thiel and host Neil ‘Hawk’ Griffin. 8 pm. $32-$57. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Brampton. 905-8742800, ­rosetheatre.ca.

THE ON THE RUN COMEDY TOUR presents Kevin Christopher & Keesha Brownie. 7 pm. $15-$20.

Sgt Peppers Pub & Grill, 235 Salem S, Ajax.

416-686-4888.

RADIO PROJECT X The Social Capital presents an all-new 17th show/podcast recording. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor.

416-903-5388.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 10.

STEVE HOFSTETTER Empire Comedy Live presents the comic/author in a live show. To Jul 12, Fri 8 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $20. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­empirecomedylive.com.

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YOUR HOOD’S A JOKE – ANNEX VS DANFORTH Comedy Bar presents Dom Pare, ñ Evan Desmarais & Sam Feldman vs Tim Gold-

TEH INTERNETS QUIZ SHOW: TEH SEVEN DEADLY SINS Comedy Bar presents a ñ show about internet faux pas and excess w/

Colin Munch, Conor Bradbury, Jenny Serwylo, Jess Bryson & host Tom MacKay. 10 pm. $10.

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Flanagan, Alex Nussbaum, Hannah Hogan, Dom Pare, Evan Desmarais, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, t­ exascomedymassacre2.com.

Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 10.

Saturday, July 12 Absolute Comedy See Thu 10.

Carla Collins See Fri 11.

COMEDY AT THE RED ROCKET Joel West hosts a

weekly show w/ guest comics. 8 pm. Free. Red Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880, redrocketcoffee.com.

THE 404S: GEEKS OF FUTURE’S PAST The Social Capital presents improv comedy. 8 pm. $8.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-9035388, ­blackswancomedy.com.

IMPROV DROP-IN The Social Capital presents a weekly class and show. 6 pm. $5. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. ­blackswancomedy.com.

MIKE MACDONALD Puff Mama presents MacDonald w/ openers Dylan Gott, Sara Hennessey, George Westerholm and host Dave Martin. 9 pm. $20. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. t­ icketfly.com.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 10.

Steve Hofstetter See Fri 11.

TACOCHEETAH The Social Capital presents the improv group and their pals. 10 pm. Pwyc.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-9035388, ­blackswancomedy.com.

Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 10.

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Sunday, July 13 Absolute Comedy See Thu 10.

COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show

w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas. 8:30 pm.

Free. 121 Ossington. ­thewellbarcafe.ca.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents the True Open Mic show. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

JOE DE ROSA Puff Mama presents the comic in a live show. 9 pm. $20. Underground Cafe, 670 Queen E. ­ticketfly.com.

THE ON THE RUN COMEDY TOUR presents Keesha Brownie and Kevin Christopher. 8 pm. $15$20. Kennedy’s Adult Entertainment, 6235 Kennedy, Mississauga. 905-565-3555.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 10.

SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 10.

Monday, July 14 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. 416815-7562.

HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female show w/ hosts ­Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor.

416-977-1900.

LAUGHABLE AT UNLOVABLE presents the Sufferettes, Andrew Barr, DJ Demers, Rebecca Kohler, Pat Burtscher, hosts Steph Tolev & Nick Flanagan and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Unlovable, 1415-B Dundas W. 416-532-6669.

SEND GILL DOWN UNDER! Gillian English presents a comedy funder for her trip to Australia w/ Steph Tolev, Brie Watson, Megan Fraser, Ned Petrie, host Ron Sparks and others. 8 pm. $15. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­gillianenglish.com.

200% VODKA The Social Capital presents a weekly show by the Black Swan Comedy Rep Company. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. b ­ lackswancomedy.com.

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Tuesday, July 15 FLAT TIRE COMEDY Amsterdam Bicycle Club

presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. ­facebook.com/FlatTireComedy.

PROPEN MIC Comedy Bar presents a weekly pro open-mic show followed by lottery spots.

9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 10.

THE SKIN OF MY NUTS presents a weekly open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free.

Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook.com/ skinofmynuts.

WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive com-

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petitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5.

Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. y­ ukyuks.com.

Wednesday, July 16 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

headliner Slade Ham, Danny Freedman, Jesse Singh, Allen Yiu, Magdalena, Suneet Luthra, Matt Gass & host Lamont Ferguson. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. a ­ bsolutecomedy.ca.

ACOUSTIC COMEDY: WINTER IS COMING The ­Social Capital presents Stephanie Philp, Holly Wyder, Danielle Pollari, Sam Migliazza, Phoebe Elisha Holst, Elyse Evangelista and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, ­blackswancomedy.com.

Big Bad Wolf (Vs Lord Underwearface Von Schtinker) See Thu 10.

COMEDY NIGHT AT MUSIDEUM presents bi-

weekly stand-up, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. ­musideum.com.

FINAL FRONTIER Bad Dog Theatre presents improv inspired by the Star Trek universe w/ Etan Muskat, Jess Bryson and others. at 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, ­baddogtheatre.com.

JILL KNIGHT’S COMEDY FARE Jill Knight presents a weekly show w/ guest comics. 9 pm.

Free. Parlour, 270 Adelaide W. 416-408-3666, ­knighttimecomedy.com.

THE JULIEN DIONNE COMEDY HOUR C’est What presents stand-up by Dionne. 9 pm. $10. 67 Front E. 416-867-9499, t­ icketfly.com.

A LAUGH A MINUTE Club 120 presents standup, sketch & improv w/ transsexual comedian Mandy Goodhandy and others. 9 pm.

Free. 120 Church. c­ lub120.ca.

LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a tall tales competition w/ host Paul Bellini and others. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, ­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 Tyler Stein and headliner Joel West. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 10.

YUK YUK’S presents Eric Andrews. To Jul 20, Wed-Thu and Sat-Sun 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Fri 9 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, ­yukyuks.com. 3

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dance listings Opening Al Khaima Arabesque Dance presents 12 belly dance soloists performing in an Arabian tent. Jul 12 at 8 pm. $15-$20. 1397 Yonge, 2nd floor. 416-920-5593, ­arabesquedance.ca.

Little Pear Garden Collective Harbourfront Centre presents the classical Chinese dance and opera company performing various pieces as part of the China Now cultural festival. Jul 12 at 7 pm. Free. 235 Queens Quay W, Redpath Sugar Stage. h ­ arbourfrontcentre.com.

Porch View Dances Kaeja d’Dance presents residents dancing on their porches guided by choreographers Peter Chin, Lauren Cook, Allen Kaeja and Louis Laberge-Côté.

Opens Jul 16, runs to Jul 20, Wed-Sat 7 pm, Sun 4 pm. Pwyc. Starts at London & Euclid­ streets, ends in Vermont Square Park (843 Palmerston). ­kaeja.org.

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PS: We Are All Here Toronto Dance Community Love-In presents experimental contemporary dance by Amelia Ehrhardt, Meryem Alaoui, Valerie Calam, Sonya Stefan, Pamela Tzeng and others. Runs to Jul 11, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $15, series pass $50. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble, Studio Theatre. ­tolovein.com.

Toronto Fringe Festival presents more than 140 shows including dance and dance-theatre works by Curiosity Collective, Momentum Dance, Alexandra Elliott and others plus plays, art, music and more. See ­nowtoronto.com/fringe for listings and reviews. Runs to Jul 13, various venues, see website for details. $10-$12; passes $45-$85. 416966-1062, ­fringetoronto.com.

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Penelope Stewart’s fine Vanitas looks at our fragile symbiosis with bees.

The bee’s knees

Sure, sniff at Stewart’s sensory art By FRAN SCHECHTER

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The fragrant aura of Vanitas, the latest in a series of beeswax installations by Penelope Stewart, hits you as soon as you enter Koffler Gallery.

It’s a homecoming for the Torontobased artist, who’s mounted related projects, which she calls “sensory architecture,” internationally. Reusing cast-wax elements from previous installations where they’ve sometimes been inserted into existing

architecture, she here erects a humansized “hive” within the gallery space.

A shelf of beeswax skeps, the pointed-dome basketry beehives whose form has become a symbol of apiculture, provides an intro to the exhibit.

From these human-created homes for bees, we move on to an enclosed rectangular room inspired by the modernism of Le Corbusier, who was also fascinated by bees.

Its outside is covered with plain wax tiles, but inside the room is plastered with an exuberant array of three-dimensional natural and decorative arts elements, all cast in wax: floral-patterned tiles, flowers and

MUST-SEE SHOWS AKASHA ART PROJECTS Photos: Johnnie

Eisen, Jul 12-30. 511 Church, 2nd fl. 647348-0104.

ARSENAL TORONTO/DIVISION GALLERY

Photos/film: Varial Cédric Houin and Fabrice Nadjari, to Aug 16. 45 Ernest. 647-346-9082.

ART METROPOLE Installation: Jimenez Lai, to Jul 13, laneway installation @ Sheridan and Gordon Jul 11. 1490 Dundas W. 416-7034400.

CLINT ROENISCH First The Pleasure Then The Thesis group show, reception 7 pm Jul 10, Jul 10-Aug 15. 190 Saint Helens. 416-516-8593.

DANIEL FARIA GALLERY Sculpture: Jennifer Rose Sciarrino, to Jul 19. 188 St Helens. 416-5381880.

GALLERY 1313 Summer Emerging Artist group show, to Jul 20, reception 8 pm Jul 10, panel 7 pm Jul 16. 1313 Queen W. 416-536-6778.

GALLERYWEST Photos: Lee Henderson, to Jul 27. 1172 Queen W. 416-913-7116.

GLADSTONE HOTEL That’s So Gay: On The Edge group show, to Jul 27. 10 X 10 Photography Project, to Aug 17. Prints: Bambitchell, to Aug 31. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635.

NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Painting:

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Butler does it ROUGH PARADISE by Alec Butler (Quattro), 124 pages. $18 paper. Rating: NNN

Friday, July 11 SLAMTARIO SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL Ten teams compete to win the title of Ontario Slam Champions plus Buddy Wakefield on Sat night. Today and tomorrow. $25 weekend pass, finals $20 at the door. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. slamtario.com.

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THEATRE OF CHANGE Open mic night of

words and sounds. 7:30 pm. Free. Big Guy’s Little Coffee Shop, 2861 Lake Shore W. 416503-4129.

Saturday, July 12 RAYMOND NAKAMURA Family-friendly reading from his picture book, Peach Girl, as part

other shift in his identity.

There’s not a lot of character development, and the ending is a bit too easy. You can tell Butler is an accomplished playwright: the dialogue is stronger than the author’s sense of place.

But the story is compelling because it’s written as if the narrator is actually 15. The simplicity of the prose adds immediacy to each observation, as if every painful moment represents the potential end of the world. The villains, especially a doctor who specializes in sexual violation, are believable, and Darla and Terry’s explicit erotic encounter is a revelation.

