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1. Ignore Rob Ford Now that we’re paying more attention to his new sobriety coach and a shirtless horde of protesters, it’s official: no one cares what the mayor himself is saying.

2. Written on the body Demonstrators at SlutWalk 2014 broadcast their messages right on their flesh: “No shame,” some say, and “The way I dress does not mean yes.”

3. Tough love: He’s not a homophobe, folks, he’s a “spendaphobe,” he says.

But Ford’s was also the sole vote against an LGBTQ homeless shelter.

4. Normal to the extreme Writer Jacob Scheier argues that Elliot Rodger’s sense of entitlement to women’s bodies isn’t actually that unusual.

5. Democracy inaction If council can stand up to Rob Ford’s media-blocking antics, why can’t journalists?

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show of treasures from the Chinese palace is on view at the ROM to Sep 1. $24.50-$27. rom.on.ca.

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.

atre’s outdoor production of the 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.

UPSCALING PARKDALE Parkdale Community Legal Services hosts a public meeting on gentrification in the ’hood. 6 pm.

Metro Hall, room 308. 416-5312411 ext 248.

brings Dirty Projectors’ Nat Baldwin to the Monarch Tavern, with Black Walls and Kira May. $10. RT, SS, TF. ­wavelengthtoronto.com. twelve angry men A new production of the classic ­ courtroom drama continues at Soulpepper’s Young Centre to Jul 26. 8 pm. $29-$74. 416-8668666.

Penelope Stewart The artist’s new sensory architecture – on an apian theme – is at Koffler ­Gallery (Artscape Youngplace) to Aug 31. kofflerarts.org.

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finally brings ­Cupid Deluxe to a Toronto stage, the Danforth Music Hall. Doors 8 pm. $25$33. RT, SS, TM. lionel richie R&B singer entertains – all night long. Molson Amphitheatre. 7:30 pm. $35.50-$174.50. LN, TM. +TITUS ANDRONICUS The Bard goes for blood at the High Park Amphitheatre. 8 pm. To Aug 30. Pwyc ($20-$25 sugg). ­canadianstage.com.

Post-punk legend is back at the Sony Centre in all his beautifully sorrowful glory. 8 pm. $39.50-$98.25. ­sonycentre.ca. +JASON TRUCCO The L.A.-based artist’s fascinating show about image distortion is at ­Angell Gallery to Aug 12. 416-5300444.

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Lecture by ­feminist activist Poonam ­Kathuria and others. 7 pm. Free. George Ignatieff Theatre. oise.­utoronto.ca/cwse. +C.C. HUMPHREYS Historical fiction ace talks about his new book, Plague, at Dora Keogh.

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Doors 6 pm, all ages. $29.50$99.50. LN, TM. RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT Last chance to see DNA Theatre’s radical ballet for five guys created by Hillar Liitoja and Magdalena Vasko. 3 pm. To Jul 27 at the Theatre Centre. Pwyc$27. 416-538-0988.

Strange-but-not coupling of Brit rockers and American Idol runner-up play their second gig of the month at the Air Canada Centre. Doors 7 pm, all ages. $29.50-$129.50. LN, TM.

arts networking potluck. 2:30 pm. Pwyc/potluck. Artscape Youngplace Studio 106. 180 Shaw. ­maychook.com/ccjam.

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Stephen Lewis Speaks With Grassy Narrows Public

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Norman Wilner joins other guest judges at the annual riboff on the Danforth to benefit the Odette Cancer Centre. ­Broadview to Jackman. Noon to 4 pm. $15. ­thedanforth.ca.

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. time-fest.com.

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email letters@nowtoronto.com Rob Ford’s LGBTQ shame

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As an openly gay individual who has been homeless, I was deeply disheartened to hear of Rob Ford’s recent no vote – the only no vote – on a new shelter for LGBTQ youth (NOW, July 10).

I don’t know if Ford is aware of this, but a staggering 21 per cent of youth shelter users identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered. Research is echoing what the LGBTQ community is shouting.

Many LGBTQ youth are forced out of their homes by families unwilling to accept – and incapable of recognizing – their courageous first steps of coming out and affirming their identities. Homophobic and transphobic violence, sadly, knows no bounds; these same vulnerable youth who seek out the safety of Toronto’s shelter system often find little safety at all.

I care very little what Ford’s personal beliefs or politics are, but voting no to a safe space – the kind I could have used and countless thousands of youth will need in the future – is shameful.

Stephen Martin Toronto

Who the Fords think they’re fooling

I very much agree that the media should ignore Rob and Doug Ford’s antics (NOW, July 10-16). Rob is the emperor wearing no clothes, and Doug is his tailor. I hope you know this fairy tale. Rob doesn’t even know his brother is making a fool of him and all of us who dare not speak the truth.

B M Walton Toronto

Wait, why didn’t Harp go to Pride?

What gives? Prime Minister Stephen Harper attends the Calgary Stampede but he can’t be bothered to make an appearance at the recent WorldPride festivities in Toronto? He deserves to be called out on this. Isn’t he prime minister of all Canadians?

Andrew van Velzen Toronto ammoliti’s brain M sphincter malfunction

What makes Giorgio Mammoliti say such shit (NOW, July 10-16)? This serious question I may be able to answer.

He has, much like myself, suffered a fistula. This medical condition is not caused by fisting or Dracula. Simply put, it’s when a normal flow of fluid is blocked and diverted to a newly formed abscess so it is released before backed-up pressure harms, possibly kills, the patient.

Of course this still leaves the painful blockage and abscess to fix. In Mr. M’s case he had surgery last year. Now, I realize his fistula appeared inside his skull whereas mine was located in

“ I care very little what Rob Ford’s ­personal beliefs are, but voting no to a safe place for LGBTQ youth is shameful. ” my asshole, but I believe we can still draw some interesting parallels.

My complaint started with hemorrhoids so bad they plugged my butt. I abscessed through a thin spot in my hull, recalling how the survivors escaped from the bottom of a sinking ship in The Poseidon Adventure. I tore me a new asshole. The problem was I had no built-in control over it and was practically incontinent.

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any part of the industry is wrong.

Some people, regardless of [their gender], will still choose to provide and utilize sexual services, and they should be a legal part of society, not marginalized.

The war on prostitution only distracts and waste resources. Government should focus on criti­cal issues such as affordable housing, education, health care and transportation to create strong communities that are not influenced by external market forces.

Robert Croghan Toronto

Stunned by Words And Pictures

Re film critic Norman Wilner’s dyspeptic review of Words And Pictures (NOW July 3-9).

Why words and pictures matter is the theme of this beautiful little mo­ vie. Even the subplot about harassment Wilner objected to was a brill point about how words and pictures can be used to hurt. And who cares that it’s “Vancouver subbing for Maine”?

That Juliette Binoche’s own stunning art was used throughout the movie was an added bonus for me.

So, yes, the movie, with it’s intelligent script and direction and chemistry between two damaged people, well, that was what I enjoyed, and if that’s somehow crowd-pleasing, so what?

Naseer Ahmad Toronto

Vaughan says it’s time to move on housing

Saw Brian Eng’s letter, The House Adam Vaughan Built (NOW, July 1016). Several decisions from the late 1980s on led to the end of a national housing program. The first cuts were initiated by Brian Mulroney. Paul Martin, once he became prime minister, began to reverse the cuts and work toward a true urban agenda.

Martin’s final budget had $2.4 billion over 10 years set aside for housing, but it did not survive after Har­per took over.

More cuts and punitive policies have rolled us back. More to the point, they have put people looking for housing at the end of a very long line that is growing far too fast. Current stock is in decline, and now the very existence of the co-op housing model is threatened.

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Market forces on sex

Re Will Johns Become The New “Fags”?

(NOW, June 26-July 2). We need to [ask] why women choose pros­titution as an economic alternative along with why men, as Alice Klein notes, will pay for an “uncom­plicated and pleasurable way to satisfy their sexual hunger.”

It’s not just men paying for sex; women, too, are johns. Criminalizing

still putting together staff, and haven’t had time to thank hundreds of people who worked hard to secure my seat.

Let me assure you, though, a housing summit is my first order of business.

The time for finger-pointing is behind us. Let’s move forward together.

Adam Vaughan MP Trinity-Spadina, Toronto

Putting cycling out to the curb

I recently came across your news ar­ ticles on the death of cyclist Jenna Mor­rison while researching cyclist deaths. I am aware that Morrison’s story is several years old, but to me it highlights everything that is wrong with bike laws and being forced to ride next to the curb.

I’m currently being prosecuted in the U.S. for riding my bicycle in the centre of the lane as opposed to the edge of the road.

Bicycling is an equally viable means of transportation that should be treated with respect.

If the city won’t protect the people who use its public roadways and if it won’t treat all users with equal respect, then the cyclists of Toronto need to band together and learn how to take their rightful place on the road­way.

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Corktown Common officially opened July 10 with much deserved fanfare (it’s beautiful!) but no Rob Ford, who was busy not answering questions about those allegedly extravagant pink umbrellas he complained about at Sugar Beach last week. The mayor’s no fan of the waterfront, but it turns out his bud got the contract for those umbrellas.

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Great Hall closing?

Reps from Queen West’s Great Hall are asking for help to save it from closure. On Monday, July 14, after launching a petition­supporting its application to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission to increase its capacity, the Great Hall called on local music lovers and ­partiers to attend the hearing on July 30. Local councillor Mike Layton says that because of previous problems neighbours have had with noise and disturbances, some conditions would have to be met before he’d support the application.

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Here’s to you, John A! It’s always fun when council wades into a debate it’s completely unqualified to handle. This week’s burning question: is it okay to honour historical figures who did some great things but, let’s face it, were pretty racist? A while ago some councillors proposed renaming Union Station after John A. Macdonald, but others argued that doing so would be a slap in the face to the descendants of the Chinese immigrants who actually built the railroad Macdonald always gets credit for.

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Over the objections of activists and the concerns of city staff, council voted 22-14 last week to allow Metrolinx to erect eight huge electronic billboards along Highways 401 and 427. The signs would be four to six times larger and two times taller than city bylaws permit, and they would also violate provincial policy. Billboard companies deploy aggressive lobbyists at city hall. The decision was so maddening that normally mild-mannered public space activist Dave Meslin was moved to shout in the chamber. He walked out in a rage.

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After two months of quiet, we picked up where we left off on Tuesday, July 15, as the five leading candidates for mayor went head-to-head in an occasionally ugly debate at a mega-church in Scarborough. Some of them brought cheering sections that also functioned as jeering sections. Even Olivia Chow’s vows to “create jobs for young people” and “expand after-school activities for our kids” were met by boos from hardcore partisans. Outside on Markham Road, a Ford supporter picked a fight with an anti-Ford protester that nearly came to blows. ­ Read Jonathan Goldsbie’s story at n ­ owtoronto.com.

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1. To quote Linsey MacPhee, manager of the Toronto Drop-in Network, “Access to transit is as important as access to food and housing and employment.”

2. Homeless people and others who visit drop-in centres are often referred to other agencies for help, which is useless if they can’t keep appointments.

3. It’s prudent. A report co-written by the TTC and the city warns that the economic and societal benefits of expanded transit “will not be realized if [it’s] too costly for the people it is built to serve.”

4. Other Canadian cities are doing it. Calgary, Hamilton and York Region already give price breaks that are about half the cost of regular passes.

5. It shouldn’t cost the TTC a dime if, as Councillor Joe Mihevc suggests, the TTC is to provide discounts during off-peak hours, when many vehicles run half-empty.

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He’s charismatic, smart and he can rap. Maybe Wab Kinew is the strong medicine the Assembly of First Nations needs.

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here is a vacancy atop Canada’s leading aboriginal political organization, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN), and it’s been said that nature abhors a vacuum.

Native politics tends to follow the same laws of physics as everyone else.

Back in May, Shawn Atleo, the then national chief, abruptly abdicated amidst controversy over his support of the federal government’s aborigi­nal education act, Bill C-33. He said he didn’t want to be a “lightning rod” for criticism of the policy. Many pro­m­inent and talented prospective can­didates have been doodling “National Chief” in front of their names ever since.

The most interesting of those pondering sticking an indigenous toe in the murky waters of national politics is Wab Kinew.

A growing media presence, Kinew has travelled many trails. He’s the University of Winnipeg’s first director of indigenous inclusion and the host of Fault Lines on Al-Jazeera America. He hosted CBC-TV’s national documentary series 8th Fire and won an Aboriginal Peoples Choice Music Award in 2009 for his rap CD, Live By The Drum. He championed Joseph Boyden’s novel The Orenda in this year’s Canada Reads competition on CBC Radio and won against formidable opponents like former ambassador to the UN Ste­ phen Lewis. He’s signed a deal with Penguin Canada to write his autobiography. At 32!

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The man has his finger on many of the issues circulating through the country’s First Nations communities, especially among the social-media-savvy young.

But is that enough?

Yes, Kinew is charismatic, smart, knowledgeable.

But it will take more than that to handle 633 rambunctious chiefs coming from all different directions in Ca­nada, plus a prime minister who most native lead­ ers feel is just a little to the right of Custer. Many still wince at the PM’s decision to shake hands with a pair of Chinese pandas in Toronto instead of a group of Cree teenagers who had walked from the James Bay area to meet with the man.

Some tout Kinew as the Justin Trudeau of the aboriginal community, the bringer of new, innovative ideas to what is essentially an old boys’ club. He’s not only camera-pleasing, but, like Trudeau, is the son of a former pro­m­inent politician and academic, and he’s very popular with progressive First Nations leaders.

But is a rock star what native politics needs to take on Harper and win?

Kinew tells me, “We are in a unique era when First Nations people are moving ahead in big ways but still face too many challenges. At the same time, there is a stronger desire among average Canadians to get things right with indigenous people. I want to help make sure we take advantage of those two big trends and take a real step towards the vision our ancestors

Native chiefs want their leader to be smart and homey, somewhere between a low-fat decaf­ latte and ­instant ­coffee spiked with Carnation Evaporated Milk.

had of sharing the land [for our] mutual benefit.”

“Education, reform of AFN governance and nationbuilding” are important to him. But the “biggest issue is making the AFN financially inde­pen­dent of the federal government.” Sounds like strong medicine.

There’s this hope: “There isn’t a better [native] communicator in Ca­na­da today,” says Hayden King, direc­ tor of the Centre for Indigenous Governance at Ryerson University.

But then there’s the reality: “The AFN is in decline,” says King. “And has been for some time. I’m not sure even Wab can save it.”

Kinew’s biggest weakness as a possible candidate is his air of urban intellectuality, of remoteness from the reserve grassroots. These are the people who regularly deal with black mould in their houses, if they have houses, or with being flooded out by tempera­ mental rivers, or facing law officials in severe need of equity and diversity training.

In the 2012 AFN election, many of the candidates had that same aura of sophistication. But native chiefs want their leader to be both smart and homey, somewhere between a low-fat, decaf latte and an instant coffee spiked with Carnation Evaporated Milk.

Native author and activist Lee Mar­acle believes Kinew has the right stuff. “He is connected to many of the issues indigenous people face, has a solid view of colonialism but is an extremely reasonable and intelligent man. I believe he would consult more effectively with his constituents and move ahead with them in mind. He is not afraid to take the lead but is always aware of those he stands with.”

It’s important to remember that the prime function of the national chief of the AFN is to represent status reserve members in Ottawa, those people in First Nations communities scattered all across Cana­ da: fishermen, ranchers, small businessmen, tradi­ tional hunters, the poor, the well off, those with land claims and those who sit in their kitchen writing articles about potential politicians. Off-reserve and nonstatus aboriginal people are not included in the AFN mandate. They’re represented by the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, whence sprang Stephen Harper Senate appointee Patrick Brazeau. The less said about that the better.

Mastery of the job involves juggling around half a million people with over a dozen separate and different languages, cultures, priorities, problems and pre­ judices.

Dan David, a Mohawk journalist from Kanehsatake, has mixed emotions about Kinew’s interest in Indian country’s top job. “As an academic, he’s been in a position to be able to speak his mind,” he says. “Academia provides him a platform to say things that might provoke. [But] so far, his comments have been aimed at tweaking white guilt and sentiment. What he’s said on a national platform has been relatively safe. He’s also said nothing that’s been controversial to anyone in Indian country. And that’s where it really counts if he’s going to run for national thief.” (The “thief” reference is a native joke. He means national chief.)

Native author Thomas King, who ran federally for the NDP, once told me that as a politician you are not allowed to possess a sense of irony. Quoted out of context, it can kill you.

Kinew will definitely have his hands full if he decides to run. One Mi’kmaq journalist from Nova Scotia who declined to be named here doubts he will sweep in and take the election by storm.

“In order to successfully run for national chief, a candidate has to be known amongst the chiefs who elect him. This means the candidate has to already have leadership experience at the national political level. He/she would have experience as a chief of a First Nation, have taken up executive positions in regional and national political organizations. The candidate needs to do major schmoozing during AFN meetings. That may hurt him in the long run.”

Still, it’s an interesting idea: a national chief who can talk about literature as well as policy. Harper may be able to play the piano, but Kinew can rap. Maybe he is just what native politics needs.

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port authority power play Until he became a Liberal MP, Adam Vaughan wanted to abolish the Port Authority; now he wants city council to keep its hands off the waterfront By ­jonathan Goldsbie Until recently, newly elected Liberal MP Adam Vaughan wanted to destroy the Toronto Port Au­thor­ ity. Now he wants to fix it.

In an interview ahead of the recent Trinity-Spadina by-election, Vaughan said he would like to reconsti­ tute the board to include members chosen by local residents associations, cultural agencies and recrea­ tional groups in addition to businesses, “so that you have all the in­terests of the waterfront represent­ed on the Port Authority, not simply the industrial ones.”

The federal agency whose primary asset is the Island airport currently describes itself as a “government business enterprise.”

Vaughan’s experience on council appears to have destroyed his faith in councillors’ abil­ity to protect water­front interests. He pointed out that when the tri­ partite agreement governing operation of the airport – and prohibiting jets there – was signed in 1983, the three parties to it were the federal gov­ernment, the Toronto Harbour Com­missioners (the largely citycontrolled forerunner to the TPA) and the pre-amalgamation city of Toronto.

“Virtually every ward [representative] except for about four were waterfront politi­cians,” he said, “and therefore they were sensitive to the issues and city council was the check and the balance against federal ex­pan­sionism.”

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But now Porter Airlines exists and is a powerful lob­ bying interest at a larger council with a different poli­ ti­cal dynamic. “And as a result of that,” he said, “if you were to get rid of the Port Authority and dump the tripar­tite agreement in the lap of someone like, I dun­ no, Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly, or someone like Mayor Rob Ford, or put it in the hands of Econo­mic Develop­ ment with Michael Thomp­son, you would end up in a situation where you’d also have the Bombardier folks rattling the cages of Maria Augimeri and Anthony Per­ruzza” – left-leaning councillors who are keen to protect unionized aircraft manufacturing jobs in the Downsview area they represent.

Vaughan found it was thus “almost impossible to guarantee waterfront neighbourhoods I represented that I [could] marshal the 23 votes to protect the status quo, let alone defend against really aggressive expan­ sion plans.”

He said he sat down with Liberal leader Justin Tru­ deau’s office and told them about his reform idea and asked if he could say that was party policy. “To which I was told, ‘That’s now Liberal policy. Run with it.’”

When Vaughan explained his new inclination in a Rogers TV debate during the run-up to the by-election, Queen’s Park Briefing reporter John Michael McGrath mockingly tweeted, “Ahahahaha now some­one ask about the OMB.” And TPA board chair Mark McQueen similarly snarked that “by reformed, @­TOAdamVaughan means a TPA controlled by him, rather than someone else.”

McQueen declined to comment directly on Vaughan’s proposal when reached by email last week, but did offer that “Vaughan may have forgotten that [the TPA’s mandate was] originally drafted and enact­ ed by the Liberal government of Jean Chrétien and

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The closest connection anyone on the TPA board has to waterfront interests is a Conservative fundraiser who used to chair Ontario Place.

Paul Martin. The current TPA Board is charged with fulfilling that mandate, but I disagree with any char­ acterization that it is geared towards ‘industrial users.’

The Outer Harbour Marina, for example, is the largest freshwater marina in North America.”

Joe Cressy, the NDP candidate who ran unsuccess­ fully in Trinity-Spadina, certainly isn’t a fan of Vaughan’s new tack. After the Rogers debate, he told NOW that “the chal­lenge is not to replace Liberal back­ roomers with Conservative ones, or Conservative with Liberal ones. It’s to give control of the port back to the city so we can deal with waterfront issues within our own boundaries.”

Cressy was skeptical that even a board composed of members selected for relevant expertise should have the ability to act as a restraint on council.

“Welcome to the Senate all over again, right?” he said. “We need unelected, undemocratic checks on elect­ed representatives? If you want to stop jets flying out of the Island airport, you vote for the only mayor­ alty candidate who opposes jets flying out of the Is­ land airport. That’s what you do. You vote for council­ lors who stand up.” * * * The history of the Port Authority – why it exists and why it is the way it is – is brutally convoluted. It emerged from what the Globe’s John Barber described in a 1998 column as a morass of “political infighting even more complicated and intense than usual.”

The short version is that when the Chrétien govern­ ment introduced legis­lation establishing new frame­ works for the country’s major ports, Dennis Mills, the Liberal backbencher for the old riding of BroadviewGreenwood, put forward a last-min­ute amendment adding Toronto to the list.

This was just ahead of the 1997 federal election, and Mills was quite open about his political motives. “I know there are a number of people in Toronto who from time to time wonder... whether the Toronto mem­ bers of Parliament are giving full force to the economic renewal which is needed in that city,” he said, accord­ ing to Hansard.

The Liberals won re-election, and Transport Minis­ ter David Collenette reintroduced the bill that fall, with Toronto still listed alongside far larger ports such as Halifax and Vancou­ver. All would be required to be­ come financially self-sufficient.

In May 1998, while the bill was being reviewed by the Senate, the newly amalgamated Toronto city council vot­ed 37-1 to ask that Toronto be excluded; Norm Kelly, our current deputy mayor, was the lone dissenter.

“The Port of Toronto will be structured like other key port cities,” Collenette wrote in a Star op-ed in which he also boasted that cruise ships visiting To­ ronto would become the next big thing. “Last October marked the arrival of the Columbus, a tourist ship specifically built to go through the St. Lawrence Sea­ way. The potential for other tourist ships stopping at Toronto is limitless.”

Crucially, however, he also assured readers that as far as the TPA’s board goes, “The majority are to be appoint­ed after consultation with port users.”

Indeed, the TPA’s letters patent (which essentially serve as both its incorporation papers and its char­ ter) specified that this was to be the case. Even after being amended by the Conservatives in 2008 to ex­ pand the size of the board, this remains the official rule.

Of the board’s nine members, the federal govern­ ment, city of Toronto, and province of Ontario appoint one each. The remaining six are chosen by the federal transport minister “in consultation with the users se­ lected by the Minister, or the classes of users.”

These “user directors” are sup­posed to be put for­ ward by and represent the interests of one of the four designated user classes: port-related activities/oper­ ators (shippers and such); airport (any business relat­ ed to that); commercial users (e.g., developers, hotel operators, retail busi­ness­es); and recreational busi­ ness (yacht clubs, cultural businesses, etc).

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fields such as finance, law and tele­ communications. But at least as far as the online bios indicate, the closest connection any of them has to the waterfront is that city appointee Jim Ginou, a Conservative fundraiser who brought in cash for Rob Ford in 2010, was once chair of Ontario Place Corporation.

Geoffrey Wilson, president and CEO of the Port Authority, says he feels “blessed” to have an “excellent board.” He says that because 80 per cent of the TPA’s business involves the airport and related capital pro­ jects, it’s helpful to have a number of board members who are experts in finance and another with experience in the aerospace industry (though the latter also happens to be friends with Porter CEO Rob­ert Deluce).

Asked if he knows of anyone on the board who has a connection to a user class other than aviation, Wil­ son says he is “personally very satis­ fied that the board of directors for the Toronto Port Authority offers what it must in terms of experience and commitment and expertise to allow this agency to meet its man­ date. And its mandate as a govern­ ment business enterprise is to be fi­ nancially self-sufficient.”

A TPA spokesperson explains that the organization doesn’t have any in­ formation concerning how the six user directors are reflective of the spe­cified user classes, and that the question would be better put to the minister of transport, who makes the appointments.

In an emailed response, a media relations adviser for the ministry of­ fers no specifics regarding current board appointees and instead just outlines the general requirements and process. * * *

Councillor Pam McConnell would pre­fer to abolish the TPA altogether.

Her ward en­compasses the portion of the water­front between York Street and the mouth of the Don, and in­ cludes the islands but not the port lands.

“I’m not surprised that now that Adam is in Ottawa he believes that that’s where the power should be, but I disagree entirely with him,” she says. She has sympathy for his “very tricky situation” as a new Liberal, but thinks council has actually been pretty good on these issues and is dis­appointed that he’d “diss” his for­ mer colleagues’ capacity to deal with them. “I had hoped he would take the message to Ottawa that our council should be more in control of our backyard, or our front yard – ‘front porch,’ as they call it.”

The Ward 28 rep believes that deci­ sions concerning “what should and shouldn’t happen in the city of To­ ronto should be in the hands of peo­ ple who are directly elected” by resi­

dents. But she also imagines that, if given control of the TPA’s assets, the city would manage them through a committee of some sort that would likely include some citizen members.

Brian Iler, on the other hand, isn’t exactly enthusiastic about Vaughan’s proposal but is still remarkably okay with it. Iler, a lawyer whose eponym­ ous firm specializes in serving “so­ cially-minded clients,” is the chair of CommunityAIR, a group that has long pushed for elimination of the Is­ land airport and been a thorn in the TPA’s side.

“I think what Adam is viewing is the Waterfront Toronto model [that] works incredibly well for our city, where we have all three levels of gov­ ernment collaborating and we have essentially a veto on all three sides,” says Iler. He is “favourably disposed” to the idea of folding the TPA into “something like Waterfront Toronto, which has a much more acceptable vision of what our waterfront can be and where it’s going.”

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But does it make sense to keep it as a federal agency as opposed to a city agency or another such body subject to council?

“That cuts both ways,” he says.

“When we have a good, progressive council that listens to the needs of its citizens, you get good government and you get good governance for the waterfront. But when you have a re­ gime like we have right now, it would be a disaster.”

He gets Vaughan’s frustration and reluctance to hand councillors the keys. “If I were in his shoes,” he says, “I’d be pretty jaded, too.”

Anshul Kapoor, the chair of NoJet­ TO, a newer group that opposes air­ port expansion, doesn’t really care how the Port Authority is reformed so long as that reform includes the voices of Torontonians. He says TPA’s impact exceeds its current scope, and “it’s due time that both the scope and the impact are measured, calcu­ lated and accounted for.”

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What I observed on different nights during its week-long “farewell party” helped me recall the Jilly’s of old, when the J-spot, as we affectionately called it, was a local clubhouse.

An old pal is in town on a junket, and someone drops the notion of popping in.

“I can’t set foot in a place like that.

I have two girls now,” he matter-offactly states.

It’s no secret Jilly’s has been a hurting for a while now. In fact, I don’t know anyone who goes any more – and my odd attempts to do so have ended in a quick exit, sometime even sans beverage, and a lingering sense of sadness.

