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Pride art show opens at the Gladstone and runs to Jul 8. Free. gladstonehotel.com.

soul plays a free show at David Pecaut Sq as part of the Toronto Jazz Fest. 8:30 pm. Torontojazz.com. bad Teacher Cameron Diaz plays a lazy teacher in this raunchy comedy also starring her real-life ex Justin Timberlake as a fellow teacher. Opening day. criTical MaSS ride Group cycle weaves through downtown streets asserting bike rights. 6 pm. Free. Bloor and Spadina.

ThaT’S So Gay: The NeW Queer

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Akron’s finest, the Black Keys, rock Molson Amphitheatre, Jul 7

Craig Lauzon hosts Doras, Jun 27

ing the Indian film industry happens this week, leading up to the Jun 25 Floriana Awards ceremony at Rogers Centre. $tba. iifa.com/toronto2011. Sarah SchulMaN The queer activist, author and now filmmaker talks with NOW’s Susan G. Cole at TIFF Bell Lightbox. 9 pm. Pwyc, $10 sugg. tiff.net.

members the Stonewall riots and honours the political roots of Pride. Queen’s Park. Noon. nomorepotlucks.org/media. NobuNNy The deranged garage rock rabbit rocks Parts & Labour for an all-ages show. 9 pm. $8. RT, SS. huMberTo velez Show documenting the artist’s performances bringing excluded communities into art institutions ends today at Art Gallery of York U . Free. 416-736-516.

Craig Lauzon and Michaela Washburn host the annual celebration of the best in Toronto theatre, dance and opera. 8 pm. Bluma Appel. $65. 416-366-7723. irShad MaNji Manji talks about her new book, Allah, Liberty & Love, with CBC’s Matt Galloway at the Reference Library. 7 pm. Free (ticket required). 416-393-7131.

the Air Canada Centre with John Legend. 7:30 pm. $57.50$179.50. TM.

pop star kicks off a two-nightstand at the Air Canada Centre. 6:30 pm. $29.50-$49.50. TM.

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Stage’s production of Shakespeare’s lesser-known romantic comedy opens at High Park Amphitheatre. 8 pm. To Sep 4. By donation. 416-368-3110. GiorGio barrera Subtle photos of sites of conflict stand in the Consulate General of Italy’s garden. Free. To Jul 17. 416-977-1566.

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The This Hour Has 22 Minutes performer brings his characters and impersonations to Buddies in Bad Times for a special Pride Week show. 8 pm. $15-$20. 416-975-8555.

spectacular centrepiece – floats, music, super-soakers – takes over Yonge from Bloor to Gerrard. 2 pm. Free. Torontopride.com.

icons play Mod Club. 8 pm. $23.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. arMadillo Janus Metz Pedersen’s powerful documentary about Danish soldiers in Afghanistan continues at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. $9.50-$12. 416-599-TIFF.

The Tony Award-winning actor brings his song-and-dance show (plus an 18-piece orchestra) to the Princess of Wales. 8 pm. To Jul 1. $49$130. 416-872-1212. black dub The Daniel Lanois rock-dub project kicks off two nights at the Opera House. 7 pm. $27.50. RT, SS, TM.

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Esthero and others fete Canada’s birthday all day at Harbourfront. Free. Harboufrontcentre.com

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Andrew Johnston hosts his annual comedy fundraiser, with Dini Dimakos, Rebecca Kohler and special guest Drew Droege. 8 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times. 416-975-8555.

festival of theatre, dance and comedy starts tonight at various locations. $10 (passes available). 416-966-1062. The GlaSS MeNaGerie Soulpepper’s production of the Tennessee Williams plays opens tonight at the Young Centre. 7:30 pm. $28-$65. 416-866-8666.

celebraTe The SuN aNd olive TreeS Solstice celebration with

song and yoga raises money to plant trees in Palestine. 6 pm. Donation. Beit Zatoun. beitzatoun.org. G20 reduX It’s been a year since the G20 policing disaster. Join the Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc and other groups pushing for a broad inquiry. Queen’s Park. 2 pm. Free. ccla.org.

dyke March Saturday is Dyke Day, when lesbians by the thousand converge on Church and Hayden to rally and march. Pridetoronto.com. SouNdGardeN The grungemetal heroes play the hits at Molson Amphitheatre. 6 pm. $39.50-$69.50. TM. The TriP The hilarious Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon (Tristram Shandy) reunite in this film about a food critic’s trip around England. Opening weekend.

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ThiNkiNG ahead To 2014 The Better Ballots initiative and Canadian Urban Instit present a seminar on local electoral reform. 7:30 am. $40. Metro Hall. Pre-register canurb.org. The black keyS The garageblues rockers hit the Molson Amphitheatre. 6:30 pm. $27.50-$50. TM.

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Heritage Toronto hosts a Canada Day walking tour. 1 pm. Free. Fort York. 416-338-1338.

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The acting icons perform readings from the Bard in this night of music and drama, part of the Black Creek Summer Musical Festival. 8 pm. $42.25-$124.50. Rexall Centre. 1-888-860-7888.

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Phoning in this reality check Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham

email letters@now toronto.com i didn’t know you needed your parents to be rich to be a musician in Toronto. How can Fucked Up act like badasses when they’re the product of privilege (NOW, June 16-22)? The singer and drummer went to a private school (Royal St. George’s), just like Win Butler from Arcade Fire (Phillips Exeter Academy) and Gonzales (Crescent School). Seems the majority of pop musicians these days are either privately educated or went to stage school. Does the rise of Lily Allen, Florence Welch, Chris Martin and the like

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spell the end of working-class pop? Dave Anderson Toronto

The “I” in iPhone

joshua errett’s digital manners is a fascinating article coming from someone immersed in the digital world (NOW, June 16-22). It would appear that the problem is not his ability to interact digitally, but to interact with people. Although situations, technology and society continually change, as must our response to them, the definition of etiquette has not. It is “a code of behaviour based on thoughtfulness”. To quote Errett: “What I am

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doing on my phone is important – dare I say more important than what you are trying to say to me.” Undoubtedly, Errett is a person who talks loudly at a play because what he has to say is more important than the playwright we all paid money to hear. Jim Turner Toronto

joshua errett is completely entitled to his opinions about the use of smartphones in public, but it might help if he considered the ideas of Marshall McLuhan and Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget. What Errett fails to comprehend is that what is happening on his phone is not “real life.” And, for the record, it is nothing but rude to converse with a friend, lover, partner, etc, without giving them your undivided attention. Cordel S. Browne Toronto

Van riot’s weather report

knee-jerk reactions are common, but my fear is that, like the parents who smack their children for being violent at school, this social violence of the “immature” in the Vancouver riots (NOW Daily, June 18) will be met with social violence of the “mature.” We should note the complexity of

the problem. Policy- and lawmaking are a matter of trying to predict and shape a vast realm of emergent and chaotic behaviour. It’s a matter of employing rational principles to shape irrational tendencies. In other words, our next move is about as dubious as attempting to change the weather. Ben Odynski White Rock, BC

Wvrst is the best

steven davey’s review of wvrst (NOW, June 16-22) does not do the resto justice. I stopped by with my South African and U.S. friends (nine of us in all) and tried the boerewors as a currywurst, and we all loved it. The menu looked too good, so we had to try more – the bison, the turkey/chicken and the duck. Seriously good food. The beer list is amazing, and the fries are too good to put into words (especially with the maple/ rosemary dipping sauce). The staff was super-friendly but not annoyingcontinued on page 11 œ

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yes, the tar sands situation is embarrassing (NOW, June 16-22). Like the seal hunt, it colours the way the world regards Canada. But let’s pay attention to the facts. The massive amount of energy input required to extract oil from dirt adds only a tiny percentage to the carbon footprint. Really want to help the environment? Don’t buy oil-based products as often; squeeze a few extra washes from that bar of soap; wear those jeans another day before tossing them in the hamper. And don’t drive if there’s even a possibility of another way. The enemy is not them. It’s us. Hagenaar

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new york did not, in fact, “implement a similar [open payment] system and prove it worked,” as Adam Giambrone suggests in Big Presto Swipe (NOW, June 16-22). They did a tiny test project in a few stations using Mastercard Paypass readers, and a tiny number of people used it. It has not been a huge success, as the pilot was discontinued and now only operates in a few New Jersey Transit (commuter rail) stations. Open payment continues to be a test technology, and no major system has yet adopted it. The TTC would be insane to be the first. iSkyscraper

Art bike dumb

on neon art bike wins over City Hall (NOW Daily, June 15). Hmm. Don’t they know that turning abandoned bikes into art has been tried in Port Credit and looks rather stupid? Andrew Newton

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One of the most important French language events in Ontario, Franco-Fête celebrates francophone culture with food, art, and “la musique francophone. Part of Hot Spot Summer. DANCE Dancing in the Pier June 23 | FREE Join us for our inaugural Dancing on the Pier session. P.O.S.E. Dance will be teaching Latin dancing, salsa and lambadaton, a mix of reggaeton & lambada group dance. SUMMER CAMPS July–Sept | Registration now open Toronto’s best camps for kids ages 3–17! We offer an incredible summer on the shore of Lake Ontario at a convenient downtown location. With 45 camps including Marine Camps, Arts Camps, Sports Camps, Specialty Camps and more! harbourfrontcentre.com/camps

1. GIVE ME EVERYTHING Pitbull ft. Ne-Yo, AfroJack & Nayer 2. E.T. Katy Perry ft. Kanye West 3. paRTY Rock aNTHEM LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett and GoonRock 4. jusT caN’T GET ENouGH The Black Eyed Peas 5. RuN THE woRld (GIRls) Beyonce 6. I’M INTo You Jennifer Lopez feat. Lil Wayne 7. laZY soNG Bruno Mars 8. wHo saYs Selena Gomez & The Scene 9. jusT a kIss Lady Antebellum 10. Roll up Whiz Khalifa

ly in-your-face, and I loved that I could head to the bar or front counter and order another beer and/or sausage, German-beer-hall-style. Jose Hernandez Toronto

Presto, more info like that

great article by adam giambrone on the TTC’s decision to go with the Presto fare payment system (NOW, June 16-22). It would be good if future articles like this that affect Toronto residents included either a phone number or email link for readers on where to get more info from city departments. Just a thought. Thanks for keeping it real. Jack Daris Toronto

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i live in an apartment that backs on to the Green P parking lot with the guerrilla garden in Little Portugal that Ben Spurr writes about in Pavement

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Versus Paradise (NOW Daily, June 15). I’m always telling friends how wonderful it is to have Dragon Alley, and how I’d love to have a small plot in the garden. Georgia Louise Toronto

Art of convention

raphael bendahan’s statement that “anyone with an MFA and a digital camera is an artist today” (NOW, June 9-15) dismisses in one stroke all contemporary artists. While I might agree that the ironic posturing of postmodernism has diminished the state of art today, Bendahan’s critique speaks from a position of privilege that is in dire need of a reality check. There are plenty of terrific artists whom most (Bendahan included) will never hear about because it is too difficult for them to maintain a successful practice and circulate work in an over-saturated market (especially if what they do is not easily commodified). But Bendahan should consider the Balinese saying “We have no art. We do everything as well as we can.” Everyone is, or can be, an artist. Any statement to the contrary does not strengthen art. It only weakens it further. Dan Browne Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

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The word, not necessarily the political belief system, after the federal NDP defers a resolution to remove the S-word (not feeling Fidel, apparently) from the party’s constitution. Phew.

Low-income and disabled tenants The Ontario Municipal Board issues a final ruling in its decision last year declaring that all Ontario municipalities must comply with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Charter Of Rights And Freedoms when making planning decisions.

Damian Abraham of Fucked Up gets his back-scratch fever on at the NXNE festival, Yonge-Dundas Square, June 16. Our NXNE roundup starts on page 42. Video of concerts at nowtoronto.com.

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CITY HALL WATCH Cityscape The mystery of who stole budget chief Mike Del Grandestand’s piggy, the incident that captured the imagination of the City Hall press gallery last week, has been solved. It was Adam Vaughan, who with the ballsy move has staked his claim to a future mayoralty run – and provided further evidence that doings at Rob Ford’s City Hall are a modern-day allegory right out of Lord Of The Flies.

The seventh annual Pug Awards, the people’s choice for architecture, were announced Tuesday, June 21. And the big winner in the residential category is…. Seventy5 (at 75 Portland). The airy, U-shaped modern structure was designed by Core Architects.

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Political hypocrisy Don Valley Councillor John Parker is forced to apologize for that “hot chicks” tweet (he first said he wouldn’t) after New Age Sensitive Male, aka the mayor, steps in. The mayor should talk. His record on women’s issues is puke-worthy. Our take at nowtoronto.com.

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REALITYCHECK Tunnel boring for the Yonge-University-Spadina subway got under way last week, providing a little perspective on Mayor Rob Ford’s subway dreamin’. The specs on the YSU line: 8.6 kilometres of track; six subway stations; $2.6 billion and five years to build. Number not included in the official presser: the eight years of studying the proposal. Ford says he can build 10 stations for his 12-kilometre Sheppard extension and a Bloor-Danforth loop to Scarborough Town Centre for $4 billion. Estimated time to complete Ford’s plan based on the Spadina experience: 15 years at least. And he still hasn’t found the private money he promised.

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ECO CONTRADICTIONS A Greenpeace report released June 16 fails Dalton McGuinty’s Liberals on boreal forest management, charging they have allowed damaging logging practices and massive clear-cuts. On the same day, the Ontario Clean Air Alliance reported that Ontario has been kicking its coal habit, using no coal-fired electricity whatsoever 22 per cent of the time in the first five months of 2011.

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Number of Canadians who have donated blood, a tiny fraction of the more than 50 per cent who are eligible to give. Canadian Blood Services has put out an urgent call for donors.

The HarperCons strike against locked-out postal workers – and the future of our pensions – with back-to-work legislation.

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The Quebec Soccer Federation bars a 15-year-old Muslim referee and a Sikh player from participating in league play wearing their religious dress, citing FIFA rules forbidding religious wear on the pitch.

MORE THAN JUST PRO! [Frontlines] Susan G. Cole on sTOnewall’s Pride strategy have you seen those pink-onblack posters for sTOnewall? They have the word “sTOnewall” and a date. That’s all – no why, where, who. Is it a party, a demonstration, a march? By a lucky fluke, I’ve discovered it’s a political action slated for Sunday (June 26), gathering those who feel marginalized by official Pride. The group wants to commemorate the Stonewall riots that inspired the first Pride event and honour the now mainstream and corporatized festival’s political roots. Great idea. So why not publicize it properly instead of turning it into a guessing game? It can take you half an hour to find the Facebook page, and what if you aren’t on Facebook? Those living on the margins might not have computers. Does their political voice not count? The organizers of sTOnewall are the same crew who brought us the Take Back The Dyke march last year. That event – designed to wrest Pride away from corporate sponsors and unfold without the city and police as partners – found its moment when the censors pushed Pride into keeping Queers Against Israeli Apartheid our of the big parade. Take Back The Dyke, already in motion, found new supporters among those disgusted by the way Pride caved. But I had a problem with Take Back The Dyke from the start. For one thing, it was programmed to coincide with Pride’s Dyke March, which made no sense to me. That march is already, in my view, counter-programming to the partyanimal sensibility of the rest of Pride and a healthy antidote to the rigid strictures associated with the official parade. You don’t have to sign up to join the Dyke March, or even be a member of an organization. And it’s always profoundly political, springing up from grassroots organizations concerned with everything from sex workers’ rights to violence against women and beyond. So why subvert that particular element of Pride, and with an event so inside that some, especially younger women not hip to the history, felt actively excluded?

Fortunately – thanks to Pride’s decision to forgo the date always associated with the Stonewall riots – sTOnewall, this year’s alt-event, occurs the weekend before Pride takes over Church and Wellesley so it doesn’t create this kind of conflict. It almost did run into a scheduling problem when organizers discovered that another potent event was already planned for the same Sunday. Back To Our Roots: Breaking New Ground is an all-day (1 to 11 pm) event at the 519 (519 Church). Organized by a raft of orgs including Blackness Yes!, Ontario Rainbow Alliance for the Deaf, Asian Arts Freedom School, Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention, Pride Coalition for Free Speech and many more, the day

A part of me feels like the sTOnewall group is organizing in a vacuum. is designed to remember the marginalized, the forgotten and the activists who made queer history. Look for dancing, ASL drag, performances, art-making, activism and celebration. Sensing their affinities, the sTOnewall gang decided to mass at noon at Queen’s Park – all genders this time – and march to the 519 to meet up with the Back To Our Roots activists. But the whole thing still makes me feel like the sTOnewall group is organizing in a vacuum. I understand the drive to make visible the marginalized community that Pride, in order to appease its business partners, has made invisible. But the cryptic publicity campaign and lack of an official announcement – let alone a specific area at Queen’s Park to meet up – give sTOnewall an exclusive vibe suggesting that only those in the know are welcome. Or is it that these activists want to remain on the political sidelines? Either way, I and others like me, who sense the value of an alt-Pride action, should get our asses down to Queen’s Park on Sunday to support an event committed to liberation and a celebration of queer history – even if its organizing principles are a little sketchy. 3

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what cyclists were promised in the mayor’s bike plan

A 14-kilometre network of separated bike lanes on major east-west and north-south routes in the downtown core, including Sherbourne, Wellesley, Adelaide and Richmond.

on hold

Separated bike lanes on Sherbourne and Wellesley until 2012; bikes lanes approved but not yet implemented on Bloor West between Mill Road and Beamish; Bloor Bikeway EA.

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Separated bike lanes on the Bloor Viaduct between Sherbourne and Broadview, bike lanes on Dawes, modifications to a stretch at Dupont and Ossington, and the removal of existing bike lanes on Pharmacy and Birchmount.

It’s hurry up & stop on bike plan Cyclists get door-prized as mayor’s vaunted scheme for 14 kilometres of separated bike lanes hits the skids

t was evident from the mayor’s impromptu photo op atop the art bike the other day that he hasn’t been on a twowheeler for a while. But hey – don’t need to know how to ride a bike to come up with a bike plan, right? Not so fast. The mayor’s bike plan, the one with separated lanes his chair of Public Works, Denzil Minnan-Wong, has been talking up for weeks, just got a huge flat. Kaboom. The whole crashing mess is laid out in a 40page preliminary report tabled by city Transportation staff last week and set for discussion at today’s meeting (Thursday, June 23) of the Works Committee. The promised 14 kilometres of separated bike lanes crisscrossing the core have been reduced to a short stretch on Bloor. The bad news in a nutshell: staff is recommending no more cash for the Bloor Bikeway EA; no more separated bike lanes on Adelaide or Richmond – only a promise of further study; rescinding approvals on bike lanes not yet implemented on Bloor West between Mill Road and Beamish; and the removal (yes, you read that right) of bike lanes on Pharmacy and Birchmount. In other words, a huge step backwards for bike riders. The upside (if you want to call it that): bike lanes on Dawes between Danforth Avenue and Vic Park, a separated bike lane on the Bloor Viaduct from Sherbourne to Broadview, and (maybe) separated bike lanes on Wellesley and Sherbourne in 2012. The Bloor bit is not completely bad news on the face of it until you read between the lines of the bureaucratese. The separated lane proposed for Bloor will be “utilizing the existing designated bike lane alignment.” Which means that those imagining stylish bollards and a few trees in giant pots to take in while riding should start thinking

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grey concrete barriers. The separated lanes contemplated on Wellesley and Sherbourne are not a given either, but “subject to additional assessment and consultation” – namely, the number of parking spots that would have to be sacrificed to make room for them. Separated bike lanes on both Sherbourne and Wellesley are a complicated proposition, a fact that would be obvious to anyone who’d ridden the bike lanes on the streets now. Both avenues are far too narrow to accommodate separated bike lanes with anything approaching meaningful design without removing parking spaces completely or pissing off businesses with loading needs. It gets worse – and more complicated at the same time. The report recommends that separated bike lanes previously talked about on north-south routes between Simcoe and Peter be put on hold for further study – or, as in the case of a separated bike lane contemplated for St. George, be scrapped. The door prize for cyclists is that the Jarvis bike lanes, which the mayor played political football with during the election by promising to remove them, may indeed be next on the chopping block. Staff’s report talks about “an update on [their] operation and impacts.” Removing the Jarvis lanes may be a tougher sell for Ford & Co. now that the number using the lanes has almost tripled from 290 cyclists during peak hours to more than 890. The recently established Bixi bike-sharing program is bumping the numbers even more. But logic isn’t an operating principle when it comes to the policy on pedal-pushing rolling out of the mayor’s office. Who was the helmet head who came up with the needless plan for a separated bike path on St. George, a street that’s 9.5 metres wide, far too narrow to accommodate the 3 metres needed

the mayor has been pretty clear about where he sits in the so-called ‘war on the car.’ He supports bike lanes only where they’re supported by the community and where they don’t impede traffic, which means virtually nowhere. for separated lanes? St. George works fine, and is, in fact, one of the most bike- and pedestrianfriendly streets in the city. Practically every street proposed for separated bike lanes under the Ford plan was a nonstarter. Was that intentional, or just a reflection of how out-of-touch the suburban-minded administration at City Hall is when it comes to the core? We may be witnessing a little punchback from staff. But is it conceivable that the penny-pinchers running the show at City Hall were unaware that building separated lanes would create additional winter maintenance costs – for which there’s no money in the 2011 budget – somewhere on the order of $20,000 per kilometre? Was any thought given to the impact of separated lanes on curbside garbage collection? Or to the fact that physical barriers for bikes require more space? It’s likely they understood at least some of these ramifications – but maybe not. Staff’s report says in the section on the possible impacts of separated lanes that “there appears to be a perception that converting existing bicycle

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lanes to separated bicycle lanes will have no impact on traffic or parking.” Duh. Indeed. Building separated bike lanes is a complicated business. The movement of TTC vehicles has to be accounted for as well as emergency vehicles. The removal of turn lanes for vehicles has to be considered, as well as access to residences and businesses. It’s smelling more like the Ford bike plan was nothing but an elaborate scheme to poke a finger in Councillor Adam Vaughan’s eye, or at least to create a convenient wedge issue. The mayor’s bike plan as originally envisioned certainly messed with Vaughan’s idea of turning John into a pedestrian zone. It also effectively shelved his bike plan for the downtown core, approved by the previous council. The Toronto Cyclists Union, for one, has been very vocal in its support of the mayor’s plan. Not any more, though. The TCU now colours itself “disappointed” with the very different direction the Ford bike scheme seems to be taking. Bike advocates can maybe be forgiven for being a little naive about the mayor’s real intentions when it comes to cycling. In the current cut, cut, cut political climate, community groups are taking what they can get. But the mayor has been pretty clear about where he sits in the so-called “war on the car.” He supports bike lanes only where they’re supported by the community and where they don’t impede traffic, which means virtually nowhere. Signs are, we’re in for a longer and more dangerous ride where cycling is concerned under the current administration. Why, there was Dave Meslin, the guy singing the mayor’s praises on bikes post-election, out with his counter the other day agitating for bike lanes on the aforementioned John Street. Muy curiosio. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com

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● Provincial ombudsman’s account of the terrible misuse of the Public Works Protection Act concludes that invoking wartime legislation handed police “powers unfamiliar in a free and democratic society.” It further nails Toronto police Chief Bill Blair as the perpetrator: he alone, and not the OPP or RCMP, pressed for robust new powers at the fence. ● Canadian Civil Liberties Association and National Union of Public and General Employees records the scary tales of abused and shell-shocked bystanders and protesters and tabulates the serious Charter violations involved: illegal searches and detentions, excessive use of force, kettling. These “cannot have simply been the actions of a few bad apples,” it concludes, “but rather a failure of policy and training.” ● Parliament’s Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security urges a full judicial inquiry and – here’s a brave thought – recommends the government apologize to the visitors and citizens whose rights were trampled. ● Report by Roy McMurtry recommends the repeal of the Public Works Protection Act because its arrest powers are “beyond troubling.”

No closure, no agreed-upon lessons learned. One year after the G20, memories of that June weekend linger like a story with no end. True reconciliation between the grassroots and the city’s policing establishment requires admissions, apologies and pledges of behaviour modification. But besides Toronto Police’s recent committment to ditch the kettling tactic, we are a long way from all that. Though the feds continue to resist the call for a judicial inquiry, some G20 investigations have already seen the light of day; crucial others are still to come. Here’s the tally. By ElliE KirzNEr

g2o grand tally $10 million

Amount 371 local business lost during summit

$676 million

Cost of the security operation for the G8 and G20

$7 million

Amount RCMP paid for 657 officers from 17 different forces alone

1,105

Number of protesters and bystanders detained

317

Total number charged

187

Number of arrestees whose charges were withdrawn, stayed or dismissed

$30,300

Price Toronto police paid for four Long Range Acoustical Devices that they decided to keep after the summit (the feds paid the other half)

Number of Special Investigations Unit cases of injured demonstrators probed

Number of officers charged by the SIU

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● Office of the Independent Police Review Director: director Gerry McNeilly hasn’t been afraid to raise expectations about his promised systemic G20 report. ● Independent Civilian Review into Matters Relating to the G20 Summit, led by John W. Morden and established by the Police Services Board has no powers of subpoena, but nevertheless examines not only the G20 command structure, crowd control policies and who ordered what when, but also the role of the Police Services Board when stuff got out of hand. You read that right: the board has commissioned a study of its own behaviour. This better be good. ● The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP: this “public interest” investigation looks like it could have some punch. It’s mandated to investigate the RCMP’s role in possible infiltration and surveillance of activist groups, use of force, detentions and conditions at the detention centre. ● Summit Management After Action Review Team: this probe set up by Bill Blair looks at the TPS’s G20 procedures. Blair’s stated mandate is “to examine everything we did and how we did it.’’

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1. Of the TPS, OPP and RCMP, which force was directly responsible for horseback attacks at Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Park, charging of protesters outside the Detention Centre, mass arrests at Novotel, kettling at Queen and Spadina?

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toronto is spawning a seemingly endless supply of bad new ideas these days. The most recent is the selling of naming rights to generate a little bit of money for a city that cut taxes and now finds it can’t fund basic programs. We’re all used to corporate names permeating public space: Rogers Centre, Air Canada Centre. So some ask, what’s the difference if we put a few more brand names on a few more public buildings or public spaces? Is it just a matter of degree? All but the strongest critics of corporate involvement in the public realm would likely accept a plaque on the wall if a company paid for an entire new subway or LRT line. But the sums involved in the type of sponsorship we’re talking about don’t even come close to the totals needed for a new line or a subway station renovation. Corporate payment would be in the low millions at best, while station renos cost tens of millions, and subway lines billions. From 90 to 98 per cent of the cost (depending on the project) would still be carried by the taxpayer. So the debate is really about whether you’d sell naming rights on major public infrastructure for the equivalent of a few hundred thousand dollars a year on a multi-million-dollar, 10- to 30-year deal, because that’s the best of what’s on offer. Only a few North America transit systems have sold naming rights. (Examples from outside North America aren’t very useful; the context is quite different.) In Cleveland, the transit authority got $6.25 million for a new line in a 25-year naming deal. This works out to $250,000 a year – minus $50,000 to $100,000 in likely lost revenues, since other companies were exclud-

ed from advertising as a result of the contract. Then there’s Chicago, where Apple has offered $3.9 million to renovate one station in exchange for naming rights and exclusive advertising. In New York, the private sector paid $4 million for one station – again, a few hundred thousand annually in a multi-year deal involving loss of existing ad revenue. It should also be noted that so far, only one station in each city has been sold, despite the fact that both transit agencies have indicated they would

If the average station already pulls in $300K in ad revenue per year, what’s the point of selling off exclusive rights for a few mil over 20 years? accept more. But the market is likely limited because the novelty is limited, and therefore the appetite of the corporate sector. Closer to home, the Toronto Community Foundation’s station renovation project, which brought us the Museum station revamp, had to put future station renos on hold because of insufficient corporate interest. These and other examples from agencies around the world suggest that private funding of transit in exchange for naming rights will at best be a limited option. It’s also important to remember there are already opportunities for

corporate involvement in the TTC through ad contracts. Over the last few years, the TTC has received on average around $20 million a year (in some years closer to $25 million) from advertising. One particular form is like short-term sponsorship: “station domination,” in which a station is “wrapped” with one particular theme or brand for about $40,000 a month. This is also done with transit vehicles for lesser sums. Again, any calculation of new revenue from these campaigns has to include losses resulting from exclusive deals, which could total hundreds of thousands of dollars. If the average station already pulls in $150,000 to $300,000, what’s the point of selling off naming rights for even $4 million over 20 years? There might even be a loss of revenue. And finally, there’s an equity issue. Corporate sponsors are likely to be more interested in busier stations or those most used by their target demographics. Businesses will be less attracted to Warden station than to Dundas, for example, as it’s in the downtown core. There will inevitably be a temptation to prioritize improvement projects based on whether private cash is forthcoming. If so, what happens to areas like Scarborough? Most of the costs, after all, are borne by taxpayers. Shouldn’t money only go where it’s most needed? Whether or not the TTC decides to sell naming rights, the potential revenues are small and will not solve the its capital shortfall, pegged at $2.5 billion over the next 10 years. Perhaps our mayor’s time would be better spent working with his colleagues in other big cities to advocate for a national transit strategy. 3 Adam Giambrone is former chair of the TTC. news@nowtoronto.com

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My stolen I.D. gets passed around like a joint at a keg party By SAMANTHA STROH a single shopping trip changed my entire life. Until that day, I was comfortably cocooned, feeling safe and anony mous in this giant city. I was and still am attached to my computer, but only for writing, googling this symp tom or that and keeping up to date on Brad and Angie’s brood. When it came to giving away per sonal information, I always stopped and redirected myself. I interacted fairly oldschool but still managed to stay in touch with those I invited into my life. To that end, I gave myself a ridiculous pseudonym on Facebook, my status updates were through a now almost Luddite form of commu nication, namely email, and I couldn’t even imagine paying bills online. But when I was offered the new Chip and PIN credit card, touted as the most secure ever, I immediately signed my husband and myself up. A few months of shopping later, I received a hysterical call from my normally calm and collected mate. I could hear the frantic rustling of pa pers: our latest credit card statement. Had I, he wanted to know, withdrawn thousands of dollars in cash advan

ces, and, oh, taken a short trip to Windsor recently to stock up on gas and a pair of very expensive jeans? My stomach sinking, I madly searched my wallet, fully ex pecting to see an empty spot where I kept my new credit card. Nope, it was right there in its little pocket, the silver chip shining at me, al most smirking. I was dumb founded. Someone must have gotten hold of my PIN, but that was impossible. Racking my brain, I could only conjure up one sickening scenario: while I was keying in my PIN somewhere, I was be ing watched. As the mother of a one and fouryearold, I generally walk around in a state of foggy exhaus tion. Someone could have an entire hand in the back pocket of my jeans and I wouldn’t even twitch. The credit card company had some explaining to do. We realized that someone had taken out 19 cash ad

vances and done a little shopping at Walmart, yet the company never called to verify that it was me spend ing $10,000. I’ve never charged

one cash advance, let alone 19. At first, the company insisted that I must have shared my PIN. In its de fence, the rep said the expenditures were never questioned because a Chip and PIN card can’t possibly be counterfeited. Well, actually, it can. After doing some “investigative

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sea sHePHerD Party anD Book sale (Sea

Shepherd Soc) Socialize with like-minded folks. 8 pm. Free. Disgraceland, 965 Bloor W. toronto@seashepherd.org. wine BluFF (Environmental Defence) Expert tasters, auctions and more with comedian Sean Cullen. 7 pm. $150. Distillery District Fermenting Cellar, 55 Mill. winebluff.ca. zauntourage (SickKids) Music by Tiny Danza, Holy Toledo and DJ Mark Holmes. 9 pm. $25. Mod Club Theatre, 722 College. 416-588-4663, zauntourage.com.