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of the Natsu Matsuri Summer Festival. 4 pm.

Free. Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre, Library, 6 Garamond Ct. pajamapress.ca.

Wednesday, July 16 CHIAROSCURO READING SERIES Sci-fi/fantasy/ horror readings with Charlene Challenger, Glen Hirshberg, Sally McBride and Ian Rogers.

8-10 pm. Free/pwyc. Augusta House, Round Venue, 152A Augusta, 2nd fl. chiseries.com. events@nowtoronto.com

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Ianick Raymond, Jul 10-Aug 9, opening 6-8 pm Jul 11. 5 Brock. 416-546-3683.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U Getting Rid Of Ourselves group show, Jul 16-Oct 11, Claire Fontaine talk 6:30 pm (OCAD auditorium), recpetion 8-10 pm Jul 16. 230 Richmond W. 416-9776000 ext 265.

P/M GALLERY Colleen Wolstenholme and Jessica Hein, to Jul 26, reception 6-9 pm Jul 10. 1518 Dundas W. 416-937-3862.

SECTION 37 GALLERY Toronto Urban Photography Festival: Disposable Camera Project, Jul 10-12, reception/TUPF closing party 6:30-11 pm Jul 10 (tupf.ca). 180 Sudbury.

WALNUT CONTEMPORARY Young Collectors’ Show, to Jul 26. 201 Niagara. 416-271-6599.

ally used to describe still lifes that contain symbols of mortality and the transience of the material world.

Underlying the chaotic jumble of decorative elements is an awareness that our pesticides are endangering pollinating insects, with devastating consequences for agriculture.

The wax’s varied shades of gold, derived from the colour of pollen, remind us how precious and fragile is our symbiosis with the bees.

We’re left to contemplate the interdependent circle of nature and culture, and the source of our aesthetic concepts of beauty.

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This slim volume is thick with insight into the experience of an intersex teen struggling through puberty in a small Maritime town.

Terry has a sexual anatomy that doesn’t fit the norm: breasts, a beard and a budding penis. In his heart and soul, he believes he’s a boy.

His parents don’t. His mother insists on calling him Teresa – at Terry’s birth, before facial hair and penis,

this might have made sense – and his father wants to cram him into a dress. Both threaten to commit him to the local mental facility if he doesn’t embrace girlhood.

When he meets queer kindred spirit Darla, he sees new possibilities – the chance of love and to be himself. But Darla has her own problems, including her rapist dad and a family with serious criminal connections. And when Terry discovers they’re linked in other ways, he has to consider yet an-

seedpods, candlesticks and doorknobs. Spilling out of the room’s window side is a domestic hoarder’s beeswax treasure trove: piles of pitchers, plates, spoons, buttons, keys, handmirrors, ornate frames. “Vines,” wax leaves and eggshell-like forms strung on cords that hang from the ceiling, emerge from the structure to colonize the exterior space.

The term “vanitas” was historic-

ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photogñ raphy, to Sep 7. Matthew Barney, to Sep 28.

Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, to Jul 20 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Scott McFarland, to Aug 10. Geoffrey Farmer, Jul 5-Sep 7. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648.

BLACKWOOD GALLERY Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts And Traces Illuminated In The Archives, to Jul 27. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga (Mississauga). 905-8283789.

DESIGN EXCHANGE Tapas: Spanish Design For Food, to Aug 10, panel 6-9 pm Jul 16 ($18.75$25). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

GARDINER MUSEUM Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, to Sep 1. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

MOCCA Over The Rainbow: Seduction And Identity; Par Amour/Paramour, to Aug 17.

952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

POWER PLANT Pedro Reyes, Vasco Araújo and Akram Zaatari, to Sep 1, Araújo talk 7:30 pm Jul 11 ($12, Studio Theatre). 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 Kae, to Jan 24, 2015. Fashion Follows Form: Designs For Sitting; Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan 25, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE What It Means To Be Seen: Photograph And Queer Visibility; Zanele Muholi, Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, to Aug 24, Toronto Urban Photography Fest talk 1-4 pm Jul 12. Julie Gemuend, to Jul 13. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

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nowtoronto.com/movies Reviews of RADIO FREE ALBEMUTH and DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES • and more This portrait of Roger Ebert is honest and profoundly insightful.

Life is beautiful Chronicling the life, work, love and death of film critic Roger Ebert By NORMAN WILNER

LIFE ITSELF directed by Steve James.

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In the fall of 2012, Steve James was offered the chance to make a movie about the life and work of Chicago film critic Roger Ebert. This made sense to everyone who heard about it. After all, Ebert’s impassioned support of James’s Hoop Dreams helped that 1994 documentary find distribution and launched James’s career.

James, on the other hand, wasn’t so sure.

In Toronto for an early screening of the film arranged by the Doc Institute, he admits he had some reservations.

“I didn’t know him well,” James says. “I think that was a virtue, actually. He had been a great champion of Hoop Dreams [and] he was very supportive of [James’s subsequent doc] Stevie. The Interrupters he got behind big time, and he was outraged when we didn’t get short-listed for the Oscars. But we never hung out. I never thought you could.

“That actually put me in a much better position to tell his story,” he continues. “I felt freer to put the warts in, to look at him critically. I wouldn’t have done the film if I didn’t

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admire him – life’s too short. But I didn’t want it to be a tribute piece.

And he didn’t want that either.”

What no one realized when shooting started was that Ebert would be dead four months later. A hip fracture put him back in the hospital, which led to a new cancer diagnosis.

And suddenly, Life Itself became about living and dying.

“He was home for two days during the entire four months,” James says.

“The rest of the time he was either in the hospital or in rehab. And yet all those things I wanted to capture about him are still there. In a way it’s even more moving because

LIFE ITSELF (Steve James) Rating: NNNNN Roger Ebert’s life and legacy are explored with tremendous affection in Steve James’s marvellous documentary. But James doesn’t shy away from the ugliness of his subject’s death, which gives the film its real power.

Narrated with passages from Ebert’s memoir of the same name (read by sound-alike actor Stephen Stanton), Life Itself efficiently covers the biographical basics – young Roger getting the critic’s spot at the Chicago Sun-Times, writing Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls for Russ Meyer, winning the Pulitzer, getting sober, becoming a pop celebrity alongside Gene Siskel – in order to get to the good stuff: Ebert’s marriage to Chaz Hammelsmith at age 50, which reconfigured his life and made him an even more honest and emotional writer. And the third act of his life, when illness robbed him of his ability to speak, is examined in painful, unflinching detail.

James started shooting four months before Ebert’s death, and obviously the images of an exhausted, deteriorating Roger stubbornly, wordlessly arguing with his wife over what he is and isn’t willing to do form the documentary’s most piercing moments. Like the man himself, it’s unfailingly honest and profoundly insightful.

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Steve James [we] know he’s dying and yet his sense of humour is there. The resilience, the stubbornness – it’s still Roger. That was a revelation for me, to be there to see that. But it did change the temper of the film.”

There’s one element of Life Itself that somehow isn’t affected by Ebert’s death, and that’s his relationship with his wife, Chaz, who introduces the 7 pm screening Friday (July 11). Not only is she by his side throughout every awful step of his deterioration, but their romance becomes something we – and Roger – can cling to as his time grows shorter.

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with this woman at the age of 50,” James says. “As his buddy Bill Nack says in the movie, he was looking for love and family his whole life. He was an only child, he lost his dad early and had a tough relationship with his mother. He found it all in her.

She’s a remarkable person.”

The more time James spent around Roger and Chaz, the more he came to admire their relationship – and their honesty with each other. One of the most intense moments in Life Itself comes when James captures the couple fighting – truly fighting – over whether an exhausted Roger should try to get up a flight of stairs unassisted.

“I fully expected that Chaz was going to pull me aside and say, ‘Does that have to be in the film?’” he recalls. “And I would have probably said, ‘You know what, let’s talk about it down the road. Let me cut the film and we’ll talk about it.’ And then I would have made my case and I would have used it if I wanted to. But I figured I was gonna have that conversation, for sure.”

And? “She never asked me to take it out,” he says. “At one point before I had shown [the finished film] to her, she said, ‘I just have to ask – is that scene at the foot of the stairs in the movie?’

And I went, ‘Yeah.’

“And she goes, ‘I figured.’”

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TOP 5 Ebert-approved Films

Roger Ebert was a champion of cinema and his greatest accomplishment – particularly once he and Gene Siskel started picking the movies they reviewed on their TV show each week – was introducing his ever-expanding audience to new and unknown releases. A strong review by Ebert at a film festival could help a movie find distribution. A rave could fast-track it to an Oscar nomination. Here are five films that might not have fared nearly as well without his support.

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DO THE RIGHT THING (1989) ROGER & ME (1989) HOOP DREAMS (1994) MAN PUSH CART (2005) THE SPECTACULAR NOW (2013)

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Keira Knightley plays a familiar tune in off-key Begin Again.

Oshii’s 1995 film, Ghost In The Shell, continues to have an i­ mpact on genre movies.

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Cyborgs on celluloid Mamoru Oshii’s influential sci-fi films animate the Lightbox By NORMAN WILNER Techno/Human: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii at TIFF

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You’ve almost certainly visited the world of Mamoru Oshii, even if you weren’t conscious of it at the time. The DNA of his movies is scattered throughout cinema. The cyberpunk world of The Matrix, for instance, where characters jack into a virtual landscape and dive off buildings in fetishistic slow motion grew right out of his 1995 anime Ghost In The Shell.

Oshii comes to the Lightbox Saturday (July 12) for one of TIFF’s in-depth In Conversation With… sessions at 6:30 pm – a rare public appearance, we understand. And he’ll be sticking around to introduce screenings of Ghost In The Shell at 9 pm and his zippy aerial actioner The Sky Crawlers on Sunday (July 13) at 6:15 pm.

TIFF shows three other Oshii features this month – his giant robot Patlabor movies (the first on July 18, and Patlabor 2 July 19) and the moody Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence (July 25) – but, really, the only ones you absolutely need to see are the two showing this weekend.

Ghost In The Shell – the original 1995 feature, not the sequel and not the digitally updated edition known as

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Fashion crime Men Of The Cloth (Vicki Vasilopoulos).

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My wife is a knitwear designer, so she has an obvious interest in movies about fashion and making clothes. She got a lot more out of Men Of The Cloth than I did.

Vicki Vasilopoulos turns a potentially interesting subject – the dying art of Italian tailoring – into a plodding, indifferently shot, obnoxiously scored documentary.