In a jacked-up economy of 10-buck (with tip) suds, the high-pressure sales tactics for minimal-contact $20 lap dances and long breaks between stage shows just weren’t cutting it any more.

But in that week before the castle lights grow dim, the J-spot is rocking to a different vibe.

There are people milling outside to get in.

Inside, the walls are already exposed, 40 or so support beams (apparently serious structural concerns need addressing), plumbing visible and electrical wires dangling. Looks kind of cool, actually. The joint is hopping, with an unfamiliar mix of folks for any stripper joint.

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People are just givin’er like it’s their last night on earth. And the nattily attired bouncer is having conniptions trying to herd them. It’s a losing game.

Perhaps it’s the “All DRINKS must go at $5.25. Come one Come All!” banner hanging out front.

The dancers plying their trade onstage are doing a brisk business. There are stage-divers lying face up with $5, $10 and $20 bills in their mouths in exchange for a body surf.

It’s mostly women taking the plunge. Hilarity ensues.

But in one gonzo scene, a dancer drops her bare genitalia on a dude’s mouth and the place erupts with shock, awe and applause.

At different times, both men and women take to the stage and start dancing themselves. Mr. Bouncer don’t much like that. “Get the fuck off the stage!” he huffs.

One gets the sense that some of these folks are newbies to the experience lured in by the beer prices or some bucket-list ambition. The cat beside us has been mostly madly texting all night. Jeez.

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The answers are eerily akin to the reasons they said they started dancing in the first place. There’s the going back to school, going to travel, etc.

The top three responses to the “what now?” overture are: • “I’m done with this shit. I bought a house in burbs.”

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•“I gotta get a fuckin’ job – that’s what!”

And let me not forget – “Fuck you! You’ve never ever got a dance from me all these years.” True.

But the reality is that strip clubs are going the way of the dodo in Toronto – no more are allowed to open and when one goes, its licence is nontransferable.

It’s was always a thing not to linger until the house lights went up at the J-spot, so at around 11 pm Sunday my running mate and I make our move to jet. The place is almost out of beer, only Coors left, and we’re down to just shots.

We’re barely outside when Mr. Bouncer starts denying entry, bellowing: “We’re closed! There’s no more booze!”

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Thursday, July 17

Benefits

Girls, Guys & Goats (Blessings in a Back-

pack) Join artists Harvey Glazer, Samara Shuter and Richard Ahnert for a night of cocktails and fine art. 6 pm. Free (RSVP required). The Spoke Club, 600 King W. Preregister ­eventbrite.ca/e/12005267077.

Lights Camera Imagine! (SickKids) Entertainment by 40 artists, buskers, dancers and more. 3:30-10 pm. Donations. Yonge-Dundas Square. Pre-register online at ­lightscameraimagine.ca.

Poetry Slam Fundraiser (Toronto Poetry Slam Team) Performances by Dave Silverberg, Amanda Hiebert, Krystle Mullin, Gypsy Eyes and others. 8 pm. $10. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. ­torontopoetryslam.com.

Events

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. rCulture Jam Children’s Peace Theatre and AccessPoint Danforth present a summer art program for newcomer youth age 12-15. MonFri 1-5 pm. To Jul 25. Free. 3079 Danforth. Preregister 416-693-8677.

Diabetes Prevention Learn about signs and symptoms and how to reduce your risk. 2 pm. Free. Downsview Library, 2793 Keele.

416-395-5720, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Haunted Kensington, Chinatown & The Grange Tour Ghost walk with multicul-

tural ghost stories. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/stu $20, child $15. Meet at 350 Spadina Ave (red pole w/ black cat). Pre-register 416-9236813. rLive Music Labs Join musicians in interactive workshops exploring the dynamic relationship between science and music. Every Tue & Thu at noon & 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills.

416-696-1000. rMad Science Show Fun experiments in chemistry and physics for ages 5 to 12. 2 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. 416-393-7680, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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.

Scottish Country Dancing In The Park

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

Dancing to live music by Scotch Mist. 7 pmdusk. Free. Edwards Gardens, SW corner Lawrence and Leslie. ­rscdstoronto.org.

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festivals • expos • sports etc.

Festivals this week

Beaches International Jazz Festival

Concerts by jazz artists Brownman Electryc Trio, Paul James, Samba Squad, Trampled Under Foot and many others. Free. Woodbine Park (Lake Shore and Coxwell) and venues along Queen east of Woodbine. ­beachesjazz.com.

Jul 18 to 27 rBig On Bloor Car-free street festival with musical performances, dance, strolling buskers, storytelling, art, vendors and more. Noon-6 pm. Free. Bloor West from Dufferin to Lansdowne. ­bigonbloor.com.

Jul 19 to 20 rHabari Africa Festival Multidisciplinary cultural festival with music and dance performances, African food and more. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Jul 18 to 20 Indy Toronto World-class auto racing, concerts, exhibits, a craft beer festival, interactive games, kids’ activities, food and more. Race tickets from $35. Exhibition Place. hondaindytoronto.com.

Jul 18 to 20 rSalsa On St Clair Latin-themed street festival with live music, dance performances and lessons, a parade, food and more. Free.

St Clair West between Christie and Winona. ­tlntv.com/salsa.

Jul 19 to 20 rToronto Chinatown Festival Multicultural performances, buskers, lion and dragon dances, folk handicrafts and international street food. Sat noon-11 pm, Sun 11 am-8 pm. Free. Dundas between Spadina and Beverley. 416-260-9800, chinatowntcf.com.

Jul 19 to 20 Toronto Summer Music Festival International classical music festival with performances by the Emerson String Quartet, Beatrice Rana, Orion String Quartet, Sondra Radvanosky and many others plus master

Summer Wine Jam Wine tasting, food. 7:3010:30 pm. $59. Airship 37, 37 Parliament. ­iyellowwineclub.com.

Tasty Thursdays Live world music and food from the grill every Thu through the summer. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay. ­toronto.ca/special_events.

Toronto Indie Arts Market Fashion, crafts, small press, food and more from ­local artisans and makers. 7-11 pm. Free.

Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. ­torontoindieartsmarket.com.

Why Me Playwright Robert Mulolo and the cast of his play Why Me and singer Joseph Neale perform. 7 pm. $15, adv $10. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416-839-6205.

Wine And Cheese Tasting Sample Ontario wines and cheeses with sommelier/fromager Jeremy Lago. 7 pm. $40. Lazy Daisy’s Cafe, 1515 Gerrard E. Pre-register dawn@­ lazydaisyscafe.ca.

Yoga Outdoor classes for all levels. 6:307:30 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Friday, July 18 Canada’s Smartest Person Attend a taping of a new interactive television series

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

Trampled Under Foot play the Beaches Jazz​ Festival. classes. $10-$590. See website for venues and schedule. torontosummermusic.com.

Jul 22 to Aug 12 Unity Festival Celebration of urban arts culture including beatboxing, breakdancing, rap and more. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca.

Jul 23 to 26

continuing CrCaribbean Carnival Toronto Annual summer celebration of all things Caribbean, featuring calypso and soca music, the King and Queen of the Bands competition, Junior Carnival, live music and the annual parade along the lakeshore. Various prices, many events free. torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

To Aug 3

that redefines what it means to be smart.

Check website for schedule. Free. CBC Building, 25 John. Pre-register ­hotrows.com/tickets.

Church Street Caper Walk in the footsteps of scandalous public officials, pioneers, artists and others in this active trivia game.

7-9:30 pm. $30. Meet at Church and Alexander streets. Pre-register online at ­urbancapers.com.

Deep Fried Fridays DJs spin every Fri and local chefs provide the food. Free.

Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W.

Cultura Festival Live music, outdoor films, buskers and more every Fri in July from 6-11 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. culturafestival.ca.

To Jul 25 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. 416-6441019.

To Sep 21 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 14 416-973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Ghosts, Greasepaint And Gallows 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. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

Healthy Eating For Teens Toronto Public Health nurses host a two-part presentation on good eating, food budgeting and healthy body image practices. 5-6 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. Pre-register 416-394-5120, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

CrNjacko Backo Music and stories from Africa. 2 pm. Free. Agincourt Library, 155 Bonis. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Ptolemaic Egypt @ The ROM: The Multicultural Mosaic Or Two Solitudes? Lec-

ture by Steven B Shubert of the Royal Ontario Museum. 7 pm. $5. U of T, rm 142, 5 Bancroft. ­thessea.org.

Scene On The Plaza – Love Boat DJs Paul E Lopes and Jason Palma transform the Gardiner into a 70s disco scene straight from an episode of The Love Boat. 6-10 pm. $20, adv $15. Gardiner Museum Plaza, 111 Queen’s Park. ­gardinermuseum.com/ scene.

rSalsa In Toronto Festival Week

Latin­-themed street festival with live music, dance performances and lessons, a parade, food and more. Free. St Clair West between Christie and Winona. ­salsaintoronto.com.

To Jul 20 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. s­ carborougharts.com.

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

To Jul 20

Turtle House Arts Market (Turtle House Art/Play Centre) Newcomer artists from regions of conflict showcase paintings, carvings, jewellery and more. Today 6-9 pm; tomorrow noon-5 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. ­beitzatoun.org.

Saturday, July 19

Benefits

Caturday Night Live (Annex Cat Rescue) Stand-up comedy with Mark Andrada, Sara Hennessey, Rhiannon Archer and others. 9 pm. $20. Paintbox Bistro, 555 Dundas E. ­brownpapertickets.com.

Revisiting The Nicaraguan Revolution

(Pueblito Canada/Casa Canadiense) Liberation Day event includes exhibition of original Sandinista posters distributed in Nicaragua during the 80s. Exhibit continues to Jul 26. 7-10 pm.

Pwyc. Vtape, 401 Richmond W, suite 452. ­facebook.com/events/677626115620213.

Thrill Of The Grill (Odette Cancer Centre at Sunnybrook) Six Danforth-area chefs compete to see whose barbecue ribs reign supreme.

With celebrity chef Lynn Crawford and HGTV’s Tommy Smythe. Noon-4 pm. $15. Danforth from Broadview to Jackman (street closed to traffic). ­thedanforth.ca.

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Events

Bug Phobia Be Gone! Entomologist Emily

Macleod leads a workshop to replace bug fear with an understanding of the micro world of insects. Indoor lesson and outdoor hike. 10 am-3 pm. $50-$55. High Park Nature Centre, 440 Parkside. ­highparknaturecentre.org.

Car Seat Installation Workshop Learn how to use and install a child’s car seat in any vehicle. 10 am-2 pm. Free. Old Mill GM dealer, 2595 St Clair W. Pre-register ­safeandsure.ca.

CrCaribbean Carnival Toronto: Junior Carnival Enjoy a parade of young masquer-

aders, steel bands and more. 11 am-6 pm.

Free. Neilson Park, Neilson Rd south of Finch E. ­torontocaribbeancarnival.com.

Create This! Art and portfolio clinic for emerging artists. 1-4 pm. Free. Pleasant View Library, 575 Van Horne. Pre-register laura@­ northyorkarts.org. rEsplanade Basketball Court Mural Unveiling of the mural, live music, dance and a photo exhibit. Raindate Jul 20. 2 pm. The Esplanade & Berkeley. ­jamiiesplanade.org.

Guild Park: Where Art Meets Nature Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy. h ­ eritagetoronto. org. rLive Green Toronto Festival Green street market, concerts, swap zone, buskers, kids’ activities and more. 11 am-8 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. ­livegreentoronto.ca.

Lost First Chinatown Food Tour Trace the origins of T.O.’s original Chinatown. 10 am-1 pm. $35-$50 (includes food). Meet at Old City Hall, 60 Queen W. Pre-register 416-923-6813.

CMiss Grenada Day Pageant Contestants from Grenada and its sister islands compete. 5 pm. $25, kids (under 12) $15. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. ­grenadaday.com.

Murder at the ROM Urban Capers presents a scavenger hunt for adults. 1-3:30 pm. $30.

Meet at Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. 416-895-2378, ­urbancapers.com.

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

Saturday Life Drawing Session Live models every Saturday. All skill levels. 9:30 am-noon. $12. Rebellion Gallery & Art Academy, 914 Eastern. 416-469-1777. rSummer Festival 2014 First Nations drummers, Chinese and Indian dancing, games, a zoo table and more. Noon-3 pm. Free. Welcome Centre, 8400 Woodbine (Markham).

1-877-761-1155 ext 3645.

Textile City: Living Fashion And Garment Production In Toronto Heritage Toronto

walk. 10:30 am. Free/pwyc. Grange Park south of AGO (317 Dundas W). h ­ eritagetoronto.org.

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

Sunday, July 20

Benefits

Brighten Our Future (Gerladina Orphanage

& Education Ctr) Live music by Glenn Marais & Out of Control: The U2 Experience and a silent auction to benefit the Tanzanian orphanage.

6:30 pm. $20-$25. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416-588-0307, ­gerladina.com.

Ontario Oyster Festival: Lunar Landing Party (Environmental Defence) Oyster-shuck-

Events

rAround The World Festival Multicultural celebration with music, dance, food and more.

Noon-8:30 pm. Free. Newmarket Riverwalk Commons, 200 Doug Duncan. n ­ ewmarket.ca.

Bikes, BBQ & (Coffee) Brews Family friendly barbecue at 4 pm (optional group ride to the party at 3:15 pm from Christie Pits). Free. Propeller Coffee, 50 Wade. ­cycleto.ca/events. rCommunity Creative Jam & Potluck

Open mic and arts networking event for all creative disciplines, levels and ages. Noon-2:30 pm. Pwyc/potluck. Artscape Youngplace, Studio 106, 180 Shaw. m ­ aychook.com/ccjam.

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.

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EAT RIBS FOR SUNNYBROOK

Feed your spirit and your belly at the Thrill Of The Grill ribfest on Saturday (July 19). Six expert chefs try to impress the judges, among them Norman Wilner, NOW film writer and self-professed foodie, at a competition unfolding on the Danforth between Broadview and Jackman.

Eat happily, knowing you’re contributing to a funder for Sunnybrook’s Odette Cancer Centre. $15. Noon to 4 pm. ­thedanforth.ca.

SEX IN THE CITY

Why should you care about Canada’s new prostitution laws? Sonya JF BarThe Grange Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free.

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

The Hogtown Hoedown Appalachian square

dancing and instruction. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000.

Iraq’s Present Crisis In Context Discussion led by a leading member of the Iraqi Communist Party. 2 pm. Free. GCDO Hall, 290 Danforth. 416-469-2481.

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

Leslieville Gallery Crawl Tour seven galleries along Queen East. 1-6 pm (guided tour 3 pm). Free. Starts at Kryart Studio, east alley off Carlaw north of Queen. ­facebook.com/ events/678196375538787.

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

Permaculture 101 Workshop lead by organic farmer Travis Philp. $25. The 10, 75 Kootenay Crescent. Pre-register online at ­eventbrite. ca/e/11985247197.

Stand By Me Outdoor film screening. 9 pm approx. Pwyc. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. ­christiepitsff.com.

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

rToronto International BrazilFest

Music by Zé Fuá, Nancy Love and others, art, family activities, food and more. Noon-10 pm. Free. Earlscourt Park, St Clair West and Caledonia. ­brazilfest.ca.

Toronto Island Paddle Tour An 15K standup paddle board tour from Budapest Park to Toronto Island. 11 am-3 pm. $59. Pre-register ­oshaosha.ca.

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

Free. Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music, 821 Queen W. 416-504-5444, ­enjoymusictoronto.com.

Watershed Wonders: The Forks Of The Don Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free/

pwyc. Marc Garneau Collegiate, 135 Overlea. ­heritagetoronto.org. rYouth Day 2014 Family festival supporting young artists, with music, dance, art, fashion shows and more. 11 am-11 pm. Free. YongeDundas Square. yd-toronto.com.

Monday, July 21 Farm City Farmers Market Fruit and veg, spices and more. Mondays 4-8 pm. SE corner of Bathurst and Niagara. 416-392-0335.

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. rRyerson Radio Camp Kids eight to 12 and 12 to 15 learn the ins and outs of radio broadcasting at a week-long day camp. $325. Preregister thescopeatryerson.ca.

Why Should I Care About Canada’s New Prostitution Laws? Discussion with Sonya JF

Barnett, a board member of Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers’ Action Project about the impacts of Bill C-36 on sex workers. 7-9 pm. Duke of York, 36 Prince Arthur. Pre-register at ­eventbrite.ca/e/12072520233.

nett of Maggie’s Toronto Sex Workers’ Action Project heads up a discussion Monday (July 21) on the scary consequences for sex workers of Bill C-36, the federal government legislation seeking to criminalize the purchase of sexual services. 7 pm. Duke of York (36 Prince Arthur). Preregister at e ­ ventbrite. ca/e/12072520233.

GENTRIFICATION THROUGH THE BACK DOOR

Parkdale Community Legal Services hosts a

Tuesday, July 22

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#Photobingo (Gallery 44) Show off your

knowledge of photographers and try for prizes in this twist on the classic game. 7-10 pm. $5. 401 Richmond W, #120. ­gallery44.org.

Events

Changing Laws & Unchanging Statistics: Rape And Rape Laws In India Lecture by fem-

inist activist Poonam Kathuria and others. 7 pm. Free. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire Place. oise.utoronto.ca/cwse.

Let’s Grow Food: Abundant Harvest – Growing Vegetables Organically Work-

shop. 5:30-8:30 pm. $75 (sliding scale avail).

FoodShare, 90 Croatia. Pre-register 416-3636441 ext 247, angela@foodshare.net.

Little Miss Sunshine Outdoor film screening.

Approximately 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ­ydsquare.ca.

Make Your Own Buttons For Teens Workshop for ages 12-19. 4-5 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. Pre-register 416-3955710, ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Opportunities For Job Seekers & Employers

Mayoral candidate Erwin Sniedzins invites job seekers and employers to tell him what the city can do to create opportunities. 10:30 am12:30 pm. Free. North Toronto Library, 40 Orchard View, rm 200. ­torontopuliclibrary.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 Square. ­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.

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

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

Lynn Crawford comments on the ­action at Thrill Of The Grill.

Silent Partners: Aboriginal Storytelling

Maya-Waasige will speak about our relation to our Mother Earth. 6-7:30 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. Pre-register 416-533-1635, info@weconserve.ca.

Summer Movies For Teens: Warm Bodies

Drop-in screening. 3-5 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Then And Now Guided ROM walk around the museum to celebrate its centennial. 6 pm.

Free. In front of the ROM, 100 Queen’s Park. rom.on.ca.

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

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Thursday, July 24 Bondage & Cigars Demo BDSM player Master Tony demonstrates the erotic arts of bondage and cigar-play. 11:30 pm. Free. Black Eagle, 457 Church. 416-413-1219.

CCaribbean Carnival Community BBQ for Liberty Villagers Food specialties and

live steel pan music. Noon-1:30 pm. Jefferson Avenue and Liberty Street. l­ vbia.com.

Immigration Stories: Making A Home In Old Toronto Heritage Toronto walk. Today 7

pm; Aug 10, 11 am; Oct 25 to 26, 2 pm. Free/ pwyc. Location provided on registration. heritagetoronto.org. lowed by an outdoor screening at 9 pm (driveCrNjacko Backo Music and stories from in or bring your own chair to watch). 7 pm.

Africa (in French). 2 pm. Free. Beaches Library, Free. 85 Enterprise Blvd (Markham).

2161 Queen E. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca. ­downtownmarkham.ca.

Science ROCKS! Music playground for adults Invitation To View Footage From G20 De19+ to check out live performances, interact tention Centre Screening of footage from with exhibits and more. Today, Aug 21 and T.O.’s G20 detention facility by and for those Sep 18, 7 pm-midnight. $15-$18. Ontario who were incarcerated. Discussion and evaluScience Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696ation of footage to follow. 6-9 pm. Sanctuary, 1000.

25 Charles E. Pre-register 416-922-0628 ext Summer Wine Fest Walk-around tasting with 225, info@whatworldproductions.com. food pairings on the waterfront. 6:30-9 pm.

Play The Parks Lunch Time Concert Series & $75. Corus Quay, 25 Dockside. 416-365-5900, Fitness Classes Cardio dance from noon to ­vintages.com/winefest.

12:50 pm with live music. Free. College Park Urban Wood Utilization Tree Tour Learn Courtyard, 444 Yonge. ­downtownyonge.com/ how to reuse urban wood and about pests playtheparks. from local arborists and woodworkers. 7-9 Ryerson’s Farmers Market Fresh local pro-B:3.833” pm. $5 sugg donation. Trinity Bellwoods Park, duce, food trucks and music. Every Wed 11 155 Crawford (meet behind Rec Centre). Pream-3 pm. Free admission. Gould E of Yonge. T:3.833” register ­yourleaf.org.

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ing competition, a gravity pull race, lobster boil, live bands and more. 2 pm. $32-$40. Alley beside Rodney’s Oyster House, 469 King W. 416-368-8105 ext 0.

Pinko Bingo Fundrzr (Parkdale Film & Video Showcase) Snacks, DJ Stew Innes and prizes.

Doors 7 pm. $2 per card. Capital Espresso, 1349 Queen W. ­parkdaleshowcase.ca.

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public meeting Wednesday (July 23) to discuss a trend in the neighbourhood: gentrification through the back door. Seems European developer Akelius Real Estate Management has been buying up apartment units in the thousands and “upscaling” them to jack up rents. 6 pm. Metro Hall, 55 John. Preregister by calling 416531-2411 ext 248.

Akelius Real Estate: Toronto’s First Class Gentrifier? Public meeting about the “up-

scaling” of apartment buildings and jacking up rents, presented by the Parkdale Community Legal Services. 6 pm. Metro Hall, 55 John, rm 308. 416-531-2411 ext 248.

Archaeological Textiles Learn about the symbolic power of ancient Peruvian textiles and the meaning encoded in their patterns.

6:30 pm. $25. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. Pre-register 416-599-5321.

Cycle Toronto Ward 15 Launch Launch for advocacy group and keynote presentation by Kristin Schwartz from CultureLink Settlement Services about the role of cycling in the movement for safe routes to school. 6:30-8 pm.

Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1053.

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

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

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

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Can’t miss at Swiss My memories of Swiss Chalet are all about the sauce.

MARIKO TAMAKI’S FAVOURITE CHILDHOOD RESTO WAS SWISS CHALET, AND SHE STILL CAN’T RESIST DUNKING HER FRIES IN THAT GRAVY.

By MARIKO TAMAKI

when the zombie apocalypse comes, I’m hiding out here in the city.

Some of my friends will head for the hills in their dangerously vulnerable vehicles, but I’ll be holing up in Dufferin Mall, which has everything I need plus the appropriate amount of bolted down apocalypse-friendly furniture for the occasion.

The last time I was there was for an evening at Swiss Chalet that my friends and I organized because it had been a while and it was time. That’s what Swiss Chalet is: not a last-minute, hey-why-not thing, but something you plan.

And because it’s Swiss Chalet, just about anyone with any number of kids of any age can afford it.

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torture or bliss – never the same thing for all parties involved. My parents hated the restaurants my brother and I craved (Chucky Cheese, McDonalds).

My brother and I wept openly when forced into the stiff chairs of fancy restaurants that cooked their chicken with mushy brown stuff and insisted on putting green beans on the side.

Beans are not a side.

Swiss Chalet was the first nice restaurant I ever went to that I liked but my parents could also tolerate.

Back then I had no idea it was a chain, because I didn’t get around a lot. This would have been the early 80s, and the resto had what I deemed fancy decor: wooden lattices, warm Swiss mood lighting and servers (always) in (possibly Swiss) outfits I thought of as dressy because they in-

volved frilly white blouses. White blouses featured heavily in all my good outfits at the time.

Modern-day SC servers no longer wear puffy white sleeves; that playful, festive feel has been replaced by a crisp-shirt, comfortable-pants food service look. This seems fair to me, given that wearing a uniform is rarely a festive thing. I know this as someone who once wore the very unfestive Chapters suede vest.

Also, the Dufferin

Mall venue has no ornate wood trim.

In fact, it has more of a bunker feel: practical and easy to wipe down with something other than Pledge.

I’d like to see the stats on who orders anything there but the signature rotisserie chicken. I mean, how do you walk through the door of a place that literally fans you with the smell of sizzling, dripping, greasy, chicken skin and

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Amsterdam Brewhouse heats things up by adding ghost chili suicide sauce to the chicken wings.

Hit the buffet at Siddhartha Pure Vegetarian.

sauce à la butter chicken; sweet ‘n’ sour Manchurian-style meatless kofta meatballs; from the à la carte menu, fried lentil idly with fiery Sri Lankan-style sambar; the tandoori platter with smoky paneer, cauliflower and tofu on a bed of raw cabbage and red onion. Complete dinners for $25 per person (lunches $20), including tax, tip and a lime soda. Average la carte $10.

Open for $10.99 lunch buffet Sunday 11:30 SIDDHARTHA PURE VEGETARIAN am to 3:30 pm. Unlicensed. Access: two 1471 Gerrard E, at Rhodes, 416-463-9777 steps at door, washrooms in basement.

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245 Queens Quay W, at Lower Simcoe, 416-504-1020, amsterdambrewhouse. com, @AmsterdamBH With its 350-seat patio right on the lake at Harbourfront, this cavernous warehouse should be a tourist trap. Instead, it’s a gastro-pub worthy of those of us who actually live here. An unexpectedly competent kitchen, quick service and great optics will make us return, but only when they can the annoying AM top-40 muzak they insist on inflicting on customers. Best: thin-crusted pizzas dressed with house-made beerwurst sausage, roasted garlic and wild mushrooms drizzled with a syrupy stout reduction; hefty house-ground brisket burgers with bacon, cheddar and beerbattered onion rings sided with sweet potato frites; to finish, root beer floats with vanilla bean ice cream and deep-fried Oreo cookies. Complete dinners for $45 per person (lunches $35), including tax, tip and a house-brewed beer. Average main $18.

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Decibel, more like! Though ex-Black Hoof charcuterie king Grant van Gameren’s latest taverna looks like it stepped right out of the back streets of Barthelona, its acoustics recall the nearest bowling alley.

A small price to pay for some of the most skilfully executed tapas around. Best: to start, devilled duck eggs dressed with shredded salt cod and morcilla blood sausage; the mixed charcuterie platter – water-buffalo slinzega, pork jerky, hunter’s sausage and imported Iberico ham, say – with candied apple mostardo and warm sourdough sprinkled with sea salt; southern-fried chicken over deep-fried eggplant drizzled in honey and chili flakes; grilled hanger steak with blistered shishito peppers, grilled spring scallions in classic romesco sauce on the side; to finish, salted chocolate mousse splashed with buttery olive oil. Complete dinners for $55 per person, including, tax, tip and a glass of cava. Average tapa $11. Open for dinner Saturday 6 pm to 2 am. Reservations accepted. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms in basement. Rating: NNNNN

It’s corn on the cob season. Better stock up on dental floss at Toronto’s 778 drug stores.

Bar Isabel’s tapas, like fried chicken and sticky eggplant, are superb.

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en. Likeable servers steer first-timers to the good stuff. Best: from the buffet, deep-fried veggie pakoras and samosas; veggie szubji like saag paneer swirled with yogurt; stir-fried cabbage with mustard seeds; spicy eggplant with potatoes and green chilies; paneer in sweet red tomato

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think, “I’ll have the ribs!?”