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coFFee tHe rigHt way Connoisseur and edu-

cational event. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-466-2129. come anD talk to me Female bloggers judge the conversational skills of modern men. 8:3010 pm. $5. Tequila Bookworm, 512 Queen W. 416-504-7335. exHiBition Place Heritage Toronto guided walk. 7 pm. Free. Dufferin Gates, Exhibition Place. 416-338-3886. Favianna roDriguez The printmaker/digital artist talks about her new exhibition. 7 pm. Free. Toronto Women’s Bookstore, 73 Harbord. 416-922-8744. g20, lessons learneD, messages lost Canadian Civil Liberties panel discussion with activist/writer John Sewell, lawyer Clayton Ruby and others. 6:30 pm. Free. U of T Faculty of Law, 84 Queen’s Pk. aspercentre.ca. inDian Film awarDs Three-day extravaganza celebrating Indian film, with an awards ceremony (Jun 25). To Jun 25. $174-$184. Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. 1-855-985-5000.

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rDragon Boat race Festival Boat races,

international entertainment, food and more. Free. Centre Island. torontodragonboat.com. Jun 25 and 26 rFranco-Fete Francophone music, arts and cuture fest with bands, artists and more. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. Jun 24 to 26 rHungarian Festival Folk music, dance, crafts, food and more. Free. Hungarian Canadian Cultural Centre, 840 St Clair W. 416654-4926, hccc.org. Jun 24 to 26 rJ’aDore Festival Musical performances by Medicine Man, eLman and others, an art exhib by Noah Gano, fashion, family walks, food and more. Various prices and venues, some events free. jadorefestival.com. Jun 29 to Jul 30 PriDe toronto The Pride festival features entertainment on outdoor stages, the Pride Parade, Dyke March, parties, family activ-

keePing it real: living our activism every Day Catalytic conversation focusing

on activism. 6:30 pm. Free. OISE, 252 Bloor W. deborah@catalystcentre.ca. saraH scHulman The lesbian novelist/ playwright/activist talks with NOW entertainment editor Susan G Cole. 9 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net.

strengtH, survival, sisterHooD: Power oF women in tHe Downtown eastsiDe

Film screening and discussion with South Asian activist Harsha Walia. 7 pm. Free. U of T First Nations House, 563 Spadina. fnh.utoronto.ca.

Friday, June 24

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evening oF music anD art (Autism Speaks

Canada) Music by Ronley Teper’s Lipliners, DJ Stavrik and others plus a silent art auction. 8 pm-2 am. $5 cover. Sidewalk Cafe, 1344 Danforth. autismspeaks.ca. relay For liFe (Canadian Cancer Soc) Overnight non-competitive race. 7 pm-7 am. Donation. Birchmount Stadium (Kingston and Birchmount), Esther Shiner Stadium (Bathurst and Finch). relayforlife.ca.

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cido Domingo, Diana Krall and others plus spoken performances by Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons. Various prices. York University Rexall Centre, 1 Shoreham. blackcreekfestival.com. To Aug 30 Doc now Documentary media festival showcasing film, photography and new media by graduating Ryrson students. docnow.ca. To Jun 25

roPen rooF Festival Outdoor film and music fest with performances by the Darcys, Liam Titcomb and others. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffestival.com. To Sep 1 ities and much more. (See glossy NOW Pride Guide.) pridetoronto.com. Jun 24 to Jul 3 toronto Jazz Festival Performances by Aretha Franklin, Los Lonely Boys/Los Lobos, Nikki Yanofsky and many others plus workshops and seminars. Various prices and venues, some events free. torontojazz.com. Jun 24 to Jul 3

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rcommunity street Party Parkdale Com-

munity Legal Services celebrates its 40th anniverary with music, games and more. 2:306:30 pm. Free. Queen and Noble. 416-531-2411. Bcritical mass riDe Group bike ride through the downtown. 6 pm. Free. Bloor and Spadina. criticalmass.com. tHe HigH cost oF Free Parking Canadian Urban Institute presentation by professor Donald Shoup. 7:30-11:30 am. $130. Ted Rogers School of Management, 55 Dundas W. Preregister canurb.og.

sHaHrukH kHan & vivek oBeroi: tHe reD carPet event International Indian Film Aca-

demy party with the superstars present. 8 pm. $100. Sheraton Hotel, 123 Queen W. clubcrawlers.com.

Saturday, June 25

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celeBrate tHe sun anD olive trees (Trees for Life) Solstice celebration with chanting, kirtan, yoga and song. 4-10 pm. $5-$10 sugg. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. city cHase 1 (Right to Play) Duos compete in

ParkDale Film + viDeo sHowcase Festival

of short film, video and media installations. Pwyc. Various venues. parkdaleshowcase.ca. To Jun 26

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Emerging and established indie filmmakers. $7-$50. Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex), Southern Accent (595 Markham). reelheart.org. To Jun 25 an urban race. 10 am. $150 team. Queen & Bay. Pre-register 905-510-9309. Bcycle For sigHt (Foundation Fighting Blindness) Fundraising bike ride. 8 am-8 pm. Pledges. Downsview TTC parking lot. Preregister cycleforsight.ca.

rlatin american anD cariBBean FunDraiser (Latin American and Caribbean Solidarity Network) Music, soccer, kids’ activities and more. 1-8 pm. Free (food $10). High Park. Register 416-392-9398.

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Battle For tHe Boot Toronto Roller Derby championship featuring Gore-Gore Rollergirls vs Chicks Ahoy!. 7:30 pm. $18, adv $12. Downsview Park Hangar, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com. BBikeFest 2011 Workshops and activities for cyclists of all skill levels. 11 am-6 pm. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. mec.ca/bikefest. city cHase Teams of two search for ChasePoint challenges throughout the city. 9 am-4 pm. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. g20 reDux: a FunDamental FreeDoms Festival Join Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc

and other groups to mark the anniversary of the G20 events and fight for a public inquiry and full accountability. 2-5 pm. Free. Queen’s

Park. 416-363-0321 ext 225.

rinti raymi Festival Andean folk music and

dance festival. Today and tomorrow. Christie Pits Park, Bloor and Christie. 416-782-2953. making your own BioDiesel Fuel Workshop on making biodiesel from used cooking/fryer oil. Noon-3:30 pm. $20 sugg. Linux Cafe, 326 Harbord. 647-317-0413. rmayor’s troPHy cricket Cricket matches, a demo and more with CBC radio and television personalities. 9 am-5 pm. Free. Sunnybrook Park, 1132 Leslie. cimacanada.org. BrParkDale Bazaar Bike tune-ups, health info, interactive activities and a marketpace. 11 am-5 pm. Free. Parkdale Town Square, Queen and Cowan. parkdaleliberty.com. Pillow-making worksHoP Workshop led by DodoLab and artists in the Cold Comfort exhibition. Today and tomorrow noon-4 pm. Free w/ admission. Textile Museum of Canada, 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. rPinoy Fiesta Philippine festival with performances by Jay-R, Carla Abellana and others. 8 am-10 pm. $15-$25, under 10 free. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W. philippinecanadianfoundation.com. rPollinator week Garden tours, honey tasting, hands-on workshops and more. 8 am-1 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

reFusing to Forget anD reclaiming camPus: g20 anniversary Panel Panel discus-

sion with students and community activists. 11 am. Free. Graduate Students’ Union Gym, 16 Bancroft. external@utgsu.ca. rsamsara: Feel tHe Flow Bollywoodthemed street festival with South Asian music and dance, film songs and more. 2 pm. Free. Bremnar Blvd. iifa.com. session 99 craFt Beer Festival Sampling of more than 100 craft beers, bands, entertainment and more. Noon-9 pm. $35. 99 Sudbury. session2011.ca. socially BaseD viDeo worksHoP With artist Marcia Vaitsman. Today 9 am-3 pm; Jun 27, 6-8 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. Pre-register marciavaitsman@ gmail.com. tHeatre oF tHe sPirit scHool Workshop exploring Christian spirituality and its integration with the creative arts. 10 am-3 pm. $25. Bread and Circus, 299 Augusta. Preregister theatreofthespirit.com. rtoronto vegan scavenger Hunt Hunt for various items around the city with prizes. 11 am. Free. Panacea, 588 Bloor W. torontoveganscavengerhunt.com. west toronto Junction Heritage Toronto walk. 10 am. Free. NW corner Runnymede and Dundas. heritagetoronto.org.

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Gregg Zaun may no longer be behind the plate for the Toronto Blue Jays, but he’s definitely stepping up to the plate when it comes to the community. He’s behind a cool benefit in support of SickKids Hospital, but it’s not the break-the-bank kind of event you usually see in funders for major institutions. Zaun hosts Zauntourage tonight (Thursday, June 23), with music by Tiny Danza, Holy Toledo and DJ Mark Holmes at the Mod Club (722 College). 9 pm, $25. zauntourage. com.

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Sunday, June 26

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Paws On The shOre (Adopt-a-Dog/Save-aLife) Group dog hike. 11:30 am (rain or shine). Free. Marie Curtis Park, Lakeshore and Brown’s Line. adoptadogsavealife.com. run and walk FOr hunTingTOn disease

(Huntington Soc of Canada) 5 and 10K runs, and a 1-5K walk. 10 am. Pledges. Wilket Creek Park, picnic site 2, 1120 Leslie. hdtoronto.org.

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arTbus Tour of current exhibitions at the Jus-

tina M Barnicke Gallery and Oakville Galleries. 1-5 pm. Free. Pickup at Justina M Barnicke, 7 Hart House Circle. Pre-register artbus@ oakvillegalleries.com. Brbike rOdeO FesTival Bike art and decorating, and bike safety skills for kids eight to 13. 1 pm. Free. Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. 416-392-7460. rbOllywOOd day aT The ZOO Bollywood theatre, bhangra dances and songs. 9 am-7:30 pm. Free w/ admission. Toronto Zoo, Meadowvale N of 401. 416-392-5929.

rCOlOurs OF The rainbOw: a MulTi CulTural JOurney Children’s book launch.

5:30 pm. Free. Almacen, 1078 Queen W. multiculturaljourney.com. BrFaMily biCyCle Parade Decorate your bike, ride in a parade and play bike games. 2-4 pm. Free. Connaught Circle, Claxton and Heathdale. 416-653-9019. gandhian nOnviOlenT aCTiOn Presentation by Jill Carr-Harris and Ravi Badri. 12:45 pm. Free. Friends House, 60 Lowther. 416-5967328.

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Monday, June 27

Benefits

side by side wiTh sOnus (Sonus Stage) Cabaret fundraiser with performances by Janna Polzin, James Everett and others. 8 pm. $15. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. 416-516-2531.

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at a relaxed pace on quiet streets and bike paths. 6:30 pm. Free. City Hall reflecting pond, Queen and Bay. tbn.ca.

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Thursday, June 30 sarah seleky/JessiCa wesThead/MaTThew J TraFFOrd (Broadsheet Magazine) Readings

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performances by Carlos Bastidas, Amanda Martinez and others, plus visual art. 7:30 pm. Free. Living Arts Centre, 4141 Living Art (Mississauga). hispaniccanadianarts.org. 3

Safe Productions) Performances by Jamie McClyment, Wendy Lands and others. 8 pm. $40. St Lawrence Hall, 157 King E. 416-299-4986.

arT baTTle 15 Live competitive painting with audience voting, plus music. 7:30 pm. $15. Great Hall, 1087 Queen W. artbattleto.com. baMakO Screening and discussion on the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 7 pm. Donation. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org.

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6:30 pm. Free. Runnymede subway. 416-5932656. harT hOuse CraFT beer FesTival Beer sampling and a barbecue. 7 pm. $35, stu $30. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-978-8849. Jun kanekO: beyOnd liMiTs Talk on the sculptor’s work by Glen R Brown. 6:30-8 pm. $12, stu/srs $10. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8080. Cking and Queen COMPeTiTiOn Caribbean Carnival Toronto presents costumers parading for the titles. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. torontocaribbeancarnival.com. ParTnering wiTh The universe Tour of our world and solar system with eclipse chaser David Makepeace. 6:30 pm. $10 or pwyc. Source Centre, 111 Peter. 416-923-4325. The wOrld as hOlOgraM Lecture by theoretical physics professor Leonard Susskind. 7:30 pm. Free. Koffler Institute, rm 108, 569 Spadina. cita.utoronto.ca.

Wednesday, June 29

Benefits

bOOk bakery beneFiT (The Book Bakery) Readings by Andrew Pyper, Pasha Malla and others plus a kissing booth. 7 pm. $10. Burroughes Bldg, Queen and Bathurst. thebookbakery.biz. war resisTers dinner (U.S. Iraq War Resisters) Dinner with speakers including lawyer Alyssa Manning, and music by Sara Marlowe and the Manning Sisters. 6 pm. $20 sugg. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. resisters.ca.

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CleMenT greenberg, harOld rOsenberg and The sTruggle FOr The Meaning OF ab sTraCT exPressiOnisM Talk by Norman

Kleeblatt, curator of the Jewish Museum in New York. 7-8:30 pm. $22.50, stu $17. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. Parkdale Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen W. rom.on.ca. ThilO FOlkerTs Lecture by the Berlin landscape architect. 6:30-7:30 pm. Free. Design Exchange, 234 Bay. Pre-register noa@dx.org. Beasy rOller evening ride 20- to 60K ride

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Queen’s Park CirCle: POliTiCs, PrOFs and PundiTs Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Queen’s

The food system depends on the winged efforts of pollinators, but attacks on the ecosystem put them at

walk. 1:30 pm. Free. Jarvis and Gerrard. www. heritagetoronto.org. OrganiZe TO win Workshop for citizens groups fighting to protect natural spaces. 1-4 pm. Pwyc ($5-$10). Runnymede Library, 2178 Bloor W. Pre-register oakvillegreen.com. rPedesTrian sundays in kensingTOn Celebrate the theme of fire on car-free streets. Noon-7 pm. Free. Kensington Market, College and Augusta. pskensington.ca. rOda de rua Afro-Brazilian music, dance and martial arts. 1 pm. $17-$22. Bishop Marrocco/ Thomas Merton Secondary School, 1515 Bloor W. axetoronto.com.

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risk. Celebrate the birds and bees at an International Pollinator Week festival featuring bee mapping, an art show, a farmers’ market and lots of panels and workshops on monitoring and saving our little seed spreaders. Speakers include Sheila Colla, founder of savethebumbles. com, Scott MacIvor of T.O. Bee, bee expert Dave Barr and more. Saturday (June 25), 8 am to 1 pm. Free. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. evergreen.ca.

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trapped them at Queen and Spadina and locked them up in their hundreds. While we remember the unsettling weekend our rights were trampled, it’s time to say again that there will be no closure without a full public inquiry. Come to G20 Redux: A Fundamental Freedoms Festival, hosted by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Ontario Federation of Labour, Council of Canadians and others, and be part of the movement for accountability. Saturday (June 25), 2 pm. Free. Queen’s Park. 416-363-0321 ext 225.

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Smells like Etobicoke in the 50s. Vibe Waterfront Trail blazers; dog walkers; Long Branch locals. Unique features Giant cannon; 150-year-old alders; “Jesus Loves You” message on park bench; site of a former flood plain; created in 1959 after Hurricane Hazel wiped out houses in the area. Sand specs Could use a few truckloads in spots. Extras A mating pair of white swans in nearby Etobicoke Creek; in the works, a $2.8 million master plan to redesign the area. Getting there Foot of 42nd south of Lakeshore East; GO west to Alderwood; or Lakeshore car to Long Branch. 411 on H20 Toronto’s worst for water quality because of pollution from Etobicoke Creek. But swimmable except after big rain storms. Next wave Move the beach to the west side of Etobicoke Creek where the water is cleaner.

Sunnyside Beach

Smells like Hemingway might have got drunk here. Vibe Daytrippers, Parkdale lovebirds, rollerbladers, kayak-friendly hot spot. Unique features A citywide destination since the 1890s; 1921 pavilion (a relic from when Sunnyside was an amusement park); dragon boat races; patio that serves beer. Sand specs Rock ’n’ roll on the beach. Extras First site of the Toronto Easter Parade; best pool in the city (opened in 1925) mere steps away; concession stands including former Joy Oil Gas Station, now undergoing restoration. Getting there Parkside bridge via the Queen car, or the Waterfront Trail. 411 on H20 Can be a hazard to your health; severely affected by pollution from Humber River and Canada geese. But much improved since construction of Western Beaches Storage Tunnel (2002) and stormwater management facilities (2007). One of three T.O. beaches sans Blue Flag. Next wave More city dog patrols to herd pooping gulls and geese off the beach.

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Kilometres of shoreline making up Toronto’s 11 swimmable beaches that is supervised and monitored for water quality

Hanlan’s Point Beach

Smells like European vacation. Vibe It’s a meet market. Unique features Clothing optional since 2002 (only the second to go the nude route in Canada); backs onto a sand dune system that extends from the Island Airport to Gibraltar Point Beach; secret cruise spot with picnic table and rock recliner to the east. Sand specs The finest, of course. Extras Daytime dance parties; penis-watching; lounge chairs; emergency phone; lockers; spies with binoculars on their yachts offshore; named after famous rower. Getting there Hanlan’s Point ferry dock to the circa-1970 concession buildings, then hang a right and follow the boardwalk between the dunes. 411 on H20 Blue Flag flying high since 2005.

Centre Island Beach

Smells like Bacon – owing to way too many cops on dune buggies patrolling the joint. Vibe Touristas carrying on a tradition (there’s been public bathing here since 1888); teenagers out for liquor and beer. Unique features Only Island beach protected by a breakwall; giant pier; Venice Beach feel (if you squint real hard); dunes behind the westernmost swimming area. Sand specs The gulls seem to like it. Extras Outdoor showers with hot running water; dog-strangling vine (apparently it’s messing with the trees). Getting there From Centre Island ferry dock to the water via Avenue of the Island. 411 on H20 Blue Flag beach since 2007 thanks to dredging around breakwall. Next wave Enviro program for kids.

Number of criteria related to water quality and eco management that a beach must satisfy to acquire Blue Flag status

Ward’s Island Beach

Smells like Hyannis Port lite. Vibe Island cool. Unique features Cottage community; lakeshore boardwalk; vista over the Eastern Gap; view of the Toronto skyline; benches dedicated to long-gone locals. Sand specs Good enough to be imported. Extras Local tennis and croquet enthusiasts; within walking distance of frisbee golf, playground and local cafés. Getting there Short skip from ferry docks along Withrow Street; or the lakeside boardwalk from Centre Island if you’re in the mood for something more rustic. 411 on H20 Lovely. Awarded Blue Flag status in 2005. Next wave Improved beach debris removal after storms.

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Percentage of time T.O. beaches were open in 1999

Gibraltar Point Beach

Smells like Artists from the nearby Artscape centre in the former school building spend a lot of time here. Vibe Witchy. Unique features Tiny and secluded; giant dream catcher; may be haunted (see mysterious death in 1815 of J.P. Rademuller, the first keeper of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse nearby). Sand specs Deep red and loamy on a narrow, cozy strip, but suffering from severe coastal erosion. Extras Artist Michael Davey’s Rogue Wave 2010 installation at washrooms on western edge; a painted log; Baltimore orioles; fire hydrants that pop incongruously out of the greenery along the way. Getting there Centre Island ferry to Avenue of the Island, turn right onto Lakeshore Ave and keep walking until you hit the baseball diamond on your left 411 on H20 Dreamy. Blue Flag since 2007. Next wave Offshore protection and sand management plan; provide beach wheelchairs.

Woodbine Beach

Smells like Teen spirit (when the wind isn’t blowing from Ashbridges Bay sewage treatment plant). Vibe Beach volleyball set. Unique features Straddles Beaches Park, Woodbine Beach Park and Ashbriges Bay Park; circa 1937 bathing station; boardwalk access for users with disabilities; Martin Goodman Trail. Sand specs Good for scribbling love messages; decent where it counts, i.e., the volleyball courts. Extras Torontonians have been swimming here since 1897; Olympic-size pool at Woodbine. Getting there Bike is best, via the Waterfront Trail; Queen car to the foot of Carlaw or Woodbine. 411 on H20 Surprise! Best water quality of Toronto’s mainland beaches. Blue Flag since 2005. Next wave Extended lifeguard hours during extreme heat alerts.

Percentage of time T.O. beaches were open in 2007

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Number of Blue Flag beaches in Toronto: Cherry, Woodbine, Kew-Balmy, Bluffer’s Park, Centre Island, Hanlan’s Point, Gibraltar Point, Ward’s Island

Cherry Beach

Smells like Windsurfer cool. Vibe TGIF. Unique features Wind gusting off the Outer Harbour; 1930s lifesaving station; weeping willows; rusted-out barbies. Sand specs Gravelly and a little rough on the feet. Extras Sunday Promise Party; chip and ice cream truck; shaded picnic areas; where cops from 51 Division used to take snitches. Getting there Bus to the foot of Cherry, or Martin Goodman Trail if you’re coming by bike. 411 on H20 Cold but clean. Blue Flag beach since 2005. Next wave Separate beach areas for kiteboarders and swimmers.

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Dance on Cherry Beach The weekly Sunday afternoon free parties thrown at Cherry Beach are one of Toronto’s most colourful institutions, and enjoy fairly unique relationship with the city in that they have official permission to blast beats all summer. In return, the organizers hire security and ensure that the space is left clean at the end of the day. Why isn’t it always this simple to throw a public event in Toronto without wading through miles of red tape? It wasn’t always like this. Back in the mid-90s, many promoters would lug out generators and sound systems all summer long, and most weekends you could head down to the lake after the clubs closed and find something going on until the break of day. Some Saturdays there might even be two separate parties happening at either end of Cherry Beach, and it seemed like they were tolerated by the cops for the most part.

As they became more popular, though, noise complaints from Ward’s Island sent the authorities down there more regularly, and instead of just telling them to turn it down a bit, the cops started to shut the scene down. The idea got a new lease on life when promoters finally figured out you could get away with some fun if you didn’t disrupt anyone’s sleep, and a new tradition was born. The Promise crew got inspired by this solution, and in 2002 started throwing free DJ parties every Sunday, which got bigger and bigger as word spread. Unfortunately, media attention sparked a crackdown that culminated in a bizarrely disproportionate police response one afternoon at the end of the summer of 2006 that seemed like the end of the road. Instead of giving up, organizers Irving Shaw and David Macleod approached Counsellor Paula Fletcher

and managed to get a permit to hold the event, and so it continues today. The DJs are usually local and typically span a wide range of styles and genres. Occasionally, bigger-name performers show up the day after their official club gig in town, but there’s no need of a big headliner to get people to come out. The vibe has changed some since the early days, but it’s still pretty chilled out and friendly. While the weekly parties are technically free, the organizers do ask for donations to cover the cost of security and the sound system. They take very seriously the need to keep the beach clean, and you can expect dirty looks from other partiers if you bring glass bottles or leave garbage behind. So if you head down there, behave yourself. Who says Toronto can’t have nice Benjamin Boles things?

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Smells like Beer-drinking party. Vibe Bookish beauties and guys on bikes; kite flyers when Woodbine is too crowded. Unique features Site of the old Scarboro Beach Amusement Park opened in 1907; iconic 1921 lifesaving station (currently at the foot of Leuty) that locals who’ve had a few swear has moved over the years. Sand specs Better near the boardwalk. Extras Kew Gardens; white birch that looks like it’s yawning; sheltered picnic areas; separated from Woodbine Beach by off-leash dog area. Getting there South of Queen East between Leuty and McLean; or the Martin Goodman Trail by bike. 411 on H20 Added more recently to list of Blue Flag beaches after it was saved from becoming a dog park in 2009. Next wave Improve beach access adjacent to R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant at the foot of Nursewood.

Percentage of Torontonians who feel beaches are very important to the quality of life in Toronto

Rouge Beach

Smells like Old Scarborough. Vibe Out-of-the-way getaway. Unique features Located at the mouth of the Rouge River (established in 1974); circa-1955 hydro station house; Rouge wetlands. Sand specs Wet and compacted near river, lush further west. Extras Popular fishing spot; canoe club; the GO train bombing by every so often on the cliff behind; view of the Pickering nuke plant. Getting there GO to Rouge Hill station, and a bit of a trek from there; or Lawrence East bus to the end of the line. 411 on H20 No Blue Flag here; high E. coli levels from pollution upstream mean it’s swim at your own risk some of the time. Next wave The city is reviewing relocating swimming areas (maybe to Fairport Beach further west, where work is currently under way).

Bluffer’s Beach Park

Smells like Quadrophenia. Vibe Bluffs worshippers; high school kiddies on Ferris Bueller day off. Unique features Five-thousand-year-old, 65-metre high sand cliffs; million-dollar yachts docked in nearby marina; rocky hazard to the west. Sand specs Groomed. Extras Backs onto bird sanctuary; treed picnic area; free parking. Getting there At the foot of Brimley Road, hang a left at the first fork and keep walking past the marina and parking lot. 411 on H20 A dune and wetland system was constructed in 2008 to intercept streams discharging pollutants onto the beach. Next wave Control stormwater runoff from adjacent parking lot and parkland.

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What’s the greenest sunscreen on the shelf? You know those gorgeous movie stars who swear the secret to ageless beauty is staying out of the sun? Fine, maybe they’re not disclosing their commitment to Botox, but all that aside, I’ve always envied people who have the determination to keep UV rays from their skin at all costs. I, on the other hand, have roasted myself like a chicken on a beach spit with zero protection far too many times. But age smartens a girl up. I actually own sun protection now, and use it. Well, after allowing my self a decent dose of vitamin D, of course. The question is, which sun screen should you choose? Since I last wrote about sunscreen four years ago, a lot has changed. Well, sort of. The U.S. is finally bring ing in new sunscreen regs, but Cana da already has some of those in place (like not allowing products below SPF 15 to make cancer claims). Still, Health Canada may still drop the max SPF on labels to 50 (any higher is mean ingless), tighten UVA standards and outlaw waterproof claims to harmon ize with the U.S. Besides that, according to the lat est annual sunscreen report by Envi ronmental Working Group, the vast majority of sunscreens are still made with potentially endocrinedisrupting, estrogen-mimicking chemicals like oxybenzone (found in 97 per cent of North Americans and killing coral reefs). Too many still contain suspected tumour accelerator retinyl palmitate, and too few offer true protec tion against the UVA rays that give you cancer and age you like a sun dried tomato. What’s shifted is that a lot more brands are also offering mineral sunscreens made with titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide instead of chemical sunscreen ingredients. I won’t deny sourcing these minerals does have its own environmental

footprint (think openpit mining), but since they’re also considered top UVA/UVB protectors that happen to be natural, they’re turning up every where. Are they always better? Depends. Aveeno’s Natural Protection Min eral Sunblock (for adults and babies) says it’s made with 100 per cent nat urally sourced active ingredients, but what about the nonactive ingre dients? The baby version contains Dirty Dozen preservative BHT as well as petroleum byproducts. It’s cer tainly cleaner than Aveeno’s conven tional Continuous Protection sun blocks, which are supposed to be as “as mild as water,” but meanwhile, back at the beach, they’re loaded with dodgy sunscreen chems, estrogenic parabens and much more. Keep in mind that a growing num ber of drugstore sunscreens now add titanium dioxide to their formula to bump up their UVA protection, but the rest of the ingredients are the same junky chemicals and fillers as before. At health stores, mineral versions of Nature’s Gate, Kiss My Face and Avalon sunscreens are way better options than their sun care products that don’t have “mineral” on the label, since even these socalled natural companies rely on chemical sunscreens. Why? To be honest, mineral sunscreens can leave a slightly white sheen. Not good if you have any non Caucasian roots. That’s why almost all brands that contain ti tanium dioxide and most that contain zinc are made with infinitesimally small nanoparticles. Those of you who

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Splash appeal Put on your swimsuit — all the enviros agree the water’s just fine By elizaBeth Bromstein Swimming in Lake Ontario at one of Toronto’s beaches? Gross. Gunk, poop, toxins, right? Monsters maybe? Can’t remember a time in my adult life when I didn’t think this way. Well, apparently not! Turns out there are no dangers as long as you stick to beaches with Blue Flags and/or check the Waterkeeper’s Swim Guide. (I guess it also helps if you know how to swim.) “But what about heavy metals and dioxin?” asks a friend. Not a problem. There are lampreys, of course, and those buggers are disgusting. But they won’t snack on you if you’re not cold-blooded.