A fashion journalist specializing in the menswear industry, Vasilopoulos has recorded extensive interviews with

Ghost In The Shell 2.0 – is a perfect encapsulation of the interests that have defined Oshii’s career. He’s fascinated by the collaboration of human and machine – expressed in the slow technological creep of machinery into the bodies of his characters.

Oshii’s hero, cyborg Tokyo policewoman Major Kusanagi, is set apart from her fellow detectives not only by her enhanced abilities and online connectivity but by her fondness for leaping into battle nude. Their pursuit of a mysterious hacker leads the major and her partner, Bato, to discover a nascent technical menace that will surprise no one who’s seen a science fiction movie in the last two decades. But that’s largely because Ghost In The Shell had such a powerful impact on the genre that it’s been reverberating through it ever since; The Matrix was just its most blatant sampling.

But take a look at The Sky Crawlers – Oshii’s tale of young pilots who spend their days in futile dogfights and their nights in a hedonistic blur – and you can see how something that seems derivative is really a pro­gression.

The relationship between the pilots and their planes echoes the symbiosis of the police and giant mechas of the Patlabor movies, but now it’s wrapped in a much more complex and existentially charged story. I’m sure someone will ask him about that on Saturday night.

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aging master tailors Nino Corvato, Joe Centofanti and Checchino Fonticoli at their places of work (in New York, Pennsylvania and Italy respectively), but unlike her subjects she has no feel for a gracefully shaped product.

Men Of The Cloth resolutely avoids anything that might seem overly dramatic or illuminating, even when its subjects offer up potentially fascinating stories. Centofanti, for instance, talks briefly about being stationed in Ethiopia with the Italian army just before the Second World War. He spent five years as a POW in Kenya, where he found work making clothes for British officers. Vasilopoulos spends maybe a minute and a half on that.

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Writer/director John Carney returns with another feature-length music video, turning the surprising charm of his debut, Once, a novel take on the modern musical romance, into a shameless gimmick. Just call it Twice.

Titled Can A Song Save Your Life? when it premiered at TIFF 2013, Begin Again stars Mark Ruffalo as Dan, a washed-up, alcoholic music exec rummaging through Manhattan for either a break in his career or a drink to keep his buzz going. He happens upon Greta (Keira Knightley), an undiscovered art-

ist who inspires him to produce an indie record while attempting to piece his life back together.

The two actors are remarkable, and their chemistry makes shared scenes truly sing. Knightley in particular showcases an exceptional pair of lungs. Carney manages a few rousing musical numbers, particularly in an ingenious early scene where an imaginary orchestra comes to life in Dan’s head while Greta performs solo.

The tunes drown out the lacklustre drama that hits too many unbearably false notes. The underwritten characters gargle through clunky dialogue, and the supporting performances range from affecting to piss poor.

The worst offender is Maroon 5’s Adam Levine, whose embarrassing acting is the price you pay for a smashing musical finale. RADHEYAN SIMONPILLAI

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There’s also the nagging problem that she shot much of the footage several years ago with low-resolution cameras, so it looks terrible. Really, it’s a sin to make a movie this sloppy about so stylish an art.

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Sepideh, a young Iranian woman, dreams of a future as an astronaut. Astronaut Dr. Roberta Bondar will participate in a Q&A moderated by Toronto Star movie writer Linda Barnard.

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Zombies have never been more popular in our culture, and Alexandre Phi­ lippe is here to find out why, chatting with the likes of George A. Romero, Simon Pegg, World War Z author Max Brooks and Walking Dead makeup artist Greg Nicotero about the mass appeal of the living dead.

The doc’s first hour charts the path of the zombie from its early days as a shuffling somnambulist to the unlocking of social anxieties in Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead – though

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that section feels like a précis of Rob Kuhns’s full-length Birth Of The Living Dead last year.

Philippe and co-writer Chad Hersch­ berger then explore the zombie’s reemergence as horror’s monster of choice in the early 2000s, using Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later… to exemplify the fast-zombie trend that culminated in last year’s big-screen adaptation of World War Z. (Zack Snyder’s watershed remake of Romero’s own Dawn Of The Dead goes unmentioned.)

As in The People Vs. George Lucas, Philippe and Hersch­berger are satisfied with a superficial look at the themes they raise, preferring quips to insight and abandoning their thesis to pander to genre fans with clips of zombie walks and zombie weddings.

Needs more brains, I guess.

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Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes (D: Matt Reeves, 130 min) The 2011 reboot of the apes-vs-humans flick was a little underwhelming, particularly with mismatched James Franco and Freida Pinto in the leads. Now Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) steps in as director, with a cast that includes Gary Oldman, Judy Greer, Keri Russell and – returning in a motion-capture performance as head ape Caesar – the brilliant Andy Serkis. Hope we go ape-you-know-what over this.

Opens Friday (July 11). Screened after press time – see review July 11 at ­nowtoronto.com/movies.

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Ayoade fills The Double with tiny, perfect comic vignettes and terrific cameos by ­virtually everyone with whom he’s ever worked. Paddy Considine has never been better. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Movie listings are comprehensive and organized alphabetically. Listings include name of film, director’s name in brackets, a review, running time and a rating.

Reviews are by Norman Wilner (NW), Susan G. Cole (SGC), Glenn Sumi (GS) and Radheyan Simonpillai (RS) unless otherwise specified.

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Movie theatres are listed at the end and can be cross-referenced to our film times on page 53.

Begin Again (John Carney) 104 min. See review, page 47. NN (RS) Opens Jul 11 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 Belle (Amma Asante) spins the life of Dido Elizabeth Belle, daughter of an 18th century British naval officer and an African slave, into a historical biopic that aspires to more complexity than its lavish costume-drama packaging will allow. 104 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre Blended (Frank Coraci) re-teams Adam

Sandler with his Wedding Singer co-star Drew Barrymore as single parents saddled together with their broods on a South African safari. Unfunny scenes about horny rhinos and wild ostrich rodeos ensue. 117 min. N (RS) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

Ryan White) follows the court case ñ mounted by two couples to overturn Cali-

fornia’s law banning gay marriage. It’s an absorbing lesson in how to win an important political case. The plaintiffs are white and unthreatening, and the word “queer” is never uttered... but that’s kinda the point. The film fascinates in part because the legal team behind the couples included Republican stalwart Ted Olson and Democrat David Boies, who had squared off in the famous Bush vs. Gore case, the 2000 battle over the Florida recount. Here they’re warm and toasty together and passionately committed to a progressive cause. Also strange is the pathetically weak argument mounted by gay marriage opponents. But in the end, the unlikely bromance between Boies and Olson is eclipsed by the couples’ deep love. That’s why you’ll be reaching for the kleenex.

112 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (Matt

Reeves) 130 min. See Also Opening, page 48.

Opens Jul 11 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queens­way, Rainbow Market Square, ­Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, ­Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Deliver Us From Evil (Scott Derrickson)

is a souped-up reworking of The Exorcist starring Eric Bana as Bronx cop Ralph Sarchie, a combination of Father Karras and Lt. Kinderman who comes to believe a demonic force is responsible for a string of domestic incidents. Director and co-writer Derrickson, who made The Exorcism Of Emily Rose, is on familiar ground here, and one gets the sense that’s why he was hired – he knows the rhythms of false scares and creepy jump shocks, which is basically all a movie like this requires.

Well, that and a creepy heavy; English actor Sean Harris (Red Riding, Harry Brown) fills that purpose nicely. Composed almost entirely of scenes in which characters walk into dark rooms waiting to be freaked out – punctuated by the occasional snappy line reading from sidekick Joel McHale – it’s this summer’s answer to The Conjuring. And it will make millions. Some subtitles. 115 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, ­Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, ­Varsity

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(Richard Ayoade) is based on the Dostoevsky story about a meek office drone unhinged by the arrival of a successful, articulate man who looks exactly like him – but Ayoade’s follow-up to Submarine owes an equal debt to the collected works of Franz Kafka, Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski. Still, The Double finds its own bizarre tone about 15 minutes in and never looks back.

Arch, weird and very, very funny, it’s like watching an entire Bulgarian film festival in a single sitting. Jesse Eisenberg’s dual performance plays like a solo show of his breakout film Roger Dodger, and Mia Wasi­kowska – who seems to be everywhere this year - is nicely spiky as a coworker who becomes the object of both men’s affection. Clearly aware that this is his one shot to tell this sort of story,

Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman) is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens, with Tom Cruise as a cowardly warrior 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, cle­ ver plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. Cruise is solid, Blunt is great, Brendan Gleeson turns up as a pissy general, and Bill Paxton is basically Ned Ryerson in military fatigues. What else do you want from a summer movie? 113 min.

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Fading Gigolo (John Turturro) stars Woody Allen as Murray, pimp to part-time flower arranger Fioravante (director Turturro). It’s an homage to Allen’s films, with its jazz-based soundtrack, offbeat Jewish humour and the requisite an ick factor, thanks to a borderline offensive set-up between working boy Fioravante and an Orthodox Jewish widow (Vanessa Paradis). But who could believe Sharon Stone and Sofía Vergara couldn’t get a threesome together without paying a male third party? 98 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Varsity

Jesse Eisenberg delivers twice the fun in The Double, a smart adaptation of the Dostoyevsky novella.

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tween 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) Kingsway Theatre

(John Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) follows Maier, constructing a compelling portrait Lake (Pier-Gabriel Lajoie), a young man of a mysterious artist who refused to be who’s hung a poster of Gandhi on his bedseen. Unknown to the world until coroom wall to inspire idealism but also a direc­tor Maloof happened to acquire her hard-on. This may not be so shocking for negatives at auction, her raw, poetic those familiar with Canadian filmmaker street photography conveys a distinctive LaBruce. The queer provocateur tackles a view of the everyday. She may still be ennew taboo in this coming-of-ager that reigmatic, but thanks to this consistently volves around Lake’s thing for seniors. If intriguing doc, she and her work form a his romance with 81-year-old Mr. Peabody fascinating picture. 83 min. NNNN (RS) (Walter Borden) initially seems like an atKingsway Theatre B:3.833” tempt to needle conservatives, LaBruce The German Doctor (Lucía surprises with a warmth and tenderness Puenzo) is an appropriately creepy T:3.833” – and quite a bit of humour – that carries what-if drama about an encounter becontinued on page 50 œ S:3.833”

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(Josh Boone) is a faithful and heartwrenching adaptation of John Green’s bestseller about the star-crossed romance between teen cancer survivors Hazel (Shailene Woodley) and Augustus (Ansel Elgort). Writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, who brought a quiet dignity to the young characters in The Spectacular Now, which also starred Woodley, capture the clear-eyed, bittersweet tone of the book, and even the voice-over narration isn’t over-used. Director Boone paces the film beautifully and gets inspired performances by his cast, which includes Laura Dern and Sam Trammell as Hazel’s parents, and Willem Dafoe as a crusty alcoholic author. The two young stars have a lovely chemistry. Elgort sells the idealized Gus with a magnetic charm and soulful vulnerability, and Woodley never tries to make Hazel lovable or even attractive, which of course makes her both. Bring kleenex. 125 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum NOW july 10-16 2014

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(Jon Favreau) hangs its drama on a social-media premise that’s a little on the cutesy side. Writer/director/ star Favreau plays a celebrity chef who picks a Twitter fight with a restaurant critic (Oliver Platt) that 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 intent on delivering such a pleasurable little movie that it almost seems unfair to hold his excesses against him – and you wouldn’t want him to cut the cameos from his Marvel buddies.