It’d be like ordering chicken wings at Pizza Pizza.

I always order the same thing: the quarter-chicken with fries and an extra saucer of magical Swiss Chalet sauce. When I was a kid, before the days of extra sauce, my brother and I were forced to make do with the standard teacup-sized portion that comes with every dinner. To make it stretch, after soaking our fries in it we’d wipe the excess off back into the bowl. Because we knew the key to good Swiss Chaleting was... drinking the sauce. Right from the bowl like a big, fat Canadian shooter, or with a spoon if you were a sophisticate. That solo shot is easier to accomplish with an order of extra sauce, by the way, and it’s super-cheap, so why not?

Another key to the Swiss Chalet experience, a favourite moment for true fans, is the cleansing finger dunk in a bowl of warm water with a little lemon chunk in there, the Canadian version of a squirt of Purell. It’s so sophisticated. I have never trusted any person who refused the bowl. If you’d rather go wash your hands like a tourist, I’d rather not know you. What’s better for removing a layer of grease than a tiny slice of lemon? Nothing.

In my memory, in the early days Swiss Chalet meals came with a free dessert. I never paid the bill as a kid, so I can’t say for sure. The choice when I was little was pie (the old person’s desert) or a scoop of ice cream with chocolate syrup. No debate. After saving my chicken sauce for most of the meal, I’d pulverize my sundae in seconds by beating the ice cream and chocolate into a soft-serve froth in its fancy metal cup. I always thought the cup looked a little like a weapon.

Today, my experiences eating at Swiss Chalet are a reminder that I’m not a kid any more. After my chickenskin-eating and sauce-sipping, I have to consider that this is a meal with nothing green in it. “Probably not great for my cholesterol,” I think. Then I think, “Holy cow, what an old-person thing to worry about.”

That said, until his last days, Swiss Chalet was where my mom and I would take my grandfather for dinner, partly because it was the closest restaurant to his seniors home and because even when he was in his 90s my grandpa liked a nice chicken finger. Apparently, Swiss Chalet chicken fingers are very good. I wouldn’t know. Because they don’t come with extra sauce.

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The Spirit of Brazil & Mata Petisco Bar World Cup’s over, but it’s never too late to get down with Brazil’s national spirit, cachaça, (pronounced ka-sha-sa). Besides, Brazil could really use a drinking buddy right now.

Unless you smuggled the really good stuff back from your last Latin American adventure, good luck finding more than two brands in Ontario: ­petrol-esque Pitu and the superior Leblon. There are thousands of styles ranging in age and quality in cachaça’s motherland,

however, where it’s downed enthusiastically enough to be the world’s third-most-consumed s­ pirit.

Distilled from fresh sugar cane juice rather than molasses, like most rums, cachaça is similar to rhum agricole. Aged versions common in Brazil are sadly rare here, and raw spirits like Pitu can be harsh as hell. Cachaça’s many pet names include “eye wash,” “water the birds don’t drink,” and “tiger breath.”

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Traditionally knocked back neat or on the rocks, the most diplomatic form it takes is in the caipirinha (spirit, sugar and lime all muddled up and topped with ice), where it can do no wrong. The Brazilian adage “Quanto pior a cachaça, melhor a caipirinha” –“The worse the cachaça, the better the caipirinha” – means no pour is too vile for the country’s most famous cocktail.

Parkdale’s newly opened Brazilian snackery, Mata Petisco Bar (1690 Queen West, 416-627-6460, ­matabar.ca), has a list of fresh, fruity caipirinhas to choose from (passion fruit, guava, kiwi, mango and classic), all garnished with a stick of succulent sugar cane.

But the cachaça cocktails don’t stop at caipirinhas. Bar manager Leah McMurtry (pictured left) drafted an authentically focused drink list (her first) to complement the Brazilian flavours coming from the kitchen. The Espumante Coconut Caipirinha ($12) quells the fire of cachaça and muddled Malagueta peppers with coconut water, fresh lime and egg white, and the house Caesar ($12) combines Brazil’s spirit of choice with muddled Bode Vermelha peppers, lime and Walter Caesar mix, finishing it off with a cumin-spiced rim and crackling. If you’re looking to imbibe around the continent without leaving your bar stool, pisco sours (pisco, lime, sugar, egg white, lemongrass, $12) are also a house specialty.

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GO FISH: GREENPEACE’S GUIDE TO SEAFOOD-FRIENDLY GROCERS EVERY YEAR, GREENPEACE GRILLS GROCERS ON THEIR SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD POLICIES AND PRACTICES. WHO’S SWIMMING AHEAD, AND WHO GETS SKEWERED?

COSTCO The big-box king is the only Canadian retailer with a failing score year after year. Its seafood policy is super-vague; stated goals include trying to source only sustainable tilapia, but details are thin. The jumbo-pack purveyor also carries up to eight species red-listed by Greenpeace, including king crab. If you shop here, remind Costco that there aren’t, in fact, plenty more fish in the sea.

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SOBEYS Sobeys is at the tail end of 3N grocers, although it’s currently merging its sustainable seafood policies with Safeway’s industry-leading ones since it bought out the chain last year. Let’s hope Sobeys swims into first place next year instead of dragging Safeway down a notch. At this point, its sustainable seafood policy should, cover all products with seafood as an ingredient, but it’s mostly focused on fresh/frozen/canned seafood to date.

The stinker: Sobey’s currently sells the most red-listed species of all the major retailers.

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WALMART Slowly but surely, Walmart’s polices are getting tougher on paper, but Greenpeace says the retail giant needs to work harder to make sure customers see those changes on shelves. Case in point, Walmart says it backs greener closed-containment salmon farms but hasn’t put any cash toward that goal.

Nor does the company plan to ditch any fisheries of concern unless they refuse to join fishery improvement projects. However, Walmart does publicly support ocean sanctuaries, which is important. At this point, you’ll still find its bouncing smiley faces promoting seven red-list species including Atlantic sea scallops and haddock.

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METRO (Metro, Food Basics) This Quebec-born chain swam past the national competition into second place this year. Metro’s actually conducting DNA testing on seafood to bust labelling fraudsters and has a good in-store education campaign. It has finally, like Loblaw, extended its sustainability policies to all seafood under its roof (not just in the fish section) and even has an in-house brand of good pole-and-line-caught canned tuna (though the rest of its canned tuna line is unsustainable). The chain also supports ocean sanctuaries. Too bad Metro hasn’t invested in solutions to major red-list fish like net-pen farm salmon. Plus it sells a total of 15 redlist fish, including monkfish and yellowfin tuna.

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LOBLAW (Loblaws, Valu-Mart, No Frills) When it comes to sourcing sustainable seafood, Loblaw is the big fish amongst national grocers. Okay, so it hasn’t met its goal of sourcing 100 per cent green seafood by 2013. Still, 88 per cent of its fresh/frozen/canned seafood satisfies at least one of Loblaw’s greening requirements. It was first to carry pet food certified by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) and is an industry leader on the policy front. But while Loblaw has outlawed a handful of species on Greenpeace’s red list, there are still 13 red-list fish in its stores, like Chilean sea bass, net-penned farmed salmon and Atlantic cod. Fish-friendly policies are sadly MIA at Loblaw’s T&T stores. Ask Loblaw to back ocean reserves. ecoholic SCORE: NNNN pick

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faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on,” says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That’s a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a neverending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt and hypocritical things.

I’m sure this subject matter makes him sad and angry. But it also stimulates him to come up with funny ideas that entertain and educate his audience – and earns him a very good income. I invite you to try his approach, Aries. Have faith that the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage.

TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean. About 700 of the plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don’t mature as fast as

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the bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica. The low amounts of sunlight mean they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. To me, this entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead of you. You’ve got to encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn’t seem hospitable in the usual ways, although it is actually just fine. And you must be patient, knowing that the process might take a while longer than it would in other circumstances.

Geminis.” I couldn’t help myself: I had to insert myself into their conversation so as to defend you. Leaning over toward their table, I said, “Speaking as a professional astrologer, I’ve got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac’s best problem-solvers. Give them a chance to change your minds.” The women laughed, and moon-face said, “You must be a Gemini.” “No,” I replied.

“But I’m on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations.”

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CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on October 29, 1787. It was a major production, featuring an orchestra, a chorus and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn’t finish writing the opera’s overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario, Cancerian? I suspect that sometime in the next two weeks you will complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort. And the final part of your work may well be its “overture;” the first part will arrive last. (P.S.: Mozart’s Don Giovanni was well-received, and I expect your offering will be, too.)

overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. “I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns,” said a young, moon-faced woman. “Agreed,” said her companion, an older woman with chiseled features. “And the problem-creators are Scorpios and

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LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22 “We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains,” says writer Nikki Giovanni. That will be apt advice for you to keep in mind during the coming months, Leo. You may think I’m perverse for suggesting such a thing. Compared to how demanding it

nature note TIME TO BAN GREAT LAKES-THREATENING ANTIBACTERIAL CHEMS, SAYS LAW GROUP What do you do when your government acknowledges that a common chemical is toxic, then falls silent while companies keep pushing the stuff on the public and pumping it into the Great Lakes?

It’s been two years since Environment Canada and Health Canada released their “preliminary” assessment of the notorious antibacterial villain triclosan. Still nary a peep from the feds on an action plan for even a voluntary

was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you might assume it will be simple to deal with the ease and awakening that are heading your way. But I’d like you to consider the possibility that these blessings will bring their own challenges. For example, you may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you have gotten used to, almost comfortable with.

It’s conceivable you will have to divest yourself of habits that made sense when you were struggling, but are now becoming counterproductive.

Virgo Aug 23 | Sep 22 I would hate for

Libra Sep 23 | Oct 22 Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville.

He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash’s yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the

right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of selfpromotion.

Scorpio Oct 23 | Nov 21 In her poem

Looking Back, Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps “trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life.” Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar, Scorpio? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn’t come to pass. Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the next 10 months will be a favourable time to get yourself on track to fulfill your life’s most important goals. Take full advantage!

Sagittarius Nov 22 | Dec 21 “There is

no such thing as a failed experiment,” said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius.

Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead.

Don’t be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn’t even realize you needed to know.

Capricorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways,

dams, bridges and buildings. I foresee a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it.

Aquarius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Beginning in

1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains.

All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I’m appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose long-running delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods, and restore the simple, shining truths.

Canada says triclosan is safe for humans despite evidence of hormone disruption and in vitro research linking it to antibiotic resistance, while Envi­ro Canada considers it highly damaging to the environment. Consumers are left decoding mixed messages.

Health Canada acknowledges that soap and water do at least as good a job of cleaning as antibacterial products, so there’s no reason HC should still be dragging its feet on phasing these toxins out of consumer products.

Well, besides kowtowing to industry.

Though even major brands like Procter and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and most recently Avon have announced plans to oust triclosan.

At this point, any company still using triclosan or triclocarban (e.g., Dial maker Henkel) is holding onto what Rolf Halden, an environmental engineer and Arizona State University-based expert on triclosan, calls “failed chemis­ try” – a type of chemistry “known to be toxic, non-biodegradeable, non-green, non-sustainable” with “a heavy toll” on people and the planet.

Bev Thorpe of Clean Production Action, the host org for GreenScreen, adds that it’s time for regulators and companies “to stop the toxic treadmill.”

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your fine mind to become a liability. As much as I admire your native skepticism and analytical intelligence, it would be a shame if they prevented you from getting the full benefit of the wonders and marvels that are brewing in your vicinity. Your operative motto in the coming days comes from Virgo storyteller Roald Dahl: “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” Suspend your disbelief, my beautiful friend. Make yourself receptive to the possibility of being amazed.

phase-out. The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) says it’s time the feds “step up” and impose a ban.

To amass scientifically rigorous dirt on both triclosan and its common replacement (triclocarban) in a new report, CELA turned to a tool used by big biz and government – a chemical hazard assessor known as GreenScreen.

Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Staples and the state of Maine have all turned to that tool to dig up the latest science on which chems are safe and which should be pulled from production in a hurry.

According to GreenScreen, triclosan, present in more than 1,600 consumer products from toothpaste to yoga mats, is classified as a “Benchmark 1” toxin: a chemical of the highest con-

cern. Triclocarban, found in antibacterial products like Dial hand soap as well as Soft & Dri and Rightguard deodorants, is a “Benchmark 2,” with very high aquatic toxicity.

“What’s particularly alarming,” says CELA’s Fe de Leon, “is the range of impacts these chemicals are having – from damaging aquatic ecosystems, including the Great Lakes, to interfering with human endocrine systems.”

Health Cana­da has already slapped triclosan on its hot list of restricted ingredients, capping its max usage in most cosmetic products at 0.3 per cent.

Sounds low, but the European Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety has updated its stance, warning that 0.3 per cent isn’t safe after all, thanks to the sheer volumes of triclosan products on shelves that end up in our bodies and downstream. To date, triclosan’s been found in 97 per cent of breast milk samples and nearly 90 per cent of the Great Lakes’ surface water samples.

Researchers warn that when triclosan mixes with chlorine and sunlight in lakes and rivers, it can create carcinogenic dioxins, putting the Great Lakes ecosystem at risk. Not good when those lakes hold 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water.

CELA’s report warns that those di­ oxins may literally be going up in smoke as communities turn to incineration to dispose of triclosan-laced sewage sludge, the way Toronto’s been doing for decades at the old Highland Creek Treatment Plant in Scarborough.

De Leon says the whole triclosan mess only reflects the feds’ “siloed” approach to regulating toxins. Health

Pisces Feb 19| Mar 20 In the simplest,

calmest of times, there are two sides to every story. On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides.

Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Even people who are normally pretty harmonious may slip into conflict.

Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens! For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity.

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b n o i h s a F While cheap supermarket brands and trendy parkas get most of the attention, Toronto’s real fashion gems are indie designers who think way, way outside the box. Their creations aren’t for the average shopper, but that’s not the point.

From non-traditional textiles like latex and elytra (beetle wings) to dramatic capes and wearable robotics, every piece you see in this editorial spread is by a local designer. Ranging from wonderfully weird to just plain awesome as fuck, this isn’t just fashion – it’s art.

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From urine therapy and sensory deprivation to the much-​feared Vampire Facelift, I subject myself to some of T.O.’s odder beauty and wellness treatments. By SABRINA MADDEAUX

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The treatment 60 minutes in a sensory deprivation float tank

at H20 Float Spa ($59, 138 Danforth, 647-​349-​0426, h2ofloatspa.com).

The promise: Reduce stress and anxiety, strengthen immune system, calm and hydrate skin and hair, increase energy level, flush toxins.

The lowdown: When a spa makes me sign away financial responsibility for the cleanup of any fecal matter I might let slip in their facilities, I get a little uneasy. I was already worried about my overstimulated brain’s ability to handle an hour in a sensory deprivation tank, but when I joked about “losing my shit,” never did it occur to me that I might literally park my breakfast in the little white pod.

The pod is filled with about 10 inches of salt water and can be adjusted to emit various shades of glowing light or complete darkness. I go for the full sensory deprivation experience: closed lid, no lights. I float in complete peace – aside from the rumbling sound of the subway passing below ground every seven minutes or so. Turns out even a sensory deprivation chamber can’t shield you from the misery that is the TTC. Then, I feel it. Slight waves of nausea roll over me, and my mind flashes to those forms I signed in the lobby. I try to ride it out, but it’s a no-​go. I have to turn on the lights and spend the rest of my hour sitting in the shallow tub trying not to let salt water creep into any of my orifices. (When they suggest wearing earplugs and not accidentally inhaling the water, they mean it.)

The verdict: Apparently nausea is felt by a very small percentage of first-​time users – especially if they have a lot to detox. The salt water leaves my skin and hair well conditioned, and I do feel less irritable for the next couple of weeks.

The treatment Bamboo massage

at the Trump Hotel’s Quartz Crystal Spa ($210, 325 Bay, 416-​637-​5595, quartzcrystalspa.com).

The promise: Reduce muscle tension, stimulate circulation, relaxation both physical and spiritual.

The lowdown: I arrive excited (because who doesn’t like a massage?) but skeptical. Almost every spa in town has a service on its menu – priced at a premium – that incorporates some sort of quirky, allegedly foreign apparatus. Usually the treatment is little more than a gimmick.

This bamboo massage leaves me pleasantly surprised. For starters, the Trump doesn’t let just any old massage therapist knead you with hollow bamboo canes – there’s only one woman on staff who performs the treatment. And she is a master of her craft.

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The heated canes make for a deeper, firmer massage that almost immediately puts me into trance-​like state.

By the time the 75 minutes are up, I’ve decided hot stone massages are for suckers and bamboo is the only way to go.

The verdict: A little pricey, but good for special occasions, people with well managed bank accounts or those with generous medical benefits.

The treatment Crystal grid therapy

at The Rock Store ($95 for 60 minutes, 602 Markham, 416-​516-​2191, therockstore.ca).

The promise: Relaxation and stress relief. This month’s ceremony is the “I AM” ritual grid, which reaffirms and ignites who you are and where you need to be at this moment in time. Strengthens your purpose, confidence and pride in who you are.

The lowdown: The room is beautiful. It’s covered in a rich tapestry on top of which sit over 100 rocks and crystals placed in intricate patterns and swirls interspersed with candles. These are sacred shapes, and each has a purpose.

I lie on my back in an open space in the middle of the floor, and the practitioner lays a series of stones down the centre of my body, starting with my forehead and ending with my abdo­men. She combines aromatherapy with reiki and qigong, ancient healing practices based on the idea that life-force energy flows through us.

Unlike during massage, there is very little touching.

The practitioner mostly holds her hands over parts of my body where she senses issues, serving as a vessel for healing energies.

By the end of the treatment, I feel so deeply relaxed, I’m in a sleep-like state. I also feel very content and light.

The practitioner offers advice based on what she felt during the treatment and tells me I’ll feel the full effects over the next few days.

The verdict: I can’t say I feel completely different, but do notice myself making decisions with more confidence and not wasting time on things or people that bring negativity into my life.

The treatment Fraxel laser skin resurfacing and Selphyl, aka the Vampire Facelift,

at Glow Medi Spa ($900, 129 Yorkville, 4th floor, 416-​ 920-​9998, glowmedispa.ca).

The promise: Stimulates collagen, reduces acne scars, smoothes skin, reverses sun damage, gives skin a nice glow.

The lowdown: Diane Wong, MD and owner of Glow Medi Spa, tells me I’m too young (20-​something) to get the full Vampire Facelift made famous by Kim Kardashian. Unlike a lot of doctors in her field, she’s not in the business of administering unnecessary treatments.

Instead, she suggests a less intense version of Selphyl combined with Fraxel.

Fraxel treats thousands of microscopic areas of skin using laser beams that penetrate beneath the skin’s surface. The wounds created by the laser push their way out of the skin over a week’s time, and the extra collagen produced in the healing process has a myriad of benefits.

Selphyl, which involves drawing blood and centrifuging it to separate the platelet-rich plasma, helps boost the treatment’s effects and speeds healing. Unlike Kardashian, I don’t have my blood-plasma injected back into my face – it’s applied topically after the laser resurfacing.

It makes a huge difference in the healing process.

From the moment it’s applied to my face, the Selphyl soothes and minimizes the sunburn-like effects of the

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So you think these beauty treatments are weird?

Take a look at the products in your regular beauty routine. Every treatment I tried for this article is rooted in natural remedies.

If smearing urine or blood on your face makes you squirm, what about lip gloss that contains chemical compounds used to soften the plastic for hospital blood bags? Or nail polish with formaldehyde-​ releasing agents also used in vinyl flooring and toilet bowl cleaners?

It’s a testament to the marketing prowess of cosmetics conglomerates that we consider natural, safe ingredients and treatments “gross” while happily slathering on synthetic toxins known to cause cancers and hormone imbalances.

Let’s start taking a closer look at beauty product labels and rethink what we consider weird.

Fraxel laser. Post-treatment discomfort and redness is much less than I expected from reading about others’ experiences minus the Selphyl online. Compared to their accounts, my expeience is a cakewalk.

The verdict: Fraxel is one of the best options around for those with skin concerns that regular spa facials won’t fix, but who aren’t ready to jump into more serious lasers or invasive procedures. If you’re interested, save yourself a lot of grief by combining the treatment with Selphyl and going to a medispa that knows their stuff.

The treatment Urine therapy

(free, in my bathroom).

The promise: Glowing skin, cleared acne. The idea is that urine is a natural and very potent healing ingredient because of its high concentration of minerals, enzymes and hormones that contain essential nutrients.

The lowdown: There is absolutely nothing dignified about this. For an entire week I catch my first pee of the day – midstream, because that’s where all the nutrients are – in a plastic water bottle and then pour it into my hands and pat it all over my face.

The first morning is the hardest. The stench of urine emanating from the water bottle makes me seriously question my career track, but I suck it up and it’s not so bad. It absorbs quickly, and I slather my regular moisturizer on top to cover up any hint of smell.

I don’t notice any improvements in my skin, and even break out a little more than usual. That said, it’s best to maintain a healthy diet while trying urine therapy and I consume a lot of crap and cheap wine the week I test this. Chances are I’m more or less dabbing diluted Pinot Grigio on my face the entire time.

The verdict: Not for me, but I know people who swear by urine therapy. If you eat a lot of salad and are better at aiming your pee into water bottles than I am, give it a go.

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The Ontario government’s refusal to allow fashion designers to apply for arts and culture grants is stifling the ­local industry

By SABRINA MADDEAUX

As we’ve demonstrated over the last few pages, Toronto is full of immensely creative designers whose inventions go far beyond the fast fashion wear-and-toss items found at big-box stores. It’s a shame so few of them can stay in business.

They face a unique challenge when it comes to securing funding, in that there is practically none available. There’s no umbrella organization similar to the CFDA in the U.S. for Ca­nadian designers to turn to. (The CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund offers one award of $300,000 and two of $100,000 each year, in addition to the CFDA scholarship program and the Fashion Manufacturing Initiative, which provides grants to facilities that manufacture garments lo­cally.) The few fashion competitions that take place here offer laugh­ably small cash prizes or none at all.

Most surprising is that fashion designers don’t qualify for any grant money from the Ontario Arts Council. Unlike interactive digital media, recorded music, book and magazine publishing, film, television, visual art and theatre, fashion is inexplicably not considered a cultural industry by either the federal or provincial government.

France and Italy both have culture ministries dedicated to promoting and protecting their fashion industry. France’s state-owned banks and investment funds offer streamlined financing for start-up fashion businesses.

Quebec is the only Canadian province to offer grants to fashion designers and events, ponying up over $85 million since 2005, perhaps explain­ing why so many of Canada’s successful designers hail from the French pro­vince and why Montreal is the third-largest fashion exporter in North America, after Los Angeles and New York City.

In Ontario, the pleas of designers and fashion industry insiders for financial help have fallen on deaf ears. Robin Kay, founder of the Fashion Design Council of Canada Elytra/beetle wing shoulder (FDCC), first lobbied the provincial government for fundpads and necklace (Myles ing when she was in the process of founding Toronto Sexton Design), perforated Fash­ion Week back in 2000. jacket (Sig Neigum), sheer “There was absolutely no interest,” says Kay. She maxi skirt (Masha Apparel) had to fund the week herself, then rely on corporate sponsors once the event became larger

and more established.

Toronto’s other long-standing fashion week, Arts & Fashion Week (FAT), receives government funding only for the “art” portion of the event (small installations, dance performances, short films) even though the bizarre creations on the runway are the main attraction.

“I find it really strange that fashion isn’t considered a cultural industry when it’s such a huge part of contemporary culture,” says FAT founder Vanja Vasic. “Our designers think about fashion as an art form; they explore issues of sexuality, politics and the environment through clothing.”

“It’s absurd,” says Kay. “The fashion industry employs tens of thousands of people. It stimulates the economy. Fashion Week itself boosts the business of hotels, restaurants and bars in the area. Ontario hasn’t recognized the benefits the industry can add to our cultural and economic landscape.”

Kay again tried to lobby the province to open up arts and culture grants to designers in 2010, this time with the bipartisan support of NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo and Conservative MPP Christine Elliott. There was a big press conference and a joint private members’ bill, and Michael Chan, Liberalappointed culture minister at the time, promised to consider it. The bill lacked Liberal support, however, and never went anywhere.

“The culture minister simply would not sign the bill,” says DiNovo. “I don’t know why. I can’t think of one good reason not to support it.”

“There are over 50,000 people employed by the fashion industry in Ontario, and that number is growing,” says Elliott. “Fashion is big business and is a cultural industry. Designers should have access to funds.”

After their last failed attempt in 2010, Elliott and DiNovo let the issue fall by the wayside, although both remain passionate about supporting the industry.

“We should support local designers rather than imported goods made in conditions that are practically slave labour,” says DiNovo. “But there’s no political will. Instead, we keep losing our best and brightest to financial realities or other countries.”

Culture Minister Michael Coteau, who was appointed by Kathleen Wynne at the end of June, may represent a ray of hope.

“I think the fashion sector can help really define who we are as Ontarians. If our fashion industry feels like it’s not getting the support it needs, then that’s something we need to change,” Coteau tells me over the phone. “Call me back in two months and check on what progress we’ve made with this.”

He sounds genuine, and I will call back.

In the meantime, designers are on their own, which isn’t just bad for them – it’s bad for us. Ontario is miss­ing out on an important mode of cultural expression.

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Jay Z stood solemnly at the mic for Song Cry, an exceptional cut from his Blueprint album that laments a relationship marred by infidelity. Then it was Beyoncé’s turn to perform her famous betrayal ballad, Resentment.

But, the couple presented a united front. “Forgiveness is the final act of love,” said Beyoncé’s holier-than-thou voice over the PA before an upbeat denouement of Love On Top, Izzo (H.O.V.A.), Single Ladies, Hard Knock Life, Pretty Hurts, Young Forever and Halo.

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There was something hollow about Beyoncé and Jay Z’s chemistry on Wednesday night. After leading off with two of their biggest co-hits – ’03 Bonnie & Clyde and Crazy In Love, Bey and Jay alternated bangers without much interaction or even a stolen glance.

Accompanied by a formidable squad of backup dancers, Beyoncé did the ­lion’s share of the work, performing songs from her latest album interspersed with a smattering of Jay Z’s greatest hits.

The two finally delivered some onstage PDA for Drunk In Love.

Then, just past the Ranzie Mensah halfway mark, Beyoncé delivered a riled up performance of Why Don’t You Love Me, kicking off the back half of the concert that played on our relationship-status speculation.

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The Small World Music Centre’s cabaret-theatrestyle seating was awkwardly intimate for Ghanaian “Princess Of Peace” Ranzie Mensah’s performance

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Rating­: NNNN Basia Bulat is a master of instruments both familiar and not, and she brought an arsenal of them to her Live At Massey Hall concert.

“You’ll never get me off the stage,” she said, genuinely and charmingly in awe of the setting.

Songs from her latest folk album, Tall Tall Shadow, sounded fuller, richer and more rock ’n’ roll backed by her strong six-piece band, especially with the two-drum-set treatment. (Her brother, Bobby, was behind one of them.)