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What the experts say “The Blue Flag Program measures beaches based on 32 criteria covering water quality, environmental management and education, safety and services. Our standard is that bathing water cannot exceed 100 cfu (colonyforming units) of E. coli per 100 ml, the same standard as Ontario. Heavy metals are a concern when eating fish; you won’t get contaminated swimming in them. Beach E. coli come from goose poop; people feed them bread, but their bodies aren’t made for wheat. Birds and dogs are the main sources of E. coli. It’s sad that Torontonians don’t realize what we have along the water.” AIDAN GROVE-WHITE, water programs, Environmental Defence, Toronto “Lake Ontario is fit for swimming, period. Some pipes or discharges into the lake make it unfit in certain areas. You might be uneasy about PCBs, pharmaceuticals or other chemicals and tritium from nuclear power plants released into the water, but those aren’t risks to recreational use. When swimming, the number-one worry is bacteria. There’s not a lot [the city] can do about filtering out pharmaceuticals, chemicals and metals. We’re consuming huge amounts of these [in drinking water]; that’s another issue. We don’t want people to become disconnected from public beaches. Dioxins and furans are a concern when consuming fish, not when swimming.” MARK MATTSON, president, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, Toronto

“People should be encouraged to swim in Lake Ontario. It’s good water overall. There are areas of concern when there is pollution or sewage runoff. Dioxin is persistent, but unless you’re swimming immediately downstream from a plant polluting with it, the levels shouldn’t be discouraging. Don’t swim immediately after it rains. Most of the sewage capacity in municipalities all around the Great Lakes is inadequate. Storm water overwhelms sewage capacity and managers open the floodgates. If the environmentalists are not screaming that the sky is falling, the sky is not falling.” DEREK STACK, executive director, Great Lakes United, Ottawa “In studies of Chicago beaches, we found E. coli levels in the sand were many times higher than in the adjoining water. This is derived from seagulls, algae that ends up on the beach and the growth of the bacteria itself within the sand. E. coli itself is not considered a pathogen except for one or two strains that are rare in the environment. E. coli is an indicator of sewage and pathogens, mostly viruses causing stomach flu, earaches, and eye infections, which have been associated with the presence of E. coli bacteria. No one has looked at any risk associated with E. coli in the sand.” RICHARD WHITMAN, chief of the Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station, Porter, Indiana

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Doin’ it Dockside Part of the Corus complex, Against the Grain raises the standard for restaurants by the lake By STEVEN DAVEy ATG spurns overpriced tourist-trap slop for a skilfully executed comfort food card that even cash-strapped locals can appreciate. The patio on the south side of the new Corus complex is spectacular, some 200 seats around traditional two-tops, low-slung sofas and the occasional fire pit. Friendly servers eschew the tarty schoolgirl uniforms worn by the predominantly female staff of its sister saloons for black shirts, pants and aprons. We’re expecting south-of-Temperance “Hi, my name’s Randy and who y’all be?” but instead get the polished Splendido of old. Credit ex-Cowbell butcher, baker and now ATG executive chef Sera Antheunis for the difference. For pulled pork tacos ($12), she

AGAINST THE GRAIN (25 Dockside, at Queens Quay East, 647-344-1562, atgurbantavern.ca) Complete dinners for $50 per person (lunches $35/brunches $30), including tax, tip and a pint. Average main $20/$15/$12. Open Monday and Tuesday 11 am to 11 pm, Wednesday and Thursday 11 am to midnight, Friday 11 am to 1 am, Saturday 10:30 am to 1 am, Sunday 10:30 am to 10 pm. Licensed. Rating: NNN

dining by the lake shouldn’t be this good. A self-described gastropub from the group behind the Foggy Dew and Pogue Mahone, among others, Against the Grain is located at the foot of Jarvis next to Sugar Beach. But unlike virtually every other resto in town with a lakeside view,

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1636 Queen E, at Coxwell, 647-346-0617, theburgerspriest.com. What goes together better than burgers and the beach? If you’re not going to be grilling them yourself, here’s the next best thing – the Double Double, two of the beefy patties layered with processed American cheese and served on an absorbent Wonder Bread bun. For vegetarians, there’s the Option, two deep-fried portobello mushroom caps glued together with cheese. Monday to Wednesday 11:30 am to 9:30 pm, Thursday and Friday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, Saturday noon to 10:30 pm. Closed Sunday, some holidays. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free, no washrooms.

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11 Polson, at Cherry, 416-461-3625, polsonpier.com. Massive 10,000-seat (!) patio overlooking the harbour adjacent to the popular concert complex. Swimming pool, miniature golf course and drive-in movie theatre, too. Daily noon to 8 pm (later during concerts) starting Saturday June 25th. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.z

Casa Mendoza

2161 Lake Shore W, at Park Lawn, 416-2593756, casamendoza.com. Run – or take the Queen 501 streetcar – if you want to take in the iconic skyline across the bay from this two-level patio one last time before the about-to-be under-construction condo next door obliterates the view. The last motel on the strip, the faux Hollywood hacienda’s days are likely numbered as well. Imagine Rudolph Valentino’s summer getaway in Muskoka and you’ve got the vibe. We don’t think we’d go so far as to order the $87.95 seafood platter even if we are this close to the water, but plates like Gipsy Steak goulash sided with house-made gnocchi and textbook cabbage rolls over dilled mashed potatoes (both $9.99) are a steal. Don’t miss the piano bar – a grand piano built into a bar that lights up! – and the sombrero grotto just inside the Casa’s carved antique double front door. Monday to Thursday 3 to 11 pm, Friday and Saturday 2 pm to 1 am, Sunday 11 am to 11 pm. Licensed. Access: barrier-free, washrooms on second floor.z

One Love Corn

235 Queens Quay W, at Lower Simcoe, 416894-4736. Ras Iville and Ikeila Wright of Annex resto One Love bring their legendarily spicy vegan pumpkin soup to Harbourfront every weekend. Grilled corn on the cob, too. Friday 6 pm to midnight, Saturday noon to midnight, Sunday and holiday Mondays noon to 8 pm. Unlicensed. Cash only. Access: barrier-free.z

Palais Royale

1601 Lake Shore W, at Roncesvalles, 416533-3553, palaisroyale.ca. Booked solid all summer for corporate events and lucrative weddings, once a week this historic Sunnyside dance hall – dig that suspended dance floor, daddy-o! – offers a weekly $40 themed prix fixe dinner followed by swing and ballroom dancing. Since they don’t take reservations, show up early or miss out on the terpsichory. Dinner Wednesdays from 6 pm, dancing from 8:30 pm. Licensed. Access: Barrierfree.z

Queen’s Own Rifles

1395 Lake Shore Blvd W, at Dowling, 416532-8892. Parkdale’s best-kept secret: the impressive 150-seat lakefront patio at Branch 344 of the Royal Canadian Legion. Because it’s usually booked solid all summer at night for private functions, it’s best on a balmy weekday afternoon. Just remember to call ahead first. And what better setting for a Canada Day barbecue? Tuesday to Saturday from 11:30 am, Sundays from noon. Licensed. Access: barrier-free.z

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 15 PAT JORDACHE at the Garrison, 9

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Rating: NNNN Attendance was sparse for Pat Jordache’s day-one/slot-one NXNE set, but those who came out seemed receptive to the Montreal group’s artpop pastiche. Patrick Gregoire (Islands, tUnE-yArDs, Sister Suvi) recorded their debut alone on his computer, but the songs adapted well to a full-band treatment. While two drummers built a propulsive groove, prominent postpunk guitar melodies punched up Gregoire’s untrained baritone. Less experimental than on record, but better suited to a live setting. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

LOWER DENS at the Garrison, 10 pm.

Rating: NNN Lower Dens are often compared to fellow Baltimore dream-poppers Beach House, but their early set proved them to be a much more muscular band. Jana Hunter evoked that band’s husky, expressive vocals (and laconic stage presence) but buried them within washes of atmospheric guitar texture and artfully deployed feedback. The contrast between that and their ethereal melodies and plodding rhythms was nice, but the Garrison’s all-loudall-the-time sound mix erased any hint RT of subtlety.

PAT JORDACHE at the Garrison Wed, 9 pm.

THURSDAY JUNE 16 FUCKED UP at Yonge-Dundas Square, 8 pm. Rating: NNN

It took Fucked Up lead screamer Damian Abraham less than one song to leave behind the fest’s biggest stage and make his way into the audience, where he remained. That trick works wonders in the small venues they used to play but isn’t so effective when most of the crowd can’t see what’s going on. And though the band played perfectly, the flat mix watered down the lush three-guitar dexterity that makes David Comes To Life such a masterwork. RT

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ñWONDERFULS at Wrongbar, 10 pm.

Rating: NNNN Toronto soul singer Tanika Charles warned the crowd that she was a little under the weather, but you’d never have guessed it from her passionate performance and powerhouse vocals. The set focused on a 60s R&B sound but then dipped into heavier 70s soulrock vibes and even a bit of disco. Charles has tons of charisma and seems like a natural performer. Expect great things from her album coming BENJAMIN BOLES out in the fall.

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Rating: NNNNN A crust punk puked on my shoes halfway through the Descendents’ Yonge-Dundas Square set. And yet that couldn’t ruin the nostalgic pleasure of hearing Silly Girl, Suburban Home, I’m Not A Loser and the aching Hope performed live by the classic lineup. The veteran SoCal poppunk band played tightly and energetically while large screens let those far from the stage in on the action, including when Milo Aukerman got his young kids to read All-O-Gistics’s commandments from a scroll-like sheet of Bristol board.

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KEVIN SECONDS at Lee’s Palace, 11 pm. Rating: NNNN

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LOWER DENS at the Garrison Wed, 10 pm.

acoustic guitar, Kevin Seconds looked every inch the folk-punk troubadour. While it was a bummer that his band couldn’t join him, playing solo didn’t slow him down. Sticking to newer material, especially from 2010’s Good Luck Buttons, he covered ground from the trials of love to confronting his right-wing friends about their politics, not unlike a Californian Billy Bragg. JOANNE HUFFA

PS I LOVE YOU at the Horseshoe, 11 pm. Rating: NNNN

Technical difficulties can quash the momentum of any show, but when Kingston’s PS I Love You re-emerged after a long delay, we had to wonder if they’d just been trying to find a way to turn up the volume. Instilling remorse in anyone who hadn’t packed earplugs, the duo split the difference between Frank Black-style vocal yelping and Van Halen-style guitar shredding, leaving their mark on both NXNE and the RT crowd’s long-term hearing. continued on page 45 œ

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TY SEGALL at the Garrison thurs, midnight.

TY SEGALL at the Garrison, midnight. Rating: NNNN

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At the first of three NXNE performances, Ty Segall kept the fuzz at 11 and bucked through a short set of hairthrashing, melodic howling and Johnny Ramone-meets-Jimi Hendrix guitarplaying. The raucous crowd lost it during the brat-pop Girlfriend from 2010’s Melted, and the San Francisco garage rocker egged them on by sending the mic and stand into the front row. The set’s last half lagged slightly, when a mischievous Segall sprang old tunes on his drummer and bassist, who had to CG relearn them on the spot.

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CROCODILES at the Silver Dollar, midnight. Rating: NNN

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CROCODILES at the Silver Dollar thurs, midnight.

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Over two albums, San Diego’s Crocodiles gradually crawled out from behind blissed-out swaths of noise to emerge with a more dynamic, melodic pop sound. At their debut Canadian gig, it was clear that they aim big, though the result isn’t always compelling. Their hookiest material, like 2009 single I Wanna Kill, had fists pumping and bodies pogoing. Frontman Brandon Welchez fed off the energy, licking shots and squealing like an R&B star.

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But the extended, psyched-out jams kEvIN RITCHIE felt a little aimless.

JULIANA HATFIELD AND EvAN DANDO at Lee’s Palace, midnight. Rating: NNN

Ambling onto the stage, Evan Dando looked like he was trying hard not to grin. He should smile; when he and Juliana Hatfield play together, his past shambolic performances are forgotten. The too brief set pulled from both artists’ catalogues, including old favourites by him and songs “you probably don’t know” by her. Hatfield’s guitar-playing was disjointed on Dando’s songs, but their voices complemented each other perfectly. The strict 40-minute set time left the audiJH ence wanting more.

Friday, June 17 ART BRUT at Mod Club, 9 pm.

Rating: NNNN Love them or hate them – there is no middle ground – England’s Art Brut put on a hell of a show. Opening with early hit We Formed A Band, the five-piece played songs from all four albums. Best were singer Eddie Argos’s monologue in Modern Art, during which he convinced most of the audience to crouch down and listen closely to his improvised story. Combining punk rock

energy with amazing lyrics, Art Brut JH were a NXNE highlight.

DUM DUM GIRLS at Lee’s Palace , 11 pm.

Rating: NNN You can’t touch the Dum Dum Girls’ look. Black-striped leggings, black lipstick, no smiles: they’re the female counterpart of the Wild Ones. Frontwoman Dee Dee is a commanding presence, shimmying in unison with dour guitarist Jules to tracks from their fall-slated He Gets Me High LP. She said little between songs, and the band seemed to be in a rush. Our suspicions were confirmed 20 minutes later when they jumped onstage at the Silver Dollar, where Dee Dee’s husband, Brandon Welchez, was singing JASON kELLER with Crocodiles.

SHUYLER JANSEN at the Painted Lady, 11 pm. Rating: NNNN

Saskatoon songwriter Shuyler Jansen and the brothers in Foam Lake pulled off a great set despite being jammed into a shoebox-sized space at the back of the Painted Lady. The group played new material, a John Cale cover and songs from Voice From The Lake. Energetic and raw, Jansen’s writing and singing shone through, especially on Totally Anonymous, Wedding Band and Kill January. Some ladies in the SG audience howled throughout.

MATTERS at the Drake Hotel, midnight.

Rating: NNN Matters – the new incarnation of the D’Urbervilles, and the other musical project of Diamond Rings’ John O’Regan – aren’t a drastic departure from the D’Urbs but have an expanded sonic palette and seem committed to making their own mark. A band in transition, they jumped from gloomy post-punk pop to dance rock to heavy classic rock riffing, sometimes in the same song. They’ve got a lot of musical ideas but don’t always develop the best ones before moving off on the next tangent. BB

POwERS at the Silver Dollar, 1 am

Rating: NNNN Local synth rockers Powers had the Dollar ridiculously packed with a mix of loyal diehard fans and curious festival-goers. Using a mix of programmed and live beats, massive wall-sized synth washes, guitar and vocals, the quartet spun elements of shoegaze, electronic and retro punk à la the Jesus and Mary Chain into epic, shout-along anthems. By the time they launched into Second Summer, their bittersweet hit-in-waiting, everyone had gone absolutely wild. JORDAN BIMM

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satUrday, JUNe 18 BRIAN WILSON at Massey Hall, 7:30 pm. Rating: NNN Brian Wilson cycled through his biggest hits in one set, followed by his wonderful Gershwin tunes in the second. The standouts were the few Beach Boys tracks Wilson handled on his own; vocal duties on almost all songs were spread between his band members. As proficient as they were, the 13-piece backing band was mostly a distraction. Who wants to see a cheesy L.A. session musician singing Surfin’ Safari while doing the Swim when the man who wrote the song sits centre stage doing nothing?

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DEVO at Dundas Square, 9:30 pm.

Rating: NNNN New wave granddaddies Devo filled Yonge-Dundas Square’s Saturday night block party with flashing slogans, colourful graphic imagery and big, rumbling bass lines during a solid 80-minute set. Aside from a persistent rasp in frontman Mark Mothersbaugh’s voice, the group sounded on point. Opening with Don’t Shoot (I’m A Man), a song from last year’s Something For Everybody, they maintained momentum that never waned or tipped into overdrive – except maybe when a few blue energy-dome hats went flying. KR

JENNIfER CASTLE at the Great

ñHall, 10 pm.

Rating: NNNNN Jennifer Castle’s second of two NXNE gigs (and the only one featuring her full band) demonstrated why critics are eating up her eerie blues-folk sound. Primarily it’s because of her distinctive haunting voice, which is even more so live. It also helps that her songwriting strikes a perfect balance between understated traditional roots music and edgier, drony interludes. Just when the jamming gets a little too dissonant, she pulls back to the song in BB the nick of time.

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the energy of hardcore. Frontman Elliot Jones (formerly of Brides) has no trouble commanding attention, and drummer Simone Tisshaw-Baril kept the relentless beats pounding. BB

ly well. But set list confusion between him and his three bandmates and an outof-tune Frankensteinberger of a guitar dragged down the set’s latter half. CG

BRAIDS at the Great Hall, 11 pm.

Rating: NNNN Electro-rock spouses Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner laid a smack down with songs from their killer Sound Kapital record. Boeckner has the best vocal warble, and his inspired guitar-playing makes it impossible not to get swept up. Every song ended with Perry doing gymnastics. The two were in a frisky mood at this love-in. Perry said playing Toronto is like having sex, earning a sideways glance from Boeckner, who grabbed her on the way offstage for a makeout session. JK

Rating: NNN Despite being sick from bad BBQ food, Braids vocalist/guitarist Raphaelle Standell-Preston showed no signs of infirmity throughout the Montreal fourpiece’s dynamic set of tunes from their recent Native Speaker LP (yet another album that just made the Polaris Prize long list). Fuelled by Austin Tufts’s polyrhythmic drum patterns, the layered soundscapes of tension unfurled slowly and dramatically, but though sonically impressive, often didn’t pay off. Equal parts fascinating and frustrating. CG

JENN GRANT at the Horseshoe, 11 pm. Rating: NNNN

A packed Horseshoe was treated to an exuberant set by Haligonian songwriter Jenn Grant and her band (including Daniel Ledwell of In-Flight Safety on trumpet and Share’s Andrew Sisk on guitar and keyboards). Punctuated by Grant’s bubbly between-song banter, it included a duet with Buck 65 and material from Honeymoon Punch. Her voice was in top form, soaring to the back of the busy room. She saved the most energetic song for the end, getting the crowd bopping to rockabillyinspired Getcha Good. SG

CHAD VANGAALEN at the Great Hall, midnight. Rating: NNN

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GRIMES at the Great Hall, 1 am.

Rating: NNNN Claire Boucher’s solo project, Grimes, has taken off in the last year by standing out from the new crop of creepy/ spacey/beautiful electronic artists (like How to Dress Well). Taking the Great Hall stage just after finishing a set at 918 Bathurst, she launched into a captivating set of minimal, ethereal vocal acrobatics paired with dark and heavy synths. A nice surprise was the addition of ex-Spiral Beach drummer Daniel Woodhead near the end, which filled out her sound nicely. JB

sUNday, JUNe 19 THE PHARCYDE at Yonge-Dundas

Square, 9 pm. Rating: NNNN There were moments during Chad VanWhile tweens fawned over Gaga and Gaalen’s hot and sweaty Great Hall set the Biebs at the MMVAs, a decidedthat proved he and his three bandly different scene was going down mates can ably turn his willowy, at NXNE’s hip-hop closing party. introspective tunes into The smell of weed hung heavy stadium-sized rockin the air as old-school legends ers. Freedom For A the Pharcyde filled the square with Policeman and their laid-back, jazzy, positive-vibe Burning Photorhymes. Interspersing their hits with graphs were even mightodes to James Brown, A Tribe ier than on Called Quest and Nate ELL V GORE at the Silver Dollar, 11 the Diaper Dogg, the trio kept spirpm. Rating: NNNN Island record. its high. What better Toronto’s Ell V Gore have come up with On the other way to end the fest than a unique sound by combining familiar hand, the lighter with a 10,000-strong aspects of underground rock. Garage touch on tender call-and-response vANGAALEN rock rhythms smash up against postSara and City Of CHAD version of Oh Shit? at the Great Hall punk noise freak-outs, and a hint of Sat, midnight. Electric Light RICHARD TRAPUNSKI 3 rockabilly swing gets amped up with also worked real= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Freakin’ transcendental nnnn = Roof-raising nnn = Some kicks nn = Tedious n = Two hours of my life I’ll never get back

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Aretha Franklin The Toronto Jazz Festival kicks off with an amazing free outdoor show by the Queen of Soul herself. You’re probably never going to get another chance to catch Aretha Franklin in a setting like this, so don’t even think about missing it. The festival continues until July 3, with great gigs all over town. At Metro Hall’s David Pecaut Square (55 John), Friday (June 24), 8:30 pm. Free. torontojazz.com

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Thursday, June 23 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

AlleycAtz Graffitti Park. AquilA upstAirs Alain Richer (acoustic rock). BAr itAliA Music For The Soul Chicken & Waf-

fles (rock) 9:30 pm. Bovine sex cluB Punk Rock Tribute Night London Calling (Clash), Come on Pilgrim (Pixies), Deutsche Vision (Joy Division), DJ Cactus. cAdillAc lounge CD release party Ashley MacIsaac, Pat Robitaille 8 pm. clinton’s Lickpenny Loafer, Vesper Hours, Polarity (acoustic rock). cloAk & dAgger puB The Cosmotones (old school rockabilly/pop) 10 pm. glAdstone Hotel Melody BAr Electric Karma (alt rock/pop) 8 to 11 pm. grAffiti’s The Turnarounds (rockabilly/ swing) 5 to 7 pm, the Flava Quartet eve. Holy oAk cAfe Selina Martin & Annalise Noronha (pop) 9 pm. HorsesHoe Goddamn Robots, Kid City, Stolen Owners, the Whale Summer, Metro 4 8:30 pm. lee’s pAlAce Morning Whiskey, Tallulah Darling, 20amp Soundchild, London Swagger 9 pm.

Mitzi’s sister Ben Veneer. ñ Mod cluB Zauntourage Party For Sick Kids

Hospital Tiny Danza, Holy Toledo, DJ Mark Holmes 9 pm. not My dog The Joyful Sinners (soul/blues/ roots) 9:30 pm. pAuper’s puB Mike Barnes (rock). tHe piston Hunting Horns. rivoli Universal Music Showcase Bear with Me, Darius, Rebecca Nazz, Brett Ribble, Lucas Jeremy, Smithies Band, Dylan Goes Electric, Black Mink, UNDADOGG 6:30 pm. sMiling BuddHA Rodrigo Wilde, Drugs in Japan, Blood Rexdale, Iridescence doors 9 pm.

sony centre for tHe perforMing Arts Spectacular Spinning Songbook ñ Elvis Costello & the Imposters doors 7 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s Skip Tracer 9:30 pm. underdown puB Jeff Barnes & Noah

lou dAwg’s Call In Sick Friday Mike C (acous-

tic blues/rock/ska/reggae) 9:30 pm. MAgpie cAfe The Sure Things Jamboree 10 pm. trAnzAc soutHern cross Bluegrass & Oldtime 7:30 pm, the Thing Is (world fusion) 10 pm. wHite swAn Jam With Section 8 7 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

Blu ristorAnte & lounge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu Christopher Barton (guitar) 6:30 pm, John Campbell (piano) 9 pm. tHe centrAl Michael Kleniec (jazz guitar) 7:30 pm. cHAlkers puB Michelle C & Jay Douglas 7 to 10 pm. cHinA House Joe Sealy, Paul Novotny Quartet. de sotos Double A Jazz 8 pm. doMinion on queen John T Davis (organist) 5:30 to 8 pm. four seAsons Hotel Avenue BAr & lounge

Sirens Of Song Lyne Tremblay & Steve Hunter 7 to 10 pm. gAte 403 Gypsy Rebels (world) 5 to 8 pm, Marie-Fatima Rudolf Jazz Trio 9 pm.

old Mill inn HoMe sMitH BAr Richard Whiteman (solo piano) 7:30 pm. lA perlA Jazz Meets Salsa. reposAdo The Reposadists (Gypsy-bop jazz). rex Morgan Childs Trio 5 pm, Pat LaBarbera (saxophonist) 8 pm, Triodes Ray Anderson, Michael Ochipinti, Paul Neufeld, Roberto Occhipinti, Doan Pham 11 pm. soMewHere tHere studio Avesta Nakhaei (jazz/improv) 8 pm. ten feet tAll East End Jazz Jam Session 8 pm. trAne studio Travel Diary Gabriel Palatchi Sextet (Latin jazz) 8 pm.

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Andy poolHAll Botnek. ñ goodHAndy’s Ladyplus.com Party DJ Todd

Klinck doors 8 pm.5 insoMniA DJ Ron Jon (funk/soul/house). nAco gAllery cAfe Flamenco Huerga Dennis Duffin, Shirli Pili (musicians, dancers and palmas) 9 pm. tHe ossington Bright Lights, Big City DJ Wes Allen (rockabilly/soul). rivoli second floor DJs the Dirty Frenchman, Plan B (hip-hop/dancehall/b-more/ bass) 10 pm. six degrees 90SIX DJ Lady Miss Kier (90s music). velvet underground DJ Ozaze (industrial/goth) 11:15 pm. xs nigHtcluB Get Wild Thursdays DJ Couture 10 pm.

Friday, June 24 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/ Soul

AlleycAtz Graffitti Park. Annex wreckrooM House Party Friday 10 pm.

Love 8:30 pm.

Susie Arioli 8 pm.

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royAl conservAtory of Music koerner HAll Toronto Jazz Festival Dave Bruñ beck Quartet 8 pm.

Emergency doors 8 pm. soutHside JoHnny’s The Lineup (rock/R&B) 10 pm. underdown puB JP & Friends (folk/blues/ jazz) 10 pm.

Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

AquilA Ken Yoshioka Blues Band 9 pm. AspettA cAffe Krystal King, the Potentials,

Roma, Epaiselurse 7 pm to midnight. eton House Absolute Jack (dance/rock) 9 pm. free tiMes cAfe Brendan Albert. grAffiti’s Get Down Together Jam. tHe greAt HAll Matthew Barber, Oh Susanna doors 8 pm.

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Franco-Fête: Festival Of Francophone Arts And Culture After Party Misteur Valaire 11 pm.

HArBourfront centre redpAtH sugAr stAge Franco-Fête: Festival Of Francophone Arts And Culture Kyssi Wète 7 pm.

HArBourfront centre westJet stAge Franco-Fête: Festival Of Francophone ñ Arts And Culture Ben L’Oncle Soul (reggae/

pop/dub/jazz/hip-hop) 8 pm, Coeur de Pirate 9:30 pm. HigHwAy 61 soutHern BArBeque Dylan Wickens & the Little Naturals (blues) 8 pm. HugH’s rooM Lynn Miles, Rose Cousins 8:30 pm. See online, now.uz/lynnmiles. lolA Jam Danny Blu 3 to 7 pm. lolA Yasgurs Farm 8 pm. lou dAwg’s It’s Gotta Groove Friday Jeff Eager Lynn Miles plays Friday (acoustic) 10 pm. (June 24) at Hugh’s Room. MAgpie cAfe The Michael See preview online at Peters Bluegrass Band (bluenow.uz/lynnmiles grass/gospel) 10 pm.

BAr itAliA Shugga (funk) 9:30 pm. Blue suede sue’s The iDenTiTY CRiSiS,

Rob Base doors 10:30 pm. Boiler House pAtio Toronto Jazz Festival Danny Marks 6 pm. Bovine sex cluB NOFX After-Party Old Man Markley, the Motorleague, the Afterbeat, DJ Vania. cAdillAc lounge Jack Mark & Lost Wages. c’est wHAt Andrea Caswell (indie/pop/roots) 9:30 pm. dc Music tHeAtre Sensi Fest all ages. drAke Hotel DJ Chris Briscoe doors 10 pm. el MocAMBo CD Launch The Pining, Coole & Downes, catl 9:30 pm. tHe gArrison Fiend Documentary Fundraiser The Tijuana Bibles. glAdstone Hotel Melody BAr Jean Caffeine 8 to 10 pm. grAffiti’s Rocking For Sick Kids Hospital Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 to 7 pm. HorsesHoe CD release Dark Mean, Paper Lions, the Rest, Tacoma Hellfarm 9 pm. kool HAus NOFX, Old Man Markley, Teenage Bottlerocket doors 7:30 pm, all ages. See preview, page 54.

MississAugA civic centre celeBrAtion squAre Bollywood Monster

Mash-Up In Mississauga Bollywood Rock Symphony 6:30 pm.

Jazz/claSSical/exPeRimental

AquilA upstAirs Kenny G (from Japan, not the American easy listening dude). BAr itAliA upstAirs Shugga (jazz/blues/R&B/ rock) 9:30 pm. Beit zAtoun Between Rome & Carthage John Kameel Farah doors 7:45 pm. Blu ristorAnte & lounge Acoustic & Jazz Sentiments @ Blu John Campbell (piano/singer) 7:30 pm. Boiler House Lester McLean, Michael Occhipinti, Louis Simão 7 to 10 pm. cHAlkers puB Rita Di Ghent & Her Young Lionesses 6 to 9 pm. distillery district Toronto Jazz Festival Marg Stowe Trio 6 pm.

soMewHere tHere studio Leftover Daylight Series Dan Loughrin, Blood Rexdale & the Walls Are Blonde, Allison Cameron, Nicole Rampersaud 8 pm. wAterfAlls Jim Heineman Trio 6:30-10 pm.