Bonus points for the exquisite food prep sequences, the most convincing I’ve seen in years; even vegans are likely to leave the theatre craving a Cuban sandwich. 115 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

(Dave Green) updates E.T. for a new generation of kids, compressing the narrative of Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic into one overnight adventure, as three Nevada buddies (Teo Halm, Brian “Astro” Bradley, Reese C. Hartwig) investigate some weird cellphone interference to distract themselves from an impending separation and wind up encountering an alien. It’s presented as found footage, which lets Earth To Echo play as homage rather than rip-off, much as Cloverfield and Chronicle revitalized their own chosen genres. And it fosters an intimacy between the characters that grows richer the more time we spend with them. We see the subtle ways they’re unsettled when they’re joined by a schoolmate (Ella Wahlestedt) who’s easily the smartest person in the picture. Family movies aren’t usually this clever. Don’t miss out. 91 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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Van Warmerdam uses the elusive Borgman (creepily embodied by the nimble Jan Bijvoet) as the catalyst in his allegorical indictment of the Dutch ruling class. Deftly moving from cutting-edge black humour to blatant evil, this boisterous satire is marred only by a heavy-handed endgame. Subtitled. 113 min. NNN (PE) Kingsway Theatre

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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. It’s exhilarating and so damn satisfying, especially in IMAX 3D. 123 min. NNNNN (NW) Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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 Pinsent) scheming to trick a big-city doctor (Taylor Kitsch) into moving there in order to secure a factory that’ll stave off town’s financial ruin. Directing a script by Michael Dowse and Seducing screenwriter Ken Scott, McKellar crafts a gentle, pleasant farce that takes its time setting up stakes and defining the characters, giving

the cast (which also includes actual Maritimers Liane Balaban, Mary Walsh and Cathy Jones) room to play. It’s a movie less interested in belly laughs than in generating a constant hum of contentment, and it works perfectly well for the material. 115 min. NNN (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade

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(Dean DeBlois) follows the Kung Fu Panda 2 template, expanding the world of the original by introducing a new villain and a new element of the hero’s backstory. Though we sometimes see the gears grinding on some of those elements – especially the shouty baddie, overplayed by Djimon Hounsou – they do what they’re supposed to do, extending the story and adding new problems rather than just rehashing the conflicts of the first movie.

The insistence on a larger canvas does nudge Dragon 2 away from its greatest strength, which is the relationship between Jay Baruchel’s Hiccup and Toothless, the mute but amazingly expressive dragon who’s got even more of a personality than he had the first time around.

That’s where the pure, unfettered joy is, and the movie is at its best when it just leans into that. Seriously, How To Train Your Dragon 3 can just be two hours of Toothless diving into snow drifts. 102 min.

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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 complex issues of faith, hypo­crisy and wartime accountability with subtlety – and it’s drop-dead gorgeous. Subtitled.

80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre, Regent Theatre

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visits an earlier mode of cinema with a modern intelligence, unpacking the images and plots to reveal the underlying social and dramatic elements. Director/ co-writer Gray’s drama 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 good and evil. Some subtitles. 120 min.

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mundsen) is a gorgeously photographed, dramatically thin redemption tale from Norway that fuses fable and thriller tropes. It’s the fifth feature from multihyphenate Ommundsen, yet feels more like a whiz kid’s calling card than a mature work. After serving time for killing a thug, all Jenny (Silje Salomonsen) wants is to be with her young daughter. But Jenny’s ­financially strapped, her boyfriend’s catatonic, and nasty criminal-types from Jenny’s misspent youth start turning up and demanding favours. But fret not. A fairy tale happy ending awaits – which is, of course, exactly what the title promises.

Calling this fanciful eye candy “makebelieve­” doesn’t make it any more satisfying, but neither does it diminish the modest visual pleasures that Ommundsen deftly conjures. Subtitled. 91 min. NNN (José Teodoro) Carlton Cinema

Jaws (Steven Spielberg) is the greatest American movie ever made, as well as the perfect summer blockbuster.

It’s your duty, frankly, to see it at least once on a big screen. Universal’s splendid new digital restoration – overseen by director Spielberg – accurately renders Joe Butler’s slightly grainy cinematography, and gets the underwater footage back to its original brightness after decades of dull video transfers. The subtle surround remix hews closely to the original monaural audio, keeping most of the sound at the centre of the screen while expanding John Williams’s score into the back of the room. The 15-year-old print TIFF screened a couple of years ago was very nice, but this is gorgeous. You owe it to yourself to check out the upgrade. 124 min. NNNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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original stage version cannot be as lifelessly realized, as jarringly overacted, as narratively clumsy or as musically inept as the film producer-director Eastwood has made of it. This is a turgid, exaggerated, painful experience, crushingly dull at two and a quarter hours and utterly tone-deaf to the rhythms of its own music. Told by Franki Valli and the Four Seasons themselves – the characters constantly breaking the fourth wall to tell us, in a dialect that can best be defined as “unreconstructed mook,” how t’ree mobbed-up kids from small-town Joisey teamed up with white-bread genius songwriter Bob Gaudio to become doo-wop sensations – the story slouches through all the expected biopic signposts. The performances are almost preposterously theatrical, as if the actors saw the stage show and ran straight to set, doing their best to replicate it beat for beat. I can understand

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this from John Lloyd Young, who actually did play the role of Valli on Broadway and reprises it here, but the other actors should have known better. 134 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

Jurassic Park 3D (Steven Spielberg)

poses the best argument for why 3D conversions should go extinct. The reissue of Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur roller-coaster ride is a hack job, taking apart the director’s carefully composed images and matting the pieces on different planes to give the illusion of another dimension. The tampering distracts from Spielberg’s last great blockbuster, a dazzling mix of terror and wide-eyed wonder, like a genetic crossbreed between Jaws and E.T. 127 min. NN (RS) Yonge & Dundas 24

Le Week-End (Roger Michell) is being mar-

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

Antinori, and it’s impossible not to care about the connection between the halfsiblings. As Bertolucci pics go, however, Me And You seems small. Subtitled. 98 min. NNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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96 min. See review, page 47. NN (NW) Opens Jul 11 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola – Encore is a high-def broadcast of

Rossini’s comic opera, starring Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Flórez. 220 min.

Jul 16, 6:30 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (Rob Minkoff) yanks the 2D, hand-drawn time-travelling cartoon from the 60s into the new era of 3D animation. The genius dog and his adopted son visit textbook figures like Marie Antoinette, King Tut and Leonardo Da Vinci while giving history a zany spin.

The father-son story is a strained framework for their lighthearted, rib-tickling episodic adventures, which retain the cartoons’ fun and humour. 92 min. NNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre National Theatre Live: A Small Family

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Business – Encore is a high-def broadcast of a revival of Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy about entrepreneurial greed. 175 min.

Jul 12, 12:55 pm, at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(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. The film paints an assured, affecting picture of loneliness and longing amidst modern Mumbai’s hustle and bustle. 105 min. NNNN (RS) Mt Pleasant

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(Robert Stromberg) ­ pplies the Wicked formula to the a Sleeping Beauty story, with Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the sprite-turned-avenger who lays a curse on the princess in the neighbouring kingdom. It’s spectacular to look and puts a glorious twist on the kiss, but kids may find it too scary. Big fun, but definitely for grown-ups. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Manakamana (Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez) is the latest project from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Laboratory, which produced last year’s stunning experimental documentary Leviathan. Filmmakers Spray and Velez put a static camera inside a cable car travelling high over Nepal’s Trisuli Valley, recording passengers passing the time on the 10-minute trip between the Manakamana temple and the village below. Eleven sequences are edited into a single seamless experience, its narrative rhythms created by the rocking of the landscape in the background. If you’re prone to carsickness, this might not be for you. But as a meditation on the way human beings fill the ­silence around them – or choose not to – it’s an amazing accomplishment. Subtitled. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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to be heading into risky Last Tango In Paris territory when profoundly alienated Ro­ man teen Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori) asks his mother if she’d have sex with him if they were the last two people on earth.

But ailing director Bertolucci – there’s talk that this might be his last film – plays it safe in a story about a different kind of human connection. Lorenzo has gone into hiding in the basement of his apartment building while pretending to be on a school ski trip. The sudden arrival of his half-sister, Olivia (Tea Falco) – mercurial visual artist and junkie – changes everything. There are clunky elements – Lorenzo’s strange experiments with insects, for example – but the performances are great, especially by newcomer Olmo

(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) Colossus, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Scotiabank Theatre

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

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(Gillian Robespierre) stars Jenny Slate of Parks And Recreation and House Of Lies as a flailing Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart: her boyfriend’s dumped her, the bookstore where she works is closing, and she’s pregnant after a one-night stand with a nice guy (Jake Lacy) whom the universe seems intent on her seeing again. Writerdirector Robespierre’s feature debut – considerably expanded from her 2009 short – is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Slate, who plays against her own bubbly persona to show us a young wo­ man grappling with the fact that she can’t be a kid forever. Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, ­Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Varsity

112 Weddings (Doug Block) is a documentary based on 20 years of wedding videos shot by filmmaker Block. Tracking down some of his former clients to see how their romances have fared, he shows what their 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) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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THE OTHER WOMAN (Nick Cassavetes) is a

strained, phony, overlong comedy about an unlikely alliance between a clumsy housewife (Leslie Mann), the slick lawyer her husband’s been romancing (Cameron Diaz) and a second 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) Yonge & Dundas 24

PALO ALTO (Gia Coppola) is for the most part a gentle, thoughtful study of California teenagers (Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer) struggling to define themselves by figuring out what they will and won’t do.

Points off for Nat Wolff’s caricatured, obnoxious turn as the hero’s best friend, though. 100 min. NNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre THE PIN (Naomi Jaye) is the first-ever

Canadian Yiddish feature – about two young adults trying to escape the Nazis.

When a shomer (David Fox) – the man who sits vigil for the dead in a Jewish funeral home – believes that his current charge is the same woman he hid out with decades ago, he has intense flashbacks about the experience. Jacob (Grisha Pasternak) and Leah (Milda Gecaite) connect when they both escape to the same barn.