Bulat contributed to that high-energy­spirit, too, dancing around as best she could with a large guitar slung over her shoulder, cradling an auto-harp as carefully as one would a child or delicately tickling her tiny charango – as she did on opener City With No Rivers and the outstanding solo, mic-less encore performance of It Can’t Be You. Her slightly husky, sweet vibrato was made for Massey. Though it was never drowned out by her band, it sometimes had to compete. That was resolved when she performed a solo mini-set partway through – particularly emotive and poignant on Paris Or Amsterdam, a song she dedicated to the deceased friend for whom it was written. jl despite the video cameras. (The concert series will be broadcast online.)

The Italy-based singer put on as big a show as possible in the small space, singing, dancing and storytelling backed by her Toronto-based collaborator, pianist Reza Moghaddas and his trio (bassist Oriana Barbato and ex-Cliks player Morgan Doctor on percussion).

Mensah takes a singular, vibratoheavy, nearly operatic approach to vocal Afro-jazz that takes some getting used to, but her pipes have the power to transport the listener to other places, as they did on Swing To The Beat.

Crowd-pleasers included a handful of Miriam Makeba songs, like hit Ma-

laika. (Mensah knew Makeba and translated Makeba’s autobiography from English to French.)

The band debuted a couple of new pieces written specifically for the collaboration – including To Bebop – and Mensah walked offstage to let the band jam out on their own, finishing the encore with total improvisation. sarah greene

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the Music Garden, Sunday, ñ July 13.

Rating­: NNNN Despite marking its 15th anniversary this year, the summer series of free concerts at the waterfront Music Garden remains somewhat of a secret.

Curated by veteran critic Tamara Bernstein, the program offers a lowkey way to enjoy classical and world music in an idyllic setting – performers are set up with minimal amplification under a massive weeping willow adjacent to the shoreline, with the attentive audience seated on the grass or the stone steps carved into a hill above.

Sunday’s matinee featured New York-based chamber music ensemble Gretchen’s Muse, a string quartet specializing in 18th-century works, notably from the transition between baroque and classical styles. If that sounds daunting, far from it: the players moved through a Hayden and a Beethoven quartet in near-telepathic synchro­nicity.

While ensemble founder Abigail Karr on violin and guest cellist Beiliang Zhu proved standouts for balancing passion with precision, the beauty of the quartet’s playing came not only from their period instruments (Karr noted that the gut strings make a richer sound), but from the palpable collective chemistry between such individually accomplished bow-wielders. tabassum siddiqui

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Mary Timony goes for straight-up fun with new power trio By CARLA GILLIS

ex hex at the Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Friday (July 18), doors 9 pm. $12.50. RT, SS, TF. There is huge power in having a visual example. Case in point: when I saw Wild Flag at Lee’s Palace in 2011, I was reassured that women who play rock and roll can keep doing it long past the age of 30. It’s so rare to see, though, that the realization sent me biking as fast as I could go through the night, completely energized.

Turns out Mary Timony – of that now defunct band, of 90s college rockers ­Helium and current frontwoman of Washington, DC-based Ex Hex – had a similar experience.

“I had a moment like that,” says ­Timony from her home. “I had given up music for about a year six or seven years ago. And then I saw the Raincoats play and everything completely changed in my brain. ‘Wait a second – they’re women who are past 50, and they’re doing this.’ It meant so much to me.”

Getting burned out on making solo records, of which she has four (including one from 2005 also called Ex Hex), was the reason Timony threw in the towel. But fresh collaborations drew her back, including Wild Flag, which featured Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss and Carrie Brownstein (also of Portlandia), and Rebecca Cole. The band ended up putting out only one record, but Timony has no regrets.

“It was a blast and so great for me. I ended up trav-

elling to Portland a lot, and there are a lot of awesome women playing music there. That was inspiring. And being on the road and recording and writing songs with Wild Flag was really fun. It got me thinking about my musical life in a different way, especially in terms of songwriting. I’m editing myself a lot. A lot, a lot a lot.”

Timony’s earlier work is dark, dreamy and dense.

These days, straight-ahead fun is the goal. Just-released­ single Don’t Wanna Lose from full-length Rips (Merge, out October 7) is a slice of Cheap Trickian guitar pop bursting with melody and energy. Same with earlier single Hot And Cold, replete with an amusing food-focused video.

Bassist Betsy Wright helps out with songwriting, while Laura Harris holds down the beat on drums.

Husky-voiced Timony, meanwhile, is becoming an ever more stunning guitarist. She calls the instrument “her biggest love in the world. An interest that never gets old. I feel like I could study it forever and never get to where I want to go.”

She cites fret-tapping Marnie Stern as the six-stringer currently inspiring her most. Could that collaboration be on the horizon?

“We’ve talked about making a record and it hasn’t happened, but maybe someday,” Timony says. “I love her. She’s kind of a genius.”

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Ooioo, doomsquad Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (July 22) See OOIOO preview, page 40.

RLMDL, Indoor Voices, ­Animalia Rivoli (332 Queen West), Wednesday (July 23) Local dream pop.

We know that Vancouver/Montrealbred artist Claire Elise Boucher (aka Grimes) has become one of Canada’s biggest, baddest exports – signing with 4AD in America (she’s on Arbutus here), rocking high-profile international DJ sets (like her controversial Boiler Room showing at Richie Hawtin’s Ibiza home) and publishing feminist essays via her ­Tumblr page.

We also know that after putting out three records in two short years, it’s now been 30 months since her Polarisshortlisted album, Visions, dazzled fans with her characteristically undefinable experimental pop sounds.

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TATTOO The Daft Punk Tribute Running Red Lights, Gray doors 9 pm.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Gold Complex (hip-hop) 10 pm.

VIRGIN MOBILE MOD CLUB Frank D’Angelo & His 18 Piece Band.

FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD

ASPETTA CAFFE Open Mic El Faron 8 pm.

BAR RADIO Kristine Schmitt & her Special

Powers 10 pm.

DOMINION ON QUEEN Third Thursday Series

The Sinners Choir (roots/Americana) 7:30 pm.

DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND Ben Watt (Everything but the Girl) w/ Bernard Butler doors 8:30 pm.

FIRST CANADIAN PLACE PARK Soundbites: Summer Concerts In The Park Francesco 12:15 pm.

FREE TIMES CAFE Hank’s Aluminum Siding, Manic to Panic (blues/songwriters) 8:30 pm.

GROSSMAN’S The Thrill Harmonic 10 pm.

HOLY OAK CAFE Hannah Naimann (country) 7:30 pm.

HUGH’S ROOM John Gorka 8:30 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Paige Armstrong (rockin’ blues) 9 pm.

THE LOCAL GEST Jeff & Noah 8 pm.

THE LOCAL Jordan Faye & the Grey Owls (folk/ rock) 9 pm.

LOLA Brian Cober (double slide guitar) 9 pm.

MÉLANGE Blues Night Johnny Cox 9 pm.

MONARCHS PUB Blues Thursdays The 24th Street Wailers 8 pm.

99 SUDBURY Open Roof Festival: Outdoor concert & film screening series Catl (blues duo) doors 7:30 pm.

TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden Calum Graham (acoustic guitar) 7 pm.

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

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

EMMET RAY BAR Vokurka’s Vicarious Virtuoso Violin (jazz/folk/swing) 9 pm.

GATE 403 Tiffany Hanus Jazz Band 9 pm, G Street Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm.

HARBOURFRONT CENTRE BOULEVARD TENT

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THE JAZZ BISTRO Sicilian Jazz Project w/ Pilar & Don Byron 8 pm.

KAMA Thursdays At Five Canadian Jazz Quartet w/ Alastair Kay (trombone) 5 to 8 pm.

MUSIDEUM Larry Bond Group (jazz) 8 pm.

REPOSADO The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz).

THE REX Seamus Blake w/ Kirk MacDonald 9:30 pm, National Youth Jazz Combo 6:30 pm.

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THE CAVE Different Class (dance/rock/new wave/Brit Pop).

CLINTON’S Throwback Thursdays (90s hip-hop & pop) doors 10 pm.

CLUB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 THE 460 Dance Macabre DJ zTigmata & DJ Strychnine (gothic rock/post punk/deathrock/ darkwave) 10:30 pm.

THE HOXTON Basement Jaxx, HolloH (electronic dance music) doors 10 pm.

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

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8-11 BACKYARD Wavelength Presents Khôra,

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AIR CANADA CENTRE The Prismatic World Tour Katy Perry, Capital Cities.

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CAMERON HOUSE Album release Baytown.

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THE CENTRAL The Tonedefs, BingeNinja, the Innocent Abandoned, Norway, DJ Manny Bogart 9:30 pm.

CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA The Scarlet Fever, Bike Thiefs, Sleeping Lies 9 pm.

ECHO BEACH AT MOLSON AMPHITHEATRE Edgefest 2 USS, Ms Mr, Said the Whale, ñ Bear Hands, Wildlife, Dear Rouge gates 5 pm, all ages.

GARRISON Ex Hex doors 9 pm.

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LEE’S PALACE Penny Benjamin, Aviators, Hammer Antics, Red Sands 9 pm.

MILK GLASS CO Silent Shout: Heat And The Pulse – Day 2 Ken Park, Castle If. MONARCHS PUB Classic Rock Fridays Bad to the Bone (George Thorogood tribute) 9 pm.

ORBIT ROOM Dave Murphy Band (R&B/top 40/rock/pop) 10 pm.

RANCHO RELAXO Drunk Lips, Urvah Khan, the Option, Grass Grows Back doors 9 pm.

REPOSADO Tara Hazelton.

REVIVAL Hip-Hop Karaoke DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia, Abdominal & More or Les 10 pm.

ROCKPILE Blue Coupe doors 8 pm.

SILVER DOLLAR Simply Saucer, Panic, Key Witness 9 pm.

SNEAKY DEE’S Album release show Champion Lover, Waterbodies, Sextape, Shiplew Hollow doors 9 pm.

SOUND ACADEMY Redemption Past Vs Present Supercat, De Don Dada & Caution.

SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Modern LP (rock/top 40) 10 pm.

THE STRATHCONA HOTEL Tony Cutrone (acoustic pop/rock) 10:30 pm.

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WOODBINE PARK Beaches International Jazz Festival Jay Douglas (soul/R&B) 9 pm, KC Roberts 7 pm.

country) 10 pm.

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GATE 403 Fraser Melvin Blues Band 9 pm.

GROSSMAN’S Dirty Sweet 10 pm.

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HUGH’S ROOM Duane Andrews, Craig Young 8:30 pm.

LINSMORE TAVERN Big Silver Blues Band 9 pm.

LOLA Chris Lord Ideal 9 pm.

LOU DAWG’S Live Acoustic Blues/Funk/Soul Night 10 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Cuba Libre Friday Changui Havana, DJ Suave (salsa) 10:30 pm.

MEL LASTMAN SQUARE Cultura Festival Canailles (Cajun bluegrass) 8 to 9 pm.

THE SISTER Focused, Holiday Monday.

TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Dust: The Quietest Big Band in the Whole World 7:30 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park David Leask (Celtic soul) 11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

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GATE 403 Sam Broverman Jazz Duo 5 to 8 pm.

HARLEM Mike Field Jazz Quintet (jazz trum-

pet) 7:30 pm.

THE JAZZ BISTRO George Evans Quartet 8 pm.

LULA LOUNGE Laura Cole (jazz) 7:30 pm.

MUSIDEUM Stephanie Martin (jazz/groove/ pop) 8 pm, (folk-fusion).

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

REFERENCE LIBRARY BEETON AUDITORIUM Early Music For Recorder And Historical Flutes Alison Melville noon to 1 pm.

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CODA Avatism Vs. Clockwork, Rodriguez Jr..

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CRAWFORD DOWNSTAIRS DJ Law (video dance party) 9 pm.

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HOLY OAK CAFE DJ LP 10 pm.

THE HOXTON Alice Glass (DJ set), the Range, Chrome Sparks doors 10 pm.

RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE DJ Stu (rock & roll).

RIVOLI Footprints DJs Jason Palma, General Eclectic doors 10 pm.

RYZE Bassryze Kenny Ken, Tantrum Desire, Marcus Visionary, Everfresh, Stickbubbly, Hydee, Chilton Gaines, JD, Trajady, MC Fearless 10 pm.

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3030 DUNDAS WEST Bringin’ That Heat (Afro funk) 10 pm.

UNIUN Factory Fridays Fehr Play & Grum, Manzone & Strong 10 pm.

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AIR CANADA CENTRE The Prismatic World Tour Katy Perry, Capital Cities. ñ ALLEYCATZ Taxi (rock/top 40/dance).

BAMIYAN BANQUET HALL Passa Passa – Red

Carpet Edition Military, Supa Loaded, Alex Frass, Dee Jay Lexx, Lonestar Bassline (reggae).

BIER MARKT DON MILLS Daniella Watters 9 pm.

THE CENTRAL Equalizer, Call for Violence, Skies Beneath, Aurelia, Jaded Voice, Writhen 9 pm, Stereoblastula, the Filthy Radicals, Watered Down, Butter 5 to 7 pm.

THE DANFORTH MUSIC HALL Scott Weiland, the Wildabouts doors 7 pm.

FORT YORK GARRISON COMMON Time Festival Grimes, Death Grips, Action Bronson, Smith Westerns, Jon Hopkins, Majical Cloudz, Flume, St Lucia, Kaytranada,

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OOIOO EXPERIMENTAL

This band hardly ever plays in Canada. Here, five reasons not to miss them. By JULIA LECONTE OOIOO with DOOMSQUAD at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (July 22), doors 8 pm. $18.50. HS, RT, SS, TF.

You’d be forgiven for not having heard of OOIOO, but you won’t forgive yourself if you miss their live show.

Band members Yoshimi, Kayan, Aya and Ai have been making music together since 1995, producing an ever-evolving sound that falls somewhere between experimental pop and art rock, shifting with every carefully orchestrated album.

That said, it’s nearly impossibly for a non-English-singing band to cross over into North American popularity (especially if they’re hardly ever here).

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This week the band plays a rare live show in an intimate setting. Here, five reasons to really (really) broaden your horizons.

1. They’re touring a new (awesome) album It’s not until you’re about halfway through OOIOO’s seventh record, Gamel (Thrill Jockey) that you realize the band isn’t singing in English. The sparse vocals are just part of a slew of strange, melodic sounds that are improvisational in nature while forming cohesive songs all the same. Their latest took four years to make and was inspired by gamelan, the ancient percussive musical form from Java, anchored by the metallophone.

2. Leader Yoshimi is also the drummer for the Boredoms OOIOO founder Yoshimi (formerly Yoshimi P-We) is also the drummer for Japanese noisy experimental rock band Boredoms – one of the country’s best and weirdest groups ever, formed in 1986. Known for her onstage prowess, Yoshimi inspired the title for, and plays on, the Flaming Lips album Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. More amazing proof that, yes, women can rock well into their 40s, too.

3. They’re almost never here The last time OOIOO played in North America, David Miller was mayor (sigh), the Raptors made the playoffs (with Chris Bosh!) and Drake was play-

Charli XCX, Haerts doors noon, all ages.

Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage

­ abari Africa Festival Emmanuel Jal (hip-hop) H 10 to 11 pm.

Harlem Reece (R&B) 7:30 to 11 pm.

Horseshoe Subhumans, Mischief Brew, School Damage (punk) doors 9 pm.

Lee’s Palace Last Bullet, Left Turn City, Fallen Heirs, Jay Arson.

Linsmore Tavern Elevation (U2 tribute) 9:30 pm.

Mélange Hip-Hop Night Reel (rap trio) 9 pm.

Mississauga Celebration Square SingFest Finals Maya Saggar, Karl Jakelski, Cam Bogle, Haifa Behbahani, Chanel Martins and others noon to 4 pm.

Orbit Room Ride the Tiger (60s & 70s soul/ Motown/stax/R&B) 10 pm.

Press Club aBabe Saturdays The Shakedown, the Cardboard Crowns & Innocent Guns 9:30 pm.

Reposado Bradley & the Bouncers (swing).

Silver Dollar Subject to Change, Ladyface, Johnny Awesome, Tame Hell, Giraffe doors 9 pm.

Southside Johnny’s Joe Panic (rock/top 40) 10 pm, The Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm.

Unicorn Pub The Cover Alls 10 pm.

Virgin Mobile Mod Club Landmark Showcase Festival Chasing Shadows, House of Coconuts, Empty Threat, Falcon City, Guided by Senses, Tea with Lincoln, Joel Martin and others.

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Wrongbar ñBraids.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Bar Radio Mr Rick & the Biscuits (country) 10 pm.

Cameron House Pat Maloney (singer/songwriter).

Dora Keogh Traditional Irish Music Session

Debbie Quigley & Patrick Orceau 4 to 7 pm.

Free Times Cafe Latin Music Collective, the Two Marios 8:30 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Open Mic Saturdays Peter Mathieson 2 to 4 pm.

Gate 403 Donné Roberts Band 9 pm.

Grossman’s Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 10 pm, the Happy Pals 4:30 to 8 pm.

Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage

­ abari Africa: Songs Of My Mother 8 to 9 pm, H Donné Roberts 2 to 3 pm.

Hugh’s Room Song Studio Faculty Concert Rik Emmett, Blair Packham, Melanie Doane,

Dean McTaggart, Bill McKetrick & Allister Bradley 8:30 pm.

Humble Beginnings Penny Blacks (singer/ songwriter) 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

King’s Belly Gary 17s Acoustic Showcase & Open Stage Glen Hornblast 8:30 pm.

The Local Belle Regards (mountain folk) 9 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm.

Lula Lounge Conjunto Lacalu (salsa) 10:30 pm.

CNeilson Park Caribbean Carnival Toronto: Junior Carnival 11 am-6 pm.

The Rex Summer Blues Matinee Homeless Blues Band 3:30 pm.

St Clair Ave W between Winona & Christie

Salsa On St Clair Lula All Stars, Carlos Cruz, Changüí Havana, Conjunto Lacalu, Samba Squad.

Tranzac Southern Cross Chelsea & the Cityscape 10 pm, JamZac (folk) 3 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

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

The Flying Beaver Pubaret A Cabaret Of Musical Theatre Kevin Morris 9 pm.

Gate 403 John Wayne Swingtet 5 to 8 pm.

The Jazz Bistro George Evans Quartet 8 pm.

NAISA Space NAISA Sound Travels: World Listening Day Fernando Godoy Monsalve and others 8 pm, SOUNDwalk noon.

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 Mike Malone Trio (jazz) 7:30 to 10:30 pm.

Paintbox Bistro Junior Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 10 am.

The Rex Eric Divito 9:45 pm, Bacchus Collective 7:30 pm, Chris Kettlewell noon.

Village of Yorkville Park Summer Music In The Park Donald Guinn Trio 1:30 to 4:30 pm.

WOODBINE PARK Beaches International Jazz Festival Dumpstaphunk 9:30 pm, Paul James 7:30 pm, the Michael Schatte Band 6 pm, Amos Levy 4:30 pm, Andria ­Simone 3 pm, Ault Sisters 1:30 pm.

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Young Centre for the Performing Arts

Soulpepper Cabaret Series: Judgment of Paris 8:30 pm.

Dance Music/DJ/Lounge

Ballet Lounge All Vinyl Everything Agile,

Mista Jiggz, Jason Palma (R&B/house/hiphop/reggae/funk/breaks) 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 Suit Or Swagg DJs Blackcat & Pleasure doors 10 pm.5

CODA Time Festival After-Party. ñ Crawford Upstairs DJ WLPK 9 pm.

Guvernment Marrakech.

Holy Oak Cafe Night Flights (disco/experimental/electronic/folk) 10 pm.

Hot Box Puff Lounge Le Stack.

The Hoxton Mike Hawkins.

Hush Lounge R&B On King Street (new &

olskool/R&B/reggae/soca/hip-hop).

Lou Dawg’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hi-hop) 10 pm.

Poetry Jazz Cafe DayDream DJ Jennifer Loveless, DJ Deep 2:30 to 7:30 pm.

Rivoli Pool Lounge DJ Plan B (hip-hop/rap/ club) doors 9 pm.

The Savoy Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hip-hop/ dancehall) 10 pm.

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

Taboo Fire & Ice 5: Global Warming Demon Edition DJ Mike Stoan, T Major, Ya Boy Got Beats doors 10 pm.

Tattoo Capital Cities DJ set w/ Sebu Simonian, Johnny Hockin doors 10 pm.

3030 Dundas West DJ Corey Dawkins (soca/ reggae/dancehall).

Time Nightclub Time Sundays DJ Wikked, DJ Dattabass, JG, Scotty Scratch.

Sunday, July 20 Pop/Rock/Hip-Hop/Soul

Aspetta Caffe Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 4 pm.

Bovine Sex Club Lich King, Shotgun

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Cadillac Lounge Whiskey Jack (bluegrass/ country) 4 to 7 pm.

Cherry Cola’s Rock N’ Rolla Sinful Sundays Burlesque doors 9 pm.

Handlebar Sunday Jump The Fugitive Minds, Miss Herbasshifts (reggae/Afrobeat) 8 pm.

Herbert H. Carnegie Centennial Centre

Tony Cutrone w/ RadioPlay Band (pop/rock/ funk/top 40) 2 to 4 pm.

Hirut Fine Ethiopian Cuisine Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3-6 pm.

Holy Oak Cafe Sing Leaf (pop) 9 pm.

Horseshoe Emefe, Atom & the Volumes, Pudding doors 8 pm.

Lula Lounge Fundraiser for Gerladina Orphanage in Tanzania Glenn Marais and Out of Control: The U2 Experience (rock/pop) 6:30 pm.

Orbit Room Horshack (classic rock hits) 10 pm.

The Painted Lady The Greasy Wheels Tour Kickoff Danielle Knibbe, the Fraser Melvin Band, the Marwills 9 pm.

Rivoli Indie Night Cat and the Queen doors 8 pm.

Rockpile The Mahones (punk) 8 pm, all ages.

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

Tranzac Main Hall Girls Rock Camp Toronto Showcase doors 2:30 pm. See Unfinished Business preview, page 44.

Unicorn Pub Six Foot Five 9 pm.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Agricola Lutheran Church Kantele Begin-

ner Workshop Arja Kastinen (kantele/zither) 1 to 4 pm.

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.

C’est What Song Studio Blair Packham (alt folk) doors 6:30 pm.

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

Duffy’s Tavern Ken Yoshioka (blues) 10 pm.

Earlscourt Park Brazilfest Victoria Azevedo, Ana Aune, Joey Coelho Corsino, Nancy Love, Salviano Pessoa, Too Many Chiefs, Zé Fuá noon to 10 pm.

Free Times Cafe Gordon’s Acoustic Living

Room 8 pm, Jewish Brunch Buffet Beyond the Pale (klezmer) 11 am & 1:15 pm.

Full of Beans Coffee Rebas Full Of Beans Sundays Magic Hour Band 2 to 4 pm.

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

Harbourfront Centre Redpath Stage

­ abari Africa Nhapitapi Mbira (music of ZimH babwe) 4 to 5 pm, African Jazz & Blues Trio 2 to 3 pm.

Harbourfront Centre WestJet Stage

­ abari Africa: Toronto Kings Of Highlife and H Palm Wine Afrafranto 4:30 to 6 pm.

Linsmore Tavern Sam Taylor & the East End Love (blues/rock) 5 to 9 pm.

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

Lola Luke McCulloch 3 to 7 pm.

Lula Lounge Salsa Brunch Jorge Maza Group (salsa) 11 am.

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

Molson Amphitheatre Sundown Heaven Town Tour Tim McGraw, Kip Moore, Cassadee Pope 7 pm.

The Rex Dr Nick & the Rollercoasters (blues) 3:30 pm.

St Clair Ave W between Winona & Christie

Salsa On St Clair Lula All Stars, Carlos Cruz, Changüí Havana, Conjunto Lacalu, Samba Squad.

Supermarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic/Jam 8 pm.

Tranzac Southern Cross Makeshift Island 10 pm, Monk’s Music 5 pm, Alaniaris 3 pm, Quebecois Jam 1 pm.

Jazz/Classical/Experimental

Emmet Ray Bar Circles Mackenzie Longpre, Chris Pruden, Tom Fleming, Matt Roberts (jazz) 8 pm.

Gate 403 Brown-Talsky Jazz Quintet 9 pm, Joanne Morra & the France St Trio 5 to 8 pm.

Grossman’s New Orleans Connection All Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm.

Heliconian Hall Schubert’s Winterreise: Celebrating Bass-baritone Daniel Lichti’s Career Daniel Lichti, Ephraim Laor 2 pm.

The Jazz Bistro Barb Gordon 7 pm, Young Artist Brunch Nick Arseneau Duo 12:30 pm. continued on page 44 œ

ing Jimmy Brooks on Degrassi High.

Point being: it’s been a long-ass time.

4. You’ll never hear this again (unless you follow the band around, which could easily happen) On this particular trip, OOIOO are bringing the trained gamelan players from the album – Koheysai Kawamura and Tomoyuki Hamamoto – along with them, making it a one-touronly six-person experience. Cool? Cool.

5. Quite frankly, they do everything Retro-sounding lo-fi guitar riffs, the juiciest funky bass lines, urgent disso­nance everywhere, tribal chanting. Irre­sistible, no matter what you’re into. They even make painful screams sound good.

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Unfinished business punk

Haunted houses and kitten Ts: Girls Rock Camp alumni are Toronto’s coolest new punks By Samantha Edwards

Girls Rock Camp showcase concert at the Tranzac (292 Brunswick), Sunday (July 20), doors 2:30 pm. $10 ($5 for kids). girlsrocktoronto.org.

Like most precocious underagers, the girls in Unfinished Business have their own sneaking-into-a-19+-concert story. But rather than weaseling their way into the front row, they were actually scheduled to play the show.

“At Izakaya Sushi, they were going to not let us in,” lead singer Sita says over coffee and lemonade at Dark Horse Espresso at Queen and Broadview. “If they didn’t, we were going to sneak in through the back entrance, but it didn’t come to that.”

Since forming in 2010, the band (originally known as Food Fight) has had gigs all over the city, playing alongside Fucked Up, Mac DeMarco and Toronto shoegazers Wish.

The three members – Sita, 14, Layla, 15, and Fiona, 14 – met in a split Grade 4/5 class in elementary school and formed the group about a year later.

As Layla explains it, the project originally seemed like a fun, casual way to

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learn an instrument and hang out with her pals. “Sita came up to me and said, ‘Hey, Layla, do you want to be in a band and play in my basement?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, sure.’”

Vocalist/guitarist Sita and bassist Layla sharpened their skills at Girls Rock Camp Toronto in 2011, a weeklong summer workshop that teaches girls how to play an instrument and write a song as part of a band. This summer’s sessions run July 14-20 and August 11-17, with the newly formed bands playing Sunday showcases July 20 and August 17 at the Tranzac.

(Unfinished Business aren’t playing.)

Even though band practice for Unfinished Business is equal parts learning new songs and watching TV (their choice show of the moment is My Strange Addiction), they’re starting to get serious.

Last month they played two NXNE shows to throngs of 20-somethings wearing their kitten-print band T-shirts, and released their debut LP, Mix And Mash (Heretical Objects Cooperative) – a

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Hatzithomas (house/hits/remixes) 1 to 7 pm.

Capital Espresso Pinko Bingo Fundrzr: Parkdale Film & Video Showcase Fundraiser DJ Ste2 Innes doors 7 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

Agricola Lutheran Church Kantele Concert

Arja Kastinen (kantele/zither) 7 pm, Kantele Workshop 9 am to noon & 1 to 4 pm.