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clinton’s Dance Armstrong. devil’s MArtini International Indian Film

Academy Awards Weekend: Red Carpet With Vivek Oberoi DJ Amita, DJ Jiten. disgrAcelAnd A Fistful of Metal DJ Miss Barbrafisch (extreme metal) 9:30 pm. Pfly Dance Camp Pride Kick-Off! DJ Mark Falco 10 pm.5 tHe flying BeAver puBAret Retro Fridays DJ Carol. footwork Luv This City Fridays doors 10 pm. PglAdstone Hotel BAllrooM GayStraight Alliance Dance Party DJs Brendan Canning, Cozmic Cat, Steve Rock & Shane MacKinnon 10 pm.5 goodHAndy’s Rangeela DJ Sexypants doors 9 pm.5 Holy oAk cAfe Amigo, Amiga (tropical/psych) 10 pm. insoMniA Funkn’ Fresh Fridays DJ Film (house/breaks). MAnA BAr Unity Fridays: European Nights DJ T-Ace (hip-hop/reggae/dancehall/mashup). Mod cluB Arcade LA Riots. PnAco gAllery cAfe Fancy Pants Pride Warmup 10 pm.5 tHe ossington Secret Models. tHe pAinted lAdy DJ Frank ‘Mr Phantastik’ Johnson & Honey B Hind (old school hip-hop/ reggae/80s) 10 pm. lA perlA Eclectic City DJ Noloves. superMArket Market Fresh DJ Classick. tAttoo rock pArlour Play Fridays DJ Dwight (alterna/retro/electro) 10 pm. ultrA Break 4 Love DJ Jason Palma (house). velvet underground DJ Hanna (alt rock) 10 pm. vogue supper cluB The Social Network Royale & Smartiez 8 pm. PwAylABAr Anthem DJ Craig Dominic (R&B/hip-hop/dancecall).5 woo’s lounge Heart Of The City DJs J-Class, Kariz (hip-hop/R&B/reggae/old school) doors 10:30 pm. xs nigHtcluB Summer Session Fridays DJ Couture (top 40/house/hip-hop) 10 pm.

Saturday, June 25 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/Soul

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Sunday John Holmes Book Club, Pedestrians Plight, Starship Experience, Kristan Au Quintet, the Slaves of Rhythm, Brandon Sousa noon to 8 pm. CadIllaC lOunGe Songwriters’ Expo Arlene Bishop, DIN (the Soles), Blair Packham, Angelo Sartorelli 4 to 7 pm, Tia Brazda & her Mad Men eve. duFFy’s tavern Ken Yoshioka 9:30 pm. Gate 403 Heather Luckhart (blues/roots/jazz) noon to 3 pm. GladstOne hOtel MelOdy bar Marc Roy & Houndstooth 5 to 8 pm. Glenn GOuld studIO Toronto Jazz Festival Randy Weston’s African Rhythms 6 pm. GrOssMan’s Brian Cober Blues Jam 9:30 pm.

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Franco-Fête: Festival Of Francophone Arts And Culture – CHOQ FM 105.1 DJ set 12:30 am. harbOurFrOnt Centre westJet staGe FrancoFête: Festival Of Francophone Arts & Culture La Diva Malbouffa 3 pm, Patrice Michaud 4 pm. hIGhway 61 sOuthern barbeQue Sangria Sundays Sean Pinchin 2 pm. huGh’s rOOM Fred Eaglesmith 8:30 pm. lOu dawG’s Blues Brunch Mark Bird Stafford & Darran Poole noon to 3 pm. lula lOunGe Family Salsa Brunch Luis Mario Ochoa & his Quartet (Cuban Son) 12:30 & 2:30 pm. MetrO hall davId peCaut sQuare Toronto Jazz Festival Bernie Senensky’s ‘Moe Koffman Tribute Band’ noon, Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Dubmatix 8:30 pm. MItzI’s sIster Big City Hicks, Alun Piggins. naCO Gallery CaFe I Have Eaten The City Colin Fisher, Brandon Validivia 8 pm. nOt My dOG Cowan House Ramblers (old time). the paInted lady G Mark Weston (acoustic folk/rock) 9 pm. rebas CaFé Speak Music Showcase Michael Peters & Derek Ulleboon (bluegrass) 1-4 pm. sOMewhere there studIO Alaniaris (Greek folk/rock) 5 pm. spIrIts Kim Jarrett, Melanie Peterson 9 pm. stOut IrIsh pub Ceili 3 to 6 pm. superMarket Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. underdOwn pub Open Mic With Porter 9:30 pm. vIllaGe OF yOrkvIlle park Summer Music In The Park Silhouettes Steel Band 2 to 5 pm.

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aMadeus Rick Donaldson & the Jazz Cats 6:30 to 10:30 pm. bOIler hOuse patIO Toronto Jazz Festival Brian Blain noon, Tom Szczesniak Trio 3 pm. Chalkers pub Toronto Jazz Festival Fern Lindzon Trio 7 pm. ClOak & daGGer pub Roger Chong 9 pm. de sOtOs Double A Jazz w/ Ron Johnston 11 am to 2 pm. dIstIllery dIstrICt Toronto Jazz Festival Ed Vokurka Jazz Violin Ensemble noon, Bradley & the Bouncers (swing) 3 pm. dOMInIOn On Queen Toronto Jazz Festival Beverly Taft & the Bossa Nova Project (tribute

cheaP thrill$ Great GiGs for $5 or less John Kameel Farah Toronto pianist/composer John Kameel Farah blends classical, jazz, experimental, world and electronic influences into a sound that’s hard to compare to anyone else’s. He showcases brand new work from his upcoming album, Between Carthage And Rome, Friday (June 24) at Beit Zatoun (612 Markham). Pwyc.

Pressure DroP Montreal DJ Mossman joins residents Chuck Boom, Guv’nor General and Morningside 116 on Saturday (June 24) at Embassy Bar (223 Augusta) for this month’s instalment of Pressure Drop. Expect classic reggae, rocksteady, ska, dub, dancehall, soul and much more. Free.

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Bongo, Adam Kyron, Spence Diamonds, Crunch noon. InsomnIa Retro Lounge Night DJ Doctor G. The ossIngTon Unlimited Sundays (Manjah). sunnysIde PavIlIon Carte Blanche All-White Party Hedkandi (Sarah Louise), Francesco Miceli, Manzone & Strong, Morgan Shim 3 to 11 pm. TaTToo Rock PaRlouR Trash Palace Sundays DJ 4 Korners (electro/mashup/rock) 10:30 pm. ulTRa PaTIo Ultra Chill Sundays DJs Mike Tull & Paul E Lopes 3 to 9 pm. velveT undeRgRound DJ Hanna (retro 80s) 10 pm.

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Folk/BlueS/countRy/WoRld

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dakoTa TaveRn The Rattlesnake Choir (roots)

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NOFX’s Erik Sandin (left), El Hefe, Fat Mike, Eric Melvin

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er/songwriters) 9:30 pm. cloak & daggeR PuB Slocan Ramblers (bluegrass) 10 pm. dakoTa TaveRn Jay Aymar 8 to 10 pm. FRee TImes caFe Sue & Dwight, Marianne Girard, the Sweet Peas 8 to 11 pm. hugh’s Room Benefit For Julian Fauth Bobby Dean Blackburn & Blackburn, Paul Reddick, Harrison Kennedy, Treasa Levasseur & Donné Roberts and others. lIBeRTy BIsTRo Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 8 pm. naco galleRy caFe Story & Song Night 8 pm. wInchesTeR kITchen & BaR Open Mic Night 9 pm.

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Punk Rock

NOFX

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later revealed that the contaminated bottle had been switched before he went on. Still, the damage was done. “The thing that sucks is that I wanted to do something different and have people remember it. But it wasn’t the piss thing I thought would be remembered. “I wasn’t going there to be funny, but I wasn’t being a dick. I was telling the most horrible stories of my life. I was doing something I thought no one had done before. I liked that night. I’m still hearing about it a fucking year later, so I must have done something right.” The incident hasn’t negatively affected his band’s draw. At least two shows on their current Canadian swing have been upgraded to larger venues due to demand. You’d expect this from a hyped young band or a rare reunion, but NOFX are in their 40s, have no hits and have been consistently touring and releasing records since the late 80s. Interest has never waned. “Turnouts are exactly the same as they’ve been for the last 16 years,” he says. “We don’t bullshit people when we play. We’re actually having a really good time onstage and getting wasted. Most bands do long tours and burn out and do the same show every night. It’s garbage, and people know it.” NOFX helped introduce the SoCal style of breakneck tempos and melodic vocals that still permeate the genre. Fat Mike considers NOFX a Cali hardcore band at heart and bristles at the way “hardcore” has been appropriated by Christian groups with lip rings and hair product. He plans to take his group back to its roots with an EP of obscure hardcore covers. “We’re putting it out on vinyl only, and it’s not going to have any information (on the sleeve). It’s just going to say NOFX on the front.” They can take on projects like that because finances are not an issue. If there were a Forbes list for punks, Fat Mike, owner of Fat Wreck Chords, would be in the top five. Not that money’s ever mattered much. “I tell young bands to play music because they love it, not because they want to be successful. We toured for eight years before we made a dime. For bands today, that’s a lifetime. We did it because we loved it and because we’re alcoholics.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com

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back approach, this is by no means a lo-fi affair. Many of the tracks actually feel quite lush; turns out you don’t need many layers to sound big. Barber has said he was particularly inspired by Keith Richards’s autobiography, and sure enough, there are plenty of Rolling Stones references throughout. It’s those hip-swinging rockers that work the best, and unfortunately, they make the sensitive acoustic ballads sound toothless by comparison. If Barber had committed fully to rocking out this time, he could have saved the folk-pop tunes for another album where they might have come across as less ponderous and plodding. Still, his fans will love this, and the rest of us can just delete the snoozier songs. Top track: Ring Upon Your Finger Matthew Barber plays the Great Hall Friday (June 24). BB

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So much has changed in Justin Vernon’s world since the 2007 release of Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago, a spellbinding indie folk album built on hurt and isolation that earned him critical accolades, legions of fans and collaboration work with, among others, Kanye West. (He contributed his trademark layered falsetto vocals to several Dark Twisted Fantasy tracks.) Miraculously, not only has the Wisconsin musician kept his focus while creating his outstanding threeyears-in-the-making follow-up, but he’s also significantly expanded his vision. Recorded in an Eau Claire studio that he built with his brother, Bon Iver is a very

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D (Downtown) Rating: Their band name would better suit some electro-rock act, and their label is mainly known for that kind of thing, but White Denim’s music would actually be more at home at Woodstock than Coachella. That’s not an insult. If they’d existed back in the 60s, they would’ve been one of the 170611.ai 1 cooler bandsAd_Now_1-5 playing hippy festivals, and anyway, do we need yet another dance-

different album (and, when you step back, downright strange-sounding in its originality) than its predecessor. It’s a collaborative but uncluttered effort, with guest musicians contributing dynamic horns (Colin Stetson among them), strings and woodwinds. It’s therefore also much fuller. The 10 unconventionally structured songs are less shaky-tentin-a-snowstorm and more ambitious-skyscraperblasting-into-the sky. Often built on one melodic motif, they keep Vernon’s vulnerable, virtuosic falsetto and obscured lyrics intact but add newfound confidence, experimentation and, yes, even joy to the formula. Top track: Towers Bon Iver play Sound Academy August 8. CARLA GILLIS punk act? Call them a jam band for people who hate jam bands. Yes, there are some very pronounced prog and psych tendencies and lots of long solos, but it all seems so deliberate and disciplined, you never sense that they’re noodling aimlessly. And they’re all talented musicians, so it’s actually a pleasure to hear them go off on the occasional jazz fusion tangent, which they approach with the raw enthusiasm of a garage-punk band (except that they sound closer to King Crimson). If this all sounds horribly uncool, try turning off your hipster-damaged brain for a minute when you listen to them and you’ll be pleasantly surprised. Top track: Anvil Everything White Denim freak out at the Garrison Tuesday (June 28). BENJAMIN BOLES

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Matthew Barber recorded his fifth fullAd_Now_Toronto 170611 length album at home on 8-track tape and produced it himself, which explains why

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around. Despite the deliberately scaled-

CITY AND COLOUR Little Hell (Dine Alone) Rating: NNN Be careful about telling Dallas Green your deepest, darkest secrets. The City and Colour brain trust will listen like a priest and then turn around and use your ass for a sad acoustic-guitar-strummed tune on his next album. Of course, when Green, who also runs the show in Alexisonfire, isn’t exploiting his wife’s night terrors on Fragile Bird or his sister’s depression on O’ Sister, he sounds rightly and sincerely concerned for his loved ones. That’s what gives this new record its emotional weight and strongest material. Many other songs retread themes of self-doubt and disillusionment, reaching previous levels of intimacy but without taking us anywhere new. Musically, Green does take C&C into somewhat unfamiliar, heavier territory, as on Weightless and Sorrowing Man, where the amplifiers are turned from 1 to 2. Top track: Fragile Bird JASON KELLER

Something That’s Already Here take their time, The Sickness (That’s What They Call Love) is a more traditional country tune, and rocker Hong Kong Station recalls LOTL. The best surprise is Company Ink, which weaves in sparse trumpet parts and bright piano arrangements. Hawkins is in great form, despite (or perhaps because of) a streak of grungy self-pity. Top track: Corner Room Ron Hawkins and the Do Good Assassins play the Drake Wednesdays (June 29, July 6, 13). The Lowest of the Low play YongeDundas Square July 16. SARAH GREENE

MARIANNE FAITHFULL Horses And High

Heels (Naïve) Rating: NN Marianne Faithfull albums live or die by the success of her collaborations and producers. Her records have been inconsistent over the decades, except for the singspeak-croak style she’s employed since her late 70s re-emergence. Recently, she’s worked with a lot of next-generation names, yet Horses And High Heels is a less contemporary album, calling on old friends Lou Reed and Dr. John for cameos. Hal Willner returns after producing 2008’s Easy Come, Easy Go and puts her in a New Orleans setting, possibly in hopes that it’ll stir up some mojo. The results are borderline disastrous, specifically her cover of Allen Toussaint’s Back In Baby’s Arms and Gee Baby, both of which emphasize the rigidity of her vocals. A few originals show her capabilities and strengths, including Why Did We Have To Part and Eternity. But in the end, Horses is another addition to a catalogue short on standouts. Top track: Eternity JK

hits with a powerful immediacy, even on first listen. Justifies the hype. Top track: Broken Bone Iceage play Parts & Labour August 17. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

R&B BEYONCÉ 4 (Columbia) Rating: NNN

Beyoncé has maintained a certain distance from her fans. She’s largely avoided social media and adopted the Sasha Fierce persona as an excuse to act aggro onstage. On 4, she’s still missing a real sense of vulnerability but steps out from behind the club jams with beautifully nuanced mid-tempo production. Slow-burning opener 1+1 is an instant classic, melding soul orchestration and a looping guitar line that allow her to wring maximum emotion from her ambitious phrasing. There’s nothing predictable about her fluttering, grandiose vibrato, and her confrontational vocals are offset by subtle flourishes: the minimal beat on I Miss You, Start Over’s gleaming synths, producer Kanye West’s playful nod to 90s R&B on Party, and the bonkers, Boyz II Men-sampling Countdown. The track list finally falters with a flat, Diane Warren-penned ballad and the simplistic, Major Lazer redux Run The World (Girls), both of which seem cynically tacked on at the end to ensure radio play. Top track: 1+1 KEVIN RITCHIE

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Straitjacket Love (independent) Rating: NNNN On his fifth album, Lowest of the Low’s Ron Hawkins shows he’s still Toronto’s rough-hewn love poet. Coming after a series of successful reunion shows with LOTL, the album is essentially a home-recorded solo effort with guests. Hawkins handles the rhythm section, guitars, piano, banjo, mandolin and (by the sounds of it) backup vocals. Laurence Nichols’s harmonica is prominent, and touches of horns, strings, accordion and barking dogs make it an earthy listen. Ballads Corner Room and Waitin’ On

New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?) Rating: NNNN Music critics have bandied about the term “post-punk” since Joy Division, but little of the associated music sounds very punk. The whirlwind debut LP from Denmark’s Iceage melds a number of early-80s influences – everything from Mission of Burma to Big Black to Sonic Youth – and reintegrates them with the snotty, shout-along urgency of punk. It’s an impressive feat for a group of 18- and 19-year-olds. Most tracks clock in at under three minutes, but each is densely layered with abrasive blasts of noise, chilly bits of synthetic drums and scraping guitars and the occasional honest-to-goodness melody. It’s a lot to wrap your head around, especially given the brief run time, but it also

The Road From Memphis (Anti-) Rating: NNN Booker T. Jones brings his signature Hammond B3 sound into another collaborative effort, this time with members of the Roots, guitarist Dennis Coffey and guest vocalists including Sharon Jones, Matt Berninger and Lou Reed. The mostly instrumental album kicks off with Booker T.’s organ parts boomeranging off ?uestlove’s exclamation-mark drum parts on Walking Papers. Throughout, the material is simultaneously current and nostalgic, recalling the optimism and discovery of the 60s and 70s, especially on Progress, sung by Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The songs with guest vocalists stand out – no surprise, considering the calibre of talent. Booker T.’s daughter Liv contributes lyrics to Representing Memphis (with Jones and Berninger) and The Bronx (sung by Reed), while Booker T. himself takes a rare turn on the mic on the autobiographical Down In Memphis. Top track: Representing Memphis SG

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with SVADBA – WEDDING’S CARLA HUHTANEN • DORA AWARDS WRAP-UP on Tuesday • Scenes on O.D. ON PARADISE, NEARLY LEAR • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings Soprano Carla Huhtanen is as strong an actor as she is a singer.

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Here comes the song Bridesmaids sing out in a cappella opera Svadba – Wedding By JON KAPLAN

SVADBA – WEDDING by Ana Sokolovic, directed by Michael Cavanagh, music directors Dáirine Ní Mheadhra and John Hess, with Laura Albino, Carla Huhtanen, Andrea Ludwig, Shannon Mercer, Krisztina Szabó and Jacqueline Woodley. Presented by Queen of Puddings at the Berkeley Street Theatre Downstairs (26 Berkeley). Opens Friday (June 24) and runs June 25, 28, 29, 30 and July 2 at 8 pm. $49. 416-368-3110.

you’ve probably attended a prenuptial party, but it likely wasn’t as raucous or mythic as the all-night celebration for Milica, the bride in

Ana Sokolovic’s Svadba – Wedding. And the event you attended surely wasn’t sung from start to finish. Sokolovic’s a cappella opera, with Serbian text and English surtitles, features six chatty women, the bride-tobe and five long-time girlfriends who both taunt and celebrate her upcoming life change. “It’s a contemporary tale, a blend of hen-night dance party, bathing ritual and competition,” says soprano Carla Huhtanen, who plays Zora, one of Milica’s friends. Sokolovic (whose previous work includes The Midnight Court) bases her text and score on Balkan and

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other Slavic folk tales, traditions and music. The result is a blend of poetry, onomatopoeia and words deconstructed into their basic sound elements. “There’s one section that’s almost entirely nonsense words, the text wholly broken down,” says Huhtanen. “It’s all meticulously written out, but the ‘ch’ sounds turn the scene into a percussive choral piece. “I never knew before,” adds the singer, who happily has a knack for languages, “that there are three ways to pronounce ‘ch’ in Serbian.” The challenge of Svadba is not only singing a whole score without accom-

DISNEY’S ALADDIN JR. (Brampton Theatre School). This all-ages musical is based on the Disney film. Jun 24-25 at 7:30 pm. $22, srs $18, stu $16. Lester B. Pearson Theatre, 150 Central Park, Brampton. bramptontheatreschool.com. FRANCO FETE (Harbourfront Centre). Comedian Boucar Diouf, soprano La Diva Malbouffa and others perform at this festival of Frenchlanguage arts and culture. Jun 24-26, see website for schedule. Free. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. HARVEST by Ken Cameron (Globus Theatre). A couple move to the city and unwittingly rent their farm to marijuana growers. Opens Jun 29 and runs to Jul 9, Tue-Sat 8 pm (no show Jul 1), see website for mat times. $26.50, stu $20. Lakeview Arts Barn, 2300 Pigeon Lake, Bob-

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paniment but also capturing the work’s chromatic harmonies. “They’re hard to keep straight,” admits Huhtanen, “especially when sometimes the voices come together in an unexpected, conventional way. The thing we have to work on is creating a single voice, the group, that’s made up of our six individual voices. That mirrors the plot, where it’s not just Milica plus her five friends, but the relationship formed by all six.” Huhtanen’s one of those singers who makes contemporary music sound as easy and pleasant to the ear as Mozart and Handel. She’s premiered work for Tapestry New Opera and sung classics for Opera Atelier (this fall she returns as Zerlina in Don Giovanni). I’ve been as impressed with her acting as her singing. “I was acting in high school before I was singing,” recalls the soprano, “so it’s natural for me to make an opera performance theatrical. I can often make more sense of music by coming at it from the perspective of character. “In fact, I see contemporary music as being about timing, just as acting is. I always look at how a choice of dramatic timing or pacing affects the music. When I have some flexibility I take advantage of it, looking for where a rest sits best and where the beat should go.” No matter what type of music she’s singing, Huhtanen approaches it with good technique. “It’s especially important with new music. You don’t always know what you’re going to be asked for in a work that’s still being created. I always try to slow the music down to get it into my body in a smart way. Otherwise, I might be blowing out my vocal cords during a long run. “As hard as it sometimes is, the meticulously detailed nature of Ana’s writing really appeals to me. It’s something I can really sink my teeth into – and something I can swear at when I get a bar wrong.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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caygeon. 1-800-304-7897, globustheatre.com. HOMETOWN by Jean Marc Dalpé, Mieko Ouchi, Mansel Robinson, Martha Ross, Peter Smith, Des Walsh and David Archibald (Blyth Festival). Six short plays look at whether ‘hometown’ is a place or state of mind. Previews to Jun 23. Opens Jun 24 and runs to Aug 7, see website for schedule. $28-$32, previews $22$26, stu $15. Blyth Memorial Hall, 431 Queen, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com. I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE by Joe DiPietro and Jimmy Roberts (Laughoutloud Association). This musical comedy looks at dating, mating and romance. Opens Jun 28 and runs to Jul 28, see website for schedule. $34. Orillia Opera House, 20 Mississaga W, Orillia. 705-326-8011, orilliaoperahouse.ca. PTHE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde (Brant Theatre Workshops). Victorian manners and morals are exposed in this

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AUDIENCE AS DRAMATURGE Series 8:08 and the Society of Dance History Scholars presents a special edition of the Choreographic Performance Workshop with works by Marie France Forcier, Susan Lee & Tracey Norman, Jennifer Dallas and Shannon Litzenberger. Jun 25 at 8:08 pm. $15-$20. Robert Gill Theatre, 214 College. 416-978-7986, series808.ca. FIESTA DE VERANO The School of Ritmo Flamenco presents students performing traditional dances from Andalusia. Jun 25 at 2 and 4 pm. $15-$20. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. 416-707-9164, ritmoflamenco.ca. SHEREHE 2011: LEGEND OF PITCH LAKE Collective of Black Artists presents its Children’s Dance and Drum program performing a year-end celebration recital. Jun 25 at 6:30 pm. $20, stu/ srs $15. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. cobainc.com. TALENT DEFINED City Dance Corps presents the annual showcase of emerging and professional dance companies and choreographers, with dance by its company, DNI Tango, Gadfly and others. Jun 25 at 2 and 8 pm. $25-$30. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-260-2356, talentdefined.com. UNDER THE BIGTOP The Doreen Hayes School of Dancing presents its 55th annual recital. Jun 25 at 7:30 pm. $22. Ryerson Theatre, 43 Gerrard E. 416-767-3062, doreenhayes.com. VIVID4 REAson d’etre presents two new works by Kathleen Rea: The Wild In Us and Unravelling The Tight Weave. Opens Jun 23 and runs to Jun 26, Thu-Sat 7 and 8:30 pm, Sun 1 and 2:30 pm. First show $5-$10, (under 25 pwyc); second show $22-$30, (under 25 $15-$20). Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. reasondetre.com. YES, BUT! Mind the Gap Collective presents dance-theatre by Victoria Mohr-Blakeney, Angela Blumberg, Anastasia Maywood, Katya Kuznetsova and Heather Jones. Jun 24-25, Fri 8 pm, Sat 10 pm. $12. Pia Bouman School, 6 Noble. mindthegapcollective@gmail.com.

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ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND National Ballet of Canada and the Royal Ballet (UK) present Christopher Wheeldon’s interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s story. Unfortunately the choreography takes a backseat to Joby Talbot’s whimsical score and the production’s sumptuous sets, costumes and film projections. Scenarist Nicholas Wright establishes Alice’s pre-rabbit-hole life efficiently, with a couple of homages to Alfred Hitchcock thrown in, but the dance is more mime than ballet, and there’s a big emotional hole in the piece. Still, like the company’s Nutcracker, this colourful production should appeal to kids. Jun 23-25, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $24-$227. Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, 145 Queen W. 416-345-9595, national.ballet. ca. NNN (Glenn Sumi) 3 comedy performed in the castle’s gardens. Jun 27-29, Mon-Wed 8 pm. $20. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. LOVE JIG by Jerome McCann (The Armagh Theatrical Co-op). This dark comedy looks at the competitive world of Irish dancing. Jun 24-26, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 2 pm. $30. Alumnae Theatre, 70 Berkeley. lovejig.com. P MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS by William Finn (neXt Company Theatre). A man moves in with his lover but hopes a psychiatrist can keep his family happy. Jun 23-26, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $30. Sullivan Mahoney Courthouse Theatre, 101 King, St Catharines. 1-866617-3257, arts.brocku.ca. NEARLY LEAR adapted from Shakespeare by Susanna Hamnett and Edith Tankus (Red Sandcastle Theatre). Hamnett performs a solo show based on King Lear using storytelling,

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Oh, no. No way, I’d miss a music cue or an entrance for sure. No. Definitely not. “Exit, pursued by a bear” is one of the all-time most famous Shakespeare stage directions. How is it used in this production? The pursuit by the bear begins right at the beginning of the play.

Sean Dixon actor, The Winter’s Tale The bold programming by Cana dian Stage artistic director Mat thew Jocelyn continues this summer with the company’s al fresco offering. The Winter’s Tale isn’t one of those crowdpleasers staged countless times at the Dream In High Park. But its mix of fairy tale motifs, action (in cluding a shipwreck and a bear) and some moving psychological elements will appeal to theatre goers of any age. Also, the eclectic cast gets to act, sing, dance and play instruments – a piece of cake for Sean Dixon, best known to theatre audiences for his work with Theatre SKAM but also an accomplished banjoist and novel ist (The Many Revenges Of Kip Flynn). See Listings, this page . You’re an actor, playwright, musician and most recently novelist. So what do you put under “occupation”? I’ve given up. The Winter’s Tale isn’t one of Shakespeare’s best-known plays. How

Any particular politician you hope sees the show? “Exit, pursued by Rob Ford!” Apparently you’re required to act, dance, sing and play a variety of instruments. How does that change the feel of the play? It gives Act IV Scene IV its due. would you entice people to come? It’s a tragedy that collides with a comedy to produce a fountain of magic. You mentioned on Twitter that “a lot takes place in Act IV of The Winter’s Tale.” Can you elaborate – in 140 characters or less? Let me clarify: A lot happens in Act IV Scene IV of The Winter’s Tale. Speaking of Twitter, you’re on there a lot. When’s your most prolific tweeting time? I have the impression the best times for tweeting – at least if you want a conversation – are late morning and mid-afternoon, unless someone is livetweeting from backstage during a show. … and will you be tweeting backstage during the show? Hmm… I’d have to get a device for it.

Does it bother you that banjos are everywhere now, when you’ve been playing one for years and even maintain a banjo blog (banjobanjar.blogspot.com)? It does sometimes. Thanks for asking. But even though they’re ubiquitous, you still overhear people say, “I heard a guy playing Rusalka’s Song To The Moon on the banjo!” as if it were doing the impossible, as if the instrument isn’t capable of playing all the notes in the frigging scale. (Maybe that’s a bad example. I’m not sure I’d want to hear Rusalka’s Song To The Moon on the banjo.) How does it feel to take part in a scene that contains one of the first recorded uses of the word “dildo”? It’s been cut. But Estelle [Shook] directed us to play the lines that have GLENN SUMI been cut.

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film and music. Opens Jun 24 and runs to Jul 3, Fri-Sun 7 pm (no show Jul 1). $12 (opening gala $27). 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411. P9 To 5: ThE MUSIcaL by Dolly Parton and Patricia Resnick (Dancap Productions). A group of secretaries plot revenge against their sexist boss in this adaptation of the 80s film. Opens Jun 29 and runs to Jul 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm (no show Jul 1; see website for additional times). $41-$154. Toronto Centre for the Arts, 5040 Yonge. 416644-3665, dancaptickets.com. ShRINE cIRcUS (Xentel DM). Acrobats, clowns, animals and more perform under the big top. Jun 24-26, Fri-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat noon & 4 pm, Sun 1 & 5 pm. $20. East York Town Centre Parking Lot, 45 Overlea Blvd. shrinecircus.ca. SkIRTING ThE EdGE (Mysterious Entity Theatre). This collection of monologues looks at women dealing with mental health issues. Jun 23-24 at 8 pm. $20 or pwyc. Workman Arts Theatre, 651 Dufferin. mysteriousentity.com. Svadba – WEddING by Ana Sokolovic (Queen of Puddings Music Theatre). Folk tales and traditions surround a woman the night before her wedding in this opera performed in Serbian with English surtitles (see story, page 58). Opens Jun 24 and runs to Jul 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm (no show Jul 1). $49. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, queenofpuddingsmusictheatre.com. PvaMpIRE LESbIaNS of SodoM by Charles Busch (Pandemic Theatre). Two vengeful vampires travel through time and feud with each other in this theatrical burlesque play. Opens Jun 23 and runs to Jul 2, Thu-Sat 8 pm (and Sat 11 pm; no show Jul 1). $25-$50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, pandemictheatre.ca. a vERY ‘LUpE’ cabaRET (The Flying Beaver Pubaret). Melissa D’Agostino performs in her Lupe character. Jun 24-25 at 8 pm. $10-$15. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. ThE WaR & pEacE MaRaThoN (tiny bird theatre/Sore for Punching You). Leo Tolstoy’s entire novel will be read for 55 uninterrupted hours by members of the arts community. Jun 28-30, from Tue 9 am until Thu 5 pm. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, 100 Queen

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W, SW corner near Winston Churchill statue. tinybird.ca. ThE WINTER’S TaLE by William Shakespeare (Canadian Stage Dream in High Park). A jealous king puts his wife on trial in this outdoor production (see Q&A, this page). Opens Jun 28 and runs to Sep 4, Tue-Sun 8 pm. Pwyc ($20 sugg); under 14 free. High Park Amphitheatre, Bloor W and Parkside. canadianstage.com/dream.