The pair’s terror that they’ll be found is the film’s main source of tension, but the sense that Leah is hiding a secret – Jacob’s much more forthcoming than she about what brought them there – deepens the unease. The pace is a tad slow, but the leads are strong, and The Pin shows insight into what it takes to maintain your humanity under dire circumstances and how desperately survivors seek closure.

Subtitled. 85 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square

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 busy plot and characters are lost amidst the flash. 101 min. NN (RS) Kingsway Theatre RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (Rupert

Wyatt) follows a genius Alzheimer’s researcher (James Franco) who raises a superintelligent chimp (performed though the magic of motion capture by Andy Serkis) who’ll grow up to lead a rebellion of similarly enhanced primates. Stuff happens, but none of it is anchored to anything that makes any kind of sense. 105 min. NN (NW) Rainbow Market Square

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ping crime picture than Michôd’s debut feature, Animal Kingdom, so you may find your attention roving over the sunbaked Australian outback. It’s 10 years after an economic collapse, and the exhausted Eric (Guy Pearce) is drinking in a bar when his car is stolen by a group of robbers who’ve fled a crime scene. Eric pursues them with a demented, single-minded fury, and when he meets Rey (Robert Pattinson), one of the robbers’ brothers left for dead at the crime scene, he finds out where they may be hiding. The shootout scenes are well staged, some haunting sequences suggest the chaos of the new economy, and you can sense Michôd reaching for some statement about guilt and loyalty.

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ska as real-life adventurer Robyn Davidson, who in 1977 walked 2,750 kilometres through the Australian desert 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 expert eye.

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(­Michael Bay) is a gargantuan screech of white noise and spinning metal. Set five years after the events of Dark Of The Moon, Age Of Extinction finds all alien robots in hiding, hunted down by the CIA because some nefarious spook (Kelsey Grammer) has decided to sever our longheld alliance with the good ETs – treaties and the president’s opinion be damned.

When a Texas widower (Mark Wahlberg) discovers Optimus Prime in hiding and the government comes to collect him, all hell breaks loose in the first of several epic action sequences that overwhelm the narrative and obliterate the senses. Like the last one, Age Of Extinction is designed for large-format 3D viewing. But while in the previous film Bay gingerly explored the limits of how fast he could cut and move his normally hyperactive camera in three dimensions, here he simply doesn’t care if he disorients or nauseates his audience.

Indeed, this is a movie made by someone who doesn’t give a shit about anything at all. Some subtitles. 166 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Phil Lord, Christopher Miller) is basically just a toy box full of wonderful things, a sequel to Lord and Miller’s self-aware TV adaptation that levels up accordingly: the action scenes are more ambitious, the sets more expensive – the new secret headquarters, across the road from the old one, has an espresso bar! – and the stakes higher, even if the whole point of the exercise is to do exactly what the first movie did. Jonah Hill’s pissy overthinker Schmidt and Channing Tatum’s sweet-natured non-thinker Jenko go to college to track down a new campus drug. As before, they go native almost immediately, Jenko succumbing to the lure of football and frat houses and Schmidt impressing a liberal arts major (Greek’s Amber Stevens) with an impromptu slam poem and struggling to understand hookup culture. Lord and Miller craft terrific chases and fights, but they ground everything in the contrast between Jenko’s gung-ho energy and Schmidt’s nervous

hesitation – a dynamic that never stops paying off. Stay for the credits. 112 min.

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(Jonathan Glazer) stars Scarlett Johansson as 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 cheesy sci-fi thriller, it touches on alienation, charity and even the human condition. The harsh, rugged landscape, Johansson’s restrained performance and Mica Levi’s hypnotic, disturbing score will all bore their way into your subconscious.

108 min. NNNNN (GS) Carlton Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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Paradise Lost co-director Berlinger turning his lens on another American criminal case that certainly feels like a miscarriage of justice: the legacy of Whitey Bulger, a Boston Mob boss alleged to have murdered at least 19 people in his heyday, and who spent 16 years as one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives. When Bulger was finally brought to trial in 2013, the FBI claimed he was one of their best informants – an assertion Bulger vehemently ­denies. Decades of criminal activity (on both sides of the law) means Berlinger has to process an overwhelming volume of information before we can even begin to consider all the possibilities, so a great deal of the film is spent going over court transcripts and FBI paperwork. But when the survivors of Bulger’s victims tell their stories – or the man himself is heard over his lawyer’s telephone – this is a chilling, immediate true-crime story. 120 min. NNN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Words and Pictures (Fred Schepisi) is an insufferable movie about insufferable people having a barely sufferable argument: are words or pictures the most powerful communication tool humans have evolved? The debate is pointless because art is subjective, but neither Clive Owen’s alcoholic poet nor Juliette Binoche’s disabled painter will budge; after all, characters in romantic comedies need stupid obstacles before they can fall in love. Gerald Di Pego writes both as obnoxious variations on Hugh Laurie’s crotchety, cutting Dr. House, and director Schepisi reminds us once again that he’s incapable of making a bad script work. For their part, Owen and Binoche dive into their repugnant characters with everything they’ve got, apparently confident no one will ever see the finished product.

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(Bryan Singer) is really just an excuse to let the all-star casts of the original XMen trilogy and 2011’s sprightly X-Men: First Class share the same feature while the effects crew comes up with nifty new gags and suitably spectacular set pieces.

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EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Fri 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 Mon-Wed 2:40, 4:50, 7:00 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Fri 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 8:00 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 2:10, 7:45 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:50 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:10, 7:40 THE IMMIGRANT (14A) Thu 5:00 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri 3:40 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 6:00, 8:20 Mon-Wed 7:30 THE PIN (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:10 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50 Fri 3:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:40 Fri-Sun 6:30, 9:30

THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Thu 1:30 Fri-Wed 8:00 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 5:30, 9:15 FriWed 1:40, 9:05 IDA (PG) Thu 4:35 Fri-Wed 2:45 LE WEEK-END (14A) Thu 12:00 MANAKAMANA (G) Fri-Wed 12:50 ME AND YOU (14A) Thu 8:00 Fri-Wed 6:25 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 10:30 Sat, Mon, Wed 12:05 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 6:10 Fri-Wed 4:15 PALO ALTO (14A) Thu 9:45 Sat, Mon, Wed 8:00 RIO 2 (G) Thu 12:10 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:05 Sat, Mon, Wed 10:30

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

Midtown

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 TAMMY (14A) 1:30, 4:00, 7:15, 9:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 22 JUMP STREET (14A) 1:15, 3:45, 6:50, 9:20

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 11:00, 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon 1:25, 4:00, 7:50, 9:25 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri 12:50, 2:45, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:55 Sat 12:50, 2:30, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:55 Sun 12:50, 2:30, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:50 Mon-Tue 12:55, 2:45, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:50 Wed 2:45, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 7:00, 7:45, 10:30, 10:45 Sat 12:00, 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 7:00, 7:45, 10:30, 10:45 Sun 12:00, 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:30, 10:45 Mon-Wed 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:30, 10:40 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:00, 8:05, 10:55 Sun 2:00, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:05, 7:55, 10:40 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:10, 5:40, 7:20, 10:35 Fri 1:20, 3:40 Sat 11:10, 1:20, 3:40 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 3:35 Mon 12:45, 3:00, 5:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:00, 9:00 Fri 2:20 Sat 11:40 Sun-Wed 2:10 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sat 2:20, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Sun-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 9:40 Fri 1:10, 4:20, 7:35, 10:25 Sat 4:20, 7:35, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:25, 10:20 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:50, 5:20 Fri 2:10, 4:50 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50 Sun 11:45, 1:30, 4:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:15 Fri-Sat 7:25, 10:00 Sun-Wed 7:10, 9:40 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu 12:50, 2:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 FriSat 6:30, 9:40 Sun, Tue-Wed 6:20, 9:30 Mon 10:25 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40 Fri 1:50, 4:10 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:10 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:30 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 6:30, 9:00 Fri 6:40, 9:00 Sat 6:40, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA - ENCORE Wed 6:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS – ENCORE Sat 12:55 REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (PG) Mon 7:00 RIFFTRAX LIVE: SHARKNADO Thu 8:00 SMURFS 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 TAMMY (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 4:30, 5:30, 7:20, 8:00, 10:00, 10:25 Fri 12:40, 3:10, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10:10, 10:35 Sat-Sun 12:40, 2:00, 3:10, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10:10, 10:35 Mon-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10:10, 10:30 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:55 Sun 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:55, 8:35 Fri 1:15, 5:30, 9:10 Sat 11:00, 2:30, 6:10, 9:50 Sun-Tue 1:00, 5:00, 8:35 Wed 12:15, 3:45, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 2:30, 3:20, 4:00, 6:20, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50, 10:35 Fri 12:00, 3:30, 4:00, 7:10, 8:00, 10:50 Sat 11:55, 12:20, 3:30, 4:15, 7:10, 8:10, 10:50 Sun 11:50, 12:20, 3:20, 4:15, 7:00, 8:10, 10:40 Mon-Tue 3:20, 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:35 Wed 2:30, 4:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:35 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:50, 3:00, 4:35, 6:00, 6:40, 7:40, 9:25, 9:30, 10:20 Fri 1:30, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 Sat 11:05, 12:50, 1:30, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:10 Sun 12:50, 1:50, 3:45, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:05 Mon-Tue 1:50, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40, 10:05 Wed 12:25, 3:00, 6:30, 7:20, 9:40 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:50 FriSat 1:00, 4:00 Sun 12:30, 3:40 Mon-Tue 12:45, 3:40 Wed 12:40, 3:40 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 6:50 Fri-Sat 7:00, 10:05 Sun-Wed 6:40, 9:45

CANADA SQUARE (CE)

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I)

RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)

BELLE (PG) Thu 3:45 Fri-Wed 5:20 BORGMAN (14A) Fri-Wed 9:45 CHEF (14A) Thu 1:50, 7:20 Fri-Wed 3:25, 7:10 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 3:05 Fri-Wed 11:30

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 continued on page 54 œ

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE)

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu, Sun, Wed 7:00 Fri 9:15 Sat 7:00, 9:15 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:30