Dora Keogh Open Stage Julian Taylor, Chris Scian (roots/pop) 8 pm.

Free Times Cafe Open Stage Mondays Alex Zdravkovic 7:30 pm.

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

Tranzac Southern Cross Open Mic 9 pm.

Bovine Sex Club Bushwacker, Stray Sheep, Nagasaki.

Castro’s Lounge The Tom Waits Appreciation Congregation 8 to 10 pm.

The Central Shy Low, Atsuko Chiba, Camper 9 pm.

Gate 403 Danny Marks & Alec Fraser Duo

(pop) 8 pm.

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

Hard Luck Bar Acoustic Tour Ace Enders, the Early November doors 6 pm.

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Senses, Red Light Compliance, the Sketch, Birdeath 5 to 10 pm.

Drake Hotel The Wytches (50s/60s rock & roll) doors 8:30 pm.

Grossman’s No Band Required 10 pm.

Horseshoe Shoeless Monday Alex Leggett, Dirty Mike & the Boys, Rotary Park doors 8:30 pm.

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 (soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm.

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Musideum Build to Suit (avant/improvised) 8 pm, Lara Solnicki & Margaret Stowe (jazz) 4 pm.

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

The Rex Nick Scott Group 9:30 pm, Tara Kanangara Group 7 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon.

Tranzac Southern Cross Diane Roblin ­(experimental jazz) 7:30 pm.

70s/80s) 10 pm.

Reposado DJ Ellis Dean.

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Air Canada Centre The Prismatic World Tour Katy Perry, Capital Cities. ñ Bovine Sex Club Bloody Diamonds 9 pm.

Alleycatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm.

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Monday, July 21

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NNNN ñALVVAYS

(Polyvinyl) Rating: Alvvays play jingle-jangle fuzz pop that swims in reverb and lifts off with wistful melodies that stay with you long after the album ends. A lot of bands do this well. What sets the Toronto-based five-piece apart is band leader Molly Rankin’s weary tone and lyrics. This isn’t shiny, happy lovepop. Her melancholy adds weight, and it’s not of the fragile variety. She is full of attitude.

Rankin, daughter of sadly departed John Morris Rankin of the Rankins, and co-songwriter Alec O’Hanley (ex-Two Hours Traffic) are hook masters. Songs like Adult Diversion and Archie, Marry Me, both of which have been

but not all the songs are straight-up sunny fun. Unexpected, dark twists emerge. Falling Skyline, for example, gets a loud, clashing guitar interlude before the oneminute mark.

It gets tiring trying to figure out what Lew is saying (mostly, her vocals are mixed a touch too low), but the themes are hinted at in her sober delivery. Mirror, for instance, is immediately punchy and upbeat, but the words “looking at my face, yet there’s nothing at all” reveal some malaise.

Top track: Mirror JULIA LECONTE

floating around for ages (this debut has taken forever to come out), are perfect pop gems. A few of the others – slower, softer Ones Who Love You, The Agency Group – don’t soar as high but add balance.

And there is admirable cohesion from start to finish. Recorded at Chad VanGaalen’s Yoko Eno studio in Calgary, it’s less experimental than VanGaalen’s usual output. The lo-fi/hi-fi production values keep slickness at bay, resulting in something as warm, intimate and super-casual as an East Coast kitchen party.

Top track: Archie, Marry Me Alvvays play the Horseshoe August 14.

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STELLA ELLA OLA I Think We Should Hang Out All The Time (Royal Mountain) Rating: NNN Emerging local act Stella Ella Ola might be on to something by releasing their debut album in the dog days of summer, given that their spunky retro-pop tunes would make an ideal soundtrack for long drives out to the cottage.

Just try not to bop your head along to the shouty retro harmonies and shiny surf-rock guitar melodies on lead track Summerette (natch). Hollerado members Nixon and Jake Boyd bring their typically exuberant approach to this new band, but they’ve got a secret weapon in frontwoman Anne Douris. The tunes where she takes the lead with her sassy vocals far outshine anything else on the record, which otherwise sounds a bit one-note.

Nice to hear a debut that doesn’t take itself too seriously. If anything, it’s a great teaser for what must be a hugely fun live show.

Top track: Too Pretty Stella Ella Ola play Guelph’s Hillside Festival on July 26.

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ANNA CALVI Strange Weather (Domino) Rating: NNN It’s not clear why British singer/songwriter Anna Calvi chose these specific songs to cover for her latest release. They’re from a seemingly random bunch: alt-R&B triphopper FKA Twigs, 70s electro-punks Suicide and David Bowie, to name a few. But since each of the five tunes gets Calvi’s signature treatment – haunting vocals and emotional flourishes – the EP sounds perfectly cohesive.

Her take on Bowie’s Lady Grinning Soul is slowed down as she breathes over swelling pianos. Papi Pacify is a watereddown take on FKA Twigs’ trippy version, though with reverby guitar and crashing drums it’s equally dramatic. I’m The Man That Will Find You, by New Zealand weirdo Connan Mockasin, is much sexier than the original while retaining its creepy, stalkerish fervour.

On the title track, David Byrne joins in on vocals, but apart from adding some call-and-response, it doesn’t stray too far from Keren Ann’s brilliant 2011 original.

Calvi’s obviously got great pipes, but the EP would’ve been better if she’d made every cover unrecognizable.

Top track: I’m The Man That Will Find You SAMANTHA EDWARDS

JENNY LEWIS The Voyager (Warner Bros) Rating: NN With her former band, Rilo Kiley, and on her two previous solo albums, Jenny Lewis’s strengths were her sharp wordplay and her ability to write a downright depressing song but then cheekily pair it with a cheery alt-country melody.

But on The Voyager, Lewis’s first album in five years, she takes a more direct approach to love, death and growing up.

While her straightforward songwriting certainly comes across as honest, it can feel a little hokey. For instance, Just One Of The Guys – a foot-stompin’ song about a woman’s biological clock – is momentarily ruined when Lewis abruptly adds the cringe-worthy flanger effect to her pleasantly twee vocals and announces, “I’m just another lady without a baby.” On She’s Not Me, Lewis yelps the overly dramatic climax, “When I told you I cheated and you punched through the drywall,” finishing it off with a too-slick guitar solo.

To the point is all well and good, but a little mystery never hurt.

Top track: One Of The Guys SE

COLD BEAT Over Me (Crime on the

Moon) Rating: NNN Cold Beat is the new project from bassist/ vocalist Hannah Lew of San Francisco indie rockers Grass Widow. On their debut, Lew takes over as bandleader, songwriter and primary vocalist, purring out clean, choir-like vocals amid plucky new wave tunes.

The band excels at grabby intros – by guitars (Kyle King), drums (Bianca Sparta), or Lew’s own bass-playing – that whip you into each song and spit you out quickly.

(Over half the tunes come in under three minutes.) You’d be forgiven for mistaking the band for whimsical dream poppers,

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Medicine For Melancholy (independent) Rating: Caitlin Dacey has been rocking behind the Korg in Ian Blurton’s Public Animal of late, but Bella Clava’s sophomore album makes it clear that she hasn’t put her primary songwriting vehicle on the back burner.

Earlier this year she and her three bandmates headed to Rancho de la Luna in Joshua Tree for a week of live-off-the-

floor recording in the space once occupied

by Queens of the Stone Age, Kyuss, Fu Manchu and so many other desert rockers.

Formed in Thunder Bay and now based in Toronto, Bella Clava play something closer to 90s alt, but the studio still worked its magic, along with producer Mathias Schneeberger. The nine tracks have a sound big enough to match Dacey’s raw powerhouse vocals and catchy choruses. Broken Spirit thrives on its Cobainesque melody, and guitarist Steve Suttie’s When Christ Was A Cowboy has righteous proggy rhythms and classic rock epicness.

But the high-energy rock and roll of the title track and A Face Only A Mother Could Love is what Bella Clava does best.

Top track: Medicine For Melancholy Bella Clava play Yonge-Dundas Square on August 29.

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WOMAN’S HOUR Conversations

(Secretly Canadian) Rating: NNN Frontwoman Fiona Jane Burgess and her brother, guitarist William Burgess, started their band in 2011, naming it after the popular BBC Radio 4 show. Fittingly, they’ve called their debut Conversations.

After all, studies show (my own, at least) that women are better at talking through their issues than men.

The London four-piece make dreamy electro-pop with super-retro-sounding 80s synths, peppered with soft Corrs-like harmonies.

Sometimes they’ve got an xx-meetsBangles thing happening, sometimes a funkified Hall & Oates thing (the title track), which on that tune makes them sound like a mellower Chromeo.

Burgess coos straightforward relationship-in-crisis lyrics that leave little to be interpreted – quite refreshing. Unfortunately, what starts out as emotionally drenched bop-along pop eventually gets tiresome. There are too many slow jams on the back half, unless you’re... trying to... zzzz...

The final track, The Day That Needs Defending, is a groovy ditty with pretty, layered harmonies. I just hope listeners get there.

Top track: Conversations JL

Folk NNNN ñJOLIE HOLLAND

Wine Dark Sea (Anti-) Rating: At her recent Great Hall show, Jolie Holland seemed past ready to burst out of her singer/songwriter role and into full-on jam band mode. Problem was, her vocals – and songs – tended to retreat behind the cloud of guitars.

Not so on her sixth record. Wine Dark Sea is a brilliantly track-listed album, stronger as a whole than broken into parts. On tape, Holland got the spirit of improvisation and collaborative energy of her band (three lead guitarists, two drummers, bass, horns, her violin and Douglas Jenkins’s cello) without sacrificing her pipes. In fact, they are clearer and more expressive than ever.

Witness the transition from near-outof-control VU fuzz (Dark Days) to an easystroll-paced blues tune (Route 30), to the impressionistic poetry of I Thought It Was The Moon. Then there’s The Love You Save – a great soul cover, written by Joe Tex. Top track: Route 30 SARAH GREENE

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Peril as Prospero Richard Alan Campbell loves the spontaneity of outdoor action By JON KAPLAN THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare, directed by D. Jeremy Smith, with Richard Alan Campbell, Miriam Fernandes, Madeleine Donohue, Peter van Gestel and Steven Burley. Presented by Driftwood Theatre, at Withrow Park (south of Danforth, east of Logan), July 22-27 at 7:30 pm, and then various venues around Ontario. Pwyc ($20 sugg). driftwoodtheatre.com.

Despite the possibility of barking dogs, noisy planes and the occasional rainstorm, Richard Alan Campbell loves doing summer theatre outdoors, especially Shakespeare.

This year he’s back with Driftwood Theatre, which celebrates its 20th season with a southern Ontario tour of Shakespeare’s last play, The Tempest. It’s his eighth outdoor performance of works by the Bard.

Campbell plays Prospero, the magician who’s lost his throne in a palace coup years before the action begins; he’s lived with his daughter, Miranda, on an enchanted island since then. When his usurping brother, Antonio, and

THEATRE REVIEW

Gutsy Titus TITUS ANDRONICUS by William

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Playing in rep with the comedy As You Like It, Titus Andronicus fills the dark, tragic side of Canadian Stage’s summer Shakespeare slate, providing thrills, chills and lots of gore.

In Shakespeare’s earliest known tragedy, Titus (Sean Dixon), a veteran Roman general, descends into a bloody, revenge feud with Tamora (Shauna Black), queen of the recently vanquished Goths and now the wife of new emperor Saturninus (James Graham).

Setting a tone similar to Ker Wells’s macabre Macbeth last season, director

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Alonso, the king who aided in the coup, approach the island, Prospero has a chance to take revenge by raising a storm and shipwrecking them and their retinues.

“That’s the tension of the play, whether he’s actually going to get even with those who wronged him a dozen years earlier,” says Campbell, a VideoCab regular who recently appeared in Trudeau And The FLQ. “Why look for vengeance when he also sees the possibility of uniting his daughter, Miranda, with Alonso’s son, Ferdinand?

“What does Prospero really want, a release of his long-simmering anger or to create a new life for his daughter?”

The idea of romance is central to the play, too, in several senses.

“It’s a romance about love, given the young couple and their quick fairy-tale falling for each other. The play, after all, takes place in only a few hours of its characters’ lives.”

But there’s also the literary meaning of “romance,” a term used for Shakespeare’s last plays, including Cymbeline, Pericles and The Winter’s Tale. All deal in a meaningful way with forgiveness, consciously putting

aside past injuries to look toward a healing future.

Campbell thinks of Prospero as having other offspring, at least metaphorically, in addition to Miranda, one of whom also needs to be forgiven. The magician has command over the spirit Ariel and the more earthly Caliban, who was initially welcomed by Prospero until he attacked Miranda.

“The more we work on the play, the more it feels like Ariel and Caliban are like his children,” says Campbell. “Ariel is the character who suggests that Prospero should feel pity for the other human characters; she guides him to mercy.

Caliban and two of the shipwrecked crew plan to attack the magician and rule in his stead, but in the end I don’t think Prospero punishes Caliban harshly.

“Ariel and Caliban are like offspring he wants to instruct and improve: the former is a sprite with ADD and latter is a hothead who’s gone down a bad path.”

Keira Loughran combines ancient Roman and imperial Japanese aesthetics in a surprisingly coherent fantasy world where dagger duels give way to samurai sword fights. Costumes and props conform to a strict red, black, and brown palette – a striking and sinister visual counterpart to the play’s bleak string of murders and mutilations.

To deal with the

story’s gouging, hacking, stabbing and slicing, Loughran uses red string, ribbon and fabric in place of the buckets of fake blood that would otherwise be required. At first this may seem like a cop-out to blunt the extreme horrors, but the colour alone disturbs all the same.

Dixon conveys Titus’s descent into anguish and madness, adding a subtle wryness to certain lines as things unravel. But the most memorable performance is Beau Dixon’s as Aaron, the G o t h i c queen’s hulking love slave. Near the beginning of the show he delivers an incantation, getting the audience to provide an ominous rhythmic clap as he recites the spell, walking wide-eyed through the crowd.

It’s a delightfully unsettling set-up for the courtly carnage JORDAN BIMM to come.

Shauna Black and Beau Dixon like it rough in Titus Andronicus.

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Toronto audiences will see Campbell perform in Withrow Park, where he appeared in six shows with Shakespeare in the Rough, including King John, Measure For Measure, Titus Andronicus and The Merchant Of Venice.

“With Shakespeare in the Rough, we worked between two big trees and had to deal with the elements in terms of sound and sometimes wet ground.

Driftwood has a portable stage and mikes, a blessing on windy days or to counter the occasionally noisy patron.

“But even so, unpredictable events happen outside. When I was doing King Lear with Driftwood, I remember that during one show, in the middle of the tender reconciliation between Lear and Cordelia near the end of the play, a drunk carrying a six-pack of beer walked onto the stage.

“His friends yelled at him to come back to them and stop bothering us, but one of Shakespeare’s key scenes was already turned upside down.”

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Richard Alan Campbell plays Prospero in The Tempest in Withrow Park.

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Opening AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare (Canadore College Rep 21). The classic tale of spontaneous love and friendships is set is set in 1830s Canada. Opens Jul 23 and runs to Jul 26, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. Free. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, rep21.ca.

ASSASSINS by Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman (StageWorks Toronto). Historical figures who tried to assassinate American presidents meet in this dark musical. Opens Jul 17 and runs to Jul 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and July 26) 2 pm. $25. George Ignatieff Theatre, 15 Devonshire. 416-803-5287, stageworkstoronto.com.

DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? by Sarah Quick (Globus Theatre). A woman deals with the realities of commitment in this drama.

Opens Jul 23 and runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $28.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcaygeon. 1-800304-7897, globustheatre.com.

HAMILTON FRINGE FESTIVAL (Hamilton Fringe Festival). Musicals, dance, comedies, magic shows, dramas and family entertainment at this innovative theatre festival. Opens Jul 17 and runs to Jul 27, see website for schedule. $8-$12, pass $18-$75. James Street North District, downtown Hamilton. hamiltonfringe.ca.

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The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar

Wilde (Guild Festival Theatre). Two bachelors’ lies catch up with them in this classic comedy. Opens Jul 17 and runs to Aug 10, WedSun 7:30 pm, mat Sun 2 pm. $25, srs $20, kids under 12 free. Guild Park, 201 Guildwood Pkwy, Greek Theatre. 416-915-6750, ­guildfestivaltheatre.ca.

Murder At The Banquet by Robert LaVohn (Mississauga Players). A murder takes place at an awards gala for detectives in this comedy whodunnit. Jul 18-19, Fri-Sat 7 pm. $25. Royal Canadian Legion 582, 456 Hensall ­Circle, Mississauga. ­eventbrite.ca/e/10067864253.

One Flew Over The Cubicle by Janice Israeloff (Red Sandcastle Theatre). A woman looks for meaningful work while caring for her father with Alzheimer’s in this solo show. Jul 18-20, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $15, mat pwyc.

922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, ­redsandcastletheatre.com.

Radio :30 by Chris Earle (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). A voice actor wrestles with his conscience while recording a radio ad in this dark comedy. Opens Jul 22 and runs to Aug 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri 2 pm. $15$30. Mount Tabor Playhouse, 2179 County Road 17, Milford. 1-866-584-1991, ­festivalplayers.ca.

Sonny Under The Assumption by Edward Allan Baker (Old Norman Productions/Native Earth). A young woman leaves her banking job to run a community centre with ex-convicts. Opens Jul 23 and runs to Jul 27. $25$33, Thu mat pwyc. Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E, Aki Studio Theatre. 416-531-1402, ­nativeearth.ca/sonny-under-the-assumption.

The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre’s Bard’s Bus Tour).

The classic story of love and revenge is presented outdoors (see story, page 47). Opens Jul 22 and runs to Jul 27, Tue-Sun 7:30 pm (live music from 6:30 pm on Wed). (See website for more shows outside Toronto.) Pwyc (adv $20-$24). Withrow Park, 725 ­Logan. 416703-2773, ­driftwoodtheatre.com.

Twist And Shout: The British Invasion by Alex Mustakas (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute celebrates the tunes of the Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, the Kinks and others. Opens Jul 17 and runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888372-9866, ­draytonentertainment.com.

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Juno And The Paycock by Sean O’Casey (Shaw Festival). Political unrest and financial ups and downs afflict a family in 1920s Dublin. Previews to Jul 24. Opens Jul 25 and runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24.

Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, s­ hawfest.com.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A Chamber Play by William Shakespeare (Stratford Fes-

tival). Two couples pass an intense night of confusion and transformation in this version

of the romantic comedy. Previews to Jul 23.

Opens Jul 24 and runs in rep to Sep 20. $70$90. Stratford Masonic Concert Hall, 15 Church, Stratford. ­stratfordfestival.ca.

The Mountaintop by Katori Hall (Shaw Festival/Obsidian Theatre). Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a young woman working at the Lorraine Motel on the eve of his murder. Previews to Jul 25. Opens Jul 26 and runs in rep to Sep 7. $50-$60. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-5117429, ­shawfest.com.

One-nighters The Company We Keep (Theatre 20). The

Emerging Artist Ensemble and Composium perform. Jul 20 at 7 pm. $25. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. ­theatre20.com.

Kwame Nkrumah’s Rise And Fall by Kwame Stephens (Habari Africa Festival/ Batuki Music Society). Multimedia and live music are used to tell the story of the Ghanian leader and Africa’s first black president.

Jul 19 at 7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W, Brigantine Room. 416973-4000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

The Company We Keep (Theatre 20). The Emerging Artist Ensemble and Composium perform. Jul 20 at 7 pm. $25. Alleycatz, 2409 Yonge. ­theatre20.com.

SINGULAR SENSATION’S BACKDORA AWARDS

(Jennifer Walls). Awards presented to the indie performance community in the style of TAPA’s Doras. Formal attire suggested. Jul 21 at 10 pm.

Free. Statler’s, 487 Church. 416-922-0487.

Continuing 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.

Avenue Q by Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx and Jeff Whitty (Lower Ossington Theatre). A college grad moves to NYC and copes with grown-up problems in this adult musical puppet play. Runs to Aug 3, see website for schedule. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, ­lowerossingtontheatre.com.

Best Of The Fringe Theatre Festival (Fringe Toronto). Encore performances of Punch Up, The Assassination Of Robert Ford: Dirty Little Coward, Lost And Found, No Chance In Hell, The Emergency Monologues, 52 Pick-Up and Three Men In A Boat. Runs to Jul 30, see website for schedule. $17.75. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416-733-9388, ­tocentre.com/bestoffringe2014.

Billy Bishop Goes To War by Eric Peterson and John Gray (Rose Theatre). The famous 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. 905-874-2800, ­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, this page). 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. 416-866-8666, ­soulpepper. ca. NNN (Susan G Cole)

The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Shakespeare in the

Square). Three actors perform all 37 plays in 87 minutes in this outdoor show. Runs to Jul 24, Tue-Thu 7 pm. Free. Rose Theatre, 1 Theatre Lane, Garden Square, Brampton. 905874-2800, ­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 11 am and Sat-Sun 3 pm. $25$35. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-8721212, ­mirvish.com.

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 and 24). $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, ­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.

Shakespeare In High Park: As You Like It

(Canadian Stage/York University Dept of Theatre). The tale of spontaneous love and friendships is performed outdoors on alternating nights with Titus Andronicus (see review online at ­nowtoronto.com/stage.).

Runs to Aug 30, Thu, Sat and Tue 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. 416-368-3110, ­canadianstage.com.

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Shakespeare In High Park: Titus Andronicus (Canadian Stage/York Uniñ versity Dept of Theatre). The brutal revenge

tragedy is performed outdoors on alternating nights with As You Like It (see review, page 47). Runs to Aug 31, Fri, Sun and Wed 8 pm.

Pwyc ($20 sugg). High Park Amphitheatre, 1873 Bloor W. 416-368-3110, ­canadianstage. com. NNNN (Jordan Bimm) 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 retells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Runs to Aug 3, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington.

416-915-6747, ­lowerossingtontheatre.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

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At the Young Centre for the Performing Arts (50 Tank House). To July 19. $49, stu $25. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. See Continuing, this page.

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When Globe and Mail theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck reviewed Rare – a show performed last year by people with Down syndrome – he refused to give it a rating. The actors weren’t professionals, was his explanation.

Ludicrous, I think. You sat in a theatre, you saw a show. How did it make you feel? Rate the damn thing.

With Borne, the Rare Company’s show featuring artists who use wheelchairs, Nestruck succumbed and rated it poorly, savaging it for its community theatre aesthetic.

Borne is not, actually, community theatre, i.e., an amateurish produc­ tion of a classic, but a stage work created by a community to shed light on how a certain population live their lives.

As such, the show, directed by colla­borator Judith Thompson, suc­ ceeds. It begins with Nancy Xia zooming into the spotlight – a won­ derful first moment that signifies empowerment – and her eight col­ laborators follow, doing one of sev­ eral elegant dances with their chairs. They then tell their very dif­ 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 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, see website for mats. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, ­soulpepper.ca. NNN (JK)

Out of Town Alice Through The Looking-Glass adapted

by James Reaney (Stratford Festival/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Alice enters a world of wonders through her living-room mirror in this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, ­stratfordfestival.ca.

Arms And The Man by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 SerboBulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. ­shawfest.com.

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ferent stories in monologues and scenes.

The show makes its biggest im­ pact when it’s most unpredictable, as when photographer Maayan Ziv, who has muscular dystrophy, talks about how she’s parlayed her talent – and privilege – into a career in fashion, or when the performers ex­ press differing points of view on the subject of Robert Latimer, who killed his disabled daughter. Xia’s story of finding personal peace only after her disastrous fall also resonates.

Some elements don’t work at all: the framing device of the moon­ dance; a poem delivered one word, one cast member at a time; Cleo­ patra’s monologue as she dies, as spoken by Ziv. That and an anecdote by composer/pianist Dan Raralio about being racially profiled seem to come from out of the blue.

But the performers are terrific.

Especially impressive are David Shannon, the elder of the group, who has staged his own solo show, the charismatic Dan Harvey and the physically gifted Russell Winkelaar, who does stunning tricks with his chair.

And the show passes the test for what makes good theatre. It’s emo­ tionally involving (for just one exam­ ple, it fuelled my anger at drunk drivers) and, more important, it’s wholly enlightening. I will never, under any circumstances, even if I don’t see anyone within 500 metres of the women’s washroom, ever use the stall set aside for people in wheelchairs ever again.

SUSAN G. COLE Ever.

Bard’s Bus Tour: The Tempest by William Shakespeare (Driftwood Theatre Group). The classic play is presented outdoors. Some performances include workshops, chats and other events; some include the Food Of Love a cappella concert series. Runs to Aug 17. Pwyc.

Various venues in Southern Ontario, see website for details. ­driftwoodtheatre.com.

The Bicycle Opera Project (The Bicycle Opera Project). Bicycle-commuting singers perform contemporary opera in this travelling show. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule, prices and venue details. ­bicycleopera.ca.

Billy Bishop Goes To War by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson (Blyth Festival).

The famous WWI fighter pilot looks back on his life in this musical. Runs to Aug 15, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-8625984, ­blythfestival.com.

Cabaret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is

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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-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK)

OUTSTANDING NEW PLAYS

Tim Walker (left) and Colin Munch play in Punch Up, one of the best shows at this year’s Fringe.

Elly’s Emotions; Karenin’s Anna; Potosí; Punch Up; True; Valkyrie

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THE CHARITY THAT BEGAN AT HOME: A COMEDY FOR PHILANTHROPISTS by St John Hankin

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Another Fringe has come and gone – 150 works over 12 days in what turned out to be a record-breaking year at the box office.

Thankfully, Mother Nature played nice. There was nothing like last year’s flood to contend with, and perhaps the box office returns were strong because of that and the high quality of shows.

This year’s Fringe artists received $438,000, with audiences buying over 59,000 tickets during the festival. At the Visual Fringe and AlleyPlays, the artists took in over $10,000. Even Tip the Fringe donations were high: the plastic watering cans at venues were filled to the tune of $36,000.

Speaking of box office, all Fringe

Time Stands Still’s Jason Jazrawy and Kirstin Hinton were in a superb ensemble.

tickets this year were on sale before the festival started, a fact that was publicized, but probably not enough.

In the past, 50 per cent of tickets were available for pre-sale and the rest available at the door, which meant that everyone had a chance to catch a hot production. For the first few days of the festival, many theatregoers weren’t aware of the new policy and showed up hoping to buy tickets to well-reviewed shows and those with good word of mouth. Sometimes nothing was left, especially in small venues, though house managers were good about creating waiting lists just in case a seat or two became available.

The people hit hardest, it seems, were those who’d invested in five- or 10-show value packs. Those passes had to be used at the door to secure a ticket and proved useless for already sold-out shows.

Some rethinking has to be done, please, on how many tickets go on sale early and what’s available at the door.

The important online buzz about shows, one of the defining elements of the Fringe, felt curtailed this year.

On the other hand, the Fringe’s new app was a success. Many people said they preferred using it to the actual program.

Here’s NOW’s annual list of Fringe highlights.