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oN ThE RockS by Bernard Shaw, adapted by

Michael Healey (Shaw Festival). Shaw’s political drama about a prime minister’s controversial speech gets a modern update. Previews to Jul 7. Opens Jul 8 and runs in rep to Oct 8. $24$106. Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. ThE pRESIdENT Ferenc Molnár, adapted by Morwyn Brebner (Shaw Festival). A banker has one hour to turn an heiress’s communist husband into someone her parents will like. Previews to Jul 8. Opens Jul 9 and runs in rep to Oct 9. $32. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.

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PcoLoUR ME dRaGG (Queer Pride 2011). Queer and trans artists celebrate diversity with drag and burlesque performances. Jun 24 at 8 pm. $6-$20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. doRa MavoR MooRE aWaRdS (Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts). Craig Lauzon and Michaela Washburn host the annual theatre, dance and opera awards. Jun 27 at 8 pm. $65, VIP tickets $165. Bluma Appel Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, tapa.ca. PGLaM! pRIdE EdITIoN (Topher McFarlane). This variety show features comedy, music, dance and more by Vong Sundara, the Kinky Kabaret, Vicki Licks and others. Jun 27 at 8 pm. $10 (all proceeds to the LGBT Youth Line). Supermarket, 268 Augusta. glamcabaret.blogspot.com. PLES dEMIMoNdES (Queer Pride 2011). The Scandelles perform a burlesque show about the sex trade. Jun 25 at 8:30 pm. $20. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-9758555, thescandelles.com.

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MUSIC INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE (BlackCreek Summer Music Festival). Dame ñ Helen Mirren and Jeremy Irons recite verses as

the Castleton Festival Orchestra and Chorus perform. Jun 29 at 8 pm. $45-$125. Rexall Centre, 1 Shoreham. blackcreekfestival.com. MY DAtE WItH Bozo (Colleen Taffe). Christian singles seek their soulmates in this comedy. Jun 25 at 7 pm. $10-$15. 918 Centre for Culture, 918 Bathurst. mydatewithbozo.com. o.D. oN PARADISE by Linda Griffiths and Patrick Brymer (Duchess/Andrew Moodie). The 1982 play gets a reading and Griffiths reads excerpts from The Paradise Play. Jun 26 at 2 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-413-7847. SIDE BY SIDE WItH SoNUS (Sonus Stage Productions). The company presents a cabaret funder for its upcoming production with performances by Janna Polzin, Kelly Holiff and others. Jun 27 at 8:30 pm. $15. Smiling Buddha, 961 College. sonusstageproductions.ca. PStRIP SPEllINg BEE – PRIDE EDItIoN (Queer Pride 2011/Chat Perdu Productions). This 18+ theatrical game show features naked contestants. Jun 24 at 10 pm. $10. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. stripspellingbee. blogspot.com. PVIVA CABAREt (Queer Pride 2011). Yura Ruzhyev performs a cabaret tribute show to Cher, Madonna and other divas. Jun 29 at 8 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, rushow.ru.

forming Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNNN (GS) PBIllY EllIot tHE MUSICAl by Lee Hall and Elton John (Mirvish). One of the best new musicals of the millennium, Billy Elliot is based on the 2000 film about a working-class boy whose dreams of becoming a ballet dancer are set against the grim reality of his 1984 northern England mining community. The characters are richly detailed, the conflicts believable and complex, and the dialogue raw, crudely funny and uncompromising. The songs, while not exactly hummable, serve the story and characters, and the performances (four boys alternate in the demanding lead role) grounded and deeply felt. Bring tissues. Runs to Sep 3, Tue 7 pm, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$130. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (GS) A BlACK AND WHItE READINg SERIES (Royal Porcupine Productions). Two works in progress, Black Milk by Vassily Sigarev (Jun 23, 25) and White Plague by Karel Capek (Jun 24), get staged readings. Runs to Jun 25, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $12. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. CoDEx NoCtURNo (Kadozuke Kollektif). The collective presents a multimedia fusion of theatre and performance art about dreams and fallen angels. Runs to Jul 3, Wed-Sun 8 pm. $25, stu $20. Imagefoundry, 1581 Dupont. 647-367-1015, zuke.ca. PFEMAlE IMPERSoNAtoR SHoWS (Zelda’s). Divas from Broadway and film perform weekly. Fri-Sat 9 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. tHE gREEN DooR (Lower Ossington Theatre). This series features cabaret performances by Michael Burgess, Bruce Dow, Judy Marshak, Gabi Epstein, Adi Braun and others. Runs to Jun 26, Fri-Sat 8 and 10:30 pm. $20. 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. A MIDSUMMER NIgHt’S DREAM by William Shakespeare (Urban Bard). The company presents the classic comedy outdoors. Runs to Jul 2, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm (no show Jul 1). Pwyc ($15 sugg). Dundee Place Courtyard, 1 Adelaide E. urbanbard.ca. tHE oFFICE SPACEBAllS by Tim Suthervans, Kristian Bruun and Ben Birchard (Queen’s Players Toronto). Office workers fight a maniacal mayor in this mashup of The Office and Space-

Continuing ñ BIllY BISHoP goES to WAR by Eric Peterñson and John Gray (Soulpepper Theatre Company). Soulpepper remounts its hit production. This revival of Gray and Peterson’s chronicle of the life of the Owen Sound boy turned First World War flying ace simply soars. The two artists’ age (they first performed it three decades ago in their early 30s) adds poignancy to the show, and they know how to savour each word and note for maximum resonance. Ted Dykstra and a fine design give the production the intimacy, clarity and emotional heft it deserves. Don’t miss it. Runs to Aug 4, see website for schedule. $45-$65, stu $28, rush $22 (stu $5). Young Centre for the Per-

balls. Runs to Jun 25, Thu-Sat 8:30 pm. $20. Tranzac, 292 Brunswick. queensplayerstoronto.com. tHE RAIlWAY CHIlDREN by Edith Nesbit (Mirvish). This adaptation of Nesbit’s treasured children’s book focuses on three siblings who are uprooted from their comfy Edwardian London home to a working-class town after their father’s disappearance. There’s a placid, facile idea about hope at the heart of the material. Much like the theatre constructed around the tracks, it seems like the whole production has been adapted to allow for the show’s much-touted (and tooted) live train. Alas, the show remains track bound. Runs to Jun 26, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm (no show Jun 25; see website for other times). $25-$140. Roundhouse Theatre, 255 Bremner Blvd. mirvish.com. NN (Naomi Skwarna) SoMEtHINg RED by Tom Walmsley (Red Root Collective). A sexual secret is revealed as two couples drink and play games (see review, page 61). Runs to Jul 2, Wed-Sun 8 pm (postshow cabarets Jun 24 & Jul 2). $20, Sun pwyc. Meta Gallery, 124 Ossington. secureaseat. com. NNN (Naomi Skwarna) tANglED WEB: MURDER BY DEtECtIoN (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). Famous sleuths battle for the Detective of the Century Award in this interactive show. Runs to Jun 25, Fri-Sat 8 pm (dinner 6:30 pm; see website for other shows). $40-$83. 2026 Yonge. 416-4867469, mysteriouslyyours.com.

tRANSCENDENtAl MIRRoR: tHE UltIMAtE VARIEtY SHoW (Waterfalls). This weekly show of-

fers live music, improv, dance, theatre, comedy and more. Every Thu 9 pm. $5. 303 Augusta. ultimatevarietyshow.blogspot.com. tUESDAYS WItH MoRRIE by Mitch Albom and Jeffrey Hatcher (Stage West). A man reunites with his former professor, who is battling Lou Gehrig’s disease. Runs to Jul 3, Wed-Sat 6:30 pm, Sun 5 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $46$80 (includes buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com.

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ley Festival Theatre). A man juggles three girlfriends in this comedy. Runs to Jul 2, see website for schedule. $25-$28. 6-302 Bridge, Port Stanley. portstanleytheatre.ca. BREAKINg AND ENtERINg by Vin Morreale Jr (Lakeside Players). A mysterious woman foils a thief’s plans in this comedy. Runs to Jul 10, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $25-$56. Port Mansion Theatre and Restaurant, 12 Lakeport, St Catharines. portmansion.com. CAMElot by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe (Stratford Festival). King Arthur’s wife betrays him with his most trusted knight in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. CANDIDA by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman must choose between her preacher husband and her poet lover. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. PCAt oN A Hot tIN RooF by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). A bad marriage and a looming inheritance create tensions at a Southern patriarch’s birthday dinner. Runs in rep to Oct 23. $24-$106. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. DRAMA At INISH – A CoMEDY by Lennox Robinson (Shaw Festival). A company performing serious plays changes the mood of an Irish town used to comedies. Runs in rep to Oct 1. $24-$106. Court House Theatre, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. tHE gRAPES oF WRAtH by John Steinbeck, adapted by Frank Galati (Stratford Festival). Ruined by the Depression, an Oklahoma farming family travels to California to seek a new life. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca.

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Thursday, June 23 ABSolUtE CoMEDY presents Jamie Lissow,

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Marco Bernardi. 7 & 9 pm. $15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. PQUEER CoMEDY CollECtIVE Bread & Circus presents Darryl Dinn, Andrya Duff, Susan Fischer, Robert Keller and Lindy Zucker. To Jun 24, Thu-Fri 8 pm. $12. 299 Augusta. 416-925-8898, glam-glam.com. RED NoSE DIStRICt Black Swan Comedy presents a show by Helen Donnelly’s students, w/ Shawn Postoff, Giselle Navaroli, Rain Chan and others. 8 pm. $10. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. StAND UP AND BItE ME Bite TV presents the eight finalists from its search for the next stand-up star w/ host Colin Mochrie. 8 pm. $10 (proceeds to Gilda’s Club). Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. tHIS PARtY’S A RIot! Second City’s latest sketch revue doesn’t consistently live up to that title, but there are plenty of laughs. Highlights include savage takes on greedy baby boomers, pretentious yoga instructors and an awkward threesome. The writing needs

PHAIRSPRAY by Mark O’Donnell, Thomas

Meehan, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Drayton Entertainment). A quirky 60s teen becomes popular and looks to change the world in this musical. Runs to Jul 2, see website for schedule. $42, stu $22. Huron Country Playhouse, 70689 B Line, Grand Bend. 1-888449-4463, draytonentertainment.com. HEARtBREAK HoUSE by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Debates and deceptions play out at a British dinner party on the eve of World War I. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. JESUS CHRISt SUPERStAR by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford Festival). Judas makes a choice between Jesus and the Roman rulers in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 29. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Avon Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. tHE MERRY WIVES oF WINDSoR by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Two women turn the tables on their would-be seducer in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 14. $50-$106, stu/srs $25-$66. Festival Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. MY FAIR lADY by Frederick Loewe and Alan Jay Lerner (Shaw Festival). This musical is based on Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $24-$106. Festival Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. PRICHARD III by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A ruthless Duke marries and murders his way to the English throne. Runs in rep to Sep 25. $50-$106, stu/ srs $25-$66. Tom Patterson Theatre, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. WINgFIElD: loSt & FoUND by Dan Needles (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A farmer seeks a new source of water during a drought in this solo comedy. Runs to Jul 16, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Springer Theatre, Gananoque. 1-866-3827020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. 3

sharpening, but the ballsy, improv-based finale – if it works – will generate lots of postshow buzz. Wed-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 7 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416343-0011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) toUCH MY StEREotYPE Comedy Bar presents videos, sketches, songs and improv w/ Anna Sudac, Mike Tanchuk, Sonia D’Amico, Jordan Roth and others. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. touchmystereotype.com. YUK YUK’S DoWNtoWN presents actor/ comic Tom Green. 8 pm. $22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Friday, June 24 ABSolUtE CoMEDY See Thu 23. AMERICAN INVASIoN See Thu 23. CoMEDY oN tHE DANFoRtH BloWoUt

Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Dan Hershfield, Jason Gemmill, Rhonda Riche, Jorge Moreira and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. comedyonthedanforth.com. FIVE StAR CoMEDY gAlA Cottage Country Comedy Festival presents Steve Patterson, Debra DiGiovanni, Arthur Simeon, Rob Pue, Tim Steeves and Tyler Morrison. 8 pm. $40. The Rosseau Resort & Spa, 1050 Paignton House, Minett. cottagecomedy.com. tHE goD-AWFUl CoMEDY SHoW JP Hodgkinson presents atheist-friendly comedy. 8:30 pm. $10. Centre for Inquiry, 216 Beverley. cfiontario.org. KNoCKoUt CoMEDY NIgHt TKO’s Pub presents Marco Bernardi, David Cupchik, Danielle Leger, Paul Irving, Matt Shury, Dawn Whitwell, host Scott McCrickard and others. 10 pm. Free. 1600 Danforth. 416-466-1965. lAUgHDRAFt lAUNCH PARtY Laughdraft presents its inaugural show 9 pm. $5 (proceeds to Kapisanan Centre). Kapisanan Centre, 167 Augusta. laughdraft.com. QUEER CoMEDY CollECtIVE See Thu 23.

SlACKStoCK Ix: tEAM BUIlDINg FoR FACElESS CoRPoRAtE DRoNES Black Swan presents

stand-up, sketch and improv with Hannah Hogan, Dave Tsonos, Mark Forward, Reverse Oreo and Action Slacks. 9 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth. 416-469-0537. tHIS PARtY’S A RIot! See Thu 23. toKE & JoKE Village Vapor Lounge presents a weekly show w/ host Dred Lee. 7:30 pm. $5. 66 Wellesley E. 416-972-9500. YUK YUK’S DoWNtoWN presents Kristeen von Hagen. To Jun 25, Fri-Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUgHAN presents Donnie Coy. To Jun 25, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WESt presents Dirty Chix, featuring

Something good revival mixes pleasure and pain By NAOMI SKWARNA SOMETHING RED by Tom Walmsley (Red Root Collective). At Meta Gallery (124 Ossington). To July 2. Pwyc-$20. See Continuing, page 60. Rating: NNN

pain brings closeness – or that’s what Bobby, the frustrated, halfcrazed hero of Something Red, believes. Although his notion of closeness is relative, agony is at the heart of Red Root’s revival of Tom Walmsley’s 1978 play – two untempered hours of Shannon Laverty. To Jun 25, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

Saturday, June 25 AbSOluTE COMEDy See Thu 23. THE AbSOluTEly POSITIVEly COMPlETEly MADE uP SHOW Second City presents interactive,

family-friendly improv and sketch. 11 am. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. AMERICAN INVASION See Thu 23. blACK SWAN COMEDy presents an Improv Drop In workshop w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. Youth For Change comedy fundraiser. 8 pm. The Ladder, competitive entertainment. 10 pm. $5 per show. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

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The Pub Theatre Co presents interactive sketch comedy about drinking. 9 pm. $15. Hard Rock Cafe, 279 Yonge. byebyeliver.com. COTTAGE COuNTRy COMEDy FESTIVAl presents the Impolitely Canadian Gala w/ Tim Steeves, Arthur Simeon, and others. 8 pm. Culture Shock w/ Jason Rouse, Kathleen McGee, Tom O’Donnell, Bobby Mair and others. 10 pm. $25 per show. Port Carling Community Centre, 3 Bailey, Port Carling. cottagecomedy.com. THE REVuE REVuE VARIETy SHOW Revue Cinema presents Nikki Payne, Winston Spear, Hunter Collins, Parker & Seville, Frenzy, host Caroly Bennett and others. 9 pm. $10$12. 400 Roncesvalles. revuecinema.ca. SPIllIN’ THE bEANS COMEDy Full of Beans Coffee presents a show w/ host Rene Payes. 7 pm. Pwyc. 1348 Dundas W. 647-347-4161. THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Theatre presents fast and furious improv matches. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 647-8985324, baddogtheatre.com. THIS PARTy’S A RIOT! See Thu 23. yuK yuK’S DOWNTOWN See Fri 24. yuK yuK’S VAuGHAN See Fri 24. yuK yuK’S WEST See Fri 24.

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Sunday, June 26 AbSOluTE COMEDy See Thu 23. COMEDy AT ARCHIE’S Archibald’s Pub presents

a weekly show w/ host Liam Kelly. 8 pm. Free. 8950 Yonge, Richmond Hill. 905-889-0235. lAuGH SAbbATH presents Evening Jim Jam w/ Sara Hennessey, Aaron Eves, Andrew Johnston, Mack Lawrenz, host Nick Flanagan and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.

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it. Good thing there’s an intermission. Two couples get together for a drink at the apartment of Bobby (Tom Sandomirsky), an alcoholic shut-in, and his hard-working girlfriend, Christine (Moksha McPherrin). As in much of Walmsley’s work (Blood, Three Squares A Day), these are people with substance problems, paranoia, depression. Bobby was once a petty criminal with his friend and upstairs neighbour, Alex (David Christo), who Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. SuDDENly SuNDAy Pantages Martini Bar presents comedy w/ Melissa Story and Jeff Clark. 9 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. SuNDAy NIGHT lIVE The Sketchersons present a weekly sketch show w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9:30 pm. $8. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. THIS PARTy’S A RIOT! See Thu 23. XXX EROTIC COMEDy NIGHT Zanzibar Tavern presents a show w/ host Fast Eddie Bizarria. 8:30 pm. Free. 359 Yonge. 647-831-4975.

Monday, June 27 AlT.COMEDy lOuNGE Rivoli presents Debra DiGiovanni, Rebecca Kohler, Steve ñ Scholtz, Levi MacDougall, Fraser Young & Ron

Sparks, Stephanie Tolev, Jo-Anna Downey, MC John Hastings and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. bEST. MONDAy. EVER. Second City presents a weekly show featuring sketch, songs and improv. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. secondcity.com. THE COMEDy CAbARET Robin Crossman and Chris MacLean present stand-up w/ Martha Chaves, Richard Lett, Ali Hassan, Joel Buxton, Chris Roberts, Eric Clifford and Rose Giles. 9 pm. Pwyc. Charlotte Room, 19 Charlotte. 416598-2882, thecomedycabaret.com. PDIRTy bINGO Zelda’s presents a game with adult prizes w/ hosts Gloria Hole and Lena Over. 8:30 pm. Free. 692 Yonge. zeldas.ca. THE FAMOuS & HEINOuS SHOW Pour Boy Pub presents a weekly open mic. 10:30 pm. Free. 666 Manning. 647-343-7969, pourboy.ca. PGlAM! PRIDE EDITION Supermarket presents a comedy/variety show w/ Andrew Johnston, Richard Ryder, Diana Love, Vong Sundara, Topher McFarlane, the Kinky Kabaret and others. 8 pm. $10 (proceeds to LGBT Youth Line). 268 Augusta. glamcabaret. blogspot.com.

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Imperial Pub presents a weekly show with cash prizes w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. $5. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. MONDAy NIGHT IMPROV JAM Black Swan Comedy presents an open jam w/ Ralph MacLeod. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd fl. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. THE SOAPS The National Theatre of the World presents animprovised soap opera w/ Jim Annan, Matt Baram, Lisa Brooke, Jan Caruana and others. Last show of the season. 9 pm. Pwyc. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com.

Tuesday, June 28 THE COMEDy JuNGlE Supermarket presents Jay Hardy and Trevor Osborne. 8 pm. $5. 268

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has recently got back on track with a factory job and an educated, middleclass girlfriend, Elizabeth (Angela Besharah). Walmsley’s dialogue is tight, witty and authentically conversational. Bottles and insults are passed with equal ease, but by the second act, the bitterness and violence nested in the relationships emerge, Bobby and Alex tearing into each other with the longpercolating acidity of old friends. The actors have palpable chemistry, even if some of the characterizations feel like collections of tics and outbursts. As Alex, Christo vacillates between genuine vulnerability and smugness, and McPherrin gives a magnetic performance as Christine, so worn down by her life with Bobby that even her anger seems exhausted. In the shallow Meta Gallery space, the production’s design could use some modulation. Although authentic-looking, Melissa Stewart’s costumes are so overtly 70s that they leave little to the imagination. Melissa Joakim’s lighting keeps the entire show bathed in a bloody glow – an initially striking choice that eventually nauseates, although that might be the point, making us suffer as much as these people. 3

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THE lAST RIDE OF THE blOOR HORSEMEN Rivoli presents Nathan Macintosh, Steve ñ Scholtz and Nick Beaton in their last show as

residents of Toronto. 9 pm. $10. 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. STANDING ON THE DANFORTH Eton House presents Adrienne Fish, Ted Morris, Harry Doupe, Rob Pue and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-466-6161.

Wednesday, June 29 THE CARNEGIE HAll SHOW The National Theatre of the World presents a weekly variety show. 9 pm. Pwyc. Bread & Circus, 299 Augusta. thecarnegiehallshow.com. DJ DEMERS presents a weekly show w/ guests. 9 pm. $5. Underground Comedy Club, 670 Queen E. djdemers.com. THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. zeldas.ca. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents improv by its students. 6:30 pm. Free. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. $10. Munchausen, rapidfire improv. 10 pm. Free. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. PSPIRITS OPEN MIC PRIDE SHOW presents Marissa Gregoris, Richard Ryder, Ted Morris, Stephen Sharpe, Vicki Licks, John Hastings, Marco Bernardi, host Jo-Anna Downey and others. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416-967-0001. THIS PARTy’S A RIOT! See Thu 23. WHAT ARE yOu lAuGHING AT? WAYLA Bar presents sketch comedy by Warm Summer Hotness w/ Suzan Mazur, Cameron Wylie and Huckleberry Funn. 9 pm. $5. 996 Queen E. 416-901-5570, whatareyoulookingatbar. com. yuK yuK’S DOWNTOWN Toronto Jazz Festival presents comedian/musician Reggie Watts. 8 & 10:30 pm. $30. 224 Richmond W. 1-855-985-5000, yukyuks.com. 3

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Thursday, June 23 SARAH SCHULMAN The lesbian novelist/play-

wright/activist talks with NOW entertainment editor Susan G Cole. 9 pm. Pwyc ($10 sugg). TIFF Bell Lightbox, 350 King W. tiff.net. STRANGERS IN PARIS Anthology launch with Molly Peacock, Bruce Meyer and others. 7 pm. Free. Pierre-Leon Gallery, 24 Spadina. tightropebooks.com.

Friday, June 24 EVA GABRIELSSON Discussing “There Are

Things I Want You To Know” About Stieg

Larsson And Me. 6:30 pm. Free. Toronto French School, 306 Lawrence E. 416-484-6533. REMEMBERING DUDLEY LAWS Poetic tribute with Michael St George, Diane Liverpool and others. 7:30 pm. $5 sugg. A Different Booklist, 746 Bathurst. 416-707-8397.

Saturday, June 25 EVA GABRIELSSON Signing copies of “There Are Things I Want You To Know” About Stieg Larsson And Me. 11 am (Chapters, 2901 Bayview), 1 pm (Chapters, 1950 Queensway). Free. chapters.indigo.ca. BRANDON PITTS/MADISON SHADWELL/HOLDEN LEVACK Poetry and an open mic. 7 pm. Free.

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by Rob Brezsny

ARIES Mar 21 | Apr 19 Golden orb spi-

ders of Madagascar spin robust webs. Their silk is stronger than steel yet able to bend and expand when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing facet of their work: each morning they eat what remains of yesterday’s web and spend an hour or so weaving a fresh one. I’m thinking that your task in the coming weeks has some similarities to the orb spider’s, Aries: creating rugged but flexible structures to gather what you need, and being ready to continually shed what has outlived its usefulness so as to build what your changing circumstances require. (Thanks to the California Academy of Sciences for the info on orb spiders.)

TAURUS Apr 20 | May 20 The year is al-

GEMINI May 21 | Jun 20 Advertisements are often designed to make you feel inadequate about the life you’re actually living so you will be motivated to “improve” your lot by buying what they’re selling. In this short horoscope, I don’t have room to express how much soul sickness this wreaks upon us all. Recently HBO unleashed an especially nefarious attack. Promoting its new streaming service, it informed us that “The story you could be watching is better than the one you’re in.” Fortunately, Gemini, you won’t be tempted to swallow that vicious propaganda any time in the coming weeks. Your personal story will be profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO or any other entertainment source might offer.

most half over, Taurus. Shall we sum up the first part of 2011 and speculate CANCER Jun 21 | Jul 22 A company that about the adventures that may lie manufactures processed food made a ahead of you in the next six months? promotional offer: if you purchased 10 The way I see it, you’ve been going of its products, it would give you 500 through a boisterous process of purififrequent flyer miles. An American man cation since last January. Some of it has named David Philips took maximum adrattled your soul’s bones, while some of vantage. He bought 12,150 pudding it has freed you from your mind-forged cups for $3,000, earning himself more manacles. In a few short months, you than a million frequent flyer miles – have overseen more climaxes and shed enough to fly to Europe and back 31 more emotional baggage than you had times. This is the kind of legal trick in the past three years combined. Now you’re now in a good position to pull off, you’re all clean and clear and fresh, and Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please: ready for a less exhausting, more cheer-6/16/11 How could you play system, 24298_AuthorsNOWad:Jun23 9:38 AM the Page 1 outwit ful kind of fun. the matrix, rage against the machine or

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 7:30PM York Quay Centre Harbourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay West Toronto $10/FREE for members, students & youth Box Office/Info: 416-973-4000 readings.org

GEORGES BENAY Signing Nomad On The Run. 1 pm. Free. Chapters, 1950 Queensway. chapters.indigo.ca. LINDA GRIFFITHS/ANDREW MOODIE The playwrights read O.D. On Paradise. 2-6 pm. $10. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. RICHARD ROHMER/STEWART ANDREWS Signing their illustrated book The Building Of The CN Tower. 11 am & 2:30 pm. Free. CN Tower, 301 Front W. 416-868-6937.

Monday, June 27 Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. TORONTO POETRY SLAMXX Spoken word competition with Jared Singer. 7:30 pm. $5. Drake Underground, 1150 Queen W. 416-312-3865.

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subvert the Man? No need to break any laws; the best gambit will be an ethical one.

LEO Jul 23 | Aug 22 While watching fasttalking politicians talk on TV, my Polish grand-uncle would sometimes mutter, “Zlotem pisal, a gownem zapieczetowal.” I only learned what those words meant when I turned 18 and he decided I was old enough to know the translation: “Written in gold and sealed with crap.” One of your interesting assignments in the coming weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything that fits that description in your own life. Once you’ve done that, you can get started on the next task, which should be rather fun: Expose the discrepancy, and clean up the mess.

VIRGO Aug 23 | Sep 22 Years ago I did a

book tour that brought me to Eugene, Oregon, where my sister and her husband and their daughter live. They came to my reading at a bookstore. My Virgo niece Jasper was seven years old at the time. I was surprised and delighted when she heckled me several times during my talk, always with funny and good-natured comments that added to the conviviality of the moment and entertained everyone in attendance. Who said Virgos are well-behaved to a fault? Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece: with wit and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of any

IRSHAD MANJI Talking about her new book, Allah, Liberty & Love with CBC’s Matt Galloway. 7 pm. Free (tickets required). Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-393-7131. DAVID MCCULLOUGH Discussing The Greater Journey: Americans In Paris. 7:30 pm. Free.

events that could use some smart agitation.

LIBRA Sep 23 | Oct 22 “Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on,” wrote author Samuel Butler. Ain’t that the truth! You may be practising as diligently as you can, gradually trying to master your complex instrument, but in the meantime your lack of expertise is plainly visible to anyone who’s paying close attention. Luckily, not too many people pay really close attention, which gives you a significant amount of slack. Now and then, too, you have growth spurts – phases when your skills suddenly leap to a higher octave. The coming weeks should be one of these times for you, Libra. SCORPIO Oct 23 | Nov 21 In August and September, millions of seabirds known as Sooty Shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand and travel thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just off the coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it? The feeding is first-class; the tasty fish and squid they like are available in abundance. I suggest you consider a Sooty Shearwater-type quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio. The very best samples of the goodies you crave are located at a distance, either in a literal or metaphorical sense. SAGITTARIUS Nov 22 | Dec 21 I really

thought I’d understand sex better by now. After all these years of doing it and studying it and thinking about it and talking about it, I still can’t regard myself as a master of the subject. The kundalini’s uncanny behaviour continues to surprise me, perplex me and thrill me

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GLEN DOWNIE/KATE MARSHALL FLAHERTY/ MARK GOLDSTEIN Poetry and an open mic. 8

pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org. THE WAR AND PEACE MARATHON Sean Dixon, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall an others read the Tolstoy masterpiece. 9 am until it’s done. Free. Nathan Phillips Square, Queen and Bay.

Wednesday, June 29 BOOK BAKERY BENEFIT Readings by Andrew

Pyper, Pasha Malla and others plus a kissing booth. 7 pm. $10. Burroughes Bldg, Queen and Bathurst. thebookbakery.biz. DESCANTING FOR 40 YEARS Descant magazine reading with bill bissett, Barbara Schott and others. 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs free. Harbourfront Centre Brigantine Rm, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. FRANK VIVA Launch for Along A Long Road. 6 pm. Free. Type Books, 883 Queen W. 416366-8973. 3

with ever-new revelations. Just when I imagine I’ve figured out how it all works, I’m delivered to some fresh mystery. How about you, Sagittarius? Judging by the current astrological omens, I’m guessing you’re due for a round of novel revelations about the nature of eros. As long as you keep an open mind, open heart and open libido, it should all be pretty interesting.