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 BLENDED (PG) Thu 12:10, 2:55, 10:35 Fri-Tue 6:05, 8:45 Wed 9:10 THE BREAKUP GURU (PG) Thu-Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:35 Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 10:10 CHEF (14A) 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:25 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri-Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 10:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 DOC OF THE DEAD Fri, Mon 9:45 Sat 8:00 Sun 4:00, 9:00 Wed 10:00 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Tue 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:25, 9:40 Wed 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 10:00 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 3:45 6:30 9:15 Fri-Wed 2:45, 6:30, 9:15 EK VILLAIN (14A) 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 10:10 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:20, 7:20, 10:30 Wed 1:25, 4:20, 10:30 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 12:25, 3:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 12:20, 3:25 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:25 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 6:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 6:15, 9:50 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:55 4:20 7:10 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (PG) Thu 4:00 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:15, 5:55, 8:25 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:20 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 HUMPTY SHARMA KI DULHANIA Fri-Tue 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Wed 12:10, 3:10, 7:00, 10:55 JAWS (14A) Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 Sat 5:00, 10:00 Sun 1:00, 6:00 Mon, Wed 4:00 Tue 1:00, 4:00 JERSEY BOYS (14A) 1:05, 4:10, 7:35, 10:40 JURASSIC PARK 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 10:45 LEKAR HUM DEEWANA DIL (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:35, 6:35, 10:05 MALEFICENT (PG) 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00 MALEFICENT: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:05 3:00 5:30 8:30 11:00 Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:00, 5:30, 8:30, 10:50 THE NANCE Mon 1:00 Tue 10:00 Wed 1:00, 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS – ENCORE Sat 12:55 THE OTHER WOMAN 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (PG) Mon-Tue 7:00 RIFFTRAX LIVE: SHARKNADO Thu 8:00 TAMMY (14A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 2:25, 4:00, 4:45, 5:25, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:55 Fri-Tue 12:55, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Wed 12:55, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) 2:15, 6:00, 9:45 Thu 3:15 mat, 7:00 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 11:00

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2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BELLE (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:40, 7:00 Fri 3:15, 5:40, 8:10 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:40, 8:10 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 CHEF (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:50 Fri 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50

551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884 IDA (PG) 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:30

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BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 3:35, 7:20, 10:10 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 12:45, 3:40, 7:00, 10:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 1:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:50 Fri-Tue 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 3:50, 9:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:55, 5:30 Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Tue 8:00, 10:40 Wed 8:00 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 10:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: LA CENERENTOLA - ENCORE Wed 6:30 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS – ENCORE Sat 12:55 TAMMY (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:20, 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 10:05 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 6:30, 8:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 9:45 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 7:10, 10:45 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Fri, MonTue 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:35, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 10:25

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CHEF (14A) Thu 3:35, 9:10 Fri-Wed 3:40, 9:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 Sat, Tue 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30, 11:15 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:45 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 Sat, Tue 11:35 late HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:25, 2:40, 4:50 Fri-Wed 12:40, 6:50 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 12:35, 6:50 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 7:30 TAMMY (14A) Thu 12:20 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15 Sat, Tue 11:20 late TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 4:30, 8:00 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Sat, Tue 1:00, 4:30, 8:00, 11:00 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 12:30 3:30 6:55 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:25

NOW JULY 10-16 2014

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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:10 3:55 7:00 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 7:00, 9:20 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:20 4:05 6:50 9:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:05 4:10 6:55 9:30 FriWed 1:05, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 Thu 1:00 mat, 4:30, 8:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:15 4:15 7:05 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Fri-Sun, Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:15, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:30 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:30 4:45 7:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 12:45 4:15 8:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:10, 8:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00

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Begin Again (14A) Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:30, 9:30 Chef (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 10:05 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 7:15, 10:00 Sun-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:05, 9:50 Tue 1:10, 7:15, 10:00 Wed 1:10, 7:05, 9:50 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Mon 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 10:00 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:15, 4:20, 7:30, 10:40 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:35, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:35, 7:25, 10:30 Sun-Mon 1:10, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Tue 4:35, 7:25, 10:30 Wed 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:20, 6:50, 9:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:00, 4:00 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 3:50 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Fri-Sat 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Mon 7:00, 9:40 Tue 9:55 Wed 9:40 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:50 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu-Tue 2:20, 4:45 Wed 1:30, 4:10 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu-Sat 7:20, 9:45 Sun-Mon 7:15, 9:45 Tue 7:20 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00 The Metropolitan Opera: La Cenerentola - Encore Wed 6:30 National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business – Encore Sat 12:55 RiffTrax Live: Sharknado Thu 8:00 Tammy (14A) Thu-Sat, Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 SunMon, Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:20, 7:00, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:20 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50 4:40 7:30 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15

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Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 11:30, 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:40 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 9:50 SunWed 9:10 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20 Fri 2:10, 4:45 Sat 11:40, 2:10, 4:45 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:55 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 7:25, 9:55 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50 Fri 2:20, 5:00 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 5:00 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:10 Wed 4:10 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 6:40 Fri-Sat 7:40, 10:05 SunWed 6:50, 9:20 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15

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Tammy (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Fri 1:10, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sat 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Sun-Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00 Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:30, 7:10 Sun-Wed 1:00, 3:40, 6:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:30, 5:20, 9:00 Fri 1:30, 3:30 Sat 12:00, 3:30 Sun-Wed 1:10 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 7:00, 10:25 Sun-Wed 5:00, 9:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 11:10, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50

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

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 Sat 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:15, 6:40, 9:45 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:30, 3:50 Sat 11:15, 1:30, 3:50 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:25 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:25 Sat 11:05, 1:40, 4:25 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:40 Maleficent (PG) Thu 5:30 Fri-Tue 1:20, 4:00 Wed 2:25, 5:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 8:00 Fri-Tue 6:40, 9:20 Wed 7:30, 10:00 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:15, 7:55, 10:30 Fri 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:00, 6:25, 10:00 Fri 3:30, 6:15, 9:55 Sat 12:00, 3:30, 6:15, 9:55 Sun-Wed 3:00, 6:15, 9:55 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:00, 5:55, 6:55, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat 7:05, 10:40 Sun-Wed 6:45, 10:20 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Fri 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sun-Wed 1:55, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15

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

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri, Sun-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 11:15, 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:05 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 Mon 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon, Wed 1:45, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Earth to Echo (PG) 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Thu 12:35 mat Sat 11:10, 12:10 mat How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 2:00, 4:40 Sat 11:30 mat How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:30, 10:00 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:45 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:00, 5:30 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:25 Fri-Sun, Tue 8:10, 10:35 Mon, Wed 7:50, 10:10 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:45 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:55 4:30 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:30, 7:40, 10:10 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45 Sat 12:00, 3:25 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 1:30, 3:55, 5:15, 7:45, 8:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 7:00, 10:20 Mon, Wed 6:30, 9:55 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:20, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Mon 2:20, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri-Tue 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Wed 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri-Tue 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 10:45 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu-Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:40,

10:30 Wed 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35, 10:00 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:15, 4:45 Sat 11:50, 2:15, 4:45 Wed 1:45, 4:15 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 10:25 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 7:05 FriTue 7:15, 10:10 Wed 6:45, 9:55 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:20 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 8:00, 10:30 Fri-Tue 7:00, 9:45 Wed 7:00, 9:40 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:15 Fri-Tue 2:10, 4:55 Wed 2:00, 4:35 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Tue 7:30, 10:05 Wed 7:10, 9:45 My Illegal Wife Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business – Encore Sat 12:55 RiffTrax Live: Sharknado Thu 8:00 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Fri, SunTue 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 2:05, 4:45, 10:50 Fri, Sun-Tue 2:20, 5:05, 7:45, 10:35 Sat 5:05, 7:45, 10:35 Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:30, 10:10 Fri-Tue 2:30, 6:10, 9:50 Wed 2:15, 5:55, 9:35 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:50, 3:40, 6:35, 7:10, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Tue 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Sat 11:20, 3:00, 6:40, 10:20 Wed 2:45, 6:25, 10:05 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 Fri, SunTue 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 Wed 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25

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

Begin Again (14A) Fri, Mon 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 11:45, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Wed 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:20 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:45, 3:30, 4:45, 6:40, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:35 Tue 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:10 Sat 11:20, 1:40, 4:10 Tue 1:35, 4:10 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 4:30, 7:25, 10:15 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 6:35, 9:40 Mon 9:55 Godzilla (PG) Thu 10:10 The Grand Seduction (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:45 Fri, Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:35 Sat 11:10, 11:55, 2:30, 5:00 Sun, Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:05 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 7:05, 9:50 Sat 7:30, 10:00 Sun, Tue 7:35, 10:05 Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania Fri, Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:45 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:40, 6:50, 10:15 Mon 12:40, 3:50, 6:35, 9:40 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:55, 7:00 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:20 Sat-Sun, Tue 1:10 Maleficent (PG) Thu 4:35 Fri, Mon 2:55, 5:25 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:25, 2:55, 5:25 Wed 12:20, 2:55, 5:25 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 7:55, 10:30 Rebel Without a Cause (PG) Mon 7:00 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Fri-Tue 12:55, 3:25, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40 Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:25 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:20 Fri, Mon 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Tue 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45 Wed 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:25 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 12:35, 4:30, 8:50 Fri, Mon 2:30, 6:30, 10:25 Sat 11:15, 2:50, 6:25, 10:10 Sun 2:55, 6:30, 10:10 Tue 2:50, 6:30, 10:10 Wed 2:10, 6:00, 9:55 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30, 7:15, 9:50, 10:50 Fri, Mon 3:35, 7:10, 10:50 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:00, 3:35, 7:10, 10:50 Wed 2:50, 6:50, 10:40 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35 Fri, Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Sun 2:30, 5:20, 8:05, 10:50 Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:45 Fri-Wed 12:50 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:50, 10:50 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 3:55, 7:00, 10:05

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

Arima Nambi Thu 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Bobby Jasoos (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:00, 10:00 Ek Villain (14A) Thu 3:30, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:30 SatSun 7:00 Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania Fri, Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Lekar Hum Deewana Dil (PG) Thu 6:30 World Cup 2014 Sat 4:00 Sun 3:00

GTA Regions

22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Fri 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 12:35, 3:10, 6:45, 9:40 Sun 12:35, 3:10, 6:45, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:05, 7:00, 9:35 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:35 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:35 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:25, 10:20

Coliseum Mississauga (CE)