Ken Hall (Everything Is Fine!); Rosa Laborde (True); Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster and Paolo Santalucia (52 Pick-Up); Mikhael Melnikoff and Jonathan Dufour (All In The Timing); Jordan Merkur (Time Stands Still); Sue Miner (Three Men In A Boat); Ginette Mohr (Tikva’s Orchestra); Brandon Nicoletti (Never Swim Alone); Alexander Offord (PotoOUTSTANDING sí); Peter Pasyk (EuripiPERFORMANCES True, with Layne Coleman, Isaac Bell and Dana Jean Sabrina Grdevich, Shannon des’ The Trojan Women); Kat Sandler (Punch Up); Phoenix (No Chance In Taylor and Ingrid Doucet, was one of the festival hits. Naomi Tessler (A Simple Hell); Phi Bulani and Twist Of Faith); James Kevin Jollimore (Elvis & Wallis (Love’s Labour’s Lost) Dick); Lindsey Clark (Fantastic Extravagance); Jen Gallant (Hungry); Catherine OUTSTANDING DESIGN McNally and Kimwun Perehinec (ChasDavid Mesiha, Jason Hand and Ellen ing Margaret Flatwood); Rebecca Perry Roach (Tikva’s Orchestra); Nina Okens (Confessions Of A Redheaded Cof(Three Men In A Boat); Thomas Ryder feeshop Girl); Mark Shyzer (Great BatPayne, Trevor Schwellnus and Lindsay tles In History); Johnnie Walker (RedC. Walker (True); Michelle Tracey, Anna headed Stepchild); Marilla Wex (Lost Treusch and Kaileigh Krysztofiak (EuriAnd Found) pides’ The Trojan Women); Michelle Urbano, Tijiki Morris and the company OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLES (Cirqular) Amusement; Andy Warhol Presents: Valerie; Cirqular; 52 Pick-Up; Elly’s EmoOUTSTANDING PUPPETRY tions; Euripides’ The Trojan Women; B:3.833” Baker’s Dozen; Cirqular; Hungry; Who Everything Is Fine!; All In The Timing; T:3.833” Killed Gertrude Crump?

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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.

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) 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.

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Thursday, July 17 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Slade

Ham & host Lamont Ferguson. To Jul 20, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700,

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

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(Shaw Festival). A do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home.

Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

CRAZY FOR YOU by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival). A banker’s son dreams of being a Broadway star in this musical set in the 1930s.

Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$135, stu/srs $20$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford.

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

HAY FEVER by Noël Coward (Stratford Festival). An eccentric family and their house guests spend a weekend together in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

I’LL BE BACK BEFORE MIDNIGHT by Peter Colley (Drayton Entertainment). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy.

Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25$42. King’s Wharf Theatre, 97 Jury, Penetanguishene. draytonentertainment.com.

JAKE’S GIFT by Julia Mackey (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A WWII veteran returns to Juno Beach for the 60th anniversary of D-Day in this solo show. Runs to Jul 26, TueSat 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Firehall Theatre, 185 South, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

KING JOHN by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The English king defends his throne against the rival claim of his nephew. Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford.

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

KING LEAR by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The old ruler’s plans for dividing his kingdom bring strange and tragic consequences. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.

KITCHEN RADIO by Marion de Vries and David Archibald (Blyth Festival). A lonely wife lives vicariously through the female country stars she listens to in this musical comedy. Runs to Aug 9, see website for schedule. $22-$34, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth.

1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

LOOK, NO HANS! by John Chapman and Michael Pertwee (Drayton Entertainment). A spy tries to hide his double life in this comedy. Runs to Jul 19, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com.

A LOVELY SUNDAY FOR CREVE COEUR by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival).

Four women ponder their future on a warm June day in this Lunchtime one-act production. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24.

Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

MACBETH by William Shakespeare (Theatre by the Bay). Ambition leads to murder as the tragedy is performed under the stars. Runs to Jul 26, see website for schedule. $12. Saint Vincent Square Park, St Vincent and Blake, Barrie. 705-735-9243, theatrebythebay.com.

MAN OF LA MANCHA by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh (Stratford Festival). The imprisoned Cervantes reenacts the misadventures of his novel’s protagonist in this classic musical (see review online at nowtoronto.com/stage.) Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NN (Susan G Cole) 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 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Pat-

Amusement/Redheaded Stepchild; Andy Warhol Presents: Valerie; Cirqular; Confessions Of A Redheaded Coffeeshop Girl; Elly’s Emotions; 52 Pick-Up; Gold Fever; Karenin’s Anna; Kitt & Jane; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Mr And Mrs Alexander; Never Swim Alone; Potosí; Punch Up; A Simple Twist Of Faith; Three Men In A Boat; True

And Mrs Alexander; Never Swim Alone; Potosí; Punch Up; A Simple Twist Of Faith; Three Men In A Boat; Tikva’s Orchestra; Time Stands Still; True; Valkyrie

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terson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford.

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

The Philadelphia Story by Philip Barry (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans are complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy reporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake.

1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest.com.

The Philanderer by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A man pursues a young widow while his previous conquest clings on in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest.com.

The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien (Something-Something Productions). A newly engaged couple stumble upon a freaky castle in this rock musical. Runs to Oct 11, Sat 8 pm. $30. Corks Winebar & Eatery, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 289-668-0482, ­somethingsomethingproductions.ca.

Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare (Humber River Shakespeare Company). The tragic tale of ill-fated young love is presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 3, Tue-Sun 7 pm. Pwyc. Various venues around Southern Ontario, see website for details. 416-2092026, ­humberrivershakespeare.ca.

Run For Your Wife by Ray Cooney (Drayton Entertainment). A taxi driver tries to keep his two wives from finding out about each other in this comedy. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. Playhouse II, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888-372-9866, ­draytonentertainment.com.

The Sea by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival). A 1900s English village reacts to one of its own being lost at sea in this mix of politics and comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest.com.

Separate Beds by Maryjane Cruise (Globus Theatre). Couples on a cruise deal with marriage woes in this comedy. Runs to Jul 19, see website for schedule. $28.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bobcay­

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geon. 1-800-304-7897, ­globustheatre.com.

She Loves Me by Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick and Joe Masteroff (Thousand Islands Playhouse). Coworkers unwittingly exchange anonymous love letters as pen pals in a 1930s shop. Runs to Jul 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat SatSun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, ­1000islandsplayhouse.com.

Shrine Circus (FestivalXpress). The traditional European-style big top family circus features aerial acts, animals clowns and more. Jul 17-20, see website for schedule and directions. $30. Milton Fairgrounds, 136 Robert. shrine-circus.com.

Summer Of Love (Theatre Collingwood).

This musical revue features songs and stories from the 60s. Runs to Jul 19, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Wed 2 pm. $40, youth $20. Gayety Theatre, 161 Hurontario, Collingwood.

1-866-382-2200, t­ heatrecollingwood.ca.

Sunday Series (Festival Players of Prince Edward County). This weekly performance showcase includes theatre, comedy, music, storytelling and more. Runs to Aug 24, see website for times and program details. $15$30. Huff Estates and Winery, 2274 County Rd 1, Hallowell. 1-866-584-1991, ­festivalplayers.ca.

The Tempest/The Two Gentlemen Of Verona by William Shakespeare (St. Lawrence

Shakespeare Festival). The story of a magical island and the romantic comedy are presented outdoors. Runs to Aug 16, see website for schedule. $28-$30, Wed mat $20, under 14 free. Kinsmen Amphitheatre, 1 Water W, Prescott. 613-925-5788, ­stlawrenceshakespeare.ca.

When We Are Married by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed when three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, ­shawfest.com.

Wichita Lineman by Leisa Way (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the pop and country songs of Glenn Campbell. Runs to Aug 2, see website for schedule. $25-$42. St Jacobs Country Playhouse, 40 Benjamin E, Waterloo. 1-888-372-9866, ­draytonentertainment.com.

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Friday, July 18 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17.

CALVINBALL COMEDY’S DETROIT IMPROV FEST SHOWCASE The Social Capital presents improv

w/ One Night Stand, Fake Cops, Kris & Hayley, the Meeks Shall Inherit the Stern and Darcy & Bingley. 10 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. ­facebook.com/events/1506505822915244.

CIVIC HOLIDAY The Social Capital presents a narrative improv show in three parts w/ Ben Ball, Jon Bernstein, Caleigh Le Grande, Colin Sharpe and others. To Aug 1, Fridays 8 pm. $8, all 3 shows $20. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

THE MARY-JANES OF COMEDY: SUMMER EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Comedy Bar presents ñ headliner Laurie Elliott, Sandra Battaglini, Evelyn Reese, Keesha Brownie and host Lianne Mauladin. 10 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. ­maryjanesofcomedy.com.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 17.

Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 17.

Saturday, July 19 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17.

CATURDAY NIGHT LIVE The Annex Cat

Rescue presents a fundraiser w/ Mark ñ Andrada, Sara Hennessey, Rhiannon Archer,

Leonard Chan, Julia Hladkowicz, Ashley Moffatt, Ted Morris, Kathleen Phillips-Locke, host Steven Mann and others. 9 pm. $20. Paintbox Bistro, 555 Dundas E. ­brownpapertickets.com.

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.

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

INDEPENDENCE DAY 2, THE MUSICAL Special Features musical improv troupe give an unsung sequel treatment to the film w/ host Colin Sharpe. 8 pm. $5. Imperial Pub, 54 Dundas E. 416-977-4667, ­imperialpub.com.

THE PLANET OF THE JAPES The Social Capital presents a improv and music w/ Jan Caruana,

Sara Hennessey hits the Caturday Night Live funder for Annex Cat Rescue, July 19.

Lisa Merchant, Kerry Griffin, Holly Wyder and others. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, ­blackswancomedy.com.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 17.

THE SUPERSTARS OF COMEDY Comedy Bar presents headliner Fraser Young, Gerry Hall, Pat MacDonald and host Mark DeBonis­. 8:30 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-5516540, ­comedybar.ca.

Yuk Yuk’s See Thu 17.

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Sunday, July 20 Absolute Comedy See Thu 17.

COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show

w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others.

8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. ­thewellbarcafe.ca.

HAPPY HOUR COMEDY Ein-Stein presents Arie Kizel’s 50th Birthday Show w/ host Ruby and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca.

Sixteen Scandals See Thu 17.

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 17.

Monday, July 21 ALTdot Comedy Lounge Rivoli presents Cullen, Keven Soldo, Chris Locke, DJ ñSean

Demers, Graham Chittenden, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Steph Tolev, Alex Pavone, MC Sara Hennessey and others. 9 pm. $5. 332 Queen W. ­altdotcomedylounge.com.

THE BEST OF THE SECOND CITY presents classic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, s­ econdcity.com.

CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents an open mic w/ Russell Roy & guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-8157562.

FAN FICTION: NERDY TALK Fan Fiction The Show presents storytelling about video games, Star Wars, dating and more w/ Marc Hallworth, Kyle Andrews, host Adam Ward and others. 9:30 pm. Free. Black Swan, 154 Danforth. ­facebook.com/ events/514591645309774.

HARD DAY COMEDY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900.

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

WHAT ELSE IS IN THE NEWS! Press Club presents comedy w/ host Darryl Orr. 9:30 pm.

Free. 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183.

Tuesday, July 22 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 17.

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

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

WHEEL OF IMPROV Natasha Boomer presents the weekly non-competitive competitive games game-show. 9:30 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. ­comedybar.ca.

YUK YUK’S TUESDAYS The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new

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Jason Trucco, a Los Angeles multimedia artist who works at the intersection of art, film and theatre, brings his unusual sensibility to Toronto in his Exhibit A1 show.

An artist immersed in the classic Hollywood tradition, he’s good at dis­turbing the surface tension of an image. Wake Up Screaming appears to be a still of a terrified ingenue from a 1940s movie. Without the larger context of a story or title, however, it takes on the ominous universality of a trope or meme.

Trucco is fascinated by the way im­ages from film, television and other media get distorted into archetypes. The vacuum in which his images appear calls attention to their larger contexts and to the way these skew our notions of reality and narrative more than we realize.

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stallation in the gallery’s main space. All three walls are filled floor to ceiling with a printed facsimile of a gallery exhibit. As a whole it gives the impression of a lo-fi Holodeck, an impressive undertaking that pur­ pose­ly falls short of its goal.

Trucco is teasing us with the elusive dream of an immersive virtual envi­ronment, a dream held out by our culture of 3D Imax surround-

Jason Trucco’s Sleeping Judy distorts archetypes.

sound blockbusters. He’s highlight­ ing the naïveté of our belief that sharp­er digital imagery will bring us closer to understanding our dayto-day lives.

What we’re left with is the faded print of a photograph of a virtual

this week in the museums Art Gallery of Mississauga The Sahmat

Collective: Art And Activism In India Since 1989, Jul 17-Oct 19. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088.

Art Gallery of Ontario Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photography, to Sep 7. Matthew Barney, to Sep 28.

The 4th Wall: Youth Solidarity Project, to Nov 15. WorldPride 2014, to Nov 15. 1st Thursdays, ongoing (7 pm, first Thu of month, $12-$15). Francis Bacon and Henry Moore, to Jul 20 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Scott McFarland, to Aug 10. Geoffrey Farmer, to Sep 7. Elevated: Contemporary Art In The AGO Tower, to Oct 12. Art As Therapy, to Apr 26, 2015. Manasie Akpalia-

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pik, to Jun 30, 2015. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago.net.

Art Gallery of Peel Step Back/Look Forward, to Aug 24. David Somers And PAMA’s Works On Paper Collection, to Aug 31. Spirit Seeds: First Nations Beadwork, to Oct 13. $4.50, stu/srs $3.50. 9 Wellington E (Brampton). 905-451-4931.

Blackwood Gallery Incident Light: Gendered Artifacts And Traces Illuminated In The Archives, to Jul 27. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga. 905-828-3789.

City of Toronto Archives Life On The Grid: 100 Years Of Street Photography, to Aug 31.

ren­dering. As we go farther down the rabbit hole of our mediated environments, Trucco suggests we may be getting no closer to lived experience, but farther and farther away.

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255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778.

Design Exchange Tapas: Spanish Design For

Food, to Aug 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121.

Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art Léopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette, to Sep 1, Scene On The Plaza party 6-10 pm ($20) Jul 18. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080.

Justina M. Barnicke Rebecca Belmore, to Aug 9. Céline Condorelli, ongoing. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

McMichael Canadian Art Collection

Charles Edenshaw, to Sep 21. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-8931121.

MOCCA Over The Rainbow: Seduction And

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stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show.

Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, July 23 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

headliner Lamont Ferguson, Dave Sokolowski, JP Hodgkinson, Rick Jones, Katharine Ferns, Ryan Long, Sai Kit and host Doug Funk. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

BIG BAD WOLF (VS LORD UNDERWEARFACE VON SCHTINKER) See Thu 17.

COMICS READING BOOKS The Social Capital presents Colin Mochrie, Deborah Kimmett, Gary Pearson, Dan Redican, Jan Caruana and others reading their written works. 8 pm. $5.

Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-4690537, captaingaryperson@gmail.com.

HEIDI MOLE: MY VERY BRADY LIFE The Flying

Beaver Pubaret presents comedy by Mole dedicated to the classic TV series. 7:30 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, brownpapertickets.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.

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

120 Church. club120.ca.

MAGIC OVEN COMEDY presents weekly standup. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele.

SIXTEEN SCANDALS See Thu 17.

YUK YUK’S presents Alex Wood. To Jul 26, Wed-Thu 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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dance listings Opening COEXISDANCE SERIES #64 presents dance im-

provisers performing with AIM Toronto musicians. Jul 19 at 8 pm. $10. Majlis Art Garden, 163 Walnut. coexisdance.wordpress.com.

CURES FOR FEAR I, II & III New dance works by Mika Lior and Bee Pallomina. Jul 19 at 4 pm. $10. Collective Space, 221 Sterling, unit 5. trealikatrealika@gmail.com.

EVOLUTION Habari Africa Festival and the Batuki Music Society present traditional, contemporary and tribal dance showcase by Ijovudu Dance Company. Jul 19 at 9 pm. Free.

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

PERCEPTION: A WAY OF SEEING & WHAT WE DO Find the Floor Dance Collective and DanceWorks Co-Works present works by up-andcoming choreographers Jillian Peever and Shannon Roberts. Jul 18-19, Fri 8 pm, Sat 7 and 8:30 pm. $25, stu $20. Dancemakers Centre for Creation, 9 Trinity, studio 313. findthefloordance.wix.com/perception.

RED LIGHT GREEN LIGHT DNA Theatre presents

its take on the kids’ game performed by male dancers, choreographed by Hillar Liitoja and Magdalena Vasko. Previews Jul 18-19. Opens Jul 20 and runs to Jul 27, Tue-Sat 8 pm (and Jul 20), mat July 27 at 3 pm. $27, stu/srs $17, preview/mat pwyc. Theatre Centre, 1115 Queen W. tickets.ticketwise.ca/event/3850601.

WOLF SOUNDS Peanut Butter People present a dance-theatre work featuring five actors with Down syndrome dealing with desire, isolation and attempts at conformity. Opens Jul 18 and runs to Jul 27, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20$25, stu $15-$20. The Box Studio, 89 Niagara. brownpapertickets.com/event/706413.

Continuing PORCH VIEW DANCES Kaeja d’Dance predance by residents on their porches ñsents guided by pro choreographers Louis Laberge-

Côté, Lauren Cook, Allen Kaeja and Peter Chin.

Runs to Jul 20, Wed-Sat 7 pm, Sun 4 pm. Pwyc.

Starts at London & Euclid St, ends in Vermont Square Park (843 Palmerston). kaeja.org.

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1082/1086 Queen W. 416-993-6510.

LE GALLERY Photos: Brendan George Ko, to Jul 28. 1183 Dundas W. 416-532-8467.

NEUBACHER SHOR CONTEMPORARY Paint-

ing: Ianick Raymond, to Aug 9. 5 Brock. 416546-3683.

ONSITE [AT] OCAD U Getting Rid Of Ourselves group show, to Oct 11, curator’s talk 1 pm Jul 19. 230 Richmond W. 416-9776000 ext 265.

OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Prints: Katie Bethune-Leamen and Mitch Robertson, to Jul 26. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-504-8238.

PAUL PETRO Second Time Around group show; Julie Beugin, to Aug 9. 980 Queen W. 416-979-7874.

PREFIX INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART

Photos: Steve Payne, to Jul 26. 401 Richmond W #124. 416-591-0357.

WALNUT CONTEMPORARY Young Collectors’ Show, to Jul 26. 201 Niagara. 416-271-6599.

WHIPPERSNAPPER GALLERY Chips In The Night, Pt 2 Caitlin Gallupe and Elif Saydam, to Jul 27. 594B Dundas W. 647-856-2445.

pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416586-8000, rom.on.ca.

RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE What It Means To Be Seen: Photograph And Queer Visibility; Zanele Muholi, Aleesa Cohene and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, to Aug 24. Judy Ruzylo and Wynne Neilly, Jul 23-Aug 24, reception 6 pm Jul 23. 33 Gould. 416-979-5164.

TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA To See And Be Seen: T-shirts From The Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, to Sep 1. Ying Gao, to Sep 1. Telling Stories, to Sep 1. The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles And Preservation, to Sep 21. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. 3

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Bloody good PLAGUE BY C.C. Humphreys (Doubleday), 352 pages, $24.95 paper. Rating: NNN

If you’re a history buff who likes adventure and a story that rips right along, hunker down with C.C. Humphreys’s Plague. It’s got all of the above and, bonus, much of it is set in the theatre.

In plague-ridden 1655 London, a brutal killer is on the loose, the kind who tortures his victims, leaving a gemstone in the corpse’s mouth.

Highwayman Coke appears to be the main suspect, but when bounty hunter Pitman realizes Coke’s not his man – he may be a pro but he never carries a loaded gun – the two join

forces to find the murderer.

This novel is set during the reign of Charles II. Women have just been allowed onstage, and Sarah Chalker is the talk of the town. She’s being pursued by the creepy Garnthorpe, who’s part of a growing religious conspiracy to assassinate the king and replace him with King Jesus. When Chalker’s husband goes missing and is found dead – with a gemstone in his mouth – Pitman and Coke start making connections.

Historical fiction expert Humphreys has a firm grip on the material – the sights and sounds of London, especially the terrors of Newgate Prison, the public paranoia the plague induces – and he definitely

knows narrative. This is a hard one to put down.

Humphreys does succumb to some irritating tics: people getting interrupted just as they’re about to offer crucial information that could solve the case; not much depth of characters – people are either good guys or villains; and a narrative hole leaves room for a sequel.

Don’t let that deter you. This novel screams “summer reading.”

SUSAN G. COLE C.C. Humphreys talks about Plague on Tuesday (July 22) at Dora Keogh. See Readings, this page. susanc@nowtoronto.com | @susangcole

READINGS THIS WEEK 6:30 pm. Free. Dora Keogh, 141 Danforth. benmcnallybooks.com.

Thursday, July 17 ANDREW KAUFMAN The author participates in a Q&A with Jared Bland and launches his novella The Tiny Wife. 6-8 pm. Free. Ben McNally Books, 366 Bay. 416-361-0032, benmcnallybooks.com.

NICHOLAS POWER & JOHN GROSS Launch for A Wrinkle In The Mind, Hidden Landscapes Of Wychwood Barns, a photo essay by John Gross and poetry by Nicholas Power. 6-9 pm.

Peter MacKendrick Community Gallery, 601 Christie. teksteditions.com.

OCHUN/WATAH ANTHROPOLOGY Poetry book launch and performance by d’bi.young anitafrika’s Watah Art school poets. Doors 8 pm. $15, adv $10. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw, classroom 107. watah.org.

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POETRY SLAM FUNDRAISER (Toronto Poetry Slam Team benefit) Performances by Dave Silverberg, Amanda Hiebert, Krystle Mullin, Lara Bozabalian, Gypsy Eyes, Electric Jon and others. 8 pm. $10. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. torontopoetryslam.com/calendar/7468.

Friday, July 18

kids $20. Windup Bird Café, 382 College. Preregister 647-349-6373, windupbird.ca.

MARNI WASSERMAN Launching her book Plant-Based Diet For Dummies. 4-8pm. Free.

Marni Wasserman Food Studio, 510 Eglinton DUKE REDBIRD Storytelling, poetry, a discus-B:3.833” W. Pre-register marniwasserman.com. sion on local food and a 3-course dinner with T:3.833” the Saugeen First Nation artist. 6 pm. $40, events@nowtoronto.com S:3.833”

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Find fifty shades of something better to read at Toronto’s 126 bookstores.

MOOSEMEAT WRITERS GROUP The group

launches its 11th chapbook, Polar Vortex, with flash fiction readings and door prizes.

6 pm. Free. The Central, 603 Markham. moosemeat.org.

Saturday, July 19 DAN RISKIN The author/scientist talks about

his book Mother Nature Is Trying To Kill You. 2-4 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-395-5535.

TORONTO POETRY SLAM Spoken word competition plus guest, Halifax poet laureate El Jones. 8 pm. $5. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-312-3865, torontopoetryslam.com.

Sunday, July 20 JULIUS KOHANYI Book launch for The Rad Trilogy, books 1 and 2. Part of the BIG on Bloor Festival. 11 am to 6 pm. Free. Outside Honest Ed’s, 581 Bloor W. radgeminus.com.

Monday, July 21 COOK/BOOK WITH GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE

Toronto’s Poet Laureate Clarke reads from Traverse and talks about food and writing with chef/writer Sang Kim. 6:30 pm. $40, kids $20 (includes dinner). Windup Bird Café, 382 College. Pre-register 647-349-6373, windupbird.ca.

Tuesday, July 22 CC HUMPHREYS Talking about his novel Plague.

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Identity; Par Amour/Paramour, to Aug 17.

Jim Naughten, to Aug 18. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.

MUSEUM OF INUIT ART The Matchbox Gallery: A Retrospective, to Oct 1. $5, stu/srs $3.

207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-1571.

ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE The Science Of Rock ‘N’ Roll, to Oct 26. $22, stu/srs $16. 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000.

THE POWER PLANT Pedro Reyes, Vasco Araújo and Akram Zaatari, to Sep 1. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM The Forbidden City: Inside The Court Of China’s Emperors, to Sep 1 ($27, stu/srs $24.50). Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24, 2015. 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

KATHARINE MULHERIN CONTEMPORARY ART PROJECTS Painting: Balint Zsako, to Aug 15.

HISTORICAL SUSPENSE

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Photos/film: Varial Cédric Houin and Fabrice Nadjari, to Aug 16. 45 Ernest. 647-3469082.

BLACK CAT GALLERY Splendour group show, to Jul 23, reception 6-10 pm Jul 17 (tupf.ca).

2186 Dundas W. CLINT ROENISCH First The Pleasure Then The Thesis group show, to Aug 15. 190 Saint Helens. 416-516-8593.

CHRISTOPHER CUTTS Summer group show, to Aug 2. 21 Morrow. 416-532-5566.

ESP/ERIN STUMP PROJECTS Susy Oliveira and Lauren Hall, to Jul 26. 1450 Dundas W. 647-345-6163.

GALLERYWEST Photos: Lee Henderson, to Jul 27. 1172 Queen W. 416913-7116.

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. 416-5314635.

JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY The Secret To Living group show, to Aug 16. 74 Miller. 416537-3125.

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nowtoronto.com/movies Audio clips from our interview with BOYHOOD’s ETHAN HAWKE • What the straight-to-video release of THE ZERO THEOREM means to the industry • and more Ellar Coltrane (left) connects to his dad, Ethan Hawke, over the course of Boyhood’s 12-year shoot.

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BOYHOOD’S BRILLIANT FEAT ACTOR INTERVIEW

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Richard Linklater, with Ellar Coltrane, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette and Lorelei Linklater. A Mongrel Media release. 165 minutes. Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57.

My Boyhood interview with Ethan Hawke is capped at 12 minutes – one minute of phone time for each year the project was in production. We end up running a little long, of course; he’s been waiting to talk about this for more than a decade.

“It’s been our own little secret project,” he says, just a couple of days after Boyhood makes its Canadian premiere at NXNE. “Everything has just been through this filter of always trying to make this movie work.”

In 2001, Hawke was approached by director Richard Linklater – with whom he’d already made Before Sunset, The Newton Boys, Tape and Waking Life – about a weird little concept.

Linklater wanted to make a movie about a kid growing up, shooting it in pieces so the actor could age along with his character. The kid would be played

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“I remember when he first said it, I couldn’t believe nobody’d done it already,” Hawke says. “And I kind of knew he was just the person for it. He’s so interested in life’s minutiae; the idea really played into his strong suit.”

The result is a singular accomplishment. But it’s one thing that Boyhood was made at all, and quite another that it’s one of the best American movies I’ve seen in years.

So, um, how the hell did they do it?

“Rick would usually shoot somewhere between, like, three and six days a year,” Hawke says. “So basically for the last 12 years, every time I took a job I would call up Rick and say, ‘Looks like I’m gonna do Macbeth for six months.

Rehearsals start in X days.’”

And then Hawke tells me the most staggering thing: Boyhood was unscripted. Linklater and his cast felt their way through the movie one year at a time.

“When I signed on, I signed on to a conversation, to an idea,” Hawke says.

“So did Patricia. It was something we all worked out together, you know?

[Linklater] would say something along the lines of, ‘Okay, you’re gonna take the kids bowling,’ so we knew we were shooting in a bowling alley.