CAPRICORN Dec 22 | Jan 19 A few years

ago, Eve Ensler took her famous play The Vagina Monologues to Pakistan. She and a group of local Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with discourses on vibrators, menstruation and “triple orgasms.” I invite and encourage you to try something equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give your spiel to a new audience; take your shtick to a wild frontier; show who you really are to important people who don’t know the truth yet.

AQUARIUS Jan 20 | Feb 18 When my

“macho feminist” memoir The Televisionary Oracle was published in 2000, I suffered from comical delusions about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I tried to get a review in The New York Times. As I know now, that had as much likelihood of happening as me travelling to the moon in a rainbow canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu of that kind of recognition, others arrived. One of my favourites: my book went along for the ride with a group of goddess-worshipers on a spiritual tour to the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey. They read my writing aloud to each other, amused and entertained. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience, Aquarius: having to “settle for” a soulful acknowledgment that’s different from what your ego thought it wanted. Take it from me: that’s actually better.

PISCES Feb 19| Mar 20 My favourite plant food for my African violets is a natural fertilizer called Big Bloom. One of its key ingredients – the stuff that makes it so effective – is bat guano. I’d like to suggest that you’re about due to embark on the Big Blooming phase of your own cycle, Pisces. And it’s more likely to reach its deserved pinnacle of fertility if you’re willing to summon just a hint of bat-sh** craziness from the depths of your subconscious mind. But remember: just a dollop, not a giant heap. To check out my expanded audio forecast of your destiny for the second half of 2011, go to http://bit. ly/LookForward.

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an invigorating new light on work that crackles with ideas and energy. Featuring famous masterpieces as well as lesser-known works – 111 pieces in total – the show revives the palpable excitement that brought New York City to the forefront of the international art world after the Second World War. The genius of the show is in demonstrating how these painters wrested a style away from Europe to create a new, visceral, muscular, entirely American mode. The younger Jackson Pollock, for example, struggled in the shadow of Parisian painters until his canvases exploded in his drip

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reception 7-9 pm Jun 23, discussion 3-5 pm Jun 25. 56 Ossington. 416-645-1066. GENERAL HARDWARE CONTEMPORARY Painting: Michael Davidson, to Jul 9. 1520 Queen W. 416-516-6876. P GLADSTONE HOTEL That’s So Gay: The New Queer group show, Jun 23-Jul 10, reception 7, dance party 10 pm Jun 24. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, Jun 28-Jul 5. Being She: The Culture Of Women’s Health And Health Care Through The Lens Of Wholeness, to Aug 1. Textiles: Kathryn Walter, to Jun 26. 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. HARBOURFRONT CENTRE Azure Magazine AZ Awards; DodoLab: Ideas Of Canada; Bring To Mind; First Hand group shows; installation/ photos Lorène Bourgeois, Bozica Radjenovic and Chao-Liang Shen, to Sep 25. 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE Mixed media/ photos: Tony Calzetta, Vincenzo Pietropaolo and Francesca Vivenza, to Nov 27. Mon-Fri or by appt. 496 Huron. 416-921-3802. LABSPACE STUDIO [Future] I Worry, Jun 2426, reception 7 pm-1 am Jun 24 (pwyc). 2A Pape. 416-836-1516.

paintings of the late 50s. Especially enlightening are the curatorial materials explaining how technique underscored painterly intent. A fascinating video explains how Franz Kline’s use of enamel house paint – over the horrified objections of his gallery – was essential to his gestural thinking about negative space, surface and line. In another video, Mark Rothko’s obsession with making his signature clouds of colour “float” off the canvas comes across in the laborious process of overlaying layer upon thin layer of pigment. Also included in the show are the NEW NEW MUSEUM Innovation After Abstract Expressionism: Toronto 1971-2011, to Jul 15. Sat 2-4 pm or by appt. 123 Bellwoods, rear laneway. 416-603-4111. NICHOLAS METIVIER Painting: Peter Hoffer, Jun 23-Jul 30. 451 King W. 416-2059000. OLGA KORPER Painting: Ron Shuebrook, to Jul 9. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. OPEN STUDIO GALLERY Prints: Jennie Suddick, Meredith Setser and Jenn Law, to Jul 23. 401 Richmond W #104. 416-5048238. P PENTIMENTO Photos: G Elliot Simpson, to Jul 3. 1164 Queen E. 416-406-6772. SUSAN HOBBS The Most She Weighed / The Least She Weighed group show, to Aug 13. 137 Tecumseth. 416-504-3699. TORONTO FREE GALLERY A Space Without Coordinates: SUM°, Jun 23-Jul 23, reception 7-10 pm Jun 23. 1277 Bloor W. 416913-0461. WARC Film: Joyce Wieland, Jun 25-Jul 16, reception/curator’s talk 2-5 pm Jun 25. 401 Richmond W #122. 416-977-0097. YORKGATE MALL Photos: Resist! (Jane Finch Action Against Poverty), to Jul 1. 1 York Gate.jfaap.wordpress.com.

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The Art Of Bollywood; Amin Rehman, to Jul 10. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-8965088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Abel Boulineau, to Aug 21. Brian Jungen, to Aug 7. Kathleen Munn, to Aug 28. Abstract Expressionist New York, to Sep 4, Battle Of The ‘Bergs’ talk 7-8:30 pm ($22.50) Jun 29 ($25, stu $16.50). Libby Hague, to Sep 11 (free). Inuit Modern, to Oct 16. Robert Motherwell, Jun 25-Dec 11. Lucy Tasseor Tutsweetok, to Apr 1, 2012. $18, srs $15, stu $10, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK U Humberto Vélez, to Jun 26. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Art In Shoes – Shoes In Art; The Roaring 20s: Heels, Hemlines And High Spirits, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BAYCREST HERITAGE MUSEUM The Dream Fulfilled – Theodor Herzl & The Jewish State, ongoing. 3560 Bathurst. 416-785-2500 ext 2802. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Pat Dumas-Hudecki, to Jun 28, reception 1-4 pm Jun 23, Jul 4-Aug 31. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. DESIGN EXCHANGE Out Of Sorts: Print Culture And Book Design, to Aug 21, Thilo Folkerts talk 6:30-7:30 pm Jun 29 (free). Play >

Nation, to Oct 10. $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Mary McKenzie, to Jul 10. Jun Kaneko, to Sep 18. Lesley McInally, to Sep 19 (free). Creamware, Jun 27-Dec 4. $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 Kevin Schmidt, to Aug 20, bus tour 1-5 pm (see Oakville Galleries) Jun 26. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. McMICHAEL CANADIAN ART COLLECTION Ivan Eyre, to Aug 14. Marc-Aurèle Fortin, to Sep 11. Steeling The Gaze: Portraits By Aboriginal Artists, to Sep 11. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA This Is Paradise, reception 8-11 pm Jun 24, Jun 25-Aug 21. Elle Flanders and Tamira Sawatzky, to Aug 31. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Sculpture/prints/ drawing from the collection, ongoing. $6, stu/srs $5. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-6037591. OAKVILLE GALLERIES Sobey Art Award Ontario Long List, Jun 24-Sep 3, bus tour 1-5 pm Jun 26 (from Justina Barnicke, reserve artbus@oakvillegalleries.com). Centennial, 120 Navy; Gairloch, 1306 Lakeshore W (Oakville). 905-844-4402. THE POWER PLANT Kevin Schmidt, to Sep 5.

Joan Mitchell’s Ladybug is part of Abstract Expressionist New York at the AGO.

women of Ab Ex: Lee Krasner (Pollock’s wife), Helen Frankenthaler and the later Joan Mitchell, who used ab ex as a launching pad for something more meditative and organically playful. Her breathtaking Ladybug is

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Documenting the Future The directors behind Radiant City mix fact and fiction again in The Future Is Now! By NORMAN WILNER THE FUTURE IS NOW! written and directed by Gary Burns and Jim Brown, with Liane Balaban and Paul Ahmarani. An eOne Entertainment release. 92 minutes. Opens Friday (June 24). For venues and times, see Movies, page 66.

gary burns and jim brown are playing with reality again. After the success of their first docu-fiction hybrid, Radiant City – a look at urban sprawl that fudged its locations and used actors as interview subjects to better portray the homogenous nature of the Canadian exurbs – they’re back with The Future Is Now! The day after their Hot Docs premiere, the Calgary-based duo – filmmaker Burns, whose dramatic features include The Suburbanators and waydowntown, and broadcaster Brown, who hosts CBC Radio’s Calgary Eyeopener – sit down at Café Pamenar to discuss their experience

launching the hybrid at a festival dedicated to pure documentaries. “I was surprised how many people stuck around for the Q&A,” Burns says. “It’s the first time we’ve actually had people going, ‘What the hell is this?’ You know, there were some angry people.” “You always get one of those guys at CBC open houses,” adds Brown. “They have a lot of buttons on, and a pen in a holder so they can make notes. He was one of those.” I can see how that might have been an uncomfortable confrontation. An update of a 1949 French documentary, Life Begins Tomorrow, that similarly bent the rules of the documentary format, The Future Is Now! mixes fictional characters played by Liane Balaban and Paul Ahmarani with cultural figures like the poet Christian Bök and the architect Shigeru Ban. The success of Radiant City gave the pair “a free make-a-film card,” ac-

cording to Brown. But the decision to make another film that straddles documentary and fiction – and to seek financing from both the NFB and Telefilm – made things a little confusing. “We didn’t go through [Telefilm’s] docs thing,” Burns explains. “This was a drama. And then the NFB was ‘No, it’s a doc.’ So there was a bit of fussing, but it wasn’t that difficult, because Radiant City did pretty well. It’s always like that; you have a success and it’s easier to get people excited or jump on board.” Sticking to the template of the original film brought its own challenges. “If we’d come up with the idea ourselves,” Burns says, “obviously it would be a completely different film. We really mirrored the original quite a bit. Even just the tone, you know, is crazily naive for 1949. If you were in 1949 watching this, you’d think, ‘Okay, this is straight – this is how

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things are made and this is how they’re delivered.’ But now it just seems super-corny.” And then there was the matter of securing the interviews. Things didn’t always go according to plan – as Brown, Ahmarani and their cinematographer discovered when they flew to Paris to interview Shigeru Ban. “We arrived at our hotel at 11:30 in the morning,” Brown says, “and he’d just been rushed to the hospital with kidney stones. So we were in Paris for one day. We shot one scene of Paul at an outdoor café, just sipping an espresso. I think it’s the most expensive shot in Canadian documentary history.”

THE FUTURE IS NOW! (Gary Burns, Jim Brown) Rating: NNN Gary Burns and Jim Brown pushed the documentary envelope with Radiant City, a look at urban sprawl that used actors as composite characters to illustrate the increasing homogeneity of Canada’s exurbs. Their new collaboration, The Future Is Now!, takes the conceit a step further. A fictional Montreal journalist (Liane Balaban) tries to convince a fictional interview subject (Paul Ahmarani) that he shouldn’t be so pessimistic about the future. The characters – identified only as the Woman of Tomorrow and the Man of Today – visit assorted artists and scientists to discuss coming social changes and their philosophical implications, turning a talking-heads documentary into a more accessible entertainment. That’s the theory anyway, but this time around the artifice proves distracting. Much as I’ve enjoyed Balaban and Ahmarani elsewhere, the real meat of this movie is in the NW interviews.

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i hate to say this, but cars 2 is the first Pixar movie that feels dead inside. The original Cars wasn’t great – it was a pleasant, bland remake of Doc Hollywood set in a world of anthropomorphic vehicles. But at least we had the sense that director John Lasseter was making a movie he cared about. This time, he’s delivered a hollow body. Cars 2 is bigger, shinier and far, far busier than the first film, but it’s all for naught. I didn’t think Lasseter, the genius who made Pixar the magnificent animation shop it is, would make a film this uninspired. Toy Story 3 might have been unnecessary, but Cars 2 is flat-out bad. Abandoning the original’s light comic tone, Lasseter puts the characters into an elaborate spy parody for the sequel. When his best pal, Lightning McQueen (voiced once again by Owen Wilson), enters an international race to raise awareness of alter-

native fuels, redneck tow truck Mater (redneck comic Larry the Cable Guy) is mistaken for an American agent and caught up in an espionage caper intended to discredit said alternative fuel. The animation is up to Pixar’s high standards – even in 3-D, Cars 2 looks terrific – but the story is a mess, Mater blundering through one chase scene after another to the amazement of British agents (voiced by Michael Caine and Emily Mortimer) while Lightning ka-chows obliviously along. Slack pacing gives us plenty of time to pick holes in the movie’s illconceived world, which makes even less sense than it did the first time around. It always bugged me that the Cars characters live in a human world that’s been retrofitted for their use, but this film introduces new elements that make even less sense, like the concept of cars as lemons and a subplot involving their constant need for new parts, which briefly suggests a storyline about organ harvesting. Lasseter doesn’t follow through on it, but after Toy Story 3’s child-traumatizing hellmouth sequence, I wouldn’t have put it past him. That’s what happens when you lose your way. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

at TIFF Cinematheque from tonight (Thursday, June 23). See Indie & Rep listings, page 73. Rating: nnnn

the mainstreaming of lgbt culture doesn’t mean queer filmmakers are suddenly devoid of material. Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues is an assured artist who’s finding startling ways to explore identity, sexuality and obsession. The provocative mid-career filmmaker is getting a mini-retrospective of features and shorts in TIFF Cinematheque’s New Auteurs series to coincide with the first-run release of his 2009 feature To Die Like A Man. Rodrigues burst onto the festival circuit with his confident 2000 debut feature, O Fantasma (Thursday, June 23, 6:30 pm; rating: nnnn). The untrained actor Ricardo Meneses plays Sérgio, a young, affectless garbageman who travels Lisbon at night picking up trash and having the occasional anonymous gay sexual encounter. When a hunky motorcyclist (Andre Barbosa) on his route spurns his ad-

vances, he becomes obsessed with the man and his machine, fetishizing both an old pair of Speedos from his garbage and (in a particularly striking scene) humping the man’s bike. Rodrigues trained as a scientist, and he displays an almost clinical curiosity about human behaviour. The nearly wordless film has the feel of an erotic dream, complete with some symbols – handcuffs, black and white canines – that feel part of your subconscious. The director’s second feature, 2005’s Two Drifters (Saturday, June 25, 5 pm; rating: nnnn), deals with sexual obsession again – but with a bit more passion. After a young gay man dies in a car accident, his neighbour Odete (Ana Cristina de Oliveira), who never met him, becomes convinced she’s carrying his child, while his lover, Rui (Nuno Gil) spirals downward until he finds out what Odete’s been up to. The touches of melodrama recall Douglas Sirk, and the title comes from the song Moon River, but the mordant humour and frank sexuality are all very contemporary. Rodrigues’s latest, To Die Like A

also opening Bad Teacher (D: Jake Kasdan, 92 min) Cameron Diaz is a decent comic actor, but she hasn’t been in a good comedy since There’s Something About Mary, made a whopping 13 years ago. Bad Teacher shows promise. Diaz plays a raunchy and lazy junior high school teacher who sets out to woo one of her colleagues.

Cameron Diaz hopes to get major mileage from Bad Teacher.

Man (from Friday, June 24; rating: nnn), played TIFF in 2009 and gets three screenings this week. In some ways it’s less accessible than the others – the leisurely pace could be a problem – but the director’s certainly not repeating himself. Tonia (Fernando Santos) is a middle-aged drag performer who’s been living as a woman with her junkie boyfriend Rosário (Alexander David), who wants her to transition to become a woman. Complicating matters are Tonia’s son, who’s AWOL from a military post, a particularly bitchy drag colleague and a health issue that forces the characters to confront their mortality. This time the symbols – stray dogs, a fishbowl – are a little too on the nose, but Rodrigues imbues the film with a powerful sense of mystery and spirituality that’s not as prevalent in the earlier films. A big chunk of the final section takes place in a forest, which the director captures with a bit of fairy tale wonder. The experiment isn’t a total success, but I can’t wait to see what Rodrigues comes up with next. 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com

Bridesmaids showed there’s an appetite for women being raunchy in movies. As a bonus, Diaz’s real-life ex Justin Timberlake plays one of the teachers.

Beginning Of The Great Revival (D: Huang Jianxin, Han Sanping, 140 min) Some of China’s biggest box office draws, Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Chang Chen and John Woo star in this historic epic about the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The movie’s a companion piece to the 2009 film The Founding Of A Republic. Both movies open Friday (June 24). Screened after press time – see reviews June 24 at nowtoronto.com/movies.

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La Dolce Vita (1960) ©Astor Pictures/Photofest

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Sarah Schulman with Susan G. Cole The activist, author and now filmmaker (United In Anger) talks with NOW’s books and entertainment editor about queer activism, art and life.

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The ArT of GeTTinG By (Gavin Wiesen) is the utterly fraudulent coming-of-age story of a terminally unmotivated Manhattan prep school senior (Freddie Highmore) smitten with a maladjusted classmate (Emma Roberts). It’s Rushmore without the originality or artistry. Had writer-director Wiesen been genuinely interested in the roots of his character’s creative paralysis, we might have had something; Highmore’s a strong young actor, and capable of depths the movie isn’t interested in plumbing. Its idea of crushing depression is a weekend spent listening to Leonard Cohen. 84 min. n (NW) Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 BAd TeAcher (Jake Kasdan) 92 min. See Also Opening, page 65. Opens Jun 24 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity. BeAuTiful Boy (Shawn Ku) is a drama

about an unassuming suburban couple (played by Maria Bello and Michael Sheen) on the verge of separation who learn their son (Kyle Gallner) has gone on a shooting spree at his school. It’s an actor’s showcase: Bello displays her incredible range as she copes with the waves of grief, denial and rage, while Sheen turns inward as the more pragmatic of the pair. The problem’s in Ku’s script, which is mired in predictable plot points and revelations that are meant to surprise, but don’t quite land the way they should. Beautiful Boy isn’t a bad movie, just a very familiar one: given the contentious subject matter, we shouldn’t always know precisely what the characters are going to do five minutes before they do it. 100 min. nnn (NW) Cumberland 4

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(Jay Cheel) looks at Ralph Zavadil, who, long before YouTube and the Jackass phenomenon, videotaped his own silly and stupid antics for a Niagara region cable access show. Dressed up as his shaggy-haired alter ego, Cap’n Video, Zavadil would snort raw eggs, toboggan off a roof, set his face on fire for

an instant shave – you get the picture. He soon became a local cult figure and, after he broke his neck jumping from a ladder into a pool, a momentary international celebrity. Director Cheel checks in with him nearly two decades later, trying to find out what motivated him and how his one shot at fame in the U.S. fell through. Zavadil isn’t the most introspective person, but his philosophy of having fun while you can is infectious and inspiring. Cheel tells the story brilliantly, interweaving archival footage and finding surprising emotional beats about Zavadil’s friends, family and fans that add texture and complexity to the man. 90 min. nnnn (GS) Carlton Cinema

The BeAver (Jodie Foster) features a great performance by Mel Gibson as Walt, a depressed father who tries to cope by speaking through a beaver puppet. But the general acceptance of Walt’s relationship with his new best friend, especially in his workplace, is too big of a stretch. 91 min. nnn (SGC) Carlton Cinema

BeGinners (Mike Mills) is a terribly tender drama about graphic artist Oliver (Ewan McGregor), who’s still getting over the death of his father, Hal (Christopher Plummer). Grief is making it hard for Oliver to connect emotionally with anything but his dog. And even the arrival of a smart and sexy actor (Mélanie Laurent) can’t get him charged up. Flashbacks in which Hal, who’s come out of the closet since his wife passed away, shows a lust for life, gay politics and creativity even as he’s dying contrast cleverly with present-day scenes in which Oliver struggles in his heavy funk. McGregor and Laurent are terrific, but the real marvel here is Plummer, who plunges gleefully into the role of gay rogue. You’ve never seen him like this. 105 min. nnnn (SGC) Varsity

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(Han Sanping, Huang Jianxin) 140 min. See Also Opening, page 65. Opens Jun 24 at Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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Press) focuses on the eccentric octogenarian style photographer for the New York Times, sitting in on editing sessions and following him as he cycles to shoots and attends gala events in his signature utilitarian uniform. Fashionistas will adore this – the styles are terrific – but, oddly, the man himself remains a mystery. 84 min. nnn (GS) Carlton Cinema

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(Paul Feig) is a broad farce starring Kristen Wiig as a Milwaukee baker whose emotional equilibrium is in no state to cope with the impending marriage of best friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph). Even as the situations grow increasingly cartoonish, Bridesmaids paints a credible portrait of a woman in crisis, with Wiig giving a nicely considered performance in her first leading role. 124 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

cArs 2 (John Lasseter) 120 min. See review, page 65. nn (NW)

Opens Jun 24 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24.

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natural thriller that delivers a few imaginative moments and some creepy atmosphere, but isn’t particularly scary. It sags in the middle and bungles its all-important metaphysical premise, which is that god and the devil occasionally contend for specific souls, in this case that of a lawyer (Eric Balfour) imprisoned for murder and tormented by ghosts, the enigmatic warden (Bruce Greenwood) and a hostile guard (the always excellent Michael Rooker). Will the lawyer keep it together or succumb to madness and worse? Will the spunky prison inspector (Deborah Valente) get to the bottom of all those prisoner suicides? 109 min. nn (AD) Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

cerTified copy (Abbas Kiarostami) is a psychological puzzler about the murky relationship between an antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche) and an art historian (William Shimell), revealed as they drive through Tuscany. Intriguing but also aggravating, its main virtue is 2010 Cannes acting prizewinner Binoche. Subtitled. 106 min. nnn (SGC) Carlton Cinema fAsT five (Justin Lin) is an okay actioner

that picks up where previous series entry, Fast And Furious, left off, sending career criminals Dominic, Brian and Mia to beautifully shot Rio de Janeiro for a train robbery and a big-money heist from Rio’s top crime lord. Two big set pieces are fun, and in between there’s lots of running and gunning. They almost distract you from noticing how bland Vin Diesel has become. 130 min. nnn (AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, Yonge & Dundas 24

The firsT GrAder (Justin Chadwick) is based on the true story of Kenya’s Kimani N’gan’ga Maruge, a former Mau Mau rebel who attended a children’s school at the age of 84 in order to learn to read and write. It’s a groaningly obvious inspirational drama, told in the most condescending, triumphant manner imaginable. Some subtitles. 103 min. nn (NW) Canada Square The fuTure is now! (Gary Burns, Jim

Brown) 92 min. See interview and review, page 64. nnn (NW) Opens Jun 24 at Cumberland 4.

Good neiGhBours (Jacob Tierney) has characters that are hard to swallow, impossible to like, but still amusing to watch. The awkward but fascinating chemistry between these Montreal apartment dwellers haunted by a local serial killer carries this thriller past its sometimes silly plot turns. But the film’s best moment is a cameo by Xavier Dolan, who graciously pokes fun at those blasted Buddy Holly glasses he never takes off. 98 min. nnn (RS) Regent Theatre Green lAnTern (Martin Campbell) lets

Ryan Reynolds play the roguish rookie Hal Jordan, a test pilot recruited into the universe-policing Green Lantern Corps and soon pitted against both a worlddestroying menace and a personal rival (Peter Sarsgaard) turned into a grotesque mutant. There’s enough story for a trilogy here, and that’s the problem; journeyman director Campbell can’t balance the intimate emotional beats with the galactic action. Without a singular vision to drive it, Green Lantern quickly deteriorates into a jumble of storylines, characters, exposition and explosions that tries to dumb down a nerdy sci-fi concept for a mass audience and winds up satisfying no one.

114 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

THE HANGOVER PART II (Todd Phillips) repeats the original all over again, as the traumatized trio of Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis try to reconstruct a disastrous night and find a missing friend. This time they’re in Bangkok, so the stakes are higher and weirder. The movie’s substantially darker, but the comedy’s still sharp. 102 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 HANNA (Joe Wright) is an entertaining actioner starring Saoirse Ronan as a teen trained from birth to assassinate meanie spy operative Cate Blanchett. Blanchett’s brilliantly bad. 111 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

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(Jennifer Yuh Nelson) chalks up another win for DreamWorks’ unlikely martial arts franchise, with Po (voiced once again by Jack Black) and the Furious Five trekking to a distant city in order to stop a warlord (Gary Oldman) who threatens all of China. The fight choreography is exceptional, the animation exquisite and the voice cast in fine form. 90 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

L’AMOUR FOU (Pierre Thoretton) is an

overly deterministic requiem for Yves Saint Laurent that pivots around an auction for the late designer’s vast art collection. It feels like a detached tour through Saint Laurent’s mausoleum, where the artifacts say very little about their owner besides his blatant self-indulgence. Saint Laurent’s life and business partner, Pierre Bergé, says it best when he describes these objects as soulless. He could be speaking about the film, too. Subtitled. 98 min. NN (RS) Carlton Cinema

LAST NIGHT (Massy Tadjedin) follows a

New York couple (Sam Worthington, Keira Knightly) contemplating separate infidelities: he with a flirtatious colleague (Eva Mendes) on an overnight trip to Philadelphia, she with an ex-lover (Guillaume Canet). Canet is quietly excellent as a man who knows he’s lost out on the love of his life; perhaps writer/director Tadjedin should have told his story instead. 90 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Interchange 30

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(Michelangelo Frammartino) is an odd and beautiful thing, a philosophical drama about a soul moving through four different incarnations – first, as a human, specifically an ailing Calabrian goatherd (Giuseppe Fuda) – and then through three other forms best left unspecified. It’s a lovely piece of cinema with a striking visual sensibility, a sly sense of humour and a terrific cast of human and animal actors. Seriously, Fuda’s border collie deserves his own feature. Subtitled. 88 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4

THE LINCOLN LAWYER (Brad Furman) is the cinematic equivalent of a decent airplane read; Michael Connelly’s novel about a wheeler-dealer defence attorney

Mike Mills’s tender pic looks at a graphic artist (Ewan McGregor) who’s stuck, then remembers his late father (Christopher Plummer), a man who came out late in life with a big bang.

This X-Men prequel is as exciting as the ﬁrst two ﬂicks. James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender add tons of class in the leads. Shame about January Jones, however.

Jim Carrey plays a man who ﬁnds himself living with half a dozen penguins in his Park Avenue penthouse. It’s a ridiculous premise, but there are some gloriously absurd scenes.

In the breakout comedy of 2011, Kristen Wiig (who also co-wrote the script) stars as a woman who loses it while organizing her best friend’s (Maya Rudolph) wedding. Holds up even on second viewing.

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“Hysterical. Line for line, insult for insult, ‘The Trip’ is the year’s most addictively quotable movie.”