North

Mississauga

Square One, 309 Rathburn Rd W, 905-275-3456

Begin Again (14A) Fri, Sun 1:00, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25 Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 12:50, 3:45, 7:15, 9:55 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri, Sun 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat, Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:00 Fri, Sun 12:45, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 9:45, 10:45 Sat 12:15, 1:45, 3:15, 4:45, 6:15, 7:45, 9:15, 10:45 Mon-Tue 1:45, 2:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:45, 9:00, 10:45 Wed 12:30, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 7:30, 9:30, 10:30 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:15, 4:40 Sat 11:40, 2:15, 4:35 Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:15 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 12:50 Fri, Sun 1:05 Sat, Wed 1:10 Mon-Tue 1:15 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 3:35, 6:45, 9:40 Fri, Sun 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Sat 3:45, 6:40, 9:45 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:35, 9:35 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:35, 10:40 Fri, Sun 7:35, 10:30 Sat 7:25, 10:20 Mon 9:45 Tue-Wed 6:45, 9:45 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:20 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:20 Maleficent 3D (PG) 6:50, 9:25 Thu 7:00 9:30 Fri only 6:50 9:30 Sat only 6:50 9:35 Sun only 6:50 9:30 Tue only 6:50 9:30 Rebel Without a Cause (PG) Mon 7:00 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:30, 10:25 Fri, Sun 1:20, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Sat 11:50, 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:35 Mon-Tue 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Wed 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:45, 6:30, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 2:50, 6:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:25, 10:05 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 Fri, Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:45 Sat 12:30, 3:55, 7:15, 10:45 Mon 3:30, 7:05, 10:30 Tue 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Wed 12:15, 3:35, 7:05, 10:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 2:15, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 8:30, 9:15 Fri, Sun 1:30, 5:30, 9:15 Sat 1:30, 5:30, 9:25 Mon-Wed 1:20, 5:30, 9:15 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:05, 4:10, 4:55, 7:05, 7:50, 10:00, 10:45 Fri, Sun 2:05, 4:55, 7:50, 10:40 Sat 11:30, 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:40 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30 Fri, Sun 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 Sat 12:45, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:05, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 12:40, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15

Courtney Park 16 (CE)

110 Courtney Park E at Hurontario, 416-335-5323 Begin Again (14A) Fri 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 12:30, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 12:30, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 10:00 MonWed 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Bobby Jasoos (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 6:55, 9:55 Sun-Wed 6:55, 9:40 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:45 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:35, 10:30 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:20 Fri 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 Sat 12:45, 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:45, 10:15 Sun 12:45, 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 1:15, 3:40, 4:10, 6:35, 7:05, 9:30, 10:00 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 12:20, 3:20, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 12:20, 3:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 2:35, 4:50, 7:20, 9:35 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:00 Sun 12:00, 1:20, 4:00 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:20 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:05 Ek Villain (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 Fri 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:40 Sat 4:35, 7:40, 10:40 Sun 1:35, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:55, 7:20 Sat-Sun 2:10, 7:20 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:25, 4:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:15 Sat-Sun 11:55, 1:50, 4:15 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sat 6:50, 9:30 Sun-Wed 6:50, 9:15 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 2:00 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:40, 5:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 8:00 Fri 1:10, 4:55, 10:25 Sat 4:55, 10:25 Sun, Wed 4:55, 10:10 Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:55, 10:10 National Theatre Live: A Small Family Business – Encore Sat 12:55 RiffTrax Live: Sharknado Thu 8:00 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:45 Fri 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:20 Sat 2:00, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:20 Sun-Wed 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Sat 12:55, 3:55, 6:40, 9:25 Sun 12:55, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:10 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:05, 4:35 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:50 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Fri 3:15, 6:45, 10:30 Sat 12:05, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30 Sun 12:05, 3:30, 7:00, 10:25 Mon-Wed 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 4:30, 6:00, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 8:05 Sat-Sun 8:20

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

Begin Again (14A) Fri, Sun-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Sat 11:20, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:30, 10:05 Blended (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) 2:45, 5:50, 8:50 Sat 11:45 mat Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 10:15 Fri-Wed 12:45, 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:05, 5:15 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 1:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:00 Sat 11:35 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 4:45, 6:30, 10:25 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 1:15 4:20 7:25 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:00, 8:45 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 9:00 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:25, 10:20 Maleficent (PG) Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:20 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:00 Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:45, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 7:35, 10:10 Sat 7:50, 10:25 Neighbors (18A) Thu 7:10, 9:50 RiffTrax Live: Sharknado Thu 8:00 Smurfs 2 (G) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:15 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:40 3:15 5:40 8:10 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:35 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 12:35 3:00 5:25 8:00 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:30, 5:15, 8:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 5:35, 9:10 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:40, 7:15, 10:45 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:40 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:10, 2:40, 3:10, 6:15, 6:45, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:25, 6:20, 9:55 Sat 11:05, 2:30, 6:20, 9:55 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 6:50, 7:50, 9:35, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:35 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:55 FriWed 1:35, 4:40 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Wed 7:50, 10:45

Rainbow Promenade (I)

Promenade Mall, Hwy 7 & Bathurst, 416-494-9371 Chef (14A) Fri-Wed 3:50, 9:25 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu 10:00 FriWed 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:10, 9:25 FriWed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10 The Grand Seduction (PG) Fri-Wed 1:00, 6:50 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:20 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:40 Fri-Wed 9:30 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:05 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) 12:45, 4:25, 8:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40

West Grande - Steeles (CE) Hwy 410 & Steeles, 905-455-1590

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Repertory cinema listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by venue, then by date. Other films are listed by date.

repertory schedules

Fri 11 – The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) D:

Go see people hump a lot in the Hump! Tour.

Wes Anderson. 7 pm. Radio Free Albemuth (2010) D: John Alan Simon. 9 pm.

Sat 12 – Legend Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2013) D: Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre. 2 pm.

The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm. Radio Free Albemuth. 9 pm.

Sun 13 – The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm.

Mon 14-Tue 15 – The Grand Budapest Hotel.

7 pm. Radio Free Albemuth. 9 pm. wed 16 – Radio Free Albemuth. 7 pm. Laser­ blast Video Night: Mechanical Violator Hakaider (1995) D: Keita Amemiya. 9:30 pm.

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other films

Cinemas big picture cinema gerrard 1035 gerrard e. b­ igpicturecinema.com

thu 10-wed 16 – Check website for schedule.

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

Thu 10 – 112 Weddings (2014) D: Doug Block. 4 pm. Whitey: United States Of America V. James J Bulger (2014) D: Joe Berlinger.

6:30 pm. Next Goal Wins (2014) D: Mike Brett and Steve Jamison. 9 pm. fri 11 – Men Of The Cloth (2013) D: Vicki Vasilopoulos. 3:30 & 6:15 pm. Sing-Along screening of South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999) D: Trey Parker. 9:30 pm. sat 12 – Tosca’s Kiss (1984) D: Daniel Schmid. 1 pm. Dan Savage’s HUMP Tour: festival of homemade porn, featuring thought-provoking and funny sex-positive films from people on all sides of the rainbow. 7 & 9 pm. $18 adv. ­humptour.com. sun 13 – Bloor Broadcast: FIFA World Cup final. 1:30 pm. Free. Exhibition On Screen: Manet: Portraying Life (2013) D: Ben Harding and Phil Grabsky. 6:30 pm. Men Of The Cloth. 8:45 pm. mon 14 – Tosca’s Kiss. 6:30 pm. Men Of The Cloth. 8:45 pm. tue 15 – Tosca’s Kiss. 3:45 pm. Gender Matters: Sepideh – Reaching For The Stars (2013) D: Berit Madsen. 6:30 pm. For No Good Reason (2012) D: Charlie Paul. 9:15 pm.

Wed 16 – The Globe And Mail presents Foreign Dispatches, screening Masters Of The Universe (2013) D: Marc Bauder, followed by discussion w/ journalists. 6 pm. $15. Men Of The Cloth. 9:15 pm.

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sat 12 – 8½ (1963) D: Federico Fellini. 3 pm.

cinematheque tiff bell ­lightbox reitman square, 350 king w.

416-599-8433, tiff.net

Thu 10 – Passages To India: Nocturne Indien (1989) D: Alain Corneau. 6:15 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Kanchenjungha (1962). 9 pm.

Fri 11 – The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Charulata (1964). Introduction by Kathleen O’Connell. 6:15 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Pikoo (1980) and Deliverance (1981).

9:30 pm.

Sat 12 – Passages To India: L’Intouchable (2006) D: Benoît Jacquot. Introduction by Shanay Jhaveri. 1 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Mahanagar (1963). 3:45 pm. In Conversation With Mamoru Oshii. 6:30 pm.

Techno/Human: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii: Ghost In The Shell (1995). 9 pm.

Sun 13 – Passages To India: Forest Of Bliss (1985) D: Robert Gardner. Introduction by Shanay Jhaveri. 1 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Devi (1960). 3:45 pm. Techno/Human: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii: The Sky Crawlers (2008). Introduction by Oshii. 6:15 pm. mon 14 – Call/see website for schedule. tue 15 – The Free Screen presents Fern Silva:

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ñRating: NNNN The thing about kink is that it’s impossible to explain why something works for you or doesn’t. Eroticism and fetishes – to say nothing of arousal – are such maddeningly personal things.

This is why I respect Dan Savage for the vast landscape of turn-ons that is his Hump! Tour, which touches down in Toronto on Saturday (July 12) with the express aim of putting the “hot” back in “Bloor Hot Docs Cinema.”

Curated from nearly a decade’s worth of submissions to Savage’s You Only Live Twice, featuring Servants Of Mercy (2010), Sahara Mosaic (2009), Concrete Parlay (2012), Tender Feet (2013), Passage Upon The Plume (2011). Introduction

by Silva. 6:30 pm. Inner Eye: Four Shorts By Satyajit Ray, featuring Sikkim (1972), The Inner Eye (1972), Bala (1976) and Two (1964). 8:45 pm. wed 16 – TIFF In The Park presents free outdoor screenings: Billy Elliot (2000) D: Stephen Daldry. 9:15 pm (David Pecaut Square, 55 John, one block from the Lightbox).

Fox Theatre

2236 Queen E. 416-691-7330. ­foxtheatre.ca

Thu 10 – Chef (2014) D: Jon Favreau. 7 Finding Vivian Maier (2013) D: ñpm.

John Maloof and Charlie Siskel. 9:15 pm.

Fri 11 – The Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar. 7 pm. The Grand Budañ pest Hotel (2014) D: Wes Anderson. 9:15 pm. sat 12 – Rio 2 3D (2014) D: Carlos Saldanha.

2 pm. The Grand Seduction. 4 & 7 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel. 9:15 pm. sun 13 – Rio 2 3D. 1 pm. Broadcast of the World Cup final. 3 pm. The Grand Seduction.

7 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel. 9:15 pm. mon 14 – The Grand Seduction. 7 pm. The Grand Budapest Hotel. 9:15 pm. tue 15 – The Grand Budapest Hotel. 7 pm.

The Grand Seduction. 9 pm. wed 16 – The Grand Seduction. 7 pm. Fed Up (2014) D: Stephanie Soechtig. 9:15 pm.

Seattle-based festival of sex-positive shorts, the touring version of Hump! offers 20 pieces of various inclinations, running times and formats. There’s gay porn, straight porn, animated porn, mockumentary porn and vérité porn. It’s never dull.