“He basically always knew the tone

and mood. The time and place. He knew the music of the movie, but not the lyrics. What we were gonna say would start in rehearsal: ‘Okay, well, how would you guys greet each other?

What would happen there? What are you thinking about?’

“And as we all would get to know each other through the rehearsal process and talk about the characters, a scene would kind of unfold in front of us.”

Over the years, Hawke would work with Linklater on other projects – including two Before sequels, each of which resulted in their sharing Oscar nominations for best original screenplay with co-star Julie Delpy. But he always came back to Boyhood, partly to work and partly, as time passed, to check in on his family.

“You know that expression ‘You can’t make new old friends?’” he asks.

“It’s kind of true about this movie in a strange way. Because you see these characters over time, you really start to trust them. You believe in them.”

And I know exactly what he means.

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ñ(Richard Linklater) Rating: NNNNN There have been other projects like Boyhood, produced over a long span of time – Michael Apted’s Up documentaries, which revisit the same subjects every seven years, and Michael Winterbottom’s Everyday, shot over half a decade with the same cast. But there has never been a movie like Boyhood.

Shooting over 12 years to capture the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college, Richard Linklater has accomplished something unprecedented: he’s captured what it was to live in that span of time.

Boyhood is long, packing in personal and political details as Mason’s adolescence plays out against the transition from Bush II to Obama, but there isn’t a wasted moment.

As stunning as it is to watch Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke move from their youthful 30s to their mid-40s over the course of the story as Mason’s parents, it’s even more incredible to watch Coltrane grow from unformed child into an actor of surprising complexity in the lead. Linklater’s daughter Lorelei is also quite good as Mason’s older sister, but she gets less time to develop her character.

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Wild ride Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho). 126 minutes. Some subtitles. Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57. Rating­: NNNNN

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Want to see a great sci-fi actioner with a supremely ridiculous premise? Flush your Trans4merz ticket and go see Snowpiercer. Like Michael Bay’s spastic robot murder spree, the plot sounds crazy – but Bong Joon-ho’s movie is a gripping, thrilling, utterly credible ­adventure.

Snowpiercer is set in 2031, 17 years after an attempt to curb global warming goes wrong and freezes the planet.

The only life left on Earth is jammed aboard a constantly speeding train where a few dozen people living in steerage plot to overthrow their upperclass masters a dozen cars ahead.

This is a movie that doesn’t condescend to its concept. It mixes spectacular action sequences with emotionally brutal scenes in which its heroes are forced to consider whether humanity really deserves to survive a global cala­ mity. And we’re forced to consider it

right along with them.

As he did in The Host, director/cowriter Bong builds real characters and assembles a fantastic cast to play them. In addition to Bong regular Song Kang-ho as an exasperated security expert, Chris Evans is terrific as the reluctant hero, and Tilda Swinton is a constant delight as his nemesis, a pissy martinet who’s modelled herself after Margaret Thatcher but can’t quite get the accent right.

It all adds up to a tremendously good movie. See it with a crowd.

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Snowpiercer’s great cast, including Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton (centre) and Octavia Spencer, makes you forgive the ludicrous premise.

The scenery is nice, but Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago’s myriad ­clichés make the doc mind-numbingly dull.

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Tiresome trek WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (Lydia Smith). 84 minutes.

Some subtitles. Opens Friday (July 18) at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. See Film Times, page 63. Rating­: NN

Call me spiritually challenged, but this doc about more than a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela is a spectacular snore.

As Lydia Smith’s subjects from countries all over the world make their way from Roncesvalles in the Pyrenees to Santiago in northwest Spain, they get sore feet, make new friends and deliver more bromides than a 19thcentury apothecary. Change is the only constant, the road itself is home, you can’t find the answer if you don’t know the question. Sheesh.

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Jodorowsky). 130 minutes. Subtitled. Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57.

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Newly bankable after the success of his Dune – which refashioned the mad iconoclast of Spanish-language cinema as a cheerful maverick forever bucking the system – Alejandro Jodorowsky got a movie financed for the first time in a quarter-century.

The result is The Dance Of Reality, a surrealistic recounting of his family history filtered through Jodorowsky’s long-standing fascination with defor­ mity, indignity, urination and torture.

The first hour tells the tale of little Alejandro (Jeremias Herskovits), a sensitive soul caught between a furious, macho father (Jodorowsky’s son Brontis, playing his fictionalized grandfather) and nurturing mother (Pamela Flores, who sings her dialogue opera­ tically), living in Chile under the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (Bastián Bodenhöfer).

But this is not a story about a family under fascism. It’s memory as fantasy, as circus, with Jodorowsky himself narrating the action and occasionally appearing amongst his characters in ­order to sympathize with their plight.

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Just like El Topo and The Holy Mountain, The Dance Of Reality is the work of a man rooting furiously around in his own head, trying to scoop the visions out before they evaporate.

It is absolutely crazy – but it’s the good kind of crazy.

What else is there to say?

Smith follows way too many pilgrims, so you can’t get invested in any of them. She’d have given the film more heft had she narrowed her focus to the more intriguing among them: the walkers who fall in love; the French mum who tramps with her three-yearold (a dubious proposition) and her brother, who’s too much of a party animal to take the journey seriously; the two elder Canadians.

Curiously, there’s nothing about the fascinating shift in public perception of the pilgrimage and thus the reasons people take it on. The trek does have a centuries-old Christian basis but has morphed into a project for people trying to find themselves. Sick of those last two words? You’ll hate this pic.

But anyone with a deep spiritual practice will find nothing here either.

It is good to look at, thanks to cinematographer Pedro Valenzuela, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what SUSAN G. COLE you’re after.

Pierce Gagnon (left), writer/director Zach Braff and Joey King appear in the completely undisciplined Wish I Was Here.

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Sad Zach WISH I WAS HERE (Zach Braff). 106 minutes. Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57. Rating­: NN

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Wish I Was Here feels like the pandering calling card of a rookie writer/director who shows off all his evident style and talent by throwing everything he’s got at the screen.

But this is a Zach Braff movie, and he already showcased his cloying ­humour and appetite for pretty (and pretty meaningless) images in 2004’s Garden State. In the decade since, his filmmaking hasn’t matured.

He stars as Aidan, a mid-30s L.A. dad who relies on his steadily employed

wife (Kate Hudson) to support the family while he pursues his childlike dreams of being an actor. Because Braff just writes everything he can into the movie, Aidan’s life has more complications than can be covered in these few paragraphs. Cancer, Judaism, home schooling and Comic Con play big roles in his journey to adulthood.

Garden State fans may dig this sort of thing. Everyone else will likely feel suffocated by the constant barrage of fake wit/strained humour, syrupy sentimentality and fortune-cookie philosophy.

None of this builds toward a con­ vincing resolution, but Braff switches to self-satisfied montage mode, cued to the hip soundtrack selection of his choice, just to pretend that it does.

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Daddy dearest CINEMANOVELS (Terry Miles). 89 minutes.

Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57. Rating­: NN

If you’re wondering what it’s like to be the child of someone like Michelangelo Antonioni, Cinemanovels has an idea – and it’s not a happy one.

The Canadian indie stars The Listen­ er’s Lauren Lee Smith as Grace, the daughter of a renowned “existential” filmmaker who is tasked with curating a retrospective after his death.

Grace has never seen his films, but she seems to have inherited the mal­ aise that her father’s generation of filmmakers dealt with in their work.

She has it all – a caring husband, a tidy apartment and supportive friends –

but remains detached. She pretends to her husband that she wants a baby when it’s obvious that she’d rather just disappear like Anna in L’Avventura.

Smith gives a stellar performance in the role, building a character whose motivation is a mystery but whose emotions are deeply felt. Too bad the film doesn’t really have anywhere to go with such talent.

Writer/director Terry Miles builds wonderful, intimate moments be­ tween his actors, framing them in scenarios that are attractive, if ulti­ mately hollow. He’s dealing with com­ plicated feelings and messy relation­ ships in a manner that feels too neat and sedated.

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PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (Bobs Ganna­way).

For venues and times, see Movies, page 57. Rating­: NNN

As animated movies go, Planes: Fire & Rescue is an economy flight, but one that will elicit few complaints.

There’s little in the way of bells and whistles in the story, characters or vis­ ual design, which are all very basic and workmanlike. Yet the result is a safe and satisfactory kids’ toon that does a fine job of tipping its hat to firefight­ ers. That’s certainly more than I ex­ pected from the assembly-line crafts­ manship of a sequel to a spinoff of the Cars franchise.

Dusty (Dane Cook), the crop duster turned aerial racing champion, can no longer compete due to a faulty gear­ box. He makes himself useful by train­

ing to fight fires with a crew based out of a Yosemite-like national park.

The new entourage is refreshing, since these machines don’t pander to children by using silly voices that play on ethnic stereotypes. Ed Harris’s disci­ plined Blade Ranger leads this relative­ ly straight ensemble, giving Dusty brief lessons on teamwork that are actually quite convincing in the face of an im­ mense blazes.

There’s something noble in the movie’s vivid treatment of wildfires, the methodical task of controlling them (obviously the most exhilarating scenes) and even in its adherence to precautionary safety protocol. The closest thing to a villain here is a park superintendent (looking a lot like a Cadillac Escalade) who disregards the fire code.

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Video Games: The Movie brings back memories – of an old-school arcade like this – for example, but that’s about all it does.

documentary

Empty Games Video Games: The Movie (Jeremy Snead).

105 minutes. Opens Friday (July 18). For venues and times, see Movies, page 57.

Rating­: NN

Jeremy Snead’s Video Games: The Movie is a very enthusiastic, incredibly superficial look at the development of video games and gaming culture from Pong to the present. It’s shiny and busy and empty all at once.

First-time doc director Snead has loaded his film with zippy CG illustrations, fast-paced montages of eraspecific gameplay, interviews with programming legends like Atari wizard Nolan Bushnell and celebrity testimonials (Wil Wheaton! Chloe Dykstra!

Chris Hardwick! Alison Haislip! executive producer Zach Braff and executive

producer Zach Braff’s Scrubs co-star Donald F­ aison!), all showcasing the range and ambition of gaming and gamers. Games are even at Comic Con now!

But as the movie goes on, it’s more and more obvious that no one’s actual­ly saying anything. Snead takes a considerable chunk of his running time to argue that games are different from other forms of narrative-based entertainment because they let you wander around in established worlds and “write your own story,” confusing planned interactivity with genuine creation. In fact, you can’t do anything in a game that someone else hasn’t already programmed.

There’s an undeniable thrill in seeing an old, long-abandoned game turn up on the screen – aww, Dig Dug – but in the end that’s really all Video Games: The Movie offers. Is that enough to get Norman Wilner you into the theatre?

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(D: James DeMonaco, 104 min) James DeMonaco’s The Purge was one of last year’s unexpected smashes, and the sequel promises to expand the universe by following multiple characters in an urban environment during the annual suspension of all legal restrictions. Will Frank Grillo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), Carmen Ejogo (Alex Cross) and Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) be running wild – or running for their lives?

Sex Tape (D: Jake Kasdan, 95 min) Three years after the underrated Bad Teacher, Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and Jake Kasdan reunite for another comedy about the consequences of poor choices.

This one casts them as a couple whose attempt to spice up their sexy time leads to the accidental uploading of the eponymous video – which they now must keep from going viral. Good luck with that.

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BEGIN AGAIN (John Carney) is Once writer/director John Carney’s return to the feature-length music video gimmick. Just call it Twice. This time around the tunes drown out a lacklustre drama. Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley are remarkable as a washed-up music exec and the talent he discovers, respectively. Their chemistry makes shared scenes truly sing. But while Carney manages a few rousing musical numbers, the rest of the film hits too many unbearably false notes. 104 min. NN (RS) Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 BELLE (Amma Asante) spins the life of

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CINEMANOVELS (Terry Miles) 89 min. See

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(Matt Reeves) is the real reboot of the Apes franchise, harvesting the useful can slave, into a historical biopic that plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The aspires to more complexity than its lavish Planet Of The Apes in its first three mincostume-drama packaging will allow. 104 utes and never looking back. Where the min. NNN (NW) last one paid lip service to ape/human Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre ethics and rushed through its character development to get to what it thought BLENDED (Frank Coraci) re-teams Adam audiences wanted, Dawn is willing to put Sandler with his Wedding Singer co-star in the work, with complex characters on Drew Barrymore as single parents saddled both the human and primate sides. Some together with their broods on a South Afsubtitles. 130 min. NNNN (NW) rican safari. Unfunny scenes about horny 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cinerhinos and wild ostrich rodeos ensue. 117 plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarmin. N (RS) borough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24 Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, BORGMAN (Alex van Rainbow Market Warmerdam) stars EXPANDED REVIEWS Square, Rainbow PromHadewych Minis as the enade, Rainbow Woodnowtoronto.com wife of an upwardly bine, Scotiabank Themobile, detestable, selfatre, SilverCity Fairview, impor tant bigot (Jeroen SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Perceval). She invites the enigmatic title Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 character – whose Manson-like charisma conceals satanic powers – into her perfect DELIVER US FROM EVIL (Scott Derrickson) home only to become an unwitting partiis a souped-up reworking of The Exorcist cipant in its destruction. Van Warmerdam starring Eric Bana as Bronx cop Ralph uses the elusive Borgman (creepily emSarchie, a combination of Father Karras bodied by the nimble Jan Bijvoet) as the and Lt. Kinderman who comes to believe a catalyst in his allegorical indictment of the demonic force is responsible for a string of Dutch ruling class. Deftly moving from domestic incidents. It’ll make millions. cutting-edge black humour to blatant evil, Some subtitles. 115 min. NN (NW) this boisterous satire is marred only by a 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Cineheavy-handed endgame. Subtitled. 113 plex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarmin. NNN (PE) borough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Kingsway Theatre Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow

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indebted to the collected works of Franz Kafka, Terry Gilliam and Roman Polanski as it is to the Dostoevsky story about a meek office drone (Jesse Eisenberg) unhinged by the arrival of a success-

(Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too long and a hair too manipulative, but writer/director/star 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

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ful, articulate man who looks exactly like him. It’s arch, weird and very, very funny – like watching an entire Bulgarian film festival in a single sitting. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre, TIFF Bell Lightbox

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dates 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 and wind up encountering an alien. 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 Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

plays like a finely rendered short story, forgoing jolts for a long, unpleasant shiver of understanding. Subtitled. 90 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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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) T:5.833” Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant, Yonge & Dundas 24

the original by introducing a new villain and a new element of the hero’s backstory. But its greatest strength remains the relationship between Jay Baruchel’s Hiccup and his mute but amazingly expressive dragon Toothless. Dragon 2 is at its best when it just leans into that. 102 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queens­way, Rainbow Market Square, ­Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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. 134 min.

N (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 (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

(Doug Liman) is a surprisingly playful mashup of Groundhog Day and Aliens – an epic-ish SF actioner that’s also refreshingly selfaware, using its rewind-repeat narrative to layer in subtle character beats, clever plot twists and at least one brilliant running gag. And Emily Blunt is great. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

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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 Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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

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(Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez) puts a static camera inside a cable car travelling high over Nepal’s Trisuli Valley to record passengers passing the time on the 10-minute trip between the Manakamana temple and the village below. As a meditation on the way human beings fill the silence – or choose not to – it’s an amazing accomplishment.

Subtitled. 118 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

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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). Director Boone paces the film beautifully and gets inspired performances. 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.

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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, offers a rock-solid, razorsharp image and a subtle surround remix.

The 15-year-old print TIFF screened a couple of years ago was very nice, but this is gorgeous. 124 min. NNNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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profoundly alienated Roman teen Lorenzo (Jacopo Olmo Antinori), whose hiding place in the basement of his apartment building is invaded by his half-sister, Olivia (Tea Falco) – mercurial visual artist and junkie. The performances are great, especially by newcomer Olmo Antinori, and it’s impossible not to care about the connection between the half-siblings, but as Bertolucci pics go, Me And You seems small.

Subtitled. 98 min. NNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

Men of the Cloth (Vicki Vasilopoulos)

turns a potentially interesting subject – the dying art of Italian tailoring, as represented by three master tailors in New York, Pennsylvania and Penne, Italy – into a plodding, indifferently shot, obnoxiously scored documentary. It’s almost a sin to make a movie this sloppy about so stylish an art. Some subtitles. 96 min. NN (NW) Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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frat house that’s moved in next door – but it’s really about their desperation to still identify as young and cool. Director Stoller interlaces the escalating insanity with surprising emotional intelligence. 96 min.

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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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is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Slate as a Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart. Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min.

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strained, phony, overlong comedy about an unlikely alliance between a clumsy housewife (Leslie Mann), the slick lawyer her husband’s been romancing (Cameron Diaz) and a second 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

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ning 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

THE ROVER (David Michôd) is less gripping

than Michôd’s debut feature, Animal Kingdom, so you may find your attention roving over the sunbaked Australian outback.

Ten years after an economic collapse, a man (Guy Pearce) pursues a group of robbers who’ve stolen his car. The action sequences are well staged, and Michôd’s reaching for some statement about guilt and loyalty. But mostly the film consists of Pearce squinting menacingly. 102 min. NN (GS) Carlton Cinema

SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (Malik Bendjelloul) introduces little-known musician Rodriguez, unravelling a mystery that nobody knew they wanted the answer to.

The Detroit-based 70s folksinger never found an audience in the States and ended up fading into the shadows. Don’t google Rodriguez before seeing this doc, whose pleasures come from the enigma it

constructs and the revelations it delivers.

85 min. NNN (RS) TIFF Bell Lightbox

SEX TAPE (Jake Kasdan) 95 min. See Also

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(Bong Joon-ho) 126 min. See review, page 54. NNNNN

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TAMMY (Ben Falcone) is co-written and produced by star Melissa McCarthy (Identity Thief), who once again plays a trashy, foul-mouthed terrorist against civility. But here she drops those luxurious f-bombs opposite Susan Sarandon in a road movie that tries to be a sensitively wrought dramedy. You have to admire McCarthy for the gamble, even if it isn’t entirely successful. 97 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress

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advantage of Kevin Hart’s box office clout by promoting his character, Cedric, from comic relief to the sequel’s narrator, focal point and vacuous black hole that sucks up all the air in the room from the film’s couples. 105 min. N (RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

Transformers: Age of Extinction (Michael Bay) is a gargantuan screech of white noise and spinning metal. The action sequences overwhelm the narrative and obliterate the senses. Some subtitles.

166 min. N (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cine-

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pher 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, with terrific chases and fights that stay grounded in the contrast between Channing Tatum’s gung-ho energy and Jonah Hill’s nervous hesitation. Stay for the credits. 112 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

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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

Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago (Lydia Smith) 84 min. See review, page 54 NN (SGC) Opens Jul 18 at Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

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See review, page 54. NN (RS) Opens Jul 18 at Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Varsity

Words and Pictures (Fred Schepisi) finds prep-school teachers Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche arguing whether words or pictures are the most powerful communication tool humans have evolved. The stars dive into their repugnant characters with everything they’ve got, apparently confident no one will ever see the finished product. Well, there’s always hope. 115 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Varsity

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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.

And Michael Fassbender is once again an even more charismatic Magneto than Ian McKellen. Some subtitles. 131 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre 3

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CHEF (14A) Thu 3:40, 9:05 Fri-Wed 12:40, 6:40 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:30 Sat, Tue 10:45 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:35 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:40 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 12:30, 2:40, 4:40, 6:50, 9:00 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) 12:45, 3:45, 6:55, 9:25 Sat, Tue 11:10 late SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:25 Fri, Sun-Mon, Wed 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20 Sat, Tue 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:00, 9:20, 11:15 TAMMY (14A) 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15 Sat, Tue 11:25 late TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Wed 3:15, 9:05 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 3:30

Fri-Sun 12:20 mat DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu, Mon 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:45, 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:20, 10:45 Tue-Wed 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:20, 10:45 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:35, 10:20 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Mon 1:50, 4:35, 10:05 Wed 12:55, 3:35, 10:35 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) 2:00, 4:30 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 7:25, 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:55 MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Sun 2:30 Wed 6:30 NEIGHBORS (18A) Thu 3:10, 5:45, 8:30, 10:50 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:20, 10:45 Sun 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Tue 3:20, 5:45, 8:20, 10:45 Wed 5:45, 8:10, 10:45 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 2:20, 3:55, 4:55, 6:25, 7:30, 9:00, 10:10 Mon 1:20, 2:20, 3:55, 4:55, 6:25, 7:30, 9:00, 10:45 THINK LIKE A MAN TOO (PG) Thu 1:25, 6:55, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Mon 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Tue 3:00, 5:30, 8:10, 10:40 Wed 1:30, 4:00, 10:00 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) 1:35 Thu 5:15, 8:50 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION – AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) 3:35, 7:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:20 mat TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 2:30, 6:05 Fri-Wed 5:15, 8:55 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:15, 2:15, 3:45, 5:00, 7:55, 9:35, 10:30 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 2:45 Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:30 Mon-Wed 3:30 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 6:25, 9:25 Fri-Wed 6:35, 9:35

TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX (I) 350 KING ST W, 416-599-8433

THE DOUBLE (14A) Thu 12:10, 2:15, 7:25, 9:30 Fri 3:20, 6:00, 9:15 Sat 1:00, 3:15, 8:00, 10:05 Sun 12:10, 2:20, 6:10, 9:30 Mon 6:10 Tue 1:20, 3:40, 6:10, 9:30 Wed 12:00, 3:45, 6:10, 9:30 GERONTOPHILIA (14A) Thu 12:20, 2:00, 10:15 SEARCHING FOR SUGAR MAN (PG) Wed 9:00 SNOWPIERCER (14A) Fri-Sun, Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:30 Mon 6:45, 8:15, 9:30 Tue 3:30, 6:45, 8:15, 9:30

VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 BOYHOOD (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 2:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 10:00 CHEF (14A) Thu 1:25 4:05 6:45 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:05, 6:45, 9:45 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:25, 10:20 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 10:15 Fri-Tue 12:40, 2:50, 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 Wed 12:40, 2:45, 9:55 SEX TAPE (14A) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 TAMMY (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 WISH I WAS HERE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 WORDS AND PICTURES Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:05

VIP SCREENINGS

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 BOYHOOD (14A) Fri-Wed 12:30, 4:00, 7:30

CHEF (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:25, 9:05 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30 TAMMY (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:40 WISH I WAS HERE (14A) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:25, 9:00

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 BLENDED (PG) Thu 6:05, 8:45 THE BREAKUP GURU (PG) Thu 12:30 3:30 6:20 9:35 FriWed 12:30, 3:20, 6:25, 9:35 CHEF (14A) Thu 12:40, 4:05 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:40, 4:05, 7:05, 10:25 Mon 7:05, 10:25 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:15 Fri, Mon, Wed 3:30, 6:30, 10:10 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 10:10 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:45, 11:00 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:30, 9:00 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 12:15, 2:35, 4:50, 7:25, 9:40 Fri, Mon 12:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:55, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:30, 9:15 EK VILLAIN (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:50, 6:40, 10:10 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 1:25 4:20 7:20 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 GODZILLA (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:10 GODZILLA 3D (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:35 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:25, 9:55 Sun 2:00, 4:40 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:20 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:25, 3:00 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:00 Tue 12:10, 3:00 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 Fri-Wed 6:30, 8:55 HUMPTY SHARMA KI DULHANIA (PG) Thu 1:55, 4:55, 7:55, 10:55 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 2:50, 6:10, 9:15 Mon 3:30, 6:35, 9:55 JAWS (14A) Thu 4:00, 10:00 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:45 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 12:05, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:40, 6:20, 9:10 MALEFICENT: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 12:05, 3:00, 5:30, 8:30, 10:50 Fri-Mon 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Tue-Wed 2:20, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 MEN IN BLACK (PG) Fri, Mon 1:00, 7:00 Sat 8:15, 10:45 Sun 12:00 Tue 4:15, 9:50 MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Sun 2:30, 7:00 Wed 12:55, 6:30 THE NANCE Thu, Tue 1:00, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 9:45 Mon 3:45, 9:30 THE OTHER WOMAN Thu 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Wed 4:25, 7:15, 10:00 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:25, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:50 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun, Tue 1:00 mat REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (PG) Sat 4:30 RICHARD II – ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY LIVE Sat 12:30 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:05 Fri, Mon, Wed 12:15, 1:00, 3:10, 4:45, 5:30, 6:40, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 SatSun, Tue 12:15, 1:00, 1:30, 3:10, 4:45, 5:30, 6:40, 7:30, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30, 11:00 TAMMY (14A) Thu 12:55, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:45, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15, 9:30, 10:15, 10:45 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:10, 2:35, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Sun 12:10, 4:00, 7:10, 9:50 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu 2:15 6:00 9:45 Fri-Wed 2:00, 6:00, 9:30 WWE BATTLEGROUND - 2014 Sun 8:00

Midtown

12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 2:10, 4:40, 7:40 CHEF (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:50 Fri 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 8:50 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 2:40, 4:50, 7:00 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Sat-Sun 1:10 Mon-Wed 2:15 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:20 FADING GIGOLO (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:30, 8:00 Fri 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:15, 8:40 Mon-Wed 3:10, 5:30, 7:50 THE GRAND SEDUCTION (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:10, 7:40 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Mon-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:40 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 Fri 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:00 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20 Fri 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 SatSun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20 Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:20, 7:30 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 7:30 WORDS AND PICTURES Fri 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50 X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST 3D (PG) Thu 7:40

7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 Mon 12:45, 4:45, 6:50, 9:00 SEX TAPE (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 7:00, 9:15 Mon 3:50, 7:00, 9:15 TAMMY (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:40 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:50, 9:20

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

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 9:20 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu-Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat 4:30, 7:00 Sun 4:30

BELLE (PG) Thu 5:20 Fri-Wed 1:40 BORGMAN (14A) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 9:45 CHEF (14A) Thu 3:25 7:10 Fri-Wed 3:25, 7:05 THE DOUBLE (14A) Fri-Wed 9:45 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 11:30 Fri-Wed 4:40 THE GERMAN DOCTOR (PG) Thu 8:00 Sat, Mon, Wed 6:15 GERONTOPHILIA (14A) Fri-Wed 8:05 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 1:40, 9:05 Fri-Sat 5:15, 10:30 Sun-Wed 5:15 IDA (PG) Thu 2:45 Fri-Wed 3:00 MANAKAMANA (G) Thu 12:50 Fri, Sun, Tue 11:15 ME AND YOU (14A) Thu 6:25 Sat, Mon, Wed 11:15 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 10:30 Sat, Mon, Wed 12:05 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 4:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:15, 6:15 Sat, Mon, Wed 1:15 PALO ALTO (14A) Sat, Mon, Wed 9:45 RIO 2 (G) Thu-Fri, Sun, Tue 12:05 Sat, Mon, Wed 10:30

REGENT THEATRE (I)

QUEENSWAY (CE)