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is an encore screening of a live performance of the Roundabout Theatre Company’s production of the Oscar Wilde comedy, starring Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell. 150 min. Jun 25, 1 pm, at Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity

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(Susanne Bier) follows two families coping with matters of morality and vengeance. Mikael Persbrandt gives a superb performance as a doctor who has to decide whether to treat a brutal warlord. Winner of the 2011 Oscar for best foreign-language film. Subtitled. 113 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

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JANE EYRE (Cary Fukunaga) is yet another adaptation of Charlotte Brönte’s novel about the eponymous orphan-turnedgoverness, but this one is richly atmospheric and bolstered by the always watchable Mia Wasikowska in the lead. There’s lots of smouldering chemistry between Jane and her Byronic employer, Mr. Rochester (Michael Fassbender), but some of their dialogue feels clunky. 118 min. NNN (GS) Canada Square, Mt Pleasant JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (John Schultz) is as manic as kids

on a sugar rush and just as exhausting for adults. Jordana Beatty stars as the titular preteen on a mission to salvage her summer while her best friend’s away at Circus Camp. Aided by her hippie aunt (Heather Graham), Judy rocks out in episodic misadventures that often feature puke, poop and car chases after Big Foot. A real find, the fiery-haired Beatty delivers a physical performance as wild and colourful as Judy’s bedroom decor. However, she doesn’t have much to work with, since the role keeps her occupied running, falling, roaring and coining expressions like “rare” and “A-B-S” (already-been-slobbered). Small children will no doubt eat this stuff up, since the screen stays busy enough with animations and action to keep those with short attention spans hooked. Adults, though, will feel like they’ve had too much cotton candy. 91 min. NN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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“MARVELOUSLY ROMANTIC. A CREDIBLE BLEND OF WHIMSY AND WISDOM.” -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES

“A JOYOUS DELIGHT! IN THIS BEGUILING AND THEN BEDAZZLING NEW COMEDY, NOSTALGIA ISN’T AT ALL WHAT IT USED TO BE— IT’S SMARTER, SWEETER, FIZZIER AND EVER SO MUCH FUNNIER.” -Joe Morgenstern, WALL STREET JOURNAL

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pulled into an increasingly nasty assault case gives Matthew McConaughey a role ideally suited to his laid-back, Southernfried vibe. It’s entirely predictable, which becomes a bit of an issue in the second half, but McConaughey works pretty hard to hold our interest. 119 min. nnn (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

Loose Cannons (Ferzan Ozpetek) covers some well-trod ground with style, even if it takes a while to find its footing. The closeted younger son (Riccardo Scamarcio) of an Italian family’s pasta empire finds his career and relationship plans disrupted when he’s forced to take over the business. Director Ozpetek’s attempts to mix comedy and drama aren’t always successful – witness his over-reliance on a whimsical score – and the film could use a tighter edit. Things pick up at the halfway point during a visit from the protagonist’s gay friends from Rome (including the boyfriend), prompting all sorts of comic reactions. Derivative laughs, but fun nonetheless. And the Italian scenery, of course, has its charms. But the final reel adds complexity to characters who at first seem one-dimensional. Subtitled. 110 min. nnn (GS) Cumberland 4 Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

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live high-def broadcast from the Met of the Strauss opera, starring Renée Fleming in the title role. 166 min. Jun 27, 6:30 pm, at Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

Midnight in Paris (Woody Allen) casts

Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams as an engaged couple on vacation. He wants to stroll the romantic City of Light; she wants to shop. He’s trying to finish his novel; she’s wishing he’d just stick to writing schlocky film scripts. He starts roaming the streets at night, and when the clock strikes 12, a vintage cab takes him back in time to the 1920s, where he learns life lessons from Gertrude Stein (Kathy Bates), Pablo Picasso (Marcial Di Fonzo Bo), Picasso’s mistress (Marion Cotillard) and other major figures of the era. For every good performance (a slimy Michael Sheen as McAdams’s ex, for example), there’s a dreadful one (Adrien Brody as Dali). But either way, the message that life is best lived in the present tense is too banal to make us care. 94 min. nn (SGC) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Grande -

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Mr. PoPPer’s Penguins (Mark Waters) is

a positively pleasant adaptation of Richard and Florence Atwater’s slender picture book about a New Yorker who winds up with half a dozen flightless waterfowl in his Park Avenue penthouse. As in Liar Liar and Bruce Almighty, a simple premise is established and Jim Carrey is unleashed upon it. Director Waters – finally recovering the comic flexibility he displayed in Freaky Friday and Mean Girls – takes the inherently ridiculous premise as licence to tilt toward the absurd. The penguins are fun, sure, but Carrey’s scenes with his alliteratively inclined assistant Pippi (Ophelia Lovibond) border on the joyful. 94 min. nnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

Pirates of the Caribbean: on stranger tides (Rob Marshall) finds Johnny

Depp’s Cap’n Jack Sparrow swept up in the race to find the fountain of youth. Swords clash, barrels roll, coal wagons rain fire on cobblestone streets, pirates swing through a forest of coconut trees. It’s all very busy, and the 3-D makes every stunt look like a badly processed visual effect even when it isn’t. 137 min. nn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale

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(François Ozon) stars Catherine Deneuve as a woman who, in the late 70s, comes into her own when her reactionary, philandering husband falls ill and she takes over the family factory. One big gobsmacking pleasure. Subtitled. 103 min. nnnn (SGC) Cumberland 4, Kingsway Theatre

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mill CGI and wirework actioner with mediocre 3-D. It pits a renegade priest against the gang of vampires who’ve stolen his niece. The movie looks and plays like a comic book take on a spaghetti western, with motorcycles standing in for horses and scrawny eyeless creatures for outlaws. There’s a not-bad climax aboard a speeding train. 87 min. nn (AD) Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24

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soMething borrowed (Luke Greenfield) is an appallingly apathetic chick-lit adaptation about a Manhattan singleton (Ginnifer Goodwin) who drunkenly falls into bed with her best friend’s fiancé (Colin Egglesfield), then spends a summer continuing the fling while feeling really

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bad about it. At least Kate Hudson is perfectly cast as the spoiled, flighty, grasping Bridezilla. 110 min. N (NW) Canada Square, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20

SUBMARINE (Richard Ayoade) is a meticulously constructed but dramatically uneven coming-of-age tale about a maladjusted teenager (Craig Roberts) bent on bedding a surly schoolmate (Yasmin Paige) and keeping his mother (Sally Hawkins) from leaving his father (Noah Taylor) for a seedy mentalist (Paddy Considine). Adapting Joe Dunthorne’s novel, Ayoade juggles laughs and poignancy very well, and individual scenes work brilliantly – particularly those involving the boy’s awkward time at school – but the momentum flags midway through, when the film expands its scope to pack in a few more supporting characters. 94 min. NNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

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(J.J. Abrams) finds writer/ director Abrams building a rousing new movie in the suburban adventure genre perfected by Steven Spielberg in the late 70s and early 80s. It’s the thematic midpoint between Close Encounters and E.T., following a bunch of small-town kids in 1979 Ohio who stumble upon a military conspiracy while shooting a Super 8 movie about zombies. Abrams honours the spirit of Spielberg’s early films with a mixture of old-school storytelling and state-of-theart production values. It’s nostalgic and novel in equal amounts, establishing valid emotional stakes and believable conflicts well before the fantastic stuff starts. 112 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

en. See review in next week’s issue. 134 min. Opens Jun 29 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale.

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(Terrence Malick) is a movie, an experience and a goddamned work of art. It perfects the intuitive approach to cinema Malick has been developing for nearly four decades, and it affected me more profoundly than any of his earlier films. Malick presents youth as a chaotic swirl of feeling; he understands the horrible, overwhelming immediacy of adolescent emotion. The occasional jumps to cosmic imagery feel entirely right; it’s the way a child’s id views the world, explosive and majestic and beyond comprehension, forever raging at the inability to understand the whys and wherefores. It’s wonderful – beautiful in its inelegance and confusion, embracing the awe of adolescence and the loss of innocence in the purest sense of those terms. It’s a rhapsody on the mystery of simply being

alive. 138 min. NNNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Interchange 30, Kennedy Commons 20, SilverCity Mississauga, TIFF Bell Lightbox, Varsity

TRUE LEGEND (Yuen Woo-ping) is a hand-

some kung fu flick that mixes classic Shaw Brothers-style action with contemporary techniques, but the fun story doesn’t tug at your heartstrings the way it clearly wants to and winds up feeling like two different movies stitched together. In 1851 China, successful general Su Can gives his governorship to his adopted brother and retires to family life. Ten years later, the brother turns up to steal Su’s son and leave him for dead. For most movies, this would suffice, but True Legend goes on to show how Su, now a wandering drunk, learns drunken boxing and recovers his self-respect. Subtitled. 115 min. NNN (AD) Scotiabank Theatre

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (Francis Law-

rence) has a timid approach to sex, violence and strong emotion, which sabotages this tale of a young man who joins the circus and falls for the cruel owner’s wife. Robert Pattinson makes cow eyes at Reese Witherspoon, but they both save their best moments for the scenes with Rosie the elephant. 121 min. NN (AD)

Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Matthew

Vaughn) finds the same balance of gravitas and knowing camp that powered Bryan Singer’s first two X-films. The inconsistent characterization and wobbly rhythms of Brett Ratner’s regrettable Last Stand are politely ignored. It’s a proper origin story for the characters, filling us in on the bond between Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr (played in the previous films by Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen, and here by James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender). Having toyed with costumed heroes in last year’s Kick-Ass, director Vaughn gets to play on a much larger scale, and he’s pretty good at it. Here’s hoping he sticks around; for the first time in a while, the prospect of another Xmovie doesn’t make me uneasy. Some subtitles. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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tially ridiculous comic-book character – the beefy but well-spoken God of Thunder, son of Odin and sworn defender of our Earthly realm – and slots him nicely into the ongoing cinematic version of the Marvel Comics universe. That’s all thanks to a light-hearted script that finds the angry young god (Chris Hemsworth) exiled from heavenly Asgard and forced to knock around New Mexico with skeptical mortals Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgård. Branagh’s direction plays up the inherent humour and humanity, only letting the flashy CG take over in the last reel. The post-production 3-D adds nothing; try to see it flat. 113 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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THOR (Kenneth Branagh) takes a potentially ridiculous comic-book character – the beefy but well-spoken God of Thunder, son of Odin and sworn defender of our Earthly realm – and slots him nicely into the ongoing cinematic version of the Marvel Comics universe. That’s all thanks to a light-hearted script that finds the angry young god (Chris Hemsworth) exiled from heavenly Asgard and forced to knock around New Mexico with skeptical mortals Natalie Portman, Kat Dennings and Stellan Skarsgård. Branagh’s direction plays up the inherent humour and humanity, only letting the flashy CG take over in the last reel. The post-production 3-D adds nothing; try to see it flat. 113 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre

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THE ART OF GETTING BY (PG) Thu 1:00, 2:30, 3:30, 4:45, 5:45, 7:15, 8:15, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Wed 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:25 THE BEGINNING OF THE GREAT REVIVAL Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:20, 2:20, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:25, 7:25, 8:25, 9:25, 10:25, 11:00 Fri-Wed 11:25, 12:20, 1:20, 2:20, 3:15, 4:15, 5:15, 6:25, 7:25, 8:20, 9:25, 10:25, 11:00 CARS 2 (G) Fri-Wed 11:00, 12:00, 2:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:00, 8:00, 9:00, 10:45 CARS 2 3D (G) Fri-Wed 11:30, 12:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 6:30, 8:30, 9:30 CARS 2: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (G) Thu 12:01 Fri-Wed 10:30, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 CELL 213 (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:40 DOUBLE DHAMAAL Fri-Wed 10:55, 2:15, 5:30, 9:00 FAST FIVE (PG) Thu-Sun, Wed 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:35 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:30, 5:15, 5:45, 6:00, 6:45, 7:15, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 9:45, 10:15, 10:45 Fri-Wed 10:45, 12:30, 1:00, 1:45, 3:10, 4:00, 4:30, 6:05, 6:45, 7:15, 9:00, 9:45, 10:15 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:05 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Wed 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 2:05, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:30, 8:45, 9:45, 11:00 Fri-Wed 10:45, 1:05, 3:45, 6:30, 8:45, 11:00 PRIEST 3D (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:05, 6:20, 8:30, 10:45 Fri-Tue 11:25, 1:55, 4:05, 6:20, 8:30, 10:45 Wed 11:25 READY (PG) Thu 2:55, 6:15, 9:35 SUBMARINE Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Wed 11:40, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 2:45, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:15, 11:00 FriWed 11:00, 11:30, 12:15, 12:45, 1:30, 2:15, 2:45, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 5:30, 6:00, 6:45, 7:30, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30, 11:00

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THE ART OF GETTING BY (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:00 Fri, Wed 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Tue 4:30, 7:20 THE FIRST GRADER (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:40 Fri, Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30 Mon-Tue 4:40, 7:05 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Fri, Wed 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:05, 6:40, 9:10 Mon-Tue 4:05, 6:40 JANE EYRE (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:45 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Thu 4:00, 6:30 Fri, Wed 4:20, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:20, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Tue 4:20, 6:30 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Fri, Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 7:30, 9:40 Mon-Tue 5:00, 7:30 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10 Fri, Wed 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50 Mon-Tue 4:15, 7:10 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:20 Fri, Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:00 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:30 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:50 Fri, Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon-Tue 4:10, 6:55

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THE ART OF GETTING BY (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Fri, Sun-Mon 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 3:00, 5:30, 7:40, 10:05 BAD TEACHER (14A) Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 Wed 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:20, 10:50 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:45, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:40, 9:30, 10:40 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:40, 1:10, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:35, 9:40, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 12:40, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 7:35, 9:40, 10:30 Mon 12:40, 1:10, 3:40, 4:20, 6:40, 9:40, 10:30 Wed 2:30, 5:20, 8:15, 11:15 BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID Sun, Tue 1:00 CARS 2 (G) 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat CARS 2 3D (G) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Mon 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:30, 4:20, 5:10, 7:10, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Fri 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 5:10, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:50 Sat 10:40, 11:40, 1:30, 2:20, 4:15, 5:10, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:50 Sun 11:40, 2:20, 4:15, 5:10, 7:10, 8:00, 10:00, 10:45 Mon 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45 Tue 12:30, 3:30, 4:15, 6:20, 7:10, 10:00 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 12:50, 2:20, 3:20, 5:00, 5:45, 7:30, 8:20, 9:55, 10:45 Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 11:00 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45 Wed 12:40, 3:15, 5:50, 8:30, 11:10 HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST ENCORE Sat 1:00 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Thu 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:55 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (PG) Thu 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:50 Fri, Mon 12:15, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Sat-Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Wed 2:00, 4:25, 6:45, 9:10 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO ENCORE Mon 6:30 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Sat 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Mon 1:40, 4:10, 10:15 Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15 Fri, Mon 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun, Tue 11:50, 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Wed 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:50 PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:35 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:55, 7:05, 10:10 Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:15 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 1:10, 2:50, 4:00, 5:30, 6:50, 8:10, 9:40, 10:45 Fri 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 8:15, 9:50, 10:55 Sat 12:00, 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 8:15, 9:50, 10:55 Sun, Tue 12:00, 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 7:55, 9:50, 10:35 Mon 1:20, 2:40, 4:00, 5:20, 6:55, 7:55, 9:50, 10:35 Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 THOR (PG) Thu 9:10 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON Wed 12:00, 2:45, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Tue 9:00, 9:15, 12:01, 12:20 Wed 12:30, 1:00, 4:00, 4:30, 7:30, 8:00, 11:00, 11:30 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:45, 3:50, 4:45, 7:00, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Sat 10:50, 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45 Wed 1:40, 4:50, 8:10, 11:20

551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884

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

BAD TEACHER (14A) Fri, Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 SatSun 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 10:00 Tue 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:20 Wed 12:00, 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:35 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 12:50, 3:50, 10:00 Fri 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55 Sat 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:50 Mon 1:00, 3:55, 9:55 Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:45 CARS 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun, Wed 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 CARS 2 3D (G) 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Tue only 12:50 3:50 6:30 9:30 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 12:30, 3:30, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 12:40, 4:00, 7:25, 10:30 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:40, 10:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST ENCORE Sat 1:00 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) Thu 1:10, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10 Fri, Mon 1:10, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Sat 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 6:40, 9:20 Tue 1:10, 3:30, 6:20 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:20, 9:00 Fri 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:40 Sat 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Sun 11:50, 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 9:40 Mon 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:50 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 6:40, 9:50 Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:35, 9:20 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Fri, Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 12:15, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Wed 1:00, 3:35, 6:25, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Tue 9:00, 10:00, 12:01 Wed 11:45, 12:15, 3:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:15, 10:15, 10:45 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 7:10, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 3:55, 7:00, 10:05

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CARS 2 (G) Fri-Wed 11:00, 1:30, 4:00, 6:45, 8:55 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) Thu 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30

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

FAST FIVE (PG) Thu 9:15 IN A BETTER WORLD Thu 5:00 Fri-Wed 2:45 THE LINCOLN LAWYER (14A) Thu 2:55 POTICHE (14A) 7:15 RIO (G) Fri-Wed 1:00 THOR (PG) Fri-Wed 9:15 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG) Thu 12:40 Fri-Wed 5:00

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424

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WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 BAD TEACHER (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 BRIDESMAIDS (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25 CARS 2 (G) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:45, 7:00, 9:25 GREEN LANTERN (PG) Tue 9:20 Wed 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG) 12:55, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 Tue no 9:30 THE HANGOVER PART II (18A) 1:05, 4:05, 7:15, 9:45 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:15 KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG) 12:40, 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:20 Tue no 9:20 MR. POPPER’S PENGUINS (G) 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 SUPER 8 (PG) Thu 1:15 4:00 7:00 9:40 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D Tue 9:30 Wed 1:25, 4:05, 6:40, 9:50 X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG) 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30

East End BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971

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Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 12:00, 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:00 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45 Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Cars 2 (G) Fri 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Mon-Tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Wed 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40 Mon 1:00, 3:40, 10:10 Tue 1:00, 4:15, 7:15 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri-Mon 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Tue 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Tue 10:00 Wed 9:50 harry Potter and the order oF the PhoeniX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 1:50, 4:15 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:30, 7:20 Sat-Sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20 Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:00 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:15 Wed 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:15 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:10, 3:20, 7:15, 10:15 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Tue 1:20, 4:10, 7:00 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 10:00, 10:15, 12:01 Wed 11:45, 12:15, 3:15, 3:45, 6:45, 7:15, 10:15, 10:45 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Tue 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30

the art oF GettinG By (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 Fri-Tue 9:50 Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 MonTue 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40 Wed 12:20, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 11:10 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:40, 10:35 Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Mon 3:45, 7:05, 10:10 Tue 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Wed 12:40, 3:40, 7:05, 10:10 ButCh Cassidy and the sundanCe Kid Sun 1:00 Cars 2 (G) Fri 11:30, 12:50, 2:10, 3:50, 5:00, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 11:30, 1:30, 2:10, 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Sun 11:30, 1:30, 2:10, 4:35, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Wed 12:10, 1:20, 3:20, 4:20, 6:20, 7:20, 9:20, 10:15 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Tue 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Tue 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Wed 1:10, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Mon-Tue 4:40, 7:40, 10:35 Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:35, 9:00, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Mon 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Tue 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:50, 10:50 harry Potter and the order oF the PhoeniX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 4:45, 7:20 Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:20, 6:20 Mon 3:20 Tue 3:20, 6:20 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:10 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:15, 6:10 Mon 3:15 Tue 3:15, 6:10 Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:30 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 Mon 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 Tue 4:10, 6:25 the metroPoLitan oPera: CaPriCCio enCore Mon 6:30 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:40, 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Mon-Tue 4:50, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 11:40, 2:00, 4:50, 7:15, 9:55 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 3:25, 6:40, 9:55 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Sun-Mon 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 Tue 3:05, 6:15 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:25 Mon 4:45, 7:45, 9:35, 10:25 Tue 4:45, 7:45, 9:15, 10:25 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20 thor (PG) Thu 10:05 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 11:30, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 10:00, 11:30 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00, 9:05, 12:01, 12:10, 12:15 Wed 12:00, 12:30, 3:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 11:00 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:10, 6:45, 7:25, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:50, 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 Mon 3:10, 6:35, 9:45 Tue 3:10, 6:30, 9:45 Wed 11:50, 3:10, 6:40, 9:50

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2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Tue 7:30, 10:00 Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:30 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Wed 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Mon-Tue 7:45, 10:30 Green Lantern (PG) Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 7:00, 10:00 Fri 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Tue 7:00, 9:50 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:00 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Tue 6:50, 9:20 Wed 1:25, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 6:50, 9:40 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Mon-Tue 6:40, 9:30 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Wed 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:45 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 7:10, 10:15 Fri 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20

North York EMpirE ThEaTrES aT EMprESS Walk (ET) 5095 YoNgE ST, 416-223-9550

Cars 2 (G) 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sat 11:55 late Cars 2 3d (G) Fri-Sun, Wed 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Mon-Tue 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 1:00, 3:40, 6:15, 9:00 Fri-Wed 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 1:40, 2:40, 4:20, 5:15, 7:00, 8:00, 9:40, 10:40 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45, 11:59 SunWed 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:40 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:00 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:50, 10:45 Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 SatMon 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:30 Tue 1:30, 4:20, 7:30 thor (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Tue 7:40, 10:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 10:00 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00, 9:45 Wed 12:30, 1:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:30, 8:30, 11:00 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:30, 3:50, 4:30, 6:50, 7:40, 9:10, 9:50, 10:35 Fri-Sat 12:45, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:50, 9:25, 10:45, 11:59 Sun-Wed 12:45, 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 7:50, 9:25, 10:45

graNdE - YoNgE (CE) 4861 YoNgE ST, 416-590-9974

the art oF GettinG By (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Sun 9:40 Mon 3:50, 9:40 Tue 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Bad teaCher (14A) 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 Sat-Sun, Wed 12:00, 2:30 mat Bridesmaids (14A) 4:10, 7:20, 10:15 Sun, Wed 1:00 mat the hanGover Part ii (18A) 4:40, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Wed 2:10 mat the imPortanCe oF BeinG earnest enCore Sat 1:00 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 3:40 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) 4:25, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun, Wed 1:50 mat the metroPoLitan oPera: CaPriCCio enCore Mon 6:30 midniGht in Paris (PG) Thu, Tue 3:45, 4:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 Fri 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Mon 3:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50, 10:00 Wed 12:30, 1:40, 3:45, 4:20, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10, 9:50 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri, MonTue 3:15, 6:40, 9:30 Sat-Sun, Wed 12:40, 3:15, 6:40, 9:30 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:05, 7:40, 9:55, 10:15 Fri, MonTue 4:50, 7:30, 10:25 Sat-Sun, Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:30, 10:25 the tree oF LiFe (PG) Thu 3:30 6:50 10:05 Fri-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:10 Sat-Sun, Wed 12:10 mat

SilvErCiTY FairviEW (CE)

FairviEW Mall, 1800 ShEppard avE E, 416-644-7746 Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10 Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 10:05 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 12:30 3:20 6:55 9:50 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50 ButCh Cassidy and the sundanCe Kid Sun 1:00 Cars 2 3d (G) 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Tue only 12:50 3:50 6:50 9:20 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 FriMon 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00 Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 10:00 Wed 1:30, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10 FriSat, Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 1:15 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 FriMon 1:00, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Tue 1:00, 3:20, 6:30 Wed 12:30, 3:25, 6:25, 10:00 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Fri-Mon 1:15, 4:00, 7:05, 9:40 Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 9:35 Wed 1:15, 4:20, 6:55, 9:45 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:05 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Wed 1:00, 3:35, 6:35, 9:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:05, 12:01 Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:30 Fri-Tue 12:20, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20 Wed 4:00, 7:05, 10:35

june 23-29 2011 NOW

Scarborough 401 & MorNiNgSidE (CE) 785 MilNEr avE, SCarborough, 416-281-2226

Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:45, 10:10 MonTue 1:45, 4:30, 7:45, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:55, 7:50, 10:15 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:15, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Mon 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:20 Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:25 Cars 2 (G) Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:15, 6:30, 9:10 Tue 12:30, 3:15, 6:30, 9:15 Wed 12:15, 3:00, 6:30, 9:15 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:45, 3:00, 6:10, 8:50 Mon 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 8:50 Tue 12:00, 3:00, 6:10, 9:35 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:45 Tue 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:40, 10:35 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:50, 10:25 Fri-Sun 1:45, 5:00, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Tue 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 4:30, 6:50 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Wed 2:15, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Mon 12:10, 2:45, 7:10, 9:30 Tue 12:10, 2:45, 6:15 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 3:55, 6:40, 9:00 FriMon 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:00 Tue 1:00, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 1:00, 3:35, 6:20, 9:00 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 3:35, 4:10, 6:20, 7:40, 9:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:35, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:30, 4:45, 7:35, 10:20 Wed 1:45, 4:40, 8:00, 10:45 thor (PG) Thu 9:10 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 12:30, 2:30, 3:50, 6:10, 7:10, 9:30, 10:30 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00 Wed 12:00, 3:20, 6:45, 10:05 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 4:15, 7:20, 10:10 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 10:20 Mon-Tue 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15 Wed 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40

ColiSEuM SCarborough (CE) SCarborough ToWN CENTrE, 416-290-5217

the art oF GettinG By (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:50, 3:10, 6:45, 9:20 Sat 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Cars 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fast Five (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Sat 1:15, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Green Lantern (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Mon 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:35 Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Wed 12:20, 3:30, 6:35, 9:35 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 1:00, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:05, 7:30, 10:00, 10:30 Tue 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:05, 7:05, 8:50, 10:00 Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 the imPortanCe oF BeinG earnest enCore Sat 1:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 12:15, 3:10, 6:25 JumPinG the Broom (PG) Thu 10:10 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 12:40 3:00 6:00 8:30 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:35, 6:00, 8:30 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Mon 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:00 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 thor 3d (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 Fri-Mon 12:35, 3:20, 6:40, 9:25 Tue 12:35, 3:20, 6:25 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 12:50, 2:00, 4:15, 6:00, 7:30, 9:40, 10:50 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:15, 9:45, 12:01 Wed 12:00, 12:30, 3:20, 3:50, 6:40, 7:10, 10:00, 10:30 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:45, 1:15, 3:50, 4:20, 7:10, 7:40, 10:10, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Wed 12:40, 3:55, 7:20, 10:20

1901 EgliNToN avE E, 416-752-4494

kENNEdY CoMMoNS 20 (aMC) kENNEdY rd & 401, 416-335-5323

180 Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:30, 9:00 Bad teaCher (14A) Thu 12:01 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:15, 1:00, 2:35, 3:20, 4:55, 5:40, 7:15, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 1:00, 2:35, 3:20, 4:55, 5:40, 7:15, 8:00, 9:35, 10:20 the BeGinninG oF the Great revivaL 1:00, 3:15, 4:00, 6:15, 7:00, 9:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 11:40 mat Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:30, 4:15, 6:30, 7:15, 9:25, 10:15 Fri-Sun 10:45, 12:40, 1:40, 3:35, 4:35, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25, 10:25 Mon-Wed 12:40, 1:40, 3:35, 4:35, 6:30, 7:30, 9:25, 10:25 CeLL 213 (14A) Thu 4:35, 9:45 douBLe dhamaaL 2:20, 5:45, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:00 mat the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 1:00, 1:45, 2:15, 3:00, 3:40, 4:25, 5:00, 5:45, 6:30, 7:15, 7:45, 8:30, 9:15, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Sun 11:20, 12:10, 2:05, 2:50, 4:45, 5:30, 7:25, 8:05, 9:55, 10:35 Mon-Wed 2:05, 2:50, 4:45, 5:30, 7:25, 8:05, 9:55, 10:35 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) 12:45, 3:00, 5:20 Fri-Sun 10:30 mat JumPinG the Broom (PG) Fri-Wed 7:40, 10:15 LimitLess (14A) Thu 2:00, 7:10 the LinCoLn Lawyer (14A) Thu 1:40, 7:20 midniGht in Paris (PG) Thu 2:15, 3:00, 4:40, 5:25, 7:05, 7:50, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:40, 12:30, 2:10, 2:55, 4:40, 5:25, 7:10, 7:55, 9:40, 10:20 Mon-Wed 12:30, 2:10, 2:55, 4:40, 5:25, 7:10, 7:55, 9:40, 10:20 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 1:15, 2:00, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:00, 8:45, 9:30 Fri-Sun 11:30, 1:15, 1:55, 3:45, 4:25, 6:20, 7:10, 8:45, 9:35 Mon-Wed 1:15, 1:55, 3:45, 4:25, 6:20, 7:10, 8:45, 9:35 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 3:45, 6:45, 9:50 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:15, 7:20, 10:25 Priest (14A) Thu 4:25, 10:10 ready (PG) Thu 2:25, 5:40, 9:00 somethinG Borrowed (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 1:10, 1:55, 2:40, 4:05, 4:50, 5:35, 7:00, 7:45, 8:25, 9:55, 10:40 Fri-Sun 11:25, 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 Mon-Wed 1:30, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:45, 9:45, 10:30 the tree oF LiFe (PG) 12:30, 3:00, 3:45, 6:15, 7:05, 9:30, 10:15 Fri-Sun 11:45 mat water For eLePhants (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50

GTA Regions Mississauga

4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Fast Five (PG) Thu 12:40, 4:00, 7:15, 10:40 Fri-Sun 10:15 Mon 12:40, 3:45, 6:55, 10:15 Tue 12:15, 3:15, 6:10 Green Lantern (PG) Thu-Mon 12:10, 3:00, 6:20, 9:10 Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu, Sun 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Fri, Mon 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:45, 10:20 Sat 11:00, 1:00, 1:50, 3:50, 4:40, 7:00, 7:30, 9:50, 10:20 Tue 12:10, 1:00, 3:00, 3:50, 6:00, 7:00, 9:45 Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:50 harry Potter and the order oF the PhoeniX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 12:50, 3:40, 6:10 midniGht in Paris (PG) Thu-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Wed 12:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides (PG) Thu 9:00 Wed 12:20, 3:40, 6:45, 10:20 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 Sat 1:15, 4:10, 7:15, 10:30 Sun 3:30, 6:45, 10:00 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:15, 3:30, 4:20, 6:30, 7:20, 9:30, 10:30 Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Wed 12:10, 3:10, 6:20, 9:30 thor (PG) Fri, Tue 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 Mon 12:50, 3:40, 10:05 thor 3d (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 transFormers: darK oF the moon Tue 9:10 Wed 11:30, 1:00, 3:00, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 10:00, 11:30 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00, 12:01 Wed 12:00, 12:30, 3:30, 4:00, 7:00, 7:30, 10:30, 11:00 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:20, 3:10, 4:30, 6:15, 7:40, 9:40, 10:45 Fri-Sun 12:00, 3:10, 6:15, 9:40, 10:25 Mon-Tue 12:00, 1:15, 3:10, 4:10, 6:15, 7:15, 9:40, 10:25 Wed 12:40, 3:50, 7:45, 11:15

CourTNEY park 16 (aMC)

110 CourTNEY park E aT huroNTario, 888-262-4386 the art oF GettinG By (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:45, 7:05, 9:15 Fri-Sun 11:55, 5:15, 10:50 Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Sun 10:45, 11:55, 1:15, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:00, 7:30, 8:25, 9:45, 10:45 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:50, 10:45 Fri-Sun 11:35, 2:15, 5:05, 7:50, 10:45 Cars 2 (G) Fri-Sat 10:00, 11:30, 12:30, 2:05, 3:00, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 11:00 Sun 10:00, 11:30, 12:30, 2:05, 3:00, 4:45, 5:30, 7:30, 8:15, 10:15, 10:55 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri 10:45, 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:35 Green Lantern (PG) Thu, Sun 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:30, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:30 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 1:30, 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 7:00, 8:30, 9:35, 11:00 Fri 10:00, 10:35, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 7:05, 8:30, 9:50, 11:00 Sat-Sun 10:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 4:15, 5:45, 7:05, 8:30, 9:50, 11:00 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 2:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:10, 8:40, 9:30, 10:55 Fri-Sat 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:40, 11:20 Sun 10:30, 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:40, 11:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 2:35, 4:50, 7:30, 9:45 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:15 FriSat 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:15, 11:30 Sun 11:50, 2:10, 4:35, 7:05, 9:15 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:15 Fri-Sat 11:25, 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:15, 11:30 Sun 11:25, 2:00, 4:30, 6:55, 9:15 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides (PG) Thu 2:20, 5:15, 8:15 Fri-Sun 2:05, 7:40 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 2:30, 3:15, 5:10, 5:55, 7:45, 8:30, 10:35, 11:00 Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:15, 5:55, 8:35, 11:15 Sun 12:40, 3:15, 5:55, 8:35 suPer 8: the imaX eXPerienCe (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Fri-Sun 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 transFormers: darK oF the moon -- an imaX 3d eXPerienCe Wed 11:45, 3:15, 7:00, 10:30 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 1:30, 2:45, 4:15, 5:45, 7:15, 8:45, 10:30 Fri-Sat 11:45, 2:40, 5:35, 8:30, 11:25 Sun 11:45, 2:40, 5:35, 8:30