Among the more complicated fetishes explored are women who fantasize about banging centaurs (Mythical Proportions, which features some really clever stop-motion animation), a very specific sort of auto-eroticism (Go Fuck Yourself, in which a man is visited by his future self with a fairly obvious request) and whatever you call jumping on a

trampoline while releasing your bladder (Go Ahead, Pee!).

I was especially impressed by Fun With Fire, in which a young woman allows her partner to light flash paper near some very sensitive parts of her body. It’s one of Hump!’s few entries that feels spontaneous and joyful, capturing the escalation of teasing, tension and release that marks a real connection between human beings.

We’re witnessing an exchange of genuine emotion and trust. That’d be hot even without the flames.

See listings, this page.

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sat 12 – Salvador Dali Film Fest. 7 pm. sun 13 – Silent Film Fest. 5 pm. Salvador Dali

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

770 Don Mills. 416-696-3127. ­ontariosciencecentre.ca

Film Fest. 7 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 9 pm.

Mon 14 – The Sex & Violence Cartoon Fest. 7 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004) D: Don Alexander. 9 pm.

Tue 15 – Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 7 pm.

Wed 16 – LSD: The Beyond Within (1986) D: Max Whitby. 7 pm. DMT: The Spirit Molecule (2010) D: Mitch Schultz. 9 pm.

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Thu 10-fri 11 & mon 14-wed 16 – Highlights of current programming.

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11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon.

Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Thu only).

Sat 12-Sun 13 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar.

11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark. Noon.

Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Sat only). mon 14-wed 16– Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. 11 am, 2 & 4 pm. Great White Shark.

Noon. Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm.

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

thu 10 – Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonder-

land (1951) D: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, with soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. 7 pm. The Darkside Of Oz: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming and George Cukor, with soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s Darkside Of The Moon. 9 pm.

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

Thu 10 – Tracks (2013) D: John Curran. 7 pm.

The Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar.

9:15 pm.

Fri 11 – Chef (2014) D: Jon Favreau. 7 pm.

Godzilla 3D (2014) D: Gareth Edwards.

9:15 pm.

Sat 12 – Godzilla 3D. 2 & 9:15 pm. Chef.

4:30 & 7 pm.

Sun 13 – Godzilla 3D. 12:15 & 9:15 pm. Broadcast of the World Cup final. 3 pm. Chef. 7 pm. mon 14 – Chef. 7 pm. Fed Up (2014) D: Stephanie Soechtig. 9:15 pm.

Tue 15 – Fed Up. 7 pm. Chef. 9 pm.

Wed 16 – Chef. 1 pm. Godzilla 3D. 7 pm.

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Thu 10 – Call/see website for schedule.

thu 10-wed 16 – The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. ­cntower.ca.

Casa Loma presents The P­ ellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, ­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 10 – Open Roof Festival outdoor screening and live music performance presents Locke (2013) D: Steven Knight, and live music by Weaves. Doors 7:30 pm. $15. 99 Sudbury. ­openrooffestival.com.

Cultura Festival presents an outdoor screening of 20 Feet From Stardom (2013) D: Morgan Neville. 9:30 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. ­culturafestival.ca.

Rabble.ca presents a screening of the collaborative documentary Preempting Dissent (2014), followed by discussion w/ filmmaker Greg Elmer. 4 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. a ­ rpbooks.org.

Sat 12 – Harbourfront Centre presents the China Now Festival featuring a screening of the documentary People’s Park (2012) D: Libbie­Dina Cohn and JP Sniadecki. 9:30 pm.

Free. 235 Queens Quay W, North Orchard. ­harbourfrontcentre.com. sun 13 – Toronto Public Library presents a screening of The Great Gatsby (2013) D: Baz Luhrmann. 6 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000.

Christie Pits Film Festival’s Days of Summer outdoor screenings presents Les Vacances De Monsieur Hulot (1953) D: Jacques Tati, and short films Under The Weather and Seasick. At sunset (approx 9 pm). Free/pwyc. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. ­christiepitsff.com.

CineCycle’s Sounds & Silents presents Man Ray short films including Emak-Bakia (1927), with live score by Red Lantern. 8 pm. $10.

129 Spadina. s­ uper8porter.ca/CineCycle.

Mon 14 – Outside the March presents a party and sneak peek of Vitals (2014) D: Mitchell Cushman, a cinematic experience based on the theatre company’s play of the same name staged earlier this year. 7 pm. $20. House of Moments, 386 Carlaw. ­vitalsthefilm.brownpapertickets.com. tue 15 – City Cinema outdoor film screenings presents National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) D: Harold Ramis. 9 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ­ydsquare.ca. wed 16 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks Film Series presents and outdoor screening of Clueless (1995) D: Amy Heckerling. 9 pm. Free. WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Avon Canada presents a pre-screening of Decoding Annie Parker (2013) D: Steven Bernstein, followed by a panel discussion.

7:15 pm. $50-$100 (proceeds to Willow Breast and Hereditary Cancer). TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. ­uniiverse.com.

Regent Park Film Festival and Open Roof Festival present an outdoor screening of Blood Brother (2013) D: Steve Hoover. 9 pm.

Free. Park next to Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­regentparkfilmfestival.com. 3

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Working as a secretary – one with a master’s in writing – wasn’t that hard to beat, I guess. But professional dommes aren’t immune to workplace romances, and I fell in love with a client.

Long story short, we are still together after a year and a half, after I closed my practice and sold (most of) my toys because he didn’t want to be with a woman who was still practising this kind of physical intimacy with others.

Fair enough. But the list has grown longer. His jealousy flared when I told him that I went to lunch with a male friend I’d played with before, and again when he found an old picture on my computer of me blowing my ex.

(Snooping sucks when someone’s not mature enough to handle what they find.) But the latest and most bitter pill is that he no longer wants me to write anything about my experiences – not because it might cause professional fallout if people knew about him dating a former pro domme (notwithstanding the fact that he was a client once), but because he doesn’t want me to think about the experiences I’ve had. Fuck, Dan, I love this guy, but “retiring” has never been so hard and so scary. I honestly miss the sex-positive community and the impact (ha) I had on people who decided – for whatever reason – to pay a professional to share this creative, spiritual, eros-infused intimacy with them, if only for a few hours every month or so.

It seemed like I needed to give that up to have a marriage and family, which, as I get into the later half of my 30s, seems like I ­better get going on if I want this to happen. DTMFA, I know, but why has it been so hard to do this time?

Despairing Over

My Man’s Expectations “DOMME’s letter struck a chord with me, because I was once in a relationship with a guy who did very similar things,” said Mistress Matisse, a professional dominatrix, writer and sex-worker rights activist. “He knew exactly who I was when we started the relationship – just like DOMME’s guy did – and he said it was fine. But once I got emotionally invested, that all changed. He tried to control me by making me feel insecure, like I was a flawed person and my only chance for a relationship was him – who else would be willing to be with an (ick) sex worker? As dumb as it sounds now, I think part of what blinded me to what he was doing was the fact that I was a dominatrix! Surely a dominant woman could not be in an abusive relationship, right? Wrong. Leaving him was the best thing I ever did.”

And that’s exactly what Matisse thinks you need to do: DTFMA, DOMME. But Matisse isn’t telling you anything you don’t already know. So why is it so hard?

“It’s so hard because she’s in a relationship with an abusive, controlling man who’s been systematically tearing down her confidence and her sense of self for a year and a half,” said Matisse. “He’s made her give up things that were positive and meaningful to her, gets angry when she sees her friends and now is trying tell her what she’s allowed to think. This flaming hypocrite isn’t just

chipping away at her self-esteem, he’s going after it with a jackhammer!”

Matisse doesn’t want you giving your boyfriend a second chance, DOMME, and neither do I. His controlling, slutshaming behaviour is simply unforgivable.

“DOMME’s boyfriend is leveraging all the power of a sex-negative world to make her think she has to give up all of who she is, her past and her future – even her own mind – to be in this relationship. Leave him. She shouldn’t agree to talk it over or try to understand his feelings or work out a compromise. He might pretend to make some bargain with her, like telling her that if she married him or had a child with him, then he would possibly feel okay about her writing about her own life. Don’t fall for this,” said Matisse. “Her thinking about, writing about or even being a dominatrix is not the problem. He is the problem. If DOMME sticks around, she’ll just be giving her boyfriend a chance to do more damage than he already has. She should leave and not look back – and she should spend some time with a therapist. This guy has planted so much poison in her head, more than she can even see right now. She needs to dig it all out so she can move on to a happy relationship with a man who loves her exactly as she is. And trust me, DOMME, those guys are out there.”

Follow Mistress Matisse on Twitter @ mistressmatisse.

Say buh-bye to snooper I’m a straight guy, and my girlfriend

j ust read my journal. I’d written some pretty harsh things in there about her.

But despite my questions about our relationship, I really do want to see whether we can work through our issues. I believe that we have a strong connection despite having very different personalities. Although I wrote some very harsh things about her personality, I don’t question the strength of our bond. I feel guilty that she saw some of the things I wrote, but I am also angry that she read my journal.

What do I say to her?

Stupid Conflict About

Reading Entire Diary “Good-bye.” She invaded your privacy, SCARED, which was bad enough. But if you were so stupid as to put “Things That Cannot Be Unsaid” into writing – now “Things That Cannot Be Unread” – then I don’t see how this relationship can be salvaged.

BJ’s without choking I’m a big fan! (I am also not a native

E nglish speaker, so my letter may sound a bit too formal.) I’m a straight girl with a question regarding oral sex. My boyfriend wants to come in my mouth. I can deal with the taste, but in order to climax my boyfriend needs to pump his penis very fast. He needs to do this at a speed I can’t match even with my

hands. This fact makes it very hard to contain his dick in my mouth. He also thrusts, which makes me feel choked, and I pull away. Is there something fixable here or is this simply a question of what he needs to do to come, and I consequently have to learn to deal with it?

I hope this question doesn’t sound too silly. I’m not very experienced!

No Signature For Wonderer Your question isn’t silly, NSFW, and I’m happy to answer it for you.

Most men need to thrust during oral to come – if oral isn’t foreplay prior to thrust-based vaginal or anal penetration – and that thrusting action can present problems for even the most enthusiastic and experienced cocksucker.

The solution: shorten your boyfriend’s cock by wrapping a fist (or two) around the base of his shaft, and let him thrust through your wet fist(s) and into your mouth. Since your fist(s) can grip his dick firmly, NSFW, you can relax your mouth a bit – you don’t need to maintain a suction seal during this stage of the blow job. You relax your mouth and jaw, your boyfriend thrusts in and out, his cock won’t go all the way to the back of your throat (so no choking), and your clenched fist(s) provide(s) the necessary friction and pressure to get him off.

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