IDA (PG) 7:00 Sat-Sun 4:30

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 Fri 2:10, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 11:45, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:55, 2:40, 3:50, 6:00, 6:50, 9:10, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:35, 2:45, 3:40, 6:00, 6:50, 9:15, 9:55 Sun-Wed 2:10, 2:45, 5:20, 6:00, 8:25, 9:15 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:40, 3:20, 4:40, 6:30, 7:40, 9:45, 10:40 Fri 1:20, 4:00, 4:30, 7:30, 7:40, 10:40, 10:45 Sat 1:10, 4:00, 4:30, 7:30, 7:40, 10:40, 10:45 Sun 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 7:00, 7:20, 10:10, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:20, 4:20, 7:00, 7:20, 10:10, 10:20 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 2:00, 5:05, 8:00, 10:45 Fri 1:10, 5:10, 8:05, 10:55 Sat 11:40, 2:35, 5:25, 8:05, 10:55 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15 EARTH TO ECHO (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:35 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 2:10 Fri-Sat 1:00 Sun-Wed 1:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 FriSat 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 4:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 THE FAULT IN OUR STARS (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 9:20 Fri-Sat 12:30 Sun 12:20 Mon-Wed 12:40 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20 Fri 1:40, 4:10 Sat 11:20, 1:50, 4:20 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:30 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:10 Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:30 Sun-Wed 7:00, 9:40 JERSEY BOYS (14A) Thu 6:20, 9:30 MALEFICENT (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:30 Fri 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:45 Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 MALEFICENT 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:00 MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Sun 2:30 Wed 6:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (PG) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Fri 11:50, 1:30, 3:50, 6:20 Sat 11:10, 1:30, 3:50, 6:20 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:30, 3:50, 6:20, 8:35 Tue 1:30, 3:50, 6:20 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) Thu 7:05 Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 Sat 12:00, 2:15, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 MonWed 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:25 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 1:50, 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Sat 11:30, 2:05, 3:30, 4:50, 6:30, 7:30, 9:40, 10:10 Sun 12:00, 2:25, 4:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 2:25, 4:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10, 10:30 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:00, 4:20, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 8:40, 10:10, 10:30 Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:00, 3:50, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:40, 10:25 Tue 12:40, 3:00,

MT PLEASANT (I)

675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484

551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

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

BEGIN AGAIN (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20 Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:25 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 12:45 3:45 6:50 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:50 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Thu 1:15 4:10 7:15 10:30 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 DELIVER US FROM EVIL (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 EDGE OF TOMORROW (PG) Thu 1:10 EDGE OF TOMORROW 3D (PG) Thu 3:50 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:20 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 1:10, 3:50 Sun 12:00 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:45 FriSat, Mon-Tue 6:20, 9:20 Sun 6:50, 9:40 Wed 10:20 MONTY PYTHON LIVE (MOSTLY) Sun 2:30 Wed 6:30 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE (G) Fri-Wed 12:45, 2:55 PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 5:10, 7:20, 9:30 THE PURGE: ANARCHY (14A) Thu 10:25 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 SEX TAPE (14A) Thu 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Wed 1:00, 3:20, 8:00, 10:15 TAMMY (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION (PG) Thu 2:45 FriWed 2:30 TRANSFORMERS: AGE OF EXTINCTION 3D (PG) Thu-Tue 6:30, 10:15 Wed 9:30 22 JUMP STREET (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:50, 7:45 Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45

Metro

West End

CANADA SQUARE (CE)

HUMBER CINEMAS (I)

2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

2442 BLOOR ST. WEST, 416-769-2442

BELLE (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10 Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 1:00 4:10

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

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

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) 3:15, 6:15, 9:15

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3:50, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 8:40, 9:40, 10:25 Wed 3:00, 3:50, 5:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:40, 10:25 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:10, 4:45, 5:40, 7:30, 8:10, 10:20, 10:30 Fri-Sat 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sun 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:00, 5:00, 8:35 Fri 2:00 Sat 11:50 Sun-Tue 1:00 Wed 12:50 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 3:00, 7:00, 10:35 Fri 6:25, 10:00 Sat 3:20, 7:15, 10:55 Sun-Wed 4:50, 8:45 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 12:05, 2:40, 3:00, 5:20, 6:00, 8:10, 8:45, 10:50 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 3:00, 5:20, 6:00, 8:10, 8:45, 10:50 Sun 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 6:00, 7:50, 8:45, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:30, 3:00, 5:10, 6:00, 7:50, 8:45, 10:30 Wed 2:30, 3:00, 5:10, 6:00, 7:50, 8:45, 10:35 WWE Battleground - 2014 Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:40 FriSat 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 Sun 6:40, 9:50 Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:50 Wed 3:30, 9:35 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:40

Rainbow Woodbine (I)

Woodbine Centre, 500 Rexdale Blvd, 416-213-1998 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) 1:10, 3:55, 7:00 Thu 9:20 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Thu 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Tue 12:35, 2:45, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 Wed 2:45, 4:50, 7:05, 9:20 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 Fri-Wed 12:30, 1:05, 4:00, 4:10, 6:50, 7:30, 9:45 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:15 Fri-Wed 9:25 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 12:30, 4:00, 7:30 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10

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

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 10:00 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:30 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:30 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:30 4:00 6:30 9:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:15 Sat-Sun 12:00 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) 4:30, 6:45, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat Sex Tape (14A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:45, 10:20 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 4:10, 8:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10

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

Begin Again (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:25, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25 Sun 6:55, 9:25 Wed 1:25, 4:05 Chef (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10 Sat 6:30, 9:10 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu 12:50 3:40

6:40 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:00 4:00 7:10 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:10, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:50 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:20 Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:00, 7:15 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:45 Monty Python Live (Mostly) Sun 2:30 Wed 6:30 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri-Wed 12:30 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Richard II – Royal Shakespeare Company Live Sat 12:30 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:25, 5:05, 7:50, 10:30 Tammy (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Wed 10:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Wed 3:10, 6:40, 10:05 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Wish I Was Here (14A) Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:25, 7:00, 9:30

SilverCity Fairview (CE)

Fairview Mall, 1800 Sheppard Ave E, 416-644-7746 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Fri 3:00, 6:30, 9:30 Sat 11:50, 3:00, 6:30, 9:30 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Sun-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:00 Fri 2:10, 4:50 Sat 11:30, 2:10, 4:50 Sun-Wed 1:20, 4:00 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:30 Fri-Sat 7:15, 9:40 Sun-Wed 6:40, 9:20 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:10 Fri 2:40, 7:50 Sat 12:20, 2:40, 7:50 Sun-Tue 2:30, 7:30 Wed 2:35, 7:30 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:20 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri 2:20 Sat 12:00, 2:20 Sun, Wed 12:40, 2:10 Mon-Tue 2:10 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Sat 4:40, 7:00, 9:20 Sun-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sun, Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Tue 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sat 5:10, 10:10 Sun-Wed 5:00, 9:55 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri 2:50 Sat 11:20, 2:50 Sun-Wed 2:55 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 9:00 Fri-Sat 6:40, 10:05 Sun-Wed 6:20, 9:50 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:05 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 11:10, 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu, Sun-Wed 2:15, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:35, 6:50, 10:05 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu, SunWed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:45 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:50 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:25 Fri 12:10, 2:40, 5:10 Sat 1:00, 3:40 Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:20 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:40 Fri 7:40 Sat 6:40 Sun-Wed 7:10 Maleficent (PG) 1:20, 4:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 6:40 9:20 Fri-Wed 6:35, 9:20 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:30 Sun-Wed 1:30

Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Sat 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Wed 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:15, 7:55, 10:35 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Sun-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Fri-Tue 2:00, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50 Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:40 Fri 10:20 Sat 9:30 Sun-Wed 9:55 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:15 Fri-Sat 12:00 Sun-Wed 3:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu, SunWed 6:45, 10:20 Fri-Sat 3:30, 7:05, 10:40 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Fri 12:00, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sun-Wed 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10

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

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:30 Thu 12:45 3:40 6:40 9:40 Fri only 12:40 3:30 6:40 9:40 Sat only 12:30 3:30 6:40 9:40 Sun only 12:40 3:30 6:40 9:40 Tue only 12:40 3:30 6:40 9:40 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:25, 7:20, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:45, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:00 Mon, Wed 9:50 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:50, 2:00, 4:40 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:40 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:15 FriWed 7:30, 9:55 Maleficent (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:00, 5:30 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:10, 5:40 Sat 12:15, 3:10, 5:40 Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:10, 5:30 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:50, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Tue 8:05 Mon, Wed 7:45 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:40 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) 12:45, 2:50, 3:40 Sat 11:15 mat Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 5:00, 7:10, 9:25 Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Fri, Sun, Tue 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 11:50, 2:40, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:05 Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 5:45, 8:10, 10:35 Mon, Wed 1:10, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:40 Fri-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:25 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 2:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:20 Sat 12:00, 3:20 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 6:50, 10:10 Mon, Wed 6:50, 10:05 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:20, 5:15, 7:55, 10:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 Mon 2:25, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 Wed 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 10:35 Mon, Wed 10:05

Coliseum Scarborough (CE) Scarborough Town Centre, 416-290-5217

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Sun 12:55, 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 10:45 Sun 1:25, 4:30, 7:35, 10:40 Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:35, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:15 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 6:45, 9:55 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:45 Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:25 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 9:40 FriSun 6:30, 9:15 Mon-Wed 7:05, 9:45 Maleficent (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:35 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 10:05 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 7:25, 9:55 My Illegal Wife Thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:55, 9:50 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat, Mon-Wed 11:00 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:00, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri, Sun 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 2:20, 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Mon-

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Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Richard II – Royal Shakespeare Company Live Sat 12:30 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:25 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Sat 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:25 Sun 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 10:05 Mon-Wed 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:15 Fri, SunWed 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 2:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45 Sat 11:05 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:45, 6:25, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:25, 10:10 Sat 2:45, 6:25, 10:10 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Sat 11:40, 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:25, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 WWE Battleground - 2014 Sun 8:00

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Begin Again (14A) Thu 1:30 4:30 7:30 10:05 Fri-Wed

1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:25 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) 2:45, 5:50, 8:50 Sat 11:50 mat Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) 12:45, 1:15, 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 4:45, 6:45, 7:15, 7:45, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Sat 11:00 mat Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Sun 12:35, 7:55, 10:35 Wed 4:50, 7:50, 10:35 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 12:50, 3:05, 5:15 Edge of Tomorrow (PG) Thu 1:00 Edge of Tomorrow 3D (PG) Thu 4:00, 10:00 The Fault in Our Stars (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 1:20, 4:10 Wed 1:20, 4:10, 10:00 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:20, 6:00 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:20 Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:15 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Wed 6:55, 9:20 Sat 7:40, 10:10 Jersey Boys (14A) Thu 7:25, 10:20 Maleficent (PG) Thu-Fri, Sun-Wed 2:10, 5:00 Sat 12:15, 2:35, 5:00 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:25, 10:05 Monty Python Live (Mostly) Sun 2:30 Wed 6:30 The Pirates! Band of Misfits (PG) Sat 11:00 Wed 12:30 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:00, 6:20, 8:30 Sat 11:10, 11:35, 12:00, 1:40, 4:00, 6:20, 8:30 Sun 1:40, 4:00, 6:00, 6:50 Wed 1:40, 4:00, 6:50 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Thu 7:00 Fri-Wed 12:40, 2:55, 5:05, 7:20, 9:25 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:35, 10:10 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:30, 1:00, 2:50, 3:20, 5:10, 5:40, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:20 Sat 12:20, 1:00, 2:50, 3:20, 5:10, 5:40, 7:30, 8:00, 9:50, 10:20 Tammy (14A) Thu 12:40, 3:15, 5:45, 8:05, 10:35 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 12:35, 3:10, 5:35, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 3:10, 5:30, 8:10, 10:30 Think Like a Man Too (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:30 Sat 11:05, 2:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction – An IMAX 3D Experience (PG) Thu 12:30 3:50 7:05 10:40 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:30 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 2:25, 6:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed 6:00, 9:30 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, SunWed 1:50, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 9:55 WWE Battleground - 2014 Sun 8:00 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:40 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 10:40 Sun 9:35 X-Men: Days of Future Past 3D (PG) Thu 7:50, 10:45

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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (PG) Thu 2:15, 6:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 3D (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Wed 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Deliver Us From Evil (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 7:05, 10:10 Earth to Echo (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:25, 6:50, 9:30 How to Train Your Dragon 2 (PG) Thu 2:30, 5:05 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00 How to Train Your Dragon 2 3D (PG) Thu 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Wed 7:00, 9:35 Maleficent (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:35 Maleficent 3D (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:45 Planes: Fire & Rescue (G) Fri-Wed 12:45 Planes: Fire & Rescue 3D (G) Fri-Wed 2:55, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 The Purge: Anarchy (14A) Fri-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Sex Tape (14A) Thu 7:00, 9:55 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 10:05 Tammy (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 10:00 Fri-Wed 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:55 Transformers: Age of Extinction (PG) Thu 2:25 FriWed 1:00 Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D (PG) Thu 6:30, 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:30, 8:00 22 Jump Street (14A) Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:25, 6:55, 9:40 X-Men: Days of Future Past (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:55 3

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Sat 19 – Opera On Screen: Royal Opera House – Manon Lescaut (2014) D: Jonathan Kent.

Noon. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 3:30 pm. Video Games: The Movie.

7:15 pm. Back To The Bloor: Scott Pilgram Vs The World (2010) D: Edgar Wright. 9:30 pm. sun 20 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 1 & 6:30 pm. Video Games: The Movie. 3:30 & 9 pm. mon 21 – Video Games: The Movie. 6:30 pm.

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9 pm. tue 22 – Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 4 & 9 pm. Video Games: The Movie. 6:30 pm.

Wed 23 – Exhibition On Screen: Manet: Portraying Life (2013) D: Ben Harding and Phil Grabsky. 4 pm. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago. 6:30 pm. Video Games: The Movie. 8:45 pm.

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Thu 17 – The Films Of Satyajit Ray: Three

Daughters (1961). 6:30 pm.

Fri 18 – The Films Of Satyajit Ray: The Chess Players (1977). 6:15 pm. Techno/Human: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii: Patlabor: The Movie (1989). 10 pm.

Sat 19 – Passages To India: India, Matri Bhumi (1958) D: Roberto Rossellini. 3:45 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: The Elephant God (1977). 6 pm. Techno/Human: The Films Of Mamoru Oshii: Patlabor 2: The Movie (1993).

8:45 pm.

Sun 20 – Passages To India: Phantom India Parts I-IV (1969) D: Louis Malle. 1:30 pm. The Films Of Satyajit Ray: The Home And The World (1983). 5:45 pm. mon 21 – See website for schedule. tue 22 – Passages To India: India Song (1974) D: Marguerite Duras. 6:30 pm. wed 23 – TIFF In The Park presents free out-

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BIRD CO. MEDIA (Jason Bourque) Rating: NN Jason Bourque’s Bird Co. Media follows Bradley Miller and Kabir Ali, two Vancouver business school buds trying to launch a revolutionary advertising concept in Mumbai. You know those planes that fly around trailing banners behind them? It’s like that, but with birds.

Bird Co. Media is being marketed as a documentary, though it is almost certainly fake. Web searches for “Bradley Miller” and “Kabir Ali” turn up nothing but movie-related hits. (Also, how many docs have you seen with credits for art direction and costume design?)

Further clues to its faux status are the abundance of camera angles in every scene (suggesting multiple takes), a creepy subplot in which Kabir hires a fetching young woman as his receptionist so he can woo her, and a third-act twist in which Miller door screenings: Searching For Sugar Man (2012) D: Malik Bendjelioul. 9 pm (David ­Pecaut Square, 55 John, one block from the Lightbox).

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Thu 17 – Fed Up (2014) D Stephanie

Soechtig. 7 pm. The Grand Seduction (2014) D: Don McKellar. 9 pm.

Fri 18 – Railway Man (2014) D: Jonathan Teplitzky. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (2014) D: Doug Liman. 9:15 pm. sat 19 – The Amazing Spiderman 2 (2014) D: Marc Webb. 1:30 pm. Railway Man. 4:15 pm.

The Lunchbox (2014) D: Ritesh Batra. 7 pm.

Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9 pm. sun 20 – The Amazing Spiderman 2 3D. 1:30 pm. The Lunchbox. 4:15 pm. Railway Man. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm. mon 21 – Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 7 pm. The Lunchbox. 9:15 pm. tue 22 – Railway Man. 7 pm. Fading Gigolo (2014) D: John Turturro. 9:15 pm. wed 23 – Fading Gigolo. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9 pm.

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thu 17-wed 23 – Continuous screenings ­Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

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Zoran Pradesh (left) Bradley Miller and Kabir Ali attempt flight in Bird Co. Media.

and Ali are forced to confront the dark side of bird-based advertising.

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have never seen a better movie about stupid peo­ple trying to convince the world that they’re smart.

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Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm. Rolling Stones At The Max. 7 pm (Thu only).

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Noon. Jerusalem. 1 pm. Under The Sea. 3 pm.

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Mon 21 – Salò: 120 Days Of Sodom (1976) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 7 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2004) D: Don Alexander. 9 pm.

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Fri 18 – Belle (2014) D: Amma Asante. 7 pm.

Edge Of Tomorrow 3D (2014) D: Doug Liman. 9:15 pm.

Sat 19 – Rio 2 3D (2014) D: Carlos Saldanha.

2 pm. Belle. 4 & 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm.

Sun 20 – Rio 2 3D. 12:30 pm. Revue Cinema and Casa Salvador Allende present Il Postino (1994) D: Michael Radford. 3 pm. Belle. 7 pm. Edge Of Tomorrow 3D. 9:15 pm. mon 21 – Edge Of Tomrrow 3D. 7 pm. Belle (2014) D: Amma Asante. 9:15 pm.

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Fri 18 – The Dance Of Reality (2013) D: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 7 pm. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Restored) (1974) D: Tobe Hooper. 9:30 pm.

Sat 19 – Legend Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return (2013) D: Will Finn and Dan St. Pierre. 2 pm.

The Dance Of Reality. 7 pm. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Restored). 9:30 pm.

Sun 20 – Legend Of Oz: Dorothy’s Return. 2 pm. The Dance Of Reality. 4 & 7 pm. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Restored). 9:30 pm.

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Restored).

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The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. c­ ntower.ca.

Casa Loma presents The P­ ellatt Newsreel

(2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 ­Austin Terrace.

416-923-1171, ­casaloma.org.

The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history.

Plays daily at the top and half past each hour.

Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. ­hhof.com. thu 17 – Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre presents The Eternal Zero (2013) D: Takashi Yamazaki. 7 pm. $12. 6 Garamond Court. 416441-2345.

Barbara Frum Library presents Much Ado About Nothing (2012) D: Joss Whedon. 2 pm.

Free. 20 Covington, third floor, Rm B. ­torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Open Roof Festival outdoor screening and live music performance presents Frank (2014) D: Lenny Abrahamson, and live music

by Catl. Doors 7:30 pm. $15. 99 Sudbury. ­openrooffestival.com.

Shorts That Are Not Pants presents Habana D: Edouard Salier, Perfect Drug D: Toon Aerts, and other animated shorts. 7 pm. $12, adv $10.20. Carlton Cinemas, 20 Carlton. ­shortsthatarenotpants.com. fri 18 – Cultura Festival presents The Lego Movie (2014) D: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and live music by Magnolia Brass Band and Canailles. Music from 6 pm, screening at 9 pm. Free. Mel Lastman Square, 5100 Yonge. c­ ulturafestival.ca.

Insomniac Film Festival presents short films

by Toronto’s youth. 11:30 pm. $5. Rainbow Cinemas Market Square, 80 Front E. f­ acebook. com/events/755951447795122.

Sat 19-sun 20 – Harbourfront Centre’s Habari­ Africa Festival presents the documentary War Child (2008) D: C Karim Chrobog, about hiphop artist and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal. Q&A w/ Jal to follow. Sat, 6 pm. The Batuki Music Society and Nouvelle Afrique Musique present The Last Song Before The War (2013) D: Kiley Kraskouskas. Sun, 4 pm. Free. 235 Queens Quay W, Studio Theatre. 416-9734000, ­harbourfrontcentre.com. sat 19 – Pleasure Dome presents an outdoor screening program, Site/Sight/Cite: The Cinema Of Nancy Holt including Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill (1971-2011), Sun Tunnels (1978), and Swamp (1971). 8:30 pm. $8. 401 Richmond W, in the courtyard. ­pdome.org.

Cage Fest, a celebration of the best and worst of Nicolas Cage, presents Wild At Heart (1990) D: David Lynch, 7 pm, and Deadfall (1993) D: Christopher Coppola. 9:30 pm.

Free. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. ­facebook.com/events/240304772846488. sun 20 – Toronto Public Library presents a screening of Wolverine (2013) D: James Mangold. 6 pm. Free. Maria A Shchuka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. 416-394-1000.

Christie Pits Film Festival’s Days of Summer outdoor screenings presents Stand By Me (1986) D: Rob Reiner, and short films Silver Road and Wapawekka. At sunset (approx 9 pm). Free/pwyc. Christie Pits Park, 750 Bloor W. ­christiepitsff.com. tue 22 – City Cinema outdoor film screenings presents Little Miss Sunshine (2006) D: Johnathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. 9 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ­ydsquare.ca. wed 23 – Harbourfront Centre’s Free Flicks Film Series presents an outdoor screening of Caramel (2007) D: Nadine Labaki. 9 pm. Free.

WestJet Stage, 235 Queens Quay W. ­harbourfrontcentre.com.

Downtown Markham presents Drive-In And Sock Hop, a family friendly dance party followed by a screening of Grease (1978) D: Randal Kleiser. Gates 7 pm, film around 9 pm (watch from your car or bring a chair or blanket). Free. Parking lot, 85 Enterprise Blvd (Markham). ­downtownmarkham.ca/drivein Regent Park Film Festival and Diaspora Film Festival present an outdoor screening of The Lunchbox (2014) D: Ritesh Batra. 9 pm. Free.

Park next to Daniels Spectrum, 585 Dundas E. ­regentparkfilmfestival.com.

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Clumsy pass not okay Two questions, Dan. 1. Recently, I went to a bar with my brother and encountered a friend from high school. My bro­ther told me that, toward the end of the night, my friend followed him into the bathroom and made a drunken pass at him (which apparently involved a clumsy grab at his penis). My brother has no reason to lie about the incident. My inclination is to ignore the issue. If my friend is closeted or bi-curious, I feel like it isn’t my place to force the issue and I should respect his privacy. Advice?

2. My bisexual girlfriend wants to take me to a gay bar. I’m not worried about being hit on, but I feel like hanging out at a gay club would be somewhat dishonest and touristy. Is my apprehension warranted?

Basic Respect Offered Sincerely 1. If your drunken, closeted friend had shown some respect, BROS, and managed to make a drunken-but-respectful pass at your brother, then I could endorse respecting your friend’s privacy in turn. But your friend cornered your brother in a toilet and grabbed his cock.

That’s not okay, and someone needs to make it clear to your friend that there are consequences for behaving like that – outing himself to you as gay or bi and an asshole was the consequence this time, BROS, but someone needs to tell him that he could wind up assaulted and/or facing sexual assault charges if the drunken cock-grabbing continues.

2. Most gay men don’t mind seeing girls with their straight boyfriends in gay dance/party bars and clubs, BROS, but girls and unavailable/apprehensive straight boys ruin the vibe in darker, sleazier gay pickup joints. So stick to the party palaces (dance floors and drag shows), avoid the pickup joints (hard rock and trough urinals), and you’ll be fine.

Don’t envy the dog I suspect my boyfriend of seven onths loves his 9-year-old dog more m

than me. I am 54 and divorced twice.

He is 57 and has been divorced three times. I am jealous of the way he treats and talks to his dog. I have even told him so. Is it worth my time and ­energy to wait around for my boyfriend to start treating me better?

Neglected Human Girlfriend Your boyfriend has been “with” his dog for nine years, NHG, and he’s been with you for only seven months. Considering his rocky track record with other human females – married and divorced three times – it’s understandable that he might be less self-conscious about showing affection for his dependable old dog than for his brand new girlfriend. You don’t mention what he’s doing for his dog that he doesn’t do for you (table scraps? belly rubs? shock collars?), NHG, but the longer you “wait around,” the more demonstrably affectionate your boyfriend is likely to become. But I can’t imagine he’ll want you around at all if you continue to waste time and energy being jealous of his dog.

I wanna get shiny

My fiancé and I recently shared some

kinks and are now trying to realize each other’s fantasies, but we’re having trouble making one of his happen: he

wants to see me oiled up and glistening. Do you have any idea what we ought to be using to get a glossy, oiledup look that lasts? On a more general note, is there a name for the kink for glossy, form-fitting things? He’d also like to see me in a super-shiny catsuit made of latex, leaving nothing to the imagination.

Wants To Shine P.S. A latex catsuit is out because we’re poor students and can’t afford one!

Bodybuilders grease themselves up with baby oil – which gets all over everything and requires frequent reapplication. But there’s a less messy way to achieve the super-shiny look that turns your boyfriend on: Google “shiny zentai suit” and “metallic zentai suit,” and you’ll find dozens of websites that sell catsuits made out of Lycra, not latex, which are easier to put on than latex catsuits, far easier to clean, and a hell of a lot cheaper. At Zentaizone.com, just one of many sites, you’ll find dozens of different zentai suits for less than $50, with some less than $25. Even a poor student could afford a couple of those.

Is she an escort or not?

I saw an online ad for an escort

who was quite possibly the hottest woman I’ve ever seen. But instead of asking for a session, I offered to take her out to dinner. After all, escorts can have boyfriends, too. She agreed to the date and we had a lot of fun. During the

meal, she asked what I do for a living, and I told her. I then asked if she likes what she does for a living, and she responded that she just works in a department store. Most escorts are pretty subtle in their ads – they don’t come out and say, “I’ll have sex with you for money” – so she may think I’m innocent enough not to have realized that she’s an escort. Or she knows I know but didn’t want to mention it. Either way, we’ve been on a few dates since, and at some point I’d like to tell her that I know and I’m okay with it. Should I?

Not A John It’s also possible that this woman works in a department store and does a little escorting on the side to make ends meet, NAJ. Not all sex workers do sex work full-time, and most full-time sex workers would regard “willing to date guys who contact me via my escort ad” as the mark of either a novice or an ends-meeter. She already knows that you’re okay with her doing sex work – you did contact her via her escort ad – but if you want to let her know that you don’t have a problem with her doing escort work, bring it up and tell her. But don’t assume or imply that she lied to you about working in a department store, NAJ, because she most likely didn’t.

No sex, please, I’m kinky A lot of kink and fetish events and arties are not sex-friendly; it’s stanp dard to meet someone at one of these

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things to get tied up and smacked around while still remaining within the bounds of one’s marriage vows as far as anything below the belt is concerned.

But if you are going to an event that is promoted as “sex-friendly,” and you have arranged to meet someone there for, say, an extended rope bondage session, how do you broach the issue of being “out of commission” for sex but still happy to get tied up? It’s not like going out for dinner with someone, where what’s happening in the nethers is entirely irrelevant. It seems rude to string someone along (ha!), but I’m not sure what to do.

New To Kink Scenes

Use your words, NTKS. Whether a kink party you’re attending is sex-friendly or not, you should tell your play partners in advance that you’re only up for bondage and kink play. For many serious kinksters, bondage and kink play is sex, and not being able to access your neth­ ers won’t be an issue. You should make your limits clear before you play with anyone in any context – someone who takes you to a no-intercourse-allowed play party might be expecting to take you home for sex afterward – and decline to play with anyone who balks. n this week’s Savage Lovecast, Dan O talks bondage with kinkster trailblazer Midori: s­ avagelovecast.com mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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