SilvErCiTY MiSSiSSauga (CE) hWY 5, EaST oF hWY 403, 905-569-3373

Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 3:30, 4:10, 6:30, 7:10, 9:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun, Wed 12:30, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon-Tue 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Cars 2 (G) Fri-Sun, Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Tue 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri 12:50, 2:10, 3:50, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun, Wed 11:30, 12:50, 2:10, 3:50, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Tue 3:50, 5:00, 6:50, 7:45, 9:30, 10:30 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 4:50, 7:40, 9:00, 10:10 Fri-Sun, Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Tue 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 the imPortanCe oF BeinG earnest enCore Sat 1:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:10 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:20 Fri, Sun, Wed 12:15, 3:30 Sat 4:15 Mon-Tue 3:30 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun, Wed 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 the metroPoLitan oPera: CaPriCCio enCore Mon 6:30 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 4:20, 7:20, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Tue 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 3:40, 4:40, 6:50, 7:30, 9:40, 10:15 FriSun, Wed 1:00, 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 Mon 4:20, 7:30, 9:45, 10:20 Tue 4:20, 6:30, 7:30, 9:20, 10:20 the tree oF LiFe (PG) Thu, Mon-Tue 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 FriSun, Wed 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50

North

ColiSEuM MiSSiSSauga (CE)

ColoSSuS (CE)

SquarE oNE, 309 raThburN rd W, 905-275-3456

hWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

ButCh Cassidy and the sundanCe Kid Sun 1:00 Cars 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sat 10:45, 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Sun 1:40, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30 Wed 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:40 Cars 2 3d (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 12:30, 3:20, 7:10, 9:50 SatSun 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15 Cars 2: an imaX 3d eXPerienCe (G) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:20,

Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Wed 11:40, 12:40, 2:10, 3:10, 4:40, 5:40, 7:10, 8:10, 9:40, 10:40 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50 Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:15 Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:25, 10:20 Cars 2 (G) 11:30, 1:30, 2:10, 4:30, 5:00, 7:20, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Sat 10:45 mat Cars 2 3d (G) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30

Fast Five (PG) Thu 12:40, 3:55, 6:55, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 Mon 1:20, 4:20, 10:25 Green Lantern (PG) 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 12:00, 1:10, 2:30, 4:10, 5:10, 7:10, 7:50, 10:00, 10:30 Fri-Mon 11:30, 1:10, 2:15, 4:10, 5:00, 7:15, 7:50, 10:10, 10:45 Tue 12:30, 1:10, 3:20, 4:10, 6:20, 7:15, 10:10 Wed 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:30, 8:00, 10:20, 10:40 Fri-Tue 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 8:00, 11:00 Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:30, 8:20, 11:20 harry Potter and the order oF the PhoeniX (PG) Sat 10:30 Mon 7:00 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 12:05, 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:35 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) Thu 11:50, 2:15, 4:50 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 11:40, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 11:40, 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Sat 11:00, 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 Wed 11:45, 1:55, 4:35, 7:05, 9:25 midniGht in Paris (PG) Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:55, 10:35 Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:25, 6:55, 9:50 Wed 12:45, 3:25, 7:00, 9:50 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 11:30 2:00 4:35 7:10 9:40 Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35 Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides 3d (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:15, 7:25, 10:40 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:00, 3:15, 6:40, 9:55 Sat 1:30, 4:40, 7:55, 11:00 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 12:20, 1:40, 3:30, 4:40, 6:20, 7:40, 9:00, 10:45 Fri-Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:20, 9:00 Wed 1:20, 4:20, 7:40, 10:50 suPer 8: the imaX eXPerienCe (PG) Thu-Mon 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:45 thor 3d (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 2:30, 6:15, 9:45 transFormers: darK oF the moon -- an imaX 3d eXPerienCe Tue 8:45, 12:01 Wed 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00, 12:01 Wed 12:30, 1:00, 4:00, 4:30, 7:30, 8:00, 11:00, 11:30 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 12:50, 1:30, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:45, 10:10, 10:45 Fri-Tue 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:50 Wed 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 11:10

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30 iNTErChaNgE WaY, hWY 400 & hWY 7, 416-335-5323 180 5:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat the adJustment Bureau (PG) 4:45, 7:25, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:35, 2:05 mat the art oF GettinG By (PG) 4:20, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:35 mat insidious (14A) Thu 5:00 7:35 10:20 Fri-Wed 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:50, 2:25 mat Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) 4:00, 6:50, 9:00 Sat-Sun 11:30, 1:45 mat JumPinG the Broom (PG) 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat Just Go with it (PG) 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat Last niGht (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 LimitLess (14A) 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:30, 2:00 mat the LinCoLn Lawyer (14A) 4:05, 7:00, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:10 mat Priest 3d (14A) Thu 5:35 8:00 10:30 Fri-Wed 5:35, 8:00, 10:15 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:15 mat Prom (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 somethinG Borrowed (PG) 4:55, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat souL surFer (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 sourCe Code (PG) Thu 5:25 7:50 10:25 Fri-Wed 5:25, 7:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:55 mat the tree oF LiFe (PG) 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:45 mat

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proMENadE Mall, hWY 7 & baThurST, 905-764-3247 Bad teaCher (14A) Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 1:20, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25 Cars 2 (G) 1:15, 4:10, 7:00, 9:20 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 1:10 4:10 7:10 9:35 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:15 KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 1:05, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:10 Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:05, 5:10, 7:10, 9:05 Tue 1:05, 3:05, 5:10, 7:10 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 12:50 2:50 4:55 7:05 9:15 Fri-Wed 12:50, 2:50, 4:55, 7:05, 9:10 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:25 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 9:00 Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30

West graNdE - STEElES (CE) hWY 410 & STEElES, 905-455-1590

Bad teaCher (14A) Fri, Mon-Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Bridesmaids (14A) Thu 3:35, 6:25, 9:25 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00 Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Cars 2 (G) Fri, Mon-Tue 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20 Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Cars 2 3d (G) 5:00, 7:45, 10:25 Sat-Sun, Wed 11:30, 2:10 mat Green Lantern (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, Mon-Tue 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 Wed 4:40, 7:40, 10:30 Green Lantern 3d (PG) Thu 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri, Mon 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Tue 4:30, 7:30 the hanGover Part ii (18A) Thu 4:15, 6:50, 10:10 Fri-Wed 9:30 Judy moody and the not Bummer summer (G) Thu 3:50, 6:15 KunG Fu Panda 2 (PG) 4:20, 6:40 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat Wed 11:40, 2:00 mat KunG Fu Panda 2 3d (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 mr. PoPPer’s PenGuins (G) Thu 4:20 7:00 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:45, 2:20 mat Wed 11:50, 2:20 mat Pirates oF the CariBBean: on stranGer tides (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:35, 9:45 suPer 8 (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 transFormers: darK oF the moon Wed 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:15 transFormers: darK oF the moon 3d Tue 10:30 Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 X-men: First CLass (PG) Thu 3:55, 6:55, 9:15, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Tue 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:15 Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:40 3

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festivals greek film retrospective

the royal, 608 college. 416-534-5252. torontogrekfilms.com.

fRI 24-suN 26 – Celebration of Greek Cinema of the past 50 years. All films w/ s-t. Free.

fRI 24 – Michael Kakogiannis X 2: Stella (1955).

7 pm. A Matter Of Dignity (1960). 9:30 pm. sAt 25 – Crystal Nights (1992) D: Tonia Marketaki. 1:15 pm. The Striker With The #9 Jersey (1989) D: Pantelis Voulgaris. 4:10 pm. Girl In Black (1956) D: Michael Kakogiannis. 7 pm. Learn How To Read And Write, Son (1981) D: Theodoros Marangos. 9:15 pm. suN 26 – Stone Years (1985) D: Pantelis Voulgaris. 1:30 pm. Ena Gelasto Apogevma (1979) D: Andreas Thomopoulos. 4:30 pm. Invincible Lovers (1988) D: Stavros Tsiolis. 7 pm. Tighten Your Belt Thanassi (1980) D: Theodoros Marangos. 9:15 pm.

international indian film festival

cineplex odeon sheppard cinemas, 4861 yonge; coliseum mississauga cinemas, 309 rathburn; silvercity brampton cinemas, 50 great lakes; cineplex odeon first markham place, hwy 7 & fairburn. iifa.com.

fRI 24-suN 26 – Festival of international Indian films. iifa.com.

fRI 24-suN 26 – Check website for schedule.

parkdale film & video showcase

fuller avenue parkette, n of queen w on fuller (fp); parkdale library, 1303 queen w (pl); revue cinema, 400 roncesvalles (rc); the rhino, 1249 queen w (rh). parkdaleshowcase.ca.

fRI 24-suN 26 – Parkdale Beauty Pageant Soci-

ety show of Parkdale-based artists’ works. Free/pwyc. parkdaleshowcase.ca. fRI 24 – Parkdale Film & Video Showcase. 7 pm (RC). sAt 25 – YOUTHtube, videos created by participants of St Christopher House’s Parkdale Youth Space. 2:30 pm (PL). RE:read: Parkdale Stories, video works by members of Parkdale Project Read. 3:30 pm (PL). Screening Under The Stars, a program of new and recent film and video shorts by Parkdale based-artists screened outdoors. 9 pm (FP). suN 26 – Solidarity Sunday: screening of works of artistic protest. 2 pm (RH).

reelheart film festival

innis town hall, 2 sussex (it); southern accent restaurant, 595 markham (sa). reelheart.org.

thu 23-sAt 25 – Festival of arts and creativity. Closing gala $50; $10, stu/srs $7, 10 tickets $90, 20 tickets $180, day passs $70, week pass $299-$350. thu 23 – Mute D: Hassan Said, and Playground D: Libby Spears. 4 pm (IT). I Don’t Wanna Live This Life D: Bo Harringer and Renzo Anerod, and short I’ll Kill Her. 7 pm (IT). Mary And Bill D: Andrew Napier, Wings Of Silver: The Vi Cowden Story D: Mark Bonn and Christine Bonn, and short films Wake and The Necklace. 8 pm (SA). The Stoop D: Susan Wilson, and Taught To Hate D: James Garcia Sotomayor. 9:15 pm (IT). fRI 24 – Sneaky Business D: George Sanders, Hens & Chicks D: Becky Lane, and shorts Take

repertory schedules

A real date from hell THE RENDEZVOUS disconnected from Michael and (Curt Truninger) Jackie’s reality. Further confusing Rating: NN the issue, Dutton is English and The very definition of a small picture, Birthistle Irish, and the script The Rendezvous is an adaptation of a attempts to incorporate that into stage play set in one primary locatheir characters’ backstories. tion with just two characters. DirecThose are minor distractions, tor Curt Truninger’s goals are as modthough. The real problem lies in est as his budget, and the release Truninger’s sterile take on the plan is similarly low-key, with two material, which forces the actors screenings scheduled at the Reto stand (or sit) stock still while vue Cinema this week. delivering their lines. It Unfortunately, the movie makes the static story seem doesn’t work. even more airless, and Adapted from given that choice, Tom Noonan’s Truninger’s two-hander What occasional Happened Was… flourish of (which Noonan filmed creating imposin 1994 with himself sible two-shots and the terrific Karen via a mirroring Sillas in the roles), The lens just feels Rendezvous inappropriately Tim Dutton and Eva Birthistle follows two arty, as though don’t quite connect in The Rendezvous. people who work he doesn’t in the same legal office on a very understand the text’s uncomfortawkward first date. Jackie (Eva able intimacy. Birthistle) has invited Michael (Tim I also have no idea why Truninger Dutton) over for dinner, and in the and Ritzmann chose to replace the course of the meal they reveal horrific children’s story Jackie reads themselves to each another. It in Noonan’s original with a new doesn’t go smoothly. monologue written by Toronto Truninger’s screenplay, co-written author Gemma Files that radically with Margrit Ritzmann, relocates the changes the point of a key scene. action from Jackie’s New York loft to Maybe Truninger will discuss it after a Toronto condo but retains most of the premiere. the original dialogue, including Screens tonight (Thursday, June references to The New Yorker and 23) and Wednesday (June 29) at the NORMAN WILNER Time Out that seem weirdly Revue Cinema. Me Back To Hanalei, Take The Gay Train, and The Apostles Of Beauty. 1:45 pm (IT). In The Footsteps Of The Yellow Woman D: Camille Manybeads Tso, Twenty Five Hundred & One D: Patricia Van Ryker, and The Promise Of Tomorow 1940-1960 D Anna Giannotis. 2 pm (IT). Signs Of The Time D: Don Casper, Mary And Bill D: Andrew Napier, and shorts Pop Switch D: Jason Goode, and Walla Walla Wiffle. 4 pm (IT). Open Your Mouth And Say...Mr Chi Pig D: Sean Patrick Shaul, Lovelorn D: Becky Preston, and shorts. 7 pm (IT). Greenspoke D: Tom McIntire, Unitards D: Scott Featherstone, and short Moustachette. 7:15 pm (IT). Very Small Rooms D: Julia JC Blau, Zombie Holcaust And You D: Cory Parker, and shorts Let Them Eat, and Apocalypse Story. 8 pm (SA). Dan Zimmerman: Musician, Painter, Cosmic Patriot D: Thomas Florek, Scissu D: Tom Bewilogua, and Death Laid Off D: Benjamin Hogue and Pierre Luc Gouin. 9:15 pm (IT). The Journey D: Chineze Anyaene, and short Wake. 9:30 pm (IT). sAt 25 – Endings D: Chris Hansen, and shorts Presto: A Love Story, Copper Penny and Katie’s Dad. 4:15 pm (IT). The Action Hero’s Guide To Saving Lives D: Justin Lutsky, M For Mississippi: A Road Trip Through The Birthplace Of The Blues D: Roger Stolle, and short Pants. 4:30 pm (IT). Closing night: Miracle Fish D: Luke Doolan, and How I Got Lost D: Joe Leonard. 6:30 pm (IT).A Short Recess D: Glen McDonald, Mac & Cheese D: Noam Bleiweiss, The Architect D: Joshua Demers, and short films. 8:30 pm (SA).

cinemas bloor cinema

506 bloor w. 416-516-2330. bloorcinema.com

thu 23 – Labyrinth (1986) D: Jim Henson. 7

pm. Chris Alexander’s Film School Confidential: Silent Hill (2006) D: Christophe Gans. 9:15 pm. $10. P fRI 24 – Fast Five (2011) D: Justin Lin. 4:15 & 9 pm. Bill Cunningham New York (2011) D: Richard Press. 7 pm. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) D: Jim Sharman. 11:45 pm. P sAt 25 – The Big Lebowski (1998) D: Joel Coen. 4:30 pm. Bill Cunningham New York. 7 pm. Fast Five. 9 pm. P suN 26 – Amelie (2001) D: Jean-Pierre Jeunet. 4:30 pm. Bill Cunningham New York. 7 pm. Labyrinth. 9 pm. P MON 27 – Bill Cunningham New York. 4:30 pm. Meek’s Cutoff (2011) D: Kelly Reichardt. 7 pm. The Maltese Falcon (1941) D: John Huston. 9:10 pm. P tuE 28 – The Maltese Falcon. 4:30 pm. Meek’s Cutoff. 7 pm. Bill Cunningham New York. 9:10 pm. WEd 29 – Amelie. 7 pm. The Big Lebowski. 9:30 pm.

camera bar 1028 queen w. 416-530-0011. camerabar.ca

sAt 25 – Ice Station Zebra (1968) D: John Stur-

ges. 3 pm. Free.

cinematheque tiff bell lightbox

reitman square, 350 king w. 416-599-tiff (8433). tiff.net

thu 23 – The Goethe-Institut presents 40 Years VideoArt.de: Record ñ Again, highlights of German video art from P

the 1960s to the present. 6:30 pm. João Pedro Rodrigues X 2: O Fantasma (Phantom) (2000)

= Critics’ Pick nnnnn = Top ten of the year nnnn = Honourable mention nnn = Entertaining nn = Mediocre n = Bomb

and Parabens! (Happy Birthday). 6:30 pm. fRI 24 – Prends ça court!/Québec Gold 10 short films including Mokhtar D: Halima Ouardiri, M’Ouvrir D: Albéric Aurtenèche, and others. 6 pm. To Die Like A Man (2009) D: João Pedro Rodrigues. 8:45 pm. sAt 25 – Newsies (1992) D: Kenny Ortega. 2 pm. Two Drifters (2005) D: João Pedro Rodrigues, and China, China (2007) João Rui Guerra da Mata. 5 pm. The Unholy Three (1925) D: Tod Browning. 8 pm. Man Bites Dog (1991) D: Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel and Benoit Poelvoorde. 11 pm. P MON 27 – Books On Film: Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961) D: Blake Edwards. Screening and discussion. 7 pm. $35. To Die Like A Man. 8:45 pm. tuE 28 – The Search (1948) D: Fred Zinnemann. 6:30 pm. To Die Like A Man. 8:45 pm.

fox theatre

2236 queen e. 416-691-7330. foxtheatre.ca

thu 23 – Bang Bang Club (2010) D: Steven Sil-

ver. 7 pm. Certified Copy (2010) D: Abbas Kiarostami. 9 pm. fRI 24 – Win Win (2011) D: Thomas McCarthy. 7 pm. Bridesmaids (2011) D: Paul Feig. 9:15 pm. sAt 25 – African Cats (2011) D: Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. 2 pm. Bridesmaids. 4 & 9:15 pm. Win Win. 7 pm. suN 26 – African Cats. 1 pm. Win Win. 2:45 pm. Bare Oaks presents: Act Naturally (2011) D: JP Riley. Clothing-free screening at 5 pm, clothing otional for 7 pm. Director in attendance. $20-$30. Bridesmaids. 9:15 pm. MON 27 – Win Win. 7 pm. Bridesmaids. 9 pm. tuE 28 – Bridesmaids. 7 pm. Win Win. 9:20 pm. WEd 29 – Bridesmaids. 1:30 pm. The Beaver (2011) D: Jodie Foster. 7 pm. Meek’s Cutoff (2010) D: Kelly Reichardt. 9 pm.

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graham spry theatre

cbc museum, cbc broadcast centre, 250 front w, 416-205-5574. cbc.ca

thu 23-WEd 29 – Continuous screenings Mon to Fri 9 am to 5 pm. Free.

thu 23-fRI 24 – The Nature Of Things: 50 Years

Of The Nature Of Things. MON 27-WEd 29 – The Nature Of Things: Peru – The Real Avatar.

national film board 150 John. 416-973-3012. nfb.ca/mediatheque

thu 23-WEd 29 – More than 5,000 NFB films available at digital viewing stations. Tue-Wed noon-7 pm, Thu-Sat noon-10 pm, Sun noon-5 pm. Free. sAt 25 – WildSound Film and Screenplay Festival presents the Best of the Short Film Fest. 7 pm. Free. RSVP. wildsound.ca.

ontario place cinesphere 955 lake shore w. 416-314-9900. ontarioplace.com

thu 23 – Hubble. 10:15 am, 1:30 & 4 pm. Bugs! 11:20 am & 2:45 pm. Avatar 3D. 7 pm. fRI 24 – Hubble. 10:15 am, 1:30 & 4 pm. Bugs! 11:20 am & 2:45 pm. U2 3D. 7 & 9 pm. sAt 25-suN 26 – Hubble. 11 am, 1:35 & 4:10 pm. Bugs! 12:20, 2:55 & 5:30 pm. U2 3D. 7 & 9 pm. MON 27-WEd 29 – Bugs!. 12:20, 2:55 & 5:30 pm. Hubble. 11 am, 1:35 & 4:10 pm. U2 3D. 7 & 9 pm.

ontario science centre

770 don mills. 416-696-3127. ontariosciencecentre.ca

thu 23 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

fRI 24 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2, 3 & 9 pm.

Under The Sea. Noon & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm. sAt 25 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1, 3 & 9 pm. Under The Sea. Noon, 4 & 8 pm. IMAX Hubble. 2 pm. suN 26 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 1 & 3 pm. IMAX Under The Sea. Noon & 4 pm. Hubble. 2 pm. MON 27-WEd 29 – Tornado Alley. 11 am, 2 & 3 pm. Under The Sea. Noon. IMAX Hubble. 1 pm.

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

thu 23 – Deep Throat (1972), and The Devil In Miss Jones (1973). 2 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau to music of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer. 7 pm. Illustrated lecture: What I Learned With LSD. 9 pm. fRI 24 – Orpheus (1949) D: Jean Cocteau. 2 pm. sAt 25 – Reg Hartt’s Metropolis (1926) D: Fritz Lang. 8 pm. suN 26 – Illustrated lecture: Judith Merril. 4 pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2003) D: Don Alexander. 5 pm. Love (1927) D: Edmund Goulding. 6 pm. Reg Hartt’s Metropolis. 8 pm. MON 27 – Intolerance (1916) D: DW Griffith. 2 pm. Reg Hartt’s Metropolis. 8 pm. tuE 28 – The Godfather (1972) D: Francis Fod Coppola. 2 pm. Key 56 (2010) D: Alexandre Hamel. 7 pm. The Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 8 pm. WEd 29 – Forbidden Planet (1956) D: Fred M Wilcox, and This Island Earth (1955) D: Joseph M Newman. 2 pm. Key 56. 7 pm. The Best Of The Sex & Violence Cartoon Festival. 8 pm.

revue cinema

400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

thu 23 – The Rendezvous (2010) D: Curt Truninger. Director in attendance. 6:45 pm. $10. Kings Of Pastry (2009) D: Chris Hegedus and DA Pennebaker. 9:15 pm. fRI 24 – Parkdale Film & Video Showcase. See listings, this page. Jane Eyre (2011) D: Cary Fukunaga. 9:15 pm. sAt 25 – African Cats (2011) D: Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey. 2 pm. Jane Eyre. 4:15 pm. In A Better World (2010) D: Susanne Bier. 6:30 pm. suN 26 – Silent Sundays: Don Q Son Of Zorro (1925) D: Donald Crisp. Live piano accompaniment by Bill O’Meara. 4 pm. $12, srs/kids $10. MON 27 – Forks Over Knives (2011) D: Lee Fulkerson. 1 & 7 pm. In A Better World. 9 pm. P tuE 28 – Prom Night At The Revue: Prom Queen (2004) D: John L’Ecuyer. 7 pm. Jane Eyre. 9:15 pm. WEd 29 – The Rendezvous. 7 pm. Forks Over Knives. 9 pm.

the royal

608 college. 416-534-5252. theroyal.to

thu 23 – Win Win (2011) D: Thomas McCarthy. 7 pm. Source Code (2011) D: ñ Duncan Jones. 9:15 pm. fRI 24-suN 26 – Toronto Greek Film Retrospective. See listings, this page.

toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com

fRI 24 – Defending The Indefensible Film Series: Ashton Kutcher Night. Screening ñ of The Butterfly Effect (2004) D: Eric Bress and J Mackeye Gruber. Defended by Adam Nayman and Norman Wilner. 7 pm. $10.

other films thu 23-WEd 29 –

The CN Tower presents The Ultimate Wave Tahiti 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am to 8 pm. 301 Front W. 416868-6937, cntower.ca. thu 23 – Open Roof Festival presents Happythankyoumoreplease (2010) D: Josh Radnor. Local band tba opens at 7:30 pm, screening at dusk. $15. Amsterdam Brewery, 21 Bathurst. openrooffilms.com. Toronto Animation Image Society presents its Animation Showcase, including Ooh La La D: Sharon Katz, Wolves D: Rafael Sommerhalder, Paso Doble D: Jamie Metzger, and others. 7:30 pm. $10. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. tais.ca. suN 25 – Dark House Films presents The Unleashed D: Manuel H Da Silva. 6 pm. $20, VIP $125 (ticketmaster.ca). Queen Elizabeth Theater, 190 Princes’. darkhousefilms.com. P tuE 28 – Yonge-Dundas Square presents Dancing In The Dark: Paris Is Burning (1990) D: Jennie Livingston, and Hairspray (1988) D: John Waters. Screening at sunset (approx 7:30 pm). Free. ydsquare.ca. 3

NOW june 23-29 2011

dvd reviews

Unknown (WB, 2011) D: Jaume Collet-Serra, w/ Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger. Rating: NNN; DVD package: none

The best moment in Unknown is a scene between Frank Langella and Bruno Ganz. They’re two of the greatest living actors, and they’re clearly having fun infusing subtext and character into what could have been ordinary. Beside them, Liam Neeson seems merely adequate as a man in peril. Neeson plays a biologist in Berlin for a conference. A traffic accident leaves him comatose, and when he awakes, his wife (January Jones) doesn’t recognize him and another man has stepped into his life.

Plot twists abound, and the action zips right along, highlighted by a pair of car chases, one of which offers a pleasant reversal – the heroine racing to rescue the hero. As too often happens when a DVD comes packaged with a Blu-ray, the DVD has no extras. EXTRAS Widescreen. English audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.

The Eagle (Alliance, 2011) D: Kevin Macdonald, w/ Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN

If you saw last year’s Centurion, The Eagle will be familiar territory. That movie dealt with the fate of Rome’s Ninth Legion, which marched

shoot. Macdonald explains just how horrible in his informative commentary. EXTRAS Theatrical and extended versions, commentary, making-of doc. Widescreen. English, French, Spanish audio and subtitles.

By ANDREW DOWLER

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show your face and don’t let the camera linger on any distinguishing features (a distinctive tattoo that’s visible when you’re clothed, the parasitic twin that juts from your neck). And, hey, if you want to make porn, have it seen by thousands of people, not have it live forever online and maybe win a big cash prize, you can enter HUMP!, my annual amateur porn festival. Details at humpseattle.com.

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gether for 10 years. A few years ago, he informed me that he was molested in high school by a teacher and was in a sexual relationship with this man until he met me. I don’t have a problem with him being bisexual, but I do have a problem with him not having a problem with his molestation. He feels it was consensual; I feel this man preyed on him. He used to drink to avoid dealing with his emotions. He stopped drinking when he met me, but this secret causes him to have panic attacks. I help heal his wounds, but what do I get in return? Not what I want. I give him love and I accept him – and he tells me that he doesn’t want kids and doesn’t want to marry me. He also hardly touches me. We’re better friends than lovers. If I leave him, he’ll have no one. If I stay, I feel alone. We have fun and make each other laugh, so it’s not all bad. But I’m pathetic, right? Midwest Mess I’m going to get slaughtered for this: There are people out there who have

panic attacks and drinking problems, don’t want to get married or have children, are cold, distant, withholding “lovers,” etc, who weren’t molested by high-school teachers or anybody else. I’m not saying that your boyfriend’s history is unrelated to his other issues – I can’t say that – but if he doesn’t regard that relationship as the source of all his troubles, MM, you should stop insisting that he feel terrible/victimized/damaged because that’s how you think he should feel. Are you pathetic? No, MM, you’re not. You’re in a relationship that’s not living up to your expectations, and it’s making you unhappy. Now you have a big choice and a smaller sub-choice to make: either you can adjust your expectations and stay with this guy, MM, and try to appreciate the things he brings into your life, or you can refuse to adjust your expectations and (1) be miserable in this relationship or (2) leave this guy and get out there and find someone else or die trying.

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vaginal fisting fetish. I have yet to tell my girlfriend of three years about this. First, although we’re in love, no relationship is 100 per cent guaranteed, and fulfilling this particular kink would result in drastic and permanent physical changes that could ruin her for anyone else if we don’t make it. Second, I’m not sure how to ask. I can’t just say, “Hey, hon? Mind if I jam my

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arm in there?” Third, even if she were for it, I don’t know where to start! Fetishist In Serious Turmoil First, at three years, all your kink cards should be lying face up on the table. She’s not obligated to get into fisting to please you, as you’re aware, so you’re not going to “ruin her” just by broaching the subject. Second, you say something like “I think vaginal fisting is hot and I’m curious what you, the vagina-haver in this relationship, think about it.” Third, I’m tempted to say, “You start by removing your watch,” but no one wears a watch any more and all wannabe vag-fisters should start by reading Deborah Addington’s A Hand In The Bush: The Fine Art Of Vaginal Fisting. (“If fisting ruined one for other partners, I’d have been fucked outta luck a long time ago,” Addington said when I shared your email with her. She recommends plenty of lube and lots of Kegels, if your girlfriend goes for it. “The only ‘drastic and permanent’ changes that occur are the changes of mind and body that come when one realizes how much pleasure one can have,” Addington continued. “That’s life-altering. The stretched-out black-hole-of-doom is a myth. I’m 46 and can still walk up a flight of stairs without dropping the Ben Wa balls – and that after plenty of fisting, with more than one partner.”)

speakIng of gapIng orIfIces: Rick Santorum told CNN’s Don Lemon that he has gay friends and he loves his gay friends and they love him back. The openly gay Lemon, oddly enough, did not demand names and contact information for these gay friends. I’d like to hear directly from the gays who love Santorum despite Santorum’s belief that gay people are no better than dog fuckers and child rapists, his promise to repeal the DADT repeal, his desire to write anti-gay bigotry into the U.S. Constitution, his opposition to gay adoption and his belief that consensual gay sex should be a felony. If Santorum’s gay friends love Santorum as much as Santorum loves his gay friends, I’m sure they would be only too glad to speak to the media about their love of Santorum. Santorum told Lemon that his imaginary gay friends prove that he’s no homophobe. But if you believe – as Santorum has said repeatedly – that gays and lesbians are a threat to the family and a danger to the country, then you should be openly and proudly homophobic. So either Santorum is lying when he says we’re a threat to the family, a danger to the country, etc, or he’s lying when he says he has gay friends. Which is it, Rick?

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